The five goals in the sentence are the Council's own, stated in the same words from the Cycle 3 rulebook (2013-14) through the Cycle 9 rulebook (2019-20): open up government, expand civic engagement (especially young people, people of color, immigrants, low-income people and the formerly incarcerated), develop new community leaders, build community, and make public spending more equitable. The Cycle 2 rulebook (2012-13) had three goals instead: inclusion, equality and empowerment. The goals span all four goal types; Capacity-level is chosen because three of the five are about skills, leadership and networks, while the process itself is built around funding capital projects (the rulebook's cover slogan is 'Real money, real projects, real power'). The beneficiary is the residents of each participating district, with marginalized groups named inside goal 2. The rulebook describes itself as revised annually and a work in progress, and the Council counted the 2025-26 cycle as its fifteenth, so the horizon is multi-cycle.