mayor we're
live are we on yes we're on now okay um
good morning everybody Welcome to our
strategic plan Workshop before we begin
if I could just please ask that we rise
for the Pledge of Allegiance
please Allegiance flag United the United
States
stands and justice for
all sorry I was having trouble with my
computer here you guys can hear me
obviously I guess okay well good morning
and welcome to the Los cruus strategic
planning workshop the purpose of this
Workshop is to focus on the future of
Los Cruses and determine our most
important priority for the next two to
five years
as many of you know the city Los cruus
recently finalized the Elevate Los cruus
comprehensive plan and we're all
grateful for that work and the effort
that went into the plan by community
members and City staff today's Workshop
will focus on identifying key priorities
and goals that are included in Elevate
Los cruus we will also review the
current vision and mission statements
for the city and Define key
organizational values that will guide
city council and
staff past year has been really
challenging for our city and we
responded to the covid-19 pandemic the
completion of an updated strategic plan
will help us to look into the future
with confidence and certainty as we work
to preserve Los cruus as a thriving and
prosperous Community we're happy to have
members of the community here with us
via Zoom I also took the liberty to
invite I call her my wingman uh wing
woman and that's mayor Pro Meritus
Sharon Thomas to join us we appreciate
the input that we received uh from her
and other community members as well as
the employee surveys about Los crus
strengths and opportunities for the
future so I'll now turn the session over
to our illustrious city manager Mr EOP
pilly and he's going to introduce the
management Partners Consultants who are
assisting Us in developing this
strategic plan so EO
thank you mayor appreciate the
opportunity
uh I just want to uh express my
appreciation for all the work that's
been done thus far with our management
partners and uh and staff that has
helped to facilitate this uh management
Partners is
uh very experienced and has been helpful
in in
uh bringing together and facilitating
strategic plans and uh for many entities
across the country country and we're
we're happy to have them uh we're joined
today by Jacqueline McCrae and Sam
liberman and I'll turn the time over to
them uh mayor to to be able to
facilitate this meeting uh
Jacqueline good morning it's it's a
pleasure to be here with you um myself
and Sam Lieberman and Ashley Garcia will
be with you today uh assisting you we
will be your
facilitators and so
I'm giving a little bit of feedback so
hopefully if you're not speaking if we
could put everyone on mute and before I
begin I'm sorry for interrupting uh Jain
but um mayor uh counselor bomo was going
to be a little bit late and counselor I
don't know if yvon is counselor flus but
anyways go ahead I'm sorry oh not a
problem so yeah um myself and and Sam
and Ashley were here to help you with
the work um that you're tasked with
today and that is really coming to
consensus um about uh strategic planning
priorities and goals a little bit about
management Partners though before we get
started um we are a local government
consulting firm so that means we're
dedicated to assisting cities and
counties and Special Districts we've
done that for over 26 years across the
United States um we have three offices
um
and we're spread out among them we've
assisted clients in 42 States and we've
completed over 1,700 projects so that's
a little bit about management
Partners um today's
objectives really are
to help the mayor and the members of
city council decide upon and come to
some consensus about you know your
elements of the Strategic plan to you
first of all all review and affirm your
vision and mission statements for the
city identify key values to assist not
only the leaders and and members of
council but all employees in Service
delivery um as they go about their jobs
and and assisting the public in last
crues and then importantly identifying
And discussing uh key priorities and
goals and so uh we will be focusing this
afternoon on on the goals from Elevate
Las cruus and particularly the survey
that you
completed um last week and and early
this week to begin to
prioritize um those short and Midterm
goals and so that will comprise the bulk
of our work um this afternoon but let me
just quickly go through the workshop
agenda and um we have a lot to do today
with you in a little bit of time and so
as your facilitators we hope that you
will be kind to us as we nudge you along
if we start going a little bit long on
certain sections of the agenda because
uh our objective is to guide you through
it um as gently as we can so that at the
end we have all of the um all of the
input that's needed for us to prepare a
draft strategic plan document for you to
consider so um members of your staff
will be presenting um an environmental
scan and also updating you on current
strategic plan accomplishments and then
myself and Sam um will guide you through
a review and discussion of your vision
and Mission and values um and then we'll
start to identify those key priorities
for the future and then next focus in on
the goals um we'll do a wrap up and next
steps and and that will take us through
the day we have a lot of
information um that we have pulled
together for you staff will begin with
that highlevel uh review of uh using
environmental scan data and really
updating you on how you how staff has
done and and you all have done together
on achieving the goals that were in your
current 2017 to 2022 strategic plan um
and then we will take it from there but
I want to hand it over to Sam Lieberman
now to review with you some ground rules
and and take you through a little
Icebreaker thanks ja thank you
Jacqueline and um it's great to be here
with all of you MOS crues from
Cincinnati beautiful Cincinnati behind
me here um before we we jump in I do
just want to go over a couple of ground
rules and I know that um everybody on
this call uh does not need to hear this
but we we'll say it anyway we want
everybody to be engaged to engage fully
um you know council members this is this
is your vision for the next two to five
years so we want your input and we know
that you've come prepared um listen to
each other and and not just not just
listening to listen but listen to
understand hear each other and uh and be
prepared to you know have a discussion
with each other we're going to stay
focused as Jacqueline mentioned we have
a little bit of time to try to squeeze a
lot in um and so we'll make sure that we
keep you on task but uh we'll ask that
you do stay focused it's easy uh in this
virtual environment
to look off and and work or be
multitasking and and we're hopeful
you'll you'll stay focused throughout
throughout this time and we'll of course
give you uh some breaks uh throughout to
keep everybody freshh um please do keep
your camera on um we like to see your
faces we hope you like to see ours and
we know that um looking at each other
seeing each other um while not um in in
a perfect world to be in person uh it
makes it a little bit easier to engage
with each other um if we can see each
other and lastly let's have some fun um
we're we like to do this this is this is
really energizing um for jacine and I so
we hope it will be for you as
well uh we do want to start the
engagement right away uh and so we're
going to do just a little Icebreaker
here um and I want you all to think
about five years down the road you're
having your morning cup of
coffee and you're reading the newspaper
either uh you know physically or on our
phones what what headline do you want to
see about Los Cruses what is going to be
uh to you uh the headline that that
you're like yes we did it we achieved
achieved um what we set out to do five
years ago I'll give you uh Council and
we're we'll just go through um the mayor
and Council for this this
Icebreaker um but let's uh I'll give you
30 seconds or so to think uh and then
I'll start calling on Council Members
I'm gonna stop sharing so we can all see
each
other
and I am G to start with council member
sword when you're
ready thanks Sam
um uh first thing comes to my mind is
that uh Las crues voted the number one
city in the
nation you stole mine counselor you
should have started with me
first I know we're gonna steal each
others I'm sure going today mayor I was
saving you for last yeah well it's too
late already that's
that's it voted number one in anything
in particular or just number one place
to live the fir number one place to live
in the nation
yes council
member where should we go
next a beta ST which I may not have
pronounced that correctly so please tell
me if I got that wrong so close AA sty
St okay thanks um yes uh counselor sorg
you were very close to mine um the one
revision I would have for that is I
would want it to be voted by New
Mexicans as the best place um to live
and so I would um want our everybody in
the state to want to move here and and
consider Las cruus to be the the prime
spot here in New
Mexico council member Gandara which
maybe I got that I was closer hopefully
you did well thank you Sam yeah I would
love to see um a headline that says Las
Cruz's children um are no longer living
in poverty that our families are
thriving council member
Flores uh good morning Mr liman nice to
meet you and um Miss McCrae thank you um
I um would just love to see uh people
recognize uh that we are in fact um it's
certainly the best place I've ever lived
in and I've lived in major cities um and
I mean other cities and um this is
definitely the major city and so I I I
agree with my colleagues I would like to
uh have people recognize it not as a
retirement community but as a thriving
community
and um where people are happy and not
happy as in oh a day at Disneyland um
but happy content fulfilled
actualized and um and that's the
environment that I hope our city creates
for that um for that goal thank you
wonderful thank you council member Ben
comoo I just jumped in so I don't know
what the question oh okay we are uh
we're thinking about five years from now
you've sat down you've opened your
newspaper or you're looking at your
phone and um you're looking at a
headline and what do you want that
headline to say about Las Cruses that U
you know in five years you you've
achieved what we've set out to do in the
Strategic plan that you're about to
develop what's the headline say in the
newspaper in five years what do you
wanted to say oh I love this question
and good morning everyone my apologies
for being late I thought we started at
9: thanks to the mayor for waking up at
ungodly hours of the
morning um yeah that's a great
question um five years from now I would
like to see a headline that
says
um Las crues Innovative policies
significantly reduces poverty in their
their
community and um people are healthier
people are
wealthier
um
and yeah that's what I would say you
know I I love that the city has so many
accolades um I think this community is
incredible
and wonderful to live in and I don't
think that's the reality for everybody
in the city and I would like that to
drastically
change I want to confirm before I ask
the mayor to chman that um council
member Vasquez is not with us yet no he
won't be joining us he's uh out of the
out of town so he said his regards and
uh he may join us maybe later in the
afternoon but right now he's in travel
okay
well Mr Mayor I know that it's been
stolen but I don't know do you want to
do you want to add uh anything or any
additional headlines after listening to
councelor sorg there is a little twist
he said the number one best city to live
in so in the past several years wallet
Hub has slowly ranked us as we started
in the top 10 best run cities in America
um when we've steadily been improving
every year I think we're up to around
fifth right now and um I figured by 2026
we should be number one best run city in
America so there all right thank you I
am gonna ask Ashley to put the
PowerPoint back up and Jacqueline is
gonna do a little overview of the
district planning process and ju and
just a little further Icebreaker um we
probably have one meeting at 8 o'clock
in the morning maybe once a year if that
much um we're the staff is used to
getting up at8 but
um my colleagues and I were're not used
to having meetings this early so after
about an hour or so they'll start
getting to the point where they start
talking maybe too much well good the the
first hour is going to be mostly us
talking and providing some background on
what we've done and I will say that uh
if Jacqueline and I seem brigh eyed and
bushy tailed it's because it's 10
o'clock here in Cincinnati uh and our
poor colleague Ashley is in California
so she's even more tired than the rest
of you okay good
so thank you for that Insight um through
the Icebreaker exercise um that really
helps me understand um mayor and members
of council your perspective about what's
important to you and so we will um try
to keep those themes in front of you as
we progress through the day and talk
about um priorities and then as we
distill those priorities into goals but
I want to take just a little bit of time
now um to provide an overview of our
strategic planning process with you um
together with you um we started back in
November um with interviews individual
interviews with each member the mayor
and the members of city council and the
members of the leadership team and
during those interviews as you all
recall um you know we wanted to learn
from you what was most important to you
about the city um areas for improvement
and what those opportunities were that
existed individually um among each of
you um and really addressing um those
opportunities and those challenges for
improvement so we distilled that
information and um Sam and and Claire
Coleman who's not with us today um
developed an employee survey as well as
a community survey so that we could um
test some of what we heard from you and
also hear from the community and
employees about what they thought were
the
key um areas for improvement and those
opportunities for improvement as well
because all that's important for you to
here as you proceed with your decision
making that occurred in November and
December and um EO let us know right up
front I'll just say this that we were on
a very tight timeline um because he
wanted you to have all this information
in advance of your decision decision
making processes for the budget and so
um together he and Amber have really
been um driving us to this day and and
completing all the work that needs to be
done um in addition to the
surveys um Sam and CLA completed four
focus groups the first week in
January um and due to I I think it was
due to timing of of the holidays the
participation in the focus groups was
not as as robust as we would have liked
um nor of that we
anticipated um those um Reflections and
themes from the focus groups are
included in your workbook and I will
just say that I know that many of
you um all of the members of council
received you know um a little briefing
book a workbook in advance of this
session and so we hope that um you've
had a chance to read through it um and
have recorded you know your um
Reflections and your ideas and your
suggestions um so that as we proceed
through the various elements today um we
can get your full
input um and so um those focus group
comments um and themes are included in
your workbook um and all that
information then is is brought to bear
today in in your in your workshop for
decision making um and once the workshop
is finished then we will prepare a
document for you the strategic planning
document for your review and
consideration um staff will get that at
the end of February members of council
will probably see that sometime in March
um but we will have the bones um of that
strategic plan today okay that you will
be able you will see in a shell format
and be able to use as a part of your um
decision making around your budget
process and then lastly you know once
you review once Council reviews and
adopts the Strategic plan um you already
have in place um the Peak Performance
initiative you know which is really
geared to department and programmatic
work plans um and and um progress
indicators and so uh we will prepare an
implementation action plan for the goals
that result um out of the strategic
planning process and then those actions
um related specifically to departments
and programs will then be
incorporated into the per the Peak
Performance effort so that um you can um
receive regular updates and progress um
about the outcomes and the performance
indicators associated with the strategic
planning goals for the next five years
and so you know in a nutshell that is
the process um are there any questions
or or input um about what we've done
thus far or or where we're
heading yeah you know I just wanted to
ask
um seeing that this is of course you're
the first time that we've used you
all and I'm sure councelor sword can
recall how years ago when we were doing
our strategic plan of course council
members had their uh opportunity to know
list three four five things that they
wanted to see and the other council
members would get a chance to look at it
and possibly uh decide if if uh that's
something they could support and when we
hit the magic number of four um then it
got listed on our strategic plan so are
you do you envision something similar to
that that's a great question so mayor
what we will um the process that that
that we will use with you today is that
we are going to take input for each and
every element um of the Strategic plan
from you and your colleagues on Council
um we want to know if you have you know
changes or revisions to not only the
vision but the mission we're going to
distill with you organizational values
um we're going to distill priorities
with you um and then you know you've
already given us uh some of your
homework with regard to goals for um for
the next two to five years and so as we
as we get into the afternoon um you will
actually see that reflected um in the in
the slides um the goals that that you've
given us but we want to hear from your
colleagues as well and so we'll have
that back and forth um together with you
our process we use for decision making
and
um um it's really up to you is is is
discussion and
consensus um if there's a need to take a
vote we'll take a vote um with you so
that we can distill what those
priorities are but as we go through this
um the process you'll be doing most of
the talking we'll be helping you
distill um and come to come to consensus
decisions and so um how does that sound
to you in terms of the
process
um not that good it uh I appreciate it
don't get me wrong with all due respect
yeah but uh when I was talking with uh
Mr Lieberman I explained to him
that you know although we do want to
look five years in advance and and again
you know Council can chime in on this I
I briefed them about two three weeks ago
that how it's worked really well is we
kind of uh looked at the immediate
2-year plan plan and we would review it
every two years to see exactly what's in
our strategic plan because that that
allowed staff and Council to be able to
hone in on those specifics and work to
get those out of the way or accomplished
and move on to some other ones and and
and I know we keep talking about seems
like five years although that's good but
I I I want to Circle back to at least
the way that I thought it's been working
out well and that is sure you can have
the five-year goals but let's also focus
on what we're going to be doing in two
years because um although I I I Adore my
colleagues it seems like we always have
one change every two years there's
either an addition or someone decides
you know I don't want to do this anymore
and so that's why two years seems to be
a a nice number to review this every
every two years and that's what I was
hoping that we would do instead of um
because if if what I heard you is and
and we can't really take a vote by the
way but what I heard you was that if
there's some
changes you you you know everybody was
going to want some changes and how are
we going to decide if uh you know just
you know one person asked for one change
I think it's important that that
we maybe have each council member give
us five or six suggested
ideas um you write them down each one
and and then let staff also take a look
at it and see if that's even doable and
then if it is then you know let's uh let
every every one of us see what the other
council members are are thinking and
let's move in that direction and and try
to try to um get to the point where we
have a pretty good consensus that this
is a good amount of ideas that we want
to move forward you know if if you have
only one or two council members that
support one idea well you know we can't
do everything we can't and and so I
think we need to really hone in on on
what the majority of the council wants
to do and kind of focus and see how that
works into the Elevate Los Cruis which
is really more in my opinion more of a
it's a great plan and I I think all
those who worked hard to do this Elevate
Los but that's a comprehensive plan
that's something in the next 15 20 25
years I'm looking for something at least
I am something that that's more uh along
the lines of what we currently had and
and be able to pull up a uh a portion
and it says okay uh in our strategic
plan it says that we need to do you know
we' agree to do this this or this and
and that allows us to keep keep our eye
on the ball so to speak does that does
that make sense that does make sense and
I think that um um we are headed in the
same direction and we will we will help
you mayor and Council um do whatever you
would like to do because this is your
strategic plan and we are here as your
helpers in accomplishing the Strategic
plan that you would like to
have if I may say now I'm just I'm just
saying this I mean I'm just one one one
vote here my my colleagues if they want
to go in a completely different
direction but I know that when I brought
this up I I got the impression that
that's kind of where we wanted to go but
of course you know that that could have
changed uh they may not have had their
coffee right now and they may think what
what's he talking about here so I don't
know but I'm just telling you that's
what I had I wanted you to know that
that's what I had had brief Counsel on
and about two three weeks ago in an open
session during during one of our
meetings and and just let them you know
discuss what how we used to do it it
seemed to work out pretty well public
liked it staff liked it Council liked
it sure so I'm not seeing anyone uh
wanting to make any comments oh
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Flor thank you Miss McCary and thank you
uh Mr Mayor um Miss McCary I think um I
I not not I think I know I totally agree
with uh mayor
mosima um for the for the re you know to
to look at um where we are in two years
two years from now um and the reason is
because um although we have a continuity
in staff to an
extent um we don't have that continuity
in city
council and um and some of us are uh
here for four years some of us have been
here for more than four years um and and
you know because elections can't
guarantee the same person over and over
except mayor May
gushima um but um that's just in side
and I'm trying to be funny but I'm not
um but that was pretty funny no I think
it's wonderful you've been mayor um so I
um you know I I agree with the two-year
we need to check something in two years
and yes the comprehensive plan is
absolutely fabulous it's like a dream
come true when you go through it uh but
it's something that's there that's going
to take a good 20 to 25 years and I know
that most of us will have moved on by
then uh either you know six feet under
or onto other offices and that sort of
stuff um and the question I do have
though um for you miss McCreary um first
I just want to say I totally agree with
a two a check in two years uh check and
see where we are measure our
achievements maybe we could set this up
so there's some kind of a metric system
so that we can see what we have achieved
um but the other is uh you stated and
I'm not sure I caught this I hadn't had
my second cup of cofy yet were you
saying that uh you did a survey of
Staff a staff there was Employee input
in this uh in January or
sometime yes yes we um distributed how
many excuse me how many s how many
people responded and was it all the art
all the Departments including utilities
and um know just just everyone it was
everyone all of the Departments and Sam
is going to go over that um a little bit
later this morning he's going to give
you a detailed breakdown and that
information is also included in your
workbook but I know is GNA cover it in
De in depth and in detail and that was
my other point M McCrae I um you know
most of us are working from home and um
the entire booklet or work work yeah the
booklet is 99 pages and my poor little
uh you know home version of what we call
a computer and a printer just didn't
spit it
out and so then I tried to go Page by
Page and then I sat there uh and and I
and I think that my as I said I was not
able to to uh get it and um and so I I
think it for me um and I hate to burden
uh my counsel fellow counselors and you
but um it will have to be really broken
down so that we can all fully understand
um what it is I mean 99 pages is a lot I
mean some of it was covered by the uh a
lot of it I know I printed out one page
that was the um you know this this baby
I don't know if you can can see it yeah
that's part of the environmental scan
the PowerPoint yeah right and then and
then I was able to spit this one out and
then was able to get this and that's the
extent of it so I do apologize and I and
I should have had someone from uh at
City Hall uh do this for me but I
thought no I can do it so I just want
you to know the predicament that I find
myself in and um I I don't want it to be
a handicap in any way um or a you know
but I so so thank you thank you M McCrae
that's unfortunate but and we will
endeavor we will endeavor um
councilwoman Floy to keep you appr
prised and a breast of everything we're
doing and as soon as we take a break uh
we're going to try to send you that
workbook in smaller chunks so that you
can at least pull up you know the agenda
and the workbook okay thank you thank
you very much thank you Mr
Mayor and I think we have councelor sorg
who wants to speak next
yes thank you mayor um I'm just curious
uh I for one and maybe everybody on the
council we take a lot of surveys over
time and I was just wondering uh did you
get the surveys answered from all of the
city counselors namely I'm wondering if
he got it from
me he ended up with seven responses to
the survey which should be everybody so
I guess I was there okay I just wondered
all right thank you that's all and thank
you all for taking the time to respond
to that it's gonna be welcome this
process okay it looks like we have thank
you uh councilor bomo next yes mayor I
am I I'm part of thinking that we should
just trust the process and just let the
process unfold and um it'll it'll be
great and we will make it you know after
the Consultants are gone we will make it
ours um I do agree though that um you
know I was expecting to come here today
to definitely have a lot more dialogue
between my colleagues and I um then
perhaps maybe I'm sensing from the
agenda but I could be wrong right and
that's why I say trust the process
perhaps it'll show us something that um
we haven't totally thought out I did
wonder actually when we would be
discussing the survey responses from the
council is that what you mean by the
goals yes so the excuse me the the
survey where we asked you to rank the
goals as high medium low priority we're
going to discuss those towards the end
when we discuss goals um and to your
point counselor um the beginning of this
is going to be a lot of us sort of
regurgitating what we've learned through
all of this process and then the latter
half um or latter two-thirds really will
be you and your colleagues discussing
and US facilitating that discussion
around um you know what you want your
vision and and mission statement to be
what you want the organizational values
to be and then the meat the real meat of
what we will do today is um coming to a
consensus on uh a set of priority areas
and then within those priority areas uh
identifying the goals that you want to
achieve over the next two years um maybe
it's the case that a goal you want to
achieve is going to take longer than two
years to do but you need to start today
so you guys will be making those DEC
decisions will help facilitate uh that
discussion
um because this is your plan yeah no I I
think that's a great plan and I think
you know having a fiveyear plan is not
bad I I mean I agree right that um
amongst city council like that
continuity um might not be there for
five years and it's also um it's also
what's best for the city I think and
regardless of whether I'm here or not
which I plan to be here long time um I
think that this these things are data
they're information that you've received
that are it's not my opinion that these
are issues these are issues that exist
and so I think five years is a good plan
that then we get to work backwards and
say okay what can we achieve in the next
year what can we achieve in the next two
years so um mayor I you know I think I'm
you know of the thought that we should
sort of let the process trust the
process um and yeah that's that's all
I'll say thank you and mayor if I if I
may very quickly one thing that we we
