The city of Pleasanton recently decided to merge its operations and engineering departments into a unified public works department to maximize staff time spent maintaining the city’s infrastructure, according to city staff .
The department will now be responsible for the “operation and maintenance of the city’s infrastructure and administers many quality of life services,” according to the city’s website.
“A comprehensive organizational assessment validated that an increasing share of the city’s work is shifting toward the operation and maintenance of existing municipal assets and infrastructure and that the merging of operations departments and engineering departments in A unified public works department is how cities similar to Pleasanton most efficiently deliver services, projects and programs,” City Manager Gerry Beaudin told the Weekly in a statement Thursday.
He added that the aim of the new Public Works Department was to increase the partnership between the two previous departments, which provide various municipal services.
These services include operations, maintenance, utilities, environmental services, customer service and billing, landscape architecture, land planning, engineering and inspection.
