The department's mission statement reads as follows: To extend the life of the Town's physical facilities and associated systems through routine and preventative maintenance, repairs, and system betterments geared toward improving operational efficiencies. Additionally, the Facilities Department helps to ensure public safety by adhering to sound operational practices that comply with federal, state, and local building, environmental, and health codes.
Subject to budgetary constraints, it is the policy of this department that its resources be directed toward planning and providing essential services, maintaining systems, operating equipment and facilities in a safe manner, and improving Town properties in such a way as to make their use more attractive to residents.