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MEMO TO: Parks and Recreation Committee Members FROM: Kim Stephan SUBJECT: Updates DATE: June 27, 2008 Tracie McBride Memorial Park Renovations Update from Mr. Paul Palzer - Friday, June 27, 2008: The work at McBride Park should be completed fully by the meeting. The only items I'm waiting on are the touch up painting and the class 5 gravel near the pump house. I did talk with Harlan about the whirl and he stated the mounting instructions call for installation from 6-18" above the fall protection. We are at 18" if you level out the sand and I questioned him why we were not informed of the height preference and stated his installer only gave us the height of the curbing as their only direction for height. He said that installation instructions should have been sent to City Hall weeks prior to the delivery and I know that both Andy and I called him to receive those instructions prior to the equipment delivery, but never received them. Hidden Spring Park Mr. Mark Statz, City Engineer requested adding an item under updates regarding the rain garden draw-down test. He stated Mr. Palzer would have a memo summarizing the results of the test for the committee to review. Mr. Palzer emailed the following update: Monday, June 23, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. Chris Long (Bonestroo) and I filled the rainwater garden to the overflow outlet level. The weather was dry for two days and when I observed the rainwater garden on Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. and it was dry except for a small amount of water near the inlet that is lined with rocks and creates a small pool. The rainwater garden appears to meet the new rule of 48 hours for filtering and the plants that are located in the garden appear to be doing well. The following update was from Mr. Dallas Larson following the Wednesday, June 25, 2008 City Council meeting: The Council approved the Hidden Spring Park shoreline work, which was designed by Greg Thompson and will be constructed by Natural Shore Technologies, Inc. Mr. Thompson will monitor the construction and Bonestroo will drop to the background, except to pay for the work.