Adopt-a-Roadway Program More User-Friendly Working with the county’s Geographic Information System (GIS) team, Public Works made its Adopt-a-Roadway program much easier and more efficient for both the public and staff coordinators. Instead of filling out PDF forms and sending them to Public Works via email, mail, or fax, the public can now fill them out and sign them online. Users can find which roads are still available, click on a road they want to adopt, and have that road’s information pre-filled on an online application. After a cleanup event, adopters can now tell where Public Works should pick up the bags of litter as well as where any hazardous materials were found along the road. Adopters also can register their upcoming cleanup events and sign safety waivers online. The new forms make all Adopt-a-Roadway processes faster, and provide coordinators with a central, easily accessible location for all program data. That helped lead to nine new road adoptions last year.
Improved Records Keeping Public Works began using a new, standardized system in 2023 for organizing documents pertaining to right-of-claims for bridge and road projects. The benefits of the new system were immediately realized in fewer lost and incomplete documents, ease of locating documents, and less time used during the review process. The documents also were transferred into the OnBase software program using the same organizational system, resulting in permanent, electronic storage. The new system received praise from the Federal Highway Administration and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
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