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City Council Worksession
Saturday, May 3, 2008 9:00 AM Embassy Suites Hotel
2401 Bass Pro Drive, Grapevine, Texas
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. DISCUSSION
2a Identification and Discussion of Multi-Year Goals
3. ADJOURNMENT:
I hereby certify the above agenda was posted on the bulletin boards at City Hall on Tuesday,
April 29, 2008, by 5:00 p.
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Cynthia Singleton, TRMC, CMC
City Secretary
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City of Colleyville
Agenda Briefing
100 Main Street
Colleyville, Texas 76034
(817) 503-1000
www.colleyville.com
File Number: File Type: Discussion Status: Discussion
Version: 1 Agenda Date: 05/03/2008 Controlling Body: City Council
Requester: Office of the City Agenda No.: 2a Final Action:
Manager
File Name: Identification and Discussion of Multi-Year Goals
Attachments: City Council Visioning Session Memorandum dated April 29, 2008.pdf
History of Legislative File
Version: Date: Acting Body: Action Text:
1 05/03/2008 City Council
Worksession
Title
Identification and Discussion of Multi-Year Goals
Explanation
This item provides for City Council to identify and discuss long term goals for expanding and
refining the vision for Colleyville.
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TO: Mayor and City Council
cc: Councilmember Elect Hall
Executive TEAM
FROM: Bill Lindley, City Manager
SUBJECT: City Council visioning session
DATE: April 29, 2008
I am looking forward to your discussion this Saturday as part of the City Council working
together expanding and refining the vision for Colleyville. This work is an important element you
outlined in the Annual Work Plan for this year. Setting a chart with this initiative can help enable
you to succeed with directing the course of the community for years to come. A quick repeat of
your work plan for this initiative includes:
Goal ~ !Enhance communications and outreach with citizens
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Objective 'Expand community relations of elected and appointed City officials and
employees with citizens
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Task Conduct a preliminary Council vision planning session (Imagine Colleyville)
identifying attainable attributes for City services, characteristics,
demographics, income, etc. for the community at build out, with a focus to
premier cities regionally, state-wide and nationally.
We are scheduled to meet at Grapevine's Embassy Suites Hotel, 2401 Bass Pro Drive, La
Buena Vida Room, starting at 9:00 a.m. and concluding by mid-afternoon. It will be helpful if
you can begin arriving by 8:45 a.m. so we can promptly start. We will plan lunch being brought
in to allow keeping the discussion moving. Helping lead your discussion will be Ron Holifield.
Ron's work with our staff development program will be enhanced by hearing your perspectives
directly, along with being a part of sharing perspectives from the organization.
It is important that, in beginning the refinement of a community vision, we also include members
of the Executive TEAM. Of course these particular department heads represent the major
departmental components of the organization. Given this role in our organizational leadership, I
know you will find their thoughts and perspectives helpful as the City Council shapes a vision of
major work for the several years to come.
A session such as this can be a very powerful tool in you putting a shape to community
initiatives that will direct where we ultimately spend resources. As you prepare for the
discussion, it is important to value that not all ideas will go forward and many new thoughts will
emerge from the discussion. In fact, it is reasonable that some of the collective thoughts would
result in subsequent citizen based studies while others would be initiated more immediately by
the Council.
Recalling the discussion this summer in establishing this initiative, you will remember we talked
about how sometimes the Work Plan can tend to be more of a reaction to an immediate issue
rather than being part of a longer-term planning vision. Using this perspective as your
foundation for preparing for the May discussion, you will want to focus more on global initiatives,
leaving the details and mechanics to succeeding annual work plans.
Your time devoted over the last few weeks taking a step back remembering quality aspects of
great communities that you may have thought ... "wow now that is what we really need/keep in
Colleyville" will be helpful with Saturday's discussion. To get the juices flowing, I'll toss out a
couple of teasers I hear you talk about from time to time, including: developing a community
leadership program for future board members; creating a sustainable civic environment; hosting
an expansive trail system; or even attaining a national status for customer service (i.e. Malcolm
Baldrige Award).
Certainly don't fall back by not reflecting on the great things Colleyville has going, as we would
not want to inadvertently stop doing the great things. Too often, we look at change as being
good, while not realizing the importance of valuing and continuing in what is already going great.
The key is for you to begin a dialogue identifying long-term goals that truly allow Colleyville to
stand out for what it is - a great place - a community and organization of which to be involved.
look forward to seeing you Saturday morning.
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