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Agenda and PacketAGENDA PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2019 CHANHASSEN CITY HALL, 7700 MARKET BOULEVARD A.7:30 PM ­ CALL TO ORDER ­ COUNCIL CHAMBERS B.ROLL CALL C.APPROVAL OF AGENDA Commissioners may add or delete items at this time. D.PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS E.VISITOR PRESENTATIONS Commission Procedures allow for presentations from the audience at this time.  If a motion is required, the item will be forwarded to the next available agenda to allow for publication and review prior to consideration. F.APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1.Approve Minutes dated June 25, 2019 G.NEW BUSINESS 1.2019­20 Ice Skating Rink Location Recommendations 2.Recommendation to City Council, 2020 ­ 2024 Park and Trail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program CIP H.OLD BUSINESS I.REPORTS 1.2019 4th of July Celebration Evaluation 2.Update on the Feasibility Study at Newly Acquired Parkland at Lake Ann Park J.COMMISSION MEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTS K.COMMISSION MEMBER PRESENTATIONS 1.Discussion on Possible Future Park and Recreation Improvement Bond Referendum L.ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET AGENDAPARK AND RECREATION COMMISSIONTUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2019CHANHASSEN CITY HALL, 7700 MARKET BOULEVARDA.7:30 PM ­ CALL TO ORDER ­ COUNCIL CHAMBERSB.ROLL CALLC.APPROVAL OF AGENDACommissioners may add or delete items at this time.D.PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTSE.VISITOR PRESENTATIONSCommission Procedures allow for presentations from the audience at this time.  If a motion isrequired, the item will be forwarded to the next available agenda to allow for publication and reviewprior to consideration.F.APPROVAL OF MINUTES1.Approve Minutes dated June 25, 2019G.NEW BUSINESS1.2019­20 Ice Skating Rink Location Recommendations2.Recommendation to City Council, 2020 ­ 2024 Park and Trail Acquisition andDevelopment Capital Improvement Program CIPH.OLD BUSINESSI.REPORTS1.2019 4th of July Celebration Evaluation2.Update on the Feasibility Study at Newly Acquired Parkland at Lake Ann ParkJ.COMMISSION MEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTSK.COMMISSION MEMBER PRESENTATIONS1.Discussion on Possible Future Park and Recreation Improvement Bond Referendum L.ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET 1.Administrative Packet M.ADJOURNMENT PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Subject Approve Minutes dated June 25, 2019 Section APPROVAL OF MINUTES Item No: F.1. Prepared By Nann Opheim, City Recorder File No:  PROPOSED MOTION The Park and Recreation Commission approves minutes dated June 25, 2019. Approval requires a simple majority vote of members present ATTACHMENTS: Summary Verbatim CHANHHASSEN PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING SUMMARY MINUTES JUNE 25, 2019 Chairman Boettcher called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT: Jim Boettcher, Meredith Petouvis, Joe Scanlon, Karl Tsuchiya, Matt Kutz, Sandy Sweetser, and Haley Pemrick STAFF PRESENT: Todd Hoffman, Park and Rec Director; Jerry Ruegemer, Recreation Superintendent; Adam Beers, Park Superintendent; Jodi Sarles, Recreation Center Manager; Mary Blazanin, Senior Center Coordinator, and Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor PUBLIC PRESENT: Steve Scharfenberg 1470 Lake Susan Hills Drive APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Kutz moved, Pemrick seconded to approve the agenda as published. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to 0. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: None. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: Steve Scharfenberg, 1470 Lake Susan Hills Drive, speaking on behalf of the Chanhassen Red Birds, invited commission members to attend the Red Birds City of Chanhassen Night on June 27th and explained that on Wednesday, July 17th Fox News 9 will be at the Chanhassen Red Birds versus Minnetonka Millers game to highlight their Town Ball series. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Sweetser moved, Kutz seconded to approve the verbatim and summary Minutes of the Park and Recreation Commission meeting dated May 29, 2019 with an amendment to the motion regarding the Gratitude Tree. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to 0. INITIATE DISCUSSION 2020-2024 PARK AND TRAIL CIP. Chairman Boettcher explained how park dedication funds are collected. Commissioner Kutz asked about a long term funding source once Chanhassen is fully developed. Todd Hoffman discussed the $400,000 in park dedication fees from development of the Holasek site. PARK MAINTENANCE QUARTERLY UPDATE. Adam Beers presented the update on park maintenance projects. Commissioner Kutz asked about the process for purchasing equipment. Commissioner Sweetser asked about the raw sewage spill in Lake Minnewashta. Park and Recreation Center Summary – June 25, 2019 2 2019 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION PREVIEW. Audrey Swantz provided highlights of activities scheduled for the 3 day 4th of July celebration. RECREATION CENTER QUARTERLY UPDATE. Jodi Sarles provided updates on activities and programs at the Rec Center. SENIOR CENTER QUARTERLY UPDATE. Mary Blazanin provided the update on activities and programs being offered through the Senior Center. Commissioner Kutz asked about transportation options. COMMISSION MEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTS. None. COMMISSION MEMBER PRESENTATIONS. None. ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET. Chair Boettcher asked staff to comment on the Lake Ann Park consultant services proposal. Jerry Ruegemer invited commissioners to attend the Family Fishing Day on Saturday, June 29th at the Lake Ann fishing pier. Commissioner Kutz asked about the issue of wake surf boats on Lotus Lake. Tsuchiya moved, Petouvis seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to 0. The Park and Recreation Commission meeting was adjourned at 8:40 p.m. Submitted by Todd Hoffman Park and Rec Director Prepared by Nann Opheim CHANHHASSEN PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING JUNE 25, 2019 Chairman Boettcher called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT: Jim Boettcher, Meredith Petouvis, Joe Scanlon, Karl Tsuchiya, Matt Kutz, Sandy Sweetser, and Haley Pemrick STAFF PRESENT: Todd Hoffman, Park and Rec Director; Jerry Ruegemer, Recreation Superintendent; Adam Beers, Park Superintendent; Jodi Sarles, Recreation Center Manager; Mary Blazanin, Senior Center Coordinator, and Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor PUBLIC PRESENT: Steve Scharfenberg 1470 Lake Susan Hills Drive APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Kutz moved, Pemrick seconded to approve the agenda as published. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to 0. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: None. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: Boettcher: I don’t know this stranger sitting out here in the red shirt. He’s, I think he’s a spy from another city. Maybe we’ll hear what he has to say. We all know who he is but just for the record please name and address. Steve Scharfenberg: Thank you Commissioner Boettcher. Steve Scharfenberg, 1470 Lake Susan Hills Drive. I’m here tonight on behalf of the Chanhassen Red Birds. I want to talk to the commission about a couple of things that we’ve got coming up in the next couple of weeks. The first item is City of Chanhassen Night which is this coming Thursday, June 27th. Jerry’s got a little handout there for everyone so members of that, employees of the City, commission members, City Council members all get in free so we would like, and District 112 employees as well so we would like to have you come out tonight. Come out on Thursday night. The Red Birds play the Lions Pub Warriors. We’re having a good season so far. We’re 8 and 2 and so we would love to have as many commissioners are available that night to come out on Thursday night. We’ve got, it’s dollar dog night so you can have a hotdog for a dollar. I know Adam’s going to bring all his kids out to feed them that night. So we would love to have you come out on Thursday night. The second item is, and some of you may have heard this already but on Wednesday, July 17th Fox 9 is doing their annual Town Ball Series and they will be at Chanhassen on Wednesday, July 17th. Red Birds play the Minnetonka Millers who are a Class A Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 2 team. Actually they weren’t state champions last year but for the last several years they’ve been state champions so a very good team. We’ll have a great ball game. Admission is free that evening. We’re going to have all sorts of raffles and prizes and contests going on that night and so we really want to promote Chanhassen and the Red Birds but really more importantly Chanhassen so whatever you can do as commission members. A lot of you are on social media. You’ve got neighborhood groups that you’ve got chat rooms on. If you can push that information out to them. Let them know of this free event and it’s going to be, I think it’s going to be a phenomenal event so we appreciate all of the support that we get from the City. From the Park and Rec Commission. From Todd and Jerry and all that they do and with that I’m going to stop and I’m going to hand out for tonight we’ve got, we have magnet schedules. I don’t know if anybody has them but put them up on your refrigerator and we hope that you can come out to our one of our games. Thank you. Boettcher: So Steve, real quick one thing. Dumb question but on the flyer it says show your ID so people aren’t going to trust me that I’m associated with the City Thursday night. Steve Scharfenberg: I’m at the front gate so you’ve got a. Boettcher: You’re my get out of jail card, good. I need that. Thank you Steve. Hoffman: How many news casts will be on that night Steve, do you know? Steve Scharfenberg: I think 5, 6 and 9. And 10. So I think all four of them. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Boettcher: Anyone have any corrections, additions, deletions? Petouvis: I have a correction. Sweetser: Probably the same one. Petouvis: Probably. On the top of page 12 I am the one who opposed the Gratitude Tree so instead of Sandy Sweetser it should be Meredith Petouvis that is the Scrooge on the tree so that’s my one change. Sweetser: That’s not how I was going to say it but that is what I was going to mention. Petouvis: I am just the word of caution. So that’s my one change thank you. Boettcher: Alright, any other corrections? Hearing none motion to approve. Petouvis: So moved. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 3 Boettcher: Second. Kutz: Second. Petouvis moved, Kutz seconded to approve the verbatim and summary Minutes of the Park and Recreation Commission meeting dated May 29, 2019 with an amendment to the motion regarding the Gratitude Tree. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to 0. INITIATE DISCUSSION 2020-2024 PARK AND TRAIL CIP. Boettcher: I think in this case this evening based on what’s going on, what we’re looking at budget wise we’re not going to have the extended discussion. There’s not going to be the shuffling of projects because there’s too much on the plate with things that are coming that are big items. In talking about this earlier maybe we go over and talk about where the money comes from because we have almost half of the group here is new. Where the money comes from. We can easily get rid of it. We can disperse the funds but where does it come from? And again looking at what’s happening right now, things coming up with the Arboretum with the trail. Finding out just recently that there’s going to be an increase in that cost so if the group agrees we’re looking at probably just staying where we’re at. We’re not going to take on a bunch of projects this year. There’s too much that’s questionable right now. Prices are going up. We have a lot of things coming. We did the trail walk at Lake Ann. That’s not this year. That’s whenever the council decides after the discussions and meetings and developers and everybody gets involved with it but that’s something that’s going to be on the horizon too so where would we like to start? You want to start with a summary? The way it’s listed in the agenda. Looking at the dates of some of the tasks coming up. For the new people what’s your, I guess start with your questions. Anybody have any concerns about how things work? Again this is going to be an easy year. This is not going to be anybody throwing stuff at other people hopefully. Pemrick: I guess one thing I just was wondering about when I was looking through this for the tennis court refurbishment. Boettcher: Yes. Pemrick: I know this year courts have been identified that are in progress. And then we have money allocated in 2021. Have those been identified yet or are those still kind of up for discussion? Hoffman: They’ve been identified. The tennis court maintenance program is all for probably the next 50 years all laid out so I can grab the report and so courts are completely refurbished at a certainly time period and then they’re kind of crack sealed and repainted at another certain timeframe so tennis court repair program is already all programmed for about the next 50 years. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 4 Pemrick: Okay. Boettcher: And I thought I saw it in here earlier Todd. Wasn’t there a listing of all the courts or not? Hoffman: Maybe not in this. That’s a separate. Boettcher: Was it separate? Hoffman: Separate document. Boettcher: Yeah 2019, 2021 under the. Hoffman: Oh yeah there it is. Boettcher: Under description crack seal and resurface tennis courts. Hoffman: Yep City Center Park and Lake Ann for 2021. Boettcher: Right. And there’s what 5 of them for this year? Five total. Hoffman: Yep it’s a big year. Boettcher: Because we’ve seen in the past, especially the one over at the Rec Center and I haven’t been over there in a while. Jodi real quick, what is the condition over there? You’re over there every day. Sarles: That’s the one that’s now getting resurfacing. Beers: They’ll be paving it tomorrow. Boettcher: Tomorrow, okay. Perfect timing. You knew we’d talk about it tonight so there you are. Sweetser: Does the park equipment replacement like for Bandimere in 2022 include the soccer nets? Soccer goals. Hoffman: Park equipment replacement. Sweetser: Just the playground. Hoffman: (Yes). Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 5 Boettcher: So again initially where the funding comes from, when you look at a subdivision, homes that are built and I’m not sure how long this has been the rate but it’s about $5,800 per home, per house that we get in park dedication funds and for a business it’s about $12,000 per acre. So we’re always glad to see a subdivision go in because we can go in and count houses and add up our pennies and know what we can spend the next year so that’s always a good thing with development. The problem being because the city is getting developed out that’s a funding source that’s not going to be there forever. Kutz: That’s a good question. Are we thinking ahead long term to a future funding source once Chanhassen is fully developed? Has that been discussed in the past with anybody on the group? Boettcher: It is always a question and I don’t know that there’s really an answer to it. I mean redevelopment we don’t get anything do we Todd? So you refurbish a house, tear it down and build a new one type of thing so the change is, and because of the aging structures we’re going to have to find a new source at some point in time for the repairs and right now that’s not coming out of our money. The repairs that are being done to 3 parks per year for the next 4 years. Kutz: I’m just thinking that the council should probably eventually needs to start thinking of funding a, I don’t know 1 percent of the budget. Half a percent of the budget so we have a dedicated funding source ourselves so we don’t have to be asking you know every year. Boettcher: Does somebody keep track Todd? Is there a chart that would show let’s say from 2000 to 2018 number of houses built? Showing the decline. The dollars and everything. Hoffman: Yep planning would have that and we have a running estimate of how much park dedication is yet to be brought in in the city so it’s in the $20 million dollar mark until the city is built out. Commissioner Kutz you’re right so in the life of a city those cities that have park dedication fees, you have a dedicated funding source as you build out but we’re past the midway point and so we have a lot of infrastructure, park infrastructure in the ground and that’s the reason for the park replacement program so that is a dedicated funding source to do repair and replacement of what you have currently in place. So when people move into a city and they pay into the park fund, either $5,800 per home or $12,500 per acre for industrial their expectation is that you’re going to spend that money to increase the capacity of your park system. They’re new people coming in. That’s how state law works so you’re increasing the people. You increase the capacity of parks and recreation. You need to invest your money in something new. You can’t use it to go and pave a tennis court or to replace a picnic shelter or playground and so we’re going to continue to build new but at some point all of it needs to either be replaced, repaired or refurbished and that’s going to take a dedicated funding source like the park dedication fund. So what will happen I think over time is that the park dedication fund allocation will have to increase over time. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 6 Boettcher: So currently we’ve got, current balance we’re looking at $1,668,000 and again that sounds like a good number. I think our low point was just the last couple years. Was it down below $800,000? Hoffman: In that neighborhood yep. Boettcher: Yeah but again because of one thing being the cost of the Arboretum trail going from $600,000 to $800,000 plus so you talk about a jump like that at this point, I mean what’s everyone’s feelings? I think we need to just lay low with what’s happening. We don’t need to take on any projects right now. See what happens in the next year or two. Hoffman: So Chair Boettcher just to share with the rest of the commissioners. So just today Marty Walsh, the Carver County Parks Director was in just at the end of the day to pick up the master agreement between the City of Chanhassen and the County and the Highway 5 trail to the Arboretum and so they’re finishing up plans. Lots of negotiations for easements with Life Time Fitness. Lots of negotiations with the Arboretum and then with the City of Chanhassen to get these agreements in place. That agreement includes a funding formula and so as the costs go up with the final project our contribution will go up accordingly. And I think as we’ve talked before it’s still without all these partners there’s no way you could do this project alone so you have a state and federal grant. You have the County chipping in the bulk of the cash. The Arboretum kicking in cash somewhere in that $600,000 to $800,000 range and then the City doing the same. So the estimate has gone from the low 3 millions to the low 5 millions right now and so that will get refined and then he’ll send over an estimate of what our cost would be. I’ll bring that to you once we receive that. It will likely be at your July or August meeting and so then you’ll insert that new estimate into your recommendation for the City Council if you choose to make that recommendation on what that new number would be. So that $600,000 number is going to go up. We just don’t know where. The other thing I want to make the commissioners aware of is Quantum Controls has come back in. They were approved for their site plan last night. Quantum Controls is out near, going to be on Century Boulevard. There’s a building called Mamac Systems. This will be just north of that in the Life Time Fitness area and as a part of Quantum Controls there’s a development contract that says when you build this lot you’re going to finish that last segment of trail. This project was in the works about a year ago and the cost was about $200,000 for that section of trail because there was some really extensive walls. Those walls have all gone away. I’m not sure where the trail costs will be now. They’ll have to deliver that number to us. Probably closer to $60,000 I’m thinking. Maybe lower or higher than that depending on when it comes in but so that is a project that is written into a contract between the park board, the City Council and the developer so that work will be done. It will finish that trail and then you pay the bill so that will be coming out of your park fund and we’ll bring that number forward once we know it as well. So there’s no projects in the CIP park fund going forward this year other than park replacement. Tennis courts. Those type of projects are underway so that’s good news but we’re really just standing pat in the park dedication fund for a variety of reasons. One Arboretum. Quantum Control, trail to the Arboretum. Quantum Controls and then the future Lake Ann project. And the future Lake Ann project you’ll know Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 7 that number once you get through this process with the park planning. And so after your tour with the City Council, the council authorized that feasibility study which is in your packet and so that will start after the final plat is approved likely on July 8th for the park. Now remember the Lennar’s plat is called The Park so that’s their housing development so it’s going to get confusing when you talk about the park in The Park. So that will be approved on July 8th and then the study will start and so you’ll be engaged with both the public, the consultant starting to take a look at concepts and identifying you