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• <br />• <br />Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department <br />600 Town Center Parkway <br />Lino Lakes, MN 55014 <br />(651) 982 -2440 Fax (651) 982 -2439 <br />www.ei.lino-lakes.mn.us <br />ct <br />February 24, 2012 <br />T0: Park Board Members <br />FROM: Mike Hoffman, Parks Supervisor <br />SUBJECT: December 2011— February 2012 Park Maintenance Update <br />What an unbelievable winter, with this very warm and snowless winter we have experienced <br />our shortest skating season ever. Rinks officially opened on January 13 and closed on February <br />17. Normally we hope to open in mid - December and run until the end of February. What a <br />goofy winter! <br />Maintenance activity during December through February has included the following: <br />• Replaced rink fencing on north rink at Sunrise Park. <br />• Rink Maintenance — Flooded when weather allowed, repaired hockey goals and rink <br />gates, installed new interlocking rubber floor tiles at Birch warming house <br />(replacements from last year's arson). <br />• Clearwater Creek Park — Pruned trees /shrubs throughout the park. <br />• Woods of Baldwin Park — Removed a number of dead, diseased and /or hazard trees (oak <br />wilt, hypoxylon canker). Removed and stump treated invasive Buckthorn, removed and <br />stump treated Staghorn Sumac encroaching storm water pipe outlet. Pruned trees for <br />boulevard and park clearance. <br />• Sunrise Park — Created a drainage swale to alleviate seasonal flooding of adjacent <br />property owners. Project located between playground and east property line. Work <br />consisted of tree and brush removal, stump removal and site grading. <br />• With the absence of snow cover we took the opportunity to broadcast grass seed to <br />wear areas on our athletic fields. <br />Maintenance activity during January and February 2012 included the following. <br />• Attended Green Expo (including pesticide recertification). <br />• Rink maintenance as weather allowed (shelters finally opened January 13). <br />• Equipment maintenance and repair. <br />• Snow plowing — a few nuisance snowfalls. <br />• Boulevard tree trimming. One thing this wimpy weather has been good for is boulevard <br />tree trimming. Approximately 350 trees have been pruned throughout the Behm's <br />