2-5-24 Handout 244/2-q
ESC 2024 PRIORITIES FOR COAB CITY COMMISSION
NEW PRIORITIES FOR COMMISSION TO CONSIDER FOR 2024
1. Create a position or designate an employee to be a dedicated Chief
Sustainability & Resilience Officer for the City
2. Review and address issues associated with stormwater
management, impervious codes, and redevelopment/overbuilding
including unintended consequences
3. Add/include environmental stewardship, sustainability, and
resilience to all city employee job descriptions, responsibilities
and/or annual performance reviews.
4. Dedicate more resources (e.g., make priority for staff focus and
time, financial support for effective campaigns, etc.) to community
education about social, environmental, and economic
consequences of community choices
5. Continue to make LEED and resilience a major focus across the City
(all departments and community as a whole) and blend/combine
COAB Resilience Plan with the COAB Sustainability & Resilience
Community Action Plan.
ARTS, RECREATION & CULTURE COMMITTEE
Recommendations to the City Commission
January 2024
COMMUNICATIONS
We recommend that the City improve communications and marketing systems
and outcomes via:
available to them, wheFe te fiRd them and what activities aFe effeFed.
Develop and implement strategies to ensure residents are fully aware of
arts, recreation and cultural programs available to them such as:
o QR code surveys
o Signage
o Mailing
o "Disney -style" maps of parks
o Scavenger hunt (Turtle Crawl described below)
• Improving the City website's navigability to enable users to more efficiently
get the information they are seeking.
• Developing and publishing a catalogue of departmental and grantee
programming.
• Utilizing surveys to obtain customer feedback and publicly share the
results.
PROGRAMMING
We recommend that the City strive to enhance arts, recreation and culture
programming via:
• Conducting an analysis identifying where the City wants to be with
programming, identifying programming gaps, and devising a strategy to
close the gaps.
enroehnr Fesidents' knowledge about the community's his+„ry. Plan and
implement "Turtle Crawl" throughout COAB Parks and certain outdoor
locations of historic significance. Turtle Crawl is a scavenger hunt -type
program whereby small, permanent, bronze turtles are installed
throughout the city. A paper or electronic map will be designed and
accessible to the public through Adele Grage or City Hall. When families
and citizens search for and discover turtles, they can either read a plaque or
utilize a QR code to learn about the historic significance of that specific
location.
HUMAN RESOURCES & COLLABORATION
We recommend that the City boost the Cultural Arts & Recreation Department's
productivity and efficiency via:
• Analyzing whether the amount of City staffing meets the community's
needs and expectations, and devising a strategy to adjust the staffing level,
as needed.