Public Works FY2024 Objectives

Highway Maintenance

  • Complete all Highway Division Projects given plans for.
  • Reduce salt usage through efficient anti-icing and pre-wetting operations. Also Sidewalks.
  • Replace street signs to meet FHWA guidelines.
  • Replace all crossroad culverts that are failing.
  • Get road program done earlier in year. Hope to work ahead for next year. 
  • Brush out more City Right of ways so we can maintain them with Road side mowing.
  • Work on getting shoulders back in Subdivisions so easier to maintain. 

Fleet Maintenance

  • Provide cost effective vehicle and equipment repairs for all divisions/departments.
  • Manage the DPW equipment replacement fund within the 2024 budget appropriation.
  • Utilize resources to estimate fuel usage and prices. For 2024, Public Works expects to use 12,500 gallons of unleaded gasoline and 32,500 gallons of diesel fuel. This is based on yearly averages. Budget is based on an estimate of $3.04 per gallon for unleaded and $3.54 per gallon for diesel fuel using US Energy Information Administration outlook.

Building Maintenance

  • Implement additional capital improvement projects, design / installation of HVAC components at City Hall.
  • Continue LED bulb replacement at the Public Safety and City Hall exterior and interior of buildings.
  • Continue to upgrade electrical components throughout City Buildings to be more energy efficient.
  • Organize keying system / continue implementing key fobs.
  • Clean/Seal building envelopes of City Hall, Public Safety, and DPW buildings.
  • Update water valves/ faucets as needed throughout Public Safety and City Hall.
  • Patch/paint interior walls of City Hall and Public Safety Building.
  • Addition of City owned streetlights and traffic signals to GIS system.

Recycling/Landfill

  • The City operates the brush and waste site on Bonniwell Road and a public building recycling program in its public buildings to satisfy DNR requirements.

Swimming Pool

  • Evaluate 2023 Pool Operations for potential efficiency improvements and revenue gains.
  • Assess the food/vending operations for pool, continue growth of food trucks for 2024 season.
  • Replacement of 2 pool boilers.
  • Water lateral solution to keep pool operational for 2024 season.
  • Complete building(s) and pool repairs for higher efficiency and structural prolonging (upgrade building lighting/repair building envelope/repair pool and plumbing leaks/etc.).
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