1 Approval of MinutesCHANHASSEN PARK AND
RECREATION COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
JULY 2S, 2000
Chairwoman Lash called the Park and Recreation Commission meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Jan Lash, Mike Howe, Jim Manders, David Moes, Jay Karlovich, Fred Berg
and Rod Franks
MEMBERS ABSENT: None.
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Hoffinau, Park and Rec Director; Jerry Ruegemer, Recreatiou
Superintendent; and Tracy Petersou, Recreation Supervisor
APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Todd Hoffman amended the agenda to include an administrative
presentation.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
Lash: Mayor Mancino has mentioned she has a couple of items she'd like to share.
Mayor Mancino: Thank you. My name is Nancy Maucino, 6620 Galpin Boulevard and what I xvanted to
sa5, was, and share with you is, alt the phone calls, all tile compliments, all the just people stopping me
and saying how wonderful the July 3''d and 4th events were. So l.just wanted to come tip and publicly
thank you on behalf of the Council and on behalf of all the residents in Chauhassen who attended. You
just put on a xvouderfld, wonderfl~l, trelneudous event. So thank you to the commission tbr working on it
so much. Todd, thank you very, very much and q'racy. I mean it was just a delight to go and to walk
around and see so many people having such a good time. So many families just everybody everywhere.
My husband said, lie looked at me when we were up on the, watching the pony rides and everything and
lie said, Naucy you never told me that Chanhassen was the epiceuter for children between 3 and 8 you
know. And it was just, you know l've lived here 17 years and it was by far the coolest event that we had
this year. I think. From my perspective. So agaiu a very, very heartfelt thanks, l just know that
everyoue who came, and other people who didn't come said they're co~ning next year because they heard
about how great it was. So what a just a perfect community event. And again I houestly can't really
express it more. It was,just so cool being there, so thank you. Thank you. Thauk you. And anything
that we eau do to support it and support you in it. You kuow 1 knoxv you always have to do a post
mortem and look at it and say you know, what do we want to do for next year and everything. One of the
coolest to me was the, it was the illustrations. The chalk drawing contest. As I said to Tracy and Susan,
I'd hate to be a judge up here. I mean it was just, it was really ueat to see and we've got to get the lateral
out next year and get somebody with a camera, a huge camera up taking a picture of it you know from the
sky down because that was really, really fun. i meau 1 could go on and ou and on. It was just a very
good feeling.
Hoffinan: Thanks for all your work on the parade.
Mayor Mancino: You're welcome. You're welcome. Any questions you have of me of what's going
on? Anythiug that you've heard about or want to ask me about?
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Lash: I have just one quick question, and it is about the 4th of July and I was going to praise stafftoo. 1
thought, and I've been to every one and I thought this year's was just the best and I don't know why. It
just seemed like it was so well attended and everyone seemed to have fun. They stayed. ! mean it really
was fabulous and I said to everybody in my family, I said don't you just think this year's was just the
greatest? It just gets better every year and they said no, it's always been. So they didn't see any
difference. For me it felt different and I'm not sure why but it really ~vas, it was really, really good. But
I was wondering, I know this year because of the millennium that the fireworks budget was increased so
how do you think that, the City Council will feel for next year. Do you feel like they'll want to continue
with the same amount or is that something that you think will need to be tamed down or?
Mayor Mancino: Well just my personal opinion I mean again, I heard that the fireworks was great too so
that was part of it. It ended with a big splash, etc. So I don't know about the rest of council but ! would
see keeping it at the level it was, and obviously adding some more suppliers or vendors of food and you
know all that. And the gathering place. I mean if it ever, you know if there's one thing was how
important that green space is and thinking of multi use of it. Whether it's farmers market every Saturday
morning or whatever, but there is a tremendous amount of things that can be done out in that green space
and it seems that, from what I could tell on the 3rd or 4th, and maybe I'm projecting this too much, but we
just have so many young families xvho ! think want to come and gather together and have a good time
together that it might be the time to bring back the pops music every Saturday night or something like
that for a couple hours and to experiment with different kinds of bringing people together in the green
space a lot more often than just the 3,'d and 4"( And you know l'd leave that up to you to come up with
great ideas but it might be a time just to try some more different activities, events for the family because
there was just, yeah. And most people thought, at least ! got that you know it was bigger and more
people than ever. I think it just floored a lot of people. You couldn't find a parking spot. So it was cool.
