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Englewood city manager outlines facilities overhaul, sustainability and housing gains; flags revenue pressure
Summary
City Manager Sean Lewis and Deputy City Manager Tim Dodd told the Budget Advisory Committee the City Manager's Office added facilities oversight, advanced sustainability and homelessness efforts, and is preparing a 20-year affordable housing plan while warning revenue growth is not keeping pace with expenses.
Sean Lewis, city manager, and Tim Dodd, deputy city manager, presented the City Manager's Office (CMO) annual accomplishments and near-term priorities to the Englewood Budget Advisory Committee on Nov. 6, 2025.
The CMO has reorganized facilities functions into its office and hired a facilities manager this month, Lewis said. "We hired someone who comes to us from the private sector, is a certified architect, has several years of experience managing very large teams, and large capital projects," he said. The city will introduce a ticketing/work-order system in January to replace an email intake for facilities requests and tie work orders to asset management.
Dodd said data and analytics work is expanding and supports citywide dashboards and performance metrics. "They built a little over a year ago a dashboard, which has about 78 metrics that are updated quarterly," he said. The division also helped draft AI guidelines and trained more than 100 employees on use of artificial intelligence tools.
On sustainability, Lewis and staff highlighted a climate resiliency framework developed with ICLE technical assistance, a green business program with 51 participating businesses, a state grant to install electric-vehicle chargers, and local composting and hazardous-waste services. Lewis noted pilot programs such as recycling office furniture and on-call facilities contracts to close service gaps.
Homelessness mitigation was a focal point. Dodd said the Tri-Cities homelessness initiative with Sheridan and Littleton helped open a "Bridal House" program offering year-long housing and job training, and a navigation center in partnership with Bridge House provides shelter beds and case navigation. "In the first few months that they were open, they had hundreds of people that they had already served just on the navigation side," he said.
Affordable housing work included council approval for a 20-year plan and use of Fund 46, a long-standing city fund restricted to affordable housing, to hire an affordable housing program manager. "Council has authorized us to use this for a new affordable housing program manager," Dodd said; the manager is expected to start in December.
Presenters flagged challenges including rising operating costs and supply-chain pressures. "As revenues do increase, their increases are not keeping pace with expenses," Lewis told the committee, cautioning that inflation and higher procurement costs are compressing budgets. The CMO said it will use improved work-order data to better prioritize facilities capital requests next year.
The committee had no substantive questions and moved on to other department presentations. The CMO said it will continue community engagement on South Broadway streetscape and the longer-term City Center redevelopment project with a private partner, New Inglewood LLC.
Votes at a glance: the committee approved the Oct. 2, 2025 meeting minutes by voice vote.
