Office of the City Manager
Reference: Target 36 Pilot Program
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Michael P. Martinez, City Manager
Prepared By: Michael Martinez, City Manager
Date Prepared: 05/07/2025
PURPOSE
To present the City Council with the details of the Target 36 compressed workweek pilot program.
BACKGROUND
Over the past year, City of Brighton leadership has been working on creating an innovative program that adapts to today's changing workplace environment and allows us to remain competitive with employee retention and attraction. Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, municipalities throughout the United States and locally in Colorado have begun to reimagine current workplace standards, creating flexible schedules that aim to increase employee satisfaction while maintaining the same level of customer service and workload as traditional schedules. A demand for a greater work-life balance for employees is on the rise and the modified workweek has shown to be a solution that both improves employee wellbeing and does not compromise customer service and operational excellence. While the City of Brighton has adapted, we have recognized that we are losing our competitive edge as more and more municipalities in Colorado alter their traditional work schedules to attract and retain staff.
Given the challenge of creating a program that allows us to compete with the ever-changing workplace, the City Manager's Office enlisted the help of the University of Colorado-Denver's Public Administration Graduate Program in 2023. Working with faculty, a graduate student was chosen to complete a capstone project that would look at the changing workplace environment in government, evaluate innovative programs and recommend best practices and metrics as a template for a potential pilot program within Brighton. From that project, a taskforce was made comprised of department directors, the City Manager's Office, The City Attorney's Office, and othe...
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