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<br />Living can do in our communities to promote more walking, biking, or <br />easier access to residents daily needs. Gehrz also reported that Blue <br />Cross Blue Shield has given Ramsey County a Walkable Communities <br />grant that will be used to provide access walk ability workshops that <br />would educated the public on where it is safe to walk and rights as a <br />pedestrian, biker, etc. At this time we are taking preliminary steps <br />needed to start the process in 2006. The hopes are then that the plan is <br />presented to City Councils and the cities or organizations adopt the <br />plan and mold it to the needs of their community. <br />Fall Program Updates <br />Anderson reported that Fall Soccer will be ending this coming Saturday. <br />We had about 30 total participants which is a little low compared to last <br />years enrollment of 57. We plan to have a more strategic plan for <br />distributing the activity brochure earlier than it went out this fall and <br />possibly start the program well after school has started or even before <br />school starts. Clay Creations has had a good turn out, kids are making <br />many unique things such as pots, faces, statues and animals out of <br />clay. We are firing our first batch so they should have that to take home <br />by the end of the program. There is two more weeks left in the session. <br />The Field and Building Use Policy was reviewed at the Council <br />Workshop on October 5th and they were very impressed with the final <br />draft. Hoag updated the commission on what we found in a city <br />ordinance who could use the facilities for free and who could not. This <br />information was proposed to the council to repeal it as a ordinance and • <br />make it a policy where we have freedom to be more flexible with its <br />contents. The council supported Hoag in that decision and will be an <br />item on October 26th agenda. Anderson then announced upcoming <br />programs -Community Playroom is scheduled to Start November 3~d <br />and run through March 30th, every Thursday from gam-noon. Green <br />noted that we might want to try publicizing directly at the Early <br />Childhood Family Education location where parents go to find programs <br />such as this or are more likely to hear about it. Saturday Open Gym <br />held at Falcon Heights Elementary will start November 5 and run <br />through March 25th from 10am-noon. Kimberley Kuhens and Andrea <br />Rothman will be staffing the program. In the works right now is <br />researching and comparing online registration systems. We are looking <br />at two right now, Active.com (RecNet) and SBSI- Eclass. Both have <br />registration and scheduling applications. At this time we are researching <br />the cost and if it would be cost effective for the city. Gehrz mentioned <br />sharing the software or going in on one with another smaller city might <br />be helpful with the cost. This will continue to be looked at and a <br />prospect for the future. <br />• <br />