Street Department

The Ocean Shores Street Department is comprised of five full time employees, two seasonal employees that work from six to twelve months a year depending on budget, and a vehicle mechanic. John Wagner is the Crew Chief. He has been with the City for 8 yrs and has been with the street department for 3 yrs.

Bob Mayhew is a Maintenance 3 operator. He has been with the City since 1986.

Jim Wells is a Maintenance 3 operator. Jim started with the Street Department in November of 1995.

Jay Dudley is a Maintenance 2 worker. Jay has started out as a summer help in April of 1995 and has been full time since Feb of 1997

Joseph Chrystal is a Maintenance 2 worker. Joe has been with the City since Feb. of 1997.

Dan Bryant and Vern Olson are seasonal workers that spend the spring and summer mowing right of ways and the City parks.

Delbert (Butch) Mullin is our vehicle mechanic. He has been turning wrenches at the City since March of 1998.

The crew is responsible for maintaining 110 miles of roads, and over 200 miles of storm drain ditches. They empty 68 individual garbage cans 2-3 times a week in the winter, and 2-3 times per day in the busy spring and summer season. The crew is in charge of maintaining almost 1000 street signs, the municipal airport, all of the City parks including the 2 soccer fields, a baseball field, 2 basketball courts, 3 tennis courts, 2 boat launches, and 4 docks.

Your street department also provides help in many different forms like assembling and moving office furniture, parking lot and grounds maintenance, etc. for the Ocean Shores Library, Interpretive Center, City Hall, and Permit Center. We are always there to lend a hand if needed.

We pick up and deliver all of the necessary traffic control devices to our local Police Department for the Flag Day Parade, Dugans Run, and Harley Weekend. We have also become a big part of the Sand and Sawdust Festival that happens every year in Ocean Shores. Our crew provides the sand for the giant sand sculpture in front of the convention center along with preping all of the sand castle sights on the beach. Members of our crew unload and place all of the logs to the proper location so the chainsaw carvers can have everything just the way they want it before they do there magic. These days often start as early as 4:30 AM and end in the early evening. When the weekend is through we help however we can to clean up the mess.

Every spring at the end of April Ocean Shores has an annual Spring Clean up. It is a week long event that keeps the crew hopping. Last year we made 75 home pick-ups for disabled citizens and had a total of 667 individual vehicles come into the yard and dump there unwanted items. We used a total of 22 40-yard dumpsters for a total of 221,500 lbs of refuse. The O.S. Street Department gave 130 bicycles to the Stafford Creek Penitentiary to fix up and give to kids that can't afford bikes of there own, and they recycled more that 200 old appliances. These things could have been sent to the landfill at the taxpayers expense but instead were taken away at no coast. In 2006 we hope to do much more recycling during our clean up to try to keep the amount that goes to the landfill down, and that saves everybody in the community money.

In 2005 the Street Department:

• Emptied 7,080 garbage cans
• Fixed 290 different sign issues
• Filled 4,874 POTHOLES
• Answered 105 citizen inquires
• Cleaned 2.5 miles of ditch
• Installed 1,842 ft of culvert
• Placed 11 catch basins
• Picked up 37 deer, 29 possum, 6 raccoons, 10 seagulls, 5 cats, 3 beaver, 2 crows, 2 rabbits, 1 owl, a sand hill crane, and buried one elephant seal on the beach.

Our seasonal staff which varies from 2-4 employees are responsible for mowing over 200 miles of city right of way. They also mow all of the City owned parks on average of about every 7 to 10 days. We also try to do a garbage sweep through town every Friday afternoon in the spring and summer so that the City looks it's best when people show up for the weekends.

Our shop Mechanic is responsible for maintaining all of the City's Police and Fire Department vehicles, all of the Public Works wheeled vehicles, generators, construction equipment and miscellaneous small tools. That's close to 100 pieces of equipment.