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Parks board recommends council approve $173,000 survey of 85-acre Slater Creek Park
Summary
The Anna Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted to recommend that the City Council approve a comprehensive survey of Slater Creek Park to address drainage, a maintenance building, restroom replacement and other near-term projects; staff said the 2-month survey proposal costs about $173,000.
The Anna Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted to recommend that the City Council proceed with a comprehensive survey of the entire 85-acre Slater Creek Park, including topography, utilities, easements, rights-of-way and a tree inventory for all trees greater than 6 inches in diameter.
City staff said the survey proposal, to be performed by North Texas Surveying, would take about two months to complete and is currently priced at about $173,000. A staff presentation cited a list of near-term park projects that the survey would support: replacement of playground equipment (an RFP is out for bid), construction of a maintenance building, demolition and replacement of a restroom between the fourplex fields and a planned drainage remediation effort for recurrent siltation and flattening of the northern creek channel.
Staff described the survey as a "massive undertaking" needed to address long-standing drainage problems and to provide baseline data for an eventual urban-forestry program. "For a park the size of that ... and the drainage issues that need to be fixed, it's necessary," a staff member said.
A board member moved to recommend that the council accept the survey proposal and forward it for council action; another board member seconded the motion. The board carried the recommendation by voice vote; the meeting minutes record the result as "Aye" from members present.
Staff said the survey will provide more-precise data to inform design and cost estimates for the playground replacement, restroom work and drainage corrections and will serve as a historical baseline for tree inventories and future urban-forestry planning. The board requested that staff include preliminary survey response data from the ongoing parks master-plan public survey on the next advisory-board agenda.
