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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1964 - 1965 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ANNUAL MAINTENANCE REPORT » 1 ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT 12 SUMMER SPECTAL EVENTS » 19 I ACTIVITY REPORT ON NUYOHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS 20 I CONTRACTOR'S SHARE OF TOTAL EXPENDITURES (NYC) 2 I ! SWIMMING POOL RECEIPTS . 24 fff ; 25 r a HICKORY CREEK CONCESSION REPORT MCKENNA PARK TRUST FUND 26 BOND EXPENDITURES AND OBLIGATIONS 27 1 ' f j 'j 1 I ' l rsF `L~ ANNUAL. RPPORT PARKS AND RECREATION DRNARTmEN'f DENTON9 MASS 1964-65 ANNUAL MAINTENANCE REPORT E CITY PARKS blAiNTENANCE; Due. to the acquisition of two new city parks, the existing city parks did not ' receive as ouch attention as they have in the past. A good deal of time and energy j were spent on bringing the new parks up to some sort of standard as far as under- j growth being cleared away and mowing being done as soon as possible. We had quite e bit of trouble with the Civic Center Park, our old City Park, due to continuous construction in the park during the spring and summer, The large sewer line j instailatior took apart of the bandahell which will have to be torn down as soon as poyafble. Construction of the swimming pool caused the area around it to become aome~-that scarred and needed quite a bit of repair. Removal of the ball diamonds caused a problem as far as beautification and maintenance were concerned in this one park. We had the same problems as we have had before with the other existing I parka and that being lack of water In order to maintain our shrubs, grass) and trees. / Probably this is the poorest skimter maintenance Sob that we have done, but tae had ? to extend ourselves to complete the construction scheduled before the summer ended. We cleaned a number of our blight areas late in the summer by using the Neighbor- hood Youth Corps rnrollesa.' These young men helped ua tremendously in trying, to f catch up on some of our basic ground clearing work. Many of our trees in our city parka were diueased and in a poor state of growth, lacking for proper repair, and therefore removed for our winter work achedule, This of course would help us a groat deal even though we haven't been able to replace these trees at the present time. ~1) vA t 2 Water ^Sys_tems The inadequacy of our water systems still remains as our number one problem even though when our two now park's water mains were installed at the outset of construction. The ball diamond areas have complete syntema and are showing the evidence of the water through evident grass growth and soil maintenance, We feel that until. we have adequate systems in all of our existing parks, we will continue to ; I have a maintenance problem. As far as shrubs, flowers, grass, and trees are f concerned, rainfall in this area is not enough to give us the type of park development that will bring us up to par standards. We lost several of our shrubs i F and smaller trees this summer during a dry July simply because of inadequate water supply, and additional activities did not allow us proper watering time even from the small inch and three-quarter inch outlets. t Ball Diamond Maintenance This probably should be called ball diamond construction, for much of the year was spent in actual construction of four new baseball diamonds E and the razing and complete renovation of the four old diamonds that were in the City park. Many of these diamonds were not completed until the middle of the softball and baseball season Consequently, our grass did not come into shape until mid-August when the season had finished. We had to use the Fred Moore ' diamonds for actual league play for the first time this year, and the short f funcea and inadequate lights made this somewhat of a trial. The new lights that were built with Our new diamonds are excellent, and will probably serve us better , than any in the area. Wd were able to build higher fences and more adequate spectator areas so that maintenance can be helped due to traffic on the playing area being kept to a minimum. The water systems have helped make this A most . i successful undertaking, We have planted grans again during the latter part of f the summer at our fields and at the present time are benefiting by its growth. 1 eI - s kw i 3 We feel that by May or June of next year that we will have attractive fields with good turf, which will insure our players and our spectators of attractive and safe playing conditions. We were able to save and use only one of the backstops and fencing located on the old City Nark for the barieball diamonds, We did, however, use all our fencing from those diamonds on thr, new lavers park on the north aide of town as the property line iuncing so that none of it was wasted. j Maintenaneo of Turf It was evident from the beginning that our park soil was deficient of necessary mineral content. Soil tests last year showed both sandy 1 and clay land found in our parks in dire need of both limestone and sulphur applications or some other mtnoraIR bl Huitn e to the need, We purchased some commercial fertilizers ire order to try to stabilize our soil condition and to insure good root growth for our grass, We used it very