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The Hillsboro City Council prioritizes community engagement and outreach, and the Engage Hillsboro website has helped reach the City’s goals of gathering more community input and feedback.

Since Engage Hillsboro and the Spanish-language Conéctate site launched in summer 2022:

• The two sites received nearly 20,000 total visits combined.
  
  
• More than 3,100 Engage Hillsboro users participated in a survey, poll, or other interaction.
  
  
• More than a dozen City projects sought community feedback, along with several surveys from community partners.
  
  
• Engage Hillsboro and Conéctate users posted 37 questions that received City staff responses.

Engage Hillsboro’s safe online space lets users participate anytime and anywhere — on a phone, tablet, or computer. This helps the City in reaching a broader audience for a higher level of participation, more data, and more knowledge.

Here are some of the projects with the greatest impact during Engage Hillsboro’s first year:

Community-Guided Parks & Recreation System Plan

The first project to gather feedback on Engage Hillsboro, Parks & Recreation staff received input from 115 online users through polls, surveys, and an idea board. This added to the 2,125 total community participants who engaged in person and through other means. The project page received 756 total visits.

Proposed Water Rates for 2023 & 2024

Gathering community input via Engage Hillsboro for the first time, the City of Hillsboro Utilities Commission received 99 online survey responses. Feedback from Engage Hillsboro accounted for a majority of the 133 total public comments received during the rate-setting process. The project page received 422 total visits.

Input received from 893 survey responses on Engage Hillsboro and the Spanish-language Conéctate engagement page helped a community advisory workgroup of more than 30 members move forward with making recommendations to the Hillsboro City Council in May and June. The project page received more than 6,100 total visits.

Pix in the Park: Community Choice!

The community selection process for the series of Friday night movies at City parks in August attracted 286 nominations on Engage Hillsboro and Conéctate, and a total of 1,433 people voted on some or all of the four movie categories. The project page received more than 5,100 total visits.

Share your feedback on the newest projects — and review previous community engagement — by visiting Engage Hillsboro or the Spanish-language Conéctate site 

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