The City Administrator shall supervise the improvement and repair of streets, avenues, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, wharves, docks, landings, market houses, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, sidewalks, playgrounds, sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams and watercourses, the lighting, sprinkling and cleaning of public places and the construction of public improvements and public works, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
(ORC 735.02; 1980 Code Sec. 33.13)