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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-Acta-re- 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 />