Park Division:

• Maintains approximately 630 acres of town land.
• Maintains athletic fields, hard courts, historic sites, playgrounds, the pool and reservoir complexes, the bike path, public grounds areas, and conservation areas.
• Responsibilities include mowing, turf maintenance, landscape maintenance, trash pickup, site amenity maintenance, building maintenance, athletic field maintenance, playground maintenance, pool maintenance, equipment maintenance and athletic equipment maintenance.
• Assists with Town special events including Patriot's Day and parades.
• Assists with snow clearing operations.

Forestry Division:

• Maintains approximately 15,000 street trees and numerous trees on public grounds, historic sites, conservation areas, and park areas.
• Responsibilities include tree removal, tree pruning, tree planting, and general tree care maintenance. 
• Inspects trees for hazards and for determination of ownership.
• Assists with Town special events.
• Performs streetlight inspection and maintenance.
• Assists with snow clearing operations.

Cemetery Division:

• Responsible for the maintenance and administration of four cemeteries (Westview, Munroe, Ye Old Burial Ground, and Robbins) totaling approximately 31 acres. 
• Responsible for the sale of graves, record keeping, burials and stone installations.
• Responsible for mowing, turf maintenance, equipment maintenance, landscape maintenance and building maintenance.
• Assists with snow clearing operations.

Street Lights:

• A Call Center at the DPW operations receives requests 24 hours a day. The phone number is (877) 349-5267. Calls are inspected and repaired in the order in which they are received by date and/or whether or not the call is emergency in nature.
• The Forestry Division Staff performs the initial inspection and then repairs bulbs and sensors. The average time to inspect an outage once it is called into the Call Center is 2-3 weeks.
• A publicly-bid licensed electrical contractor repairs all other electrical and structural problems. The contractor response time is an additional 2-3 weeks after the inspection by Town Staff.

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