2012 Budget - South Suburban Parks and Recreation

South Suburban Park and Recreation District
Mission and Goals
Parks and Natural Open Space Department (continued)
Accomplishments (continued)
• The GIS team working with the Horticulture staff created and posted an interactive map
of the War Memorial Rose Garden on the SSPR website.
• The Forestry and Horticulture Teams completed the renovation of the native garden at the
Carson Nature Center vastly improving the beauty and interpretive value of this highly
visible site.
• The Carson Nature Center’s Native Garden was re-established to be instructive for home
landscapes along with the establishment of an outdoor presentation with native sod by the
Carson Nature Center classroom.
• A river access pier and lake handicap fishing pier were built in South Platte Park.
• South Platte Park’s operations and the Carson Nature Center were reorganized under one
division and one supervisor for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
• Revenues exceeded projections for both Nature and Outdoor Recreation programming
through mid-year. It is anticipated that revenues will exceed projects for both Nature and
Outdoor programs by the end of the year.
• South Platte Park has a Facebook following of over nine hundred fifty people.
• South Platte Park’s public news and volunteer updates have gone to an electronic
newsletter format.
• The Nature Center Program successfully led a safe and financially successful trip to
Panama.
• The Outdoor Recreation Program utilized in-house archery instruction during 2011 which
resulted in a savings of $750 over contracting the classes.
• Trips and Tours programs continue to generate good participation interest and revenue
including a new Utah hiking trip in the spring of 2011.
• A fence was installed on both sides of the Easter underpass at the Big Dry Creek Trail to
prevent accidents at the drop off area.
• Perennial ruts and muddy conditions at the Foxridge Trail at Foxridge Park were
corrected by expanding the entryway to the trail by utilizing new asphalt.
• Athletic field renovations were performed on thirty-eight fields including nearly seventynine
thousand square feet of sod and over four thousand pounds of seed.
• Dugouts were improved and enlarged at the baseball field at Gallup Park.
• Infields on baseball fields were improved with new soil at Gallup, Bowles, Prairie Sky,
Puma and Writers Vista.
• Irrigation crews repaired forty-three main breaks, replaced fourteen backflow devices due
to theft or replacement, upgraded seven irrigation system controllers, performed an inhouse
upgrade to the irrigation system at TrailMark and replaced the booster pump at
Taylor Park.
• The Disc Golf at the David A. Lorenz Regional Park was re-designed to accommodate
the construction of the new Service Center. This included relocating five tee pads and
eight baskets.
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