PRC 2002 04 23CHANHASSEN PARK AND
RECREATION COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
APRIL 23, 2002
Chairman Franks called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Rod Franks, Tom Kelly, Jack Spizale, David Happe, Amy O'Shea,
and Glen Stolar
MEMBERS ABSENT: Paula Atkins
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Hoffman, Park and Rec Director; Jerry Ruegemer, Recreation
Superintendent;
APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Todd Hoffman asked that item number 5, presentation of the new
Chanhassen "Discovery" map be deleted from the agenda.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hoffman: Last night they awarded the Arbor Day poster contest winner. That's the other, these
are the runner-up's that you see on the wall and so there's a winner in a frame upstairs. And then
Arbor Day is coming up on Saturday, May 4th. That's a great event put on by a variety of staff
members, both in, well literally all the departments and they clean parks that morning. We call it
Park Pride Day, and do a variety of other activities on Arbor Day so if you're available to
participate, look for that and mark it on your calendar and come on down to City Hall. And if
you have a group, a small group, a neighborhood group, a large group that would like to pick up a
location in Chanhassen, you just need to speak to Jill Sinclair, our Environmental Resource
Coordinator and she'll book a spot for you. They pick up dumpsters full of trash that moming as
an effort to clean up parks in Chanhassen.
Franks: Are any of the groups doing that already?
Hoffman: The roadside groups are.
Franks: Yeah, I saw some along the roads today.
Hoffman: The Adopt a Highway folks.
Franks: Wonderful. Any other announcements?
Hoffman: None that I have.
ORGANIZATIONAL ITEMS:
WELCOME NEW COMMISSIONERS.
Franks: Welcome new commissioners. Any other welcome Linda to the new commissioners?
Mayor Jansen: No. I just wanted to welcome everybody here again and thank our veterans for
helping everybody get going. I know you're in great hands with stafl~ I think I have consistently
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to referred to our Park and Rec staff as the city's cheerleaders because they have so much energy
and so much excitement around the things that we do and this group is one of the most active as
far as our volunteers so we always appreciate everything that they do to make those events
successful so good luck to you and have fun as a group.
Franks: I too would like to thank all of you. It is great for me to see people that are willing to
give up their time and be away from their families and commit themselves to our community and
to your neighbors and to the residents. I know for me personally it's been a pretty fulfilling
process and it's my wish and hope that it will be for you personally, and that as a body together
we will be able to be a solid and strong and competent advisory body to the council, and to the
residents and to our greater city, so I welcome you all and hopefully we can get to work and we
won't let Todd be too much of a slave driver.
Hoffman: You drive me.
Franks: So he says. What I'd like to do Todd, if it's okay is, I don't know if all of the
commissioners themselves have had an opportunity to be introduced to each other...
Hoffman: No, that's great.
Franks: If we could take some time and maybe just start down here and introduce ourselves.
Happe: Sure. Do you want any more data other than I'm Dave Happe.
Franks: Well Dave we're not going to ask you the classics favorite food and.
Happe: Social security number, etc.
Franks: Just the last 4 digits please for security reasons.
Happe: 9699. And my wife and I have been in Chan for a couple of years. Most recently I've
been serving on the Library Building Committee and working on the City Center Park or City
Center Commons area. I'm real excited to be here and joining this commission.
Franks: And what neighborhood do you live in?
Happe: We live in Springfield right off of 101 and Lyman. Thank you.
Spizale: Hi. I'm Jack Spizale. I'm kind of a new resident also. I've lived here like about 2
years. Got 3 kids. 3 dogs. We live on 3 acres. And we live in the Timber Creek neighborhood
and we moved from Minnetrista and we absolutely love it here. And I kind of wanted to get
involved with the City and meet some people and so far it's been a very rewarding experience
being on this commission. But welcome.
Franks: I'm Rod Franks and I've lived in Chan about 12 years now I think and this is my fifth or
sixth year on the, entering into my sixth year on the commission. And we have seen just a
tremendous amount of growth. When I came on the commission we were just really
implementing all the park referendum projects and really seeing those finish up and, can be some
pretty exciting work at times. I look forward to getting to know all of you better, both as a part of
the commission and personally too. Welcome.
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O'Shea: I'm Amy O'Shea and I've lived in Chanhassen about 7 V2 years. And I was in the
recreational field for 13 years and have noticed the great job that the Park and Rec staff`has done
in Chanhassen, along with the commission and wanted to be part of it. We thoroughly enjoy
Chanhassen too. We're in the Meadow Run area over on, off`of Galpin...on the north side of
Highway 5. And actually the thing I'm excited about in, on May 9th I'm going to graduate with
my MBA. It's been a long process. I'm a 4 year plan instead of 2 so that's happening in my
personal life and I'm very excited to be part of this group.
Kelly: My name's Tom Kelly, entering my second year of the commission. Been a Chanhassen
resident for about 9 years. I live in the same neighborhood as Dave, the Springfield
neighborhood off` of Lyman.
Happe: Oh you do?
Kelly: Yep.
Stolar: I'm Glen Stolar. I've lived in Chan about 2 V2 years. I lived in Eden Prairie before there
where I served on the Parks and Rec Commission in Eden Prairie for a couple years. And I live
at Summit at Near Mountain which is off` of 101 near 62. And very excited about being on this
board.
Franks: Well we'll keep an eye on these Springfield guys.
Hoffman: Plus they have a private park.
Kelly: We paid for that the way we pay for that.
ELECTION OF CHAIR & VICE-CHAIR.
Franks: Todd, I'm wondering if you could just briefly summarize what the role of the Chair
would be for the commission.
Hoffman: I sure can. Chair acts as the individual who operates our meetings. In most any
situation would act as the spokesperson for the commission if there were presentations before the
City Council. Although you'll notice one of the handouts you received is an assignment to the
City Council, so it's not just the Chair going to those meetings. On a rotating basis, there is an
item of park and recreation interest on the council agenda and it's your night for the meeting,
you'll be mailed that item in your mailbox and expected to attend that meeting to represent the
commission that evening. Other than that, the Chair is the person responsible for the public input
meetings, calling those folks to the podium and more or less organizing discussion of the meeting
on a day to day basis in that fashion. And then the Co-Chair acts as a person who would fill that
role in the absence of the Chair, and that happens time to time throughout the year. Anything else
that we're, those are the big issues.