hardy grass seed, but even it will not take hold unless adequate water was available. Also, the large amount of heavy soil or clay soil where the ph proved to be as high in some places as 8.0 dried out so rapidly that we needed some sort of organic compound to nutrilize and loosen the soil. In all beds and shrub areas we added quite a bit of organic fertilizer which we obtained from farms and ranches around the Area, At the present, wo are stockpiling as much organic material as pass. -e that can be used this winter Lo be spread on our parks and give us some sort of soil mixture that would hold the water and give us a good surface for our turf, for our shrubs and flowers, if upon completition of the new treatment plant we may be able to insure the use of sludge for future use. This of course would help us both j i physically and financially, Flower and Shrub Program This was probably the poorest summer for our flower and shrub program because of the activity in building the now parks and the new I athletic fields. We did, however, solicit the help of the city garden clubs and i each one of them took a small aroa of either the street medians, circles or triangles, or a portion of our parks to beautify and establish a flower program, f F- a l i I.f `.~A 4 All the clubs in town with the exception of three, actually put their program into effect, We think that this helped us a groat deal in beautifying the areas mentioned. Some of them have excellent planning and design and wo feel like that this next year the other clubs will be able to get their programs off the ground and we can have tho eype of competition that will be most colorful, Some of the plants that we planted last summer, expecially our flowers and rose bushes I have survived and will give us some color through the cool fall months, T'ho t oryaanthemums seem to have survived very well .tn several areas. Our pruning I of the shrubs and trees went: on through the winter as it always has. bloat of our shrubs and trees remain quite healthy, In the areas where there was construe- i j tion going on early caused tie to lose some of our evergreens, especially our very I old ceder trees, The cedars iu the city park seamed to be suffering the most, 1 Within the next few years they will be replaced. There is no way to determine the age of these trees, and the new design promoted for the Civic Center will cause some of them to be destroyed. The biggest problem as always was an inadequate water system through a dry July and August, ` NULl,U1MU MAii1T't;NANC~ The only buildings that are principally maintained by this department is a small domino hall in the City Park and small outbuildings and rentrooms on our parkin along with the nwimnrittg pool, These were kept in passsbie repair, and were clean, but are totally inadequate for public use. Shrubs, flowern and turf, are i ` naturally kept around any building on our city parks. A mayor repair item on f these buildings most, of the time seem to be plumbing, Pl. aygtound FqulNment The majority of our playground equipment, especially in j the city park is old and outdated, Much of this has already beet torri. down and i will not be moved anywhere but will be replaced, This is both for aafaty and attractiveness,, Where the street ties been cut through the Civic center park, the trarfic runs directly by the playground area, This would not make a safe area for i 1. R xi f~ y t t 5 the children to play, The Fred Moore Park had to have some of its equipment completely removed. Some of the playground equipment used near the nursery was being donated to them and was in poor repair and had to be removed and discarded for safety sake. Turf areas around these apparatus were constantly having to i be in repair. In the summer, some of our playground supervisors did good jobs with inspection of all playground apparatus on our parks and reported any equipment F needing repair at once, This preventitive action helped us more than anything else in keeping our playground equipment up to par, i ~ t Tennis Court Main_tonnnec Our two batteries of tennis courts, Prod Moore and Civic Center park were not in top condition even though the Civic Center park I I courts were muc bettor than last year. Now nets bought last year and covers purchased this your made these courts much better for instruction and play, We had to do some trimming and cleaning around the areas as far as vegetation was 4 conoornad, but on Vred Moore there was quite a bit of repair having to be done on the backstops and terminal posta, We feel liks that next year either we will have to completely revamp the Fred Moore tennia court area or build some other courts in other parts of town, for theae courts are overrun with players HICKORY CR K PARK MAINTENANCL+! r Restroom and Trash Ileeepticla Contract This contract was awarded to Mr. I;. L. Calvert again this season. iffe crews have boon doing a good job since they began on June 1, Ilia contract terminates on tleptember 30, 1965 and from ! there on it will be a maintenance problem of our city department. We usually send a crew of men down twice a week In the winter to check oil restroom cleanliness I I I and trash recepticlas being in an adequate place, Also, we have to mow around tho rostrooms, Mr, Culvert's contract required him