PRC 2015 06 23
CHANHASSEN PARK AND
RECREATION COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
JUNE 23, 2015
Chairman Kelly called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Cole Kelly, Steve Scharfenberg, Brent Carron, Jim Boettcher, Rick
Echternacht, Luke Thunberg, Jennifer Hougham and Lauren Dale
STAFF PRESENT:
Todd Hoffman, Park and Rec Director; Jerry Ruegemer, Recreation
Superintendent; Katie Favro, Recreation Supervisor; Landen Rimestad, Intern; Adam Beers,
Park Superintendent; Jodi Sarles, Rec Center Manager; and Sue Bill, Senior Center Coordinator
APPROVAL OF AGENDA:
Kelly: Did anybody have anything to add to the agenda tonight?
Carron: I’d like to add an item 3 underneath New Business for discussion. Highover and
Gunflint Trail connection path issues.
Kelly: Number 3, Highover path issues.
Carron: Highover and Gunflint Trail.
Kelly: Highover and Gunflint Trail, thank you. Anything else to be added tonight?
Hoffman: Chair Kelly perhaps just for a point of order we may want to reverse items 1 and 2 to
get an order of sequence for our CIP discussion.
Kelly: Yep I agree with that. Let’s reverse items 1 and 2. Thank you Todd.
Ruegemer: Chair Kelly I’d also like to add Landen Rimestad, our intern would like to update the
commission on our survey results from last Thursday’s KleinBank Summer Concert Series.
Kelly: So should we put that under reports number 5?
Ruegemer: We sure can.
Kelly: Any other additions or subtractions? Okay. Jerry why don’t you introduce our new
intern to the group right now. Just to who he is and.
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Ruegemer: Thank you again Chair Kelly. Landon, why don’t you step up to the podium.
Landon is our park and rec intern for the summer and probably what I’ll do, probably the best is
just to kind of turn it over to Landon. Kind of give them a brief description. Where you’re going
to school. Where you’re from. Who the best boss is. And that sort of thing so the floor is yours
Landon.
Landen Rimestad: Alright. My name is Landen Rimestad. I go to the University of Wisconsin
Lacrosse in the degree of recreation management. This is a part of my degree is to do an
internship in a recreational organization. I was fortunate enough to get the intern position here at
Chanhassen. Let’s see I’m working a lot with Lake Ann. The concessions. The reservations
right now and then also my major project is to work with the survey and developing results from
that. Analyzing those results and then in the future presenting those at a, in August to you
hopefully and creating some new ideas and hopes for the concert series. Nice boss don’t know
yet. Best football team Packers.
Kelly: Thank you Landon for telling us about yourself and welcome to Chanhassen.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hoffman: Public announcements, Thursday’s concert is Bazillions at 7:00 p.m. It’s a children’s
event so please make that. And then also town ball classic. Gather your friends, family. Buy
your tickets at City Hall and that’s noon at Target Field so looks to be a great day. If not you,
share it and friend it on Facebook. It’s on the City’s Facebook. We need to sell some tickets and
we’re all going down to Target Field.
Kelly: That sounds like a lot of fun.
Hoffman: I know you’ll be out of town.
Kelly: Yeah, unfortunately yep. Or fortunately. It’s going to be a fun event.
Hoffman: Thank you.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
None.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:Carron moved, Echternacht seconded to approve the
verbatim and summary Minutes of the Park and Recreation Commission meeting dated
May 27, 2015 as presented. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a
vote of 8 to 0.
BANDIMERE COMMUNITY PARK FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS-PRESENTATION
OF SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:
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A.SPORT COURT DESIGN OPTIONS.
B.HOCKEY RINK/SIX SEASONAL PICKLEBALL COURTS SURFACE
OPTIONS; BITUMINOUS VS. CONCRETE.
C.PICNIC SHELTER COST ESTIMATE WITHOUT RESTROOMS,
CONCESSIONS AND STORAGE.
Kelly: Todd, are you making that presentation?
Hoffman: I’d be glad to.
Kelly: Okay.
Hoffman: Thank you Chair Kelly, members of the commission. In May we talked about the
remodel project or the expansion, the next phase of Bandimere. Primarily that includes the new
space where the homes were located but then also there’s been kind of a focus on some space
between the baseball/softball fields and the playgrounds where a picnic shelter could be placed
or some other. There was a splash pad that was proposed there at one time as well so as the
commission moved forward they wanted to take a look at a variety of alternatives and some cost
implications with that so the drawings you have attached, the sport court area is split into really 3
options at this time and I guess quite frankly the options are endless as far as how you would
want to put a sport court in the future on that spot. The options you have now are a double tennis
court and then 2 basketball hoops and then also a tennis bang board. I saw a gentleman today, he
was all alone up at City Center but he was playing against the bang board. Then he also had the
coolest thing I ever saw, an automatic server with about 200 tennis balls in there so you could
practice serves all day long so that was pretty interesting. Also a single tennis court with 2
pickleball courts and 2 basketball hoops and a tennis back board. That back board is just a piece
of wood up along one side where an individual can play. Then an option for a 6 place pickleball
court. So those are the options on the courts. The price does not change greatly. There’s a little
bit of an addition for some additional fencing that’s shown. I think it’s $12,000 or $14,000 to
add that additional fencing so not a lot of cost differences on the sport court but a lot of options
based on what you would like to see happen there as far as a sport court location. The parking
lot expansion, hockey rink plan with 6 overlaid pickleball courts and so there’s again not any
great changes to that schematic but there is an alternate for the surface. If you deduct $70,000
you can, you put in a bituminous pad instead of concrete and so that’s an option. Depending on
which way you go, if you want to put pickleball in the hockey rink, that would be a good
conversation to have with our pickleball group. Okay do you like concrete? Do you like
asphalt? Is one better than the other? Is there no big difference and so depending on which way
you move with those pickleball courts that would be a continued conversation there. So the
overall cost for parking lot expansion and hockey rink $473,000. Well that’s just the hockey
rink, excuse me and then you deduct the $70,000 for bituminous pad. Parking lot expansion is
$165,000 and for those of you who have been out to Bandimere Park they’re already utilizing it
and parking has always been really a need at Bandimere Park so it would be my recommendation
as staff’s recommendation to move forward with that earlier than some of the other items which
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you currently have that in 2016. The parking lot and the hockey rink but the dollar amounts I
think have changed so you’ll have to take a look at that.