Franks: Okay. At this time I would entertain any nominations for Chair of the commission.
Kelly: I would like to nominate Rod for Chair of the commission. He's the most senior member
on the commission. He really understands what's going on. He served as Vice-Chair, or assistant
Chair or whatever Chair during the past year. I think he would do a great job and he's already
sitting there.
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Franks: Is there a second?
Spizale: I second.
Franks: Is there any discussion? Are there any nominations? Seeing no further nominations, or
discussion.
Kelly moved, Spizale seconded to appoint Rod Franks as Chairman of the Park and
Recreation Commission. All voted in favor, except Franks who abstained, and the motion
carried.
Franks: Well I appreciate the vote of confidence that you've now placed with me and I will
certainly pledge to wield this gavel in an appropriate manner. We still now do have to select a
Vice-Chair for the commission. Are there any nominations for Vice-Chair?
Spizale: I nominate Tom.
Franks: Is there a second to that nomination?
Stolar: Second.
Franks: Tom?
Kelly: That would be great.
Franks: Great. Is there any discussion?
Spizale moved, Stolar seconded to appoint Tom Kelly as Vice-Chair for the Park and
Recreation Commission. All voted in favor, except Kelly who abstained, and the motion
carried.
Franks: Great. Now you do have our names spelled correctly?
Hoffman: Yes.
Franks: Alright, good.
ESTABLISHMENT OF TRAINING PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR NEW AND
EXISTING COMMISSIONERS.
Hoffman: Thank you Chair Franks, members of the commission. As I was saying before the
meeting officially was underway, we're going to take a few months and really get to know one
another. Get to know the city's park system. How the commission operates as an advisory body
to the City Council. How you can be most effective as individuals and as an organized body to
move forward the agenda or the desires of the community of Chanhassen in the area of parks and
recreation. So to do that we're going to have more than just a simple, what you would call an
orientation. We're going to go ahead and participate in some training over at the fire station.
They have a nice training room there that's been completely refurbished. One of our tasks this
evening is to identify a night which will work for all of the commissioners and then set aside
about a 3 to 3 V2 hour block of time for that one particular evening. That won't be the full extent
of it. You'll also receive a variety of materials that have to do with our comprehensive plan, the
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current park inventory and facility inventory that we have. I'm sure many of you are familiar
with our facilities already, but as a commission when neighbors, citizens come before you and
they start naming off places that they have an interest in or they have a desire to see
improvements made or changes or modifications or they're having a problem or they really like
what's going on in that area, we would like the commission to be familiar with that site so we'll
be taking some tours, and we'll do those tours probably the first hour-hour and a half before your
meetings. Your upcoming meetings. We try to condense your nights so you're not meeting every
Tuesday of the month but the standard meeting is the fourth Tuesday and then you can expect to
meet very often on those second Tuesdays, especially through this first summer, so kind of break
those out on your calendar. The second Tuesday and the fourth Tuesday. All those printed
materials start to become very overwhelming so as we begin to hand those out and you get those
into view, we'll talk about just exactly what they mean. What is important about the
comprehensive plan? What does it say in it? It's the document that we use for getting things
done in the area, primarily of park and trail development. People come in and they say, we would
like to have access to a park or we want access just like the neighbor down the street, and a
comprehensive plan really takes care of that. It says every resident of our city will have a park
within a half mile of their front door. And that's a service level that has been maintained in our
community, and there are areas where it's not met and primarily those would be in the more rural,
southem part of our community where there's very large lots and we've tried, we've made an
attempt to connect those people through our trail system but they really don't have an expectation
that there will be a park within a half mile because you just, as a city could not provide that. But
in our highly developed areas, we have that service level already. So we'll go through this
videotape, training material. It's from an individual out of Illinois. Illinois, if you're at all
familiar with the park district, is a very strong state. They have elected park boards. Very nice
park systems and this individual is the Executive Director of the Illinois State Park Association.
Ted Fletchinger and I've watched about 3/4 of the tape now. We have the printed material that
will walk through as a group and it takes, it introduces the concept and then we take some break
out time to talk about that. Take a few notes and then we move onto the next area. Obviously
this is a broad, it's on boardsmanship. How do you effectively serve on a board or a commission?
So it's a broad coverage but it's, so it's not focused on Chanhassen but it gives us a nice overview
of what boards and commissions are expected to do and some of the different issues that you'll
face. So we'll get through all of those things. And then as I mentioned earlier, one of the first
things we'll be taking a look at is our 2003 Capital Improvement Program and we have a 5 year
CIP or Capital Improvement Program that you have to establish a recommendation for the
council. We have some reporting to do at the year end on council's behalf, and then we have a
variety of issues that we're really, I would say issues that the commission prior to this
commission was, they were working on. Memorial Park. Adopt a Park. Some other issues that
we'll talk about as a group and see if you want to pick those up. If they're a priority for this
commission or if you have other ideas as well so please at any time bring forward your ideas.
We're not going to start out on a real heavy agenda basis. Not going to start throwing all these
things that we've had on the back burner for a long time right before this commission and say
let's solve all these issues. There will be things that are placed on your agenda that are just
automatic because they're a scheduled part of our, if you want to call it a govemmental process.
When a subdivision comes before the Planning Commission, this body needs to take a look at that
and decide, does this area have sufficient park service. Is there a trail adjacent to this property or
is there a section of our comprehensive trail that goes right through the middle of this property?
If that's the case, then we need to acquire some easements or outlot or right-of-way to
accommodate that trail. And so when those subdivision applications come through, or those
platting processes come through, you'll see them on your agenda and we'll do a presentation.
