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Citywide Business Plan: Influencing The Budget

The Citywide Business Plan's goals and objectives directly influence program funding in the City’s annual budget.

It lays out the strategic direction City Council has for the City. The five goals outlined in the plan provide areas of focus for the City and the objectives provide high-level statements of what the City wants to achieve in order to meet those goals.

The City would like your input regarding these goals and objectives to make sure they reflect your needs.

Please provide your comments regarding the Goals and Objectives listed below by October 10th, 2025. Also, be on the lookout for more information regarding public budget hearings in early 2026.

Goal: To employ best practices in governance and management with an emphasis on accountability, transparency, engagement, and resiliency, and to be good stewards of Kansas City’s economic resources to maintain financial solvency while executing the functions of government.

Objectives:

1.Ensure the resiliency of a responsive, representative, engaged and transparent City Government.

2.Engage in workforce planning including employee recruitment, development, retention, and engagement.

3.Foster a solutions-oriented, welcoming culture for employees and City Partners.

Goal: To Strategically and intentionally support development in a comprehensive manner that respects varied needs of the neighborhoods, and grow the economy through inclusion.

Objectives:

1.Align the City's economic development strategies with objectives of the City Council to ensure attention on areas traditionally underserved by economic development and redevelopment efforts.

2.Ensure quality, lasting development of new growth.

3.Increase and support local workforce development and minority, women, and locally owned businesses.

4.Create a solutions-oriented culture to foster a more welcoming business environment.

5.Leverage existing institutional assets to maintain and grow Kansas City's position as an economic hub in the Central United States.

Goal: To support the development, maintenance, and revitalization of sustainable, stable, and healthy communities through equitable policies and programs aimed at improving housing, neighborhoods, and health care services in all areas throughout the City.

Objectives:

1.Utilize planning approaches in neighborhoods to reduce blight, ensure sustainable housing, and improve resident wellbeing and cultural diversity.

2.Maintain and increase affordable housing supply to meet the demands of a diverse population.

3.Address the various needs of the City’s most vulnerable population by working to reduce disparities.

4.Foster an inclusive environment and regional approach to spur innovative solutions to housing challenges.

5.Ensure all residents have safe, accessible, quality housing by reducing barriers.

6.Protect and promote healthy, active amenities such as parks and trails, play spaces, and green spaces.

Goal: To apply the lens of equity to all transportation and infrastructure projects while proactively and adequately investing in infrastructure that connects people with job and business centers, neighborhoods, and cultural/health/recreational destinations.

Objectives:

1.Engage in thoughtful planning and redesign of existing road networks to ensure safety access, and mobility of users of all ages and abilities.

2.Enhance the City's connectivity, resiliency, and equity through a better-connected multi-modal transportation system for all users.

3.Build on existing strengths while developing a comprehensive transportation plan for the future.

4.Develop environmentally sustainable infrastructure strategies that improve quality of life and foster economic growth.

5.Ensure adequate resources are provided for continued maintenance of existing infrastructure.

6.Focus on delivery of safe connections to schools.

Goal: To create a safe and healthy environment for Kansas City residents, visitors, and employees by providing comprehensive, high quality public safety and public health services in a timely manner, including identifying strategies to address the root causes of violence and incorporate public input in public safety initiatives through regular community engagement.

Objectives:

1.Engage the community and community partners to reimagine the system of public safety with a focus on evidence-based approaches for crime prevention, treatment of mental health, emergency response time, and the criminal justice system.

2.Focus on violence prevention among all age groups, placing an emphasis on youth.

3.Increase fairness, justice, and responsiveness of our municipal criminal justice system to support the best possible outcome for offenders and victims of crime.

4.Reduce recidivism through prevention, deterrence, including detention, and re-entry services.

5.Enhance employee recruitment, succession planning, and retention in the police and fire departments with a continued emphasis on diversity.