PREPARED BY: MATT RODRIGUEZ DATE OF MEETING: 02/05/2024
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CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO CONDUCT POLICY EVALUATION, FEASIBILITY, PRIORITIZATION AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION/OUTREACH EFFORTS FOR FUTURE CITY-INITIATED FUNDING MECHANISMS FOR THE 2024-2026 PERIOD
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution
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Annual Year-end City Survey; and under Major Policy Goal: Focus on Economic Development and Fiscal Diversification, Policy No. 414 - New Strategic Budget Initiatives to Address new Structural Deficits forecasted for FY 2025-2027 Period are current adopted policy items in the FY 2023-25 Council Priority Workplan, effective May 1, 2023.
BACKGROUND
Annual Year-end City Survey Process
To support civic engagement and community outreach, the City of San Pablo commissions an Annual Year-end City Survey to assess the community at-large, and to identify desired core priorities, needs and values to assist the City Council in formulating public policy decisions.
Strategy Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) administers the City's annual year-end city survey process, conducts data analysis using appropriate scientific tools, and then provides summary findings and survey results to the City Council and City Manager's Office. Information gathered from annual year-end city surveys assists the City Council in overall policy decision-making and aligns current policy issues with adopted policies contained in the adopted City Council Priority Workplan.
Previous City Council Action
On March 14, 2016, following presentation of 2016 Annual City Survey results by SRI, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2016-139 which authorized further policy consideration, evaluation, feasibility and prioritization of the following previously considered City funding mechanisms (See Table A below), which included the following:
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