Scharfenberg: So Todd on the schematic with the hockey rink, it’s the 28 stall parking lot right?
Hoffman: Correct.
Scharfenberg: Okay.
Hoffman: That’s the one. That would be the $165,000 parking lot.
Scharfenberg: Okay.
Hoffman: 28 stall. You lose a few because of the remodel and then you gain those 28 stalls
back.
Echternacht: Todd just, did we have a breakdown what those 2 basketball hoops cost in the one
option?
Hoffman: Just a couple thousand dollars for the hoops.
Echternacht: Just wondering if we ended up with the option, with the 6.
Hoffman: Pickleball?
Echternacht: Pickleball, could we put 2 basketball hoops in there?
Hoffman: You just would, because of the fencing it would be prohibitive so you’ve got fencing
that would not allow for large enough court area for the basketball.
Echternacht: Okay.
Hoffman: Yeah. So if you go full pickleball then you’re not going to have the room for the
basketball court. It’s kind of a trade-off there so you know people are still playing tennis but
they’re not playing tennis like they did in the 1970’s so you have basketball as a back up and
then so then sometimes people are there playing basketball so you’re putting two uses on one
court. If tennis players show up and there’s people playing basketball, typically they have to
wait and vice versa the same way. If there’s tennis players and people show up to play
basketball, that’s just not available because you can take, you can play one court and they’re put
sideways. Basketball but oftentimes they play full court back and forth and then both tennis
courts are impeded by that use.
Echternacht: Okay.
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Hoffman: And then the covered picnic shelter. It’s a 40 by 80 so the, there was no re-drawing
there but the deduct, if you eliminate all the conveniences that are underneath it, concessions,
restrooms, it’s a sizeable deduct because now you’re just building a plain shelter similar to the
Klingelhutz pavilion out at Lake Ann which is just a covered shelter. So you deduct $210,000
off of the $640,000 so you’re back in that $400,000 range for just a plain shelter. So those were
the additional options that the commission asked for and were presented by Amy Bower with
Hoisington and those numbers and layouts can continue in your next conversation about the CIP.
I’ll be glad to answer any questions.
Kelly: Questions for Todd. So Todd as far as the tennis courts versa the pickleball court
discussion at the park opening, as you said obviously the 1970’s were the hey day of tennis and
since then it’s dwindled quite a bit. What do we have on the south side of 5 for tennis courts
other than the rec center?
Hoffman: Those are the only ones.
Kelly: Those are the only ones.
Scharfenberg: I mean other than the high school.
Hoffman: Correct.
Kelly: High school, I’m sorry.
Scharfenberg: High school.
Hoffman: There’s 8 there.
Kelly: That’s right. There’s none at the rec center. We got rid of them.
Hoffman: There’s 2 at the rec center still.
Kelly: Oh there are.
Hoffman: So we have 2 existing at the rec center. We do run some tennis lessons which are
now fairly tight and so you know if there’s other people that we have to block them out so if we
have tennis lessons going on and then people show up to play regular tennis then they’re
typically bouncing down to the high school. There’s 8 courts at the high school that were built
and when this, the high school constructed those new courts at the high school they said, tennis
courts they said now these 4 at City Center are yours. We want to walk away from them. Up
until that time it was a 50/50 split. These were built at a 50/50 coop in the 1970’s. They were
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refurbished a number of times at a 50/50 coop price and now these are 100 percent ours so we
have 4 here at City Center Park.
Kelly: So with what we have at the high school and the rec center, would it be fair to say that
south of Highway 5 we’re not under served or we are under served for tennis courts.
Hoffman: You would be under served basically from a convenience or a walking or biking
distance and so it’s basically user area and so, and you’re trying to serve. You know people can
drive but people also want to recreate by either biking or walking, especially younger people so
it’s really a decision. Well there’s going to be a sport court there one way or the other. You
know kids and people want to walk can also walk to pickleball but they just have to play a
different game. I don’t think, if the commission decides to put tennis you’re not making a wrong
decision at Bandimere Park. You’re just making a decision based on a user group and then you
can have basketball as a part of that. You know tennis is still alive and well. It’s not what it
used to be but people are still playing tennis. You know if you want to put pickleball then tennis
players are going to have to go somewhere else and then there’s going to be a new sport at
Bandimere as well so. We’re at a crossroads I think with the pickleball phenomenon coming up.
Ten years ago the park board would have recommended tennis courts and the City Council
would have approved it so I think you’re just probably good to take some additional community
input. Talk to the neighborhoods around that area. Say what would you like to see? During the
summer recreation what would your neighbors like to see involved there so I think we have some
time for that conversation. You have a variety of options. I don’t think we have to decide it
tonight. You don’t even have to decide it as a part of this CIP. You can simply just put sport
court. Put a number in and put a year in and away you go.
Kelly: Thank you Todd. Other questions?
Carron: Do you know if you can put the coating that goes on tennis courts, can you put the
coating overtop of a coating or do you have to be milled off? Repaved and then a new coat. Has
it ever been one on top of the other? What I’m getting at here is if it comes to a point where we
decide that the first idea we put down on this area is not working and we need to redo it, can you
just overlay for the sum of $12,000 or whatever it is?
Hoffman: Oh so if you build tennis and you want to switch to pickleball?
Carron: Yep.
Hoffman: Yeah not a big problem. Pull posts. Patch the paint. Repaint some lines.
Carron: You can repaint right over the top?
Hoffman: Sure.
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Carron: Okay, that was my question. Thanks.
Kelly: And if we’re talking pickleball are we talking what, 6 or 8 courts in there?
Hoffman: Six if you build then in the space for 2 tennis courts.
Kelly: Six, okay thank you. Other questions? Todd let’s move on to item 2.
INITIATE DISCUSSION REGARDING RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL
2016-2020 PARK AND TRAIL ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (CIP).
