City of Methuen Master Plan

Implementation Plan
PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES
GOAL PFS-1: Continue to provide high quality services, facilities and infrastructure while balancing this with efficient
resource management.
PFS-1.1: Develop and implement a 5-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
Update it annually. Include Auditor, Assessor, key Dept. Heads, and Council
representative on CIP Committee.
PFS-1.2: Study various options for improving the police and fire stations.
• Establish CIP
Committee;
• Create CIP
• Identify funding
• Develop scope pf
work and RFP
• Hire consultant
1 2007-
2009
2 2009-
2010
Mayor; CIP
Committee; City
Council
Dept. of Econ. &
Comm. Dev.;
Police; Fire; DPW
GOAL PFS-2: Continue to provide excellence in education, accommodate increasing enrollments and support learning with
an appropriately designed school environment.
PFS-2.1: Renovate or build a new high school.
PFS-2.2: Support the Superintendent’s Task Force in their efforts to address
student-teacher ratios. Study various options to determine how to alleviate
perceived overcrowding at the elementary schools.
• Identify funding
• Develop scope pf
work and RFP
Hire consultant
1 2007-
2012
same as strategy 2 Ongoing
School Committee;
School Dept.; City
Council
School Committee;
City Council
GOAL PFS-3: Respond to accommodate a growing elderly population.
PFS-3.1: Identify potential sites for a satellite senior center to be used primarily for
medical purposes (e.g. clinic).
PFS-3.2: Consider developing City-owned/managed elderly housing.
PFS-3.3: Work with the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority and/or the
Northern Essex Elder Transportation program
• For working site
selection group
• Form elderly
housing work
group
3 2010-
2012
3 2010-
2012
same as strategy 3 Ongoing
Dept. of Econ. &
Comm. Dev.;
Council on Aging
Dept. of Econ. &
Comm. Dev.;
Housing Authority;
City Council
Dept. of Econ. &
Comm. Dev.;
Council on Aging
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