{"id":46546,"date":"2023-09-07T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=46546"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:15:39","slug":"rutland-select-board-announces-goals-and-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/09\/07\/rutland-select-board-announces-goals-and-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutland Select Board announces goals and objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Ken Cleveland<\/em>
\nLandmark Correspondent<\/em><\/div>\n

RUTLAND \u2014 The Select Board recently adopted its fiscal 2024 Goals & Objectives, with a focus on three key initiatives: investing in capital projects, enhancing staff morale, and modernizing town government. These goals will provide specific and measurable short- and long-term outcomes for the Board, town staff, and town boards and committees to strive to achieve for the community.<\/p>\n

Investment in capital<\/strong><\/p>\n

The board lists three goals under the capital project initiative in its Goals and Objectives summary.<\/p>\n

The first is to develop a plan for use of the remaining ARPA and town meeting warrant article funds, according to the Goals and Objectives summary presented on the town’s website.<\/p>\n

The short-term outcome is to “complete a comprehensive analysis of funding options and present initial recommendations to Select Board.”<\/p>\n

The long-term outcome is seen as to “finalize and implement a detailed plan for the allocation and utilization of funds to be expended before December 2026 deadline.”<\/p>\n

The second goal is to form a town facility working group to develop a capital improvement plan for building needs.<\/p>\n

Under short-term outcome, the board states it will “establish the group, define its scope and objectives, and initiate the gathering of necessary data.”<\/p>\n

The long-term objective is to present a complete capital improvement plan, including prioritized projects, estimated costs and timelines.<\/p>\n

Finally, the board adds the goal of allocating committed budgetary funds for capital facilities and equipment.<\/p>\n

Improvement in staff morale<\/strong><\/p>\n

The board listed improvement of staff morale as its second key initiative, stating: “Our dedicated employees play a vital role in delivering essential services to our residents, and it is crucial to provide them with a supportive and motivating work environment. We seek to explore initiatives such as team-building activities, recognition programs, and human resource related policies to boost morale and foster a positive organizational culture. Investing in our employees will ultimately result in enhanced productivity and service delivery.”<\/p>\n

The goals listed in this category are:<\/p>\n

Provide funding for professional development opportunities; create initiatives to highlight positive employee impact; adopt employee-friendly work-life
\nbalance policies; implement Human Resources policies and procedures; and create a town “Employee of the Year” award.<\/p>\n

Modernize town governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

This initiative lists the most goals of the three, going into detail on ways the board aims to improve the structure of the town’s governance.<\/p>\n

Goals listed in this category are:<\/p>\n

Explore regionalization opportunities with neighboring communities and statewide agencies; establish a long-term financial planning model; develop a formalized budget process; create a consistent communications strategy for town departments; create a Citizens Academy to boost public education and engagement; develop an economic development marketing solution for properly zoned town-owned property; amend existing bylaws to reflect current needs and practices; and finally, create a town charter to establish governance structure and procedures.<\/p>\n

The short- and long-term goals for the latter two initiatives are listed on the town website, and can be viewed by visiting https:\/\/bit.ly\/2024RutlandGoals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ken Cleveland Landmark Correspondent RUTLAND \u2014 The Select Board recently adopted its fiscal 2024 Goals & Objectives, with a focus on three key initiatives: investing in capital projects, enhancing staff morale, and modernizing town government. These goals will provide specific and measurable short- and long-term outcomes for the Board, town staff, and town boards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}