In September 2006, City of Fayetteville voters passed a sales tax bond election in part to fund $68 million in transportation improvements, and today we broke ground on the first of fourteen projects. While the design phase for each project is underway, the Wilson Park and Washington-Willow Traffic Calming Project is the first to reach construction phase. And the good news is the project came in 40% under estimate. The project includes the installation of 22 speed tables and 3 landscaped islands. If you live in or travel through these neighborhoods and want to see exactly where the installations will be located, stop by the City’s Engineering Office and take a look at the map.

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The safety and well being of our citizenry depends on well-equipped and well-trained employees who are able and willing to serve and protect this community. It is my job as Mayor to make sure that we enable those public servants to do their jobs efficiently, effectively, and professionally. Keeping up our public safety infrastructure to meet the growing demands of our community is the best way to ensure that our police officers and firefighters have the resources to do their jobs and to do them well.

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Today was a very exciting day in Fayetteville as the City’s new Sustainability Coordinator, John Coleman, led the first City of Fayetteville Sustainability Team meeting. With representatives from various divisions across city government, John presented his short and long terms plans for minimizing the City’s carbon footprint and reducing energy consumption.

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The International Panel on Climate Change just released its latest report on the state of our environment. It has become abundantly clear everyone needs to do all we can to reduce our carbon emissions into our atmosphere if we expect to see our quality of life preserved for ourselves and for future generations.

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Welcome to our new website and the Mayor’s Blog. I’ll be posting regularly to this site beginning later this week . I intend to use this space to discuss current issues that I believe will be of interest to our citizens. Check this site out again in a few days.

Thanks,

Dan