09.21.2004 Town Council Minutes SpecialI;
Town Of Prosper
Call to Order I Roll Call
Meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m.
Roll call was taken by the Town Secretary
Minutes (approved)
Special Session of the Prosper Town Council
601 South Church Street
Prosper First Baptist Church Children's Building (S. Wing)
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6.00 p.m.
Council present included: Mayor Charles Niswanger, Mayor Pro -Tem Lisa Dritschler, Ane Casady, Kevin Drown, Mike
Wadsworth and David Bristol.
Staff present included: Town Administrator, Doug Mousel and Shanae Jennings, Town Secretary
2. Discuss, review, and prioritize goals, objectives, and strategies of the Town.
Mayor Charles Niswanger gave a brief overview of his thoughts on existing goals and the fact that progress has been made on
each one of them.
Doug Mousel gave a brief overview of how he would like to address the new goals, objectives and strategies. Council agreed to
first review what the existing goads are and whether or not they would like to amend, add to or subtract from those goals. After
the goals are established, Directors can provide feedback on their professional opinion of what is the best route to accomplish
those goals..
Current goals include:
1. implement aggressive programs to provide residents and businesses with quality water, sewer systems, and
streets.
Council would like to amend this goal to state:
Provide the community with public infrastructure to meet current and future needs.
2. Take all possible and prudent steps to provide progressive public safety services.
3. Achieve operational excellence in government services.
4. Attract, retain, and promote existing and new commercial development within the flown.
5, Maintain Prosper's identity through assistance of beautification efforts.
6. For Council and Staff to practice mutual trust, respect, and professionalism in order to work as a team for the
betterment of the community.
After reviewing and updating goal #1, Council decided to take a different route and consolidate goals by making three or four
major goals under broad umbrellas, instead of attempting to revise the existing six goals. They also discussed creating a
mission statement and vision statement in order to isolate how Council and Staff would like to represent Prosper's identity. The
Council tentatively set three major categories for goals, which included Public Infrastructure, Economic Development, and
Staff/Services. The goals they derived from these categories are as follows.-
Goal
ollows:Goal #1: Provide the community with public infrastructure to meet current and future needs.
Goal #2: Retain and pursue businesses to Prosper which will generate employment opportunities and will broaden the Town's
tax rate.
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Goal #3: Provide efficient and cost effective municipal services while addressing current needs and anticipating future growth.
Council also established that they would each take the opportunity to write a new mission statement to bring to the next goal
setting meeting, and compare and contrast the statements in order to come up with one which they all agree encompasses the
direction they feel Prosper is heading.
3. Adjourn
Motioned by Mike Wadsworth, seconded by Ane Casady to adjourn the meeting. Motion approved 5-0. Meeting was adjourned
at 8:39 p.m. +
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