For the third year in a row, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle received historic financial news from two of the nation's top credit rating agencies. Standard & Poor's Rating Services and Moody's Investors Service assigned The City of Huntsville their highest credit ratings. S & P awarded Huntsville a rating of "AAA" and Moody's Investors Service awarded a rating of "Aaa," each company reaffirming their prior ratings for the years since Mayor Battle has been in office.

The triple-A ratings are the highest a city can achieve, and are awarded to a minority of government entities in the nation. Less than two percent of 17,205 municipal and county governments across America receive the top rankings.

Mayor Tommy Battle has presented a balanced budget in each of his years in office. Huntsville now has a smaller government that does more with less. In fact, this year's city budget is smaller than the City's budget four years ago.

The City of Huntsville is stable even though it is nowhere near the levels of revenue and spending the City enjoyed in the years prior to 2008. Still, Huntsville is a municipal success story. Under Mayor Battle's leadership, it has continued to maintain its pre-recession level of public services, had no layoffs, tightened its belts, and done more with less.

While most governments have seen their deficits spiral out of control, Mayor Battle has seen Huntsville replenish its financial reserves and help secure our economic future.

• Since Mayor Battle took office in 2008, our return on tax dollars sent to Montgomery has risen from 53 cents on the dollar to nearly 97 cents.
• Huntsville has also paved and resurfaced more local roads than at any time previously.Under Mayor Battle's leadership, the City's Department of Public Works has spent nearly $9 million dollars on road resurfacing projects since 2009. 163 roads throughout all areas of the city have been resurfaced during that time.
• Huntsville, under Mayor Battle's leadership, now has more Police Officers and Fire Fighters protecting our city than at any point in our history.
• While many leaders talk about education, Mayor Battle organized "Mayor Battle's Book Club," in cooperation with First Book of North Alabama, and helped provide 3,000 of Huntsville's elementary students a personal library of books. More than 15,000 books were distributed to those 3,000 students.

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Tommy Battle for Mayor
PO Box 18892
Huntsville, Alabama, 35801-5532.
Alan Bibb, Treasurer

Trey Riley, Campaign Chairman

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