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7.0. PUBLIC WORKS <br />7.01 Overview. <br />The public works department is responsible for the maintenance of the city's infrastructure including streets, <br />stormwater, water, sanitary sewer and fleet. In addition, the department provides several community services, <br />including the brush site and clean up days. The department also provides service via contract for operational <br />maintenance services of Water, Sanitary Sewer, Stormwater, and Parks, Streets (minus snow removal) for the City <br />of Spring Park. <br />2024 was a special year for the Department with the grand <br />opening of our new state of the art Facility to meet the <br />e growing needs of the city's Public Works, Parks and Fleet <br />departments.1� <br />A summary of Orono work effort in 2024 in the form of tasks completed broken down into key areas is listed <br />below. <br />7.02 Organization and Staff. <br />To accomplish the Public Works mission we have a small, but dedicated team of full time, part time and seasonal <br />employees. Public works has a staff of 13 full time employees, plus seasonal positions during the summer. The <br />mechanic focuses on the maintenance of our fleet (including police and Fire vehicles and equipment) and ensuring <br />equipment is working properly for use throughout the city. <br />We had two employees resign and Our Utility Supervisor Scott Oberaigner retire after 34 years of service to the <br />city. We saw our administrative assistant get promoted to a position in our fiance department. The three new <br />hires this year replaced the resigned, retired and promoted employees. <br />7.03 By the Numbers (Metrics). <br />Department <br />2021 <br />2022 <br />2023 <br />2024 <br />Fleet <br />173 <br />531** <br />651 <br />655 <br />Facilities <br />247 <br />162 <br />229 <br />*** <br />Sanitary <br />3098 <br />3546 <br />3074 <br />3430 <br />Water <br />959 <br />2562 <br />1232 <br />1337 <br />Streets <br />771 <br />1302 <br />1565 <br />1329 <br />Stormwater <br />125 <br />210 <br />784 <br />473 <br />Other: (Admin; Events) <br />523 <br />501 <br />449 <br />30 <br />Completed Tasks <br />5896 <br />8814 <br />7984 <br />7695 <br />** The addition of the mechanic position in 2022 led to the increase in equipment tasks that we were able to <br />complete. <br />*** Other used to include Parks, Engineering and Facilities now compiled under their sections. <br />25 <br />35 <br />