So again, thank you.
Lash: Thank you.
Hoffinan: Other questions for Nancy?
Lash: Also did you, I'm sure you read our Minutes word for word so, last month when we had the
YMCA gentleman here. Did you have thoughts about that?
Mayor Mancino: No I haven't. To tell you the truth I missed the last City Council meeting and so l'm
still in the middle of reading that packet. But from your talking for a minute. I mean I got, you know 1
glanced it over a little bit but ! realized 1 needed to spend more time on that. So I will do that.
Hoffman: Mr. Hubbard is appearing before the City Council on the 14th of August I believe at a work
session.
Lash: Oh, okay. And more just to get you kind of up to speed with what we, I think and our
conversation last month was that we wanted to try to have a work session too and brainstorm different
things, avenues we'd like to try and explore with that so.
Mayor Mancino: Just so I'm understanding. Kind of the sequence of events, next step is he'll be coming
to our work session meeting and kind of educating us or like he did you, and then after that we will get
together as a joint commission and council maybe to talk about it.
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Lash: I think we'd like to get together first so that at least we are somewhat of you know, maybe one
mind or one direction before we meet with you guys. And then move forward from there and tell you
sort of what our ideas are and throw it out there for you guys to look at and get some direction and then
we'd be able to go back and work some more.
Mayor Mancino: Just so you know, a lot of times when little ideas hatch, it takes more than one or two
meetings together because you know, again just sequencing here. You've heard from hi~n bnt you
haven't talked together as a group. We'll hear from him but we haven't talked together as a group. So
just the steps being, we'd probably like the time to talk together too as a group, as a council and then get
together with you and then brainstorm ideas and then keep getting together. I mean I just having these
one time meetings and that's all you com~nunicate whereas you kind of like to go back and forth on that
big of an idea. So that's just my perspective.
Lash: Okay, thanks. Okay. ! don't see any other visitors so l'm assuming we have no other
presentations. So we'll move on to approval of our minutes from June 27th.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Howe moved, Karlovich seconded to approve the Minutes of the
Park and Recreation Commission meeting dated June 27, 2000 as presented. All voted in favor
and the motion carried unanimously.
REQUEST TO SUBDIVIDE A 3.4 ACRE PARCEL INTO 5 SINGLE FAMILY LOTS AND TWO
OUTLOTS ON PROPERTY ZONED RSF~ RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY AND LOCATED
AT 6900 MINNEWASHTA PARKWAY~ WHITE OAK ADDITION~ COFFMAN
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES~ INC.
Todd Hoffman presented the staff report on this item.
Lash: How about if we start with Jim then we'll move on to Jay.
Manders: 1'11 get to tile obvious things in terms of this bordering areas. Is it something in terms of
fencing or berms or issues like that or what?
Hoffman: No. There's nothing proposed by tile applicant. We worked with them since the initial
phases, the construction of Round Honse Park. Originally we promised them a chain link fence which
they over time said they did not want and I believe that has something to do xvith the fact that they knew
they were going to be developing their property so, if these homeowners who purchase these lots, they
will have the opportunity to fence the park from their yard.
Manders: Then there's no need for any other trail access from tile back side or it probably doesn't affect
these properties, ls there any kind of illformal trail or there isn't anything coming in?
Hoffman: Informal trail between tile two lots where tile existing house is noted. It'd be to tile xvest. At
the time that this was developed, Country Oaks, or the Oaks at Minnewashta, we chose not to accept that
trail connection through all. We looked at it up here.
Manders: See if I have my directions right. Our existing park is right in the lower part?
Hoffman: Yep. Right where it says government lot.
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Manders: Yep. Okay.
Lash: Okay, Jay?
Karlovich: My two questions were first of all, what's happening with Outlot A and Outlot B? Do we
own some property along Minnewashta on the other side of the road?
Hoffinan: We own the beachlot, just to the south ofOutlot A. So that's a public beach, and then Outlot
A and B are owned by the Wenzel's but they are not large enough to be a beachlot for their development
so they're just remaining as private parcels connected to Lot 2 I believe.
Karlovich: So Lot 2 owns Outlot A and will have a dock out there?
Hoffinan: They have a dock out there today.
Karlovich: And then Outlot B will go with Lot 17
Hoffinan: Probably, yeah.