will do um once a uh you've finalized
the Strategic plan and identified those
priorities and goals um we at management
Partners will develop what we call an
implementation excuse me implementation
action plan so we'll take every goal
that that you say we want to achieve
we'll lay out uh what we believe the
steps are to uh achieve that goal who in
the organization might be responsible
for ensuring that it gets completed then
also a priority or a timeline um that
this is something we want to achieve by
you know the third quarter of 2022 or
this is something we want to achieve by
uh you know the second quarter in 2021
and so whether or not it's two three
four five doesn't matter you'll come up
with goals you'll prior you know you'll
end up prioritizing them and maybe
they're all just in two years or maybe
it's four years and you come back in two
years and readjust or or we just focus
when we talk about goals on things we
can accomplish in two years and when we
have that discussion in the afternoon um
you know that'll be something that that
you guys come to a consensus on in terms
of of timeline but we will part of the
process will be
prioritizing uh and setting a timeline
for the goals that you all identify you
want to achieve through this strategic
plan and it is absolutely a best
practice mayor that you guys have been
doing to come back and review your your
strategic plan and update it it should
be a living document it should be
something that you're using to manage
the organization as well as something
that you update continuously because as
we have unfortunately learned over the
past year things change and they can be
big changes that um really really affect
society so um thank you for that and and
I think we've got another hand yeah let
me listen to Mayor proem Gand and then
I'll Circle back to uh what councelor
boml said so mayor proam thank you mayor
thank you um to Sam and his colleague
I'm sorry I'm I don't know why I'm
spacing your name um but um I I
appreciate um all the work that's been
done thus far with staff
and and um you all um I I mean I've been
in state government for 27 and a half
years so I've been through my share of
strategic planning and systems change
um and I agree that we want to update um
you know re-evaluate and bring in our
new um Council um people um to the
Strategic plan that we've already
developed I think this is important
we've done a lot of work on this there's
still a few more things to um to do on
there that I think we're all we see a
lot of movement on we've um at least the
three sorg myself and mosima were a part
of a performance-based budgeting plan
that's what you're talking about Peak
Performance um so I I I'm agreeing with
mayor that I think that we want to be
sure um and this uh reevaluation or
evaluation is long overdue we've been
promised that and we've had we've had
other things um come up and you know we
had a lot loss of a city manager and and
so an influx of people coming in and out
that always I think is a challenge um
and so I um I just want to remind folks
we do have a strategic plan that we
should be evaluating I think it's a fine
plan um I also want to say that I think
we need to be very sensitive to the fact
that we're in in a pandemic and um I I
think that those
um surveys that went out um probably W
wasn't as sympathetic and empathetic to
that to that um and and I want to say
that publicly that I don't think we
meant any disrespect um I think I'm
proud of our Co response but I also
think it needs to be a part of this
process um moving forward and so um I
appreciate my colleagues feedback um and
thank you mayor for allowing me the
opportunity to share my thoughts
absolutely mayor proam so uh Sam and and
this pretty much well you know I'm want
to try
to you know with all due respect to
counselor bomo you know I I've seen both
sides I've seen where we've done
strategic planning um you know when when
much like what you've said now and it's
a little unfair for you to know how
we've done it in the past but that's why
when I was talking with you I explained
to you that you know I I really wanted
to see the two years and and so um that
has worked out great it was done by a
different consultant in way back when
and then uh one of our predecessor city
managers figured you know what I can do
this so he did it too and it worked out
great and it was just so participatory
from staff from councel and and and it
worked out well and I'm not saying yours
won't but if we if we give you a bunch
of things that we want to do and then it
goes It goes away and then then and then
it comes back you're going to come back
with a list of things that you said that
you know this is what council said the
list should be huge you know and and and
then it gets all convoluted as to what
is it that we're really going to focus
on um I sent ju I just sent something to
Dominic and and
Adrian and and and forgive me Sam I'm
not here to you know to mess up your
your your whole program I'm not trying
to do that we can still do what we need
to accomplish but if if those gentlemen
can put what I just sent up I just want
you to just get an idea I I had just
five things five things and and that's
what I was hoping that the rest of the
council um they don't have to have this
like this but just you know some I ideas
and and take a look at them so can you
put that up Dominic or or or Adrian that
what I sent you yes one moment mayor
okay so uh Sam so I I just want to
explain to you what I'm envisioning and
I think majority of the council is
envisioning as well because because
mayor portm hit the nail on the head it
worked out really good so let's just
take I want to focus in and I'm going to
I'm going to um after listening to a lot
of my Council colleagues let's start
with um maybe number four establish
Behavioral Health District okay so I
know may PM's working on that and that
was just uh that was just something that
we we T discussed but by doing this if
the majority of of says yeah let's do
this then we get the whole weight of the
of the city management team behind it
and they they do it uh there's another
one where uh the second one establishing
a building local wealth component within
the city's Economic Development
Department councelor Vasquez wanted that
and and I liked it and so if if if if
the majority of council says yeah let's
do that you know so see this is what I'm
trying to get at if we have certain
ideas that that we want Council to see
and let them discuss it if they saying
okay well I don't know if we can do that
or staff says yeah I don't think we can
do that it's just going to be too
expensive okay well then okay we cut it
out but then then then we can narrow it
down and then we can see how it how it
applies to both the Elevate Los crues
and our current strategic plan that's
exactly where we're headed mayor and we
received this document from you and
we've actually Incorporated it into our
uh into the slides that are like I said
a little bit further um down um and so I
I think we have the same end in mind um
and like I said we want to help you and
your colleagues on Council get to what
those big most important two-year
priorities are because we have the same
feeling that um Elevate Las crues has a
number of goals I mean uh hundreds of
goals and so so our job is to help you
and EO and the leadership team focus
into what's most important what are the
policy what's the policy direction from
city council so that the leadership team
can carry it out be it two years or five
years and you said two and so we're
going to focus on
two yeah no I I think we need to revisit
every two years it's okay to do the five
years but I I think there's something
but then I think Council and staff can
primarily staff I mean they're the ones
who who boots on the ground they're the
ones who know do we have the money do we
have the you know Personnel um what do
we need you know like for example um we
may want to beef up a particular
Department I I don't know but that's
okay so I apologize if you already had
this Incorporated I know I did send it
to EO and I know
EO but you know I but but I wanted the
council members also to be able to have
that opportunity and that's what I'm
trying to get at they're have it you all
are going to this discussion is going to
be council's discussion staff is here to
uh interject and answer questions and
once you all set the policy Direction
then you know staff has to figure out
how to get it done and and so I think
we're we're headed in the same direction
and but if we start taking uh veering
off the course I I know that you all
will pull us back um to the course in
the direction that you want to proceed
very good okay with that let you run the
rest of the meeting
okay um so so that's the the overview of
the process um and thank you very much
we want all of your comments this is
your meeting we want to hear from you
the only other thing that we're going to
do before um we start hearing from you
is that uh staff has prepared an
environmental scan and so uh council
member Flores these are the those big
sheets in your packet of 99 Pages or so
um that were you know um taken up a lot
of space because they're really graphic
intense um but I'm going to turn this
over to Amber to run through very
quickly and then take your questions and
we will get started with the strategic
planning
elements
good morning mayor and Council this is
Amber vaugh the performance manager for
the city I will be going over the
environmental scan which is just a high
level statistics for the city um some of
the sources that I used to gather the
data was the city of Los Cruz's Economic
Development Department the 2021 budget
document Elevate loss crues and some
statistics from the police department
next
Slide the first item I'll be going over
is some demographics so this is the
population projection from Elevate loss
crues it shows a growth rate of
approximately 1.2% per year it's been
steady but minimal growth the population
in 2018 was
10,742 with a projected population of
141,142
state of New Mexico Los Cruses is
comprised of
87.1% white 2.6% black 1.5% American
Indian or Alaskan native 1.7% Asian
4.2% other and 2.9% who are two or more
races the table on the right is an ethn
ethnicity table which shows that Los
Cruses has a higher po percent
population of Hispanic or Latinos than
the state of New Mexico but lower than
doniana County next
slide this is the median household
income in 2017 it was
$4,940 point4 per increase from 2010
slightly more than doniana County with
39,18485 and 2017 next
slide this shows the employment status
this shows the rate of employment and
unemployment in Los crus doniana County
and New Mexico in 2017 55% of Los cr's
residents who are of working age
reported that they were employed and an
overall unemployment rate was
88.3% not shown on the current graph was
the unemployment rate for
2019 which was
5.05% which has increased to
8.77% in the first 11 months of
2020 next
slide here are the industrial segments
within the city this chart depicts the
distribution of employment by industry
type in Los crues the largest percent of
employed workers in 2017 worked in the
educational services Healthcare and
social assistance sector at
30.9% and other significant industry
sectors include Arts entertainment
Recreation accommodations and food
services at
13.1% professional Scientific Management
administrative and Waste Management
Services at
11.6% retail at 10.5% and public
administration at
9.8% next slide oh sorry and the largest
employers I'm sorry the largest
employers in the city are New Mexico
State University Los Cruses Public
Schools the city of Los Cruses Memorial
Medical Center Walmart and some
employers located out of Las Cruses but
within doniana County are wh Sands
Missile Range and NASA next
slide School enrollment in MOS crues uh
the city has the second largest school
district in New Mexico the school
enrollment has remained steady since the
200920 school year it has over 3,000
employees 40 schools a 72% of students
receive free or reduced price meals and
85.5% of seniors graduate Ed in
2017 next slide now I'll go over some
housing statistics next uh here's some
building permit Trends this shows that
the number of single family family
building permits issued by the city has
increased
77% from two 289 to 511 from 2014 to
2018 the number of building permits for
new commercial uses remained relatively
unchanged next
slide housing types the city's
distribution of housing units by type
which has remained relatively steady
since 2000 the exception is an increase
in the percentage of single family
detached dwellings which corresponds to
the decrease in Mobile Homes single
family detached housing now account for
58.6% of the city's overall housing
stock while duplex and multip multif
family housing units collect
collectively account for
27.3% next slide
uh Los crus this is some household
characteristics Los crus homeowner
vacancy rate has nearly doubled since
2010 and the rental vacancy rate also
increased between the years of 2010 and
2017 the average household size for
renter for renters has surpassed the
average household size for
homeowners the percentage of households
that were owner occupied in
2017 was
53.9% up from
52.8% in
2010 next slide now I'll go over a
couple of Public Safety
items next
Slide the police department has a total
of 259 employees in
2019 the total employees increased 65%
from 2009 to 2019 that's a change of 65%
in sworn and 50% change in civilian
employees the average annual call volume
from 2014 to 2018 was
142,000 and the projected call volume in
2045 is
198,000 with projected Staffing level
needs of 273 total
employees next
slide some crime statistics a total
violent crime increased 24% from 2018 to
2019 while property crime decreased
2%
next
slide here's some some statistics from
the fire department in 2017 the Los
cruus fire department had 13 Crews the
average call volume from 2014 to 2018
for fire calls EMS and alarms and public
assistance was
5,565 with a projected call volume of
7,723 in 2045 and a need for 18
Crews next next
slide couple items on it Economic
Development next Slide the Real gross
Metro product this represents doniana
County including loss crues and is
injust adjusted for inflation in 2019
the gross Metro product was 686 billion
up from 676 in
2018 next
Slide the slide on the left represents
new business
registrations this compares the monthly
average of new business registrations
from 2010 to 2019 to the number of new
registrations for calendar year 20120
December 2020 was not available when
this chart was created the total number
of new business registrations for the
first 11 months of 2020 was
546 as compared to the 2010 2019 average
which was 598 so a slight
decrease there was a slight decrease in
March April and May but a jump in the
couple months following next slide oh
I'm sorry sorry go back um on the right
is the business registration
renewals for the same time period for
the most part with the exception of June
renewals are lower in 20120 the total
for January through November of 2020 is
2,251 compared to a total for 2950 for
the same months average for 2010 to 2019
to compare those averages it would there
would need to be 943 renewals in
December of 2020 to catch
up next
slide this chart shows the top 10
employment Industries in Los crues Food
Services and drinking places ambulatory
Health Care Services Educational
Services administrative and support
services social assistance professional
scientific and Technical hospitals
Justice public order and safety
activities general merchandise stores
and Specialty trade contractors this
this uh approximately accounts for 60%
of the city's
Workforce next
slide I'll now hand it over to lean Deo
the chief budget officer to go over some
revenues and
expenses well good morning mayor
counselors next SL PL side next slide
please um mayor counselor this is our
general fund Revenue this is a five
years uh fiveyear historical showing you
uh how much our budget was and how much
our actual was just to give you a little
bit of reference of course in 2018
starting in that year we started using a
regression econometric model we started
becoming closer to what our actuals and
our budget was as you can see um of
course in fiscal year 2020 you see this
increase mostly due BEC there's five
years of covid-19 in there we received
um as Amber had pointed out to you uh
there's a lot of construction going on
during those five months uh we also saw
an increase in our Municipal GRT due to
the hold harmless which is our food and
medical as well so uh while we were in
Co we saw that our GRT was uh was very
strong and coming in uh very uh secure
to us uh next slide
please this gives you our forecast as
you can see in
2020 uh we had
104.3 million uh this is actuals just to
give you a base for fiscal year 2021
through
2025 what I'm hoping for you to look in
here is that you see that we are running
very steady now now please remember this
is an econometric model we do not have
covid in this model as of now uh however
what uh we are hoping is that with the
covid we won't see much of a
fluctuation um as I just recently told
you you do see a rise in because due to
the GRT hold harmless and also because
of the building construction that is
going on in our city it is very as you
can see from the reports that are coming
from Community Development our building
is very strong right now which is a
great contribution to our GRT right now
but however once we come out of Co I
think we'll we'll remain steady now
remember hold harmless is in there and
every year hold harmless goes down
somewhere between six and 7% so while
we're remaining steady we have a very
strong growth in this community because
our hold harmless and our steady growth
are matching each other okay next slide
please uh these are uh going over
historical expenditures just to give you
an idea of course this is just the
general fund as you can see they remain
uh pretty steady uh we did increase
around uh fiscal year TW uh 2019 and
going up as you'll recall we added
several new positions within the city I
think in one one year the council had
approved about 30 to 50 new positions
during that time and so we've had a lot
of growth in our positions uh so we you
know most of our budget is in salaries
and benefits next
slide and with that I will um end it and
turn it back over to our um our
consultant
so were there any questions about uh the
environmental scan data any thoughts
that you had as Amber and Le presented
the information or during your review um
prior to the
workshop Mr Mayor yes well counselor I
have coun beta stui first and then if I
can go to you I'm just going off of the
hands being raised sure sure of course
so councelor aea sty and then counselor
sword thank you mayor um and thank you
lean I have a question um I know that
whenever there are um kind of national
um uh downturns with the economy that we
see it a couple years later um here in
Los crusis are we with your projections
do you think that we might still uh see
kind of a delayed result with everything
I know that we've been doing well with
construction um but with some of the
hits that you know um the service
industry has taken um especially with
restaurants and and looking at those uh
demographics that it's one of our larger
employers um do we do we anticipate
those type of changes or have we been
able to look at
that mayor counselor sty great question
you're absolutely correct here in the
city we have seen a lag um I think when
Amber gave her environmental scan you
saw who our major um employers are
they're mostly government oriented uh we
right now even though we're in the midst
of covid government is not laying off so
the you know they're still working
they're working remotely uh we are in
what they call the covid recession uh
but in the past historical data that we
look at for the city of Los Cruses
you will typically see and I've been
working with Francisco and of course our
new Economist Kyle that's here um you
will see on average that the city of Las
Cruses will show a lag approximately
somewhere between two and three years so
we are going to be looking at the covid
data to uh see if we can maybe project
out a lag um we're already starting to
see that um well just in this last month
I I don't know if the report has come
out to the council however our gross
receipts tax did go down for this
distribution month it went down about 9
to
10% so we are starting to maybe see that
catch up and so we are watching it we're
watching it we're talking to Taxation
and Revenue and you know keeping up with
what is going on with uh the state and
talking to the state Economist so we are
working with them to see if we can maybe
help to predict using our econometric
model for that okay great thank you uh
thank you
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mayor thank you councelor
sword yes mayor thank you
um there's a lot of data here of course
um and and you all did a good job uh
amber and all to uh tabulate it all um
but I think it's what's important here
is that we interpret the data and make
an analysis of the data and so uh that's
what I'm looking forward to here um in
some of the earlier slides there you
were talking about all things like
housing and um employment uh uh average
Sal salaries uh income I should say uh
and they seem to be increasing over the
last few years so um let me just ask if
you would agree uh Miss McCrae and
anybody else that we're making some
progress in those areas and um not that
that's good enough it may not be good
enough but at least we're making some
progress would you
agree from what I heard it seems as
though you are making progress and and
you know an important another important
Point um council member sorg is that
um the information you heard about not
only your budget um but the other
environmental scan data as it relates to
you know the new Co world that we live
in now um you know
um we'll have some place um and I won't
presuppose um how much of a priority but
we'll have some play some priority in
your decision making for goals um for
the for the future
and and that's really the point of of
the data and the information is to
really help you in that decision-making
process to understand where the
community has been and where where it's
headed especially with regard to uh the
covid impacts and how that has affected
City yeah okay
um yeah if we don't keep working forward
or keep uh working to improve um and we
could start falling back uh and lose our
number one place in five years okay I'm
just kidding thank you
mayor thanks councelor uh looks like we
have mayor proam wants to
speak thanks mayor um thank you Amber um
I was I'm also hoping we would hear a
little more um from Natalie about our
housing our housing stock um she gave a
wonderful presentation
twice now one to our housing policy
Review Committee and then to council
about our our um you know our plan
moving forward I think those are all
good good information to have and some
more detail related to our poverty um
you know um would would be helpful to
include you know who is in poverty um it
I think are things that I'd like to hear
and some more anecdotal information I
think would be great to hear from our
police about um the numbers like what
are they seeing what are they thinking I
mean through I just want to remind folks
that this isn't in its entirety all the
data there's so much more um and I don't
know that we've gone um a clear picture
today anyway and the public in terms of
of sort of what um are issues um in our
city related to the areas that I just C
covered so thank
you okay thank
you are they prepared to say more about
that or is this all of the environmental
scan dis information that we're going to
have at our fingertips today moving
forward this is certainly a highlevel
snapshot and as staff is available um to
you know interject and provide
additional information
um maybe we could hear from them but I'm
not sure if they are I will direct that
question to uh EO or
Amber and before I go to them let me
just ask Christine something real quick
Christine you're obviously taking
minutes of the meeting did you need for
anyone who speaks um you know other than
maybe council members you can tell them
their voice pretty good but staff or or
our presenters did you need them to at
least State their name every time they
talk yes please because Linda does these
and she um does the audio not the video
gotcha
okay thank
you okay so Jacqueline you were
suggesting that Amber or eepo speak on
this right interject about if there that
this this is Jack McCrae um that this is
a highlevel snapshot this environmental
scan but the question I pose to eepo or
Amber is if you know um staff is
available here in the zoom room to
provide an additional information to
council member ganda's
question this is this is
defa I I'm not sure we were prepared to
to have any presentation in addition to
this environmental scan uh we can
certainly get that I mean this we have
we have several hours here so I mean
that information could be handy
certainly Natalie has made the
presentation
so she can bring that presentation back
or or details of that particular housing
presentation um certain I think Chief is
on so I I don't know if you wanted to
expand this section of
the this section of the the agenda and
have those you know go off on those
discussions or you want us to present it
separately we can certainly get more
data from staff like I said we have
several hours here to
to gather up data that we need if you
need additional data at this
time um so this is Jack McCrae EO if
that question was to me um you know I
would appreciate if we could um you know
proceed with with with our agenda but as
additional information if it's certainly
in written form that we make it
available so that it can be reviewed um
and as we discuss safety or housing um
that then we could then bring it to the
Forefront um and make it known and
discuss
it for sure thank you thank you Jeff
yeah it was also even to the the mayor
and Council if this is something as well
as they uh where they'd like to take the
discussion at this point but uh my my
preference as well would be to maybe
continue and we can make note of
those that data that that's been
requested and give staff time to provide
whatever data is needed so over the
course of the day we can we can provide
it this is Sam weberman I I will quickly
add to
um to Mayor poam ganda's point and and
councelor sword's point um I quickly
pulled up because I I know that it is
relevant uh to to what you each
mentioned and providing some context and
uh Al to what we heard about some of
your um concerns during our interviews
and uh what we heard during the uh the
Icebreaker um just just quickly the
overall poverty rate in Las Cruses has
remained relatively stable uh since 2011
and I have um Census Data through
2017 and it's it's about at 25% it has
fluctuated between 25 and 22
uh but uh the 2017 data from the
American Community survey put it at 2017
or excuse me put it at
25% uh to dig into that a little bit
um the uh looking at it by um by by race
um whites are about 19% property rate um
blacks that are about 16% Hispanics are
about 28
% um and then and this is 2017 data and
and then looking at um poverty rate by
age um the are the youngest among us are
most in poverty and as we get older we
come out of it and so those under six uh
the poverty rate is about
35% um 12 to 17 year olds are at about
30% um you're it's a big chunk but the
18 to to 59 year olds you're about 26%
and then those 60 and older at 10% and I
think we see this a little bit we we
heard in the environmental scan um and
as councelor Sor noted um the medium
median household income is getting
better the uh number of single family
homes is
increasing um and I and I think that
speaks a little bit to um what what
we've seen in terms of folks moving into
Los cruus uh and and a retire Rec
Community you know developing a little
bit and so that's a little extra context
um you know I know mayor proam you asked
about the poverty rate and a little
context for you councelor sword but um
you know we that's yeah Sam thank you so
much for that I I I know what it is I I
just don't know that everybody does
especially the public right and it it it
we have have experts in this in our
staff that I'm hoping um as we have
developed this PowerPoint and this data
that um Amber and others have reached
out to staff to really um you know be
able to have a a more cohesive right
presentation um comprehensive maybe is
the word um I I I I'm everybody knows
housing and poverty and all mental
health are my are my priorities um I
don't know that they are for everybody
but and um typically municipalities
aren't you know um haven't haven't
wanted to take that on in terms so I
don't know that we have the experts in
the house to be able to do that and
we're working on that um and so I'm just
putting in a plug that I want to know
that our experts in the house have been
disc that this is they've Incorporated
what they know to be able to give all of
us to to include the public
um a snapshot an environmental scan um
that's um appropriate right to move
forward okay well
thanks and um mayor prm's going to be
taking over for me at around 9:30 for
I'm going to be out for about 30 minutes
so mayor I had my hand raised I don't
I'm sorry
councelor thank you I am I just just to
sort of go off on mayor PM's point I
mean I'm also painfully aware of the
poverty rate um particularly as it
pertains to children in our community um
I do think it's important that we talk
about it often and publicly and
consistently and keep it at the
Forefront of our minds um I do think
though we should discuss at some point
and make it part of the conversation
