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• ADMINISTRATION: Part-time Mayor and six (6) part-time Alderpersons; full-time Administrator/Planner; full-time appointed Clerk/Treasurer; part-time Human Resources Director; part-time accountant and, two full-time and one part-time secretaries.
• BUILDING SERVICES: One full-time Building Inspector, one part-time Assistant Building Inspector, one part-time Electrical Inspector, one part-time Plumbing Inspector and a part-time secretary providing service to the City as well as serving the Village property owners through a contract.
• CITY ASSESSORS OFFICE: Including two full-time and three part-time assessors who keep assessments on over 6300 parcels up-to-date.
• FIRE/RESCUE: 24 hour, combination fire department (full-time and paid-on-call) staffed by 11 full- time staff including Chief, Assistant Chief and an administrative assistant, 2 part-time clerks, 3 part-time inspectors and 72 POC Firefighters/EMT’s. The City owns 18 fire vehicles, four rescue vehicles, and three fire stations serving both the City and Village of Pewaukee with a combined population of about 21,000, under a joint program. (ISO rating=4/9).
• PARKS AND RECREATION: A total of twelve parks, including five developed City parks encompassing 80 acres. There are also approximately two square miles of public and private open space in the City. Pewaukee Park and Recreation Department is operated year-round by a 3/4-time Director, a 3/4 time Recreation Supervisor, one full-time Park Maintenance Supervisor and one full-time park maintenance employee. The Department completes its staff with part-time, seasonal employees for programming and maintenance. There are presently, nine maintenance employees and approximately 80 seasonal part-time recreational employees and five contracted employees.
• POLICE: 24 hour operation with 37 sworn officers, of which 20 are currently full-time, including a full-time Chief. There are also three full-time and six part-time secretaries/clerks. The City Municipal Court processes over 4,300 cases annually. City police patrol all of Lake Pewaukee, encompassing parts of the City, the Village and the Town of Delafield, year round.
• PUBLIC WORKS: Including a Public Works Director/City Engineer, a Mgr. of Engineering Services, one full-time and one part-time secretaries, and also including: a STREET/HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE DIVISION with six full-time and three part-time personnel with 19 year-round street maintenance vehicles. Weekly solid waste/recycling pick up is provided by a private contractor. The City also operates a recycling center at City Hall for metal, paper, glass and plastic, that is open on Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. and on Wednesday afternoons during the summer. The Public Works Department also includes a CITY SEWER/WATER UTILITY with four full-time personnel operating a City sanitary sewerage facility connected to the Fox River Wastewater Pollution Control Center (FRWPCC) in Brookfield, as well as a City water supply system which includes five deep sandstone aquifer wells and four shallow aquifer wells and 1.7 million gallons of water storage capacity.
• LAKE PEWAUKEE SANITARY DISTRICT: Three full-time and 15 part-time personnel operating a joint City of Pewaukee/Town of Delafield sanitary sewerage system connected to the FRWPCC and serving only property in the vicinity of Pewaukee Lake. The Sanitary District is also responsible for lake weed control and lake watershed wetland preservation.
• TOP SIX INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS (taxpayers) IN CURRENT AND FUTURE CITY OPERATIONS: Deutsche Bank/G. E. Medical Systems, Aurora Health Systems, Sunset/Nell, Payne & Dolan/Waukesha Lime & Stone, Wis-Park Corp. and American TV. (1/2001)

• The City of Pewaukee has more equalized value than 40 percent of the counties in the state.
• The City of Pewaukee ranks 23rd of the 190 cities in the state in terms of full value, is 51st in population size and has the next to lowest local tax rate of all 190 cities.
• The Town of Pewaukee was established in 1842, six years before Wisconsin statehood, and was (finally) incorporated as a City in February 1999, after 35 years of attempts.

• POPULATION: 12,177; (1/2002)
• LAND AND WATER area: Approximately 24 square miles. (1/2001)
• EQUALIZED ASSESSED VALUE: $1.8703 billion. (1/2002)
• CITY 2001 TAX LEVY RATE FOR 2002 OPERATIONS: $2.99/$1,000 of assessed value ($2.78/$1,000 of equalized value).
• CITY 2001 TAX LEVY FOR 2002 OPERATIONS: $4,672,230
• PRIVATE COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL PARKS OR DEVELOPMENTS: Eleven (11) on over 1,950 acres, with 90 percent occupied. (1/2002)
• PUBLIC COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL PARKS OR DEVELOPMENTS: None! The City neither solicits nor provides incentives to businesses or developers, or develops land in competition with private enterprise.
• COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL/INSTITUTIONAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS: 600+. (1/2002)
• COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL/INSTITUTIONAL EMPLOYMENT: 8,000+. (1/2002)
• COMPREHENSIVE, LONG-RANGE LAND USE PLAN: Adopted in 1982, latest update adopted in 1997.
• COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE: Adopted in 1982, latest update in 1996 (Zoning categories include: General agriculture, exclusive agriculture., upland & lowland conservancy, flood-land, and six single family, two duplex, three multi-family, six commercial, six industrial, two institutional, one park district and a shore-land overlay district).
• STREETS AND HIGHWAYS: 126.5 miles, including 14.5 miles of freeways and expressways, 31 miles of county and other state trunk highways and 81.0 miles of City streets and highways. (There are eight (8) freeway or expressway interchanges in the City).
• RAILROADS: Canadian National/Wisconsin Central, 5.4 miles (north/south) and Canadian Pacific (Amtrak), 3.7 miles (east/west).