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Sedgwick County public works director says flat budgets and staff losses are stretching maintenance capacity
Summary
Lynn Packer, Sedgwick County public works director, told Commissioner Jeff Bluebaugh that flat budgets, inflation and a roughly 15% workforce decline have reduced routine road and stormwater maintenance and left a backlog of flood and drainage projects.
Sedgwick County Public Works Director and County Engineer Lynn Packer told Commissioner Jeff Bluebaugh in a recorded interview that flat budgets and staff reductions have left the county doing "less with less" and struggling to keep up with routine road and stormwater maintenance. "We've been asked for a quite a long time now to keep a flat budget," Packer said. "The dollar just doesn't stretch as far as it used to."
Packer said a local sales tax historically funded the county's capital improvement program for roads and related projects but that revenue now covers fewer projects than it once did. He also said the…
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