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Home My WebLink About07/05/2005 Park Board OtherLino 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 June 29, 2005 TO: Park Board Members FROM: Rick De ardner, Public Services Director SUBJECT: June 2005 Park Board Update Birch Street Trail Project The Birch Street Trail Project was awarded to Central Landscaping at the June 13 City Council Meeting. Contracts are being signed and the pre - construction meeting should take place within the next few weeks. The project is scheduled to be substantially complete by October 1, 2005. Recreation Update Enclosed is the Recreation Update for June, 2005. Park Update The June, 2005 Park Update is enclosed. Have a happy 4th of July! sw /parkbrd/meeting infor /June 2005 Park Board Update.doc • Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department Program Highlights - June Park Board Update YOUTH Kite Day: Approximately 240 kites were given out at this year's event, which was held on June 4. Despite the rain and lack of wind, about 200 people visited Kite Day. New to Kite Day was the addition of snacks (granola bars, water and chips) - courtesy of Target. Summer Playground Program: The Summer Playground Program began on June 13. Atotal of 341 children are enrolled in our seven sites. This is an excellent turnout. The program will run for 8 weeks this year - one week longer than previous years. Highlight activities for the sites include visits from Underwater Adventures, the Centennial Fire Department, the Lino Lakes Police Department and Wargo Nature Center. Two individual park parties are also planned for each site - the Independence Day Party (the week of June 27) and the Finale (the week of August 1). Preschool Playtime: 35 children are enrolled in our two sessions of Preschool Playtime this year. New this year - expanded hours and days. The program is operating for 1.5 hours per day versus past years of 45 minutes per day. The program is also running for 15 sessions versus past years of only 8 sessions. So far the kids are having a great time and the staff are doing a fantastic job of keeping them busy and entertained. Youth Sports: Our summer youth sports programs are now underway. Here are some of the highlights. ♦ 3 - 6 year old T -Ball: June session classes are finishing up the last week of this month. 130 youth participated in our T Ball programs this month. • Soccer Fundamentals: Session 1 started June 20. 80 kids are registered for this session. ♦ Mini Hawks Sports Camp: This camp was conducted June 20 -24. It was a three hour camp that featured sports such as T Ball, football, soccer and basketball. 21 youth participated in this program. ♦ Cougar Baseball and Soccer Camps: Both camps started the week of June 27 and are being run by Centennial High School varsity coaches and players. 60 youth are registered for the Baseball Camp, 70 are registered for the Soccer Camp. • Tennis: Tennis started the week of June 13. 160 participants are taking part in this session of lessons. ♦ Youth Golf: 32 youth are participating in this one week golf camp. The camp concludes with a round of nine holes at Kate Haven Golf Course. ♦ Lacrosse: Our Intro Camp has 22 participants, Mini -Mites has 12 participants. Our Boys Lacrosse League started playing games the weekend of June 12. We have 1 team of 5th /6th graders and one team of 7th /8th graders in the Boys League and a total 65 boys playing. • Fall Soccer and Football: Registration has begun for these programs. The registration dates are June 20 - July 18. ADULT Fitness: Yoga is our most popular program this summer. We were able to add a new session of Maintenance Yoga to accommodate the interest of participants. We did, however, have to cancel our Slim Express and Ball & Band Fitness classes due to low enrollment. RECREATION REVIEW & WEB PAGE "'creation Review: Work is just beginning on the fall edition of the Recreation Review. We hope to have everything completed and ready for distribution by the middle of August. Questions? Please call Liz Benoit or Brian Hronski at 651- 982 -2440. Lacrosse Camp • • 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 June 29, 2005 TO: Park Board Members FROM: Mike Hoffman, Parks Supervisor SUBJECT: June 2005 Maintenance Update Well, the cool, wet May I wrote about last month has given way to a warm, wet June which of course means the grass is growing like crazy and keeping up with the mowing has been a challenge. Maintenance activity during a busy June has included: • Mowing of all park areas — we have been trying to cut our irrigated turf areas twice a week but the wet weather has not allowed us to get to everything. As a result, we are leaving excess clippings in some areas. • Weekly garbage collection at all parks and park shelters. • Daily athletic field preparation — we are averaging over 10 ball field game preps per day Monday thru Thursday. Also weekly line cut -ins and painting. • Completed playground inspections and repairs. Vandalized playgrounds that were repaired included: o Highland Meadows Park — repaired floating balance beam. o Lino Park — replaced damaged crawl tube section and repaired tire swing. o Birchwood Acres, Behms and Birch Park — removed graffiti. • Repaired damaged picnic tables. • Repaired stage at Sunrise Park. • Poured concrete pads and installed bike racks at Lino Park and Town Center. • Equipment maintenance and repair as needed. • Sherman Lake Road Trail — installed 72' of retaining wall (48' on west side, 24' on east side) where culverts cross trail to prevent washout of trail. Removed Buckthorn from trail edges to improve visibility. • Repaired boardwalk behind homes on Stagecoach Trail 20' of railing had been vandalized. • Party wagon deliveries and pickups. • Broadleaf week control to soccer fields at CMS and RLE. • Aerified soccer fields at CMS and RLE. • • Over seeded wear areas on soccer fields at CMS, RLE and Sunrise Park. • Fertilized approximately 40 acres of irrigated turf. • Flail mowed all park trails. • Swept all trails. • Patched sunken area of trail near pond in South Reshanau Lake Estates Development. • Watered park trees as needed. • Planted roses and perennials at Trappers staircase, also weeded, and added additional mulch. • Irrigation system audits and programming. • Birchwood Acres Park: o Poured 10'x10' concrete slab around irrigation service. o Installed 5'x3'x4' utility box to enclose irrigation components. o Rebased and installed 2 ' /2" bituminous mat where trail was removed for water service. Approximately 270'x9' of new trail. • We are still waiting for Xcel Energy to hook us up, as a result of not yet having power for the irrigation system we have decided to delay seeding until mid - August when weather conditions will be ideal for a new seeding. Those are June's highlights, more to come in July. sw /parkbrd/mike /June 2005 Maintenance Update.doc