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MEMO 10: Committee for Parks and Recreation FROM: Mary Saarion, Acting Director Parks, Recreation and Forestry DATE: November 5, 1986 RE: Parks Maintenance Proposal I am auare of the proposal submitted by New Brighton Parks and Recreation Director Maurle Anderson. Since park maintenance has always been a challenge in the City Of maintenance withothesCityuoflNewnBright Buess rat the ighton attracvproposal for shared park to add to my insmeans ity park maintenance as well as discussissuespertaingto theNeu Brightonproposal. The one element that Mounds Vleu lacks in park maintenan a is a specifically anwo Is apars fremn; one who is ndkoneowhoa has vision forabeautifulpparks. I believe attuned no thatwehavesucheaests person on payroll now. Rick Uriskey, City Forester, is a 2/5 time employee she+ed with the City of Neu Brighton. Mr. Wriskey has excellent qualities for a Park Foreman. A survey was conducted by myself as to the number of surrounding cities that employee persons uhose only duties are forestry. Only two out Of 13 surrounding cities employ such a single duty pc:ttion. All other tree inspectors have other duties such as park maintenance, Superintendent of Public Works, street personnel, Maintenance Director, and other. It is a luxury to have Richard Uriskey as sole forester for our small City. I feel that the City can benefit two -fold by promoting Mr. Uriskey to Parks Foreman to include supervision of Parks maintenance as well as perform tree inspections. With the supervision of parks maintenance, I am Uriskey couldnfident sprovidewill ethenupgrade leadershipnnecessarycfor themjcbnduty. that Rick he iThs slforradditionalldutiescassigned atoiRichard Wriskey, asepromoted T sal ost any to Parks Foreman. This salary information will give you an idea of current compensations: The Forester's icurrent full-tibenefitsme salary Mounds View and Neu Brighton i$ The Forester has been employed for the City of Mounds View on a 2/5 time joint powers agreement for seven (7) years. To keep this information in perspective, let me give you figures on the bProgram enefits ore $13.81/perohour. This temployee has s salary rbeen ywith Is $the 7City for 25.13 cIncluding ten (10) years and is a full-time employee. It is my opinion that additional job duties given to the Forester need not Include a pay raise due to the fact that the wage structure is high in ComparablenWorthtstudies. u(This aexcludes dany dadjustments higher or adetermined qual to anton and to oher Jobshich by the Comparable Work heirarchy).