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2040 Guiding Principles 1. Provide for efficient and effective administrative services which will meet the needs of the City of Hugo. Objectives: • Provide adequate staff to administer the City's statutory requirements. • Maintain the use of professional consultants to provide specialized services, until such services are deemed ineffective or are no longer cost-effective. • Encourage innovative and creative approaches to planning, engineering, and City governance. • Support the development and testing of alternative solutions to typical engineering and planning problems. • Implement the Comprehensive Plan though the subdivision ordinance, zoning ordinance, building code and other City documents. • Promote a sound financial planning program for capital improvements and relating those improvements to need, location and proper timing. • Maintain open communication for problem solving between staff, decisionmakers and the public to find the best solution to planning and engineering issues within the community. • Encourage staff to monitor land planning approaches in other communities and government bodies for innovative solutions facing the City. • Prevent unnecessary cost, duplication and inefficiency in providing needed facilities and services. • Provide cost effective services to minimize impacts to taxpayers. 2. Work with adjacent jurisdictions and regulating agencies to promote acollaborative approach to planning. Objectives: • Include and invite participants from surrounding jurisdictions in planning activities that also have implications for their future. • Continue to explore and actively pursue opportunities to share services withsurrounding jurisdictions to improve efficiency, reduce costs and avoid unnecessary duplication. HUGO 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE 3. Provide opportunities for community and resident involvement in all aspects of the planning process. Protect the health and safety and welfare of the residents of Hugo through efficient and effective public safety systems. Objectives: • Continue to monitor the contract for police protection to ensure it meets the needs of the residents with the City's fiscal capacity. • Continue to monitor the effectiveness of the volunteer fire department to ensure it meets the needs of the residents within the City's fiscal capacity. • Explore City ownership of police equipment and employment of police personnel only if the contractual police protection is deemed ineffective or is not cost-effective. • Maintain the program for vehicle replacement and reconditioning for fire department operations. • Encourage continuing education for volunteer fire department personnel. Strategies: Inform residents and community members of important community events through publication in the local newspaper, or other forms of media. Encourage participation at all community meetings, including Planning Commission, Parks Commission, Economic Development Authority, and City Council. Hold community events that focus on the City's decision-making, particularly as it relates to land use and development. CHAPTER TITLE 293