Long Range Plan 2003 - 2008
PROPOSED FUSS LONG RANGE PLAN 2003-2008
Attached you will find the document created by the Long Range Planning
Task Force, with extensive input from the FUSS community.
To begin this planning process in a logical and mindful manner, the
Task Force crafted a Working Vision for our efforts. This vision grew
out of the FUSS bylaws and guided us throughout this endeavor. Once we
put the results of the goal selection process in place, we saw a need
to craft a new Vision Statement, one that would frame the five year plan
and the Vision Statement on the attached page is the one that evolved.
We believe that it is an excellent vision for us to hold before us these
next five years, given the directions we are heading.
The Mission Statement is pulled verbatim from our bylaws, clearly defines
our purpose at FUSS and creates a logical bridge between the Vision and
the Goals for the next five years.
The Goals that follow the Mission Statement result from the two-week
long goal selection process we engaged in together. Remember that we
had 5 choices to make from the 148 goals compiled from the 121 individual
surveys submitted and the focus group input we received earlier this
year? Well, we tallied a total of926 dots. At 5 dots per individual,
approximately 185 people participated in this process, out of the 410
invited to participate.
Individual goals received anywhere from 75 to 0 orange sticky dots.
Upon review of the selection results, we decided to work with some of
the top goals as stand alone goals in the attached Plan; others are combinations
of similar goals from within those most frequently selected.
We have also incorporated two goals addressing the work completed by
the special Engineering Task Force and recommended to the Board by the
Buildings and Grounds Committee.
Included here you will also find the results of the children's goal
selection process, attached as a companion document within this proposed
Plan.
We ask you to consider this plan as a whole; we are not voting on individual
components of the proposed plan.
In addition to this proposed Plan, the Long Range Planning Task Force
has submitted some recommendations to the Board regarding successful
implementation of this plan. The Board has taken these suggestions into
consideration.
PROPOSED
FUSS LONG RANGE PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION RECOMMENDATIONS
The Long Range Planning Task Force has included here some recommendations
designed to encourage successful implementation of the FUSS Five Year
Plan (2003-2008). Pending approval of the proposed Plan by the Board
and then by the FUSS membership we suggest the following as a framework
for implementation.
Governance Structure
Once the final version of the Plan is approved, we recommend that the
Board carefully examine its current governance structure to determine
how it can best serve the Plan. Specifically, are there Councils and
Committees currently in place that would logically assume the responsibility
of driving a particular Goal forward? If not, what new ad hoc Committees
need to be created? Are there currently Committees without a clear need
or purpose, given the newly defined focus of FUSS for the next five-year
period?
Once the Committee structure is determined, each goal should be assigned
to a Committee or Council; a Committee may have more than one goal as
its responsibility. Each Committee then would meet to create the measurable
strategies or objectives designed to accomplish that particular goal,
including a time line, as its Committee "Work Plan". These
Work Plans would then be presented to the Board for approval; following
that approval by the Board, the Committees would begin their work on
addressing their Work Plan objectives.
Should a goal be completed prior to the close of the five-year period,
that ad hoc Committee would be disbanded.
Communication
One of the key elements contributing to the success of the planning
process at FUSS was the ongoing communication about the process with
the FUSS community and the inclusion of as many members of that community
as possible. We strongly recommend that this practice be continued and
that the implementation process be as transparent and as inclusive as
the actual planning process was. This approach will continue to build
a sense of ownership by the FUSS community beyond just the Board and
will increase the likelihood of successful achievement of the Plan goals.
To this end, we suggest publishing the approved Committee Work Plans
in Circles; listing all Committee meetings in Circles and The Order of
Service and inviting new Committee members to join in the implementation
efforts.
Evaluation
Committee Chairs would report the work their Committee has completed
against their Work Plan at the Board meetings on a regular basis. Annually,
those Committees would issue a more formal report to the Board and to
the FUSS community detailing progress against objectives.
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