Ramsey Resident - 2018 - May/June

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Employee Spotlight - Public Works Department Works Department is made up distributed across four divisions, Parks, Streets, Utilities, and Building Maintenance. Together, the team manages the extensive parks, trails, streets and utility systems across all 29 square miles - tives of the department include maintenance of streets, storm wa- ter management, municipal water and sewer management, and Don Meyenburg, Shane Turner, Mike Nielsen, Matt Graf, Randy Heaton Back row: parks and recreation maintenance - Middle Row: and maintenance of City Hall Scott Berscheid, John Nelson, Dan Bray, Grant Riemer, Mike Berge, Lonny Front Row: Lofgren, Mark Riverblood, Sarah Wiener also help with City sponsored Not Pictured: Greg Lind events such as recycling days, the annual Happy Days Festival, and retention ponds, piping and ditches. Managing snow the pet clinics. and ice control in the winter months is also a large part - of their responsibilities. tain approximately 565 acres of park and trail corri- dors. Services performed include landscaping, mow- of new parks, and enhancement and restoration of equipment, including the Citys water distribution invested in the park and trail system maintenance system (water mains, pipes, and the Citys three water each year, with 10,000 of these hours contributed by towers) and its sanitary sewer system. Maintaining additional seasonal employees in the summer months. this infrastructure is a continuous process as old and worn materials are replaced and new technology is functions, including snow plowing and winter ice rink incorporated to ensure a high level of utility service. maintenance. Ramseys streets system is made up of approx- - imately 178 miles of paved streets, more than 271 hood, which takes place every spring and fall. cul-de-sacs and short dead end roads and 2.5 miles - City Hall facilities, grounds and equipment, as well as maintain this street system, such as patching potholes, preparing streets for sealcoat and overlay projects, campus and various park buildings. If you have visited grading dirt streets, right-of-way maintenance, and the Ramsey Municipal Center, or rented one of our facilities or meeting rooms, you have likely recognized department is also responsible for the maintenance of the work our building maintenance team has done to the storm water system, which includes catch basins, keep our facilities in pristine shape. Ramsey Resident May/June 2018 5