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Strategic Priorities
A list and description of the eight strategic priorities for the City of Newport News.
In September 2010, the Newport News City Council unanimously endorsed the eight strategic initiatives outlined below. While recognizing that the City is involved in many other important activities, these eight items will receive priority attention by City staff as we plan future activities and deploy resources. City Manager Neil Morgan and Newport News TV have produced a video that provides an overview of the Strategic 8 initiatives.
THE STRATEGIC 8 PRIORITIES
View the Strategic 8 Overview video
Strategic Priorities Progress Report presented to City Council on October 25, 2011
Southeast Redevelopment – Our focus over the next two to three years will be the Lower Jefferson Avenue Corridor south of 36th Street. We will make infrastructure, land, and public safety investments in order to attract meaningful private investment to this part of the City. With visible progress in this targeted area, other Southeast redevelopment opportunities will emerge in the future.
- Southeast Redevelopment presentation to City Council (9/28/10)
Strengthening Greater Oyster Point – Greater Oyster Point has become the economic engine of the City in terms of employment and tax base growth. This fact is a result of public infrastructure investments and private investments combined with locational advantages. We must continue the public policy that created this economic success with an emphasis on transportation improvements like Middle Ground Boulevard and the further development of our new City Center.
- Middle Ground Boulevard: Project Description and Preliminary Plans
Focus on Upper Warwick Corridor – The area north of Denbigh Boulevard has experienced gradual visual and economic decline. We need to find ways to take advantage of the Fort Eustis Second Access Road and the Stoney Run Community Center to foster a revival along this important corridor. In addition to visual improvements and commercial revitalization, we anticipate a voluntary property acquisition effort over the next several years. Like the Downtown Partnership Initiative in the 1990s, this will give us strategic redevelopment options in the long run.
- Denbigh/Warwick Boulevard Corridor Strategy
- May 24, 2011 presentation and memo to City Council
Environmentally Sustainable Local Government Policies – Our City already has award-winning, pro-environmental policies ranging from recycling to environmental management. Over the next several years, we will redouble and consolidate current efforts and launch new green initiatives that our City Council, citizens, and employees have come to expect.
- Sustainability/NNGreen Overview
- Sustainability presentation to City Council (2/8/11)
Community Maintenance – The City has made a commitment to aesthetically improve all areas and aspects of Newport News. We are embarking on initiatives to include facilitating community clean-up days, helping to coordinate volunteer service projects, the Residential Rehabilitation Property Tax Abatement program, the Commercial Rehabilitation Property Tax Abatement program, and increasing property maintenance enforcement. In doing so, we are working to visually enhance our neighborhoods and major thoroughfares. As a part of this ongoing effort, we will continue to experiment with new and innovative community maintenance initiatives. The City is currently exploring several such ideas, some of which will come to fruition in the months ahead.
- Community Maintenance presentation to City Council (2/8/11)
- Upper Warwick Boulevard presentation and memo to City Council (5/24/11)
Customer Service – The City prides itself on good customer service. Employees and citizens recognize that quality standards are not uniform. We will leverage technology and training to upgrade the quality and consistency of our customer service throughout the organization.
- 311 Memo to City Council and Report
Gang and Gun Violence Reduction – New efforts are needed to bring the entire community into the fight to reduce violent crime among youth and young adults. Ongoing work to build community assets for young people, as well as the expertise of law enforcement and the education community, will be supplemented by best practice innovations combining government, non-profit, faith-based, and business-community resources.
- Mayor's Committee on Teenage and Young Adult Violence Reduction - Overview
- Resolution establishing Mayor's Committee on Teenage and Young Adult Violence Reduction
- Report of the Mayor’s Committee on Teenage and Young Adult Violence Reduction (1 MB) presented to City Council September 27, 2011
Operational Performance and Efficiency – Our City provides robust urban services of high quality. In recent years, great progress has been made in maintaining high service levels with substantially reduced resources. The times demand an ongoing focus on improving efficiency and performance and greater efforts to measure our work in the context of City Council-established priorities.
- Operational Efficiency Committee - Overview
- Operational Efficiency Committee Final Report - December 2011 (2MB)
