Government Fleet, May 2019

D I S C U S S I O N Group Publisher Sherb Brown 310 533 2451 Sherb Brown@ bobit com Executive Editor Thi Dao 310 533 2544 Thi Dao@ bobit com Senior Editor Roselynne Reyes 310 533 2433 Roselynne Reyes@ bobit com ADVISORY BOARD Dan Berlenbach City of Long Beach Calif Paul Colell Town of Castle Rock Colo Ruben Flores City of San Antonio Texas Tony Gratson Ford Dana Hammer General Motors Paul Hanna City of Tacoma Wash Rick Hilmer Prince Georges County Md Joe Keefe AssetWorks Phillip Kobernick Alameda County Calif Gary McLean City of Lakeland Fla Robin Rehborg North Dakota Department of Transportation Bick Pratt FCA Ann Schreifels Caterpillar Mark Tolman Canyon County Idaho Bob Williams State of Tennessee Publishing Director Kelly Bracken Senior Operations Director Brian Peach Assistant Production Manager Heidi Dimaya 310 533 2542 Heidi Dimaya@ bobit com Senior Art Director LaMar Norman Graphic Artist Jeff Polman DISTRICT ADVERTISING MANAGERS Great Lakes Robert Brown Jr 248 601 2005 Robert Brown@ bobit com East Coast Sales Manager Za Farley 719 434 7734 Za Farley@ bobit com West Coast Sales Manager Jeff Carter 330 889 2214 Jeff Carter@ bobit com BOBIT BUSINESS MEDIA CORPORATE OFFICERS Chief Executive Officer Richard Rivera President Sherb Brown Chief Financial Officer Tony Shepherd Chief Digital Officer Eric Bearly Chief Content Officer Cyndy Drummey Chief Marketing Officer Paul Andrews Business and Editorial Office Bobit Business Media 3520 Challenger Street Torrance CA 90503 1640 FAX 310 533 2503 Subscription Inquiries 888 239 2455 bobitpubs@ omeda com Printed in USA Retaining qualified technicians Being a municipality we train them and Im losing too many of them to the private sector because theyre more interested in the weekly paycheck vs benefits and longterm employment Jonathan Ford my fleet manager works with the local trade schools Were talking to the colleges and were even reaching out to the high schools to get them interested in coming into this field Im also in union negotiations right now and I continue to encourage Human Resources to work with the finance side to find more money so we can raise pay across the board On the show floor Whats Your Biggest Challenge Heres what government fleet managers at the NAFA I E in Louisville had to say about their biggest challenges My challenge is prioritizing and allocating my focus on different projects Things come up all the time that take up most of my time and then other things get put to the side and we have to go back and find more time to refocus on things that should be a priority One example would be rolling out a good GPS system for our district We made the investment of installing the units Now we have to implement a GPS program that can be beneficial to the district Our biggest challenge right now is keeping our greenhouse gas emissions level Last year we increased 6 In the city things are going well Weve hired more people and our fleet is increasing but we dont want our greenhouse gases to increase Some of the strategies were taking are to increase our electric vehicle fleet implement a shared motor pool and reduce our idling I think those three strategies will help out a lot My biggest challenge is bringing young folks up developing them getting them involved in the fleet industry and making sure that they understand how this industry works and what were doing and where were going I want them to understand that in this type of workspace you can easily be promoted and there are endless possibilities in this industry David Dunn CFM Division Manager Fleet Facilities Management City of Orlando Fla Al Thunberg CAFM Director of Fleet Services City of Minneapolis Luis Abrego Budget Management Analyst Fleet Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Timothy Fitzgerald Fleet Director District of Columbia Water Sewer Authority DC Water 6 GOVERNMENT FLEET COM MAY 2019