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DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET NARRATIVE <br />FUND: General <br />DEPARTMENT: Parks <br />DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVE: <br />The overall purpose of the Park Division is to provide safe, <br />functional and beautiful parks for residents' recreational use. <br />DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES: <br />Park activities include regularly scheduled maintenance <br />operations: athletic field preparation, trash removal, mowing, <br />ice rink flooding, park building inspection, repair and cleaning, <br />trail maintenance, repairs to facilities and special projects. <br />DEPARTMENT GOALS <br />The goal is to maintain the parks in a way which makes them an <br />asset to the community, offering both active and passive <br />facilities that are maintained for safe and functional use by the <br />residents of the community for their leisure recreational <br />enjoyment. <br />DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURE COMMENT <br />The Parks Division employs two regular full time Parks employees <br />along with three summer seasonal funded from the Parks budget. <br />Additional seasonal parks maintenance employees may be employed <br />to perform field preparations for recreation programs, funded <br />from the Recreation Activity Fund. These employees, although <br />funded with Rec Act are supervised by the regular full-time Parks <br />Division employees. <br />Contractual service costs are for electricity for park buildings <br />and lighting systems, telephones, debris removal, portable <br />restrooms and rental of a water truck for ice rink <br />maintenance,grounds maintenance equipment when needed. <br />Additionally, contracted service costs are for equipment repairs <br />typically for the mowers. These costs have greatly increased and <br />is responsible for the majority of the Park Division budget <br />increase. <br />The grants and subsidies. item is the City's share of operating <br />costs for Lakeside Park and beach, a park jointly operated with <br />the City of spring Lake Park. <br />