7. PRSR 05 12 2004 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Employee: Maintain an adequate workforce. Tasks: • Hire one new maintenance worker to assume the snowplow route that is vacant, because of park maintenance department transfers. • Hire one additional maintenance worker to provide one new plow route for new plats. • Start a formal in-house heavy equipment operator training program. Building Maintenance: Maintain city buildings so that they are economical to operate, functional and pleasant for the occupants. Tasks: Hire a building maintenance assistant who is capable of operating all building systems. Hire city employees for building cleaners and phase out the contract cleaners. Equipment Services: Maintain city equipment and vehicles to the highest standards so as to maximize their useful life in a cost effective manner. Task: • Set up as many units as possible to extend their primary use and where possible have a secondary use before the City disposes of them. Street: Maintenance of street and storm water infrastructure to a high level of serviceability in a cost effective manner. Tasks: • Concentrate street maintenance activities where monies spent will be most effective in extending pavement serviceability, such as seal coating, crackfilling, cold-mill patches and radiant patches. • Expand in house maintenance for such items as traffic signal maintenance. • Add GPS equipment to accurately locate storm water catch basins and out flows for the NPDES data collection. • Repair storm water drainage system as needed to satisfy NPDES inspection criteria. • Update the Street Department facility by building an equipment storage building, cold storage building, and a salt storage building. • Expand our compost facility for material drop off and pick up. Purchase the processing equipment needed to produce higher quality compost more efficiently. • Create amailbox-grouping program for cul-de-sacs to improve plow ability. • Add traffic signals on School Street at Lions Park Drive and the high school parking lot to improve traffic flow and eliminate the need for a police employee to direct traffic daily.