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■ Identify information gaps. ■ Consider related City initiatives. 6. What is the role of GIS in the approach to the PROS plan. Supported by slides 16-21 of our presentation materials (Attachment A). BERK and our partners Perteet and Forterra all have strength in GIS analysis. While GIS is primarily used for creating maps, we use it in many additional ways, including but not limited to: ■ Inventories such as ADA assessments, facilities inventories, and urban forestry planning ■ Community engagement including storymapping and online open houses ■ Equity and access mapping ■ Evaluation such as to help define priorities. 7. Provide an example of a park maintenance management plan. Supported by slides 22-23 of our presentation materials (Attachment A). We propose developing a chapter or appendix in the updated PROS Plan to address park system maintenance and management. The maintenance plan will be informed by the park inventory and field assessment to provide a listing, evaluation, and quantification of assets within each park in the system and to outline equitable policies and strategies to maintain parks to acceptable service levels. The maintenance plan can also be used to predict maintenance needs of future park spaces based on the anticipated components planned to occur within future parks. We will develop both overarching systemwide tools and recommendations for site specific maintenance practices. We anticipate first identifying standard maintenance specifications with established levels of service pursuant to NRPA standards, or other standards acceptable to the City and community (e.g. to describe what will occur for maintenance and how frequently lawn mowing, restroom cleaning, and other actions are anticipated to be done). To provide this level of maintenance plan, assets in the parks system will be inventoried for each park site and will be updated and more comprehensively listed than the 2016 PROS Plan utilizing GPS/GIS to understand the locations, conditions, and area quantities of site coverage types (e.g. lawn, landscape beds, forested areas, etc.) or other recreational surfaces and assets identified (benches, kiosks, trash receptacles, play structures, play area surfacing, trail surfacing, and vehicular surfaces, etc.). With specified maintenance actions and frequencies and a listing and quantification of assets, action steps and implementation strategies will be provide for each park site. BERK has developed system-wide maintenance and operation levels of service and financial situation assessments for communities throughout the region. Perteet has developed parks-specific vegetation management plans, including for the South Everett Forest Plan. Larry Otos, formerly the Parks and Recreation Director for the City of Mount Vernon, will also be part of Perteet staff for this effort and brings with him experience in recently creating a Maintenance Management Plan for the City of Chelan that was used to determine staffing levels. City of Everett I PROS Plan Update—Interview Response 7