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Supplementing Municipalities and Districts with Professional Engineering Services

For over six decades, we have supported public agencies within California. Year after year, we have been pre-qualified for on-call services to provide planning, engineering, construction management, and land surveying. As City Engineer to a number of agencies, we offer a unique understanding comprised of both the engineering and the municipality perspectives. Our first-hand knowledge and experience with municipal engineering allows us to maintain long-term municipal clients.

Working as an Extension to Municipalities and Districts

The beauty of working as an extension to an agency is the ability to create a diverse team to complete time and budget-sensitive projects. We are experienced with funding sources, permitting, design, bidding, public coordination, contract administration, construction support, site inspection, and land surveying. Our firm’s knowledge and first-hand experience with municipal engineering has allowed us to maintain long-term municipal clients.

  • Planning: Our planning team provides a full range of planning and environmental compliance services to municipalities, federal clients, water districts, and transportation agencies throughout California.
  • Engineering: As City Engineer to numerous agencies, we possess invaluable insight and a unique understanding of public works and private development projects. We provide on-call professional services and staff augmentation for public agencies.
  • Construction Management: As a leader in the construction management field, we offer an impressive depth of resources. Our construction management team includes construction managers, resident engineers, structures representatives, construction inspectors, and office engineers.
  • Land Surveying: Our licensed land surveyors provide a full range of surveying and mapping services for design, construction, and right-of-way. Our team consists of project surveyors, party chiefs, and CADD technicians.
Count on MNS for Staff Augmentation

Our firm’s experience, coupled with our knowledge of municipalities, makes MNS an easy addition to provide professional on-call services. We are able to draw from our qualified staff with expertise and resources in the areas of engineering, surveying and construction management—always finding precisely the right skillset and personality fit for the job. Because MNS fills these roles on a contract basis, municipalities may efficiently provide the community with professional engineering resources as needed without the cost and limitations of permanent staff. Our core government services include:

  • Development review/coordination
  • Land surveying and mapping
  • Planning and permitting services
  • Program/construction management
  • Staff augmentation

  • Agency Staff Reports/Presentations

  • Stormwater compliance
  • Stormwater master planning

  • MS4 development and maintenance

  • Transportation engineering
  • Water resources engineering
Capital Improvement and Land Development Services
  • Bid analysis
  • CIP budgeting, design, and management
  • CIP estimating and scheduling
  • Contract support staff
  • Inspection—private development and grading
  • Inspection—public improvements
  • Entitlement reviews and project conditioning
  • Environmental review
  • Floodplain management
  • Funding coordination and public outreach

  • Development/Grading and improvement plan checking

  • Grant applications
  • Permitting
  • Project design
  • Right-of-way engineering
  • Tentative and final map checking

Our firm’s experience, coupled with our knowledge of municipalities, makes MNS an easy addition to provide professional on-call services.

The MNS Difference

Our purpose is to make a positive difference in people’s lives every day, by focusing on our clients needs to solve their unique project challenges and deliver top-quality results.

When you choose MNS for your agency needs, you choose:

  • Commitment: MNS has a long-established relationship with government sector clients. We take it upon ourselves to know the contract inside and out to assemble a well-qualified team.
  • Progressive: Possessing both extensive knowledge and practical experience, we apply the latest techniques, technologies, and processes to any project. Including all Federal reporting requirements.
  • Communication: We prioritize communication and understand the level of a project’s success is directly related to clear and direct communication.
  • Integrity: Our commitment to integrity is evidenced by the fact that more than 90% of our clients choose to work with us again. Additionally, our role as City Engineer/Public Works Director/City Surveyor and Staff Augmentation to numerous municipalities further underscores our dedication to ethical, sound practices 

The value of our firm’s services lies not only in our need to satisfy our clients but with our passion for the cities and counties we work in and call home. MNS is proud to say it has been a part of our local communities for over 60 years and we look forward to providing quality professional services for many more to come.

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