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i in DISPOSITION REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION STAFF REPORT PORT AGENDA SESSION DATE October 4, 1993 Agenda Section: 1' Report Number: 93-629WS Report Date: --- - I 'tern Description: Consideration of Request to Conduct a Feasibility Study for Adventure Golf I Course Administrators Review/Recommendation: No comments to supplement this report i • Comments nttached. Explanation/Summary (attach supplement shcKa" necessap•.) SUMMARY; The Parks and Recreation Commission wishes to discuss with the City Council a request to have a $1,000 feasibility study to look into the construction of an Adventure Golf Course to be located at the current site of the small soccer field at City Hall. This is one of the goals that the Parks and Recreation Commission had set for themselves for 1993. During the year the Commission has looked into and visited various revenue producing recreation facilities. The Adventure Golf revenue producing tacility seems to be most feasible. The Commission is interested in such a revenue producing facility for two basic reasons. The first and foremost is because our yearly allotment of Park Dedication will be ending in 1997. That yearly allotment of only $12,500 has been the mainstay of piddlcy projects in the parks which barely makes in impact on maintenance and replacement of equipment and other improvements. Once this has expired, we will have little or no Park Dedication monies coming in. The second reason that the Commission is interested in a revenue producing recreation facility is the chance to be self-sufficient for yearly park improvement monies. If the expectation is $50,000 profit annually, it would he more than we have had in the past several years as an annual budget in the Park Improvement Fund. A feasibility study would give us it much better answer as to whether or not it would be what we hope it to be. If the feasibility study would come out favorably, the Commission would hope to recommend that the City Council approve the construction and operation of an Adventure Golf Course as a revenue producing recreaion facility using a funding package that would not be detrimental to the City of Mounds View. Mi Sit ion, Director Parks, Recreation and Forestry �;�(tMMhNDA'CIO�: To approve an expenditure of approximately $1,000 from the Recreation Activity Fund to cover the cost of a feasibility study for an Adventure Golf Course facility at the site of the soccer field at City Hall Park.