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` � � PARK DTdISION MONTHLY R:EP.ORT JANUARY 1978 The heavy rains during the month curtailed the routine mairrtenance �of the park areas due to saturated soil conditions making it nearly impossible to operate motorized equipment in t he parks. Maintenance crews continued with the routine park sanitation tasks and initiated some winter pruning in the shrub bed areas. Rains, however, did offer an opportunity to catch up with several projects which were set aside for inclement wea�her projects which could be accomplished undercover at the Municipal Service Center. Such tasks as the repair and painting of picnic tables and play apparatus, the construction of shelving and storage cabinets for supplies, improvement of the housekeeping of the materials and supplies at the Pool warehouse, and the catching up with deferred maintenance on some of the equipment are typical of some of t�re jobs completed. Additionally, several drainage problems which became evident in the parks were corrected. Rainy weather also offered an opportunity to enroll several of the Park Maintenance personnel in special training classes sponsored by the University of California Cooperative Extension Service which resulted in the certification of the employees to handle pesticides and herbi- cides. One Tree Trimmer and six Gardener/Caretakers attended these courses. The Facility Maintenance crews supplemented their regular work requests with a variety of special projects including the replacement of restroom roof at Hawes Park with a new composition roof, the replacement of concrete benches which were stolen from Wellesley Crescent Park, and the repainting of the renovated filtration system at the swimming pools. The crews also initiated the refurbishing of the structures on Broadway whieh were installed as a part of the downtown beautification. The four kiosks were in need of electrical repair and the repair of all of the doors. The kiosks, together with the benches, bicycle stands, and newspaper stands, will be painted as a part of this refurbishing program. January's severe storms kept the Street Tree Section extremely busy responding to reports of priority storm damage. Crews answered 53 separate work requests on storm related problems and responded to 6 emergency callback situations at the request of the Police and Fire Departments. In addition to their normal workload, the Forestry crews also completed block pruning assignments on the 1300 block of Alameda, the 1600 biock of Anamor, the 1200 block of Windsor Way, the 3700 block of Rolison Road, the 1100 block of King Street, the 1100 block of Adams Street, the 900 block of 7th Avenue, the 500 block of Elm Street and Wayne Court East. The crews also continue with their dormant season sycamore pruning project. -9-