After almost a year of work, the Misty Isles Economic Development Society has completed a strategy that will guide its decisions for the next three years.Economic development officer Heather Adel said the strategy reflects ideas and opinions offered by dozens of islanders during a public consultation process last summer."Basically, everything in that document has come from the people of Haida Gwaii," she said.The strategy includes a brand new mandate, mission, and definition of economic development. MIEDS was established in 2008 with a $500,000 grant from the provincial government but until now had been operating without a well-defined mandate or mission, Ms Adel said."This gives the organization some clear boundaries," she said.MIEDS, which is made up of five directors representing Masset, Port Clements, Queen Charlotte and regional district areas D and E, has also identified three strategic issues to work on over the next few years. The three issues are: the need to establish stronger collaboration within industry and between governments; the need for more jobs and skills training; and the lack of an agency to take the lead on reducing barriers to economic development and sustainability.Ms Adel said the complete strategy will be posted on MIEDS's website this week (mieds.ca) and will also be presented to the public at the society's annual general meeting, to be held sometime this spring.Ms Adel said the society will present an annual plan at the meeting with measurable goals about what it wants to accomplish this year. Next year, the annual general meeting will include a full report about whether those goals were met or not."We're having that real accountability," she said. "If you don't plan and you don't have those goals, you can't really say if you succeeded or failed."