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6.3C k 9QH1QENT 2 Alignment: Redwood City Strategic Initiatives - CDBG /HOME The core purpose of the Redwood City CDBG & HOME programs is to by improve the quality of life for the community by providing the resources to address a wide range of community development activities that create a sustainable, prosperous, healthy and viable community. Strategic Initiative: Effective and Efficient CDBG/HOME Strategic Goal Alignment: Service Delivery • Established collaborative regional partnerships with Upholding the highest standards of other CDBG /HOME entitlement jurisdictions to identify professionalism and skill in the operations of the innovative and sustainable long term solutions for City, bringing creativity and innovative ideas to the efficient program administration with minimal staffing and forefront, and providing forward - thinking programs resources without impacting capacity. Continue to for the long term benefit of the community. leverage these partnerships to increase and optimize Strategic Goals: efficiency. • Take a long -term approach to planning for the • CDBG /HOME program funding provides resources future of Redwood City, across all departments sufficient to offset staff and other program administration and core service areas costs. Significant income generated from programs • Lead by example by implementing and provides a long term sustainable income source for supporting climate protection and sustainability community reinvestment to help maintain a clean, inviting programs and aesthetically pleasing community. • Sustain efforts to maintain the City as clean, inviting, and aesthetically pleasing, throughout the community • Attract and retain a highly qualified municipal workforce • Be in a state of readiness for funding opportunities Strategic initiative: Community Building and CDBG /HOME Strategic Goal Alignment: Communication • The Citizen Participation process provides meaningful Engaging community members as partners with community engagement to determine needs and priorities the City in its decision- making processes, to address the community's health, safety, and well- providing opportunities for purposeful community being. This process fosters increased community dialogue and involvement, and ensuring that collaboration and leverages resources. meaningful communications and information are all part of Community Building — which is at the • CDBG /HOME programs contribute to the local core of how Redwood City does business. economy, support neighborhood stabilization, and Strategic Goals: engage community partnerships and projects that are vital to the well -being of Redwood City. • Build relationships and leverage community partnerships • Foster meaningful community engagement and participation • Preserve and promote our cultural, educational, economic, and recreational diversity and historic heritage • Raise public awareness through increased communications and engagement • Engage our neighborhoods as partners with the common goal of improving the community's