know is this what we want to do. What don’t we want to do? What do we want to do in that park expansion? And then once you identify that there will be some engineering work done as a part of the study to identify costs. Footings. Soil types. What is this all going to take to get done? And that will bring forward a number sometime at the end of that 3 month and then that will be a conversation between the council and the commission. Okay now we have the estimate. What do we want to do? So that’s kind of the lay of the land on CIP. Current process is there’s lots of work being done. Lots of things in the future. The $1.6 million that is currently in the fund includes the Holasek project so the large industrial project that generated over $400,000 in park fees and so that’s a big project and you know I’ve always just been incredibly thankful for a, so you take a business plan like that. People are coming into a community and you know they want to build office business industrial and they’re willing to contribute that kind of cash to a park fund so it’s over $400,000 that’s coming in so their employees, their business you know associates can enjoy the parks and trails and the economic viability that it brings to a community so it’s really a, if you see Mr. Mark Undestad he’s the primary driver of that project, if you see him around thank him for the cash. Boettcher: $400,000 works. So any other discussion we want to have? Any questions from our new members or anyone? If not this could be the shortest CIP discussion in my history. Hoffman: So the park fund is just one CIP project, budget in the city so if you look at the complete CIP there’s lots of other you know sewer fund. The capital fund. A lot of other things going on. Your primary focus is not just knowing the park fund but then just anything that has to do with parks so it may not be coming out of the park fund. For example out front here the pavers are starting to deteriorate so if you walk this plaza you’ll see that those pavers, primarily in the really heavily salted areas are starting to collapse. Crumble from the underside and so they’re at the point where it doesn’t make any sense to replace them anymore as far as replacement. You can’t really take them out and replace them. They’ll just crumble and fall apart and your problem just got bigger so it’s about $800,000 in round numbers to replace them all and so we’re going to split that in two and present that to the City Council probably for a first round in 2021 so again it’s a park. You know it’s a civic plaza. It needs to be maintained. Wherever we can find the money. You know just look at not buying a dump truck and do pavers instead so those are the kind of debates that are always going on at that level and that can’t be park fund money because it’s, it was already built with a variety of different funding mechanisms and now it needs to be maintained. It’s the core of our city and you’ll see it if you take a walk around. Take a look. You’ll notice that they can’t last much longer in certain areas so that’s another example of capital dollars in a park setting. Civic plaza setting that will have to be addressed at some point in the future. Lots of competing. As our city grows we have more and Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 8 more public infrastructure. There’s lots of competing dollars. You know everything ages not at the same rate but everything ages and deteriorates at some point and you’re going to have to replace it if you… Boettcher: And probably for Adam, is there any maintenance like I know the City of Waconia just bought a vacuum for their permeable pavers. Do you have anything similar that’s supposed to increase the life of them. It takes the salt off of them and. Beers: No we don’t have anything like that. I’d have to look into that. Boettcher: Okay. Beers: I’m not familiar with it. Hoffman: We don’t have a lot of permeable pavers in our public infrastructure. Beers: No. So the construction of the pavers have, you know the quality’s increased tremendously over the last 15 years so there’s steps we can take in the future to try to prolong the lifespan. If you seal them or just… Boettcher: I know because I just had my Carver County Water Management meeting before this one by the City Hall by the library, right there, the parking lot area they have permeable pavers. In Town Marina has got them down there and they went and spent, it was just under $10,000 for the vacuum and the way it sold is that it’s going to take the stuff off but you’re not going to clog them up and they would last longer supposedly so $10,000 versus whatever the cost would be to replace them. Or you could delay the replacement 2 or 3 years possibly. Maybe just like I said they just came up with the idea and just made the purchase. Hoffman: It’s a different product so these aren’t permeable pavers. There are pavers. Boettcher: Right. Hoffman: So you wouldn’t use that same piece of equipment on these, this paver. Boettcher: Any other discussion on the CIP? If not we’ll wait for some numbers to come in in a couple months. See what the increase is. REPORTS: PARK MAINTENANCE QUARTERLY UPDDATE. Boettcher: Next item, old business. If nothing we’ll go to reports. Looks like we’ve got a lot of name tags up here. I think we’re going to hear from all the players tonight. Can we have the A, Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 9 B, C’s and D’s. Whoever wants to go. Adam I guess you’re first. Park maintenance quarterly update. Beers: Thank you Chair Boettcher and commissioners. I’m just here to give you guys an update on some of the 2019 projects. We’ve touched on a few of them just briefly but, as part of our CIP for ’19. Tennis courts at the Chanhassen Rec Center, Lake Susan Park and South Lotus Lake Park could use some upgrades so the Chanhassen Rec Center was beyond the small repairs that…so that had to be completely milled and overlaid. So that, both the Chanhassen Rec Center and Lake Susan are going to be paved tomorrow. South Lotus Lake was paved last, 2 weeks ago. We’ve had some hiccups with weather so we’ve been having just to kind of dodge the bullets when we can and get things done when the weather allows so tomorrow morning looks good. I talked to the park foreman who’s going to pave them for me this morning and everything …so cross our fingers nothing goes wrong and we’ll get the courts paved and we usually let them rest for about 30 days just to let the pavement kind of settle in and then they’ll, the crews come in and paint and stripe so. Hoffman: That’s just a curing period to let those oils come out so the pavement will accept the other products. Beers: New playgrounds as part of the park replacement schedule. Playgrounds going in at Herman Field Park. So at this location as a part of the shelter initiative that we’ve been going, we finished last year we were, had a new playground border to the shelter that went in in 2017. So this location we just had to remove the existing structure and put in a new playground so we’re ready to go. We have the playground at the shop. We’re jut waiting for the right weather and our contractor… The other two are Sunset Ridge Park and Prairie Knoll Park and those are going to require a complete overhaul so the existing playground structure, the playground border, everything is coming out and everything new is going in so…optimistic we’re going to have some volatile weather. We had, we cleaned everything out at Sunset Ridge this morning. Drain tile’s going in tomorrow and the rock for the base under the concrete is going to be installed tomorrow so that way next Monday concrete contractor’s going to come in, that’s what we’re going with. That’s the plan moving forward so we have the playgrounds at our shop. We’re just waiting to kind of perform this preliminary work… Just kind of a random project. We decided to throw in… pitching mound at Lake Susan Park. We’ve struggled over the last few years just kind of maintaining that. We just kind of get a lot of concerns from user groups about the quality. The height. The material. The playability. Safety so we decided, Jerry was fortunate enough to move enough things around as far as scheduling goes so we had two full work days to get in there and basically remove everything and we installed a Dura Edge product. It’s the infield mix that the Minnesota Twins actually use so it’s a combination of sand, silt and clay. It holds the structure much better than just traditional ag lime we get at the quarries around, just down the road so it’s been performing well. We received a ton of compliments. Everyone seems to be happy. It was a pretty quick project. Two days. It was relatively inexpensive. It’s been, I think it’s going to improve the playing experience there so. That’s kind of where we’re at with some of our bigger projects. As far as just our everyday maintenance goes we’re up and Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 10 running with all our facilities. We’ve been fighting to get fertilize, granular fertilizers down with when the weather allows and sprayed for broad-leaved weeds. All of, we send out some of our retired staff to play along the trail edges 3 times a year just to knock down the tall grass and kind of maintain the 2 foot, 3 foot buffer along the trail edges so the first round of that is now completed. All of our seasonals are here. We’re, it seems right now we’re already in the 4th of July. Feel like we’re going the other direction now. We’re fully staffed. We’re up and running. Things are good in park maintenance right now so. On Monday we have a new employee starting. Ryan Landon so we lost Dustin Koskela a few months ago so we were able to Ryan Landon so we’re excited to have him come onboard at an extremely time to bring in people in the 4th of July so his first day of work is going to be a 16 hour day, real fast pace so it will be a good time to get his feet wet and kind of get to know the group and see how that goes so we’re excited to have him on board. Boettcher: Was he seasonal or? Beers: No he came from a small landscaping firm. Boettcher: Oh okay. Beers: He had been with them for about 15 years and had bounced around a little bit. Just kind of some family businesses and so he’s looking for a little change of pace. Little bit of structure so. Boettcher: Good. Hoffman: Lots of experience. Well rounded. Beers: Yeah. Tons of, a lot of hardscapes. Equipment operation. Irrigations. He’ll be utilized right away… Boettcher: That’s good. Where are you at now as far as permanent and seasonal numbers? Beers: 7 including me full time and we have 19 seasonal. Boettcher: 19? Beers: Yep. Boettcher: So all the guys out running the mowers they’re all. Beers: There’s about 6 of the retired seasonals that work a combination of 2 to 4 to 5 days a week just depending on. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 11 Boettcher: Okay. Beers: You know it’s tough to get a retired people to come in and work 40 hours so we kind of got to be flexible and we work with them and try to get, as long as we can continue to get what we need done you know we’re very flexible as we can, and they appreciate that so. Hoffman: Your tracking lead says retired seasonal right? They’re retired people that work for us. They’re not retired work people. They’re retirees that are coming back for. Beers: Busy bodies. No we have a great, great group and it’s, you know we don’t want to give those up so any questions? Kutz: I have one question like just me being newer. Do you go, when you purchase new equipment do you put out a request for bids or how do you do that? Do you, or how do you, go about that process for me. Beers: Yeah depending on the piece of equipment that goes out, typically they’re bought on a State contract. Kutz: Okay. Beers: Depending on what the piece of equipment is. If there’s something specific that you know we, you know we can’t, they maybe not have a comparable mower or ballfields or anything… A lot of things the bigger pieces of equipment we bought on State bids so then they don’t require multiple bids so. Kutz: Okay. Just curious, thanks. Sweetser: I have an unpleasant question I think. There is apparently raw sewage in Lake Minnewashta and there’s a sign at the Roundhouse dock saying to not swing in the water or fish in the water. People are swimming and fishing still. My concern is the little children swimming still. Do we need an additional sign closer to the beach or is that cleared up? Hoffman: That’s fine. It’s been cleared up. Sweetser: Okay, so we need the sign down. Okay. Hoffman: Yeah…put that up. Beers: The Met Council and Kevin’s group was working on it. I talked to him at the beginning of the day. He was working on it to get the final… We’ve been following up with him. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 12 Sweetser: Good I feel better about extraneous signs rather than children swimming in sewage so. Hoffman: The spill was on the north side of the lake so it likely never reached down there. Sweetser: Yeah. Better safe than sorry though. Boettcher: Alright thank you Adam. Beers: Thank you. 2019 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION PREVIEW. Boettcher: Next up 2019 4th of July celebration preview. Looks like this is Audrey. Swantz: Thank you Chair Boettcher and commission. The 36th annual 4th of July celebration is right around the corner. It’s a week from today actually it starts believe it or not so it will be held on July 2nd through July 4th. All activities, well all activities on the 2nd will be held at City Center Park. That’s Family Night at the carnival. Activities on the 3rd will take place at City Center Park as well as Chanhassen High School and then activities on the 4th will be between City Center Park and Lake Ann Park. Family Fun Night will be on the 2nd with discounted rides from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. for $2 as well as pony, we have pony rides there as well that night. There’s going to be on the 3rd a lot of different games an activities for families as well as the Taste of Chanhassen. The Rotary Beer Garden as well as lots of live music. We have a street dance that night with the Fabulous Armadillos and Stone Daisy will be the act opening up for them. We’re very excited we have two new artists this year so it’s going to be exciting. We also have the Business Expo on the 3rd as well. On the 4th we will be having several different activities at Lake Ann including log rolling, adult and child fishing contest, a sand sculpture contest as well as more activities happening over at City Center Park. We have the Beer Garden and Taste happening again as well as live performances and the parade. And then we all head back over to Lake Ann for fireworks in the evening. It’s going to be a really fun event. I’m excited to experience it for my first time. Once again we have partnered with several organizations including the Rotary Club of Chanhassen, the Southwest Metro Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota Twins and the Chanhassen Senior Commission and without these other partnerships we really wouldn’t be able to do all the activities that we do so it’s really thankful for them and their help and participation with this event. We do have a couple things to promote the event throughout the weeks coming up to it. I don’t know if anyone goes online for the Chanhassen Villager to read the paper but we have a lot of web ads this month targeting residents of Chanhassen as well as the magazine and trifold that are in front of you. Those were put, the magazine was in the Villager last week and the trifold will be in the Villager this coming week on Thursday. And we will also be putting stuff on Explore Minnesota website. Our website. Our Facebook and Twitter as well so getting the word out about the event although I think a lot of people around here are pretty familiar with it by now. 4th of July t-shirts are Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 13 available at City Hall and the Rec Center and I have some available for you guys to grab a shirt on your way out. I have various sizes and colors so don’t forget to grab one on your way out. I’m really excited this year so I hope everyone can make it out. Any questions? Boettcher: In the past I think, was it the last couple years there was some issues with people putting their lawn chairs and their blankets out a day ahead of time. But I mean didn’t the previous bank owners, didn’t they say something last couple years about it was their concern or not? No, so we’ll start seeing the blankets and stuff tomorrow probably? Okay. Hoffman: 3 days out. Sweetser: That’s been me. That’s been me. I love doing it. Now the kids are kind of getting old and nobody wants to hang out there with me but I still might put my blanket out so there. Boettcher: Don’t touch it. No it’s always a good event. My wife just, we didn’t, we couldn’t go last year. We were out of town. The year before we did but a couple days ago she said now what do we have to do to see the Fabulous Armadillos. Hoffman: Just show up. Boettcher: So she’s ready. Sounds like a good time again this year. Appreciate it Audrey. Swantz: Thank you. Pemrick: I do have a question. It just popped in my head. Do we ever market to the other local communities? Swantz: The trifold will go in the Chaska Herald as well as the Chanhassen Villager and then the web ads, some of them do reach out to those other communities as well. We have some focus specifically on Chanhassen and some focus to go out to the other communities. Alright thank you. Boettcher: Alright thank you. RECREATION CENTER QUARTERLY UPDATE. Boettcher: Next Rec Center quarterly update. Looks like Jodi. Sarles: Thank you Chair Boettcher and commissioners. A beautiful night out there so spent some time out at T-ball. Updates at the Rec Center, we’re going…in the spring. We did have a heating pipe leak in March so we had some nice brown stains coming through. We did some drywall repair now just waiting for the final painting here. We worked with District 112 on the interior of the building so they have spearhead those projects…and then a big upcoming one is Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 14 we close our gym and our studio say August 1st through 16. The cure time on the new product they use to seal the floors is not quite as long but still hoping that can be shorten quite a bit but right now they just ask us to leave that window open to have that all finished and ready to go by the time school starts back up. It’s not as costly of a chemical they put down anymore so it’s bearable to be in the building and so we keep kind of rolling through. Leave doors open. Everything we can have open we start the ventilation going and seal towels under every door… It hasn’t gotten to the point I had to get out duct tape yet so. Some program updates. The Dance for Fun year end recital was in May. We had 129 dancers that were in that recital. There were two performances that day. It’s always a fun event with the dancers get to show off all their progress throughout the year and work with the Chanhassen…presentation flowers for them. And then now we’re rolling already into the summer camp. First session ended on Monday so we’ll start them up again a week after the 4th of July. Youth safety training. Those are things that people look forward to for their kids. Babysitting training and safe on my own training so that’s one that we get 8 to 10 year olds to kind of get them prepared to be home by themselves after school or during the summer so those have been popular classes. And then we did have a couple more coming. We had 28 new babysitters in town so if anybody needs a babysitter they’re certified. And then… I think we can probably get a testimonial here for our Fit for Life class. Sandy was one of our participants. Sweetser: Absolutely. She does a great job. It’s really fun. I’m the youngest in the class let’s just say that but. Sarles: It’s not necessarily for seniors. Sweetser: I totally, it’s been great. If you don’t want that high impact and you want to, I move a little faster on my own than the other folks but that’s good. She’s great about allowing everybody to kind of go at their own pace so it’s been fun. Sarles: Kate does a really good job of getting people, depending on your abilities. If you want to stand. If you want to sit. If you have more weights. She’s really in tune with the class and keeping them progressing and working on all of those fun things like stretching, cardio, flexibility and all the things we all should work on. So that’s been popular. Another good news we have out at the Rec Center is I moved my last report I told you about that we brought in Silver Sneakers. Now we have an agreement with United Health Care and we’re offering some of the Medicare Advantage folks, they come in and use the facility at no charge. They can use the fitness center. Fitness center, open gym and open…to allow that to happen. It’s been a great item, a nice new partnership we have here so continue to work on those as opportunities arise here. So Rec Center Sports, that’s kind of top of my head right now. Katie Holnagel who was our coordinator, she was…almost 2 years go she’s a great coordinator and has new ideas and keeps the program going but she was offered a full time position at City of Columbia Heights and so we wish her well and now we’re just looking to hire a new Rec Sports coordinator. Just got off the T-ball fields tonight so I am the Rec Sports coordinator right now. It’s been an interesting spring. The difference between Tuesdays and Wednesday is significant. Tuesday’s Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 15 we’ve had 2 of 6 of our programs. On Wednesday’s we offer 5 of 6 new programs so it’s just a little bit of a flip flop so I feel bad for those Tuesday kids but we had 2 weeks. Two good weeks of T-ball here and they just got their medal and certificates. Small Fry’s, those are the 3 and 4 year olds that we do so we just finished the first 6 weeks and we had 83 3 and 4 year olds that took part