Hoffman: Thank you Chair Kelly, members of the commission. Annually you have a couple of
projects that you need to forward to the City Council. One of them is the Annual Report. The
other by city code is the CIP or the capital improvement program so this is your recommendation
on how to invest park dollars and also park dedication dollars but also other capital dollars if
there’s items that you think need repair or rejuvenation in your park system you can certainly
make those recommendations as well. I think we had a little conversation before this meeting
about park dedication dollars. What they’re used for. Building your park system out. New
endeavors and then general capital dollars would be used for rejuvenations. Example would be
the tennis court rejuvenation that recently occurred so when tennis courts are up to be repaired,
they’re paid for out of the general capital dollars. When they’re building new they’re paid for
out of park dedication and so that’s important to keep in mind. So if you see things that are
aging in place, then you want to make a recommendation. Hey, we ought to be taking a look at
that. If you want to build new things with park dedication dollars that’s what we’re talking about
as well. Before you get into the detail I think one of the important things to remember this year
in your CIP conversation is that you have a baseball field expansion. Athletic field expansion
capacity study that you have out working on the streets. You’ll see that in September and the
City Council will see that in November so those recommendations will not be as a, will not be a
component of this CIP conversation. Your place holder right now for athletic lights, you know
you have those put out into the future and you probably either just want to continue to save those
place holders. You just won’t have the information so I just don’t recommend that you start
putting a lot of things out there before you get those recommendations back in September and
November from the City Council. So those are considerations on how you want to move those
things around based on what will come out of that report. The dollar amounts, the CIP, the park
fund has $1.9 million dollars. Generally receipts of a couple hundred thousand dollars annually
for the past few years. Some higher. Some lower. When the economy came back it spiked
again and so the fund balance increased but generally about $300,000 per year on average for the
next 5 years. You know that’s $1.5 million out of a $1.9 million dollar fund. Bandimere I think
is really one of the focuses right now but it doesn’t have to be the entire focus. There are other
things that are coming up. You’ll have to make a place holder for the trail to the Arboretum and
so we don’t know what that local match will be but you’ll want to make a note that in 2019 now
that’s the date. 2019. It’s not 2018. It was moved up to 2019. You’ll need to have a place
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holder for a local match and so you know we’ll figure out what that amount is. Is that $100,000?
Is that $200,000? $300,000 but that project is going to be a County project in cooperation with
the City of Chanhassen and the Arboretum. So you know that’s coming. We’ve not talked about
other general trail projects in quite some time. Some of your trail projects were formerly on a
CIP and were removed. Bluff Creek is an example. Bluff Creek Drive. That was removed to be
incorporated into a street project but there are a couple others. One in particular, the one on
Highway 7 that leads from Minnewashta Parkway west to the city of Victoria and that trail, some
people have been talking about that. You’re going to have a conversation in July with the
neighbors out at Roundhouse Park and there’s a tennis court planned there and a hockey rink
planned there and a playground expansion plan there so as you’ve been focusing as staff and the
commission and the citizenry I think has been focusing on Bandimere, there’s still plenty of
other things to keep in mind out on our park system so that’s really what I want to assist the
commission with. Give you accurate information. The dollars run out quicker than everybody
hopes but you know I think with some good planning you can really make some significant
impacts. And another concept that I think has been coming up more and more lately is, let’s do
what adds value. The most value at the bottom level and so if you have facilities and activities
already in your park system that are servicing peoples needs, you know you can always
accentuate those and add to those but as a community I think we really want to come in at the
bottom level and add new things or new service areas. People that are currently under served.
You know a good example of that was the recent picnic shelters. The council saw that outlying
neighborhoods, existing neighborhood parks were being under served because the new
neighborhood parks were getting shelters. They were enjoying that facility but they, you know
the other parks were not and so they brought that onboard. So with that I’ll allow the
commission to at least start their conversation tonight. Be here for questions on the CIP but you
have June, July and August. You can either formulate a recommendation for the August
commission meeting or into September if you need to go that far.
Kelly: Thank you Todd. Todd on the Bluff Creek trail which you mentioned which will be
rolled into the street project, because we had that at one point, when does the street project look
to be going forward and is there any inkling that they might come back and look at us for
dollars?
Hoffman: I hope not. I don’t have an answer for either one so I don’t know the exact year yet
and I hope they won’t come back. That was really one of the overriding premises for putting it
into the street project is to get that. We had half a million basically.
Kelly: That’s what I thought, yeah.
Hoffman: And to get that back out of there and put that into the street project. But if street funds
are low and they happen to put that project and the park fund looks robust, they may come back
and look this way but we don’t have any idea now.
Kelly: So we’d better spend the money quick.
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Hoffman: I wouldn’t give them any indication that we’re going to save a place holder for them
and Paul doesn’t read these Minutes so I can talk about it all I want.
Kelly: Thank you Todd. Other questions?
Carron: Todd.
Thunberg: Go ahead.
Carron: Anything in 2015 with the current CIP that looks like it just, it might be pushed off?
I’m kind of looking at the 2 bottom ones. Galpin trail extension. I haven’t seen anything on that
or the reconstruction of 61 and 101. Just as accounting.
Hoffman: The Galpin trail extension, that $150,000 should move forward into 2016. We don’t
know if Shorewood’s going to come back and so Shorewood did not accept their bids and we
just don’t know if they’ll come back but it’s a worthy project I think for those kind of, that kind
of investment to finish our northern leg. And then the reconstruct, that’s happening. That’s our
matching funds and I don’t know when they’re going to take them out of the fund. If they’re
going to take them out in 2015 or 2016 but so the last item is the trail that’s going to go on old
Highway 212. County Road 61 in the valley and the State’s building the project. The County’s
involved. County’s actually the contractor. It will be a county road and that’s our local match so
that will be taken out. Everything else is underway or planned for. There’s no other items.
Camden Ridge trail, we’re paying the bills on that. Fence dugouts. That project’s been quoted
and ready to build once we get the ballfields quieted down in July and August. Everything else
in 2015 is happening. You’re just going to have to bump out that Galpin Boulevard trail
extension and that’s a, you know that’s a match again. That’s with the City of Shorewood. I
can’t recall what their half of that was but we were matching what they were doing to finish out
our piece. And for those that are not aware, that’s a dead end trail on Galpin Boulevard. It dead
ends before our corporate limits and so Shorewood says we’re going to come south towards you
but we’re going to stop at our corporate limits. Do you want to fill your gap and we said yeah,
we do so that would be that 150 to fill that gap.
Thunberg: Todd for playground equipment. What’s the typical life of that and if we needed to
replace or upgrade any of that, does that come out of our fund or the capital fund?
