REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Proclamation of National Public Works Week 2025
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
Enhance Community Sports, Recreational and Arts Assets
BACKGROUND
Since 1960, the American Public Works Association (APWA) has sponsored National Public Works Week to celebrate how public works projects and public works professionals help improve our communities. Across North America, thousands of APWA members, citizens, and government agencies join together in activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to public works personnel and to recognize the important role they play in planning, building, managing, and operating at the heart of local communities to improve the quality of life each day.
DISCUSSION
May 18-24, 2025 is designated as National Public Works Week. The APWA has chosen "People, Purpose, Presence" for this year's theme, which emphasizes how meeting the needs of people is what gives public works its sense of purpose, and while much of their work is being done in the background, public works professionals are ever present, advancing quality of life for all. This theme highlights how Public Works is always there when people need them, providing essential services that make communities safer, more vibrant, and a better place to live.
Various departments within the City of Santa Clara work together to deliver high-quality public works projects, including Parks & Recreation, Public Works, Water and Sewer Utilities, and Silicon Valley Power. The staff in these departments work as one team and partner with the community to provide infrastructure services in transportation, roadway and landscape maintenance, wastewater and stormwater treatment, water and solid waste systems, parks and recreation spaces, power, emergency management and first response, right-of-way management, and maintenance of public buildings and other facilities essential to our citizens. This high...
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