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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, functional and beautiful <br />parks for residents' recreational use. <br />DEPARTNIEN7 ACTIVITIES: <br />Park activities include regularly scheduled maintenance operations: athletic field <br />preparation, trash removal, mowing, ice rink flooding, park building inspection, <br />repair and cleaning, trail maintenance, repairs to facilities and special projects. <br />DEPARTMEN7 GOALS <br />The goal is to maintain the parks in a way which makes them an asset to the <br />communiry, offering both active and passive facilities that are maintained for safe <br />and functional use by the residents of the community for their leisure recreational <br />enjoyment. <br />DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURE CONIMEN7 <br />The Parks Division employs two regular full time Parks employees along with three <br />summer seasonal funded from the Parks budget. Additional seasonal parks <br />maintenance employees may be employed to perform field preparations for <br />recreation programs, funded from the Recreation Activity Fund. These employees, <br />although funded with Rec Act are supervised by the regular full-time Parks Division <br />employees. <br />Contractual Services in the Parks Fund have increased dramatically due to the <br />experience of escalating costs and greater needs for debris removal from the park, <br />security sighting and facility lighting needs, telephone services at the parks for <br />emergencies, extended park building use and energy costs and portable park <br />