to do this typ of thing, Ilia I j familiarity with p4alr days in the lake parks in the summer such as weekends, holidays and so forth enabled him to anticipate crowds and keep the areas around the reatrooms quite clean, I , t ' ~H 1 ea 6 Mowing Contract Mr, Calvert also was awarded the mowing contract for the season, This is mowing on all right-of-way and cleared areas in the park at least once a month, The dry July and August weather made this a good deal easier and only two mowings were necessary during this time, The large garbage pit was cleaned and re-dug before the season by Mr. Hundley, our concessionaire, and this has served the park well. The lake Dallas residents, however, used this pit also i and this has caused quite a problem In the past. The land that was being cleared during the latter part of the season by the NYC will make this mowing contract a 1 larger item next summer and will be more noticable, CONCESSIq 1011AIR6 ti61N1'LNANCCt i I In accordance with cur contract, each concessionaire is responsible for the mowing and trash removal and road repair Mr. Hundley of the Hickory Creek Marina has fulfilled this responsibility very well. Mr. Whatley and Mr. Arrington of the now Fishing Barge have dome more with their area as far as maintenance is concerno(i I Lhan they have In the past, The move of the fishing barge over to an area close ' ! by the marina made this a little easier for them.- Dur biggebt problem is the road used by both the marina and the fishing bnrgo being maintained, We have quite a few washouts and nearby residonta use this road as an access road to Lheir property, I C 1,14 GTSHt _MA1.NTh;NANCG: ' I AO,F, and Oakwood Cemeteries These two arena caused probably the i greatest hoadarhos because. of the amount of time used in maintenance. These faeLlltiiea ~ r take more man hours than anything also that we do main tonancotiise in the whole i deparimont. l d ) 7 Because of the limited space caused by the size of the lots, only the small mowers can be used in cutting grass. Much of the time is always spent in filling graves, straighteuing head stones, and trimming curbs. The new arrangement of allowing the funeral homes to secure someon- to uncover and cover graves through a contract has helped a great deal, as we use to have to do this ourselves, _ Swimming Pool Maintenance This year was the first year for our ne4 swimming 'pool i E and we were able to put a full time man at the pool during the season, This man spent I f most all. day working inside the area and on the backside of the berm attending planter boxes, grass areas, Shrubs that were planted generally consumed most of the day in watering. We feel that this will be necessary mach summer from around the first of May I until the labt of A..ugust, Otherwise the maintenance of the pool area will be put in the regular winter work schedule. Once again we were able to use NYC workers to finish our berm by placing the large rocks,whtch we had moved in from our two new parkslon the f backside in order to hold the soil. This would have taken a great deal of time if we i had had to have done it with our present crew, I i ( PRUPOSRD IMPIl VklscNTS AND MAI UNNANCM FOR 1965-66 1 Community Construction This top priority facility we hope to have completed by October 1, 1966, and we are hoping that conetruction can begin around January 1, 1966, Because of iture of the Benign and topography, it great deal of earth work will have to be none before any trees or shrubs can be planted, This will be planned to follow ! along with the design of the building. Water Syttem Proposed construction of underground water aystams for all parka in the city with the possible exception of the new park on the 5outhridge addition is planned for this winter, This is the number one ca»i Cal improvement to be undertaken by the Parke and,Necreatton bepArtment, The McKenna Trust Fund i® of ample size now that the basic mains for that system can be inutallod. I am quite sure that the mains for, the Civic Center Park can go as far as the cemented crock area starting from Withers af:reet south, On NeUe Shultz, the underwater main will probably run adjacent to the creek, s:. F to p$;~ q 8 We will have to have two connections; One on the north and one on the south. On Fred Moore Park the ,ame thing will prevail, with a main on the side next to the Youth Center Building and the side in annex to the cemetery. The two now parks, Denta and Evers, already have mains completed with the exception of Evers which lacks only a few hundred feet. These of course will be extended and completed with lateral lines, risers and coupling valves, We will be able to use some of the 2" pipe that had been bought years ago and stored at the power plant for , lateral lines, and all of our mains will he of cask iron as they were this past j summer when we installed them in the new parka, All quick coupling valves used i { in replacing the old water hydrants in the parks can be used in the new systems, i anrITshould like to note that without the necessary water systoms, our parka will f t i conttnuo to be unattractive to the public during the height of the sun er season E which is quite dry. This f proposed improvement will have priority over all of E the capital improvements other than that of the