Each week City Manager Tom Aspell decides to bake cookies for all the Cappies winners, but he gets hungry trying to figure out how he’ll make so many and just shovels the cookie dough into his own face instead. Thankfully he mutters a city memo as he collapses into a food coma. Here it is!
Ain’t no party
Like a Twitter party
May 17-23 is National Public Works Week, Aspell writes. The American Public Works Association has sponsored NPWW since 1960 to celebrate the importance of public works services. For the city of Concord, these services are performed by the General Services Department. But American Public Works Week Thanks To The Department Of General Services was too long a title, so they went with the shorter one (besides, APWWTTTDOGS is kind of clunky as an acronym).
Concord General Services provides street maintenance, water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, trash/recycling services, public properties maintenance and equipment services for city vehicles. And if you ask when you’re in the office, they’ll probably provide you with a pen for a minute.
Public works services affect our lives each and every day. We have grown accustomed to having clean, accessible water every time we turn on the faucet; we expect to have solid waste services dispose of our trash and recycling items; and we rely on properly maintained streets for safe transportation. Maintaining water mains, cleaning up storm debris and plowing snow during the winter are all a result of dedicated public works employees. Follow Concord General Services on Twitter at twitter.com/ConcordNHGS to join their #NPWW Twitter Party (will there be #cake? Because we’re in if there is) on May 22 from 2 to 3 p.m., and to stay informed about public works services.
