Revised Infrastructure Goals

Identify sufficient revenue resources to enable public infrstructure to keep pace with development;

Maintain state of the art communication technologies;

Encourage leading-edge communication technologies;

Increase resources to attract high quality personnel in all departments;

Increase public safety services county-wide (fire, police, EMS, and judicial);

Improve storm water control;

Pursue generation of environmentally friendly, cost-effecive electrical power.

Sub-committee Goals

1. Identify sufficient revenue resources to enable public infrastructure to keep pace with development.

2. Maintain state-of-the-art communications technologies.

3. Encourage leading-edge communications technologies.

4. Increase resources to attract high quality personnel in all departments.

5. Increase public safety services county-wide (fire, police, EMS, and judiciary).

6. Encourage the development of a Level One Trauma Center

7. Improve storm water control.

8. Investigate nuclear and renewable technologies for electricity generation.

9. Pursue sufficient environmentally friendly, cost effective electric power.

10. Perform revenue requirement/source analysis to determine what’s needed, cost, and how we’re going to pay for it.

Thanks to everyone who was able to participate in our most recent strategic plan meeting held at CCU. Most groups suggested that some work remained before they were ready to establish goal sets for their focus area. We would like to encourage each group to establish a spokesperson who will be responsible for organizing, documenting, and reporting the remaining information that is developed within the groups.

Lots of good information was developed through the “mind-mapping exercise”, but I’m not certain that the process was as clear as it could have been.The purpose of the exercise was to think about the goals (outcomes) that we desire for each focus area and then to in effect work backwards in order to indentify projects (outputs),actions (inputs) and resources (assets) available to make those goals a reality. For the time being are most concerned about the “outcome” desired. It is from these outcomes that we will derive a clear direction for the research that is needed to create informed strategies.

Accordingly we ask that each sub-committee develop not only a set of goals related to their particular focus area, but also two or three questions that may be answered in through limited applied research. Clemson and CCU will partner to employ graduate level assistants to complete such research. We would like to get these students started no later than the middle of May.

It may be possible to take the notes (select "mind-map notes" to the right) that have been developed from last meetings exercise and add to them in a way that results in the above mentioned goal statement and questions. Some of you have already been in touch with one another concerning the sub-committee. If anyone needs my assistance setting up a sub-committee group meeting in the interim, please let me know.

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