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Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 (651) 982 -2440 Fax (651) 982 -2439 www.ci.lino - lakes.mn.us July 27, 2006 TO: Park Board Members FROM: Mike Hoffman, Parks Supervisor SUBJECT: July Park Maintenance Update Maintenance activity during a hot and dry July has included: ❖ Weekly garbage collection. ❖ Weekly mowing as needed (some of our non - irrigated areas have really slowed down). ❖ Daily athletic field maintenance and game prep. Summer programs (softball, baseball) are almost complete. ❖ Irrigation system maintenance and repairs — set controllers, repair line breaks, valves, damaged heads. ❖ Line cut -ins and painting of fair /foul lines and lacrosse field. ❖ Water park and boulevard trees and landscape plantings. Our tanker truck has been out a minimum of 2 days and as many as 4 days a week recently watering young shade trees and landscape plantings. ❖ Equipment maintenance as needed. (Mowers, chain saws, and weed whips.) ❖ Playground inspections and repairs. ❖ Added certified rec step playground surfacing to the following parks: Behms (60 cubic yards) Lino (90 cubic yards) Marshan (90 cubic yards) We plan to add additional rec step to playgrounds at: Clearwater Creek, Arena Acres, Highland Meadows and Brandywood Parks. • Purchased 300 gallon truck tank for watering trees. ••• Repaired broken soccer goal. • Oak Wilt inspections. ❖ Storm water compliance inspection. • Painted tennis court bounce back at Arena Acres. ❖ Spot sprayed Roundup around playground edges, tree mulch rings, sidewalks and parking lots. ❖ Repaired split rail fence along trail (Wenzel Farms Town homes). ❖ Installed split rail fence at Birchwood Acres to keep bicycles from cutting across grass. ❖ Weed whipped boardwalks at Shores of Marshan, Wenzel Farms, Trappers Crossing and Brandywood Parks.