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This Plan serves as the blueprint for the future of our City. It is intended to help define and direct how we desire
to grow in the coming years. The document is based on our Core Tenets and Vision for the City.

Core Tenets
The Core Tenets represent the fundamental policies of our governance style. They are intended to express the

priorities of the City, state the character and nature of government in Benbrook, and serve as a guide for future
City Councils.

• Quality of Life: The City of Benbrook endeavors to implement legislation, policies, projects, and services
to ensure our community remains a great city, and to enhance quality of life for current and future
generations of residents.
• Approach to Governance: The City of Benbrook will provide governance that is effective, efficient, and

equitable.
• Character: The City of Benbrook will govern with attentiveness, compassion, creativity, dedication,
dependability, discretion, enthusiasm, fairness, flexibility, honesty, humility, resourcefulness, respect,
thoroughness, wisdom, and without bias.
• Inclusive Governance: The City of Benbrook believes that the best government is inclusive,
communicative, and open.

• Services, Programs, and Projects: The City of Benbrook will provide services, programs, and projects
that enhance quality of life by assuring that:
➢ Public safety is emphasized.
➢ City infrastructure is well-maintained.
➢ Recreation and cultural opportunities are abundant.
➢ Development and growth is orderly and strategic.
➢ Neighborhoods and business corridors are attractive, clean, and safe.
• Professional Staff: Through market competitive compensation/benefits and a quality work
environment, the City of Benbrook will recruit and retain only the most qualified and professional
employees for City service.

• Financial Stability: The City of Benbrook is committed to providing citizens the best value for their tax
dollars and ensuring that financial resources are available to invest in community priorities. To protect
long-term financial stability, the City will:
➢ Continually strive to diversify the tax base.
➢ Conservatively estimate revenue receipts.
➢ Fund core services through reliable and predictable revenue sources.
➢ Predicate expenditures on need, not revenues.

➢ Utilize additional revenue sources prudently.
➢ Require a super-majority vote of City Council for use of sales tax funds and gas and oil lease royalties
fund revenues.
➢ Maximize grant funding.
➢ Follow a policy of maintaining cash reserves to meet at least three months of operating expenses.
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