Public Works Engineering 
Mission Statement
The Lee’s Summit Public Works Department is dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of the community through environmentally and economically sound infrastructure preservation and growth while providing outstanding service to our customers.
Summary
The Engineering Division provides the City with technical expertise for managing the City’s infrastructure from concept through construction. Organized into teams, the division deals with both private development projects and the City’s capital projects program. Technical areas include transportation, traffic, stormwater, water, sanitary sewer, solid waste, construction management and inspections. Staff members also provide technical support to the airport, solid waste and operations division of Public Works as well as the Water Utilities Department. Public Works staff takes the lead in preparing the annual update to the City’s Capital Improvement Plan, a planning document which outlines the anticipated infrastructure improvements for the next five years.
The Development Engineering Team works with proposed development projects, reviewing the plans for streets, stormwater management, utilities, traffic control, and erosion control, for conformance with the criteria contained in the City’s Design and Construction Manual. For more information about development review please click here.
The Traffic Team within Public Works provides overall long term guidance and direction on traffic management issues including signing, signals, traffic modeling, and current customer service issues. Team members are also responsible for managing traffic signal and streetlight capital projects. For more information on traffic services please click here.
The Transportation Team is responsible for management of the engineering design, right of way acquisition, and bidding of roadway, bridge and airport projects. In addition, this team provides technical support to the Public Works Operations Division.
The Utility Team is responsible for management of the engineering design, right of way acquisition, and bidding of water and sanitary sewer system projects. The team’s primary in-house client is the Water Utilities Department.
The Construction Management group is responsible for construction administration and inspections of major capital projects including roadways, bridges, traffic signals, streetlights, stormwater, water and sanitary sewer system projects. The Public Works Inspections subgroup monitors the construction of privately constructed facilities. Staff also monitors erosion control on construction projects and regulates activity in the public right of way.
Stormwater engineering is currently managed by one senior staff engineer who utilizes staff members from several teams on projects and customer service issues. The stormwater engineer also provides technical input and support to all other teams when stormwater management expertise is required. For more information on the City's stormwater initiatives please click here.
Information on the status of projects included in the current Capital Improvements Plan can be found on the Capital Project Status page.