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Parks board signs off on SprayTech training, emergency zoo repairs and support letter for septic-elimination project
Summary
The board approved a $25,000 SprayTech training agreement to certify a new pesticide-applicator assistant, authorized emergency repairs at the zoo (furnace and walk-in cooler) and adopted a letter supporting the Michigan City Sanitary District’s septic-elimination project to reduce E. coli contamination at Trail Creek and Lake Michigan.
The Michigan City Parks and Recreation Board on March 4 approved a set of operational items: a one-season SprayTech professional services agreement for training an assistant to obtain a pesticide-application license, emergency repairs at the zoo, and a letter supporting a sanitary-sewer extension project intended to reduce E. coli pollution in Trail Creek and Lake Michigan.
Staff explained that the assistant green superintendent accepted another job and that the department plans to promote and train an internal employee; the board agreed to bring Tony Staley back as the contractual trainer. The training cost for…
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