City of Bend, Oregon Public Works Department, 28 Aug 2013

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From YouTube: I am Public Works

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Employees of the City of Bend Public Works Department, share stories about the work they perform for the City.

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Without public or our quality of life could be greatly diminished, you wouldn't have running water, you wouldn't have sewer. You wouldn't have a good road system to get around the commute. The.

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City without Public, Works I believe would flounder. There would be no one really in charge to respond to everyday needs. Every day, services emergencies, customer service requests there would be nowhere to go without Public Works Public Works is a first responders on every level, whether it's mundane or emergency I'm.

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Siddell Scarborough and I've worked for the city for 13 years and I Drive a truck in the summer I Drive, a striper paint truck and in the winter I plow and stamp in a structured environment with mostly men. I enjoy the challenge and the daily tasks, but I have to to do I'm.

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Josh Oliver I worked for the city event for six months and I run the paving and patching crew for the city event. What I enjoy about my job is being able to fix the roads, so the public is safe, driving on them and the filling in the potholes and stuff to just keep them maintained and good working order. I'm.

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Spencer San Vitale been with the city for 13 years. My job is to map all the utility infrastructure, make sure that we know where everything is when it's underground and that our utility crews can find that. My.

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Name is Kelly: restof I've worked for the city for 13 years and I sample wastewater. We sample wastewater from industries to make sure they're not dumping pollutants, that's harmful to the environment or to our.

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Wastewater plant, my name's Arthur Judd I, worked for the city for seven years, I'm a customer service technician. My job is to locate water and sewer pipes in the city event for residential and little coffee on.

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Spencer cash flow work for the city event for 15 years. I run the water meter program in my job involves everything from installing new water meters to taking care of the automated infrastructure. I'm.

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Bryce Blackwelder I've been with the city for 10 years and I install and maintain fire hydrants. There are 5,000 fire hydrants in the city event. Fire hydrants are very critical. We need them to maintain water quality. I'm julie, price.

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I've been with the city for four years, I'm on the administrative services team, I really enjoy the people, I get to know a lot of customers talk with them, one on one educate them about our processes. What we do I'm.

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Stu Richmond I've been with the city for five years and I'm a telemetry specialist, our wells, our water distribution system in our sewer collection system, are automated and I work on the equipment that provides the automation and brings information back here. I'm.

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Eric Hobbs 14 years with the city of Bend I, use a closed circuit television to inspect sewer lines. Well, the cameras are the eyes of the underground. It gives us the ability to look at problems without digging up and costly costly excavation with this technology. It gives us the ability to find a problem before it becomes a crisis, a nightly one call for us. My name is Dave Borrego.

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I've worked here for five years and I run the back door, trucks, the Vactor truck cleans and maintains the city sewer system has the capability of sucking debris out of the sewer lines and pop stations. My name is Joe Newton I've been with the city for 11 years, I work.

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For the sand crew, we install and maintain sign for the city. My.

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Name is Carl how I worked in public works for three years and I'm a mechanic and the mechanic shop I enjoy the variety of work that we have here from fire equipment to the police, street sweepers lon or my.

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Name is Dave letter I been with the city for ten years and I work in the landscape area, where I like most about is I'm outdoors all the time. It's really great. It's a lot of fun and it's when I get done. I, look back at what I've done and take some pride in that.

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I'm Oakley Taylor I've worked for the city for seven years and I test restaurants for industrial waste. My job is raising public awareness about what we shouldn't be putting down our drains. My.

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Name is Jeff my stead I'm, the chemist for the city of bend's water quality, laboratory I've, been working for the laboratory for 12 years, and one of the many jobs that I do is work out here in the river monitoring. The shoot's River, the Tumalo Creek and gritch creek water systems and generating rural quality data that helps the environment is something I'm passionate about I'm.

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Bobby Reiter I've worked for city of Bend 22 years and then cemetery Sexton. What I like most about working for the city is it's like landscaping, I get landscape and make the grounds pretty dealing with the people and in their grieving times. My.

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Name is Oren Leibel I've worked for the city for 14 years. I, currently maintain wastewater lift stations such as it. What I like most working for the city have been is the different challenges that you experience every day, working with wastewater and water pump stations. I am.

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Janette Prince I've been with the city of Bend for seven years: I Drive a sweeper, a sander and a snowplow depending on the time of the year. It is what I like most about the job, because I serve the public and I enjoy that very much I'm.

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Scott Gardiner I've been with the city for 15 years and I'm a water system operator. My job is to ensure safe drinking water to our public, with surface water as well as well. Water I'm.

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Kevin Ramsey I've worked for the city for 14 years and I'm a sweet supervisor tips eels are a good seal for the city, they're very cost, efficient manner to maintain our roads and a good system. My.

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Name is Shannon Thomason I work for the city of Bend for 13 years and I Drive this greater. What I like about my job is the getting out and taking care of the gravel roads and making them nice and smooth for the citizens of City event. I'm.

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George McConnell I worked for the city for twelve and a half years and I'm will be the operator for water information facility. What I like most about my job is knowing that the six million gallons that we receive daily is treated to a point where it's safe for the environment once it leaves our facility I'm.

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Rick Volkman I worked for the city for 10 years and I'm the lead of the sidewalk crew. We've done over a half a mile, a sidewalk and 150 ramps. So far this year, I'm mark Lyman, I've.

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Been with the city for 14 years from the water intake technician, and my job is just to keep an eye on things and.

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Make sure everything around smooth the public really doesn't know the dedication that the employees here have for the job they work odd hours and just the pride that they take in their work. Paula works is its safety in our streets for well-marked and smoothing Public.

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Works meets the needs of the taxpayers on every level. Public Works is the important because Public Works takes care of the people of and I am.

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Public Works I am Public Works I am.

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Public Works I am.

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Public work, I am.

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