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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">July 7, 2017</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Matt Gerike
<br />Geospatial Services Manager
<br />573-874-7304</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Community Dashboard increases transparency, awareness of infrastructure projects</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia residents now have a convenient way to track progress on infrastructure improvements. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The Community Dashboard is another transparency tool that lets citizens see where infrastructure projects are happening," Mayor Brian Treece said. "Taxpayers can check the progress of projects in their neighborhood, on their commute to work, and in the community to make certain the City is completing projects promised at the ballot box."</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia's Community Dashboard website is a map-based tool that communicates the current status of many capital infrastructure projects. The "City Pr
ojects" tab uses colors to indicate who is doing the project and a time slider to adjust the period of interest. Clicking on a project leads to a pop-up window with information including construction project fiscal year, project status and project time frame. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The City of Columbia's Public Works, Utilities, and Parks and Recreation departments are always busy completing existing infrastructure projects and planning new projects. These projects are listed in the Capital Improvement Project Planning Document, which is approved once a year during the budget process. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A visit to the map tells viewers that:</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">&midd
ot; The Flat Branch Relief Sewer Project 3 started construction on May 15, 2017.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">· Construction on the Thilly and Westmount 6" water main will start in the next few weeks.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">· Sam Gaines Construction is working on Providence Road intersection and pedestrian safety improvements, a project from the 2005 Capital Improvement Sales Tax ballot.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">· Parks and Recreation completed LED light fixture installation at McKee St Park June 12, 2017, while removal of the old pole and bridge replacement remains.</span><span style="font-w
eight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">· Rollins Road at Rock Creek is open and the stormwater project is nearing completion.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">City-wide, there are 143 current projects and 102 projects planned for the next one to two years. These map capabilities give citizens the opportunity to look up information on a project that might be in their neighborhood, on their commute or projects they've heard about.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Dashboard: <a href="http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Maps/Dashboard/" target="_blank">http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Maps/Dashboard/</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Capital Improvement Plan: <a href="h
ttps://www.como.gov/finance/accounting/financial-reports/" target="_blank">https://www.como.gov/finance/accounting/financial-reports/</a></span></div>
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