TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Douglas J. Hewett, City Manager
Jeffery Yates, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Chris Lowery, Strategic & Performance Analytics Manager
Andy Brayboy, Senior Corporate Performance Analyst
DATE: October 13, 2025
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Receive the FY26 1st Quarter Strategic Performance Report Title
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
The City of Fayetteville’s strategic plan is a vital tool for guiding the City’s growth and progress. It sets a clear direction for the future, ensuring vitality and sustainability while driving programmatic performance. As Fayetteville continues to thrive, the strategic plan articulates a long-term vision that informs priorities, fosters data-driven decision-making, and supports continuous improvement. This commitment to strategic planning and performance management strengthens the City, ensuring the delivery of excellent services and enhancing the quality of life for all residents.
Executive Summary:
The Fayetteville City Council is dedicated to fostering a high-performance organization by leveraging data and stakeholder input to develop a forward-thinking, progressive, and outcome-driven strategic plan for the City.
The Mayor, City Council, and City staff share a collective responsibility to ensure that the actions of public officials, employees, contractors, and volunteers align with the City's goals and values. Together, they work to implement policies, budgets, and objectives in the most effective and accountable manner.
During the annual retreat in February 2025, the City Council refined the strategic direction for the City by identifying five key priorities for FY 2026. These priorities were formally adopted at the May 2025 City Council Meeting as part of the City’s FY 2026 Strategic Plan.
To ensure progress toward these priorities, the City Manager’s Office has tasked the Office of Strategy and Performance Analytics with coordinating regular updates from cross-departmental teams. These updates are reported quarterly to the City Council. The 1st Quarter Strategic Performance Report, as of September 30, 2025, is now presented for Council’s review.
This commitment to performance management and strategic planning strengthens the city's operations, ensuring excellent services and a high quality of life for residents. The alignment of long-range planning with departmental operations and performance expectations allows for effective resource allocation and fosters a culture of continuous improvement. Overall, the City of Fayetteville's dedication to forward-thinking and progressive strategies promises a vibrant and prosperous future for the community it serves.
Background:
The City of Fayetteville desires to be data-driven and results-focused with a robust strategic plan and performance framework. The City believes that better policy is developed through proactively encouraging resident, employee, and business participation in government and by providing diverse engagement opportunities with easy and open access to public data and information.
Issues/Analysis:
None.
Budget Impact:
Budget/ resources have been provided for each priority action plan.
Options:
1) City Council accepts the FY26 1st Qtr. Strategic Performance Report
2) City Council rejects the FY26 1st Qtr. Strategic Performance Report and provides additional direction to the City Manager.
Recommended Action::Recommended Action
City Council accept the FY26 1st Qtr. Strategic Performance Report.
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Attachments:
FY26 - Strat Plan Priorities Performance_Q1
FY26 - Scorecard KPI_MASTER_Q1