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Action Items: <br />• Provide a photo of new staff members and a description of jobs in the newsletter <br />^ Publish a summary of the goals in the city's newsletter and on the website <br />^ Educate residents about the property tax <br />^ Hold a Truth in Taxation Hearing annually <br />Strategy 2: Maintain collaborative relationships with other entities. <br />Action Items: <br />^ Participate in the U of MCampus/Community Advisory Committee <br />^ Maintain regular communication with the University of Minnesota, the Metropolitan <br />Council, Ramsey County, the Minnesota State Fair, the cities surrounding Falcon Heights, <br />and the State of Minnesota <br />^ Convey city goals to the city's representatives at the legislature, the Metropolitan Council <br />and the County, as well as to neighboring communities <br />Strategy 3: Effectively manage the city's consulting and personnel resources. <br />Action Items: <br />^ Review and clarify staffing assignments and responsibilities regularly <br />^ Evaluate the performance and work assignments of city employees through annual <br />performance reviews <br />. Recognize employees with special events <br />^ Provide employees with affordable resources they require to efficiently and effectively do <br />their jobs, including a training plan and technology. resources <br />^ Provide adequate funds for personnel, equipment and contractors to maintain the city's <br />infrastructure, facilities, public spaces and public improvements <br />^ Evaluate and review consultants' performances <br />^ Retain highly skilled and high functioning employees <br />Strategy 4: Effectively manage the city's financial resources. <br />Action Items: <br />^ Update and provide awell-researched five year capital improvement program each year <br />^ Review and adjust fees as part of the annual budgeting process <br />^ Reseazch and pursue new revenue sources <br />^ Review and evaluate the city's long term financial needs and the city's current and future <br />financial resources to meet these needs <br />^ Continue to research and pursue new opportunities for reducing expenses by using more <br />contracts and joint powers agreements to share equipment, personnel, and technology with <br />other levels of government <br />^ Maintain a contingency fund to be prepared for unexpected, but necessary, expenditures <br />^ Retain highly skilled and high functioning employees <br /> <br />