Division Responsibilities

• Administration
  • Coordinates and manages Public Works projects
  • Oversees the administrative functions of the Public Works Department (approximately 80 full-time employees)
• Fleet Maintenance
  • Maintains 293 vehicles and/or pieces of equipment (rolling stock) for the Police, Engineering and Surveying Services, Community Development, and Operations / Maintenance departments
• Landscape Maintenance
  • Maintains 131 acres of land: City-owned property and rights of way
• Storm Drainage Collection Systems Maintenance
  • Maintains 225 miles of underground pipe and 124 city-owned detention ponds in the city’s storm drainage system
  • Cleans the catch basins / creek grates and flushes and video scans the underground lines
  • Sweeps 883 miles of city, county, and state roads (except Highway 217) per an established street sweeping schedule
• Street Maintenance
  • Maintains 221 miles of city streets and bridges and 13.99 miles of pedestrian paths
• Traffic Signals & Streetlight Maintenance
  • Maintains 167 traffic signals and 6,991 streetlights, including the city’s traffic signals as well as the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and Washington County Land Use & Transportation traffic signals in the vicinity
  • Maintains the city’s street and pedestrian path-lighting system
• Traffic Signs
  • Responsible for 17,299 city signs, including street name, regulatory, and pavement markings
• Urban Forestry
  • Maintains 5,953 trees
  • Maintains the trees on city streets
  • Offers educational classes / materials related to arboriculture
  • Plants street trees in new development rights of way
  • Provides professional arboriculture consulting to citizens
• Wastewater Collection Systems Maintenance
  • Maintains 1,446,226 lineal feet of sewer lines in the city’s sanitary sewer system - projects include flushing and video scanning the underground lines