News Release

MILFORD — The Town of Milford is applying for a Community Development Block Grant available through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs to support the town in developing a strategic infrastructure plan. The purpose of this plan is to define Milford’s major issues with its public utility services and create a strategic infrastructure plan to identify the improvements needed to assist the town in offering high-quality and dependable utility services.

If awarded these funds Milford will be able to establish a systematic method of inventorying its public utility assets and facilities, develop a community vision to help guide future growth and economic development opportunities and create a plan to improve utility infrastructure systems. A major component of the application is to document residents’ needs and the issues they experience with their water and wastewater services, and the town needs to hear from its residents. One of the ways residents can provide your input is to fill out a short survey and share the issues you experience.

The Town of Milford’s employees and MACOG staff will be conducting door-to-door surveying beginning the week of March 28 in an attempt to reach as many residents as possible. Staff will come to the door with a short survey asking residents’ to share issues they’ve experienced with their water, wastewater, and stormwater services.

Regarding the surveying effort and the town’s project, Town Clerk Tricia Gall said, “the Town of Milford would like to have a plan to evaluate the town’s current and future needs for its water, wastewater and stormwater systems and prioritize those needs. Once we have this plan, it will allow us to keep our community members’ cost as low as possible and to pursue additional funding opportunities to assist us in making improvements to our system. However, in order to ensure we are evaluating the needs of all our community members, we need to get feedback from as many community members as possible. The Town of Milford is here to represent its community members. In order to best do this, at times we request information via surveys and other forms of communication. We currently are seeking information as it relates to our water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. Please complete a survey for your household as we want to ensure that all needs of the community are represented in any future plan for the town.”

It is important to get as many survey responses as possible in order to document issues and needs, as well as resident support for the strategic infrastructure plan to be created. The Town of Milford and the staff at MACOG greatly appreciate the time and effort residents will dedicate to answering the short survey to enrich the grant application.

Residents can contact the town clerk’s office at (574) 658-4519 with any questions about surveying efforts taking place. Any additional questions or comments about the survey or the town’s project can be directed to Donny Ritsema with MACOG at [email protected] or (574) 287-1829, ext. 503.