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MINUTES PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING July 13, 1992, 7:00 p.m. Members Present: Carol Weisberg, Morris Nicholson, Linda McLoon, Carol Huso, Jyneen Thatcher, Lloyd Jacobson, Carol Kriegler, Park and Rec. Director, Sue Gehrz, Council Liaison Members Absent: Dave Wickhem, Steve Schugel 1. Corrections to the Minutes Carol K indicated that John Savory was present at the meeting, but had come late. 2. Falcon Heights School/Recreation Facility Task Force Carol K wanted to clarify the situation. The district does not have final plans for any of the facilities, and all the building plans depend on passage of the Bond Referendum. The elementary schools are slated last, maybe 1994 or 1995. Thus, the plans are schematic only. Carol K will request to have areas marked "out of bounds" in the district remodeling. Carol K met with Len Copt (Physical Planning) and John Thien (Finances), from the district. She found them very receptive to the city. She hopes to get them to set boundary limits and get a statement for maintenance of equipment put in by the city or complete replacement, if the school district plans change and necessitate changes in the playground area. Jyneen, Carol K, Kathy Ciernia and Steve Schugel met and brainstormed some ideas for improvements in play at the school. Carol K said she would write a summary for us. These include improved ball fields, a hard court surface, toddler level play equipment, warming facility, showers (with the new gym), more site amenities (benches, waste receptacles etc. Linda indicated that we need to get the school phys. ed. teachers involved. Her experience at Brimhall indicated that they are very protective of their open space. Linda also asked whether the improvements paid for by the city would be reciprocated at the school by free rent for programs and priority in programming etc? The city of Little Canada paid for remodeling at "their" elementary school, but athletics there are run by a very strong association, which is not the case in Falcon Heights. In summary, we have hit a wall here, mainly due to timing. Efforts will continue after the bond referendum. We need to decide: a) what are our resources?, b) what are our priorities for the site? c) who should be involved in the planning (school district, city, neighbors, PTA?) Carol K will send a memo to Falcon Heights Elementary school for their information and as a statement of our intent to do some of these things this year. Potential costs: hard court (515,000), (Could be where future parking lot would be), ball field improvements (52,000), toddler play equipment (520,000 for a total of 540,000). Linda brought up the fact that movement of capitol improvement money would have to come from that slated for improvements at the Grove park. These would include a bang board for the tennis courts, warming facility, back stop, more play equipment. We need to address these issues as we prepare our budget this summer. , Carol K also indicated that she keeps a list of suggested improvements at the parks in categories for either capitol improvement or operating budget. 3) Curtiss Field Vandalism Carol K said that there was a lot of nuisance vandalism going on at the park, garbage on the building roof and broken bottles. Someone was taking apart the fence between the play equipment and the holding pond. The building has been staffed temporarily and the kids have been identified. It turned out that some parents from St. Paul were leaving their kids there alone all day when they went to work. The juvenile officer from the police department is going to visit the families. This will hopefully stop the nuisance vandalism.