Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City expects that the consultant’s team will include expertise in facilitation, strategic planning, and design thinking skills needed to collect input, data and to prepare a strategic plan. Each consultant firm is expected to develop its unique comprehensive and detailed scope of services, based on its expertise and knowledge that the consultant believes to be necessary to meet the City’s expectations for completing the project. The City of Healdsburg is seeking a professional consultant team to: 1) Design an effective method for data gathering, synthesis, and presentation, including surveys, focus groups, and community meetings over a four-month period. Preferred: community input process conducted in English and Spanish. 2) Guide all stages of the strategic planning process, including meetings with stakeholders, City staff, commissioners, and community members. 3) Assist in the identification of service priorities, goals, objectives, and activities. 4) Identify gaps between current City operations, resources, facilities, and staffing and the above priorities, goals, objectives, and activities. 5) Employ industry-standard methods of data extraction and tools to assess demographics, market segments, and achievable outcomes at a deep level.