Design Review Moratorium Extended

The Design Review moratorium has been extended for another month, until the end of March, to allow time for the City to meet with business owners and design professionals regarding proposed changes to the DR process. If you are interested in participating, contact City Hall to find out meeting times or to submit your comments.

2010 Draft Budget

The first draft of the 2010 budget is available in the Documents section of the page. It will be discussed Monday night at the Finance Committee meeting, which begins at 6 p.m.

Ford Road Bridge Repairs

Last night at the Utilities Meeting, we approved submitting an application for ODOT's Municipal Bridge Program. The applications are due by March 1 and we do not know when the results will be announced. However, at this point we have not been approved for state Issue II loan funds for these repairs and, if approved, the Municipal Bridge Program provides a means for repair of the Ford Road Bridge sooner rather than later, plus it will provide 80% of the financing. A drawback is that the repair costs will be significantly higher due to the requirement of this program to expand the bridge to two lanes as a result of an ODOT safety study.

Details are set forth in the Municipal Bridge Program document in the Documents section of the web page.

City Finances--2010 Budget Discussions

For those of you interested in the City's finances and the budget process, there are several upcoming meetings that may be of interest to you. All of these meetings are listed under the Upcoming Events section of this web page.

1. Finance Committee (Feb. 8), at which the first draft of the 2010 budget will be presented and reviewed by the Safety Service Director.

2. Financial Review Board (Feb. 16), which is the citizen committee selected to review the City's finances and make recommendations. The duties of the Financial Review Board are to review the budget, year end reports and other financial matters of the City; to meet with Council’s Finance Committee, the administration, the Auditor, Finance Director and such other persons as the Board deems advisable; and to make recommendations to Council concerning the City's financial matters.

3. Finance Committee (Feb. 22), at which the department heads will present their needs and budget requests for 2010.