Los Santos Public Works - Caring for Los Santos

Public works utilizes concepts of technology and a practice-oriented approach to improve, construct and maintain the city by focusing on public infrastructure, spaces and services. As a backbone of the city in construction, engineering, and maintenance, the technician utilizes their knowledge and experience to improve the City of Los Santos. They combine their knowledge in the field of technology and engineering with the ability to solve problems, implement designs, and guarantee time management whilst ensuring their own and their colleagues' safety in the line of duty.

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Public Works has proven to be a phenomenon worth investing in since antiquity because of the overall economic and health benefits to society. Through its public infrastructure the City sustains and encourages economic growth needed to maintain prosperity and well-being for its community.

In quiet times the Department of Public Works ensures the continued maintenance, upkeep, and development of our public infrastructure. The department strives to support and enhance the high quality of life for the City's residents, businesses and visitors by providing well planned, environmentally sensitive, cost-effective infrastructure and services to promote public health, personal safety, transportation, economic growth and civic vitality.

In times of crisis the department responds to, and aids in recovery from, earthquakes, storms, and other emergencies as an integral part of providing and managing public work services. Without public works, our city would submerge into darkness. Without public works, our roads would become impassable. Without public works, our faucets would run dry. Public works may not always be the limelight, but its existence is unmistakably important.




The department's main headquarters is located in Vinewood Hills. In addition to housing offices where paperwork carries information across the department, the new facility also incorporates protected storage for all of the department's vehicles and equipment, indoor maintenance bays for vehicle and equipment repair and storage, protected areas for storage of repair parts and maintenance materials, and sufficient open area to allow for the flow of equipment and machinery to maintain the City's infrastructure. Taking site space constraints into account, two on-site buildings provide tuck-under workspaces to offer adequate separation between clean and dirty activities. The elevated office spaces also offer PW staff views of site features and access to daylight to create a pleasant interior work environment.

The facility is a gathering place for city employees only and restricted to the public. For the safety of the general public and the security of public works operations, it is important to secure the site, especially in an urban context. Addressing that need with extensive fencing was an important factor within the compound's design narrative.

Technicians receive their briefings and on-the-job instructions from a Public Works Supervisor. The full chain of command for the Department of Public Works is demonstrated below:

• Director of Public Works
  
• Deputy Director of Public Works
  
• Inspector
  
• Supervisor
  
• Senior Technician
  
• Technician
  
• Junior Technician 
  

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Los Santos Public Works responded to an emergency call-out to fix the Mission Row Police Station bollards as they stopped responding to officers FOB's.