The Public Works division has many responsibilities and provides a wide variety of services to the public.

It maintains 100 km of streets, 22 km of lanes and 100 km of sidewalks, covering every aspect of maintenance from sweeping streets, filling potholes and putting in wheelchair accessible sidewalks to snow removal. This division is also responsible for carrying out the City's Capital Works Program, which can involve more than $1 million per year in projects from the construction of new parks to the construction of major roads.

These are some general Public Works statistics (as at 2007):

Road and street distances
Rigid pavement - concrete surface - 1 kilometre

Flexible pavement
· Major urban through fares - 20 kilometres
· Local streets and roads - 65 kilometres
· Lanes and alleys - 4 kilometres

Gravel surface
· Local streets and roads - 14 kilometres
· Lanes and alleys - 18 kilometres

Total road and street distance - 122 kilometres