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HIGHWAY DIVISION
Mission Statement:
The mission of the Highway Division is to maintain in safe and clean conditions the town’s streets, sidewalks, and storm water management system and provides for the safe movement of vehicular traffic by performing construction repairs, snow, and ice removal, maintenance to traffic control devices, signs and markings, and supervising the work of contractual service providers.
Duties & Responsibilities:
The Highway Division provides for the safety and maintenance of all public streets and sidewalks. The Highway staff is responsible for the condition of 314 lane miles of road and associated street markings (including center and gutter lines, crosswalks, and stop bars), and several thousand traffic and street signs. Staff in the Highway Division patch roads, install drainage berm, repair potholes, resurface, sweep, sand, and plow the streets, maintain approximately 20 miles of sidewalks, maintain and repair parking and traffic signs and posts, oversee contracts for the painting of street lines and crosswalks. They are also responsible for the cleaning and repairing the thousands of catch basins and manholes on Town roads and maintaining the drain system and associated brooks. Work by developers, contractors, and homeowners are inspected by
the Highway Division to ensure proper construction between the public and private interface. Highway employees also provide support to the composting facility.
FORESTRY DIVISION
Mission Statement:
Through a proactive maintenance program, the Foresty Division maintains the Town’s urban forest, preserving the green character designed to build community pride, while promoting public safety through the elimination of hazardous trees.
Duties & Responsibilities:
The Foresty Division maintains and removes trees on Town property. The Foresty Division maintains an undetermined number of trees on town streets, in parks and on conservation lands, and numerous miles of roadside scrub/brush along public ways. The objectives of the tree maintenance program are to identify and reduce hazardous conditions that threaten public and private property, to resolve requests for service and emergencies in a timely fashion, and to increase the health of the urban forest through planning and a proper maintenance program. A few trees, if any, are planted on an annual basis, which does not balance the number of trees removed.
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