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Office of the Mayor Budget PresentationOffice of the Mayor Budget Presentation <br />Division of Community Relations:Division of Community Relations: <br />2023 Accomplishments2024 Goals <br />Successful community event coordination including eight Concerts in the Park, five Friday Night ¤Continue to build a wider audience for City messages by continuing to increase our social <br /> media presence, <br />Flicks, Meet the Trucks, Summer Solstice Celebration, Fourth of July Parade, Lakewood Arts Festival, ĭƚƓƷźƓǒĻķ źƒƦƩƚǝĻƒĻƓƷ ƚŅ ƷŷĻ ĭźƷǤ͸ƭ ǞĻĬƭźƷĻͲ ğnd joint coordination with community <br /> groups. <br />Lakewood Community Festival, Welcome To Lakewood event, and Lakewood Veterans Day <br />¤Continue to improve quality and attendance of city events and programming. <br />Ceremony. <br />¤Continued enhancements to city website to make it even more customer-oriented including improving the <br />Continued our strong social media communication and that has resulted in more people following us <br />search function and more adding more FAQs. <br />and receiving information through social media. Our Facebook followers have grown to 15,650 which <br />¤Increase the number of direct printed and electronic communications with our residents. <br />is an increase of 9.3%. We have increased the followers on our Instagram page by 22% with a total <br />number of followers reaching 6389 to date. <br />Continued to increase the number of residents we communicate with on a regular basis. The <br />subscribers to our monthly e-newsletter grew to a total of 7283, which is an increase of 9.1%. We <br />also sent out a printed newsletter three times this year to all Lakewood residents and businesses. <br />Began utilizing the Cuyahoga County ReadyNotify System so we can text, call, and email residents <br />during emergencies including watermain breaks, snow bans, and emergency refuse changes. <br /> 216-529- 216-529- <br />Office of the Mayor Budget Presentation <br />Community Relations Budget <br />DIVISION OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS <br />2024Percent Change <br />General Fund Budget (Fund 101)2021 Actual2022 Actual2023 Budget <br />Proposed2023-2024 <br />Expenditures by Category <br />Salaries64,94373,22778,651147,91888% <br />Fringe Benefits21,11422,56229,12662,586115% <br />Travel and Transportation---- <br />Professional Services8,4548,4157,00011,00057% <br />Communications7,6704,17023,13023,1300% <br />Contractual Services6754612,0002,0000% <br />Materials & Supplies8792755255250% <br />Capital <br />Utilities <br />Other6,70311,83221,65021,6500% <br />Debt Service <br />Transfer or Advance <br />Total110,439120,942162,082268,80966% <br /> 216-529- <br /> <br />