Moline Municipal Service Center Open House
 

Posted 05/17/06


The Moline Municipal Service Center, 3635 Fourth Avenue, will hold an open house from 9 am – 12 pm, on Saturday, May 20th. The public is invited to attend. Tours of the facility and active equipment demonstrations will be conducted.

Included in this year’s event is “Touch a Truck Day”. The City will have a variety of trucks on display, including a new automated garbage truck, fire truck, dump truck, jet and vac truck, street sweeper, police car, and tv van from Water Pollution Control Sewer Maintenance. Children will have the opportunity to sit in the trucks and learn about the controls. Touch a Truck event is free, but pre-registration is requested. Register by calling 309-736-5714 or online at www.moline.il.us. The open house is being held in honor of National Public Works week.

Constructed in 2001, the $8 million Municipal Service Center is a 93,000-square-foot facility designed to bring a higher level of staff communication and coordination of services for the benefit of the citizens of Moline. The facility houses several divisions of public works, including engineering, streets, sanitation, buildings and grounds, parks maintenance and fleet maintenance, as well as the park and recreation office.