The Service Department employs a Service Supervisor and Assistant Service Supervisor who serve under the Public Service and Economic Development Director to provide services for the City. A staff of union workers provides snow and leaf removal, landscaping and maintenance of City properties and buildings, maintain City vehicles, and provide service and maintenance to the City sewer system when appropriate.

The Fairview Park Service Department, under the direction of Jim Kennedy, is supervised by Service Supervisor, Jim Maat, and Assistant Service Supervisor, Terry Rohr, and is comprised of 25 full time employees. 

This department is responsible for sewer work, recycling, cemetery maintenance, streets, snow plowing, tree trimming, tree planting, maintenance of all municipal buildings, maintenance of all city vehicles, leaf pick-up and grass cutting in parks. They also assist the Recreation Department in ball diamond and park maintenance.

TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT is manned and maintained by Mike Green who is responsible for street signs, traffic signals, and street painting. The Traffic Department phone number is 440-356-4446. 

RUBBISH COLLECTION SERVICES
Residential garbage should be placed out by 7:00 a.m. on regularly scheduled days.   Appliances will be picked up on your regular garbage day and yard waste can be placed in plastic bags for regular pick up.  Questions can be directed to the Service Department at 440-356-4410.

RECYCLING
Place at curb on trash day – separate from regular trash
Glass, cans & plastics may be commingled into one blue plastic bag

GLASS
Food & Beverage containers
DO NOT include broken glass, dishes, ovenware & ceramics

PLASTICS
Include only plastics #1 & #2
e.g., soda bottles, laundry soap, milk jugs, shampoo bottles and plastic grocery bags
DO NOT include other plastics, Styrofoam, deli containers & flowerpots

CANS
Metal & Aluminum food & beverage cans
e.g., soda, coffee, soup, aerosol cans -- DO NOT attempt to flatten aerosol cans
DO NOT include scrap metal, coat hangers, pots & pans

CARDBOARD
Corrugated boxes, beverage cartons, food boxes
Flatten ALL boxes – pack into brown paper bag or bundle with twine
DO NOT pack boxes into boxes. All boxes MUST be flattened due to space restrictions in the recycling truck.  Do not mix cardboard with papers.

PAPER
Newspapers and all inserts (including the Sunday glossies) magazines, catalogs, junk mail, office paper and shredded paper.
Pack into brown bag or bundle with twine.
DO NOT mix paper with cardboard.
DO NOT include phone books.

SPECIAL TIPS & HELPFUL REMINDERS:
Please DO NOT place garbage out prior to 5:00 p.m. the day before your regular scheduled pick-up date. Placing garbage out before this time is in violation of City Code 521.05 (c).

Appliances, furniture and large metal items are picked up on your regular collection day.

Place empty paint cans in regular garbage.  Cans with paint must be solidified.  This can be done by adding cat litter or sand to paint.  Once paint is solidified place without lid in regular trash.

Tires must be separated from their rims and placed on your tree lawn. Only two tires per house per week will be collected.

Carpeting and padding will be taken on your regular collection day if it is neatly rolled no longer than four feet long and no heavier than 40 pounds per piece and placed on your tree lawn.

Brush must be cut into four-foot lengths and bundled with twine.

Tree stumps and small logs weighing no more than 40 pounds each will also be collected on your regular trash day. Firewood size logs neatly stacked on tree lawn will also be collected.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE: Changes in refuse collection will occur due to the following OFFICIAL holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. If your collection day is on the official holiday or any day following the holiday, your collection day will be one day later. Normal collection will resume the following Monday.

The following days are NOT City holidays: Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Columbus Day and Veterans Day.

FIRE DEPARTMENT COLLECTS ALUMINUM CANS: These cans are then recycled with all the profits benefiting the Burn Unit of Metro General Hospital and subsequent youth support activities. You can participate by separating cans from all other recyclables. These cans can be dropped off at the bin located next to our Fire Department on the east side of city hall.