2024 LCCMR Strategic Planning

The LCCMR developed and adopted a new strategic plan in 2024 to help guide its future funding recommendations from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF) for projects that protect, conserve, preserve, and enhance Minnesota’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources. (Learn more about the LCCMR and the ENRTF.) The strategic planning process was a requirement of the LCCMR’s governing law.
2024 ENRTF Strategic Plan

The LCCMR created a Subcommittee on Strategic Planning in late Fall 2023 to lead strategic planning efforts. See below for more information and resources about the 2024 strategic planning process, the work of the Subcommittee on Strategic Planning, and related documents.

Strategic Planning Process

The process included reviewing the LCCMR’s previous strategic plan, reviewing 2019 strategic planning efforts, gathering and analyzing public input, and drafting a new strategic plan.

The Subcommittee gathered public input in the spring of 2024 through a public survey, a subject matter expert survey, and the following listening sessions:

• March 26 (virtual)
• April 26 (Saint Paul)
• May 3 (Brainerd)
• May 3 (Detroit Lakes)
• May 4 (Saint Cloud)

At Subcommittee meetings during the summer and fall of 2024, this public input was used to inform possible future ENRTF goals and strategies, potential changes to the proposal solicitation, review, and recommendation process, and other topics. The Subcommittee drafted a new strategic plan in the fall of 2024.

Following public comment, the LCCMR voted to adopt the strategic plan at its December 11, 2024 meeting.

Details about past and upcoming Subcommittee meetings, including meetings minutes and video from previous meetings, can be found on the LCCMR Meeting Schedule page.

Strategic Planning Resources

• Public Survey Results Presentation. Presented at the June 10 LCCMR meeting.

• Big, Bold Ideas from the Public on Protecting or Enhancing Minnesota’s Environment, Natural Resources, and Outdoor Recreation. Presented at the June 10 LCCMR meeting.

• Subject Matter Expert Ideas for Additional Goals the ENRTF Could Help Minnesota Achieve. Presented at the June 10 Subcommittee meeting.

• Subject Matter Expert Responses on How the ENRTF Can Help Minnesota be a National Leader. Presented at the June 10 Subcommittee meeting.

• ENRTF Goals Presentation (Subject Matter Expert Survey Demographics and Goal Prioritization). Presented at the June 10 Subcommittee meeting.

• ENRTF Strategies Presentation (Subject Matter Expert Strategy Prioritization). Presented at the June 20 Subcommittee meeting.

• Subject Matter Expert Ideas for Additional Strategies. Presented at the June 20 Subcommittee meeting.

• LCCMR Goals and Strategies Presentation (Subject Matter Expert Feedback on LCCMR Funding Process). Presented at the June 26 Subcommittee meeting.

• Subject Matter Expert Comments on LCCMR Funding Process. Presented at the June 26 Subcommittee meeting.

• Listening Session Comments.

• Subject Matter Expert Comments on LCCMR Funding Process. Presented at the June 26 Subcommittee meeting.

• LCCMR Draft Strategic Plan Public Comment. Presented at the December 11 LCCMR meeting.