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Page 2 of 5 quality issues 4. Goal D. Safeguarding Our City Strategy 1. Assess the City's overall emergency preparedness capabilities, resources, and tools and implement changes as needed 5. Goal A. Funding Our Future Strategy 2. Identify expanded and new revenue sources to address significant infrastructure needs 6. Goal E. Building a Community Where Everyone Belongs Strategy 4. Implement the updated 2024-2028 Economic Development Strategic Plan initiatives 7. Goal E. Building a Community Where Everyone Belongs Strategy 9. Advance the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Four-Tiered Project Prioritization Framework 1. Must Do Projects protect the City from legal liability, maintain basic services, honor existing commitments, and ensure team safety and effectiveness. 2. Committed Priorities represent the fiscally reality meets people first approach, balancing revenue generation and cost savings with critical investments in organizational success. 3. Strategic Pipeline demonstrates vision while acknowledging fiscal constraints, including both infrastructure needs and future organizational excellence investments. 4. Deferred Projects are an acknowledgment of what cannot happen under current conditions, allowing focus on critical services and team care during challenging times. During the July 15, 2025 workshop, staff provided a presentation on the four-tiered project prioritization framework and departmental core services. The City Council was asked to review the current project inventory, organized by priority category. This included discussion of specific projects, their resource requirements, and strategic alignment. The session concluded with a prioritization exercise using dot voting methodology. Each City Council member received 10 dots to distribute across all four priority categories, with a maximum of one dot per project per City Council member, providing input to staff on Council preferences and priorities for project implementation. The City Council focused their dot voting primarily on Strategic Pipeline (Category 3) and Deferred (Category 4) projects, since Categories 1 (Must Do) and 2 (Committed Priority) represent mandatory or previously committed initiatives. While most Category 1 and 2 projects have secured appropriate resources, staff continues to address any remaining funding or staffing gaps through strategic budget planning. The City Council's newly prioritized projects from Categories 3 and 4 will require phased implementation based on available resources and organizational capacity. Staff will develop detailed cost estimates and implementation strategies for these priority projects to guide future resource allocation decisions. DISCUSSION The workshop prioritization exercise identified City Council preferences among projects, with consensus emerging around initiatives that balance revenue generation, strategic planning, and community development objectives. The following workshop results are organized by support level: unanimous support (5 dots), high level of support (4 dots), medium support (3 dots), and additional considerations (1-2 dots). Page 32 of 674