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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/02/2005 Park Board Other• 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 April 28, 2005 TO: Park Board Members FROM: Rick DeGardner, Public Services Director SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Items Even though the May Park Board meeting has been canceled, there is some information I want to pass along to the Park Board members: Birch Street Trail Project — We have recently received feed back from the Anoka County • Highway Department and the Rice Creek Watershed District pertaining to the plans and specifications. City staff is modifying the plans and specs to reflect the concerns indicated. We anticipate the bid opening to occur towards the end of next week. • Birchwood Acres Park — Grading activity began earlier this week. The final grading work and installation of the ag -lime infield should be completed by early next week. Park maintenance staff is removing a portion of the bituminous trail near Fox Road to prepare for the installation of water service work scheduled to begin the week of May 2. A copy of a letter sent to adjoining property owners is attached. Parks Update — Attached is the monthly Parks Update for April. Recreation Update - - Attached is the monthly Recreation Update for April. Att. Sw /parkbrd/meeting information/Park Board Letter 4- 28- 05.doc Lino Lakes Public Services Department CITY.: ,' :;°✓ 3 O F 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 (651) 982 -2440 Fax (651) 982 -2439 • www.ci.lino- lakes.mn.us April 22, 2005 Dear Birchwood Acres Park Adjoining Property Owner, In July 2004, I sent you a letter regarding some improvements peraining to Birchwood Acres Park. Listed below is a summary of work that will be performed over the next several weeks: o Water service will be brought into the park for irrigation. This will require the removal and replacement of a portion of trail near the eastern entrance of the park near Fox Road. The trails near the work site will be barricaded off during the duration of this project. o The open play area (grass) around the ball field area will be completely renovated to provide a safer environment for park users. This includes stripping off and hauling away the existing vegetation, rough and final grading the site, installing an irrigation system, and seeding. o The infield area of the ball field will be replaced with ag -lime. A new backstop will also be installed. To reinforce the fact that the design and intent of this ball field is for informal use only, the player benches will be not be replaced. Also, a pitcher's mound and base pegs will not be installed. Staff will also be communicating with the various youth sports associations to further strengthen our commitment that Birchwood Acres Park will not be used for any formal games or scrimmages. Rather, area residents and youth teams will use the field for informal activities and practices. There have been some inquiries related to water fountains. We do not place water fountains in our neighborhood parks due to the high cost of the fountains and constant maintenance needed to keep them operational. The stripping off and hauling away the existing vegetation are scheduled to begin as early as next week. The removal of the trail may begin toward the end of next week. The water service work is scheduled to begin the week of May 2nd. Our intent is to have the entire project completed by the end of May. City staff is confident that these improvements will make Birchwood Acres Park much more useable and enjoyable for area residents. Sincerely, 7CA • Rick DeGardne Public Services Director J: \Ricks Folder \Parks Division \Neighborhood Parks \Birchwood Acres \Renovation update to residents 4- 22- 05.doc 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 April 28, 2005 TO: Park Board Members FROM: Mike Hoffman, Parks Supervisor SUBJECT: April 2005 Maintenance Update Well, spring has arrived early and so have about 1000 spring projects. Oh, where do we start? Maintenance projects during an extremely busy April have included: o Completed equipment changeover (ex. JD 6410 removed plow equipment and winter tires, put on turf tires and land pride mower). o Stored winter equipment (delivered to water towers and well houses). o Equipment maintenance — Changed fluids, greased, changed mower blades as needed. o Began mowing city parks and athletic fields. o Prepped nursery area for bare root tree order. o Assisted Forestry Department with boulevard tree pruning. o Burned native prairie areas at Behm's Park and Town Center. o Tree spaded trees from Town Center nursery area into Sunrise Park (8 Red Oaks, 2 Green Ash). o Emptied garbage cans at all City Parks. o Installed dock at Country Lakes Park. o Graded gravel parking lots at Country