And if it's a fairly large subdivision, you'll have the developer here in the council chambers with
you and they may like what we're doing, they may dislike what we're doing, but we're making a
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recommendation to the council based on the comprehensive plan and we're asking for conditions
of approval of that platting process. The power of this body and the council has with the
developer is through the subdivision process. Any time they apply for a subdivision the city has
the right to come in and place those conditions of approval on it. And we can take approximately
10 percent of the property for park use if you so desire, and we can ask for trail easements and
trail construction and a variety of diff`erent things when you go through that process. And what
they call the essential nexus for that to happen is the fact that these developers are bringing new
homeowners into the community and there's not an expectation that the existing homeowners
should take care of their park and trail and recreation needs. They need to pay their own way in
those areas and they pay that through the park and trail fees, or the park dedication as a part of
that process. So we'll talk about that. We may in fact bring in Roger Knutson, the City Attomey
to talk about that one evening. It's a very important concept, especially in, we've gone through a
lot of that for about the last 10 or 15 years in huge expansion in our residential areas and our park
systems. We've probably gone from about a dozen or 15 parks, up over 27, 28 park locations
currently. And we continue to diversify what kind of parklands we are acquiring. It used to be
your standard or traditional neighborhood park. Now we're starting to see a lot more interest and
we're branching off into these, what you would call park preserves. They're just open space
areas. The most recent Fox acquisition, or as a part of the last referendum was one of those. And
we also had a donation, what is called half donation and then half through park dedication. If you
drive west on Highway 5, and you look south into what now is called the Chanhassen Nature
Preserve. That is just west of the Chanhassen Elementary School. It's 110 acres. It's the largest
preserve of open space in Chanhassen other than the Arboretum or the County park and so those
are important areas that right now people don't recognize them because the trail system's not
completed. There's still some work to do there but that's an area that I think this commission and
the council, if you talk to them, are starting to focus on. Why do they move here? They like the
downtown but they also like that sense of open space and the sense of rural feel, and anything this
group can do to preserve that, they want to make sure that that can happen. So we'll talk about
those things. We'll go through this training. You'll see agendas come to your door the week
before the meetings. Typically on a Wednesday-Thursday schedule. Something like that. The
police will drop them off so please let your neighbors and your dogs and your children and
everyone know that the cops are going to be stopping at the house once in a while, and they're
just there for really, city delivery business. Most of all, Jerry's been with the department going
on 12 years, and I've been here for just coming up on 15 years now. We enjoy working for the
residents. We enjoy working with the councils and the commissions. I always like to say, you
know there's a lot to do. There's more to do than we can ever accomplish so let's pick some
things that everybody can get along on and have some fun along the way and make some
accomplishments. I'm a huge believer in taking baby steps and then they end up making big
accomplishments. If everybody comes in thinking you're going to bite off`big chunks and just
accomplish them overnight, it's not going to happen. But just do little things. Let it accumulate
and in 4 or 5, 10 years down the line, people will start to look back and they go boy, those folks
were thinking. They got some things done so that's my philosophy in how we get work done.
But all of us think a little bit differently. We tend to be a fairly open body in communication and
we like to hear ideas and knock some things around. The items that, you know Lake Ann Park.
The trail system, the rec center. Many of those things started right here, right at this group and
when somebody said why aren't we doing that. Or I was talking to somebody the other day and
they said you know, what about this. And it's just those little things that start at this level and
then there was a recommendation made to the City Council. The Council goes along with that
and a great example is Bandimere Community Park. Bandimere Community Park was never an
idea until somebody said let's, we need to acquire some parkland in southern Chanhassen because
there's just not a lot down there. And the Council agreed with that. Councilman Boyt at the time
said, they were approving a referendum ballot and he said, look at that. There's no question
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about parkland in southem Chanhassen and the Park Commission's been talking about that. Let's
put it on there. Alright, well what will it say? Well, shall the City of Chanhassen sell general
obligation bonds to acquire parkland in southem Chanhassen? Sounds good. How much? Well
$300,000. Alright. So boom. Away it goes. It passed by 4 votes. 4 votes. Put on the ballot,
and the City acquired the best acquisition at the best price, the best value that the City has ever
acquired. 32 acres of land for just over $180,000. Back in about 1989. Coming right up on '90.
This commission, the same commission, less than 10 years later, considered selling that property
for something over a million 2. So purchased for 180. Less than 10 years later it's valued at a
million 2 to a developer. The problem was if we sold it, you'd have to go buy another piece for
the million 2 so it really didn't make any sense at the time. It was just a very neat example of
what the value of that property. And then the last referendum was to develop the property.
Again, started at a community basis. Citizens said, we don't have enough soccer fields in this
town and the Park Commission recommended the City Council hold a referendum. Terrible time
to hold a referendum. High tax sensitivity. Went through a study and the study said, don't do it.
And the task force that was assembled at the time, they backed off and those people ended up
serving for about 3 years and they said you know what, we have so much invested that we think
even though there's a high tax climate, people will go ahead and support parks and recreation and
open space in the city. They passed a referendum and Bandimere Park was constructed and today
it's seen as the finest facility that we know of in the southwest metro for soccer and other athletic
adventures so. Those are some of the stories that we want you people to be involved in. We want
you to do those things for the future of the community. Cities last forever. The things you do
here today will be here 100 years from now and they'll have impacts on those people's lives 100
years from now so think big. Think globally and everybody's going to have a lot of fun along the
way. I'll be quiet.
Franks: Are we looking Todd to establish a specific date for that training?
Hoffman: Yes. Tonight pick out a Tuesday evening or Thursday evening and I should grab my
calendar.., don't have it with me.
Franks: Would this be a good time to do that?
Hoffman: Absolutely.
Franks: Alright. Did everyone have their calendars...what your schedule is. What month are
you looking to do that in?
Hoffman: I would think May.
Franks: The second Tuesday in May is the 14th. Our regularly scheduled meeting would be on
the 28~h.
Hoffman: We're on the 29th because of Memorial.
Franks: Are you thinking that the, you mentioned a Tuesday or Thursday. I'm wondering if we
just shouldn't, if we can, stick to the second and fourth Tuesday. Just so we can all get used to
that schedule.
Hoffman: 14th works for me.
Franks: How about for other people?
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Spizale: Works. Yeah, good for me.
Franks: About what time Todd?
Hoffman: I believe we need to start about 6:00.
Stolar: How long did you say the video presentation was Todd?
Hoffman: Well we're going to be, it's 110 minutes so it will take us a minimum 3 hours. 3 V2
hours to get through that.
Franks: And we park right at the fire station?
Hoffman: You can park, yeah we'll give you directions. We'll send out a packet. There will be
parking in the back part of the lot.
