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responsibility. Accountability is established through regular reporting to the City Council as well as Boards
and Commissions who oversee projects related to plan elements. The second level of implementation
plans includes our departmental business plans. Departments prepare their business plans following
an analysis of their department’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and with the goal
of implementing best practices associated with the services they provide. These plans are prepared
on a three year cycle. Additionally, departments prepare annual work plans which articulate both the
connection to the business plan as well as clearly outlining what the department is planning to do, how Strategic Direction
they are planning to do it and when they project the work will be complete.

Southlake’s Strategic Development/Budget Cycle

Figure 5

Establishing a link between a City’s strategy and budget is fundamental to effective public budgeting.
Southlake works hard to connect the SMS to the budget process. Incorporating the Strategy Map into
resource allocation decisions ensures the City budget reflects the priorities of City Council. Figure 5
depicts the annual process of developing the City’s budget in conjunction with the Strategic Management
System.

The budget process, like the Strategy Map, connects each department to the organization as a whole.
At the micro level, City departments work to provide quality services to the citizens of Southlake. At the
macro level, departments use the Strategy Map to make budgetary requests so that these services can

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