PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
The City’s Public Works Department is charged with the
responsibility of maintaining all city roads, sidewalks and curbs,
making minor repairs and maintenance to drainage facilities and
canals, and maintaining all city parks, medians, seven
baseball/soccer fields, shuffleboard, volleyball and tennis courts
and other city facilities and buildings.
The personnel make-up consists of ten general maintenance
workers with varying skills of carpentry, minor plumbing, minor
electrical, masonry, landscape planning and maintenance, and
irrigation. This diversity brings great savings to the citizens of
our community as they carry out repairs and care for both the
interior and exterior of our city hall, fire department, and police
department and recreation center and outside grounds. The safe
operation and minor repair of the City’s patrol vehicles, fire
rescue apparatus, public works trucks and grounds keeping equipment
is handled by our ASE certified automobile technician of twenty
years’ experience. With the ability to make most service repairs
“in house”, we are able to keep the rising cost of outsourcing such
work down to a minimum, limiting the down time of disabled vehicles,
this keeping our City’s provision of services at its highest
efficiency.
Besides all the aforementioned maintenance, an ongoing effort of
beautification to our medians and various planters of the streets
and boulevards can be seen throughout our city. Efforts are made to
use a selection of trees, plants and shrubs that are native to the
area and are drought tolerant. Through a recycling grant, we
acquired a small shredder, enabling us to mulch small tree limbs,
etc. and to use the resulting mulch in the city beautification
projects. All of these efforts and hard work by the dedicated
employees of Public Works are an attempt to bring beauty and
pleasure to the citizens of our community, helping to ensure that
living I Indian Harbour Beach is a truly pleasurable
experience.