Standing Committee Meeting

MEETING OF STANDING COMMITTEES City Hall, 220 Clay Street September 5, 2023 The meeting of Standing Committees met at City Hall at 6:15 p.m. on September 5, 2023, with the following Committee persons in attendance: Councilmembers present: Susan deBuhr, Kelly Dunn, Simon Harding, Daryl Kruse, Gil Schultz, and Dave Sires. Councilmembers absent: Dustin Ganfield. Staff members from all City Departments and members of the community attended in person. Community Development Committee: Chair Harding called the meeting to order and introduced the only item on the Community Development Committee Agenda, Future Forward Cedar Falls 2025: Community Wide Strategic Plan and introduced Community Development Director Stephanie Sheetz. Director Sheetz gave an overview of the Strategic Plan and its purpose and an implementation update on 8 out of 37 objectives. In conclusion, Staff recommends discussing various planning projects at goal setting, including visioning and zoning for various neighborhood areas, major thoroughfare plan review/adoption, a new parks master plan, and revisiting the comprehensive and strategic plan after those are completed. Councilmembers discussed areas of the plan that should be focused on during goal setting and questioned if this was the first plan. Director Sheetz clarified plans of this type have been discussed about every 5 years. Meeting adjourned at 6:40 p.m. Minutes by Shianne Bellinger, Administrative Assistant