City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways

Since 1908, Parkways has been tasked with the following mission: Manage, develop, beautify, preserve and protect approximately 2,000 acres of public green space, including neutral grounds, parks, historic sites, playgrounds, a golf course and approximately 500,000 public trees.

Description of Major Services and Divisions:

• Management, Planning and Operations: The Director's Office (including Administration, Operations and Planning & Design) guides and directs the Parks and Parkways' programs, staff and services; and is also responsible for the preparation and submittal of the department's operating and capital budgets.

• Grounds Maintenance Operations: The Grounds Maintenance Division is responsible for maintaining the turf and shrubs, and for the removal of litter from parks, neutral grounds, green spaces and select public buildings.

• Major Parks Operations: The Major Parks program offer is responsible for the security and maintenance of the restrooms, shelters, parking areas, walkways, aquatic areas and other amenities of the city's two large regional parks: Brechtel Memorial Park and Louis Armstrong Park.

• Urban Forestry Operations: The Urban Forestry Division is responsible for maintaining and preserving all city trees through trimming, root pruning and 24-hour emergency removals. Trees in parks, playgrounds and on the grounds of city buildings, trees within the City’s rights-of-way, and trees on medians are all considered “City Trees.”

• Joseph Bartholomew Golf Course Operations: The Golf Course Operations offer is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the recently fully-renovated Joseph M. Bartholomew Memorial Golf Course in Pontchartrain Park including all personnel, supplies and equipment associated with green-side operations (including golf cart and course mowing equipment leasing) as well as the club house staff.

• Special Operations: The Special Operations Program Offer supports the Green House which, at considerable savings, propagates a portion of the city's ornamental neutral ground plants/flowers as well as providing decoration plants for City hosted special events and meeting. The offer also provides for the maintenance of Parkways' buildings and facilities (including basic electrical and plumbing repairs), and provides funds for the installation of temporary parade route fencing to protect planted areas through it's Facilities Maintenance section. This offer also supports one of the city's only in-house groups of skilled and experienced CDL drivers.

• Human Recourses