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

OPERATING AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE

The Highway Division maintains, plans, and constructs County Trunk Highways and maintains State Trunk Highways and freeways to provide citizens of the County with a safe, usable roadway system at an acceptable level of service and at the lowest possible cost. It also provides physical and technical support and assistance to preserve, protect, and improve Racine County’s infrastructure. The division provides all necessary road maintenance services, including the specialized winter services. It controls, supervises, and maintains approximately 700 vehicles and pieces of equipment used in highway and park maintenance and operations.

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

The Highway Division’s planning and engineering staff 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.

The Public Works Department operates and maintains the Racine County motor pool, providing vehicles to county departments on a cost-per-mile basis that covers operation, maintenance and replacement of vehicles. An annual report to the Public Works Committee reports activity in the motor pool account, including purchases, trades, sales, revenue and expenses for the year.

EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES 

• Completed reconstruction and rehabilitation projects on CTH “S”, “T” and “Y”.
• Completed design work on bridges for CTH “S” and “J”.
• Completed concrete joint repair and storm sewer rehabilitation on CTH “C”.
• Redesigned and reconstructed the Construction Yard at the Ives Grove shop.
• Completed re-roofing project on the salt shed.
• Made reconstruction and efficiency modifications to the Ives Grove repair shop and stockroom.

2005 GOALS AND BUDGET STRATEGIES  

• Construct new bridge and rehabilitate pavement on CTH “S”.
• Coordinate and perform reconstruction project on CTH “C”.
• Perform concrete joint repair and storm sewer repair on CTH “Y”.
• Design, rehabilitate and coordinate pavements of CTH “G” and “V”.
• Perform planning and engineering for emergency generator at the Ives Grove Building.