St. Albert Taxpayers Meeting Overview
02/04/2009 03:01
SINC SAYS:
The following is an update of last week’s St. Albert Taxpayers Association meeting.
Hello All,
This is an update coming out of our meeting on Thursday, March 26th.
1. Discussion with Gareth Jones
We had a great meeting on Thursday--over 25 folks out and very interesting discussions with Gareth Jones (who responded to some of our written questions as well as those at the meeting). We'll be doing highlights of the evening for those of you who couldn't attend, and be following up on the questions we did not get to.
2. Our Draft Strategy
We were scheduled to review this at this meeting, however the discussion with Gareth was going so well, we decided as a group to table the strategy until our next meeting. Also, we decided to send it out as a draft for comment by the membership.
As a result, the detailed strategy is attached.
We're looking for your feedback. I'd love to hear back from you by e-mail prior to the next meeting. We will be discussing the strategy at our next meeting hoping to finalize it.
Below I've defined (not perfectly and somewhat arbitrarily!) some of the headings in the document. They start with the Strategy, which is broken down into increasingly smaller work areas.
Strategy: Our road map for reaching our desired state. It answers the question: how do we influence the municipality to spend wisely, have less waste, and lower our tax burden, as well as hold them accountable for their decisions?
Strategic Areas: The key building blocks of our strategy. If we achieve these, we will be very close to getting what we want.
Goals: The large building blocks--the what we want to do or achieve that allows us to succeed in each strategic area.
Tactics: The big pieces of work that we will do to achieve our goals.
Hows: A little more specific pieces of work as part of us following through on our tactics.
Tasks: The smaller pieces of work, that added together will help us achieve the hows. Some of this is already happening on an ad hoc basis.
Timing: This indicates when we hope to initiate each of the tasks. It also shows that some tasks continue through the 3 years.
I'm looking forward to hearing back from you. Any and all comments welcome.
Lynda Flannery
President
St. Albert Taxpayers Association
SINC SAYS:
Do I detect a tiny glow of hope here now?
