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MOUNDS Vt-EW- <br />of Mounds View Staff R, <br />Item No: 8D <br />Meeting Date: May 10, 2021 <br />Type of Business: Council Business <br />Administrator Review: <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Don Peterson, Director of Public Works/Parks and Recreation <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 9427, Installing Netting to the Silver View Baseball <br />Outfield Fence <br />Background: <br />The Parks and Recreation and Forestry Commission as well as Public Works Staff, has <br />received several complaints over the years of softballs hitting the homes, located in the Silver <br />Lake Woods Association located east of the baseball fields, which occurs when there is batting <br />practice on 1 st or V base of the respective fields. <br />The Commission requested Staff obtain proposals for installing netting on top of the 10 foot high <br />chain link fence in the right and left outfields of the ballfields at Silver View Park. <br />Staff received two options from Century Fence of Forest Lake MN as follows: <br />1) Installing a 10' high netting on top of the chain link fence line - 30' on the west fence <br />line and 130' on the east fence line at a cost of $11,675.00 <br />2) Installing a 20' high netting on top of the chain link fence line - 30' on the west fence <br />line and 130' on the east fence line at a cost of $25,915.00 <br />The Commission reviewed the proposals at the March 251", 2021 Parks and Recreation and <br />Forestry Commission Meeting. The Commission voted to move forward with option #2. <br />Strategic Plan Strategy/Goal: Maintain and Plan for Infrastructure Improvements. <br />Financial Impact: No Financial Impact to the 2021 Budget, as funding is in the Park Dedication <br />Fund, 451-4470-7050 for this project. <br />Recommendation: <br />Staff as well as the Parks and Recreation and Forestry Commission recommends approving the <br />quote from Century Fence of Forest Lake for installing netting to the top of the chain link outfield <br />fence line at Silver View Park ballfields for a total of $25,915.00, to be funded from the 2021 Park <br />Dedication Fund, account 451-4470-7050. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Bu <br />Don Peterson, Director of Public Works/Parks and Recreation <br />The Mounds View Vision <br />A Thriving Desirable Community