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• Can the duties be re -engineered or automated? Please explain. Cour <br />department has requested the purchase ql*a truck mounted injection <br />patcher in the 2018 capital equipment schedule. This would reduce a <br />considerable amount of the hand work in road patching, but would still <br />require a trained operator to run the equipment. This position would still <br />be involved in other parts of our maintenance operations that can 't be <br />automated such cis snow plowing, street siveeping and ROW maintenance. <br />+ Can the duties be reassigned temporarily or permanently? To a certain <br />extent Please explain, Currently we are using seasonal part time help to <br />perform some of the_ actions of'the position. However, .seasonal <br />employees are not allowed or qualified to run most of our larger <br />equipment. This limits our ability to take on larger summer projects, such <br />as trail paving, .summer street sweeping, .storm water .system repairs and <br />larger patching projects. <br />• Can the position remain unfilled temporarily or permanently? No Please <br />explain. I feel we are approaching the limit of our ability to keep tip with <br />our basic maintenance responsibilities. We spend more time than we <br />.should in a reactionary mode instead of being proactive. <br />• Can the position be filled internally? Possibly, but if it was,filled internally <br />by an employee currently working in a regular city position (not a paid- <br />on-call„frrefighter or the like) the vacated positon would need to be <br />backfilled. What is the impact (i.e., to residents, business owners, <br />employees, and/or operations) if the position is not filled? The request for <br />.service from our residents ' continues to increase. The PW department <br />received and responded to 475 CRM tickets in 2011. The majority of <br />requests come from the areas of snow plowing and potholes. The ability <br />to respond to these requests in a timely manner is directly related to this <br />PW position. <br />• Can the service provided be reduced, eliminated, or contracted out? <br />Contracted out to a certain extent. At present we contract out two areas, <br />snow removal of the Municipal Parking Ramp and the northern half ref the <br />city.for our spring street sweeping. Last year these contracts cost the city <br />approximately S58, 000. 00, While this position would not completely <br />eliminate these costs, it would give us the staff to bring these activities <br />back in house and reduce the costs considerably. <br />+ What is the budgetary impact if the position is not filled (e.g., additional <br />overtime/compensatory time off costs) There will be some increase in <br />overtime costs associated with snow removal operations, especially the <br />parking ramp. All of'the current staff is assigned to snow removal on city <br />