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5 <br /> environmental scan and receive feedback from the community.These new priorities will drive departments to <br /> change their own priorities and track completely new outcome measures. <br /> Even with significant changes to the goals,there are concepts in this SMART Goal update that will <br /> prepare the Budget Office and departments to track the implementation of the Strategic Plan once it is adopted. <br /> First, departments were asked to align each of their goals to a primary Board Goal.This practice of aligning goals <br /> to board directives will help ensure that all parts of the county government are working together to achieve the <br /> new Strategic Plan Goals once they have been identified. Secondly, by pushing departments to track outcome <br /> measures,the county will be better prepared to connect the activity of the departments to how their work <br /> improves the county. Third, by identifying where there are barriers to outcome measures, the county can use <br /> the strategic plan process to overcome those barriers.The county can use community surveys and focus groups <br /> to reach members of the community that aren't able to be tracked with current goals. Finally, departments have <br /> examined how they track outcomes and have adjusted measurement methods to improve tracking.They have <br /> also used goal progress to identify potential program strategy improvements.This practice of iteration and <br /> continuous improvement will serve departments well. In these aspects,the county should be better prepared to <br /> implement the Strategic Plan because of the efforts made in this update. <br /> 5 <br />