Council revises the Strategic Plan

On January 21 and 22, 2020, the Town of Creston Council and management staff held a two day strategic planning workshop with consultant Tracey Lorenson of Paragon Strategic Services.

Paragon Strategic Services has provided executive advisory services to both the public and private sector for more than 25 years. Paragon is the consulting arm of CivicExcellence and projects are led by Tracey Lorenson with an entire team working behind the scenes. Paragon has been in business for more than 25 years, providing service to public sector clients in the areas of strategy, governance, leadership and conflict resolution.

The result was the 2020-2022 Town of Creston Strategic Plan that had four distinct focus areas for Council for the remainder of their 4 year term. These focus areas included Community Safety, Livability, Economic Health and Service Excellence. Within each focus area, Council identified numerous key objectives and projects, and further identified many of the guiding policies and studies that guide these decisions.

This workshop was to update an earlier one day Strategic Plan workshop, facilitated by Dr. Gord McIntosh, in November 2018 that allowed the newly elected Council an opportunity to provide some short term guidance for the Town of Creston while the new Council members became familiar with the challenges and opportunities for the 2018-2022 term.