AUBURN – An eight-year veteran of Waterville City Hall will help draw attention to the things happening in Auburn Hall.

Tracey Steuber joined City Manager Pat Finnigan’s staff in July. She’ll act as a liaison between Auburn Hall and the public and media. That includes answering questions and managing the city’s special events – like the Balloon Fest, Festival Plaza programs and annual Winter Festival.

She’s also assumed responsibility for managing and updating the city’s Web site at www.auburnmaine.org. She’s concentrating on keeping the Web page up-to-date now, but she’s beginning a complete redesign.

“We’ve had the same look on the Web for six years,” said Laurie Smith, assistant city manager.

The new look won’t debut until 2007, Steuber said.

Steuber is also hoping to resurrect the monthly calendar and newsletter.

Both the newsletter and the Web site were Smith’s responsibility until she took over the temporary role of finance director in February 2004.

“It’s been a couple of years since we’ve had one person devoted the Web site,” Smith said.

She’ll also be tasked with helping start a downtown program and encouraging businesses to work together to promote themselves.

“Waterville has a program, and so we’re hoping to start something like it,” Smith said.

Steuber began working as Waterville’s chief executive assistant in 1998. That job had her involved in economic development and event planning when producers of the movie “Empire Falls” came to town.

They needed a liaison with the city, to help find a place for their production office and answer day-to-day questions. She helped them settle into an old Central Maine Power Co. office and continued working with them, right up to the premier.

Her office on Auburn Hall’s second floor contains several pictures and mementos from that job.

“If they needed anything, they didn’t know who to call,” she said. “That became my job, because I had the contacts in the community. If they needed a baby sitter, I knew how to find day care in the area.”

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