Karlovich: The only other question I had was, there's like no holding pond. I guess we're going to get
additional drainage then. Will that cause any problem? 1 mean by the contours it looks like it drains
down there but when you put rooftops on and pavement and sprinkler systems or whatever, we'll get
more drainage down into the park.
Hoffinan: The engineering department will review tile drainage and make any necessary
recomlnendations to the City Council. Not my area.
Karlovich: Do we want part ofOutlot A for our beach, or any part of B, or is that even not?
What's the total acreage on this?
Hoffinan:
Lash: 3.4.
Hofflnan:
Yeah, 3.4 so you could take .34 acres and it would serve no benefit to the existing beach. If
there was a benefit we could certainly look at that. It serves very well and there would be a very
emotional battle to try to take their dock ill Outlot A for the park and 1 don't see the need.
Karlovich: Okay, l'm done with my questions.
Lash: Okay, Fred.
Berg: And you see no problem with the access to Round House with any of this?
Hoffinan: Other than Lot 1 is going to be somewhat isolated but I don't, you know providing an access
for a single lot is something that we just.
Lash: Well can't they just come down the trail oil Minnewashta? The trail goes right across the front of
their yard.
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Hoffman: Sure, right across the front.
Berg: So it won't impact the park in any way really. 1 have nothing else.
Lash: No, I had the same question as Jim regarding fencing or whatever and we have none there now,
correct?
Hoffman: No.
Lash: And I don't know that it would be our in'tention to put tip fencing, however often times xve'll have
the residents come in and start asking tls for fencing so I would just want to have that.
Manders: Right, for vegetation and all the...
Lash: Right, I would want to I guess have that clear to the applicant that any perspective buyers be
informed that if they seek property, that they will be required to do that on their own and not to come and
ask us fbr it. Okay. That's all I would have. Do you have anything Rod?
Franks: Just because I'm curious. Where is, behind which lot is the play structure?
Itoffinan: 3 and 4.
Franks: So in the middle.
Hoffinan: Just about square on 3.
Franks: And that's the one where the retaining wall is built in?
Hoffman: Yes.
Franks: So is that a pretty big elevation changc fi'om where this lot would be to where the park is'?
Hoffman: Yep.
Franks: That's all, thanks.
Lash: Okay. David?
Moes: Nothing here.
Lash: Mike?
Howe: No. I was just going to talk about Lot 1 and having access and ill understood you correctly
Todd, this whole project hinges on whether or not they can built the other half of that circle?
Hoffman: Yes.
Howe: And that's kind of iffy right now?
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Hoffman: So it may go away and come back in a few years.
Howe: That's all I have.
Berg: This is where all the out buildings were.
Hoffinan: Yep. You can see them on there. The pole barn.
there since the 50's.
It may not happen yet.
That's the garage. Wenzel's have been
Lash: But there's, if you look right up under where it says shared. You know the proposed shared
driveway. It says existing house. Was that going to get torn down then?
Hofl'man: Yep, it would be torn down.
Lash: ltow about the one that's right across from that?
Hoffinan: That's a part of the neighbor's property.
Lash: That's the other, okay.
Hoffinan: Both of these property owners had the opportunity to combine and sell out at the time it was
platted originally but they chose not to do that.
Manders: This is kind ora different question. You know when we were I think doing the referendum
tour, or maybe part of the park tour. Was it the next properly over that we were evaluating or considering
for a park and he wanted us to put up in the back comer? Was it that west property or north property?
Hoffinan: It was farther away. We looked at either where the park is today or farther up and to the west.
Manders: Yeah, but wasn't it this, the other half of that circle, kind of up in that area?
Hoffman: We drove through there but it was farther to the west through the ltallgren property.
Manders: Oh okay, Alright.
Lash: Okay, anyone else? Alright, is there a motion then? Do we need a motion?
Hoffinan: I'm just going to pass ou the comments to the planning staff and give them the minutes.
REVIEW THE HIGHWAY 101 NORTH TRAIL CONCEPT PLANS.
Todd Hoffman presented the staff report on this item.
Lash: Can you just tell me what CBMH stands for? It says proposed CBMH.
Hoffman: ls it on Sheet 2 of 16 Jan?
Lash: No, actually I'm 3 right now. It's on there in a couple places.
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Karlovich: Catch basin man hole.
Lash: What is it?
Karlovich: Just guessing, catch basin mau hole or something like that.
ttoffman: Catch basin mau hole. Sounds about right.
