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ti 4 ~ f November 14, 1989 Minutes of the Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting 7:00 P.M., Monday, November 13, 1989 Present: Linda McLoon, Connie Lasser, Jeff Johnson, Bob Gehrz, Lloyd Jacobson, Sr. Representative, Pat Bush, City Council Representative, Carol Kreigler, Park Director. Absent: Michael Smallpage, Jyneen Thatcher, Jean Suppes 1. Bob Gehrz Bob announced that he felt it was a his wife, to be on the city council, and fo makes recommendations to the city council. Rec. Commission. We all thanked him fo commission member. He will be missed. source of potential conflict of interest for Sue, r him to be a representative on the body that He therefore was resigning from the Parks and r his diligence and help during his years as a 2. Update on Parkland Pat gave an update on the status of the university-owned parkland in Falcon Heights. Tom and Jan went to the last Board of Regents meeting. They were able to change the listing of the land from "sale" to "sale or lease". Subsequent to this, Tom Baldwin, Jan Wiesner and Pat Bush went to see Gus Donhowe at the University. The final word is that the city can continue to lease the parklands for 20 years at the current lease arrangement of $1/year. In addition, if the University should decide to sell the land at some future date the University will amortize any improvements in the parks. Thus we could option to buy it and have the full value of any improvements made by the city taken from the purchase price. The Board of Regents must approve this at their next meeting, either late Jan. or early Feb. It was agreed that the bids for construction (and demolition) of the park building would go out when approval was made by the Regents. 3. Minnesota Beautiful Grant Carol talked to the granting agency representative, who told Carol that a formal extension needs to be made. She felt there would be no problem, since they understood the cause for the delay was beyond our control. The one requirement is that the building be completed in time to have a "celebration" in accordance with the grant requirements. 4. Ice Ringette Carol has been contacted by a state agency that is trying to promote Ice ringette, a form of ice hockey for girls and women played with straight sticks and a ring, instead of a puck. The state is willing to give us Ice Ringette equipment in exchange for promoting the sport. This can be in conjunction with the efforts of surrounding communities. We have organized with Roseville to offer lessons. Both cities will share promotion of the activity. The city needs to also support the efforts, but this includes ice preparation and maintenance, hockey board erection and maintenance, etc. The current plan is to offer two classes, one for 3,4 and 5th graders and a second for 6, 7 and 8th graders. An advertisement will go to the Roseville area schools. There is a contract, so it will need to go the the City Council for approval. The general consensus of the commission members was to go for it. •