that even though we see the media has
hold income has increased poverty rate
has
remained uh shamefully this high for a
decade um so there's something going on
where you have this median income that's
increasing but the poverty rate isn't
moving right like that needs to be part
of a discussion and conversation as to
why that's happening um and that perhaps
it's because new people are moving here
um they're bringing their wealth already
with them retirees perhaps
um yet we are not necessarily investing
in mechanisms that are ensuring
communities who live here already who do
not have the wealth to
leave um who live in this or perhaps
don't want to but certainly can't um
it's important that our focus is on
those families and in those
neighborhoods
because
um that's never going to change if we
don't invest serious resource
into um into that issue and I think you
know I hope part of what I hope to bring
to this discussion today and and my time
here is um a push for
how city government needs to play
fundamental role in poverty Po in
anti-poverty policy that actually gets
people out of
poverty very good thanks
okay
so I guess we'll let you guys
continue okay thank you this is
Jacqueline again um so next up um Sam
has the um results of the community and
the employee survey um and and I know
that the mayor has to be away shortly
for a half an hour um mayor is it okay
if we proceed or should we take a a half
an hour break until you get back oh no
go ahead and proceed really I you know
for the the neat thing about this is a
lot of our our our goals are pretty
similar on Council I mean there was just
a there's just a few things there that
you know throughout the year listening
to um my colleagues uh things that that
I liked what I heard I support what they
had to say and so that's why some of
these things
here to be real candid with you I I'm
happy with these five uh we do these
five we're good I'm good I can go home
you but uh so you know whatever but but
I think you'll find that this meses well
with a lot what the community has to say
as well as what my colleagues had to say
because pretty much uh most some of
these couple of these at least came from
my colleagues so great thank you
Sam thanks Jacqueline this is Sam
liberman so we as Jacqueline mentioned
previously we uh wanted to gather as
much information as possible from as
many people as possible uh to provide to
you so that you could understand how um
the community feels on on the Strategic
plan elements that will develop and how
staff felt as well so to do that uh
because we can't interview
everybody we um developed uh and and
deployed two separate surveys we we sent
one survey uh to all staff that that was
sent um on December 17th uh and staff
was given about a week to to take it
that survey closed on December 23rd we
had a total of uh 363 employees respond
to survey um we also did a um sta survey
uh that was or Community survey excuse
me that was sent to the community on
December
16th uh and that was sent um in a number
of different ways or people were invited
to to participate in a number of
different ways uh we sent an email with
a invitation to the survey to all of the
utility billing customers which was
about
80,000 uh residents we also asked staff
and um staff did uh put the survey link
and invited folks to take it on the
social media pages and I believe
advertised on um on social media and
they also put it on the website and we
had uh
1,96 uh participants for the community
survey as Jacqueline mentioned the full
uh results of both the community and
employee surveys are in the workbook in
attachment a uh which begins on page 14
um I will not go over all of them though
we have Incorporated most of the results
uh throughout this
presentation
um for those of you that interviewed
with us the the stuff that we asked in
the survey is is similar to what we
asked in the interview so we wanted um
we wanted survey respondents to reflect
on what they thought were the strengths
of the community what they thought were
the opportunities in the future and then
we solicited their feedback on the uh
vision and mission statements that were
uh created through Elevate Los cruus we
asked them to to provide us with their
thoughts on organizational values um and
these are all things that we'll have you
guys discuss uh later on in the um in
the day um and then we also you know
really the the meet was to to get a
sense from uh survey respondents about
the the priorities that they wanted to
see for the
future uh what you see here are a
comparison of uh what staff and the
community felt were the strengths in Las
cruus and um the list of strengths was
developed uh following our interviews
with Department directors and elected
officials um and then uh survey
respondents were also provided the
opportunity to add any strengths um
what's notable here to me is um staff in
the community really uh agree on um what
the top four uh strengths are in in Las
crus that's you know the presence of the
university the natural beauty um the
weather as I sit here and it's it's 20
degrees outside uh and this really came
up um in in every conversation uh that I
had um which which was around uh 10 or
12 folks and then um you know everybody
says it's just such a friendly Community
uh everybody is so friendly and nice um
and that you know really is a a strength
and um a great reason to live in
mosus uh we also asked about
opportunities so the next slide shows a
comparison again of the uh of the
opportunity rankings again here um staff
uh and the community agreed on the top
four um opportunities that exist uh in
the future for Los crus though um a
little a little different order really
you know the community feels that
there's an opportunity for um for the
Los crusis um you know government really
to uh improve communication with its
residents and and this was uh also a um
element of the previous strategic plan
um and it's still on on the tops of
minds of the community members and staff
um an improved use of Technology uh
within government without government uh
outside of government um you know really
looks like it's an opportunity that uh
you could think about for the
future we saw you know the the number
one strength uh being the presence of
the university and an opportunity that
folks um see from that is to really try
to create new Partnerships um with the
university and the community college and
then then really you know over and over
again again in our conversations and in
uh the survey results um we heard about
the need to to grow um to grow business
in the
community um the results uh in terms of
the um vision and Mission uh and values
and priority areas we have dispersed
through uh throughout the rest of this
uh presentation and so you'll see
how staff and Community felt um in those
areas when we begin the discussion about
about those areas but we we tried to do
extensive um Outreach to ensure that um
that you guys could be provided with uh
you know really as much information from
a wide variety of sources as possible as
you begin to um take into account their
thoughts in developing your strategic
plan um any questions about the strength
and opportunities uh before we before we
move
in Mr
laborman councelor
sword um you know there's something that
sticks out like a sore thumb here and I
don't know why but the opportunity of
programs and services to lift people out
of poverty the staff ranks at last and
it isn't all that high with the
community ranking either
can you explain anything about that when
you know most of the council here all of
us in fact want to do
this so my uh
assumption would be that
um the community members
who had the ability to take the survey
or self- selected to take the survey um
are probably those that are not not in
poverty uh and are probably those that
don't think often about poverty and uh
you know
frankly the community the community
members that are in poverty are lucky to
have you all on Council thinking about
it right yes okay not everybody isn't so
that that would be my assumption judging
from from what we have
here yeah that sounds like it's right uh
in fact at one point in time and I
forgot about it that's what I thought
too that that
your sample of the community um is
missing some
demographics if I could say it that way
I don't know if that's the best way to
say in your business but um there's
missing pieces here or and um that's why
like you say they aren't thinking about
it yeah very good thank you Mr lman
thank you may mayor
protan any other uh oh I see mayor protm
I don't want to steal your thunder but I
see counselor Flores has her hand
up you're stealing my thunder no I'm
just kidding S no problem go hi councel
fles hi oh um you're gonna be okay the
Thunder will come back um thank you Mr
liberman I'm so glad to um to see this
broken down um I too uh saw that um the
uh ranking uh to lift people out of uh
poverty was very high by highly uh
ranked by staff so at least we have a
demographic one factor is that they're
employed um so you know if it's a staff
ranking but the community ranking um you
know that that's pretty high that was a
seven so um
what what did the survey ask uh the
survey taker The the community ranking
the St staff we know are employed but as
far as um those who from the community
who responded to the survey is there any
demographic breakdown are they retired
are they young are they native to New
Mexico no not native but long-term
residents and I I just based on uh
seeing people who are active in the
community are uh those who uh
are not too busy working or not worried
about where their next meal is coming
from or uh they have a computer to uh
participate in this in this uh survey
I'm presuming that the survey wasn't
door too um I doubt very much that it
was door Todo because the the number was
pretty low I mean I I don't know it was
uh 880,000 residents
responded and uh excuse me a total let's
see uh well anyway the 363 employees
responded out of a pool of about 1500 I
believe mayor protm is our employee base
here yeah and then 80,000 residents out
of a population of
aund thousand plus so I don't can do do
you do a a break so my first question is
um did you get any Dem graphics on the
residents responding and number two do
you therefore take assumptions or do you
do a if you don't or even if you do are
there assumptions from which we can work
uh
by because it to me this is a little
scary and I'm not even sure that are and
and frankly I'm not sure that some of
these questions are I mean infield
development you know I mean how many
people in the community know about
infill development you know as opposed
to outf maybe I mean you know and so I'm
just really curious about how um this
information this polling uh how the
information was extracted from everyone
who was who partook in
this thank you councelor this is this is
Sam wman so we
um a couple I'm going to try to address
all of it uh I think you're right that
um you know this this being limited to
those with uh a computer and an internet
connection is uh is an issue we you know
we have in the past been able to do
broader Outreach um we were limited by
um pandemic uh and and timing
unfortunately um we did ask a couple of
uh demographic questions of the
community members uh we asked them um
which district they live in lived in to
see if we if there were any differences
in um how respondents felt depending on
which district they lived in we did not
find any uh significant
differences we asked um whether they
were a resident of of the city or a
business owner or member of a city Bard
commission um 8 75% of the folks uh who
responded uh are residents and 9% were
were business owners and there's
probably some overlap um uh in that and
again we didn't find significant
differences in those groups and then we
also asked about uh
age uh and so um
about as you well it's about 14% of
respondents were between 18 and
35 uh 25% were between 36 and
22% um were between 55 and 64 and then
40% of our Sur respondents were over 6
years um and so it's
look know knowing what we know about um
the community de demographics that is
not as representative I think um as the
community as a whole um you know I can
say that
um how surveying works even though
there's 100,000 people in the community
uh getting 1,00 responses allows me to
be uh and you've heard this term before
I know I'm 95% confident that these
responses are uh within a margin of
error of 2% of those that we Ser of of
the demographics that we surveyed and I
think that needs you know that that is
important um as you all have noticed and
pointed out I will add um and I should
have mentioned this at the beginning we
offered the survey in both English and
Spanish um the we only had I believe
those 12 um 12 of the 1900 folks respond
to the survey in Spanish or or take the
survey that was provided in
Spanish
um I think
I this is jacelin can you inform can you
inform the council members of the the
districts that the surveys were
received yes absolutely
so 11% of the respondents came from uh
district
one and and uh 133% came from District
2 75% from District 3 that was the the
fewest among the survey respondents he's
not here that's easy Mr uh councilor um
for those that aren't watching he gave a
thumbs down uh 15% from coun uh from
District
Four 20 uh 23 is percent from uh
District 5 uh and then um 32% from
District six so most of the folks who
took the survey uh well not most but
nearly a third um were in District
Six and I and you probably know that
District six I think and I I should know
this as a city council I should have
that a that hard uh fact or Stat is that
um a lot of people in this District are
uh
retired and they are um I wouldn't say
wealthy relative to you know someone
living in Dubai or Beverly Hills but
relatively speaking um that's the um
that's a perception and I think that's a
reality uh so they it doesn't surprise
me that it has the highest percentage of
of people who partook who participated
in this uh survey and I think that some
of the um some of the responses are
based well what else I don't think
they're fact-based I think they're
perception based
um so some of it is
um uh like for example look at that
improved communication with
residents Community ranking number
one so I mean it's interesting to see
that isn't it um because I think a lot
of people in in this District district
six are um very much involved I mean
they're the ones that I know I I
certainly see frequently Here There and
everywhere in the city in the community
you know if they're involved in one
thing they're going to be involved in
another thing and which is wonderful but
not everyone has that luxury of time or
you know as again you know it I think
it's a there's a corative with the uh
income level it's all relative but
there's
definitely um as I said it's not I think
the perception is that people in
district 6 are very wealthy there there
might be one or two uh that I know of
who are extremely wealthy but other than
that it's you know retirement and you
know living off of 401ks and IRAs and uh
having sold their home somewhere in
California maybe and being able to
afford a home that's considered uh in
the rich part of town so um anyway so
much for that thank you thank you
councelor fletus next up councelor the
sty thank you mayor peram and thank you
Sam I think that um far as we hit on um
part of what I was going to say I had
been looking at um the graphs earlier
when doing my research um and those
graphs on page 20 of just the community
survey the respondents because I was
very curious about my own district and I
think there's a lot of correlation
between that opportunity of improved
Communications um and then you can see
how much it does affect people uh in
these other areas as well um because we
are not able to reach um certain
demographics and we can see it um my
district
um uh councelor Vasquez uh and even um
mayor prot's District we do have areas
that have significant poverty issues and
therefore know most of these people are
going to be um having different work
schedules um not the opportunities to
participate in meetings especially when
we have them uh during a regular workday
and so we're not going to get that voice
and opportunity quite as much and so it
doesn't surprise me that we have this
communication as the number one
opportunity I think it's one that I um I
have really uh thought that it is the
the greatest opportunity for our
community as well because I do believe
the city they do so much and we do have
a lot of opportunities and events and
and different things but getting that
message out um to the public uh there
seems to be a bit of a disconnect there
and so I think um you know even having
this improved use of technology so
that's also a form of communication for
a lot of people so for me it does make
sense that we would address that
communication and we'll probably end up
addressing some of these other needs to
by being Innovative um on how we
approach uh the community with this
so thank you mayor
mayor thank you councelor Bea sty
councelor Sor thank you mayor proam um I
just like to add one more thing as far
as the response from the different
districts um District Five and District
Six has the highest populations of the
of the seven districts to uh even 10
years ago when the lines were driven
driven drawn last um the uh populations
of five and six were higher than the the
other four not much just a little bit
but anyway the five and six is where the
growth is in the city and so uh you got
to take that in consideration it's part
part of the reason but there's more
reasons why uh like you said before more
reasons why the some of the other
districts are are responding to the uh
taking the survey rather uh less than
than other districts um and and for all
the reasons we've been mentioning by
councelor Flores and counselor um aeta
stby and so forth uh I just wanted to
add that that there is h a higher
population in five and
six um so I it again uh it's trying to
interpret this um the survey results is
important and
um I if if if you all can uh add some
more interpretation to it um I'd
appreciate it for one
this is uh Sam leberman you know I think
um the the it's hard to assume what the
what survey respondents are thinking uh
and and add that interpretation to to
what we see here what we know is where
they rank these things and whether they
agree with them
um and you know we
like we used the survey um or like to
use the survey results to inform um what
we want to dive deeper into and
understand when we do our focus groups
and we did some of that um and the focus
group results are um included in your uh
in your packet as Jacqueline mentioned
um at the beginning um we so we did four
focus groups three of which were with
community members um and I think
along the lines of what we've heard um
here in in the last few minutes you know
they were um scheduled during the day uh
the the makeup of the groups was not as
representative of the community uh they
weren't um as well attended as we like
and I think there are a number of
factors that went into why that's the
case um and so we have those results we
provided them we didn't feel they were
as um as representative of this
community as they could be and so we
didn't want to highlight them here but
we did we generally like to use these
results to dig in a little deeper right
and so we did a little bit of that and
um we we try not to um assume what folks
are thinking when they when they provide
these results but we you know we can
show you what they tell us and then make
some conclusions about why they are
where they are such as you know who was
able to to take it well thank you very
much that I appreciate that a lot and so
um yeah let's continue May thank you
councelor Sor um I had um councelor
Flores did you did you put your hand
down councelor flotes or had something
more to
say now I I did have my hand up but uh
counselor uh Sor uh covered oh I know um
Mr liberman or Miss McCreary or the two
of you um for example you know the one
that really strikes me right here is for
example improve marketing for the city
and then the one right below it infill
development when the survey was
presented to staff and to the community
at large were was there an explanation
as what this
meant what what does infield development
mean open foren you know
developing uh land within a certain
District or a certain area in the
city so this this is Sam sorry coun
yeah no uh what what you see is what
they saw um ah okay so someone taking
this uh you know so someone ranking at
number nine or staff ranking at number
five um really isn't indicative of what
they might rank it at if they knew what
they were what it was I'm not and I'm
not in any way rating the
survey I'm just saying that if uh you
know for strategic planning and and all
of us share the same you know I think
you've gathered that we all have the
same concerns it's our children uh
poverty and um and of course you know
and you know that that encompasses
everything right
education um you know uh uh you know
food
insecurity um that sort of stuff
um you know so I I I don't know I I I
mean just you know again I'm not you
know I'm not in your field um I'm just a
city counselor not just a city counselor
I we're City counselors we're city
leaders quote unquote who are uh driven
uh
by to make decisions based not only on
what we see but things that we can
really measure so I th this is troubling
to me Mr liberman with all due respect
and I do not in any way want to um those
are just the two examples and there's
other things too that are troubling to
me um in so far as a survey is concern I
think they're excellent questions and
and we on city council and city
government understand uh what these
questions mean but you know does
someone living in dire poverty without a
computer who wasn't able to participate
even if they had a computer they could
go to the library if they could get a
bus you know if they could you know
afford Uber if they had a car to go to
the library maybe to participate in this
um this survey uh would they understand
it and uh and so then what is the value
of having this
information if we're not hitting you
know if we're not if they're if there's
not understanding of what these options
mean or quote these opportunities
unquote and I don't know if you can
question that but I don't know if we can
really I can I don't know if we can
really make informative type decisions
based on
this I I don't know maybe I'm wrong so
uh fellow counselors if you agree or
disagree or Madame uh chair uh mayor
proam um please uh
correct my correct me
or coner is thank you for that um I I
know for me is this a snapshot of what
our
community you know a small portion of
our community um bills and I know that
there's some understanding that um it it
could be representative our of our
districts and whatnot I mean I I think
there's probably some ways that we can
continue with this um ranking and sort
of dwelling in with further focus groups
as we get further along in the Strategic
process right once we pick the
priorities we can go out and really
determine if others feel the same way um
and then lastly I know that um in
preparation to this day I've been
meeting with a lot of my organized um
associations really speaking to what
they feel priorities um the priorities
are and
um you know some are representative of
of the of the community rankings and
some are not um I know that particularly
in district one and probably one of the
more impoverished and the older you know
the the original Town site um people are
really concerned about poverty and
housing and
infrastructure and and so and that that
pretty much much was similar um across
my district so
um I'll I'll just say that and leave it
at that um councelor Sor and then
councelor B yeah I just wanted to add
what councelor Flores was saying is is
my feeling too um we have we could take
these survey results um kind of in a
limited way uh as a rough idea because
people don't understand what infill
development is and just wait till we
come to surveys coming up shortly uh how
they rank Equity uh they rank it last
and I don't think they know what Equity
is they might have the misconception
that Equity means
equality and um I don't think that
that's where you're going to get
mistakes there um so at least that's the
what I've learned from people that I
talk to um we have an education problem
of course and that's part of it so yeah
Council Forest is is has the right idea
I agree with
her thank you um councilor s Council
Boma and mayor is back thank you mayor
thank you mayor PM um yeah I definitely
agree with councilor Flores I mean I'm
personally um pretty disappointed that
um staff ranked
uh initiatives to pull people out of
poverty last um that's pretty
disappointing to hear I um perhaps I'm
not so disappointed from the community
because I think I mean we I don't want
to belabor it I think we know who is
filling up survey and um it's not
necessarily people directly impacted by
poverty um so I think
the I think when we na when we get to
the priorities of
council um they might pretty different
and I think that it's because for me
certainly I won't speak for the rest of
you although I'm pretty certain um we're
very similar in this
I you know proud of myself in having
very direct communication with people I
mean just a year ago I walked every
single Street in District 4 and I talked
to so many people and um I'm very
confident in what I believe priorities
for District 4 are and for our community
because of that communication so it's
not I'm not coming to the table as just
meano I'm coming to the table as the
representative for district for um
knowing that the the struggle and the
desires of the constituents I represent
I'm bringing that to the table as well
and I know that that carries um some
weight I not that I we of course don't
want to ignore the survey results I
think people are there are a number of
people saying these things are important
and I also want to remind us that as
representatives of our district we hold
a lot more knowledge and wisdom of what
people are going through in our
communities in our neighborhoods um and
I mean totally agree with like some of
the language on here I'm not even sure
what improved use of technology is and
why everyone rated it so high I'm not
even sure I understand that so I um you
know I'm not surprised by other things
in here right but like if you're not
struggling with housing why would you
put that a priority and if you are
struggling with housing trust me this
survey is the last thing on your mind so
I think um some of those realities are
true and I just want to obviously remind
us that as representatives of our
community we're bringing a lot more we
also have a a weight a very weighted um
opinion and contribution to this
conversation this is thank you thank you
councelor bomo and let me just share you
know I I I agree with a lot of your
comments let me just say this that
um although these results are are to
some Awakening that doesn't mean that we
can't still focus on on priorities that
you've set forth that Council set forth
and I agree I mean I don't think anyone
will will have a problem if we were to
focus and lift people out of poverty but
at the same time also I guess doing two
things with at one time you know also
doing some of the other things that the
community wants to see um in fact that's
a kind of a two for one you know so so
it's good to at least have an idea of
what community is thinking what staff's
thinking but I think for the most part I
think you hit the nail on the head I
think that almost all of us not almost
all of us want to lift people out of
poverty we that was one of os's um top
that that was to me one of the things
that really just stuck out when he had
his interview with us and how he was
able to lower the poverty rate where he
came from how his his Focus was going to
be on this and I think we still need to
move in that direction and I'm I'm sure
you agree so I appreciate your comments
and and your compassion and uh for our
residents um and yeah you might be right
I mean they they're busy working jobs
maybe two jobs they don't have time to
answer the survey you know what they
need and I I do too and we I think we
need to just continue to move focus on
on on lifting people out of poverty and
and at the same time if you know also do
some other things that we might be able
to do as
well
are there other questions this is
jacquel and
McCrae mayor this is EO I um I if I can
make a comment real quick I'm sorry I'm
trying to look for a place to raise my
hand and I apologize for I really do
want this to be a council Council
discussion um don't worry about it
you're the you're the center of
attention you gotta you're the one who
can get it done well I I appreciate the
the opportunity uh to talk uh councelor
s and I had a brief conversation about
just results to we were just talking as
well and
um so one one thing I want I do want to
mention with uh you know because there
there's a staff ranking here um is that
this I I I want to tell you from
somebody coming in brand new staff uh
just so everybody's not alarmed uh we do
have a very caring staff just so you you
know just so you know I don't think this
is indicative of our staff not caring
about people what what I do what I do
believe since I have time I have time to
think about it too since counc sort
brought this up to me as well um you
know
this this this uh uh was presented in
our our work emails right and so this is
uh this is being taken under the with
the lens of our jobs individual jobs
right so what would be important what
our individual roles are in our
department and so every every Department
every staff member has specific
