Geraldine Alejo

This strategic roadmap for the City of Long Beach Ethics Program (2025-2030) outlines a plan to foster a citywide culture of ethics, implement a robust communications strategy, establish a comprehensive education and training blueprint, and achieve strong organizational alignment. The plan aims to build trust and credibility in City government through accessible and transparent processes, emphasizing core values including accountability, fairness, impartiality, diversity, transparency, and integrity.

This Strategic Roadmap outlines four core priorities for the City of Long Beach: fostering a culture of ethics, implementing a solid communications strategy, developing a comprehensive education and training blueprint, and ensuring strong organizational alignment. The plan details specific initiatives to enhance ethical decision-making, improve engagement with stakeholders, expand ethics training, and optimize resource allocation and staffing across all city departments to achieve these objectives.

This strategic plan outlines a multi-faceted approach to enhancing ethics and transparency within the City of Long Beach. It is structured around four core priorities: fostering a strong culture of ethics through establishing decision-making frameworks and coordinated reporting; implementing a solid communications strategy to promote transparency and engagement; developing a comprehensive education and training blueprint for city officials and employees; and ensuring organizational alignment across departments to support the ethics program. The plan includes specific initiatives to strengthen ethical practices, improve communication, and raise awareness across the city government.

The City of Long Beach's Land Use Element serves as a comprehensive guide for the city's long-term physical development, aiming to create vibrant and exciting places. It outlines a vision for a thriving city that promotes success, integrates environmental considerations, and fosters lifelong learning while maintaining neighborhood character. Key strategic areas include targeting growth and mobility, leveraging regional strengths, supporting local businesses and educational institutions, becoming a smarter city, providing clean energy, prioritizing green and healthy living, adapting to climate change, and celebrating diversity. The plan seeks to improve quality of life through sustainable practices, economic development, neighborhood preservation, diverse housing, equitable land use, reliable infrastructure, and enhanced green spaces.

The resolution confirms, readopts, and amends previously adopted provisions, creating and establishing positions of employment, and fixing and prescribing the compensation for the officers and employees of the City of Long Beach. It includes sections on salary resolution, establishment of offices, positions and compensation, position compensation designation, position duties, establishment of pay periods and pay days, employment compensation, effective term of compensation and compensation computations.