Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 08/12/1999

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City of Ramsey 15153NOWTHEN BOULEVARD N.W., RAMSEY, MINNESOTA 55303 PHONE (612) 427-1410 FAX (612) 427-5543 TDD (612) 427-8591 July 29, 1999 Mr. Timothy A. Burns 14391 Potassium St. NW Ramsey, MN 55303 Dear Timothy: This correspondence is intended to address concerns detailed in your letter I received on July 26, 1999, which included a request for response and forwarding to City Council. The following summarizes the response to the attached letter. The letter states that the 1999 field maintenance was shabbier than any of the t~rior seven years. In 1995, the City increased the level of service to the Ramsey Youth Athletic Association (RYAA) with the addition of a park keeper stationed at Central Park each weekday. His primary activity was softball, baseball and soccer field maintenance. In 1996, this commitment was increased to two individuals, and continued into 1999. For 'each day we had notice there would be a game, the ag lime infield was drug with our ballfield maintaince machine and the infield striped with chalk. ~ .,. Since 1995, the hours spent on service to RYAA has steadily increased. In 1997, 1,638 hours were extended solely for athletic field maintenance. This represents 13% of the entire year's total activity for all persons serving the utility and park functions, and does not include mowing of ball field development. The 1999 dollar estimate for labor related to RYAA field maintenance (not including equipment, fuel, materials and overhead) is $15,560. Relative to the fields being "very rarely ever marked or raked," the only instances where the fields were not maintained on a daily basis were on a rain day. Because the park-keeper's hours are from the afternoon into the evening, if the rain subsided, leaving the fields in playable condition, they were drug and limed at that time.