Bureau of Streets - The Bureau
of Street Maintenance is responsible for paving,
street repairs, crack sealing, pot hole repair,
snow removal and salting, tree removal, bulk
trash
removal, brush cleaning and removal, some building demolition and many other
city services including street cleaning, street maintenance and sweeping
of approximately 147 miles of city streets. Twenty-three employees staff
this Bureau.
Bureau of Sanitation - The Bureau of
Sanitation collects and disposes of approximately
14,000
tons of municipal solid waste per year. We collect
from the 17,000 residential
households and approximately 3,000 business properties in the city per week
in a safe, efficient and sanitary manner. The Bureau of Sanitation also collects
all recyclable materials such as plastic, glass, metal, paper and yard waste
from residential properties in the city. Twenty-eight employees staff this
Bureau.
Bureau of Traffic Control - The Bureau of Traffic
Control is responsible for placement, operation
and maintenance of traffic signals, signs, installing
guide rail, maintenance of all street
pavement markings and for the control of traffic throughout the city. This
bureau maintains some 120 traffic signals, 450,000 feet of pavement markings,
120 crosswalks, 2,500 traffic control signs, 1,600 street name signs and
many miles of guide rail. The staff of this bureau also maintains, installs
and repairs the 80 plus two-way radios in the various vehicles within the
Department of Public Works. The bureau also performs coordination of traffic
barricades for various civic events, maintains a city banner program and
installs holiday decorations. Six employees staff this Bureau.
Bureau of the Central Garage - The Bureau
of the Central Garage is responsible for the
repair and maintenance of all Department of Public
Works vehicles; City Hall based vehicles and
the Department of Public Safety-Fire Vehicles. These vehicles include sanitation
packer type garbage trucks, automated garbage trucks, fire trucks, ambulances,
pick up trucks, full size dump trucks, cars, salters, snow plows, large pieces
of earth moving equipment, pavers, rollers, front-end loaders, bulldozers
and a variety of miscellaneous small equipment including lawn mowers, weed
eaters, chainsaws, generators, green mowers, cement mixer, concrete saws
and zambonis. In all, there is approximately 110 large pieces of equipment
and 100 plus small pieces of equipment. Nine employees staff this Bureau.
Bureau of Facilities Maintenance - The Bureau
of Facilities Maintenance is responsible for
the
maintenance of city-owned property including
City Hall, police buildings, fire stations,
public works buildings, parking garages and other city owned buildings. There
are twenty-two buildings in all. The duties include janitorial services,
plumbing, heating, electrical, carpentry and other miscellaneous repairs.
The bureau also handles the boarding up and securing of city owned buildings
that have been acquired by the City because of delinquent taxes, fire, etc.
They also take part in demolition of city owned buildings that have been
determined to be unsafe. A preventative maintenance program is in place to
help keep all city buildings in first class condition together with a program
to provide energy conservation improvements with the overall goal of keeping
the city's energy usage to a minimum. Ten employees staff this Bureau. |
