Inside The City: Jude Bilafer, City of Palmer’s Director of Public Works Department

Now, there has been some, uh, discussion various ways about the city's buildings, particularly that, uh, house this department, even though City Hall, et cetera.

Are there any particular actions being taken at this point to improve those facilities? [laughs]

Well, there's, there's always a desire to, to do that.

Right.

Um, we finished a City Hall improvement recently, and that was new carpet and some new paint, and boy, it made a wonderful change inside City Hall.

It did indeed.

So we are limited on funds, so a lot of things, upgrades that we do, if you will, are, are interior.

Yes, it would be a wonderful thing to have some more modern facilities, but we obviously are significantly constrained by money.

Got it.

So at this moment, there are no plans.

There are thoughts and considerations of going forward with some things, but I, I can tell you from the public work side, and that's what I'll speak, 'cause that's the piece I do know, there, there are no plans on the public work side.

I would love to have a warm storage facility outside.

It's hard when we store some of our equipment-

I, um, well, yeah

... outside-

I'm sure

... um, what it does to those big pieces of equip...

And, and, and as you know, Mike, you, you attend all the council meetings.

You know, when we spend $430,000 on a road grader, and then if by chance I don't have a warm place to store it inside, the weather here can, can do some harsh things to our equipment.

Gotcha.

Okay.