2022 City of Shakopee Budget

105

Budget Impact: If there is a pothole in the street, who do you call? Tree that blew down across the road? Sign knocked down by an errant vehicle? Mailbox knocked over by a snowplow? Another pass by the snowplow that filled in your driveway again (insert expletive here)? Old mattress and garbage dumped on city property? Yep, most of these issues are addressed by the Streets Maintenance Division. The city has 13 full-time and 8 summer seasonal part-time staff (when we can find enough applicants to hire - we only had 3 in 2021) assigned to the Streets Maintenance Division, Sewer and Surface Water Divisions that maintain the 169.0 miles of city streets and utilities. Thanks to strategic planning by the city, the condition of Shakopee’s streets is among the top cities throughout the metro and state. When it comes to snow and ice control events, it is “all hands-on deck.” In addition to the streets crews, the parks crews and mechanics also jump in the equipment to plow more than 250 lane-miles of streets, alleys, trails and sidewalks in addition to the many city facility parking lots. Although it doesn’t snow like it did back in the day, stay tuned. We’re bound to get a whopper snow storm every now and again.

EMPLOYEES

PERCENT OF GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES

9

9

9

9

Street Maintenance 8.3%

Actual 2019 Actual 2020 Budget 2021 Budget 2022

Number of Employees (FTEs)