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hood of 120 employees and has an
operating budget of $62 million, including
capital projects. The department is
comprised of divisions specifical ly
dedicated to wastewater/sewer, water and
irrigation and engineering functions, and
she said an imminent focus will be to re-
staff the engineering arm to match past
headcounts.
“We've had some attrition through
retirement and there's been some
streamlining going on,” she said. “We're
starting to look at a rebuilding phase. We're
specifically looking at starting to rebuild the
engineering group, which is now a very, very
small group.”
Aging is a concern, though not a grave one,
when it comes to the city's water-centric in-