HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-22-18 Public Comment - J. Tyler - Strategic PlanFrom:Web Admin
To:Chuck Winn
Subject:[MARKETING] Strategic Plan Comment Form
Date:Tuesday, April 03, 2018 10:12:13 AM
A new entry to a form/survey has been submitted.
Form Name:Strategic Plan Comment Form
Date & Time:03/22/2018 9:13 AM
Response #:14
Submitter ID:5721
IP address:172.24.96.111
Time to complete:17 min. , 30 sec.
Survey Details
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We want to hear from you!
First Name Jack
Last Name Tyler
Email jack_patricia@yahoo.com
Questions or Comments
Having participated in the SP process at several states, it's great to see the City formally (and finally!)
adopting such high aspirations.
But there is a glaring omission in my view in the Plan and it is the aspirational void of establishing and
sustaining a fair, broader and necessary funding stream for the City. To illustrate, just review Section 3: fire
station relocation + creation, a needed broader charter for the Recreation Dept., the dire need for a court
& police structure and more. The City can't expect to fund this set of necessary and also desirable goals all
but exclusively on the backs of property & business owners.
The Plan sets a wide range of desirable goals but they all require funding. That can't be accomplished
through the City's practice of piecemeal special assessments. Tinkering with "Tourism Funds" won't insure
tourists pay their fair share. "Developing a legislative agenda" isn't meaningfully descriptive. Where is the
aspirational statement that a fair, broadly based and adequate financial funding base will exist to support
the City's strategic goals and the many objectives that they will spawn?
I think the City's professional staff and its political leaders all recognize that there is a limit to what they can
ask voters to support via bond initiatives. Even bonds for schools will eventually. incrementally lose the
support they have enjoyed in the past. The need for a broader, fairer funding stream is a painfully obvious,
widely discussed issue. Surely it can be more clearly outlined in the key planning document for our
collective future.
Thank you,
City Of Bozeman
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