As municipalities facing a growing list of challenges to balance both the needs of their citizens and the constraints of their budgets, more innovative means are required to manage a complex world. Starting in the Fall of 2018, City of Mesa Solid Waste Services began to test and implement the Network Analysis tools as part of ESRI’s ArcGIS software package. Several months in, the analyses serve as useful data when evaluating operations management decisions.The department utilizes two major components to analyze questions surrounding best cost location for material disposal and evaluating commercial routing options under the Travel Salesman algorithm. This presentation is aimed at providing a comfortable and welcoming environment to these applications and to illustrate that technical analysis can be deployed easily. My hope is other municipalities with similar advantages could use these tools to find creative solutions to their solid waste challenges.