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Good Neighbors Planning Alliance Process Timeline
Process Phase Time Frame Tasks/Products Getting
Organized August 2001 - January 2002 Make
Boundary Recommendations Recruit Council
Members, Chair Candidates Steering
Committee Members Develop Outreach
Participation Strategies Begin Leadership
Facilitation Training Information
Gathering January 2002 - March 2002 Identify
Subject Areas to be addressed Identify
Special Sub-Areas Identify conditions,
trends and perceptions in
Community Review Revise Inventory from
Draft City Comprehensive Plan Collect
additional data for sub-areas and analyze,
as necessary Identify community resources
assets Develop 3-4 issues for each subject
area to be addressed in plan Prioritiz
e issues Continue training
opportunities Create a Vision March 2002 - April
2002 Develop a vision statement that
captures the positive spirit of the
community Review the vision statement
with community at-large Continue Training
Opportunities Setting Goals April 2002 - July
2002 Develop one or more goal statements
for each issue area identified in Phase
2 Review goal statements with the
community at-large Continue Training
Opportunities Develop Action Plans July 2002 -
November 2002 Identify strategies that could be
used to achieve goals Determine
specific actions that should be taken to
implement each strategy Use resources/asset
data to match action items to locally
controlled resources Prioritize Action
items Prepare Action Plan Continue
Training Opportunities Implement Action
Plan December 2002 - 2007 Submit Action Plan for
City Review Councils and community partners
begin implementing action items to
be completed with local resources City
Amends Comprehensive Plan to include
Community Action Plans City begins
implementation of Comprehensive Plan using
existing budgetary funding
resources Evaluate Progress August 2002 -
2007 Evaluate Progress Re-Evaluate Plan
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