The consultant will be expected to facilitate and lead discussion or training for the following: Future Planning: The consultant should make arrangements for a keynote speaker to help spur conversations about future goals and priorities. The Council would like to hear about the experience from a past Mayor, or Councilmember, from a high growth, larger metro community, in regard to setting and following through on a new vision or goals. A goal and priority setting discussion: The consultant should solicit input from the City Council about community strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Based on this input, the consultant should find common themes and proposed new goal/priority focus. The consultant should find supporting information for proposed goals/priorities using past public engagement efforts such as master plans, studies, assessments, audits, or plans that have a high level of citizen engagement. The consultant, with help from city staff, should facilitate a discussion whereby formal goals/priorities will be formally established.