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PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING
NOVEMBER 15, 1990, THURSDAY 7:00 P.M.
Members Present: Connie Lasser, Jeff Johnson, Steven Schugel, Linda
McLoon, Carol Kriegler, Parks Director, Sam Jacobs, Council Liason, Paul
Ciernia, Vince
Members Absent: Carol Huso, Deborah Weiland, Lloyd Jacobson, Jyneen
Thatcher
1. Ice Rinks
Paul Ciernia came to present his case for allowing hockey to remain
on the Falcon Hts. school rink. He felt that it would be impossible to
enforce a "no hockey" rule, and that only younger kids (5-7) were playing
hockey anyway, who used the rink the short way, not its length. There
was some discussion as to the real age of the kids playing hockey there
(probably more like 9 and 10 year olds) and about complaints from parents
who weren't able to use the rink for pleasure skating because of safety
concerns about the hockey playing. There are no hockey boards, nor any
plan to purchase these for the school.
• After a lengthy discussion, it was agreed unanimously by the
commission to try to set guidelines for rink usage and use the school
newspaper, Falcon Hts. newsletter and distribution of flyers to neighbors
that it was 1: important to be considerate on the ice, taking care if young
children were there learning how to skate 2: using only 1 /2 of the rink for
hockey, particularly if others were pleasure skating. It is important to have
an enforceable policy concerning rink usage and we agreed to give this a
try. We agreed we would assess the actual age of the hockey players there
this season and reassess the policy next year.
There will only be a hockey rink at the Community Park this year, due
to the new sod. We unanimously agreed that it was important to serve
everyone. We all agreed to have pleasure skating only from 4-5:30 Mon.
thru Fri., and pleasure skating from 11-1 on Sat and 12-2 on Sun for this
season. For Christmas vacation, Saturday hours will be maintained for free
skating. These will all be clearly posted.
Ice maintenance and snow removal policies in Roseville are basically
left to an individual, who decides, based on temperature and snow
conditions, if the rinks are to be plowed on sat. so that people can skate on
Sunday. They use seasonal help to clear the rinks of snow at $5.50/hour.
They set priority rinks, and only those have the snow removed on Sat. We
decided that Carol should decide if snow removal should occur on Saturday
based on her judgement. Vince was nervous about part-time help using the
snow removal equipment. He agreed, at Sam's suggestion, that George and
a second older part-time person would be trained to use the equipment for
• snow removal during weekdays.
2. Community Park Building
The security system is still not hooked up at the building. They are
still correctly the landscaping problems. Vince painted the bad areas to
identify where they need to correct problems. The contractor sodded the
side of the building and the open triangle area. They are fixing holes, they
fixed the locks and are working through the list.
3. Donation Requests and MDTED Grant
There was no further news on any of the requests or on the grant.
Mary Jo McGuire sent the agency a letter in support of the project for Idaho
and Snelling Park.
4. Fall Programs
Carol distributed the statistics on the fall programs. Most did very
well and overall the programs covered all costs and made a little bit of
money.
5. Programming Ideas
Carol asked if we wanted to go in with Roseville for a Breakfast with
Santa. She felt if we did our own we should do a Pizza Party rather than
breakfast. Kids like pizza and the food costs would be less. Then more
money could be put into entertainment. We agreed there was a benefit in
• having less kids at an event like this. Carol will look into the Pizza Party
with Santa arrangements, probably to be held between 11 and 1 p.m. She
asked for suggestions of musical groups. Linda suggested the Sunshine
Band. Carol said she would investigate costs. Carol asked for programming
ideas. Linda suggested Gingerbread House building or cookie baking.
6. Lions Update
The Lions Club will use the area east and south of the hockey boards
and use the boards as part of their containment. Sam and Carol looked at
the lighting, and even if nothing else was done, the lighting for the hockey
rink will illuminate their sales area nicely. Everyone was pleased that things
had worked out so well. This way the Lions will not have to move out
before X-mas.
7. As there was no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:40
p.m.
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