Rehoboth expected to approve strategic plan in May
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If everything goes as planned, Rehoboth Beach will approve its first strategic plan during the regularly scheduled commissioner meeting in May.
The new strategic plan is one of the first initiatives developed by City Manager Taylour Tedder. He took over the responsibilities of operating the city in May 2024. Almost immediately, he identified the completion of this plan as something he wanted to do.
Tedder and Robyn Stiles, a consultant from Emergent Method, conducted a number of listening sessions in the fall to gather information from residents, property owners and business owners.
The two presented their findings to commissioners during a workshop April 7.
Stiles said the plan focuses on three main priority areas – building and maintaining infrastructure with an eye toward the future, fostering excellence and coordination in all city operations, and continually improving access and amenities throughout the city.
The city already has a comprehensive development plan, but Tedder said the strategic plan is different because it’s the actual organization of what staff is implementing.
Tedder said there would be a five-year implementation plan established, with quarterly reports on what’s been accomplished. Things change, of course, and the city would pivot if other priorities come up, he said.
Commissioner Suzanne Goode said she’s concerned there will be additional consultant costs needed to implement the plan.
Tedder said staff will implement the plan internally, so there will be no additional consultant costs.
Commissioner Francis “Bunky” Markert said he’s a proponent of the plan. Rehoboth is a first-place city and it needs to act like it, he said.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
