Lynn Haven's Strategic Vision
Mission Statement:
"Progressively enriching our community’s quality of life by providing consistent and transparent customer service to our residents."
The Strategic Vision Plan is an outline for the City of Lynn Haven’s future. The city’s focus is to enrich and ensure the community’s quality of life by pursuing these goals on behalf of the residents and working diligently together to make them a reality.
What is the Comprehensive Plan?
The Comprehensive Plan is the overarching guide for the City of Lynn Haven’s future growth and development. It guides decisions on rezoning and land use as well as related transportation, housing, economic development, and other quality of life issues by establishing goals, priorities, and action items for Lynn Haven’s future. It is a long-range plan of the city’s potential. Comprehensive plans are overseen by the City Manager’s Office. The plan will be updated continuously.
Who
The Comprehensive Plan update is being led by the internal leadership team (department heads). The driving influence on the plan’s update is input from community members and direction provided by the public and commission.
Why
Stepping back to revisit and update the city’s overall strategy for our future growth and development is essential to facilitating a high quality of life for the people of Lynn Haven. It helps us to protect critical resources, prioritize future spending, plan for infrastructure improvements, coordinate across departments, and ensure policies are in place to help all individuals, businesses, and organizations thrive. The Comprehensive Plan update also provides the opportunity to integrate other related planning efforts into one cohesive growth and development plan for the future. The city will review its plans every five years and update its plans every 10 years.
How
The best plans result from thoughtful input from a wide range of community stakeholders. Residents, employees, business owners, community leaders, nonprofits, students, visitors, city staff, are encouraged to participate. The planning team will listen, ask questions, facilitate dialogues, and provide professional guidance throughout the process, ultimately crafting a plan based on public input. Once the plan is finally adopted, this plan will be available to the public or years to come.
The current City of Lynn Haven Strategic Plan is broken into goals for each department throughout the following years:
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022 through 2025
- 2026 through 2027
The full plan outline can be downloaded by clicking the link below:
| Department | Goal |
|---|---|
| Accounting/Budget | • Transparency to dispel misinformation
• Update the financial software
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| Code Enforcement | • Remove dilapidated buildings
• Address signs on 77
• Update Fee’s- charge for lien checks
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| Community Services | • Fix Crematory (animal control)
• Regular adoption/shot clinics
• Retaining wall at the cemetery stabilized
• Additional Community Services staff for grounds, recreation
• Add a certified food manager to staff for concessions
• All staff to have spray tech license for the grounds
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| CRA | • Revitalization Grant for Florida Ave
• Rails to Trails
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| Customer Service | • Open drive thru
• All CSRs to be trained on Utility Billing
• All CSRs sell over the counter permi
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| Economic Development | • Strategic Plan for new Commerce Park
• Lights on Hwy 77-finish 77
• Enhance Ohio & Florida Ave
• Full time Economic Development employee
• New Christmas Décor at City entrance
• Apply for at least two grants
• Develop Strategic Partnership with St. Joe Corp
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| Executive | • Add additional staff
• Present to the Commission and Public 30% plans for the rebuild of the City
• Implement the Customer Self Serve Module for bill payment
• Secure additional funding sources in the Enterprise Funds
• Get the CDL approved $5million
• Received reimbursement quicker for buildings and grounds from FEMA
• Receive a at least $14 million reimbursements from FEMA
• Close the insurance claim on Hurricane Michael
• Grand Opening for the Garden Club
• Update and remodel the Service Center upstairs for additional space
• Update and remodel the Senior Center
• Move the Seniors back in the Senior Center before the end of the calendar year 2020
• Secure additional legislative funding for road paving and lift station projects
• Complete cost estimates of all city buildings for FEMA
• Complete a cost estimate from each firm of what it will cost to rebuild
• Put the RFP back out for CONCESSIONS
• Design and ground breaking for all city facilities (city hall, police dept, fire dept, public works, animal shelter, sports complex)
• Move Commission Meetings and Planning Meetings to Senior Center when it is finish
• Facilitate all FEMA/Insurance Reimbursements
• Initiate Table Talk sessions for City Mgr to answer citizen concerns monthly
• Staff to attend community grand opening & re-opening events
• Department Heads to visit other Cities to inspire innovative means/methods for doing business |
| Facility Maintenance | • Completion of SR Center
• Completion of service center
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| Fire Department | • New Aerial |
| Information Technology | • Complete Munis Upgrades
• Update concession registers
• Implement Fleet Maintenance technology
• Vehicle for I.T.
