I agree, and yet, in defense of the city workers, they'll get to it. Things like that are relatively low priority (but not ignored), and the city's parks and recreation dept. really doesn't begin to ramp up work till around early June. After all, and to put it into a realistic perspective; they do have an entire city to maintain.

and that park has been missing a swing for many years

So i guess that after the storm the few city employees involved in the clean up should have dropped everything to just clean up the parks. Oh but wait soccer still needs to have pitch's done, ball diamonds need to be maitained, kinsmen park maintained. I also think that they should have walked in and carried out all the branches then the grass would not be rutted up.

Priorities, ppl. How long should it take to clear out some downed trees? Are they not a higher priority than recreational tasks since they can pose a health and safety risk?

Lets see, millions of dollars of trees, no extra staff, 100 year storm, still trees from the storm that were damaged are being discovered ie cracked. What is a recreational task? The city has commitments to minor sports and other groups which pay feels to use park space too. When a tree is on the ground it is not a safety risk unless people let their children run around and play in the wood piles. But nobody would do that these days of rules and overprotectiveness.

The woods, walkway, and grass near Carlton Park Community Center are in pretty dismal shape as well. Poor maintenance often leads to more destructive behaviour and vandalism. We have two choices: either get things under control, or let it degrade. If we choose to do nothing, then property values will start to decline, and the Mayor will have to raise property taxes even more. It's a cycle that someone in the City Hall should be able to figure out.

the park near my house has F U written all over it and has huge burn holes in the equiptment, sorry about the tire tracks on the grass, i wish we had grass...........

property values will decline when interest rates go up. Property taxes are based off of home values. Therefore the city now has record revenue from property values, which are at record highs. So if the city is broke right now with that extra coin from property taxes can u imagine what it will be like when property values correct themselves. I'm pretty sure municipalities in the U.S went through the same scenario, really messed them up too.

Then those U.S cities went on a spending spree getting loans at record low interest rates. Sound like P.A and its Soccer Centre? Imagine the payment almost doubling on our giant loan for that tin can. You think the city cannot afford maintenance now? You would have to be wearing special glasses to not notice the crumbling of our infastructure. The bridges are old, highways old, water infastructure old, roads absolutely crumbling. There has to be a $75 000 000 infastructure deficet in P.A alone, imagine the province with its miles of crumbled roadways. Is this not the biggest boom in Saskatchewan's history? What was provinces revenues over the last three years? Could this boom be the outcome of record low interest rates, causing a record amount of spending? Is this boom real? What if rates double?
See in my opinion interest rates a record lows cause the economy to produce jobs that probably should be there? When interest rates go up most jobs in the housing sector will probably be lost. That sector of the canadian economy is believed to have led canada v shaped recovery out of the recession.

Finally, there are crews are working hard to clean up the damaged trees near Carlton Park Community Center. You're on the right track, so keep up the good work!