Thank you for reaching out regarding your concerns and I am aware of several improvements/repairs needing to be done at the Archery Range. Due to COVID rearing its ugly head and then subsequent operation changes that took place, Archery Range has certainly felt the impact. During our busy season, we have approximately 22 Park Hosts that assist with various job duties within the park, including Archery Range, restroom cleaning and campground sites (we have 75 to maintain). Several of these park hosts left early due to COVID which required more of maintenance staff while we continued to be at our busiest as far as park visitors and campground use.
We have a long list of park projects at this present time, including Archery Range and notably, Archery Range is one at the top of our list. Now is the ideal time to work it as well, since we are much slower (overall/park). Unfortunately however, we have been limited in maintenance staff for several months (due to reduced schedule/COVID). Several days throughout the week, I only have one maintenance person working and a lot of work that needs to be done at the Archery Range involves more than one person to do. Staff have tried to be diligent in changing targets and several target butts were removed from the lower range because of the condition of the target butt and moved to the maintenance compound so repairs can be done and ultimately the target butts are to be rebuilt.
We currently have a volunteer who has stepped up to assist with maintaining our 3D targets and have a small handful of volunteers that assist but only as they have time because they also work. As far as unemployment, I wish we had the ability to hire at whim, as we need help but unfortunately it is not that simple. Certainly, if you know of anyone interested in volunteering, they can certainly reach out to me. Currently, one of our volunteers is in the process of gathering people to assist us with a service day project at the Archery Range, specifically rebuilding target butts and/or replacing target butts, and that is date is set for this Saturday, August 15.
Again, thank you for sharing your concerns, it is a difficult time but we are aware and as I noted above, the Archery Range will continue to be our top priority. If you have any questions, please feel free to call or email me.
Supervisor, Usery Mountain Regional Park
Maricopa County Parks & Recreation Department
3939 N. Usery Pass Road
Mesa, AZ 85207
www.maricopacountyparks.net
From: remo gerra <remolgerra@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:50 AM
To: Maricopa County Parks <MaricopaCountyParks@maricopa.gov>
Subject: Usery Mountain Park
Good Morning<
I go to Usery mountain 4 times a week to shoot archery and the archery range is a disaster, there are almost no decent targets to shoot, I will say that 85% of the targets are not maintained, I pay to go shoot and it is terrible, why are not maintained? If is covid I’m sure you can find people to work with all the unemployment.
It is very poor service.
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