Dr' Donald E' Green, Mayor

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"Living, learning, and working together."
Dr. Donald E. Green, Mayor
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Water Crisis

• Worst Drought Since 1895
• Water Conservation Plan Currently in Phase 3
• Phase 1 Voluntary 10 Feet Below Full Pool
• Phase 2 Voluntary 15 Feet Below Full Pool
• Phase 3 Mandatory 20 Feet Below Full Pool
• Phase 4 Mandatory 25 Feet Below Full Pool
• Saved 50 Million Gallons in December 07
• 26 Below Normal Rainfall
• Looking at Short Long Term Plans
• 12 Million Gallons Over Next 50 Years
• Duck River Best Long Term Option

Lake Catoma at CausewayJanuary 08
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Water Wastewater

• WATER SEWER DEPARTMENT
• Average Water Loss 7 - 3 Below National
  Average
• Center Hill Phase IV Complete Final Phase
• Highway 157 Sewer Lines Complete
• Worked on CRMC Pump Station Relocation Mann
  Road Project
• Highway 222 Water Sewer Line Relocation 95
  Complete
• WATER TREATMENT PLANT
• Received Optimization Award from ADEM
• Updated Completed Security Camera System
• Updated Computer SCADA System
• Research Replacement of Chlorine with Sodium
  Hypochlorite

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Business Industry

• Announcement and Groundbreaking for Yutaka
  Technologies
• Received Targeted and Prepared (TaP) Strategic
  Plan for Economic Development from TVA and
  Boyette/Levy Consultants
• Played Role in Bringing the Alabama Advanced
  Training Robotics Center to Cullman
• Total New Expanding Industries 86
• Total New Expanding Investments
  120,030,373
• Total New Expanding Jobs 1,225

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Downtown Revitalization

• Streetscaping
• Brick Work on Sidewalks
• Tree Plantings
• Landscape Islands Bumpouts
• Improved Pedestrian Crossings
• Downtown Loft Apartments
• Specialty Shops Restaurants

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Law Enforcement Fire

• POLICE
• No Homicides in 2007
• Robberies Decreased
• Police Responded to 21,844 Public Service Calls
• Animal Control Section Call Volume Tripled
• MUNICIPAL COURT
• 3,678 Cases Docketed - 4,043 Cases Concluded
• Defendants Provided 1,640 Hours of Community
  Service
• 16,948.90 Collected in Restitution for Victims
• FIRE
• Staff Structure Reorganized
• Fire Station One Remodeled
• New Bunker Gear Purchased
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security Grant for
  Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)
• Property Purchased for Relocation of Fire
  Station Two

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Building Planning

• PLANNING DEPARTMENT
• Discussed Downtown Revitalization Concepts
  Designs
• Held Comprehensive Planning Public Meetings
• Held Comprehensive Planning Focus Group Work
  Sessions
• Research on Lake George
• Discussed Possible Locations of Welcome Signs
• BUILDING DEPARTMENT
• Permits Issued Exceed 80 Million Dollars
• Strongest Growth Areas Are Commercial/Industrial
• Enforced Ordinances Regarding Weeds Abandoned
  Vehicles
• Supervised Use of Festhalle Market Platz
• Plan to Obtain Accurate Updated Mapping System
• Annual Spring Clean Up
• Update Subdivision Regulations
• Adoption of New International Building Codes in
  Near Future

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Safety Risk Management

• Overall Decline in Accidents Injuries in 2007
• Participated in Alabama Municipal Insurance
  Corporations Safety Video Rental Program
• Held Monthly Safety Meetings
• Held Jobsite Inspections
• Initiated Liability/Accident Tracking Program
• Flu Shot Program Successful

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Sanitation Recycling

• Garbage Pickup for 5,669 Residential Customers
• Garbage/Dumpster Service for Over 1,000
  Businesses
• Mosquito Spraying
• Street Sweeping
• Brush Removal
• Grounds Crew Planted Maintained 59 Flowerbeds
• Mowed all City Rights-of-Way Industrial Parks
• Trimmed and Maintained Trees and Bushes
• New Office and Shed Constructed on Convent Road

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Streets Sidewalks

• Completed Concrete Work at Festhalle Market
  Platz
• Installed Brick Crosswalks on 1st Avenue
• Improved Sheraton Road 3rd Avenue SE
  Intersection
• Improved Bolte Road 3rd Avenue SE Intersection
• Rip-Rapped Eroding Ditches Along 3rd Avenue SE
• Installed Flume, Guardrails, Pipe Along
  Lessman Circle
• Constructed Major Flume Along Manor Drive
• Laid Pipe Along Mitchell Road to Improve
  Drainage
• Constructed New Boat Ramp at Lake Catoma

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Information Technology

• Wireless Internet Points-of-Presence (Project
  Access) Funded by Appalachian Regional
  Commission
• Free Public Internet Access
• Heritage Park Area
• Ingle Park
• Donald E. Green Senior Center
• Depot Park
• Festhalle Market Platz
• Added Security to Internal Multi-Building
  Network
• Upgraded Dispatch Center Equipment
• Installed Security Cameras Around Chamber of
  Commerce
• Created Database to Maintain Animal Control
  Records

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Airport

• Building Corporate Hangars for Air Evac Lifeteam
• Runway Extension Study for FAA Completed
• 37-Passenger Embraer 135B Landed Largest Ever
  to Land
• FAA Optimal Geomatics Spec. 405 Survey Completed
• Mural to be Designed for Airport Lobby
• Completed 16 New T-Hangars at South End of
  Runway Total 40
• Total Aircraft Based at Airport 85
• Installed Cameras at South T-Hangars
• Airport Layout Drawing for FAA Completed
• Installed WIFI

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Festhalle Market Platz

• Opened in June 2007
• Market Opened with 22 of 32 Vendor Spaces Rented
• 37 Vendors Sold Home-Grown Produce at the Market
• Vendor Sales Averaged 10,000 - 12,000
  June-August 2007
• New Hours for Market are 7 a.m. 1 p.m. on
  Tuesday Saturday and 12 noon 6 p.m. on
  Thursday
• Hosted 18 Public Private Events Including
  2007 Cullman Oktoberfest
• Held Weekly Cooking Demonstrations
• Community Support Overwhelming
• Looking Forward to Great 2008 Season

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Cullman County Museum

• Held 2008 Cullman Oktoberfest at Festhalle
  Market Platz
• New Meeting Rooms Exhibits Including Quilts,
  Stein Collection, Family History of William
  Richard, Hand-Painted China, German China,
  Cameras, and Dreher Furniture Company Furniture
• Assisted Cullman Historical Society with
  Postcard Book Project
• Assisted Pilot Club in Reviewing Club History
• Assisted Archeological Society with Tours and
  Literature
• Timber Framing Clinic Held
• Won Top Beautification Award from Chamber of
  Commerce
• Income up over 1,000 From Previous Year

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Parks Recreation

• Cullman Area Field of Miracles at Chester
  Freeman Park Opened
• Cullman Challenger League 9 Teams, 103
  Participants
• Community Band Second Season
• Donald E. Green Senior Center Continues to Grow
• 12 Weeks of Summer Concerts in the Park No
  Rainouts
• Day in the Park a Success
• 42 Weeks of Softball/Baseball Tournaments at
  Heritage Park Chester Freeman Park
• Course Play up at Golf Course
• Hurricane Creek Park Growing
• Wellness Aquatic Center in Progress

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Thank you for your time your support.