Government
BY TOMER RONEN
Fulshear bringing utilities in-house resulting in $1.5M in cost savings
Hired technician duties
The new city of Fulshear technicians will take on a multitude of tasks including:
Fixing fences
Cutting grass
Fulshear is bringing utilities in-house, allowing the city to control every aspect of the process, Fulshear Utilities Director Ben Glynn said. Zooming in With Fulshear expanding at such a rapid speed, working through their contractor—Inframark—has become more difficult, Glynn said. By moving utility work in-house, Glynn can over- see every step of the process when things go wrong, he said. Currently, the city will call Inframark if something goes wrong. By the numbers Moving utilities in-house will save the city $2 million. Of the savings, $500,000 will go to hire eight technicians during fiscal year 2025-26, Glynn said.
Meanwhile, Glynn said the additional $1.5 million will go back to utility farms, with projects including: • Improving water lines • Improving lift pump efficiencies • Adding a supervisory control and data acquisi- tion system, allowing the city to run the system from a centralized location during emergencies Looking ahead Glynn said residents can expect response time to improve once processes go in-house. Additionally, he said it will help improve the city’s water quality with plans to better the ranking of the city’s water system within two years. “We’re gonna do this, this is definitely in the best interest of the city,” Glynn said. “Financially, but more importantly, for the quality control.”
Running water quality control
Pulling electrical boards
Changing chemicals
Sampling water and wastewater
Changing tubing
Cleaning tanks
Pulling manhole lids to make sure sewer lines are flowing clean
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