The cable system is regularly used by the city for quickly disseminating public notices and information. Streets The Street Department is responsible for 24 miles of streets within the corporate limits. Funded with general funds, the street department is responsible for street cleaning, snow removal, street patching, parking meters, mowing, and signage. Paving is done by private contractors. In neighborhoods throughout the city, there were complaints of poor or no sidewalks.
Sidewalks are the responsibility of the property owner.
However, the city will remove a sidewalk free of charge, if the property owner is prepared to pay for its replacement. AU new development should have sidewalks and curbs. The city provides 24 hour police protection to its 3,000 residents. The fire department is staffed by trained volunteers, supported by modern equipment, and housed in a centrally located station constructed in 1977. Though the fire department is technically for the City of Philippi, its personnel and equipment respond county-wide.