Park Maintenance & Care

To manage the diverse needs of our city’s infrastructure, our division is comprised of several crews:

• Portering Teams: Our front-line crews focused on daily hospitality. They ensure a clean environment by managing trash disposal, maintaining sanitized, well-stocked restrooms, and performing rapid graffiti removal to keep our parks welcoming.

• Regional Teams: The backbone of our daily park operations. These teams handle the large-scale care of our regional park sites, focusing on mowing, landscaping, sports field preparations, and general beautification.

• Infrastructure Team: The "builders and fixers." This crew manages the structural integrity of our parks, conducting rigorous playground safety inspections and performing general maintenance to keep our facilities safe & enjoyable for all.

• Irrigation & Agronomics: The science of the Great Outdoors. These teams manage smart irrigation systems to ensure conservation while maintaining the health of our soil and turf through targeted fertilization and aeration.

• Aquatics Maintenance: Experts in water quality. This team manages the intricate chemical balances and mechanical filtration systems of our city pools and spray grounds to ensure a safe experience for every swimmer.

Our work is as diverse as the parks we maintain. On any given day, our staff is performing:

• Sports Readiness: Professional sports field preparation and precision line painting for baseball, softball, and soccer.

• Safety & Play: Regular safety audits of play structures and yearly playground and structure rehab projects.

• Turf & Landscape Care: Regular mowing, weed abatement, and shrub pruning.

• Chemical Management: Precision monitoring of aquatic chemistry at all City of Roseville pool facilities.

• Facility Care: Daily cleaning of restrooms and picnic pavilions to ensure they are ready for community use.

• 80+ Unique park sites maintained.

• 7.5M+ Square feet of landscaped streetscapes and medians.

• Hundreds of sports fields prepped annually for local leagues.

• Thousands of playground safety touchpoints logged each year.

When you think about the essential ingredients that make up the integrated network of public spaces in the City of Roseville, most people think of the beautiful and well-maintained park system throughout the community. You may also think about the thousands of acres of open space, creeks, and bike trails preserved for future generations of residents and their families. These features are almost always mentioned as significant contributions to the high quality of life residents describe as some of the reasons they enjoy living in this community.

There is, however, another vital feature in Roseville that often doesn’t get mentioned as often as the other public outdoor amenities. That essential ingredient is the network of safe, accessible, and attractive public streetscapes throughout the City. These public “green spaces” act to help soften the edge between the community’s streets, homes, and businesses. In addition, streetscapes strive to enhance Roseville’s goal of creating a desirable location for people to visit, work, play, and live.

Over the years, Roseville’s assortment of public streetscape components has grown to massive proportions. There are currently over 7.5 million square feet of public, landscaped medians, paseos and street corridors throughout the City. Over the next 2 –3 years that number will grow to over 10 million square feet. If a person were to walk along every median and streetscape throughout the City, they would travel over 75 miles. Imagine not just walking but maintaining a 20-foot wide strip of turf and plants along I-80 from Sacramento to the bay area! These numbers only include the public landscaping maintained by the City. You need to add in all the streetscapes on commercial properties as well to get a total citywide square footage number.

Maintaining all these public streetscape features is the job of Roseville’s Park Maintenance Division. The work is divided up between City staff and two commercial landscape management providers. Everyday there are dedicated staff working to maintain all public irrigation, turf, trees, shrubs and groundcovers throughout the City’s streetscapes.

Streetscapes may not be the most famous aspect of the City’s amazing assortment of preserved natural areas but it does play a key role in creating safe, clean, and green public spaces to enjoy while generating a greater sense of community pride.

• Landscape and Lighting Districts (LLD) were formed prior to 1995 to take care of the ongoing maintenance of these street landscapes.
• Community Facilities Service Districts (CFD) are currently formed to take care of the ongoing maintenance of all newly developed part of the City.

The City’s Role

The City oversees the maintenance of:

• 75 linear miles or 175 acres of street landscaping.
• 21 landscape maintenance districts including:
  • 5 Landscape and Lighting Districts (LLD) (Pre-1995)
  • 2 Landscape and Lighting Districts (LLD) (1995 to today)
  • 14 Community Facilities Service Districts (CFD) (1995 to today)

The City also:

• Prepares maintenance contractor bids and oversees landscaping maintenance contracts on behalf of the Districts.
• Provides administration for each District.
• Calculates annual assessment values.