Canton’s chief executive said that while the city has made good progress in the past year, even more is on the horizon for 2016.
Mayor Gene Hobgood delivered the annual State of the City address late last week, noting such developments as a city debt load that’s dropped by one-third since 2010, a general fund reserve that grown 250 percent in the past four years and a reduction in the city’s millage rate to its lowest level in two decades.
Hobgood also pledged a year of action in 2016, saying that the city will finish a downtown master plan and step up revitalization efforts, continue to upgrade infrastructure and resurface streets and will finish multi-purpose trails. He said the city will also set tough standards for new housing and for battling blight.
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