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In College Station, we continually strive for excellence. We conduct daily business as a City aiming to provide our citizens with the best quality of life possible. The City Council and City staff work hard to ensure that we are moving in a direction that is best for the overall character and betterment of our community based on the voices and opinions of those living in College Station. A highly qualified workforce, an extremely engaged citizenry and a set of focused goals are the cornerstones of what make this a successful community.
This is a one-of-a-kind community with a unique set of service demands from our citizens. As such, we demand a higher degree of innovation, technology and overall performance from our employees and staff. We have some of the most motivated and highly productive employees in their respective fields and they focus on forward thinking policies that retain the integrity and standard of service to which our citizens have become accustomed.
The Strategic Plan is a collaboration of the City Council and the numerous City departments working together to create a cohesive forward direction for College Station in the upcoming years. Updates were made to the plan as a result of the City Council’s annual strategic planning retreat. The following is an outline for the goals and practices we have set to achieve in the near future so that each citizen may enjoy a greater quality of life than ever before.
Mission StatementOn behalf of the citizens of College Station, home of Texas A&M University, we will continue to promote and advance the community's quality of life.
Community VisionCollege Station, the proud home of Texas A&M University and the heart of the Brazos Valley, will be a vibrant, progressive, knowledge-based community which promotes the highest quality of life by…
- ensuring safe, tranquil, clean, and healthy neighborhoods with enduring character;
- increasing and maintaining the mobility of College Station citizens through a well planned and constructed inter-modal transportation system;
- expecting sensitive development and management of the built and natural environment;
- supporting well planned, quality and sustainable growth;
- valuing and protecting our cultural and historical community resources;
- developing and maintaining quality cost-effective community facilities, infrastructure and services which ensure our city is cohesive and well connected; and
- pro-actively creating and maintaining economic and educational opportunities for all citizens
College Station will remain among the friendliest and most responsive of communities and a demonstrated partner in maintaining and enhancing all that is good and celebrated in the Brazos Valley. It will forever be a place where Texas and the world come to learn.
City of College Station Core ValuesTo promote:
- The health, safety, and general well being of the community
- Excellence in customer service
- Fiscal responsibility
- Involvement and participation of the citizenry
- Collaboration and cooperation
- Regionalism: be active member of the Brazos Valley community and beyond
- Activities that promote municipal empowerment
Organizational Values
- Respect everyone
- Deliver excellent service
- Risk, Create, Innovate
- Be one city, one team
- Be personally responsible
- Do the right thing - act with integrity and honesty
- Have fun
Using the community vision, mission statement, and values as a spring board, the College Station City Council has set the strategic direction for the city government through development of five goals with supporting action agendas. The Strategic Plan focuses organizational resources and identifies those intentional actions to be undertaken by city government to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Financially Sustainable City Providing Response to Core Services and Infrastructure
- Spending taxpayer money efficiently
- Those who benefit from services should pay
- Transparent taxation
- Services must pay for themselves
- Develop revenue streams independent of the General Fund
- Return on investment policy revision
- Ensure taxable entities locate on city land
- Evaluate public safety needs
- Protect sales tax revenue
- Hotel/Motel tax utilization for eligible projects
- Neighborhood Integrity
- Preserving and restoring older neighborhoods
- Resolution to parking in residential areas
- Definition of public nuisance in residential areas for code enforcement
- R-1 zoning classification for investment properties
- Neighborhood services
- Rental inspections
- Town/Gown relationship
- Diverse Growing Economy
- Promote knowledge-based businesses
- Define roles of RVP and Economic Development staff
- Expand and retain existing businesses
- Promote business-friendly attitude
- Senior-friendly
- CS Economic Development Corporation
- Reduce the cost of doing business provided it doesn’t increase costs for taxpayers
- Next-generation business park
- Recognizing prudence of government intervention in the marketplace
- Increase tourism, working with University
- Utilize RVP and existing partnerships
- Housing affordability
- Improving Multi Modal Transportation (not in priority order)
- Rough proportionality for multi-modal paths in requirements for development
- Cooperating with A&M and the District to develop true mass transit system
- Hike/bike plan education
- Sidewalk fund
- Actively encourage high speed rail/T-Bone alignment
- Funding stream for new road construction
- Green Sustainable City (not in priority order)
- Continue education to citizens and within city
- Partner with businesses for promotion of environmental programs
- Continue seeking revenue streams to fund initiatives
- Recycling program evaluation
- Traffic signal coordination in the budget
- Green Building Advisory Committee
- Re-establish Green Advisory Committee
- Marketing and rebranding of Wind Watts
- Rock Prairie Landfill transition to park/funding opportunities
- Focus on natural areas/greenways vs. recreational parks
- Incentives for renewable energy