Community Building. _Ball Diamond Construction The four ball dlamonds which already have been built will continue to be maintained and manicured during the winter months in order to have them ready for spring. The lights on the north Little Leaguo park, Evers, have not been errected. This should be done sometime in mid-winter when the soil is must firm. Water will continue to be put on these parks all through the winter when woather permits in order to insure good root growth. There is very little (r repair that we think that will have to be done this winter in order to get these parks ready for the baseball and softball season. I + i t~ round Equi Men g--- The first order of playground equipment should be in Denton { ! sometime around the first of November, All now equipment will go to the Civic. Center park and a combination type of playground equipment will go to the Prod Moore Park near "'a Youth Center, which in used through the school term as a nursery. We plan 4o curb all existing playground apparatus and all the new apparatus playground areas, anI fill this inside area with sand for safety and preventive maintenance. i; 9 Nette Shultz equipment will, have some replacements as far as teeter-totters are concerned. The new parks, until we have water systems and are able to plant our grass and manicure the areas, will not have playground equipment, The new equipment will go on Fred Moore, the Civic Center Perk, and on Netts Shultz. The playground equipment that is already in use will be repaired and painted as it r~ always hag been. i I Swimming, Pool Maintenance We have a list of guidelines for maintenance of our swimming pool during the off season as far as the facilities are concerned such as the pool., the bathhouse, restroonts, shower rooms and so forth. We also will include the ground care in with the other maintenance program for the winter i schedule. We were able to put this into effect a little earlier than most of the j other things because wo closed the pool in mid-September. There will have to be i I some maintenance every six weeks or so on the filters. There will have to be continual maintenance on the dock areas and, constant check on vandalism, Other than that we think that our maintenance for the swimming pool will be quite limited, j i f up until time for preparation of the opening of our second season, GENRRAL GROUND MATNTLNANChr parks The pruning of trees and shrubs and the improvement of our soil content are the first in the phase of the winter work schedule for next year's program, As much organic matter as can be obtained will be spread and mixed with our park turf, Also, flower and shrub beds will be conditioned and extended for the wi.nrer. We have adequate pruning equipment for the first time and have already begun our winter pruning program. We have two experienced men from lee`: year and can stay busy as long as the weather permits. T.f we have a wet fall., wo can expect good grass all the way through December mainly because we had a late fertilizing program which took place in August, We will probably have to raise the height of our cuts of the grass in order to let it keep some of its moisture, The planting and seeding j will be done as time permita both in flower beds and shrubs and grass areas, t i3 `T In We will spend a great deal of time preparing the new ball diamonds for the spring growing season, It is most important: that we finish our fourth ball diamond tight- Ing so that we can improve It turf. This has held us up so far, Fred Moore and the two new parks need quite a bit of grass planting but it would be foolish to do this until we have adequate water, L_?$hkin& in City Parka All of our city parks are poorly lighted with the exception I of the two new ball diamond areas. By working with our electric department we fool 3 1 that many of these old units now in use can be removed and an adequate park lighting system will be installed before next summer., Some of these areas are quire dark I r , and we don't get enough use of of them after sundown. Of course at the height of the summer season, this is the only time of day that it is possible to be out, T think we will have a real problem not only with vandalism but also with danger to some citizens unless we can more adequately light our "toting parks, T think f something should be done about the lighting this winter, j ilowepr~o~r As 1 mentioned bafora, new beds will be built and conditioned this winter and we have allowed In the budget some money for flowers and shrubs I for our spring, summer) and fall season. And because we thought that this would not be enough for all our traffic media, the combined garden clubs of Denton are putting their program into effect, which will supplement our beautifying program, / The new lurk Superintendent has already been alerted to this and we will work closely with him and try to extend this as far as Possible. Again, we moat furnish these people water, and see that all areas are well watared, i Hiekor Creek Im ravemonts We made probably the biggest strides in bcautifica- 1 ` tion and Improvements at hickory Creek Park this summer by using the NYC workers, ~ I4 1 We eleared approximately 70 acres of underbrush and small shrubs and trees and used it bulldozer for earth work, We filled in two