TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Michael A. Hursh, General Manager
SUBJECT: Strategic Plan Update
BRIEFING ITEM
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider providing feedback on the draft Strategic Plan Addendum.
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
This update is relevant to all Strategic Plan Goals and Initiatives.
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no direct budgetary or fiscal impact from approving the Addendum. Actions proposed in the Strategic Plan could have a budgetary impact, which would be shown at the time they are implemented.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
The attached Addendum is an explanatory addendum for, and a partial revision of, the AC Transit Strategic Plan.
In April, 2019 the AC Transit Board of Directors adopted the AC Transit Strategic Plan, the first such plan in decades. Strategic Plans are overarching planning documents which many transit agencies use to document and communicate their priorities, values, goals, and key actions. Our strategic plan process is shown in Figure 1 of the 2019 Plan. It progresses from an anticipated scenario about the future informed by the District's core values, through vision and mission statements, to a set of goals, broad initiatives to support those goals, and detailed objectives and metrics to measure progress. The Plan was understood as a medium-term plan, to last some five to ten years before a major revision.
However, as 2021 progressed, it became increasingly clear that many of the conditions of 2019 had changed dramatically. The nature of those changes as they affected AC Transit is discussed within the Addendum document. Therefore, in Summer 2021, the General Manager directed an update of the Strategic Plan.
Despite these changes, two years is too short of a time frame to fully evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of a Strategic Plan. The new plan would also have to be developed in a time of great uncertainty and flux for transit and the broader society. A full Strategic Plan revision...
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