Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 9

76 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 9 as it moves forward with future growth and opportunities. Relationships and involvement with local non-profits are equally important in creating and maintaining a thriving community. “We have good partnerships with a lot of the non-profits in the area, like the Strafford County Regional Planning Commission, and the Strafford Economic Development Commission, as well as the Chamber of Commerce, Main Street organization, and the Riverwalk Committee,” says Scala. “The city tries to be involved with all of these, helping where we can. Our city staff is very involved in boards and commissions, whether it is city related or non-profit related. We have a number of partnerships, and we try to leverage those connections wherever we can.” With its walkable and bikeable streets, century old buildings, and diverse selection of retail and service options, downtown Rochester is a destination for citizens and visitors to the community. Revitalizing the downtown core ©2021 Brown and Caldwell. Engineers Scientists Consultants Constructors Water Supply and Treatment Wastewater/Reclamation Integrated Project Delivery Smart Utility One Water Water Resources/Stormwater Industrial Water Remediation Utility Performance Infrastructure ProgramManagement ConstructionManagement Compliance and Permitting Operations andMaintenance Emerging Contaminants and PFAS DeborahMahoney , NewEnglandOperations | 978.983.2069 100%Environmental | Employee Owned | BrownandCaldwell.com redesigned to manage stormwater are other ways in which the City of Rochester is working to encourage sustainability. Cox shares another project which is in the planning stages, “For about a year and a half now we have been looking at creating a municipal solar farm on city-owned property adjacent to our wastewater treatment plant. We’ve been in the information gathering and planning stages, while waiting to see if the state was going to increase the net metering limit, which they just did in the last month. We were waiting for that to happen, and now I anticipate that the project will kick into high gear. So, we will be developing a city-owned solar farm in the next year.” Organizations such as the New Hampshire Business and Economic Affairs Department (BEA), and the Business Finance Authority (BFA), are important partnerships for the City of Rochester