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Active Living Ramsey County Anderson announced an invite to an upcoming Active Living Ramsey County Community Kick-off event that will be happening Thursday, September 29th from 4:30-8:OOpm at the Family Service Center in New Brighton. Here Anderson hopes to learn more about the project and how we as a City are to become involved. Also included in the invitation was a rough draft of the projects brochure outlining some of their main goals. More information on this is still to come. Fall Program Updates Anderson reported that Fall Soccer had started last Saturday, September 10th up at Community Park. We hired 3 coaches, all who playing soccer or have experience in teaching soccer. Both Mini Soccer and Super Soccer classes have well over 10 participants. Extreme Soccer did not go as there was no one registered for the class. This program will continue for 5 more weeks till October 15th. Anderson also noted the next programs coming up are both youth and adult art classes. Field Use Anderson noted that due to the city council wanting a comparison of the city's fee schedule, field use and fees was the first item done in regards to the interest local athletic associations are having in our fields. Members were given a "draft" of guidelines for establishing priority for • the use of the fields. Hoag stated that at this time park and recreation departments cannot provide a sports service at the level the public wants so instead of competing with them, we work with them by facilitating fields they may need to service our residents. Anderson referred to the hand out as a clear and simple way of stating how our fields are assigned. By this residents will be able to see where they fall on the priority list and also see that no one gets anything "free" or special treatment. Long questioned the prices set for the field use and if those would be set or if they could change. Hoag responded that it is intended tQ be presented to the city council to treat both field and facility rentals as pure guidelines rather than policy so we have flexibility to change rates from year to year. Kuettel recommended that we possibly look at our prices annually to keep up to date on rates and raise as needed. Hoag then asked the commission if we had an agreement on the field guideline. The commission recommended that staff work on the final draft and present it to the City Council without further review from the commission. There was no opposition to the proposed draft from the Commission.