in those programs. And we break it down and we do a 3 week track and field program and a 3 week T-ball program coming up again so we keep them out and active. They get next week off and then we’ll be rolling again in July so it’s always fun. It’s always fun to have little ones out there. Then our Little Stars Sports is the next step up so that’s the more like it’s 5 and 6 year olds and I think we have 63 of those kids participating and those are 6 week sessions and that will start again in the next 2 weeks from now. And then Rec Center Sports Camp we finished one last week. Fun, fun camp. We call it psychedelic…sports sampler. We make tie dyed t-shirts and on the last day they get to wear their tie dyed pants so it’s a fun camp…everything from soccer, track and field, golf, T-ball in there too. Can’t get enough of that so we do that one, we’ll do that one again in July and then we also do a Small Fry’s…so some fun things coming up. Right now the upcoming event we have, there will be a Fit for Life trial class on August 1st so if you know anybody who might be interested in that program, it’s 10:30 to 11:30 on that…and then the Dance for Fun open houses so we have friends, neighbors, families that are looking for a dance program we have a wide variety of classes…18 months all the way up to 18 years old so those are coming up in August. With that if anybody has any questions. Boettcher: Thank you Jodi. It sounds like you might be busy over there. Alright next up Senior Center quarterly update. Mary. SENIOR CENTER QUARTERLY UPDATE. Blazanin: Thank you Chair Boettcher and commissioners. Well we’ve been busy at the Senior Center. A lot of things going on. A lot of spring and summer programs happening. We’ve got our weekly card groups and wood carvers and bingo clubs that come in on average reaching anywhere from 85 to 90 people per week. We have had several day trips over the last several months and summer is the time to get out and do that so we’ve got a lot more scheduled this month…to a World War II fighter museum in Granite Falls which is very cool by the way. I highly recommend to head out there some weekend. The Old Log Theater. The Science Museum… We continue to offer our AARP senior safe driving courses. Very popular several times a month. We’ve offered over 154 to over 154 people and again we have 2 to 3 four hour classes a month and at least one 8 hour class a month and they almost always are full so very popular. We just had our Dinner with the Mayor event last week. Also very popular. We served, these guys served 65 folks along with our Mayor and a lot of very, very positive feedback on that. Today we also did our Lions Club Senior Picnic at Lake Ann. We had 150 seniors sign up for that. We served 165 folks together. The Lions Club did a fabulous job. They, nobody left there hungry. Really enjoyed the day. It was a perfect day. Beautiful day to be out there so it was a very fun afternoon. Over the past several months I’ve started a new program which I call Soup, Salad and Song or Soup, Salad and Speaker event. I’m trying to Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 16 encourage folks to build community with each other and spend more time just getting to know each other. We all know food does that so I invite a speaker or a musician to come in and present a program and we follow it up with a luncheon. Usually I make the home made soup which is really fun for me but it also gets people talking about what it was like you know…so it’s been a really, a really popular program and we’ve served a lot of soup and we’ve had over 300 people attend so I will continue to do that moving into the fall and into winter. A lot of educational classes on a big variety of topics. Anything from understanding Medicare to safety and fall prevention, to brain health to preventing dementia or figure out ways to do that. We’ve been partnering with a lot of local organizations like Ridgeview Medical Center and…senior housing. Senior Community Services. Carver County Health and Human Services. Carver County Triads and Senior Care Management…they’ve all brought in experts on their particular topics and those have been popular as well who are hungry for information. Seniors in particular. Housing, transportation, health insurance are 3 big topics that we just can’t seem to get enough information on so those are popular. We do continue to reach out and support to our dementia care community. I am partnering a lot with the…to help with education and support services for people living with dementia or memory loss or caregivers. We do offer a monthly support group for them. We now are partnering with Senior Community Services. They come in twice a month to offer one on one support counseling type services for caregivers… It started out slow but we’ve been getting more and more traffic on that and just people coming in looking for and helping to take care of their loved ones. We also along with the Act on Alzheimers team are working to open up a memory café for folks and this basically is something that was started about 15 years ago in the Netherlands and it’s opening up a space for people with memory loss and their loved ones to come and just be normal people. It’s a café type setting where folks can come for a couple of hours and take part in normal life. It’s a break from their day to day care with each other. It’s a way for them to get involved in community that is a little bit more comfortable than just showing up for an event and feeling very self conscious about the loved one with memory loss so our goal is to open this memory café up in the fall. In October and right now we would offer it only one day a month for a couple of hours. Several other communities are already doing this around here and what we’ve learned is that people sort of café hop. Kind of like bar hopping. And go from café to café every day just to kind of have some normalcy during the day and hang out with people who are dealing with some of the same things but have fun so we would be playing games. We might bring in a musician. We might watch a movie. It’s not adult daycare. It really is just a safe setting where a caregiver and their loved one can come and do some fun stuff so the project has really kind of taken on a life. I reached out to Love Inc. and asked if they would be willing to help us repurpose the Maple Room here. The old senior center room. It’s kind of a sterile looking room right now. They described it as clinical and they were thrilled so a couple of ladies from Love Inc., from…were going to kind of take on the project and repurposing that room. Making it look more like a café and they, they’re jut on it. They’ll be donating furniture. They’ll be donating their time. Their talents. We also just reached out to American Legion and they also have offered to donate finances to help cover costs of replacing possibly the floor. Doing some painting and they are going to be partnering…so they have offered to give us $5,000 towards the project. I also applied for and received a grant from the County, shift funds to help cover the cost of supplies Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 17 and materials that we might need for the café for up to a year so in total we already have about $8,000 committed to the project so very exciting. Our goal is to open it in October and the seniors…so a very exciting project. We’re looking forward to it and it’s a great way. It’s really been a good community team building for us. A lot of groups have gotten involved in… Meals program here, the senior center works along with…to offer meals for seniors. The only requirement is that you’re, you only have to be 60. There’s no other requirement and they have kind of been struggling to have people come and take advantage of this program. The meals are essentially a donation…bring in a musician or an entertainer or something and following that up with a meal…and that actually has been very successful. We have a lot of folks who are returning on their own signing up for meals coming in. A lot more who are signing up for home delivered meals because they also do that. Part of the Meals on Wheels program it’s like that. They just call it home delivery so in the past 4 months we’ve served over 100 people now in house with their meals which last year alone, and I think we served, I want to say 25 so we’ve already you know quadrupled our number….it’s very exciting. It’s fun to see and I hope more people will take advantage of it. The last thing I have to say is I’ve started the Silver Insights article in the Chan Villager. They’re giving me space one time a month to write an article promoting the City… It’s been a very popular thing and well received method to discuss the trending senior issues as well as understanding…gotten a lot of really positive feedback. Any questions? Boettcher: One thing on your, the classes here. You know the Understanding Medicare, Brain Health and such, do you see a lot of the same people coming to each class or you getting different people coming? I mean what type of participation? It said 100, something about 100 seniors so is it the same group pretty much coming to each one or? Blazanin: No actually good question Chair Boettcher. No we’ve been getting a lot of new faces. Boettcher: Have you, okay. Blazanin: Which really was my goal to get some new people to walk through those doors… Actually a lot of younger seniors seem to be coming to those. We have regulars who come to everything, yeah. Boettcher: Right. Blazanin: And they want to be there but I have seen more younger seniors coming… Boettcher: Good. And the other thing with your money raising skills we need money for our park projects in the future, can we, between you and Commissioner Sweetser with the marketing background, I mean I think we could come up with a couple hundred thousand a year the way it sounds like. You did all this in a couple weeks so. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 18 Sweetser: I think we need to get together with Jodi too to figure out how we can get that new Rec Center built as well so. Little more. A few more dollars there but yeah. Boettcher: Very good Mary. Anyone have any other questions for Mary? Kutz: I just had one question. Is there anyway that people that aren’t able to drive that can get to your events? Do you have like anything that will help pick them up in case they’re wondering? Blazanin: No we don’t have a bus or a van that the senior center owns or operates but Southwest Prime has a door to door service. And they’re also really good promoting that. I had them out to do a presentation on how to use their service. Been working with them on coming out again the fall to do like a hands on. They’ll drive up in a bus and people can get on and learn how to pay. Learn how to use it so more and more people actually are taking advantage of Southwest Prime. It’s a good service for this area. There’s also another service called WeCab that I refer people to and interestingly enough people that live in some of the senior housing like Powers Ridge and some of the other bigger ones they have carpooling. Kutz: Excellent. Blazanin: Kind of pushing them a little bit to find rides with their neighbors and they have been and so that’s been working as well. Kutz: Good, thanks. Hoffman: There will also be, Mayor Ryan reported at last Thursday’s dinner with the seniors that she visited with the Venue, the people from the Venue. The primary renters are 55-60 and above and so that’s who’s going to be living at the Venue and they will be customers of downtown Chanhassen and our Chanhassen Senior Center. Sweetser: Mary how do you communicate you know to the members or to the group? I doubt it’s social media but what’s your main? Blazanin: A lot of it’s word of mouth. I do have, I send out a quarterly newsletter that gets mailed to folks but they have to request to be on that mailing list so anytime I see a new face that walks in I hand them a paper and say do you want to be on our mailing list and that mailing list right now is a little over 500 people. The Connection of course we’ve got our information… I do actually I’ve been starting to email blasts because we are starting to see seniors now who are a little more computer savvy and are keyed in to that a little bit more. I’ve been getting some good feedback on that but I do email blasts once, every once a week or once every other week… I think that seniors, as we see younger seniors age up who are used to working with computers and social media it will be easier to reach them but that is one of the bigger problems. How do we reach… Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 19 Boettcher: Good. Any other questions? Thank you Mary. Well between Jodi with the Small Fry and Mary with the older Fry and Audrey with everybody inbetween I think we have all the age groups covered. I had a, before we continue on had a real quick question. Todd maybe it’s more of a housekeeping type of thing. Do we need a motion on the CIP? We didn’t make any changes. Okay. Just want to make sure we don’t leave something hanging out there. Hoffman: No. You will once you make your final recommendation to the council. Boettcher: Okay good. COMMISSION MEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTS. None. COMMISSION MEMBER PRESENTATIONS. None. ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET. Boettcher: I think the big one there Todd would be the Lake Ann Park consulting services proposal. The big thing I printed out the 3 page letter. I didn’t print out the other 147 pages but just, anything you want to touch on there. It goes through the team of people and. Hoffman: Yep and the final plat again on July 8th at the City Council for The Park and then after that Hoisington will schedule a kick off meeting with staff and then we’ll let you know how that schedule is coming and when you’ll be involved. Boettcher: Okay. I know Commissioner Petouvis had a question yesterday I guess it was about if we’re only involved, scheduled to be involved one time. Is that enough from us? Hoffman: Currently twice. Boettcher: It is twice. Hoffman: So once as an individual group and once as a combined group with the council and other commissions and then if you want to see it again all you have to do is ask. Boettcher: Okay. Does that sound good? Okay. Anything else anyone has to add? Ruegemer: Chair Boettcher if I may. Just wanted to bring the commission aware that we have a family fishing day scheduled this coming Saturday at the Lake Ann fishing pier. June 29th. That is really brought to us by the Chaska Area Fishing with Friends so we’re kind of co-sponsoring the program with them and the Minnesota DNR. So it’s a great event for parents, grandparents, kids, anybody to get together out at Lake Ann pier. You do not need a license. They worked it out with the DNR so if you just want to come out and try a little fishing don’t need a license. They have all the equipment. All the knowledge and all the fun so if anybody’s interested I Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 20 certainly can make copies for everybody here but just wanted to make the commission aware that this coming Saturday, the 29th we’ll have a fun event down at the pier. Boettcher: What time does it start? Ruegemer: 9:00 in the morning til 1:00. Boettcher: 9:00 to 1:00. Ruegemer: Yep. Boettcher: Karl you can learn how to fish. Tsuchiya: I know. I was just going to warn you don’t go catch all the fish. Save some for the kids Jim. Boettcher: I guess Todd and I won’t do there on Friday then. Ruegemer: If the other commissioners are interested in going to the Red Bird game on Thursday night please let me know and I’ll get you on the list. Thank you very much. Tsuchiya: I thought we knew a guy at the door. Ruegemer: What’s that? Tsuchiya: I thought we knew a guy at the door. Ruegemer: We can hook you up. Thank you. Boettcher: Thank you Jerry. Anyone have anything else to add? If not looks like the 4th of July is coming pretty quick. I don’t know what happened to the month of June. Actually I was just as a quick side note I was out fishing last Friday, which happened to be the first day of summer and as I was leaving I was talking to another fisherman at the boat ramp and I said oh that’s right. Today June 21st, first day of spring. He says yeah you’re right it is. And we both looked at each other and go no way man. It’s the next one. It’s summer. It hasn’t felt like it yet so it was the first. Commissioner Kutz. Kutz: Ah yeah you jogged my memory. Well it’s something I maybe heard. Down at Lotus Lake I heard there’s a possible issue with wake boarding boats. Boettcher: Big meeting last night. Kutz: I don’t know, does that. Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 21 Boettcher: Todd was there. It was on the news last night. It was in the paper. Kutz: Is that has nothing to do with the Park Board I guess but since do we have a park down there. Boettcher: As far as what we control, whatever. It’s past us. I mean they’re asking for DNR. They’re asking for City ordinance. There’s a couple of ordinances that have been in place. One is the county clockwise as you’re running around the lake. I saw that 15 years ago probably the first time I was on Lotus Lake. Kind of disappeared but apparently there has been an issue. There’s been concerns with the waves that, not wake boats but wake surfers make. They fill these tanks in their boat with a thousand gallons of water at 8 pounds a piece. 8 pounds per gallon and it throws out this huge wake. People claim they’ve been blasted off of their dock. They’re sitting on the dock and the wave is big enough. It would have to be a floating dock. It wouldn’t be one you know 3 feet above the water I wouldn’t think. Little kids have been knocked over in the beach areas. Things like that so a lot of concern and I think if I, Todd can continue this thought but what I read about what I’ve heard about it because they came to the watershed district too 2 weeks ago and presented the same thing to us and their concerns are erosion of the bank. The shoreline. If you saw the Fox 9 video that was online today it showed one of the residents of Lotus Lake showing and the waves were eating away. She said that’s not natural. That’s all man made so it’s Todd if you want to elaborate any, you were there last night. Hoffman: Yeah it was a full work session with both sides of the issue and like with most governance issues there’s people that want no restrictions. There are people that want an outright ban so uncertain where that will end up. Kutz: Okay I just didn’t know if we had any jurisdiction with that. I don’t know if we maintain the sand on the beaches or anything like that or anything. Hoffman: Well yeah our park has been affected so Carver Beach Park, the wall has failed and so it probably will cost the park commission $20,000 or $30,000 to fix that wall and that’s likely a majority of that caused by wake surfing so if you’re down there and if you want to visit the park at any time and a wake surf boat goes by you’ll see that when the waves hit those rocks they jump up about 4 feet in the air and that’s caused back erosion on those rocks and so it has affected you directly at the park. Obviously it’s a recreational sport and so the thing with lakes is there’s a lot of fingers in the pudding. There’s DNR and you know the watershed districts and the City. Kutz: Lake associations. Hoffman: And so the City Council is going to wait and see. The DNR is received lots of input on this issue statewide and so it’s one of those things that catches up on all of us as a citizenry so now we’ve invented a boat that does a certain type of recreation but is it, you know is it Park and Recreation Commission – June 25, 2019 22 indifferent. Is it really negatively affecting us or is it just again accelerating a national process. They’re just going to let them be. Kutz: Is it just high water? Hoffman: Well high water’s a part of it. It exacerbates the erosion that’s caused by it but if you go down, best thing to do is to watch them firsthand. Observe them firsthand and then I think start a community conversation because eventually this will likely be talked about at the State level. At the DNR level and at the State Representative level and so without that input they’re not going to know which direction to take their conversation so it’s a larger issue than just Chanhassen but we made the news last night so it’s our day in the limelight I guess. Boettcher: Sometimes good to be in the news, sometimes not. Hoffman: Complicated issue. Lake surface use is one of the most complicated issues in the State of Minnesota and certainly in Chanhassen as well because we’re so blessed with the lakes but they, everybody wants to have an opinion. Thus all those fingers in the pudding. Kutz: Thanks for the update. Boettcher: Anything else? If not I’ll entertain a motion to adjourn. Tsuchiya moved, Petouvis seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to 0. The Park and Recreation Commission meeting was adjourned at 8:40 p.m. Submitted by Todd Hoffman Park and Rec Director Prepared by Nann Opheim PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Subject 2019­20 Ice Skating Rink Location Recommendations Section NEW BUSINESS Item No: G.1. Prepared By Jerry Ruegemer, Recreation Superintendent File No:  PROPOSED MOTION Staff recommends that the Park and Recreation Commission recommends to the City Council that the following ice skating rink locations and warming house hours be maintained for the 2019­20 season. Staff also recommends that the Park and Recreation Commission recommends to the City Council that the warming house closing temperature be adjusted from ­15 degrees to ­20 degrees. Approval requires a simple majority vote of members present SUMMARY On an annual basis, staff closely monitors the outdoor skating rinks and identifies how to best serve the skating needs of Chanhassen residents. For the 2019­20 skating season, it is staff’s recommendation to flood 10 ice rinks at five locations and maintain five warming houses. This