Glenn Lampark, Director of Public Works
Dennis Orlando, Superintendent of Highway and Parks

OPERATING AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE

The goal of the Highway Division is to maintain, plan, and construct County Trunk Highways and to maintain State Trunk Highways and freeways so as to provide citizens of the County with a safe and usable roadway system at a level of service acceptable to a majority of its citizens and at the lowest possible cost.  It is also our objective to provide support and assistance, both physical and technical, to preserve, protect, and improve Racine County’s infrastructure. 

Working out of facilities at Ives Grove and Rochester, the division provides all the maintenance services required for the proper upkeep of the roads that it is responsible for, including the specialized services required each winter. 

The division currently maintains over 330 lane miles of County Trunk Highways, 16 County bridges and numerous smaller drainage structures, and operates and maintains six County-owned dams, County - owned gravel pits, and the County’s fuel management system.  It also has primary charge of the County’s Underground Storage Tank Management System. 

Under the general direction of the State Department of Transportation, this division provides general and winter maintenance on over 685 lane miles of freeway and State Trunk Highways within Racine County.  In order to perform this work, the division controls, supervises, and maintains approximately 700 vehicles and pieces of equipment used in highway and park maintenance and operations. 

The Public Works Department operates and maintains the Racine County motor pool, providing vehicles to county departments on a cost-per-mile basis, assessing and charging fees in order to recover costs.  Costs include operation, maintenance and replacement of vehicles.  The Director of Public Works oversees the motor pool and is authorized to purchase vehicles as pool funds permit and assign vehicles to the most appropriate locations within the county.  An annual report is presented to the Public Work Committee reporting activity in the motor pool account including purchases, trades, sales, revenue and expenses for the year. 

The Highway Division’s planning and engineering staff, which includes the County surveyor, plans, designs, competitively bids, constructs and inspects highway, bridge, park and other major County projects.  The division’s operations staff provides accounting and administrative functions for the highway and park funds

EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES

Reconstruction of portions of CTH ‘G’, ‘A’, ‘K’, and the ‘H’ and ‘C’ intersection 

Concrete joint repairs on CTH ‘MM’ & ‘Y’ 

Completion of Design Engineering for construction projects on County Trunk Highways ‘C’ and ‘X’  

Completion of 8 miles of seal coat on various County Trunk Highways 

Completion of storm water improvements and Phase II of parking lot rehabilitation at Ives Grove 

Completion of design and construction of Patrol Station parking lot expansion 

Replacement of the boiler at the Ives Grove facility

2004 GOALS AND BUDGET STRATEGIES