Hoffman: So we’re just starting a conversation based on some citizen correspondence up at the
Power Hill Park and so typically you’re going to say 20 to 30 years. Hopefully 25 to 30 would
be about the maximum lifespan of a new playground and what Adam and I are talking about is
we’re going to formulate for you to review either later this year or next year a playground
replacement program, similar to our tennis court refurbishment so we’ll let you know when they
were all installed. What their age is. How long we think they’re going to last. You know a new
playground is $40,000 to $50,000 in today’s dollars without any other improvements. If you
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have to take out border it’s going to be more and that kind of program should be coming out of
the general capital dollars and so you’re no longer increasing capacity. You’re just replacing
outdated equipment and so that will be a conversation to have long term. Most of our
playgrounds are, or many of our playgrounds are in that 15 age but then there was a variety in
2015. Some are older ones. 2005 that were improved so those are now 10 years old and that was
a big initiative. A half a million dollars that the City Council forwarded to the park commission
and said we have a lot of outdated, basically they were wood structures at that time. Then we
also have some playgrounds which have a phase 1 but the phase 2 for the younger kids.
Playgrounds are in two age classes. 5 to 12 and 2 through 5 and right now it really doesn’t make
a lot of sense to go back in and add a 2 through 5 until you remodel it and so I would just
recommend that you hold those over and you’ll see those spaces out and about in some of those
areas where the phase 2 was just never completed.
Kelly: Other questions for Todd at this time?
Scharfenberg: Todd you and I had talked at one point about potentially doing some pavement
work I think on the Rice Marsh trail. Is that something that we would be looking into the capital
fund for 2015?
Hoffman: No. So refurbishment of the existing trail right?
Scharfenberg: Right.
Hoffman: Yeah so all of our trails, existing trails are in a pavement management program that’s
operated by our engineering division and so there’s a pavement condition index. A PCI score
that is applied, just like our streets and so every one of our trails is walked by a consultant every
3 years and then those scores are updated and they’re regraded and then based on those scores,
once they get to a low enough. Typically it’s 40 and under. 100 is new. Zero is dirt, gravel and
once they’re at about 40 and under then it’s time to start looking at getting those into a
repavement project. This year Kerber Boulevard is being repaved and they got really favorable
bids to replace the trail on Kerber. It’s cracked. It’s not in as bad a condition as the Rice March
Lake trail but one of the reasons they got those good bids is because you’re right next door to
repaving so you know they’re going to pave that as well. The engineers, you know we said let’s
go and take a look at doing that and so they’re taking a look at repaving from Highway 101 to
the city of Eden Prairie and so we got a quote from, I believe it’s Park Construction that is doing
the Kerber Boulevard project. They wouldn’t honor their same bid that they did on Kerber
because of the conditions and complexity and the isolation of that trail section so the engineers
have gotten a bid from them. They’re going to get a couple of other quotes as well to repave that
trail. Basically you would grind it up from 101 east to Eden Prairie and repave it and so that
would all be done out of the pavement management. Basically the street fund.
Hougham: What’s the timing on that Todd?
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Hoffman: That would be done likely in September. August or September. We’d also like to
incorporate the piece from 101 to Lake Susan Park but depending on funding that may not get
done this year. So we’re out doing some, Adam and his group are out doing some pre-work. If
you see trimming along that trail section, that’s what they’re preparing for. Trimming out the
over hanging so we can get trucks and equipment through there but we still don’t have a contract
in place for the replacement but that’s the hope. The plan I should say.
Kelly: Other questions?
Thunberg: There, and this is probably very far out. If anything it’d be on the radar but with the
last section of 101 and that potential conversation for 5 plus years out, that road being the last
section to redo. It sounds like some of that is in motion or at least in the beginning stages and
then how that would open up the south part of Chanhassen. Is there anything that we would need
to start considering with the trail going down to the last section of 101? Would that be part of
the street project? Similar to the Bluff Creek conversation.
Hoffman: It’s part of the street project similar to the two trails that went in on the piece between
Pioneer and Lyman. This is going to go on two sides for a portion of the distance and then one
side on the bluff going down. It’s on the east side or the left side going down and then it would
connect to the LRT trail so that’s all planned and those plans are pretty well along. Now it’s just
a funding issue and as long as we’re talking about that, the bridge is being built but it’s just, it’s
really behind and they’re having some, so don’t look for that to be necessarily completed by
November. It’s hard to say. They’re only working 8 hours a day right now because of some
contract issues and so time will tell if that’s completed. 61 will be completed but I’m not sure
the bridge will be completed just yet so wait and see. But there’s good momentum. There’s a lot
of discussion. You know the City’s invested in that. The County’s invested in that. The State’s
invested in that but when we’re not in charge of the pocketbook over at the State, somebody over
there has got to make that call and get those funds rolling so it will be a nice project when it’s all
said and done. Once 61 and the bridge crossing is done there’s going to be a lot of people
looking at it saying is this, are you planning for this and we’re just going to hand them the plans
and say there it is.
HIGHOVER DRIVE/GUNFLINT TRAIL PATH ISSUE.
Kelly: Brent, do you want to talk to that?
Carron: Sure. So the Highover, Highway Drive and Gunflint Trail is, trail is actually a road.
There’s an interconnecting path inbetween these two neighborhoods. This neighborhood is my
neighborhood and about 3 weeks ago we’ve had our fifth violator drive through. Use the path as
a connecting route between the two dead end cul-de-sacs and got friends. School’s out. The 2
out of the 5 have been caught. Younger kids in high school and they’re using the path as just a
quick get around and one of the residents actually jumped out and grabbed the kid’s cell phone
and cops came and ended up giving a reckless so I think for the most part the police are doing a
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pretty good job. The neighbors are doing a pretty good job. However of watching it and trying
to police as best they can. However a few of the neighborhood people got together and called
me down since I’m the, on the HOA and park and rec and I had a nice little chat with some
people, of my neighbors and they’ve got some concerns on that they don’t feel that the park and
rec or the City’s doing enough to make sure that people stay off that trail so my, what I told them
I would do is bring this up at our meeting and with the commission’s approval, if we could ask
staff to take a look at it and bring up some possibilities of some different things to do to deter
motorized vehicles on this path. It’s about a 9 foot path. Again it’s about a block long. Since
this has taken place the City has gone out and installed permanent signs that say no motor
vehicles allowed. However we all know that you just can’t fix people that want to be dumb or
you know do that every once in a while. Push it. They do it really early in the morning at 7:00
or what not but the big thing is that it’s, it’s a melting pot for kids in the back. It’s kind of like a
fish bowl. Everyone, all the kids play in the back. We’ve got some young kids in the
neighborhood and the residents are pretty up in arms about it so with that I think there’s a couple
things you know the residents were throwing out bollards or landscaping or narrowing it or,
narrowing the curb cuts so instead of making it a 9 foot on the curb cut, maybe narrowing it so
that if you’re going to drive a car on it you feel a big bump. Painting the sidewalk. Painting the
curb. I don’t think it’s an issue the fact that people don’t know it’s not a street. It’s just the fact
that we’re just trying to deter it as much as possible so that’s the background on it and I guess
that would be my ask if the commission wants to bring this forward and have staff look at it and
then come back to next meeting that’s what I would move for so if there’s questions.
