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Public Works & Utilities outlines 2025 priorities: asset management, staffing and $42M in capital projects
Summary
Director Paul Knippel presented the department’s 2025 priorities: asset-management work, process self-assessments, workload analysis and communications. The department outlined staffing, technical skill shortages and a capital pipeline of more than $42 million across funds for 2025.
Public Works & Utilities Director Paul Knippel presented the department’s 2025 overview to the council on Feb. 10, laying out reorganization outcomes, priority workstreams and an extensive capital and maintenance program.
Knippel told council the department consolidated several functions in a February 2023 reorganization and now includes engineering, utilities operations, fleet and facilities maintenance and GIS. He outlined four department-wide priorities for 2025: formalizing asset management data and a first-generation gap report; a self-assessment of processes using American Public Works Association frameworks; a department-wide workload analysis; and a public engagement effort to document…
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