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• Exploring new ways to support cultural arts in the city, such as a public art fee. Overview of Strategic Plan Goals The five-year citywide strategic plan, ONE Pleasanton, incorporates the input gathered through the engagement efforts outlined above to define five key goals: • Funding Our Future: Fiscal Sustainability. The intent of this goal is to encourage and support the City's financial health and sound fiscal policies through long-term planning, cost recovery, increased revenue, and cost containment. • Optimizing Our Organization: Organizational Effectiveness. This goal seeks to continuously improve the City organization's ability to deliver quality services to the public by supporting employees' professional development, hiring top talent, and encouraging innovation in how the City does its work. • Investing in Our Environment: Infrastructure, Public Facilities, and Sustainability. This goal seeks to promote effective use of existing facilities through maintenance and repair, and to plan for future facilities and infrastructure with a focus on environmental stewardship. • Safeguarding Our City: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. The intent of this goal is to ensure that the City can provide comprehensive public safety services and prepare for emergencies. • Building a Community Where Everyone Belongs: Livability and Community Development. This goal aims to promote a livable and economically vibrant community through effective planning, economic development, and cultural arts and recreation programming. Each multi-year goal will be achieved through associated strategies, which are outlined in the plan. These strategies will require an allocation of resources in the coming years. The strategic plan also defines the City's mission, vision, and values to guide the goals and strategies outlined in the plan. City Council Workshop On August 24, 2023, the consultant and City staff led a workshop to present the draft strategic plan to the City Council and the public. The goal of the workshop was to solicit the City Council's direction on the proposed vision, mission, values, goals, and strategies and to select the top City Council priority strategies for focused attention in the initial two years of the plan. Feedback from the City Council included clarifying the vision and mission statements to reference the city's history and emphasize Pleasanton as a desirable city with an organization that prioritizes its residents and businesses. The City Council also gave Page 4 of 5