Fire Inspection and Code Enforcement
Exam 1| Reviewed 2025| Certified
What is strategic planning?
A systematic process for conceptualizing and creating a desirable future for an organization.
What are the components of a strategic plan?
Vision
Values
Mission
Goals
Objectives
Priorities
Strategies
Why engage in strategic planning?
To give clarity and direction to the organization
To help choose from among competing goals and activities
To cope with unexpected shifts in the environment
To give focus to the work of the staff
To sort out the truly vital from the merely important
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,What is a statement of vision?
While based on rational analysis, it ultimately expresses the intuitive, creative, subjective,
entrepreneurial sense of the organization's leadership.
What is the ultimate goal of Code Compliance?
Voluntary compliance.
What does poor planning lead to?
Poor results.
What does SWOT stand for?
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
What is a mission statement?
A statement that gives an organization's reason for being: Why it exists.
What is a goal?
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, A broad directional statement of emphasis or intent to do or accomplish something in the
future.
What is an objective?
A desirable specific output or result that is measurable, observable, or identifiable, with a
timetable and a person who is accountable for its accomplishment.
What is a strategy?
An action or input that contributes to the accomplishment of an objective.
What are the four statements of an objective?
What will be accomplished
By whom
What level of measurement/degree of accuracy
By when
What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)?
A set of written instructions that documents a routine or repetitive activity engaged in by
members of an organization.
What are the steps for preparing SOPs?
Identify the need for an SOP or the revision of an existing one.
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, Assign drafting the SOP to staff members well-qualified in the job function.
Circulate the SOP draft to other staff members qualified to perform the job function for
review/comment.
Finalize the SOP, eliminating any discrepancies.
Issue copies (or e-copies) of the finalized SOP.
Conduct periodic reviews of adherence to established SOPs and re-train periodically when
necessary.
What is the purpose of budgeting?
To provide government with a mechanism to allocate resources for the pursuit of goals that
are consistent with community preferences and needs.
What is a fiscal year?
The period for which a particular budget is authorized, normally a calendar year or some
other 12-month period to which the annual operating budget applies, and at the end of which a
jurisdiction determines its financial position and results.
What is an operating budget?
A financial document setting forth expenditures for personal services and operating expenses
that are needed to provide services for the entire fiscal year.
What is a capital budget?
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Exam 1| Reviewed 2025| Certified
What is strategic planning?
A systematic process for conceptualizing and creating a desirable future for an organization.
What are the components of a strategic plan?
Vision
Values
Mission
Goals
Objectives
Priorities
Strategies
Why engage in strategic planning?
To give clarity and direction to the organization
To help choose from among competing goals and activities
To cope with unexpected shifts in the environment
To give focus to the work of the staff
To sort out the truly vital from the merely important
1
,What is a statement of vision?
While based on rational analysis, it ultimately expresses the intuitive, creative, subjective,
entrepreneurial sense of the organization's leadership.
What is the ultimate goal of Code Compliance?
Voluntary compliance.
What does poor planning lead to?
Poor results.
What does SWOT stand for?
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
What is a mission statement?
A statement that gives an organization's reason for being: Why it exists.
What is a goal?
2
, A broad directional statement of emphasis or intent to do or accomplish something in the
future.
What is an objective?
A desirable specific output or result that is measurable, observable, or identifiable, with a
timetable and a person who is accountable for its accomplishment.
What is a strategy?
An action or input that contributes to the accomplishment of an objective.
What are the four statements of an objective?
What will be accomplished
By whom
What level of measurement/degree of accuracy
By when
What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)?
A set of written instructions that documents a routine or repetitive activity engaged in by
members of an organization.
What are the steps for preparing SOPs?
Identify the need for an SOP or the revision of an existing one.
3
, Assign drafting the SOP to staff members well-qualified in the job function.
Circulate the SOP draft to other staff members qualified to perform the job function for
review/comment.
Finalize the SOP, eliminating any discrepancies.
Issue copies (or e-copies) of the finalized SOP.
Conduct periodic reviews of adherence to established SOPs and re-train periodically when
necessary.
What is the purpose of budgeting?
To provide government with a mechanism to allocate resources for the pursuit of goals that
are consistent with community preferences and needs.
What is a fiscal year?
The period for which a particular budget is authorized, normally a calendar year or some
other 12-month period to which the annual operating budget applies, and at the end of which a
jurisdiction determines its financial position and results.
What is an operating budget?
A financial document setting forth expenditures for personal services and operating expenses
that are needed to provide services for the entire fiscal year.
What is a capital budget?
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