Choose Your Goal!

In 2006, the Village of Elburn will be shooting at many new and exciting goals. Here is a "priorities list" of the important projects we will be working on this year:

1. Continue Waste Water Treatment Plant repairs focusing on numerous deferred maintenance issues.
2. Utilize additional leased space at American Legion Hall, and continue village space needs analysis.
3. Work with UP, ICC, IDOT and Metra to establish Elburn quiet zone.
4. Continue to work with our municipal neighbors interested in negotiating boundary agreements.
5. Work with US Census Bureau to complete special census.
6. Complete build out of Elburn Metra station.
7. Complete Vulnerability Study, and begin Emergency Action Planning process.
8. Complete SCADA evaluation study.
9. Begin Waste Water Treatment Plant expansion study, possibly with village funds that will be recaptured later.
10. Complete Well #5 radium removal facility.
11. Begin Phase I Metra pedestrian overpass study, hopefully after obtaining Kane County Small Cities Grant.
12. Supervise construction of Elburn Jewel Foods Store #3347, anticipating opening prior to Thankgiving, 2006.
13. Begin rewrite of Village Personnel Manual.
14. Compete Elburn Police Department Policy and Procedures Manual.
15. Complete Phase III of Sidewalk Repair and Replacement Program.
16. Consider a Motor Fuel Tax funded street repair project, possibly reconstructing N. First Street with sidewalks, curb gutter and stormwater improvements.
17. Consider updating and rewriting village website.
18. Consider applying for CMAQ grant to fund construction of bicycle shelter and locker facilities at new Metra station.
19. Complete two new baseball fields in Blackberry Creek.
20. Continue to work on concept and preliminary plans with Kirk Homes and Shodeen Development.

They say that writing your goals down on paper increases your efficiency in reaching those goals by 80%. I truly hope that is the case because we certainly have many significant goals to accomplish in 2006.