Over on his blog, Mayor Floyd recaps discussions at the city commission’s recent annual retreat with staff and talks about the city’s challenges in the coming year/s.

Not surprisingly, the economy is top-of-mind right now and the mayor hints that we may need to start making cutbacks in our budget, even though we’re currently in pretty good shape.

In addition to that, he highlights four key issues that “will consume a majority of the hours available” in the coming year.

Its the mayor, so its obviously must-read.

h/t: InDecatur

Mayor Floyd gives us an update on the GDOT’s plan to eliminate funding on Scott Boulevard sidewalks, which I mentioned last week and reports that the GDOT is willing to do “some work” along Scott.

However, residents and city officials will have to choose: either new sidewalks on the “south side of Scott across from Westchester, Lamont to Clairemont” or repairs to existing sidewalks.

The mayor asks for comments, but like a commenter mentioned in a previous post, I can’t figure out how to submit something on the mayor’s blog. Perhaps comments are turned off? If so, to turn them back on, click on options and then make sure that “Allow people to post comments on the article” is checked off.

I can’t imagine that if given the opportunity there would still be “no comments” on the mayor’s site. Personally, I’m seeing many of my readers jumping over to his site from this one.

In regards to the sidewalks choice, I guess I would prefer that money be spent on repairs. No one walks down that road by choice, only out of necessity to get from point A to point B. Might as well have a smooth, uncracked surface to do it on.