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Clay County commissioners workshop updates strategic plan and adds new public-health KPIs
Summary
At a Clay County BCC strategic-plan workshop, staff proposed mid-cycle edits to the five-year plan, added department KPIs and stretch 'bold' goals, raised an AED target, proposed stronger paramedicine and veteran-service measures, and agreed to refine solid-waste service metrics for board approval.
County staff presented a mid-cycle update to Clay County's five-year strategic plan at a Board of County Commissioners workshop, proposing a shift to quarterly KPI reporting and several new or revised goals for community health and safety.
Troy Nagel (assistant county manager) said staff reorganized the plan with red/green/blue edits to show removed, added and reworded items, and proposed using a single-sheet, quarterly "report card" so the board and public can track progress. "We kind of took a look at this to become more efficient in tracking this quarterly," Nagel said during the presentation.
Among the suggested health-and-safety changes, staff recommended raising an AED (automated external defibrillator) goal. One commissioner asked whether the county had acquired 400 AEDs; staff replied some units were replacements and the net increase target was set to 350 to reflect that context. "We wouldn't wanna consider those to be an increase because some of them were just aged out," Nagel said.
Staff also proposed adding measurable goals tied to substance-abuse services, including creating an in-county inpatient rehab capacity where none exists now. Commissioners asked for concrete metrics — for example, beds or number of residents served — and Nagel said staff would work with behavioral-health partners to set a five-year target.
Public-safety and paramedicine measures were a second focus. Dave Motes with Public Safety described combined training events that include hands-only CPR, Narcan administration and bleeding control, and said the county bundles Narcan distribution with AED outreach. "We typically go in and give one whole program where we're teaching the hands on CPR, how to do Narcan, how to stop bleeding," Motes said.
Board and staff discussion also covered PulsePoint and Alert Clay participation targets. Staff recommended raising the PulsePoint participation goal from 20% to 50% over five years and focusing county communications on Alert Clay (the county-maintained alert system) with a 30% participation goal.
On solid-waste metrics, staff suggested shifting from a capacity-based recycling metric to service-delivery measures aimed at achieving near-universal on-time residential service. County staff member Milton supplied historic performance figures to inform the debate: "We reached 99.637% on-time collection" for the first fiscal year, Milton said, and noted even higher rates when transition weeks are removed. Commissioners questioned whether a 100% target is realistic and asked staff to propose alternate formulations (for example, a not-to-exceed number of misses or a multi-timescale metric).
Staff said the board would receive updated wording and a proposed KPI package for adoption in January. The presentation also included plans for a public-facing dashboard and a QR-coded sticker approach to update printed plan books.
The workshop closed with staff commitments to refine metric language, to return with department-level KPI proposals, and to bring the revised strategic plan back for formal adoption.
