City of Surrey's Annual Financial Report 2021

CITY OF SURREY OVERVIEWS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

The Engineering Department provides city services relating to transportation, solid waste, water, sewer, drainage, district energy, land development and the management of real estate assets. The accomplishments and goals in this section are those that relate to the divisions that fall under the General Operating Fund: Land Development, Operations, Realty Services, Survey Services and GIS services.

LAND DEVELOPMENT Land Development includes the Development Services section which prescribes the municipal infrastructure required to service land and building development; Inspection Services section which ensures infrastructure meets Council-adopted requirements; and the Client Services section which administers Engineering permits for construction in City road allowances. OPERATIONS Operations maintains the City’s engineering infrastructure, including roads, drainage, sewer and water operations. This division also manages and maintains the City’s fleet of vehicles and business enhancement initiatives. REALTY SERVICES Realty Services manages the acquisitions, dispositions, and development of the City’s real estate portfolio. Realty Services is responsible for the timely acquisition of land and rights-of-way for capital projects, park purposes and civic use, as well as managing the City’s real estate inventory, including leasing and property sales.

SURVEY SERVICES The Survey team provides services to all City Departments. With a primary focus of legal survey services to support Engineering and Parks Recreation & Culture. The Survey Section also manages the digital plan submission for the City's cadastral database, provides expertise for land development applications, and maintains the horizontal and vertical control survey monumentation network in the City. GIS SERVICES The GIS team manages the City’s geographic information system (GIS) including tools, technology, spatial data reporting and analytics services. The section maintains the City’s flagship web map COSMOS and enterprise systems: ArcGIS, Cityworks, AMANDA and Assetworks.

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• Secured property to accommodate a 60-bed “Safe Sleep” shelter in the City Centre as part of the UBCM Strengthening Communities Services Grant. • Identified a site in the City Centre area for 30 units of Youth Housing to be developed under the CMHC Rapid Housing Program. • Implementation of a turn-by-turn navigation system with route map and voice commands to staff for the completion of winter maintenance brine routes. • Worked with the Fraser Health Authority to identify and open four Covid-19 vaccination centres. • Engineering Operations applied evidence based decisions in reviewing the most common musculoskeletal injuries (MSI). The program has led to a 66% reduction in MSI when compared to 2020. • Developed WalkIT, a new web map to exchange information with pedestrians as they walk about the City. • Developed and implemented a new inventory control system in the garage to allow digital tracking of parts and supplies.

• Implement the fifth year of a five-year strategy to improve employee safety by reducing short duration employee absenteeism due to preventable workplace accidents by 2021. • Enhanced public access to planned and ongoing capital construction projects information. • Committed $54.4 million in parkland acquisition expenditures, excluding riparian dedications and parklands transferred through the City land development process, resulting in 23.3 acres of parkland being added to the City’s inventory. • Piloted the implementation of four key City Centre and strategic projects based on agreed milestones with the developers and their engineers. One project has been completed, while the other three are still in-progress. To date, staff has achieved agreed upon durations and schedules. • Entered into License Agreements with Rogers Communications Inc. to install, operate and maintain telecommunication infrastructure within the road allowances to increase broadband access and connectivity for Surrey residents.

• Developed processes to compile and share asset condition, probability of failure and consequence of failure information related to critical infrastructure to support sound maintenance management and sustainable service delivery. • Assumed the ongoing lease agreements at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds from the Lower Fraser Valley Exhibition Association as part of the City’s new role as the Fairground Operator. • Through appraisal review, increased the park dedication contributions to the City by an additional $1,640,000 over and above the original amounts proposed as part of development applications. • Completed 292 appraisal requests representing 811 properties in furtherance of the City’s strategic initiatives to increase civic, social, infrastructure and parkland services. • Upgraded COSMOS. Enhancements include better overall performance, improved drawing graphics and measure tools as well as dynamic links to Surreys new Traffic Data Hub operations dashboard.

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