TBL’S overview of the Strategic Plan

Out of all these efforts, one unfortunate trend remains, the inability of our present and past administrations to focus on the plan. Execution, as one said in 2015, is the problem. Participants in the Imaginaction process almost three decades ago are still left today on their appetite for recommendations they fought for. No wonder why the actual strategic plan was inspired by Imaginaction and to a certain extent we didn’t have to reinvent the wheel for what we wanted as a community.

In the VLB Info TBL fall report Mayor Burcombe conclude by, “I will close by encouraging you to read the special issue VLB Info TBL summarizing the Strategic Plan and the progress made since 2015.”

I cannot describe how disappointed I was when I received the Overview of the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan glossy report. Despite some interesting information, the document is simply a pre-electoral and marketing town-subsidized document that in no way, shape, or form updates clearly the accomplishments made.

The Strategic Plan has five main goals with numerous required actions for each. For short-term actions to be taken in 2015 and 2016 we do not have a clear follow-up stating the ones that were completed, the ones that were not, and why. We were simply given a disconnected summary covering up the shortfalls. So much for transparency.

If an accountant would report each account variance to plan budget with this type of report, he would simply get fired!

Bondville