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Parks director reports winter maintenance and youth basketball season drew large participation
Summary
Rick Staley reported to council on park maintenance, river walk work, new picnic tables and a large youth basketball season involving roughly 70 teams and about 700 youth participants, generating heavy weekend attendance.
Rick Staley, speaking for the parks and recreation division, gave a winter wrap-up to Lima City Council describing maintenance work, facility repairs and the youth basketball season.
Staley said crews focused on leaf mulching, tree pruning along the river walk, ice management and indoor building maintenance during the off season. Staff also prepared quotes for spring and summer projects and built roughly 30–32 picnic tables for distribution across city parks.
On programming, Staley reported an active youth basketball season: "we played 13 dates wrapped up the whole tournament which wrapped up February 22," and said the league included about 70 teams and approximately 700 youth with more than 130 coaches. He described approximately 300 games and said Saturdays often involved more than 1,000 people when accounting for players, coaches and spectators.
Staley credited cooperation with the city administration, council and staff for staging the program and said the department is preparing for summer activities including playground programs, youth baseball and softball, adult softball and volleyball.
No formal council action was required for the report; Staley invited questions and thanked council for its support.
