City of Davison, Michigan

As we close out the year of 2005 and prepare for 2006 I think it does us well to look back at what we accomplished in 2005.

Our staff has done an excellent job of finding other revenue sources for delivering services.

Some of these sources are small, like a donation from a local business person to purchase night vision equipment for our Police Department.

Here you can see Lt. Gilbert looking at new night vision equipment.

Here is my amateur photography skills of Lt. Gilbert in a totally dark room. The actual view is a lot clearer, credit the blurriness to yours truly’s camera ability.

It also covers larger items like Well Head Protection Grants of over $100,000 or a grant from the Ruth Mott Foundation for the wood for the boardwalk for the Davison Area Regional Trail (DART) the meanders through Abernathy Region Park. This would also include the $25,500 that the city received from the Department of Homeland Security.

In total, the City of Davison staff brought in $263,770 of such creative funding. Way to go staff! (If you are keeping track at home, that brings our total to over 7.7 million dollars since 2002)

We also continued to change how we operate in day to day functions. In 2005 your team of employees has challenged themselves to work in a more efficient manor. These changes can add up, and they have, saving the city approximately $660,000. Some of the items we saved on was not purchasing a police car, re-bidding Waste Hauler contract and re-bidding our Insurance contracts. The largest item was from staff working with TTMPS and the MDEQ over the past few years get a direct discharge permit for the Skellenger Water Treatment Plant that was a huge savings in our Sanitary Sewer fees.

Our team has done an excellent job in 2005 and I can’t wait to see what we do in 2006.