Jerod Balthrop started with Building Maintenance as an Assistant Electrician and rapidly rose to become one of the two City Electricians. Jerod’s quick ascent to City Electrician occurred for the same reasons he is being honored here today. Few workers, in any field, with any employer, can match Jerod’s passion for a job well done and his hard charging work ethic. Jerod possesses excellent electrical knowledge and has been called upon frequently by Public Works, both Army and City, to assist in the development of electrical energy savings procedures.
 

Senior Street Maintenance worker David Bjork for Employee of the Year. David is extremely versatile and can perform all kinds of street, sewer and storm drain work. He is very focused on the job at hand and produces a high volume of work. David is a great asset to the job in helping to find solutions to difficult problems. His versatility and years of experience are great assets to the City and to Maintenance Division.
 

Ray Guerin is currently our Senior Custodian. I word be remiss if I did not recognize Ray for is wonderfully happy demeanor. Ray loves to laugh and when you see Ray you become happy. But Ray also has a serious side and that is his devotion to the City and his pride in a job well done. Ray always wants to please and often we in the City will come to work and find that our vinyl floors have been stripped, waxed and buffed or our crew area was specially cleaned. He does those things in addition to his heavy workload. Not because someone told him to but so that we will enjoy our work area and more importantly, so that we will know that he cares.
   For months Ray has worked alone on the weekend, taking care of our Public Restrooms and making sure that our Recreation Centers are clean after parties. It is amazing how much work Ray can accomplish inn a day, yet Ray continues set the workload bar high, and does this every day he comes to work.