Street Department

The Street Department and Parks Department all run out of the same shops as well as the Rec/Comp Department. We run 3 mowers from spring to fall taking care all our parks and ball fields around the city including the campground. We also have an 84inch Bushhog mower that we use to mow all the grass on the west end of town, around the trails and the composite site. During large rain events we check and maintain well over 150 storm intakes so they can take all the water that runs down the gutters. This is a never-ending project being they get easily full of leaves, grass clipping and other debris throughout the year. This is why we don’t want grass blown into the streets, as it easily plugs out intakes. We run a crew from 4-8 people throughout the year depending what time of the year it is also. We have 2 plow trucks, 1 payloader, 1 grader, 1 smaller loader and a big blower to help move the snow when we need to. Every year we get a order of salt in, that we mix with sand and pea rock to apply to the streets after a snow event to help cut down on the slipping and sliding also.