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University City touts improved resident survey results and falling crime, flags underfunded police-and-fire pension plan
Summary
City leaders cited the 2025 resident satisfaction survey showing positive outcomes (largest gains in safety perception and police response), a multi-year drop in reported crime, and warned the police-and-fire pension plan remains below the 80% funding threshold (at 77%), limiting benefit adjustments until addressed.
Interim City Manager Brooke Sharp presented results from the 2025 resident satisfaction survey and Mayor Terry Crow highlighted long-term public-safety trends.
Sharp said the 2025 survey showed positive responses increased in 64 measured areas with 32% of those gains considered significant; she identified residents' feeling of safety and the city's crime-prevention efforts and police response time as areas with the largest increases. "We conduct this survey biannually ... For the 2025 survey, the city saw an increase in positive responses in 64 of the areas surveyed," she said.
Sharp and Crow credited the police department for improved outcomes. Sharp said officers "stepped up," and reported a "57% overall decrease in reported crime from 2016 through 2025." Mayor Crow referenced a similar figure for the last eight years (about 56%). The figures were presented on the record without accompanying data tables at the event.
Crow also said the city maintains two pension plans: a nonuniform plan funded at over 80% and a police-and-fire plan funded at 77%. He noted that, under applicable rules discussed at the event, the city cannot implement benefit adjustments for the police-and-fire plan while funding remains below 80% and that the council will pursue options to address the shortfall.
