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Council outlines shared priorities: streetlights, code enforcement, parks and internships
Summary
In a wide‑ranging goals session councilors converged on top priorities—public safety and staffing, neighborhood streetlights and sidewalks, stronger code enforcement, parks and events, and youth internship/grant‑writing capacity—and asked staff to return with concrete options and costs.
Council members used the study session to present overlapping priorities and to ask staff for concrete follow‑ups.
Multiple councilors raised street lighting and pedestrian safety as immediate neighborhood needs. Council Member Tao cited specific trouble spots (MLK/11th–12th and M Street drainage and flooding) and urged lighting and crosswalk improvements; Council Member Smith urged staff to study a maintenance district or CFD pathway…
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