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“There is concern that the road map lacks leadership, focus and identity,” stated the report. “There does not seem to be a clear ‘owner’ or leader of the Community Economic Road Map.”

The road map’s advisory panel is chaired by the city manager and reporting goes through the city to politicians. The report states the city heard feedback it should not be a city-driven initiative.

“The road map lacks focus in that the priorities and initiatives are too broad and require the action teams to focus on too many things,” it stated.

The report also states that businesses and other “stakeholders” have withdrawn from the process.

Still, it also states that 85 per cent of its targets are completed or on schedule to be completed.

“It has done some good, it has brought people together to collaborate, but it is a good time to hit the reset button and see what worked and what did not,” said Kapil Lakhotia, chief executive, London Economic Development Corp.

“We will work with the city on what the next phase of the road map will be. It is too broad in its current format.”

In its early days (its timeline is 2015 to 2020), about 400 businesspeople were interviewed for input. It had a $100,000 budget in 2017 and $200,000 for this year and 2019.

The initiative of former city manager Art Zuidema, the road map was billed as an economic strategy designed to ask London business leaders what our focus should be as a city when it comes to job creation, and develop a priority list. Once that was done “action teams” were created to work and advise in those areas.