City government can support a healthy economy by providing services and infrastructure for a great place to live. Employers and investors want to bring their jobs and money to a community that has safe streets, great parks and trails, clean water, and reliable fire and police services. I'd like to see more focus on City services and infrastructure. Neighborhoods keep asking for walking safety projects and code enforcement for problem properties. These relate to community pride, lovability and sense of security. We keep hearing that there is 'not enough money' to respond to neighborhood requests, while this looks like a build up of a whole new list of staff and projects.
The breadth of the topics described in this program seems out of scale for the size of our City budget. Of course when people are surveyed they likely would respond that the community could use education and workforce pathways or business support. But the respondents may not even know that there are existing programs at the Economic Development Council, Chamber of Commerce and local education institutions working on these same topics. Creating new programs for just the City of Olympia seems narrow and expensive.
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