April 2021

APRIL 2021 DPS News April – We are slowly getting back to normal with our We look forward to seeing all the team healthy and everyone in the office or out and about in the City performing proactive, predictive and golfers at the preventative maintenance. Our Team continues to be outing next month! extremely busy getting both the public and private construction projects moving forward. We’ve also prepared numerous mandated reports for enforcing agencies related to our water quality. Earlier this month, we assisted the City of Rochester with a major water emergency. We continue to update our GIS data and have just about finished winter clean-ups as we transition into our typical Spring work of inspections, water taps, area maintenance meter installations and minor road and pathway repairs. We recently applied for the Local Road Improvement grant in the amount of $126,000. As we move into to summer, we will focus on our budgets, training and continue to support the infrastructure, residents and business owners of our City. 2021 Construction Season  Concrete Program #1 – Northwest side of the City PROJECT UPDATE Begins May 10th  Concrete Program #2 – Southeast side of the City Started at the end of April  Asphalt Program – Butler Rd Begins May 10th  Hamlin Road Reconstruction Begins May 10th  Water Main project – Tienken Manor/Grosse Pines Begins May 10th  Avon/Dequindre Project Design Ongoing  Adams Road crossing, Vactor disposal pad and wash bay Design phase April hath put a spirit of youth in everything – William Shakespeare

A huge shout out to State Representative Mark Tisdel for recognizing the hard work our team does by nominating us to receive lunch on behalf of United Wholesale Mortgage. A delicious Park 600 lunch was enjoyed by all. TRAINING UPDATES We hope you had a chance to stop by • Shawn VanBuskirk and Chris this display at the Shepard completed training and end of April to learn received MissDig Remote Ticket about our Entry certifications Watershed. This project was part of • 42 DPS employees earned Cranes the educational and Hoisting certification training - 7 component of our of whom completed hands-on MS4 permit introductory training requirements. Our team gets up front and personal with nature while working throughout the City – Thanks to Seth Bucholz for these amazing photos taken on the trail behind Rochester College and at the Harding Greenspace.

DPS Happenings Welcome aboard!! Jason Berlingieri Tyler Goschnick Tracey Kelm Zachary Weninger We welcomed 4 new laborers to the DPS Constant staff in the month of Contact April. We will welcome Residents can now one more new laborer go to our Website to sign up for next month. weekly updates for all of our current projects going on throughout the city. Over 100 people have already signed up for various communications for this year’s construction projects.

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY The DPS is always keeping an eye out for ways to improve pedestrian safety. In recent years, many features have been added to our roads to help ensure that increased population and road use doesn't translate into a less safe city. Studies have shown that a set of rectangular rapid-flashing beacons at a crosswalk can reduce pedestrian crashes by up to 47%. DPS installed two sets of these beacons in 2020 and two more are scheduled for installation in 2021 on Hamlin Road. The beacons, along with special crosswalk markings, speed humps, midblock crossings/islands, and radar speed signs help create a safer, more pedestrian-friendly city for our residents. Emergency Repairs In the March Newsletter we shared the upgrades made to Pump #2 at Booster Station 1. Shortly after installing the new pump, a leak was discovered. A contractor was needed to weld the pipes to repair the leak in this underground station. The team performing an emergency replacement of a faulty fire hydrant

DPS by the Numbers By carefully 2020 File # CC Approved Remaining managing our public Project E20-001 Amount Amount projects, we were E20-001 Concrete E20-002 $2,497,199.10 $176,272.58 able to come in Construction E20-002 under budget on E20-003 $338,900.00 $128,501.27 every project we Concrete E20-003 administered in Engineering E20-004 $3,450,485.50 $454.99 2020 Asphalt $464,774.00 $154,600.00 Construction $1,702,390.80 $5,090.00 Asphalt Engineering $190,400.00 $58,500.00 Asphalt $5,295,267.00 $317,935.85 Construction Project Totals Savings Asphalt $13,939,416.40 $841,354.69 Engineering Water Project Sign Shop Data The sign-shop has a rotating schedule to replace all the signs throughout the city every 12 years due to the 12-year Retro-reflectivity lifespan of the sign material • Number of City signs: 8,102 (2,617 Guidance signs, 4,195 Regulatory signs, 213 School Signs, 1,047 Warning Signs, 30 Other) • Number of signs to replace annually: 675 • Year-to-date signs replaced in 2021: 243 RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMITS In the first 4 months of 2021 the Engineering staff has processed over 100 permits (compared to 40 in 2020) for work in our public roads right-of- ways. These permits are for work such as landscaping, drive approaches, utilities, sidewalks, etc. DPS is working towards herd immunity when it comes to Covid-19. As of the end of April 63% of our employees are fully vaccinated or have recently had Covid-19 and carry immunity.

Fleet Department The Fleet Department continues to organize the fleet area by removing unused equipment such as a backhoe and loader and other miscellaneous items. For the first quarter of 2021, Fleet has auctioned off $95,560 worth of equipment 2000 Backhoe: purchased for $68,235 and sold for $24,000 2010 Loader: purchased for $143,727 and sold for $56,000 City Council recently approved the purchase of a new mobile lift.This equipment is a completely mobile, battery powered, vehicle lift system that can be used on any flat surface in the fleet maintenance area, parking garage or in outdoor parking lots. These lifts will provide additional flexibility in how repairs are performed and how service bays without a lift currently are utilized. This system will also have the highest capacity of any vehicle lift in the garage allowing lifting of the heaviest tandem axle vehicles and equipment in our fleet.