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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Todd Hoffman, Park and Recreation Director
FROM:
Dale Gregory, Park Superintendent
DATE: June 5,2001
SUBJECT: Park and Trail Maintenance Report
This spring has proven to be a very busy one for our park maintenance staff. With
the nice weather of spring coming late this year, it did not leave much time for us
to get all of our park 'start-up' jobs complete. Many long hours were put in to get
the parks, ball fields, and soccer fields ready for use.
The following new projects were completed this spring:
· Stone Creek Playground Phase 2 - This was accomplished with the
combined help of the residents and the park staff.
· A new dock at Lake Ann was installed for the rental paddleboats. The old
dock will be rebuilt and installed fbr fishermen to use.
This year we are making a real effort to get all the parks sprayed for weeds. We
currently have about 70% of the parks sprayed. This has proven to be a real
difficult task to complete due to the rain and the winds we have had this spring.
We have only been able to spray real early in the morning.
This spring we have been fortunate to have the help of the Sentence to Service
people that Carver County can supply at times. On an average, we get 6-8 people
and we were able to have them for 6 days of work this spring. The jobs they
worked on were cleaning all boulevards downtown, cleaning around city buildings,
raking the Pioneer Cemetery, painting picnic tables and some tree maintenance
along Coulter Blvd.
At the present time, we have only three seasonal retired personnel helping with the
grass mowing. I have had to use people from the street department, water
department, mechanics and park department alter hours to keep the grass mowed,
ball fields dragged, soccer fields striped and the parks weed whipped to be ready
for evening use.
On a good note, the park maintenance shed is getting close to the point where we
can move in. This is a time my entire staff is looking forward to.
The City o. f Cbanbassev. A growing community with clean lakes, quality schaols, a channing downtown, thriving businesses, and beauu'fu/ oarks. A great O/ace to/ire, work. and v/ax!