Members of the St. Helena City Council are being careful not to add too many items to staffâs already ambitious to-do list as the city budget starts to recover from the pandemic.
The cityâs five overarching goals will remain the same, while a handful of new specific objectives emerged from the councilâs annual goal-setting meeting last Thursday.
Since the city was already looking at dipping into reserves given its current workload, Councilmember Eric Hall said he was looking for ways to ease the burden on staff âso we can get focused on a few things, lighten our expenses overall, and really get clear about executing just those critical things.â