The City of Trotwood is located in Montgomery County, Ohio, approximately 6 miles southwest of Dayton and encompasses 28.4 miles in area. Founded in 1901, Trotwood merged with Madison Township in 1996 to become the largest city area-wise in Montgomery County, and fourth in population. The City of Trotwood is a community long defined by its entrepreneurial spirit and civic pride, governmental excellence and commercial success, and its small-town charm with big city advantages. With a current population of 24,431, this is growing community with a unique blend of urban, rural and metropolitan areas.

About the Project

Trotwood’s Organizational Strategic Plan will represent the whole community, reflect core community values, address emerging trends and issues, imagine a preferred future, and promote local action.  The Organizational Strategic Plan will direct efforts and resources toward a defined vision for the future employing a roadmap that is realistic, achievable and sustainable.

The visioning and strategic planning process aims to provide a response to the following questions:

• What should the City of Trotwood become?
• What makes the City of Trotwood unique and special and how can the City use these characteristics to prepare for the future?
• How will community stakeholder preferences fit into this vision?
• How should funds be invested and leveraged to build resiliency for the City?

The strategic planning process aims at a minimum to include the following:

• Identification of high leverage strategic goals
• Equitable inclusion of all strategic planning participants
• Facilitation of conversations with participants
• Support of strategic planning participants by facilitating the internal and external environmental assessments
• Communicating the work of the strategic planning participants and the results of their work
• Process that is on track, time and budget
• Ensuring the implementation and evaluation of the plan contains realistic and measurable indicators and metrics
• Framework for renewal of the vision, mission and core values

Future iQ has been contracted to guide the City of Trotwood in the process of creating of a new 5-Year Organizational Strategic Plan that involves:

• Background research and key data review
• Facilitation of a scenario-based City of Trotwood Future Think-Tank producing Scenarios of the Future Report
• Extensive community stakeholder engagement
• Community surveys to include as many community members as possible
• Data collection and analysis
• Focus Group to develop strategic goals and priorities
• Roadmap, key measures and implementation toolkits
• Five-Year Organizational Strategic Plan