CMO:120-40\mh\H:\COMMON\City Council\Council Items\2024 Staff Reports\042324\042324 FY 2024-25 Top Ten Priorities Att 2.pdf City of Thousand Oaks
Citywide Goals for FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25
A. Create a more equitable, accessible, safe, welcoming, and inclusive government and community regardless of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, language, education, and/or socio-economic status.
B. Provide municipal government leadership which is open and responsive to residents, and is characterized by ethical behavior, stability, promoting public trust, transparency, confidence in the future, and cooperative interaction among civic leaders, residents, business representatives, and staff, while recognizing and respecting legitimate differences of opinion on critical issues facing the City.
C. Operate City government in a fiscally and managerially responsible and prudent manner to ensure that the City of Thousand Oaks remains one of California's most desirable places to live, work, visit, recreate, and raise a family.
D. Maintain strong commitment to public safety (including Police, Fire, Emergency Medical Services, and Emergency Management) to ensure City remains one of the safest Cities in the United States with a population over 100,000.
E. Complete ring of open space around the City; Protect and preserve ridgelines, natural habitat, and designated open space areas.
F. Provide and enhance essential infrastructure to ensure that the goals and policies of the Thousand Oaks General Plan are carried out and the City ret ains its role and reputation as a leader in protecting the environment and preserving limited natural resources.
G. Continue City's commitment to community and cultural programs and services (such as Performing Arts/Theatres, Libraries, TOTV, Visual Arts, Youth and Senior Programs).
H. Participate in public -private and multi -jurisdictional opportunities to ensure residents have access to high levels of parks, recreation, education and leisure programs and services.
I. Maintain a strong local employment base geare d toward retaining high quality businesses; Sustain a healthy business community; and, Diversify the local economy, with a specific emphasis on small businesses and high technology/biomedical jobs.
J. Implement high quality revitalization projects within Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Newbury Road Areas; Develop a pedestrian -oriented, viable, and self -sustaining "Downtown;” and, continue to support production of long-term affordable housing.
K. Prepare for transition of City workforce by ensuring that sufficient s uccession planning takes place to develop an employment base which is reflective of the community’s demographics.
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