Franks: If you're unable to attend or something comes up, would you please communicate with
Todd. If it looks like people are canceling then you'll be in touch with all of us and reschedule
it. As it stands then we'll consider Tuesday, May 14th for our video training and begin at about
6:00 atthe main Chanhassen Fire Station. Great.
Hoffman: Thanks Rod.
Franks: Thanks Todd.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: None.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
Hoffman: This will be an interesting vote where you actually don't have a quorum.
Franks: I'm sorry?
Hoffman: This is an interesting vote. We don't have a quorum.
Franks: Yeah, well I was going to ask you about that. What you do in a situation like that where,
can we vote to approve the minutes?
Hoffman: Probably.
Franks: Understand that it will be a non-quorum vote, but Jack or Tom, are there any additions or
changes you have to the minutes?
Kelly: No.
Spizale: No.
Franks: I don't either. Seeing none, is there a motion to approve?
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Spizale moved, Kelly seconded to approve the minutes of the Park and Recreation
Commission meeting dated March 26, 2002 as presented. All voted in favor and the motion
carried.
RECREATION PROGRAMS:
A. SPRING CANDY HUNT EVALUATION.
Ruegemer: Thank you Chair Franks, and the rest of the commission. I'm not sure how many, I
know Rod was out there. The Mayor was out there. At the candy hunt.
Franks: Jerry, could you excuse us for a minute. Thank you Mayor for stopping by. We
appreciate your support.
Mayor Jansen: I'm only leaving to go attend the District 112 meeting tonight. Facility planning.
Franks: And we'll understand that you would rather stay here with us.
Mayor Jansen: Absolutely. Good night.
Franks: Thanks. Sorry.
Ruegemer: No problem. The candy hunt was held on Saturday, March 30th out at the Chan Rec
Center. It was a pretty nice day out there. Little, it was sunny at least. We had probably the
biggest crowd ever that we've ever had out there. Probably 900 to 1,000 people, and it was quite
wild. It was very well attended. There wasn't a, during the Splatter Sisters performance...had
kind of looked at these Splatter Sisters and kind of participated in that whole event which was
nice. People are coming for the entertainment as well as the candy so. And we did have help
again from the Key Club members from the High School. From Chaska High School and also the
Boy Scouts helped out so we had plenty of volunteers for that and they help anywhere from
distributing the candy. Handing out the bags for the candy. Helping out with the parent
drawings. Crowd control. A lot of different things they helped us out with and they had I think
close to 40 volunteers for that with both groups so. They save us a lot of headaches with that and
they do a great job and they're always there to help out so, they'll be back again next year. We
certainly, the Rec Center does certainly lend itself to providing a nice, quality recreation facility
for events such as this and we will continue to operate that, this event out there as well as the
Halloween Party and those sort ofthings. Just recommendations fornext year. Again, we'renot
going to be listing the start times again for the candy hunt. It certainly seemed to have people
there ahead of time which was nice. I think what we need to do is certainly hand out the candy
bags and that to people as they come in. A lot of people did grab them on their way in. Also on
the way out of the gym and also outside the doors as they're heading kind of outside the doors.
We're going to look at adding a 3 year old category for the coloring contest. It may be a little bit
young but we're going to investigate it and discuss it I guess next year when we come to that
point but haven't had a lot of call for that. Just a suggestion to look at for next year. It works out
nice. We do put the recreation facility for the event out the day before so we do have
opportunities to get in and do set up. Hang a lot of the pictures up and get a lot of the facility
ready for the event, which really helps so we can bring the candy right from Target out to the
conference room and get it all separated and ready to go, and that saves us a lot of time the day of
the event so everything will just kind of flow once we get there. We did, Corey Hoen, the Rec
Supervisor and myself, we did go to Target. Purchased about 11,000 pieces of candy and that
wasn't enough. We had a lot of people this year so we're going to get at least 15,000 probably
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next year, pieces of candy so everybody can go away with a nice bag of candy so. That's always
kind of a fun event. We do get a lot of looks at Target and a lot of curious people asking us what
we're doing so it's kind of a fun thing. We do a lot of educating in the aisles of Target as to what
we're doing so it's kind of fun.
Hoffman: Shopping cart full of candy.
Ruegemer: So it's a fun event. This year, with Easter being a little bit earlier this year, we did
kind of run into some wet conditions out at the Rec Center. We did host the event just outside the
entrance of the front doors there. That area is a little cramped. However, it does work as kind of
a, that was kind of our Plan B/Plan C if we got down the line a little bit farther there but certainly
our first choice is to go north of the Recreation Center. North of the warming house and that kind
of big, large area by Fields 2 and 3, but those areas in some places were, the water was ankle deep
in some areas. We didn't think that would be a real good scenario for kids on a cold day so. But
it does work. You know we did have a few snow banks and that to kind of, as obstacles but with
that many people we certainly need to kind of spread out a little bit more and we'll certainly take
a look at that again for next year. Going north of that area. And really, one thing we need to
resolve tonight is certainly as a staff`we've been talking about changing the name of the event. It
was the Easter Egg Candy Hunt, and has been for 15-16 years. But in light of being responsible,
being sensitive we should look at some altematives tonight and Corey just kind of had a couple
suggestions. The Spring Candy Hunt and Coloring Contest. The Spring Fling or the Spring
Eggstravaganza. I'm sorry, Eggtravagance. These are just suggestions and ifthe commission has
any other ideas to rename, we're certainly up for opinions and discussion at this time so. If you'd
just, we can, I'll just go over real quick through the financials. You can see on the back of the
page there is the Target, the prizes. At Target the candy and the prizes and the entertainment for
a total of, a little bit over $1,600. And just as an educational point for the new commissioners. A
lot of the money, or the expenses that we have in the Easter Egg Candy Hunt are covered through
our annual sponsorship program. In October-November of every year we send out letters to all
the businesses once a year and kind of ask for their support for all these events. In cash, prizes,
donations, a lot of those types of things. We take in roughly about $26,000 to $28,000 a year in
cash, contributions, gift certificates, product, a lot of these types of things so. A lot of the
expenses that we have are certainly incorporated within the sponsorship program. That money
goes into the general fund, however we do identify that through our budget process in our
recreation budget. So with that I'd like to tum it back to Chair Franks and the commissioners to
come up with a new name.
