Mayor's Note April 2025

Mayor Frank Bubenik Headshot

2025 City Council Advance

Every year, the City Council gathers with executive staff to reflect on our wins, reaffirm our vision, and tackle the big priorities ahead. We call it our Council Advance—because we’re always moving forward, never retreating.

Our 2030 Vision is to be:
• A caring and inclusive community that promotes equity, diversity, belonging, and access in creating a meaningful quality of life for everyone.
• A connected, informed, and civically engaged community that embraces our City’s diversity.
• A thriving and diversified economy that includes living wage jobs, increased tourism, and sustained financial stability for the whole City.
• Safe, vibrant, and accessible gathering places throughout the City that build and celebrate our whole community.
• An efficient, accessible, innovative, sustainable, and connected transportation system that effectively and safely meets the needs of our entire community.
• Safe, desirable, welcoming, and sustainable neighborhoods with housing that is available for all.
• An environmentally active, sustainable, responsible, and forward-thinking community that values and protects our natural resources, inhabitants, and habitat.

At our in-person meetings, every councilor has a laminated printout of our vision and priorities front and center—a constant reminder to keep these at the heart of every decision we make.

Save the Date!  Join us for the State of the City Breakfast on April 23, 2024, at 7:30 AM at the Grand Hotel at Bridgeport. We’ll recap our biggest achievements and share what’s next. We hope to see you there.