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Mounds View City Council March 12, 2012 Regular Meeting Page 15 Public Works Director DeBar reviewed the Public Works 2011 Annual Report with the Council 1 in detail noting the department works not only with the City’s streets, but the City’s parks, parks 2 facilities, utilities and trees as well. He noted there were currently nine full time employees and 3 15 seasonal employees. He noted the experience level of the employees was quite varied, which 4 greatly benefited the department. 5 6 Public Works Director DeBar indicated in October of 2011 the vacated sanitary sewer position 7 was hired. He then discussed the work completed by the seasonal employees. He noted there 8 were 256 call back events in 2011, with 80 overtime hours and 50 pre-shift hours. Much of this 9 was due to the snow events that took place in January through March of 2011. He then discussed 10 the number of snow events in 2010-2011 stating it was the 4th snowiest winter on record. 11 12 Public Works Director DeBar explained that the City pumped 466.3 million gallons of water in 13 2011. This was below the allowed amount by the DNR, which was 593 million gallons of water. 14 The lower volume was due to the reduced amount of irrigation throughout the City. He noted the 15 City had eight water main breaks in 2011. 16 17 Public Works Director DeBar reported 80% of the City’s sanitary sewer was cleaned last year. 18 The City’s sewer Vactor truck was replaced last year which delayed the cleaning schedule 19 slightly. He noted the rain last summer increased the water levels in the City and created some 20 issues with sand being pushed into the sewer lines. Several backups were found in the mains, but 21 no backups were caused in homes. 22 23 Public Works Director DeBar explained the rainy summer in 2011 required more trimming by 24 the public works department. He stated the infield at Greenfield Park was cleaned last summer 25 which created a safer playing surface. He noted several sidewalk sections were removed at the 26 Community Center and were replaced with a handicap entrance. 27 28 Public Works Director DeBar reviewed the capital purchases in 2011. The work completed by 29 consultants for the Public Works Department was then described. 30 31 Mayor Flaherty pointed out the City saved $260,000 in engineering costs that were completed in-32 house by staff. 33 34 Council Member Mueller thanked Public Works Director DeBar for convincing the Council to 35 hire an additional staff member to allow him to put savings back into the community by 36 completing in-house engineering services. She was pleased with the vision of Public Works 37 Director DeBar. 38 39 Public Works Director DeBar stated Don Peterson has worked well as the Public Works 40 Supervisor and has assisted him greatly freeing up his time to complete other key engineering 41 tasks. 42 43 Public Works Director DeBar discussed the Area D Street Improvement project that was 44 completed last summer noting an additional 2.3 miles of City streets were reconstructed. He 45