responsibilities that they're
responsible for I can see why use of
Technology right because you you as it
relates to how we can do our job
effectively uh and so when they're
taking this when they're taking this uh
survey they're taking it with the lens
of uh of what I what me personally as an
employee of Los
cruus is important to me as it relates
in particular aains to me being able to
do my job so if you look at some of
these uh you know some of the high
ranking um you do have things that are
all relative to you know you talk about
business growth you talk about um
communication with residents these are
things that we talk about um in as
individual goals with each department
right so we don't have a uh everybody
working on these programs and services
there's certain sections in the in the
in the city that do specifically focus
on that but um I I just wanted to make
that that com because I I do believe and
even the 300
something uh you know 300 something
employees that took the survey I
guarantee you uh the majority of those
that took the survey are not uh overpaid
bureaucrats like myself right they're
they're also uh within uh Within
uh uh the the wages aren't very high
they're not we're not talking about
we're all much to overp press taking
taking this survey and so therefore not
caring about lifting others out of
poverty I I do believe that um I think
that what had that has to do with more
of of the lens that we're taking the
survey in um and how it relates to their
job but I just wanted to add that as
we're trying to interpret this data um
just a thought thank you
mayor mayor this is Sam
liberman I may yes sure go ahead um I
wan to so first um you all are
absolutely right I I agree I want to add
some important context
that I'm realizing now I likely should
have added
earlier um these opportunities and
strengths were presented to respondents
and they were asked whether they agreed
or disagreed
that these were strengths or
opportunities uh and so to the
point for the community members um for
every one of these opportunities at
least 77% of community members ranked it
as uh that they agreed it was an
opportunity right so more than three qus
of all Community member respondents
agreed that every one of these items is
an opportunity and the ranking is just
where they fit in um how many of them
agreed it was an opportunity and it just
so happened that um you know
77% agreed that um lifting folks out of
poverty uh is an opportunity and that
was just the fewest of of all of them
but still more than three quarter of the
Community member respondents uh said
that and then to eo's point about staff
um 75% of Staff agree uh that um
programs and services to lift people out
of poverty is an opportunity and so um
you know these are these are all
relative within each other in terms of
these rankings um and so you know
everybody
agrees more than a majority agrees that
all of these are opportunities it's just
how relative within there and and that's
where these rankings shook out uh and
then you all have mentioned this and and
um councelor Ben comoo to your point
about you know knowing the pulse of your
of your District this is just one piece
um and and maybe a flawed piece of
information uh for you guys to take into
account as you um put the Strategic plan
elements together uh and so you know yes
please do focus on what you know and and
what you know is the uh the PRI what are
the priorities of your um of the people
you represent in addition to you know
we've heard this and this and this
because of the survey or the focus
groups or the environmental scan but um
you know it's one piece of a of a
greater picture
certainly um mayor if I may we uh we
were thinking we've been here for a
couple hours now of taking a a short
10-minute break let everybody stretch
their legs get another cup of coffee uh
and then we can come back and talk about
vision mission values sure of
course all right well we come back at
what time what we'll come back at uh 10
10 I got the time change correct thank
you okay
thanks
all
for
[Music]
this is Jacquelin mayor are we ready to
resume
uh let's see if we have a quorum looks
like
coun um else is
here C counselor
Sor myself I think we need one oh yes
okay we're
good
great great now we just want to take a
little bit of time to review with
you you know the basis for which um
priorities and goals are really um uh
established and that would be through
your vision your mission and your
organizational values
um can you advance the slide please to
Vision you have a wonderful vision
statement um that was
developed through Elevate Las
cruus um and I won't uh read it to you
out loud um but it's here on the screen
um and you will note that you know once
again a majority of employees and and uh
Community
respondents um to the
surveys um really agree with the current
vision
statement so the question we have for
you mayor and members of council um do
you feel the same way or do you have you
know suggested changes or revisions to
this vision statement which is from El L
cruises looks pretty good to me but
let's let the rest chime in
certainly
counc councelor
Flores thank you mayor um I I do really
like our vision statement um I think it
encompasses a multicultural viewpoint
and um a
general so that is something that we can
work towards um for the future so I I am
an agreement to keep it the same oh lo
if
froze okay any better can you hear me
better now yes okay we
heard we heard the most important part
keep it the same
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so yeah counc FL oh I'm sorry councel St
still
speaking yes she was I was uh thank you
I was just going to say
that agreed with the vision statement it
has a multicultural Viewpoint and um it
also has a generational aspect to it
where we can work towards a future it's
not
stagnant
perfect um I'm going to presume that
you're done uh
councelor
FLOTUS yes thank you Mr Mayor I um agree
100% with um my colleague councelor a to
stui and um the vision is really almost
a mission for a lot of us and really
it's very it's substantive and um I
think the the uh the livability aspect
of it
encompasses the prosperity I mean it's
the prosperity and environment um not
only the environment not only being our
natural beauty here um but the
environment of people being healthy uh
receiving a good education and all the
um all the economic opportunities that
uh that we're working on so um I totally
agree with it I
would you muted yourself counselor so
but we heard
I just said I totally agree with it and
I wouldn't change it thank you okay okay
thanks okay I think that's it uh mayor
pend did you had your hand up did
you have anything else you want to add
yeah I I like it I think it's too long
and I think it's combining a vision and
Mission together um but that's
me
okay
councelor
store yeah I concur with the mayor pend
gandra uh my little note that I have
here about it is that I like it it's
good um but it is a little too long um I
put in here that it would uh just be
fine if if it stops quality of life but
if we can have the rest of it as part of
something part of of our our um Mission
goal whatever that would be fine but I
even if we leave it as is I'm fine I'm
okay with
it thank you
okay um I think that's
it let's go ahead and continue to move
forward and I wonder if we should
um put a after quality of life kind of
uh like it's two paragraphs instead of
one big paragraph would that be helpful
a little
bit mayor I think it's fine the way it
is personally you good okay good yeah
just just leave it as it is all
right got
it okay so this is again so next we have
you know your existing um mission
statement and and the mission statement
comes from your current uh strategic
plan and so the same comments there um
also agreement from the community and
employees that uh uh the mission
statement is good as it is so same
comments um any changes or revisions
that you all would like to
see counc Sor you have your hand
up
I am sorry um but as long as I have my
hand up um they're the say the same
thing uh as I said for the the um other
state division so um I like it the way
it is thank you
right yeah I do too I I I think it's
good I what the others
say
I think their silence means
approval actually um Mr Mayor I'm
speaking over anybody thank you for
recognizing me I I didn't see you I
don't see your no I didn't have my hand
up but I didn't see anybody else's hand
up so I wasn't stepping on toes oh I see
yeah so so thank you for allowing me to
um speak up I um we should do this a
Seinfeld moment why you stop put your
hand up and then I'll recognize you I'm
just kidding go ahead finish there it is
okay okay now coun wow thank you I just
messing with you yeah yeah I um yeah I I
like uh Theus mission statement
um what it just sounds too it's kind of
cold it's kind of
like and I you know
um you know to to provide customer
focused Municipal Services I mean that
sounds like a brochure I'd find my
utility bill um you know and that's the
only thing the the content is
okay
um but
it's but anyway I don't know if we
really want to change it at this point
it um but I mean it's okay but I don't
know I just too cold but I don't know I
can't really put my finger on it um I
don't know I just don't see how I and I
know that the the the Govern city
government is an organization it's a
business um somehow I don't like to see
our residents called customers it's like
we're Macy's or JC Penney or you know
McDonald's or something um I don't know
it just seems kind of cold but that's
all thank you Mr
Mayor Florida you know I I can
understand and and agree with what
you're saying but I also have to mention
that sometimes uh we forget that a lot
of the residents move here they move
here because of a choice and and um and
they could easily move away and and we
don't want them to and so I think by
having that customer that word customer
kind of reinforces the fact that you
know we have to remember that um they
can they can choose choose that you know
that have recently moved here could
choose to live a lot of other places and
and um you know let's just say
hypothetically 25% of the people moved
away we don't want that um you know what
that means is um our revenues will be
dropped and we probably would have to do
some changes to the city government so I
think by keeping that
word just
reinforces
um our our our organization that you
know that that they are um very valuable
and we want to make sure that we provide
the best service we possibly
can okay thanks thank
you okay jacn okay jacan again I think
we can now go to um values and uh Sam
will lead you through that
this is Sam eberman so what you see here
on on the screen are on the left is the
list of values in no in uh in
alphabetical order that came out of our
discussions with um all of all of you
with your department uh leadership and
with City leadership we asked we asked
to think we asked them think you guys
and them to think about values and came
up with this larger list towards the
left of of the screen screen and then
we've also included uh the results from
the employee and Community survey in
terms of uh which values they thought
should should be included in in the
Strategic plan and you currently don't
have um values and as the as the slide
notes to us values really are what guide
the behaviors and actions of elected
officials and staff it's what think
about we look towards uh when we're U
doing our day-to-day work when we're
interacting with residents um and so you
know this is they should be um we should
have a relatively short list so that
they they are memorable um and
impactful um the I don't the employee
and Survey the survey response uh values
are in order of how often uh folks
mentioned them in terms of uh wanting
them to be values for the the uh the
Strategic plan I will note that and and
uh this has has come up a couple times
some of these are very similar uh and so
um you know when we We Begin this
discussion um it it some are simar we
might choose a particular value because
we like uh you know we like Integrity
instead of honesty we're saying for
example right because those are are
relatively similar and so what we're
going to do is really open the floor uh
to you all to again just sort of throw
out your favored values your top three
four five values um Ashley is going
to capture them uh and as we have this
discussion uh and then let's say we end
up uh after that discussion with 10
suggested values we will uh work with
you all to come to a consensus on four
or five that you all agree on uh or or
more you know your your choice of course
you agree on to be um the values that
we'll include uh in the Strategic plan
so again uh what you see here is
everything we've learned um from the
surveys how folks ranked them in terms
of what they thought should be included
as values but we want to hear from you
all uh what you think should be uh the
values included in this treated plan and
if we end up with too large of a list uh
we'll work to whittle that down um so
suppose you have to raise your hand for
the mayor call on
you if you want to um suggest make some
suggestions in terms of values that you
would like to see included in the
Strategic plan um Ashley will capture
that and then we'll we'll try to whittle
those down and I see some of you jotting
jotting some notes will give you some
time to think mayor if you want to kick
us off or if you want to go last to
churchs oh well um let's see here
so I I like customer
focused I think that's that's
good I like
diversity I like mutual
respect
professionalism and fiscal
stewardship so you said five or
10 well I I think you know ideally we
will keep what's in the Strategic plan
to a round five so it's great that you
suggest a five my guess is after uh we
hear from the rest of your colleagues we
up with a list that's larger than five
and then we'll all work together to come
to a consensus uh on on what the top
five may be or six we seven if we pretty
strongly about
some so why don't I just give you
um two more to make it seven and then
because we're going to whittle it down
to five sure we'll Whittle it down to a
smaller number yeah okay okay and then
the next one the other two would be
responsive and transparency
okay so now we're going to go with
counselor beta stui mayor Pro Ganda and
councelor
sord H thank you may I'm gonna have my
camera off I have H kids doing Zoom
classes so we're all okay internet right
now so um I have a couple similar ones
to yours um Integrity professionalism
diversity uh responsive customer
focused um
transparency and then also um I do think
it's important to have
um forward
thinking I'm sorry I didn't catch that
last one what was the last forward
thinking oh Forward Thinking okay thank
you let see mayor
protm yeah thank you um I like
accountability customer focused
diversity
Equity
professionalism I like physical
stewardship is that
six I don't know that sounds about right
maybe one more right
do I get one more I like Integrity as
well did I say that I think I did mutual
respect okay um councelor
sword okay thank you Mr Mayor um let me
start by saying I think we should have
uh these values all of them there there
is good in every one of these here I I I
think there's that we should have some
uh of of every one of them but picking
out five or six um in no particular
order they're all equal I have Equity I
have
respect Innovation and I put Innovation
with uh
efficiency I think Innovation efficiency
are are are there is something in common
with the two and then
transparency and honesty I'm reminded of
uh the uh oath we take when we testify
that uh it involves the truth the whole
truth and nothing but the truth that's
the kind of honesty that I'm uh am
embracing here
um but you could add almost any one of
the others to my list too and and no no
no none of them very much higher than
the
others service is course is is always
good and um resilience is going to be
okay
too okay that's my input
okay uh councelor Beno and then counc
Flores thanks mayor I quickly jotted
down the ones to me that are most
significant are
Equity
progress I think we should be
courageous responsive and
accountable very good Council
FLOTUS thank you
mayor
um well and and mine twoo are as
councelor sword stated uh not
necessarily they're all
equal
honesty compassion kindness courage
respect
okay so there you
go great so I I know Ashley has been
Bolding some I have been uh kind of
keeping P of those that were mentioned
more often so I'm G to have as type in
uh these in order of how often they were
mentioned um and and I'll tell you how
often uh the six you mention them so
again in order of how often they are
mentioned but beyond that no particular
order customer focused was mentioned by
um three of
you
diversity was mentioned by three of
you
professionalism was mentioned also by
of
responsive again three of you
transparency and Equity were all
mentioned by three of
you
um and then I'll I'll I'll mention those
that were uh that were discussed by two
of you and then and then we can Whittle
down from there so mutual
respect
fiscal
stewardship
Integrity
accountability that'll get fun for for
Ashley um
respect
honesty and courage courageous hold on
Sam
yeah
so respect
honesty and courage or courageous and
those were all mentioned by two of you
so from here we have
six uh values that were mentioned by at
least half of you um
customer focus diversity professionalism
responsive transparency and
Equity do does anyone feel very
strongly that any of those mentioned by
just two of
you should be raised up a
little and and this is Jackel and while
you think about that so um you know um a
lot of communities that we work with um
they have a a short number of of
organizational values so that they can
be
memorized by the employees and so that's
why we are are trying to help you focus
on a key set while there may be a lot of
others um that you know as I'm driving
into work um to provide services to the
residents and businesses of the city of
Los crues I'm thinking about these key
values that Council have indicated are
most
important Mr Mayor yes it looks like
respect is in there twice mutual and
just
respect okay so you count those as four
then no I'm just
kidding well this is this is Sam I think
that's an important Point councelor Sor
some of these I think think um could be
um combined or we could
um we could decide we like one word over
over another but you know honesty and
integrity are relatively similar for
instance excuse
me and we've also got a couple comments
from counselor Ben comoo I mean a couple
council members Council and councelor
bet
sty here
no mayor I just forgot to put my hand on
oh okay councelor beta
sty thank you mayor um yeah I was GNA
say that a couple of these seem to have
a thing and so it um items like for me
uh a customer focus but professionalism
and responsiveness all tie in
together yeah because if we are customer
focused then we should be responsive we
should have that professionalism
um and then do something like that
because I do think it might be important
to put um one of the items such as
either Integrity or accountability both
of which I think are very important um
within at least a top
five okay
yeah thank
you this is Sam Weber oh go yeah go
ahead councelor sorry May or I do I do
actually have a question now
um
I yes I mean these are all important and
I think we all have have these all the
time I do I actually I have a really
interesting reaction to customer focus I
don't see constituents as customers I
guess in some sense I see why we have
that I just
wonder I to me that's really an
interesting framing um in terms of how
we relate to
the community and what we're trying to
do
for um residents and seeing them as
customers as if we're running a business
to me seems offputting
this is Sam Council bom I think that's
an important point and if I may um if if
staff is professional if staff is
responsive if staff is transparent then
they will be customer focused right uh
and so you know if I see some nodding
heads you know if there's agreement
there we could we could strike customer
focus unless people feel really strongly
it needs to be
included um and and and let's hear that
but we you know it elements of that are
absolutely contained in some of these
values you all have identified as
important yeah um I'm fine with that
that um goun bet sty do you have another
comment and mayor PM yes than you um and
thank you Sam I think that's
um you kind of phrase that one thing I I
would like to add for um in Como is that
on our end I absolutely I understand
your Viewpoint and you know they're
they're not customers there are
constituents there are friends or
neighbors you know people that we
oftentimes hold dear to us um a lot of
the services that we provide though I
think that's where you're getting that
perhaps more of that customer base and
the residents are paying whether it be
with their tax dollars or for special
items um for services and so that's why
I think having that customer service
approach um can pop up with that type of
I guess language but we're we're often
we are providing services and we are um
and they're paying for those Services
too and that's why you want to establish
I would say it's a professionalism issue
too of making sure that um we're we're
communicating and delivering those items
to what would be a customer in uh
efficient and those uh professional
manners so it's just I think it's a
terminology thing but I can see how
there can be difference inally from
electeds to staff
members thank you
mayor thank you uh let see who's next
the mayor
protm yeah thank you mayor I I really
appreciate the dialogue and I think it
goes back to um what councelor ples was
talking about earlier that that that
term in our mission right um and and so
I I understand where each of them are
coming I mean but we are we are a
business um offering
services and I I I wonder if customer
and and I think to coun FLOTUS and B
goo's point that customer seems so cold
right it it's it's a Community member um
it's a a like like
um ccor stui a beta stui indicated their
friends their neighbors and and maybe if
we offered that up maybe there'll be a
different way of of addressing them I'm
thinking but um I I I too have a
tendency to agree that customer is too
cold of a a word that I understand about
PR principally why but
um maybe we need to look at that a
little further and and really have a a
deep understanding of of you know these
are our neighbors our friends our loved
one people we care
about thanks
mayor
okay very
good this is Sam weberman so we've got
um diversity and professionalism
responsive transparency or transparent
equity uh those are five and then we
have this mutual respect idea um
floating around I'm going to pose the
question
again
um are there any that didn't that aren't
included in that five um that folks feel
very strongly about that either we we
grow the list to six or we we add it and
have a conversation and and see if it's
something we want to include or are
folks happy with the five of diversity
professionalism responsive transparency
transparent
Equity mayor if I
can I yes of course I I really feel like
our being fiscally responsible or fiscal
stewardship really needs to land in
there um in some way um you know that's
for all of us even with the service
array that we do have available as city
um we all need to to to be
responsible um and I hear um often from
constituents and others that in the past
about about that um being fiscally
responsible um and that goes from um you
know staff and um the services to the
um the items that we buy that they're of
quality you know just all all those
things I think play into that so I I
feel strongly that that needs to land in
a
higher in the in the top five
said yeah I think that's a I think it's
I agree I think it's a good good thing
to have there um Council
sord yeah thank you mayor um I got a
question would six or seven values too
be too many uh
Sam or so no you know as Jacqueline
noted we want them to be memorable but
um there's no magic number right
okay the the employees of Las crues have
fantastic Memories by the
way good call Mayor good call Mrs
jackelin um excuse me for jumping in um
is the wording under under and I'm just
going back a couple of comments is the
wording under fiscal is it fiscal
stewardship or fiscal
responsibility we want to reflect your
words
Cassandra I think oh
sorry whoever I've got I've got another
one to
add well on that one I'm sorry Mr Mayor
yeah let me get let me let councelor
sorg speak and then I'll go to you
councelor fotus I was waiting for an
answer about fiscal okay what what was
the question
again this is jacquan so I heard in the
conversation among council members um
the term Fiscal
responsibility um we have written fiscal
stewardship so we want to reflect your
words so I'm seeking clarification about
that I would probably say
responsibility I agree
mayor
okay then I would like to uh add well my
question really is the honesty honesty
one um Can honesty be part of the other
five or six
even or is it really kind of separate
from the other five or six if it's
separate I'd like to add
it well let me just throw this out
counselor
um you know what let me let me just use
this as as an example for all those that
have run for judge before you you know
it's interesting when they say that
they're going to they know that they're
honest and then they have integrity and
and you think you know what that's
automatic you you you should have
honesty and you should have integrity
let me see something else that you're
going to provide and and so you know
what I'm saying do we want to waste do
we want to use that spot for something
that we should be doing
automatically yeah you can almost with
almost all these here but that's okay
yeah I'm all right with that well but
but diversity that that sends a message
um that you know we we we uh support
diversity um yeah I I would venture to
say that very few cities except I bet
you even in Southern California are as
diverse in in administration as we are
which is good you know I guess I guess
I'm influenced by our history in this
city um and if you w to um say that's an
automatic thing I'm okay with
that okay the honesty part I mean okay
let me let me go to councelor flus and
see what she has to say she always has
lots of words of
wisdom yeah thank you thank you Mr
Mayor um I know you're kidding and and
you're funny so I'm no I'm not kidding
really I mean you you've been around for
a while not that long been around I've
been around the block and I I'm
definitely dry behind the ears but um I
you know I think all of these are
important and I agree with you Mr Mayor
that uh honesty and integrity and um all
that sort of stuff is should be a given
but all of these up should be a given I
mean you know we're an organization
we're providing
Services um we're therefore focus on
that but for the constituency we
wouldn't be here but for the taxpayer
but for the you know the consumer we
wouldn't be here
um as we are today uh diversity should
be a given professionalism I mean we're
all you know we're elected officials uh
and there's a note that we take our
staff our uh the
employees are um presumably
professionals a lot of these um are
Givens in terms of how we live our lives
or should live our lives you know the
respect the Integrity you know being
courageous you know walking into areas
that some of us have never tread upon
but um so I don't accountability and
fiscal responsibility and given our the
Mard report um I mean those are right
now I think all of us well I certainly
am it's at the
Forefront um and so I you know
stewardship
responsibility uh as far as fiscal
responsibility and stewardship I think
think we should all know that um we are
stewards uh we are um I mean I'm F you
know I'm responsible so far as my own
finances go I have to be um otherwise I
sink um but if I if I mess up I don't
I'm I only you know if I make a mistake
in how I run my finances it's it's on me
if we make mistakes here at the city as
as were made um you know as as reported
um we're in deep Dudu that that's a very
wise word uh Mr Mayor Dudu um so I I
think we have to be very careful about
what should be Givens I mean all of
these I think are Givens in my life you
know maybe because I was raised as a
Mexican as a Catholic um a Catholic
Jew you know I I don't know um I I think
all of these are important but if we're
if we want an acronym so that everybody
can remember it then we have to work
around an acronym I don't think
everyone's going to remember even Five
Points quite frankly and and not that
we're not capable it's just that I think
what has to be transmitted more than a
word is the essence uh by our actions so
um I mean if the words are going to
guide us so be it but I think there has
to be something more and I I and I think
that's what the mayor is saying well
these you know it's a given you know
diversity should be a given um you know
I we have a what
58% of our city is uh is
uh is quote Hispanic unquote so but I I
think I think that and I think that um
like honesty and respect they almost go
hand in hand because if you respect
someone or if you have self-respect
you're going to be honest uh as a person
you're going to be honest as um the way
you deal with people and also Integrity
I think
Integrity maybe encompasses respect and
honesty um so and and and being uh
courageous I maybe it does take a lot of
courage to to be honest I don't know um
all of these are excellent uh principles
and values to live by
um I it would be very hard for me to do
away with any of them quite frankly I
think they're all
excellent um so I think that the Top
Value as listed above the community
constituent service service focused um
is uh
