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APPROVED BUDGET FISCAL YEAR 2022-2023

CITY OF HURST
110 GENERAL FUND COMMUNITY SERVICES 0772 PARKS

MISSION STATEMENT

The Parks Division is dedicated to providing Hurst citizens with superior parks and facilities
through conscientious design and development, safe maintenance, and operation of programs.

DIVISION DESCRIPTION

• Responsible for the landscape maintenance of the City’s park system, eleven water well sites,
water storage facilities, cemeteries, medians, rights-of-ways, and undeveloped lots.
• Management of maintenance contracts valued over $1 million dollars
• Maintenance of playgrounds, pavilions, trails, tennis courts, and other park amenities.
• Maintain an automated irrigation system for all sites and facilities, including athletic field
lighting.

PRIOR YEAR RESULTS & ACCOMPLISHMENT

✓ Restructured the Facility Use Agreement for youth sports associations, using the Subsidy
and Resource Allocation study to guide participant fees and offset maintenance and
overtime costs.
✓ Installed irrigation and landscape at Animal Services and Hurst Dog Park, including a dual
looped, dual-metered, 40-zone irrigation system.
✓ Winter Storm Uri – in cooperation with Facilities Maintenance, repaired broken fixtures
in all park restrooms, repaired broken irrigation, including the booster pump that feeds
all of the Hurst Athletic Complex.
✓ Continued response to vandalism across city parks, including replacements of backboards

at basketball courts, graffiti removal at several parks and public spaces, and replacement
of playground pieces at Vivagene Copeland Park.
✓ Reabsorption of Highway 10 medians into the maintenance cycle.

FUTURE INITIATIVES

➢ Oversee and assist in the integration of TXDOT Hwy 10, phase 4 median into our
maintenance and irrigated sites.
➢ Finalize tree mitigation project
➢ Continue to provide an efficient turf management program at all athletic fields and the
dog park.

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