Jim Olsen
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February, 2010 Jim has been keeping the city’s fleet and the school district’s buses running since August of 1990. Jim is the senior mechanic in our busy shop and has proven himself to be absolutely vital to the operations of our city.
Jim goes the extra mile for his teammates, the city’s citizens and the school district as a regular course of his day.
He burns the midnight oil studying complicated problems that other mechanics might try to solve by just replacing parts until the equipment runs. Jim’s diagnositical talents are nothing short of phenomenal. He gladly helps out with all mechanical challenges from the smallest engine on a lawn mower in the parks department to the huge garbage compactor at the landfill.
He and our other mechanic Bryon are always extremely busy, yet they always get their work done on time and in the least expensive manner possible.
Jim’s physical working environment is one of the least comfortable that there is. For example, which one of us would want to crawl inside the garbage truck on a hot summer day to fix the compactor when the truck is full of stinky garbage? Yet, Jim does this and more without a single complaint!
Thank you Jim, and congratulations!