Sherry Villafane, Division Manager, sherry.villafane@clark.wa.gov, 564.397.4103

Administration:

• Supervises mail handling, digital imaging, motor pool, equipment checkout, supplies, and miscellaneous services.

Budget:

• Develops, submits and manages Public Works’ budget, including monitoring.
• Prepares supplemental and readoption submittals and writes reports.

Customer Service:

• Supports the entire department through customer service at 78th Street Operations Center.
• Provides additional customer service support through fourth-floor reception at Public Service Center.

Finance:

• Oversees all financial matters, including accounting, financial reporting, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and grants.

Technology:

• Provides a range of support to enhance technology efficiencies.
• Develops and implements technology plan to include architecture, hardware and software requirements.
• Manages niche software applications and library.
• Evaluates purchases, installs, debugs and interfaces with vendors and maintains accountability.
   

Devan Rostorfer, Division Manager, devan.rostorfer@clark.wa.gov, 564.241.0611.

Clean Water:

• Ensures compliance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit.
• Plans construction of stormwater facilities.
• Prepares watershed plans.
• Develops stormwater code and manual.
• Inspects privately owned stormwater facilities.
• Coordinates the Clark County Clean Water Commission.
• Inspect and maintain County owned stormwater facilities.
• Maintain and update the mapping of stormwater infrastructure.

Monitoring:

• Monitors stormwater runoff and stream quality.
• Collects scientific data about stormwater, surface waters, stream conditions and aquatic habitat to support and implement NPDES permit requirements.
• Uses sound science and data to help shape county's policies and programs.

Outreach:

• Coordinates with homeowner associations, school districts and other owners of private stormwater facilities to address maintenance and regulatory issues.
• Works with local businesses on best management practices to prevent water pollution.
• Prepares educational materials, develops stewardship opportunities and undertakes other outreach to promote healthier waterways.

David Daly, Division Manager, dave.daly@clark.wa.gov, 360.784.2565

Construction Management:

• Administers construction contracts for county projects.
• Inspects public and private improvements, including bridges and public stormwater facilities.
• Provides suggestions during development of county projects and verifies project constructability.
• Oversees bidding process and ensures contractors and proposals meet legal requirements.
• Inspects projects throughout construction, authorizes payments to contractors, accepts completed projects and prepares record drawings.
• Permits and inspects all utility work within county right of way.

Engineering and Design:

• Performs engineering and design work to build and maintain county facilities, including roads, sidewalks, trails, drainage systems, stormwater facilities, parks and mitigation sites.
• Designs improvements and prepares plans, specifications and estimates for county projects.
• Supports the bidding, construction and final acceptance of projects.
• Provides engineering support in response to emergencies and other requests.

Project Management:

• Directs delivery of county projects, from inception to closeout.
• Establishes project scope, schedule and budget.
• Manages work planning, plan execution, progress monitoring, change and reporting performance.
• Coordinates efforts on other types of projects.

Real Property Services:

• Acquires property for county projects in accordance with legal requirements.
• Works closely with property owners affected by projects, answers questions and addresses concerns.
• Researches and responds to questions about right of way, property ownership, boundaries, easements and effects of future road projects.
• Manages Public Works’ properties, assists other departments with property management and surpluses county-owned properties. 

Survey:

• Provides land surveying services for county projects and other county needs.
• Maintains survey monuments within county right of way along with vertical and horizontal control networks.
• Reviews, indexes and stores recorded surveys, subdivisions (plats, short plats) and County Engineer's road records.
• Records surveys, land corner records and affidavits of correction for surveys, fulfills all state-mandated requirements.
   

Tyler Bennet, Division Manager, tyler.bennett@clark.wa.gov, 564.397.1637

Equipment shops:

• Maintains and repairs all county-owned vehicles and equipment.
• Performs maintenance and repairs for other agencies on contract basis.

Fleet:

• Purchases and disposes of county vehicles and heavy equipment.
• Operates fuel sites and monitors fuel consumption.
• Oversees equipment parts section.
• Develops rental rates, writes specifications for Fleet and other county departments.
• Reviews work performed by county shops on vehicles and equipment.

Other:

• Oversees county rock pits (Finn Hill, Maple, Livingston, English).

Ross Hoover, Division Manager, ross.hoover@clark.wa.gov, 564.397.1676

Administration:

• Manages all parks functions, including parks reservations and exclusive use permits.
• Administers property acquisition and development, property rentals and leases, and parks capital repair and replacement.
• Coordinates policies and code changes, park impact fees program, park concurrency and acquisition and development grants.
• Manages 78th Street Heritage Farm.
• Supports Clark County Parks Advisory Board and other relevant Advisory groups.

