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beach cleaning, beachhouse inspection and cleaning, litter pick- up, sweeping, removal of glass and other debris, cleaning of windows, doors, patio, walkways, parking lot, and benches and picnic tables. These duties are provided over and above their duties as lifeguards. -The City of Mounds View offer swimming lessons at the beach and administers the program with the staffing of Water Safety Instructors (certified instructors) and implementation of advertisement, publicity, registration responsibilities, and class lists. Although the beach conditions have not been conducive to swimming lessons the past two years, lessons have been administered the years previous to the drought. Because the City of Mounds View offers a full program of aquatic instruction at Edgewood Pool, the beach lessons basically benefit the residents of Spring Lake Park. -The City of Mounds View provides weekly entertainment at Lakeside Beach with the provision of the Puppet Wagon performances. This is a popular program for preschoolers and lower elementary age children. -The City of Mounds View administers all the park reservations and special requests for Lakeside Park for activities from company picnics to church potlucks to Soccer Festival groups weddings, reunions and other events. These are an example of in-kind services which the City of Mounds View offers, which is not funded out of the Lakeside Park budget but is absorbed through positions which are funded through the Mounds View general fund. The City of Spring Lake Park, in turn, supervises the major maintenance service to Lakeside Park. With the monies that both cities contribute, a part-time maintenance worker is employed to perform maintenance tasks at the park. This may include daily trash removal, weeding, repairing equipment, water treatment mowing and other duties. The time allotted is 4 hours per week for 14 weeks. (It is my understanding that this employee is also employed by the City of Spring Lake Park to perform park maintenance work in the other parks of Spring Lake Park during the other 4 hour each weekday.) There are 16 hours of park maintenance time allotted at Lakeside Park each week. Considering that the lifeguards also perform maintenance tasks, the hours per week in maintenance exceed 16 hours each week. To keep this amount of time in perspective perhaps this number of hours should be compared to the number of hours spent in park maintenance in other city parks. It seems that this allotment of time should be more than adequate to perform the tasks of park maintenance at Lakeside Park. This is excluding special projects. Special projects have been popping up at Lakeside Park in the last two summers as a result of the monies donated for