2023 City of Pleasant Hill Strategic Plan

2023 Strategic Plan

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Purpose

This report contains the 2023 priorities for the City of Pleasant Hill and recaps the core values and strategic lenses identified in the 2018 Strategic Plan and confirmed in the 2020 Strategic Plan update.

"We are intentional and transparent and work with integrity."

Our Core Values

Core values are the values that define you as an individual or organization. They make you who you are.

While aspirational values may change over time, core values should not. They are the values that you are willing to struggle for and to maintain at all costs. These values surfaced and were quickly endorsed by participants. This is likely attributable to the fact that the leaders of Pleasant Hill are more similar than dissimilar, and carry these same values as individuals.

Intentional

Transparent

Everything we do and all decisions we make, will be intentional and based on thoughtful consideration.

Integrity

We will engage each other and the community with open and honest dialog.

Our actions will be fair and honest and will maintain high moral character.

Customer Service

The City is in the business of providing service to its residents. Both internal and external services are directly impacted by the decisions of the City Council.

Future Planning

In every decision that is made, leaders must consider the City’s long-term plans and the effects of today’s actions on tomorrow’s goals.

Human Capital

Providing quality services and programs requires personnel that are technically skilled and community minded. As the community grows and services expand, so too must the staff to manage that growth.

Capital Assets Management

Facilities and equipment needs, parks and open space, roads, and sewer and water infrastructure require ongoing attention and planned investment to keep up with space needs and minimize major failures in service due to deferred maintenance.

Budget / Funding

All staffing resources, capital assets, services, and long-term success require thoughtful investment of public funds. Thus, honest and accurate budgeting is imperative and interrelated across all strategic lenses.

Priority Lenses

Trying to prioritize too many items within any given period can lead to confusion of purpose. When too many things are deemed “top priority” staff struggle with how best to take action trying to maintain progress on too many fronts while not successfully completing any.

2023 Priorities

Key Capital Priorities

Continued Infrastructure Maintenance

Economic Development Initiatives

Quality of Life Investments in Parks, Recreation, and Safety

Key Operational Priorities

Comprehensive Plan Update

•Sustainability and Resiliency Initiatives

•Arts and Culture Plan

•Inviting and Welcoming Initiatives

•Recruitment of Volunteers for Boards and Commission

•Space Needs consideration for Public Works and Parks Operations

Continued Partnership with Polk County Conservation on watershed and quality of life initiatives

Seek outside funding for all initiatives and priorities to leverage city dollars

Fire Department Staffing

Public Works Staffing - Creations of Divisions

2023 CIP Project Priorities

Street Improvements

- NE 75th Street Improvements

- Martha Miller Drive + Meacham Drive

- NE Rising Sun Drive

- SE 68th Street Intersection + Roadway Extension

- N. Hickory Blvd. Overlay (1B. Bid alt)

- Concrete Patching Program

Parks and Recreation

- Pickleball Install at Hickory Glen Park (Option #4 - consider reduced scale if necessary)

- Pickleball Install at Doanes Park (Option #1.2 - removal of one tennis court and installation of two standalone Pickleball courts with upcoming restriping project)

- Meacham Park Activation

- Youngstown Trail Phase 3 Preliminary Design and Land Acquisition

- Additional Splashpad

Operational

- Communications Tower

- City Hall or Public Safety Building Solar Installation

- Electric Vehicle Acquisitions + Charging Stations