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Strategic Planning in the Organization

Strategic planning supports the organization’s mission and sets and prioritizes short-term internal goals. A
strategic plan typically involves a three-to-five-year planning window. Community involvement in the
process is critical as the strategic plan should be customer-oriented while accomplishing the following:

= Development of a mission statement giving careful attention to the services currently provided and
which logically can be provided in the future.

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Within any agency, operational plans should be in place that ensure adequate volumes of the appropriate
types of resources are deployed to an emergency. Doing so involves:

« Identification of potential risk types;
« Determination of resources needed to mitigate an incident affecting the particular risk type; and

«= A methodology of ensuring that adequate resources are dispatched to an incident via 911 center
protocols.

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Figure 53. Levels of Planning

1. Tactical Planning The development of strategies for potential emergency
incidents.
2. Operational Planning The organization of day-to-day activities, as primarily

outlined by a department's standard operating guidelines
and procedures. This includes the integration of the agency
into other local, regional, or national response network.

3. Master Planning Preparation for the long-term effectiveness of the agency
as the operating environment changes over time.

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Avision statement establishes the ideal image that the organization wishes to achieve. The vision statement
should answer the questions “Where are we headed?” and “If we achieved all strategic goals, what would we
look like 10 years from now?” Nashua Fire Rescue’s Vision Statement answers these questions.

Figure 51. Nashua Fire Rescue’s Vision Statement

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Current or Upcoming Areas of Interest

In 1993, Nashua voters passed a Budget Control Charter Amendment that limited budget growth to an
increase of no more than the average annual consumer price index (CPI-U) over the past 3 years. This could
severely limit the flexibility of the city to respond during an economic crisis. In 2019, the New Hampshire
Supreme Court upheld the decision by lower courts that the Amendment was unenforceable, making this no
longer a concern.

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Itemized Grant Awards 2016 through 2020 are as follows.

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Figure 48. Itemized List of Nashua Fire Rescue FEMA/State Grants, FY 2016-2020

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Figure 46. Nashua Fire Rescue Budget by Category, FY 2016-2020

$30,000,000
$25,000,000
$20,000,000
$15,000,000
$10,000,000
$5,000,000
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2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
= 51-Salaries and Wages u 52-Fringe Benefits
53-Professional & Technical Services ™ 54-Property Services
55-Other Services 61-Supplies and Materials
m 68-Other Expenses § 71-Equipment

= 90-Budget Adjustments

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Historical Expense

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Figure 42. Nashua Fire Rescue Fire Appropriation, FY 2016-2020

$25,000,000 10%
$24,500,000 9%
$24,000,000 8%
$23,500,000 7%
$23,000,000 6%
$22,500,000 oe
$22,000,000 3%
$21,500,000 2%
$21,000,000 1%
$20,500,000 + tr 0%

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

ma General Fund Fire Appropriation === Percentage Change
Percent of Total GF

Figure 43. Nashua Fire Rescue General Fund Budget Growth, FY 2017-2020

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2.55% 6.10% 2.93% 0.27%