Campus Maintenance:

• Maintains downtown campus landscapes and hardscapes, 78th Street Heritage Farm landscape and perimeter vegetation at county cell towers.

Parks Operations and Maintenance:

• Handles grounds and custodial maintenance for county parks and facilities, including Legacy Lands properties.

Planning and Development Program:

• Manages the planning and delivery of capital projects for the Parks and Nature division.
• Manages the Capital Improvement Plan, PROS plan, Natural Areas plan, and other system plans related to Parks and Lands

Kevin Tyler, Engineering Services Manager III, kevin.tyler@clark.wa.gov, 564.397.1656

Camp Bonneville:

• Manages ongoing cleanup at 3,840-acre former U.S. Army base, including completed work on the central valley floor, as well as upcoming cleanup of the central impact target area and western slopes.
• Directs other aspects of Camp Bonneville property management, including modest capital improvements to the site’s roads and bridges.
• Oversees master planning for Camp Bonneville's reuse.

Chelatchie Prairie Railroad:

• Oversees the operator of the county-owned 33-mile short line.
• Plans infrastructure improvements and seeks grants to fund line improvements.
• Works with the Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad Company, the line’s operator.
• Coordinates the Railroad Advisory Board.

Forestry:

• Assists property owners with forest practices.
• Provides technical assistance to the Assessor’s Office and residents in implementation of the Open Space and Designated Forest Lands taxation programs.
• Provides sustainable forest management services for county forest lands, such as Camp Bonneville and Green Mountain.

Legacy Lands:

• Purchases lands highly valued for habitat, scenic corridors, low-impact recreation and other qualities that enhance our local environment using funds from the Conservation Futures levy
• Follows the Conservation Areas Acquisition Plan in managing the approximately 5,000 acres in the program.

Noxious Weeds:

• Manages state requirements to control and eradicate noxious weeds.
• Performs weed control on county-owned lands.
• Provides information and technical expertise to private landowners for controlling noxious weeds.
• Coordinates the Clark County Noxious Weed Control Board.

Josh Lipscomb, Division Manager, Josh.lipscomb@clark.wa.gov, 564.397.1626

Asphalt/Guardrails:

• Oversees asphalt work (patching, prelevels and crack filling).
• Maintains and repairs guardrails.

Median Maintenance:

• Maintains medians and roadside landscapes, rain gardens and 78th Street Operations Center landscape.

Road Maintenance:

• Maintains roads in unincorporated Clark County.
• Patches potholes, grades gravel roads and clears ditches, catch basins and culverts.
• Maintains public sidewalks.
• Plows roads during winter storms, applies sand and anti-icer and provides other storm response.
• Mows roadsides, removes debris, cuts brush and performs other vegetation control.

Safety/Emergency Management: 

• Manages Whatley Pit decant facility (recycling stormwater residue and street sweepings).
• Administers department safety programs and various facility projects.
• Manages Public Works Emergency Response Program and coordinates with Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency and Clark County's Emergency Coordinator.

Stormwater:

• Sweeps neighborhood and arterial streets.
• Maintains drainage systems, including cleaning and repairing catch basins, manholes, drywells and storm pipes.
• Maintains public stormwater treatment facilities, including mowing and repairing  ponds, swales and  filter vaults.
• Monitors compliance with legal requirements.
• Manages small construction projects, including facility retrofits and improvements to drainage infrastructure.
   

Steve Gallup, Division Manager, steve.gallup@clark.wa.gov, 564.397.4356

Concurrency:

• Reviews and evaluates off-site transportation impacts of proposed developments.
• Administers county's traffic impact fee program and developer agreements.

Preservation:

• Manages pavement preservation, bridge, culverts and slides programs.
• Assesses and tracks condition of pavements and other assets.
• Provides objective analysis for prioritizing repairs, rehabilitation, replacement and preservation of assets.

Programming:

• Develops Six-Year Transportation Improvement Program.
• Applies for and administers project grants and loans.
• Provides capital programming for clean water and Greater Clark Parks District projects. 

Signal Engineering/Operations:

• Oversees traffic signals, railroad crossings, school flashers and intelligent transportation systems.
• Provides first point of contact for resident requests regarding traffic signal operations and requests for enhanced crosswalks and school flashers.
• Designs or approves developer designs for new traffic signals or modifications to existing signals.
• Determines appropriate timing parameters for traffic signals and performs other day-to-day work to keep signals operating.

Traffic Engineering/Operations: 

• Manages roadway system in unincorporated Clark County.
• Provides first point of contact for resident requests regarding signing, striping, speed limits, parking, guardrails, bicycles facilities, pedestrian walkways and safety issues.
• Prioritizes and recommends safety improvements for funding and construction