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Hilton Head leaders narrow strategic priorities to infrastructure, growth and safety after two‑day workshop
Summary
At a two‑day strategic workshop, Hilton Head Island council and staff trimmed a 51‑item plan into nine candidate priorities — with infrastructure/stormwater, growth management (LMO), corridors and public safety drawing the strongest council support — and asked staff to produce a draft strategic framework tied to budget and CIP planning.
Hilton Head Island’s town council and staff finished a two‑day strategic planning workshop with a notably shorter list of candidate priorities and clear next steps for staff to turn discussion into a draft plan. The session, led by consultant Matt Horne and Town Manager Mark Orlando, reduced the sprawling 51‑item plan to nine focus areas and instructed staff to prepare tactics and a draft framework for an April review ahead of FY2026 budget decisions.
“We made a $25,000,000 investment,” Orlando said, underscoring the stakes of decisions about partnerships and land use as he described the town’s public investments and ongoing projects. Horne, the facilitator, pressed council to focus…
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