CASSOPOLIS — Cass County Road Commission’s 2011 goals include becoming first in Michigan organized by tasks rather than geographic location.

Manager Louis Csokasy reported to the Board of Commissioners Thursday night on 2010 accomplishments and previewed the year ahead.

“We’re going to reorganize the Road Commission’s supervisory and unionized workforce. Ours and virtually every one in Michigan are organized geographically into districts. We ought to be organized around tasks and processes. We’ve selected three — construction and drainage, trees and brush and roads. We’re organizing our entire organization around those three processes. I suspect it’s the first Road Commission in Michigan to actually do it.”

Asked about the signed joint operation agreement signed with St. Joseph County to make him a “shared resource” — “it’s not a merger” — Csokasy splits his days Mondays and Fridays between St. Joseph and Cass counties, spends Wednesdays there and Thursdays in Cassopolis, with Tuesday designated for “wherever I’m needed most.”

gravel operation, which we named after Bob Powers today. That’s the official name. Everyone around the Road Commission calls it ‘Powers pit’ already.”

rking toward having a joint purchasing committee. We buy about $4 million of products

“The Road Commission had a pretty decent year,” Csokasy continued. “We certainly have our challenges, but everybody’s working really hard to overcome them.”

Csokasy’s agency is responsible for maintaining 1,014 miles of road in Cass County, of which 772 are paved and 242 are gravel.