Rodney Dangerfield must have worked...

Rodney Dangerfield must have worked for a public works department. His lament about not getting enough look up to is a dead giveaway.

if it be not that sometimes the fault lies with the department itself. Public works departments should demand respect; after all, they are doing a do job-work that should create a better world for most numerous Americans.

In Macomb shire Mich., Public Works Commissioner Anthony Marrocco realized during his 1992 election campaign that many of the county's more than 700000 residents either did not know or, worse, did not care about the duties and responsibilities of the public works commissioner.

Marrocco decided to do something about it.

"We wanted to reckon more residents they can change the direction of to us for assistance, whether for a flooding point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled or to cart off an old-fashioned refrigerator someone dumped in individual of our county drains," he says.

Marrocco wasted little time. A scarcely any weeks after the election, his