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Fort Lauderdale board reviews CityWorks rollout, data gaps and consultant plan
Summary
CityWorks has been implemented across core utilities, officials said, but board members pressed staff on data gaps, condition-scoring, and why the city plans to contract multiple consultants to standardize inspections and support capital planning.
Craig Barrett, the city works administrator for public works engineering, told the Infrastructure Advisory Board on May 4 that Fort Lauderdale’s CityWorks system is now the operational system of record for water, wastewater and stormwater maintenance and compliance. "CityWorks is a GIS-centric enterprise asset management system," Barrett said, adding that it links GIS asset data with work orders so staff can see where assets are located, what work has been completed and where issues are occurring.
Barrett outlined a multi-year implementation: CityWorks work began in 2018, stormwater and wastewater collections were onboarded in August 2022, the city moved to CityWorks Online as a cloud service in July 2024, water distribution was added in July 2025, and a GTL plant came online in 2026. He said CityWorks supports preventive maintenance, improved documentation for audits and…
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