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Park Board Meeting — January 5, 2004 Minutes IIIRick touched on the Grand Slam trip, Breakfast with Santa, rinks and the cold weather, and the • recreation brochure coming out in February. Bill asked what the Hockey Skills Development program consisted of. Sandie explained the program. He said he might call the office to offer his help with the program. PARKS DEPARTMENT UPDATE: Mike Hoffman, Parks Supervisor included a memo in the packets that included the maintenance activity during November and December. They included: • Removing nets and goals from soccer fields. Top dress and seed worn areas. • Irrigation system blowouts and winterization. Every year it seems we add another system or two; we currently have systems at the following sites. City Hall Park, Highland Meadows, Behm's, Marshan, Sunrise, Rice Lake Estates, Birch, Clearwater Creek Park, Fire Station, Town Center, Rice Lake Elementary, Centennial Middle School, and well houses at Sandhill Drive, Birch Street, and Clearwater Creek Drive. • Sunrise Park parking lot construction. Hauled fill, graded, tilled and backfilled edges. • Equipment maintenance, changeover and storage. It is often overlooked but in the spring and fall we spend a lot of time on equipment changeover and maintenance. A few examples: JD 6410 — in the fall we remove, service and store the 16' Landpride mower, remove and store turf tires, install bar tread tires and 11' angle plow. Toro Groundsmaster — remove, service and store mowing deck, install cab and snow blower. Ford 3930 Tractor — remove, service and store flail mower. Install 8' wide front mount angle broom. • Applied late fall fertilizer application to approximately 40 acres of irrigated turf. • Assisted with election set -up and takedown. • Hockey and pleasure rink preparation. Leveling, board repair, gate repair, light repair, goals and net repair, clean and prep shelters, snow removal and flooding. • Constructed new pleasure rink at Sunrise (installed 2 new lights). • Spot mowed as needed. • Garbage collection as needed. • Ball field maintenance — cleaned out base boxes, stored scoreboard controllers. • Playground inspection and repair — added pea rock and fibar where needed. • Snow removal of roads, trails, parking lots and sidewalks as needed. • Assisted with Family Turkey Shoot — loaded and unloaded trailer. • Installed park bench along trail near LaCasse Drive. • Top dressed fields 6, 7, 8 at Centennial Middle School. • Hazard tree removal — Wenzel Farms trail and Highland Meadows Park. • Attended safety training — AWAIR. • Pruned encroaching limbs along trails. • Inspect and inventory (measure) trails. • Ran electric to Clearwater Creek gazebo (contracted). ❖ Installed timer for rink lights at City Hall Park (contracted). 5