The city
Departments
All 35 of them, with the names the city uses.
- Police Department
Administration, patrol, criminal investigations and support services.
- Patrol Division
The officers on the street, by shift and by sector.
- Criminal Investigations
Cases after the first report, and the evidence behind them.
- Community Affairs & Training
The programmes that put an officer in a room rather than a car.
- Support Services
Dispatch, records and the property room.
- Fire Department
Operations, EMS, public education and the community programmes — an ISO Class 2 department, the city's best rating.
- Emergency Medical Services
The ambulances, and the billing that follows them.
- Office of Emergency Management
Alerts, shelters, and the operations centre that ran the March storm response.
- Public Works
Streets, drainage, traffic control and fleet maintenance.
- Streets Division
Paving, signs, striping and the potholes you report.
- Drain & Ditch
The ditches and the pump stations, and what happens when it rains.
- Traffic Control
Signals, signage and the studies behind a speed limit.
- Fleet Maintenance
The shop, the fuel island, and every city vehicle behind them.
- Sanitation
Residential collection, by zone and by day.
- Brush Pick-Up
When they come down your street, and what they will and will not take.
- Recycling
What goes in the cart, and what the city does with it.
- Public Utilities
Water and wastewater, the permits, and the annual water quality report.
- Utility Billing
One bill for water, wastewater and sanitation — and the window that explains it.
- Finance Department
The budget, the audit, purchasing, and the AA− rating behind them.
- Purchasing
Bids, RFPs, vendor registration and how the city spends.
- Engineering Department
Capital projects, stormwater management and the work in the street.
- Planning & Zoning
Zoning, the Unified Development Ordinance, and the map of what can be built where.
- Building Division
Permits, plan review and inspections — 2,976 permits and over 10,500 inspections last year.
- Code Enforcement
Junked vehicles, high grass, illegal dumping and the cases behind them.
- Health Division
Food establishment permits and inspections — over 1,434 of them last year.
- Animal Care Services
The shelter, adoptions, strays and licensing.
- Parks & Recreation
Parks, facility rentals, athletics and the city cemetery.
- Mayor Joe V. Sanchez Public Library
250,189 visits and 46,106 registered users last year — the busiest building the city owns.
- Mid-Valley Airport
Fuel, amenities, the international terminal, and general aviation.
- Municipal Court
Citations, hearings, warrants and payments.
- Human Resources
Hiring, benefits, civil service and the 400-plus people who work here.
- Information Technology
The network, the phones, and every system in this proposal.
- Media
Notices, the alert list, the events calendar and the city's channel.
- City Secretary
Agendas, minutes, elections, vital statistics and disclosure statements.
- City Manager's Office
The office that runs the city day to day, and the executive team.