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S • How can the board and staff best respond to these challenges, carry out the county's mission, and achieve its goals and vision in terms of organization, structure, role, best practices, and operating principles? Step 3 -Strategic Directions (1 day session + 1 day preparation time) (joint meeting with staff) • Identify issues and needs, challenges and choices facing the county, and priorities and actions that should be addressed. • Identify common themes and group themes into categories that can serve as platforms for countywide goals. • Reframe categories as affirmative countywide goal statements. • Assign all individual issues, actions, and challenges to county goals. • Reframe issues, actions, and challenges into a set of specific initiatives or objectives to achieve each county goal. Step 4 -Connecting Policy Navigation and Strategic Directions (% day + % day preparation time) • Organize current programs, services, priorities, commitments, and investments according to the countywide goals and initiatives. ® Use the countywide goals and initiatives to identify core programs, services, functions and priorities • Adopt a county platform and integrate goals into the budget. Based on mission, vision, core values, goals and initiatives, and budget, identify priority goals, objectives, and actions. • Adjust budget and investments accordingly. Estimated Time, Cost, and Scheduling Based on the total proposed design, I estimate about 8 days of time, broken out as follows: Session and facilitation time - 3 days • Consultation, planning, preparation, design and reporting/feedback - 5 days In terms of cost, Leading & Governing charges per day or per unit of work, depending upon the specific client and project. For ongoing work where the time is easier to identify than the specific tasks, I often use a per day fee. My current daily rate is $1650 per day, which covers all consultation, planning, and facilitation, and includes all administrative and operating costs. Alternatively, for work that is more finite or intermittent, such as conference sessions or a stand-alone board workshop, I usually charge per session. My half-day session fees range from $1000 - $3000, and my full-day sessions range from $2500 - $5000. We can discuss the scope of work and cost at your convenience, and I am happy to work with any specific administrative requirements you may have. In terms of scheduling, I prefer to try to schedule whatever we think seems feasible upfront, so I can reserve the time and guarantee my availability. 4