tanks and generally cleaned up the entrance area as far back as the first marina, This winter, if weather permits, we intend to send our city crews down to the park to finish cleaning tip, f ll Next summer if we are able to do something similar to this, we will push further into the park until we have cleared out all the underbrush in the area and make the area available to hikers, campers, picnics and so forth, We feel as though this would not ruin the naturalness of the park for it would give it a good deal more use. Swiotning Pool The biggest job we will have at the swimming pool this wint,x { will be the installation of a drain to put in the berm area to take excess water i out of the pool area down into the park, We don't think this will take much time as we have already purchased our tile and our graval is available to us, This i would be a good cold weather job especially after this area is dried up and can E j i be easily ditched, Some plants and shrubs will be p}onted durl.ng the cool months i k and some trees will be replaced, We only lost titres or four trees out of the fifty that were planted, i I ' j ~ l} I f i I l 3 ANNUAL ACTIVITY RHPORT PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT DCNTON, TV-KAS 1965-66 in the early spring a brochure was delivered to the scheols, the City of Denton, ~r and distributed to each child, This brochure explained in detail the planned summer recreation program; The following report will not only include actual E program participation, orp,anization and execution, but also findings and recommendations for the winter program as well as the summer program. SWIMMING pROGRAM This program was the highlite program for the summer, that is, it is the one with which we gained the most notoriety mainly because of the opening of our new swimming pool. We opened the pool each day at 1130 p.m. and closed each evening at 9!00 p,m, We opened before school was out on may 15, and during school days we only used two or three hours a day during the week i and then on weekends opened on the regular 1.-.30 to 9100 schedule, Also we initiated reservations during the nights that it wag closed for eiubs, school parties, and go forth, The Parks and Recreation Board established a group of rules and regulations regarding amount of reservation fees, time, administration, and of course supervision. We put this plan into effect at the beginning of the pool opening. ( ( Our learn to swim program was much larger than last year and we did not have to borrow pools since we have one of our own now. It reached over 700 children for 2 sessions. These classes began qt 8:00 a,m. in the morning end finished by 12100 noon, We felt like that we probably had a great number of repeaters I from last year, and we were able to offer a larger number of advanced classes, Also for eight concoutivo weeks we ran a two hour night class for Boy scout groups from BsOO to 10100 on Monday nights, We reached about 90 boys and helped them with their advanced swimming and water safety courses. <r 5A !9 r F t 13 The pool was so designed that we could handle a great deal more students than we have in the past. Our problem was not lack of room or students, but as before, lack of insi:ructors. We only had two paid instructors in the beginning and had to add more before the season was half underway, Also, mid-way through June we organized our first swimming club for competition. Due to the success of the first Annual Denton Aqua Games, we feel that we should be able to host a much larger and more attractive meet; so at the T.A.A,F. meeting in San Antonio we issued a bid for the state T, A, A, F, Swimming and Diving meet, This meet will be one of the largest in the i South because the T, A. A, F. voted on new rules which will provide more classed, and the size of the meet will require three full days for:completion, Since we have the f only Municipal Pool that has SO meters in length and adequate lanes, we feel that we can host an outstanding meet, We helped to rewrite the rules because we felt the necessity for age group swimming. Our swim club competed in several. meets in the { area and then acted as the host team for our Aqual Gaines, which was an all-comers meet, We expected only a few teams but had some thirty teams and over 322 participants, The meet lasted from early in the morning at 8;00 until 10130 that evening. This was probably the moat surprising and most successful of all our special summer activities, 9aseba3.1 This is the largest program overall in the city, There were 24 little I~ league teams, 12 teenage teams, 1 American Leigon team, 1 Connie Mack team and two independent teams that played baseball on our five diamonds this summer, There was alwayo confusion because we were trying to build new diamonds and had to tear down the old ones iu order to use some of the equipment, 't'hese diamonds were not fi.ntahed in time to begin the season and some of them hadto play on temporary fields the rest of the year. We did, howover, get on the South park in mid-,tune so these people could I finish their season there. And then we played on the Evers park on the north side of sown she last three weeks of the teenage baseball season, The Little League park on the north is not finished as yet, lacking an the lights, One of the