Public Works Supervisor

Friday 5 September 2026, 6:15 a.m. · 96°F today, 20% rain after four · Sunday 70% rain

Needs attention this morning

• Lift Station 3 — high level alarm at 4:12

  Third alarm in nine days. Pump 2 is down waiting on a seal kit; the bypass is running. Somebody needs to be there before the tailgate meeting.

  Dispatch a crewExpedite the seal kit

• Water main break — 1204 N Garza St

  Leak crew on site since 5:40. 62 accounts out. Streets 2 is holding the pothole patch until the hole is backfilled.

  Open the work orderAssign a crew

• Rain Sunday — the ditch on W 3rd needs clearing first

  WO-4796 has been open 24 days. Seventy per cent chance of rain Sunday, and that ditch is what floods W 3rd at S Cavazos.

  Assign Streets 1

The numbers

Every tile links to the list that produced it. A number nobody can drill into is a brochure.

• Open work orders

  31

  Public Works and the shared crews · was 38 last Friday

  Watch

• Past due more than 14 days

  6

  Oldest is 38 days — eight stop signs in the school zone, opened 29 July. Two of the six are waiting on somebody else.

  Action

• Days to close, Public Works

  2.8

  Median · target is 4 · was 3.1 last month

  On target

• Water main breaks this month

  2

  31 this fiscal year against 24 last year · 19 of them on the 1950s cast iron the north loop replaces

  On target

• Overtime hours this pay period

  96.5

  Plus 142 in Public Utilities · the cap is 60 per department · three people are over 60 individually

  Action

• Crew on the yard today

  14 of 17

  Leak crew is 2 of 3. Signs crew is 1 of 2.

  Watch

• Units out of service

  5 of 21

  PW-07 is in the shop for the fourth time this year and is running $1.38 a mile

  Action