is the same number of ice rinks and warming houses as the 2018­19 season. Locations Chanhassen Rec Center 1 ­ Pleasure Rink 2 ­ Hockey Rinks North Lotus 1 ­ Pleasure Rink 1 ­ Hockey Rink City Center 1 ­ Pleasure Rink 1­ Hockey Rink Bandimere Park 1­ Pleasure Rink 1 ­ Hockey Rink PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019Subject2019­20 Ice Skating Rink Location RecommendationsSectionNEW BUSINESS Item No: G.1.Prepared By Jerry Ruegemer, RecreationSuperintendent File No: PROPOSED MOTIONStaff recommends that the Park and Recreation Commission recommends to the City Council that the following iceskating rink locations and warming house hours be maintained for the 2019­20 season. Staff also recommends thatthe Park and Recreation Commission recommends to the City Council that the warming house closing temperaturebe adjusted from ­15 degrees to ­20 degrees.Approval requires a simple majority vote of members presentSUMMARYOn an annual basis, staff closely monitors the outdoor skating rinks and identifies how to best serve the skating needsof Chanhassen residents. For the 2019­20 skating season, it is staff’s recommendation to flood 10 ice rinks at fivelocations and maintain five warming houses. This is the same number of ice rinks and warming houses as the 2018­19season.LocationsChanhassen Rec Center1 ­ Pleasure Rink2 ­ Hockey RinksNorth Lotus1 ­ Pleasure Rink1 ­ Hockey RinkCity Center1 ­ Pleasure Rink1­ Hockey RinkBandimere Park 1­ Pleasure Rink 1 ­ Hockey Rink Roundhouse Park 1­ Pleasure Rink Warming House Hours Bandimere Park,Rec Center, North Lotus Park, and City Center Park    Weekdays             4 pm – 9 pm                                                          Saturdays             10 am – 9pm                                                        Sundays                1 pm – 7 pm                                                          December 23        10 am ­ 9 pm December 24        10 am – 3 pm                                                        December 25        Closed                                                                    December 26­28  10 am – 9 pm                                                        December 29          1 pm ­ 7 pm December 30       10 am ­ 9 pm December 31       10 am – 4 pm                                                        January 1             10 am – 9 pm                                                        No School Days   10 am – 9 pm                                                        Roundhouse Park (limited hours) Weekdays             Closed                                                        Saturdays             12 pm ­ 6 pm Sundays                1 pm – 7 pm                                                          December 23        12 pm ­ 6 pm December 24        10 am – 3 pm                                                        December 25        Closed                                                                    December 26­28   12 pm ­ 6 pm December 29         1 pm ­ 7 pm December 30        12 pm ­ 6 pm December 31        10 am – 3 pm                                                        January 1              12 pm – 6 pm                                                        No School Days    12 pm ­ 6 pm BACKGROUND 2018­2019 Recorded Participants December January February March TOTAL City Center 143 403 257 38 841 Rec Center 439 849 430 117 1,835 North Lotus 156 526 236 59 977 Roundhouse 36 23 12 3 73 Bandimere 255 446 230 25 956 Total Usage 1,029 1,800 1,165 217 4,682 A total of 23 rink attendants were hired on a part­time/seasonal basis to staff the warming houses. Rink attendant wages totaled $ 19,203.50 with a total of 1,770.5 hours worked. Expenses:Amount: PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019Subject2019­20 Ice Skating Rink Location RecommendationsSectionNEW BUSINESS Item No: G.1.Prepared By Jerry Ruegemer, RecreationSuperintendent File No: PROPOSED MOTIONStaff recommends that the Park and Recreation Commission recommends to the City Council that the following iceskating rink locations and warming house hours be maintained for the 2019­20 season. Staff also recommends thatthe Park and Recreation Commission recommends to the City Council that the warming house closing temperaturebe adjusted from ­15 degrees to ­20 degrees.Approval requires a simple majority vote of members presentSUMMARYOn an annual basis, staff closely monitors the outdoor skating rinks and identifies how to best serve the skating needsof Chanhassen residents. For the 2019­20 skating season, it is staff’s recommendation to flood 10 ice rinks at fivelocations and maintain five warming houses. This is the same number of ice rinks and warming houses as the 2018­19season.LocationsChanhassen Rec Center1 ­ Pleasure Rink2 ­ Hockey RinksNorth Lotus1 ­ Pleasure Rink1 ­ Hockey RinkCity Center1 ­ Pleasure Rink1­ Hockey RinkBandimere Park1­ Pleasure Rink1 ­ Hockey RinkRoundhouse Park1­ Pleasure RinkWarming House HoursBandimere Park,Rec Center, North Lotus Park, and City Center Park   Weekdays             4 pm – 9 pm                                                         Saturdays             10 am – 9pm                                                       Sundays                1 pm – 7 pm                                                         December 23        10 am ­ 9 pmDecember 24        10 am – 3 pm                                                       December 25        Closed                                                                   December 26­28  10 am – 9 pm                                                       December 29          1 pm ­ 7 pmDecember 30       10 am ­ 9 pmDecember 31       10 am – 4 pm                                                       January 1             10 am – 9 pm                                                       No School Days   10 am – 9 pm                                                       Roundhouse Park (limited hours)Weekdays             Closed                                                       Saturdays             12 pm ­ 6 pmSundays                1 pm – 7 pm                                                         December 23        12 pm ­ 6 pmDecember 24        10 am – 3 pm                                                       December 25        Closed                                                                   December 26­28   12 pm ­ 6 pmDecember 29         1 pm ­ 7 pmDecember 30        12 pm ­ 6 pmDecember 31        10 am – 3 pm                                                       January 1              12 pm – 6 pm                                                       No School Days    12 pm ­ 6 pmBACKGROUND 2018­2019 Recorded ParticipantsDecemberJanuaryFebruaryMarch TOTALCity Center 143 403 257 38 841Rec Center 439 849 430 117 1,835North Lotus 156 526 236 59 977Roundhouse362312373Bandimere25544623025956Total Usage 1,029 1,800 1,165 217 4,682A total of 23 rink attendants were hired on a part­time/seasonal basis to staff the warming houses. Rink attendant wages totaled $ 19,203.50 with a total of 1,770.5 hours worked. Expenses:Amount: Temporary and Seasonal Wages:                                           $ 19,203.50 Warming House Rentals:                                                         $   8,557.78      Rink Maintenance:                                                                   $ 18,087.50 TOTAL:$45,848.78 DISCUSSION In order to better serve our outdoor skating rink customers staff is recommending that the temperature for closing warming houses be adjusted from ­15 degrees to ­20 degrees.  This will allow for more days of operation.  During the 2018­2019 season the warming houses were open 67 days and closed 19 days due to low and warm temperatures and large amounts of snow. ATTACHMENTS: Rink Use Totals & Expenses 2018/2019 December January February March TOTAL City Center 143 403 257 38 841 Expenses Rec Center 439 849 430 117 1,835 Seasonal Wages $19,203.50 N. Lotus 156 526 236 59 977 Warming Houses $8,557.78 Roundhouse 36 22 12 3 73 Rink Maintenance $18,087.50 Bandimere 255 446 230 25 956 Total Usage 1,029 1,800 1,165 242 4,682 TOTAL $45,848.78 2017/2018 December January February March TOTAL City Center 365 487 216 1,068 Expenses Rec Center 438 1,411 714 2,563 Seasonal Wages $17,904.88 N. Lotus 208 549 238 2 997 Warming Houses $6,019.45 Roundhouse 52 52 41 145 Rink Maintenance $19,118.00 Bandimere 312 644 199 1,155 Total Usage 1,375 2,499 1,408 2 5,928 TOTAL $43,042.33 2016/2017 December January February March TOTAL City Center 430 551 288 -1,269 Expenses Rec Center 911 1,392 390 -2,693 Seasonal Wages $11,624.50 N. Lotus 450 707 207 -1,364 Warming Houses $5,358.00 Roundhouse 107 132 7 -246 Rink Maintenance $13,449.58 Bandimere 0 405 227 -632 Total Usage 1,898 2,782 1,119 0 6,204 TOTAL $30,432.08 2015/2016 December January February March TOTAL City Center -1,472 75 -1,547 Expenses Rec Center - 1,628 839 - 2,467 Seasonal Wages $8,053.75 N. Lotus - 707 289 - 996 Warming Houses $3,462.00 Roundhouse -74 39 -113 Rink Maintenance $19,076.56 Total Usage -3,881 1,242 -5,123 TOTAL $30,592.31 2014/2015 December January February March TOTAL City Center -949 409 28 1,386 Expenses Rec Center -2,117 1,028 108 3,253 Seasonal Wages $9,900.00 N. Lotus - 754 320 53 1,127 Warming Houses $3,526.00 Roundhouse -131 101 9 241 Rink Maintenance $29,212.86 Total Usage -3,951 1,858 198 6,007 TOTAL $42,638.86 Ice Rink Use Totals & Expenses OPEN: Jan. 1, 2015 CLOSED: Mar. 3, 2015 DAYS OPEN: 62 OPEN: Jan. 6, 2016 CLOSED: Feb. 19,2016 DAYS OPEN: 40 OPEN: Dec. 20, 2016 CLOSED: Feb. 12,2017 DAYS OPEN: 47 OPEN: Dec. 22, 2017 CLOSED: March 1, 2018 DAYS OPEN: 61 OPEN: Dec. 14, 2018 CLOSED: March 9, 2019 DAYS OPEN: 67 PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Subject Recommendation to City Council, 2020 ­ 2024 Park and Trail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program CIP Section NEW BUSINESS Item No: G.2. Prepared By Todd Hoffman, Park & Recreation Director File No:  PROPOSED MOTION The Park and Recreation Commission recommends the City Council approve a 2020 ­ 2024 Fund 410 Park and Trail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program (CIP) totaling $1,475,000 to complete the projects listed in attachment 2. Approval requires a simple majority vote of members present SUMMARY Annually, the Park and Recreation Commission is responsible for making a recommendation to the City Council concerning the 5­Year Fund 410 Park and Trail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program (CIP). BACKGROUND Commissioners are asked to review the current set of projects in the CIP in addition to considering any other potential projects.This discussion is intended to give the commission an opportunity to review its goals surrounding capital improvements over the next five years, propose priorities, and seek additional information.Projects recommended for removal from the city's current Fund 410 CIP include Bandimere Community Park Picnic Shelter, $640,000 in 2024, Bandimere Park Sport Court (pickleball/tennis), $245,000 in 2024 and Recreation Center Fenced Dugouts and Backstops, $150,000 in 2024.  DISCUSSION The Park and Trail Acquisition and Development CIP program accounts for all major park and trail acquisitions and improvements.Fund 410, the park dedication fund is utilized to finance a portion of these activities.Park dedication funds are collected through the development of residential, commercial, and industrial property.The current balance in the park dedication fund is approximately $1,666,900.The premise for these fees is that development of vacant properties results in increased needs for public park and trail amenities.In order to fulfill or meet these new demands for services, park dedication fees are collected and used to acquire parkland, build parks and trails, purchase playgrounds, construct picnic shelters, build ball fields, plant trees, etc. PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019SubjectRecommendation to City Council, 2020 ­ 2024 Park and Trail Acquisition and DevelopmentCapital Improvement Program CIPSectionNEW BUSINESS Item No: G.2.Prepared By Todd Hoffman, Park & RecreationDirector File No: PROPOSED MOTIONThe Park and Recreation Commission recommends the City Council approve a 2020 ­ 2024 Fund 410 Park andTrail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program (CIP) totaling $1,475,000 to complete theprojects listed in attachment 2.Approval requires a simple majority vote of members presentSUMMARYAnnually, the Park and Recreation Commission is responsible for making a recommendation to the City Councilconcerning the 5­Year Fund 410 Park and Trail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program (CIP).BACKGROUNDCommissioners are asked to review the current set of projects in the CIP in addition to considering any other potentialprojects.This discussion is intended to give the commission an opportunity to review its goals surrounding capitalimprovements over the next five years, propose priorities, and seek additional information.Projects recommended forremoval from the city's current Fund 410 CIP include Bandimere Community Park Picnic Shelter, $640,000 in 2024,Bandimere Park Sport Court (pickleball/tennis), $245,000 in 2024 and Recreation Center Fenced Dugouts andBackstops, $150,000 in 2024. DISCUSSIONThe Park and Trail Acquisition and Development CIP program accounts for all major park and trail acquisitions andimprovements.Fund 410, the park dedication fund is utilized to finance a portion of these activities.Park dedicationfunds are collected through the development of residential, commercial, and industrial property.The current balance inthe park dedication fund is approximately $1,666,900.The premise for these fees is that development of vacantproperties results in increased needs for public park and trail amenities.In order to fulfill or meet these new demandsfor services, park dedication fees are collected and used to acquire parkland, build parks and trails, purchase playgrounds, construct picnic shelters, build ball fields, plant trees, etc. RECOMMENDATION The Park and Recreation Commission recommends the City Council approve a 2020 ­ 2024 Fund 410 Park and Trail Acquisition and Development Capital Improvement Program (CIP) totaling $1,475,000 to complete the projects listed in attachment 2. ATTACHMENTS: 1. 2020 through 2024 Fund 410 Current Projects 2. 2020 through 2024 Fund 410 Proposed CIP Sheets 3. Hwy 5 Regional Trail Alignment 4. Joint Powers Agreement 5. Hwy 5 Regional Trail Graphics Carver County ParksSP 010-090-008H:\Projects\11000\11001\CAD_BIM\Layout\11001_TH5RegionalTrail.dwg DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C X 6/26/2019 | 7:57:27 AM PDT 7/2/2019 | 1:01:43 PM CDT 7/2/2019 | 3:58:04 PM CDT DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C DocuSign Envelope ID: 1137F4C8-E643-4317-8CB7-FCBD96779C6C TH 5 Regional Trail Design DevelopmentCarver County, MNTH 41 PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS VISUALIZATIONSFigure 1August 7, 2018 TH 5 Regional Trail Design DevelopmentCarver County, MNTH 41 PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS VISUALIZATIONSFigure 2August 7, 2018 TH 5 Regional Trail Design DevelopmentCarver County, MNTH 41 PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS VISUALIZATIONSFigure 3August 7, 2018 PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Subject 2019 4th of July Celebration Evaluation Section REPORTS Item No: I.1. Prepared By Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor File No:  SUMMARY This year’s 4th of July Celebration marked the 36 th year of this annual event. It is the most anticipated community event of the year, with estimates of over 80,000 people who enjoyed at least one aspect of the three­day celebration. Below is a breakdown summarizing all of the events, recommendations for next year, and a financial report. JULY 2 nd Family Night at the Carnival This was the ninth year Family Night at the Carnival was featured on July 2nd as the opening event for the celebration. This evening offers families a chance to enjoy the carnival rides at a discounted price and without long lines. Again for 2019, the city added pony rides for families to enjoy. It’s estimated that about 5,500 people participated in this year’s Family Night at the Carnival. The Family Night at the Carnival continues to grow annually. JULY 3 rd Minnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball Clinic Approximately 200 kids received instruction at the Minnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball Clinic. This free program continues to be very popular. Two sessions were held for youth ages 6­16 at the Chanhassen High School Storm and Redbird baseball stadium. The city has developed a strong relationship with the Minnesota Twins, and we look forward to continuing to offer this clinic in the future. Kiddie Parade Approximately 2,000 participants and spectators took part in this year’s Kiddie Parade. Participants get very creative decorating their bicycles, scooters, wagons, and everything else! Our Playground Director and her staff did a great job coordinating the event and ensuring the safety of the participants. A special thanks to the Chanhassen Fire Department and the Carver County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance with traffic control. At the conclusion of the parade, each participant received a complimentary treat. First Aid Tent Again this year, the Chanhassen Fire Department staffed a First Aid Tent on July 3rd and 4th at City Center Park. No major injuries or accidents were reported during the celebration. A special thanks for their continued support. A golf cart was used for the Chanhassen Fire Department medical staff to navigate through the crowds responding to medical PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019Subject2019 4th of July Celebration EvaluationSectionREPORTS Item No: I.1.Prepared By Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor File No: SUMMARYThis year’s 4th of July Celebration marked the 36 th year of this annual event. It is the most anticipated communityevent of the year, with estimates of over 80,000 people who enjoyed at least one aspect of the three­day celebration.Below is a breakdown summarizing all of the events, recommendations for next year, and a financial report.JULY 2 ndFamily Night at the CarnivalThis was the ninth year Family Night at the Carnival was featured on July 2nd as the opening event for the celebration.This evening offers families a chance to enjoy the carnival rides at a discounted price and without long lines. Again for2019, the city added pony rides for families to enjoy. It’s estimated that about 5,500 people participated in this year’sFamily Night at the Carnival. The Family Night at the Carnival continues to grow annually.JULY 3 rdMinnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball ClinicApproximately 200 kids received instruction at the Minnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball Clinic. This free programcontinues to be very popular. Two sessions were held for youth ages 6­16 at the Chanhassen High School Storm andRedbird baseball stadium. The city has developed a strong relationship with the Minnesota Twins, and we lookforward to continuing to offer this clinic in the future.Kiddie ParadeApproximately 2,000 participants and spectators took part in this year’s Kiddie Parade. Participants get very creativedecorating their bicycles, scooters, wagons, and everything else! Our Playground Director and her staff did a great jobcoordinating the event and ensuring the safety of the participants. A special thanks to the Chanhassen Fire Departmentand the Carver County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance with traffic control. At the conclusion of the parade, eachparticipant received a complimentary treat.First Aid TentAgain this year, the Chanhassen Fire Department staffed a First Aid Tent on July 3rd and 4th at City Center Park. No major injuries or accidents were reported during the celebration. A special thanks for their continued support. A golf cart was used for the Chanhassen Fire Department medical staff to navigate through the crowds responding to medical emergencies that arose. The cart works really well and will continue to be used. Business Expo Thirty­eight local businesses participated in the Business Expo sponsored by the SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce. The event continues to promote businesses in the community, and staff will work with the SouthWest Metro Chamber to continue this event in the future. The SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce pays $1,600 for the use of the tent and electrical needs. Face Painting, Air Brush Tattoos, and Wacky Hairdos Maund Entertainment provided face painting, air brush tattoos, wacky hairdos, and caricatures. It continues to be an affordable, popular attraction for families. The city retained 20% of all sales. Water Wars Water Wars continues to be a fun activity for all ages to enjoy at the celebration. The warm weather kept steady crowds throughout the evening. The addition of portable light units allowed Water Wars to continue operating into the evening. The city received 20% of their sales. Kiddie Games The Kiddie Games are a fun feature of the celebration and provides inexpensive entertainment for children. The games are coordinated by the city and operated by seasonal staff from the playground program and Lake Ann concession stand. They did a wonderful job and brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the games. The kiddie games generated $649.54 in revenue. Pony Rides The pony rides are very popular for participants of all ages. Fantasy Corral provided the pony rides for the sixth consecutive year. They were easy to work with and provided very professional service. Again for 2019 Fantasy Corral brought a petting zoo for July 3 rd. The petting zoo was well received by participants. The city receives 15% of their total sales.  