The mayor said the city has loaned more money to small businesses under his administration than in years past — more than $9 million since 2000 vs. $705,000 from 1991 to 1999.

And he pointed to a host of major development projects in the pipeline for downtown and other areas of the city. Those include The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' City Creek Center, Hamilton Partners' 420,000-square-foot office building at 222 S. Main St., and plans for a Hispanic-oriented shopping and lifestyle center at the corner of North Temple and Redwood Road.

• Law enforcement: Anderson described the city's restorative-justice programs, an array of law enforcement, court and social services he and his staff have implemented that focus on rehabilitating criminals and aiding victims.

Some of the more severe crimes — homicide, rape, robbery, arson and others — are down 8 percent from 2005, the lowest level of serious crime in the city in 14 years, while similar crimes are on the rise nationwide.

• Diversity: Anderson said Salt Lake City's government is "more inclusive than ever before, with a place at the table for all." He pointed to his 2000 executive orders on nondiscrimination and affirmative action as having contributed to a 30 percent increase in ethnic minorities in the city's employ in the past seven years. That increase has included 85 percent more ethnic minorities among city administrators.

• Plans for the year: Among Anderson's goals for his last year in office, he said he wants to create segregated bike lanes — lanes physically separate from automobile traffic — to make bicycling a safer alternative to driving.

He said the city's Division of Housing and Neighborhood Development will actively lobby the federal government to reverse the Bush administration's "outrageous, regressive" cuts in community development block grant funding, which the city has used to build a number of low-income housing units.

And he vowed to continue pushing for full funding for his plans for a Pioneer Park face-lift, which would add a public plaza, food and beverage concessions, a dog park, a bell tower, historic gardens and a number of other improvements.

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