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share with others within the City and Public Works in an effort to provide more options and examples of currently used recognition practices. Section 17.9: PM Schedule -The Fleet Service Division has incorporated the equipment management system FAST~~ as a tool for scheduling PM services. The software enables staff to identify when equipmenf is due for service, enables them to produce reports and advance schedules for the equipment to be brought to the shops for PM service. Section 17.10: PM Evaluation -The Fleet Service Division had developed a quality control program to spot check PM-work performed in the fleet shops. Re- Accreditation will define the exact procedures which achieve the goals of this section. Section 17.19: Replacement Analysis -The Fleet Service Division performs the replacement analysis in cooperation with customers by the evaluation, documentation and funding policies defined in the Division's Policy and Procedures manual. Section 18.2: Tree Inventory -The Urban Forester has developed a plan to inventory all public trees, the first phase is developing an inventory of all street trees (about 45% completed to date), and the plan has been approved by the Public Works Director. Section 24.10: Operations and Maintenance Inspections -Public Works .Maintenance staff inspects roadways at regular intervals as part of the Pavement Management System (PMS), with the intervals based upon functional classification. The arterials and collectors are inspected annually; one-third of the local streets are inspected each year, placing locals on a roughly three-year inspection cycle. Roadways are inspected to identify defects, including cracking, rutting, raveling, vegetation, flushing and. other faults. Sidewalk inspections are performed periodically by geographic. area on a rotational cycle of seven years and are inspected for settling, cracking, heaving and other defects. Bridges under City jurisdiction are inspected every other year for structural integrity and to identify damage or decay and are inspected. by astate-certified bridge inspector under an agreement with the State of Oregon. Section 25.5: Routing -Public Works Maintenance have established Street sweeping and flushing routes for all curb and gutter streets with City maintenance jurisdiction. Routes are prioritized based on street classification and changing community needs and the routes are regularly assessed for accuracy and edited as required. The program also has designated routes for the sweeping of concrete alleys. The route master copies are stored on computer and as streets are added or modified from routes, operators receive the revised data the same day the routes are edited. Section 25.9: Dead Animal Pickup -Public Works Maintenance staff remove Dead animals daily from City rights-of-way using a service request system. The Page 9