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Mayor Dale Uehling Email

A Message from the Mayor

Dear Friends,

On behalf of myself, the City Council and City staff, welcome to the City of Ottumwa Official website! We hope you will find this website useful to learn about and access City services and programs.

As a City government, we are committed to keeping Ottumwa a safe place to live and work, to ensure that our community is clean, to foster new growth and development in the community while maintaining the strides of the past and to do all of this in the most efficient, fiscally responsible manner.

Ottumwa faces many challenges. The mandated separation of our sanitary and storm sewers will be a vast project spanning many years. Improving the quality of our streets to address our growing community is always a priority of the City Council. Our commercial base is expanding in ways that could have scarcely been imagined 20 years ago. Through progressive partnerships between City government and private business and industry, we are looking forward to even more expansion and growth.

Ottumwa's population is growing, becoming larger and more diverse. Just as bridges span the river, we as citizens should work together to bridge the differences in our community to ensure a progressive, positive future for all of our residents. We are indeed the City of Bridges, bridging the many sections of a dynamic community to ensure a better future for all.

All of us - Mayor, Council Members, and the City departments – are committed to serving our citizens with professional and timely service. The City's Mission Statement reads: "To serve, preserve and improve our City with pride, efficiency and a vision for tomorrow". Fifteen very simple words that define the very core of how our City conducts business.

I hope you enjoy and make use of our City's website. Please feel free to contact any member of the City staff if you have questions or concerns about the city or services. We are here to serve you.

Sincerely,

Dale Uehling
Mayor