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PARKS MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Park Sites (pdf) | Park Sites
Urban Forestry | F.A.Q.s (97k pdf)

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

Landscaping

  • Turf installation and maintenance
  • Plant bed maintenance
  • General parks maintenance

Forestry

  • Maintenance of curb strip trees and all trees in city right of ways and parklands.
  • Storm damage
  • Contractual wood waste grinding

Sport Field Maintenance

  • Baseball/Softball field dragging/rebuilding
  • Aeration
  • Fertilizing
  • Weed control
  • Over seeding

Waste Container Pick-up

  • Parks
  • Summer lunch program
  • Towpath
  • Train station, Cascade Plaza, Civic Mall

Special Events

  • People barricade delivery
  • Waste containers
  • Downtown walk bridge banners
  • Christmas decorations

Snow and Ice Control

  • Responsible for 9 primary routes
  • Responsible for 10 secondary routes
  • Plow and salt community centers
  • Plow and salt Cascade Plaza
  • Monitor plowing contracts for off street parking lots

Contact Us

  • From home phone dial: 3-1-1
  • From mobile phone dial: 330-375-2311