3rd Lair Summer Skateboard Series 3rd Lair came to the Chanhassen Skate Park and hosted a competition as part of their summer­long series where participants earn points toward competing at the Minnesota State Fair. The event attracts teenagers from all over the Twin Cities and is a great way to incorporate all of the facilities at City Center Park. Chalk­It­Up Contest The annual chalk drawing contest allows individuals to display their artistic designs. Prizes were awarded to the winners in two categories, most creative and most difficult; for three age groups, 10 & under, 11­15, and 16 & up. This event is coordinated by the city and is judged by playground staff. It maintains popularity throughout the night, is very inexpensive to offer, and utilizes the hockey rink at City Center Park. The Medicine Show This entertaining vaudeville show intermingled with crowds throughout the event. They performed from 4:30­6:30pm. and roamed around the celebration attracting audiences. They’re a popular attraction who have been part of the 4th of July Celebration for many years. Tae Kwon Do Demonstration The Chanhassen Recreation Center’s Tae Kwon Do program performed a free demonstration near the carnival area. Coordinator Jeff Engel and his students enjoy performing at the event, which also provides great exposure for the city’s program. Baby Changing Station Baha’i Faith, a non­profit organization, offered a privacy area for parents to change or feed their infant children and toddlers. They also provided free drinking water, which was much appreciated by the crowds. Service was provided PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019Subject2019 4th of July Celebration EvaluationSectionREPORTS Item No: I.1.Prepared By Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor File No: SUMMARYThis year’s 4th of July Celebration marked the 36 th year of this annual event. It is the most anticipated communityevent of the year, with estimates of over 80,000 people who enjoyed at least one aspect of the three­day celebration.Below is a breakdown summarizing all of the events, recommendations for next year, and a financial report.JULY 2 ndFamily Night at the CarnivalThis was the ninth year Family Night at the Carnival was featured on July 2nd as the opening event for the celebration.This evening offers families a chance to enjoy the carnival rides at a discounted price and without long lines. Again for2019, the city added pony rides for families to enjoy. It’s estimated that about 5,500 people participated in this year’sFamily Night at the Carnival. The Family Night at the Carnival continues to grow annually.JULY 3 rdMinnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball ClinicApproximately 200 kids received instruction at the Minnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball Clinic. This free programcontinues to be very popular. Two sessions were held for youth ages 6­16 at the Chanhassen High School Storm andRedbird baseball stadium. The city has developed a strong relationship with the Minnesota Twins, and we lookforward to continuing to offer this clinic in the future.Kiddie ParadeApproximately 2,000 participants and spectators took part in this year’s Kiddie Parade. Participants get very creativedecorating their bicycles, scooters, wagons, and everything else! Our Playground Director and her staff did a great jobcoordinating the event and ensuring the safety of the participants. A special thanks to the Chanhassen Fire Departmentand the Carver County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance with traffic control. At the conclusion of the parade, eachparticipant received a complimentary treat.First Aid TentAgain this year, the Chanhassen Fire Department staffed a First Aid Tent on July 3rd and 4th at City Center Park. Nomajor injuries or accidents were reported during the celebration. A special thanks for their continued support. A golfcart was used for the Chanhassen Fire Department medical staff to navigate through the crowds responding to medicalemergencies that arose. The cart works really well and will continue to be used.Business ExpoThirty­eight local businesses participated in the Business Expo sponsored by the SouthWest Metro Chamber ofCommerce. The event continues to promote businesses in the community, and staff will work with the SouthWestMetro Chamber to continue this event in the future. The SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce pays $1,600 forthe use of the tent and electrical needs.Face Painting, Air Brush Tattoos, and Wacky HairdosMaund Entertainment provided face painting, air brush tattoos, wacky hairdos, and caricatures. It continues to be anaffordable, popular attraction for families. The city retained 20% of all sales.Water WarsWater Wars continues to be a fun activity for all ages to enjoy at the celebration. The warm weather kept steadycrowds throughout the evening. The addition of portable light units allowed Water Wars to continue operating into theevening. The city received 20% of their sales.Kiddie GamesThe Kiddie Games are a fun feature of the celebration and provides inexpensive entertainment for children. The gamesare coordinated by the city and operated by seasonal staff from the playground program and Lake Ann concessionstand. They did a wonderful job and brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the games. The kiddie games generated$649.54 in revenue.Pony RidesThe pony rides are very popular for participants of all ages. Fantasy Corral provided the pony rides for the sixthconsecutive year. They were easy to work with and provided very professional service. Again for 2019 FantasyCorral brought a petting zoo for July 3 rd. The petting zoo was well received by participants. The city receives 15% oftheir total sales. 3rd Lair Summer Skateboard Series3rd Lair came to the Chanhassen Skate Park and hosted a competition as part of their summer­long series whereparticipants earn points toward competing at the Minnesota State Fair. The event attracts teenagers from all over theTwin Cities and is a great way to incorporate all of the facilities at City Center Park.Chalk­It­Up ContestThe annual chalk drawing contest allows individuals to display their artistic designs. Prizes were awarded to thewinners in two categories, most creative and most difficult; for three age groups, 10 & under, 11­15, and 16 & up.This event is coordinated by the city and is judged by playground staff. It maintains popularity throughout the night, isvery inexpensive to offer, and utilizes the hockey rink at City Center Park.The Medicine ShowThis entertaining vaudeville show intermingled with crowds throughout the event. They performed from 4:30­6:30pm.and roamed around the celebration attracting audiences. They’re a popular attraction who have been part of the 4th ofJuly Celebration for many years.Tae Kwon Do DemonstrationThe Chanhassen Recreation Center’s Tae Kwon Do program performed a free demonstration near the carnival area.Coordinator Jeff Engel and his students enjoy performing at the event, which also provides great exposure for thecity’s program.Baby Changing Station Baha’i Faith, a non­profit organization, offered a privacy area for parents to change or feed their infant children and toddlers. They also provided free drinking water, which was much appreciated by the crowds. Service was provided at City Center Park on July 2nd and July 3rd. Staff would highly recommend having them back again next year as they provide a well­appreciated service. Breastfeeding Tent Again, this year, with the assistance of Carver County, the City provided a breastfeeding tent next to the Baby Changing Station. This tent provided privacy for mothers and their children and was monitored by Baha’ I Faith. It is a great addition to this family friendly celebration. Volunteer Sign Up For the third year the city opened up 182 volunteer positions to the community. The volunteer positions ranged from parade marshals to beer servers. This sign up was posted on the city’s website. The signup was well received and staff and the Rotary Club of Chanhassen will continue to look for ways to improve the sign up in future years. Taste of Chanhassen and Beer Garden sponsored by the Rotary Club of Chanhassen This year, eleven local businesses participated in the Taste of Chanhassen, which was once again organized by the Rotary Club of Chanhassen. This truly adds to the “community feel” of the event. A minimum number of ten local food vendors has been established for next year’s Taste of Chanhassen Event. With all the new businesses in Chanhassen, we are going to be looking for new participation in the future. The Rotary Club of Chanhassen pays $4,5458.17 to cover the cost associated with the Taste of Chanhassen and The Rotary Beer and Wine Garden. Mediacom The Rotary Club of Chanhassen worked with one of their sponsors, Mediacom, to provide free WiFi for the beer and wine garden along with the Taste of Chanhassen. The WiFi was password protected so only the vendors had access to it. This was an improvement that helped with ticket and food sales. The city and the Rotary Club of Chanhassen will continue to work with Mediacom to provide this service. Carnival The carnival rides and games continue to be very popular and a great asset to the celebration.Midwest Rides provided thirteen rides, ten games, and six food booths. On July 3rd the carnival offered an unlimited ride wrist band from 5­11 pm. A discounted rate of $2 for all rides was also offered after the 4th of July parade. The discounted rates continue to be well­received as it attracts more people back to the activities at the conclusion of the parade. Overall, the carnival was professional and easy to work with and the city looks forward to working with them again next year. Live Music featuring Stone Daisy Stone Daisy put on a great performance to open the Street Dance for Fabulous Armadillos. Having new bands this year was well received by attendees.  Street Dance Fabulous Armadillos entertained thousands during this year’s Street Dance. This was their first performance at the 4th of July Celebration. The performance was well received by many . JULY 4 TH Adult Fishing Contest There were a total of 50 participants registered in this year’s contest. The entry fee for the contest was $20, which generated $1,000 in revenue. Prizes were awarded to the top three fish in two categories, longest northern pike and longest largemouth bass. The city provided 30 measuring cradles and distributed them to each fishing party. Contestants were instructed to take a photo of their fish on a smart phone and text it to tournament headquarters. This ensured sportsmanship and provided a time stamp in case of a tie. This was the third year using this process to enter fish and was well received by fishermen and women and will continue in future years. Each participant was also eligible to win a door prize donated by the local business community, which were valued at over $3,500! This continues to be a popular tradition and a great activity to offer our adult population. PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019Subject2019 4th of July Celebration EvaluationSectionREPORTS Item No: I.1.Prepared By Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor File No: SUMMARYThis year’s 4th of July Celebration marked the 36 th year of this annual event. It is the most anticipated communityevent of the year, with estimates of over 80,000 people who enjoyed at least one aspect of the three­day celebration.Below is a breakdown summarizing all of the events, recommendations for next year, and a financial report.JULY 2 ndFamily Night at the CarnivalThis was the ninth year Family Night at the Carnival was featured on July 2nd as the opening event for the celebration.This evening offers families a chance to enjoy the carnival rides at a discounted price and without long lines. Again for2019, the city added pony rides for families to enjoy. It’s estimated that about 5,500 people participated in this year’sFamily Night at the Carnival. The Family Night at the Carnival continues to grow annually.JULY 3 rdMinnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball ClinicApproximately 200 kids received instruction at the Minnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball Clinic. This free programcontinues to be very popular. Two sessions were held for youth ages 6­16 at the Chanhassen High School Storm andRedbird baseball stadium. The city has developed a strong relationship with the Minnesota Twins, and we lookforward to continuing to offer this clinic in the future.Kiddie ParadeApproximately 2,000 participants and spectators took part in this year’s Kiddie Parade. Participants get very creativedecorating their bicycles, scooters, wagons, and everything else! Our Playground Director and her staff did a great jobcoordinating the event and ensuring the safety of the participants. A special thanks to the Chanhassen Fire Departmentand the Carver County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance with traffic control. At the conclusion of the parade, eachparticipant received a complimentary treat.First Aid TentAgain this year, the Chanhassen Fire Department staffed a First Aid Tent on July 3rd and 4th at City Center Park. Nomajor injuries or accidents were reported during the celebration. A special thanks for their continued support. A golfcart was used for the Chanhassen Fire Department medical staff to navigate through the crowds responding to medicalemergencies that arose. The cart works really well and will continue to be used.Business ExpoThirty­eight local businesses participated in the Business Expo sponsored by the SouthWest Metro Chamber ofCommerce. The event continues to promote businesses in the community, and staff will work with the SouthWestMetro Chamber to continue this event in the future. The SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce pays $1,600 forthe use of the tent and electrical needs.Face Painting, Air Brush Tattoos, and Wacky HairdosMaund Entertainment provided face painting, air brush tattoos, wacky hairdos, and caricatures. It continues to be anaffordable, popular attraction for families. The city retained 20% of all sales.Water WarsWater Wars continues to be a fun activity for all ages to enjoy at the celebration. The warm weather kept steadycrowds throughout the evening. The addition of portable light units allowed Water Wars to continue operating into theevening. The city received 20% of their sales.Kiddie GamesThe Kiddie Games are a fun feature of the celebration and provides inexpensive entertainment for children. The gamesare coordinated by the city and operated by seasonal staff from the playground program and Lake Ann concessionstand. They did a wonderful job and brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the games. The kiddie games generated$649.54 in revenue.Pony RidesThe pony rides are very popular for participants of all ages. Fantasy Corral provided the pony rides for the sixthconsecutive year. They were easy to work with and provided very professional service. Again for 2019 FantasyCorral brought a petting zoo for July 3 rd. The petting zoo was well received by participants. The city receives 15% oftheir total sales. 3rd Lair Summer Skateboard Series3rd Lair came to the Chanhassen Skate Park and hosted a competition as part of their summer­long series whereparticipants earn points toward competing at the Minnesota State Fair. The event attracts teenagers from all over theTwin Cities and is a great way to incorporate all of the facilities at City Center Park.Chalk­It­Up ContestThe annual chalk drawing contest allows individuals to display their artistic designs. Prizes were awarded to thewinners in two categories, most creative and most difficult; for three age groups, 10 & under, 11­15, and 16 & up.This event is coordinated by the city and is judged by playground staff. It maintains popularity throughout the night, isvery inexpensive to offer, and utilizes the hockey rink at City Center Park.The Medicine ShowThis entertaining vaudeville show intermingled with crowds throughout the event. They performed from 4:30­6:30pm.and roamed around the celebration attracting audiences. They’re a popular attraction who have been part of the 4th ofJuly Celebration for many years.Tae Kwon Do DemonstrationThe Chanhassen Recreation Center’s Tae Kwon Do program performed a free demonstration near the carnival area.Coordinator Jeff Engel and his students enjoy performing at the event, which also provides great exposure for thecity’s program.Baby Changing StationBaha’i Faith, a non­profit organization, offered a privacy area for parents to change or feed their infant children andtoddlers. They also provided free drinking water, which was much appreciated by the crowds. Service was providedat City Center Park on July 2nd and July 3rd. Staff would highly recommend having them back again next year as theyprovide a well­appreciated service.Breastfeeding TentAgain, this year, with the assistance of Carver County, the City provided a breastfeeding tent next to the BabyChanging Station. This tent provided privacy for mothers and their children and was monitored by Baha’ I Faith. It is agreat addition to this family friendly celebration.Volunteer Sign UpFor the third year the city opened up 182 volunteer positions to the community. The volunteer positions ranged fromparade marshals to beer servers. This sign up was posted on the city’s website. The signup was well received and staffand the Rotary Club of Chanhassen will continue to look for ways to improve the sign up in future years.Taste of Chanhassen and Beer Garden sponsored by the Rotary Club of ChanhassenThis year, eleven local businesses participated in the Taste of Chanhassen, which was once again organized by theRotary Club of Chanhassen. This truly adds to the “community feel” of the event. A minimum number of ten local foodvendors has been established for next year’s Taste of Chanhassen Event. With all the new businesses in Chanhassen,we are going to be looking for new participation in the future. The Rotary Club of Chanhassen pays $4,5458.17 tocover the cost associated with the Taste of Chanhassen and The Rotary Beer and Wine Garden.MediacomThe Rotary Club of Chanhassen worked with one of their sponsors, Mediacom, to provide free WiFi for the beer andwine garden along with the Taste of Chanhassen. The WiFi was password protected so only the vendors had accessto it. This was an improvement that helped with ticket and food sales. The city and the Rotary Club of Chanhassen willcontinue to work with Mediacom to provide this service.CarnivalThe carnival rides and games continue to be very popular and a great asset to the celebration.Midwest Ridesprovided thirteen rides, ten games, and six food booths.On July 3rd the carnival offered an unlimited ride wrist band from 5­11 pm. A discounted rate of $2 for all rides wasalso offered after the 4th of July parade. The discounted rates continue to be well­received as it attracts more peopleback to the activities at the conclusion of the parade. Overall, the carnival was professional and easy to work with andthe city looks forward to working with them again next year.Live Music featuring Stone DaisyStone Daisy put on a great performance to open the Street Dance for Fabulous Armadillos. Having new bands thisyear was well received by attendees. Street DanceFabulous Armadillos entertained thousands during this year’s Street Dance. This was their first performance at the 4thof July Celebration. The performance was well received by many .JULY 4 THAdult Fishing ContestThere were a total of 50 participants registered in this year’s contest. The entry fee for the contest was $20, whichgenerated $1,000 in revenue. Prizes were awarded to the top three fish in two categories, longest northern pike andlongest largemouth bass. The city provided 30 measuring cradles and distributed them to each fishing party.Contestants were instructed to take a photo of their fish on a smart phone and text it to tournament headquarters. Thisensured sportsmanship and provided a time stamp in case of a tie. This was the third year using this process to enterfish and was well received by fishermen and women and will continue in future years. Each participant was also eligible to win a door prize donated by the local business community, which were valued at over $3,500! This continues to be a popular tradition and a great activity to offer our adult population. Kids' Fishing Contest Over 150 kids participated in this year’s kids' fishing contest. Trophies and other prizes were given to the winners of the heaviest fish, longest fish, and smallest fish in two age categories. In addition to the top fish prizes, all participants were entered into a door prize drawing and each received a free goodie bag. The contest was run by our playground staff. Sand Sculpture Contest This contest was organized and judged by our playground staff, and is a fun family event at Lake Ann Park. Prizes were awarded to the most creative and difficult sculptures in three age groups, 10 & under, 11­18, and 16 & up. The sand sculpture contest has been a tradition for years, and is a great way to incorporate events into our parks. Medallion Hunt This is a fun and simple event that should be continued in the future. The clues were organized by our Parks and Recreation Intern, Nathan Shadick, with help from the Parks and Recreation Administrative Assistant, Annie Lundell. He did a great job planning and organizing the hunt. Creating vague and difficult clues made the search more fun and allows for more participation. This continues to be a very popular event with lots of people hunting for the medallion. Bingo Sponsored by the Chanhassen Senior Commission, this event was offered from 11:45am­1:45pm on July 4th under the tent at City Center Park. There were over 500 participants for this extremely popular activity. We appreciate the service of the Chanhassen Senior Commission and look forward to continuing this successful activity in the future. Classic Car Show sponsored by the Rotary Club of Chanhassen With support from the City of Chanhassen, the Rotary Club of Chanhassen took the lead in sponsoring The Classic Car Show. It continues to be a popular attraction before the parade and is becoming a tradition of the 4th of July Celebration. This year the car show produced 70 entries! Taste of Chanhassen and Beer Garden sponsored by the Rotary Club of Chanhassen The Taste of Chanhassen had great crowds on the 4th of July, the largest in recent years. This is attributed to the additional activities offered, the reduced prices of carnival rides, and live music under the large tent. With the beautiful weather, the festival enjoyed high attendance numbers on July 4 th this year. Live Music featuring American Bootleg American Bootleg, a local four­piece band, performed from 11:45am­1:45pm under the big tent prior to the parade. They put on a great performance. Staff recommends continuing to have bands perform before the start of the parade. 