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Public Works

Manatee County Public Works Department provides many of the basic services that affect the daily lives of everyone who lives and works in unincorporated Manatee County. Primarily, the department is responsible for all the things we take for granted on a daily basis: the administration, planning, maintenance, construction management and technical engineering of the County’s infrastructure; which includes the maintenance of the County’s 1,425 center line miles of roadways, an estimated 21,015 stormwater inlets, in excess of 45,000 street name and traffic control signs, 2,300 +/- individual street lights, and over 204 signalized intersections and 149 miles of canals. . Recent reorganization has added the Transit Division to Public Works. They provide fixed route service to the general public via 13 routes and reservation service to the transportation disadvantaged.

The Public Works Department is staffed with a trained work force of approximately 376 employees under the leadership of Ron Schulhofer, Director. The annual operating budget of the department is approximately $47.5 million. Operating funds are derived from a number of sources including user fees, utility charges and General Fund revenue. The department is also responsible for implementing the design and construction of Capital Improvements Project relating to the stormwater, roadway, solid waste, wastewater, reclaim water and water programs of the Board of County Commissioner’s five-year Capital Improvements Plan with a five year budget of $415 million.

The responsibilities of the Public Works Department are distributed among two business centers: Engineering Services and Field Operations Services.