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 THE STREETS AND GENERAL MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS
The Streets and General Maintenance crews are responsible for maintenance of 421 miles of roadway within
the City, and 2,900 City-owned streetlights. The Operations Manager and Streets Superintendent direct the efforts of two supervisors
and staff in providing maintenance services.
The responsibilities include:
- Repairing and maintaining sidewalks and pavement within and adjacent to parks and City facilities.
- Performing maintenance on city-owned sidewalks, concrete walls, curbs, and gutters.
- Removing litter, graffiti, and illegal signs from the rights-of-way.
- Removing litter from bus stops (not including bus shelters that are maintained by contractors)
- Cleaning parks, building grounds, and other City-owned properties on a daily or weekly basis.
- Performing asphalt repair to potholes, utility cuts, and bike paths.
- Maintaining Downtown Hollywood, from Harrison Street to Tyler Street and Dixie
Highway to and around Young Circle. This includes sweeping the streets, removing litter,
and emptying trash receptacles, vacuuming and pressure cleaning sidewalks, and removing
hard junk from the alleys.
- Administering and monitoring contract street sweeping of various major City corridors
- Repairing malfunctioning City-owned streetlights and reporting others to Broward County or FPL.
- Removing and disposing of debris obstructing roadways, sidewalks, and bicycle paths during emergencies.
- Installing banners for special events and installing holiday decorations along Hollywood Boulevard.
- We have built an alliance with the Broward County Adopt-A- Street program to work with volunteer citizen groups
to keep their neighborhoods litter-free. For more information
contact our Operations Manager, Denise Yoezle, or click
here.
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 THE GROUNDS/RIGHT OF WAY MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
The Department’s Contract Compliance Coordinator monitors the work
performed by private contractors.
Private contractors maintain more than eight million square feet of
turf and landscaped beds throughout the City.
The responsibilities include:
- Administering contracts and overseeing the delittering, mowing, edging, trimming and general
maintenance of medians, swales, easements, passive parks, and City facilities
grounds.
- Reporting deficiencies in the areas they inspect such as graffiti, hazards, and pressure cleaning needs.
- Performing maintenance tasks that include fertilizing, mulching, trimming, sweeping, and delittering.
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 THE URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM:
This program is directly supervised by the Urban Forestry Supervisor, who, with his crew, is responsible for the care of one of the City’s most valuable assets - its
urban forest. The crew adheres to the ANSI-A300 tree trimming standards in their tree trimming activities.
The responsibilities include:
- Removing hazards in the rights-of-way caused by broken branches and uprooted trees.
- Removing sight obstructions caused by trees, branches or shrubs, at intersections or where they block the view of roadway signage and oncoming vehicles.
- Trimming, removing, and planting of trees in City parks, rights-of-way and facilities.
- Assisting residents with the maintenance of street trees by removing dead trees and by trimming to remove dead wood and other structural hazards. As per City Ordinance, owners of abutting properties are responsible for maintenance of swales and street trees. A permit is required to remove trees within City limits. For more information, please contact the Landscape Inspector (in the Community Planning Division) at 954-921-3471. To download an application for tree removal/relocation permit, click here..
- Maintaining 98,000 lineal feet of fencing in parks, athletic fields and other City-owned properties.
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