You hit the nail on the head Convivial. Kudos to an honest assessment of the state of FS city government. The reality is, the city administrator and the board of directors don't require plans of action/foresight/overall concept from their department heads. They (city administration/department heads) can't look past next week and as a result, they (department heads) surround themselves with supervisors that can only say "yes, that is a great idea" instead of "why don't we try this".
Pick any department in the city and you can apply this lack of forward thinking to it. Pick any department and you can find no accountability for their lack of forward thinking.
Each department should post it's next year, 3, 5 10 year goals on the city website and then be held accountable for it being accomplished. If it isn't, start giving time off without pay to those department heads. If there are more than 2 department heads not accomplishing their goals, start giving the administrator days off.
It is time for the citizens to demand accountability from it's city government. If the board can't make coherent decisions, the city administrator is having problems, the department heads aren't getting it done, replace them.