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WHEREAS, Lions Park is home to many annual events such as the Lake Elmo Rotary Ice
Cream Social, Huff n Puff Days and numerous Lake Elmo Baseball Association games; and
WHEREAS, Lions Park is one of Lake Elmo's oldest parks and is in need of improvements
for both safety and aesthetic reasons; and
WHEREAS, Lake Elmo residents and businesses are interested in contributing to
improvements at the Lions Park Ballfield both through monetary and in -kind contributions and;
ViTHEREAS, volunteers have come forward offering to help sell advertising signs for the
outfield fence at Lions Park and;
WHEREAS, the Parks Conunission also recommended that every effort be made to give the
signs a vintage feel when possible; and
WHEREAS, the Parks Commission reviewed the cost, price, funds to be used, and type of
signs to be used and sold as advertisements within Lions Park at its June 19, 2017 meeting and
recommended that Council approve the following:
0 4'X 8'3mm Aluminum Composite Sign w/ Grommets at a cost of up to $200.00
and a sale price of $500.00/year.
• 4 X 16' 3mm Aluminum Composite Sign w/ Grommets at a cost of up to $400.00
and a sale price of $900.00/year, and
WHEREAS, the Parks Commission also recommended that the City Council commit the
funds received from sales of signs to the Lions Park Ballfield Improvement Fund and;
WHEREAS, the initial costs of the signs would come from the funds deposited in the Lions
Park Ballfield Improvement Fund.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo
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.• the aforementioned initial costs, sale price, funding source, and type of signs that will be
• for advertising to raise funds for Lions Park, to be placed within Lions Park.
Resolution No. 2017-070
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council does hereby commit the advertising
revenues from the sale of signs at Lions Park to the Liens Park Ballf ld Improvement Fund.
Passed and duly adopted this 5th day of July, 2017 by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo,
Minnesota.
Mike Pearson, Mayor
.ATTEST:
Resolution No. 317-070