2023 City of Shakopee Budget

103

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 tasks including 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 continuing education to ensure we stay sharp in our field with all the latest and greatest technologies. Thank you in advance for your patience in all that we do. In 2022, COVID-19 continued to challenge us by effecting projects relative to material shortages and increased costs. Project costs have definitely increased as a result and adjustments are continually being made. Engineering staff continued implementing new pavement management software that allows rating and tracking of the condition of our bituminous roadways; trails and parking lots were also being added into the system in 2022. With this asset management system, we can better forecast and budget for needed improvements while ensuring timely and consistent maintenance for all of our roadways. With help from the pavement management software, staff has updated the 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

10

10

10

9

Engineering 4.2%

Actual 2020 Actual 2021 Budget 2022 Budget 2023

Number of Employees (FTEs)