Today is June 9th, 2026.

It is 3 p.m.

Please stand and rise for the pledge of leaders.

Pledge

allegiance to the flag

of

the United States of America.

And

to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

So I understand we got a series of presentations.

I'm not sure who we're looking for first.

Do we need to do roll call?

Is that correct?

Please roll call, please.

Here.

Commissioner Maldonado.

Here.

Mayor Tate.

Here.

We have a quorum.

All right, perfect.

Thank you very

much.

Okay, presentations, please.

Yep, thank you, Mayor.

We're gonna kick off tonight with a strategic planning overview as well as seeking some direction on next steps for the for staff and community and commission on strategic planning.

We

have

Candace Galloway to lead us in our presentation.

Good

afternoon, everyone.

Good to see you all.

Um it's been a little bit since we've talked about some of the topics we're gonna go over today, so some of it will be a refresher for some of you, and uh we're obviously have onboarded two new folks, and so there'll be some information to uh to bring everyone along, hopefully on the same, get everyone on the same page and get some direction on where we where we take strategic planning next.

So

we're gonna talk a little bit about um the framework that we've been working off of.

You know, we've been at this for uh better part of almost two years now.

Um,

we're

gonna talk a little bit about the survey uh that we you all took and uh we incorporated with the new folks that are on board it as well.

Um we're gonna talk a little bit about where we are today in the process, um, discuss a little bit about our benchmarking findings with some of the other strategic planning that's going on around us in other communities, um, talk a little bit about what it means to us and you know what we're kind of looking at uh directionally, and then um talk to you about some decisions that we're hoping to get some direction on from you on next steps.

This is just a timeline.

Um we started way back in in the beginning of uh our uh springtime of twenty-four.

We've had a number of workshops since then, and of course, today is uh an updated workshop to continue those conversations.

All

right, so let's talk a little bit about the framework.

We tried to keep it um pretty pretty basic, um, not overcomplicate um the structure of what we've tried to design.

So essentially, we started out uh with the with a basic framework of laying out our objectives and bringing in uh commission feedback and vision and strategic um planning.

So we've had a couple of workshops uh to to bring to bear some of that feedback into the planning process.

Uh we drafted objectives from that, and we built a two-year strategic planning roadmap, which most of you have probably seen by now, but happy to um there'll be some other artifacts if you all want uh for me to pull together for the group so that you have those to take away.

Um but that was put together uh and then we we from there we started building out our planning around KPIs or key performance indicators in terms of how we're gonna measure ourselves against our goals and objectives going forward from that initial strategic plan.

We have gotten those objectives memorialized, we've got all the projects from a strategic standpoint aligned to the strategic pillars, and we have begun the process of building out our KPIs and metrics to try to measure against those projects and the goals that were outlined.

So we're in that planning phase, we're kind of in between planning and implementation right now, and we're working through a number of aspects of this process.

If you recall the strategic planning pillars are community prosperity, operational excellence, resilience recovery, and sustainability, economic growth and development, and reliable infrastructure.

And

so let's talk a little bit about the survey findings.

So if you all recall last year, many of you took a survey, our new folks just recently took that same survey.

We asked for them to complete that as well, and we incorporated some of their findings together with the survey results we had recently gotten.

And lo and behold, we are relatively aligned across the commission in terms of our core purpose, obviously serving residents and protecting the quality of life here in the community of St.

Pete Beach.