MOUNT Gambier City Council will prioritise long term plans for the city at an elected members workshop next month.
The planning session will allow elected members to refine council’s strategic priorities, narrowing a list of 80 recommendations to an estimated 25-30 to be implemented over the next five years.
“I think it is important we pause and take a breath and take the appropriate amount of time to consider council’s priorities and recommendations,” Cr Frank Morello said during council’s strategic standing committee meeting last week.
“We have done a lot of hard work over the past three and a half years and developed a suite of documents to help shape the city for next five to 10 years and beyond.
“The byproduct of that is we have an enormous number of recommendations.”
Cr Morello suggested the high number of strategic priorities and proposed framework required further discussion.
“We started out with 159 recommendations and have prioritised 80 of those, I would like to see it refined further to between 25 and 30 recommendations spread over five years with action plans for each,” he said.
During the workshop elected members will review and reduce the number of recommendations, re-examine the framework and prioritise the recommendations over a five year time frame.
