Mayors Note March

Mayor Frank Bubenik

2024 City Council Advance 

Each year, the City Council gathers with executive staff to review our accomplishments from the year before, reaffirm our vision, and talk through our top issues for the year to come. We call it our Council Advance (instead of a retreat) because we are always moving forward. 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; and 

An environmentally active, sustainable, responsible, and forward-thinking community that values and protects our natural resources, inhabitants, and habitat.  

When we meet in person, each city councilor has a laminated printout of the vision and priorities placed in front of them for each meeting. Thus, we keep our vision and priorities at the forefront of every action and decision we make as a council.   

I hope that you will also Save the Date and attend our State of the City breakfast event on May 2, 2024, at 7:30am at the Marquis where we will recap many of the projects and achievements from the past year. More information to come!