Street Division
The Street Division cleans, repairs, clears snow and ice and maintains municipal streets, alleyways, sidewalks, and parking lots, and cleans and maintains public storm drain lines.
The services that the Street Division provides during the winter months include:
- Clear snow and ice from municipal streets, alleys, and parking lots (average annual snowfall is 45 inches).
- Clear snow and ice from municipal building sidewalks and from public sidewalks that are located immediately adjacent to a roadway or City-owned property.
- Apply salt/sand mixture to City streets and alleys as needed.
- Haul snow from the Central Business District and municipal parking lots to pre-determined dumping sites.
- Respond to complaints of snow and ice accumulation on sidewalks of private property owners/occupants.
In the summer, the focus shifts more to street and alley maintenance and construction. Some of the services that the Street Division provides at that time include:
- Clean streets and paved alleys with street sweepers and flush streets with water truck when needed.
- Clean and repair the municipal storm drain system.
- Prepare roadways and gravel alleys for bituminous overlays and pavement.
- Prepare roads for sealcoating.
- Grade gravel alleys and roads.
- Repair potholes.
- Remove and restore condemned sidewalks.
- Bridge maintenance.
- Graffiti removal.
- Clean the Central Business District daily with Green Machine Sweeper.
- Assist other departments as needed.