definitely I think that everything after
that uh falls under that
umbrella um and I don't think that we
shouldn't take out mutual respect I mean
we really or
Integrity uh fiscal responsibility slash
accountability
literally you know uh maybe that goes
together honesty and transparency go
together being responsive uh and
professionalism you
know uh maybe those go together I don't
know I mean I do know I think that's
what I would suggest I mean that is what
I suggest thank you Mr
Mayor thank you counselor and yeah thank
you for that new word that I learned
today Sam liberman again I think this is
this is a very valuable discussion and
you're and and you're all absolutely
right that um everything on this list is
is how all of us should be conducting
ourselves in our work um every day and
you know especially folks um
representing Los cruus and part of the
idea around selecting a core set of
organizational values is um you know
identifying those that are most
important um that that that rise above
for um for your staff to to be thinking
about and embodying um which is which is
part of the uh the essence of of you
know coming together to find a core five
or or six or so um and and you know
we've identified um the bolded ones
again diversity professionalism
responsive transparency equity and
fiscal
responsibility um and I saw a lot of
nodding heads um when Council shord uh
said that that you know needed to be a
value um you know to council councelor
Flor as's Point um yes we you could
absolutely say these are all very
important in organizational values um we
want to we want to make sure we've
targeted those
um that rise above for the you know for
for your staff and yourselves um moving
forward and so you I think it at this
point um and thinking about anything
beyond those that are bolded Beyond
diversity professionalism responsive
transparency Equity uh and fiscal
responsibility know I
heard um you know from from Council of
Flores feel feeling relatively strongly
about this mutual respect and respect
idea see a nodding head from from mayor
proem um how do folks feel about about
adding that one um about including this
idea of mutual respect or do we think
it's covered by um you know being
responsive and professional uh or you
know is it important enough to say hey
we need to we need to be sure you know
our staff ourselves are thinking about
um respect and and and mutual respect is
that something that you know a consensus
we would want to add to the list of six
that we have or are we happy with the
six um and and call it a day on values
and and move forward to Priority
areas well let's see here councelor
FLOTUS has a habit of leaving her hand
up but because she uses it to maybe get
the first in to speak or it was an
accident no I did forget but then um
when Mr leein was speaking I thought
well I have to say something to that um
and then I saw my hand was already up so
um but Mr sord councelor sord can go um
first he had his hand
up I'm sure he I'm sure he would defer
to you he's a gentleman oh yeah for
sure thank you Gil um thank you Mr Mayor
so um I feel very strongly uh that um
mut respect or respect you know I mean
that's the um I think it's redundant to
say Mutual but that's just me I would
just put in respect then we could make a
real easy acronym all of all of this um
but um respect to me you know it's um
it's it's something that
we should be so innate you know to to
respect Mother Earth to respect uh one
another to respect all you know living
cre Critters
creatures and uh big and small and um
and yet you know we we proceed in our
lives in a very disrespectful manner
disrespectful that we don't take into
account uh and I'm not I'm not saying we
as a city council I mean we as humans on
on the planet Earth uh just don't take
into account what another human being
really really is and if uh and then we
in in the government business um may be
having a bad day and um and there's you
know say I get an email from someone
whose trash wasn't collected and I'm
thinking what there's been all these
issues on Earth you know going on right
now with you know I need not go into any
details we've all been uh uh watching
what's going on um and this person is
worried about their TR I mean why can't
they just call you know utilities or
whatever you know solid waste and find
out how and and and um and we all have
moments like that and I just use that is
you know I I've never been bothered by a
question a uh no I have been by comments
by some constituents but it it's very
easy just to say you know forget it I'm
not going to deal with this person um
but I always have Mr Mayor and and Jamie
Rickman
um uh you know having my back on things
I mean they it's always but anyway the
the point though is that
um sometimes we forget you know this
person is really troubled by whatever it
is he or she is going through and it may
not be a big deal to me you know maybe
not a big deal to others but that's what
I mean by respect I mean really
respecting where someone is coming so
just respecting that someone is who he
or she is and
um and and having that in the Forefront
of everything we do and yes it's a given
it's it's a given it's a value most of
us uh all of us grew up with as far as
far as I know with my fellow counselors
and staff and um EO and everybody I've
had inter interactions with but um so I
I feel very strongly that respect should
be up there I don't think we should take
it as a given and um and all of these
are given but I'm just saying this is
something should be in the Forefront of
our operating base you know just our
core and um as as a really as a basic
value it seems like if you don't have
respect you're not going to have any
anything else you're not going to
recognize diversity you're not going to
you're not going to adhere to
professionalism you're not going to be
uh necessarily transparent you're not
going to be responsive so
um you know I really think respect and
then oh that fiscal responsibility thing
oh oh my gosh I don't know how people
got to where they got but anyway uh
respect I think is very important thank
you Mr Mayor and thank you
councils thank you councelor sword yes
thank you mayor um so I look at the top
six
there uh on the list and only one of my
top five is in there so um therefore I
feel a little chead maybe maybe not
though um so if I if you move down to
the seventh one respect that's on my
list so therefore um I'll vote for
respect uh to be in the in the list um
but then I look at the surveys from the
community the employees and Leadership
and department heads and I see honesty
is in two three of those four and um so
that's why I kind of chose that one just
so you know but and then respect yeah
that's in three of those four too so I'm
good with with adding uh resp honesty or
respect rather um in these uh in this in
this
list that's it thank you mayor okay
thank
you so unless anybody any any um mayor
council members uh
are uh not pleased we'll go with the
seven that we've identified here uh
diversity professionalism responsive
transparency Equity respect and fiscal
responsibility I've got um probably some
bad news for Council of Florida with
only one of those starting with a vowel
it's G be pretty hard to come up with a
good
acronym this
list all right I think um that was a
great discussion on values and uh we'll
going to turn it over to Jacqueline to
begin our discussion on priority
areas great thank you um this is
Jacqueline so um if you could Advance
the
slide um so you know we're so we're
really kind of going from big picture
now and we're starting to narrow things
down so you know that's a part of the
method to our Madness here in the
process um is that we started with a you
know giving you a lot of information
about what we heard and and found out um
about the about Los cruus your city and
you bring a whole lot of additional
information about what you know about
your
constituents um and your
community um and and so you know we're
going to keep the current vision
statement um we're going to keep the
current mission statement we now have
some core organizational
values and now we want to focus on
priority areas which will then lead us
to to goals and you know I know that
there is an understanding and a lot of
this I say because um this is an
educational piece for people from the
community that might be tuned in but the
Strategic plan in its entirety is your
policy guidance document and so um I
know that this is uh I'm not saying
anything that the mayor and Council and
staff and the leadership team don't
already know um but I do want to help um
others that may be that have joined us
from the public about why we're doing
this and why it's so important um
so the priority areas that we have
listed here came from a number of
sources and we think they're important
um um for the the following reasons the
the First Column um U on the the
left are priorities that were identified
in our interviews with you those things
that we heard more than a couple of
times from the mayor and Council and
staff so environmental sustainability
High performing government housing
affordability Human Services and Public
Safety that middle
column okay are the themes that are
represented um in your current strategic
plan so there are four themes in your
current strategic plan these are the
four in the middle column and those are
accompanied by 20 goals okay that you
all have worked on um since
2017 the last uh column um on the right
hand side are those Focus areas that are
articulated in the Elevate Los Cruz's
strategic
plan and so you know we thought it was
important to present um you know this
range of priorities to you um and then
have you discuss among
yourselves um which are the most
important you know to guide the city and
you know achieving those things that are
included in the vision and are most
important to you and to the community in
the next two to five years um and so you
know that's um an introduction to this
section of the of the discussion and so
um mayor I will turn it back over to you
um to conduct that discussion and to
hear from your colleagues and
yourself okay so which priorities are
the most important in the next two to
five years to achieve the
vision so of course we have this this
this various list here and let me just
see here so cheline you were wanting um
make this another five or six priorities
as
well yes hopefully we can keep this to
five maybe six if there is a sixth one
that is just really important to the
group um understanding that you know
some of these might be combined together
um there may be uh priorities that some
of you have written down that are not
reflected in this in this list um but
the idea is to you know to move towards
consensus um to a short list a shorter
list of of priorities so you're correct
well let me let me just start off with
and then it'll just be a point of
discussion and and in no particular
order although I will say that probably
our one of our number one items is to
make sure that our residents are safe in
their homes both from a law enforcement
standpoint and also from a fire uh
standpoint so you know Public Safety
obviously I think always has to be in
there um environmental sustainability I
mean that that's huge I mean one my last
um state of the city I talked really
about uh climate change so I don't
wasn't too sure exactly if that
environmental sustainability and
Community environment are are similar
but that would be in my opinion second
um economic and Community Development
you know we we talked you've heard many
council members talk about wanting to
lift our residents out of poverty and
the only way we can do that is a lot of
it is to bring in really good paying
jobs so well that this you know the
ideal would be the jobs are so well paid
that minimum wage isn't even a factor
they just pay well above that that would
be great so that would be say the third
one and see that kind kind of lines up
with Community
Prosperity
um Capital Improvement and
infrastructure you know we talk a lot
about we need to have affordable housing
and and how we're so woefully behind
that I believe that that that is uh
would work very well when we're talking
about Capital infrastructure Capital
Improvement um and maybe rounding out
the fifth one although we have no say as
far as uh the school boards or how that
works you know one of the one of the
top priorities of this Council has been
our community schools and so I'm going
to throw education in there as a also as
a is that that's five isn't it yes that
is yeah the reason it's not that I don't
support High performing government it's
just that I think we're there and why
use that space for something that we're
already at and you know so and and then
then I guess that see that's the thing
with the housing affordability when we
talk about Capital infrastructure you
know that whole purpose for building
that infrastructure is to make sure that
we have affordable housing so I don't
know how you wanted to work
that as well
so and my notes I have them combined
mayor okay good okay so we're going to
go to councelor Sor and then councelor
bomo all right
um well you know we have to have a
common understanding of what each one of
these means I mean Public Safety is
obvious um I think we all understand
what that means and affordable
housing
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um I I get confused with these three
columns the Elevate Los crues the bits
the the most of what I've read in the
Elevate L crues really contain the rest
of of these for the most part
um and and and what do you mean by
environmental stability like s
sustainability like the mayor said yeah
that's climate change but there there's
a whole lot more there I think uh to it
and that's all contained like you said
mayor in the uh Elevate Los crues um
unless there's more to it than what's in
Elevate last crues but I think it's a
lot of it's right there um
I think a a high performing uh uh
government means that that the work that
the government does is done efficiently
timely and I think those are important
those things are important I think we
can get a little better on that uh
things done timely there's projects on
in in our CIP for example have been
sitting there for years and just haven't
been getting done whatever it takes to
uh finish them is something that I think
we need to work on it um but no for the
most part those three in community
environment Community Prosperity
Community livability when you look at
all three of those and everything inside
of them that covers our priority areas
quite well so I'm good with that um I
had a couple notes that I think should
be part down a level or two in these
these uh areas such as fill development
incentives um such as more sidewalks
being built I mean this is way down but
um so there again uh that's the kind of
thing I'm looking at to get to next okay
I'm good with with uh just that much
okay so great um this is this is
Jacqueline could um could I just uh
mayor would you mind if I respond to
council member SARS last not at all not
all do so yeah I understand um you know
the the the down the list um priorities
that you mentioned about
sidewalks um and what was the other one
that you
mentioned oops infill infill housing
right so I I see those as as goals or
ways to you know
uh to address the whole community
livability piece because that's you know
that's one of your three so those are
actually goals that that and we're going
to get to that next after come to
consensus about the priorities and
there's just a couple examples as all
there's many other of course thank you
very much that
helped okay councelor bomo thank you
mayor so I'm looking at this list
through the lens of what is the city
leading on and what do we
support and I think you know obviously
education is hugely important and should
always be a
priority however as the city as the city
of Las Cruses I think we actually play
more of a supportive role because there
are experts in our community who are who
are in charge of that who are leading
that we have an incredible
superintendent we have a Department of
Education at the state and so by no
means am I not saying it's not important
but I for me it's important to look at
this list on what do we get to lead on
as opposed to support on and I do think
we should play huge supportive role in
educational institutions like NMSU but
they are the experts right on that and
so I think we should support them and
let them be the experts say having said
that I definitely think we can lead on
community prosperity to me that is very
encompassing of an anti-poverty
agenda um I think we should be very
explicit about housing affordability and
housing um accessibility which I
actually think is what this should say
um because we are facing a pretty
serious challenge in that um I agree
with Public Safety that that's a huge
priority we should focus on Capital
Improvements to me is this is the thing
I get the most calls about as as a
counselor people continuously calling me
about when is my going to get done when
is my sidewalk going to get done I think
Capital Improvements and infrastructure
to me includes our utilities and how we
are environmentally sound when we talk
about our utilities and our Public Works
um so these are the things that we
really get to lead on and be Forward
Thinking on um and then of course
economic and Community Development
absolutely think um and again we have
incredible staff who are who are experts
in this who should get we should get to
lead on this
and then I have to add a sixth one for
me environmental sustainability is
critical um as we move forward and um
especially considering that we live in a
desert and that water management and
many of those things will impact our our
population significantly so those are my
top six and I really encourage you know
my my colleagues to think of it that way
right like what do we get to lead on and
then also support on um and that how we
should you know be investing in these
priority
areas thank
you thank you and councelor FLOTUS
councelor
Sor uh thank you Mr Mayor and um so our
um priority areas um I I think they're
all you know they're they've been
identified in the um current strategic
plan and I think that um for me my my
big
areas uh of focus have been um first and
foremost education and not education in
so far as um an abstract thing but um an
education and we are we do have a joint
Powers agreement with the the our our
school district our local school
district lasus public schools and um and
councelor um councelor beta sty is our
vice chair on that board bo uh counselor
uh excuse me mayor protim gandera is a
member as Mi and um and prior to the
formation uh prior to becoming a city
counselor uh David Greenberg who was the
initial person who uh took care of
getting this done in lasus um good
friend of mine uh I was really uh really
supporting this and doing everything I
could once I became a city counselor I
was thrilled to have been uh appointed
by the mayor or however to become um in
the to become on the uh a member of that
board and education is is not abstract
and um and I've enjoyed so much working
with mayor protm Gandara because of her
her um she cares so much about mental
health and uh Behavioral Health and and
children and um and so isn't so much an
abstract thing like oh yes you know we
we support education it's it's really
getting down to the nuts and bolts you
know getting into the weeds of or
appreciating all of that from that
perspective um as to what our children
really go through and the fact that
children do go home hungry um right now
with the covid I think the biggest the
the most horrible travesty has been has
fallen on our children our children uh
don't have the social interaction with
other children uh a lot of our teachers
um in Las Cruses and and we know a lot
of them because as councelor uh AA stui
said uh we're friends we're neighbors we
socialize together we know each other
it's a very loving community of teachers
and
um and everybody works so hard and we're
very fortunate to have Dr thril as the
superintendent of the school and
Dynamite School Board uh by the way so
you know education is is it all it's all
encompassing and and it's also a compass
you know where you can see uh where the
wind is blowing or a Weather Vein
actually uh where you can see how
everything is going because you're
looking at children you're looking at
them in the classroom and you and you
see their little faces and you can see
that some of them uh maybe didn't have
uh you
know a meal uh didn't you know brush out
their hair and and then you wonder you
know what where what are the conditions
that these children live in so I and I
do find I do believe that it is
incumbent upon the city to um to really
uh to really uh be involved uh on on
that level uh and and I'm so glad that
we are uh A J have a
jpa and um in that regard um to keep a
pulse on on what's going on um and I
know that uh I know that uh mayor protm
uh pardon mayor protim
gandera has um has worked very closely
uh you know for years and years as a
social worker has seen this I as a as a
teacher subtitute teacher before I
practiced law um saw it in the little
faces in the U in Los Angeles Unified
School District and and as a as a you
could really see the differences the
economic differences in the different
parts of the city because Los Angeles is
such a huge City and I think it's the
second largest school district so I was
for the district and you could really
see um and and we and and this is in the
context of we are a city that is very
poor um and our children are the ones
who are suffering so I feel very
strongly that the city has to be has to
have a finger in that pie and right now
we have three U City counselors so we
have three fingers in that pie with our
community schools because Community
Schools are going are
definitely um the answer I think they're
really the answer to a lot of our uh
problems because the community schools
are just doing wonderful work and I know
Lynn Middle School brings in a lot of um
people from the community who who
volunteer and give their services like
an attorney who goes and speaks to the
kids about their civil rights I mean how
many children you know in Middle School
um you know throughout the United States
or throughout the world may know what
their rights are their basic rights are
so um education to me is in the
Forefront of of everything and I'm
speaking specifically uh in support of
um our jpa and continuing that and
expanding that um and I know that the
mayor even before that had the you know
uh what is it meals mayor's meals for
kids and stuff like that so um and and
this is all work out with the city
schools and I think FYI I might be wrong
about that um definitely the city
schools so um and I think that we should
be in the Forefront in in um in in in
leading uh in in this participation
thank you Mr
Mayor thank you counselor uh we've got
councelor
sword
um thank you mayor um I councelor Beno
reminded me I have another page of uh
notes here that I forgot to get to on
this particular thing we're talking
about here um and that is the um values
that uh I wanted to get back to the
value that we expressed earlier on
um equity
um and and um I truly agree that the
lifting people out of poverty is a high
priority in this uh effort we're doing
here
um and I think we can all agree that uh
education is probably the number one uh
uh effort that needs to be done for
getting people out of poverty uh the
experts all agree with that um so I'm
I'm thinking about about our education
part of this uh and councelor benom was
exactly right it's it's it's not the
primary uh uh purpose of a city
government uh that's for our uh our
Educational Systems going all the way
from ear Early Education uh Early
Childhood I should say education all the
way up through University uh including
uh Community College but also including
on training um we have programs in the
state for H job training in fact the
city has a a bonus that uh businesses
can take care take advantage of to train
their
employees uh and I don't think it's
being used very much at all I've met a
long time since I've heard it's being
used But there again it's being
uh uh the more people are educated as we
all know the better chance they have or
a higher paying job um but there again
we need to support all of our
Educational Systems our uh on the job
training effort that we have I forget
the name of it it escapes me now but we
did this 10 years ago uh had this uh
bonus beyond the jtip that the city does
that pays for uh onto job training uh in
any B any business that has a quite
qualifications can do can use it so
we're helping in that sense too we're
helping with the education
um but uh probably the best thing we can
do is that as councelor Bena was saying
is to have better economic opportunities
uh Economic Development I should say and
so uh that's something we've been trying
to do now for a long time we need to
continue and maybe improve that uh part
of it um I
had another page here that uh I don't
know if this is applying here um the uh
priority areas for me and and and this
might be I might be loan on this uh
alone on this a high performing
government is very important um that's
meaning getting the work done on time
and on on uh uh budget um and they T and
there and and the values that people
were talking about the and natural
environment uh as opposed to the built
environment is very important to the
people in Los
so um those Open Spaces Parks etc etc
are are part of that and Capital
Improvements and
infrastructure um housing affordability
again and uh the implementation overall
of apply of the comprehensive plan to
get that uh imp implemented into the
city government um I think is should be
a one of the top five
priorities okay mayor I think
all my pages of notes
now okay uh let's see next is um May
ptim thank you mayor and thanks to my
colleagues for all the feedback all very
very
important um for me
um I really believe that we should
continue um
to
to prioritize our Capital Improvement
and infrastructure I think that's um
plenty important in my district and I'm
talking about streets and sidewalks and
lighting um I get so many
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um um complaints concerns emails related
to that and and it we we really need to
focus and start putting in a significant
amount more of of funding to improve our
streets and our infrastructure moving
forward um I of course feel that Human
Services is another priority to me I
know typically um municipalities um
really don't
um have have not had that as a priority
and really look to our County um you
know for that and our county has really
focused her time and attention on the
outlying communities and right so um and
it's really high time that we start to
focus on to ensure that our our
community has 100% access to those what
I call survival and thriving
Services um it's things that many of my
colleagues have mentioned today but um
the um access um to Quality Medical
Dental um Behavioral Health um mental
health Transportation food and I think
those are things that we should be
focusing in the next year year um
especially coming out of covid um
there's so many people struggling um
which leads me to talk a little bit
about the thriving Services services
that I think are super important is is
ensuring that we have um funding to
scale continue to scale out our
community in the schools um um program I
think that's really where we hear so
much um from our schools and how the
city can really tap in and Leverage the
funding that we do have to assist them
in this process um it also reminds me of
um the economic and Community
Development that I think at the
community
Prosperity um which is ensuring that we
have good paying jobs um it um
Partnerships with our University and our
our um our um sorry our our brand our
community college um I think and and and
just making sure that that's
communicated effectively to our our
residents um related to that and I of
course then think that Public Safety is
of utmost um importance we want to make
sure that our our community feels safe
um and and that they get um the services
that that they they need um um moving
forward and and I think environmental
sustainability is something that we
really need to um continue to focus our
our time and attention thanks mayor
thank you and um The Last One councelor
beta
stby thank you mayor um for my top five
list I did have um economic and
Community Development um I think mayor
protm um said it very well um especially
once we um have to transition on to what
are the next steps of our community
after covid and how do we recover um
from some of those issues I important um
but so that's for the short-term goal
and we're going to have to deal with
that very directly and uniquely in the
next two years but also overall for the
health of the community is finding
um opportunities to really raise um
raise the job level raise the income
level um and I do think those affect
items such as that Community
prosperity and the community livability
as well and it will attract more people
to want to come here and in turn
hopefully um allow us to do more things
um I have Capital infrastructure as my
next item and like many other counselors
It's one of the ones that I get the most
um responses back from the community
about and I think um we do have some
issues especially when it comes to to
roads um where
we we are going to have to address um
how to fix areas and perhaps um looking
at what type of budget we are giving to
those um if we want to keep up with
certain types of quality and if we don't
um we're going to have to make larger
adjustments in the
future um Public Safety is the next one
that I have as well um I do have a
