Goal Two - Maintain and improve municipal services and infrastructure.

Objective:

Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment (including city services) and prepare a Facilities plan.

Strategy One: Assess current space utilization of each City Department and recommend changes that would maximize current facility usage. (Note: an assessment was completed in 1999 for the City Hall offices, this document should be considered, but may not be inclusive.)

Action Steps:

• City Hall offices should be relocated to the South entrance of the City Hall, where Parks and Rec. has been located. This would provide the community and city administration a more visible, citizen friendly, entrance and reception area. The Police Department would be located in the northwest side of City Hall. Hopefully this would give the police department the space and security that is needed.

Strategy Two: Assess the future needs of the community, analyze the existing facilities and delivery of services, explore funding requirements for suggested improvements, and prepare a Facilities and Delivery of Services Master Plan, which allows for balanced growth over the next five to ten years.

Action Steps:

• Fire and Police Facilities- assessment should recommend adding on to City Hall or building at a new site. If a new site is recommended (or multiple substations) land should be acquired, as it becomes available.
• IMU assessment should include:
  • Consideration of administration offices being combined with city administration offices.
  • The addition of another water well
  • Whether the City/IMU technology plan is progressing as planned
  • Assess whether some communication services should be publicly or privately provided
• Parks and Recreation assessment should include:
  • Recommendation of a youth facility and programming
  • Consideration of a community center with indoor pool and gym
  • Recreation trail system
  • Green spaces and parks in developing neighborhoods- land should be acquired, as it becomes available.
• Sewer Service assessment should determine:
  • If the current site needs expanded or esthetically improved.
  • If a new site is desirable and where it should be located. If a new site is recommended, the land should be acquired as soon as it is available. 
• City building and service assessment should include:
  • Consideration of hiring an urban planner as part of the administrative staff
  • Consideration of hiring a grant writer 
  • Recommendations for city administration office space
  • Recommendations for maintaining city buildings
  • Assess whether services should be publicly or privately provided 

Strategy Three: Develop a timeline and plan for implementing the Facilities and Delivery of Services Master Plan. 

Action Steps:

• Summarize the assessments
• Prioritize assessment implementation
• Present the Services Master Plan 

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