CA Board Planning and Strategy Committee

2011-2012 Planning and Strategy Committee Members: Alex Hekimian, Chair; Shari Zaret, Vice Chair; Ed Coleman

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The Planning and Strategy Committee is accountable for designing and leading the Board's participation in CA strategic and operational planning, including budget preparation, in this capacity:

• Reaching agreement with the President/CEO on the detailed design of CA's planning and budget development cycle - with special attention to the Board's role in planning - and on the annual planning calendar, and ensuring that the Board participates fully and proactively in the planning process.
  
• Overseeing preparation for, and hosting, periodic Board of Directors-CEO -Executive Team strategic work sessions that are designed to kick off the annual planning cycle.
  
• Recommending to the Board the strategic issues that CA's strategic planning should focus on, and reviewing and recommending to the Board such critical planning products as updated values, vision, and mission statements, operational planning priorities, the budget, and other strategic and policy-level products that merit full Board of Directors attention.
  
• Ensuring - as part of the operational planning/budget preparation process - that all program plans include both financial and programmatic performance targets that the Performance Oversight Committee can use in monitoring the programmatic and financial performance of all of CA's programs and operating units.
  
• Recommending to the Board the appointment of residents to the Budget Committee, which is to serve in an advisory capacity to the Planning & Strategy Committee, and to provide the Budget Committee with its charge.
• Motions assigned by the Board Operations Committee to be vetted by this Committee, and make recommendations to the full Board for action.
  

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