February 2020

DPS NEWSLETTER February 2020 - As the mild winter The team at the DPS garage did a continues, the DPS department is great job tackling nine snow events busy doing winter cleanups, repairs, during February (see chart below). construction project preparations and The Fleet Department kept all the some spring cleaning. vehicles up and running. The meter department did a great job clearing Our engineering team has been hard the new Auburn Road Corridor. All at work looking into new technologies of the Laborers, Light and Heavy such as BSA, PZE and Blue Beam. equipment operators as well as the Jenny McGuckin is migrating all the Crew Leaders and Managers pitched sign inventory into the Roadsoft in to clear the roads and pathways software. Scott Windingland is in a very timely manner to ensure working on updating all of our GIS and the safety of our employees and GPS information. Our Clerks have sent residents. out over 50 letters since the beginning of the year to residents and (Continued on next page) businesses regarding site plans, upcoming construction projects, permits, master deed reviews, purchase agreements, etc. 9.53 Inches of snow in the month of February according to Weather Sentry February 2020

DPS NEWSLETTER This month, our Management team participated in the Community Outlook breakfast, attended a Webinar on up and coming functionally for SkyHawk, AVL, Version 2.0 and completed 22 Capital Improvement Plan applications worth $36 million. Our staff continuously stays in contact with Midwest Strategies to stay up-to-date on new Legislation pertaining to environmental protections, road funding and other issues directly affecting the work we do in Public Services. Allan was part of the selection committee for the APWA Projects of the year. Paul Shumejko made a motion to the Federal Aide Committee to move the remaining $200k federal reimbursement from 2021 to this year. This funding should be available this spring. Tracey and Leon are administering the UCMR4 testing (see box). UCMR4: Every five years the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requires that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issue a new list of no more than 30 unregulated contaminants to be monitored by public water systems (PWSs). The UCMR program provides nationally representative data on the occurrence of particular contaminants in drinking water to help the EPA determine whether to initiate the process to develop a national primary drinking water regulation. The City of Rochester Hills is required to test several locations monthly and bi-weekly for the rest of the year. The staff also received and evaluated bids totaling close to $14 million for several major construction projects, pushing for a first quarter solicitation to secure favorable bids. These projects include: • 2020 Concrete Road Replacement Program • 2020 HMA Road Rehabilitation • 2020 HMA Road and Pathway Rehabilitation Program • Bedford Square and Tienken Court Water Main/Road Resurfacing Project Personnel: We continue to make training a priority and are working to fill the 12 vacancies in the department. We are hoping to have our new part-time Administrative Assistant on board by mid-March. We will start interviewing applicants for the Field Services Manager, Laborers and summer seasonal positions in the coming weeks. We wrapped up our 70 in-person performance evaluations and transferred all 70 of those to the new PERFORM platform. February 2020

DPS Appreciation The Mayor’s office received a call from Daisy Marshall today. Daisy lives at 3479 Lincolnshire Ct. She said she was so happy to share what a great job the DPS team did today with the snow plowing. As a senior who has difficulty shoveling, she really appreciated the diligence she saw from our team. Great job! :) Good afternoon Allan, From our very own Jeff Please thank the guy who just Sellers: Good morning came through our street today. He gentlemen. I was at a was careful with our driveway and church men’s retreat this the sewer drain. I am especially weekend. And one of the appreciative today, since we live on gentlemen there was a V.P. a hill the snow drifts have been for General Motors who tough. In many sections it seems happens to live in the city like I had not even gone out and of Rochester Hills. And it shoveled. Hopefully this is our last made me proud to say I'm snow for this winter. a City of Rochester Hills employee. This Thanks, Colleen Fitch gentlemen had nothing but great things to say about city service. Just thought I would pass this along.

Community Impact Dear Mr. Luedeman- I wanted to take this opportunity once again to thank you for giving our St John Lutheran Future City team students such a wonderful, interesting and thorough tour of the DPS and water system back in November. They really appreciated getting a real life look at problems they are trying to solve. You were so generous with your time and willingness to answer their questions. They were also able to integrate information about you, the field trip, and SCADA into their Q & A time in the state regional competition on January 28th. We wanted to let you know that they competed against 32 other teams, and they won! As the Michigan Regional Champions, our team is leaving this weekend to travel to Washington DC to compete at the National level just blocks from the Capitol. We will be competing against teams from around the country with the final competition on Tuesday, February 18th. Thank you again for your help and investing in our team! Sincerely, Julie Raikes (parent) “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller

Brian Vermander hard The City of at work on a chilly day! Rochester Hills & Iafrate won a Michigan Concrete Association Award for the Auburn Rd Corridor The crews responded to a water main break at Brewster and Roseview late in the day on Friday, February 28th 179 residents viewed the public plow tracker for the snow storm during the last week of February. Analysis provided by DPS Happenings

Fleet Crew Lunch Selfie February 2020 Insourcing total $3,855 February 2020 Fleet Services Work Distribution Library 1% City Fleet Roch Fire 96% 3% The Fleet team is busy onboarding 14 new pickup trucks, ordering a new PRV truck, a wheeled excavator, crew and dump trucks, as well as putting a new easement machine into service. This machine will help clean up sewer pipes that are inaccessible with the sewer truck. Fleet Department News