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Cityr <br />Louisville <br />PARKS & RECREATION <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Open Space Advisory Board <br />From: Open Space <br />Date: December 10, 2025 <br />Re: Information Item 5: Staff Updates <br />General: <br />• Budget Calander- Upcoming OSAB Deadlines. Tentatively: April- Capital Project <br />Improvement, Staffing Request, Operations Budget Review. <br />• New Open Space Advisory Board appointments will be made on December 16`h <br />• Staff has been asked to participate in drafting and reviewing the "Wildfire in Grasslands - <br />A Front Range Practitioner's Guide". This will be coordinated by a consortium of <br />agencies, counties, municipalities, and non -profits along the Front Range. Publication <br />tentatively planned for 2026/2027. <br />Natural Resources: <br />• Staff have closed out the Bioblitz Contract with CNHP with all invoicing completed — <br />staff will be meeting with the marketing department to create communications with the <br />public detailing the work completed. <br />• Staff have collected all the data from the vegetation surveying contract and draft report. <br />• Interpretive panels for 2025 have been delivered (1) North, (1) Coyote Run, and (1) <br />Warembourg. Installation planned for summer 2026. <br />• Staff are reviewing restoration and reclamation standards for pass -off to the Public <br />Works Department for increased collaboration on projects impacting public lands. <br />• Herbicide applications are scheduled for December 2-5 on select properties. Treatments <br />are for cheat grass and Japanese brome locations. <br />• Staff has been working on Russian olive removals on CTC and Hecla Lake Open Spaces. <br />• Staff is looking into software options for mapping herbicide applications. <br />• Staff worked with Boulder County Open Space staff on Jointly -owned Warembourg to <br />install additional fencing to help prevent encroachment of prairie dogs from the City - <br />managed Conservation Area on the property. <br />• Prairie dog management was completed in October on select properties. A total of 91 <br />prairie dogs were successfully relocated to the receiving site in Pueblo, Colorado. <br />8 <br />