Lash: Okay, is there anyone who's got questiohs or comlnents?
Manders: So where are we looking at that nasty curve? Is that on the 2 right there where that's so steep
and close to all the houses?
Hoffman: Yep. T-2 and then tile corner ofT-3. This is proposing a lot, retaining wall, guardrail type
thing. So you xvould have a wall coming straight offofthe road down and a trail, then a wall going
strai,,ht down to tile homes.
Manders: Right.
l loffinan: Difficult location. One of the areas that drives up the cost. If you look at the total cost
estimated, $565,000.
Howe: But don't they say on, it says, they add a whole bunch of other things that aren't included in that
and they say typically, and they omit a couple, that that's 30% itl additiou to this so we're looking at a lot
more than this, right?
ltoffinan: Correct. Add any in acquisition, l,andscape replacement. Depends on what you have to
pronfise to get the project done. We did uot iuclude landscaping in the city's trail project. The '98 trail
project. In this case...
Manders: So this is going to rul~ over...
Howe: Well it gets close to $900,000 when you add iu. You have 100 grand for landscaping and then
the 30% on top of that.
Manders: And then we haven't got tile easements yet.
}toffman: They're trying to minimize the easements but there will be some.
Manders: Right.
Howe: And this all hinges upon the fact that Eden Prairie and Hennepin County and Chanhassen and
Carver County have to agree on this whole road structure, right? Or is this a done deal?
Hoffinan: No. This is beiug considered separate by the council. I'll hand out an additional handout
which 1 received today and just flip through it. You see Highway 101 trail. Tentative project schedule.
Lash: So we're easily looking at a million dollars.
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Hoffinan: It will probably be less than a million but.
Lash: So, and where's that money coming from?
Hoffman: Undetermined at this time.
Manders: Your budget, what do you think.
Berg: We're spending our's for trees on High~ay 5.
Hoffman: A portion of it could certainly come out of park dedication. Park and trail dedication. It's a
co~nplicated project. If the road project was initiated and completed, there would be dollars that exist in
the tax increment financing district, maintained by the city to pay for trail costs. With the absence of the
road project those dollars caunot be accessed for the trail so if the city approves this trail independent of
the road project, financing is pretty much on our own.
Lash: ! thought at one time they were talking about TIF money.
Hoffinan: Yep. lfthe road was improved, TIF money could be used for the trail. Absent of the road
project, the TIF dollars cannot be used for the trail. Right now there's really no hope that the road
project will be settled for 2 to 5 years at the nearest. And ifMnDot or Henuepin County mills it and
overlays it, that will soon turn into, easily turn into 10 years. Could easily.
Lash: So when is it that the City Council and the City Manager, when are they planning on starting this
project?
Hoffman: The tentative schedule is listed in that packet l handed out. Order of preparations. Submit
concept plans to MnDot tomorrow. Order preparatiou of plans and specs on September 25th and then
approve plans aud specifications on the 27th. With coustruction occurring next spring.
Lash: And co~npletion to be?
Hoffinan: Next August.
Lash: Oh! l'm Iookiug at the wrong page. Okay. Okay, does anybody have any comments that you'd
like to pass onto City Manager Botcher?
Karlovich: l'mjust not quite, where is the funding coming from? l mean this is like it would take 4 or 5
years of our normal budget to fund this. How much do we have iu the park and trail fund?
Hoffman: Currently about ¼ ora million dollars.
Karlovich: How can we afford it then?
Hoffman: I don't believe that we can afford the whole trail project. There would be some general trail
fund dollars that would be dedicated to the project. But as a part of the funding package, park dedication
and trail construction fees can certainly be accessed so. Probably the primary reason why the project is
being brought to your attention because at some point a funding issue's going to have to be discussed and
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l've not been, those discussions have not taken place to auy, with any specific details. But where tile
majority of the emphasis has been placed tip to now is to how can we still use, utilize tax increment
dollars and road improvement dollars with the trail that is independent of the road project. But those
doors are being closed.
Howe: How long is tile shot from downtown to Pleasant View? Is it over a mile?
ttofl'man: Over a ~nile. 1 think it's about a inile 6. Mile 4. 1.4 1.6.
(There ~vas a tape change at this poiut ill tile discussion.)
Berg: I guess my concern that ! would express to Mr. Botcher, l'm all for this trail. It's been a long time
in coming but not at tile expense of everything else in tile parks and rec department. This would put
everything on hold for 5 years. For all intensive purposes because we're going to be told that we have to
use our budget for this. That's robbing Peter to pay Paul as far as I'm concerned.
