St. John's outlines Strategic Plan Progress and Initiatives for 2025

The City of St. John's has outlined its Strategic Plan Progress and Initiatives for 2025.

Annually, staff identify initiatives that advance the goals and directions, considering such things as the results of the biennial Resident Satisfaction Survey, employee engagement survey results, existing plans and strategies and emerging priorities.

This year, the City plans to start 37 new initiatives, bringing the total number of initiatives in the plan to 305. While these initiatives begin this year, some projects may have multiple phases and take several years to complete.

A few new projects of note for 2025 include adaptation and resilience improvements for City Buildings, replace the Quidi Vidi Slipway, develop a low carbon fleet and supporting infrastructure master plan, improvements to Metrobus, and explore opportunities to have pre-approved house plans for contractors to decrease processing times.

In 2024, 33 initiatives were completed.

Since the last report, the City completed five continuous improvement projects:

• Streamlined the insurance certificate process for special events,

• Reorganized Roads and Traffic network drive using 5S tool,

• Reviewed and streamlined low value purchase order process,

• Implemented standardized job indexing in Surveying division, and

• Dewatering of water and sewer excavations.