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22 7.0. PUBLIC WORKS 7.01 Overview. The public works department is responsible for the maintenance of the city’s infrastructure including streets, stormwater, water, sanitary sewer and fleet. In addition, the department provides several community services, including the brush site and clean up days. The department also provides service via contract for operational maintenance services of Water, Sanitary Sewer, Stormwater, and Parks, Streets (minus snow removal) for the City of Spring Park. A summary of Orono work effort in 2023 in the form of tasks completed broken down into key areas is listed below. 7.02 Organization and Staff. To accomplish the Public Works mission we have a small, but dedicated team of full time, part time and seasonal employees. Public works has a staff of 12 full time employees, plus seasonal positions during the summer. The mechanic focuses on the maintenance of our fleet (including police vehicles) and ensuring equipment is working properly for use throughout the city. We had one employee resign and one retire. The two new hires this year replaced the resigned and retired employees. 7.03 By the Numbers (Metrics) Department 2021 2022 2023 Equipment/Fleet 173 531** 651 Sanitary 3098 3546 3074 Water 959 2562 1232 Streets 771 1302 1565 Stormwater 125 210 784 Other PW Services 6 4 4 Completed Tasks 5132 8155 7310 ** The addition of the mechanic position in 2022 led to the increase in equipment tasks that we were able to complete. 7.04 Streets. The department’s goal is to preserve and improve the city transportation system providing safe and reliable roadways for our residents, integrated with county and state systems in a way that is fiscally and environmentally responsible. The city maintains 57 miles of public streets; 1417 street signs, 3 bridges, 13 guardrails, 125,000 feet of pavement marking and 73 city owned street lights. Glendale Drive Mill / Overlay 184