Governing Body Guiding Principles

The Mayor and City Council members commit to responsible governance and pledge that local decisions will be made in a transparent, thoughtful, and inclusive manner. They strive to do the right things for the right reasons guided by these core principles. 

• Superior Quality Services: Ensure that services are provided efficiently and effectively in ways that create a safe, clean, and attractive community for residents, businesses, and visitors.

• Prudent Financial Management: Provide exceptional value in public investments by committing to structural fiscal balance in operational and capital activities while upholding transparent finance and budgeting processes.

• Strategic Community Investment: Purposefully invest in high-quality infrastructure, facilities, programs, and initiatives across all areas of the community.

• Extraordinary Community Pride: Celebrate Lenexa’s history and reputation as a visionary community and use that heritage to instill future generations with the pride that is reflected in the city’s public places, plans, programs, and people.

• Inclusive Community Building: Enthusiastically engage the public in community initiatives and visioning, including intentionally seeking input and ideas from a diverse assembly of stakeholders.

• Responsible Economic Development: Fortify the city’s economic base by encouraging high-quality private development as well as fostering economic opportunity through thoughtful planning processes and the judicious use of economic development investment programs.

• Sustainable Policies and Practices: Lead by example in implementing sustainable and resilient practices where financially and operationally practical as well as enact community-wide policies and strategies that motivate both residents and businesses to do so when reasonable.

• Values-based Organizational Culture: Create an organization that reflects the community’s diversity and fosters a superior culture by employing, supporting, and rewarding professionals who make decisions with integrity, deliver results through teamwork, provide exceptional service, lead into the future with vision, are dedicated to excellence, and who truly care about Lenexa.

Mayor and Council

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Mayor Michael Boehm

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