To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Julie Lucido, Public Works Director
Prepared By: Don Schmidt, Associate Civil Engineer
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Work Order and Asset Management Software Implementation
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Authorize the Public Works Director to execute on behalf of the City an amendment to Agreement No. C2016-229 for software programs and services with Lucity, Inc., in the increased amount of $57,600 for a total contract amount not to exceed $382,600.
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DISCUSSION:
The Public Works and Parks and Recreation Departments have the responsibility to operate, and manage a wide variety of community infrastructure assets to serve the public including streets, sidewalks, traffic signals, streetlights, storm drain system, water system, parks, trees, building facilities, and many others. Currently, staff manages and tracks the condition, location, age, potential for failure, cost to replace and records of work performed on these assets through a variety of information silos including discrete databases and physical paper files. Consequently, it can be difficult for management to optimize business processes and apply performance measures.
City staff have recognized the need for a centralized framework for mapping, tracking, operating, maintaining and investing in the City's community infrastructure. The means to accomplish this involves connecting field operations with asset information through a centralized Geographical Information System (GIS). Integrating field operations with asset information through GIS will facilitate programmatic budgeting and proactive asset maintenance to extend the useful life in advance of the point of failure, as sometimes happens today.
In 2016, the City contracted with Lucity to implement a Work Order and Asset Management Software to meet the needs discussed above, as it was identified as the best-value solution incorporating ease of use, functionality, flexibility and scalabili...
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