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Currently the PROS department categorizes the parks and open spaces within the master plan into one <br />of nine Ownership Categories: <br />1. Louisville: 118 sites, 1,157.33 acres <br />2. Joint Ownership: 11 sites, 1,060.2 acres <br />3. Other: 13 sites, 1,298.5 acres <br />a. Boulder County Parks & Open Space: 1 site <br />b. Boulder County: 2 sites <br />c. Boulder Valley School District: 1 site <br />d. City of Boulder: 3 sites <br />e. City of Lafayette: 3 sites <br />f. PSCOC: 1 site <br />g. CDOT: 2 sites <br />While these categories serve to illustrate the areas owned by different entities, they are not helpful in <br />determining on -going maintenance needs or anticipated levels of care for individual sites, especially as it <br />relates to Parks services, which occur across all facility ownerships and types. <br />The second level of categorization provided in the Master Plan is by Class, of which there are five <br />categories. <br />1. Golf Course: 1 site, 154 acres <br />2. Open Space: 47 sites, 2,871.75 acres <br />3. Open Space, Other: 2 sites, 3.0 acres <br />4. Parks: 66 sites, 406.28 acres <br />5. Parks, Other: 26 sites, 81.0 acres. <br />Again, these categories are sufficient to provide a secondary summary of the ownership of the assets, <br />however they fall short of grouping sites or summarizing areas of varying maintenance needs. For <br />example, the "Parks" and "Parks, Other" assets vary from a regional athletic complex to an undeveloped <br />neighborhood pocket park, or a highway right-of-way to a destination playground. <br />The current asset inventory does not reflect day-to-day operations of Parks. Parks with playgrounds do <br />not have the same maintenance requirements as undeveloped pocket parks; back -of -lot trail corridors <br />do not have the same maintenance requirements as CDOT rights -of -way. Parks should track how those <br />assets and components drive the Annual Work Plan. To this end, the Annual Work Plan template <br />submitted along with the Summary of Findings builds upon the inventory of 2011 and expands the <br />number of inventoried components in the overall asset database. Data sheets have been developed that <br />compile and organize this new data for improved labor and task tracking in preparation of the Annual <br />Work Plan. <br />Service Contracts <br />Currently, Parks contracts out several on -going maintenance tasks. These tasks include turf <br />maintenance, downtown flower planting, downtown tree lighting, and horticultural bed care. Parks has <br />spent an average of $342,000 annually on contracted maintenance services in the past three years. <br />City of Louisville Parks Department January 16, 2023 <br />Summary of Findings Page 14 <br />