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2016 Key InitiativesNearing completion of Smart StreetsIssued an Executive Order establishing an official city-wide diversity and inclusion initiativeto promote equal opportunity in the city’s workforce and operations and develop a strategic plan for the cityGroup Violence Intervention helped to reduce group member involved shootings in 2016; homicides were also down slightly from 17 to 14, despite increases nationallyImplemented Priority Based Budgeting to maximize effectiveness and efficiency of taxpayer dollar expendituresPlacemaking•Reorganized the Parks Department into a new Department of Venues, Parks and Arts to ensure better services to residents and better efficiencies throughout the department and the City•Received Regional Cities Grant that will allow for improvements to the City including the Riverfront Parks and Trails initiative Excellence | Accountability | Innovation | Inclusion | Empowerment