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Garland Parks and Recreation

  • The mission establishes the organizational purpose, and goals and objectives establish the strategic direction. Organization values affect how the agency, through its leadership and staff relate to other governing bodies, agencies, organizations and how it incorporates input from citizens and staff. Strategic planning is vital to high performing organizations and involves organizational and community input to identify and come to agreement on vision, mission, and values that support and guide the systems, structures, and strategies as a framework for organizational progress to achieve results. Engaging the community and staff in the process provides buy-in on and a common understanding of the direction for the agency.

  • Agencies shall have an approved mission statement prescribing the purpose of the organization, a vision that casts direction for the long-term future of the organization, and values that set a tone for the agency's culture.

     

    Required Evidence of Compliance

    • Provide the approved mission, vision, and values statements and provide evidence of regular review which may be via retreat, strategic planning, approving authority review, or the like.

    • Provide a narrative describing how the mission, vision, and values were derived from the purpose and/or source of authority of the agency or from recent community input and engagement.

    • Provide in the narrative how the mission, vision, and values are embedded in the culture of the organization, strategic plans, and master plans (PMP and RPP), and that the mission, vision, and values are communicated to the public.

  • The agency shall have an approved strategic plan derived from the mission and vision that establishes goals and objectives to direct its actions and decision-making; The document shall guide the efforts of the agency for two (2) to five (5) years.

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    Required Evidence of Compliance

    • Provide the strategic plan approved by the appropriate authority within the last five years.

    • Provide a narrative that demonstrates alignment among mission, vision, values, and other pertinent agency planning documents such as the overarching organization’s strategic objectives.

    • Provide evidence of annual review with progress updates on agency goals and objectives established by the plan.
       

  • Agencies shall solicit and consider the needs of the service area's demographics with its adoption of strategic actions. Community involvement shall be the focus of a Master Plan and inform the creation of a Strategic Plan. The agency's Strategic Plan shall be developed after the community has been engaged. It is more internally focused on how to meet the needs of the public. The Strategic Plan should include an outreach focus under-resourced communities and previously left out populations.

     

    Required Evidence of Compliance

    • Provide specific examples of how community outreach and input from the Master Plan and/or Needs Assessment have informed the agency's strategic planning goals and objectives. 
      Describe how the Strategic Plan will help the agency support community needs and broader goals outlined in the Master Plan.
       

  • Agencies shall have outreach and include input on strategic planning efforts from staff at multiple levels of employment and all divisions within the organization structure. Agency strategic planning efforts shall include staff involvement because professional staff have planning and content expertise to create the park and recreation programs and manage the amenities on behalf of the public.

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    Required Evidence of Compliance

    • Provide a narrative description of the process used to collect staff input on Strategic Plan development from various levels within the organization.

    • Provide evidence of staff input being used to inform strategic planning objectives.
       

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