Goal setting session yields few results

A goal-setting session held Tuesday by City of Sidney administrators and the City Council ended with a rough mission statement and few goals.

During the three-hour discussion at Sidney Hampton Inn, facilitator John Berge, North Platte NRD general manager, explained the importance of setting a mission statement.

A mission addresses the needs of the citizens, Berge said, though those needs are changing.

“For visualization purposes, you have to have a mission,” Berge said. “One that you can measure and reflect against.”

Asked what they see as the role of the city, Ed Sadler, city manager, said it...