LOS ALAMITOS

Residents should see better maintenance of public byways after the Engineering and Public Services Department reorganizes this week. Assistant City Manager Gerard Goedhart said the department will be restructured to eliminate the full-time city engineer, add a maintenance worker and give broader authority to the public services supervisor. The former city engineer had resigned in October; that work now will be contracted out.

Goedhart said the city is essentially built out, so there is no need for a full-time engineer but instead for more maintenance. Two maintenance positions had been cut in 1992 during a tough budget year. The move will save the city about $50,000 a year, Goedhart said.