City Manager's Annual Report Annual Report 2018 | A Year In Review | Page 31

ETHICS
City’s Insurance Rating
Benefits the Community
Every three years, the Insurance Services Office, the
leading source of information about property/casualty
insurance, conducts an evaluation of all 7,700 building
departments in the United States. The ISO evaluates
jurisdictional information, local government formation and policies, implementation of building codes and code
adoption, certification and education levels of staff, department policies and procedures, accuracy, inspection and
plan review statistics. All results are tabulated, and an overall rating is determined for residential and commercial
permits. Each permit type is assigned an evaluation number between 1 and 10, with 1 being the best ranking. In
the recent 2018 review, the City received a rating of 3 for residential and a 2 for commercial permits. The ISO also
provides a comparative analysis of each municipality to those in the same county and state, as well as overall
comparatives nationally. The City outscored all municipalities in all three regions. The results of the ISO evaluation
are sent to insurance underwriters to determine property insurance rates for the community. The 2018 ISO review
resulted in the best ranking Port St. Lucie has ever received.
Public Works Earns Re-Accreditation
The City’s Public Works Department has achieved its fourth prestigious re-accreditation designation from the American
Public Works Association – evidence the department is working toward the highest standards for management
practices. The department was the seventh agency in the U.S. to be awarded accreditation and the first agency in
the State of Florida. This accomplishment
also reinforces the department’s work
on the City’s strategic goal to be a high-
requests for service
miles of sidewalk
pounds of litter
performing government organization. The
City’s Public Works Department oversees
City resources that manage the planning,
design, construction and maintenance of
City infrastructure and various facilities.
This includes roads and bridges, water
Service Requests
Sidewalk Complete
Litter Cleanup
quality and drainage, traffic operations
Public Works received 6,848 requests Completed construction of 5 miles of 29,744 pounds of litter was picked up
sidewalk: Selvitz Road, Village Green
and properly disposed.
for service which represents an increase
and landscaping.
of 56% over the previous year, which Drive, Rosser Boulevard, Thornhill
6,848
5
29,744
i
may be attributable to the extremely
wet spring.
Drive, Idol Drive, and Tulip Boulevard.
PSLPD Successfully Completes C.A.L.E.A.
Accreditation Review
In 1991, the Port St. Lucie Police Department was the 193rd law
enforcement agency in the United States, and the first in St. Lucie
County, to become nationally accredited through Commission on
Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (C.A.L.E.A.).
This accreditation program provides public safety agencies an
opportunity to voluntarily demonstrate that they meet an established
set of professional standards.
The PSLPD has successfully been awarded reaccreditation
seven times with the most recent award being received in 2016
for “Advanced Meritorious Accreditation.” In 2017-2018, the Port
St. Lucie Police Department successfully completed a compliance
review on numerous standards selected by C.A.L.E.A. Our agency
met the criteria of compliance on each standard reviewed to maintain
full accordance with C.A.L.E.A. to effectively retain our accreditation
status.
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