Building Maintenance Division
General duties include daily cleaning, routine maintenance and necessary repairs to all municipal buildings, with the exception of schools. This includes not only general maintenance, such as vacuuming, waxing floors, emptying waste, but also special tasks, such as painting, roof repairs, sealing floor joints, and install, and maintain gutters

Future projects include:

• minor structural and masonry repairs at Library
  
• interior work at the Library and Senior Vitality Center
  
• building maintenance of Town Garage offices
  

Grounds Division
The Grounds Division is responsible for maintaining the physical environs of all municipal buildings, schools, and athletic fields. This includes landscaping and mowing approximately 90 acres a week during spring, summer and fall, daily field preparation for recreational activities (numbering about 380 sporting events, and snow removal during the winter. They also prepare and maintain the ice-skating area.

In addition to normal maintenance activities, crews installed new score boards at Agogliati Field and did landscape installation at the new Town Hall (the old Central School).

Future projects will include:

• an irrigation system at the High School soccer field
  
• a warning track around the baseball field on Middlesex Avenue
  
• infield re-grading at Tomasso Field
  
• repairing the irrigation system at Nolan Field
  
• installing a minor league field at Valley View School
  
• installing a new outfield fence at Tomasso Field
  

Highway Division

The Highway Division keeps the roads and streets of Portland safe and useable. This includes snow and ice removal, mowing, catch basin cleaning, chip sealing, paving, line painting, tree trimming and removal, stump grinding, traffic sign placement, Christmas tree pick-up, brush pickup, appliance pickup and street sweeping.

Over the last year, the Highway Division also completed drainage projects on several roads, and pavement repairs on Penfield Hill Road. Site improvements were made at the Brownstone Quarries and the Town Sand Pit. Highway crews installed fencing at the Water Pollution Control Facility, Central School and the Highway Garage. Crews assisted Board of Education personnel in repairing the High School fuel piping system. A significant supply of topsoil was hauled from Glastonbury to our sand and gravel pit, in trade for sand. A telecommunications conduit was installed between the Town Hall and the Middle School.

Future projects will include:

• drainage improvements on Rose Hill Road
  
• continued quarry improvements
  
• installing lights for Come On Over wall
  
• assisting with water main replacements
  
• assisting with sewer inspections, cleaning, and repairs
  
• guide rail repairs
  
• sidewalk repairs adjacent to Town owned properties
  
• line painting on Town roads and park areas
  
• paint salt storage building
  
• continued roadside clearing

Sewer Division

Normal maintenance includes daily operations of the treatment plant, pumping stations, laboratory sampling and testing, maintenance and repair of all equipment associated with collection and treatment systems. A new sludge container was purchased to use with our transfer station rolloff truck, and daily trips are made to haul sludge to the Mattabassett Treatment Plant.

Work continues on our sewer cleaning program. Construction was completed on the sewer expansion project in the Marlborough Street area. Construction work is in progress for upgrades to our Water Pollution Control Facility.

Future projects include:

• complete upgrades to the Water Pollution Control Facility
  
• continue the sewer collection system inspection, cleaning and repair program
  
• perform upgrades to the Gildersleeve Pump Station
  

Transfer Station/Recycling Center (Solid Waste Division)
Location: 33 Sand Hill Rd.
Hours: 7:30 to 3:30, Tuesday through Saturday

General operations include assisting residents with recycling, handling of recyclables, bag sales (for municipal solid waste), brush pickup, appliance pickup and placement and disposal of all non-recyclables. Ongoing monitoring of DEP grant programs. The purchase of a used large roll-over truck allows the division to perform services that were contracted for previously, and seek more profitable markets.

An important function of this division is to encourage people to recycle. Demonstrations of composting are given on a frequent basis to groups and to the public. Free reams of office paper are exchanged for white paper that is brought in to be recycled (1 ream for 200 pounds of used white paper).

Future projects include:

• efforts to market recyclables more cost effectively
  
• efforts to upgrade and improve preset operations
  
• possible sharing of facility with a nearby town
  
• possible collection of computers and electrical equipment
  

Vehicle Maintenance Division
The responsibilities of Town government demands the use of quite a few vehicles: cars, vans, pickup trucks, dump trucks, fire trucks excavator, backhoes, bulldozers, tractors -- over 90 vehicles in all! This necessitates an in-house maintenance services, which is what the Vehicle Maintenance Division is all about! The personnel of this division also lend their expertise to the maintenance and repair of numerous smaller engine equipment, such as pumps, compressors, compactors, chainsaws, mowers, plows and sanders.

Future projects include:

• recondition/repaint Low Boy Trailer
  
• recondition/repaint Dynahoe Backhoe
  
• major tune-ups on older diesel dump trucks
  
• refurbishing other miscellaneous equipment