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MONTHLY REPORT

December 2017

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Professionalism

Integrity

Reliability

Quality

Pride

Inside This Issue:

Department Highlights 2

Project Planning Updates 3

City Construction Projects 4

Public Service Projects 5

Requests for Service Statistics 6

Seasonal Statistics 7

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P u b l i c S e r v i c e DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS December 2017

Quarterly Stormwater Meeting The city stormwater committee met for the final time in 2017 and reviewed prepara-tions needed to submit the city’s annual MS4 report to the EPA documenting NPDES permit compliance. Other items of discussion included utilizing Google Drive for shar-ing documents and other reporting requirements to enable the various agencies in-volved (Franklin Soil Water Conservation District, EP Ferris, Follow the River and city staff) in reporting all pertinent information. Arboretum Brochure Development City staff members met with graphic designer, Kelley Femia of YesPress, to review the desired design elements to be included in a new brochure promoting the city’s recent arboretum status recognition by the Morton Arboretum. New Albany is now the second city within the state of Ohio to have achieved city arboretum certification. This exciting accomplishment, along with general information about New Albany’s Arboretum at Swickard Woods will be included in the brochure, in addition to a map outlining the 30 identified trees and woody plants. Maintenance Worker Position Filled Tyler Ashcraft recently interviewed for, and was offered a fulltime maintenance worker position within the public service department. Tyler started working with the city as a seasonal hire in the winter of 2016 and continued as a seasonal staff member for both the summer and winter of 2017. A fulltime position came available in September. Professional Development Maintenance employee Carl McNeal attended the Culvert Inventory and Inspection training hosted by LTAP and held on December 12th at the ODOT central office. Service Director Mark Nemec attended training on newly released State of Ohio code updates to Building, Mechanical and Plumbing standards. Education credits earned help maintain his state certifications for Chief Building Official, Building Inspector and Residential Building Official. Department staff members Bernadette Macchi, Brian Strayer and Mark Nemec attend-ed an internal training session at Village Hall, hosted by Public Information Officer Scott McAfee. The purpose of the training was to highlight the city’s new power point branded template to be utilized by all departments for city presentations.

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P u b l i c S e r v i c e PROJECT PLANNING UPDATES December 2017

Ackerly Farm Four-way Stop/Traffic Circle The intersection of Ackerly Farms Road and Straits Lane was built as a traffic circle to control traffic flow. However, local residents recently observed some safety concerns in-volving vehicles entering the circle from the north and south bound directions of Acker-ly Farms Road. Therefore, the city traffic engineer re-evaluated the intersection for pos-sible improvements. Normally, a roundabout (utilized where there is a high volume of traffic) has yield signs upon approaching, however a traffic circle (designed for low volume traffic flow and utilized to reduce speeds upon approach) does not. This particular circle is classified by the city engineer as a “Residential Traffic Circle”. After completing a re-evaluation of the traffic circle at this location, it was recommended by the city traffic engineer that the area warrants a four-way stop be added to the exist-ing traffic circle. As a result of this study, maintenance workers from the public service department installed additional stop signs, making this location a stop condition at all points entering the traffic circle.

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P u b l i c S e r v i c e CITY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS December 2017

Johnstown Rd. & Greensward/Lampton Roundabout

Construction contract was awarded to N.M. Savko & Sons at a bid price of $1,528,988.

Work includes storm sewers, curbs, street lighting, roundabout traffic intersection and landscaping.

Construction schedule is June 2017 to Dec. 2017.

2017 City Street Improvement Project

The construction contract was awarded to Decker Con-struction at a bid price of $530,855.

Work includes ADA curb ramp improvements, pave-ment overlay, curb repair and crack sealing.

Construction schedule is May 2017 to August 2017. Beech Road Leisure Trail Connection

The city contracted with the Strawser Construction Company to install a trail connection on Beech Rd.

The 8ft path provides connectivity from Jug St. to Smith’s Mill Rd. North.

Work was performed in September at a cost of $33,500.

New pavement striping was performed on Kitzmiller Rd. at Dublin-Granville Rd.

A view looking west at the roundabout connection to Greensward Road.

A new leisure trail was installed in front of the Beech Road Water Tower.

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The service department purchased used shelving units through a close-out sale and crews re-installed them in fleet storage room to organize vehicle parts and sup-plies for the mechanics. Seasonal employee Tim Duraj assisted in the layout and set up of the new shelves. Also, he completed the project by restocking the new shelves with the existing supplies. Service workers Nick Cichanowicz and Tyler Ashcraft assisted the city forester with collecting data on the street trees located along Dublin-Granville Road in front of the high school. Both tree diameter and tree height were measured. A report will be generated us-ing iTree software on all 88 trees for an ecosystem as-sessment of the Rose Run Park. An additional 66 more trees located directly across the street were also evalu-ated. Seasonal worker Logan Shannon and full-time em-ployee Tyler Myers installed new NO PARKING signs at the Phil Heit Center parking lot to restrict parking for customers and employees only. Recent over park-ing complaints triggered an evaluation of the city code to determine what legal restrictions could be imple-mented to deter non-customer parking at public park-ing locations. Maintenance Worker Carl McNeal worked with repre-sentatives from the New Albany Plain Local School Dis-trict to flip a school bus onto it’s side at the Districts school bus facility. The bus will be utilized in practice and training exercises for the Plain Township Fire De-partment to prepare for emergency evacuation of stu-dents in the event of a real bus turn-over accident.

PUBLIC SERVICE PROJECTS December 2017

Service crews assist the city forester with collecting tree data along Dublin-Granville.

Seasonal worker Tim Duraj helped to reor-ganize the mechanics parts storage room.

Signs are installed to deter misuse of pub-lic parking spaces at the Phil Heit Center.

Using the city front end loader, service crews flipped a school bus on its side.

P a g e 6 P u b l i c S e r v i c e REQUESTS FOR SERVICE STATISTICS December 2017

Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Total

2015 28 28 36 34 44 34 33 33 38 45 25 32 410

2016 29 21 32 27 29 31 43 40 47 52 34 32 417

2017 25 26 33 22 33 37 34 39 16 26 38 13 342

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2015 16 19 25 20 31 22 17 14 21 10 15 10 220

2016 12 9 18 19 12 32 23 24 16 18 21 13 217

2017 15 9 11 14 36 25 31 28 22 11 13 11 226

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SEASONAL STATISTICS December 2017

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Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr Total

2015/16 0 0 448 538 55 38 1079

2016/17 2 525 279 35 89 0 930

2017/18 0 490 490

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2015 62 174 22 258

2016 41 192 41 274

2017 58 143 83 284

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