Kelly: Yeah I’ve got a question for Adam actually. As far, we clean that in the winter and the
summer correct.
Beers: Correct.
Kelly: So it’s all seasons. How wide do we need it for our vehicles to get on there?
Beers: Our plows are 8 feet so you know a 9 foot trail is obviously more than we need. With the
9 foot trail we do obviously a lot less damage to everybody’s yard you know throughout our trail
system. We tend to…
Kelly: Right and so if we made it smaller to 8 feet that really wouldn’t deter any cars from
getting on there so I don’t know if that’s a solution or not. Otherwise, you know I guess the
other question is, would your neighbors care if the snow wasn’t removed in the winter?
Carron: Well I believe they would because they do use that in the winter to get back and forth
and there’s a lot of, I mean they’re next door neighbors so they use it back and forth and that sort
of thing but then I think, I don’t know about a City standpoint if that’s a liability issue.
Hoffman: Basically it’s a conformity issue so if we stop snowplowing on one section of the trail,
then other neighbors would say well why don’t you stop snowplowing our section. We do get
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that question from time to time for a variety of reasons. People want to do other activities on the
trail. Snowshoe or cross country ski so right now it’s uniform that all of our trail sections that
are plowable are plowed for winter recreation and that would be an expectation that people
would have. It just wouldn’t affect the neighbors. Other people utilize that on a running route in
the winter and then they would find it not plowed and then they would not have the ability to use
that public trail system as they’re running around so I think we have a variety of options that
we’ve already started to consider. The one thing right now is the effect is really flat and wide at
the entrance to the road. Pedestrian cut, curb cuts and truncated domes were never installed.
They were called for as a part of the development contract and they just were not installed and so
narrowing that neck down, we have some signage that can go in place. Basically some traffic
calming issues to make it not so convenient that you can drive on it but that would be a start.
Bollards have been talked about. I believe most of the perceived, most of the input and so
bollards you can talk about that but then you have a maintenance issue where you have to take it
out. Put it back in. Take it out. Put it back in. Also at the bottom hill if you put a fixed object
in there you have a lot of downhill traffic. Kids on skateboards and longboards, bikes,
rollerblades and now you have a fixed object at the bottom of a downhill grade and it’s just not a,
it’s not the best solution so you could take a look at curbing. There could be curbing placed at
both sides. You can modify it on the south side by putting a curb right at the end of the trail and
then you have the access go a little bit to the west down to a curb cut and then cars would have to
drive over a curb but the same thing, then everybody else has to negotiate a curb which they’re
not expecting when they come to the end of the trail. That they would have to take a sharp right.
On the north side if you put a curb in then you would force them onto a sidewalk, which you can
do. Again you can force them onto a sidewalk and then they would have to go down to a
driveway to get out so now you’re, instead of saying the public access point is here at the end of
the trail. You’re saying it’s at a neighbor’s driveway which would not be real popular as well so
we’ve taken a look at a lot of considerations. Talked to a lot of people by phone and email and I
think we can provide the commission some pretty good options to take a look at that would be,
you know they’re going to cost a few dollars but they’re going to be low dollar and then we’ll
start there and then we’ll ramp up from that point if we continue to have this kind of incident.
This is not the only place that people drive on our public trail system so there’s other places
where from time to time we get a car on a trail and it does happen. They’re a paved surface. All
of our trails are 8 to 10 feet wide. 8 foot is the minimum. 10 foot is really now the new standard
for any trail so this is halfway inbetween and like Adam said, the fact that it’s 9 feet really helps
us to stay on that trail. Now you’re driving through 4 people’s yards and so it’s really in our best
interest and they would like to see us stay on top of that trail so that 9 foot trail is nice. It could
be 8 but then you’re going to fall off from time to time and cause some turf damage.
Kelly: Thank you Todd. Any other questions for Todd or Brent?
Boettcher: Just for information Brent. Has this been happening as long as you’ve been living
there? Did it just start? Has it just been the summer? Has it been winter time too? And I saw
the emails 2 weeks ago or whatever but it wasn’t really clear. I mean I don’t know how much
difference it makes but is it only a summer time thing and did it just start recently?
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Carron: Twice this year, 3 times last year. All during the summer.
Boettcher: All in the summer.
Carron: Yeah, all different times of day. From 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. And then I guess later
that night too when people are kind of looking out their window I’ve heard rumors about but I
don’t know if any police reports are made up or not.
Hoffman: It’s been a different cross section of you know some teenagers. Some adult drivers.
Some people that just wanted to use it as a short cut. Some folks it’s just a one time, you know
I’m in the neighborhood I’m going to go that direction. And typical scenario is that these are not
your average A+ citizen or teenager and so again you’re dealing with folks that are typically in
some kind of trouble elsewhere in their lives and they just make, choose to make these poor
decisions.
Echternacht: Well I think we should address back to your neighborhood that we’re moving
forward on this and so I’d say that we make a.
Kelly: Why don’t we ask Brent to make a motion to add it to our agenda for next month.
Carron: I will do that. I’d like to make a motion that staff look into the possible issues that we
could do to mitigate motorize vehicles on this path.
Kelly: There’s a motion on the Highover/Gunflint pass trail. Trail pass, excuse me. Is there a
second?
Boettcher: Second.
Kelly: And it’s been seconded.
Carron moved, Boettcher seconded that the Park and Recreation Commission direct staff
to look for possible solutions to mitigate motorized vehicles on the path between Highover
Drive and Gunflint Trail. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a
vote of 8 to 0.
PARK AND TRAIL MAINTENANCE REPORT.
Kelly: Adam you’re going to tell us about a little maintenance activity.
Beers: Absolutely. Thank you Chair Kelly and commissioners. I’m just going to give you a
brief update about where we are at this summer with maintenance and projects and I’ll get out of
your way. So we started out basically trying to restore the shelter sites that we finished last
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season at Chan Hills, Sugarbush and Stone Creek. We’re in the final stages of turf restorations.
