Now Perform

So, we’ve cut our management staff pretty substantially for a small city. We have also eliminated two street department laborers positions. With aging streets and sidewalks that need to be maintained, a library and a parks operation facility that need to be built, fixed and/or adequately staffed and residents’ safety that must be insured, how can we strive to provide quality municipal services?
I want our citizens to understand that the City values the quality of the existing systems and how well maintained systems maintain our quality of life.
The city is going to have to focus on improving processes to maintain all the existing services or end up going through prioritizing essential functions. The recreation, parks and forestry departments add to our city, but are not essential functions and in some ways duplicate similar services provided by other organizations. Police, fire and streets are still functions the city should perform.
We have to stop and evaluate our operations and make some of these decisions.