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Clear Lake council reviews refreshed strategic plan, asks staff to bring adoption forward
Summary
Council members reviewed a revised strategic plan that lays out six priorities — economic development, public facilities and infrastructure, celebrating Clear Lake, a clean city, fiscal sustainability and public safety — and directed staff to place the document on a future consent calendar for formal adoption and implementation planning.
Clear Lake — The Clear Lake City Council reviewed updates to the city’s refreshed strategic plan at a workshop and instructed staff to return the document as a consent-calendar item for formal adoption.
Angela, a city staff member who led the presentation, walked the council through six priority goal areas and the top priorities within each. “The priority is to pursue new business investment in Clear Lake,” Angela said, summarizing the economic development pillar. She listed supporting priorities including promoting a diverse housing stock and supporting existing businesses.
The council’s six priorities are, in order presented by staff: economic development; public facilities and infrastructure; celebrating Clear Lake; a clean Clear Lake; fiscal sustainability; and public safety. Under infrastructure, staff identified planning for infrastructure to support new development, upgrading existing facilities (with Red Bud Park cited by name) and developing a streetscape on Lakeshore Drive. The clean-city priority highlights beautification zones on Old Highway 53, Lakeshore Drive and Olympic Drive and calls out reducing stray animals, removing blight and encouraging voluntary code compliance.
City Manager Flora and council members discussed next steps for the plan. Council member Downey urged a formal adoption process and suggested staff integrate the plan’s goals into department reports and identify “how” the city will carry out the priorities. “We’ll update on that,” Flora said, describing staff work to translate high-level priorities into actionable steps and to adjust staff reports to reference plan goals.
Vice Mayor Slooten, who served on an ad hoc review group with Council Member Wilson, said the language was deliberately positive in places such as the safety goal, to present goals as aspirational statements rather than judgments about current conditions. The council agreed staff should refine wording as needed.
No formal adoption vote took place at the workshop. Council members agreed to add the final plan to the consent calendar of the next regular council meeting so the document can be approved with an opportunity for any final tweaks and for staff to present implementation steps, including budget and timelines where appropriate.
The workshop included discussion of using existing budget authority for initial implementation steps and of identifying department-level responsibilities; staff will circulate the updated document and a proposed path for adoption and follow-up reporting.