highlights of the summer in baseball was the hosting of the Regional. Connie Mae Tournament which I Wi d {I Li AVA lJ lk brought teams in from 5 stages; Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, Texan and Arkansas, This tournament was held on the new baseball field at Evers park, and even though the field was not quite ready, we managed to aurv ve the week and many people went away with the thought about the possibility of having the tournament here again. The VFW of Denton sponsored the tournament. We furnished facilities, Softball This was an adult prograin only. In the spring, before our 'season began, i North Texas State University used our softball fields to supplement their aport& ~ program, Because of the lateness of having the field completed on the South, the city leagues did not start until late in May. We had a church league and an independent league. An event that created much interest was the Regional aoftbal}. Tournament held at Denis park for qualification for local softball teams in our region to qualify for the state meet in Lubbock, These were all. independent teams, no church teams were involved, Of the teams participating in our tournament, Sherman qualified for the state meet and finished third there, We fool that next year we can host as many tournaments as needed. Our bell diamonds will be complete and in excellent shape, The new presaboxea and concession stand buildings have had restrooms j added to them, The pressbuxes wi.11 be equiped with public address systems which which can dictate activities at a tournament or playoff of any type, We have worked toward this end and fool that this would be a fine Justification if little league r tournaments, softball tournaments and baseball tournaments can be played this next -1 summer, We had over 700 matt and boys playing ball this season, We feel that the number will reach 1,000 next nummor, I 4 , [ Tennis Once again a full time instructor was hired to run the instruction portion i of the tennis program anti he taught over l60 players during the two month session, We r used both the Civic Center park courts and the Fred Moore courts, and sometimes thn NTSU courts for this instruction, Almoat all of the participants in the tennis program were beginners and under 16 years of age. The instructor had to teach two sessions enoh day, six days a week to meet the demand of the players, This program was climaxed .it :.+s:H 444I5I5i55~lll~t{t{t{ l e aA', ,t d~ jr 15 by a city tournament for all comers and 5 divisions for both men and woman were ol'.fered. The tournament took five days to complete the matrh play and attracted about 96 players, There were over 115 matches played that week, Small trophies were awarded to the winners. I think the response to this tennis program and tournament shown a definite need for more tennis facilities, and some improvement on those we have would be advisable, We should close those courts on the Civic Center Park and Fred ` Moore Park, and that way maintenance could be lessened, and actual play increased, Courts are needed on the north and west side of town, The courts should be built i i with batteries of two each and make sure that., after a suitable time, they are I i completely enclosed and properly landscaped, i i Track and Field - In this second year of our track program, we hosted the T.A.A,F i State Track and Field meet, This was a two day affair and had participation beyond i all expectations, All toll over two days there were more than 1100 boys and girls who participated in this giant Track Meet, This, of course, was open to all comers' who were still amateurs and competing in that catagory, The meet was run under lights i' trying to beat the !teat. However, lack of pits caused us to run very late on both w_ Friday and Snturday nights. We feel like this is probably one of tho finest programs, Playground personnell were used as officials and they handled themselves very well, There was also volunteer help that we had recruited, The Meet was such a success r that at a later date at the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation in San Antonio, over I ton cities issued or advertised bids to host this track most in their city for the i following year., Richardson won the bid, so we will bo able to keep the meal: in this immediate area, Basketball Last winter we initiated the first city basketball program, By using the junior high school gymiasiams from the public schools, we were able to make this a very successful program, In this program there were 15 teams in two leagues involved, MM"M t-ltO ~'9Gl4w.fY 4 44Rdfl j.Y.I+11.1. H 16 Those two teams playnd a complete schedule: and the winner then participated in the District Regional Championships in Richardson, One team qualified to go to the state meet in Houston. Arrangements were made through school principals and custodians for reservations of the gym. 3ach team ptlid a fee to take cure of the gym rental and reservation. We felt like this was one of the new programs that will carry through the years, The interest was very high. Peewee Football Pee Wee Football was played this year on the softball fields in the Civic Center Park before they had been torn doom. We were able to get the turf I In excellent shape; tho lights were adequate and