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Turning The Vision Into The Reality
The Community Plan is a "work-in-progress". Currently, the Association is in the beginning stage of a long-term process by which its members:
1. Identify and/or define what they want the community to be in the near and long-term future (the "Vision"),
2. Identify what resources are required to turn that Vision into a Reality,
3. Acquire those resources and then
4. Prepare and execute policies and procedures that will establish and maintain that reality.
Some aspects of the Vision will change with time and the continuing flux of people who move into and out of the SVL community. Because of this, the Community Plan Committee anticipates a continuing need to provide information to the membership, and to get feedback from the membership, on the various subjects the committee is and will be addressing.
The Community Plan Committee is a volunteer group of SVLA members, appointed by the Board of Directors, who function as a focal point for evaluating the challenges facing the association and its membership and for developing strategies and means by which those challenges can be met. The Committee presents their recommendations, in the form of "goals" and/or "objectives", to the Board of Directors. With Board approval, the appropriate resources are / will be applied toward achieving those goals and/or objectives.
It is then up to the membership to evaluate whether or not the goals and objectives are actually being met, and whether or not the goals and objectives should be changed. The planning cycle is then reiterated – it starts over again.
Recent History
The Community Plan committee sponsored a town hall meeting on November 19, 2006, to elicit from the membership what challenges they believed should be addressed by the committee. The committee discussed the (two and a half pages worth of) Notes from this meeting and developed an initial Action Plan List (three full pages worth) in January 2007.
The initial list was (is) a compilation of concerns most or all committee members agreed should be addressed by the Association. The list was (is) too comprehensive to act on all at once, so the committee evaluated it to arrive at some goals and objectives which took precedence over all other concerns, and could be achieved in the short-term (within one year).
The result was the identification of two goals, with their respective and supporting objectives. This was presented, in draft form, to the January 27, 2007 Board of Directors meeting, and, after an open "town hall" forum, was approved by the Board on February 27, 2007 for implementation. The approved goals and objectives are referred to as the "2007/2008 Community Action Plan".
Status as of May 2007
Goal #1
Our committee facilitator, Jeanette Hayhurst, is executing the first set of objectives (Objectives 1.1 and 1.2), after which the committee will meet to discuss and decide what the next step(s) should be in turning the vision into reality (Objectives 1.3 and 1.4).
Goal #2
A meeting has already been held with the County 1st District Supervisor, Brad Mitzelfelt, and another meeting is scheduled with his assistant in June (in pursuance of Objectives 2.1 and 2.2).
The Governmental Affairs Committee has been re-established (Objective 2.3), with Karen Davis serving as board liaison.
In addition, a new board orientation is being scheduled in June (Objective 2.4).
The committee chairman anticipates the next Community Plan Committee meeting to occur in early July 2007.
To share your ideas today go to Planning For The Future Discussion.
For historical information about the Community Plan including previous articles, meeting agendas, meeting outcomes, etc., please go to Resource Library in the Committees folder subfolder Community Plan.
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