SUBJECT:
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2023 National Public Works Week Proclamation
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
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PRESENTER(S): Todd Fessenden, Public Works Director
Trustee Hoback, Sponsor
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POLICY ISSUES:
This is a yearly proclamation and thus has minimal policy implications.
SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
Since 1960, the American Public Works Association has sponsored National Public Works Week. Across North America, more than 30,000 members of the APWA in the U.S. and Canada use this week to energize and educate the public on the importance of public works to their daily lives: planning, building, managing, and operating at the heart of their local communities to improve everyday quality of life.
National Public Works Week is observed during the third full week of May each year and is a celebration of the individuals who provide and maintain the infrastructure and services collectively known as Public Works. Town of Erie staff in alignment with the APWA ask the Board to proclaim the week of May 21-27, 2023 as Public Works Week.
The 2023 National Public Works Week Theme is "Connecting the World Through Public Works". Public works is the thread that connects us all, no matter where we live in the world. Every public works professional strives to improve the quality of life for the community they serve, leading to healthier, happier communities.
The "Connecting the World Through Public Works" theme highlights the way public works professionals connect us physically, through infrastructure, and inspirationally, through service to their communities, whether as first responders, or daily workers carrying out their duties with pride.
Public works connectors help keep communities strong by providing an infrastructure of services in transportation, water, wastewater, and stormwater treatment, public buildings and spaces, parks and grounds, emergency management and first response, solid ...
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