Citygate is currently performing an organizational review and analysis of Monterey County’s current homeless programs, funding, and coordination services. For this review, Citygate will identify, evaluate, and recommend funding sources and budget structure for the Homeless Services function; identify and recommend organizational best practices, including comparisons with like cities and counties; evaluate and recommend best practices for collaboration and coordination with various County departments, the Continuum of Care, local cities, school districts, businesses, and homeless service providers; and evaluate and recommend formal and informal organizational alignment, structure, and staffing for the Homeless Services function.

Citygate is currently conducting the first-ever independent Standards of Coverage evaluation of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s fire and emergency medical services deployment system, including the current system’s capacity to evolve over time as a very diverse metropolitan area. This analysis will determine if the current fire station locations and crew/apparatus staffing are sufficient to meet the unique needs of the Department’s service area. A comprehensive community risk assessment will also be included as part of the overall analysis.

As a follow-up engagement to Citygate’s 2021 feasibility analysis regarding City-provided police services, Citygate is currently conducting a study of hybrid public safety models for the City of Jurupa Valley, California. This study will examine hybrid models of public safety services the City may consider in addition to the current contracting model of law enforcement services being provided by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. This will entail reviewing with City staff the existing Sheriff’s Department quality of life service requests and services delivered to determine how the Sheriff’s Department is meeting the City’s current needs, as well as providing five alternative service delivery models, including two mental health response models and three community policing models.

Citygate is currently performing an animal care feasibility study for Davis County, Utah. This assessment will review Animal Care of Davis County’s ability to meet the County’s current and growing animal care needs, evaluate and describe a range of options to provide animal shelter services, and estimate the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of alternatives. This will include an in-depth operational assessment of Animal Care of Davis County to provide the foundation for recommendations on the needs of a new animal shelter facility.

Citygate is currently conducting a Standards of Coverage Assessment for the City of Costa Mesa, California, to include a full fire department deployment study and an assessment of response time and service capacity coverage for the One Metro West project application in northwest Costa Mesa for inclusion into the project environmental impact report.

Citygate conducted a public safety risk and operational needs assessment of the Queen Mary as presently configured in Long Beach Harbor. Due to the various fire, emergency medical, and law enforcement safety systems that have been installed over the decades to protect tourists, special event attendees, and hotel guests, the City of Long Beach contracted Citygate to perform an updated assessment of the risks and the City’s public safety agencies’ ability to respond adequately.

Citygate completed a Police Department Strategic Plan for the City of Pasco, Washington, to review current and future service delivery, quality of service, service delivery expectations, community engagement, community priorities, Departmental organization, and staffing and deployment feasibility to maintain current and future organizational efficiency. This review examined current service delivery models; staffing levels; programming; management structure; operational efficiency; and sustainability of mission, vision, and values.

Citygate completed a police staffing and efficiency study for the City of Elk Grove, California. This study determined an optimal staffing model, appropriately considering workload, performance measures, service delivery expectations, operating budgets, community priorities, and Departmental organization. In addition, this study forecast future needs, taking into consideration both short- and long-term objectives, community growth, and any other factors that could impact staffing requirements.

Citygate assisted Mackenzie architectural and engineering firm with a capital facilities plan for the Camas-Washougal Fire Department. For this fire station location study, Citygate evaluated and completed a diagnostic assessment of an existing response time study, taking into account zoning and growth rate that may have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially changing or enacting the trigger point for when a new station would need to be constructed to maintain targeted response time.

Citygate conducted a feasibility analysis for the City of Jurupa Valley, California, to determine the viability of separating from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and directly providing polices services. Using as a foundation Citygate’s recent police services JPA feasibility assessment, which included the City, Citygate conducted a more in-depth analysis of policing needs in the City, the risks to be protected, and the likely growth, leading to a refined police department size estimation and allowing for a close model of early years operating costs and capital and start-up expense needs. This study also provided a likely conversion-of-services timeline. The end result, in effect, provided the City Council and the community with a police services Master Plan and cost model.