Here is my 2010 Top 10 Wish list for the City of Doraville, our City Council, residents, and business owners:
10. The City address the entrances into the city and our neighborhoods. Clean/landsacpe the entrances ramps at 285 and Buford Highway and Peachtree Industrial. Invest in some new signage welcoming people into Doraville.
9. That the Doraville Busines Association will get more active and have regular meetings and work on promoting the city. Maybe a map and legend of restaurants in Doraville as a first step?
8. That the City will have more community events like Movies Under the Stars, Doraville Days, and maybe some new ones like Easter Egg hunt, Breakfast with Santa, Jack-O-Lantern Carving Contest, etc.
7. The City implement a city-wide curb-side recycling program.
6. City Council come up with a unified vision for not only the GM Plant but the city as a whole.
5. City Council establish a set of architectural standards for new construction and major renovation projects.
4. City invest in a marketing campaign to promote Doraville. We have a new logo and a great website, lets put it to use.
3. City try and annex those properties around Doraville again. I hate thinking that DeKalb and Dunwoody control how 1/4 of Buford Highway looks as well as several entrances into our city Doraville.
2. City hire an economic development director to talk with and recruit new businesses, study the city's demographics and neighboring demographics and develop a comprehensive plan on revitalizing our business community.
1. That we work together to make Doraville an example of what to do and not what not to do.
Do you have others?
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How about burying all those unsightly power lines up and down Buford Hwy? I also would like to see the city undergo a major planting effort. (i.e. compare Ashford Dunwoody Rd to Buford Hwy). Sometimes it's the simple things that can improve public perception of our city.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to bring a High School to town would not only, with the other improvements, attract folks here, a High scholl would keep them here for a longer time.
ReplyDeleteChris
My New Years resolution is to get spending under control. The numbers below speak for themselves.
ReplyDeleteAudit report Financial highlights for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. (June 30, 2008 numbers in parentheses)
The assets of the City of Doraville exceeded its liabilities at June 30, 2009 by $16,400,660 (2008: $17,355,741). Of this amount unrestricted net assets of $5,500,183 ($6,773,744) may be used to meet the government’s ongoing obligations to citizens and creditors.
The total net assets decreased by $955,081 (increased by $423,647). Of this amount, a decrease of $1,347,620 (increase of $44,346) was associated with governmental and an increase of $392,539 (increase of $379,301) was business-type activities.
As of the close of the current fiscal year, the City’s governmental funds reported combined ending fund balances of $5,958,208 a decrease of $1,820,045 ($7,778,253 an increase of $182,861) in comparison with the prior year.
Of this amount, $4,510,042 ($6,271,294) is unreserved and available for spending: $723,423 ($895,122) is reserved for Police Activities; $42,474 ($100,503) is restricted for Tree Bank Activities; and $682,269 ($511,334) is reserved for prepaid expenses.
At the end of the current year, unreserved fund balance for the general fund was $4,503,427 ($6,263,159) or 37.7 (62.3) percent of the total General Fund expenditures.
The City’s long term debt obligations consisted only of accrued compensated absences of $491,818 ($536,115).
The full report is available at City Hall