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Water Dept. (2) Full time employee’s in this dept. 1. No painting of un-painted fire hydrants. 2. Only raise a hydrant if it ‘s broken due to an accident/fatigue and needs repair. Planned on raising 10-12 this season. This amount was accomplished last summer. 3. Valve program, which was implemented last year, would be reduced to only checking and raising the valves in the normal operations of every day job, and new project areas. Planned on doing another 1/3rd of the city’s valves like last summer. This program would not be carried on this summer if such a reduction takes place. 40 valves were raised last summer. 4. No disassembling/ rebuilding have used hydrant that are in stock for future projects, these hydrants are no longer available. Staff acquired used hydrants from the City of Coon Rapids during a conversion project, thus enables the City of Mounds View to keep their hydrants uniform and save money by rebuilding the surplus hydrants. Total of (5) were rebuilt last summer. Staff is intending on getting more hydrants from the City of Coon Rapids and Spring Lake Park were we have also received parts for this style hydrant. 5. Locating of utilities will be performed by (2) full time employee’s at full time rate, verses (1) full time employee and a seasonal worker at less than half the pay rate. This will also take time away from the preventative maintenance of the wells and other daily duties. 6. The exercising of gate valves through out the city would not be accomplished; this is an important maintenance procedure. These valves are extremely important in emergency situations to isolate areas. Examples: water main breaks, service line repairs that do not shut off at the residents home of repair, and during flushing season. 7. None to little of updating the water ties book will occur. These are the measurements off the corners of a building to state were a utility is located, such as the water shut off on a property. 8. Grounds maintenance around the well houses is an on going task as like the parks. Seasonal employees usually do this. Street Dept. (2) Full time employee’s in this dept. 1. With out the labor help in this department, due to the conditions of the roads, it will be extremely difficult to keep up the required maintenance depending on the rating of the street. This service requires a crew of a minimum of (4) personnel to accomplish this job. This has been an issue in the past few years with the additional help of seasonal.