City of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee strategic plan 2024

Municipalities in middle Tennessee over the past decade have experienced significant and unprecedented growth and development. Strategic planning is recognized by municipalities as an important long-term planning tool to provide direction and prioritization of goals, objectives, projects, and programs to improve the delivery of public investments and services to meet the growing needs of the community.

MTAS has facilitated the preparation and adoption of strategic plans for several years for Mount Pleasant including most recently in 2017 and 2021 (2021 plan attached as reference). The City is committed to performing a periodic update of the strategic plan every 3-4 years in order to ensure the plan reflects the desired direction and priorities of the City as well as any changing conditions that need to be addressed as part of the strategic planning process. In 2021, MTAS facilitated an update to the 2017 strategic plan. During the 2021 work session, City staff presented a status update on the programs and initiatives identified in the 2017 plan demonstrating the value of strategic planning as signified by the significant progress made to plan elements in the short time period following adoption of the plan.

In 2024, MTAS facilitated an update of the City's strategic plan adopted in 2021 that included a strategic plan work session with municipal staff and elected officials. The work session included a review of the City’s mission statement, a SWOT analysis, a review of the implementation of the prior adopted strategic plan, a review of department goals and objectives, and the identification and prioritization of projects, programs and initiatives in an interactive prioritization exercise. The strategic plan prioritized objectives, projects, programs, and initiatives that were categorized into six distinct plan elements consistent with the structure past strategic plans for plan continuity. The updated 2024 Strategic Plan was adopted by resolution unanimously by the governing body.