The City of Mt. Vernon is currently working on a new comprehensive plan. Our comprehensive plan is important to the City's future and will be the vision of what the community wants to become and the steps needed to meet that goal.  In order to be successful and meaningful, the plan will need input from all members of the community.

The plan will be composed of a series of separate, but interrelated, core elements that address specific areas of concern. The major areas of concern decided for our plan are:

Infrastructure
Land Use
Economic Development
Quality of Life

Subtopics of interest may evolve within these areas as data and information from the public is gathered.  Each City Council member is serving as an ex-officio on one of these major areas of concern and has the responsibility to determine five or more individuals to serve as leaders. Each group will work toward determining their topics of interest, methods for obtaining public input, evaluation of collected data and work with the steering committee and with the DMI consultants in the computation of this data. 

The elements of the plan are interrelated in that they share common assumptions about current demographics, population and growth potential, the geographic area to which the plan applies and the time frame, possibly 20 years with an overall re-evaluation on a 5-year basis. 

                                     Mayor Mary Jane Chesley