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2025 KEY STRATEGIES & ACTION STEPS ACCOMPLISHED <br />Strategy: Address infrastructure needs <br />• Objective 1: Identify infrastructure maintenance needs <br />o Responsible Parties: Streets, Parks, Engineering (Bruce Westby, Mark Riverblood) <br />o Key Areas: pavement maintenance, water/sewer/storm sewer infrastructure, parks <br />and trails <br />■ Action 1.1: Determine short term annual pavement maintenance needs <br />■ The city increased their annual funding in 2023 to complete various <br />projects for temporary pavement repairs. The focus was to complete <br />repairs on certain roadways that would see a larger maintenance project <br />in the coming years. Various projects were completed from intersection <br />mill & overlays, skim patching larger stretches of roadways and patching <br />potholes throughout the city. Staff has continued to monitor these efforts <br />to determine the success and life of these repairs. Subsequent annual <br />budgets have received proper general funding expenditures to continue <br />these efforts. <br />■ Action 1.2: Inspect and determine need of maintenance of underground <br />infrastructure prior to major projects <br />■ As part of major street maintenance projects, inspection of unground <br />infrastructure has occurred and been implemented into plans to prevent <br />future scenarios requiring roads to be tore apart before their useful life <br />has reached the end. <br />■ Action 1.3: Complete PMP improvement/maintenance projects annually <br />Strategy: Identify and implement operational efficiencies, cost savings or additional <br />funding sources <br />• Objective 1: Implement software programs to reduce inefficiencies <br />o Responsible Parties: All Departments <br />o Key Areas: Software programs to aid in operational duties <br />■ Action 1.1: Identify software to provide efficiency and reduced potential for error <br />■ HR has begun a multi -year, phased implementation of HR software to aid <br />in recruitment, onboarding and ongoing performance evaluations. <br />• Objective 2: Utilize grant funding opportunities <br />o Responsible Parties: All Departments <br />o Key Areas: Projects and equipment purchases <br />■ Action 2.4: Apply for grants in conjunction with establishing funding sources <br />■ The city received grant funding or donated items to support the Historic <br />Town Hall Project, Waterfront Park (fishing pier and stocked fish) and the <br />PD's Drone Program <br />■ Action 2.5: Identify grant writing training classes for staff to complete <br />■ Three public works and one engineering staff completed courses. <br />15 <br />