PARK MAINTENANCE

Summary
The Park Maintenance Division is responsible for maintaining, preserving and enhancing approximately 300 acres of park facilities, school athletic fields, beach accesses, and landscapes at various civic facilities. This includes the maintenance of eight community parks and 26 special use areas. In addition, the Park Maintenance Division manages over 625 acres of open space/undeveloped areas that includes trash removal, clean up and weed abatement. If you have any questions regarding park maintenance please call (760) 434-2824.

Stagecoach Park

Turf and Landscape Maintenance
Direct management of 102+ acres of turf and 193+ acres of landscaping. Duties include mowing, fertilization, renovation, re-planting, trimming, pesticide application, raking leaves/debris, turf sweeping, weeding cultivation, edging, aerating, re-seeding, irrigation programming maintenance and equipment maintenance.

Restroom Maintenance/Litter Control/Picnic Area Services
Inspect, maintain, clean, paint, and repair 9 separate restroom facilities (as well as 8 portable units) 7 days per week. Clean, restock, sanitize, paint and plumbing repairs make up the duties of this activity. Also associated with this activity is litter control. All parks, beach accesses and beach areas are cleaned 5+ times weekly to remove all litter and service all trash receptacles.

Court/Field/Tot Lot Maintenance
Maintain 22 tennis courts (21 lighted), 14 basketball courts, 16 soccer fields, and 30 softball/baseball fields. All athletic courts are cleaned/inspected on a weekly basis. Duties involve washing down, sweeping off, blowing off, fence inspections/repairs, and playing surface inspections. In addition, the activity includes weekly maintenance of all tot lots in the City. This includes sand raking/leveling, sand rototilling and play equipment inspection, repair and the necessary documentation of such actions.

Irrigation Maintenance
Maintain all landscape irrigation systems of City facilities. This includes programming over 103 different controllers with over 1,476 valves. Duties include replacement, repair, trouble shooting and now data entry/programming via the centralized irrigation system.

Open Space Maintenance
Provide maintenance activities to City owned open space and areas of additional maintenance responsibilities. Duties include trash removal, clean up and weed abatement.

Miscellaneous Maintenance/Repair and Special Request
These activities, which are difficult to measure, include repair and upgrading to park structures, facilities, play equipment and fencing, and the installation of play equipment, bleachers, drinking fountains, soccer goals, trash enclosures, concrete work, and painting projects. These additional activities also include special projects and requests by the community for turf installation, sculpture installations, various redevelopment requests and community garden needs.

For concerns pertaining to any of the above items, please contact the Parks and Recreation Administration office at (760) 434-2826.