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Lake Michigan water, downtown improvements top priorities for Oswego’s new strategic plan · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Lake Michigan Water. Downtown improvements top priorities for Oswego's new
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  strategic plan. Written by Eric Schlkoff, This article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Improving the downtown and transitioning to Lake Michigan Water are
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  two of the priorities in the village's new strategic plan
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  for the next four years. At the February third Oswego
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  Village Board meeting, trustees unanimously approved the village's twenty twenty
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  six twenty thirty strategic Plan. The last time the village
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  had updated its strategic plan was in twenty twenty two,
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  and it covered the year's twenty twenty two to twenty
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  twenty five. A new water source was also one of
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  the priorities in the village's twenty twenty two to twenty
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  twenty five strategic plan. Lake Michigan water is needed because
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  as the village's aquifers are depleting. Goals to improve the
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  village's downtown include developing a downtown streetscape plan and making
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  the downtown more accessible and friendlier to foot traffic. In
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  twenty twenty five, the village hired Aren't Municipal Services to
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  help put together the new strategic plan. Aren't Municipal Services
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  reviewed the twenty twenty five community survey data and developed
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  three areas of analysis Areas of excellence, areas of adequacy,
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  and areas of growth. The firm also met with village
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  board trustees and village staff to come up with goals.
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  You're actually taking charge of your next four years, Aren't
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  Municipal Services President and CEO Jim Aren't said, in talking
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  to Oswego Village trustees about the need for a strategic plan.
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  You're creating goals and action items to accomplish over the
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  next several years. Other Village Board priorities in the new
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  strategic plan include increasing community accessibility, completing Wolf's Crossing improvements,
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  developing a compar Hints of marketing communication plan, planning for
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  financial stability, and creating an infrastructure asset management plan. Basically,
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  you're looking at what you want to accomplish in the
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  next four years, Aren't said. Work is expected to begin
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  later this year on the construction of a roundabout at
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  Wolfe's Crossing and Douglas Road Oswego as part of a
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  continuing effort to improve safety and ease traffic congestion along
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  the road. At the September second Oswego Village Board beating
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  trustees approved a funding agreement for the project, which is
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  estimated to cost about fifteen million. Agreement, the village is
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  receiving ten thousand, five hundred and eighty three dollars four
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  hundred and fifty nine dollars in federal funding for the project.
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  Completing the Wolf's crossing improvements was also a goal in
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  the twenty twenty two to twenty twenty five Strategic Plan