This is an opportunity for Council to review and consider updates to the City Strategic Plan. 

 

Council to consider updates to the City Strategic Plan and provide direction to staff. No action will be taken. (Jenna Goad, Strategic Planning & Organizational Performance Manager; Kim Bradford, Customer Service and Innovation Director)

There is no direct budget impact from this planning item. Future expenditure requests associated with projects proposed in the plan will be discussed during the annual budget development process.

Since 2023, Council has reviewed and updated the City Strategic Plan each fall. Council adopted the FY2026-2029 Strategic Plan in November 2025. The plan outlines the City’s focus areas, guiding principles, and specific goals established by the Council which guide and prioritize staff’s efforts during the years of the plan.

In preparation for the annual update of the City Strategic Plan, Council provided feedback on priorities through a survey, in August 2026. A summary of the feedback received through the survey is included as Attachment A and the full survey responses are included as Attachment B. The staff leadership team took that feedback and developed a draft of the proposed FY2027-2030 plan update for Council's consideration at the Council Retreat.

The proposed update includes the addition of 21 new action items, the removal of four action items that have been incorporated into other items, and modifications to several existing items. The majority of these modifications are to clarify the description, scope, deliverable, and timing of the projects. The focus areas have been reordered so that Innovative & High Performing Organization appears first, as those guiding principles are foundational to how the organization approaches all the other focus areas in the plan. The action items have also been sorted into three categories to clarify the scope and intended outcome: Operational, Council Discussion, and Official Action. This will allow staff to more effectively utilize Council meetings for items that are of most interest to Council while keeping Council informed of operational items of strategic importance through routine updates. 

Attachment C is an executive summary of the proposed action items and Attachment D is a full listing of the proposed action items, including the description and intended deliverable for each item.  Items in red reflect proposed changes to existing action items and items in green are proposed new action items.

Council's feedback on the proposed update will be incorporated into the draft FY2027-2030 plan and brought back to Council for adoption in November.