LYNN – Officials said they are addressing issues in the city’s parks on a daily basis, despite a report by a local non-profit reporting poor conditions in many of the city’s parks.”It is an accurate report but it’s a snapshot in time,” said Department of Public Works Director Jay Fink. “If you were to revisit the parks you would see changes.”Fink said the report listed the condition of more than 20 parks and playgrounds on a particular day in June, but he said he has people in the parks every day addressing a variety of issues.”The parks are heavily used and we are working diligently to keep up,” he said.Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy, who did not return phone calls last week before the initial story ran, said the survey, which was done by four student health volunteers for Operation Bootstrap, an adult education program, was more of a “scrapbook” of the city’s parks.”It wasn’t really a report,” she added. “A report carries the connotation of authority and this didn’t have that.”Kennedy said she views the survey as a tool and Operation Bootstrap as a partner in the ongoing task of keeping the city’s parks and playgrounds clean.”I look at this as a positive effort to help us get an accurate inventory of the parks,” she said.The group produced a binder that included detailed descriptions and pictures of the conditions at each park.The students reported seeing an overabundance of garbage and broken or rusty equipment at the majority of parks and playgrounds, with only a few parks – including Gallagher Playground and Hood Park – being reported as clean and well kept.”We went out and saw litter, bandages and there were clothes on the ground, like people are living there. We saw a drug deal going on in one of the parks, which was shocking to us,” said Operation Bootstrap volunteer Mabge Savane. “In the summertime our children are outside a lot more, and we don’t want to have to worry about them being hurt, so we want to make the parks safer.”Mary Chalmers, an aide to Kennedy, said she fields calls regularly from residents with concerns regarding the parks and whether it is an issue of cleanliness, broken benches or bolts sticking out of equipment, “DPW takes care of it.”Assistant Superintendent of Parks and Playgrounds Lisa Nerich said DPW and the city on a whole has been responsive to concerns regarding the parks.Chalmers said since spring there have been at least five major park cleanups, which included picking up trash, cleaning up graffiti and putting down clean mulch and there are more planned including one on Aug. 20 that will focus on Cook Street and Ames playgrounds.Nerich also said that earlier this summer, Lynn Vocational Technical Institute staff and students targeted 11 parks, repainted equipment, planted flowers, raked and cleaned up trash.”And the Sheriff’s office comes in regularly to remove graffiti,” Chalmers added.Community Development Director James Marsh pointed out that the city has completed more than $2 million worth of work in the city’s parks at no expense to taxpayers. He rattled off a list of projects that included a $15,000 renovation of the Henry Avenue Playground, $5,000 in renovations at the Williams Avenue Playground and $10,000 committed to improvements at the Clark Street Playground, all of which were funded through grants.Fink admitted that keeping up with the parks was an ongoing task but said the city is committed to addressing issues as they arise.”The city has a lot of parks and fields and we do have finite resources to address them,” he said. “In the summer though, we do weekly assessments and we prioritize and we try and keep them safe.”Nerich added that keeping the parks clean and safe is truly a city-wide project.”The whole city needs to take part in this and clean up after themselves,” she said. “If you have a pick up basketball game, clean up your water bottles and trash. Take it with you if the barrel is full.”She said any organization that would like to pitch in and sponsor a park clean