Each week City Manager Tom Aspell throws on his rubber ducky suit and pes into the river, awaiting the start of the annual race. By the time he’s surrounded by the tiny rubber ducks that are actually competing, there’s little he can do but arrange them to spell out the city memo.
Step right up
Your award is waiting
The city’s Top Step Award was recently awarded to budget director Bob McManus, Aspell writes. Thankfully the original plaque in the shape of a massive winding staircase was replaced with a more modest sculpture.
McManus has been with the city for more than 15 years and is an integral part of the finance department. His contributions are invaluable to the accurate and timely delivery of the annual budget, which seems important if you ask us, and he has brought several critical projects to completion in the past few years.
McManus has worked through the details and managed a significant amount of budget changes and improvements, which means he’s seen more numbers than a, well, a thing that sees a lot of numbers. He has planned and implemented a new budget mod-ule in the city’s ERP system, and he worked through the details and oversaw the implementation of Position Control and Position Budgeting. If we understood what any of those words meant, we’d probably be suitably impressed. McManus is tenacious, detail oriented and very organized.
We’ll wait for the movie
Water, the book
Concord General Services has created a new brochure that was mailed to Concord water consumers a few weeks back, Aspell writes. If folded correctly, the brochure even acts as a tiny Dixie cup.
The brochure features useful information about Concord water, including water quality, utility bill payment options, new utility rates, water conservation, and more. Not featured: whether your water heater is half full or half empty.
Additional copies are available upon request at Concord General Services, 311 N. State St. The author will be unavailable for autographs, though. Be sure to get your copy to learn about the Concord General Services’ Goody Bag Giveaway and E- Z Pay for WaterSense contests.
Getting their clean on
Picking up the park
Parks staff conducted a small cleanup of Terrill Park, which involved lifting the lower branches of the trees and removing some of the undergrowth around the old snow dump area and the two upper parking areas, Aspell writes. Sounds pretty big for a small cleanup! The hope is that this will improve visibility to the parking areas for patrols and overall supervision of the park.