the three leagues, 40, 5th, and bth grades completed their play by mid-November just before the bad wester. This we" very ouccesaful, Next year these teams will play on the Ewers park, which will be a larger area, We ware fortunate to have the help of volunteer coaches and indivi- duals which helpad make thin an axcollent program, klaytounds This year we used five playgrounds on our parks to run our summer playground program. Tau playground supervisors were hired and this time we hired a program co-ordinator,- This young lady was able to run the playground program j j more effectively than if we had tried to run it through this office, She was able to devote her full time to this, Prior to the beginning of our 1.0 week summer program, we held a woxkshop for the playground supervisors and were able to instruct them in liability requirements, dicipli.ne, and safety. We also discussed our program pro- oeedures and their part in this program. During the .firs'. few weeks that the play- . grounds were opon, each child was registered, This gave ua some background to work on and also provided us with necessary information in cane of an emor.gency on the park, j Each supervisor kept daily records on activities, attendance, dieLpline and so forth I until we had a complete picture, These reports ware turned in each woek at the weekly i staff meeting. Before the beginning of the program, we issued brochures to the schools { in the city which told about our aummee activities. This was a 16 page brochure with 1-ry 18 pictures and lists of parks, programs, types of activities, etc. Because of this, our active attendance jumped from 10,000 in attendance to 13,000 on the five parks, Broken down, this amounts to over 300 young people on each park each week, or sit average of 60 children per day. Attendance fe-11 off., naturally, In mid-July when we bogan to come into the dry season and the turf became crusted an.i very unattractivfi, ~ 1 Also, it was much hotter then than during June when we had plenty.of rain. Also there were no shelters on our parka except for the Fred Moore park and McKenna park, f We were able, howevar, to use the cafeterias of Newton Rayzor and Woodrow Wilson F i for these young people and also to teach efts and drafts, This was a real boon to E our program Our supervisors very carefully instructed these people hou, to behave in this facility, and how to take care of the equipment issued to thom, Shelters and hard surface areas on our parks are badly needed as well as storage room for our equipment. At the end of the year our equipment had no place to be stored and had to be scattered around in eubby holes of the R.Frcreation nepartmont, On two of our parks, there are no restrooms at all, We had cc use the two elementary schools as before which were adjacent to the park, but even this was unhandy, Besides -1 the numerous group games for the children, a large number or table rjames were available. Table tennis was introduced this year in the two cafeterias and proved to be very popular. The playgrounds opened at 8:30 a.m. and closed at 1100 each morning, reopening at 4130 in the afternoon and cloning at 700 p.m, for the day. All playground programs measured their success by reception of spacial aventh or activities. ltstod on the following page are this summor{s special events with the pars site and the attendance of the progrem. { i r. ~•rxwrn t9 19 EVENT PARK ATTMANCE Pet Shaw Rayzor 75 Inter-Park Games Nette Shultz 55 'rWU Summer Drama Theater TWU 85 Camporee Hickory Qreek Park 165 Playground Olympics Nette Shultz 170 Arta and Crafts Rayzor 85 j s { Sidewalk Surfing Tournament McKenna Park 50 j One OP the most important features of our 1965 program was that of a better in-service training program for our supervisors. Tijaae young people were quite talented, We i feel like this first of in-service training was so successful that we will have more i as we grow in size. k I ' Ascommgr,ded Improvementa for our Play round Program j 1. Hard Surface Shelter Areas with Storage Space h 2 Restrooms and Drinking Fouutaina Up-dated Playground Equipment A. More. Adequate '?ark Ughftatj 5. Adequate Water systems r 61. Parking Areas 7. Super intendene. of Recreation I l 'this time next year we are hoping that our communLty building will be near completion t so that we may initiate the first year-round program which will include arts and crafts, all types of physical activities, cultural classes, and so forth, A full tine E supervisor will be deeded for this expanding program, and with that we will be. ablo ti to embark on the first complete year-round Perko and Recreation Vrogram, When this takes place, wn will be on the same level as other cities tho size. of Denton. f 4 If U r ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD) YOUTH CORPS Period of Operation; July 26, 1965 to September 10, 1965 size of Program; Maximum Approved 180 Maximum Actually Utilized 172 Activities of the Programs The summer Neighborhood Youth Corps Program wng approved on July 26, 1965, almost two full months later than expected, Another week of delay was caused due to a i problem in obtaining the insurance required by our contract with the Federal Government, j f Finally we received word that we should proceed without the required coverage, It