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What Elevate Mesa Represents
• Quality growth and development
• Innovative trusted public safety
• Reliable water and infrastructure
• Education and Workforce Readiness
• Transparent, accountable government
Raising the standard for Mesa’s future.
Why Strategic Focus Matters Now
• State decisions increasingly shape local outcomes
• Growth pressures are uneven across the city
• Fiscal realities demand clearer priorities
The context has changed.
The
Pillars
• Quality Growth & Development
• Housing Balance
• Water & Infrastructure
Resilience
• Safe & Innovative Communities
• Education & Workforce
• Neighborhoods:
Standards & Reinvestment
• Transparent Government
Quality Growth & Development
• Speed and quality matter
• Development must fit Mesa’s character
• Infrastructure readiness is essential
Growth that improves Mesa.
Housing Balance
• Housing options across life stages
• Multifamily growth balanced with neighborhood
stability
• Homeownership opportunities that build stability
• Infrastructure and services keep pace
Choice, stability, and livability.
Water & Infrastructure Resilience
• Water stewardship is foundational
• Infrastructure is the resident experience
• Resilience reduces long-term cost and risk
Planning for Mesa’s Future.
Safe & Innovative Communities
• Innovation serves outcomes, not headlines
• Safety includes neighborhoods and streets
• Transparency strengthens legitimacy
Modern safety with public trust.
Education & Workforce
• Education as an economic development strategy
• Workforce alignment with Mesa’s growth sectors
• Partnerships that strengthen talent pipelines
Preparing residents for opportunity.
Neighborhoods: Standards & Reinvestment
• Code compliance protects neighborhoods
• Redevelopment focuses effort where needed most
• City services meet residents where they are
• Education and encouragement build pride of place
Protecting quality of life.
Transparent Government
• Clear priorities guide budgets
• Core services remain protected and essential
• Tradeoffs are explicit
• Progress is measurable and public
Trust through clarity.
The Elevate Mesa Priority Filter
• Advance an Elevate Mesa pillar
• Protect local control or adapt to state limits
• Strengthen neighborhoods
• Be fiscally sustainable
• Produce measurable outcomes
A strategic priority must:
Elevate Mesa in Practice
From vision to results.
• Vision → priorities → budget → outcomes
• Discipline today protects Mesa tomorrow.
#1 Best-Run City in Arizona
#11 Best-Run City in the U.S.
(WalletHub, 2025)
#2 Safest Large City in the U.S.
(Most recent data from the National Incident-Based
Reporting System or NIBRS)
#4 for Economic Growth
Among Large U.S. Cities
(CoworkingCafe, 2025)
#9 Best Big City to Live In
(U.S. News & World Report, 2025)
Questions & Discussion