Mission
To improve the quality of life for Clinton residents, businesses, and visitors through responsive, efficient, and effective services that maintain city facilities, provide a safe and friendly transportation system for motorists and pedestrians, provide a safe and reliable water supply, and properly dispose of wastewater and solid waste.

Role of the Public Works & Utilities Department
The Public Works Department provides many essential services for citizens, including refuse collection (both residential and commercial), buildings and grounds maintenance, street and sidewalk construction and maintenance, environmental services, fleet maintenance, cemetery management and maintenance, and pest control. One of the most important services the department provides is to ensure safe drinking water to the public and the treatment of wastewater.

Jeff Vreugdenhil has been Public Works & Utilities Director of Clinton since December 2010. He began working for the city as a planner in 1988, becoming Clinton Planning Director in 1995 and Clinton-Sampson County Planning Director in 2004. Before coming to Clinton, he interned with Rocky Mount and Kinston and then worked in the Kinston planning department. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geography and Urban Planning from East Carolina University. Contact Phone: (910) 299-4905 ext. 3052 Fax: (910) 592-3825 Email: vreugdenhil@cityofclintonnc.us Location: 200 John St. Clinton, NC 28329 After-hours Emergency (910) 592-1151