Some final touches. We’re also starting the next 3, we’re finding some rain issues throughout
this spring and summer. We’re moving along quite steadily. Rec Center pickleball courts, big
project to get off the list. …for use and I think we’re getting quite a bit of use. Had some good
feedback from…and it’s been a great project and being well used. Pioneer Pass cemetery was a
project we started this winter with...to add additional plots. We’re in the process of again the
final phase of restoration. Last week we built a temporary irrigation system just to kind of help
get through June and July…and cruise right along into the fall. Another big project that we
started to get underway is the recycling initiative. We’ve worked, Todd and I worked closely
with Jill Sinclair in planning…securing funds from Carver County in purchasing containers so
we’ve gotten most of our main parks, Lake Ann, Susan, Bandimere containers on these sites or
close to it. We’ve gotten a good response at Lake Ann. Not really too much contamination.
People are I think getting on board with the program. Our staff is moving along quite nicely.
You know we’ve had some bumps…our garbage service just trying to coordinate pick up times
and how we are going to kind of play out our schedule so it’s working quite well. Other than
that we’ve had 2 new hires to our full time staff, Gary Berg and Dustin Koskela and they are
fitting in quite well. Dustin spends most of his days up around City Center and the library area
so you’ll see him out and about. He’s a very friendly guy. Feel free to say hello. Gary is a light
equipment operator and just on board now for a few months so he’s getting his feet wet…and
he’s been a great addition so if you guys have any questions I’d be glad to answer.
Kelly: Questions for Adam. I have a comment to make. Todd I don’t know if you saw it
yesterday. The Minneapolis paper had an article about recycling.
Hoffman: I did.
Kelly: And how they’re losing money on it and cities are going to have pay more so did you,
you should probably pass that onto Todd too.
Hoffman: Contamination of the recycling screen through single sort.
Kelly: Yes. So I thought it was an interesting article that the City probably should be aware of.
Hoffman: Absolutely agree.
Kelly: Thank you. Anything else? Any other questions? Adam thank you for your report
tonight.
Beers: Not a problem.
REC CENTER REPORT.
Sarles: Hello. Greetings.
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Kelly: Greetings.
Sarles: We start on Dance for Fun. We have finished and started the new season of dance so we
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completed dance on May 9. We had about 1,400 dancers. Over 600 tickets sold for that
program. At the end of the year, well last week we sent 9 dancers to Nationals which were in
Burnsville this year and 2 of those got high honors. One got first place so very proud of our
dance team right now. They do a great job so what’s up next for them. Fourth of July parade so
they’ll be dancing in that as well. As far as the Rec Center Sports spring and summer activities
here. When you put in a new crop of youngsters in our t-ball programs. We’re not going to
soccer…great summer activity for the kids. 150 kids participating in 4 to 6 year olds. 51 in our
Small Fry’s so that’s fantastic. We welcomed a new Rec Sports coordinator. His name is Rob
Stevens and he’s doing a great job for us so we’re proud to have some strong programs. Strong
after school programs as well we finished off the year with. Tennis at the Rec Center was very
popular this year so we had 16 kids playing on those 2 tennis courts so it’s a bit of a shuffle to
get them all through there in that time. Rec Center is undergoing their first year of the 5 year
revitalization project. First thing we were able to update, which couldn’t have come any better
time, we had one treadmill burn out right when we ordered the 3 new ones to replace them so
those are getting used quite a bit. Those motors are running all the time so it’s great to get those
in. In addition to that we’re working on updates in the facility countertops and digital marketing
welcome center in our lobby this year so, so there’s all sorts of different… Then we talk a lot,
you guys have been talking a lot about pickleball but we have a fantastic indoor/outdoor to our
building so unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate with us but with the amount of people that
we had RSVP’d it was a good evening. You guys all helped that came out there. We did host
our indoor ribbon cutting. Deputy Mayor Tjornhom did that for us. I think by the end we had
people out there playing…on the outdoor courts. The rain did stop. Unfortunately there were
some footprints left on the outdoor courts but that’s been fixed at this point so that’s good. The
Southwest Metro Pickleball Club has been an absolute fantastic group to be working with. They
supported us. They gave us $100 for our grand opening so that helped us get some more
pickleballs and a pickle bar and a few other things to do that. We keep holding onto those other
pickleball clinics so if anybody’s wanting to learn a little bit more about the game and meet some
of our crew out there, Thursday evening we are, is our next one and that goes from 6:00 to 8:30.
Or 6:30 to 8:00, I’m sorry. Those folks will be out there helping… And then along with that we
started our first annual…rec center tournament. Today was the first day of play. Today we had
7 teams working… Tomorrow we’re going to do the men’s doubles around…They’re all getting
a little ditty bag. Some more information on Chanhassen and the Rec Center so it’s a great
tournament. So far so good. Everybody’s been very positive… And that is kind of the news
from the Rec Center right now.
Kelly: Kind of quiet over there huh?
Sarles: Oh yeah. It’s like usual.
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Kelly: How many people signed up for the tournament?
Sarles: Let’s see we had teams. We had 14 playing today and 16 tomorrow…so it was slow to
start with. We couldn’t get, unfortunately we advertised…so we cancelled all the novice games.
Hoffman: They’re all advanced.
Sarles: They’re all advanced. Very advanced. Who knew.
Kelly: So on a daily basis how are the pickleball courts being used? Quite a bit. Is there a line?
Sarles: Yeah there’s definitely, you know they come in the mornings. There’s kind of the
regulars from our locals who are playing the same kind of schedule as they were playing inside
at the Rec Center but they moved Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We have groups that are coming
down on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. They like to play in the mornings or the evenings
because that keeps them out of the sun a little bit… We usually find the younger, teenagers…
Kelly: Good, now you mentioned I think with your young kids, I didn’t catch the number. You
said a bunch of them are playing tennis now.
Sarles: We had 16 take part in our after school events program so that’s great to see all those
youngsters out so we had them kind of shuffling through so playing inside in the gym to practice
serves and things like that…
Kelly: So what’s your normal in the past been for tennis?
Sarles: Anywhere between 10 and 20.
Kelly: So it’s right about normal.
Sarles: It’s right there, yeah. The last 2 years it’s been…it just depends.
Kelly: Other questions for Jodi? Thank you Jodi. Sue.
SENIOR CENTER UPDATE.
