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CITY OF LINO LAKES PARK BOARD MEETING MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1994 from the Comprehensive Plan. It is, " The purpose of the Lino Lakes Park System is to provide a comprehensive, balanced and high quality system of parks, natural/open spaces, trails and leisure- oriented activities/programs for city residents to use and enjoy in as cost effective manner as possible." Meetings will be held monthly. Copies of the minutes from these meetings will be distributed regularly to park board members. Change of support staff personnel - Marty Asleson took this time to announce that Carole Kohler, Department Secretary will be leaving full time employment with the City approximately April 1. Carole would like to continue as part time staff. Hopefully the new staff person will be at the April Park Board meeting. Joe Schmidt had some questions regarding spending of funds for the remodeling of the new recreation building. He noted that the first bids received were rejected by the council and the council has asked that bids be re-submitted. Joe wondered if there should be leftover funds not spent on the building if they would go back to the general fund or back into dedicated park funds from where $12,000 has been allocated for the remodeling. Both Linda Elliott and Marty Asleson assured him that the remodeling is being done on a very tight budget and that there would most likely not be any monies left over. However, Marty says, that the actual costs won't be confirmed until the building is over. Linda Elliott says there will certainly be a strict accounting of all monies spent. REFERENDUM ISSUE: Jeff Schoenbauer from Brauer and Associates came before the board with a presentation on referendums. George Lindy prefaced the presentation with references to the board's priority list of expenditures for the coming year, mainly their decision to pursue methods of funding for a recreation complex. George explained the need to turn to the citizens for support. He asked Jeff to "get down to the basics and show us how to do it. " Mr. Schoenbauer supplied handouts containing information on the referendum process. This information included a flow chart drawing of the referendum process overview. He said it is not a difficult process, the key is to present the community with what they want. In his opinion the referendum issues that have failed in other communities did so because the package presented was not in line with what the community needed. Many times he has seen too many issues try to be put through in one confusing package. Education is also a very important part of the process. Help the community to n see exactly what they do need. Promote the plan but don't oversell 2