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Status of 2015 Park and Trail AcquisitionBuilding Inspections Phone: 952.227.1180 Fax: 952.227.1190 2015 PARK & TRAIL FUND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS Engineering The 2015 Park & Trail Capital Improvement Program (CIP) included eight items, Phone: 952.2271160 I�ff OF MEMORANDUM MEMORANDUM CI] CEMSEN Finance Phone: 952.227.1140 Trees - $15,000: This allocation of dollars is invested in an annual tree planting 7700 Market Boulevard TO: Park and Recreation Commission /f( PO Box 147 FROM: Todd Hoffman, Park and Recreation Director V Chanhassen, AN 55317 trees in areas with a high concentration of ash trees to mitigate the damages resulting Website from their impending loss due to emerald ash borer damage. Lastly, trees donated DATE: November 24, 2015 Administration Phone: 952.227.1100 SUBJ: Status of 2015 Park and Trail AcquisitionP P and Development Capital Fax: 952.227.1110 Improvement Projects Building Inspections Phone: 952.227.1180 Fax: 952.227.1190 2015 PARK & TRAIL FUND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS Engineering The 2015 Park & Trail Capital Improvement Program (CIP) included eight items, Phone: 952.2271160 ranging in cost from $10,000 to $150,000 and totaling $565,000. Below is the status Fax: 952.227.1170 of each project: Finance Phone: 952.227.1140 Trees - $15,000: This allocation of dollars is invested in an annual tree planting Fax: 952.227.1110 program developed each summer and typically completed in the fall. Parks and Phone: 952.227.1125 public spaces experiencing tree loss due to damage or disease, or areas that simply Park &Recreation Phone: 952.227.1120 would benefit from having additional trees are selected. This program also plants Fax: 952.227.1110 trees in areas with a high concentration of ash trees to mitigate the damages resulting Website from their impending loss due to emerald ash borer damage. Lastly, trees donated Recreation10 Coulercenter 2310 Coulter Boulevard through the city's Memorial Giving Program are purchased from this fund. g Y g � Phone: 952.227.1400 Fax: 952.227.1404 Picnic Tables/Park Benches - $10,000: These dollars are utilized to purchase new picnic tables and benches for areas within our parks and public open spaces that Planning & Natural Resourcescurrently do not offer seating opportunities or limited seating. These dollars are also Phone: 952.2271130 used to acquire benches purchased through the city's Memorial Giving Program. Fax: 952.227.1110 Camden Ridge Trail - $50,000: The Camden Ridge housing subdivision included a Public Works 1/3 -mile section of the Bluff Creek Trail in addition to neighborhood trail 901 Park Place Phone: 952.227.1300 connections. The city's development contract with Lennar specified that the cit �' P P Y pay Fax: 952.227.1310 material costs for the trail section and that Lennar Homes grade and install the trail sections. The trails are now city property and will be maintained as such. Senior Center Phone: 952.227.1125 Fenced Dugouts/New Backstops — Lake Ann Park - $50,000: Fields #4 and #6 Fax: 952.227.1110 have new fenced and covered dugouts and fields #2, 4, 5 and 6 have new taller Website backstops with overhangs. www.ci.chanhassennn.us Chanhassen is a Community for Life - Providing forTodayand Planning forTomorrow Park & Recreation Commission November 24, 2015 Page 2 Soccer Field Fence — Bandimere Community Park - $20,000: A safety and ball containment fence was installed on soccer field #1 to restrict most kicked balls from entering roadways or parking lots. Galpin Boulevard Trail Extension - $150,000: The City of Shorewood elected to reject all bids for this project. Shorewood had the longest section of trail and was the lead agency on the project. Unfortunately we do not foresee that this work will proceed in the near future. The dollars allocated for this work will remain in the park dedication fund. Reconstruct County Road 61— Trail Contribution - $150,000: The new pedestrian and bicycle trails along County Road 61 are nice additions to the city's comprehensive trail system. The trails include an underpass of County Road 61 and a full trail passage along the new Highway 101 bridge to Scott County. The future Bluff Creek Drive trail and Highway 101 south trail (down the bluff) will complete these much anticipated trail connections. GENERAL FUND SURPLUS The 2015 General Fund Surplus Fund included one park and recreation -related item: Neighborhood Park Picnic Shelter Initiative $120,000: The construction of three new neighborhood park picnic shelters is complete at Pheasant Hill Park, Curry Farms Park and Lake Susan Hills Park. g:Apark\thV6pAprc report 11-24-15.doex