FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio -- Four years after the Fairview Park City Schools created its last strategic plan, the district is once again seeking public input to design a blueprint for the near future.

Tasked with establishing the plan is the Fairview Park City Schools' Strategic Planning Steering Committee, which is comprised of 30 community stakeholders, including parents, community members, staff, students and board members. The group has scheduled a community forum for 7 p.m. Jan. 22 at Gilles-Sweet Elementary School.

"I'm always excited about community forums because you're pretty much throwing open the doors and inviting people to come in and share their thoughts about how they see public education for our students," Fairview Park City Schools Superintendent Bill Wagner said.

"It's very informative for us, and it helps guide our work as we continue to move forward and build the public schools our community wants."

The Strategic Planning Steering Committee has been in the process of not only collecting data from the community about the future direction of the school district over the course of the next three to five years but also reviewing previous goals.

Wagner said already he senses there are new themes emerging compared to the 2015 strategic plan, which focused on learning, readiness, resources and engagement.

"There's a lot of conversation about social-emotional learning, the need to support not just our faculty and staff but our kids and our families with issues like anxiety, frustration, depression and coping skills," Wagner said.

"That wasn't prevalent the last time around, so I'm interested to see how from the community forum standpoint that topic either rises up or does not."

Another area that Wagner expects to be addressed in the new strategic plan once again involves resources. Specifically, the district has a financial component coming up next year when the Superintendent said Fairview Park City Schools will return to the voters for additional operating funds.

As for the final strategic plan, a firm document is expected by the end of this school year.

"The next strategic plan will debut in our annual report that will go out at the end of June," Wagner said.