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DPW moves to fill city engineer vacancy, adds sanitation foreman as solid-waste plan expands
Summary
Public Works Director Joe Bauer will assume the vacant city-engineer duties and the DPW plans to add a sanitation working-foreman to expand trash outreach and enforcement.
Methuen's Department of Public Works outlined staffing changes and an enforcement-focused approach to curb trash and recycling contamination as the council reviewed the DPW budget Tuesday.
DPW Director Joe Bauer said he will absorb the vacant engineering-administrator duties the city had expected to recruit externally, rather than leave the city without engineering leadership while searches continue. Bauer said the mayor asked him to take on the role; the budget shows a net reduction because the previously budgeted external hire salary was shifted…
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