Greenfield's Citywide Goals for 2012, Beyond

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So, what's next?

Flipping through the 4,000-page proposed city budget (OK, it only seems like 4,000 pages), I came across a few pages that were more interesting than most.

Each department's section of the budget concludes with a page of comments, which includes short- and long-term goals, among other items.

The "department" had 19 goals, the most of any department, ranging from redevelopment to finding a new city newspaper.

What do you think? Which goals should be tops on Mayor Michael Neitzke's and the Common Council's to-do list? I've pulled out the seven I found most interesting and put them into the accompanying poll, but the other 12 are as follows:

• Continue Greenfield’s recent tradition of fiscal strength and stability by maintaining the city’s AA2 bond rating in extremely difficult economic times.
• Continue to promote a unified departmental approach to governing, policy and action.
• Continue long-term technology plan within the city to enhance productivity and cohesiveness among and between departmental units.
• Continue to fight unfunded mandates.
• Continue to require the inclusion of common sense into the regulatory decision-making, and question when it is not.
• Continue to question and oppose increases to the local property tax by seemingly unaccountable entities.
• Continue to be an active participant , including the Greater Milwaukee Committee, to refine government.
• Continue to be an active participant in efforts by organizations like the , the , and others, to improve the economic viability of our city, sub-region and region.
• Continue to improve the infrastructure of our community to enhance the city and to reduce future, more expensive, liabilities.
• Continue to seek legislative action to reduce unsustainable benefit exposure to the city.
• Actively seek replacement community newspaper to enhance coverage of Greenfield or alternatively lobby for inclusion in SW Community NOW section.
• Continue to investigate whether a Farmer’s Market is possible within the city.