City Manager Report 8/16/2018 for 8/21/2018 Meeting
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City Manager Report August 17, 2018 KUDOS! Requesting Council From the City Manager Kudos to Parks staff (Ernie Direction Schedule Jenkins, Robbie Shine, Steve Mini-Retreat FYI, I will be out of the office from Jegtvig, Stosh Kopczynski, Lucas September 24 through October 1, Laverty), Facilities Maintenance I had previously suggested holding and also from October 18 through (Steve Hoots, Matt Beck), Water a mini-retreat to do a mid-year October 23. Department (Kyle Higgins), assessment of our progress on City Public Works (Tom Martindale, Council’s goals and review/update City Limits Radio Program Daryl Kemry), and Mount the council working agreements. I Recently, I met with Don Tlapek Werner Water (Greg Burkholder) believe two hours would suffice. from Steamboat Radio. He would for their quick emergency Would City Council like to proceed like to see the City Limits radio response on Friday 7/20 at the with this? If so, here are a few program go live on a weekly basis. Tennis Center to repair a water potential dates: I would continue to host the show, service line to the building with a variety of guests. It would Friday, August 31, 8:00 – 10:00 located at the front entry. The likely air during prime time driving am annual Steamboat Tennis hour; for example, 5:00 pm to Thursday, September 6, 4:00 – Association Tournament and 6:00 p.m. on a weekday. Mike 6:00 pm Fundraiser began that day and Lane drafted a tentative list of Monday September 10, 7:30 – this crew executed the difficult possible topics and guests for the 9:30 am. repair within 12 hours and next year, and we feel that we minimized impacts to the facility Please let me know your thoughts. have sufficient content for a and tournament. All Council Members will need to weekly show. With all that is going be in attendance. on in our community, I think this more publicly visible portion of would be an effective way to the campaign. A full update on the Compact of Colorado improve community engagement CSYSA will be provided at our Communities and education. There would be September 4 meeting. We have signed on to join the some logistical planning and Compact of Colorado preparation required by staff and I Communities. We will need to believe we have the capacity to officially designate a council make it happen. I welcome your representative and alternate to thoughts. the Board. The information we have thus far on the requirements CSYSA Fundraising Information is attached (attachment 1). I recently met with Kerry Shea to get an update on the Craig- Scheckman Youth Sports Arena fundraising efforts. Attached are the information sheets and pledge forms being utilized by the fundraisers (attachment 2). As is standard with large-scale capital fundraising campaigns, the current focus is on major donors. The final phase of fundraising will be the City Manager Report 8/16/2018 For 8/21/2018 Meeting From the Departments Haymaker Golf Course Parks and Recreation Staff is adding sand to bunkers and the greens Land Management Division fertilization program continues to be The Tennis Center at Steamboat hosted their implemented by staff with positive results. annual STA Tournament and Fundraiser July 20 – Staff is seeing an impact in the availability of 22. irrigation water and looking at additional ways to Open Space and Trails (OST) Crew hosted the reduce water use. Due to the exceptionally hot second of four scheduled weeks of RMYC’s and dry summer, the Enterprise and Intersection Community Development Corps. The group is ditches are both dry. We have become dependent working on trail and bridge maintenance on on water rights from the Catamount pipeline, Spring Creek and construction of the T Bar hiking- which is supplied by water from the Yampa River. only trail on Emerald. Rec & Enterprise Division The last PRCA Rodeo weekend was August 10 and Adult Sports 11, with a total of 20 performances. Summer Adult Sports Leagues are coming to a Honey Stinger hosted their annual bike and close. Regular season games/matches were running race on August 10 and 11. completed end of July, and playoffs for all leagues began in early August. OST division has added new, redesigned maps and information to the 3 trailhead kiosks at Fall Adult Sports advertising has begun, with Emerald. leagues starting in early September. OST division has been working with the USFS and Adult Kickball is a new sport that will be RCR on construction of the Spring Creek introduced this fall. This league will be enrollment directional trail. dependent. A new hiking only trail is proposed at Spring Creek Youth / Senior Programs to replace the unsanctioned use that occurs on School Year registration opened on July 30 at 7:30 the “Ditch Trail” and the proposed