4th of July Parade The Rotary Club of Chanhassen produced the parade again this year with logistical support from the city and Carver County. We appreciate the service of the Rotary Club of Chanhassen and look forward to continuing to work on this event with them in the future. The parade consisted of approximately 65 entries. Overall the parade continues to be the most popular attraction of the celebration with 20,000 spectators. Crowds flood the downtown area and nearby neighborhoods, for the optimal viewing location. Additional parade marshals will be needed in the future to perform crowd control, keeping spectators at the curb line. Park Maintenance staff trailed the end of the parade to assist in clean­up by picking up trash along the route. This worked well as it encouraged people to pick up trash around them and made cleanup a lot easier. Once again, the Rotary Club of Chanhassen is a great partnering organization to work with and their financial and volunteer support is greatly appreciated. The Rotary Club of Chanhassen pays the city $1,444 to cover the costs associated with 4 th of July Parade. Fireworks This year’s fireworks show was contracted through Pyrotechnic Display and was the third year of a three­year contract. They coordinated an excellent display that lasted about 20 minutes. It is estimated that about 35,000 PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019Subject2019 4th of July Celebration EvaluationSectionREPORTS Item No: I.1.Prepared By Audrey Swantz, Recreation Supervisor File No: SUMMARYThis year’s 4th of July Celebration marked the 36 th year of this annual event. It is the most anticipated communityevent of the year, with estimates of over 80,000 people who enjoyed at least one aspect of the three­day celebration.Below is a breakdown summarizing all of the events, recommendations for next year, and a financial report.JULY 2 ndFamily Night at the CarnivalThis was the ninth year Family Night at the Carnival was featured on July 2nd as the opening event for the celebration.This evening offers families a chance to enjoy the carnival rides at a discounted price and without long lines. Again for2019, the city added pony rides for families to enjoy. It’s estimated that about 5,500 people participated in this year’sFamily Night at the Carnival. The Family Night at the Carnival continues to grow annually.JULY 3 rdMinnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball ClinicApproximately 200 kids received instruction at the Minnesota Twins Youth Baseball/Softball Clinic. This free programcontinues to be very popular. Two sessions were held for youth ages 6­16 at the Chanhassen High School Storm andRedbird baseball stadium. The city has developed a strong relationship with the Minnesota Twins, and we lookforward to continuing to offer this clinic in the future.Kiddie ParadeApproximately 2,000 participants and spectators took part in this year’s Kiddie Parade. Participants get very creativedecorating their bicycles, scooters, wagons, and everything else! Our Playground Director and her staff did a great jobcoordinating the event and ensuring the safety of the participants. A special thanks to the Chanhassen Fire Departmentand the Carver County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance with traffic control. At the conclusion of the parade, eachparticipant received a complimentary treat.First Aid TentAgain this year, the Chanhassen Fire Department staffed a First Aid Tent on July 3rd and 4th at City Center Park. Nomajor injuries or accidents were reported during the celebration. A special thanks for their continued support. A golfcart was used for the Chanhassen Fire Department medical staff to navigate through the crowds responding to medicalemergencies that arose. The cart works really well and will continue to be used.Business ExpoThirty­eight local businesses participated in the Business Expo sponsored by the SouthWest Metro Chamber ofCommerce. The event continues to promote businesses in the community, and staff will work with the SouthWestMetro Chamber to continue this event in the future. The SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce pays $1,600 forthe use of the tent and electrical needs.Face Painting, Air Brush Tattoos, and Wacky HairdosMaund Entertainment provided face painting, air brush tattoos, wacky hairdos, and caricatures. It continues to be anaffordable, popular attraction for families. The city retained 20% of all sales.Water WarsWater Wars continues to be a fun activity for all ages to enjoy at the celebration. The warm weather kept steadycrowds throughout the evening. The addition of portable light units allowed Water Wars to continue operating into theevening. The city received 20% of their sales.Kiddie GamesThe Kiddie Games are a fun feature of the celebration and provides inexpensive entertainment for children. The gamesare coordinated by the city and operated by seasonal staff from the playground program and Lake Ann concessionstand. They did a wonderful job and brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the games. The kiddie games generated$649.54 in revenue.Pony RidesThe pony rides are very popular for participants of all ages. Fantasy Corral provided the pony rides for the sixthconsecutive year. They were easy to work with and provided very professional service. Again for 2019 FantasyCorral brought a petting zoo for July 3 rd. The petting zoo was well received by participants. The city receives 15% oftheir total sales. 3rd Lair Summer Skateboard Series3rd Lair came to the Chanhassen Skate Park and hosted a competition as part of their summer­long series whereparticipants earn points toward competing at the Minnesota State Fair. The event attracts teenagers from all over theTwin Cities and is a great way to incorporate all of the facilities at City Center Park.Chalk­It­Up ContestThe annual chalk drawing contest allows individuals to display their artistic designs. Prizes were awarded to thewinners in two categories, most creative and most difficult; for three age groups, 10 & under, 11­15, and 16 & up.This event is coordinated by the city and is judged by playground staff. It maintains popularity throughout the night, isvery inexpensive to offer, and utilizes the hockey rink at City Center Park.The Medicine ShowThis entertaining vaudeville show intermingled with crowds throughout the event. They performed from 4:30­6:30pm.and roamed around the celebration attracting audiences. They’re a popular attraction who have been part of the 4th ofJuly Celebration for many years.Tae Kwon Do DemonstrationThe Chanhassen Recreation Center’s Tae Kwon Do program performed a free demonstration near the carnival area.Coordinator Jeff Engel and his students enjoy performing at the event, which also provides great exposure for thecity’s program.Baby Changing StationBaha’i Faith, a non­profit organization, offered a privacy area for parents to change or feed their infant children andtoddlers. They also provided free drinking water, which was much appreciated by the crowds. Service was providedat City Center Park on July 2nd and July 3rd. Staff would highly recommend having them back again next year as theyprovide a well­appreciated service.Breastfeeding TentAgain, this year, with the assistance of Carver County, the City provided a breastfeeding tent next to the BabyChanging Station. This tent provided privacy for mothers and their children and was monitored by Baha’ I Faith. It is agreat addition to this family friendly celebration.Volunteer Sign UpFor the third year the city opened up 182 volunteer positions to the community. The volunteer positions ranged fromparade marshals to beer servers. This sign up was posted on the city’s website. The signup was well received and staffand the Rotary Club of Chanhassen will continue to look for ways to improve the sign up in future years.Taste of Chanhassen and Beer Garden sponsored by the Rotary Club of ChanhassenThis year, eleven local businesses participated in the Taste of Chanhassen, which was once again organized by theRotary Club of Chanhassen. This truly adds to the “community feel” of the event. A minimum number of ten local foodvendors has been established for next year’s Taste of Chanhassen Event. With all the new businesses in Chanhassen,we are going to be looking for new participation in the future. The Rotary Club of Chanhassen pays $4,5458.17 tocover the cost associated with the Taste of Chanhassen and The Rotary Beer and Wine Garden.MediacomThe Rotary Club of Chanhassen worked with one of their sponsors, Mediacom, to provide free WiFi for the beer andwine garden along with the Taste of Chanhassen. The WiFi was password protected so only the vendors had accessto it. This was an improvement that helped with ticket and food sales. The city and the Rotary Club of Chanhassen willcontinue to work with Mediacom to provide this service.CarnivalThe carnival rides and games continue to be very popular and a great asset to the celebration.Midwest Ridesprovided thirteen rides, ten games, and six food booths.On July 3rd the carnival offered an unlimited ride wrist band from 5­11 pm. A discounted rate of $2 for all rides wasalso offered after the 4th of July parade. The discounted rates continue to be well­received as it attracts more peopleback to the activities at the conclusion of the parade. Overall, the carnival was professional and easy to work with andthe city looks forward to working with them again next year.Live Music featuring Stone DaisyStone Daisy put on a great performance to open the Street Dance for Fabulous Armadillos. Having new bands thisyear was well received by attendees. Street DanceFabulous Armadillos entertained thousands during this year’s Street Dance. This was their first performance at the 4thof July Celebration. The performance was well received by many .JULY 4 THAdult Fishing ContestThere were a total of 50 participants registered in this year’s contest. The entry fee for the contest was $20, whichgenerated $1,000 in revenue. Prizes were awarded to the top three fish in two categories, longest northern pike andlongest largemouth bass. The city provided 30 measuring cradles and distributed them to each fishing party.Contestants were instructed to take a photo of their fish on a smart phone and text it to tournament headquarters. Thisensured sportsmanship and provided a time stamp in case of a tie. This was the third year using this process to enterfish and was well received by fishermen and women and will continue in future years. Each participant was also eligibleto win a door prize donated by the local business community, which were valued at over $3,500! This continues to bea popular tradition and a great activity to offer our adult population.Kids' Fishing ContestOver 150 kids participated in this year’s kids' fishing contest. Trophies and other prizes were given to the winners ofthe heaviest fish, longest fish, and smallest fish in two age categories. In addition to the top fish prizes, all participantswere entered into a door prize drawing and each received a free goodie bag. The contest was run by our playgroundstaff.Sand Sculpture ContestThis contest was organized and judged by our playground staff, and is a fun family event at Lake Ann Park. Prizeswere awarded to the most creative and difficult sculptures in three age groups, 10 & under, 11­18, and 16 & up. Thesand sculpture contest has been a tradition for years, and is a great way to incorporate events into our parks.Medallion HuntThis is a fun and simple event that should be continued in the future. The clues were organized by our Parks andRecreation Intern, Nathan Shadick, with help from the Parks and Recreation Administrative Assistant, Annie Lundell.He did a great job planning and organizing the hunt. Creating vague and difficult clues made the search more fun andallows for more participation. This continues to be a very popular event with lots of people hunting for the medallion.BingoSponsored by the Chanhassen Senior Commission, this event was offered from 11:45am­1:45pm on July 4th underthe tent at City Center Park. There were over 500 participants for this extremely popular activity. We appreciate theservice of the Chanhassen Senior Commission and look forward to continuing this successful activity in the future.Classic Car Show sponsored by the Rotary Club of ChanhassenWith support from the City of Chanhassen, the Rotary Club of Chanhassen took the lead in sponsoring The ClassicCar Show. It continues to be a popular attraction before the parade and is becoming a tradition of the 4th of JulyCelebration. This year the car show produced 70 entries!Taste of Chanhassen and Beer Garden sponsored by the Rotary Club of ChanhassenThe Taste of Chanhassen had great crowds on the 4th of July, the largest in recent years. This is attributed to theadditional activities offered, the reduced prices of carnival rides, and live music under the large tent. With the beautifulweather, the festival enjoyed high attendance numbers on July 4 th this year.Live Music featuring American BootlegAmerican Bootleg, a local four­piece band, performed from 11:45am­1:45pm under the big tent prior to the parade.They put on a great performance. Staff recommends continuing to have bands perform before the start of the parade.4th of July ParadeThe Rotary Club of Chanhassen produced the parade again this year with logistical support from the city and CarverCounty. We appreciate the service of the Rotary Club of Chanhassen and look forward to continuing to work on thisevent with them in the future.The parade consisted of approximately 65 entries. Overall the parade continues to be the most popular attraction ofthe celebration with 20,000 spectators. Crowds flood the downtown area and nearby neighborhoods, for the optimalviewing location. Additional parade marshals will be needed in the future to perform crowd control, keeping spectatorsat the curb line. Park Maintenance staff trailed the end of the parade to assist in clean­up by picking up trash along theroute. This worked well as it encouraged people to pick up trash around them and made cleanup a lot easier. Onceagain, the Rotary Club of Chanhassen is a great partnering organization to work with and their financial and volunteersupport is greatly appreciated. The Rotary Club of Chanhassen pays the city $1,444 to cover the costs associatedwith 4 th of July Parade.Fireworks This year’s fireworks show was contracted through Pyrotechnic Display and was the third year of a three­year contract. They coordinated an excellent display that lasted about 20 minutes. It is estimated that about 35,000 spectators viewed the show from throughout the city. 4th of July T­Shirts Every year since 1984, the city celebrates the 4th of July Celebration by selling commemorative t­shirts to the community. To help save on production costs, the logo and shirts were designed by city staff. Multiple colors and sizes were available to purchase which resulted in one of our most successful years. Two­hundred and seventy t­shirts where given to local business as a part of our 2019 Community Sponsorship program; gold and silver sponsors received t­shirts based on their level of sponsorship. The city sold 103 shirts bringing in $1,030.00. Suggestions for 2020 1. Continue to partner with the Chanhassen Villager to produce a high­quality, color brochure to be distributed in mid­June. 2. Continue to mark the physical layout of City Center Park and vendor locations prior to arrival of vendors. This helps vendors see the exact location of the carnival and other tent locations at the celebration. 3. Have t­shirt sales begin in early June to increase sales. 4. Continue to offer an Information and Lost & Found Tent to serve as event headquarters. Utilize this opportunity to promote other city events and programs. 5. Spray for mosquitoes again next year at both City Center Park and Lake Ann. Coordinating the spraying with Metropolitan Mosquito Control seems to be very effective. 6. Continue to work with the Rotary Club to have a minimum of 10 food vendors participate in the Taste of Chanhassen. Focus on having other food options including corn on the cob, hot dogs, and other carnival­ themed foods. 7. Build upon the momentum of the sign up genius volunteer program to increase the number of volunteers. 8. Increased signage for events at Lake Ann Park on the 4th of July ATTACHMENTS: Expense Report 2018 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE REPORT REVENUE Adult Fishing $ 1,000.00 T-Shirt Sales $ 1,550.00 Carnival Rides and Games (est.) $ 8,500.00 Maund Entertainment $ 144.80 Fantasy Corral $ 289.50 Water Wars $ 75.00 Kids Games $ 797.30 Kona Ice $ 200.00 SouthWest Chamber of Commerce $ 1,600.00 Chanhassen Rotary $ 6,026.20 Total $ 20,182.80 EXPENDITURES 101-1613-4130 (Budget: $4,500) Target $ 394.50 Cabin Fever Sporting Goods $ 677.67 Fun Express $ 953.28 Party City $ 76.92 Pizzaioli $ 134.81 Walmart $ 266.82 Club Car $ 352.69 Total $ 2,856.69 101-1613-4300 (Budget: $44,500) Pyrotechnic Display, Inc. $23,000.00 3rd Lair $ 500.00 American Security $ 1,320.00 Fantasy Corral $ 450.00 MJM Productions $10,500.00 Horizon Talent Agency $ 500.00 P & J Promotions $ 3,556.49 MN Trophies $ 161.50 Medicine Show Music Company $ 650.00 Ragtown $ 500.00 American Bootleg $ 500.00 Total $ 41,637.99 101-1613-4340 (Budget: $2,800) Southwest Suburban Publishing $ 3,363.20 Total $ 3,363.20 101-1613-4400 (Budget: $5,500) *Imperial Porta-Thrones $ 4,962.00 Total $ 4962.00 101-1613-4410 (Budget: $21,500) *Ultimate Events $ 23,849.01 Waste Management (est.) $ 3,100.00 Merlin’s Ace Hardware $ 233.20 *Warning Lites $ 1,114.00 Ziegler Rental $ 930.00 Total $ 29,226.20 Total Revenue $ 20,182.80 Total Expenses $ 82,049.08 BALANCE $(61,866.28) * Items that have an asterisk are a shared expense with the Rotary Club of Chanhassen and or SouthWest Chamber of Commerce. *The 4th of July Celebration is one of four events under the Community Event Sponsorship Program. Over 51 businesses have contributed approximately $34,252.41 in cash and goods in 2018 to support these four events. PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Subject Update on the Feasibility Study at Newly Acquired Parkland at Lake Ann Park Section REPORTS Item No: I.2. Prepared By Todd Hoffman, Park and Recreation Director File No:  BACKGROUND The city is working with HKGi to prepare a feasibility report for improvements of the newly acquired parkland at Lake Ann. This includes analysis of natural resources on site, proposed trail layouts and materials, water and wetland crossings, and interfacing with trails within the new housing development and existing park facilities. This report will help the city understand the impacts and opportunities of parkland improvements with regards to cost, constructability, regulatory considerations, and natural resources. DISCUSSION The Study Process to Date A trail connection around Lake Ann has been a part of the city’s plans for many years. Subdivision and development of the Galpin Boulevard site provided the opportunity for the city to preserve approximately 100 acres of property and over a mile of shoreline along Lake Ann and Lake Lucy. This land was preserved with the intent to: ·         Continue trails around Lake Ann to allow for an eventual loop ·         Preserve the land as a valued natural area in Chanhassen ·         Connect residents with nature, trails, and parks ·         Protect the ecological functioning (habitat, water quality) of the site ·         Celebrate Lake Ann, Lake Lucy, and this property as community amenities The city and HKGi are exploring different approaches to meeting these goals. Public outreach through online and in­ person surveys have reached over 335 people, who have provided feedback on what they would like to see and do on the new parkland. This input will be considered, along with technical considerations (constructability, cost, regulations) and input from elected and appointed representatives. Next Steps Through the end of August and September, the city and HKGi will use this information to develop a preferred concept for further development of the feasibility report, including costs, phasing, and permitting. The Park and Recreation Commission will be updated again at the September meeting. Submittal of the report is anticipated in October. PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORTTuesday, August 27, 2019SubjectUpdate on the Feasibility Study at Newly Acquired Parkland at Lake Ann ParkSectionREPORTSItem No: I.2.Prepared By Todd Hoffman, Park and RecreationDirector File No: BACKGROUNDThe city is working with HKGi to prepare a feasibility report for improvements of the newly acquired parkland atLake Ann. This includes analysis of natural resources on site, proposed trail layouts and materials, water and wetlandcrossings, and interfacing with trails within the new housing development and existing park facilities. This report willhelp the city understand the impacts and opportunities of parkland improvements with regards to cost, constructability,regulatory considerations, and natural resources.DISCUSSIONThe Study Process to DateA trail connection around Lake Ann has been