Annual Report | 2022
Dear Residents,
Most every organization has a mission, a vision statement of what accomplishing the mission looks like, and a strategic plan for getting there. Your Hayward city government is no different.
At the City of Hayward, our strategic plan is called the Strategic Roadmap. It was developed and first adopted by the City Council in January 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we dipped back in and updated the plan to incorporate new needs and challenges.
Above all else, the Strategic Roadmap guides budgeting, policy making, and allocation of staff resources in furtherance of six Strategic Priorities.
Those priorities are: Enhancing Community Safety and Quality of Life; Preserving, Protecting and Producing Housing for All; Growing the Economy; Investing in Infrastructure; Confronting Climate Crisis and Championing Environmental Justice; and Strengthening Organizational Health.
Inside this year’s edition of our Annual Report mailer, you will find a graphic depiction of our Strategic Priorities in the shape of a wheel, and examples of programs, projects, and initiatives through which we ents or questions about the Roadmap, or would like to learn more about the contents of this or prior year Annual Report mailers, visit www.hayward-ca.gov/forward on the City of Hayward
website, or contact me at Kelly.McAdoo@hayward-ca.gov or Hayward Public Information Officer Chuck Finnie at Chuck.Finnie@hayward-ca.gov.
“By 2024, Hayward is growing in population and stature. Existing residents are proud to call Hayward home, and it is becoming a community of choice for new families and employers. Hayward attracts new, higher-paying jobs, allowing existing and new residents to live and work in the same community… Diverse families live in healthy, ‘complete communities’ with stable housing, safe streets, excellent schools, and inclusive neighborhoods. Hayward has started construction of thousands of new housing units at all income levels… Overall, there is a rising sense of pride among employees and residents alike. While there is much more to do, the City of Hayward is a place where people want to be.”
Learn More and Review the Strategic Roadmap
Related News Items:
Areas of focus under Community Safety & Quality of Life: community-based response models, emergency preparedness, cleanliness and blight reduction, library and educational programs, and celebrating heritage and confronting inequities.
Pandemic Response — Over the past year, the City of Hayward’s COVID-19 pandemic response focused on community resilience, adaptation, and recovery. Vaccination clinics helped push Hayward’s COVID-19 inoculation rate over 80 percent while new grant programs provided emergency relief to residents and helped small businesses retool.
Hayward Evaluation and Response Teams — In recognition of the importance of deploying appropriate levels of response to each 9-1-1 call, the Hayward Police and Fire Departments are involving behavioral and mental health professionals in emergency dispatch operations and partnering with them in the field.
Fireworks Enforcement and Fire Safety — Fireworks are illegal in Hayward. This year, the City began holding property owners responsible and issuing fines for fireworks activity emanating from their properties. At the same time, our Fire Department’s no-fee Residential Chipping and Assistance Program helps property owners gather and dispose of branches and vegetation before the height of fire season.
View Additional Community Safety & Quality of Life Projects
Pandemic Response News Items:
Hayward Evaluation and Response Teams News Items:
Fireworks Enforcement and Fire Safety News Items:
- 08/09/2022 | CITY ISSUING VIOLATION NOTICES, FINES IN NEW APPROACH TO ENFORCEMENT OF HAYWARD FIREWORKS BAN
- 05/10/2022 | APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED THROUGH MAY 31 FOR NO-COST RESIDENTIAL CHIPPING PROGRAM TO REDUCE FIRE RISK
- 05/10/2022 | HAYWARD PROPERTY OWNERS NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL FIREWORKS ACTIVITY ON THEIR PROPERTY
New Housing Development — Along the Mission Boulevard corridor from South Hayward to downtown and beyond, at projects called SoHay, Lincoln Landing, and on Depot Road, more than 1,200 new homes have been created or are under construction to increase housing supply at all income levels.
Housing Navigation Center and Annex — Since November 2019, the Hayward Housing Navigation Center and Annex have served 381 people experiencing homelessness. Of 276 individuals to exit the programs, 227 moved into some form of permanent housing. The 82 percent success rate contributed to a 22 percent decline of people experiencing homelessness in Hayward in the most recent Point in Time count.
