Newsletter to Outline City Improvements – July 2023

Introduction & Improvements – 2022-2023

In short, the referenced document was developed to outline some of the City of Lake City’s recent achievements. I am proud to report that our collective stakeholders including staff, elected/appointed personnel, and volunteers and/or part time or seasonal staff have come together and made measurable progress in many program areas in a short timeframe. I am confident we would not have been so successful if we did not have support from the collective group, so I am hopeful stakeholders are happy with the progress, especially since we have continually operated within the confines of a lean structure. In addition, we sought, obtained, and managed grant and ARPA funds, which allowed us to accomplish many goals and projects with the delineated funds while not placing an additional direct tax burden on the city’s residents.

Thus far, the LC team has realized measurable gains in several areas that were idenfied in the development of the city’s Master Plan, which was a citywide collaborative effort to outline and drive specific goals for the future. We have already addressed several program areas, such as the grocery store, city administrator, water quality, thriving business, and parking. We must continually revisit the Master Plan to ensure our goals are realized. From my perspective, we are only getting started so I do not share this information often enough, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our team by outlining the progress we have made during a relatively brief period.
In this newsletter, I outline several program areas, including:

• a warm thank you to ALL staff and stakeholders.
• List of OUR Collective Achievements
• Staff Achievements (for non-elective staff)
• Timekeeping Achievements (for elective/appointed staff)
• Closing