2. Safe, Secure, and Sustainable Communities
Provide a safe, secure, and sustainable community that supports and ensures quality places and healthy experiences for all who live, visit, work, and play in the City of Birmingham.
Reduce blight through community revitalization and capital investments
Reduce crime and improve public safety through strengthened community- police relations to include expanded community policing
Reduce impact of potential future natural disasters through preparedness and mitigation

3. Healthy, Thriving, and Diverse Neighborhoods
Nurture thriving healthy neighborhoods of choice which are walkable, livable, and serve as social anchors to informed, engaged, and empowered residents who are committed to sustaining the vitality of Birmingham.
Implement community plans and funding priorities
Improve transportation options and access to healthy foods
Sustain neighborhood quality through community education and empowerment

4. High-Performing 21st Century Education and Workforce Development Systems
Proactively champion the alignment of and intentionally invest in the City’s education and workforce development systems to ensure that all youth are afforded the best possible educational, job, or life opportunities. Ensure that all who choose to participate in the workforce have the knowledge, training, and skills required to compete for high demand jobs, make livable wages, and enjoy future opportunities.
Enhance the existing workforce development systems through investment and alignment
Enhance existing education systems through partnership and investment
Increase collaboration between workforce development and education systems
Align education and workforce investments with industry-demand via a cluster- based talent development strategy

5. Innovative and Inclusive Economy Supported, Shared, and Served by All
Stimulate an innovative and inclusive economy that generates and allows the creative class, start-ups, small businesses, and historically disadvantaged businesses to emerge, grow, and thrive while sustaining and supporting community-minded large employers, institutions, and corporations that create quality jobs.
Increase participation of historically disadvantaged businesses or groups in the Birmingham economy
Increase incentive and business friendly practices that grow, attract, or retain talent, startups and small businesses
Increase effective partnerships with community minded employers, institutions, and corporations

6. Highly Effective, People First, Smart Government
Provide a more progressive and less complex level of service that is prompt, professional, responsive, effective, and is equitably and repeatedly experienced by all citizens, clients, customers, partners, employees, community stakeholders, and visitors.
Eliminate ineffective expenditures and generate cost savings
Improve staff alignment, performance and effectiveness
Enhance customer interaction and experience in conducting business with the City

7. Global, Legacy Leadership Partner for Equity and Social Justice
Build upon our global legacy as the cradle of the civil rights movement by continuing to embrace and advance equity-based and social justice policies that ensure second-chance opportunities, a healthy and livable environment, and sustained economic justice for all members of our community.
Establish agencies and advisory groups within City Hall that represent Global Legacy, Racial Equity, and Social Justice
Address community inequities affecting underserved residents
Create citizen-led organizations to support community engagement in City government

8. Thank You Chaz C. Mitchell, M.B.A. Deputy Chief Administrator
Office of Mayor Randall L. Woodfin