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Approved March 4, 2020 Page 4 recommendation to designate specific projects for City Council consideration. DeGardner provided an Existing Park Assets Worksheet and Existing Playground Equipment Inventory for the Park Board to review. The Council adopted the Park & Trail Improvement Plan and has designated $90,000 a year to go into this fund with the intent that the Park Board would work on updating 1 park a year. Staff is currently recommending Lino Park playground structure replacement. Andrew Levi, Park Boar Vice Chair, addressed the Recreation Complex. If City Council decides the Recreation Complex should be a priority then we will make it a priority, however it doesn’t seem like we will be able to do it/finish it for a few years while all of these other Parks and Trails deteriorate. He stated he thought that it would be hard to support both and setting aside the money for that wouldn’t help the issues in the parks now. He stated he is not against the Recreation Complex but stated the money they have now they need to plug away at the playgrounds that need replacing now. Looking at the needs that everything fills he thought a Recreation Complex would be nice but doesn’t fulfill a critical and the critical need is to fix what we have that needs replacing. Clark Gooder, Park Board Member, agreed. City Council Member Tony Cavegn asked the Park Board Members to clarify if what they were saying is that they would like to redirect the $375,000 out of the Recreation Complex fund and use it toward something else. Levi stated he wasn’t stating that he wanted to take the money out of the fund but just not allocate anything from the $90,000 the Park Board receive to the Recreation Complex. He would like to see more money put into the Recreation Complex to complete the project but that the Recreation Complex funds and where it comes from just needs to be separate from the funds they receive for park improvements. Abby Haworth, Park Board Member, asked when Lilac trail would be done, when would the road be done. DeGardner stated that it isn’t even on the radar. It would likely be 10+ years before Lilac is reconstructed. Park Board questioned if it would make sense to put in part of the trail if there is no plan to finish Apollo anytime soon. What would be the public benefit of the segment is done if not connected/finished? Park Board stated that they are recommending to City Council to not do the Apollo Drive Trail segment. DeGardner informed the Park Board that by cutting Apollo Drive this will add $105,000 to the Undesignated Fund Balance. DeGardner then confirmed that with the Park Board that they wanted to move forward with recommending the replacement of Lino Park and that it would leave $172,000.