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 preparing a Capital Facilities Master Plan for the County of Santa Barbara Fire Department. This in-depth master plan for the Department’s buildings will include all fire stations, headquarters, logistics, and aviation and will be sufficient to estimate major repair costs or the need for total replacements over a feasible, multiple-year timeline. Citygate will work with County staff to prepare facility financing strategies considering the Department’s revenue sources.

Citygate is currently performing a fire services Master Plan assessment for the City of Turlock, California. As part of the Master Plan, this assessment will include a Community Risk Assessment, Standards of Coverage study, and headquarters programs adequacy and facility and fleet assessment. The Master Plan will organize all of these pieces into an organized whole from which immediate and longer-term fire service programs can be managed. The facility assessment will also identify modifications and the possibility of long-term continued use.

Citygate is currently conducting a fire services Master Plan for the City of Taylor, Texas. This Master Plan will help the City provide a safe, effective, and appropriately sized response force for fires, medical emergencies, and other events requiring a specialized emergency fire response as the City grows within the existing corporate limits, including a Samsung facility annexation. This Master Plan will entail a Standards of Coverage / Community Risk Assessment, as well as a headquarters staffing review and a review of the operational and fire prevention impacts generated by the Samsung facility.

Citygate is currently providing strategic planning and facilitation assistance for the City of Angels, California, as a follow-up to Citygate’s previous two studies for the City: the 2018 organizational review and budget stabilization study and the 2020 financial action plan in response to COVID 19. For this project, Citygate will interview key staff, City Councilmembers, and community members to gauge current operational efficiency, identify goals and priorities, and identify general and operational issues/priorities to assist in the development of Council priorities. Citygate will also review the City’s current fiscal condition at a high level to identify present opportunities and challenges.

Citygate is currently developing a strategic business plan for the Alameda County Fire Department. The design of this plan will be to guide the efforts of the Department over the next 10 years. This strategic plan will entail the preparation of an environmental scan that identifies key internal and external factors with potential to significantly impact the Department or the services it provides over the next decade, as well as, in conjunction with the Department’s Strategic Planning Committee, the refining of vision, mission, and values statements and the development of goals, strategies, and objectives to achieve the desired future state of the Department.

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 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.

Citygate is currently conducting a Fire Services Master Plan for the City of Lancaster, Texas, to assist the City and fire department in determining the timing and location of a fourth fire station and developing a longer-term fire services master plan that provides a safe, effective, and appropriately sized response force for fires, medical emergencies, and other events requiring a specialized emergency fire response. The core methodology used by Citygate for this master plan will be the Standards of Coverage systems approach to fire department deployment, to entail a community risk assessment to determine the level of protection best fitting the needs of the communities served.

Citygate is currently conducting a Standards of Coverage study and developing a Strategic Plan for East Jefferson Fire-Rescue in East Jefferson, Washington. The goals of this study comprise of an evaluation of the District’s current deployment model, including service demand and response performance; the identification of opportunities for improvement in delivery of fire, emergency medical, and other technical emergency services to best serve the evolving demographics and service demand needs within the District’s service area; and an evaluation of additional or alternate fire station locations for impacts on first-due and Effective Response Force travel times.