David Arellano

This document outlines the City of Lakewood's Annual Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2026-2027, serving as an implementing tool for the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan. The plan is designed to develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing, promoting a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, primarily for low and moderate-income persons. Key objectives include benefiting low-to-moderate-income individuals, preventing slum and blight, and addressing urgent community development needs. Strategic priorities encompass ensuring equal housing opportunities, preserving and improving housing, supporting economic development, providing assistance to homeless persons through the Continuum of Care, and delivering various community services.

The 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan for the City of Lakewood outlines a strategy to address housing and community development needs over the next five years, primarily for low and moderate-income households. The plan aims to provide decent housing, promote a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities. Key strategic priorities include housing preservation and improvement, new housing development, ensuring equal housing opportunity, improving and providing community facilities and services, assisting the Continuum of Care for homeless persons, fostering economic development, and addressing urgency needs related to emergencies. The plan also focuses on eliminating slums and blight, conserving and expanding housing stock, and reducing the isolation of income groups.

This document outlines the City of Lakewood's strategic direction, defining its vision, mission, and core values. It aims to foster a welcoming and thriving community with a high quality of life, delivered through efficient, fiscally prudent public services and legendary customer service. The plan's strategic goals focus on ensuring a safe community, providing recreation and leisure opportunities, achieving high-performing government, promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining fiscal responsibility, developing well-maintained infrastructure, cultivating an informed and engaged community, and promoting economic health and prosperity.

The Lakewood City Council held a regular meeting where they discussed various topics. They received a presentation from the Lakewood Lions Club and introduced the new President of the Greater Lakewood Chamber of Commerce. The council approved several routine items, including personnel transactions, registers of demands, and resolutions related to parking spaces and program supplements. They also discussed and adopted the budget for fiscal years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, covering areas such as street system maintenance, economic development, and public safety. Additionally, they addressed public works contracts, purchasing bids for a flat bed truck, and adjustments to commercial refuse rates. The council also discussed a water rate reduction and an amendment to the Lakewood Municipal Code regarding the office of the City Manager. They concluded with a closed session to evaluate the performance of the City Administrator and approved a salary increase.

The Lakewood City Council meeting included a presentation on the Quarterly Public Safety Report by the Lakewood Sheriff's Station. Routine items included approval of meeting minutes, personnel transactions, registers of demands, and a report of City Council Committees' activities. The council also discussed the designation of a voting delegate for the League Annual Conference, a permit for a street closure for a block party, and the purchase of desktop computers. Additional design services for the Mayfair Park Water Capture Project were also addressed. A public hearing was held regarding adjustments to water-related fees and deposits. The Housing Successor Agency approved registers of demands.