Parks Maintenance Training with Pima County
MARANA- The Town of Marana’s Parks Maintenance division of the Parks & Recreation Department is working with Pima County’s Park Operations Division to train new employees in park maintenance.
The town held the training on Wednesday, February 8th at Gladden Farms Community Park.
“This is in coordination with Pima County to get some of their newer staff trained on some of the basics on baseball field maintenance, soccer field maintenance and some of the basics on irrigation as well,” explained Parks Maintenance Supervisor Nate Jansky with the Town of Marana.
“The director for Town of Marana Parks and Recreation, Jim Conroy and I have a professional relationship for the last 30 years… and we from a parks maintenance standpoint, we feel it’s important to collectively get together and partner to do trainings like this to help grow our new employees in the field of park maintenance,” said Ron Odell, Division Manager of Park Operations for Pima County.
Odell went on to say they treat their staff as park professionals and want them to know management is investing in them to help them learn all aspects of park maintenance.
“It’s not just maintaining, de-literring or addressing the needs of sanitizing restrooms. It’s physically getting out into the park and doing the best you can for the assets that are in the park for the community to use,” said Odell.
“I’d like the public to know that we’re providing five-star service to them by training our guys as well as some Pima County guys to keep these parks looking a little nicer,” said Jansky.
Odell said he hopes to plan future trainings with the town with the county potentially hosting the next one.
“I think it is really important that there is a good exchange of ideas when you partner with another jurisdiction. Our approach can be validated by another organization teaching the same methodology and perhaps they’ll learn something new. If we continue this type of partnership in the future it can only help these guys get even better being park maintenance professionals,” said Odell.
