Parks Portfolio Report - 18 May 2016

Parks

Parks & Gardens

• Completed New Fence at Proston Cemetery
• Glendon Street Carpark
  • Started on black wall and garden edging.
  • Started on new playground equipment
  • Building has been rendered and painted
  • Toilet Block outer walls have been rendered and painted
  • Toilet block’s inside refurbishment of new tiles and paint job.
  • Trees have been delivered and ready for planting.
• New gazebo at Wondai cemetery is now completed with a new pathway.
• New shade cloth at Kingaroy Skate Park is now complete.
• In Nanango and Blackbutt we are into the last round of town mowing and some tidy up whipper snipping.
• All of the Anzac day preparations and clean-up have been completed; gardens have been pulled out and will go back in the next few weeks.
• The new toilet block at Benarkin has been started.
• Maidenwell mowing is in the program of works
• Maintenance and tidy up of Reg McCallum park is finished.
• Street trees in Nanango have been sprayed for borers and will be monitored.
• The season is quite mild at the moment so tidy up work will continue as required

Rail Trail

• Memerambi North Walkway Bridge Construction is well on the way and is up to decking stage and will be completed in the next few days.
• Oiling of the bridge has been started by the CTC Work Skills Team and installation of the Balustrade will commence soon after decking is installed.
• Barambah Walkway Bridge has been under construction for the past week and completion in the next few days will see walkway access available for the remainder of the construction phase and into the future.
• Earth works around bridge approaches is also under way.
• Surface construction is ramping up and will be in full swing asap.

We have had the first meeting of a newly formed committee to work on a gala opening which is planned for the October South Burnett & Cherbourg on Show long weekend. The committee includes some community members who are keen to be involved.