Public Works

Public Works

Mission Statement:

Working to serve the public in a safe, prompt, courteous, efficient manner. Our dedicated employees, strive to plan, design, inspect, build, and maintain public infrastructure in a manner that adequately preserves these assets for succeeding generations.

Primary Responsibilities

Public Works crews keep the City moving maintaining roads and lanes, providing potable water, looking after the sanitary and storm water systems and preforming water main repairs. Public works also enhances our citizen’s lives by beautifying our parks, streets and boulevards as well as uphold the city’s many playgrounds and recreational facilities. Public Works aslo provides engineering approvals and quality control of new developments as wells as infrastructure upgrades. Fifty-three staff members with a vast skill set are designated to parks, waterworks, roads, fleet services, electrical, carpentry, plumbing and administration. Based on seasonal requirements, staff are allocated to the area they are most effective.

2017 Key Projects

Sanitary Flow Monitoring

As a proactive measure to prevent sanitary backup as well as provide data for effective infrastructure upgrades Public Works is installing three sanitary sewer flow monitoring stations. These stations will be installed in key locations to provide early indication and trend data to the City’s existing SCADA system. In the event of a sewer overflow situation the monitoring will utilize the SCADA call out feature to notify call out staff.

City Roads Program

Public works will be taking on another year of an aggressive roads and sidewalk repair program utilizing various techniques including year two of three crack sealing program. 2018 will include the purchase of an infrared asphalt heater for higher quality repairs, a recycler hotbox, a city owned crack sealer as well as a curber to help control storm water.

Baker Street Lighting

As part of a planned replacement as well as beautification of downtown, Public Works will be replacing the street lights on Baker Street. The theme will be similar to 10th Avenue in front of City Hall utilizing a black pole with decorative fixtures.

Hydrant Testing at Jim Smith Lake Core Department Mandates: • Aggressive road maintenance repair program utilizing various repair techniques in multiple areas • Aggressive sidewalk maintenance and replacement program • Baker Street decorative street light replacement • R.C.M.P Cell Retrofit and secure booking area • Focus on real-time reporting, inspections and effective asset management

Joseph Creek at Baker Park Walking Bridge Replacement at Kinsmen Park

2017 Priority:

• Sustainable management and real-time monitoring of assets

2017 Key Accomplishments:

• 3-1-1 system • Sidewalk program 2018 Goals: