If there’s one thing John Turner counts on in order to get the job done, it’s teamwork. And fortunately, he’s got a truckload of it.
With the Victor Village Board and 2,700 residents to serve — and satisfy — this director of public works has his work cut out for him. But he seems to be up for the challenge.
Case in point: Church Street. When Turner and his crew tackled a two-year reconstruction of one of the Village’s main thoroughfares, teamwork paid off in a big way.
“When we did Church Street, it was a cost savings of about 30 percent,” said Turner. “It’s because we do it all in house — we don’t put it out to contract. There are some subs that come on for (some things) but all my guys run the crew. And we have other municipalities help us — they bring all their trucks so they do all the hauling of the black top and the millings.”
On the Church Street project alone, Turner said the Towns of Bloomfield, Canandaigua, Farmington, Manchester, Geneva and Victor, and the City of Geneva all helped out with trucking.
And when other municipalities need a helping hand, the favor goes both ways.
This summer Turner’s crew turned its attention Kent Drive and West Parkway in the Victorwood development.
“This subdivision never had gutters in it, never had sidewalks,” said Turner. “We had a cost savings on Church St. last year of $143,000, so the Village Board applied it toward West Parkway.”
Turner estimates that the entire Victorwood subdivision, including Tarryington, Ambassador and Sommerset, will all be completed within the next two years.
“We still have to go through the budget process, but I’m really fortunate,” he said. “(The Village Board) is pretty good with me. They’re pretty cost effective.”
What’s left on Turner’s punch list?
“I don’t want to speculate,” he said. “Because the Town is proposing to do High Street, I would like to do the Village portion of High Street, but that’s not my decision, it’s the Village Board.”
Turner’s clearly proud of his team and the work they’ve accomplished, and if you buy him a cup of coffee, he’ll tell you so.
“This year we poured over 400 yards of concrete into sidewalks alone, and were able to do that with the guys that I have,” said Turner. “I came from a construction background, so doing the site work for all these projects and these sidewalks — it works in our favor.
“Everybody does their own job — everybody knows what they have to do,” he said. “They put blacktop down, they do the rolling, install the driveways, install the sidewalks — they do a good quality job.”
If there’s one thing John Turner counts on in order to get the job done, it’s teamwork. And fortunately, he’s got a truckload of it.
With the Victor Village Board and 2,700 residents to serve — and satisfy — this director of public works has his work cut out for him. But he seems to be up for the challenge.
Case in point: Church Street. When Turner and his crew tackled a two-year reconstruction of one of the Village’s main thoroughfares, teamwork paid off in a big way.
“When we did Church Street, it was a cost savings of about 30 percent,” said Turner. “It’s because we do it all in house — we don’t put it out to contract. There are some subs that come on for (some things) but all my guys run the crew. And we have other municipalities help us — they bring all their trucks so they do all the hauling of the black top and the millings.”
On the Church Street project alone, Turner said the Towns of Bloomfield, Canandaigua, Farmington, Manchester, Geneva and Victor, and the City of Geneva all helped out with trucking.
And when other municipalities need a helping hand, the favor goes both ways.
This summer Turner’s crew turned its attention Kent Drive and West Parkway in the Victorwood development.
“This subdivision never had gutters in it, never had sidewalks,” said Turner. “We had a cost savings on Church St. last year of $143,000, so the Village Board applied it toward West Parkway.”
Turner estimates that the entire Victorwood subdivision, including Tarryington, Ambassador and Sommerset, will all be completed within the next two years.
“We still have to go through the budget process, but I’m really fortunate,” he said. “(The Village Board) is pretty good with me. They’re pretty cost effective.”
What’s left on Turner’s punch list?
“I don’t want to speculate,” he said. “Because the Town is proposing to do High Street, I would like to do the Village portion of High Street, but that’s not my decision, it’s the Village Board.”
Turner’s clearly proud of his team and the work they’ve accomplished, and if you buy him a cup of coffee, he’ll tell you so.
“This year we poured over 400 yards of concrete into sidewalks alone, and were able to do that with the guys that I have,” said Turner. “I came from a construction background, so doing the site work for all these projects and these sidewalks — it works in our favor.
“Everybody does their own job — everybody knows what they have to do,” he said. “They put blacktop down, they do the rolling, install the driveways, install the sidewalks — they do a good quality job.”
