Fiscal Year 2023-2024
Council Goals
Michael Malone, City Manager
Kristen Bennett, Program Manager
Natalie Peterson, Assistant to the City Manager
Goal Setting Overview
• April 2022 – Council held goal setting and
set Multi-year goals
• July 2022 – Council adopted FY22-23
Council Goal and Multi-year Goals
• April 2023 – Council held goal setting to re-
visit multi-year goals and provide special
interests/projects
FY 22-23 Multi-Year Goals Re-work for FY 23-24
Purpose:
• Provides an update on progress made
toward advancing a multi-year strategy
• Outlines the past (22/23), present, and
future focus
• Lists the next projects & actions in
queue that are aligned with the multi-
year strategy
• Does not list all of the work done on a
daily basis to provide core services
Document Overview - Multi-year goal overview
& strategic priority work plan (in color)
Multi-year goal overview & strategic priority work plan (in color)
• Provides information in
one convenient place
• 1 page (front and back)
for each priority area
Helps communicate what is possible given current resources and circumstances Example:
Priority Area Budget: $270,000
Staffing Capacity: 1 FTE
Multi-year goal overview & strategic priority work plan (in color) Purpose:
• Help create alignment and shared understanding in
the language used to describe the goal setting process
• Outlines direction received from Council, and the
planned response for advancing the multi-year
strategy to achieve positive outcomes for the City of
Vallejo
• Illustrates the inter-connectedness of strategic actions to successfully achieve desired outcomes in each
priority area
Document Overview -23/24 Goals At-a-Glance (in black & white) Document Overview 23/24 Goals At-a-Glance (in black & white) Document Overview –Unofficial notes sheet for
tonight’s discussion (idea catcher)
CONTACT(S)
Purpose of tonight’s discussion: Dial in
direction given at goal setting to allow for goal
adoption at 9/26 meeting
Decision Point 1: Agreement on wording for the
goal/outcome for each priority area
Decision Point 2: Agreement on interpretation of multi- year strategy for each priority area
Decision Point 3: How should items be addressed that
have been directed, but are beyond the City’s scope?
Decision Point 4: Receive comment on future goal setting format.
(Example: 2-day goal setting workshop every 2 years with an annual update vs. annual goal setting workshop)
Future Goal Setting Recommendation
• Odd years – Council does 2-day goal
setting workshop
• Even years – Council receives update
on goals, discusses Council protocols
and participates in team-building
exercises
Recommendation: Efficient, effective
& responsive government
• Staff – Include strategic alignment
to goal / multi-year priority or
delivery of core services in future
presentations (2024)
• Council – Requests for future
projects & agendized items to
include strategic alignment
CONTACT(S)
Michael Malone
[email protected]
Multi-Year Goals & Strategy – At-a-Glance
How to use this document: This document was drafted to help create alignment and shared understanding in the language Council and Staff are using as we discuss goals and a multi-year strategy for achieving positive outcomes for the City of Vallejo. Below you will find a description of the information in each column
Priority
Area
Goal / Outcome Strategy / What we want to achieve
(Multi-year)
Council Direction
& Focus 2023-2024
Metrics / Data for determining if
we are successful
City Response
2023-2024 Outputs
Public Safety
Goal: Vallejo is a safe
environment for living,
working and playing
Critical focus: Rebuilding
the police department
and public trust in the
police
1. Law Enforcement & Fire Emergency Response –
ensure prompt response to calls for service across
the city by measuring response times, to enhance
department operations, promote adherence to
policies and strategic plans, and detect patterns of
policing
• Street calming safety (4)
• Fully staff police, fire & city
staff (3)
• Cross streetlights / Valley &
Red program enforcement –
light (license plate renewals)
(2)
• Address equity in
neighborhoods (2)
• Crime rates by type and location
• Blight cases, code enforcement cases
• Response time
• Staffing levels & retention (current, hired,
lost, laterals, vacancies etc.)
• PD & Fire strategic plans
• Timely union contracts
• Police HQ financing plan & plan
for moving the corp yard
• Retention plan
• Incentive plan for recruitment
• Dispatch relocation
• Secure resource(s) for
temporary law enforcement
support
Efficient,
effective and
responsive
government
Goal: Vallejo has the
capacity and resources to
effectively implement
Community and Council
goals in a way that is
sustainable over the long
term
1. Communication & Outreach – facilitate timely and
effective communication throughout the
organization and with the public (press releases,
communications, open data, emergencies etc.)
2. Organizational Principles – operates responsibly and embodies transparency, accountability and
innovation in all operations
3. Organizational Resources – Invests in, protects, and optimizes City resources (human, financial, physical,
technological etc.)
