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LITTLE CANADA PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 (651) 766 -4029 / Fax: (651) 766 -4048 www.ci.little-canada.mn.us JIM MORELAN, Director (651) 766-4045 DON BOWMAN, Program Coordinator (651) 766 -4041 DEREK ANDERSON, Program Coordinator (651) 766 -4042 GREG HOAG, Parkkeeper (651) 766 -4056 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey & Members of the City Council FROM: Jim Morelan, Parks & Recreation Director DATE: December 9, 2003 RE: Millennium Charity Plus Donation A few months ago, I contacted Millennium Charity Plus to identify several potential projects in the city that they might wish to donate funds towards. As a result, their membership voted to fund a new building in Spooner Park to replace the existing storage garage constructed in 1978. The building is in need of extensive repair to soffit boards as well as a new roof. Prior to that, I met with representatives from Canadian Days and the LCRA to try to identify their future storage needs. Canadian Days currently utilizes storage space in the parks maintenance building and the LCRA stores some items in the Spooner Park garage along with using it for concession sales at fundraising events. The vision is that a larger replacement structure be built on the current garage site to better serve the needs of those organizations along with storage needs of the parks and recreation maintenance department, while freeing up additional, more valuable, heated space in the parks and recreation maintenance building. I am pleased to report that on December 4, 2003, I received a check for $60,000 from Millennium Charity Plus to be used for this purpose. This is another example of their ongoing support to the Little Canada community. Since the inception of charitable gambling, they have donated in excess of one million dollars toward projects such as this for the City of Little Canada. ri: \KrisP\Correspondence \Iris 2003\Donation.doc