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HomeMy Public PortalAboutPR Dept. Rpt. December 2018Memo / To: City Council From: Kurt Wolf, Parks and Recreation Director CC: Anette Spickard, City Manager Date: 12/19/2018 Re: Monthly Department Report – December 2018 Winter Rec Programs & Registrations The McCall Community Center is pleased with the addition of the 2nd Friday Lunches program. The series was due to end in March; however, they requested we continue the series throughout the summer and fall 2019. The Youth Basketball program currently has 85 youth registered, last year there was 87. A few coaches have requested practices over the winter break, but all team practices will begin the week of January 7. Tri-Valley (Cambridge) requested to join the league. The new MDSD Athletic Director was able to accommodate the last minute addition to the game schedule. All adult leagues came to an end in mid-December, due to lack of available indoor spaces. Indoor soccer had 69 participants, open-gym basketball maintained 10 guys each night, and pickleball brought in 47 registrations. Tara has already begun the classes and programming efforts for the summer activity guide, due to go out to public April 22. She has reached out to a wide-number of community groups (such as McCall Library, MDSD, Arts and Humanities Council, various camps, YAC, and more) to gather their summer activity information to include in the guide. The idea is to provide the public with a community wide guide for recreation and special events in McCall for summer 2019. Special Events The Winter Break Fun- Cascade Day Trip has 7 enrollments for Dec. 28 and 7 enrollments for Jan. 3. Holiday Tree Lighting Event went well and staff is planning to work closely with the Chamber to grow the event for next year and on a plan and funding source to re-string the tree for next year. Parks Overview and Staffing: Facilities have been winterized and Staff will continue to work on punch list maintenance projects as weather permits and begin preparing equipment for snow removal and working on summer equipment repairs and or modifications. Projects include: Picnic tables, equipment paint touch ups, trailer modifications, fabrication, planning, and irrigation system mapping with GIS department. Todd Wheaton and Tyler Padget took it upon themselves to build three picnic tables from recycled old bases that were found in storage. The tables turned out great and will be used at Rotary Park. This project came with significant cost savings over purchasing new tables and they have a great custom look. / Tree Work: Tree work continued into early December which allowed staff top get fully caught up on tree work. Riverfront Park Opportunities: The City has received funding through the DEQ 319 grant to mitigate stream bank erosion. A site visit and meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers and Idaho Department of Water Recourses went well and the permit should be issued the first week of January. Work to lay the bank back above the Ordinary High-Water Mark (OHM) has begun and is going well despite winter conditions. Sediment controls are in place and once the permit is issued the contractor will begin placing rock in the river as per the design and permit specifications. Planting will take place in early spring. Waterfront Improvements North of the Marina & Brown Park: The University of Idaho have begun working on a feasibility study for the event center/boat house concept on the waterfront and permitting is still underway for the dock systems North of the Marina. Staff is working with Delta James on Grant opportunities to further fund site improvements and ADA accessibility on the water front from North of the Marina and throughout Brown Park. The McCall Urban Re-Development Agency voted to fund up to $125,000 in match funds with the IDPR WIF Grant for the non-motorized use area North of the Marina. IDL encroachment permits have been submitted. Bit documents will be developed in January for the project. Central Idaho Historic Museum Site: Staff continues to work with the museum board regarding the future of the site and museum operations. We have re-introduced the potential for the department to relocate to the museum site as plans are formalized with the new Library. These conversations are purely conceptual and so far, they have been very positive. Staff is working with Public works on snow storage and parking agreements with St. Lukes as construction progresses and the future of the site is more accurately defined. Wooley Boardwalk Pathway Connection Survey work and preliminary engineering work are complete. Bid manual is in development and the 404 encroachment permits and mitigation plan have been submitted. Project schedule is yet to be determined but it is still our goal to get it permitted and piers installed this winter with framing scheduled for early to mid-spring and project completion by June 30. Spring Mountain Ranch HOA as shown support, in writing, for planting pollinator species on the site.