Englewood Public Works reports 2024 accomplishments, outlines 2025 priorities and use of sales-tax street funds

Victor Rochelle, Englewood City Director of Public Works, told the Budget Advisory Committee that the department completed a range of pavement, stormwater and facilities projects in 2024 and described priorities for 2025, including finishing the South Englewood Flood Reduction Project and continuing sales-tax-funded street repairs.

Rochelle said Public Works focuses on a broad set of services — streets, traffic, facilities and stormwater — organized around engineering/asset management and operations/maintenance teams. “So, we're really broken into 2 parts, but these are the 3 main teams inside those parts,” Director Victor Rochelle said.

The update matters because a voter-approved sales-and-use-tax increase passed in November 2022 dedicates money to roadway and maintenance programs; the committee asked for and Public Works offered more detailed per-project cost breakdowns to help auditors and the public trace how those funds were spent.

Public Works reported several 2024 work metrics and accomplishments. The department said it issued a significant number of right-of-way permits; applied crack seal to about 105 blocks; applied asphalt mill and overlay to about 28 blocks; applied recycled asphalt millings to roughly 40 alleys; removed more than 200 cubic yards of sediment from the Northwest Greenbelt; replaced about 21,000 square feet of sidewalk; replaced about…