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581 Mr. Schwartz provided an overview of the Public Works Department, which had 582 originally been put together by staff for the benefit of new commissioners, but 583 deferred due to other agenda scheduling conflicts. Mr. Schwartz advised that the 584 information was also periodically updated as part of the "Roseville University" 585 workshops held for interested citizens over the last few years, with each City 586 department presenting information to better inform residents about their 587 community and local government operations. Mr. Schwartz referenced the atlas 588 pages in hard copy form that had previously been provided to PWETC members, 589 and encouraged them to ask questions of or provide input to staff at any time. 590 591 Mr. Schwartz reviewed the City of Roseville's 13.Isare miles and population 592 of 33,600, 2014 Public Works Department budget of $19,500,000 and 32 FTE 593 staff, and its current organizational chart. Mr. Schwartz briefly reviewed each 594 division and their specific responsibilities: Public Works Administration, 595 Engineering, Street Maintenance, 4Di 'ties, Building and Vehicle Maintenance, 596 Solid Waste, and Asset Managem 597 598 As part of the Street Maintenance ion, Mr. Schwartz included a discussion of 599 the PMP and street lifecycle applications; 40 city -owned parking lots; and public 600 owned pathways; in-house preparation by grading and prep work before paving to 601 reduce costs; and snow plowing anthe City's current policy on street plowing 602 (available at www.cityofroseville.com.snow). 603 604 Mr. Schwartz also provided an update on the City's automatic meter reading 605 (AMR) and replacement of commercial and difficult -to -read meter replacements 606 begun in 2010 and expectations of meter replacement to be finished in 2016, with 607 4,000 installed to -date, with the Finance Department then able to read all meters 608 city-wide from four data collectors placed throughout the City. Mr. Schwartz 609 advised that this also allowed more useful data for the City and its customers in 610 leak detection, promoting efficiency and conservation, decreasing costs of meter 611 reading and billing times, reliability and better management of staff resources. 612 613 Mr. Schwartz advised that 1/3 or more of the City's entire sanitary sewer system 614 was cleaned annually with a high pressure jet, and in some cases, root cutting; 615 with 50,000 plus feet of sewer main televised annually to remain proactive in 616 gh priority segments. Mr. Schwartz advised that staff had finding problems aocant 617 made signifipss in addressing problem areas, especially when 80% of 618 the City's pipes were clay tile, and with lining technologies, PVC products could 619 be used inside those areas where the clay tile was failing, with over six miles 620 accomplished in 2014, seven miles in 2013, and five miles in years prior to that. 621 Mr. Schwartz noted that grant dollars available from State bonding through the 622 Metropolitan Council helped the City be able to do more than it could accomplish 623 on its own financially. 624 625 Mr. Schwartz reviewed the City's sanitary sewer back-up cleaning assistance 626 policy established by the City Council several years ago in an effort to protect the Page 14 of 18