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• City of Falcon Heights
Parks and Recreation Commission
April 8, 1996, 7:00 p.m.
Members Present: Greg Schaefer, Carol Weisberg, Carol Kriegler (Parks Director),
Laura Kuettel (Council Liaison).
Absent: Steve Schugel, Nancy Wickhem.
1. Minutes of the 3/25/96 meeting were distributed.
2. 1996 summer recreation program brochure was reviewed and discussed.
Falcon Heights Elementary School will not charge us for gym rental for Open Gym.
The Lions Club has contributed $228 to help support Open Gym. We will offer °High
Fiver open gym four days per week for 90 minute sessions. It will be user friendly, with
no registration or fee payment required. It will operate as a °drop-in° neighborhood
program for kids in grades 4 and up.
New offerings include All Sorts of Sports and Away for the Day Club, designed for
children in grades 4 and up. In addition, there will be activities in Grove Park four days
a week.
• The brochure will be distributed through the schools on Wednesday of this week.
3. Park clean-up day will be Saturday, April 20, from 9:00 a.m.-noon. Friends and
neighbors are being encouraged to help clean up their neighborhood park. At least
one commission member will be at each park (Grove Park, Curtiss Field, Community
Park) to provide leadership, serve refreshments, and thank participants. Carol Kriegler
will make up a "to do" list for each park. The City will provide trash bags, shovel, and
recycling bins. The Lion's Club will be helping out at Community Park.
4. UNITREE tree and sfirub planing project will take place on Saturday, May 4.
The City received a grant of $6,000 to fund this. project. We will be planting 26 trees
and 62 shrubs. There will be a 30 minute educational component at Community Park
at 8:30 a.m. after which volunteers will go to their respective sites to begin planting.
Three trees will be planted at Curtis Field, and the remainder will be planted at
Community Park.
We plan to recruit about 30 volunteers for this project. Several scout troops have been
contacted as well as the Falcon Heights/Lauderdale Lions Club. Members of the
community are being encouraged to participate. Commission members will participate
at both parks.
5. The Community Playroom will close for the season on April 12. We need to
• decide whether to offer evening hours again next year. Attendance at evening
sessions is very low.
Submitted by Carol Weisberg