Landscape Management

This Division improves the quality of life, encourages economic vitality, and instills civic pride in the City of Salem through visual and environmental improvement of city-owned properties and rights-of-way.

Duties of the Division include:

• Design, installation and maintenance of landscaping throughout the City's public areas including bed/container plantings, mulching, pruning, fertilizer/herbicide application, watering, weeding, invasive species management, and proper species planting/site placement
• Arboricultural work throughout the City's urban forest focusing on maintenance pruning, hazard/disease/pest removals, assessments, stump grinding, and fertilization
• Citywide mowing maintenance of approximately 270 acres (right-of-way along streets/guardrails/bridges, parks, schools, municipal buildings/grounds, cemeteries, municipal golf course, and other miscellaneous areas)
• Maintenance of City parks, greenways and downtown area involving mowing, mulching, aerating/overseeding, litter/trash removal, restrooms, playground equipment, flags, shelters, picnic tables and animal feeders
• Flood/storm clean-up and general litter removal
• Special Events assistance
• Autumn leaf collection
• Snow removal
• Holiday decorations
• Welcome to Salem signs
• Operation of the Salem Farmers Market
• Annual Arbor Day Foundation events / 20+ years Tree City USA municipality