Progress Toward Goals

The Engage Gwinnett Committee is a citizen-led initiative where committee members spent approximately six months looking at the community’s needs for current and future government services and proposed funding strategies to pay for those services over the next five years. 

They presented their findings to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners on April 27, 2010. Since then, the County has been working towards implementing some of these recommendations as well as moving forward with other initiatives that were planned prior to the Committee’s inception.

These recommendations were separated into four different categories: Efficiencies, Privatization/Outsourcing, User Fees, and Volunteerism/Partnership. To see the County’s progress concerning these different areas and the trends that support them, click on the links below:

• Efficiencies/Technology
• Privatization/Outsourcing
  
• User Fees
  
• Volunteerism/Partnerships
• Other Recommendations
  
• Supporting Trends

April 2011 Update: Actions taken by Gwinnett County as a result of Engage Gwinnett recommendations

Gwinnett County has documented actions taken to date in response to the Engage Gwinnett committee’s recommendations. Five work groups made a total of 73 recommendations for a “status quo” scenario in which economic conditions stay as they were; 40 “declining digest” scenario recommendations for use if the tax digest declines dramatically over several years; and nine general recommendations.

Gwinnett County has considered all the recommendations, and at this time, 65 have been completed and 40 are currently being acted upon. The County appreciates the hard work, effort, and dedication of the volunteer members of Engage Gwinnett throughout this ongoing process. In return, County management and staff are prudently working to study and where appropriate, implement these recommendations.

To read the full reports concerning each of the five work groups, please click here.