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PARKS, RECREATION AND FORESTRY <br />PARKS: <br />1. Work on the Oakwood Park drinking fountain has continued. Trouble with <br />undetected buried telephone and other cables were found during the digging - <br />delaying the project. Thanks to the sharp eyes of Brad Engen and Bill Norman <br />the cables were spotted before another scoop was made! This experience tells <br />us that Gopher State First Call does not always locate all the buried cables. <br />Scary! <br />2. Mowing has continued - the parks look great! <br />3. Work on the fields was performed this Wednesday, - the fields often become <br />bumpy and need leveling after summer's use. The wind, constant dragging and <br />hardening of the ag-lime surface all contribute to a washboard affect over time <br />that needs to be leveled on occasion. <br />4. Sprinkling problems at City Hall and Silver View Park have been detected and <br />taken care of. <br />5. SPECIAL THANKS TO WALLY AND LARRY who worked on the storm water <br />sewer drainage pipe at Greenfield Park. We have had a constant problem with <br />washouts at the location at the end of the walkway easement behind the <br />baseball field. During rains the torrents of water wash out that area on a <br />regular basis. We were thinking that perhaps we would have to build a drain <br />field at some time - expensive and big project. However, Larry and Wally went <br />into the pipe (about 200 feet of close quarters) and detected that it was full of <br />tree roots. They cut the roots (about 200 lbs.) and pulled them out. The pipe <br />is now open and hopefully this will solve our washout problem. Thanks Wally <br />and Larry! <br />6. Wednesday afternoon we had a frustrating occurrence. A youth baseball coach <br />was using Silver View 2 field for practice in the afternoon. The boys were <br />hitting baseballs into the backstop fence from the outside bowing the fencing, <br />dislodging it from the buried base rail and literally disforming the backstop. In <br />addition, the grass area behind the backstop was worn through to bare dirt in <br />the areas that the players were hitting - only 3-4 feet from the backstop fence! <br />Both Steve and Jeff asked the coach not to do this numerous times. The coach <br />was very belligerent and continued to conduct the practice in this manner. <br />Steve called me on the phone and Mary and I met them at the field. The <br />damage has been documented with photographs. I asked him to discontinue <br />this abuse to the backstop that not only did it damage the fence, but also gave <br />