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City manager kicks off Danville budget season, urges 10-year operational focus
Summary
City Manager Mr. Coffey opened the city's budget kickoff by urging commissioners to "self evaluate" the organization and set a 10-year operational outlook as staff prepares budget priorities.
City Manager Mr. Coffey opened Danville City’s budget kickoff at a special-call meeting Thursday in March by urging the commission to “self evaluate” the organization and set a 10-year operational horizon.
"We really wanna self evaluate each other. We wanna self evaluate our performance, as a group, and ... we wanna be prepared for the future," City Manager Mr. Coffey told commissioners, framing the kickoff as an exercise in organizational preparedness rather than a line-by-line budget review.
Mr. Coffey told the commission that population and density trends are driving operational pressures on police, fire and public works. He cited a long list of active and planned projects the city is tracking: northern sewer expansion; work with Mercer County Sanitation District; Spears Creek pump station upgrades; downtown master-plan work that led to the Walker Hall property; water-line grants between Bergen Road and Harrisburg Road; a phase 2 of the sewer plant; transportation planning supported by an $11…
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