seems that no city in Texas was able to obtain the required coverage becauue of a i conflicting state statute, Our program's first objective was to complete four baseball diamonds at Evers and Denis Park. These were completed, In addition, rocks and dead vegetation were i removed; several washout areas vere filled, and a portion of the area was terraced. As a result, Denton had a beautiful field on which to host a Five State Baseball Tournament, both baseball diamonds will provide needed recreational facilities fcr 1 Nnton, Running concurrent to the above ment.iunod project were a 9evias of projects designed I to beautify existing city parka, At the new park site near 9outhridge, land was cleared and .leveled. At McKenna Park, shrubs and tries were planted, Nette Shultz Park was beautified by planting new trees and shrubs and maintaining existing vegetation. i At Fred Moore Park, a crook was cleared and prepared for construction, Enrolleod were used at the Civic Center Swimming P061 to act as cashiere, bath house attendants and swimming instructors aides, Gir1a were used at City Hall as clerical help, typists and secretaries, Boys were used at the City i4brehouse to reorganize inventory, The City-County Library and Nursor,y were staff9d with enrollees, j At the Library, books were rebound, recatalogued, and repaired, No girl worked with { kk I €a Ri4'6!.~j i[fJ{ S s3 21 4 th,s County Agent and the County Attorney doing secretarila work, The County Attorney has decided to retain the young lady on a part time basis. The NYC enrollees were also engaged in cleaning operations along highway right-o£-ways. The new Airport site was cleaned by enrollees, Hickory Creek Park, located on Laka Dallas was the final and most ambitloaa project of the program, About 75 acres of land were cleared and loveled, 'frees were pruned and unsightly vegetation removed, If the program had had 'more time, the park could have been made a placo•of beauty, However, due to the short work time, enrollees were forced to stop before f ! they neared completion of the project The 1965 summer Neighborhood Youth Corps ended on September. 10, with a total of approximately $30,000 expended. The City of Denton is required to provide approximately 10% of the total expenditures, A detailed cost breakdown of the City's share can be found below and on the following pages. COST ANALYSIS FOR SUPERVISION OF NYC ENROLLFFS s Item Name Position I Jack Reynolds City Manager 2 Earl Chandler Finance Director 3 Leonard Nhrler, Jr, Director of Parks y Al Petty County Agent 5 John Lawhon County Atitrney I ff 5 Cheryl Pikes Nursery Supervisor r 4 7 Billie Fowler Librarian 8 Royce Hull Purchasing Agent 9 Perry Hugon Park Supervisor.0 1 i rt ttf[jkt t ~ .y t' ~.a. rrAY!t auv_~.~ F CONTRACTOR'S SNARE OF TOTAL EXPENDITURES Supervisory Costa 1045.41 } Medical Costa 44,50 i+ Equipment Purchase and Rental. 1600.00 Insurance Costs* 1130,76 Transportation Coate 750.00 Supplies 16.50 L * Approximate Cost Figured at $30.00 per day for 25 days. l I B t N l 0 00 ~ a v fi w ro r 7 r r r r N OD W V l/1 ~ 00 W ~f ~ ~ A In O r 0 fff"' k F O S N 0~ T ✓i D4 '~4 ?d pd 7d ?4 74 44 f JJ~ 111 1 VI W Vt In Gt VI lJf VI Vf 1 DG D4 ?4 74 ?4 D4 04 M M I F, M v o w r r © . f as w 00 d~ S• fFF N.t. 1 1 24 SWIMMING POOL RECEIPTS May 15, 1965 to September 15, 1965 Adult Swimming Tickets @ ,50 $ 11660.52 l Student Swimming Tickets @ .35 $ 31035.60 E Children's-Swimming Tickets 0 :15 ~ $ 2,429.34 it II f Swimming Ticket Book sales $ 927.83 Private Party Reservations $ 40.00 i TOTAL RECEIPTS $ 8,093.29 ~ If P 1 r l r [t IliSdN:`♦~ 1{8jt 25 HICKORY CREEK CONCESSION REPORT 1964-1965 The following is revenue received from the two concessions at Hickory Creek Park from October! 1964 to September, 1965. This also shows our total disbursements { used as per contract with the U. S, Corps ofEngineers for improvements on the park! ~ E~ RECEIPTS. f I Hickory Creek Marina . $ 3,325.07 f Hickory Creek,Fishorama $ 11452.00 f ' I f TOTAL RECEIPTS . $ ,777.07 ; i i EXPENDITURESr i Utilities $ 371.25 Suppliec (Janitorial) $ 8.35 Cleaning and Mowing Contract $ 1,550.00 Capital Improvements 1,141.10 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS $ 31070.70 j BAIANCE A5 OF SEPTEMDER 1, 1965 7. 706.37 { I k E fK[4IAay~ $$~~SS''Ktt.9is1 t~yiS 26 MCKRNNA PARK TRUST FUND 1964-1965 RECEIPTS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1965 2,713.78 - DISBURSEMENTS TO DATE; $ 65.00 Balance as of September 1, 1965 ~ 2,648.78 I I i 4 l 1 E` I f ~ f I =ftiM1Y?h?'1 Ynik'+ r Ide4elrl 27 PARK AND RH;CRVA'CION DEPARTMENT BOND HXPENDITURES AND OBLIGATIONS October, 1964 - October 1965 ` NAME OF PARK ADDRESS JACRES _ AMOUNT SPENT Civic Center Park Bell Ave, & Wit8 1261125,011 Nette Shultz Park Mistywood & Voodhavon 10 .0- i McKenna Park Thomas & Scripture 18 -0-* f Fred Moore Park Bradshaw & Wilson 6.1 -0- 1 Ewers Park North Locust 25 63,106,51 Dania Park Massey & Bernard 25 361108,51 { Southridge Park 5fte Southridge Addition 5,5 .0- Airport Park Airport Road 40 -0^ I Civic Center Community Bldg, Bell Ave, & McKinney 3500000,00** 1 j Civic Center Library Ann,ex Oakland 101,348,31 CASH ON HAND ___41169, 63 * All Capital Improvements funds supplied Il McKenna Trust Fund Authorized but uni,,4sued until Jan 1 1966 Obligated i i i