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• Street Maintenance Program. They are responsible for patching potholes, minor bridge repair, cleaning roadside ditches and snow and ice removal. This also includes the 24-hour snow command post, which coordinates city-wide snow and ice control operations and disseminates weather-related information.
• Street Maintenance Construction Program. They are responsible for the street preservation program, sidewalk construction, materials testing and lab, and city surveying services.
• The Traffic Engineering and Operations maintains the city's system of traffic signals and signs, striping and street lighting. This also includes traffic studies for speed limit changes, stop signs, signal requests and traffic calming.
• The Planning Section develops a long-term plan of capital improvements and technical review of design plan for the Public Works department.
• The Streetlight Group within the Street and Traffic Division oversees the maintenance of the more than 90,000 streetlights in the City. Residents can report streetlight outages to the City's 3-1-1 Action Center by telephone 816-513-1313 or email. The Streetlight Group is currently in the process of testing LED technology for streetlights in our City.  A Web page is available to learn more about the LED Streetlight Pilot Program.   
• The Permit Section within the Street and Traffic Division is responsible for processing permit applications.

The following permit applications are available:

• Traffic Control Permit
• Dumpster Permit
• Hauling Permit
• Oversize Load Permit
• Parade Application
• Block Party Permit 
  • Block Party Tips
• Excavation Permit
• Steel Plate Permit
• Festival Permit
• Residential Parking Permit
• Street Closing Permit