The Seaside City Council will hold a workshop in late September as the next — and close to final — step in its 20-year visioning project.

At its Aug. 25 meeting, the council unanimously approved $3,500 to re-hire the Coraggio Group to facilitate a workshop at 6 p.m. Sept. 29. The Coraggio Group, a Portland-based strategic planning and consulting firm, also helped the city facilitate a town hall meeting in late August.

The project, titled “Seaside 2034: Building a Bridge to Our Future,” is nearing completion, said Esther Moberg, director of the Seaside Public Library and one of the project leaders.

Since the beginning of the year, the team has conducted several surveys and held community meetings to get information from people who live in, visit and work in Seaside.

The most recent step in the process was a town hall meeting that was attended by nearly 70 people.

With the help of the Coraggio Group, the City Council intends to complete the vision process at the September workshop. A final report and the Seaside vision statement are due to be out in October.

The City Council will use the data collected during the visioning process as it sets goals for the city. The next City Council goal-setting session will occur in early 2015.

The City Council members said they are pleased with how the process has gone so far.

“Everything was good. … You kept us on track,” Councilor Tita Montero said to the project leaders, who include Moberg, Seaside Director of Tourism Jon Rahl and the city’s AmeriCorps intern Jeremy Goldsmith.

Councilor Jay Barber asked the team to write a draft document containing conclusions gleaned from the process so far for the September workshop so the council is not “starting over from scratch.”

“You have lived with this more than any of us,” he said.

Information on the visioning process, including a report from the recent town hall meeting, is available online at www.cityofseaside.us/2034-visioning.

In other news:

• The City Council heard a request from NorthWest Senior and Disability Services for $4,000 to supplement federal and state funding received by the agency. Mayor Don Larson said the council would consider the request and make a decision later.

The money will be used to bring “enhancements” to programs in Seaside provided by the agency through next June 30. The agency, which serves Clatsop, Marion, Polk, Tillamook and Yamhill counties, delivers services, including legal assistance, home-delivered meals, senior peer counseling, in-home and personal-care services for seniors and people with disabilities, family caregiver support services and a senior dining center in Seaside.