Public Works

The Public Works Department provides a host of services to maintain the city’s roadway network of streets, rights-of-way, drainage, traffic signals and signs, vehicles, and equipment. This department consists of eight divisions: Administration, Animal Shelter, Fleet Maintenance, Street Cleaning, Street Construction, Street Maintenance, Traffic Control, and the Sanitation Fund.

The Administration Division: 

  • Oversees all functions of the department
  • Prepares traffic reports such as speed studies, turn lane studies, and traffic control studies
  • Supervises major capital projects
  • Supervises the Recycling Center

The Animal Shelter Division: 

  • Enforces the city’s animal control ordinance
  • Manages unwanted animals
  • Investigates animal cruelty cases
  • Traps nuisance animals
  • Oversees adoptions
  • Manages the animal shelter
  • Works closely with McMinn Regional Humane Society

The Fleet Maintainence Division: 

  • Repairs and maintains all city vehicles and equipment including school buses
  • Performs preventative maintenance
  • Maintains an inventory of tires and spare parts
  • Assists all city departments with replacing their vehicles and equipment as needed through the Fleet Management Fund

The Street Cleaning Division: 

  • Sweeps city streets
  • Flush pipes
  • Picks up brush and leaves
  • Removes snow and ice from city streets
  • Trims trees and cuts vegetation around signs and intersections

The Street Construction Division: 

  • Constructs roads, drainage systems, curbs, and sidewalks
  • Loads mulch
  • Assists with maintaining storm water structures
  • Inspects new construction to ensure storm water rules are being followed and drainage structures, curbs, and sidewalks are constructed to city specifications

The Street Maintainence Division: 

  • Maintains city streets
  • Repairs potholes and utility cuts
  • Builds driveway aprons
  • Repaves city streets
  • Cleans storm water system of culverts, ditches, and basins

The Traffic Control Division: 

  • Installs, maintains, and repairs traffic signals, signs, and street markings
  • Assists with temporary street closures

Public Works Department

219 Alford Street

Athens, TN 37303

423.744.2745