2025 Budget for the City of Shakopee

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2025 Annual Budget

Division: Engineering Category: Public Works

Description of Services: Conduct field investigations, collect engineering data and specify the criteria for the investigations. Furnish designs, drawings, specifications, and criteria. Secure bids and oversee and inspect infrastructure construction projects. Approve, inspect, and deliver all sanitary sewer, storm sewer and roadway construction projects. Prepare all reports, studies, and plans required to preserve Municipal State Aid Funding received by the city. Manage the City’s Natural Resources, including wetlands, stormwater management systems, native planting areas and woodlands. Review all public infrastructure proposed in the city, administer Wetland Conservation Act requirements, review building permits, manage public right-of-way and permitting, provide engineering assistance to other Departments, review technical engineering material, and provide engineering liaison to the City Council, other City departments, City Commissions, and Committees.

Employees:

2022

2023

2024

2025

City Engineer/Public Works Director

0.5

0 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1

0 1 1 1 1 1 2 0

0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0

City Engineer

0 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1

Assistant City Engineer Project Engineer Project Coordinator

Senior Engineering Technician

Graduate Engineer

Engineering Technician

Water Resources-Environmental Manager Water Resources-Environmental Technician

0.2 0.8

0.2 0.8

GIS Coordinator

1 1

1 1 9

Administrative Assistant

Total

9.5

10

10

Accomplishments:  Implemented a new pavement rating system, using Artificial Intelligence software to analyze a consistent rating system through the entire roadway network. The outcome of this approach reduces staff time for roadway assessments and allows the city to better forecast the current and future condition of the city’s roadways.  Completed several significant improvement projects, including the first phase of the Downtown Lighting Improvements, 2 nd Avenue and Lewis Street Parking Lot and Stormwater Management Project, partnered with Scott County and DR Horton to complete the construction of the pedestrian underpass at CR78 and Zumbro Avenue, completed intersection safety improvements at Eagle Creek Boulevard/Vierling Drive, CR101/Shenandoah Drive, CR69/CR78 and CR83/Valleyview Drive, and partnered with Canterbury Park to construct the necessary roadways and utilities to support the southeast Canterbury development area and Ampitheatre.  Reorganized the Department and filled all positions to become fully staff. Goals/Challenges:  Provide an infrastructure system that supports the community and advances the quality of life for all.  Provide good value for public services and use the tax-payers money in a fiscally responsible manner.  Staff are consistently challenged with being experts in a wide range of tasks including infrastructure management and design, traffic safety, transportation planning, project management, natural resources, contract management, underground utilities, private development and forestry management.