City Council Meeting

Laszlo Palkostaffby voiceabout our debt and how we manage it and think about how we manage our facilities going forward this will establish life cycles for all of our buildings so we properly plan for today and into the future what those liabilities are and how we properly fund them without burdening our residents significantly by doing this thing of trying to tackle everything at once and then kind of waiting and then you want to kind of smooth things out and that's what the the asset management plan should help us do. The IT strategic plan, and actually for the asset management plan, that RFP is already ready to go out and will also incorporate some green building items that we'll be forecasting for next year to hopefully get approval from council as well for our public buildings.

The next item, the IT strategic plan and roadmap, that's another critically important plan for the city to really drive our future technology investments, It's kind of a 2030 technology plan for what we need to invest year by year in a sustainable manner to improve our technology portfolio. You can see the description of what that entails, but that's another critical plan that we need. The following one to the earlier point about economic development, how critical it is for improving our revenue base to cover our ongoing expenditures and those capital liabilities that we talked about in the asset management plan. We need to know what our market is, right? What can we absorb in terms of retail and housing?

Speaker 2firefighter and particularly firefighter paramedics this is also in line with our departmental strategic plan and the prior workforce future needs assessment that we did about two years ago using the city manager's model here we were asked to anticipate potential questions two questions that we thought of were is there existing capacity to perform this as a collateral duty. We currently do not believe so. Existing staff have full plates already. Even with what we are proposing, Chief Orndolph will still play a critical role in this with the two-person rules and add more to his plates. So it's our hope with that uniform position that that position may be able to offload just a few minimal items from Chief Orndolph's plate

Jay Tolanstaffan administrative and operational. The deputy chief of operations would have command over our patrol operations, our community services division, and our criminal investigations division. And the chief of our administration would look over our administrative services division, our professional standards division, and would be looking over our budget as well as our strategic planning moving forward. The creation of the second deputy chief allows for a more effective oversight of operations day it allows for more intricate strategic planning and goal setting for the department was best for the community and then better oversight and risk management in our high liability areas which is our hiring recruiting