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Mk • REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Agenda Section: 4. Report Number: 93-1003WS STAFF REPORT EVrn p 12-2-93 AGENDA SESSION DATE December 6, 1993 Report Date: DISPOSITION • Item Description: 1993 Budget Adjustments Administrator's Review/Recommendation: - No comments to supplement this report - Comments attached. Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) SUMMARY; Staff is recommending the carry-over of Recreation Activity Funds for the purchase and installation of netting for Greenfield Park baseball field. Last summer, 1993 Mike Walston met with Steve Dazenski, Mary Johnson and me regarding the problems of foul balls during baseball play at Greenfield Park. Mike worked out a netting scheme that would include the installation of 4 42 ' red cedar poles (class 5) and 260 ' of galvanized steel aircraft cable and netting. The netting would be attached with clips that could be removed during winter months if desired. Although the netting may not catch every foul ball, it would provide a catch for those balls that go directing up and over, up to the 20 ' over and above the 16 ' high backstop. It is predicted that 80-90% of the foul balls would be stopped. Even though this may not be a foolproof remedy for all the foul balls that occur at Greenfield Park, I do believe that it is a good faith effort on the part of the City of Mounds View to do everything possible to try to remedy the problem of foul balls going into the backyards of residents abutting Greenfield Park. To approve the use of 1993 Recreation Activity Funds to carry over to 1994 for the purpose of purchasing and installing a netting system at Greenfield Park baseball field, not to exceed $4,500. Aei LAI AfIrY /4". 1 Mary Saar oil, --'""P—or of Parks, Recreation and Forestry RECOMMENDATION;