Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Park Board has approved a five percent salary increase for the Parks and Recreation Department’s 12 full-time employees.
Director Doug Hogan says his monthly salary increase is from $6,179 to $6,488, for an annual salary of $77,856.
Parks and Recreation Department Shop Foreman, Ted Kapp’s annual salary go from $61,994 to $63,816. The commission will consider wage increases for its part-time seasonal employees at the October meeting.
Meanwhile the ongoing improvement project at Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course may see costs double if a new irrigation pond is approved.
A new irrigation pond constructed between hole 10 and the 17th hole, has been reviewed with eliminating the present irrigation pond from the top of a hill next to the 10th hole.
Including the cost for new irrigation pumps and improvement to the existing irrigation pipe system, the cost for the new pond rises to about $800,000, raising the project’s cost from about $610,000 to $1.4 million.
The Park Board has a cost estimate of $100,000 for repairing the existing irrigation pond.
Hogan says if a new irrigation pond is built, or the existing pond is repaired, the entire in-ground pipe for the existing irrigation system for the first nine holes of the golf course need replacing, with no cost estimate presently available.
