Clayton mayor hoping for collaborative approach in 2025
CLAYTON, CA (Jan. 19, 2025) — Congratulations to all the newly elected and re-elected Clayton City Councilmembers: Jim Diaz, Richard Enea and Holly Tillman. I look forward to working with each of them to achieve our goals this year.
My focus this coming year will be addressing the most pressing needs of the city, including:
- Long-deferred infrastructure improvements.
- Additional staffing needs.
- Continued strong public safety.
- Bringing the community together.
Naturally, we will have other issues to address throughout the year, including our mid-year budget review, continued review of our investment policy, hiring a permanent police chief and ensuring that our city manager has the additional staffing needed to accomplish the city’s goals.
We plan on finalizing our infrastructure work with our partners at Climatec this year. That includes adding solar array panels and an EV charging station at the library and continuing to improve HVAC and irrigation equipment.
We are also embarking on a library refresh project in conjunction with the library’s 30th anniversary. I’ll be updating the community more on that special project in the future.
I am looking forward to working together with my fellow councilmembers, our city staff and the members of our community to achieve these goals, and I am hopeful that our efforts will be respectable and collaborative in manner. We need to do this for the good of the community, for our city staff and for the people who elected us.
We are so fortunate to live in a city with a safe environment, natural beauty, great schools, a robust financial reserve and a strong community spirit, evidenced by the number of outstanding events that take place in our city throughout the year.
We have a busy year ahead of us, and I look forward to achieving these goals and helping bring the community together because I truly believe that we are “Stronger Together.”
Here’s to a great 2025.
Please feel free to contact me at kimt@claytonca.gov or 925-673-7324.