"PROUD TO CARE"

The Public Works Department is a multi-faceted and multi-talented organization within the City governmental structure tasked with the responsibility of ensuring the smooth and uninterrupted delivery of municipal services to residents, businesses and visitors in Hollywood. Consisting of over 200 staff members, the Public Works Department includes in its ranks managerial, administrative, supervisory, clerical, skilled trades, semi-skilled, and security personnel with years of combined experience.

The various municipal services provided to City residents, businesses and visitors is accomplished through experienced, trained departmental staff in the field and independent contractors supervised by departmental staff, supported by departmental administrative staff housed in the Public Works Operations Center.

The Public Works Department provides a vast spectrum of services including maintenance services for City streets, facilities, buildings, parks, fleet vehicles, and the beach, street beautification, and small-scale capital infrastructure improvements as well as residential and commercial garbage collection services, bulky waste collection and yard waste collection services. Moreover, the Department is responsible for the operations of the Hollywood Marina and the services provided to local and visiting boaters in Hollywood. The Department’s table of organization is comprised of the following five major divisions: Administration, Fleet Management, Building & Grounds Maintenance, Streets & Highways Maintenance, and Environmental Services. Within each of these divisions are several programs tasked with specific areas of responsibilities within their specialties.

True to the department’s motto – “Proud to Care”, members are focused on and continually strive to maximize the municipal services provided to City residents and businesses, while ensuring the most efficient and effective use of City resources for the benefit of the City’s residents, businesses, and visitors. Each member of the Public Works Department takes pride in the level and diversity of services provided to our City, observes the trust placed in them by residents, businesses and visitors and cares that each job assignment is performed skillfully, safely and completely.

Except for public holidays, Administration offices are open Mondays through Fridays between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Generally, the maintenance divisions conduct operations Mondays through Fridays between 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. with a limited number of operations scheduled to commence earlier and other operations to end later. See specific divisions for direct telephone numbers and schedules. Voice mail messages may be left after working hours and/or on the weekends and holidays and will be retrieved the next business day. For emergencies, call the police dispatcher at 954-967-4357.

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