2000 Work Group Orientation Agenda

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A Resource refers to the people and/or things necessary for actually carrying out the action. Resources can be the funds necessary for paying for the action; the people required to implement the action; the land or space needed for the action; and other such resources. For example, for the action of preserving historic properties, financial resources will be needed to pay for the people and materials to maintain the properties. It may be determined that municipal taxes cannot carry the costs of this action and funding should be secured through grants and foundations. Human resources will be needed to write the grants and approach the foundations; who will do this? As is often the case, these resources are limited and tradeoffs among your Work Group's goals as well as the goals of other Work Groups must be explored. These items can be presented in an organized manner in a Summary Matrix such as that shown below. The purpose of this matrix will be to ensure that reports from all groups can be placed in a consistent format. When listing Goals and corresponding items in the matrix, please order them according to the priorities agreed to in your group. That is, the most important Goal should be the first listed in the matrix, and so on until the least important Goal is listed last. Sample Goals, Actions, Objectives, Measures, and Resources For "Sense of Community" Work Group GOALS OBJECTIVES ACTIONS MEASURES RESOURCES NEEDED Ensure that the historic character of Lexington is a strong component of the town's identity To preserve historic assets Ensure maintenance of town's existing historic buildings Number of items awaiting repair Funding: municipal, state, federal. People to research grants and foundations; write applications. To foster citizen use of and interaction with historic sites Promote historic sites through advertising Number of visits per site Municipal gov't, historic commission, and civic organizations to collaborate l0