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Fire Chief annual International Folk Festival in September, A Dickens Holiday during the holiday season and other visual art exhibitions. A new stadium, home to the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, the minor league A+ affiliate of the Houston Astros, will open in April 2019. This will anchor over $125 million in public and private investment in the downtown including new residential units, a new hotel, class A office space, and several new restaurants. The stadium is also already reserved to host the Big South Conference championship baseball tournament for the next three years. With the mild winters, seasonal springs and summers and stunning autumns, visitors have the freedom to explore all year long. Offerings include trails, playgrounds, nature centers, ballfields, biking trails, lakes, water parks and more. Visitors and residents enjoy numerous outdoor activities at various golf courses in the area such as Baywood Golf Course and Anderson Creek Golf Course. Additionally, the All-American Trail along the perimeter of Fort Bragg offers various types of outdoor activities as well as fantastic natural views of the area. 11111.11111111111111 VFW lovoW 1111111,1 1 111111l1, 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101 11111111111111'1'1'11 IRON r�r Umpow FAYETTEVILLE AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Most Innovative City - Fayetteville received the Most Innovative City award by Governing Magazine. They were named the top -performing City overall in the 2018 Equipt to Innovate national survey of American cities. Equipt to Innovate is an integrated, collaborative framework anchored in seven key characteristics of high-performance government — being dynamically planned, broadly partnered, resident -involved, race -informed, smartly resourced, employee -engaged and data -driven. Fayetteville was among the top six cities in all but one of the report's seven criteria. The City was also recognized as the top performer in employee engagement. New Transit Center - The Fayetteville Area System of Transit (FAST) opened its new FAST Multimodal Center in November 2017. The new center replaces a temporary transfer site FAST has used since 2003. The $12.6 million Center includes a 34,000 square foot facility and 16 bus bays with covered passenger loading areas. The new center will also serve Greyhound, Southeastern Coach and MegaBus and is located one block from the Fayetteville AMTRAK station. Police Department - The Police and Communications Center has received numerous accreditations and awards in the past year. They include: The Police Department's Forensic Unit - International Organization for Standardization/ International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 17020 Forensic Inspection Agency accreditation; CALEA Gold Standard Award with "excellence" distinction sanctions the professionalism and standards displayed by the department's men and women and places the Fayetteville Police Department in the highest tier of accredited law enforcement agencies in the country; and the Fayetteville -Police Communications Center received its TRI -ACE Accreditation from the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch. Fayetteville Communications is the 14th Communications Center in the world to obtain the prestigious TRI -ACE accreditation and is only 1 of 2 TRI -ACE accredited centers in the State. Fire / Emergency Services - Fire Station 12 opened in May 2018 replacing the previous station built in 1956. The $3.56M station is more centrally located to the residents it serves and is one of 17 stations to serve residents across the City. Since 2011, the Fire Department has been accredited through the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI). The CFAI program is a comprehensive self-assessment and evaluation model that enables fire and emergency service organizations to examine past, current, and future service levels/performance and compare them to industry best practices. The City has now achieved an ISO rating of "1" which is quite difficult to achieve, but more importantly allows businesses and residents to have lower insurance rates. Fayetteville Regional Airport - The Fayetteville Regional Airport received a $10 million grant to expand the terminal building. The grant is part of an overall $30 million project to renovate and upgrade the terminal built in 1969 which is supported by grants and revenues and not through taxpayer dollars.