Working for the City
The Employer:
Located within the beautiful Willamette Valley, 30-minutes outside of Portland and 15-minutes from Salem, Woodburn is a community rich in history, tradition, and diversity. Incorporated in 1889, the City of Woodburn is a full-service municipality, excluding fire services, and operates under a Council/Administrator form of government. The City is organized into ten operating departments: Administration, City Attorney, City Recorder, Community Development, Community Services, Economic Development, Finance, Human Resources, Police, and Public Works. The City has 165 FTE's, and an operating budget of $68 million.
The City of Woodburn is in good financial condition backed by sound fiscal policies and practices. The City depends on a variety of revenue sources to support municipal services. The primary source of revenue for the City and for other taxing districts in the Woodburn area is the property tax.
City Council Vision, Mission & Goals
Vision Statement: Woodburn will be a safe, vibrant, full-service community. Woodburn will be a community of unity, pride, and charm. It will be a sustainable, technologically advanced community with a functional multi-modal transportation system. Woodburn will thrive as a regional focus for the advancement and enjoyment of the arts, culture, leisure, and recreational activities. Woodburn will be a great place to live, work, and visit.
Mission Statement: It is the mission of the Woodburn City Council to make Woodburn a great place to live, work, and visit.
Council Priorities:
- Create an inclusive environment where residents and civic organizations participate and are engaged in the community that is vibrant, safe, and active.
- Promote an environment that encourages sustainable economic health maximizing our geographic, workforce, cultural, and community assets.
Goals:
- Crisis Impacts, Recovery and Preparation.
- Restore General Fund services such as public safety, parks and recreational programs, and community/business economic recovery in a sustainable manner as described in the City Council's Financial Policy.
- Examine the City's successes, challenges, communications, learnings and opportunities through these crises to inform the City's future emergency preparedness measures.
- Examine how these crises affected our diverse community and explore a model that provides a neighborhood structure for engaging and communicating with our citizens, particularly during future emergencies.
- Work towards building and strengthening relationships with non-profit, medical and governmental organizations to increase service available to the Woodburn community and be better prepared for future emergencies.
Council Projects:
- Establish a grant/loan match program for replacing and repairing sidewalks within the Urban Renewal District and elsewhere as resources are available.
- Create a City Tree Planting program with the goal of planting 110 trees in 24 months in public rights-of-way, parks, and on private property.
- Establish a common understanding of DEI concepts, how an equity lens approach can be applied to our City services, programs, and communications through training and the experience of other organizations in our community.
