Earlier this week East Lansing residents received the City’s Annual Report or, as many of us think of it, the City Calendar. The intent of the Annual Report, in addition to serving its obvious purpose, is to provide you the taxpayers, with a city report card of sorts. In fact, the report includes fiscal information, economic development updates, significant advances and highlights from each of the City’s departments.

From time to time we are asked why we undertake this effort and expense. First, we provide this report to keep you informed of what we’re doing with your tax dollars (mind you, this is only one way in which we do this). Second, our recent Citizen Opinion survey showed that 54% of respondents get their information about city affairs from mailed publications such as the Annual Report and the Dialog – this outranked all other modes of communication including the local newspapers and broadcast media so we feel pretty confident that we’re on the right track! And finally, the Annual Report gives us a great opportunity to celebrate achievements of the past year and share with you our pride in this community.

The City’s Communications Department does an outstanding job of compiling this document each year. When you do receive the Annual Report in the mail I hope you’ll read through it and not only take note of the events of the past year, but begin to look forward to all of the exciting city events that will “ring in” with 2009!

Click here to go to the Annual Report Page