little different I do have communication
involvement and followup and while I
think we' done really well with putting
um items such as the 311 Jamie and her
staff are very very responsive um to to
any issues that come up um as we saw
with some of the uh surveys that
communication is perhaps limited to
certain demographics and that we do have
a harder time being able to reach out to
those community members that don't have
quite as much access and so that is
something that I think that we can
definitely um
look to and see because it could in the
future by getting these people involved
we might see adjustments on what
community priorities are and I I think
it's important to be able to uh reach
out in unique
ways and I do have education with our
community schools um while we may not be
the leader in you know curriculum and we
work parallel um to our school systems
uh we have a really great opportunity to
help assist when it comes to our
community schools and we are going to be
providing Services um that help with
education for these students and give
those families um a better chance at
that
prosperity and those are my lists thank
you
mayor okay thank you so jacine let me
ask you something um I don't know if
you've had a chance to to read the
Elevate Los crues but can you um can you
address because I think and I'm not 100%
sure but I I seem to recall there was
some type of a short-term work plan in
the Elevate Los cruus uh it was kind of
like of a baseline program for measuring
um Department progress was that was that
going to
be like a given or you know you know
what I'm saying can you kind of address
that yes sir um this is Jacqueline um so
um I'll just tell you a little bit about
my background I'm an urban planner so I
certainly read Elevate L crues from from
front from the front cover to the back
cover it's a very uh comprehensive
welldefined well-developed uh 20-year
comprehensive plan um it was one of the
reasons why we were so excited to get
this assignment because um you know a
bulk of the work has already been done
um um through Elevate Los cruus and so
the key is is helping you all um
prioritize all that there are hundreds
of of goals in Elevate Los crues as you
all know I'm saying that for the public
um so there is a short-term work plan
and that short-term work plan of 46
goals was included in the survey that
went out to the mayor and Council to
prioritize into high medium and low
priority and so it is um directly
incorporated into the next piece of work
um that we will do with you because we
will um it seems as though we really
have um some consensus around the
priority areas um and that's going to
you know we're going to finish that
discussion and that's going to lead us
to a little lunch break and during the
lunch break we're going to take the
ranking of those of that short-term work
program from Elevate Los crues that you
all um ranked in your surveys and we're
going to pair those up with the
priorities um that you're discussing
right now so yes sir um Mr Mayor we are
well aware of and we um we LW you for
the very good work of elevate Los crues
as a starting point
very good just checking to see if you
were paying
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attention thank you I appreciate your
questions and your attention to
detail um and so what I have heard and
and Sam and Ashley helped me out here it
seems as though so here's what I have as
as the um as the the priorities um so as
as a big um priority I um what was
mentioned was Community prosperity and
that includes you know jobs on the job
training anti-poverty housing
accessibility and housing
affordability you know and there's some
direct ties in there also with community
and economic
development you know as an overarching
priority I also heard um majority of
votes for environmental
sustainability and also I have a
category that
includes
education and Human Services that
includes you know mental and Community
Health um lifting um residents out of
poverty the whole Community Schools
concept and um the concept around school
S as as and the and and the notion of
thriving services and so I had that as a
combined
category um and then there's also um
Capital Improvements and
infrastructure I heard that's a separate
category of course Public
Safety um and then the other big
category that was mentioned was
Environmental
sustainability and so I you know there's
been a blending and and a natural
combining across you know the categories
that we started with um through your
comments um Sam and Ashley what did we
what did I miss in the
conversation this is Sam Jacqueline you
captured what I what I captured um and I
I like the combination of Education
uh and Human Services
together so this is Jack again so mayor
and members of council do you all like
those categories and is there anything
is there a category that's
missing I like them I don't see anything
missing
but I did mayor I can I just add I
actually as councel the St was talking I
very much agreed with her point on
communication Improvement I forgot what
you had it listed as but I very much
agreed with what she had
said and then the only other thing I was
going to say was housing to be that be
included specifically so thank
you probably Housing and Community
prosperity and then the whole
communication piece H where would we put
that number six number six there you go
thank
you it just really encompasses all of
what you know all of those items
everything that we do we just really
need to find a a different way of
communicating with those folks to the
point of the survey you know who answers
those surveys we've talked a lot about
that year over year um I agree Jamie and
her staff does a remarkable job um to
include our Pio um we just need to find
different ways and and I'm confident we
will so this is jackwell and you know
one of the the themes in your current
strategic plan um is worded
communication involvement and
followup do you do you keep that level
of detail or or do you just shorten it
to
communication
I think followup is important
specifically
okay well I have to I have to say and
and you probably weren't aware of this
um EO just unveiled it at our last
council meeting um the way he's got the
followup is pretty incredible so when if
if council members speak based on some
of the information that they've heard
from their constituents uh that that
followup is is automatic but I mean it
doesn't hurt to have it in there
nonetheless they have a pretty good
follow-up system probably the best I've
ever seen
awesome great well this is this is
wonderful look at this we have we have
six
priorities
um and it seems as though we have
consensus around those
priorities and
um uh what we will do next um and this
is going to force us to take a early
lunch if you don't mind
um uh so that um what we're going to do
now
is is take the
priorities from your voting and those
short the shortterm and Elevate last
cruises and and plug those in By
Priority area so that when we come back
you can look at those um see if they are
representative of of what you hope to
achieve in those priority areas or add
additional goals to
them and that will be a big that will
then you know be our stopping point for
for the
day Mr is that okay with you Mr Mayor
yeah U yes yes councelor Sor and then
I'll get than you real quick check just
just a quick question remember I asked
about environmental sustainability could
mean a lot of different things um can we
agree that it also includes our natural
environment uh that uh we have that in
it okay good I I see a head nodding yes
thank you I'm good with that then mayor
I'm
I'm okay so Jacqueline
what you want to take a lunch break is
that what you're saying sure um uh Sam
what time do we want to want them to
come
back would everybody be comfortable with
a break from now 11:40 to
12:15 that long enough for folks for
lunch too long well let's see how long
it takes for councelor FLOTUS to warm up
her steak and lobster and uh hopefully
she can get it done before
then also have tamali I have tamali that
I made I still have some from
Christmas
out do it in 20 minutes there you go so
I guess it's good then 12:15 that's good
125 12:15 everybody okay sounds good to
me okay see you then we'll see you
shortly thank you bye
bye
hey
Sam Ashley did you say hey
Sam yes I thought that was teams coming
through oh now I'm going to go grab a
sandwich and then we'll meet on teams in
a couple minutes
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Ken are we the only ones
here I think
so you know I figured it' be about
another five oh wow it's 12:20 H yeah
12:20 I'm here I'm
here okay then we got I'm
here all
good all right good I guess we're ready
to
continue awesome great thank you this is
Jacqueline and so um
yeah just um a a brief recap um what
we'd like to do next um now that um you
have come to consensus on the priorities
and working backwards from that you know
you discussed your vision mission and
values um Sam if you could put up the
next slide please um we'll get started
on the remaining work for the
afternoon and that is you know aligning
the Elevate Las cruus goals
um and other goals because we did
receive um the mayor's goals and other
members of council may have goals to add
as we review the priority areas and so
what you'll see next we're going to
start going
through um the priority areas that that
we just decided upon and and what we
want to do is review the
goals um from Elevate Los cruus or
additional goals for those areas and
just walk through those priority areas
one by one um until we get finished um
and come to consensus about um if the
goals are appropriate if there are goals
missing if there are additional goals
that you would like to add and in the
case of the first area which is um
ensuring Community Prosperity if there
are far too many goals to address um in
two to five years and so I will I will
let Sam introduce this because he did
the rankings and we'll explain to you
how uh uh how the layout of the goals
that you see for each of the the
priority areas
s thank you Jacqueline this is Sam
weberman so as you all know we asked you
to uh review the shortterm short-term
short and Midterm goals from Elevate Los
cruus and uh note whether you thought
that they were a high priority medium
priority or low priority to achieve in
the next two to five years uh the and
thank you all for taking the time to do
that that's very helpful especially for
this this piece of the the workshop um
excuse me the numbers that you see at
the end of each of these goals and goal
statements in
parentheses is the what we'll describe
as the the uh the average score uh that
each of these received if we're thinking
of the score as high priority equaling
three medium priority being two and low
priority being one and so for instance
uh this first goal that you see here
economic equity all seven of you rated
it as a high
priority that's why it's a three the
average of the the priority of the seven
of you U came out to three so each of
these as you as it goes down and these
are um in descending order are uh how
they shook out in terms of how you
ranked them in a numerical fashion uh
for an average so knowing that knowing
that three is high priority and two is
medium priority uh we did not include in
most of these lists that you'll see uh
any any goals that did not uh meet the
medium priority level so anything that
was uh that achieved an average score of
less than two for the most part we have
not included though we've got them on a
bike rack separately so that we can look
at them if you decide as a group um you
know maybe we really should Elevate that
to to a higher
priority uh so that's that's how these
are ranked um a note we you know the the
mayor shared uh the document that you
you saw at the beginning of the day with
us the mayor counil input items uh that
you'll see come from that document and
we hope and expect uh through this
discussion if there are additional goals
uh that we're not in Elevate Los cruus
um or you know maybe we'll reward some
things because the world is different
than when we passed elev Los cruises we
want to hear that from you right this is
a a discussion that that for you all to
tell us uh what the goals are for each
of these
priorities whether they are in Elevate
Los crusis or align um with some of the
things we see from Elevate Los or not um
again a note on this one I know
Jacqueline mentioned it there are 19
goals that that we felt sort of align
with this priority area so this is just
page one the next page has um any of the
goals that didn't achieve uh a priority
um or an average score of 2.3 or lower
are there any questions about how we've
arrayed this uh or aligned this and and
what we're looking
at I've got a question with you so
getting back and I know you touched on
it very briefly I don't know I do with
my paper and um uh Elevate Los cruus so
when you look at that document I mean it
has a lot of um information it talks
about different things and and I think
it included a lot of input from staff
from Community Development and how it
was you know how they might be able to
accomplish it and I guess I'm trying to
uh I just want to keep focus on on the
fact that you know Elevate lusus is is
here and that there was also three
different um sections in Elevate Las
cruus and and I didn't want to I didn't
want to deviate too much you know from
that at least so that wouldn't be
confusing to um to both staff to councel
and the public in fact I talked about
that also about two three weeks ago so
are we going to are we going to
incorporate that or or are we going to
have Elevate Los crues with say three
sub sections and then and then what
we're talking about here with six or
seven of them so I'll start this is Sam
and then I'll let Jacqueline um finish
the
uh we purposefully included uh at the
beginning of each of these uh goals the
um Elevate losu how it relates to
elevate Los crusis and that's the the
two letters uh that you see with each of
those goals are going to reflect back to
um the one of those three area Focus
areas within Elevate Las cruus so for
instance here you know we see CP that's
for Community Prosperity um as we
continue we we'll see some that are CL
and that's going to be Community
livability which is the one of the focus
areas in Elevate L the last CE which I
think is um Community environment jacn
clct correct I got that one wrong this
is jacine yes that's that's correct and
and so yeah that's how we have um um
mayor and Council that's how we took the
many goals that are in the short-term
work program from Elevate Las Cruses and
and arrayed them to help you all um as a
group make sense of how they relate to
your priorities that you just came to
consensus on and so um on this first
page you see um all of the goals are out
of the community Prosperity uh section
of elevate Los crues and Sam if you
could just quickly go to the second page
um with regard to promoting Community
Prosperity um there are also goals from
uh community livability and from
Community environment and and and The
Ordering of these as Sam indicated
is is based
on is B based on your voting in that
survey because we had to have a way to
to start to try to focus in and
prioritize you so that um at the end of
this you know we don't have like a
horrendous number of goals for for your
staff to try to accomplish um in the
next two to five years and for you to
have to allocate resources towards and
so we've that's the methodology that
we've used to help you begin to
focus and so we can go back um Ashley to
page
one um and and what we want to do is
then begin looking at how the goals um
are array based on how you voted on them
but of course you know in your
discussion you might change some things
you might uh remove them you might
combine them you might add as the mayor
has suggested additional um goals
so can I can I interrupt you just for a
second I
apologize Yeah it's you're I just
emailed I just emailed Dominic or Adrien
the same sheet that I gave you but
broken down into those three categories
that elevate Los crues had do you mind
if I can have them show and
then throw this out there to my
colleagues and see if we can um perhaps
look and focus on it this way so that
again I I I just hate to have uh too
many different U subsections but is uh
Dominic or Adrien available that they
could put this on the screen real quick
so I can yes if you could just give me
one sec to pull that back up okay okay
yeah you know this this way here um I
think this is what you're talking about
I I hope but I just want to just double
check okay soon as they get that up
there cuz you know I I'll mention
environmental sustainability and that's
where we can put you know again and and
I'm just circling back to this to the uh
strategic plan one that's uh you know
that that kind of like it kind of
defines what we're going to try to
accomplish in the next year or year or
two we're working from the same
document
okay I I was hoping so but I just wanted
just to make sure so okay
okay I think any any minute
now may I'm having trouble locating on
my laptop I'm going to sign off and sign
in on to
um we we can when you get it just let me
know and then we'll just continue on
it's not okay okay sounds good thanks
okay
jacine okay so so uh one of the the
priorities that just came out of your
previous discussion was promote
Community prosperity and it relates to
you know uh anti-poverty you know um
lifting the Los cruus um population out
of um poverty um you also touched on you
know Economic Development which is a
whole part of community prosperity and
then housing accessibility and
affordability and so um
the goals that are listed here um are
are directly from Elevate loss
crues um the first um eight of them are
and so first seven of them and so we
want to um you
know understand from you if these
goals actually meet this
priority the first one one is you know
uh relates to economic equity and
generating employment
opportunities second one about
attainable
housing uh the third one um you know
serving underserved populations and
supporting them with
assistance uh the fourth one
diversification that is balancing
business Recruitment and Retention and
expansion uh the fifth one
entrepreneurship sixth one um the
reading the workforce and you all
specifically mention on the job training
um and there are other ways to do that
um through a strong and educated
Workforce uh uh the seventh one has to
do with housing diversity and a diverse
range of housing
options um and then uh the mayor's goals
about um prioritizing development of
attractive and energy efficient mixed
income housing and infill
opportunities along the El Pasa
Corridor um and then the behavioral
health
district um in partnership with um Dona
Anna and other governmental entities and
then building a local wealth component
so those first 10 are in the order of
the that you voted on them and then we
added the mayor's um additions to those
grp
and Jacqueline I if I if I may just
clarify again a lot almost all these um
were were discussions from my colleagues
I don't want to I don't want the public
to think they're mind uh okay we yeah
because uh you know mayor proam
contributed councelor Vasquez Council
bomo I mean now you know as far as the
uh affordable housing almost all of us
on that one so I just wanted to clarify
that so there yes so there's already
consensus on the ones on eight nine and
um and so the next
page um okay and still under the same
priority of community
Prosperity um there is a a special
housing needs goal related to ensuring
the housing needs of underserved
populations are
met um neighborhood identity promoting
Community Pride through neighborhood
events and investing in in shared
identity
um 13 also relates to neighborhoods and
developing U mixed use neighborhoods and
um wide recreational and Commercial and
employment and Civic
opportunities
um uh the next one deals with um from
Elevate Elevate Las Cruz's um Community
environment goal deals with um centers
and corridors and supporting Community
growth through concentrated
development um the next one deals with
accessible social spaces and
CommunityWide network of social
spaces um and then Community livability
goal 10 which is which is number 17 on
the list here uh deals with economic
outcomes and that relates to supporting
Transportation
Investments um related to Economic
Development and then supporting the Arts
is the next one and the last one has to
do with uh historic and cultural
values um and that's that's related to
you know the whole um neighborhood and
and promoting Community Prosperity
through neighborhoods and historic and
cultural values and so there were
19 um high and medium priority goals
including those that there's Council
consensus on there were three on the on
the first page so so Jacqueline um
the Adrian's telling me he's got it
ready to okay let's take show and then
and
then I I'll share with you what I was
hoping we might be able to do
okay okay so if we can then what from
that list you just presented to us if we
could then break it down into those
various whether it's environmental
sustainability or Community prosperity
and and see if we can move it something
like that then I think and then once we
have those sub components then maybe
we'll we'll see which ones um you know
maybe we take the top three four five
whatever of of each of these these
categories of under environmental
sustainability under Community
Prosperity you know you know what I'm
saying and then we turn that into the uh
our strategic plan that we're going to
try to accomplish in the next two years
because we can only do so much in two
years but I I I I can't emphasize
enough that
um you know and I don't know maybe it's
coming later but I really would like to
hear also hear from once we get these I
guess is to hear well okay I I think
this is the case once we let's say we
take this this the prior list put it in
these categories uh I would like for
staff to be able to chime in and say I
think we can do this I don't know if we
can get this done that quick or we're
going to need more money to do this type
thing does that make sense
it does and and actually
um um we really assist your staff at
when they as they begin the
implementation process to say okay
here's what we could do fastest because
we're set up to do this here's what we
could do in you know a year to 18 months
here's what we could do in in a longer
time frame um and so I think we're we're
thinking very much in the in the same
direction but I'm going to be quiet and
and let the other members of your your
other colleagues on Council um chime in
sure of
course okay I got my pen out ready to
write down who's
first councelor
Sor yes yes these are
fine well okay did you want to put those
those that list and break them down into
these Cate ories and then once we have
those categories then start kind of
ranking those that are within each of
these
categories sure yeah that's
good um I I just have a question um at
what point do we start in these
um action items uh do we start getting
into some more detail on them probably
after we get them divided into this uh
other categories Adrian can you roll it
up a little bit because you're missing
the education in community services and
then the capital Improvement
infrastructure yeah there you go there
you go okay yeah that
helps yeah I'm I'm okay with
this okay
good one down five to
go who's
next so the categories let let me just
read it out um the categories that we
have are education and Community
Services Community Prosperity Capital
Improvements SL
infrastructure um can you scroll up can
someone scroll up for
me and environmental sustainability so
we have one
two
uh okay we getting these categories
down team
Community Prosperity okay that's number
two okay scroll back down for
me education and Community Services
that's number
three and then the fourth category is
Capital Improvements and
infrastructure I I didn't have one that
fit into Equity was that that was one of
them also wasn't it I think
so team Sam or Ashley what's is there is
there a category missing from the prior
discussion yes there is um the one
that's missing is the communication
involvement and
followup I
also Sam uh
um Public Safety unless it's included in
one of the
other mention right where would we
include Public Safety in your list
mayor oh um you know that's a given I
mean that's something there that so that
would be a separate priority then right
I mean these these were just the the
ones that I had sent to EO and then
after listening to how we've been doing
this then we incorporated break broke
you know break it down into this um you
know if Council wants to put something
else in there and and but I was just
thinking that we take those those other
items that you were just discussing in
the previous slide and break it into
this and then from there we'll have
different um mixture of different items
and then we kind of uh check the box and
see which ones with staff uh input see
which ones we can get done in couple
years in the next two years
some may be real easy some may already
be in the process some may be uh
stretched to get done in two years but
that's where I I think that um if if I
if I heard my counselor swor and mayor
proam Ganda when we had this something
similar that's kind of how we did it we
we Tred to get consensus and then we
focused in what we can get done now uh
maybe a year from now and then for sure
two years and then also it's good to
have the one the three four and five
years so that in two years from now then
kind of It kind of moves back moves them
up right right there you go and then we
start working on it again so so what I
hear you saying and this is jackan again
is that we would re we would Resort the
goals the the short-term Elevate loss
Cruis goals that you already voted on
based on these on the priority areas
using your wording Community Prosperity
education and Community Services Capital
Improvements and
infrastructure um and then education and
Community
Service as well as communication and
Public Safety so that would give us
seven area priority areas and so we
would in instead of using the the the
priority headings that that we developed
over
lunchtime um we we take you know 15
minutes go back and Resort those based
on this wording and then in the time
that we would have left
um um then yeah we don't need to Resort
Sam we could just retitle
them um we could retitle them and then
we could go through them because the the
one that has the most is the first one
that we worked on and so there are there
are 19 goals there
um and and that would be our starting
point everything else will go fairly
quickly after that
um and that would that would be yeah and
so you would consider those and say yes
or no and add to them and I think we
could do that in the time that we have
left so we would just use the wording
that you've suggested and that's just
priority headings that's my suggestion
and only being it's because you know the
community the staff everybody put a lot
of work into the Elevate Los Cruis and
and I wanted to I thought this was a
good um compromise to mix to take a lot
of those that are still there that are
very valid that that staff worked really
hard on incorporate it into what sta
what council wants and then break it
down into here and then and then kind of
get an idea of what can we get
accomplished here in the one two three
four five years we're on the same page
perfect well let me see what my
colleagues if they have anything else
they want to change or deviate
from no May maybe not okay okay sorry
for your for dominating everything um I
just yeah I just hear you you're you're
directing that's leadership you know we
we've been councelor soran I and and may
protm one uh we've been through a few of
these and so this is it's worked out
though really well and and it's really
nice because you know a resident can say
hey what do you think about this and uh
council member sends it to EO EO checks
with his Department directors it's in
the Strategic plan yeah it's in there
okay then let's bring it back that's you
know that's that's that's the that's a
neat thing this is jackw that that's
always the beauty of strategic planning
is that you set your priorities and then
you use those priorities to guide your
decisions for a certain period of time
um before you go back and reassess them
um
so so I think that what we can do though
is put the slide
back
up with the Sorting from the Elevate
lasu's goal there we go thank you
perfect Ashley
so uh Community Prosperity remains
Community Prosperity right
because because that's
um that's the wording um that we already
have we can take off promote the the
issue here though is that we do does
Mayor and councel do you
agree um with these 19 goals there are
19 of them um are there additional goals
that aren't indicated
here U and we we will work with your
staff to you know stratify these into
you know one 2 three four and five year
periods but the the key is um is 19 too
many or is it not representative of what
you want to
do so that's that's the question and
these are all from Elevate Las crues
except for 8 n and 10 which came from
your Collective
discussions and and jacine what I was
what I was hoping to do was again put
those in that in that those categories
um this is the first one Community
prosperity and then let and then let St
uh Council trim the list
and if they have any you know and and
with input from staff and then you know
that's what I was thinking because there
there is a lot that's a lot to
accomplish in two years if that's what
we're going to do or we're going to put
those in year three four and five and
I'm sorry did I cut off counselor bomo
it sound like you were gonna say
