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Major Accomplishments by Key Focus Area
Public Safety
- Public Safety Improved for Citizens
- Overall crime reduced by 8% in FY 05/06
- Homicide reduced by 14% in FY 05/06
- Public Safety Budgets
- Additional $30m, 50 new DPD positions in FY 05/06
- Additional $35m, 100 new DPD positions in FY 06/07
- Decrease in overall response time of 11.3% in FY05/06
- Decrease in emergency response time of .72% in FY 05/06
- DFR reduced 911 wait times from 5.17 to 4.46 seconds
- $265 per capita DPD spending in FY05/06 - up $2 from FY 04/05
- $288 per capita DPD recommended spending in FY 06/07
- Squad car replacement - 100,000 miles in FY05/06
- City received $15m grant form W.W Caruth Jr. Foundation
- DPD recruitment incentive - 35% increase in applicants,1 Academy class added
- Most recent Citizens Survey – 10.5% increase in the number of people who feel safe in their neighborhoods after dark
- Increased staff, raised professionalism and enhanced training for emergency operations and homeland security
- Emergency Management during Katrina/Rita
Economic Development
- City’s Infrastructure Improving
- $1.35b bond proposition developed, recommended and scheduled for a vote on November 7th
- Previous Bond Programs Update
- 95 Bond Program – 99% complete or on schedule
- 98 Bond Program – 97.5% complete or on schedule
- 03 Bond Program – 90% complete or on schedule
- Focus on Current and Future Growth of Dallas
- City’s first comprehensive plan completed – received Comprehensive Planning Award from the Texas Chapter of the APA
- Sales Tax has grown 9.1% to date in FY 05/06
- City-wide taxable value grew 8.4% in FY 05/06
- Commercial grew 12.97%
- Residential grew 8.95%
- Unemployment rate fallen from 8.2 in 2004 to 5.6 in 2006
- Gross City Product in 2005 - $93b (grown $11.2b since 2000)
- Inland Port
- MOUs with ports and government entities
- $32m for infrastructure in 2006 Bond Program
- $29m in other public sector support
- Urban Land Institute endorsed plan
- Southern Dallas
- Taxable value grew 7.4% in FY 05/06
- Taxable value has grown $5.5b in the last five years
- In other measures Southern Dallas at times tripled city-wide growth rates
- Total permit values grew 12.7% in FY 05/06
- New commercial permit values grew 18.9% in FY 05/06
- New single family permit values grew 16.1% in FY 05/06
Neighborhood Quality of Life
- Focus on Customer Service and Results
- Late service requests dropped from 85,765 to below 300
- Most recent Citizens Survey – 4.9% increase in respondents who rated the overall quality of City services as good to excellent
- City-wide customer service initiative
- All employees have completed Level 1 customer service training
- 311/911 operation restructuring underway
- Mystery Shopper Program implemented for 311 services
- New Joint Facilities Opened with DISD
- Arcadia Park Library
- Hampton Illinois Library
- Fair Oaks Park/Conrad High School Fields
- Wallace Foundation Grant Awarded - only Dallas & NYC received
- Homeless Assistance Center - design to be complete in 10/06
- Service Area Coordination Team Initiated
- Recycling Tonnage Increased - 22% through August
- Most recent Citizens Survey – 36% increase in the number of people who rated the recycling program good to excellent
Trinity River
- Progress on Floodway and Design Guidelines
- Contract for design of lakes/urban design in negotiation
- 100 acres acquired in FY 05/06
- Surveys, environmental assessments and appraisals underway on additional 1,500 acres
- Construction of chain of wetlands underway - reduced flood levels upstream by one foot
- Cell D completed
- Cells E, F and G to be completed in summer 2007
- Design and Construction of Recreational Amenities
- Boat launch at Loop 12 constructed
- Trinity Audubon Nature Center – Design complete, construction to begin in March of 2007
- Finalizing a management contract for the equestrian center – construction to begin in November 2008
- Design and land acquisition continues for Elm Fork Soccer Complex
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