Objectives:
1. Ensure that the recommendations from this Comprehensive Plan are addressed in a timely and effective manner and that this plan is updated when more detailed studies are completed.
Strategies
a. Ensure the continuation of an ongoing board or committee whose task is to update the Land Use Ordinance and perform other actions as outlined in this Comprehensive Plan.
b. Consider ways of enhancing the Town’s planning abilities, such as through reorganization of Town planning roles, or through other means.
2. Ensure that the Town’s governance structure is adequate to meet the needs of the community in the next decade.
Strategies
a. Create either a Governance Committee or a process in order to analyze our town’s form of government and recommend the most appropriate and responsive form of government for the future.
b. Continue on-going administrative assessment of each department’s capacity to handle future demands placed on it as the result of growth and changes within Mount Desert.
c. Work to improve the level of communication and cooperation between the Town’s boards and committees, administration, and residents.
d. Promote citizenship in order to increase public participation in Mount Desert’s governmental processes.
3. Properly plan for future demands placed on municipal resources in order to increase efficiency and reduce fluctuations in the tax rate.
Strategies
a. Continue to develop a 5-year Capital Investment Plan that identifies the capital investments the town is planning to make in the next five years, when the town will make those investments, how much each investment is projected to cost, and how the town will raise the money to make those investments. Require this Capital Investment to be maintained and updated on a regular basis.
b. Continue to use long-term bonding as a tool to upgrade facilities when the potential benefit from the investment can be matched to the borrowing terms of the bond package.
c. Develop a policy to address the costs of public infrastructure directly attributed to new development.
4. Investigate the possibility of providing additional services at a regional level as a means of reducing Mount Desert’s expenses.
Strategies
a. Investigate regionalizing municipal services when efficiencies can be improved and a high level of service can be maintained.
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