9. Reinforce Strategic Priorities Through Business Planning and Measures

Business Plans will continue to be integrated as part of the 2010 Operating Budget Process to help establish and reinforce connections between strategic priorities, Vaughan Vision 2020, and resource allocation. This information compliments the budget process and plays an important role in evaluating department base budget efficiency, effectiveness and productivity through the use of performance measures. Business Plans will also greatly assist Senior Management and the Budget Committee in their budget deliberations by providing a platform to better understand department objectives, pressures and the basis for additional resource requests. This is an important step towards aligning budgets with Vaughan Vision strategic goals, objectives, and priorities.  The Senior Manager of Strategic Planning will be intricately involved with this process and assist with updates and refinements to existing business plans.

New to the 2010 business planning process are the following:  

• Performance measurement data will now include estimates for 2009 & 2010 and a performance level standard or best practice. This will align the measures with the budget year and provide a reference point for stakeholders to better understand the department’s situation.
• In addition, a section on future pressures and opportunities will be included.  This information will help provide a context to illustrate initial and future challenges facing the department as well as potential opportunities to improve the business.
• Slight changes to the template may be required, but the overall content will remain relatively unchanged.

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