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Memo to John Johnson September 1, 1982 Page two additional impact will be placed on indoor facilities. The next question that is raised is how additional residential development will impact the costs for future park systems improve- ments. The obvious response to that is that through the city's current park availability charge which occurs during the subdiv- ision of property; the city receives either a 10 percent land dedication or cash equivalent. Staff feels that the current park availability charge is adequate and it is an equitable and fair way to spread the costs of future park development over the future years. It should be noted that our current park maintenance division is greatly below capacity. We currently have two full time park maintenance men, which are not able to meet the current demands of our park system. Any future development would directly impact park usage which would in turn place a greater demand on our park maintenance staff. In addition to our two full time maintenance men, we have approximately ten summer C.E.T.A. employees which have proved to be invaluable. The ten C.E.T.A. employees which we have had for the past four years re- present approximately $18,000 in staff time and should that program ever dissolve, or be reduced in staff, our department would suffer immeasur- ably due to the loss of their time. Staff also has two part time employees who supervise the summer C.E.T.A. crew which has proven to be adequate in the past summers. Staff cannot stress strongly enough the tremendous impact that the reduction or elimination of the summer C.E.T.A. program would have on our current department as we would be unable to meet many of our current basic maintenance services. II. NUMBER OF STAFF; COSTS OF STAFF We currently have three and one-half full time equivalent employees within our department plus two full time park maintenance men. The full time positions are as follows: Parks and Recreation Director - Bruce Anderson . . ... $ 27,500.00 Program Supervisor - Mary Saarion . . .... ..... 17,197.00 Department Secretary - Sharon Linke ..... .. .. . 12,400.00 City Forester - Richard Wriskey . . . . ... .. .. . 10,200.00 Two park maintenance employees ... . .... .. ... 21,228.00 It should be noted that the salaries that were listed do not include fringe benefits, except for the city forester which is included through his current contractual arrangement. It should also be noted that the city forester is 40 percent time.