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Typical strategic <br />planning and <br />consulting activities: <br />• Master site planning <br />• Board retreats, strategic <br />planning, and visioning <br />• Life -cycle, fmancial <br />analysis <br />• Strategic business plans <br />• Waste reduction modeling <br />• Waste stream security <br />planning <br />• Administration/policy <br />options analyses <br />• Contract development and <br />negotiations <br />• Ordinances <br />• Funding and marketing <br />assistance <br />• Comprehensive solid waste <br />management plans <br />• Community relations and <br />communications <br />• Procurement assistance <br />• Operations efficiency <br />analysis <br />• Benchmarking <br />• Environmental audits <br />strategic planning sessions to work through policy and strategic issues, <br />make key decisions, and set the course for the next couple of years. <br />Planning activities and visioning are very important in developing well - <br />thought -out, publicly acceptable, cost-effective facilities and services <br />that continue to improve over time. <br />Foth has extensive experience preparing environmental policy state- <br />ments, integrated solid waste management plans, strategic business <br />plans (including goals, objectives, action plans, resource needs, and <br />measurement), master site planning, options and feasibility analyses, <br />and procurement planning and assistance. <br />Results <br />The results of good, strategic planning and visioning are: <br />• Cost-effective operations <br />• Financially sound agencies with good cash flows into the enterprise <br />fund <br />• Great customer and neighbor relations <br />• Political support and positive recognition <br />• Innovative programs receiving awards and professional recognition <br />• Significantly reduced neighborhood opposition to facility expansions <br />• Successful regionalization and consolidation that improves service <br />and cost effectiveness <br />• Maintaining public facilities as community assets rather than <br />privatized <br />• Continued improvement in service and results <br />"The Foth team focuses on solutions that are in the best interest <br />of each client. Time and again they've shown a willingness to go <br />the extra mile to get the job done. In addition to their technical <br />expertise, they are great people to work with. It is my philosophy <br />to invest in long-term relationships with partners I can trust. I can <br />truly say Foth fits this description. "— Thomas B. Hadden, III, <br />Executive Director, Metro Waste Authority, Des Moines, Iowa <br />Recycling Drop -Off Center Analysis & Plan Development <br />City of Ramsey, MN —October 2012 <br />*Foth <br />2-2 <br />