San Francisco Public Works Annual Report Fiscal Year 2016-17 | Page 13

DIVISIONS & BUREAUS
Street-Use & Mapping ensures that City sidewalks
and streets are safe and accessible by permitting
and inspecting the use of the public right of way. The
bureau also does surveying and maintains the official
City map.
OPERATIONS
Central Operations runs community programs,
including Graffiti Watch, Giant Sweep, Community
Clean Team, Adopt-A-Street, urban harvesting,
street parks, Green Benefit Districts, and Pit Stop
public toilets. It also operates the Outreach and
Enforcement Team and apprenticeship programs.
Building Repair provides quality professional
construction, repair, remodeling and management
services for City-owned facilities. It also provides
emergency-repair services 24 hours a day, ensuring
that police, fire and other public safety operations are
fully functional at all times.
Street Environmental Services keeps the City’s
streets, sidewalks and other public spaces clean with
mechanical and manual sweeping, graffiti abatement
and power-washing.
Street & Sewer Repair oversees paving and street
repair work, sewer repair, patch-paving and pothole
fixes. In addition, crews repair sidewalks and build
curb ramps.
DIRECTOR’S OFFICE
Policy & Communications keeps the public and
staff informed of the department’s services, projects
and programs through print, social media, websites,
community meetings, events and other outreach
activities. The team provides construction outreach
services and produces reports, a monthly digital
newsletter, briefs elected officials and troubleshoots
constituent concerns.
Emergency Management Program works to
continuously improve our capability to prepare
for, respond to and recover from both natural and
human-inflicted disasters.
University of Public Works is our in-house training
and education program. Launched in 2013 and
expanded in 2014, the university offers a variety
of courses to improve our employees’ technical
skills and provides a forum where staff can learn
about cutting-edge and effective strategies in the
areas of engineering and architecture, workplace
safety, technology, emergency management,
communications, construction management and
more.
Special Services coordinates director’s hearings,
processes director’s orders and responds to public
records requests.
Urban Forestry is responsible for median
maintenance, tree planting, maintenance of
City-owned trees and the cement shop.
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