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Business News Pages 3-4 www.fairfield-city.org Parks Rec & reation November 2006 News Pag es 5-29 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD, OHIO City web site to get new look & functionality This month, the updates and partmental staff, who spent months City of Fairfield’s new ways to evaluating the current Web site and talk- official Web site, get them, ing to people in the community about www.fairfield- including e- their needs and expectations. The city.org, will get mail news group’s primary goal was to preserve a fresh look and alerts and the award-winning depth and breadth new online tools, RSS feeds, of information, but to make it more all designed to which are accessible to the user. help you more automatical- easily interact ly updated Services available through the Web site with your local lists of our include: government. newest I announce- Payment of water, sewer and trash bills. Among the new ments and I Search of the city’s calendar of events. features you’ll features that Visitors can even submit information about see on the site are can be read a non-profit or community group event. a friendlier navi- by special I gation; tools for news reader Review Fairfield Municipal Court users with dis- programs. records. abilities; a section devoted to Fairfield’s I Download or electronically complete business community and more frequent The redesign is the work of an interde- many of the City’s forms. I Search a listing of programs and classes Community Arts Center goes Wi-Fi offered by the Parks and Recreation Department. I The Community Arts Center is now a Wi-Fi hotspot, Get information about organizations, offering free wireless Internet access. All that is needed schools, sports programs and other services to go online is a laptop or notebook computer or a PDA offered in Fairfield. equipped with a standard Internet browser and a Wi-Fi I compliant (802.11b/g) wireless Ethernet card. If the View interactive maps, including aerial photos of your neighborhood. wireless card isn’t built into your computer, you can I purchase one at most electronic retailers. Get the latest news on road work and other projects around the City. To access the wireless network, stop by the Community Arts Center Information Desk for complete login For more information about the instructions, or visit www.fairfield-city.org/wifi. redesign, visit the City’s Web site at www.fairfield-city.org. Theater tickets available online Inside This Issue Tickets to events at the Community Arts Center theater are now available for purchase online. Mary Hopton is new Tickets for such upcoming shows as the Fairfield Finance Director . 2 Footlighter’s “I do! I do!” and “Arsenic and Old Lace” can be purchased through a secure online Leaf collection ordering system and charged to your credit card. now underway . .2 New businesses Visit the new Fairfield City Web site at www.fairfield-city.org, and click the “Community coming to Fairfield . .3 Arts Center tickets” link in the ePayment Center to Recreation News . .5-26 buy your tickets. Former Fairfield Tax Administrator Mary Hopton named City Finance Director For the last eight Fairfield, she worked A native of Willoughby Hills, east of years, Mary Hopton in three other Ohio Cleveland, Mary earned her Bachelor of worked as Fairfield’s cities, including a Business Administration degree from Income Tax period when she Cleveland State University. Mary plans Administrator and served as Acting to pursue her MBA after the new year. Deputy Finance Finance Director for Director. Today, she the City of She and her husband Matt reside in is Fairfield’s new Springboro. She also Liberty Township. The couple has a Finance Director, served as Assistant four-year-old daughter who occupies succeeding Jim Finance Director in much of her free time. Hansen who retired Springboro, from Fairfield with Willoughby Hills and “Being selected for the position was an 26 years experience West Carrollton. honor, especially succeeding someone to become the with the excellent reputation of Jim Finance Director for Most recently, Mary Hansen,” Mary said. “I realize I have Hamilton. was responsible for some large footprints to fill in this new the Income Tax position, so I asked Jim what size shoe Mary was selected Division’s move to he wears. When he told me, I knew I as Finance Director the Municipal couldn’t fill such a size, so I have set from a field of 58 Building Annex forth to make my own footprints.” applicants attracted (former Lane during a nationwide Mary Hopton Library). She served As Chief Financial Officer for the City, search. She began in as Acting Utility Mary will manage an annual budget of her new position in September. Billing and Collections Manager for