Troy Mayor Mike Beamish reviewed a busy 2015 including the city’s selection as an America’s Best Communities quarterfinalist and laid the groundwork for the coming year’s continued focus on economic development in his annual report.

An annual report from the mayor is required for mayors of statutory cities such as Troy. Beamish provided his written report to City Council at its first meeting of the year Jan. 4.

The report touches on activities including the number of marriages performed by the mayor (11) along with business ribbon cuttings and an array of meetings.

The report includes a monthly breakdown of various activities participated in by the mayor.

Among them was a May trade mission to Asia and Japan and the city’s America’s Best Communities project.

ABC semi-finalist communities are scheduled to be named this week. “This is a wonderful program and could prove to be very advantageous to the future of our community,” Beamish said.

Among goals the mayor listed for this year were:

- Keeping economic development the city’s number one priority with emphasis placed on developing a skilled workforce

- Continuing a partnership with the Troy schools and other educational institutions to keep youth safe and well educated and, again, create a strong future workforce.

- Continuing riverfront development “as it relates to work force and economic development.”

- Continuing to maintain the community’s quality of life.

- Continuing to support the downtown

- Continuing to promote an open door policy at City Hall. The mayor said this includes welcoming citizens to City Hall and encouraging them to address issues with proper department heads.

- Continuing to promote efforts that maintain residents’ health and safety.

“It has been a very busy and hectic but productive year. Troy is a wonderful city, a great place to live, work and raise a family. It takes all of us working together to make Troy a great community,” Beamish wrote.