Franks: Thank you Jerry. Before we move into comments, are there any commissioners with
questions for Jerry about... Okay. Welllet'sjust, to keep this a little orderly so we're not talking
back and forth and just hear what everyone has to say and we'll start down on your end and work
this way.
Stolar: Has anyone asked that the name be changed?
Ruegemer: Pardon me?
Stolar: Has anyone asked that the name be changed? Okay... For the purpose of the records, I
would be one of the religious groups that doesn't celebrate Easter and I think it's an Easter Egg
Candy Hunt. It's what it is, and I'm fine with that. So, there you are. I mean if you haven't had
it pointed out, I don't see any reason to change but if you force me to pick one, I do like the
Spring Eggstravaganza. I think that's kind of creative.
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Franks: Tom.
Kelly: I'm in total agreement with that. I think it as the Easter Egg Candy Hunt but if we have to
change the name I do like the Spring Eggstravaganza. But I'd prefer to leave it as an Easter Egg
Candy Hunt.
Franks: Okay, Tom. Thanks. Amy.
O'Shea: I do like the way it is but again if we're forced to change, I think I'd keep the Candy
Hunt because I think Eggstravaganza might be hard for the kids to say. So I tend to make it
simple and I don't know if Candy Hunt is the best but thinking right now that's what I would lean
towards. Something that the kids could relate to.
Franks: Jerry, a couple of things. One is, you have to re-set the gym for the entertainment
because the people trying to sit behind the group doing the entertainment just didn't work at all.
And the space created like a prime avenue for children to get out of control and you could see that
it was bothering the Splatter Sisters because they were worried about their equipment. Kids are
tripping over the extension cords. The... helpers were trying but.
Ruegemer: There was some artistic differences on that the morning of. I made that suggestion to
back up, and.
Hoffman: With the Splatter Sisters? Yeah.
Ruegemer: But.
Franks: And do those bleachers, they don't go any higher than that do they? So they were
extended fully already. Okay. But that was the one thing that I would say. And the second thing
is, I personally liked having the candy hunt area out there in front of the rec center. That place is
grass. It's seeded well and it doesn't get trampled during the sports season and get quite so
mushy and muddy as the rest of the field, so if we can better count on that being a place to do the
candy. I thought the space set aside was large enough for the kids in each group to have time.
My suggestion would be to leave the gym out that back door of the gym, and have age group
staging areas outside that area, right off the sidewalk in that field space just north of the gym.
And even if we had something where it was like a photo opportunity for each group, with the
bunnies that were there. I think there were like 3, at least 2 that I saw, but the staging areas have
like a little set-up so that could occupy people's time while they're waiting. And then you could
call the groups around the corner of the building. So you wouldn't be in direct...you guys
throwing out the candy and dropping the golden egg and that whole thing and then they could
come around. When that group is finished they could go right to the parking lot and leave. Just
kind of a flow. Because people were going out that gym door anyway, and if we had it set up, I
think that would work good. With the other thing is, purchasing so much candy. Is it time or a
possibility to consider one of the vendors that the city works with as a source for just buying
candy in huge bulk and potentially at a discount or something like that? I don't know, it's not
like 10 years ago when we needed some candy and we cruise to Target and get it. I mean we're
talking such a significant amount of candy, it'd be easy to get a delivery for that amount of candy.
And I don't know if any vendors would be interested in doing something like that.
Ruegemer: Yeah, we can investigate that. I mean we've looked at other avenues as far as like a
Sam's Club and that sort of thing. Or even buy a case price at Target but yeah, we certainly could
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take a look into that. Certainly. Depending who the manager was at Target, we used to get a
little discount on that but that changes through the years.
Franks: I mean it's always a consideration too, and I like the idea of having the 3 year old age
group for the coloring contest too. About the name. You know I'm going to echo the same
sentiments as the commissioners ahead of me. If the community is not necessarily requesting the
change, although we should be prepared to make a change when it's something that is seeming
like it's being asked for, then you should... If it's not something that's really being requested of
us at this time, I don't know if we should go ahead and make the change. Part of the feeling is,
it's one of those things where, you know it's going to off'end some people either way and if right
now it's being accepted for what it is, then maybe we'll stick with that as long as it seems that it's
being accepted. When it's no longer being accepted, then I think that's the time that we should
really consider changing it.
Spizale: I have to say I agree with the other commissioners that if it's not broke, why fix it.
Nobody's complained about it. I think everybody understands what it is and I don't think we
need to change it yet. That's all I got.
Franks: Thanks Jack.
Happe: Jerry, what a great report. The most fun event with...turn on investment for $1,682,
sounds like we got great bang for the buck. I agree I guess with Glen's original point. I
appreciate the fact that staff`brought this up. I think it's important that we, I think it's great that
you guys were very sensitive to that. At this point I'd agree with my other commissioners and I'd
like to leave it the way it is, unless change is mandated.
Ruegemer: Do I need a motion for that?
Stolar: I also appreciate the thoughtfulness of the staff; but it's fun. It's fun the way it is.
Franks: You know what we would appreciate, and I'm sure that you would do it but just to make
it clear for the rest.., would be very interested as a commission in hearing if this type of request or
concern is being made by residents. Bring that to our attention.
Hoffman: I think the Easter one was born out of a sensitivity about the Christmas Tree lighting,
and so we might want to talk about that as a group as well. Should that, in the park as a part of
the library we refer to it as a holiday tree and so... cities traditionally have been involved in
stringing Christmas Tree lights but there's some change in the wind in that area as well. They
can call it a holiday tree or a holiday lighting, but there's a fine line. There's not a big difference
there. People still recognize it as a symbol so.
4m OF dULY CELEBRATION PREVIEW.
Ruegemer: It's coming up fast, isn't it? Corey's been busy working on the schedule of events.
As you see on the back of the memo, that is the tentative schedule of events. The event this year
will be Wednesday, July 3rd and Thursday, July 4th. Corey's been busy I know working and
talking to a lot of diff`erent food vendors. Famous Dave's has been mentioned in the last couple
days here so they may be coming in as part of the food vendor. You can see kind of listed down
below there's a lot of different combinations of food and so hopefully that should appeal to a lot
of different tastes. And that is Kettle Kom and not Kettle Kom Sno-Cones so just, we're missing
a comma on that one so.
