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CITY OF LINO LAKES PARK BOARD MEETING MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1994 Keen and Jeff Schoenbauer about this. Rocky feels we will reduce the surface water run-off by having it be park land vs. the agricultural land that it is now. He showed Jeff' s concept plan overlayed with the wetland delineation. Marty read a letter he is going to send to Kate Drewry. He is going to request a meeting with her. He talked about what can be done in the wetland areas and felt all in all the plan can work. Marty then went on to discuss the letter, he included in the packets, which gave his response to the letter from Ms. Cathy Rickert of 232 County Road J E, Shoreview. RECOMMENDATION: George made a recommendation that Marty send his response, as a Letter to the Editor, to the Quad Press to show that the City does respond to residents concerns. He said that this letter was well researched and responded to her concerns. This letter addressed her issues and was very informational. Amy asked that Marty elaborate a little more to questions 12 which referred to lighting. Marty said he will address question 12 more. Marty talked about directional lighting and stated he will put some articles in the next meeting packets. Joe asked if the Park Board was still going to meet with the City Council in January. Marty responded yes. Joe wanted to know if we needed to have more done for that meeting. George asked if the next step was to proceed with an appraisal. Marty said we need the appraisal done and discuss, with the Noreens, how they plan to finance this project. Amy thought the transportation count was low. She asked how the count is done and if the count is done both directions. Brian said counts are done both ways. B. Recreation Focus Committee: George stated his concerns about Becky Dvorak and her position. Marty stated that she has quit. He said we had hired a consultant, with part of the CDBG money, to do the facility compliance part of our ADA Title II requirements before Becky left. He stated that we do not have anyone right now to do the ADA program requirements portion. Marty said we had originally hired Becky to do both portions of the ADA Title II requirements and the original intent of the CDBG Grant was to develop equal access with persons with disabilities into our programs. He continued by saying the facility survey has been done and he will be presenting it to the City Council at ,-� the next work session. He said the program portion is at a critical stage as we have started a consortium idea with 5