South Dayton News

Letter from Mayor Brooks Compton: 

By all accounts, 2022 was another excellent year. Our crews were busy planning major projects scheduled to take flight in 2023. Those include the Stubbs Park Improvement Project, Benham’s Grove renovations, a patio and kitchen expansion at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace and continued work to revitalize and improve connectivity in Uptown.

City Council approved an aggressive budget in December that spells out a plan to support these projects. You can see that plan for yourself, as well as the budget presentation, at centervilleohio.gov.

We also take this opportunity to look back at 2022 “by the numbers” to show some of the many successes and stories that took place over the past 12 months.

• Less than 4: seconds on average it takes a Centerville Police Department dispatcher to answer an emergency call 

• 6: number of ports (so far) for charging electric vehicles in public parking lots 

• 10.7: residential street lane miles resurfaced 

• 10,000+ hours devoted by volunteers in the CIVIC program, The Golf Club at Yankee Trace, boards and commissions and the Centerville Police Department 

• 30,685: attendees at the annual Summer Concert Series, with an exciting schedule well underway for 2023 

• 69,000+: rounds of golf played at the 27-hole championship golf course The Golf club at Yankee Trace 

• 2.7 million: pounds of recyclables residents put out for collection by the Centerville Public Works Department, showing that Centerville residents are the area leaders in voluntary recycling. 

There are a few other “by the numbers” I would like to highlight for 2022 as well. These would not have been possible without the strong partnerships the city of Centerville has established and works to maintains with other community organizations and our elected officials at the county, state and federal level.

• 2: installations in the Community Improvement Corporation’s Centerpieces Mural Program after Jennifer Eickelberger’s Bold Centerville was painted just off of North Main Street near Activity Center Park
  
  
• 23,000+: numbers of guests who attended the Centerville Merchant Market, Fall Festival and two Party in the Park events organized in partnership with The Heart of Centerville and Washington Township, a group which empowers local businesses through community involvement 

• $1.9 million: grant dollars received from local, state and federal funding sources to support infrastructure and projects 

• $3.7 million: private investment as a results of the Centerville Community Improvement Corporation’s $328,357 in grants and loans to local businesses

 

These numbers are not comprehensive. In fact, there are many others that show the hard work being done every day to keep Centerville the wonderful place it is. We appreciate the opportunity to work on your behalf, and we are eager to share our success.

May 2023 be a year of even more hard work and even more success as we surround ourselves with the people and the community we love.

Mayor Brooks Compton

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