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Cartegraph Celebrates High-Performance Government Award Winners
Cartegraph, a leader in high-performance government software and
services, is pleased to announce the winners of its 2017-2018 High-Performance
Government Awards. The prestigious honor recognizes local government
organizations leveraging modern operations
management technology to solve problems, work smarter and improve
their communities.
"Our goal is to help organizations achieve measurable results on their
journey to becoming a high-performance government," said Nick Kittle,
Cartegraph government performance and innovation coach and an award
judge. "This list represents some of the very best work being done in
our country today and we are so proud to work with these communities."
The following organizations rose to the top of the competition based on
their accomplishments using Cartegraph software in several core areas,
including infrastructure management and improvement, operational
efficiency, citizen engagement, and data-driven decision-making.
City of Arlington, Texas With over 90 parks under its belt,
estimating maintenance costs was a cumbersome and expensive process for
the City of Arlington. Manually inspecting the park system took more
than 4,500 labor hours to complete, and the paper-to-database approach
was redundant and expensive. Putting Cartegraph's mobile inspection
capabilities and built-in overall condition indexes to work, the
Arlington team is now assessing and analyzing their infrastructure in
real time, saving 4,100 hours or $62,000 in labor costs annually.
City of Auburn, Washington The City of Auburn dared to
overcome a common dilemma: how do you pinpoint the location of an asset
you can't se? To prevent the expensive repairs and major project delays
that come with unintentionally digging up critical assets, the City
combined Cartegraph technology, ArcGIS, and 3D mixed reality to arm
crews with "x-ray vision." Now, whether they're in the field or in the
office, staff can see and interact with underground assets without ever
lifting a shovel. This futuristic tech has even opened the door to more
dynamic council presentations and easier remote or confined-space
inspections.
Town of Bluffton, South Carolina Implementing software is a
challenge for any organization, but "going live" during a disaster
certainly ups the ante. Hours before Hurricane Irma fell upon the Town
of Bluffton, crews hit the ground running with Cartegraph: inventorying
equipment, programming FEMA rates, and learning to create tasks, enter
labor hours, and more from mobile devices. Rallied together, crews
logged 200 hours of cleanup work and real-time FEMA reimbursement
reporting helped save 3 days-or $5,000-in post-storm data entry labor
costs.
Village of Buffalo Grove, Illinois With over 13,000 annual
vehicle inspections, the Village of Buffalo Grove Public Works team
sought to streamline their paper-based fleet reporting and repair
workflows. Combining Cartegraph mobile inspections and automated
workflows, crews are now reporting on daily vehicle conditions and
generating fleet repair tasks in real time. What seems like a simple
solution has Buffalo Grove reaping hefty rewards, saving the Village
13,145 sheets of paper or nearly 2 trees, 35 days, and about $20,000
labor hours every year.
City of Kingsport, Tennessee To facilitate water compliance,
documentation is key. But, when crews are fixing an emergency main break
in freezing temperatures, it's easy to forget to record a step. After
building automated maintenance workflows in Cartegraph, the Kingsport
team is confident they'll never miss a beat. During de-watered repairs,
crews are now required to fill in chlorine and bacteriological sample
fields before moving on, and follow-up flushing tasks are automatically
created based off the readings. To date, Kingsport has saved 32 hours in
documentation review and follow up, and can prove-without a
doubt-they're delivering safe, clean water to their citizens.
City of New Braunfels, Texas As the second fastest growing
city in the nation, New Braunfels is challenged with providing citizens
the best service possible-especially when it comes to their pavement
management program. By leveraging real-time street maintenance data, the
team is confidently allocating limited resources and has even justified
a 50 percent budget increase. Through streamlined reporting, the City is
saving hours on spreadsheet entry, responding to citizen requests twice
as fast, and increasing transparency with citizens and other departments.
City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania When an infrastructure
network is built for twice your current population, you need to make
educated decisions on how time and taxpayer dollars are spent. That's
why the City of Pittsburgh is using their work and asset data to build
equitable street paving budgets based on practical-not
political-infrastructure improvements. Staff have become more
compelling, data-driven storytellers, resulting in a $1 million paving
budget increase, more informed city planners, safer streets, and
improved transparency and citizen engagement.
About Cartegraph: Cartegraph, headquartered in Dubuque,
Iowa, empowers cities and counties to become high-performance
organizations. They offer services and software to help local government
agencies manage assets effectively, deploy resources efficiently and
become more productive for the benefit of their citizens. For more
information, please visit www.cartegraph.com.
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