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Police station and treatment plant top ‘05 agenda

By LEE WILLIAMS
lwilliams@TheCitizenNews.com

Mayor Ken Steele, who is serving his sixth year as mayor, and his 16th year in city government, says Fayetteville has a lot to be proud of this year. He said the citizens of Fayetteville should expect more successes in 2005.

“I think the city has been very efficient in providing timely, friendly, courteous service to our taxpayers,” Steele said Monday morning seated at his desk in City Hall. “I’m particularly pleased with the staff and the recognition they have received in the state and nation.”

Steele said he is pleased with the Fayetteville Police Department, which is in the process of securing their national re-accreditation status through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, and City Finance Director, Lynn Robinson, and her staff, who won the Government Finance Officers Association Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.

This is the eighth consecutive year the city of Fayetteville has received the award, officials said.

Steele also is pleased about the statewide recognition the city has received through the Jeff Davis Intown condominium project. The project, made possible through a private and public partnership with the city, received the Development of Excellence Award from the Atlanta Regional Commission last month.

Steele said he also is pleased the city has been able to earn millions of dollars through a variety of grant awards.

“This brings tax dollars home,” he said.

One of the biggest coups is that the city won a Homeland Security Grant, which was used to purchase a state-of-the-art $350,000 Mobile Command Center for the Fayetteville Police Department.

Steele said he also is pleased that the Fayetteville Fire Department has taken delivery of two new fire engines.

As the year presses forward, Steele said he is looking forward to moving into the new law enforcement complex in the first quarter, getting a jump start on storm-water projects such as improving the East Fayetteville basin, among several others.

“The Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) grant on Ga. Highway 54 West, downtown, will be put out for contract in the spring.”

Steele also said the Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion is scheduled to be completed in 2005.