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Edmond council narrows strategic priorities, asks staff for measurable targets
Summary
At a two-day strategic planning workshop, Mayor Brian and the City Council reviewed project updates and agreed on a short list of high-level strategic themes — including fiscal diligence, long-term infrastructure, strategic economic growth, responsible development, and operational excellence — and asked staff to propose metrics and a dashboard to track progress.
Mayor Brian opened a two-day strategic planning workshop and asked the council to limit its near-term focus to a small set of measurable strategic initiatives.
"This isn't we're done or we're not done," the mayor said as he urged a different approach to measuring success and asked the council to narrow the list to a handful of priorities the city can track.
Why it matters: Council members and staff framed the exercise as an attempt to move away from a long laundry list of goals and toward 4–7 strategic vision statements that can be translated into short-term, quantifiable goals. That, they said, will make it easier for staff to align department work and for the…
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