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Centerville 2040 Chapter 2: Goals and Policies i .®MMUNITY I ACILITIES AND SERVICES hOALS AND POLICIES It is the goal of the City of Centerville to: • Promote safe neighborhoods and low crime in the community. • Maintain and improve the quality of life in the community. • Provide efficient and responsive services to residents and businesses. • Maintain the quality of education available to residents. • Protect Surface Water resources within and downstream from the City of Centerville. It is the policy of the City of Centerville to: • Compare the level of administrative, maintenance and emergency response services to community wide needs and objectives. • Explore potential joint service initiatives through continued communication and cooperation with City, County and School officials. • Promote effective communication with residents, business owners, educators and volunteer organizations to maintain an understanding of community goals and objectives and participate in community affairs. • Periodically evaluate the level of public services provided and the associated costs of services. • Design public utility systems for optimum development or saturation in the community and establish cost effective staging or sequencing of utility systems. • Establish priority for basic services to ensure the highest levels of safety and accessibility are provided in the community. • Expand efforts for effective communication and cooperation with surrounding cities on area growth Issues and common concerns. • Require that development proposals are consistent with planned extensions of public utilities and incorporate necessary extensions of core facilities. • Require that the installation of all public infrastructure is designed and constructed according to City standards and specifications. • Enforce ordinance provisions which require connection of existing homes and businesses with private utilities to public utility systems, within a reasonable time after public utilities have become available but not later than 2012 for areas currently served but not yet connected. •--E.nforce.....provisiens of MPCA Chapter 7090 for the maintenance of private Chapter 2 1 Page 9 83