Bill: Thank you. I do work in the senior center…and everything else, summer’s been a busy
time at the senior center. I did attach, I got the newsletter…I think they called it the million
dollar newsletter but the Connection, the summer Connection goes out the first part of March and
there’s information on programs and probably a reality of working with the population that I do,
I don’t think a lot of people know in March what they’re going to be doing in August so the
newsletter was mailed the end of May. Every one of my day trips and programs filled out when
the newsletter goes out to about 650 people and the day trips range anywhere from $35 to $65 so
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it was really Amy upstairs does a really good job and I really filled out programs so I wanted to
highlight that. Other thing I think I mentioned at our last, when we met back in March I was
going to do a Lifelong Learning program. This Senior Learning Network, a live video
conference. I had that 2 weeks ago. We did a live interactive video conference with the FDR
library, national archives in New York. Rick Rice was excellent. He bought a hundred dollar
camera that we mounted. We were able to have an hour and a half program where we had a
dialogue and a tour and information on their program and museum in New York. People loved it
so we’ll be introducing that in a couple more programs. I may have 2 people come over for that
and they thought it was wonderful so we’ll continue…so that was really, really well received.
The only other thing I wanted to talk about this summer we’ve got a lot of programs going on.
Joint programs…Lions picnic. We had a fraud presentation that Carver County Emergency
Management coming…program. Two programs at the Carver parks. Carver County parks
department. Chanhassen Historical Society is doing a program. First year we’re going to do
Let’s go Fishing on Lake Riley so just a lot of wonderful opportunities in the summer and a lot
of other organizations so…
Kelly: You’re quite busy as usual I can see and the picnic was just.
Bill: Last week.
Kelly: Last week.
Bill: Lions, Mayor. We had a Certificate of Appreciation that the Mayor…and people just loved
it. Great turn out. Weather was wonderful so…
Scharfenberg: And how many do you have going tomorrow?
Bill: To the Twins game? 34 and then there are I think 10 kids from the park department… The
one thing with that tomorrow Southwest Transit is providing one of the metro buses so we don’t
have to pay for transportation.
Kelly: Boy that’s really nice.
Bill: Yeah. Should be fun.
Kelly: Hopefully you’ll see a good game. They’re doing pretty well.
Bill: Yes they are.
Kelly: Thank you Sue. Katie you’re up.
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RECREATION PROGRAMS: 2015 FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION REPORT.
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Favro: Thank you Chairman Kelly and commissioners. This is going to be the 32 Annual
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Fourth of July celebration and it will be starting on Thursday, July 2 through Saturday, July 4.
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The 2 is going to be a family fun day again that we do. We open just the carnival up for
families who have younger kids and want to kind of experience the carnival atmosphere without
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all the craziness of everybody else being there. On our 3 we’re going to do the Chanhassen
Rotary Taste of Chanhassen wine and beer garden. There are currently 7 vendors for that. We
also will have the Southwest Metro Chamber of Commerce doing their Business Expo. We’ll
have live music from Ragtown and then Casa Blanca Orchestra for our street dance that night.
We also will have the carnival. Set up pony rides and then different activities like that. Then on
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the 4 we have our big fishing contest for the adults and the youth along with some other beach
activities down at Lake Ann. This is also going to be…the Rotary’s big parade and coordinate
with that and then…will also be performing. The carnival will be open…and different activities
like that. We have, well it’s being partnered with several organizations. The Chanhassen
Rotary. Southwest Metro Chamber of Commerce. The Minnesota Twins. They will be doing a
clinic at Chanhassen High School and then the Chanhassen Senior Commission will be offering
bingo again this year. In addition to this we’ve also partnered with the Southwest Metro
Newspaper to create a 16 page promotional magazine for the event and that was in the Villager
last Thursday and we also will have two ads that go in. Kind of a highlight of the schedule
we’ve got so we have. One will be in this Thursday so you can look for that and then the second
right before the event we have a…brochure that is going to be going into there so we definitely
have a great relationship. Dave Crawford and all the staff and… Fourth of July t-shirts are also
on sale. You guys also got one. We’ve got youth sizes, medium and large and adult sizes small
through XXL and you can see those here at City Hall or at the Rec Center. This is going to be
one of the biggest events that we have that coordinates with our 2015 Community Event
Sponsors. We also have a lot of smaller local sponsors who are donating prizes and different
things like that for us so that’s just a brief overview.
Hoffman: Come see it next week.
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Kelly: Yeah I know you don’t get a lot to do on the 2, 3 or 4 but all those events are great
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and that party on the 3 is just something else. All the people that show up and so you’ve guys
got your hands full and it’s a great time. It’s a great event for our city so thank you.
Favro: Yeah I’m excited and I’m looking forward to it. We’ve been planning it for a while. I’m
just getting excited to…
Kelly: It will turn out very well I’m sure.
Favro: I’m sure too.
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Kelly: Any questions for Katie? Thank you very much. Now you’re still on, your KleinBank
series.
2015 KLEINBANK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES.
Favro: Yeah I’m still on, thank you. The City, we just kicked off our 2015 KleinBank Summer
Concert Series last Thursday at City Center Plaza. We had the Calhoun Brass Band. It was a
beautiful night. We had a great turnout. Probably about 200 people there. The summer concert
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series is in it’s 11 year and we have 9 performances throughout the summer. The performances
are on Thursday evenings beginning at 7:00 except we do have a Teddy Bear Band on Thursday,
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July 30 and they will be performing at 11:00 a.m. This is based for families and daycares and
younger kids. It’s a great band and all the kids love it. Great event. We do sell some small
concessions. Fresh popcorn and beverages. Everything is under a dollar and it’s a great way to
kind of just make it feel a little bit more homey and comfortable for everyone. KleinBank is
going to be, or they agreed to be the title sponsor again and they have, their sponsorship of
$2,500 is greatly appreciated and it helps us get bands that…a park plaza. It has been a great
partnership with KleinBank. We look forward to every year to the KleinBank Summer Concert
Series and we look forward to working with them again in the future. They are at all the
concerts. They do provide free water…
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Kelly: I see on July 30 the senior commission is teaming up with the Mayor night and going
right into from there, I think it’s a dinner. Is that a dinner Sue?
Bill: In the Senior Center, yes.
Kelly: Dinner in the Senior Center and it goes right into the concert series which is kind of cool.
Very cool. Any other questions for Katie? Thank you. Landen I think you’re up. You can sit if
you want.
SURVEY RESULTS FROM THE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES.
Rimestad: I’ve got to use the doc cam here just to present a little.
Kelly: Okay.
