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Hammond-Cheney, and Rockland, along with separate ones for the business sector and the city’s various department staff. «I can’t emphasize this enough,» she said, «that everybody has to participate.» The planning process will also feature an online survey for anyone not able to attend one of the workshop sessions. The survey will be part of a strategic planning website set up soon. Collier will also contact students in local schools’ civic classes recruited for their opinions and liaise with seniors groups for their thoughts. «We have lots of youngminds with ideas,» she said. «And we’ve got a lot of history (with seniors).» A $75,000 budget is estimated for the stra- tegic planning process.The schedule calls for holding the workshops over May and June, drawing up a draft plan in July, gathering feedback on that until August when the draft undergoes revision. Presentation of the final strategic plan for council approval will be in mid-October.
It’s official now. Helen Collier is no longer the acting administrator for the City of Clarence-Rockland. She is now fully in charge and her first priority is to get the entire city involved in developing a new strategic plan to guide the municipality’s short- and long-term futures. Clarence-Rockland council approved Collier’s status as official full-time chief ad- ministrative officer (CAO) during its April 20 regular session. Collier’s position has been designated as «acting» CAO since she was first contracted by the previous council to take over the post from former-CAOMichel Bellemare. «I’mvery proud and honoured to accept this position as chief administrative officer,» Collier said, using an automotivemetaphor to describe her feelings. «I spent 13months ‘test driving the car’. Today, I’m sure that I’m ‘buying the car’.» Collier segued right into a PowerPoint presentation to council on the process she and her staff have drawn up for creating a new strategic plan for the city that will cover both a three-year/three-budget short-term period and also provide long-term goals to serve as guidelines for future revisions of the strategic plan. Collier emphasized, citing the examples of Kingston and other Ontario municipalities, that a good strategic planwill help the city both make the best use of its
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Helen Collier, now the official administrator for Clarence-Rockland, presents her power-point report on a new strategic planning process for the city.
tegic plan needs the participation of all sec- tors of Clarence-Rockland, and not just city officials and staff. The process she outlined includes scheduling public workshops in Bourget, Clarence Creek, St-Pascal-Baylon,
budget and other resources in dealing with local issues and also provide clear signs of progress in dealing with residents’ needs. Collier also stated several times during her presentation that creating a good stra-
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