Lash: It's mostly robbing Peter.
Berg: Yeah. Paul gets the shaft one more time. I don't think that's appropriate and I certainly don't
think it's a good use of the funds. Not to handcuff us with everything else.
Lash: Well I guess I piggy back a little bit oil that, and I believe we would all be in agreement. This trail
has been a long tiine in coming and very much needed and a goal. I don't know that this comlnission
ever as a body made a recommendation that we were willing to allocate our entire budget to this project.
1 think as Fred says. And I don't knoxv that I've said this ever really on the record, but I'll go ahead and
just say it tonight because that's how I feel. I feel like this commission as a body was more or less
circumvented ill this whole process. Not that tile 101 trail prqject is one that I really would have relished
taking on because it was very emotional and very volatile, but 1 do think that we are a commission and
x~e are supposed to be used for parks and trails and oil this particular isstle I don't think that we were
used in tile least. Other than the fact that you know, it got brought up once in a while at a meeting and
we were updated. And I take some offense to that because I think that's what our role is and 1 think that
the other trail pro, jects that Todd has done in this city have been very well done and very, handled very
professionally and very correctly as far as dealing with a lot of the residents. And I don't know hoxv far
your involvement goes with this Todd. l'd like to think that you will be involved as much as you were in
tile prqjects that we did under tile referendum but I really feel like somewhere along tile line someone
stepped over, stepped iu and took this project and went with it and we were left aside. So I don't know if
anyone else ['eels that way but at the end, right before it's going to go out to someone tomorrow momiug,
we're giveu at our meeting the time line and the map and asked for comments and I think it's a little too
little too late for a commission to act oil. So there, l've probably just stuck my foot it in but.
Hoffinan: If we take a look at the budget process, the commission would have certainly considered
allocating dollars to Highway 101 north trail but there was always the assumption that the project would
be financed through tax increment financing and the road and those type of things. So given that, is the
commission willing to back up the 101 connector between Chanhassen Hills and Bandimere and then
allocate those dollars to this trail in tile 90 and tile 2001 budget allocation and then look into tile filture
for the other trail. The comprehensive plan would say that was the schedule. Tile comprehensive plan
identifies 101 north as the number one priority in the city 10 years ago and has not been completed to
date so.
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Berg: What we've always done in the past is when we've had our budget meetings is talk about
earmarking a certain amount and putting it aside. Is that what you're suggesting? Then I can understand
something like that. To bankroll so much of it, like Jan said, out of the blue. ! concur by what she said
earlier and I'd like to be on record too as being very disappointed that the commission was circumvented
in this entire process. If you're suggesting that we allocate a certain amount and do that for the next X
number of years, I'm in favor of that because that's what we've done before.
Manders: Haven't we allocated funds to date for that north section of trail?
Hoffinan: Maybe something that says reserve.
Manders: 1 thought we dedicated funds. We haven't?
Howe: I don't think so. Not that I'm aware of.
Hoffman: There's always been, again the assumption that the road project would take care of the
financing of the trail and that's certainly been the plan. And that was the discussion during the
referendum as well. Why didn't the referendum finance the trail? Well because you know let's let the
road project build the trail and finance it and we're not going to put it in premature so.
Berg: And we even said that in the brochure as I recall.
Manders: So then my question would be, at some point that road gets upgraded, then the financing of the
new trail that goes in falls on who's shoulders?
Hoffinan: It should be as a part of the road project.
Manders: So then the city isn't going to get hit up with.
Hoffinan: May or may not. It's hard to speculate based on our fi~ture project.
Karlovich: Well, I just have some opinions on that. It looks like we're going to be putting the trail in a
lot of MnDot right-of-way by limited use permit?
Hoffinan: Yes.
Karlovich: And then what type of obligation do they have to protect it, compensate us or give us
additional right-of-way? I think most of the limited use permits let you, I've drafted a few of them in my
days. Lets you go ahead and put it there but don't guarantee you that you'll ever get compensated or
when they widen the road, they're not going to just give you a trail back.
