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• safety of players. This added height also provides for a more competitive playfield making homeruns more difficult to achieve. 5. Park and Playground signs encouraging safe and appropriate play to prevent injury would be beneficial especially at parks that have playgrounds including Lambert, Woodcrest, Hillview, Groveland, Greenfield, Oakwood and City Hall Parks. 6 . Playground Equipment lacement is needed at Random Park. Ygreplacement This park is largely programmed for preschool children since the preschool program, held Mondays through Thursdays is located at Random Park. There are exciting preschool age designed playground equipment on the market that would enhance the preschool program at Random Park. 7 . Groveland Park playground equipment is old and has been greatly used by previous youth of the neighborhood. Unfortunately, there was a group of youth several years ago that played havoc on the play equipment, vandalizing the equipment with graffiti. While this equipment does not have the graffiti resistant makeup of todays equipment, the Groveland Park equipment continues to be covered with graffiti that does not come off. The equipment has had many makeshift replacement parts installed over the years. It is due for replacement. 8 . Other various park playground equipment will require replacement in time. The play equipment replacement program will guarantee necessary replacement as equipment becomes outdated and worn out. 9 . Picnic tables, benches, swing benches, grills and other equipment in the parks require replacement in time. Trash containers need to be replaced every five to seven years. Recyclable trash containers should be purchased and set in tandem with each regular container to encourage recycling. 10. While vandalism is difficult to predict, the cost of replacement or repair of vandalized park facilities continues to be a problem. Even using a crystal ball will not provide accurate predictions of replacement of equipment due to vandalism. Some years require no or little replacement of equipment while other years require large funding for replacement of vandalized park equipment. All these park improvement promote safety in the parks. For this reason, the Parks and Recreation Commission agrees that these projects have first priority in the continued improvements to parks using Park Dedication Funds. However, because parks continue to change, because unforeseen events are difficult to predict, there may be a need to alter these priorities when considering needs that become may become more immediate.