Prairie View Civic OS

One dashboard to digitize Public Works, Police, Engineering, and Planning & Building — work orders, non-emergency reports, capital projects, and permits in one place.

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Not the official city website. This is an Observable Universe digitization workspace for Prairie View, Texas. For water bills, official permits, and city records use prairieviewtexas.gov. City Hall: 44500 Business Highway 290, Prairie View, TX 77446 · 936-857-3711. Emergencies: 911.

Today

Citywide snapshot

Open work orders

Public Works queue

Non-emergency CFS

Police sample board

Active capital jobs

Engineering

Permits in review

Planning & Building

Departments

Four desks, one operating picture

Public Works

Streets, water, sanitation, fleet

Work orders, hydrant flushing, Tuesday trash routes, and utility requests — tracked from intake to close.

Police

Non-emergency desk & records

Sample calls-for-service board, online non-emergency reporting, and a hard 911 split so emergencies never land here.

Engineering

Capital, drainage, right-of-way

Project tracker, bid/RFP status, and inspection holds for streets, water, and stormwater work.

Planning & Building

Permits, inspections, zoning

Plan review SLA, inspection calendar, and Planning & Zoning cases — including the 4th-Thursday meeting cadence.

Attention queue

Items that need a named owner today

ID	Desk	Item	Age	Status
WO-1048	Public Works	Water-side leak report, Cottonwood corridor	1 day	In progress
CFS-2219	Police	Alarm — commercial, Business 290 (sample)	22 min	Open
ENG-17	Engineering	Drainage study — east-side outfall	12 days	On hold
BLD-3904	Planning	Residential remodel — plan review overdue	9 days	In review
WO-1042	Public Works	Pothole — University Drive approach	3 days	Open

All rows above are demonstration records for Civic OS training. They are not live city dispatches.

What digitization covers

Paper, radio, and email become a queue.

Resident intake with a named department owner
Work orders, permits, and capital jobs on one timeline
Staff dashboards for Public Works, Police, Engineering, Planning
Public status without exposing emergency operations
Legal pages and records retention from the operating company on file

Talk to Observable Universe

Staffing note

This board is ready for a named city owner

Assign one operations owner per desk. Civic OS does not replace 911, the official city website, or court records. It is the working picture those teams share.