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Agenda Section: 1. REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION 1111 OMDDS Report Number: 93-629WS STAFF REPORT AGENDA SESSION DATE SCC° October 4, 1993 Report Date: 9-30-93 DISPOSITION Item Description: Consideration of Request to Conduct a Feasibility Study for Adventure Golf Course Administrator's Review/Recommendation: (- /1,41.,.../ - No comments to supplement this report / - Comments attached. / Explanation/Summary (attach supplement she as necessary.) 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 facility 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 piddley projects in the parks which barely makes an 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 be 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 a 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 recreation facility using a funding package that would not be detrimental to the City of Mounds View. 111 / /�iM�i1lilt Ma /Sa. ion, Director Parks, Recreation and Forestry RECOMMENDATION: 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.