MCS May Start Strategic Plan
MASSENA - The Massena Central School District could soon be embarking on the long process of creating a strategic plan to pinpoint its goals and objectives in the years ahead.
That process could begin following a March 25 presentation on strategic planning by a member of the New York State School Boards Association.
"It's in the infancy stage. We're just beginning the process where it would be introduced, what strategic planing is and where we go from there," Superintendent Roger B. Clough II said.
NYSSBA Consultant Cliff Moses, a retired superintendent, will lead the strategic planning discussion during the Massena Central School Board's March 25 meeting.
"He's been through it (the strategic planning process)," Mr. Clough said.
He said the presentation will be approximately a half hour to an hour long, and they encourage input from the school board, community and district personnel including students and staff.
"I have ideas, but what we're doing is to get community input, board input, district input if we go with it," Mr. Clough said.
School board President Andrew Soutar said the initial NYSSBA presentation would be at no cost to the district, and it was part of an important process.
"It's very important for a school to figure out where it should be going. Every organization puts its own ideas down on paper in the process. At the same time it requires a lot of assessment of where you are now," Mr. Soutar said.
"The discussion should be as broad and deep as possible," he added.
Board members will need to decide "where we are," Mr. Clough said, and then draw up their strategic plan indicating where they want to be in the future.
He said that, if they pursue the strategic plan, they could do it under one of several avenues including drawing it up on their own or having NYSSBA or another organization facilitate the process.
But the process won't happen overnight, according to the school superintendent.
"It's a pretty lengthy process. It could be a year, two years or three years," Mr. Clough said.
