The project will be managed by a professional consultant through the City Manager’s office and executive team. The city’s employee motto is “Suwanee Exceeds Expectations”; the city expects any vendors working for or on behalf of the city to embody this motto. It is essential that prospective consultants become familiar with the city’s current Strategic Plan to understand the city and past efforts and expectations. The city also has adopted Anchor Points that help guide the city’s major decision-making points: Suwanee Quality, Remarkable, and Visionary. The city’s wishes to inspire a fun, quirky, and hip process and product. The prospective consultant will need demonstrate an ability and expertise in utilizing innovative ways of engaging the community, analyzing, and synthesizing the information captured in the visioning process, facilitating consensus (as much as can be expected) from multiple public and private interests related to the project, refining data to create a meaningful plan, and communicating to diverse groups, both orally and with proficient graphics and other various methods.
