According to Roxboro City Manager Jon Barlow, the publication is “due out in the next couple of days.”

A multi-page article in the publication is co-authored by Lydian Altman, who was one of two persons who helped guide the city’s strategic plan process, which was adopted in 2006.

Altman and Margaret Henderson with the UNC School of Government’s Public Intersection Project served as the city’s strategic plan facilitators.

“The City of Roxboro’s strategic plan is an excellent resource to the road map for the future of the city,” Barlow said Tuesday. “It distinctly outlines what citizens, staff and council determined to be priorities and where resources should be applied.”
Barlow noted that, while the strategic plan was originally adopted in 2006, the plan has since been through two updates.

“Thus it is an active document that will continue to evolve as the city’s priorities and opportunities change.”

The Popular Government article notes that when the city “undertook a strategic planning process in late 2005…[it] was the first strategic planning process in which the city had ever engaged.”

The strategic plan for Roxboro was “council driven,” the article says, however, “it took other community members’ and employees’ viewpoints into consideration…”

By continuing to address its strategic plan on a regular basis, the city has seen benefits, the publication noted.

“In essence, Roxboro has obligated the time and the effort to the review, committed itself to making necessary adjustments, celebrated and shared accomplishments, and added new goals as appropriate,” the article reads.

As part of the ongoing strategic planning process, Barlow provides Roxboro City Council with a monthly plan update at council meetings. The update shows goals and plans that are complete as well as others that are ongoing or preparing to commence.