Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2025 05 07

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Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Minutes April 2, 2025 Page 3 of 5 • Parks Staff responded in a prior email and in person at this PPLAB meeting that milkweed has been a problem for flower bed management due to its persistence and spreading by underground roots, particularly Showy Milkweed. Staff brought Parks memo to Acting City Mgr. Fox, requesting the City leave showy milkweed on the weed list due to issues maintaining some of the gardens where it has established. Staff agrees the other varieties are OK as they adheres to weed ordinance for Parks and public landscaping. When plants exceed weed height ordinance causes a problem. Golf course has planted milkweed for Audubon certification. However Showy Milkweed is not the right plant in City gardens due to invasive issues. • PPLAB Chair requests that PPLAB be able to review the ordinance at the next meeting. Abby will also provide initial Code enforcement action that prompted this issue. Look at ordinance and document supporting Showy milkweed for next meeting. 8. Budget consideration for 2026 Abby presenting approved (2025-2026) capital improvement budget: Note: all budget material was included to new board members in January, and continuing members from last year. The Capital Improvements budget includes: • Memory Square Park playground equipment replacement summer 2025. Park signs, Cemetery fund, parks technology, athletic field maintenance from recreation fund. • Replacement plan is based on the age of the playground and other issues. • Streetscapes — continue to improve old trees and landscapes (some landscape improvement funds are in other parts of the budget as well). • Looking to replace equipment with alternative fuels source equipment. • Cemetery — ask for the long range plan to have a good program for management, at capacity in 10-15 years, looking for way to free up more land • Restroom improvements, requested in 2026. • Infield renovations — Miners, Heritage, Cleo-Mudrock. • Technology improvements — tablets, soil moisture sensors, weather station. • Horticulture • Fleet tracking components on all equipment which would provide asset management and tracking (trucks, trailers, mowers). • Concrete replacement funding at Sports Complex — includes ramps to access dugouts, and concreting plaza space. City of Louisville Parks Division 749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 303.335.4774 (phone) www.LouisvilleCO.gov 5