Rimestad: This is probably good for reading wise. We can move the apron around. Alright so
as you can see this is the survey that we have for the KleinBank concert series. Well before I get
ahead of myself, thank you Chair Kelly and commission. We are addressing certain aspects of
the concert series from the time. The bands. What we’d like for the future and so hopefully, this
information gathered will help us guide the course for future improvements with programming
and capital budgets within the series here. So we’ll be getting more data through the summer.
This is just the first concert and fortunately I’m going to have to re-evaluate my delivery system
with these surveys so we’ll try some new things with that. Hopefully get some more surveys in
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and more data from the participants and the community members as well but just a little
information. So far the people that filled out the surveys go to 4 to 6 concerts a summer. What
they liked is the location. They liked being outdoors, especially on a Thursday night. Escaping
from the, I assume escaping from the busy week. The length of the concert, the time and the
variety of music also provided is liked according to the surveys. And they hear mostly through
the Villager and the Chanhassen Connection so we’ll update you in the future.
Kelly: Any questions for Landen?
Scharfenberg: So Landen how many people last time did you get kind of responses from?
Rimestad: I got about 9. 9 surveys plus the additional conversations which are recorded. Not
recorded via tape but just notes taken down.
Scharfenberg: Okay.
Kelly: Thank you Landen.
Hoffman: Just your warm smile will do on delivery…Free box of popcorn maybe.
ATHLETIC FIELD USE AND FACILITY EXPANSION STUDY STAKEHOLDER
FIELD TRIP.
Kelly: Athletic field use and facility expansion study stakeholder field trip, I will be presenting.
What was the date on that Todd that we did that?
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Hoffman: June 10.
Kelly: Well it doesn’t matter. It was earlier this month and basically what we did is we went to
four fields. We started here at City Center. We went over to Lake Ann and then we went over to
the Rec Center and we ended at Bandimere and we had the Chanhassen Athletic Association
Baseball was with us. Chan/Chaska Soccer was with us and Minnetonka Soccer was with us,
along with two of the landscape architects and Todd and Katie were with us, and Jodi so we had
quite a good crew and we looked at the different fields on how can we expand them. How can
we get more use out of them. We had discussions with the landscape architects on you know
what the needs are and we asked the people from these various sports, you know what are your
needs and we kind of ended it with you know what is your vision? The City likes to partner with
groups and if you’ve got something that you think can be helpful and you want to partner with us
come forward and talk to us and I think we’re also going to have a presentation from what the
landscape architects put together and I believe last month you also had Amy give you a
presentation and she’s with the same group of landscape architects that was with us so it was, I
think it was a good field trip and the fact that we had 3 different groups along with us, that gave
us their input was very helpful. Questions.
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Thunberg: Were there any common themes with the feedback they provided? One or two things
that seemed to come up by each of the groups or just a wealth of various ideas.
Kelly: Well you know baseball people want to expand some of the fields, especially over at the
Rec Center, which makes sense depending upon a number of things. The soccer people are just
interested in how can we expand field usage. You know we kind of went over the history of how
the fields work like here at City Center and then the land we acquired over there and the land we
can’t acquire and the uses we have and we didn’t have Mr. Ruegemer to tell us how much they
can be used or not used so, but the thing is everybody’s looking for more. That’s the common
theme and so it’s, is there a way we can deliver in a way that it’s cost effective and a way that
they want to partner with us I think is the big thing that came out of it.
Hoffman: Adam was with that night and the fields were absolutely full and it’s great to see when
you’re on those tours. Each site we were at activities were either in full swing or they were
wrapping up and it’s really just nice to see them at capacity. People were happy in the parks.
The coordinators were there. I would say one common theme is Todd Neils was lobbying for
lights just about all night long but that’s what he does so that was good. No surprises there.
Scharfenberg: Cole, when you said baseball wants to expand at the Rec Center, I guess what did
them mean by that because they’re kind of built out. I don’t know.
Kelly: I think they want to pull the fields out a little bit so they’re a little bigger. So the base
path is a little longer. That’s.
Hoffman: Increase the aggregate area.
Scharfenberg: They’re doing that already.
Hoffman: Yeah.
Scharfenberg: They were going to do that this fall.
Hoffman: They’re talking about that and then just physical improvements to the dugouts and not
an expansion on the fields. Number of fields but doing some improvement projects there.
Scharfenberg: Alright, thank you.
Kelly: Other questions?
Hoffman: And then a follow up. So Jerry and I meet with the group from Hoisington on
Thursday to take a look at their survey. Probably going to be Siri Monkey or another application
like that to go back to all of the stakeholder groups and to receive their input and then they’ll
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start formulating some recommendations. They’re going to take a look at school district data.
Population projections and then you’ll start seeing those recommendations in September and
that’s going to be a fairly involved meeting. You’re going to have to be on your toes. You’re
going to get a presentation with a lot of information. You’re going to need to turn around and
make some sort of a recommendation to the City Council that night so come prepared. Well
rested in September.
Kelly: Thanks Todd. No other commission member presentations. Move onto the
Administrative Packet.
ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET.
None.
Kelly: Anything specific you want to point out Todd?
Hoffman: Not in the Admin Packet. We do have one item which we just want to remind
everybody, our next meeting will be a special neighborhood meeting at Roundhouse Park on July
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14. Tuesday, July 14 so look for the same mailings that the neighborhood will receive we’ll
send to you and we’ll have the schedule and the time meeting there on site and basically to talk
about the park plan. It’s really not been completed. The hockey rink has not been built. Tennis
court has not been built. Some of the tennis court location currently what sits on that tennis court
pad is a basketball. Half court basketball. So it’s really a good time just to meet with that
neighborhood and talk about what they would like to see happen. Similar to the meeting you had
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at Herman Field probably 3 or 4 years ago… Tuesday, July 14.
Hougham: What time is that?
Hoffman: I think we’ll set it, well you can pick a time. 6:30 to 7:30 or 7:00. What do you
think? Do you want to get supper done so 7:00 to 8:00.
Kelly: I think 7:00 works.
Hougham: Could we do 6:30 to 7:30?
Kelly: Yeah. Let’s make it 6:30 to 7:30.
Hoffman: Okay.
Kelly: Other questions, comments or does somebody want to call the question?
Carron moved, Echternacht seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the
motion carried unanimously with a vote of 8 to 0. The Park and Recreation Commission
meeting was adjourned at 8:45 p.m.
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Park and Recreation Commission – June 23, 2015
Submitted by Todd Hoffman
Park and Rec Director
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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