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EXHIBIT "B" FIELD MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT 1. The Parks and Recreation Department (City) shall create and maintain all necessary turf areas on the fields to include mowing, fertilizing, herbicide treatment and irrigation. 2. The City shall perform all pre-season turf maintenance to include ag lime, sand, soil, etc. to be used in leveling or backfilling low areas when deemed necessary. 3. The City shall maintain all goals, fences, bleachers and gates in a safe and secure condition. 4. The school shall inspect the playfield and appurtenances to ensure conditions are safe for use; and prohibit play if any concerns are noted. The school shall notify the City promptly upon discovery of an unsafe condition. 5. The City shall provide and maintain all area and field lighting systems (when applicable). 6. The City shall be responsible for the maintenance of any irrigation system and watering schedules of turf areas. 7. The School shall be responsible for daily school day policing of all litter on the field(s) used by the School to include playing areas, dugouts, fences, backstops, bleachers, and adjacent grounds. All litter shall be disposed of in the School's dumpster, unless receptacles have been provided by the City. This litter policing shall include any restrooms or facilities used by the School. 8. There will be no storage of any equipment at the Park. 9. The School shall be prohibited from performing any maintenance to any turf or field areas without written permission from the City. 10. Nothing in this agreement shall prevent or dissuade the School from collaborating with the City on athletic field investments and improvements, like the on-going collaboration between the City and the Anoka Ramsey Athletic Association. E.g. the City may agree to core aerate the School's football field with City forces and equipment, following the School's application of topdressing on its football field and any athletic field in the Park. 11. The School shall submit requests for field use and athletic field maintenance on the City of Ramsey's on-line reservation system before the start of each season for games and practices. 12. Further, the dated annual Addendum referenced in paragraph XXII of the FIELD USE AND LIMITED CROSS-PARKING AGREEMENT may supersede details in this FIELD MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT,or prescribe additional maintenance activity between the City and the School. E.g. the intention of the City to sweep parking lots at the School annually, at the time the Park driveways and parking lots are swept in the Spring. 8