State Route 238 Properties — Land formerly designated for a bypass freeway around downtown Hayward has the potential to yield hundreds of new homes and other public serving amenities. Combined with a proposed update to the Housing Element of the Hayward General Plan, the project and plan are poised to provide for new housing sufficient to meet the City’s housing need for decades to come.
New Commercial Development — A new One Subaru dealership on auto row is bolstering the City’s fiscal outlook. And a new retail center coming to the former K-Mart site on Mission Boulevard is bringing to town an In-N-Out Burger, Raising Cane’s restaurant, and a first specialty market to come to Hayward, Sprouts Farmers Market.
Industrial Growth and Innovation — The industrial crescent west of I-880 is booming, drawing new companies, spurring business expansion, and creating jobs. More than a billion dollars in new real estate investment is in the pipeline at the former Berkeley Farms property, the former Gillig bus manufacturing site, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, two Hayward businesses, DuPont EKC Technology and Eikon Therapeutics, took top honors at the 2022 East Bay EDA Innovation Awards.
Support of Local Small Businesses — The Hayward Economic Development Division was the first in the nation to roll out COVID-19 grants to sustain local small businesses. Since then, the team has introduced new programs to help restaurants adapt to new consumer trends, to assist property owners with building façade enhancements, and to encourage residents to shop local, among other initiatives.
Capital Improvement Program — La Vista Park, a future recreational destination with 180-degree views of San Francisco Bay, tops a $634 million, 10-year Capital Improvement Program with funding coming from federal, state, and local sources, including the Measure C sales tax that built the new downtown Hayward Public Library.
Annual Pavement Improvement Projects — One of the most visible components of Capital Improvement spending in Hayward each year is the Annual Pavement Improvement Project. This year, it entails $11 million in spot repairs, resealing and repaving, curb upgrades, and restriping of 33 lane-miles of roadway touching on 96 segments of streets across the City.
The Stack Center — A new youth and family center coming to the corner of Tennyson and Ruus oads, the Stack Center will be constructed on the site of the Eden Youth and Family and Matt Jimenez Community centers. It will include a café, renovated childcare center, a new pediatric and dental clinic, community rooms, and spaces for learning, technology, and art.
Recycled Water — Arguably the greenest city in the Bay Area, Hayward this year began delivering recycled water for irrigation purposes to parks, schools, and commercial users. With a second phase to come, the recycled water system is helping reduce use of potable water amid the ongoing drought while cutting the flow of treated wastewater to San Francisco Bay.
Sustainable Energy — Through membership in East Bay Community Energy, Hayward has moved City operations and most Hayward businesses and residents onto 100-percent renewable, carbon-free sources of electricity while developing new solar energy facilities and committing to net-zero energy standards for construction of new City buildings.
Shoreline Adaptation — In partnership with other agencies, the City developed a regional strategy to respond to the threat of rising sea levels. The plan calls for phased levee raising and construction, and introduction of new resilience-building habitat, tidal marsh and wetland restoration projects. The goal: preserve ecosystems, public infrastructure and recreational features from San Lorenzo Creek to the State Route 92 bridge approach.
View Additional Climate Crisis & Environmental Justice Projects
FY 2023 | $ 194.7 Million:
| Police 44% | Finance 2.7% |
| Fire 25.1% | Public Works & Utilities 2.1% |
| Non-development & Transfers 7.6% | Human Resources 1.7% |
| Development Services 5.3% | City Attorney 0.8% |
| Library 3.7% | City Clerk 0.5% |
| City Manager 3.2% | Mayor & Council 0.2% |
| Maintenance Services 3.1% | |
Fiscal Outlook — The organizational health of our 900-employee municipal government begins with fiscal resilience, discipline and strength, and the ability to reliably deliver core City services to the Hayward community. The City General Fund budget accounts for most of these core services. The City’s current Fiscal Year 2022-23 General Fund budget shown to the right reflects an overall five percent increase in spending over Fiscal Year 2021-22 while maintaining a robust 23 percent General Fund operating reserve.