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Franks: That's a unique combination.
Ruegemer: And we as a staff has really been talking about moving, the event will move from
down south here, back up on top with the library project going in down in this area. We will be
going back up on top again. I think we moved down here in '96, and now we'll be going back up
and having the big tents and a lot of the activities just north of City Hall in the grassy area up
there, so we're certainly, we have a layout and a map of that area already kind of secured or in
place and we'll be kind of going through and kind of recognizing a lot of the components that we
need to do and placement to make that event successful so. That's coming up again. I will be the
parade contact again for that. In fact conversations with the parade committee already up to this
point and we'll be meeting as a group again probably in May sometime, and we'll be kind of
going through a lot of the I guess different components to that event as well. That parade also
started as part of the Chanhassen Centennial back in 1996. It started out to be a one, just a one
time event and upon the success of that first parade, it continued so it's been an annual event
every year since 1996. So last year I think we had around 70 or 80 floats and I would anticipate
that again this year. I know that with school funding a lot of those types of things, the marching
band price did go up again this year so we'll be looking at additional revenue sources to pay those
type of entertainment as well so. But it's coming up. I'm not sure if everybody's seen the logo
yet but as a community, the Chamber of Commerce approached the City in doing kind of a
cooperative venture, along with that. The basic kind of idea behind that, the concept of the logo
design was to have local students kind of design as part of their art, kind of part of their art
classes and that sort of thing at both the High School, the Chaska High School, is it Holy...in
Victoria and kind of all the local schools here. High school. They were asked to submit kind of
their vision of kind of the theme was, what is a hero this year in light of what happened with 9-11
this year. All those are submitted. All those ideas. All that artwork is submitted and a design
was picked last week with that. And the winning person I believe got $1,000 for their efforts.
Just kind of a fund raiser. Local businesses will be selling these t-shirts as a fund raiser and also
the Chamber is part of that selection process. I think the winning person was selected from the
Chaska High School, so then their art department will also receive $250 contribution as kind of a
recognition of their achievement as well so. We were involved in that. We do 4th of July t-shirts
every year for, as part of our sponsorship program. We give out roughly about 300 to 400 shirts
for all our businesses so we were certainly willing to do a cooperative effort between the
Chamber and the local businesses and the City so. This is kind of a fun event that Corey's been
involved with. I was involved in it too a little bit early on and so those should be hitting the
streets here fairly soon. We'll get you one.
Franks: So it can be wom when we volunteer.
Hoffman: That's correct.
Franks: Any questions for Jerry? Any commissioners have any comments about the 4th of July
celebration?
Happe: I've got a couple.
Franks: Dave.
Happe: Of course the library will be under construction obviously at that point. I don't know if
that has any bearing on any of the parade route or any of the plans for that but just a comment for
you. And then the other one was, I remember from last year, which by the way was my favorite
event of the year but I remember there being a letter to the editor and maybe not a lot but a little
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bit offlack over the beer garden. And just wondering if that is an issue that should be brought up
again this year. If we should re-evaluate either how that was done, or whether or not that's
necessary as part of this event.
Hoffman: We were sensitive to that as well. It's not the only comment, the one they made in the
paper. There were other comments that staff got. The Rotary's the sponsor of the beer garden.
They sell $10,000 worth of beer in a single evening and it's a big concession for that particular
group, but we want people to celebrate responsibly and so towards that effort I will be asking the
Rotary to go ahead and pay for two police officers, or Carver County Deputies to patrol the beer
garden as an added sense of security so. There are Carver County people there already, but
they're not just assigned to the beer garden. If they get a call, they can leave so to increase that,
the security we want to have those people assigned specifically. And to those kind of volumes
and dollar amounts, they can certainly afford to finance that security.
Happe: Where was the beer garden last year?
Hoffman: It's always right under the main tent.
Happe: Okay. That's all I have.
Spizale: I had one comment. I went to my first one last year and enjoyed it immensely. Enjoyed
volunteering. Enjoyed all the events. The only negative I could see to the whole thing was, and it
seems like we're getting more. I felt we were a little short of food vendors. It just seemed like
the lines were completely long to get basic food. You know like we spent 20-25 minutes in some
of the lines to get food, so I think my recommendation would be to continue to get more food
vendors that serve general food. Other than that, really enjoyed it.
Franks: Thanks Jack. Amy?
O'Shea: No comments.
Franks: Tom?
Kelly: No.
Franks: Glen?
Stolar: Just wondering are you going to have a 2 year old division for the free throw contest?
Ruegemer: We can certainly consider that.
Stolar: My 2 year old plays basketball.
Ruegemer: We certainly will be calling upon the commission at the June meeting we'll be, we
have the volunteer list. Traditionally the commission has helped out with the prize board sales
and t-shirt sales, that sort of thing on July 3rd itself. And then also if the commissioners would
like to help out with the parade or any other types of events on the 4th, we certainly would
welcome your volunteerism so we'll be passing out that volunteer sheet in June.
Franks: Just a couple of things for Jerry. Dippin Dots. I didn't see them on the list. Are they
coming back and are they going to bring enough?
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Ruegemer: They are on the first item right by sweet corn.
Franks: Got to make sure for Jan that the Dippin Dots are going to be there.
Hoffman: And they ran out last year eh?
Franks: Yeah, they ran out before I could get there. While I was in that 25 minute line, they ran
out .... the plan that you got for moving everything back up to the City Center Park up there.
And I don't know where that line comes in where, because the vendors are interested in making a
certain amount of profit, if we pull in too many vendors, we'll have people pulling out so I don't
Ruegemer: That is the argument we've had through the years.
Franks: Do we have room for more vendors as far as what previous sales have been to those
vendors we have had?
Ruegemer: Yes. We charge a flat fee versus a percentage. We used to do percentages, but it
always seemed like at the end of night you always kind of like, well I think you made a little bit
more than that but who's going to know. So we did raise that fee this year to the most expensive
was at $250 if they need electricity and that sort of thing. If they're a for profit group, we do give
non-profit groups a little bit of a break on that. But that's the way we decided to kind of handle
that and go that route.
Hoffman: Nobody's complaining that they're not making enough money yet.
Ruegemer: Mr. Sweet Corn does a little bit but.
