Vision, Faith, is Everything

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Today I've searched for and found articles that suggest that visionary medium-term planning is not impossible for cities. Please see initial sources below. 

If you want to destroy any thriving organization, be it City or private, or individual, destroy their ability to plan more than 12 months out. Thriving is not possible without medium and long-term reality based envisioning.

Thriving is also impossible for any living entity individual or collective, if the vision is not rooted in reality. Not to be confused with bound or chained by reality, blindness.

I am exploding with passion, sometimes visible in City Council meetings and elsewhere in City hall. Why? Objectively, like maybe most of america, we are gripped by denial, instead of vision. I think we can do better. I know that we need to do better. I won't rest until I see that better is impossible, or we get on with developing our reality based vision for Cortez thriving.

7 days a week, every waking breath, I'm trying to be a positive factor toward the thriving of 9,000 residents in cortez, at higher levels, vastly higher levels than I currently see.

I'll give up only when I see why it's impossible. It's unlikely I will come to see why it's impossible.

Without visionary, but reality based planning, thriving of Cortez is impossible.

Why isn't it part of our culture? One answer could be, theoretically, that by law or statute or practicality it is impossible for a city to do so. 

Finally on my priority list it came to the top to do some further research. I was willing to discover that planning is impossible for cities. That does not seem to be what I'm finding.

To those that might read this and have an insatiable appetite for throwing up roadblocks, sandbagging, nay saying and saying why things are impossible, please just don't waste my time or yours. Shut me down some other way, but I have no time for such things. I see 9,000 people relatively languishing and 100% of my time is to try and help them toward thriving.

Even after my humiliating defeat tomorrow night, I expect to remain on this as a top priority and will provide reports to you all in the future I expect. In my experience there is nothing more important for the city of Cortez, 9,000 inhabitants of cortez.

To me the following are not proof, I've not even yet dug into them all, but the titles certainly suggest to me that some cities have decided that planning medium and long-term financially, is not only possible, but fundamentally necessary.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=City+governments+that+do+long-term+Financial+modeling#lfId=ChxjMe

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=what%20cities%20do%20long-term%20Financial%20modeling

https://www.redmond.gov/DocumentCenter/View/634/LongRangeFinancialStrategyFinal2018-PDF?bidId=

https://centralpointoregon.gov/171/Long-Term-Financial-Plan

https://www.plantemoran.com/explore-our-thinking/insight/2020/06/long-term-financial-planning-for-governments

https://www.gfoa.org/materials/long-term-financial-planning

https://stories.opengov.com/encinitasca/published/utYPowCOos

https://www.stantec.com/en/ideas/content/blog/2023/3-ways-municipalities-can-use-agile-financial-planning-to-prepare-for-unexpected-events

https://stories.opengov.com/alamedaca/published/yRzJZupEr



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