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Alaska DOT&PF s Mission Keep Alaska moving through service and infrastructure Provide for the safe and efficient movement of people and goods Provide access to state services Provide access to resources To accomplish our mission, we expand, maintain and operate Transportation Infrastructure (Assets) Leadership Core Values Integrity: Ensure honesty, dependability, loyalty and a high ethical standard Excellence: Personal and department commitment to continually improve individual, team, and organizational knowledge, performance, and methods to provide quality service and products Respect: Positive regard for colleagues and customers 2
Budget Crisis! Job losses- correcting misinformation You may have heard that the state added 500 jobs from January to March 2016. Most of these positions are adjunct professors at the University coming back on payroll after the winter holiday break. (They re not paid over the break.) So, yes, it s true we added 500 jobs. But we also lost 700 jobs from November to January. These are seasonal. Alaska has a seasonal economy. March and April tend to be the annual high for state government jobs, as summer workers, like firefighters, start getting hired back. Comparing apples to apples, this March we are at the lowest March state employment levels in eight years. We are at the lowest number of state employees since 2008. We re losing private sector jobs. We re losing public sector jobs. We have a $4 billion budget gap. We need to focus on fixing our budget and strengthening our economy. 3
Reductions FY16 M&O Northern Region 13% budget reduction Fairbanks District lost 3 full time equipment operator positions Lost 8 plow trucks and 5 motor graders No overtime budgeted Road Priority Assessment 4
Telling our Story Results Based Alignment 5
Plow Routes & Work Schedules Aligned plow routes to new Maintenance Manual (no changes in over 20 years!) Moved station boundaries within District Worked with Foreman to optimize work schedules (presented options to crews) Smaller crews - longer hours (4-day work weeks) Union buy-in critical Re-evaluate and adjust where needed Equipment Efficiency 6
Plowing Efficiency Snow Haul improvements 7
Increase Proactive Response New Products 8
Cutting Edge Technology 2015-16 Winter 9
Winter 2015-16 Questions? 10