It’s very likely you have heard about GUC’s Blueprint, our strategic plan. Maybe it’s from presentations at a team meeting, posters on the walls of our office buildings, or from the cards that came with your employee ID.
Blueprint was created back in 2018 based on input from commissioners, employees, and our customers and has guided GUC for the past eight years. Times have changed and the strategic plan needs to change to meet current conditions and future needs.
For the last six months, GUC’s leadership has been working closely with Fountainworks, consultants who specialize in this sort of work, to review and update the plan. They analyzed responses/input from the community, customer and employee surveys and met with the Management Team and Commissioners. They also held focus groups with business and industry leaders, employees, elected officials, and groups who are dedicated to helping our community’s most economically vulnerable people. In the end, the plan we’ve been following for two decades has been doing a good job of guiding GUC, and very little needs to change.
Added to the plan are a set of Decision Filters. These are the lenses through which projects and actions should be evaluated to make sure we are aligned with our mission. Those filters are Cost & Affordability, Reliability, Responsiveness, Safety, Environmental Responsibility, and Future-Focused.
The Commissioners voted to accept the revised plan, now named the 2026 Strategic Plan. The leadership team decided to drop the elaborate names of the past (Blueprint, On the Mark, etc.) and will simply call it what everyone’s been calling it anyway: the Strategic Plan.
If you’d like to read it, there is an Executive Summary available on MyGUC.com: Strategic Plan 2026