• Electronic access/locking system for city facility doors
• Strategic Planning landing page
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| Human Resources | • All Around employee development
• Continue to identify Moral builder events for employees
• Continuing Education all departments |
| Planning and Development | • City expansion/annexation
• Improve City Aesthetics
• Flood Plain Certification
• Add a fee for fast pass/expedited plan review
• Update fee schedules
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| Police Department | • six man rapid response team (SWAT)
• Shooting range
• Narcotics Investigator (1)
• Narcotics Sergeant (1)
• Lieutenant for Criminal Investigations
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| Public Utilities | • Implement Radio Meter Read Tower Hardware / Software
• Water & Sewer infrastructure
• Influent design complete
• SRF projects completion
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| Public Works | • Stay on top of legislative funding (HMGP) etc.
• Stormwater additional main crew
• Begin fee assessment
• Complete Road Paving
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| Department | Goals |
|---|---|
| Accounting/Budget | • Annual Report – state of city update |
| Code Enforcement | Continue 2020 goals |
| Community Services | • Add an Amphitheater to Kinsaul Park |
| CRA | Continue 2020 goals |
| Customer Service | Continue 2020 goals |
| Economic Development | Continue 2020 goals |
| Executive | • Address potential use of alcohol in city parks
• Municode- updated- all ordinances and resolutions easily accessible
• Begin the rebuild of the City
• RFP out for Construction Contractors
• Groundbreaking of Cain Griffin Park
• Look at establishing a Boys and Girls Club in Lynn Haven
• Annual report that will be sent out to all residents
• Steakhouse in Lynn Haven
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| Facility Maintenance | Continue 2020 goals |
| Fire Department | • New 800 mhz radio
• FD Addition staff fire prevention
• Life scan
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| Information Technology | Continue 2020 goals |
| Human Resources | Continue 2020 goals |
| Planning and Development | • All homes that can be annexed into city
• Vehicle for the department to visits sites
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| Police Department | • New 800 mhz radio |
| Public Utilities | • Vac con truck
• 30 percent Added radio read meters for the city
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| Public Works | • Vac con truck
• Continue updating the ditch maintenance program
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| Department | Goals |
|---|---|
| All Departments | • Continue to replace diminishing vehicles |
| Accounting/Budget | • Budget Enhancements |
| Code Enforcement | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Community Services | • Redo dog runs
• Additional Kennel Worker
• More recreational staff
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| CRA | • extend CRA lifespan |
| Customer Service | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Economic Development | • Small business incubator / accelerator
• Educate future business owners
• New commerce park
• Full time economic development director
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| Executive | • Make customer service a complete Customer Service Center (move all other offices to different to the New City Hall)
• Records management designated area and employee
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| Facility Maintenance | • Completion of all city buildings |
| Fire Department | • station 3 -950 new app and staff of 12 |
| Information Technology | • Camera Security System
• IT – single sign on
• Kiosk (Customer Services)
• Munis completely updated
• Network storage system
• Cyber Security
• 100% device/network management-remote in and update to all computers
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| Human Resources | • Inhouse Training Center for Employees
• Develop a mentor program
• Develop Succession plan.
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| Planning and Development | • Improve Housing Options
• Enhance mobility transportation
• P&D – Increase green space for citizens (Pocket Park different age groups)
• Walking Parks – Kinsaul Park, sports complex, sculpture garden.
• Fuel Depot- Repair relationship, uses of land, shops, restaurant, garden homes, large homes, identify out roles.
• 2023 update the comp plan to ensure it incorporated in state policies. reflects the goals of the city.
• Additional employee
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| Police Department | • station 3 -950 new app and staff of 12 |
| Public Utilities | • Widening of Hwy 390 East
• Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion
• Phase II AMI Radio at sixty percent
• Continue water & Sewer infrastructure
• Lift station scata
• Reuse upgrades
• infrastructure to extend water and sewer lines |
| Public Works | • Continue Road Paving
• Implement a ditch maintenance program
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| Department | Goals |
|---|---|
| Accounting/Budget | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Code Enforcement | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Community Services | • Updated playgrounds
• Summer Camps
• Van for Animal Control
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| CRA | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Customer Service | • Updated playgrounds
• Summer Camps
• Van for Animal Control
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| Economic Development | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Executive | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Facility Maintenance | • Assistant Director of facilities |
| Fire Department | • Fire trucks |
| Information Technology | • To communicate with residents on all technology platforms |
| Human Resources | • Risk manager
• Thriving workforce
• Training employees
• Workout Gym for employees
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| Planning and Development | • Grow to the east and north
• Annexation of surrounding areas
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| Police Department | Continue to implement previous years goals |
| Public Utilities | • Water plant 3 at Sports Complex get off bay county water supply.
• Underground utilities
• Withdraw from Bay County Master Meter
• Sewer Plant upgrade
• Relocation of Sewer Plant (grant funded)
• Total radio read
• Well Rehab
• Certified EPA lab
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| Public Works | • Have completed all storm water projects
• Paving- ½ cents sales tax runs out
• 50 % of City with sidewalks
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