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BACKGROUND The Parks division has five (5) park maintenance crews and one (1) median, trails and open space crew. The "park" crews are comprised of four to five (4-5) full-time employees that are responsible for all aspects of park maintenance in a geographic area. The "median" crew is comprised of three (2) full-time employees with responsibilities throughout the entire city. Each crew submits quarterly reports of significant maintenance events in their respective areas. This report is a summary of those events. DISCUSSION Routine maintenance activities for the fourth quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2019 included: weekly turf mowing, pesticide applications, mulch installation, tree removal, irrigation system repairs and programming, turf renovation, plant installation, leaf removal, holiday light and decoration installation, vandalism repair, sidewalk grinding, stump grinding, equipment maintenance, sidewalk edging, storm clean-up, and weekly play area safety inspections. The work plan for fourth quarter 2018 and first quarter 2019 is mainly focused on proactive maintenance that prepares the entire park system for the following growing season. The maintenance tasks of this quarter include deep -fine turf aeration of sports turf, installation of 190 trees, installation of 420 cubic yards of organic topdress, installation of 45 tons of baseball infield mix, installation of 415 cubic yards of playground fibar,_sod installation, debris removal in drainage swales and drain capture devices throughout the trail system, drinking fountain winterization, and fertilizer application. Project work for fourth quarter 2018 and first quarter 2019 included: Free Little Library installation at Woodthrush Park, new irrigation clock installation at Cubby's Dog Park, Del Valle Parkway sod installation, new trolley and rail installation at Bernal Community Park. Basketball court re -surfacing at Tennis and Community Park, Meadows Park, and Tawny Park, bike racks at 200 Old Bernal, three new owl boxes in the Lake 1 parcel, raptor perches at Marilyn Murphy Kane trail, gazebo and arbor repainting at Val Vista Community Park and Owens Park, new park monument sign at Meadows -Park, and renovation of six roundabout medians on Laguna Avenue. The City's tree trimming vendor, West Coast Arborist (WCA), completed work in District seven which includes: Del Valle Parkway, Black Avenue and Hopyard Road. They are currently working- in District 8 which includes: Bernal Avenue, First Street, Vineyard Avenue, and Valley Avenue. The street median maintenance contractor, Terra Landscape, Inc., focused their main efforts on regularly scheduled autumn maintenance which includes: median shrub pruning and pre -emergent herbicide applications. Page 2 of 10: