“The greatest value I see with PubWorks is the accountability that the department brings to the County and the ability to easily and effectively manage all our assets.”

“PubWorks is a program that I was able to use effectively within the first 2 weeks. It does not take a lot of training time to use the system on a daily basis.”

“Cost accounting is the reason we picked PubWorks. Being able to see how much an asset is costing us, where it is and then being able to create reports and annual budgets from that information is amazing!”

“PubWorks broke down each task that was done during the disaster, and then our FEMA reps chose which of those tasks could be reimbursed, Before (PubWorks) that would have been really difficult, if they’d even have been able to do it.”

“Is that stop sign getting hit all the time? Maybe we need to move it, Do we need a guardrail on that road? If we’re seeing a lot of accidents in a certain place, then maybe we ought to cut down a few trees there for sight distance.”

“When we were looking for software, no one understood government and payroll with the different Labor Types, like PubWorks. It is software for government operations like ours. Nothing else out there is geared for public works like PubWorks.”

"In 2011 we didn’t have PubWorks and dealing with FEMA was a nightmare. Once we started using PubWorks it became easier to satisfy FEMA requirements with the records we were able to provide. FEMA was happy to use the documentation and reporting that we produced."

"Now we are creating histories for when calls come in, and when work orders are fulfilled. This helps us keep track of our employees, as well as flagging frequent problems at the same address. It also helps us with tracking reports, so we can say what it costs to do …

"As you know we had a Bridge State Audit which required the detail report for bridge work in PubWorks. We got a huge compliment being the only county so far out of a dozen or so that had specific detail (TASKS) for individual bridges (LOCATION FEATURE). I told them that …

“You know ahead of time what you’re going to need, so you’re not running back and forth to the shop for materials and equipment, You can look back and see what was done last year on a similar job or the same job.”

“At the end of each day, the crew foreman gives us a job report for his entire crew: what they did, equipment used, materials used, anything like that. So we enter it by the whole crew, not separated by employee. It’s faster that way.”

"PubWorks has been a lifesaver for me. When I started my job at Stillwater County we were in the middle of a big flood FEMA event. Our guys had been doing emergency repair work on a lot of county roads. If not for the ease of data entry and the …

“We selected PubWorks because it is easy to use, they understand our business needs, and PubWorks is cost effective.”

“The biggest obstacle for us is making the transition from our older system, I’m excited to see where we will be in another six months.”

"Pulling together all the requested information was a huge headache. But there wasn’t anything that he asked for that we couldn’t run out of PubWorks. And if there was something I couldn’t figure out, by the end of the afternoon PubWorks was able to create it for me."