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CityCouncil | 2019-12-18 | 11 | City Council Workshop Workshop Report Management Partners Focus Area (Goals) Initiative(s) What success looks like in the next year A in 1973). Look at the density limit and see how it factors into the housing plan. Look at the capacity issue with all services, (i.e., businesses, bike, transportation choices plan, etc.). o Look into how live/work mixed-use services fit. Evaluate the City's short-term housing plan particularly as it relates to the military community, which has shorter-term rental needs. Develop a deeper partnership with Housing Authority to the make the City's needs known. The Section 8 housing waitlist is long. Evaluate the requirements for allowing room rentals by homeowners to be funded through Section 8 (to increase supply). o Discuss services associated with transitional/supportive housing. Homelessness Obtain more regular reports from the homeless outreach team (police and service providers) to measure progress and to increase communication and transparency between staff and City Council. Since the City was chosen by the State of California to conduct the state's first pilot program, the Community Paramedicine Program, consider advocating for the program at a statewide level. The program has been beneficial for the City. Consider providing street medical services (not just medications), such as mental health and housing outreach to build relationships with the community. Focus Area 4. *Public safety; Support recruitment and retention by identifying ways to maintain current Protecting Core public safety levels of service. Services recruitments; Improve diversity of the department. traffic Need staff to let City Council know if they need more help. enforcement Develop a Fire Services Plan to discuss levels of service. Identify ways to retain staff by considering compensation, and by improving the facilities and identifying what is needed (e.g., space capacity, women's room, infrastructure maintenance, etc.). Pay attention to the response time for public safety requests. Identify innovative ways for developing the next fire station (i.e., as part of a mixed-use residential/commercial space.) Focus Area 5. *Balanced budget Expenditures. Make sure the City Council continues to review spending above a Ensuring Effective certain limit/threshold. and Efficient Review the priorities and stay focused when reviewing/approving the budget. Operations Mid-cycle budget. Identify how the budget can be tied to priorities/ initiatives. Find creative ways to increase revenue. Voters may be maxed out with taxes. Council needs to be aware of limits. Encourage the City Manager to be transparent when creating the budget. Make the budget easy to read when providing the departments and citywide budget. Check-in on values of the budget (early check-in); mid-cycle (values will be tied in). Finance ERP software is underway; it is a big project for staff and requires a lot of work. *Initiatives that were identified by all Councilmembers as a high priority for next year. In addition to the initiatives listed above, Councilmembers brought up some priorities they thought are equally important to keep in mind for the next year. Below highlights the remainder of the discussion. 5 | CityCouncil/2019-12-18.pdf |