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City manager highlights grants, events and shoreline work in fourth-quarter report
Summary
City Manager Randy Smith presented the fourth-quarter report highlighting staff training, grant-funded patrols and equipment, strong use of Island Metro, popularity of pickleball courts, museum and parking improvements, and shoreline projects including a planned boat ramp and a permitted water-sports operator.
City Manager Randy Smith presented the City Council with a fourth-quarter highlights report covering department activity, grants, equipment purchases and several capital and community initiatives.
Smith praised staff across 14 divisions for training and service, and highlighted grant activity that has supplemented local patrols and equipment purchases. He noted examples including Stone Garden and Lone Star grant-funded patrol activity and said the city was able to acquire a patrol vehicle valued at about $90,000 through grant funding. Smith also described human-resources and training programs (including SBI Connect continuing-education hours), public events (National Night Out, holiday lighting, winter events and a boat-lighted parade) and the high community use of recently built pickleball courts.
On facilities and capital projects, Smith said building permit valuations for the final quarter were about $7,000,000 with permit fees of roughly $56,000 (he and council noted that state law changes affecting residential permit valuation reporting could mean actual construction value is higher than reported). He described improvements planned around the pickleball area—additional parking, landscaping and lighting—and said a museum project is advancing.
Smith also updated the council on shoreline work: a boat-ramp project is planned and the city expects the procurement for that work to be released soon. He said the city had obtained a permit for a water-sports operator and expressed optimism about additional bay access points, while acknowledging the island's land constraints that require "pocket" boat ramps rather than one large facility.
Smith closed by noting information-technology and fleet-management upgrades aimed at reliability and cybersecurity, and said the full report will be posted online for public review.
