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 It’s
been a tough winter in the West; here customers share some experiences …
Linda DeRose
Manager, Moffat County Road Department, Craig, Colorado
PW: How is your staff and budget holding up?
LD: We’ve already spent all of our overtime for the whole year [by early
March]. The commissioners may have to transfer money in or we will have to
dip into our reserves. We’ve had crews running seven days a week 14 hours a
day.
Tammie Crawford
Field Coordinator, Routt County Road & Bridge, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
PW: How will you use PubWorks this
spring?
TC: We’ll look to see what it cost last year to plow snow, and then
make our budget. We’ll do analysis like, how much [did it cost] to run a
grader? We already went through a third of our fuel budget and it’s still
March!
John Baker
Road Supervisor, Snowmass Village Public Works, Snowmass Village, Colorado
PW: Has PubWorks worked for you this
winter?
JB: It covers you for liability, to protect the town. When there’s a
drainage issue – when there’s [private] property damage. We can’t stop
Mother Nature. But, this year we avoided a lawsuit. We could show that
reasonable work was done. We’d maintained culverts, and could show when we
were there, what we did, etc. When you can do that, attorneys tend to
back-off.
Temple Glacier
Deputy Director, Pitkin County Public Works, Aspen, Colorado
PW: What happened when a plow went off the road
earlier this year?
TG: One of the plows went off road because people pushed snow out on
the County road. People are liable for any damage incurred including tow
bills to get our plow out. What happened was a windrow from someone’s
driveway was pushed across the road and it froze. Our plow trucks then hit
the frozen snow and it caused damage.
Conan Beesley
Assistant Superintendent, Roads and Levees, Teton County, Wyoming
PW: Do you expect any mud or rock slides?
CB: We expect the worst and hope for the best. We’ve seen the Snake
(River) run at 34,000 cfs, and we were unscathed. It’s at 3,800 cfs now.
‘Last big season was ‘96-’97. It seems to run in ten-year cycles.
Brandon Raz
Streets Manager, Jackson, Wyoming
PW: How do you use your asset and resource
management software?
BR: In Bend [where Raz worked previously] we tied our program
directly into payroll - we could show everything based on the labor.
That was always shocking to the public, to reporters, councilmen, and at
budget meetings.
If you’re interested in how well
PubWorks might work for you, please call
Philip McGrath and talk
it over (719) 264-1850.
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