Goals

City Council Goals

Adopted August 17, 2022

Economic Development

  • Title: Create a positive environment to attract and retain business.
  • What: Increased the City's assessed value by $50M.
  • Why: To support and create a thriving and growing business community.
  • How: Identify and create partnerships, ensure cooperative municipal processes, utilize TIF, tax abatement, and economic development programs, improve housing conditions and quality of life, and recognize and highlight local businesses.

Housing

  • Title: Construct new housing developments and rehabilitate existing housing stock.
  • What: Add 200 new doors and rehabilitate 100 properties over ten years.
  • Why: Increase the city's tax base and satisfy resident and employer demand.
  • How: Utilize TIF, tax abatement, housing programs, ordinance review or trial programs, and other programs/tools or alternative funding to partner with and incent developers and residents to build new homes and rehabilitate the existing housing stock.

Quality of Life

Title: Create an attractive and inviting community that then helps to create a sense of place.
What: Create a quality-of-life survey or other tools to determine the community's baseline needs and wants and then subsequently set targeted increases or improvements.
Why: Attract and retain residents, businesses, and industry.
How: Identify funding, needed features and facilities for placemaking and the creation and maintenance of public amenities. Improve internal codes and process improvements to facilitate the city's efforts to create a sense of place.

Communications, Marketing, and Engagement

Title: Improve resident knowledge, awareness and engagement.
What: Create at least one meaningful piece of content weekly that is published through all major mediums and add four in-person forums or opportunities for elected officials and staff to engage the community.
Why: Allows the city to confirm that we are meeting residential and business needs, that we are telling our story and recognizing community achievements.
How: Improve, expand, and utilize electronic communication that generates more opportunities for in-person and electronic engagement and promotes community achievements.

Organizational Goals and Key Projects or Programs

  • Capital Improvement Plan
  • Comprehensive Plan
  • Cooperation with the School District, City of Burlington, and County (or other potential partners).
  • Sewer Force Main Study
  • Agency and Broadway Sidewalks/Trails
  • Stormwater Master Plan