The city is administered by a Mayor and five-member Council, all elected concurrently every four years. Two Council members are elected at large and five by district.
Council Meetings: 2nd and 4th Monday of each month City Council web site
Business and Industrial Development Assistance:
Economic Development Corporation web site
Department of Building web site inspection, ordinances, guide to site development, landscape plants for commercial/retail/parking lots, building code
compliance software
Department of Planning web site zoning, annexation, comprehensive plan
Redevelopment Commission web site oversees the city's two tax increment financing districts, which collect tax revenue within their districts and use the revenue for a variety of infrastructure projects