Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the city’s annual report, which was released this week, shows the hard work city employees in multiple departments have put into making the city a better place to live.
“In the last three years, our overall crime rate has dropped by 23.7 percent,” Gregory said. “I think that’s quite an accomplishment especially that we’re growing like we are. Public Works picked up 952 cubic yards of debris on the side of the road in different places across town which is equal to 50 full dump truck loads.”
Gregory discussed the annual report during Monday’s Elizabethtown City Council meeting. The report states that the city budget in 2025 was $130,000,000, and the city employs 400 people including 115 at the Elizabethtown Police Department and 74 at the Elizabethtown Fire Department.
Gregory said traffic collisions in Elizabethtown were down five percent in 2025.
“I think that’s the outcome of some really good police efforts,” Gregory said. “It’s the outcome of some good, safe design in our road networks, but we’re seeing that accident number go down, which is always a great thing, especially as everybody can tell we have more traffic on the road than we ever have had in Elizabethtown.”
Gregory said the city paved 11.29 miles of city streets at a cost of $1.265 million last year, and completed more than 2,000 feet of sidewalk improvements.
“We’ve been budgeting $350,000 a year to build sidewalks in parts of town that don’t have them,” Gregory said. “We’ve been budgeting that same money to restore sidewalks in the older parts of town, and you’d be surprised. There’s certain neighborhoods and areas of town that have gaps.”
The annual report can be found at Elizabethtown City Hall.
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