a part of the city’s plans for many years. Subdivision and developmentof the Galpin Boulevard site provided the opportunity for the city to preserve approximately 100 acres of propertyand over a mile of shoreline along Lake Ann and Lake Lucy. This land was preserved with the intent to:·         Continue trails around Lake Ann to allow for an eventual loop·         Preserve the land as a valued natural area in Chanhassen·         Connect residents with nature, trails, and parks·         Protect the ecological functioning (habitat, water quality) of the site·         Celebrate Lake Ann, Lake Lucy, and this property as community amenitiesThe city and HKGi are exploring different approaches to meeting these goals. Public outreach through online and in­person surveys have reached over 335 people, who have provided feedback on what they would like to see and doon the new parkland. This input will be considered, along with technical considerations (constructability, cost,regulations) and input from elected and appointed representatives.Next StepsThrough the end of August and September, the city and HKGi will use this information to develop a preferred conceptfor further development of the feasibility report, including costs, phasing, and permitting. The Park and RecreationCommission will be updated again at the September meeting. Submittal of the report is anticipated in October. ATTACHMENTS: 1. Lake Ann Board 2. Lake Ann Handout 3. Lake Ann Feasibility Study Project Plan as of 8/21/2019 4. Lake Ann Survey Responses as of 8/21/2019 LAKE ANN FEASIBILITY STUDY CONCEPT DIAGRAMS CONCEPT VARIATIONS BOTH CONCEPTS MEET THE KEY PRINCIPLES OUTLINED BUT VARY ON WHAT THEY PRIORITIZE. HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND DO IN THIS PARKLAND! EMPHASIS ON PRESERVATION: THIS CONCEPT FOCUSES ON PROVIDING LARGER UN-ACCESSED AREAS OF LAND, A LIMITED TRAIL NETWORK, REDUCED WINTER USE, INVASIVE SPECIES REMOVAL PRECEDENT PHOTOS ARE EXAMPLES TO HELP ILLUSTRATE WHAT THE SITE MIGHT LOOK AND FEEL LIKE. THEY ARE NOT FINAL DESIGNS. PRECEDENT PHOTOS ARE EXAMPLES TO HELP ILLUSTRATE WHAT THE SITE MIGHT LOOK AND FEEL LIKE. THEY ARE NOT FINAL DESIGNS. EMPHASIS ON USER EXPERIENCE: THIS CONCEPT FOCUSES ON PROVIDING ACCESS TO RESIDENTS AND VISITORS, CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH NATURE, VARIED TRAIL EXPERIENCES, EDUCATION, INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT KEY PRINCIPLES: • CONTINUE TRAILS AROUND LAKE ANN TO ALLOW FOR AN EVENTUAL LOOP • PRESERVE THE LAND AS A VALUED NATURAL AREA IN CHANHASSEN • CONNECT RESIDENTS WITH NATURE, TRAILS, AND PARKS • PROTECT THE ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING (HABITAT, WATER QUALITY) OF THE SITE • CELEBRATE LAKE ANN, LAKE LUCY, AND THIS PROPERTY AS COMMUNITY AMENITIES KEY QUESTIONS: • TRAIL SURFACE(S) • BRIDGE/BOARDWALK CONNECTIONS • NUMBER OF TRAILS AND WHERE THEY GO • WINTER USAGE • APPROACH TO NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRESERVES A NON-ACCESSED AREA ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SITE (~35 ACRES OF WETLAND/UPLAND) LIMITED TRAILS THROUGHOUT THE SITE ONE MAIN TRAIL CORRIDOR WITH AGGREGATE SURFACE MINIMAL AMENITIES ON THE SITE HIGH INVESTMENT IN NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTION AND RESTORATION LIMITED WINTER USE PAVED TRAIL TO BE BUILT IN THE FUTURE AROUND THE ENTIRE LAKE ANN PERIMETER PRESERVES A NON- ACCESSED AREA ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SITE (~22 ACRES OF WETLAND) ONE MAIN PAVED TRAIL CORRIDOR CONNECTS GREENWOOD SHORES TO NORTHERN AND WESTERN ACCESS POINTS ONE SECONDARY SOFT SURFACE HIKING TRAIL THROUGH THE MAPLE BASSWOOD FOREST AMENITIES INCLUDE FISHING PIERS, OVERLOOKS, AND BENCHES ALONG THE TRAILS BALANCED INVESTMENT IN NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTION AND RESTORATION, FOCUSED ON BUCKTHORN MITIGATION MAIN PAVED TRAIL MAY BE CLEARED IN WINTER FOR WALKING AND BIKING PAVED TRAIL TO BE CONTINUED TO THE SOUTH IN THE FUTURE AROUND THE ENTIRE LAKE ANN PERIMETER Ê Ê Ê ÊÊ Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Proposed Lake Ann Park Expansion and Trail Loop Concept Plan Lake Ann Park w 78th st / cr 16 park expansion boundarycr 117p ow e r s b l v d arboretum blvd lake ann lake lucy Continue Trail Loop around Lake Ann Make trail connection to neighborhoods (Route TBD) Make trail connection to neighborhoods (Route TBD) Connect to existing trail Continue Trail Loop around Lake Ann Legend Existing Trail Existing Sidewalk Proposed Bituminous Trail Future Bituminous Trail Bridge Boardwalk Park Road Future Park Expansion Wetland 500 0 500 Feet Access Point Shared-Use Aggregate Trail Shared-Use Paved Trail Boardwalk/Bridge Development Node/ Overlook Wetland Forest LEGEND Overlook Overlook + Fishing Bench OOOverlook OOOvvveerrllooookkkk +++++ FFFFFFFFiiiiiishing BBBBBBeeeeeennnnnnccccchhhhhhhBBBBeeeennnncccchhhh O Access Point Natural Surface Hiking Trail Shared-Use Paved Trail Boardwalk/Bridge Development Node/ Overlook Wetland Forest LEGEND LAKE ANN PRESERVE & TRAILS FEASIBILITY STUDY THE CITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, CONSTRUCTABILITY AND COSTS WILL BE TO BUILD THE TRAILS AND PRESERVE IN THE NEW PARKLAND AT LAKE ANN IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND DO ON THIS PROPERTY, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Ê Ê Ê ÊÊ Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Proposed Lake Ann Park Expansion and Trail Loop Concept Plan Lake Ann Park w 78th st / cr 16 park expansion boundarycr 117p o w e r s b l v d arboretum blvd lake ann lake lucy Continue Trail Loop around Lake Ann Make trail connection to neighborhoods (Route TBD) Make trail connection to neighborhoods (Route TBD) Connect to existing trail Continue Trail Loop around Lake Ann Legend Existing Trail Existing Sidewalk Proposed Bituminous Trail Future Bituminous Trail Bridge Boardwalk Park Road Future Park Expansion Wetland 500 0 500 Feet FEASIBILITY STUDY THE CITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, CONSTRUCTABILITY AND COSTS WILL BE TO BUILD THE TRAILS AND PRESERVE IN THE NEW PARKLAND AT LAKE ANN IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND DO ON THIS PROPERTY, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT: TODD HOFFMAN, PARK AND RECREATION DIRECTOR THOFFMAN@CI.CHANHASSEN.MN.US 952-227-1129 KEY PRINCIPLES: • CONTINUE TRAILS AROUND LAKE ANN TO ALLOW FOR AN EVENTUAL LOOP • PRESERVE THE LAND AS A VALUED NATURAL AREA IN CHANHASSEN • CONNECT RESIDENTS WITH NATURE, TRAILS, AND PARKS • PROTECT THE ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING (HABITAT, WATER QUALITY) OF THE SITE • CELEBRATE LAKE ANN, LAKE LUCY, AND THIS PROPERTY AS COMMUNITY AMENITIES KEY QUESTIONS: • TRAIL SURFACE(S) • BRIDGE/BOARDWALK CONNECTIONS • NUMBER OF TRAILS AND WHERE THEY GO • WINTER USAGE • APPROACH TO NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT THESE TWO CONCEPTS WERE DEVELOPED TO MEET THE KEY PRINCIPLES BUT VARY ON WHAT THEY PRIORITIZE IN ORDER TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON THIS PROPERTY. PARTS OF BOTH CONCEPTS MAY MAKE IT INTO THE FINAL PROJECT. TELL US WHAT YOU LIKE AND DON’T LIKE! LIMIT HUMAN SPACES TO ONE TRAIL CORRIDOR CRUSHED STONE TRAILS INFORMAL NATURE OBSERVATION LARGE BUFFERS TO/FROM LAKES & WETLANDS AGGRESSIVE BUCKTHORN REMOVAL WAIT TO PAVE UNTIL ENTIRE LOOP IS POSSIBLE UNCLEARED TRAILS IN WINTER OTHER COMMENTS/IDEAS/CONCERNS? VARIED TRAIL EXPERIENCES AND LOCATIONS PAVED TRAILS LAKE EXPERIENCES (FISHING & OVERLOOKS) BENCHES/PLACES TO SIT AND REST PRESERVE SENSITIVE HABITAT BUCKTHORN/INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT CLEAR PAVED TRAILS IN WINTER, LEAVE NATURAL SURFACE TRAILS LIKE DISLIKE LIKE DISLIKEINPUT DIRECTIONS: 1. SELECT WHICH PARTS OF THE CONCEPTS YOU LIKE AND DISLIKE 2. CIRCLE THE 33 STATEMENTS THAT YOU THINK ARE MOST IMPORTANT 3. PROVIDE OTHER COMMENTS, IDEAS, AND CONCERNS THANKS!SURVEY ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE ATWWW.SURVEYMONKEY.COM/R/CHANLAKEANN Task Task Description July 8-12 July 15-19 July 22-26 July 29-2 Aug 5-9 Aug 12-16 Aug 19-23 Aug 26-30 Sept 2-6 Sept 9-13 Sept 16-20Sept 23-27 Sept 30-4 Oct 7-131 Project Background and Analysis1.1 Project Startup1.2 Previous Plan Review1.3 Key Resources Mapping1.4 Site Tour Staff2 Master Plan Alternatives2.1 Conceptual Alignment of Trails and Boardwalks2.2 Preliminary analysis of wetland and floodplain impacts3 Stakeholder Input3.1 Pop Up Events 3.2 Staff Commissions, Council Work Session Joint3.3 Social Pinpoint Tool3.4 Work Sessions with StaffStaff Staff Staff4 Preferred Master Plan and Related Feasibilty Report4.1 Alignment of Trails and Boardwalks and Bridges4.2 Update 3D Visualizations4.3 Updated wetland and floodplain analysis4.4 Cost Analysis of Preferred Plan4.5 Permitting Analysis and Related Submittal and Approval Timing4.6 Proposed Implementation Strategies and Phasing5 Finalize the Report and Seek Approvals5.1 Park and Recreation Commission MeetingPRC5.2 Planning Commission MeetingPC5.3 City Council MeetingCCCity Council 8-Jul 22-Jul 12-Aug 26-Aug 9-Sep 23-Sep 7-OctPark and Recreation Commission 23-Jul 27-Aug 24-Sep Q1 This concept includes a number of different approaches to creating the park. Some of them may appeal to you while others do not. Tell us what you like and don't like about this concept: Answered: 330 Skipped: 4 56.56% 181 43.44% 139 320 Like Dislike Limit human spaces to on... Crushed stone trails informal nature... Large buffers to/from lake... Aggressive buckthorn... Wait to pave until entire... Uncleared trails in... 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% LIKE DISLIKE TOTAL Limit human spaces to one trail corridor 1 / 10 Lake Ann Input 62.93% 202 37.07% 119 321 91.64% 296 8.36% 27 323 63.90% 200 36.10% 113 313 91.64% 296 8.36% 27 323 61.13% 195 38.87% 124 319 41.96% 133 58.04% 184 317 Crushed stone trails informal nature observation Large buffers to/from lakes & Wetlands Aggressive buckthorn removal Wait to pave until entire loop is possible Uncleared trails in winter 2 / 10 Lake Ann Input Q2 This concept includes a number of different approaches to creating the park. Some of them may appeal to you while others do not. Tell us what you like and don't like about this concept: Answered: 332 Skipped: 2 86.02% 277 13.98% 45 322 Like Dislike Varied Trail Experiences ... Paved Trails Lake Experiences... Benches/Places to sit and rest Preserve sensitive... Buckthorn/Invas ive Species... Clear paved trails in... 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% LIKE DISLIKE TOTAL Varied Trail Experiences and locations 3 / 10 Lake Ann Input 64.02% 210 35.98% 118 328 81.79% 265 18.21% 59 324 89.54% 291 10.46% 34 325 99.40% 330 0.60% 2 332 94.72% 305 5.28% 17 322 76.71% 247 23.29% 75 322 Paved Trails Lake Experiences (Fishing & overlooks) Benches/Places to sit and rest Preserve sensitive habitat Buckthorn/Invasive Species Management Clear paved trails in winter, Leave Natural Surface trails 4 / 10 Lake Ann Input 19.82%65 15.85%52 14.02%46 18.29%60 Q3 When examining the concepts, what are the three (3) most important things you would like to see?(Choose up to 3) Answered: 328 Skipped: 6 Limit human spaces to on... Crushed stone trails Informal nature... Large buffers to/from lake... Aggressive buckthorn... Wait to pave until entire... Uncleared trails in... Varied trail experiences ... Paved trails Lake experiences... Benches/Places to sit and rest Preserve sensitive... Buckthorn/Invas ive Species... Clear paved trails in... 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES Limit human spaces to one trail corridor Crushed stone trails Informal nature observation Large buffers to/from lakes & wetlands 5 / 10 Lake Ann Input 18.29%60 8.84%29 6.40%21 37.20%122 27.13%89 37.80%124 24.70%81 44.21%145 18.60%61 20.43%67 Total Respondents: 328 Aggressive buckthorn removal Wait to pave until entire loop is possible Uncleared trails in winter Varied trail experiences and locations Paved trails Lake experiences (fishing & overlooks) Benches/Places to sit and rest Preserve sensitive habitat Buckthorn/Invasive Species Management Clear paved trails in winter, leave natural surface trails 6 / 10 Lake Ann Input Q4 Do you have other comments, ideas, or concerns with regards to the park? Answered: 82 Skipped: 252 #RESPONSES DATE 1 Whatever the end result, this will be great for the residents of Chanhassen!8/21/2019 3:39 AM 2 The arboretum is a great model in my mind. I don't know how it applies here, likely #2. Survey design - there were things I was indifferent too and forced to choose like / dislike skewing results. (eg I don't care about benches but I don't dislike so I chose like). 8/21/2019 3:02 AM 3 I love the idea of a continuous walking path around Lake Ann and think it will become a destination. 8/21/2019 2:23 AM 4 Keep up the great work 8/21/2019 1:49 AM 5 I like the idea of the picture of cement blocks to cross the stream, low maintenance compared to a wood bridge. An unplowed crushed stone main trail around the lake is fine. The complete loop may not be completed for decades. Plowing the east side gives winter people a way to walk from Greenwood Shores to 78th Street. 8/21/2019 1:40 AM 6 Sorry, This was one of the poorer surveys I have taken. Too much only this or that. It does not request input but more like confirmation of one or the other concept. Appears that gravel with future paving is what is wanted to be the answer. I want cross country skiing somewhere in Chanhassen. So and option for grommed trails in the winter. Paved and gravel are both poor for skiing. Paved is the only surface good for wheelchairs as the citizens ages some of the less mobile people really like to get out. I would like to see the main trails further back from the lake and then secondary trails up to the lake for viewing somewhere between the two plans. Then the last question. Pick only three items. I would rather rate each item. Unimportant, little important, important, very important. I could check almost all of them. 8/20/2019 5:33 PM 7 Stop the housing development, and keep the nature safe.8/20/2019 4:59 PM 8 In regards to the trails, would uncleared trails allow for cross country skiing and snowshoeing? If yes, that would be a top priority for me! 8/20/2019 4:48 PM 9 Create access trails from a number of different places 8/20/2019 3:53 PM 10 How about wildflower installations along shorelines, bluebird housing areas, American lotus lily locations, waterlily installations, blue heron/ egret rookeries, picnic areas, volleyball areas, recreation spaces, rain gardens, etc. Take time to think this through & invite community volunteers to start imagining something unique to Carver County. Remember the butterflies need food: milkweed, and maybe plants to attract hummingbirds. There should be a complete plan before any construction begins. 8/20/2019 3:40 PM 11 Leave primarily natural.8/20/2019 3:20 PM 12 Would like to see safe passage from Longacres subdivision to access trails via under roadway tunnel. 8/20/2019 2:08 PM 13 Please preserve these precious spaces. With so much development in the surrounding area, it is critical to keep spaces untouched and natural. Thank you! 8/20/2019 1:39 PM 14 It would be great to bike, walk, and cross country ski 8/20/2019 1:33 PM 15 Have as much green space as possible 8/20/2019 1:05 PM 16 I love going for walks and runs in the Lake Ann Park! I would love more trails so I don't have to walk next to busy roads (Powers Blvd), as I do now.. 8/20/2019 12:40 PM 17 Hope it goes through. Would be great.8/20/2019 12:20 PM 18 It is a great area that I have run through often. Although I like the "rugged" appeal of what it is today, many more people would enjoy the area if enhanced in the manners I chose above. Thanks for asking for input. Barry Pawelek 8/20/2019 11:53 AM 7 / 10 Lake Ann Input 19 Love these ideas. Could you please consider an off lease dog area that is fenced somewhere in this park? 8/20/2019 11:45 AM 20 Develop it so it is family friendly and also handicapped accessible.8/20/2019 11:44 AM 21 It would be nice to have it so one could walk or bike completely around the lakes. I think it would be important to have refuse cans available for pet waste bags and garbage. 8/20/2019 11:36 AM 22 Keep disability accessible, but also as natural as possible while combatti invasive plants.8/20/2019 11:27 AM 23 A running trail all of the way around would be great and a bike lane as well. More fishing spots would also be nice. 8/20/2019 11:20 AM 24 Thank you for this wonderful concept! I think, above all, we need to protect and preserve as much as possible of the "au natural". environment.....; encourage native growth of plants and animal habitat. The management of "groups" visiting is vital......but not at the expense of the natural area. 8/20/2019 11:13 AM 25 I think it would be good to extend the same format of Lake Ann to the rest of the park. Paved trails, benches, beaches, docks, etc. 8/20/2019 11:10 AM 26 Gravel Paths for bikes, walking and cross country skiing in winter. Cleared spots on shoreline of lakes to possibly fish/wade in the water and access for Ice fish 8/20/2019 11:06 AM 27 Thank you for doing this survey! More trails and access to them, the better. Allowing as many people the opportunity to exercise and enjoy nature the healthier and happier we will be. Paved trails allow the elderly safe walking paths, moms with strollers a smooth ride and runners/walkers an enjoyable path to exercise on. 8/20/2019 10:55 AM 28 Please make sure that most of the trees and forest coverage is maintained. Would be nice to have a path all the way around the lake but making it as natural as possible. 8/20/2019 10:51 AM 29 I am neutral on crushed rock trails. I am also neutral on clearing trails in winter. Seems like a big expense and hassle but I don’t know for sure. Please keep as many large trees as possible. 8/20/2019 10:49 AM 30 Eventual loop would be awesome, in addition cleared trail for skate skiing or winter snow shoeing in winter. docks for fishing (lots of kids love fishing on lake Anne)! 8/20/2019 10:48 AM 31 I would us for birding and biking.8/20/2019 10:47 AM 32 Have you considered adding single track bike trails in the wooded areas in addition to paved trails around the lake? Mountain biking is growing as a sport in this area and I'm sure the Chan /Chaska team would love some additional single track to practice on. 8/20/2019 10:47 AM 33 Bike friendly single track trail!8/20/2019 10:44 AM 34 This is tough! As a person who utilizes this area a lot all year long, I can honestly say, it is one of the most beautiful places I walk! It's quiet and there is no better view than the changing maples in the fall (even though I have to hike through the stream to get there.) The most important thing to me would be to preserve the current habitat and landscape (I believe it is called an esker on the isthmus between the lakes.) The sloping hill where you can walk up high and see both lakes or down low and be closer to the Lake Ann shoreline. I appreciate the lack of snow removal on the current unofficial paths as it is a reminder of the seasons (boots in the spring and Yak-traks in the winter.) 8/20/2019 10:33 AM 35 I don't know what limit spaces to 1 trail corridor means. Everything else seems like amenities already available at other area parks I'd like to see the city add new unique amenities like nature playscapes, outdoor classrooms, hiking / x-country ski trails 8/20/2019 10:29 AM 36 The wildlife (turkeys, cayotes, deer..) that has been effected by the new housing development is seemingly displaced and making there way into residential neighborhood's near by (west 78th St and Galpin) and so I would like to see a park and trails developed in a less inasive way to allow the wildlife that resides in these areas to continue to thrive. 8/20/2019 10:25 AM 37 It would be nice to see things in the park that would attract kids and make them want to go there. maybe have rock climbing walls, mountain bike trail, a playground that is more natural with rope swings, tire swings, sandpits, and encourages kids to get dirty and play in nature - roll down hills etc. I think having wooden bridges like fish lake park in Plymouth and making it a spot where you want to go to take family photos and create memories 8/20/2019 10:23 AM 38 I would like to preserve some single track mountain bike trials that currently exist there.8/20/2019 10:20 AM 39 Its a shame that you couldn't preserve all of the land instead of putting in a housing development. Please keep development to a minimum for the wildlife. We need more spaces for wildlife. 8/20/2019 10:17 AM 8 / 10 Lake Ann Input 40 Lets do something different! We have plenty of paved trails, let keep this gravel and less of a highway and more of a nature feel. The trails can be closer to the trees and vegetation with not having them paved. I would not mind a few low maintenance walking trails if its doable as well. 8/20/2019 10:16 AM 41 Crushed stone trails may lead to more falls by 0oldr residents.8/20/2019 10:15 AM 42 Trails for cross country skiing in winter same trails for mountain biking in summer.8/20/2019 10:02 AM 43 Like the idea of vistas/benches along the trail that provide sight lines to the bodies of water to which the trail is adjacent. 8/20/2019 10:02 AM 44 What are the plans to handle bikes on the trails? Would be nice to have a space for outdoor education/demonstrations. Can Chanhassen work out a discount for residents for the Minnewashta Park? 8/20/2019 9:51 AM 45 Trails for walking/biking and easy access would be nice 8/20/2019 9:31 AM 46 How about just leave it alone as is? It’s beautiful and more human access is only going to cause for crowding and taking away from the small lake vibe it has now. Lake Ann is a small lake- we don’t need more access points or more trails. This isn’t lake Calhoun. Let’s not pretend this lake can handle that much traffic. It’s already too busy with us that live near it as is. Opening up to the new neighborhoods is going to rob everyone of that “get away” feeling we have by it being an all natural small lake. 8/20/2019 9:27 AM 47 There is entirely too much goose droppings there.8/17/2019 5:59 PM 48 It would be nice if there was a better way to run into the park. Right now you need to run directly on the road and cut through parking lots. Easier access from the surrounding neighborhoods would be both safer and nicer. 