RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT The City prepares, implements, and keeps current various plans to effectively and efficiently serve its residents with emergency services, infrastructure, capital improvements, recreation, land use, and housing, to name a few. As a team, the city staff works together to provide excellent services and projects to the community. The City Council looks to the future with its decision-making process providing a platform on which future leaders can build and the community can thrive. Public infrastructure and municipal budgets that support it are continually challenged by revenue shortages, limited resources, and fiscal constraints. At the same time, declining and failing infrastructure requires proper investment, management, and response from the departments. Therefore, budgets must reflect needs that are supported by relevant and defensible data. Ever mindful of affordability, our operating and capital budgets should reflect a realistic and commensurate relationship between projects, programs, levels of service and current staffing. LONG TERM STRATEGIES The City has invested a significant amount of money in various master plans, financial plans, and infrastructure plans. These planning documents lay the ground work for the future of Lewiston. Though resources to implement all the plans may not be available, it is important to share and communicate with the community and have the citizens create the priorities. Implementation plans can then be established to ensure the highest priorities come to fruition. Not all members of the community will have the same ideas about the best way to move forward, but through listening, communicating, educating, and sharing ideas, a path to follow will emerge.
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