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This document contains a new report format that the City of Bristol, CT is trying out. Each Division (Engineering, Operations, Land Use, Water Pollution Control and Administration) provides key performance indicators to the Board of Public Works each month using this format.

This document contains a copy of The City of Westminster's Emergency Operations Plans

Water and wastewater utilities across the country are facing many common challenges, including rising costs, aging infrastructure, increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, population changes, and a rapidly changing workforce. Effective utility management is critical to enable utilities to tackle challenges, increase performance and achieve success in the long run. The Effective utility Management Collaboration has developed a series of tools designed to help water and wastewater utilities advance effective utility management practices. The new tools are designed to simplify the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy and make the recommendations easier for utility managers to understand and implement at their facilities. Each of the new tools are organized around the 10 Attributes of Effectively Managed Utilities and the 5 Keys to Management Success identified in the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy that was released in May 2007.

PowerPoint Presentation [PPT]
Press Release [PDF]
Letter from sixteen member Steering Committee [PDF]
Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy [PDF]
Summary of Committee Findings [PDF]
Statement of Support [PDF]
Short and Long-Term Action Plan [PDF]
Effective Utility Management Report [PDF]
Primer [PDF]
Electronic Resource Toolbox [LINK]

Water and wastewater utilities across the country are facing many common challenges, including rising costs, aging infrastructure, increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, population changes, and a rapidly changing workforce. Effective utility management is critical to enable utilities to tackle challenges, increase performance and achieve success in the long run. The Effective utility Management Collaboration has developed a series of tools designed to help water and wastewater utilities advance effective utility management practices. The new tools are designed to simplify the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy and make the recommendations easier for utility managers to understand and implement at their facilities. Each of the new tools are organized around the 10 Attributes of Effectively Managed Utilities and the 5 Keys to Management Success identified in the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy that was released in May 2007.

PowerPoint Presentation [PPT]
Press Release [PDF]
Letter from sixteen member Steering Committee [PDF]
Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy [PDF]
Summary of Committee Findings [PDF]
Statement of Support [PDF]
Short and Long-Term Action Plan [PDF]
Effective Utility Management Report [PDF]
Primer [PDF]
Electronic Resource Toolbox [LINK]

The main goal of the City of Milwaukee's Building and Fleet Department is to maintain the city's fleet so that it is always available for the work performed by various departments and in keeping downtime to a minimum. By keeping a good preventative maintenance program we can accomplish our mission while preserving the City of Milwaukee's major capital investment in fleet. Fleet report also highlights the fleet initiatives undertaken during the year. The purpose of this PM manual is to annually document the program and reflect any changes and upgrades to the program.

This was a much sought-after 2001 Congress presentation wherein the author, Gordon Siebert, describes a conceptual model for analyzing public works and engineering staffing needs that relates resources to demand variables such as permit fees and dollar values of capital projects. The model was successfully employed in a number of jurisdictions in California.

PowerPoint presentation on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement Number 34 requirements for reporting infrastructure assets on annual financial statements. This presentation was made to a Missouri Chapter of the Government Finance Officer's Association conference on January 18, 2002.