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Green celebrates successes despite tough 2020
Brian Lisik
Suburbanite correspondent
GREEN Following a year marked by uncertainty and apprehension, Green Mayor Gerard Neugebauer delivered a cautiously optimistic outlook for 2021 in his annual state of the city address Jan. 26.
“Typically, over 300 residents, community and business leaders gather at Raintree Golf and Event Center to hear this address,” Neugebauer said of the virtual address. “But 2020 was not a normal year.”
Neugebauer recounted the city’s response to announcements in early March 2020 that the COVID-19 pandemic had “hit Ohio.”
“As we watched the gathering storm with dread, we were unsure of what it would take to weather the storm, to operate a city in a pandemic,” Neugebauer said. “We knew our priority would be public safety. All our employees were essential, but perhaps now in different ways than before.”