Municipalities are required to do comprehensive planning if they expect to enforce their zoning regulations. Other governmental units do comprehensive planning to acquire grants or simply to bring order to the formation of organizational goals. By law, the governmental planning process must be transparent. By design, the process should be participatory and inclusive.

Strategic Management Alliance can develop a comprehensive plan for your governmental unit, whether you are a city or village, park district or parks and recreation department, library district or library department, fire protection district or fire department, or any form of township government. Whatever your form, we can do a comprehensive plan for you.

SMA can meet all of your planning needs, including data gathering, community surveys, focus group and public hearing facilitation and mapping.

SMA can do the whole plan or any part of it you choose. We also teach your agency how to develop its own comprehensive plan so that you can do your own updates or even your next plan.

Many communities are facing residential growth and are not in a position to anticipate the consequences of tht growth. That is because, before growth arrives, many communities are too small and don't have the resources to afford professional staff to provide fiscal and economic impact analysis. Strategic Management Alliance can help.

A common strategy for smaller communities without staff is to require residential developers to fund fiscal and economic impact studies that will attempt to anticipate how the schools, village and other local governmental units will be called upon to provide services and the revenue that residential devleopment will generate to fund those services.

As a part of the analysis process, SMA works with each of the governmental units to help you understand how growth will impact you and what you will require from the developers to meet those impacts.

Less than 25% of municipalities regularly receive a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association. That is because government accounting and financial management is more difficult than business accounting because there are more rules and more levels of accountability.

Strategic Management Alliance can provide your governmental unit with the expertise to pursue a Certificate of Achievement. SMA can also help you get your financial house in order, write budgets, create appropriation ordinances, or levy taxes.

SMA can help your governmental unit develop a computer based accounting system as well as tie your budgeting efforts to your comprehensive planning process so that you'll be able to solve our own problems and meet your financial needs.