Functions & Driving Directions

General Fund Programs (PDF)

• Capital Projects Design and Construction
• Traffic Enhancement Program
• Engineering Administration
• Engineering Management

Administration

Oversees the administrative functions of the Department (approximately 60 full-time employees). Coordinates and manages public works projects.

Street Fund

• Services Provided:
  Provide funding from gasoline tax revenues in the Street Fund for street improvements and traffic management projects.
• Program Goal:
  To complete projects that are in the City’s Capital Improvements Plan for the current fiscal year.

Facilities Maintenance

Maintains buildings ranging from 2 - 27 years old with a total of 214,167 square feet. City buildings include (City Hall, Operations Center, Community Center, Library, and the Beaverton Resource Center).

Traffic Impact Fee Fund

• Services Provided:
  • Development Review - Oversee and participate in review of development proposals for traffic impacts, and prepare conditions of approval to address City transportation standards and policies as well as coordinate with the County and State.
  • Traffic Impact Fee (TIF) Administration - Manage the TIF fund to ensure funding for high priority transportation projects through accurate assessments and credits (where appropriate), timely processing and minimizing appeals.
    
• Program Goal:
  To provide thorough and consistent review of transportation impacts from proposed development. To administer the Traffic Impact Fee program in order to develop a transportation system to meet current and future needs.

Fleet Maintenance

Maintains 231 vehicles and/or equipment for Police, Engineering, Community Development and Operations.

Landscape Maintenance

Maintains 117 acres of land: City-owned property and right-of-ways.

Urban Forestry

• Maintains 4,425 trees.
• Plants street trees in new development rights-of-way.
• Offers educational classes/materials related to arboriculture.
• Provides professional arboriculture consulting to citizens.
• Maintains City’s street trees.

Transportation Funds Potentially Available from other Agencies (PDF)

• Washington County’s Major Streets Transportation Improvement Program (MSTIP)
• Oregon’s Statewide Transportation Improvement Program

Street Maintenance

Maintains 206 miles of City streets, 30 bridges, and 13 miles of pedestrian paths.

Enterprise Funds (PDF)

• Water
• Sewer
• Storm Drain

Traffic Signals & Street Light Maintenance

Maintains 147 traffic signals and 3,500 streetlights including the City’s traffic signals as well as ODOT and Washington County traffic signals in the vicinity. Also maintains the City’s street and pedestrian path-lighting system.

Water Services

• Services Provided:
  Water
  
  
• Program Goal:
  Amounts budgeted in this program are mainly payments to City of Hillsboro Joint Utilities Commission for water purchase for resale and professional services for contract water meter reading. Transfer budget is for General Fund overhead, payment in lieu of taxes, data processing charges and insurance.

Traffic Signs

Responsible for 15,620 City signs, including street name, regulatory, and pavement markings.

Storm Drainage Collection Systems Maintenance

Maintains 175 miles of underground pipe and 59 City-owned detention ponds in the City’s storm drainage system.

• Responsible for cleaning the catch basins/creek grates and flushing and video scanning the underground lines.
• Sweeps 662 miles of City, County and State Roads (except Highway 217) per an established street sweeping schedule.

Water System Maintenance

• Services Provided:
  • Water quality testing is conducted to assure the highest water quality standards are being maintained for City water customers and to meet and exceed the standards of the State Health Division and the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
  • Complete water main and service leak repairs within 24 hours of notification.
  • Inspect and maintain all City owned fire hydrants as per Oregon Health Division OAR and recommendations of the American Water Works Association requirements, and perform required repairs within 5 working days. Coordinate this maintenance program with Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue and Tualatin Valley Water District.
• Program Goal:
  To provide a livable, full service community through total quality customer service with potable water of superior quality, quantity and pressure for residential and commercial consumption and fire protection at a reasonable cost in support of City Council Goals number one, two, three, four, five, seven and eight. This is being accomplished through routine maintenance of our water infrastructure and by promoting cooperative agreements with other public agencies.

Wastewater Collection Systems Maintenance

Maintains 190,250 feet of sewer lines in the City’s sanitary sewer system. Projects include flushing and video scanning the underground lines.

Local Improvement District

Local Improvement Districts or LID’s are approved by a resolution from the City Council to construct public improvements with costs to be paid for by assessments on benefiting properties. The City’s legal process on LID’s requires a public hearing. Both oral and written testimonies are accepted. If written, signed objection, or remonstrance to the establishment of the LID are provided by the owners of land which bear 60 percent of the estimated assessed cost, the LID must be abandoned. The City or property owners can initiate LID’s. For more information please call 503-526-2445.

Site Development

The Site Development Division staff coordinates the City review of engineering design and construction for new developments involving privately-financed, public improvements and certain regulated private improvements such as site grading and parking lot construction within the City of Beaverton.

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