Strategic planning is the process of developing an action-oriented set of strategies.
The strategies accomplish an organization's mission and goals to satisfy a shared vision of the future. Lane County government's strategic planning process was recommended in April 1998 by a group of citizens called the Future Focus Task Force. For many months the volunteer group reviewed county services, programs and finances. They concluded and recommended to the county's Budget Committee there is an immediate need to set goals and strategies to keep Lane County fiscally sound in light of the dwindling timber payments from federal forestlands. Copyright 1997 Lane County Information Services.