Lakes Park, Sunrise and City Hall Parks. o Assisted Environmental Department with Earth Day. (Delivered and picked up picnic tables and supplies) o Installed park bench at Pheasant hills Park, mounted to existing slab next to playground. o Irrigation systems turned on and repairs as needed. o Birchwood Acres Park — Removed backstop and players benches. Attended pre -con meeting, northern portion of park to be regraded, irrigation installed, park seeded, backstop and skinned infield to be installed. o Ball field pre- season inspections. o Ball field maintenance — dragging infields twice weekly to keep infields smooth. Cut -in and painted fair /foul lines. o Ball field game preparation began Sunday, April 24. Daily preps include hand raking around bases, batters boxes and rubber, grooming infield, chalking base lines and batters boxes, placing bases, leaving game balls in base boxes and policing bleachers and bench areas for garbage. • • • o Soccer field layout and game preparation of 12 soccer and one lacrosse field. Work includes field layout, line cut -ins, line painting, delivering goals to fields, anchoring goals, and installing nets. Those are April's major highlights. Our seasonal staff can't arrive quickly enough. Much more to come in May. Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department Program Highlights - April Park Board Update YOUTH Youth Instructional: The spring session of many of our youth instructional programs started this month. Dance started April 4 with 26 youth participating in four Preschool Dance classes and 6 youth participating in one Tap and Ballet class. Soccer Mini Camp class started April 11 with 23 youth participating in two classes. Toss, Kick and Catch also started April 11 with 12 youth and parents participating in one class. Floor Hockey Mini Camp started April 12 with 14 youth participating in one class. Spring session classes will end mid to late May. Summer Programs: We are in high speed gearing up for summer. Most of ourt -ball, soccer fundamentals and 5 -8 year -old tennis lesson classes are already full. Four of our seven Summer Playground Program sites are also full, as well as one of our Preschool Playtime sessions. We anticipate that the remaining classes and program sites will fill over the next month. ADULT Community Outings: Our first two trips of the spring filled. They were Banjo Bandits on March 22 and Beyond the Rainbow on April 20. Our next outing is Orphans /Spam and The Old Mill on May 25. Registration is a bit low at As time for this trip, but we have high hopes of it increasing. We offered this trip last year, but had to cancel it e to due flooding in the Austin, MN area. We hope that some of those that wanted to attend last year's trip will sign up since the threat of flooding is much lower this year and it is very likely the trip will not be cancelled. Fitness: Our fitness attendance numbers are remaining consistent at about 10 -15 participants per night. We did not have an opportunity this season to send additional marketing materials to participants, but we hope to prior to the start of the summer session so that we can continue to maintain our numbers. Softball: Spring /Summer Softball started Sunday, April 24. We have 12 Co- Recreational and 24 Class D teams in our leagues this year. The season will conclude the last week of July. RECREATION REVIEW & EMPLOYMENT Recreation Review: Work is finishing up on our summer Recreation Review. It will be going to the printer on May 9 and is scheduled to be in homes and on the web the last week of May. Employment: All of our summer positions have been offered and almost all have been accepted. We received 104 applications this year for the just over 30 positions available. Although this was a eat response to our call for applicants, it made the decision king a bit challenging as we had a lot of good applicants. Questions? Please call Liz Benoit or Brian Hronski at 651- 982 -2440. Two of our returning summer staff. ;.... Sandie Wood From: Sandie Wood ent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:56 AM To: Aaron Frederickson; Bill Kusterman; GeorgeLindy @comcast.net; kboyle©mastersforum.com; aptaschuk©usfamily.net; Pat Huelman; Paul Montain; Dave Jansen PB Info (quadpress @sherbtel.net); Ann Blair; Dan Tesch; Gordon Heitke; Jean Viger; Mary Fogarty; Brian Hronski; Lisa Hogstad; Liz Benoit; 'Jake - Quad Press' Subject: May Park Board Meeting There is nothing to put on the agenda so there will not be a May 2, 2005 Park Board Meeting. Rick will send an update out to members the end of this week. If you have any questions please contact Rick at 651 982 -2444. Thanks. Sandie Wood Public Services Office Manager City of Lino Lakes • 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 651- 982 -2442 651- 982 -2439 fax sandie.wood @ci.lino- lakes.mn.us • 1