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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 /> DEPARTMENT 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 /> 111 <br /> DEPARTMENT GOALS <br /> The goal is to maintain the parks in a way which makes them an asset to the <br /> community, 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 COMMENT <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 />