Responsibilities:
- The compost site collection and screening
- Street and alley maintenance and repair
- Traffic signals
- School zone lights
- School crosswalk lights
- Street signs
- Street markings
- Street sweeping
- Flood dike and ditch maintenance
- Includes 26 miles of flood dike fence maintenance
- Municipal parking lot maintenance
- Snow and ice control
- Spraying for mosquitoes
- Routine maintenance and repair on the local SRCA Drag Strip and the Municipal Airport runway
- Catch Basin and Storm Line Repairs
- Responds to the general public on engineering questions, traffic studies, and maintains mapping and plan information
- A variety of other work
In the event of a Street-Related Emergency, please contact Barton County Communications at (620) 793-1920.
Street Improvements
Collects began in July 2018 from a ¼ cent sales tax allocated for street replacement, maintenance, and repairs. The City of Great Bend has invested $1.2 million in its streets since 2021.
In 2025, JEO Consulting Group drove every block of Great Bend to complete the Pavement Management Plan and rated Great Bend’s streets a 77.7 on a scale of 1-100, a respectable number as a rating of 85 is considered very good. Great Bend’s roads rank above Dodge City’s 69.9 rating in 2017 and Topeka’s 64 rating in 2022.
One of Great Bend’s most valuable resources, the total 121 miles of paved public streets has an estimated value of $374 million in pavement.