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Diana Buckley, Director, Economic Skills, and Culture gave a presentation to members on City Goals.

The presentation talked about what the Council was trying to achieve such as –

·       a clear long-term plan for the City, which identified the city’s priorities for an inclusive, thriving economy;

·       a plan that people and partners could all stand behind and talk about what sort of city we wanted Sheffield to be;

·       creating better collaboration through collective ownership and those citizens, communities and stakeholders shaped the plan, understood their role in its delivery and felt empowered in addressing complex issues;

·       aligning of resources and expertise across the City and creating a clear long-term plan for the city would enable city partners to dedicate resources to collectively deliver on the goals;

·       a stronger platform for leveraging funding with Government, funding bodies and investors.

The Director of Economic Skills and Culture explained that work had already begun in November 2021, with the City Partnership Board agreeing to commission work on a new City Strategy, work had since been ongoing and extensive, city-wide engagement had progressed and now the Council were at a stage of drafting, iterating, and shaping the goals.

The engagement had produced a huge amount of rich data, over 1600 survey responses, over 28 engagement workshops and 17 collaborative conversation sessions.

The Director of Economic Skills and Culture advised that a draft set of goals were ready in September, with the start of the ‘public conversation’ on the draft in October-November.  The Goals would be finalised in December based on the public conversation, with the approval of the goals set for December – January 2024

The meeting was advised to keep a look out for the start of public conversation survey in October and this would be an opportunity for the public to comment on the draft City Goals.  The LAC’s would circulate details of the survey, but this could also be found on the City Goals website (www.sheffieldcitygoals.co.uk).

The Director of Economic Skills and Culture invited members of the public present to take part in small table discussions to look at the early draft and to answer a series of questions.

The meeting was then paused whilst the committee moved into small table discussions with members of the public about the draft city goals.