Facilities

The Department of Public Works is responsible for all maintenance and improvements in City-owned buildings and support facilities, including the two municipal parking garages. DPW also manages facilities and capital improvement projects for the Wastewater, Water and Stormwater Divisions.

For details on Parking Department facilities projects, click here.

For details on Water, Wastewater and Stormwater facilities projects not identified as separate DPW projects, click here.

All current and planned projects are summarized in the Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) approved each year by City Council. The CIP details the rolling five year plan for capital projects approved by the Planning Department. The City Council must adopt the CIP three months before the budget for the next fiscal year is approved. Funding for specific projects approved by City Council. Major projects are funded through the sale of municipal bonds. For the current, FY22-FY27 CIP, click here.

The Department works with the Police Department, Fire Department, School Department, Library and Recreation Department on projects in their facilities.

For details on Police Department facilities (City Hall police station) projects, click here.

For details on Fire Department facilities (Stations 1, 2 and 3) projects, click here.

For details on School Department facilities projects, click here.

For details on Library facilities projects, click here.

For details on Recreation Department facilities projects, click here.

For details on Municipal Complex facilities projects, click here.

The Portsmouth Department of Public Works is responsible for maintaining all of the City’s public works of art, ranging from Jerome Meadows’ fragile ceramic tiles embedded in the African Burying Ground Memorial to the massive steel sculpture by Terrance Parker commissioned for the Foundry Place Garage. DPW, through the Parks and Greenery Division, also maintains the City’s historic cemeteries, City parks and the retaining seawalls that protect the Historic District. Projects in FY22 include the evaluation of the implementation of the Prescott Park Master Plan and the restoration of the 95 Mechanic Street seawall.

For details on Parks facilities projects, click here.