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Home My WebLink About08/07/2006 Park Board OtherLino Lakes Public Services Department 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 (651) 982 -2440 Fax (651) 982 -2439 Memorandum To: Park Board Members From: Rick DeGardner Date: July 27, 2006 Re: August Park Board Meeting Cancelled 4111 The August Park Board meeting has been cancelled. The monthly Parks Update and Recreation Update are attached. • The annual Park Board Tour and Barbeque is scheduled for Tuesday, September 5th. Let me know if anyone is interested in hosting the barbeque. Also, let me know if starting the tour at 5:30pm is too early for you. If 5:30pm doesn't work for everyone, we can start at 6:00 or 6:30pm. The proposed tour includes Highland Meadows Park, Lino Park, and Behms Park. Let me know if there are any other areas of interest. Hopefully the Hodgson Bridge will be reopened by then!!! Thanks. 7/27/2006 C: \Documents and Settinas \sandie.wood \Local Settinas \Temoorary Internet Files \OLK325 \cancel 8 -06 meetina.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 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. • • • ❖ Assisted Eagle Scout with park sign project at Shenandoah Park. Installed 15'x25' oval elevated block bed. Added fill to bed. Planted bed to shrubs and perennials. Mulched bed. Installed Shenandoah Park sign. • Trim trees and shrubs along city trails for side and overhead clearance. • Removed dead and hazard trees at various parks. Those are July's major highlights, more to come in August. P.S. Could somebody please order us up some rain! sw /parkbrd/Mike /July 06 Park Update.doc Bike Para Clearwater Park Playgr'untet Pry. Lino Lakes Parks & Recreation Department - Program Highlights July Park Board Update YOUTH Playground Program: Playgrounds are winding down for the season - only two weeks to go!. Participants have enjoyed all kinds of games, crafts, theme weeks and specialist visits. The program will officially end on August 4 with our Finale party at Sunrise Park. At this time only 62 children are signed up to attend, but we anticipate more registrations this week as folks realize that the program is coming to an end. The Finale has a Circus theme and will include a magic show by Brian Richards, our bounce, various carnival games, face - painting and popcorn. Overall, this summer went very well for playgrounds. The new time /date /etc. options will be evaluated at the end of the season and changes will more than likely be made. An evaluation of the program will be included with next month's update. Preschool Playtime: Preschool Playtime is also winding down. The program will end August 3. Everything went pretty smoothly this year. A few changes that do need to be made for next year are stricter age requirements (must be 3 by start date) and a requirement about being potty trained. We've found that children under who are not 3 by the start date have a very difficult time focusing and participating for a two hour time span. Field Trips: Eight participants attended our trip on July 14 to see the children's show "The Wind and the Willows" at the Old Log Theatre. Our next trip is the St. Louis Park Pool on July 27 - 15 participants are registered for this trip. Safety Camp: The 13th Annual Centennial Area Safety Camp is just around the corner. It is scheduled for Thursday, August 10 from 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Rice Lake Elementary School. As of July 19, there were 137 participants registered - e e maximum is 150. The camp is for children entering 4th grade the fall of the upcoming school year. outh Sports Recap: • July T -Ball classes for 3, 4, 5/6 year olds have started and we have 71 participants playing ball. • Tiny -Hawk Multi -Sport Academy had 18 participants the week of July 10 -14. • Mighty -Hawk Multi -Sport Academy had 16 participants the week of July 17 -21. • Soccer Fundamentals, which teaches kids the proper techniques of soccer, has 104 kids signed up for the July 24- August 10 session. • Tennis Lessons from July 10 -19 had 117 participants in levels 1 -3. • Golf Academy, which is a week long golf camp culminating with a 9 hole round of golf on Fridays, had 35 total participants signed up over 5 weeks this summer. • Volleyball Academy the week of July 17 -21 had 41 participants. • YLM Team Lacrosse just finished the season with our 3rd /4th grade team finishing second in the Stillwater Lumberjack days tournament. Our 5th /6th grade team finished in 4th place and the 7th /8th grade team won four matches. We had 70 participants in team lacrosse this summer. • Beginner lacrosse league started on Wednesday, July 12. 27 participants are playing in this league this year. • MDB Basketball Camp has 38 participants registered for the two week camp at the High School. • Fall Soccer registration just ended - 420 players registered, • Fall Football registration just ended - 320 players registered. ADULT ail: Softball ended with the following teams winning their respective leagues: otal Communication Solutions Inc. won the Sunday Night regular season title with Ball Trappers winning the play -off, TRC won the Monday night league, and A Bear Heating & Air won the Tuesday night league. Questions? Please call Liz Benoit or Brian Hronski at 651- 982 -2440. Playground Program Stars an'%ripes Forever Theme Craft - creating an American fla • o _ • f