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Clawson workshop refines five city goals and starts prioritizing 40 objectives for staff
Summary
At a March 19 workshop, Clawson city leaders and a contracted facilitator reworded the city’s five headline goals and began sorting about 40 staff objectives into short‑term priority buckets so administrators will have a manageable set of items to act on and to report progress against.
A facilitated workshop of Clawson elected officials on March 19 focused on tightening the wording of five broad city goals and narrowing roughly 40 supporting objectives into a shorter list for staff to pursue and measure over the next one to two years. The session emphasized council-level strategic direction while giving staff a clear list of priority tasks.
The facilitator opened the evening by describing the division of responsibilities between elected officials and staff and urging the council to concentrate on high-level purpose and priorities. “We’re gonna put the objectives into 3 categories,” the facilitator said, explaining the exercise that would leave administration with around 15–20 priority items to track.
Council members spent much of the meeting word‑smithing Goal 1, which centers on identity and community. Several members proposed alternatives — including “preserve community identity,” “grow community identity,” and the metaphor “fabric of the…
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