From the City Project Room — Goals and objectives for the city

Plans and objectives for the next two years:

1. Upgrade Main Street and storm sewer infrastructure.

2. Complete waste treatment plant replacement and repair of trickling filter system that was greatly affected by collapse of pole barn build in previous administration. This over $2 million project is covered by insurance.

3. Working with five different developers — two local and three from out of town — planning to build a mixture of market value affordable housing.

4. Plans to complete a new wellfield to assure good, clean, plentiful water for growth is available for another 100 years.

5. Locate and eliminate any old lead water lines.

6. Continue the upgrades to the city pool in a budgeted manner that will allow for upgrades with- out taxing citizens.

7. Upgrade park playground equipment in a planned manner.

8. Start the $600,000 sidewalk upgrades and additions as planned for 2023 with the federal grant obtained for this project.

9. Continuation of storm sewer inlet upgrades throughout city with another six for 2023 and continue with six a year until completion throughout the city.

10. Continuation of air-vac sewer pod upgrades.

11. Transmission sewer line from the landfill (Republic to pay for) directly to our waste treatment plant for processing of landfill-generated water. We currently receive trucked water from landfill. Bringing additional income to utilities department.

12. Assuring the citizens of Rochester Township (Rochester) are not without an ambulance service.

Two of the remaining projects, Nickel Plate Bicycle Trail and the Apache Drive project, are scheduled to start first quarter of 2023. We have been selected for the READI Grant of $1 million to aid the county and city in completion of the Apache Drive project.

The goals and objectives involve all departments of the city and all department heads. The list is dynamic. Our team continues to move forward with the objective of creating a city that will encourage investors to want to invest in Rochester.

As one local major investor has said to me, “Your administration has created a spirit for progress and success that makes me want to invest in Rochester.” This is most definitely the goal.