2019 City of Shakopee Budget

91

Budget Impact: If your patience survived a city’s reconstruction projects in your neighborhood, CONGRATULATIONS! Road and utility construction projects equate to one big nuisance: roads closed, detours, access issues, noise, dust, periodic loss of water service, etc. How more disrupting can we be to your everyday life for a summer? Keeping the city’s infrastructure maintained to a sustainable level keeps a community viable. The Engineering Division carries out the strategic infrastructure planning to do so from concept to design, from construction management to asset management. Engineering staff are consistently challenged with being experts in a wide range of infrastructure management and design, traffic safety, transportation planning, materials testing, project management, natural resources, contract management, underground utilities, surveying, private development and the many different multi-jurisdictional layers of laws, rules and regulations that the city must abide by. Our department consistently seeks the continuing education to ensure we stay sharp in our expertise and all the latest and greatest technologies. Thank you in advance for your patience in all that we do. With a new building and recent staff changes, our division is continuing to improving our system service and internal systems in 2019. We anticipate this will be a year of improvements in how we do business internally and in our partnership with other city departments, particularly the Department of Planning and Development.

EMPLOYEES

PERCENT OF GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES

8

8

8

7.75

Engineering 3.3%

Actual 2016 Actual 2017 Budget 2018 Budget 2019

Number of Employees (FTEs)