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• • • Park Board Meeting — January 5, 2004 Minutes • Behm's Park - Graded and installed base for 1/2 court basketball court. • Birch Park - Ordered open air shelter for spring, 2004 installation. • Completed Birch Park boardwalk and landscaping project. • Sunrise Park - Paved parking lots and reclaimed several areas within park for maintained turf. Also renovated warning tracks at Sunrise #1 and Sunrise #2. Pheasant Hills Park - Installed 40 feet of 6' high chain link fencing behind basketball court to keep balls from entering wooded area. • Installed park bench with concrete pad adjacent to trail near LaCasse Drive. • Installed two park benches with concrete pads along trail segment near Timberwolf Trail. • Planted over 100 new and replacement trees in City parks, including 35 in Behm's Park. • Transplanted 45 trees slated for removal along Elm Street. • Removed and trimmed trees along roads, trails, and parks from June 24th storm. • Removed several hazard trees at Sunrise Park and near Timberwolf Trail. Also removed several stumps at Sunrise, Country Lakes and Lino Park. Installed vinyl flooring, painted all walls, and installed shelving at Marshan Park storage building. Renovated landscape bed in front of Council Chambers. • Assisted Environmental Coordinator with removal of high -risk oak wilt trees. • Several staff attended MTI University seminar - Irrigation, turf establishment and maintenance, and sports turf. • Staff attended CPR, chain saw safety, and defensive driving training classes. • Attended shade tree short course. • Conducted AWAIR, Right -To -Know Training. Recreation • Processed 4,122 registrations. • Prepared recreation brochure in house resulting in savings of approximately $4,000 per year. • Public Services web page has been dramatically enhanced. • Special Events continues to shine: Second Year of Sweetheart Dance - 206 participants Family Turkey Shoot - 142 teams Breakfast with Santa - 209 participants Offered several new sports clinic/ camps including flag football, lacrosse, basketball, and roller hockey. • Summer playground enrollment was highest ever at 280 participants. • 57 participants registered for summer Options program. • Summer Day Camps was very successful with 77 enrolled. • Refined and improved youth football (300 participants) and youth soccer (512 participants) programs. • 24 Party Wagon reservations. • 27 Picnic Shelter reservations. Public Works • Fleet Division - Processed 364 work orders to repair vehicles and equipment. • Patched streets by hand using approximately 1,086 tons of asphalt mix. • Applied 550 tons of asphalt for overlays. • Switched telephone service to US Link that will save $8,000 per year. 2