AUTHORIZATION TO ELIMINATE POSITIONS IN THE COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND CREATE POSITIONS IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Staff Contact: Jack Friedline, Director, Public Works
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Purpose and Recommended Action
Recommendation
This is a request for City Council to eliminate two positions currently authorized in Community Services, Community Housing and create two positions in the Public Works, Engineering Division to assist in managing the projects in the Water Services Department Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).
Background
The most recently approved Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-17 through FY 2025-26 includes $339.1 million for Water and Sewer projects with $225.8 million in the first five years of the CIP. Included in this CIP are four notable projects totaling $105.7 million over the next three Fiscal Years listed below:
* Arrowhead Water Treatment Plant Improvements - $32.0 million
* Cholla Water Treatment Plant Improvements - $14.7 million
* Pyramid Peak Water Treatment Plant Improvements - $8.2 million
* Pyramid Peak Water Treatment Plant Expansion - $50.8 million
These four projects make up roughly 47% of the Water Services CIP appropriation for the next five fiscal years. An engineering firm has been selected for the identified projects and city staff is in the early stages of planning and scoping the projects which are all scheduled to be in the design phase this fiscal year.
Analysis
Engineering staff, through a team effort, currently manage 42 Water Services Projects including the four listed above. Of the 42 projects, 11 are anticipated to be completed this fiscal year and six new projects are programmed to be added to the CIP in FY16-17. According to the projected CIP, at the end of FY 2016-17, the Water Services CIP will consist of 37 projects.
Once the four projects listed above enter the design phase the Engineering work load will increase significantly and current staffing levels will not be able to support...
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