City Manager Issues Report For June Activity

 

 

by: City Manager Marc Maxwell

 

 

THE SQUARE - The plaza is virtually complete with the exception of a little electrical troubleshooting.  The Independence Day celebration was a smashing success! The Capital Construction Division is now working on the southeast corner of the square. 

 

Next, we will move on to the Oak Street project where we will reconstruct the College/Oak intersection and the segment of Oak between College and Jefferson in brick, just as we have done on the rest of the square.  After that, we will reconstruct the Oak/Jefferson intersection and the segment of Jefferson from Oak to Church.  After that we will reconstruct the Church/Jefferson intersection.

 

PACIFIC PARK WALKING PATH - This project is completed.  The old asphalt path was removed and replaced with a concrete path.

 

BUFORD PARK WALKING PATH – The Capital Construction Division will resume work on this project next week.

 

EAST SHANNON WATERLINE PROJECT – A pre-construction meeting is scheduled with the contractor next week.

 

NEW CITY HALL – The construction manager has gone out to bid for all of the subcontracts.  We should have a final number on the cost of the new city hall on August 1st.  After that the project will move quickly along.  Expect the project to take 14 months to complete.

 

 

                                                                                                       

 

 

 

HOME GRANT PROGRAM - We had five successful applicants on the previous round of HOME grant funding.  All five have moved into their new homes.

 

COOPER LAKE PUMP STATION - We incurred damage to one of our pumps at Cooper Lake last week when the Oncor transformer tripped.  The transformer’s action was caused by the failure of one of the North Texas Municipal Water District’s rather large pumps. 

 

For a brief period we were not pumping from Cooper Lake at all.  We were able to restore operation of one of the pumps when we transported our generator to the site.

 

We are still evaluating the other pump.  The variable frequency drive was destroyed by the event and we are replacing it now.  When that is complete we will be able to test the pump motor.  We keep a spare pump motor around for this very reason.

 

At the moment our water is being supplied by one pump, and it is sufficient for the job, barely.  We are quickly approaching peak water demand for the year.  We should be back on two pumps in a day or two.

 

CLAIMS - We had no liability claims or workers’ compensation claims in June.

 

REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES – Finance Director, Peter Karstens will present a year-to-date review of revenues and expenditures.

 

MISCELLANEOUS –   Elsewhere around the City, employees:

• Fertilized all of the athletic fields.
• Replaced broken pickets at Kids Kingdom and repainted the peaks.
• Aerated the baseball and softball fields at Coleman Park.
• Removed more dead trees from Coleman Park.
• Waxed floors at senior citizens center and H.W. Gray’s building.
• Patched 22 potholes.
• Made 18 street repairs following utility repairs.
• Cleared vegetation from various locations for greater visibility.
• Conducted 12 health inspections and 142 public nuisance inspections.
• Conducted 60 building inspections, 18 electrical inspections, 29 plumbing inspections, 7 mechanical inspections and issued 17 building permits.
• Pumped 133 million gallons of drinking water.
• Received police training in the areas of: alert active shooter, warrant service, homicide investigation, and crime scene management.
• Made 8 felony arrests in the special crimes unit.
• Responded to 30 accidents, made 87 arrests, wrote 565 citations and recorded 69 offenses.
• Achieved a 52% adoption rate at the animal shelter.
• Processed 662 tickets through the municipal court.
• Responded to 125 fire rescue calls.
• Conducted 44 fire inspections.
• Performed preventative maintenance on 94 fire hydrants.
• Repaired 10 water main ruptures.
• Replaced 14 water meters.
• Unstopped 19 sewer mains.
• Repaired 14 sewer taps and installed one new tap.
• Inspected 4,712 feet of sewer mains with a sewer camera and made 7 sewer repairs as a result.
• Washed 76,212 feet of sewer mains.
• Sold 6,485 Gallons of Jet-A fuel and 1,558 gallons of AvGas.
• Passed the annual wastewater treatment plant inspection without any problems.
• Performed repairs and preventative maintenance on wastewater treatment filters, clarifiers and storage buildings.
• Achieved a treated effluent total suspended solids (TSS) monthly average reading of 2.74 mg/L.
• Installed new flow meters at the water treatment plant.
• Performed preventative maintenance on all 5 water treatment clarifiers.
• Flushed 37 dead-end water mains.

 

 

 

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