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<br />Minutes <br />City of Falcon Heights, Park and Recreation Commission Meeting <br />July 14, 2003, City Hall Conference room <br />7:00 PM <br />Meeting Chair. Chuck Long <br />Minutes By: Bill Maertz <br />Present: Donna Daykin, Denise Deen, Patrick Dolan, Jim Evans, Chuck Long, <br />Bill Maertz <br />Absenf Excused: Laura Kuettel <br />Copies to :Commission members, council members, Heather Worthington, City <br />Administrator, Diane Meyers, Recreation Coordinator <br />• 1. Approval of agenda -agenda approved unanimously <br />2. Recommendation to transfer funds from Falcon Heights Friends of the <br />Parks Fund to the recreation scholarship fund. <br />Maertz stated that there was $200 budget for scholarships for families who <br />cannot afford to pay for recreation programs. This year 42 families requested and <br />qualified for scholarships. The total amount of scholarship funding was $905, <br />donations to the scholarship fund totaled $68, this left a deficit of $637. Maertz <br />recommended that the Friends of the Parks Fund donate $637 to the recreation <br />scholarship fund in order to pay for these scholarships. This donation falls within <br />the stated purpose of the FOTPF. Dolan asked what procedure was used to <br />qualify people for scholarships and Maertz replied that there was a form people <br />had to fill out to explain why they needed help paying. Commissioners voted <br />unanimously to make a recommendation to the City Council to donate $637 to <br />the scholarship fund from the FOTHPF. <br />3. Survey questions regarding Community park use and potential <br />purchase. <br />Maertz gave some background on the lease for Community Park. The park is <br />leased from the University of Minnesota for a dollar a year and the lease expires <br />in 2008. Maertz stated that the City Council wanted to study who uses <br />Community Park and if there is any support for purchasing the land from the <br />• University in order to ensure that it remains a City Park. Long suggested that the <br />City Newsletter run a story on Community Park because it was likely that most <br />residents do not know that the City doesn't own the land. Daykin suggested that <br />