Hoffman: There's no guarantees but politically if there's a trail there and they're going to take it out as a
part of the project, historically the project attempts to take on the trail and the replacement of it. Which
is...in that area. We have limited use agreements for the Highway 7 trail. We're almost wholly within
the right-of-way of Highway 7. Pioneer with the County. 101 with the State. Most of the, well all those
trails were put in somebody else's right-of-way as a part of the construction of those trails. ! think it's
certainly in our benefit to work with the other communities in working with the city business to make this
thing happen. If you can imagine, it'd be difficult to get another trail segment built in this city before 101
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is upgraded. There is so much inomentum now for 101 that if we were to propose, well let's go build
another trail segment somewhere else, we're going to hit up against a lot of resistance and so again to
clarify my statement made earlier, the capital plan has $200,000 that was allocated or a recommendation
for 2001 for that connection between Chanhassen Hills and Bandimere. I don't see that that would be
approved if 101 is not, or the budget for 101 is not settled or if the trail is not approved and so is it
appropriate under the circumstances to make recommendation that that allocation go towards 101 north
and the future allocation either in 2002 or 2003 be given to tile connector trail down in Chanhassen Hills.
The scenario has changed since we last talked about those budget dollars.
Berg: Where are we with land acquisition in te'rms of money left from tile referendum? Did you say at
one of our previous meetings that there may be a little bit left?
Hoffman: There may be. I can tell you that the difference, the Fox condemnation hearings finished up
last week. The difference is, just the difference, I can tell you tiffs. Just tile difference between what our
value is and thcir value is is more lnoney than is in the bank. So where we end up is anybody's guess at
this point. But I hope that there's mouey left over from that referendum process. And you can use that
for open space acquisition. You can use that for trail development if you chose.
Berg: It's a logical place to put it it would seem to me.
Karlovich: Is that tile $700,000 you were talking about or that's?
Hoffinan: There's about a million four itl open space acquisition right now. In tile bank.
Karlovich: Okay.
Berg: That's different than the 750.
Hoffman: Yeah, correct. Excuse nle, I didn't track his conversatiou. Yeah, the 750 is itl the bank in the
park dedication. Park and trail dedication fired.
Franks: ...doing anything to 101 north, the highway itself, the road. Well I would agree that that is
probably one of the most necessary pieces of trail that we should install in tile city. 1 mean it really is
lacking. But to think that you know when you drive down that road, you pretty much know it's not going
to last that much longer. I mean it's going to get so bad so quickly that solnething is going to ueed to
happeu. And to think that this is going to be our most expensive piece of trail to date on somethiug that's
temporary or is it temporary or MnDot says this and I remember talking to MnDot about 212 and they're
saying you know, it will never be built unless it's a toll way and now you knoxv it's going to be built
almost all tile way through to the Chan border. And it's not a toll way and that was a year later that
started so you know, it's such a guessing game and we're guessing with just under a million dollars.
That's a lot of guessing. I mean in a way it makes sense for it to be part of the road and if it was goiug to
be part of the road project, I can understand how and that kind of leaves our control a little bit because
that's this big engineering project more than it is a trail project. But if the road's not going in, then it
becomes kind of a straight trail project so, but ! can see how things might have gotten goofed up. Then
we are going to be asked to pony up for it like we should, but it is a little disconcerting that we've been
removed from tile planning process for this trail. If that's the case.
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Hoffman: The engineers were working on the road project and they separated out tile trail project and
the City Manager simply assigned a coordination to the engineers that were working on the road project
SO...
Lash: If you just think of Coulter Boulevard or whatever that was, that we were on tonight, that was a
road project and there was trails incorporated and we were given the plan a long time before the night
before it was going out. So you know the whole thing just boggles me that it has gotten to this point
before, and especially now that our funds are being expected to be used. That this is the time that we're
brought into the process. You know we've been told our budget isn't our budget. Ultimately it's the City
Council's budget but then ultimately why, you know why are we even here? If our suggestions for
budgets, for long range planning are severely altered or hindered by a project that the City Council has
taken over. The engineering department or whoever has taken it over. That skews our 5 year plan and
we didn't really have any input into it.
Hoffinan: There's business later on tile agenda.
Lash: It's not going to come out of our budget?
Hoffman: Tile Highway 5 project will not come out of our budget. We hope.
Lash: But that's 115. This is a ~nillion.
Hoffinan: I don't think xve're going to field a ~nillion in our budget.
Chair,voman Lash adjourned the Park and Recreation Commission meeting due to severe weather
in the area.
Submitted by Todd Hoffman
Park and Rec Director
Prepared by Naun Opheim
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