City officials presented highlights from Leon Valley’s 2024 annual report at a town‑hall meeting, reviewing department accomplishments, grants and development activity and inviting residents to complete post‑meeting surveys.

“Public works does supplement their budget with grants. And so they made about $3,000,000 last year in grants,” said the presenter identified in the meeting as Dr. Calderon (city manager), summarizing the department’s work on capital projects, spring and fall cleanups and routine maintenance.

Why this matters: The report compiled year‑long operational statistics that city leaders said inform budget and capital decisions, including maintenance backlogs, permit volumes, and public‑safety activity. Officials also used the town hall to solicit resident priorities for future budgets and services.

Department summaries provided at the meeting included:

- Public works: Staff recounted reconstruction on Cross Road, cleanup events and routine maintenance; the department reported approximately $3 million in grant revenue in the prior year.

- Municipal court: The presentation listed high transaction volumes handled by court clerks; numbers cited included approximately 3,000–4,000 case items and thousands of violations, warrants and customer transactions processed through the year (numbers presented by staff at the meeting were given in that range).

- Human resources and municipal court administration: Staff discussed recruitment and the nationwide challenge of hiring police and fire personnel and said the city had notable turnover among first responders.

- Finance: The city adopted its 2025 budget and received a Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) certificate of achievement; an independent audit report was announced as forthcoming and scheduled for presentation at the second council meeting in February.

- Planning and zoning / development: Staff listed several subdivisions and developments (including projects named Trilogy and Seneca) with combined lot counts discussed during the presentation; planning reported processing roughly 1,200 permits in the year and managing permitting for individual houses as construction proceeds.

- Information technology and library: The IT office reported server replacements and new public‑access machines at the library; the library reported more than 344 programs and over 12,000 program attendees and noted volunteers contributed roughly 1,285 hours. The Friends of the Library contributed $50,000 in support, staff said.

- Economic development: The city’s economic development director assisted with permitting transitions and held a job fair; staff said the city is pursuing a public access channel funded from existing communications funds.

- Fire/EMS and police: Fire staff reported about 2,510 calls, an average response time of four minutes and more than 3,000 training hours; police reported task‑force arrests and seizures and noted the criminal investigations unit reviewed approximately 1,800 cases. Staff said the department auctioned 67 impounded vehicles and reported revenue from impounds of about $141,000.

Public engagement and transparency: City staff said the annual report is available online and limited printed copies were on attendees’ tables; staff encouraged residents to use a town‑hall survey (Mentimeter) that would remain open online for two weeks to collect further input on priorities such as water utilities, infrastructure and other services.

Ending: Officials closed the presentation by inviting questions and feedback; no formal votes on the annual report occurred at the town‑hall session, which functioned as an information and listening session.