Hoffman: Well, he's got no complaints.
Ruegemer: But physical space, certainly we have room to expand.
Franks: And the utilities up there going to be an issue?
Ruegemer: We're in the process of moving the electrical kind of components that we had down
in the southem area down here, we will move that up in that north area. Close to the path
somewhere. Maybe by the big green utility boxes that we have with electrical components are
now. And so we can certainly accomplish a lot just from that pedestal power that we have there.
Then also we can certainly bring in different phasing of generators and stuff for different vendors.
Franks: And any of our active skateboarders, has that been brought up with any of these
organizations about doing some kind of exhibition in the skate parks since we're all going to be
up there anyway? That might be a nice way to positively highlight the skate park. And other
than that, I don't know other than using it for that kind of exhibition during the 3rd, at least from
4:30 on, has it been considered in closing down the skate park? And I don't know what you're
thinking about there but, you know to.
Hoffman: Probably going to have the second biggest crowd of any area up there.
Franks: Yeah probably, and that's what I'm concerned about actually. You know considering
that sometimes we do have some problems up there, it's just kind of really creating some
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insurance that since everything is up, that skate park will no longer be kind of out of the way. It's
going to be you know right on the edge of things so. That'd be something I would suggest that as
staff you discuss.
Hoffman: Added security probably would be appropriate.
Franks: Or add more security. The one thing I'm afraid of is that there be any kind of a problem
and that's just going to add to already some of the public perception that the skate park is not a
place for young hoodlums to hang out at instead of really seeing it as the great recreational
opportunity that it is.
Hoffman: I would rather have it open and be a positive experience for the whole crowd.
Franks: Right. But if it can't be a positive, than it might be better to look at an altemative.
Hoffman: We've talked about beefing up all the venues for that evening. Larger tents. More
tents. Bigger spaces. Bigger aisles because the attendance continues to grow. There's always a
balance because it takes a good amount of resources to provide those facilities for that evening
when it's about a 6 hour window. 4 hour really intense window of activity. People love the event
and we want to make it a positive experience so they plan to stay in town and it takes a good
amount of money to provide all those tables, chairs, vendors, electricity, etc, etc, to meet those
high peak demands so it's always a balancing act. Last year we had a narrower tent because we
saved what?
Ruegemer: $3,000.
Hoffman: 3,000 bucks but we're not going to do it. The narrower tent just did not work for the
crowd so we've gone to 2 tents and we're back to the wider tents.
Franks: At one point we talked about trying to pull something together on the 4th. The facilities
are downtown. We noticed that once the parade passes, people are just bugging out but we
already have all these people downtown already. Is there something more that we could provide
for them like having the food vendors actually opened up for, I know at one point we talked about
an art or craft fair in the Market Square or in the Byerly's parking lot or something like that. Is
that anything that's being considered?
Hoffman: We've had one of our local musicians talk about having a series of concerts in the next
day, so that's up for discussion. The facilities are all there. The restrooms and the tent and the
tables and chairs so.
Franks: Because we still have the tents for the next day. If we could utilize those since we have
all the people congregated downtown, just to really give them a little something.., on the 4th.
Hoffman: They can mingle and stay, during and before and after the parade.
Franks: Right. And I would also request that when we're all down there as commissioners and
enjoying the 4th of July festivities and Todd here comes, that we all begin to consider how it is we
might add or expand on and the one thing that I would like you to consider is adding, if you think
it'd be appropriate, some camival type attractions as in.
Hoffman: A midway.
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Franks: A midway. I don't know if any of you have seen like Richfield's 4th of July area there at
the Veterans of Memorial Park. They have like a huge, full midway. Now of course we wouldn't
be...but since we have moved the whole celebration out to City Center Park and we do have
space available, it would be a time that we could consider adding something like that. My
understanding is that if done correctly it can be a pretty good revenue source as well.
Hoffman: And it appeals to the older kids and our community, our children are getting older.
Franks: And we've seen the response that the teenagers have to the skate park. If you go out
there, even when I came up today...although there still are some yellow teeth... So Jerry, I know
that you have to book those things probably more than a year in advance so if you could begin to
look that up for us so we have some information after the 4th of July that we could consider as
part of our post celebration back-up, I would appreciate it.
O'Shea: Chair Franks, I did think of something tonight.
Franks: Sure.
O'Shea: This might be a safety issue but we work as a fund raiser. Did they legalize sparklers
this year?
Hoffman: Yep.
Ruegemer: Yes.
O'Shea: Yeah, that might be a safety issue. You may not want them there.
Hoffman: No sparklers. Jesse might bring some. Glow necklaces. No 14,000 degree sparklers.
Ruegemer: We do have that light...
Franks: You do? I was going to say, is the City doing that or do you have vendors lined up?
Ruegemer: We have a vendor that pays us money to come in and it's already done.
Franks: Wonderful, thanks. Any other comments? Alright moving on.
COMMISSION MEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Franks: I don't think we have any active committees going right now.
Kelly: We have one, yep.
Franks: We do?
Kelly: The Dave Huff`man Run .... giving the new commission background and ifI make any
mistakes, please let me know. In 2000 Chanhassen decided to sponsor a 5K Run called the Dave
Huffman Run. Dave Huff`man was a tight end for the Vikings. He was a Chanhassen resident.
He also was a member of this commission a few years ago. He did die in a car accident maybe 4
or 5 years ago, I'm not sure. So a 5K Run was established in his honor. Again in 2000 we had
about, I want to say 250 participants. Last year we 450 folks so the run is growing by leaps and
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bounds. We had more Vikings participation last year in person. I don't know the name of the
Viking mascot but the guy that rides the Harley during the games.
Hoffman: Ragnar.
Kelly: Ragnar. He actually led the, I think he started the run and he was around for kids at the
end. We had some Viking cheerleaders actually run and Joe Schmitt presented the awards at the
post race celebration. What's happening this year is we're in the middle of planning the run right
now. Joe Schmitt is a definite in. Matt Blair, I guess he used to be a linebacker for the Vikings
also has committed to do the run. Mike Morris on KFAN is going to do promotions over the air.
