Streets & Engineering

The Department of Engineering & Street Maintenance office is located in the Engineering and Street Maintenance building at 208 East Poplar Street. Office hours are 7 am to 3 pm, Monday through Thursday and 6 am to 2 pm on Friday.

Other department facilities at this same location include bays for vehicles and equipment storage and maintenance, metal and woodworking shops, salt storage building and storage yard for street maintenance materials.

The Department consists of the Superintendent and eight full-time employees. With a variety of special skills, these employees allow the City to perform most projects in-house. Local students are also employed in summer months to perform some seasonal tasks.
In addition to routine general maintenance of public owned streets, sidewalks and parking lots, other services provided by the department are:

– Building and mechanical maintenance of City Hall/Community Center building.
– Construction projects for other City departments.
– Snow and ice removal from City streets and parking lots.
– Fall and spring curbside pickup of leaves by vacuum truck.
– Weekly pickup of lawn and garden waste.
– Click here to find out what day the department will pick up leaves and other yard waste in your area of town.

Contact information
Phone: 618-544-8119
Fax: 618-544-5499

Bill Calvert: Contact
Jeff Hillard, P.E.: Contact

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