Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This ordinance realigns departmental responsibilities with respect to management of the city's transportation infrastructure. The Department of Public Service's leadership performed a comprehensive review of processes and work flows. This review revealed inefficient processes, imbalance of workload amongst employees, and engineers and technical staff responsible for fiscal, legislative, and contracting functions thereby taking them away from performing their core function of delivering capital projects. The existing division's organization was also primarily focused on the automobile mode of transportation.
Therefore, the existing Division of Transportation which comprises approximately 503 employees will be eliminated and three new divisions will be created within the Department of Public Service; the Division of Mobility Options, Division of Planning and Operations, and Division of Design and Construction. The new divisions are organized around workflows, the capital project development process, and a multi-modal transportation system.
The Division of Mobility Options will focus exclusively on the core elements of Complete Streets; biking, sidewalks, ADA accommodation, on-street parking, traffic calming and mass transit. This division will bring greater awareness to the multi-modal transportation choices and will be responsible for implementing the Bicentennial Bikeway Plan and Operation Safewalks initiatives.
The Division of Planning and Operations will focus on planning services for transportation infrastructure including traffic and safety studies, pavement and structures management, capital project prioritization and scoping, zoning and right-of-way permit reviews, and plat reviews. The division will also provide street and traffic maintenance services including street sweeping, litter control, graffiti removal, snow removal, installation and maintenance of pavement markings, traffic signals, traffic signage,...
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