Tasks completed by the work crews range from cleaning county facilities to maintaining county vehicles to constructing park amenities. The crews have been behind the
building of the camper cabins at Games Lake , with the final one to be installed this year. They also built the bunk beds and tables for the cabins along with repairing and rebuilding picnic tables for the various county parks.
Crews also refurbished the inside of the Sheriff's Office firearms tactical trailer, adding shelving for better organization, and upgraded a van with benches and shelving.
"(The deputies) use this for support for the SWAT team," Roelofs said. "They are very happy with having that van."
Community service crews, including juveniles, helped spruce up the bedrooms at the Prairie Lakes Youth Programs facility on the MinnWest Technology Campus. This included a new paint job and carpet.
"It just turned out fabulous," Nelson said.
Annual work includes snow removal in the winter and mowing in the summer. Crews also do a lot of maintenance at the county parks, keeping facilities in good condition and clean.
"We have a list each year with the parks, what we can do," Roelofs said. "We are pretty busy on the mowers in the summer."
In 2022, crews will be sanding and painting the cell doors and repairing handrails at the Kandiyohi County Jail and doing a special project with the DREAM Technical Academy charter school in Willmar by building planter boxes.
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The staff of Kandiyohi County Community Corrections, which runs the Community Service Program, hope that the offenders who serve on the crews get some positives out of their experience, most importantly skills they can take back out into their community.
"Give them a skill to go forward and be able to change their lives," Lieberg said.