2021 City of Shakopee Budget

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Budget Impact: If your patience survived a city’s reconstruction project 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 from concept to design and 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 and many times enforce. Our department consistently seeks the continuing education to ensure we stay sharp in our field and all the latest and greatest technologies. Thank you in advance for your patience in all that we do. In 2020, we saw the arrival of COVID-19, which forced engineering staff to implement new procedures and technologies to conduct business safely in a now socially distant world. Staff was able to perform all critical functions and we are on track to successfully deliver all of our public improvement projects in 2020. Our division is continuing to improve our system service and internal systems. This past year, engineering staff implemented new pavement management software that will allow us to rate and track the condition of our bituminous roadways. In addition, we can better forecast and budget for needed improvements while ensuring timely and consistent maintenance for all of our roadways. With help from the new pavement management software, staff has developed a 15-year capital improvement plan. This will allow key leaders and City Council to analyze and budget for needed infrastructure improvements, adding to the resiliency of the city budget.

EMPLOYEES

PERCENT OF GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES

9

9

9

8

Engineering 3.9%

Actual 2018 Actual 2019 Budget 2020 Budget 2021

Number of Employees (FTEs)