something counselor I was just hoping if
do we have these in our packet I was
hoping you could send these to
us you did not have them in your packet
because we just sorted them based on
your voting once the priorities were
established
so yeah we this is wor they just did
this is Sam liberman I can see if I can
quickly email them to you that will be
helpful that'd be great thank
you
and mayor miyagishima how do you want um
eepo and staff to um you know provide
their import input on on this list I I I
think after Council what I would okay
what I would what I Envision is if you
had let's say we have under the one
category you have um
this is one of your categories here
right here this this community
Prosperity is one of your one of your
your seven remember that was on your
list right so here are all the goals
from Elevate last crues and when you get
them an email you'll see that there are
nine more in addition to the 10 that we
have listed that you all voted on in
your in your surveys as being
important okay um how about if we ask
Council what they think we can get
accomplished in the first year second
year third fourth and fifth year and
maybe we just move it out that way and
then let staff take a look at it while
while council is is is you know noting
them the noting them down and um you
know they can chime in that way if they
think that we might need more time than
one year or we may not be able to do it
in two years C councelor
Ben thanks mayor I
amum I'm really sorry but I'm very
unclear as to what's happening right now
um and so I mayor I understand that you
have this something in mind that you
want to try to get us there I also I'm
also curious to hear what the
Consultants which you know I M their
whole job is strategic planning so I
imagine they had a whole process laid
out for us I'm curious about what they
had in
mind for this section for us the
remainder of the time because at this
point I'm very unclear as to what's
happening and I'm starting to get really
overwhelmed sure I
understand so um council member Beno the
the mayor and and I in terms of our
process are are very much aligned so um
you all right before lunch you discussed
and you came to consensus about some
strategic priorities which are pretty
much you know a part of the list of
seven that the mayor SU suest
um uh for the future and so using those
strategic priorities and and Community
Prosperity was one of them you all had
lots of conversation you talked about
all those things in parentheses that
encompasses so what we did is we took um
the voting we we did um we did an
average score of the voting of of you
and your colleagues on Council of those
elevate everything here that ELC is the
Elevate Las cruus goal and it's the
reference number of the 46 or some goals
that you all voted on and we simp we
simply have tried to Cate categorize
them according to the the category so
Community Prosperity is one category and
so the what we're trying to help you to
do is to
determine do these goals represent what
you would like to see
happen so we've already as Council we've
already voted on these
right right you you all you each
individually took a a a Survey Monkey
survey and Sam combined those to come up
with the the number at the end of the of
this of the statement in parenthesis is
the ranking the so the aggregate ranking
of all council members and that's how we
ordered them um under the this category
of community Prosperity okay so I guess
I'm just now feeling like it took a
significant amount of time to come up
with eight values or six values and so
if we get into a conversation with one
category that has
19 options like is there an easier way
for us to get to where we want to go
because I feel like we could spend one
day alone on community prosperity and
trying to figure out which are the
top goals for the council when we've
sort of already you've sort of already
identified that right I imagine that
economic equity has a 3.0 because every
single member of the council listed this
in the top eight
right yes so I guess yeah so so it would
definitely stay on the list you know
because you all said that it's a high
priority
um okay I'm just gonna go on mute I'm
GNA trust the process and um hope that
it's Sam think you can clarify it and so
this is Sam and I'll I'll try my best
um so counselor Bena you're absolutely
right you know we have
we um you all collectively through
through that voting have identified what
high priority and medium priority and
that's what you see here and our vision
for um this part of the process was that
uh you guys would confirm that you know
you all agree that these are right or uh
we look at the list uh together
collectively and we say you know there's
something missing right um and that's
that's sort of what we did with and what
you all have done with what the mayor
has provided right those are um
additional goals uh above and beyond
what's been identified in Elevate Los
crusis uh but uh as he has done he h um
aligned them with the theme of community
Prosperity right from Elevate Los crues
which is why we see it here uh and so
you know our our thought was for you
guys to to look at this say yes we agree
these are what what should be higher
medium priority and that we'd like to
accomplish in the next two years uh or
um you know what I know it got ranked
relatively highly but as a group we feel
that um you know ready Workforce the
goal of ready Workforce uh isn't as
important to us as these other ones um
and so we could do you know we maybe we
remove some or we put them on the bike
rack for later down the road or we
decide that uh it shouldn't be done in
the first two years but maybe the the
following three or something like that
and so um the the the work that you guys
did ranking these through the survey was
to jump hopefully jump start this
conversation okay we've got mayor proam
Ganda and councelor FLOTUS who are
waiting to say a couple words or say
something um mayor PRM and then
councelor
FL hi thank you um yeah I I appreciate
the the dialogue and I'm I too am going
to trust the process that we're going to
be at a different place um I do
recognize that there are some similar
goals and I I um sort of lump them and
I'm thinking like 1 3 4 and 10 could be
similar um not that I want them to
be combined but it probably would be
helpful and then I so I I labeled it as
economic um Equity um the next next is
housing Category 2 seven and8 seem to
have similar similar um themes and then
the other is Workforce five six and 10
and then lastly the behavioral health
district something that you know we've
been working a lot on is increasing our
capacity around mental health and
reducing stigma not only internally but
externally um our Public Safety our
staff they're all addressing these
issues um and
with um limited experience and expertise
so um I'm wondering if if that might
work if we sort of lump some of these in
categories because they're
similar um maybe that will
help okay mayor
P I don't see why we couldn't but just
as just to rec clarify the anti-poverty
economic development and housing
affordability and accessibility all you
know all fell under Community Prosperity
so that that's all so I I don't see I
guess what I'm trying to say is let me
just use an example if I may Council
Flor this I'll come to you in just a
second so let's just take this one here
number nine establish a behavioral
health district made up of governmental
entities in donana county that one could
be uh within one year because you're
you're probably halfway done already on
that so that that's all is that we take
these and and and and
you know but if we were to take um let's
see take the other one develop uh the
elale where is that one oh the ne one
right above it and say to do that in one
year well staff's probably gonna say
wait a minute I don't think we can get
that done in one year that's going to
take a that's maybe a two or three year
you know that that's that's I guess what
we're trying to get at or at least
that's what I I'm thinking um because
all these are good it's just a matter of
what are we going to and then and then
the ones that are the one and two year
is going to be on our strategic
plan to let's get this thing done here
in two years and then that's what we
give to the to the public and say hey
this is what council says we can get
done in two years and you know maybe
it's just two items per per section but
or maybe it's four I don't know that's
that's where I wanted to have input from
coun uh from staff to see if we can get
it done that quick does that does that
help clarify things mayor
P mayor I wasn't unclear I'm just saying
there's similarities in these goals and
um I think that we
should we should look at those they're
not that far
apart and maybe sense to rather than do
like 10 that we could okay how many have
to do with housing then great how many
have to do with economic equity or
Workforce Development there some of them
um are separate and apart and some of
them are the same in my mind so okay so
let me just throw this at you if we did
it for five years then that's two a year
there's 10 of them so if we lump them
together it may one some one of them may
just have one big one so there actually
19 mayor there's a page too oh I'm sorry
okay that's okay yeah let let me go to
councelor flus and then we'll Circle
back to to wrap up those comments
Council
florus thank you mayor Bima and M and
thank you u m McCrae I
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um I think that What U mayor protm is is
proposing uh may not even and I I think
we all see that okay well we have
housing diversity as goal seven we
have a divers uh attainable housing and
then U there was something else and yes
they they they're combined in so far as
they deal with the same issue of Housing
and then the
specifics but the but these three areas
um for example I don't see attainable H
housing happening in two
years um I don't see housing diversity
happening in two years so it may be
three years and then um and then one
when so I don't think it's a question of
doing that I think that what we have to
look at is what is
attainable um within uh 2 years and um
and some of it like for example
underserved populations that seems to
meld right into
diversification and that Mel mels right
into uh ENT
preneurship uh and that's all part of
and then the ready Workforce so there
there are a lot of um there are a lot of
uh areas that are similar but I don't
think they're um
I don't think they're they're uh
achievable and and I too um uh mayor
believed that the established Behavioral
Health District uh that was I think uh
that the whole idea came up about uh a
little over a year ago when we met with
met with Mary P uh White and and Paul
Duan and that as you said um something
that mayor proam has been working on so
that could be done within two years and
but
um the district could be set up but say
there was something else here about you
know having a a
particular uh that would take more time
so
um you know establishing developing a
strong and educated Workforce could
could possibly be done within two years
working closely with um you know with
other entities in the city or in the
state um but a lot of these are they
they overlap in subject matter but they
don't overlap in attainability or
feasibility of implementation in any way
shape or form so um and and I do believe
that we need um we need step input on
these staff has to tell us how long
would it take like Natalie Green for
example Natalie Miss screen uh we would
like to provide affordable clean and
safe housing options for all residents
regardless of income I mean that would
you know take about a one hour
presentation on her part um and then as
far as housing diversity provideed
diverse um range of housing options to
accommodate residents at all stages of
life I mean you know and because you
know you're looking at Grants you're
looking at funding you're looking at all
proc cesses that um do take a long time
and then number
five entrepreneurship that one create a
nurturing regulatory environment that
generates entrepreneurship in small
businesses that that's a tough one I
mean we need a regulatory environment
does that come from the state does that
come from the you know the national I
mean Federal level or are we going to do
that I don't think so I mean as a city
we can have an ordin of some kind but I
I don't think it's going to to cut it so
that those are the things we have to
look at and and are we ready to have
presentations by our staff at this
moment at this
time don't know that's my input thank
you so hi this mayor yes um this is
jacqu one I um I would like to propose
um a couple of options here um because
there is a lot of complexity in this um
and and we we started out with the uh
the area that had the most goals okay 19
um and all the rest of them um that you
discussed and that you voted on have far
fewer goals but there are a couple of
ways that you can approach this you can
you know you can um review
um these Focus areas and say okay uh we
these goals are representative of what
we want to achieve and then um and then
we will pull this together and staff
them will look at it as well and say
okay here's what we can accomplish in
you know the time frames that you set
for us one year two years all the way
out to five years for each of the
priority areas um
and that way staff will have an
opportunity to get together and have a
discussion and then bring it back to you
um rather than um trying to do it um
right now in the time that we have left
um that's that's that's my suggestion
I'm not sure how you all feel about
that I'm gonna I'm going to throw
something out here let me just see if
he's on the call yes he is so so if I
may uh my colleagues I'm going to and EO
I'm going to ask if Larry or David or
any of his staff can recall during the
um Elevate Los cruus I know staff put a
lot of work into it and they I think had
some that they thought that they could
get done pretty quick I wonder if it
would be helpful if they could spot some
of those that they know that they can
get done or what they're already working
on
Larry uh good a good afternoon mayor and
city council Community
Development um I'm not sure you're
hearing yes you're hearing me I think
aren't you yep yes very good thank you
we are very good thank you
um absolutely right mayor you know we
spent about uh two two and a half years
with our consultant developing the
Elevate Los crues plan but what came out
of that um I would address a couple of
those that topics you've been discussing
here uh here this afternoon after lunch
break um for example you you ask you
know where there's some things that
could be have been worked on or are in
process right now or could be worked on
within the next year or two years I'll
give you listing um you know we uh you
mentioned uh uh Natalie Green that works
with Dave we're in the economic uh uh
excuse me the U Community Development
and the um uh program Community
Improvement uh there's a lot of cdbg
Grant and home home funding that enables
us to work with Rehabilitation for the
underserved population on some of the
rehab projects they do uh some of the
current projects that we're working on
um we have uh we we've been experiencing
an increase on housing stock
uh primarily because of the interest
rate but also demand so we're we're
building more houses than we've ever
built and they have a variety of of
affordability in terms of U you know
cost cost uh we're working with the
appid DOA blueprint uh to develop that
that'll be a mixed use housing type of
development the SRA blueprint which will
also be a mixed juice housing uh type of
project and that will have aord ability
in nature of course we have the East
lman that's currently under the master
planning that will address those things
so those are all things that are in
process right now we're also looking at
the uh been having recent uh meetings
with the elos corridor to find out ways
of helping uh that economic uh
Improvement and development that's going
on right now and then um we're in our
zoning code update this will take two
years but that zoning code update will
make a big difference in how people are
able to uh get their projects built that
perhaps they could not have built before
because the zoning is more U applicable
and uh amiable for it and then lastly on
a five-year program be our Consolidated
up plan that we're in engaged in right
now uh so those are a number of projects
that Community
Development uh is working on topics that
you just mentioned Str uh ranging from
current to one year to twoe to five year
um and I'd have Dave we or Natalie throw
in if uh they have some other items to
mention yeah yeah Dave uh has his hand
up and I thought Shan as well but Dave
uh where and you know what Larry thank
you for doing that it just and I don't
know if councelor swor will agree or
mayor prend but it just dawned on me I
think that's how we did it we had this
list we let staff uh give their input
saying hey this is what we're working on
we can probably get this done really
quick and then and then from there we we
started going into the different years
timelines when we get it done so thank
you for that David uh David where I mean
thank you for that Larry David where I
just want to go back to the way that
elevate lost crues is organized um when
you adopted that you did a
prioritization project for all the
action in that plan and you created a a
short-term work program and also a
long-term work program so to a certain
extent you've already done some
prioritization and then the other major
activity that took place was that um
there was an activity to create a
baseline of data of how implementation
of the the plan was taking place and
that report was completed and um
indorsed by the Planning and Zoning
commission and is available for Council
to be aware and but about back to the
work programs um the short-term work
program is is basically a one to
threeyear program of activities that
should be started uh by the city to
implement and then the long range or the
the additional actions or ones that you
take over time and similar to what
you've discussed earlier um the Elevate
loss crues is to be evaluated on a
yearly basis and you can adjust those
work programs and so what um from the
Elevate Los crues implementation
I think it's important that your
strategic plans and where you want to go
forward they're going forward
congruently and that they support one
another and back those up now if if you
could allow Shan to also weigh in on
this as the Project Lead for the
adoption of elevate Los cruus I think
she has some valuable insights into
those implementation
steps oh absolutely
please
Mr Mayor thank you this is Shan buet
senior planner with Community
Development um I think David pretty much
covered what I was about to say but I
think you all are aware of that
short-term prioritized work program list
of 53 action items um I believe the
Consultants today have that um and they
do intend to go through that with you
all um but any thing that you want to
add and prioritize over those items
could very well fit within um a
shortened strategic time frame of the
two to five year uh midterm planning so
at the end of the day it all boils down
to implementation and how we're going to
carry out fund resource uh any items
that you might want to accomplish in the
short time frame um and I think what
today we need to really focus on is
highlighting those items that that are
dear to your hearts as a city council um
and and just you know make sure that we
are prioritizing the correct things
because all of the city's resources are
going to get dedicated to achieving
those but if you have any questions as
to how they're tying it to you know
Elevate goals or Elevate policies or
Elevate actions um I'm here I'm here to
answer those for
you okay thank you very
much well
um so getting back to to what we were
initially talk talking about I I I don't
know I I really think that if there was
a way that that staff can let us know
and they and and Larry did a great job I
don't know if if um jacquin wrote down
which which one of the ones he was
talking about could be done relatively
quick that really helps us out a lot
instead of us thinking one and then and
it turns out that it won't be done that
quick and then another that we may not
have been aware of and it can be done
quick so councelor
bomo thanks mayor I amum as shna was
talking I was sort of jotting down some
notes just some Reflections about this
conversation because I feel like um
while I agree that a lot of these things
are what will not be achieved in two
years maybe not even five some of them
might not even have an end date like
diversification is a process like
entrepreneurship there's no beginning of
an end right like these are journeys I
guess I'm hoping out of this we can get
to a place that that we've laid out for
ourselves a very
aspirational plan which we should be we
should be aspirational we we have an
incredible opportunity Leanne presented
a pretty good forecast of where we sit
so we should be aspirational in our
thinking and our planning now I'm now
I'm thinking in the next year and two
years what do we need to start investing
in funding implementing that are going
to get us a little bit closer to all of
those things perfect now I agree totally
agree on that that's good that's that's
what we're trying to figure out here
what we can get done and what we need
and what what additional fundings we
need to do to get that
done Jacqueline after listening to all
that you think you can help us uh guide
us in that what you just heard from
Council and
staff so what I'm hearing you say and
and um I know that uh larryan and Shana
and David um I've spoken to them
extensively um and they they know that
we used um you know the short-term
action plan and Elevate Los crues
as a part of your your voting and that's
how we came up with with these goals
um so what I what I think I to to get to
to what you want to
do is that we re so we've we've we've
looked at Community Prosperity I don't
hear of anything coming off of that what
we need to do is have your staff now and
and whether or not that Larry and David
and Shan or or every anyone else that
that may have a role in the
implementation of these items look at
them and then put a time frame to them
and and bring them back to you and do
that with the other categories as well
um that you've
identified that that's that's my
suggestion
um I I think that's a good one I don't
know let me let the rest of the council
chime in on this and then because then
that way there we
can um you know maybe like with with
councelor Boma was saying maybe there's
some that that uh we can maybe if we put
some more funding to we can get it done
quicker um and it and it may be
something that Council
wants I I I don't know but but without
having that input from staff and and and
uh Financial
Resources it's going to be a little bit
more challenging but I think what you
just recommended be I think helpful very
helpful extremely helpful very it's very
challenging and that's why we took those
53 goals and tried to find a way to to
to have you all further prioritize them
so there are 53 goals in the shortterm
portion of elevate L crues
53 okay so whether you even if you even
if you prioritize that out five years um
that's a heck of a lot of work on top of
the work that your staff already has
programmed um based on your current
strategic plan and so um you know our
thinking was okay we need to take these
53 which have 196 action items
associated with them in the first three
years um so our thinking was we need to
help Council reduce and focus um and and
that's that's our Our intention um this
afternoon
and then we'll we'll flip it over to
staff and they will actually give you a
dose of reality about it what can
actually be achieved in that two-year
time frame or if it will take
longer I I I like that uh EO EO has
something
yeah thank you mayor I I just wanted to
add my support for that direction uh and
speaking on behalf of Staff you know I
think what we were expecting is you know
that the next phase would be discussing
timelines and and our timelines really
are going to be you know that there's
reality what we can do but also there
may be two projects that can be done on
a on on the same timeline and and they
may be conflicting if if and so part of
this process is
to again what was said by by Jack make
sure we figure out exactly what your
priority is Whittle it down or even you
know not even have
to um cut out uh much but actually just
prioritize so that we can come back with
timelines uh afterwards and then the
other thing about speaking to speaking
about timelines at this point uh you
know there's some some of these projects
that will
require uh several departments to be
working together to accomplish them and
so without the opportunity to sit down
and discuss with departments with with
several departments and actually come up
with with timelines it's going to be
hard to present one right now so my My
Hope Is that we do we go through that
process as was suggested and then we
come back to council uh after you've
you've identified those things we can
come back with the timelines of what we
feel is realistic from our from from
staff
perspective thanks
EO great what do so good
that okay looks like might just see
counselor bomo shaking her head
yes and youil counselor Sor smiling so I
don't see the
others I'm saying yes oh okay I can't
see you yes as well mayor okay great
okay yes mayam okay okay Jacqueline
great thank you so
um um I think that we should just start
with this with this list of of 19 that
we have under Community
Prosperity um and then you'll get input
from staff um about um how long it will
take them to accomplish these 19
goals and I think we can move to the
next category um either Ashley or Sam
and so that was
um we called it education and Human
Services and mayor I think you wanted to
retitled that to education and community
services and there's probably consensus
among your
colleagues I'm good with that I I think
my colleagues are the ones who who
wanted that and I think that's great I
think it makes sense to do it that way
okay all right you're giving me too much
credit here they're they the the
council's extremely intelligent uh
highly motivated group of well well
caring individuals that that are always
working always thinking always seeing
how they can make Los Cru is a better
place to
live agree I just uh say who's who talks
that's all
first do a lot more than that but but
that's good um but there were only in
terms of the priority rankings uh there
were
four um goals out of elevate Las crues
they came from the community prosperity
commun and Community livability sections
of the short-term plan um and these are
the four goals there may be
others
um that you um want to include
here
um but you have Community Health um a
mental and physical
health uh um a community schools
goal you'll izing the schools and then
food security food security goal um
under this
priority was that a hand from council
member
sord I'm sorry Jacqueline what was what
was it that you wanted us to do on this
particular
one um indicate if this is
representative the goals here are
representative of your discussion and
and what you would like to see happen
around education and Community Services
or are there
other um items did any of you write any
additional items that relate to this and
perhaps reviewing um your workbook in
advance um or mayor did you have any
other discussions with your colleagues
are there additional goals that would go
under this priority ranking area
for for the record i' I've had no
discussions with my colleagues on this
uh this is first time that they've seen
probably this piece of paper and I sent
it to EO oh if he discussed it I don't
know okay all right there's a reason why
I said it
yes yes we don't Talk Amongst each
others unless it's in a meeting like
this oh that's correct yeah that's right
that's
okay common mistake disclosure right
yeah you're doing the Public's business
that's
correct um I I have something that I
mentioned earlier Mr Mayor if I can um
yes sure of course it it kind of
involves both this education part and
also Economic Development and that is
the support we give to businesses that
uh have to take uh partially trained or
untrained
employees and train them and we pay
their salaries partially just partially
for an education period of time I don't
know if you can say that right but
anyway for a period of time where
they're educated to come uh skilled in
the job they have to do so I don't know
if that you want to add it to this this
uh section or if it should go in the
other one but I think promoting uh job
training is the best way to put it
um with
uh I for the darn name of the program uh
job that that supports uh um jtip the
state
program in addition to the J tip I
should
say
so like I say should it go here or
should it go into educa uh Economic
Development I don't
know there is a Workforce Readiness goal
in the under
Prosperity can you flip back yes it
is well that's a good place to put it
yeah
great per
perfect any other comments or
additions to education and Community
Services uh we have uh Dr Martinez and
looks like counselor of Florida so Dr
Martinez you have something yes Mr Mayor
genda Martinez for the record uh
counselor um
oh my God councelor Sor I believe the
program you're referring to is wage plus
correct that's right thank you sir just
wanted to get confirmation on that thank
you very much I my memory is not so
great
hello what what are we waiting
for um just want to make sure there was
no additional comments and if not
councelor flotes has a comment here okay
yes thank you mayor and and thank you so
