Town of Mechanic Falls Annual Report 2019-2020

Town of Mechanic Falls Annual Report 2019-2020

Public Works

The Mechanic Falls Public Works Department is pretty much a do whatever it takes on whatever the job is to get it done the right way the first time hopefully. We help the Water, Sewer, Fire and Police Depts. whenever they need help. We also do a lot of maintenance chores at the town office when asked to do so. All of the different departments try to work together and that sure makes things easier in a small town.

The crew I have at Public Works are a reliable hard-working bunch of local guys that enjoy their job and do their best to keep the roads safe in the winter and the town clean and pretty in the summer. This crew does whatever it can in house when it comes to maintenance or repairs to try to keep costs down because maintaining a bunch of equipment is quite an expensive ordeal and things break when your working equipment.

Last winter was not a block buster winter, we got about 85 inches of snow and were on the road around 55 times throughout the winter and I might have missed a few. There are a lot of late nights, weekends, holidays that we have to be there, that is just part of the job and our crew does an outstanding job taking care of the roads and always are there when I call. We do plenty of things throughout the year to keep us busy, it is a vicious circle but never doing the same thing, every season has its own things that need to be taken care and we stay very busy taking care of things. I am blessed to have the crew that I do, Chris leads the way with Andy and John right behind him and I can’t thank them enough for all their hard work, it is greatly appreciated, and a big thank you goes out to our snowblower guy Josh, he does a great job on those sidewalks in the winter and in the summer on our grass around town. We are always around if you have problem just give the garage a call and I will get back to as soon as possible. Thank you for all the support that has been given to myself and my crews over the years, it is a pleasure working for this town.

Scott Penney, Public Works Director

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