Roy: Preparing Comprehensive Plan for Alexandria
According to Mayor-elect Jacques Roy, suggestions from his seventy-plus member transition team will be used in writing an extensive and comprehensive plan for Alexandria’s future.
Roy expects a preliminary plan to be completed within the next two weeks but states that a final draft won’t be ready for at least six months. “I think people will be surprised about the amount of material produced by the transition team, its interfacing with city officials (who have been very candid), and the preliminary compartmentalization of the issues,” Roy said. “The model we used has been very effective, and like the campaign, was borne of the ideas of Alexandrians. Although a comprehensive ‘findings’ document is far off, a 100-day plan with executive style summaries will be released shortly.”
Roy believes it will be important to share the plan with the entire community and has suggested holding town hall meetings, open to the public, in which audience members will be able to ask questions and offer suggestions to the new mayor and his administration.
Roy’s transition team is composed of volunteers, many of whom have been working throughout the Thanksgiving holidays, compiling information and writing reports on specifically-assigned subjects.
CenLamar 
Thank you Lamar and all the other volunteers on the transition team for your work. I hope the other volunteers are as researched and committed as you.
Mayor Elect Roy is approaching the transition in the right way. I applaud him and those who are participating on his team. Good mix of people and talent. Thanks for keeping us informed, Lamar. Good job!
I’m looking forward to the report. Will you be posting it, or will the city website post it? (Speaking of the COA website, it could be improved. I imagine that may be under discussion by the team.) Thanks for keeping us updated on progress.
From what I understand, people on the transition team are a great mix, but can they work together?
Can they work together? That is a philosophical question that can not be answered by mortals alone.
Speaking of Philosophy, didn’t Socarates argue that knowledge and virtue are so closely related that no human agent ever knowingly does evil; yet we invariably do what we believe to be best.