1. FY 2018 Budget Engagement
Pick Your Priority

2. Strategic Plan Connection
Goal 3: Thriving, Livable Neighborhoods
Expand engagement with neighborhoods to ensure residents feel empowered to preserve or improve the quality of their neighborhoods, building connections between people & programs.
Goal 4: Innovative & High-Performing Organization
Empowering the community by providing easily accessible and usable information & data
BMS departmental SP:
Engage the Community by providing opportunities to educate, share ideas and be involved in the budget and strategic planning process

3. What we’ve been up to

4. FY 2018 Budget Engagement
Asked residents to rank seven City services in order of priority:
Parks & Open Space
Sidewalks
Parking
Trails & Greenways
Athletic Fields
Street Improvements
Bike Lanes

5. FY 2018 Budget Engagement Online
Pushed out through communications channels with help of Public Affairs
Collecting responses through March 31
In-Person
Presenting to community groups to take them through exercise.

6. FY 2018 Budget Engagement In-Person 15 groups
166 people filled out survey
Online
1,759 people filled out survey

7. 1,925 FY 2018 Budget Engagement Total of Completed Surveys

8. The Results

9. Citywide Results Handout has complete results
Options ordered by total votes in Top 3

10. Citywide Results

11. Citywide Results Sidewalks Currently receiving most first place votes
62% of respondents had Sidewalks in their Top 3
Trails & Parks
55% had Trails & Greenways in their Top 3
51% had Parks & Open Space in their Top 3

12. Citywide Results Streets & Bike Lanes
Street Improvements has the 2nd most first place votes
Bike Lanes has the 3rd most first place votes
Athletic Fields
40% of respondents had Athletic Fields as their least important priority

13. 45.7%
61.8%
55.4%
50.5%
41.8%
27.2%
14.6%
= Top 3 %

14. PAC 1 Results

15. PAC 1 Results Ranked higher than Citywide:
Street Improvements – 65% had in Top 3
Parking – 50% had in Top 3
Athletic Fields – 40% had in Top 3

16. PAC 2 Results

17. PAC 2 Results Ranked higher than Citywide:
Street Improvements – 58% had in Top 3
Bike Lanes – 42% had in Top 3
No respondents selected Parking as a Top 3 priority

18. PAC 3 Results

19. PAC 3 Results Ranked higher than Citywide:
Parks & Open Space – 62% in Top 3
Street Improvements – 60% had in Top 3
Bike Lanes – 37% had in Top 3

20. PAC 4 Results

21. PAC 4 Results Ranked higher than Citywide:
Street Improvements – 91% had in Top 3
Parking – 55% in Top 3

22. Questions?