Woodbury Council Sets Water Treatment, Safety Priorities
The Woodbury City Council outlined three strategic priorities for 2025-2028, emphasizing drinking water treatment implementation, public safety enhancements, and environmental stewardship during their January meeting.
The water treatment initiative continues the city's decade-long focus on water quality, with plans to complete construction of a water treatment plant and associated pipelines by 2028. The city will conduct a water rate analysis this year to finance operating costs for the new facility, which is partially funded through the state settlement with 3M. The initiative also targets a 10% reduction in residential water use per capita by 2035.
Public safety remains a priority as the city evaluates services for its growing community. The council plans to enhance recruitment and retention while continuing to integrate social workers with law enforcement for mental health and crisis response. The public safety building expansion and remodel project will require temporary relocation of services during construction to maintain uninterrupted operations.
Environmental stewardship will focus on implementing the Environmental Stewardship Plan adopted by the council in December. Staff will work with the Parks and Natural Resources Commission to update a roadmap every two years, with performance metrics displayed on a website dashboard for community tracking.
The city also announced several upcoming projects, including the launch of Destination Woodbury marketing organization in the second quarter of 2025 and the reopening of Central Park and Lookout Ridge Indoor Playground in fall 2025. The council plans to present an annual state of the city video in March.
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A few priorities of this initiative are to continue to work on the Water Treatment Plant and complete construction of Associated Water Treatment pipelines complete a water rate and analysis to finance new water treatment plant operating costs and to fund portions of the water treatment plant Capital project not supported by the state settlement with 3m improve water use efficiency by reducing Residential Water use by 10% per capita by 2035 based on an established multi-year rolling average.
enhance Recruitment and Retention of personnel while continuing to incorporate social workers with law enforcement to enhance mental health and crisis response ensure the public safety building expansion and remodel project aligns with both current and future Community growth and service needs and temporarily relocate the Public Safety Services during construction to allow for uninterrupted Service delivery.
This initiative focuses on bringing to life the vision and goals outlined in the new environmental stewardship plan or ESP which was formally adopted by the city council at its December 11th meeting alongside the ESP a 2-year road map has been developed incorporating Community feedback and priorities staff will focus on identifying and expanding key actions to begin in the first two years.
other current and upcoming projects and initiatives worth highlighting including the anticipated public launch of our new destination marketing organization called destination Woodburry in the second quarter of 2025 the reopening of the Central Park and Lookout Ridge indoor playground in the fall of 2025 and the ongoing design work for the expanded and remodeled Public Safety campus.
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A formally adopted plan outlining vision and goals for environmental stewardship, adopted at the December 11th meeting.
Developed alongside the ESP, incorporating community feedback and priorities for initial implementation actions.
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Drinking Water and Water Treatment Implementation (2025-2028 Strategic Priority)
Public Safety Enhancement (2025 Strategic Priority)
Environmental Stewardship Plan Implementation (2025 Strategic Priority)
Other Key City Projects and Initiatives
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