alignment of AM. Afterschool Action, School Days Off, and all the new downhill bike trail. This will go through ASSET Clubs are planned and ready to go. All Parks and Recreation Commission and the public programs were full by 1 pm and Afterschool process beginning August 8th. Action has a waitlist average of 18 kids/day with Triple Crown Sports has ended for the season 45 enrolled in program. The waitlist ranges from 4 with the last 2 World Series weeks hosting to 37 kids. ASSET Clubs have waitlists ranging approximately 92 and 46 teams in Steamboat from 3-29. We are actively trying to recruit Springs, Craig, Hayden and Oak Creek. additional staff to allow for additional slots, but are also limited by licensing rules. The Steamboat Soccer Association’s annual tournament hosted over 130 teams in Steamboat Summer Camp has ended with full programs July 19 – 22. through the summer. The last day of camp was Friday, August 10. Volleyball of the Rockies hosted over 500 teams in Steamboat July 6-8. Mackenzie Woodsmall has been hired as the new Recreation Specialist starting on August 21. He The Spring Creek Dam Restoration Project is has worked seasonally for the City for five anticipated to begin mid to late August. summers and completed an internship with the Steamboat Digs Dogs will be presenting City of Steamboat Springs in the summer of 2016. information to Parks and Recreation Commission We are excited to have him on board full time! on August 22 regarding off leash trial areas. All Youth Program staff will be attending the Staff continues to consult with CPW on river Afterschool Zone conference on September 29 in conditions, closures and when to re-open the Fort Collins. river to best protect the health of the fishery. Senior trips are doing very well with high The Barrows Chairlift tower alignment is registration numbers. We have added additional complete. Staff will execute all annual staff and vehicles to a few trips to accommodate maintenance and testing to prepare for winter those on the waitlist. Trips include the Colorado operations. City Manager Report 8/16/2018 For 8/21/2018 Meeting Rockies baseball game on August 8 and the Cost per passenger is $3.41. This is $0.41 more Leadville Train Ride trip on August 23. than last summer. Summer ridership is down 10% Marketing & Special Events from last summer. The Town Challenge Race Series continue to run Steamboat Springs Transit trends at 89% on-time smoothly and we have received a lot of positive and 11% late. This compares to 83% on time and feedback from racers. 17% late in summer 2017. Planning is currently underway for the final Town Steamboat Springs Transit has completed the Challenge event of the season on August 22. This installation of seatbelts in all of the regional FREE Community Ride will take place at Howelsen coaches and has sold the old seats that were Hill and will include food, music, end-of-season removed for the conversion. awards, raffle and more! One of the main goals of the 2018 budgeting Howelsen Ice Complex process was to reallocate resources to make sure that buses were able to meet the Council The facility has hosted 4 of 5 scheduled summer hockey camps. directive of trending at, or above 85% through the summer months. Thus far, this plan is working to Staff is negotiating a use agreement with the keep buses at a higher on time percentage. Steamboat Wranglers new local ownership team. James Wininger, the Safety, Training and Bumper Cars have generated $7,980.41 more in Recruiting Supervisor for Steamboat Springs revenue YTD in comparison to a record year in Transit attended a weeklong training class that 2017. We are projecting over $100,000 in revenue was the fourth in a series, to make him qualified in 2018. to implement a SMS (Safety Management Systems) program. The SMS program was just put Public Works into practice by the Federal Transit Airport Administration and the requirements were The Airport Manager attended an emergency outlined on Friday July 27th. At this point, they management conference in Denver that was put will not be required for rural transit systems, but on by the American Association of Airport having him trained to produce this will be a big Executives (AAAE). asset to SST. The entire program is geared to Airport staff and Chamber Resort Association staff improving safety, reducing risk and lowering are in the final stages of planning for the Wild costs. West Air Fest, which will be held on September Transit Manager Jonathan Flint passed the CCTM 1st. This will be the final year that the Chamber exam and was awarded the designation of puts on the event. Airport staff have been Certified Community Transit Manager by the diligently working with Chamber staff for the last Community Transportation Association of two years with the objective of the Airport staff America.