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City of Powell Streets/Shop Department

 

Contact us

951 East 4th Street
(307) 754-9513
streets@cityofpowell.com

 

More Information

See our Frequently Asked Questions.

 

Streets/Shop Department

 

There are over 37 miles of streets and 11 miles of alleys that the City of Powell Streets Department maintains. The Streets Department can be reached at 754-9513. Before calling with any questions you may wish to check our Frequently Asked Questions, Maintenance Schedule, or Other Information, which may answer your questions.

 

For your convenience to report potholes, or other maintenance items that you wish to inform us of, you can also e-mail us at: streets@cityofpowell.com but please use this only for normal correspondence, not for an emergency.

 

Along with the Streets Superintendent, your City of Powell Streets Department consists of a team of 5 highly qualified individuals who are responsible for the repair and maintenance of all City streets including: street repairs and pothole repairs, street signs, street markings, street rebuilds, alley maintenance and repairs, city owned concrete maintenance, and a myriad of other services and public response help.

 

Along with the above services there is also a full-time sweeper who sweeps all of the City streets and, in times of snow, sweeps the public walk paths that are designated in the City of Powell for snow sweep service.

 

The City Maintenance Shop is combined with the Streets Department. The City maintains numerous pieces of equipment for daily operations. The phone number at the City Shop is the same as for the Streets Department.

Message from the Mayor

 

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 The City’s proposed budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year is $17.5 million, down 1.5 million from last year. It is a balanced budget, and for the first time in several years, we did not have to take from our general fund reserves to balance it.  We were able to reinstate the merit raises for city employees this year.  As you know our city employees have not received merit raises or cost of living raises for the past 2 years.  They will not receive a cost of living wage increase again this year, only merit raises if they are justified. I believe as a Municipality one of our greatest assets is our employees. The bottom line is they are the ones who make it all work. Because of them Powell is what it is, a clean safe place for us to live, make a living, and raise our children.

As I said in my previous letter there have been cuts and some of them might not be popular.  Avenue widening for A, B, C, and D have been placed on hold. Division Street waterline replacement and street widening have been placed on hold. All city departments were scrutinized; overtime, building maintenance, equipment purchases, and travel expenses were looked at and reduced where possible.

Normal maintenance and day to day operations of the city will continue, with an emphasis this year on playground safety, park irrigation and upkeep, sign and sign post upgrades, and cleaning of storm drains and rerouting and cleaning tile drains that were installed by the irrigation district many years ago. Construction on the Municipal Solid Waste Transfer Station has started. We are still actively pursuing all options for the disposal of our city solid waste. The construction on the combination Snow Removal Equipment and Fixed Based Operator Building at the Airport will be starting in the near future. We have cut our expenses at the Aquatic Center by over $150,000 which is not as much as I had hoped but a good start. Hopefully we can come up with some new marketing strategies and continue to reduce our losses.

Hope you and yours have a wonderful summer!

 

 

Don E. Hillman

Mayor

City of Powell

 

dhillman@cityofpowell.com

Don Hillman

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