Creating Goal Statements

As part of Barren River Area Development Districts 5-year update to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and Multi-Hazard Multi-Jurisdiction Mitigation Plan (HMP), county-level Steering Committees met for an hour each month from January 2021 to April 2022 to create county-level strategic plans. This is a summary of the agenda for Meeting #7.

During their seventh month together in the planning process, Steering Committees began creating broad goal/vision statements in 11 different categories: Affordable, Quality Housing; Civic & Leadership Development; Downtown Development; Economic Development; Infrastructure; Public Facilities and Services; Public Health and Safety; Sense of Place; Transportation; Tourism and Cultural Development and Workforce Development. As they created these goal statements, committee members were asked to incorporate any previous goals that were carried over from meeting #6 and review their County Profile Sheets to create new goal statements. Goal statements were meant to be large-scale visionary statements, and as such each category typically had only 1-2 goals. In future meetings, steering committee members would be asked to craft SMART objectives for each goal statement outlining the actionable steps the committee could take to achieve those goals within a five-year time frame. In order to help cast the vision for the end-product, Steering Committee Members were also given the below handout outlining expectations for Goal Statements, Objectives, and Action Items.

As always, Each Steering Committee also made use of a custom Google Classroom set up for committee members to share information and review any meeting materials for meetings they could not attend.

BRADD staff then compiled the information gathered during this meeting and used it (paired with previous meeting information) to build the foundation for each County Strategic Plan in each of the succeeding monthly meetings. To read more about information covered in other monthly meetings, click here.