Citrus Heights leaders set six-month objectives for City

The City of Citrus Heights recently published a list of six-month objectives on its website, following a strategic planning session earlier this month where a dozen city leaders discussed and set short-term plans to accomplish by October 1.

Objectives include DUI enforcement, streamlining building permits, addressing homelessness, completing roadway improvements, and 15 other tasks to accomplish over the next half-year.

A draft version of the objectives was given approval during a May 12 council meeting, with the plan originally created during a May 5 meeting involving the mayor, council members, the city manager, staff leaders and the police chief.

Twice a year, for more than a decade, City leaders have faithfully gathered to brainstorm, set objectives, and assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The latest meeting lasted about four hours, with leaders emerging with consensus on a list of objectives to accomplish over the next few months.

Objectives decided on and published on the City’s website are categorized under a set of three-year goals the City previously identified, with goals relating to maintaining long-term financial stability, growing the local economy, enhancing public safety and improving the city’s infrastructure.

The following list of 19 objectives is taken from the City’s latest six-month plan:

Maintain long-term financial stability:

• Project revenue and expenditures for the 2016-2017 budget.
• Hold a budget information workshop for the community.
• Present to the City Council for action a resolution that commits returning the revenue generated from the Medical Office Building lease to the City’s General Fund Reserves.

Grow the local economy:

• Ensure that building permits are issued for the Medical Office Building.
• Meet with the new mall owners to familiarize them with the City’s Economic Development Programs and to open discussion about the owner’s plans and report the results to the City Council.
• Complete a new online building permit application process.
• Complete an additional five visits with targeted Citrus Heights businesses to obtain their feedback regarding doing business in Citrus Heights and their plans as a business.
• Complete the research and development phase of a “City Awareness Campaign” and report the results to the City Council.

Enhance public safety:

• Ensure that a DUI checkpoint or DUI saturation patrol is conducted.
• Present to the City Council for action a resolution that funds a contract for a Homelessness Navigator, as part of the budget process.
• Present to the City Council for consideration an updated massage ordinance.
• Increase membership in the Police Explorer Program from 12 to 18 youth.

Improve city infrastructure:

• Present to the Council for action a contract for creek maintenance services.
• Begin construction of the Cripple Creek bank restoration.
• Complete Sunrise Boulevard Complete Streets Phase 3 improvements (west side of Sunrise from Antelope Road to city limits).
• Complete construction of 2016 Residential Street Resurfacing Project.
• Complete construction of the 2016 Accessibility and Drainage Improvements throughout the City, funded by Community Development Block Grant.
• Finalize the design of the Sunrise Boulevard Complete Streets Improvement Plan (east side of Sunrise from Antelope Road to city limits).
• Finalize the design of Mariposa Avenue Safe Routes to School, Phase 3 (from Skycrest Elementary School to Madison Avenue).

The City’s strategic planning sessions are open to the public, with the next meeting anticipated in October of this year.

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Document:
www.citrusheights.net/159/City-Strategic-Plan