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PARK OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TEAM MEETING NOTES

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: June 17 – 23, 2024


Community Parks (Darcey Rayner Shepard for Andrew Lauritzen)
All Community Parks: Made a variety of purchases
Grass Lawn:
Brush control and pruned trees on back trail
Worked on tree circles
Created new shrub bed near 70th Street parking lot
Graded area at new park bench location with new soil
Groomed and ran magnet on synthetic fields
Shrub bed maintenance
Turf maintenance and edged the park
Hartman:
Painted chalk shed
Touch up painting on score booths on fields 2 and 4
Pruned trees between fields 1 and 2
Pressure washed fence caps and scoreboard on field 1
Blew and partially groomed fields 5 and 6
Secured stair treads on Dow score booth stairs
Changed door lock codes at Dow field
Added sand and infill to fields 5 and 6 areas where separation is occurring
Dirt delivery to Bike Park
Prepped maintenance needs for upcoming Little League tournament
Perrigo:
Mowed, trimmed, edged, and blew park and trail
Applied fresh chips on tree circles
Cut back and trimmed shrubs in parking lots and along fence lines
Replaced four basketball nets
Pruned trees around shelter
Cleaned and unclogged drinking fountain at playground
Graded volleyball court
Sprayed a few wasp nests
Other:
Delivered arborist chips and soil to Grass Lawn
Trained new seasonal employee



Preventative Maintenance & Water Management (Heath Uncapher)
Preventative Maintenance:
Hartman – reinforced staircase on Dow Field
Sunset Gardens and Spiritbrook – pressure washed
Grass Lawn – repaired dugout welding
Farrel-McWhirter – blew parking lot
Picked up order from Metal Supermarket in Everett
Multimeter training (online webinar)
Water Management:
Idylwood and RCCMV – installed new controller
Nike Park and Union Hill – investigated issues (from lightning strike?)
188th – repaired mainline
Acquired a demo battery controller that will eventually link to IQ4
Systemwide
locates
continued going through systems making repairs, adjustments, and mapping zones in IQ4

Horticulture & Downtown Park (Ian McFeron)
Horticulture:
Watered ornamental pots at Public Works Admin, Teen Center, Facilities, and RCCMV
Fertilized Cleveland Street hanging baskets
Public Safety Building
mowed and line trimmed large raised bed on top of gun range on the east side of the building
shoveled out all vegetative material in bed at the northeast entrance to the back parking lot and mulched
hand weeded and mulched bed along the sidewalk entrance at northeast corner of building
trimmed Indian hawthorn away from path and cut down volunteer salmonberry
site visit to formulate a work plan
Westside
completed hand weeding all beds
mulched all beds and tree rings
Teen Center – maintained perennial flowers (hellebores and columbine)
MOC Nursery – deadhead dianthus and armeria and watered all plants
Cascade View – began hand weeding and mulching all beds and tree rings
Downtown Park:
Check park, Redmond Central Connector, Cleveland Street, and O’Leary Plaza for garbage
Facilities support
Mowed, edged, trimmed
Pressure washed hardscapes (ongoing)
Redmond Central Connector core (164th to 161st) – shrub bed maintenance 
Splash Pad - tested water daily and performed maintenance
Installed storage mounts for 8’ overhead watering wand and hose and reorganized shop shelving to make space for 40-gallon tank
Other:
Matt S performed mineral bin management
Tested mini-watering tank
Vehicle inspections

Urban Forestry (Chris Tolonen)
Watershed Preserve:
Routine facilities support
Main Parking Lot – completed pressure washing around parking stops
Street Trees:
Watered several street trees
40th Street at 150th – pruned tree for bus clearance per QAlert
Parks:
Farrel-McWhirter
planted donated Christmas tree in canopy increase area
worked on pruning up service drive trees
Nike and Other Locations – storm clean up from tree and tree part failures
Trails:
Conducted systemwide brush control (ongoing)
Bear Creek Trail – pulled and bagged poison hemlock
Green Redmond Partnership: watered a few selected sites
Other:
Chris worked on City-wide Risk Assessment project
Responded to several tree and trail related QAlerts


Facilities Support & Turf Maintenance (Scott Van De Vanter)
Facility Support:
Systemwide facilities support
Nike – replaced pickleball net
Idylwood – groomed beach and volleyball court
Turf Maintenance: systemwide mowing
Facilities Repair & Farrel-McWhirter (Alan Reznick)
Farrel-McWhirter:
Support, turf, and horticulture maintenance
Repaired dryer
Repaired electric fence
Removed windows from small animal barn
Extensive brush control
Trail maintenance
Arena maintenance
Began water restoration to arena area
Fencing project continued
Service shelter tank
Arranged service road repairs 
Downtown Park: repaired sink in restroom
Hartman:
Repaired leak in Little League concession
Repaired security lighting


Facilities: (Troy Jammerman for Scott Anderson)
Fire Station 11: 
Reattached cabinet face in dorm room 7
Converted lights to LED in maintenance closet off apparatus bay 
Roto Rooter out for plumbing warranty
Fire Station 13: repaired kitchen faucet
Fire Station 14:  
Replaced kitchen faucet
Unclogged men’s bath sink
Replaced missing eyewash attachment in apparatus bay
Installed new sign
Fire Station 17: Restrung six front apparatus bay door’s emergency pull cords
MOCPK: 
Replaced eyewash station in garage
Schlindler repaired elevator
MOCPW: reattached roof panels on building 6
Pool: met with Valley Fabricators to assess broken pool tiles
Public Safety Building: 
Hung plaque in Command Staff hallway
Installed faraday locker in Evidence  
Installed wooden bases on benches in women’s locker room
Clogged pipes contractor bid replacement
Upgraded gun range exhaust fan motor overloads
Completed pipe insulation in east roof
Redmond Community Center @ Marymoor Village:
Patched holes in wall and painted in front office
ATS quarterly controls
Schindler repaired elevator
Repaired leaking hydronic line in staff room ceiling
Researched and acquired pump parts 
Redmond Senior & Community Center:
Removed two sign holders on classrooms 139 and 142
Hung name plates on three offices
Hung first aid kit in catering kitchen area off of red Oak Room
Repaired women’s bathroom faucet
Systemwide: continued checking out keys


Meetings:
All Department picnic attended by all staff
Scott V and Alan prepped for Derby Days


Training:
SDS attended by Ben
Respiratory Protection and Silica Awareness attended by Matt Mc
Emotional Intelligence attended by Alan
Onboarding trainings attended by Sophia