• Clark County by and through its District Court Corrections operates a supervised offender labor crew.
• A full crew consists of one Crew Chief (Clark County employee) and ten work crew offenders.
• A full crew day is billed at a rate of $500/day and rates are the same as the last contract.
• The City provides scheduling, technical and equipment support, coordination and instructions to the crews to attain efficient and effective operations.
• Crews help maintain an acceptable level of maintenance services for parks, sensitive lands, medians, right-of-ways and special facilities throughout the City of Vancouver.

Goal 4: Ensure that Vancouver's parks and trails system is the highest quality and most complete in the region.

Objective 4.1: Increase maintenance levels and accessibility to parks

The City of Vancouver (Public Works/Operations) has contracted with Clark County Corrections for offender labor maintenance services for more than twenty years. This alternative workforce has provided the City with an additional resource to complete non-skilled maintenance tasks at an affordable price.

The attached Interlocal Agreement provides five crews that can be used for up to 988 crew days over the term of the one-year agreement. Activities include, but are not limited to, general litter removal, landscape maintenance and weeding, road right-of-way and median maintenance, general park and recreation area maintenance for four full-time crews. A fifth crew will be assigned to the Greenway Sensitive Lands program for removal of non-native plant species, assistance in plantings, and general shrub bed maintenance generally within the Burnt Bridge Creek Greenway and at other sensitive lands within the City of Vancouver.

1. The City can make use of an alternative work force that is affordable and cost effective, allowing City FTE and resources to be most effectively managed and scheduled.
2. This work force completes tasks that improve the quality of City landscapes, sensitive lands, medians, and rights-of-way.
3. Many of the tasks completed under this partnership are tasks that may not otherwise be completed due to limited resources.
4. This partnership presents the courts an alternative to incarceration and provides offenders a chance to make restitution without losing their wages and not spending time in an expensive institution.