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Sweet Home council reviews draft five‑year CIP, prioritizes goals after resident survey
Summary
At a work session, the Sweet Home City Council reviewed a draft five‑year capital improvement plan, discussed funding for key water and generator projects, and highlighted results from a resident survey that flagged downtown vacancy and homelessness as top concerns. Staff will return with a memo and prioritization options in two weeks.
SWEET HOME — The Sweet Home City Council spent a work session reviewing a draft five‑year capital improvement plan and identifying priorities for the next fiscal year after staff presented results from a resident survey and an updated project list.
Mayor Mary Coleman opened the session by urging the council to set actionable goals, and summarized a city survey of 399 respondents that flagged downtown vacant buildings (204 mentions), homelessness (59 mentions) and cleanliness (20 mentions) as recurring concerns. "We got 399 responses," Mayor Mary Coleman said, listing the top topics residents raised.
The session’s nut graf: councilors were asked to place potential goals under five aspirational buckets — effective and efficient government; an economically strong environment; viable and sustainable essential services; viable and sustainable infrastructure; and making Sweet Home a desirable community — and staff provided a…
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