Because of tax purposes the run, and I'm no financial analyst but because of tax purposes now the
run has to file for a 501C3 status, which is actually a good thing now because I believe now that
we can give businesses receipts for their contributions which actually could encourage more
contributions from businesses. The web site is up and running. Huff`man 5K.com, and we met
tonight and we're actually seriously considering adding a kids run to the Dave Huff`man Run.
The route may be a quarter mile. It might be a half mile. We're trying to figure out what the
route is and there may be some additional activities for the kids besides just running. Maybe face
paint or something so, in a preliminary stage but we're trying to make it more a family event and
we're trying to monitor how other kids run are done in the city but everyone's really excited and
message from Mike Howe who was running this before he left. He wants to encourage everyone
to start running now. It's never too early to train and he wanted me to pass that on. It is a great
run. The route begins at Lake Ann and ends at the Americlnn with the exception of one hill at the
very beginning going up Powers, it's just a cruise. It's a very fast run and it's very enjoyable and
the weather last 2 years has been fantastic.
Happe: Tom, when did you say the date of that is?
Kelly: It is, I think it's the 14th this year. And we're trying to get more Viking participation and
just trying to grow the event. We are going to try to exchange lists or try to, what some of the
other local runs in the area try to maybe exchange some mail lists to try to increase the
participation so, that was the report.
Franks: Thanks Tom. Great event. We're hoping that it continues to become kind of a signature
event for Chanhassen in the fall so, something else to really expand on and help businesses in
downtown. And we expect all commissioners to participate in running. Alright, there are no
other committees, are there Todd? Any that I'm not aware of. Any more that I'm not aware of?
Okay, good.
COMMISSION MEMBER PRESENTATIONS.
Franks: We also have a time available for commission member presentations. This is an
opportunity for commission members to present things to the commission. Are there any
commissioners with any presentations this evening? Seeing none, we'll move onto administrative
packet. That is the group of papers labeled Administrative Section.
ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET.
Hoffman: General correspondence that staff receives on a month to month basis. It's
informational. It makes for some conversation and we talked about the business at hand in the
packet given month. When it's at commissioner presentation time, generally your agendas are
driven by about 4 different factors. Number one is to tradition. Traditional items come before
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the commission on any given month of the year, so that's about a quarter. About a quarter of
your agenda is driven from the outside. People come to the commission wanting things. About a
quarter is driven by stafl~ We place items on your agenda and then about a quarter of the agenda
should be driven by the commission itself and that would be a time for you to bring up ideas that
you've been talking with your friends or family or neighbors and then we would, the commission
would talk about them and as a group decide if you want to place them on a future agenda and
direct staff to go ahead and start some investigation into that particular topic.
Franks: As an example, the Dave Huffman 5K was an item that began as commissioners during
presentation time, talking about an idea and it just happened to happen at the same time that the
Americlnn and Northcott Industries had approached the city about wanting to do a signature
event and so there's a prime example about how those things get started. Any comments
regarding the administrative packet?
Kelly: Can we discuss the Eagle Scout proposal?
Franks: Sure.
Kelly: I don't know where to start or if I just want to throw it out. I thought the park benches
were a great idea around the new play area. I thought we had, I think that was part of the
planning to put benches.
Hoffman: Part of the plan but they were not in yet.
Kelly: Were not in yet, okay. I just wanted to see what people thought about the other items on
the proposal. The exercise stations, and I'm confused about the Eagle, what actually an Eagle
project is. They don't fund any of this. They just kind of propose it or manage it?
Hoffman: They manage it. Facilitate it. Proceed with the actual construction and then the city
and park fund pays for the materials and supplies. They'll bring these proposals forward. Mr.
Nettesheim will come down to the Park and Rec Commission and give a presentation on the, we
agreed that he would do the installation of the benches. The fitness course is more or less a thing
of the past. Mileage markers we talked about would be nice, but it's tough to find a start and stop
point in Bandimere where people would stop and start and then soccer benches and so we went
with the permanent park map. He thought he may do that and then the benches around the
playground. And depending on the scheduling of these things, if they come in, they may have the
opportunity to come in and talk to the park commission prior to making a decision and they need
to talk about it as a group so it's, we have money budgeted as an annual basis. Sometimes we go
a couple years without doing any. This year we actually have 2 Eagle Scout projects.
Happe: So that's set aside specifically for Eagle Scout projects?
Hoffman: Yes.
Happe: That's cool.
Hoffman: It's about $500 a project, give or take 500 to 1,000 depending on the project.
Franks: Anyone else? You know I'm wondering Todd, every month we kind of see more cities
and sports organizations that are going the tobacco free route and I'm wondering if that's
something that we're hearing from our sports organizations as well.
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Hoffman: Not hearing it. I think it's a great idea. It just depends on what extent you want to go
to. Many of the communities have gone simply at youth athletic venues. Not the adult venues. I
think there's a rare occasion where they've gone all city parks are smoke free or tobacco free.
Similar to the school districts but by and large a majority are simply at the youth athletic events.
Franks: Okay. Is that something that you as a staff`have talked about bringing around in our park
system as well? Or we're not quite there yet?
Hoffman: I think we're there, yeah. I continue to pull articles that come in and put them in a file
and so when the time comes that we want to discuss it, we have background materials I can give
you.
Franks: Is there times when, during the day when we both have youth events and adult events
happening on the fields at the same time next to each other Jerry?
Ruegemer: Lake Ann Park on a daily basis during the summer. There's activities like that every
night.
Hoffman: Same park but not same fields.
Ruegemer: Next to each other at times.
Franks: Next to each other at times.
Hoffman: I think the policy's more of, it's just as much a statement as it is an enforceable policy.
No one's going to go out and enforce the smoke free policy but as an association. If the City
adopts it in concert with association, the association leadership is saying yes, we think this is a
good idea and they pass it on to the parents.
Franks: Are we considering that it's too late in the year for us to act on it for the summer season.
So what I'd like to see is, if you could make a note, have it come up on our agenda when we
review the summer sports season.
Hoffman: Okay.
Franks: And if you receive comment or are able to solicit comment from the heads of the various
sports organizations to... Well if there aren't any more comments, questions regarding the
administrative packet, is there? Seeing none, is there a motion to adjourn?
Happe moved, Spizale seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion
carried. The Park and Recreation Commission meeting was adjourned.
Submitted by Todd Hoff`man
Park and Rec Director
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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