City of Surrey 2020-2024 Financial Plan

ENGINEERING

2019 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

INCLUSION

• Secured property, and completed extensive building renovations, to accommodate a 42 bed homeless shelter in the City Centre, in support of the alleviation of street homelessness; and • Subdivided and provided a City-owned property, under a long-term lease, to BC Housing for the development of a six-storey transitional housing project in Green Timbers.

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Implemented a Safety Qualification Statement for counter permit contractors to doc- ument their level of safety training to provide assurances that minimum City safety requirements have been satisfied to reduce safety violations and safeguard resi- dents travelling on City streets; and

• Continued with mandatory internal safety certification training for all Engineering Operations employees to foster a safe work environment.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

• Received the Heart and Stroke Team Spirt Award – Big Bike Fundraiser.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• 10 new Road Weather Information Sys- tem (RWIS) sites were installed through- out Surrey and are now providing real time weather conditions and road infor- mation across the City which are help- ing to inform winter maintenance activi- ties; approximately 70,000 gigajoules of RNG in 2019 which will reduce both commu- nity and corporate GHG emissions and generate offset credits the City can use to become carbon neutral; • The Surrey Biofuel Facility produced

• Received Project of the Year Award for the Surrey Biofuel Facility from Canadian Biogas Association;

Received the APWA Excellence in Snow and Ice Control Award;

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• Received the Salt Institute - Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award; and • Enhanced the GIS and capital project planning process to improve access to information about the City’s capital projects for the public and staff.

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