1B, Public Works Maintenance Staffing & Workload

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utility appointments that may arise such as water meter repairs, and final water meter readings. General Street and paved surface maintenance accounted for the next most logged hours, a total of 11764. Snow and ice control, account for 850 hours almost half of the total hours. The 2008-2009 snow season began on November 12, 2008 and the last event was on March 111,2009. There were a total of 34 events, 23 just required chemical ice control and I were full plowing events. (22 weekdays, 11 weekend, 1 holiday) Our crews spent approximately 300 hours patching and repairing streets, as well as 245 hours sweeping streets. Generally,streets are swept in both the spring and the fall, and spot sweeping is completed as needed throughout the year. As was stated earlier we have over 65 different pieces of equipment in our fleet. Regular maintenance, unscheduled repairs, and seasonal changeovers of our equipment require a substantial amount of time. In the past twelve months 1,630 hours have been spent maintaining our fleet. Maintaining our fleet currently is requiring over 3/4 of the hours available from one of our staff members. In the past twelve months we have logged 1,555 hours to the maintenance of our water system. During this time period we have had eight water main breaks which accounted for approximately 630 hours. Another approximately 500 hours are related to the reading, installation, and repairs of our water meters. Water meter reading is an area where we have gained a substantial amount of efficiency with the use of technology in the past ten years. The past year it took us approximately 250 total hours to read water meters. This same task ten years ago took six employees an entire week.(240 hours) to complete each quarter. Our Acting Working Foreman accounted for 1,084 hours of time directly coordinating and planning for the daily activities of the maintenance staff. This equates to this person only being available to perform tasks with the crew approximately 50 percent of the time. Many of our work tasks are completed in groups of two people. Having the Acting Working Forman working as a crew member approximately 50 percent of the time creates gaps in the ability to have work crews of two employees. The remaining 1,700 hours were logged as follows: 0 Training- 840 hours • Surface water Utility work—440 hours • Special Projects—430 hours As has been discussed at recent meetings, the surface water utility as a focus area is relatively new as far as the requirements for our annual SWPPP and MS4 requirements. We can expect the need for increased hours in future years to meet the requirements for these programs.