To renew its strategic direction, the AFHTO board developed a draft document and invited members give input to via two webinars, held on Jan. 22 and 24, and a membership survey. Please click here to access the survey results. Responses indicated strong support for the direction. Some modifications were made as the responses gave valuable insight into concepts that needed to be incorporated or clarified. The results appear reasonably consistent:
- Reasonably strong support for the revised Vision and Mission for AFHTO. A few comments suggested need to clarify the reference to “expand access” in the mission statement and add concepts that were felt to be missing, i.e. equitable access for the marginalized and commitment to collaborative teams.
- Strong support for the Strategic Priorities as well. All received reasonably high ratings as priorities (2.4 to 2.6 points out of 3.0). Comments were varied, but a number spoke to the theme of “equity” – for first nations, marginalized populations, in allocating resources among FHTs, and in compensation for FHT professionals.
- The final question asked about priorities for investing the roughly $200K increase to AFHTO’s operating budget. Government relations, performance measurement and knowledge transfer capacity were consistently rated the top three; group purchasing and research/analysis capacity as the bottom two.