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<br />1) Enhancing and Empowering the Community <br />o Establish criteria and method to get youth involved. <br /> Staff will be working on language that can incorporated in the Municipal <br />Code that would allow for youth to get involved in the Advisory <br />Commissions. <br />o Identify languages to translate to City printed/written material. <br /> Spanish and Hmong have been identified. <br /> Pricing has been received from two translation companies and will be <br />discussed during the 2021 budgeting process. <br />o Identify signage locations for wayfinding and branding. <br /> Staff is currently working on wayfinding signage that will be placed at each <br />park. $20,000 has been budgeted in 2020 for this project. <br /> <br />2) Creating Operational Efficiency <br />o ID and Prioritize core city codes to be revised <br /> City staff and Planning Consultant, Bill Weber, has been and continues to <br />identify core city codes to be revised. Currently the Planned Unit <br />Development, Nuisance, and Noise Ordinances as well as developing a <br />Permitted Use Table have been identified as a priority to be updated. <br /> Phase 2: The Comprehensive Plan identifies zoning code changes that will <br />help support the goals, visions, and strategies within the Plan. These items <br />will be implemented following the adopted of the 2040 Plan. <br />o Complete Area Survey to assist in zoning code revisions <br /> Zoning Code comparison of surrounding areas have been completed for <br />the following zoning code and city code sections: <br />• Planned Unit Development (PUD) Ordinance <br />• Nuisance Ordinance <br />• Noise Ordinance <br /> Phase 2: Following adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, the City will <br />have 9-months to update coordinating sections of the zoning code to align <br />with the goals and vision of the 2040 Plan. It is anticipated that the code <br />revisions listed above will be completed in 2020 and a much more <br />comprehensive update of the zoning code will take place in 2021. <br />o Plan and fund records conversion to electronic files <br /> $78,870 was included in the 2020 Budget (funded with savings from the <br />2019 Budget) for building permit efficiencies including PermitWorks <br />software, online building permits, and address file scanning. <br /> Currently approximately 75% of the address file scanning has been <br />completed. $14,211 has been spent ($40,000 budgeted) <br /> Finance staff is still identifying solutions for electronically storing finance <br />records. <br /> Public Works staff is working on deciding which records can/should be <br />stored electronically and will wait to see what budget funds are available. <br /> Parks & Recreation staff is working on converting paper copies of records <br />to electronic files.