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HomeMy WebLinkAbout19-12 - Relating to City Council Goals and Priorities for 2019RESOLUTION 19-12 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO GOALS AND PRIORITIES FOR 2019 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: WHEREAS, municipalities will propose and adopt key priorities or goals as they enter a new calendar or fiscal year; and WHEREAS, these priorities and goals allow the Council, the community, and the City staff to be clear about specific ideas and directions that can be pursued via policy changes, budget appropriations, staff time assignments, and more; and WHEREAS, the City Council, community members, and staff met offsite at the Avenue of the Arts Hotel in Costa Mesa on Friday, January 25, 2019, at an all -day session to develop goals to be later adopted by the City Council; and WHEREAS, the all -day session included presentations by department directors and others as to key staff concerns and issues, a financial overview of the City's fiscal situation, comments by members of the public, and a hands-on prioritization exercise by the Council based on what the Council heard earlier in the day; and WHEREAS, the broad subject areas discussed included housing, neighborhood improvements and quality of life issues, community safety, fiscal sustainability, good government, community engagement and improving movement; and WHEREAS, following the prioritization exercise, the Council preliminarily came up with six areas to prioritize, including more specific descriptors to sharpen the priorities somewhat; and WHEREAS, these priority areas and descriptors are shown as an attachment to this Resolution; now, therefore be it RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa that it hereby adopts Goals and Priorities for 2019, as described in the attachment to this Resolution; and be it further RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa that it hereby directs and authorizes City staff and others to pursue strategies — including staff time and Resolution No. 19-12 Page 1 of 2 funding — in the pursuit of the Goals and Priorities for 2019, provided that all such strategies are within adopted position controls and budget allocations. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of April, 2019. ATTEST: Brenda Green, City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF COSTA MESA ) Katrina 0 , yor APPR ED S FORM: 1�2 K berly HallYarlow,dityAito'mey ss I, BRENDA GREEN, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is the original of Resolution No. 19-12 and was duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting held on the 2"d day of April, 2019, by the following roll call vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: CHAVEZ, GENIS, MARK, REYNOLDS, STEPHENS, FOLEY NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: MANSOOR ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 31d day of April, 2019. Brenda Green, ity Clerk Resolution No. 19-12 Page 2 of 2 CITY OF COSTA MESA GOALS AND PRIORITIES 2019 • Goal #1: Keep our Community Safe. We will: a. Upgrade our public safety infrastructure; b. Improve staffing in the Police, Fire, and Code Enforcement Departments; c. Have strong enforcement against rogue dispensaries; d. Develop and implement a strong homeless shelter and homeless prevention plan; e. Modernize our Emergency Operations Center; f. Continue to address the secondary impacts of sober living homes through code enforcement and pursuing legislative reforms; g. Support community policing, such as bike patrols; and h. Manage coyotes effectively. • Goal #2: Improve our Neighborhoods and Quality of Life. We will: a. Improve, expand, and add to our neighborhood parks (such as Shalimar); b. Improve, expand, and add to our open space via a Recreation Open Space Plan, along with enhancing restoration activities at our nature parks (including Fairview Park's restoration plan and Canyon Park); c. Increase our Code Enforcement program to address neighborhood nuisances; d. Develop a strong roll-out to the opening of Lion's Park (and community center and library); e. Work to enhance our overall park and community services system, including working with NMUSD and the County on innovative programming at the new Library and Community Center. This includes a focus on early childhood development programs; f. Provide opportunity for district initiated input on infrastructure priorities; g. Invest in infrastructure improvements including streets, sidewalks, bikeways, alleyways, storm drains, parkways, medians, and trees to ensure all areas of town (especially Districts 4 and 5) are raised to the same high standard for infrastructure. This includes updating our Parkway and Median Standards and exploring the possibility of becoming a Tree City USA; h. Improve key travel corridors to beautify and improve appearance, to comply with the Active Transportation Plan and reducing speeds; and i. Develop and implement the Westside Restoration Plan. • Goal #3: Keep the City Fiscally Sustainable. To address our long-term obligations as well as immediate needs, we will: a. Take measures to reduce expenditures by including but not limited to: i. Implementing energy efficiencies and sustainability practices at city hall, in public buildings, parks and public spaces; ii. Addressing the City's pension obligations responsibly and creatively b. Increase revenues by: L Developing and implementing a strong economic development plan and program; ii. Prioritizing Costa Mesa businesses first when issuing Requests for Proposals (RFPs); iii. Moving to a more diversified revenue base iv. Addressing citywide IT infrastructure (i.e. 5G) to assist businesses; v. Encouraging new business approaches and workspaces; vi. Activating the golf course as a revenue generator, and vii. Rightsizing reserve funds to increase available cash where appropriate. c. Modernize our City's IT infrastructure comprehensively and strategically to save City resources, improve constituent services, enhance the budget process and maximize other revenues; d. Obtain earlier input into the Budget and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) process from the Council; e. Work with Directors to develop succession plans and stabilize workforce; and Secure outside advice to assist in changing of systems to improve our revenue projections, including relating to cannabis, and to provide stronger data on sales tax trends (brick and mortar locations v. online), and more. • Goal #4: Housing. We will continue our efforts to improve housing and to end homelessness in Costa Mesa using a comprehensive way, addressing the full continuum of housing needs from crisis -shelter to supportive housing to affordable to market rate for all, including: a. Providing for an appropriate bridge shelter and developing a permanent location for a shelter/navigation center; b. Ensuring that those Costa Mesa residents who are chronically homeless and who need specialty care get it; c. Anticipating and planning for new Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) number allocations; and d. Developing a plan for compliance with our RHNA numbers that takes into consideration protection of traditional suburban neighborhoods and reducing time spent traveling to and from work. • Goal #5: Improve Mobility and Parking. We will: a. Prioritize supporting the Active Transportation Plan; b. Form an internal committee to survey and address local neighborhood parking (including in commercial centers such as SOBECA and in parking - impacted residential areas). Any parking solutions will be implemented following a determination from both studies and public outreach that the solutions are viable; c. Reduce cut -through traffic; d. Ensure strong investment in our roads; e. Develop multi-purpose trail systems citywide; and f. Initiate a Pedestrian Master Plan with focus on safe routes to parks and schools. • Goal #6: Good Government and Community Engagement. We will: a. Develop and implement a communication plan to implement robust and consistent communication and engagement practices and identify activities (such as a City Council podcast) to increase awareness and engagement in City activities; b. Improve the way that we listen to and provide information to our residents and businesses, including providing more information in Spanish and English; c. Complete our IT Strategic Plan; d. Improve transparency and accountability as well as increasing checks and balances by, without limitation, improving the Budget/Finance Software ("ERP" or Enterprise Resource Planning); e. Prioritize speed and efficiency in our recruitment efforts to get closer to full staffing faster; and f. Maintain up-to-date and accessible information about public works projects, significant private development sites, and other city activities.