The Public Service Department manages, monitors,
and has overall responsibility for six divisions - Architecture,
Waste Collection and Disposal, Engineering & Construction,
Traffic Engineering, Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Street Construction
Maintenance, and Repair.
Activities include public improvements planning,
construction inspections, repairs and maintenance of streets and
bridges, boulevards, sidewalks, alleys, lanes and other public
roads and highways; planning, construction improvement repairs
(major and minor), and the operation of bridges and viaducts;
the construction of all public buildings; making and preserving
of all surveys, maps, plans, drawings and estimates for such public
work; cleaning, ice control and snow removal of streets and boulevards;
collection and disposal of solid waste; granting of permits for
the use of public rights of way of the City.
This Department also coordinates the functions of
its divisions with other departments and offices of the City,
and with Federal, State, County, and neighboring municipal agencies.
The Division of Public Service Administration is
headed by the Director of Public Service. The primary function
of the Director's Office is to coordinate the activities of the
five Public Service Divisions: Architecture, Engineering and Construction,
Motor Vehicle Maintenance, Streets, Waste Collection and Disposal,
and to monitor, evaluate and direct existing programs to the Divisions
and provide direction toward the development of new programs for
the benefit of the residents of the City.
The Director and his staff have taken the initiative
in establishing new programs and polices for the carrying out
of the Department's basic functions. A few of these are the establishment
of a snow and ice control program, the application for recycling
grants programs, and the development of a major bridge and street
rehabilitation program.
