In preparation for adopting the 2024-2028 Strategic Plan, this update shows the progress the County made as a result of the 2013-2018 Larimer County Strategic Plan. The strategic plan was developed as a part of Larimer County’s “Planning our Future” process involving citizens, community leaders, the Board of County Commissioners, Elected Officials and employees. The result was a community vision for Larimer County, a set of high-level goals that the County aspired to, and a series of objectives to drive action for a five-year period.
The strategic plan was developed by reviewing data about the county: indicators of how well our departments were achieving their current goals, any issues occurring in our community that affected our ability to deliver services, Elected Office and citizen input. A vision and high-level goals were developed by the Board of County Commissioners to describe “what” Larimer County (as a community and as an organization) could look like in five years. The vision and goals were the basis for creating a strategic plan: “how” Larimer County organization would achieve these goals. The objectives in the Strategic Plan were the foundation for creating tactical work plans to manage what needs to happen in order for the objectives to be fulfilled.
The report on the following pages shows the result of each specific objective that was created to drive progress towards the seven high-level goals. Many of these objectives were completed successfully and have since been “operationalized” or added into the daily operations of the County. Such successes include:
- Creation of an award-winning Office of Emergency Management, which was critical to the County’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cameron Peak Fire of 2020, and other fires and floods.
- Approval by Larimer County voters in 2018 of a 0.25 % sales tax dedicated to providing critical behavioral health services.
- Implementation of a new, updated County Website
- Creation of an Economic and Workforce Development Department that serves as a convenor for regional economic development efforts.
Some of the other objectives were one-time in nature, while some objectives were not implemented completely or successfully. In some cases, the objectives continued into the 2019-2023 version of the plan.