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New Albany is a friendly, welcoming community of roughly 12,000 residents.

Community

We are committed to creating amenities that foster a strong sense of community based on our founding pillars of lifelong learning, culture and the arts, health and wellness, and the environment. These pillars are evident in our Village Center, where our community assets include the New Albany-Plain Local Schools campus (ranked among the top 3% of all Ohio school districts), Columbus Metropolitan Library – New Albany branch, Philip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany, Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts, restaurants and shops, and Rose Run Park, our central park which physically connects all of these assets while adding to the abundance of green space in the core of town.

New Albany is also home to one of the largest master-planned commercial office parks in the Midwest. Home to more than $45 billion in private investment and over 25,000 employees, the 9,000+ acre park features triple-feed electric power and fiber-optic capabilities for companies of all sizes, including Abercrombie & Fitch, AEP, Aetna, Facebook, Google and Intel.

Government Structure

New Albany utilizes the Council-Manager form of government.

This combines the political leadership of elected officials along with the managerial experience of an appointed, professional city manager who serves as New Albany’s CEO. The current city manager is Joseph F. Stefanov. He has served in this capacity since 2000 and is the longest serving city manager in New Albany’s history.

City Council is the legislative branch of government consisting of seven members, one of whom is the mayor. Mayoral and City Council elections are held in November of odd-numbered years and are non-partisan. Residents elect city council members to four-year terms. The mayor, in addition to the powers, rights and duties of a City Council member, presides over meetings and acts as a primary spokesperson for the city. New Albany’s mayor has no veto powers.

The city manager serves as the community’s CEO and is appointed by City Council to:

Provide organizational leadership
Manage municipal operations
Both coordinate and direct the budget process
Oversee implementation of City Council enacted policies as well as adopted budgets
Ensure effective delivery of services to both New Albany residents and businesses
Advise City Council members on policy matters and also keep them apprised of municipal operations
Direct department heads and consultants
Implement all fiscal, planning and infrastructure programs

About Our Organization

The following departments compose the City of New Albany:

Administration
Community Development
Finance
Police
Public Service

The City maintains a lean and flexible organizational structure that allows for adapting to changing external demands. Seasonal employment opportunities include both Summer and Winter. Summer seasonal positions typically post in April for a hire date as early as May. Winter seasonal positions typically post in October for hire as early as November or December. The Community Development department participates in Ohio State’s Knowlton School of City and Regional Planning through hosting an internship for students enrolled in the Master’s program.

New Albany utilizes the National Testing Network for pre-employment tests for dispatchers and police officers. All positions in the city are appointed based on merit and fitness. Therefore, many processes for promotion are open to external applicants, including positions within the police department.

Administration

Like many private sector CEO/Board relationships, the city manager serves as CEO, advises City Council on policy matters, implements City Council enacted policies, provides organizational leadership and also works with City Council to develop and execute a vision. Organizational priorities include:

The continued pursuit of improvements and efficiencies to city operations
Growing our local economy through programs and projects that encourage private development and maximize New Albany’s return on capital investment
Enhancing our community through development that supports lifelong learning, health and wellness, the arts and sustainability.

Administration functions include:

Human resources
Public records management
Legal services
Information technology
Risk management
Buildings and grounds
Communications
Community relations
Special event coordination as well as special projects.

Community Development

As a strategically-planned community, New Albany effectively manages the inevitable growth that all communities experience by collaborating with residents and businesses. Growth does not come without challenges. However, our goal is to guide growth, making sure it aligns with our aspirations to improve and protect our quality of life.

The community development team thus manages the built environment through comprehensive planning, zoning, building, economic development and engineering services. Beauty abounds here, from our Georgian architecture and wooded vistas to our vast array of parks and green space. Counting both the Rocky Fork Metro Park, Rose Run Park, and Taylor Farm Park, nearly one in five acres is devoted to parkland or open space. Additionally, our 73+ miles of leisure trails connect our neighborhoods to the business park and the Village Center, our core and gathering place for dining and community celebrations.

Our 9,000+ acre New Albany International Business Park is the largest strategically-planned commercial office park in Ohio. It contains over 25,000 jobs, 33 million square feet of commercial development representing more than $45 billion in private investment, and six specialized industry clusters. These company partners are crucial to our community success because local income taxes are the life blood of city services (property taxes mainly support our schools, township fire, parks and county-wide services).

Finance

New Albany Finance functions include overseeing fiscal operations, debt issuance, providing an accurate accounting of receipts and disbursements, managing financial investments and coordinating the annual audit. New Albany’s general obligation rating from Moody’s Investors Service is Aaa and from Standard & Poor’s is AAA. These are the highest ratings possible by those agencies. The City of New Albany is one of only seven Ohio cities to obtain this “double triple” rating.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada recognized New Albany for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. The City also received GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award. This award reflects the city’s commitment to meeting the highest principles of governmental budgeting. In order to receive the award, New Albany had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines designed to assess how well an entity’s budget serves as a policy document, a financial plan, an operations guide and a communications device. Additionally, the finance staff received the Ohio Auditor of State Award with Distinction for financial reporting.

Police

New Albany is one of Ohio’s safest communities. A key reason for this is our police force’s strong interaction with residents and businesses to protect life and property. Whether performing vacation house checks, offering women’s self-defense classes, working with businesses, patrolling neighborhoods, conducting bicycle safety programs for children or maintaining a two-officer presence on the school learning campus throughout the academic year, our officers understand that strong relationships set the foundation for a safer community.

Public Service

No department better depicts traditional City services than the public service department. Our crews work around the clock to perform such services as:

Snow removal
Leaf collection
Mosquito management
Road maintenance
Fire hydrant maintenance
Water and sewer line maintenance
Traffic signal maintenance
Maintaining the streetlight flower pots along Market Street
Managing trash, recycling and yard waste collection
Trimming of right-of-way trees.

This department’s efforts enhance the quality of life for residents, visitors and employees throughout our community. The public service staff is also essential to other City departments, as they perform maintenance on all City-owned properties, vehicles and equipment.

Transparency in Coverage

In compliance with the Transparency in Coverage regulations, through UnitedHealthcare, and UMR, HealthSCOPE Benefits creates and publishes the Machine-Readable Files on behalf of the members of the Central Ohio Health Care Consortium.

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New Albany is a friendly, welcoming community of roughly 12,000 residents.

Community

Government Structure

New Albany utilizes the Council-Manager form of government.

About Our Organization

The following departments compose the City of New Albany:

Administration

Community Development

Finance

Police

Public Service

Transparency in Coverage

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