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As you recall, Mr. Johnson filed a claim with the Cities' insurance carrier. The claim was denied because it was determined that the City had done everything possible to responsibly deal with the situation including installation of the temporary fencing, informing users of rules of hitting, scheduling long ball hitting leagues elsewhere, hiring a homerun ball catcher. (You each received a copy of this letter from our insurance trust regarding this claim.) * Lambert Park was hit with graffiti last week. It is unfortunate because as you recall, Lambert Park building is block, and graffiti is very difficult to remove from concrete block. Other areas of the community were hit as well including Pinewood School basketball goal. The Parks crew is trying to keep up with mowing and field work until the seasonals are on board - hoping that at least two seasonals-will begin Monday, May 22 which will allow time to be spent on the graffiti at Lambert Park. * Two groups of Irondale High School provided community service projects in the park. One work/study group helped pick up litter at Silver View Park. Another group of physically and mentally challenged students worked at Greenfield Park for a morning. Luckily the days were sunny and warm and I think the students had a good time working together while benefitting the community. Steve Dazenski is great at preparing work and tools and supplies for these groups. It takes time and organization to organize student groups, but I think that it is a very good cooperative benefit for both schools and parks. * Best Locks are contracted to re-key the park buildings. Hopefully the work will be completed by the end of next week. New keys will need to be distributed to park building users. The benefit will be much more secure buildings, using keys that cannot be copied. RECREATION: * Mary has been busy the past couple weekends conducting Coaches Clinics. The program is approximately 3 hours in duration and provides volunteer coaches with information and goals and objectives of the program. In addition, rules, regulations, equipment, first aid supplies, schedules, parent manuals, team shirts and picture package information is distributed. THE SUMMER YOUTH ATHLETIC PROGRAMS HAVE BEGUN! * Last weekend the High School Fastpitch Softball team hosted a tournament at Silver View Park. * Not only has Mary prepared the manuals for all the City sponsored youth athletic teams, but he also printed 70 copies of MVAA's manuals. * I mailed a copy of the final document prepared by Jim Thomson for the MVAA Ground Lease Agreement. In addition, I reviewed the document and prepared