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MEMO TO: MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS <br /> FROM: MARY SAARION DIRECTOR � � Y � <br /> • PARKS, RECREATION AND FORESTRY <br /> DATE: AUGUST 3, 1988 OA\-\{ <br /> SUBJECT: "WATER A PARK TREE" CAMPAIGN <br /> The City Council's suggestion for a "Water a Park Tree" program has been <br /> implemented into a publicity campaign. An article has been released to the <br /> New Brighton Bulletin, information placed on cable TV, announcement on the <br /> City Hall marque, article placed in the City Newsletter and letters sent to <br /> local service organizations including Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, church <br /> youth groups, Mounds View Baseball Association, Mounds View/New Brighton <br /> Soccer Association and fall softball leagues. <br /> Public Works staff have placed faucets at each hydrant. Four attachments were <br /> purchased and hoses have been purchased for each hydrant. Two concerns are <br /> that hoses may be stolen and water kept running. Fire hydrants and hoses were <br /> used at Summer Playcenters for water before the drinking fountains were <br /> installed. Several hoses were stolen and water turned on and kept running, <br /> flooding areas in the park. For this reason, we required leaders to lock the <br /> • hoses in the park buildings and disconnect the faucet handles when leaving <br /> the park. <br /> Yesterday Forester Rick Wriskey informed me that he was leaving the sprinkler <br /> up at Groveland on the black locust tree grove all night in hopes of saving <br /> the trees. This morning, public works staff found the hoses cut and water <br /> spewing from the hydrant. <br /> Hopefully problems will not occur during this program, but the possibility <br /> exists. The police department has been asked to keep an eye out for <br /> faucets that remain running during the evening hours. <br /> 111 <br />