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Notable and Quotable
Identifying
your Assets…
"The way we have
PubWorks set up is that each street is a
location, each block is a segment with the same
number as the block. 100 block, 200 block, etc. We
can then number any feature on any given block,
assigning odd numbers to features up to the center
line on one side of the street and even on the other
side - just like the residential addresses.
Ultimately every feature in the street will have an
address, allowing us to tie activities and cost to
location. In my GIS system I am naming all of my
features - inlets, stormpipes, manholes – the same
as my PubWorks locations so I can then
export data to GIS and show cost by location,
visually.”
Bob Gamble,
Public Works Director, Green Cove Springs, Florida.
PubWorks supports
a hierarchical asset inventory allowing you to
structure your data in a natural and intuitive
way and it helps you satisfy the requirements
GASB34. Also, thanks to our location-based cost
accounting it’s easy to perform graphical cost
analysis in your GIS system.
Since I
started…
“I started
patching potholes 30 years ago. We have a lot more
new and better equipment now. We also have more and
more paperwork for what we do and when we do it.”
Wayne Efeortz,
Road and Bridge Foreman, Lewis and Clark County
Montana.
“The biggest
change over the 12 years since I started would be
regulations. Seems like we have many different
directions and things to track now.”
Collette
Smith, Richland County Public Works, Montana
“There have
been big changes over the 40 years since I started.
Back then we didn’t even have calculators, and now
you have us running computers. Concrete trucks used
to pull in, and you would measure it and batch it
and fill it. Now the concrete truck pulls in,
pushes a button, and the concrete is already batched
and gets dispensed and billed at the exact same
time. Keeping track of records is so much easier
and faster now.”
Gary Meyer,
Public Works Special Projects Manager, Sheridan
County Wyoming
Keeping
track of your work maintenance history is a
central PubWorks feature.
PubWorks possesses dozens of screen
views and hundreds of reports that allow users
to document the work they have performed on the
fixed and rolling assets. PubWorks
gives users the ability to create reports
quickly and easily to meet the ever-changing
informational demands of commissioners, council
and citizenry.
We’d like to
sincerely thank Bob, Wayne, Collette and Gary for
taking to time to share their experiences with us.
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