WATERVILLE $ Mayor Paul R. LePage will run for re-election Nov. 4, after being nominated Monday night as the Republican candidate for that position.

Eight adults and two children turned out for the Republican City Committee caucus, held in the council chambers.

LePage has served five years as mayor and if re-elected, would serve three more years. He will face Councilor Rosemary J. Winslow, D-Ward 3, who was nominated by Democrats last week to run for mayor.

"This would be my final term," LePage said after the caucus. "It's time. I just want to finish some of the things we started."

LePage said he wants to see completion of the Hathaway Creative Center, an effort by Rhode Island developer Paul Boghossian to develop the former shirt factory on Water Street into a residential, office, retail and cultural center. The mayor said the project was launched while he was mayor and he wants to see it through.

"The school consolidation program and the monies needed for the high school renovations, to me, are going to set the stage for major expenses for the city for the next 20 years and I feel that I bring the best opportunity to do that, fiscally and responsibly, since my training is in finance and economics," he said.

He said the city also needs to look at new housing for the Police Department, which currently is in a confined space in the basement of City Hall.

"They've clearly outgrown it and now that we're doing some of the dispatching for surrounding communities, they're just locked and full down there," he said. "We need to address that. They're in such a compressed area and they're full and we'll start to have more problems on the technical side."

LePage said there are three options for the Police Department: moving it to the fire station or the Social Security Administration building on Front Street which will be vacated when the staff there moves to a future building on Colby Street; or building a new facility.

He said the city's facilities committee will discuss the issue today and councilors will be updated at tonight's council meeting. Members of the facilities committee include LePage, City Manager Michael Roy, Public Works Director Mark Turner and Councilor Thomas R.W. Longstaff, D-Ward 6.

LePage said he also wants to continue lowering taxes, which will allow the city to be competitive and collaborate with surrounding communities.

"I think we are the only city in the state that has not raised taxes in the last five years and has, in fact, lowered them the last four years," he said.

LePage was nominated for mayor by Charles Gaunce, city committee vice chairman. LePage also was chosen to run the caucus. Diane McGraw, committee secretary and treasurer, was elected caucus secretary Monday; Roger Collins was nominated to run for Ward 2 warden. No nominations were made for councilors in wards 2, 4, 5 and 6; Board of Education in wards 2, 4 and 6; and for two Kennebec Water District positions. Anyone interested in serving is asked to contact LePage or City Clerk Arlene Strahan.

"If you find somebody, let me know and I'll try to have them come in and sign the paperwork and I'll get them on the ballot right away," Strahan said.