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Strategic Planning Goal:

Develop a sustainable economic development effort

Strategic Initiatives:
1. Develop a tax abatement policy within two years.

2. Enhance beautification efforts and improvements within the City’s

economic development corridor.

Strategic Planning Goal:
Expand public safety through non-enforcement efforts

Strategic Initiatives:
1. Evaluate lighting options that will create improvements in safety

for Watauga residents and visitors within ten years.

2. Continue to review and evaluate the need for the Police

Department to respond to calls for enforcement versus service

annually.

3. Evaluate the need for appropriate response staff or enhanced

officer training to sufficiently respond to the growing need for

service type calls (i.e.. mental health) annually.

4. Enhance community policing programs and crime prevention

efforts.

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