a more than $50 million and a five-year period in 2005, and has been a member Capital Improvement Program of Mary has 15 years experience in the area of the City’s labor negotiating team on another $55 million. In her position, she of municipal finance. Before coming to behalf of senior management. will manage a staff of 28 people. Annual curbside leaf collection begins Fairfield’s annual curbside leaf curbs or gutters, leaves should be piled pollution to the area’s underground collection is underway. Pick-up will adjacent to the street. aquifer, which is the source of the area’s continue until the end of the year. To drinking water. In addition, debris in have your leaves collected, place leaves Under federal mandates, leaves cannot the street and gutter can block (and leaves only, please) in rows or piles be placed in the street or gutter to stormwater runoff. between the curb and sidewalk, but not prevent the potential of stormwater in the street or gutter. For areas without runoff contaminating nearby streams or Crews will not collect leaves placed in the street or gutter. In addition, special Fairfield’s Leaf Collection Schedule collections will not be made by crews Between Pleasant after they have completed an area. and Winton Nov 6-10 Due to the large volume of leaves, Nov 27-Dec 1 crews may run a bit behind schedule, West of Pleasant Dec 18-22 East of Winton however, be sure to have leaves Oct 30-Nov 3 Nov 13-17 curbside by the posted dates. Nov 20-24 Dec 4-8 Information regarding the progress of Dec 11-15 Dec 26-29 the leaf collection effort—including significant delays— will be posted on the City’s website, included in utility bills, or placed on Fairfield cable channel 18. Residents who miss the annual collection program or have a small amount of leaves may bag their leaves for pick-up on the regularly scheduled day of trash collection. 2 www.fairfield-city.org Issue No. 16 Projects dot north end of State Route 4 Winter 2007 Significant construction is under- way along both sides of State Signal & upgrades Route 4 north of Symmes Road. Two buildings are well under- way on the west side of SR 4, coming to the largest being a Valley Thrift Store. To the north of that proj- Winton/Mill & ect is a new location for Fastenal. Both projects are John Gray Roads expected to be completed by early 2007. Work is now underway on a long-awaited traffic sig- Motorists also have seen activity nal and intersection at the site of the former Fisher improvements at the inter- Body Plant, only partially used erty Fisher Park, First Highland ing areas, and the clearing and section of Winton/Mill by smaller manufacturing com- has committed itself to millions leveling of brush from the land Road with John Gray panies since the facility closed of dollars in Renovations that fronting on Symmes Road. Road. A cooperative fund- inn the mid-1980s. Last fall, the will bring the 60-year-old, 1.2 ing agreement between the plant and its 110 acres were million square foot facility to Plans call for the creation of City of Fairfield and purchased by First Highland modern manufacturing stan- commercial outlots, new metal Hamilton County Management and Development dards. siding, new windows and doors, Commissioners enabled the Corporation based in new truck docks and landscap- project to begin. Massachusetts. Work began with the demolish- ing. Numerous internal ion of the front office building, upgrades have also been In addition to the installa- With plans to rename the prop- the removal of some of the park- planned. tion of a much-needed traffic light, a southbound right turn lane will be con- structed on John Gray. South Gilmore/Mack upgrades begin Increasing traffic patterns at the intersection of Mack and South Gilmore Roads have prompted a series of upgrades. Improvements Popeye’s coming include a second southbound left turn lane from Mack to South to Fairfield Gilmore, construction of a northbound left turn lane from Renovations are underway Gilmore Road onto Flaig Drive, to the former Hardee’s at lengthening both the westbound State Route 4 and Nilles left turn lanes which would Road. Popeye’s Chicken require partial removal of the will open at the location by median on the east approach, mid-November. construction of an eastbound right turn lane and a new traffic signal. The project began with the these relocations have been maintained, however occasional relocation of nearby utilities completed, the contractor can lane closures and delays should (electric, phone and cable). Once begin work. Traffic will be be expected. 3 Do you need to install backflow protection? Proposed SR 4 With scores of install and water supplies to allow ade- businesses highly maintain back- quate room for water expan- improvements dependent on flow prevention sion.