The Ione City Council, in participation with the Police, Finance, and Fire Chiefs, held a strategic planning workshop on Monday. The group focused on developing a community vision, a mission statement, and enhancing the City’s core values. These items were all brought to council at Tuesday evening’s regularly scheduled meeting, where they continued to review the strategic plan and make any necessary corrections. The proposed Community Vision statement currently reads “The vision of the City of Ione is to preserve and enhance our Sierra Foothill community feeling and thereby remain a desirable and unique place in which to live, work, recreate, visit, and invest”. After the presentation of the proposed plan, Councilman Lee Ard stated that this document is “the key necessary to have a solid infrastructure” and that the “document delegates accountability, ensuring things really will happen.”