City of New Braunfels

This document presents the New Braunfels Transit District's Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2025, outlining its operational strategies and alignment with the City of New Braunfels' broader strategic objectives. The plan focuses on transforming and enhancing mobility, providing safe and reliable transit services, and connecting the community to employment, education, healthcare, and recreational destinations. Key areas of focus include coordinating land use with multimodal transportation investments, supporting economic growth, promoting sustainable transportation options, and ensuring equitable access for all residents and visitors.

This Watershed Protection Plan for the Dry Comal Creek and Comal River aims to reduce elevated Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria levels and manage nonpoint source pollution. Developed through a stakeholder-driven process, the plan focuses on implementing Best Management Practices (BMPs) targeting major sources such as overabundant urban and non-native wildlife, livestock, and stormwater and infrastructure. Key components include an Outreach and Education Plan, established measures of success, and a projected 10-year implementation schedule to achieve water quality improvement goals.

The strategic plan focuses on using data-driven decision-making to provide efficient, effective, and high-quality services. Key objectives include formalizing a succession planning process, utilizing cross-departmental teams, reviewing customer satisfaction, developing a comprehensive recruitment strategy, refining performance measures, developing alternative funding strategies, updating capital project methodology, and diversifying revenue streams. The plan aims to maintain a AA bond rating, keep the annual full-time turnover rate at 15% or lower, and increase the use of the city's website and social media platforms for news and updates.

The strategic plan for the City of New Braunfels focuses on fostering a sense of community, preserving historic and cultural assets, and expanding cultural programming. Key objectives include updating the comprehensive plan (Envision New Braunfels) with data-driven elements, adopting a new Land Development Ordinance to protect historic structures and natural resources, developing a comprehensive brand identity, and creating an Arts and Culture Master Plan. Performance measures include increasing library items per capita, enhancing historic preservation programming, and maintaining high satisfaction levels in the National Citizen Survey regarding cultural opportunities and historical preservation.

The strategic plan focuses on several key priorities: enhancing economic mobility by creating an inclusive economic ecosystem, improving connectivity through strategic multimodal transportation investments, fostering a strong community identity by preserving cultural assets and expanding cultural programming, promoting organizational excellence through data-driven decision-making, and enhancing community well-being by improving health services and quality of life. The plan includes specific objectives and performance measures for each priority, such as incentivizing mixed-use developments, supporting public transportation, updating the Land Development Ordinance, and implementing mobile integrated health units.