Luzerne County Council is set to approve a Strategic Plan and Five-Year Financial Plan prepared under the state’s Strategic Management Planning Program by the Pennsylvania Economy League, partially funded with a DCED grant. The report, delivered in May 2026, analyzes the County’s finances, facilities, labor, debt, and operations, and lays out detailed recommendations for cost control, revenue diversification, facility consolidation or replacement, emergency services investments, economic development, and reassessment planning through 2030 and beyond. Approval of the plan will guide future budgets, capital projects, and policy decisions but does not itself award contracts.It signals a pipeline of upcoming initiatives—such as a potential new or consolidated government center, a new emergency services/911 facility, IT modernization, debt advisory services, reassessment preparation, and creation of an Infrastructure, Community, and Economic Development Division—where the County is likely to seek external consulting, engineering, financial advisory, and technology partners under subsequent procurements.

Plan recommends pursuing STMP Phase II grants, reassessment preparation, debt advisory support, new emergency services building, facilities consolidation, IT and digitization upgrades, and a marketing specialist within the new Infrastructure, Community & Economic Development Division.