FEBRUARY 2020
RIVERTON REVIEW Official Newsletter of the Riverton, Utah City Government MAYOR’S MESSAGE
Big Progress Made on City’s Strategic Priorities By Mayor Trent Staggs When assuming the office of mayor in January of 2018, my first priority was to make sure our city had a coherent vision with an accompanying strategic plan. As a result, our governing body convened our first ever strategic planning session that month. A vision and plan were put in place, taking into account not only our own experience, but perhaps more importantly our personal interactions with and survey responses from hundreds of you our residents. By the end of that daylong meeting, the governing body adopted not only a vision and mission but also eight strategic priorities with corresponding initiatives that we felt represented the will of our citizens, setting the agenda for the next four years of our city government. The priorities included: 1. Promote safe and healthy neighborhoods that foster a strong sense of community, with balanced opportunities to live, work and play.
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2. Facilitate a thriving business climate that supports the needs of our residents. 3. Create a welcoming, historic downtown destination. 4. Establish vibrant parks and recreational events that build bridges within the community. 5. Build a connected community with properly maintained utilities and infrastructure. 6. Highly engaged and informed residents. 7. Establish operational excellence in city government. 8. Promote fiscally responsible governance.
Your city government has accomplished a lot over the last two years. We have also seen great growth which has brought about new opportunities and challenges. As mayor, I view it as one of my greatest responsibilities to be proactive, try to identify the challenges coming around the bend, and plan with our city council to account for those challenges and addressing the needs of our city and residents. To that end, your city elected officials met again on January 25 for our annual, all-day strategic planning session. The 10-hour planning meeting provided ample opportunity to re-evaluate our current strategic priorities to make sure they still met the needs of our city and residents. It also gave us an opportunity to look out for the next several years, trying to identify, prepare for and address these challenges.
Over the last two years our elected officials and “Although amazing staff initiatives were planned have worked to be completed by 2022, Rest assured, your tirelessly to I am proud to announce elected officials and make sure we accomplish all of that after only two years city employees are the initiatives tied we have accomplished hard at work and we to each strategic appreciate all of the approximately 75% of all input we receive from priority. Although the initiatives.” these initiatives you. Please review our were planned revised strategic plan to be completed and initiatives on the by 2022, I am proud to announce city website. As always, if there is that after only two years we have ever anything you need please don’t accomplished approximately 75% of hesitate to reach out to me, your city all the initiatives. council member or our city staff.
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All Riverton Residents MUST Be Counted! The U.S. Census Bureau will begin the 2020 Census in March and will officially kick off efforts on Census Day, April 1. It is vital that every person living in Riverton be counted. The Census is critical to: • Measure Riverton’s growth • Determine political representation • Plan for the city’s future • Ensure federal and state resources are appropriately allocated For more information, visit: rivertonutah.gov/census
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