FEBRUARY 2024
RIVERTON REVIEW Official Newsletter of the Riverton, Utah City Government MAYOR’S MESSAGE
Strategic Planning Enables our Success By Mayor Trent Staggs Thorough strategic planning is one of the secrets that makes Riverton City so successful. Our detailed planning has ensured economic vitality and robust growth under careful management. This past month, all city council members, city department heads, and I revisited our long-range plans for the city.
There are four main themes in Riverton’s Strategic Priorities that help guide elected officials in aligning city resources with our community’s needs.
The first is a “Sense of Community.” This priority has helped us ensure our community maintains an identity as the southwest part of the Salt Lake These yearly meetings help us Valley continues prioritize goals and projects identito grow rapidly. As fied by our residents from the citizen Riverton residents Riverton City’s elected officials and executive staff convened on Saturday, January 20, 2024, survey. We hear you, and we are find themselves in to deliberate on the city’s Strategic Plan and chart the course for its future direction. actively implementing your ideas the middle of all this this business center. We strive to erton City better than we found it for and suggestions into our plans. Our growth, it’s vitally important that the maintain our reputation as being the next generation. This involves government strives to be a governcity maintains strong communication one of the most business-friendly improving and expanding the city’s ment of, for, and by the people of channels with everyone. cities in the state of Utah. water resources and guaranteeing Riverton. The survey long-term stewardship of capital asThe second and is one tool that enWith growth comes a tremendous sets of the city. Financially, this prithird themes are sures the taxpayers’ responsibility to ensure our infraority mandates we save enough for “Connectivity & voices are heard in “These yearly structure is kept up. Residents corrainy days that will ensure our city Infrastructure” and this important planrectly identified traffic congestion as can weather future economic storms meetings help us “Economic Develning process. a challenge Riverton City needs to or other unforeseen challenges. prioritize goals and opment.” These confront. Our city staff and elected In this daylong meetare two distinct These fiscally responsible and projects identified responsibilities that officials are hard at work negotiating, we discussed ing remedies with state and local prudent strategic priorities have nearly every aspect also go hand in by our residents partners. The nature of our city’s served Riverton City well and are of city government. hand. The sucboundaries will require us to ensure keeping the city on the path of from the citizen Both our successcess of Mountain our road maintenance is carefully continued success. I am very proud es and setbacks View Village is the survey.” observed and maintained. of what our elected officials and city are contemplated envy of the valley staff have achieved. Our success and reviewed. The and will benefit The last theme of our Strategic proves that the Riverton model of lodestar of Riverton Riverton City for Priorities is “Sustainability.” This obliving within our means and planning City’s planning is our Strategic Prior- generations to come. Residents’ tax jective is focused exclusively on the for the future are principles that all ities, which every resident should burdens are reduced significantly responsibility we have to leave Rivshould follow. familiarize themselves with. due to the successful planning of
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