By West Valley View
The city of Buckeye is planning to roll out its three-year strategic plan to show the community its plans for improvement.
Conceived in April, the plan includes five areas of focus showing what is important for the city and community to keep Buckeye growing in a positive direction.
“This really sets kind of the vision for the city, helps us focus our resources and then also gives us specific projects that we must deliver within certain timeframe,” Buckeye City Manager Dan Cotterman said. “This tells us which of those are the priorities and which ones need to be done and by when they need to be done.”
The Buckeye Strategic Plan is available at https://bit.ly/3ic9gTK.
Hired in March 2022, Cotterman, as well as the city council, wanted a way to map out the growth pattern for the city, thus spawning the Buckeye Strategic Plan.
The plan started with a council retreat, where they discussed its hope for the plan with Cotterman, the then-new city manager. After setting priorities, they expanded their focus.
“Then, we went out and we asked both employees and residents, through a survey, what was working well, what wasn’t working well, and what they’d like to see different,” Cotterman said. “And so we conducted both of those surveys over the summer, and those were very important inputs for our plan.”
