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The county administrator will engage a Strategic Planning Team to employ the feedback and direction from the Board of County Commissioners at the Goal Setting Workshop to craft a potential mission statement, defining values, and specific goals for the Board of County Commissioners to review and approve for Indian River County Government. The mission and values provide the county and employees with the purpose and the why the organization exists. The goals and priorities will inform and guide in the allocation of resources in the upcoming budgetary process. The mission, values, and goals will also be strongly communicated to all of county government and enable alignment of operations and activities to them to achieve optimal outcomes. A mission statement is the rationale for the existence of the organization, values define how individuals think, talk, and behave within an organization or community, and goals are broadly stated long term purposes. This is best viewed as a two-phase process with the first phase being goal setting and the second phase involving research, development, implementation, and evaluation of a county government strategic plan. The goal setting can aid in the upcoming budgetary process and set the foundation for a successful strategic plan. The goal setting will clarify mission, vision, values, and priorities in policies, programs, and services, capital projects, and ensuring organizational capacity. Goal setting and strategic planning ask and answer this question: given our mission, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, stakeholders, history, capacity, and resources, what should our goals and objectives be, and which strategies can we design and implement to achieve them? This goal setting process involved a SWOT analysis, review of community and organizational research, and identification of organizational goals. A strategic plan operationalizes those goals into specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time - bound objectives with specific implementation plans and tools for evaluation to confirm achievement. A strategic plan also engages citizens and helps ensure community support for specific objectives. The goal setting combined with a strategic plan should enable all operations and activities of the county government to attain selected objectives. This goal setting process enables Indian River County to sustain positive progress, optimize economic, social, and cultural opportunities and outcomes, ensure strong organizational performance, align means with ends, and lead beneficial change. INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ■ 2023 GOAL SETTING PROCESS & WORKSHOP FINAL REPORT • Page 11 209