TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: Jarad Hildenbrand, City Manager
1. SUBJECT
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Adoption of the revised Fiscal Years 2025-2030 Citywide Strategic Plan
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2. SUMMARY
On November 26, 2024, the City Council adopted the Fiscal Years 2025-2030 Citywide Strategic Plan. Beginning in February 2025, staff began providing the City Council quarterly updates, and in February 2026, the City of Orange held a Strategic Planning Session to ensure the Citywide Strategic Plan remains relevant to the community's needs. With the City Council adopting the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 budget on June 9, 2026, staff now recommends the City Council adopt the revised Fiscal Years 2025-2030 Citywide Strategic Plan.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
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Adopt the revised Fiscal Years 2025-2030 Citywide Strategic Plan.
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4. FISCAL IMPACT
None.
5. STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
Adopting the Revised Fiscal Years 2025-2030 Citywide Strategic Plan supports all six Citywide goals.
6. DISCUSSION AND BACKGROUND
On November 26, 2024, the City Council adopted the Fiscal Years 2025-2030 Citywide Strategic Plan (Plan). As a part of the Plan's adoption, staff committed to providing quarterly updates and holding a Strategic Planning Session (Session) at the beginning of the 2026 calendar year.
To this end, staff presented quarterly updates to the City Council through the 2025 calendar year, and on February 5, 2026, the City Council held a Session at the Orange Main Branch Library and History Center to ensure the Plan is relevant to the Orange Community's needs.
The Session allowed the community, staff, and the City Council to engage in constructive dialogue that helped frame expectations for the revised Plan as well as the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 budget. One of the Session's last activities was the priority dot exercise where the City Council placed dots on projects/objectives consequential to supporting the Plan's revised Citywide goals.
Since the Session, staff has used t...
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