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M E M O R A N D U M
Date: November 1, 2022
To: Mayor Arndt and City Councilmembers
Through: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Travis Storin, Chief Financial Officer
From: Lawrence Pollack, Budget Director
Re: Council requested comparison of community survey results with 2023 Budget
investments
During the 3rd work session on the budget a question was raised about how the Outcome
priorities in the 2022 Community Survey compare with the investments by Outcome in the
2023-2024 Budget. The comparison is as follows:
It is important to note that this comparison has some inherent challenges, including:
- The way a given resident defines an Outcome is likely derived from their perception of the
Outcome title, while the Outcomes are actually defined by the specific Strategic Objectives
included within each Outcome.
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- Each adopted strategic plan may have modifications to the Outcomes based on the specific
strategic objectives included in that plan and which Outcome they fall under. For example, in
the 2020 Strategic Plan, the strategic objective related to Urban Forestry changed from
Culture & Recreation (C&R) to Neighborhood Livability and Social Health (NLSH). This
change directly drove $2.8M of Forestry offers to be submitted to NLSH instead of C&R.
resident know
what makes up a given Outcome from just looking at the name of that Outcome. In reality,
we shifted where the strategic objective related to forestry is reported, although there was no
change to the forestry related services being provided to the community.
- Economic Health is a quintessential example where it was in the middle of the priorities from
a Community Survey perspective, but the 2nd largest Outcome when looking at the budgeted
amount, almost solely because of Purchased Power. If the $100,000,000 for purchased
mean our commitment to economic
health was decreasing.
Given these inherent challenges, an alternative comparison is to look at only the
Enhancement Type offers that were funded in the budget. The first table below is sorted
based on the number of accepted Enhancements and the second table shows the $ value
of those offers. In both cases, Safe Community appears at the top of both lists. Safe
Community includes 7 enhancements totaling $4.6M for
and 8 enhancements totaling $17.3M for Water Utility investments. Backing out those 2
areas would drop Safe Community to the Outcome with the lowest # of enhancement offers
and lowest $ volume as well, demonstrating again the variability of this type of analysis.
Safe Community * 32 Safe Community * 24,859,342$
Environmental Health 30 Environmental Health 14,102,593$
High Performing Government 30 High Performing Government 10,201,310$
Neighborhood Livability and Social Health 27 Culture and Recreation 10,137,989$
Culture and Recreation 24 Transportation and Mobility 8,623,892$
Transportation and Mobility 22 Neighborhood Livability and Social Health 7,341,535$
Economic Health 21 Economic Health 5,122,869$
# of Enhancement Type Offers in 2023 $ value of Enhancement Type Offers in 2023
Operations and 8 enhancements totaling $17.3M for Water Utility investments