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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO STAFF REPORT DATE: April 21, 2008 TO: John Jermanis, City Manager FROM: Steve Hollister~~A'~sistant City Manager APPROVED AND FORWARDED TO CITY COUNCIL Jo ermanis Ci anager BY: Jacquelyn Diaz, Assistant to the City Manage SUBJECT PROJECT/PROJECT DESCRIPTION: CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION AND ADOPTION OF 2008-09 GOALS AND VISION STATEMENT SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION Attached for City Council review and adoption are the draft City Council Goals far FY 2008-09 and the draft City Council Vision Statement for 2008-09. The goals were discussed and refined at the Council Retreat in February 2008. Subsequent input was obtained and incorporated into the documents; the final drafts were distributed on March 27 with few additional comments received. The Council Goals and the Vision Statement are intended to be working documents; they can be refined, evaluated and changed each year or as circumstances occur. Staff requests adoption by the City Council in order to include the goals and vision statement in the 2008-09 draft budget document and development process. Departments will have the opportunity to respond to the Council goals during the next year. In future years, the department narratives will reflect the Council goals, with individual department goals and accomplishments reflecting and supporting the Cotmcil's direction. BACKGROUND The draft 2008-09 City Council Goals and Vision Statement were a product of the Council Retreat held in February. Previous Council's have developed a list of Priorities in order to provide direction to staff. Upon adoption, the goals will provide departments and staff the direction for the next fiscal year's priorities. The last City Council Vision Statement was adopted in 1998. The draft provided was developed in an effort to coordinate the goals and priorities with overarching themes. The values listed were developed at a previous Council retreat and coordinated with this draft document. Both documents are intended to be working documents which can be changed in order to reflect direction by both the Council and the community.