much jacqua for seeing my little blue
hand up there I um you know I'm looking
at all of this and yes I I took the
survey and everything but um the one the
one thing I see that's missing and maybe
I keep think well maybe it'll come up
maybe it'll come up um a lot of this is
prosperity and I know we have about an
hour and a half left and or less I don't
know more or less but scheduled
definitely and um so everything is
coming up under Community prosperity in
so far as what we're dealing with today
um but you know we have the arts and
culture and historic
preservation and um none of that has
come up and I don't even think it
was an option in the survey that we took
the counselors
took and I was just
wondering if there's anything in in what
you're going to present to us Jacqueline
and
Sam I
mean it seems like there's something
really missing here and I don't know if
it was just uh you know falling asleep
at the wheel on my part but I just uh I
mean we really because there's certain
things and so far as the Arts go we have
a community art um board we have the uh
the Arts
Council
um and um so I just wondering maybe I'm
off this is Sam weberman May if I may
um so we've looked at two of the the um
priority areas so far that uh that we've
come to a consensus on those being
Community prosperity and education we've
got four others where we have uh put
those 46 Elevate Los cruus goals that
have been mentioned and and sorted them
so we haven't seen all of the goals that
you ranked yet we're getting there uh as
we continue through each of the
different priority areas uh and then for
most most of the priority areas that
we'll discuss we have only included
those goals uh that were ranked as a
medium or high that ended up as an
average rank of medium or high priority
uh from the council uh I do have and we
will look at later uh in the
conversation what we're calling a bike
rack uh which is where I've put uh all
of those goals that either did not reach
uh a medium or high priority average
from uh from you all in your ranking or
um did not fit into any of the priority
areas that that we identified I will say
that um none of we were able to slot all
of the medium and high priority goals
into one of the priority areas that have
have been identified I will give you a
little bit of a preview um Council
councilor Flores uh the supporting the
Arts goal uh and the there's a historic
and cultural values goal that everybody
ranked uh when we did that ranking those
did not achieve uh that that Medium
priority uh so the consensus among um
you and your colleagues were was that
those were not medium or high priorities
to get you know to get done over the
next couple years within this um
strategic plan however that's not to say
that you can't have a conversation and
decide that we we do think it's
important and we do want to to add it uh
so we will eventually see all of those
goals uh that you guys ranked as we
continue our way through this process
and we talk about each of the different
priority areas and then we'll circle
circle back to talk about any of the
goals uh and look at any of the goals
that did not achieve uh a medium or high
priority or did not fit into one of the
categories and uh collectively make a
decision if uh if you all agree that it
should be should be included uh in this
current um strategic plan so that answer
your question yes it does to an extent
I'm just wondering um thank you Sam uh
yes I are we going to cover that today I
mean it just seems like it's because
we're to to be here till 3 I I mean I
can be here till midnight if we have to
but um I'm just wondering well I that's
the idea we you know we were if um
Ashley could jump to the education slide
where we're on this that second uh
priority area there were only four here
and and Jacqueline is leading us through
a discussion of whether or not you guys
think there should be any additional uh
prior uh goals in this priority area I
think um you know uh councelor sty has
her hand raised and might have additions
and then that's what we'll do as we
continue through the rest of the
priority areas is uh to counselor beno's
point you have already prioritized these
through that survey so we'll skip that
piece uh that prioritization piece and
we'll just look and we'll say hey uh
looking at these goals that we've sort
of slotted into these priority
areas what's missing are there any are
there any other goals that you uh you
all would like to
achieve
um over the next you know two to five
years and so that's what that's a
preview of what we'll be doing it's it's
it's now not priority prioritization
because we've agreed that we'll have uh
your staff uh after we're done today
come back through talk about resources
needed timing Etc uh and so today it's
are there any is there anything that
wasn't in levate Las crusis that was
completed you know a year ago or a
little less than that that maybe we do
want to include in the Strategic plan
and so that's that's where the
discussion is um hopefully that helps
okay so we will address the Arts I mean
that's that's pretty much the upshot
yeah and Ashley can you go back to
community Prosperity I'm sorry um so as
the we did include excuse me supporting
the Arts and historic cultural values
here they're uh they were just barely
ranked as medium uh priorities but
they're here so oh yes they're there
yeah so staff will have an opportunity
to give you guys feedback on resources
and timing for
those okay anything else on um education
and Community
Services yes ma'am yes um councelor B
sty thanks yeah I was just going to um
comment and ask a clarifying question on
this
um um right before lunch when we were
looking at the different topics um and
we had Communications on
um I'm not quite sure if we have like a
direct uh
subsector goal um and Elevate about
something like that um here that we can
that can be used utilized but for me in
some parts of it and I just bring it up
because it says community services so if
we're doing
Communications um if there is another
more detailed uh goal that we need to
think of like um perhaps like
expanding um access to you know atrisk
communities by one different platform or
something like that you know just if we
need to add an extra topic or if it's
something that we might if we're going
to see it later then that's fine too but
I was just going to bring it up since
we're at
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Community this is jacquel and I don't
recall that we have such a goal
represented around
communication um and if we don't um we
should probably add it Sam you're
nodding your head this is Sam yes do we
kept the communication involvement and
followup thank you okay
great why don't we why don't we go to
that one next
then okay here it is uh communication
involvement and followup there was quite
a bit of discussion around that um there
are two Elevate L Cruis goals related to
them and I'm going to turn it over to
Sam because he's supposed to do this one
thank you Jacqueline yeah so as you see
on this uh priority area you know we we
took those goals from Elevate Las Cruses
these were the two uh from Elevate Las
Cruses that um directly related to uh
the communication involvement and
followup you know um which is why you
see the coordinated Service delivery is
wasn't ranked as a median priority but
was included here um and I you know I
know that this was a an area that was
mentioned um as as an opportunity by um
both staff and uh the community and I
will um I'll reiterate for those that
that don't have it um some of the themes
that came out of the focus groups uh one
one with um employees and free with the
community although again the Community
member focus groups were a little
limited the employe one was was great um
and these are these are just sort of the
broad themes that were developed from
that in communication involvement and
followup and then I'll allow you uh to
let us know what what goals we might
want to add here um
so
the in the focus groups we learned that
sometimes um the communication Channels
with residents uh don't get them the
information that they need in a in a
timely manner and and um the the example
that was PR provided to us was when uh
there are major impacts due to road work
or things like that um they uh they also
expressed the need to and this is this
is related expand those communication
options we know that there that um maybe
they they suggested greater use of
social media using newsletters things
like that um they suggested finding ways
to and and I think this might speak to
some of you all expanding Outreach to
underrepresented
groups uh
and then you know really a way to
support neighborhood organizing and and
communicate with Community groups was
also identified as a way that um through
through the focus groups that uh could
improve communication involvement and
fall so having said that I'd like to
open up the floor to any other um
suggested goals uh or things that you
all would like to achieve within the
communication involvement and followup
priority
area well certainly the one that council
member bomo already suggested should go
on the list um expanding Outreach to
underrepresented groups in Las
cruus and that was Jacquelin talking
thank you I apologize that's okay worry
about it uh councelor
AI thank you mayor um with the two items
here obviously they look a little um
pretty focused one is with the historic
preservation efforts um would
that is that already done through the
um like the art board and I believe
there's a a different board
that is connected to this too am I
correct I'm not sure if somebody from
staff can help me on that
one yes counselor there's a separate
board the historic preservation um
I is border
committee yes sorry who's
speaking is that you mayor proam sorry
mayor proam Gand okay thank you and then
H with this second goal is that for
clarification um is this one just in an
effort to reach utility customers so it
would just be within our utilities
department this is I'm sorry
counselor right ahead this is Sam um I I
believe that and someone from staff can
correct me if I'm wrong that this is um
you know really a a uh a way for uh
improve you know as you're doing Capital
Improvements and infrastructure work
coordinating closely with those utility
providers
um as you do that work again okay I
think staff could correct me if I'm
wrong I think you're right okay great um
so then definitely I would like us to
try to expand um that Outreach to
underrepresented groups I'm wondering if
there's
um there's a type of technology or um
type of communication that we want to
focus on or do we want to keep it broad
um in an effort to uh look more into the
different types of communication that
these groups um need for their
accessibility did you text
me so we can add you know not only this
is s not only expanding Outreach but you
know identifying sorry Sam can't hear
you I'm sorry is this better yeah all
right we can add we can maybe add to
that uh
you know identify the appropriate
methods to
um to make sure that we are reaching
under under represented groups or under
represented populations and that can
either be a separate goal or we can
combine it with with expanding Outreach
to get at that idea of uh and and it's
it's
probably aligned with expanding Outreach
because to do that you will need to
identify those ways that it is be you
know that it's best to to communicate
with underrepresented
groups that's great thank
you thank you this is Sam liberman again
any other any other additions to goals
for this particular priority area from
looks like Shana uh has something to
say yes mayor thank you Shan Bas to
point out that there is an existing goal
that speak speaks to communication and
Outreach to underserved uh
Community uh members and that would be
um CP
11.2.2 um it it I don't know if this
captures uh counselor ofi sentiment but
it says continue increased Outreach
efforts to non-english speaking
residents youth senior citizens and the
impoverished um and that was part of
community prosperity
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see this is this is Sam thank you Shan I
believe
um and and I think this is this is
appropriate what we're what we're doing
here that um the
cp1 uh Big Goal itself um which is
developing and supporting programs that
provide assistance to traditionally
underserved population
is uh is captured in the community
Prosperity uh priority area that we
looked at already um but to pull this
particular uh piece and make it a focus
I think is appropriate and and the idea
of what we're here to do today and so I
think this is
great okay
okay mayor I this is Sam wam again I
don't believe I see any additional hand
raises from Council so if it uh is okay
with Council and if you have no
additions for goals for this particular
priority area we could move to the next
yes please I just have one other I'm
sorry I didn't know mayor you had um
last week or was it this week um um Mr P
um sort of unveiled the followup and
system we uh which would include a
dashboard I think I I think that would
very appropriately go here as
well if you want then that way there he
already gets it done this way here we
get one more thing that he can work on N
it's up to you I doesn't matter we're
good either way this is Sam Le we could
always call it uh complete the
implementation of the follow-up tool or
dashboard or what have
you
okay okay so you're going to go to the
other yeah we're gonna this is Sam again
we'll we'll get the the language down
and we'll move to the next priority
here that's capital Improvement and
infrastructure again I'll reiterate um
we're seeing a couple of uh goals here
that did not achieve that that two or
medium ranking because these were the
only five that we found to fit into this
um into this category uh so I'll the
question to you all what's
missing what should we add uh in terms
of goals to achieve over the next couple
of years okay we have councelor bomo has
her hand
up
thanks mayor um yes this one is one I
think about kind of often um and that I
bug David see the you about kind of
often I feel like I've said this before
I said this to in my budget meeting with
staff um I love the way Public Works
talks about road maintenance and that
it's like a car right and when you buy a
new car you want to maintain it and you
get want to give it an oil change and
you want to you know do those little
tweaks to it so that it can stay as you
know new and and working as possible yet
there are 81 miles of roadway in Las
Cruses that those cars are totals like
those are there is no fixing those cars
right there is only buying new cars if
we're keeping on with that metaphor so
for me I think it's important that we
see a really well laid out plan for how
we
are saving to buy a new car if that
makes sense right how how are
we um increasing the budget for Public
Works to do that road maintenance on
those 81 miles of roadway that we know
is going to take a long time right one
mile costs $1 million and so if there's
81 miles um that's a significant
investment how are we working towards it
because I think it's ultimately a matter
of equity and a matter of is yeah it's
definitely an issue of equity when you
really nail down where those 81 miles
are um and it's it tends to be in
underrepresented neighborhoods in more
low-income workingclass neighborhoods
and so for me you know that's something
that's just really really critical and
as we're talking about um even our
budget meeting on Monday to me this is
one of the biggest areas where we need
to commit a set of resources and a plan
to improve those 81
miles
this is Sam so I heard you developing a
plan to um increase the the pavement
condition index which is what you're
saying in terms of the of the the
ratings of those develop a plan to to
improve the condition index or and or
identify
resources to um to put that plan into
action awesome thank you and if you can
say specifically for the 81 miles of
roadway that have been identified
already thank you
Sam uh we have counselor
sword thank you mayor
um coner Ben comoo uh
also again
has um brought to me my memory and uh
she's very right uh very true if I can
uh bring a little history into here back
when we were considering increasing the
GRT tax to offset the loss of Home
Harless GRT tax um that we've been
losing now for 10 plus years um one of
the things we wanted to have is that the
extra money we we getting in the first
very few years um was going to go in
significant percentage that was going to
go into our Street
Maintenance um and it seems to me we've
gotten away from that a little bit but
uh when we talk about the budget we can
go back to this whole
GRT um that we passed uh back then and
uh use some more of that money for
Street Maintenance the only reason we
had enough money to do a lot more
maintenance to start with but the uh
problem at the time was that uh the
suppliers of asphalt and
other uh raw materials for a street to
rebuild a street um were limited and had
we asked for all these streets to be
built at once um never mind the traffic
congestion we were talking about but um
the suppliers could not supply enough uh
of those materials to do the work um
unless they and it might cause a price
increase too so it was at that time
decided we would spread this Street
Maintenance out over more years and I
think we've gotten away from that and I
think K benom is very right we we should
get back to uh doing more of that street
maintenance if we can thank you
mayor thank you and let me just ask um
Sam or yeah probably Sam I guess you're
so the one that I had sent earlier with
the read about developing implementing
strategy to identify additional
resources from federal state and
nonprofit entities did you think it
should go here where it says to improve
our Capital Improvement in
infrastructure mayor yes it sounds like
it should I think we got and I don't
know if you updated we we had a document
that I think only had four that you had
sent so um and that was a few days ago
so if you had updated that and said oh
yes I did yeah the one that I the one
that that they that I'm sorry that was a
that was the latest one this is okay
this is same that's no problem and we'll
get it from EO and we'll get it included
uh but yes this is this would be where
that will go okay I I think I thought I
saw it up on the screen no isn't that
the one that I emailed Sam you did but I
didn't we don't have it oh I got you I
got you
okay this is Sam again um any other I
don't see any hands but I'll I'll ask
again any other
additional goals uh to achieve in the
priority area of capital Improvement and
infrastructure I see it but I'm not
going to take the Thunder of the
there I think councelor Sor just forgot
to put his hand down or you have another
no I just wanted to add a comment um as
I've uh traveled around the country and
visited cities um I kind of notice what
their street and Pavements are like and
in some cases I noticed our streets are
pretty darn good but at the same time if
we want to be the number one city in the
country we're going to have to do better
I just wanted to comment that
way
thank
you this is Sam again seeing no more
hands raised I'm gonna pass it back to
Jacqueline for the next priority area
unless a council
member
okay great what's this is jacelin what's
next oh just real quick I think we
skipped over the environmental
sustainability one
yes okay here we are environmental
sustainability uh there were seven goals
um from Elevate Los
crues um that were um high or medium
priority and then there was um a mayor
council input of an additional goal so
there are eight
there um and they address balance growth
environmental justice uh sustainable
infrastructure um and that could either
that that could go under infrastructure
um Energy Efficiency number four uh open
space
lands um the whole sustainability piece
uh reliable water supply
stewardship and then uh the the addition
provide direct support for
sustainability office for all
departments to help meet goals in the
climate action plan and other adopted
resiliency
measures so once again open it back up
to the mayor and Council for additions
or comments on these
goals counc
sword thank you mayor
um um when it comes to open space lands
um I will have some more uh information
there that I would like to see
um conning that um I don't know how much
detail you want to get into this now but
I have some ideas in there that's more
detailed so if that's is a next step to
get a little more defining what uh we
want to do with open space lands that's
I will have something to add
there so council member Sor what are
what are your thoughts and and comments
um just at a summary level about
that so we understand okay um I wrote it
down somewhere here
okay see is it this
page yeah and you know one of the
survey
items or whatever you want to call it
was high on the list of of both the
community and staff and so forth was the
words natural
beauty okay and I I I just wonder what
people are thinking when they're talking
about natural beauty um I think people
will look at a building that's has
interesting architecture to it as a
natural beauty uh I think i' have
actually heard from one person person
says that a be ground has some natural
beauty but in my mind I'm thinking of uh
and and of course our na our mountains
here the Oregon mountains and so all the
other mountains around uh there's
certainly natural beauty there but I'm
thinking more about the vegetation we
have or don't have in the city here and
surrounding areas that is more
trees um some flowers grass growing both
natural and cultural
Horticultural um and so that's the kind
of thing I'm thinking of here is that I
would like to see as part of this open
space
lands so this is Jackal and so if I
understand you um you want to Define
natural beauty um to really relate to
you know the natural landscape and and
the beauty um be it um um you know
uh wild areas uh tree canopy or or
landscaped areas is that correct or the
mountains for that matter the mountain
range yeah I mean we're not going to go
to the mountains and change them but we
can plant more trees we can do some more
Landscaping we can let natural native
vegetation
grow or promote its growing too
this is jackw and thank you for that
clarification you're welcome entirely
welcome thank you
mayor you anyone
else
okay
no okay all right um
so um Ashley how many more areas are do
we have to go through
here so we already touched upon
communication and capital Improvement so
the final one is Public Safety Public
Safety is what I thought so yeah I I'm
gathering we should Forge ahead um at
this point and so uh under Public Safety
there were
two um Elevate Las cruus goals um that
were a
priority um one related to police and
criminal justice and providing Humane
and responsible uh police and criminal
justice system and the other one related
to emergency services and ensuring a
safe and secure um Community um through
high quality fire and Emergency Medical
Services
so the floor is yours
counselors what's missing is there
anything missing
here that's a priority for
you councilor Boma thank you um I think
these are great I'm just curious
about um any um naming any specific
thing here right because Humane and
responsible police and criminal justice
system is very broad um we could
definitely get a lot more
specific um you know I also think Public
Safety also has to do with
infrastructure and lighting and
community centers and parks and um those
like quality of
life um pieces in neighborhoods
particularly in under served
neighborhoods um I mean we've heard from
Paul Ford right that they have I forget
what they call it but it's that triangle
of service right that they are often
called to and how are we investing
resources in high impoverished areas
that have very much to do with enhancing
Public Safety and then the other piece
is
around um which is something that we
keep talking about but I think it's
around um this Crisis
Intervention um team that I think
there's a plan for but I not but and
that I think
needs um more work and
more input
from
um experts Crisis Intervention Social
Work
experts those are great additions and I
think the one above Ashley um The
Counselor actually mentioned uh lighting
are there any other raised hands mayor
or any other comment uh looks like Shana
has her hand
raised Mr Mayor this is Shan ambass
again um I just wanted to mention that
all the things uh counselor Beno just
mentioned are also identified under
actions uh in Elevate last crisis um so
maybe once we have you know counselors
look at these goals and want to delve in
a little bit more in detail maybe the
Consultants could you know kind of move
on to the action items and that way um
everyone can see there's a lot more to
achieve those goals than just you know
the goals
themselves thank
you okay thank you is Jacqueline um so
you know our perspective about the
actions is that um that's um one of the
items that that staff will be looking at
as you all determine you know um what
needs to happen to implement the goals
and so um and the time that it will take
you um and so we certainly um while
those while we are will be preparing an
implementation action
plan a lot of those and we'll be
developing that with you as staff um a
lot of those actions as as Shana said
will come from those action items and
there are they're they're numerous um
and and they should be because they're
detailed okay
this Jacqueline are there other so I
think we have covered mayor
um the
renamed the priorities as we've
discussed them and and revised them at
the beginning of the
afternoon
um and I think that we're at a point now
um unless there are other priority areas
that um you know we are ready to talk
about you know wrapping up the meeting
and talking about next
steps very good I was uh letting mayor
protm know that um I've got to jump off
in about 20 minutes at
2:25 but I think for the most
part however Council wants to proceed on
this um their call of course so we'll
see how much we get done that that I'm
still here available so
but other than that we'll just may PMA
move it in that direction and we'll just
continue on
so great so um in terms of our next
steps um management Partners will be
taking all the information that we've
gathered from you today and and turning
that around very quickly um so that it
can be used by you know EO and your
leadership team and and yourselves as
As you move to the next step um which is
you know talking about and discussing
your budget and so um what we'll do is
we will at least send you um the
PowerPoint slides of the priorities and
the goals um for you to use on Monday
and then we will begin working with your
staff after Monday to prepare the draft
strategic plan document um and so um Our
intention is is to get that to you in a
in draft form um uh the first week of
February and so we thank you very much
for all of your time and your energy and
your hard work today um and and um once
again this is Jacqueline I'm sorry I
didn't say that up front you probably
the person transcribing probably knows
my voice after all this time by now um
but this is Jacqueline and mayor I will
turn it back over to you and and your
Council colleagues for closing
comments well I want to I want to thank
you all for helping us move this along
you know this is a has been a a document
that I guess we've got a little spoil to
using it's been really helpful since we
implemented something like this 10 years
ago I I'm I'm sure we're one of only a
handful of cities in the region that
that have a strategic plan and have a
plan
like such as this and so I can't thank
our staff enough the members of the
public May protim Meritus uh Sharon
Thomas for for all their all their work
and everything that they've put into
this it's really a great document and uh
and and this is a great process here and
and I appreciate uh my colleagues you
know U more so counselor uh Ben and stui
for you know listening or trusting you
know that that how we've done it in the
past not always saying that that's the
best way but it's it's worked for us for
for a number of years and and I
appreciate you uh at least letting us
move in this direction because it it it
incorporates a lot of that hard work
that people put so much effort and staff
into that elevate Los Cruis and and it
kind of just brings it full circle and
kind of takes what was out there that
could be several years in advance and
kind of brings it back and and lets us
uh get it in smaller uh bites to kind of
move it along to that ultimate uh Vision
that that elevate Los cruus is so this
is uh really a great compliment so thank
you for
that and we'll see you Monday at what
time so we will not be joining you on
Monday um for your budget
deliberations okay well we we'll figure
that out so we so definitely not 8
o'clock in the morning then
um Barbara delion you have something
you'd like to say yes good afternoon
mayor just wanted to clarify that we'll
be starting the budget Retreat meeting
on Monday at 900 a. um that will be led
by um lean de Shan bant and also David
Sido we also have a guest speaker um for
that session as well thank you very much
very good that's our time 9 o'
nothing earlier okay okay so if there's
nothing further entertain a motion to
adjourn so move
Gand motion made by mayor Pro Gand
second by councelor BOS I believe that
we adjourn Christine you want to call
the role
please sure so this is on the motion to
adjourn the Strategic to plan Retreat
councelor
BVI
yes councelor Vasquez is absent
councelor
bomo
yes councelor Sor yes councelor flutes
yes counc
Gand yes mayor yes okay it's 210 PM
we're adjourn thank you enjoy the rest
of enjoy and have a good and safe
weekend thank
thank you bye bye bye bye
bye thank you thank you Sam