Your 24 month uh focused action plan priorities.

I'm gonna ask each of you to share your up to top five priorities you brought into the room after listening to the feedback we discussed this morning, as well as all of the conversations you have with your constituents all the time.

After you've each shared, um, we'll allow you to ask each other questions to make sure you understand what each other means by these different priorities.

I'll also allow the staff to ask questions in case they're not quite sure what some of these things mean.

Um after we've done that, we'll take uh after lunch quick break.

We're gonna start organizing your ideas.

I am expecting that you have a lot of shared priorities as well as some divergent priorities.

So we'll start grouping the shared priorities together.

We will ask you to um dot vote your highest priorities at that time, and then the ones that elevate to um to the higher priorities, we'll go into deeper discussions of what would that look like to succeed in that area in the next 24 months.

What do you think could be accomplished or what would you hope could be accomplished in the next 24 months?

Um, and then the staff starting tomorrow will take what you define as your priorities, they'll look at what they can do, they'll solicit some community input on it, and they'll develop a um 24 month focused action plan so that they can then use that with all the infrastructure.

Deputy Manager Krosky talked about this morning to um make sure that they can be advancing your priorities and showing um showing progress.

So that's our plan for this afternoon.

With that, I'm gonna ask you to start by sharing your priorities.

I'm gonna give you five minutes to share your five priorities.

Um, and would welcome anyone to volunteer to go first.

Hutch.

Get it out of the way.

Um public safety, then all employees under that.

I think it's I've said enough.

Uh I believe in that.

Um next would be uh infrastructure, uh, overall health of the city, flooding, um, bridges, anything, anything that's gonna keep our city as uh as good as it is right now or better.

And I think we do a pretty good job of that.

Um, with that, um, I've already spoken again about the housing.

As you can see, I did try to pay attention to what you ask us.

Um the housing and the mid-level uh prices there are where I think we need to put our focus, not to not to necessarily stop with the others, but put some focus and why can't we have it all?

You know what I mean?

Let's do all three levels of housing.

Um, and with that, I've already said is to work with the trusted developers to make it happen.

That's work is work for them.

I think they'd be happy for it.

So that to me is important.

Umelessness is something that I've been working on since the 90s.

So uh I believe in it.

I don't think uh they should be looked down upon.

I think we should try to do the best we can to help them mental health issues.

Um, yes, some of them have had have their problems with addiction and everything else, and that makes things even harder.

But by the same stance, that's where we should put some of our funding because I do think it shows uh being a caring society in a in a top-level city, you need to care for everyone in it.

So that's important to me.

Uh and then lastly, I put uh I didn't just put schools, I put education.

Um, I think there's a as we're seeing, it's a broader picture, a broader picture of what is needed there across the board, all things education, whether it's buildings or or the people or um special special programs or whatever we're you know doing it.

But I also want to say about that is um we do have a whole nother entity um that helps take care of schools in education, right?

That's the school board, and they're working with their own set of leaders as well.

Um yeah, they're coming under some fire right now, but uh and as a whole, uh I think they are at the top of the top of the heap as well.

And so I don't know that we have to put as much effort there.

We need to take care of our part of the funding and look at it, and we have as the vice mayor and everybody else.

Thanks.

Perfect, thank you.

Nice job, Hutch.

Uh Stacy.

Uh, thank you.

Um let's see.

I'll go the ones that have already been covered, affordable housing.

I think um I spoke to that earlier.

I truly believe that's high.

Uh then the infrastructure that we need to improve, modernize our infrastructure that includes the stormwater, just like I just said, but then I have um more higher paying jobs.

Uh a lot of a lot of uh what we're talking about as far as the demographics and us getting older.

It's not that well, we are aging, but we're our young people are migrating out of the city, and it's because they can't afford to live here, and the jobs that they're seeking aren't available.

So we need to look at and also uh with that, you know, the the burden that's on homeowners with the taxes, which is another one.

So if we had more an influx of more higher paying jobs, more industry, that uh that would reduce the burden on the homeowners.