4. Data & Record Management – Maintains, preserves
and manages City records and data so that they may
serve as resources that contribute to community
goals
5. Talent & Culture – Attract, develop motivate and
retain a high-quality, engaged and productive
workforce, focused on service excellence
6. Water Management & Delivery – Provide reliable
infrastructure to deliver safe and compliant water
for fire suppression, residential and commercial use
7. Safe Building & Housing – Enforcement of
regulations to ensure that homes and public spaces
are structurally secure, clean, visually appealing,
and promote community members’ well-being
8. Safe Transportation – Maintain the transportation
network to ensure community members can travel
between spaces safely and efficiently in any mode
of transportation
• Quarterly city strategic
planning for large issues too
big to discuss at Council
meetings (5)
• Improve communication of
the status of properties,
development and businesses
(3)
• Staff reports with index
system and links (2)
• Community input, increase
community
attendance/participation (2)
• Annual report of hiring and retention
• Annual report of projects, policies and
goals reached
• Annual budget
• Annual report of timely publication of
agendas before meetings
• Annual report of timely responses to
public records requests
• # of outreach events attended
• Salary survey
• Timely contract negotiations
• ARPA funding retention
strategy
• Roll out a new ERP system
• Community outreach events
Implement
Economic
Development
Strategy
Goal: Vallejo has a
supportive infrastructure
for growing businesses
and a stable local
economy to the benefit of
all
1. Business & Talent recruitment/retention – support
talent attraction efforts to recruit and retain a
diverse workforce, promote and retain local
businesses, bring better paying jobs to the City
2. Property management – Promote the revitalization
and redevelopment of existing properties to
encourage sustainable economic growth
3. Downtown & Waterfront experience – support the
development of a downtown district and vibrant
waterfront to meet the needs of our community
4. Asset management – develop and sustain public
infrastructure that serves the needs of the
community including roads, utilities, water supply
and broadband
5. Business Opportunities – Develop and support a
diverse mix of businesses and industries by and with
residents that meet the needs of the neighborhood
and attract the local workforce to encourage
economic growth and stability
6. Focus on improving public safety to retain, support
and attract businesses
• Adopt ordinance restricting
commercial vacancies with
increasing financing costs for
failure to comply over time
(5)
• Revenues for short-term
rentals / Air B&B (3)
• Develop financially
productive neighborhoods
(3)
• New businesses created – by district and
location
• Jobs created
• Ordinance development to
support ED
• Economic development
strategic plan
• Free public WIFI waterfront &
downtown project
• Execute broadband & digital
equity strategy from 2022
• PD and Fire strategic plans
• Waterfront & Downtown
specific plans
Housing /
Unhoused
Response
Goal: Vallejo has
adequate housing and
resources for all
1. Collaborate with regional stakeholders in
collaborative efforts to improve the effective use of
resources and promote proven best practices
2. Streamline data collection for coordination of
homelessness response efforts
3. Collaborate with regional stakeholders to develop
programs to connect those experiencing
homelessness to a variety of shelter and housing
options
4. Proactively seek funding opportunities to meet
localized needs aligned with regional goals to
prevent and address homelessness and affordable
housing
5. Support streamlined development practices to
support housing production citywide
• Develop safe camping area
for unhoused people, cars,
RVs & tents (3)
• Access grant funding: explore
shared housing models and
tiny homes concept (3)
• Cooperation with County
programs (3)
• # of key stakeholder groups consistently
and intentionally engaged
• # of people inhabiting encampments and
experiencing homelessness on City streets
is reduced
• At risk and unhoused individuals/families,
and concerned community members are
clear about service capacity and where to
obtain services to prevent and address
homelessness
• Shared data resources make it easier for
outreach professionals, city staff and
regional partners to routinely make
successful referrals connecting unhoused
individuals with services to improve
outcomes
• # of City/County & other regional
partnership collaboration efforts on
funding opportunities and receiving
funding for regional efforts (i.e.
collaborative projects, grant efforts
pursued and/or provided etc.
• Updated P.I.T. count # Jan 2024
• Continued JPA collaborative
group
• Finalizing Broadway project to
bring 47 permanent supportive
housing units to Vallejo
• 125 bed Navigation Center
construction begins Fall 2023
• Adopt housing element
• Recruit housing director
Youth
Development
Goal: Vallejo is a City
where young people
thrive
1. Increase capacity for coordination between
the City of Vallejo and the community by
identifying and building relationships with key
youth stakeholders
2. Increase awareness of youth services,
resources, programs and activities in Vallejo
3. Increase youth voices, youth engagement and
youth opportunities for residents aged 0-25
within the City of Vallejo
4. Increase funding opportunities for youth
programs, resources and activities
• Partner with regional
success programs (5)
• City will assist with
identifying and
partnering to create
accessible and
sustainable resources
and programs for
mental health, social
emotional learning,
and academic
achievement (5)
• Provide trade schools
at VHS (3)
• Youth participation in accessing
community services/resources
• Pre- and post-program participant
evaluations
• Grant funds obtained and utilized or
distributed in the community to
support Youth focused initiatives
• Citywide Youth Needs
Assessment and
Strategic Plan
• Convene Youth
Workforce Development
cohort
• Create Internships at City
of Vallejo organization
• Create a Youth Council
• Create a Tech Academy
• Partnership on
developing a youth
center
• Support NLC Youth
delegation