8/17/2019 4:33 PM 49 No 8/16/2019 6:43 AM 50 I think the space should remain as natural as possible. One of the draws to this space is that it is natural/undeveloped, there are very few beaches and parks like this in the metro. 8/15/2019 3:50 PM 51 As a person that lives in Greenwood Shores I dislike the imprint you are even thinking of. I know many of the neighbors feel this way, preserve the beautiful space and don’t commercialize it into something else. That is what the neighboring parks like Minnewashta are for. 8/15/2019 6:43 AM 52 Generally, less landscaped and more natural. I’m excited for a Trail all the way around the lake, and support one main paved trail (for easier access for strollers and wheelchairs, etc) and stone or mulch trails for additional exploring. 8/15/2019 2:40 AM 53 A small nature education ‘cabin’ added somewhere on the trail (similar to Behren’s cabin at the Arboretum) would be a wonderful addition. Photos and small plaques can briefly explain some history of the area and what flora and fauna is observable on the trails. It would help all ages to take greater advantage of the trails and have a deeper appreciation of the area. LOVE the boardwalks in the proposal! 8/15/2019 2:12 AM 54 Sounds beautiful, wonderment around a safe space at lake for pups to swim. Currently have to leave our city to do that. So... would imagine I would stay here instead. 8/14/2019 1:47 PM 55 If closed in winter, consider leaving open to cross country skis and/or snowshoe use 8/14/2019 3:35 AM 56 A large natural buffer is the best thing for Lake Ann. As much as possible, keep the shoreline looking wild when viewing from the other side of the lake. Please keep trails natural in the winter. This area would be beautiful for snowshoeing or cross country skiing. Thank you. 8/11/2019 3:06 PM 57 I support any proposal that keeps the land as natural as possible, minus the buckthorn. Allowing dogs off-leash away from paved trails (similar to the rules at Purgatory Park in Minnetonka) would be a bonus. 8/11/2019 3:05 PM 58 Keep as natural as possible, no trails at all would be ideal 8/10/2019 10:49 AM 59 A dog friendly beach space! We are a very dog friendly community, but we have no place to go swimming with our dogs without being chased off. 8/10/2019 9:50 AM 60 Connect these trails to other existing trails outside of this area 8/10/2019 9:03 AM 61 Work some signature destination into the plan. Either a picturesque bridge structure somewhere or a more natural oriented playground, or a public treehouse observation. Something that makes the park special and unique. I REALLY like the idea of a public observation treehouse in a location. Kids and adults alike will gravitate to it. 8/10/2019 4:33 AM 9 / 10 Lake Ann Input 62 Crushed stone would be fine if it's compacted enough for kids to bike on.8/10/2019 3:31 AM 63 Parking is currently an issue as there is no where to park by the smaller beach closer to Lake Lucy 8/9/2019 9:10 PM 64 Natural surfaces only. Really. Do not pave. Paving is bad for environment, costly to maintain long- term, and ruins “nature-retreat-within-city” experience. 8/9/2019 6:22 PM 65 We already have a great number of paved trails and it would be nice to feel like we’re taking a step away from the city within our own city by maintaining some elements of nature, like crushed stone trails. 8/9/2019 4:22 PM 66 This is such a beautiful area, I hope the changes made will enhance the area even more.8/9/2019 4:20 PM 67 please practice non-chemical ways of controlling weeds. keep the area natural & promote natural flower species. 8/9/2019 9:27 AM 68 They’re are already fairly defined natural trails, I think those routes should be preserved as to limit human impact, plus then there doesn’t need to be any big trail building projects. 8/9/2019 7:37 AM 69 Natural style parks/obstacles for kids 8/9/2019 6:43 AM 70 Paved trails are costly to maintain especially in wetland areas.8/9/2019 6:43 AM 71 A little cleaning with a very small play set along the trail would be a amazing for parents running/walking the the trail to have just a small stop to look forward to 8/9/2019 6:39 AM 72 I would like to see just the crushed stone trails and to preserve as much of the wildland as possible. 8/9/2019 6:36 AM 73 Its too bad this development is going up and destroying the beauty there once was.8/9/2019 6:34 AM 74 Informational/education plaques where appropriate (for example at Riley Creek, or an impressive example of mature forest) 8/9/2019 6:28 AM 75 Please limit tree removal 8/9/2019 6:28 AM 76 Do not muddy this area with people/ mess that a beach would present. Be honest with the community on the area that they city of Chanhassen has and that it may or may not ever have access to so these packages are not “over sold”. 8/9/2019 6:19 AM 77 I strongly feel the park and trail extensions should extend further with a tunnel under Galpin similar to the tunnel under 41 to Lake Minnewashta to create a full trail connection experience. Also, how and when does the remaining Lake Ann parcel north of W 78th between Lake Ann and the Prince development become part of the equation to prevent another Prince catastrophe? 8/9/2019 6:15 AM 78 Unpaved trails are difficult for strollers and loose rock can be 'slippery' for bike tires. I like the option of having both paved and unpaved for everyone to enjoy them as they see fit while also preserving the natural habitat. Thanks for all your hard work on this! 8/9/2019 5:59 AM 79 Have rental of kayaks/canoes/paddle boards available. Model a beach area after lake Riley’s update. Make this space usable for all. 8/9/2019 5:50 AM 80 I'm excited at the prospect of being able to bike from our house near the northern boundary of Chanhassen down to Lake Ann entirely on bike trails without crossing any major streets. It'll be a much better connection to the parks for my family and reduce our reliance on our car for getting around to the playgrounds and beaches. 8/9/2019 5:44 AM 81 I am opposed to any paved trails. The number of trails and winter access is less important, but pavement is too unnatural. I also hope the city considers survey results when planning the park, but not to blindly implement the top vote getters. Ultimately we should defer to our Parks specialists to preserve nature first, and allow for human interaction second. 8/9/2019 5:26 AM 82 Please prevent all use of any motorized vehicle, e.g. snowmobiles, ATVs, etc.8/9/2019 5:22 AM 10 / 10 Lake Ann Input PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Subject Administrative Packet Section ADMINISTRATIVE PACKET Item No: L.1. Prepared By Annie Lundell, Administrative Support Specialist File No:  ATTACHMENTS: 1. Rec Sports Soccer Flyer 2. Barnyard Boogie Flyer 3. 2019 Picnic Evaluations 4. Thank You Note from Chaska Area Fishing with Friends 5. Fall Senior Newsletter 6. Senior Flu Shots and Vaccine Clinic Flyer Session 1 Tuesdays, Sept 3 - Oct 8, 4:30-5:15pm Code: 2194.114 Session 2 Tuesdays, Sept 3 - Oct 8, 5:25-6:10pm Code: 2194.115 Session 3 Wednesdays, Sept 4 - Oct 9, 5:15-6pm Code: 2194.116 Registration Deadline: Thurs., August 29 Session 1 Tuesdays, Sept 3 - Oct 8, 6:20-7:20pm Code: 2194.123 Session 2 Wednesdays, Sept 4 - Oct 9, 6:15-7:15pm Code: 2194.124 Registration Deadline: Thurs., August 29 CHANHASSEN RECREATION CENTERRec Sports SuperSmall FrySoccer Lil’ StarSoccer Ages 3 & 4 $56 Res $63 Non-Res Ages 5 & 6 $51 Res $57 Non-Res 2310 Coulter Blvd | www.chanrec.com | 952.227.1400 BOOGIE Friday, September 13, 6 - 7:30 pm Join us for a knee-slappin’ good time! This event is specifically for pre-schoolers and their families. Petting zoo animals, crafts, refreshments, dance, and a bounce house will all be part of the festivities. Kick up your heels and dance to “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” the “Chicken Dance,” the “Barnyard Role Call,” and many more fun and crazy songs. Co-sponsored by the Victoria and Chanhassen Parks and Recreation Departments. Preschoolers & families » Chanhassen Recreation Center » $5 (Price is per person attending) Children under 1 are free » Code: 2194.111 Barnyard YeeHawY'all! PETTING ZOO H DANCE H BOUNCE HOUSE 7700 Market Blvd • PO Box 147 • Chanhassen, MN 55317 • 952.227.1125 • www.ChanRec.com CITY OF CHANHASSENSENIOR CENTER NEWSLETTER Summer 2019 Program Events Overnight Trip - Explore Iowa NEW! Senior Center Spotlight Welcome to spring and summer! We have waited a long time for this, and now is the time to embrace what it has to offer. During this long and often tough winter, the Chanhassen Senior Center has been planting seeds of programs and events designed to build bouquets of adventure, fun, and learning for you. We have also been creating this new, streamlined newsletter for our senior community – a simple guide of trips, events and speakers, including your invitation to join us for any or all of them. This newsletter will be mailed quarterly, either in paper form or electronically (as requested) to keep you up to date on the latest events and offerings. Its highlighted events won’t offer detailed descriptions, but will provide just what you need to put a date on your calendar and call us for more information or to register. For complete details, please refer to our quarterly Chanhassen Connections, which is mailed to every household in Chanhassen four times per year. You may also call or visit the Senior Center, 952-227-1125. We have all the information and registration forms you’ll need. If you are computer savvy, you can also find us on the City of Chanhassen website at www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us, click on Parks & Recreation, then click on our Senior Center button. We have a garden full of upcoming fun trips (ball games, museums, concerts and plays) along with daily lunches, and life-long learning focused classes and events. Make it your summer plan to build a personalized garden basket filled with aromatic adventures! May 9, 2-3:30pm: Aquatennial Singers (beverages and ice cream sundaes) | $7 | Rec Center May 17, 11am-1pm: Speaker John Haugo, “Who was Dr. Norman Borlaug: The Man who Fed a Billion People (Norweigan lunch) | $11/$12 | Senior Center June 6, 11am-1pm: Swedish Serenade with The Cloudberries (Swedish lunch) | $12/$13 | Senior Center June 20, 5pm: An Evening with the Mayor (fried chicken dinner and concert) | $11/$12 | Senior Center June 25, 11:30am: Lion’s Club Annual Summer Picnic | FREE, but RSVP | Lake Ann Park, Klingelhutz Pavillion Wednesday, September 25 departing at 7am, returning Thursday, September 26 at 5:45pm Chan Rec Center $315/person double occupancy, $378/person single occupancy | Register by August 8 Day 1 — Ames: Lunch and tour at Reiman Gardens & Butterfly house, tour Iowa State’s Bio-Research Farm, dinner on Boone & Scenic Railroad train Day 2 — Ames and Story City: Local trade demonstrations including chocolaterie, quilt shop, and more; lunch in Story City and tour of town’s 1913 handcarved wooden carousel. Fridays, 10 am: Just Fiddling Around - Musical Jam Session | $2 | Senior Center Day Trips Classes May 22, 7:30am-5pm: Fagen Fighter WWII Museum | $67 — includes admission, lunch, & transportation | Register by May 7 June 13, 9:45am-3:45pm: Science Museum of MN & Omnitheater | $39 — includes admission, theater ticket, & transportation | Register by May 28 June 27, 10:30am-end of game: Twins game | $46 — includes ticket & transportation | Register by June 4 July 23, 9am-2:30pm: Summers Pops Orchestra Concert | $48 — includes performance, lunch, & transportation | Register by July 8 July 31, 8am-1pm: Intergenerational Segway History Tour of Minneapolis Riverfront | $119/person ages 12+ with adult | Register by July 18 August 7, 11:30am-5pm: Guys and Dolls at the Guthrie | $53 — includes performance, snack, & transportation | Register by June 5 August 13, 11:30am-end of game: St. Paul Saints game | $46 — includes ticket & transportation | Register by July 11 September 11, 11:30am lunch, 1pm show: Mamma Mia at Chan Dinner Theatres | $69 — includes performance & lunch (No transportation provided, meet at theater) | Register by August 12 Unless noted, buses leave from the Chanhassen Recreation Center - 2310 Coulter Blvd May 8, 1-3pm: Painting Class: Ball Jar with Flowers or Summer Bicycle with Basket Painting | $32 — includes all materials & instruction | Senior Center, Maple Room May 13, 10am: Mark Irving: My Life as a Jockey | $2 donation for coffee and treats | Senior Center May 21, 10-11am: Your Brain is Worth It! (formerly Staying Physically Fit for your Body Type) | FREE, but RSVP | Senior Center May 30, 10:30-11:30am: SW Prime - A Primer Lesson | FREE, but RSVP | Senior Center June 4, 9:30-11am: Queen Victoria | $3 | Senior Center June 10, 10am: The History of Firefighting in Carver County | $2 donation for coffee and treats Senior Center June 11, 10:30-11:30am: New to Medicare? Learn the Ropes | FREE, but RSVP | Senior Center June 18, 11am: Speaker Jean Ketcham, “Aging with Fun, Spirit, & Style” | $3 | Senior Center July 8, 10am: Tea-Time with Donna | $2 donation for coffee and treats | Senior Center July 12, 10:30-11:30am: A Leisurely Look at the Library | FREE | Meet in the lobby of the library July 16, 1:30pm: Churchill, Manitoba - Through the years | $5 | Senior Center July 25, 10:30am: Extraordinary Sacrifices: Carver County’s Contribution in Wartime | $3 Senior Center July 30, 10am-Noon: Grandparent & Me Bingo in the Park | FREE, but RSVP | Lake Susan Park — 903 Lake Drive East SUN.SAT.MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 21 3 4 65 7 8 9 10 11 1312 14 15 16 17 18 2019 21 22 23 24 25 May 2019 9-10:30am Senior Center Advisory Board Meeting - FC12:30pm Bridge - SC 10am Speaker Mark Irving “My Life as a Jockey” - SC12:30pm Bridge - SC 8:30am-12:30pm Foot Care Call for appts - MR 10:30am Fit for Life - RC12:30pm Chan-o-laires - SC 5-9pm AARP 8-hr driver’s training Pt. 1 - SC 10am Your Brain Is Worth It - SC10:30am Fit for Life - RC 12:30pm Chan-o-laires - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 12:30pm Chan-o-laires - SC 10am-1pm Free Ind. & Family Counseling, by appt - MR10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1pm Cards - MR 1:30pm Caregiver Support Grp - MR 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC12:30pm Bingo - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1pm Cards - MR 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1pm Cards - MR2-3:30pm Celebrate Spring with the Aquatennial Singers - RC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC1pm Cards - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR9:45-10:45am Chair Yoga - RC 1-3pm Cribbage - MR 1:30pm MN Travelog - Chaska Lodge 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR11am Line Dancing - RC 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 10am Senior Commission Meeting - FC 11am-1pm Speaker on “Dr. Norman Borlaug” - SC 11am Line Dancing - RC 1-3pm Cribbage - MR 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC12:30pm Bingo - SC 2-5pm Free Ind. & Family Counseling, by appt - MR5:30-9:30pm AARP 4-hr driver’s training - SC 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 9:45-10:45am Chair Yoga - RC11am Line Dancing - RC 9-11am Woodcarving - WS10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 1-3pm Painting Class - MR5-9pm AARP 8-hr driver’s training Pt. 2 - SC 12:30pm Bridge - SC 7:30am Day Trip: Fagen Fighter WWII Musuem - RC9am-3pm Foot Care Call for appts - MR 9-11am Woodcarving - WS10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 10:30am Speaker, SW Prime - A Primer - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC1pm Cards - MR 312726282930 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 11am Line Dancing - RC 9am Free Insurance Counseling - MR10:30am Fit for Life - RC 12:30pm Chan-o-laires - SC 1:30pm ACT on Alzheimer’s Meeting - FC SUN.SAT.MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 32 4 5 6 7 8 109 11 12 13 14 15 1716 18 19 20 21 22 June 2019 9-10:30am Senior Center Advisory Board Meeting - FC 12:30pm Bridge - SC 12:30pm Bridge - SC1-2:30pm Book Club - MR 9:45am History of Fire Fighting in Carver Co. - SC 12:30pm Bridge - SC 8:30am-12:30pm Foot Care Call for appts - MR 9am-5pm Pickleball Tourney - RC 10:30am Queen Victoria - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC12:30pm Chan-o-laires - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC11am Aging with Fun, Spirit, & Style - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC11:30am Annual Lake Ann Summer Picnic with the Lions’s Club 9am-3pm Foot Care Clinic, by appt - MR 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC12:30pm Bingo - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC12:15-end of game Trip to Twins Game - RC 1pm Cards - SC 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 8:30am-12:30pm AARP 4-hr driver’s training - SC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC1-3pm Cards - MR 5pm Dinner w/the Mayor & Music in the Plaza - SC 9am-5pm Pickleball Tourney - RC 10am-1pm Free Ind. & Family Counseling, by appt - MR 10:30am Fit for Life - RC11am Swedish Serenade w/ The Cloudberries + lunch - SC 1:30pm Cards - SC1:30pm Caregiver Support Grp - MR 9:45am-3:45pm Trip to MN Science Museum - RC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC1pm Cards - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 10am Senior Commission Meeting - FC 1-3pm Cribbage - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR Flag Day! 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 1-3pm Cribbage - MR 9am-5pm Pickleball Tourney - RC 9-11am Woodcarving - WS10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 12:30pm Bridge - SC 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC2-5pm Free Ind. & Family Counseling, by appt - MR 2423 30 9am Free Insurance Counseling - MR10:30am Fit for Life - RC 10:30am New to Medicare? Learn the Ropes - SC1:30pm ACT on Alzheimer’s Meeting - FC 1 25 26 27 28 29 FC- Fountain Conf Room MR- Maple Room RC- Recreation Center SC- Main Senior Center WS- Workshop Memorial DaySenior Center Closed SUN.SAT.MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 87 9 10 11 12 13 1514 16 17 18 19 20 2221 23 24 25 26 27 July 2019 12:30pm Bridge - SC 1-2:30pm Book Club - MR 12:30pm Bridge - SC 9-10:30am Senior Center Advisory Board Meeting - FC 12:30pm Bridge - SC 9am Free Insurance Counseling - MR 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1:30pm ACT on Alzheimer’s Meeting - FC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 9am-2:30pm Trip to MN Pops Concert and Olive Garden - RC 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 10am-Noon Grandparent & Me Bingo in the Park - Lake Susan Park 8am-1pm Intergenerational Segway Tour of Minneapolis River Road - RC 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC12:30pm Bingo - SC 4th of JulySenior Center Closed 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 10:30am-1pm Extraordinary Service: Carver Co’s Wartime Efforts - SC 1pm Cards - MR 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1pm Cards - MR 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1pm Cards - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 1-3pm Cribbage - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 10am Senior Commission Meeting - FC 11am Summer Beach Party w/ Pizza & Root Beer Floats - SC 1-3pm Cribbage - MR 9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC2-5pm Free Ind. & Family Counseling, by appt - MR 9am Fiddling Around with Music, Jam Session - MR 10:30am Lesiurely Walking Tour of the Chan Library Meet at the library 9-11am Woodcarving - WS10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 9:45am Tea-Time with Donna SC 12:30pm Bridge - SC 9am-3pm Foot Care Clinic, by appt - MR9-11am Woodcarving - WS 10am Tai Chi - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 2928 10:30am Fit for Life - RC 1:30pm Exploring Churchill, Manitoba Through the Years - SC 1 2 3 4 5 612:30pm Bridge - SC 9am-12:30pm Foot Care Clinic, by appt - MR10:30am Fit for Life - RC 12:30pm Bingo - SC 4th of JulySenior Center Closed 30 31 Counseling & Support • Individual and Family Counseling - call 952.227.1124 to schedule an appointment • Caregiver Support Group - walk-ins welcome • Health Insurance Assistance - call Senior LinkAge Line at 1.800.333.2433 Foot Care Clinic - Call 763.560.5136 for appointment Transportation • Senior LinkAge 1.800.333.2433 • Smark Link 952.496.8341 • SouthWest Prime 952.797.7463 • WeCAB 1.844.743.3932 Special Services The Silver-Plate Diner Did you know we offer a delicious, healthy meal every day at the Senior Center? All seniors 60 years of age and older are welcome, along with their friends/family of any age. If you are over the age of 60, we ask for a voluntary contribution of $5.00 for your meal. Of course, any amount is gratefully accepted and helps us to continue to serve you. (If you are under the age of 60, the firm cost of the meal is $11) Menus are available so you can plan ahead; reservations must be made 3 business days in advance. It’s the best meal deal in town! Call 952.227.1127. FC- Fountain Conf Room MR- Maple Room RC- Recreation Center SC- Main Senior Center WS- Workshop Cub Pharmacy again hosts our annual Flu and Vaccine Clinic. Call ahead for a specific appointment time, or walk in the day of. Bring your Medicare and insurance card, and a checkbook for any uncovered co-pays. This year we are offering three vaccines: Flu and Pneumonia Vaccines FREE with Medicare Part B Shingles Vaccine Cost varies, please check with your Medigap carrier. Not sure you need it? We can let you know if you are eligible and it’s needed. Stop by for a consult. Chanhassen Senior Center TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 | 9AM-12PM Flu Shots & Vaccine Clinic