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The City of Arlington develops an annual Business Plan to highlight specific projects and activities directly reflected in the City’s
Budget. These projects are determined by departments and the City Manager’s Office, approved funding requests, and Council
priorities. The Business Plan runs on a fiscal year, beginning October 1 and ending September 30 of the following year.
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Each year, the Arlington City Council has a retreat to strategize on priorities for the next fiscal year based on needs within the
community. These needs are determined by various means including citizen satisfaction ratings, feedback from residents and
businesses, and development trends. Once Council establishes their priorities for the following year, the City as an organization
develops the Budget and Business Plan to address the adopted priorities.

For FY 2022, those priorities are:

 Build Unity
 Champion Great Neighborhoods
 Enhance Regional Mobility
 Invest in Our Economy
 Put Technology to Work
 Support Youth and Families

In addition to the priorities, the City has four core service areas represented in the Business Plan:

 Culture/Education/Recreation
 Financial/Economic Development
 Infrastructure
 Public Safety

The Business Plan Projects are represented by departments in the ten categories defined above. All projects theoretically could
be represented in the core service areas because all core services are represented. However, projects related directly to a
Council priority are elevated to reflect the respective priority.

Scorecards for the Council priorities and the core service areas have been developed to represent the day-to-day business
operations in departments. The activity measures are represented on scorecards in the back of each section in the project
portion of the Business Plan.

The Business Plan and scorecards are updated quarterly, reviewed by the City Manager’s Office, and provided to the City
Council. They are also available on the City’s website.

FY 2022 Adopted Budget and Business Plan 9 City of Arlington, Texas