December 29, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 9A School district strategic plan wins unanimous passage ADVERTISING With campus relocation underway, district looks beyond By R.J. Marx Cannon Beach Gazette As Seaside School District looks ahead to a new campus, members of the district’s board of directors set their sights a lit- tle further out Thursday, Dec. 14, with unanimous approval of a contract with consultant Jerome Colonna to provide a strategic plan for the district. The cost is estimated at $15,000 and will be paid by existing areas of the budget, including the district’s profes- sional training budget, Super- intendent Sheila Roley said. “The cost of a consultant for creating a strategic plan will come from those existing areas and will not increase our overall expenditures as an ad- dition to the budget,” she said. “Any contract that we will ne- YOUR AD HERE! The North Bend plan R.J. MARX/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE Educator and consultant Je- rome Colonna. gotiate will include the maxi- mum amount we would intend to spend, but the actual costs could be less.” The board met with Colon- na, principal of Colonna Stra- tegic Planning Services, based in Bend, last week to consider a presentation intended to take the district “to the next level of effectiveness.” Colonna, with 45 years in education and a former board member of the Oregon Board of Education, told board mem- bers the nine-month process North Bend School District 13 met once a month from September 2016 to May of this year to create a stra- tegic plan guided by Jerome Colonna, the consultant contracted by Seaside School District. The North Bend team’s initial task was to organize a district and com- munity-wide series of focus groups to collect baseline information for the team to utilize for the creation of the overall plan. The team started developing five in- dividual components of the report: values and beliefs; mission statement; vision statement; strategic goal, performance indicators and measures; and imple- mentation and accountability strategies. Our Business Directory is an inexpensive way for your business to advertise with us! ONLY $ 25 HOLLY LARKINS Call 503-325-3211 to discuss new and exicting ways to promote your business on the North Coast FLOORING CCB# 205283 would help identify goals for the district for the next five years. As the district develops the campus relocation project, board members felt now was the right time to embark on the strategic plan. Services are described in the contract presented Thurs- day as to “provide facilitation, background work and shared production of a multiyear stra- tegic plan.” The Seaside school board was “very supportive” of the project, Roley said. 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