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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5/20/2025 Item 6e, Horn and Cruce - Staff Agenda CorrespondenceCity of San Luis Obispo, Council Memorandum City of San Luis Obispo Council Agenda Correspondence DATE: May 20, 2025 TO: Mayor and Council FROM: Matt Horn, Public Works Director PREPARED BY: Greg Cruce, Deputy Director – Maintenance Operations VIA: Whitney McDonald, City Manager SUBJECT: ITEM 6e - AUTHORIZATION TO ADVERTISE THE RIGHETTI COMMUNITY PARK PROJECT, SPECIFICATION NO. 2000054 Staff received the following questions, regarding the Authorization to Advertise the Righetti Community Park. The questions are listed below in bold with staff’s response shown in italics: 1) Is a vehicle assigned specifically to each of our parks? Each Parks Maintenance Specialist is assigned a City vehicle, and each Specialist maintains between one and four parks, depending on size of the facilities. 2) How is maintenance staffing (or hours of staff time) determined to maintain each park? Is there a square footage calculation or formula we use based on the types of amenities provided at the park? Staff uses nationally recognized productivity standards developed by the National Recreation and Park Society and the Professional Grounds Management Society. These standards provide the average time it should take a skilled person to perform a task, based on units of measure (e.g. acres, square footage, linear footage, etc) and method of work being performed (e.g. by hand, by equipment, etc), also factoring in the level of attention the park will require on a scale of 1-5, with level 1 being the highest (e.g. Mission Plaza) and level 5 being the lowest (e.g. open space). This data is then incorporated into the Maintenance Management Plan as part of the formula to determine total labor hours and FTE values. For the base phase of the Righetti Community Park, one full-time Parks Maintenance Specialist will be required, with an annual maintenance cost of approximately $140,000 (this cost includes the staffing, utilities, and materials and supplies). Once all phases of the park are complete, the total annual maintenance cost is projected at approximately $225,000, which would support two full-time positions, utilities, custodial services, and ongoing materials and supplies. Insert Report Title Page 2 3) Why is the dog park area not included in the Righetti Community Park? And would the City be interested in partnership with local service groups to help fund the dog park in order to speed up the timeline? This response is to a question posed from the non-profit community group, “Friends of SLO City Dog Parks”, regarding their potential to be involved and initiating the work on the dog park area at the Linear Park parcel in the Righetti Ranch development. The City has determined that the Righetti Community Park is the main priority for the available funding to initiate the park projects within the Orcutt Area developments. The overall planned park system consists of the Community Park, “Linear Park”, and “Pocket Park”, as well as the newly opened Righetti Hill Open Space. The Community Park located at the intersection of Tiburon and Ranch House Road has been prioritized into multiple phases based on available funding and community priorities established through public outreach. Phase 1 of the project consists of a comprehensive all-ages and inclusive playground, supporting restrooms, large picnic and shaded area, turf recreational fields, walking and biking paths, and lower parking lot. The Linear Park located on Righetti Ranc h Road and Tiburon, has been designed to support a community garden, dog park, and supporting parking area. The Linear Park is not part of the City’s initial Phase 1 and has been designed as a separate project from the Community Park. Staff are interested in the proposal from “Friends of SLO City Dog Parks” and will review in more detail the proposal received on May 19, 2025. The City has had previous success working with local community service groups such as Rotary and Kiwanis clubs to benefit our community through these types of partnerships resulting in upgrades and enhancements in a variety of areas with San Luis Obispo, such as Eto Park, Meadow Park Gardens, Community Garden at Laguna Lake Golf Course, as well as the Mitchell Park gazebo, Laguna Lake Park picnic gazebo, and Mission Plaza Amphitheater. Staff are planning to schedule to meet with the representatives of “Friends of SLO City Dog Parks” in the coming weeks to review and discuss this partnership opportunity.