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Donnell & Allred, Inc. has been acting as the City Engineer for Worland
as far back as 1932. Except for a short period of time when the City had a
full-time engineer on staff in the early 1980's, all municipal engineering
has been performed by Donnell & Allred. Mike Donnell has been performing
this function since the mid-1990's; his father Jack Donnell was City Engineer
dating back to 1958, and his grandfather George Donnell was on board
beginning in 1932.
This arrangement has worked very well for Worland, as it effectively provides
the City the equivalent of a staff of several engineers, surveyors, draftsmen
and technical people whenever needed at about the cost of a single full time
engineer with no support staff or equipment.
During this time Donnell & Allred has designed and supervised the
construction of most of the water and sewer design and improvement projects,
water and wastewater treatment, streets design and improvements, as well as
writing and implementing the EPA Industrial Pretreatment Program, airport
improvements and virtually everything else pertaining to infrastructure in
and around Worland.
We work very closely with the Mayor, Public Works Department, Airport
Manager, Community Development Director, City Attorney, Police Chief and City
Hall staff to coordinate all activities involving engineering, surveying,
planning, mapping and all other matters requiring technical assistance.
In 1988 Donnell & Associates (now Donnell & Allred) entered into a
similar agreement with the Town of Basin. One of our principals resides in
Basin and attends all of their meetings as requested. The Town of Basin
voted in a 1% sales tax increase shortly after the above agreement and
dedicated all the money to rebuilding Basins streets. With the help of
Donnell & Allred they have been able to obtain matching grant funds from
the Wyoming Farm Loan Board (State Lands and Investments) to replace almost
every street in town without any assessment districts being formed. This
amounts to several million dollars of infrastructure improvements during this
period of time. We are also working on a major raw water irrigation
improvements design.
Like the City of Worland, Basin also employed a full time engineer prior to
the current arrangement and have since found that Donnell & Allred is
able to provide better professional services within a shorter time, and at a
lower cost to the municipalities.
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