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Agenda Section: 6.0. REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Repot Number: 93-6-639L— Rep rt Dnle:—10-07-93 STAFF REPORT Council Action: Special Order or Rosiness CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE OCTOBER 11, 1993 Public Hearings X Consent Agenda Council Business Item Description: 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 F rntor's Reviea�fRecnmmendn[ion: ments to supplement this rnts nuatcl[ed. Explanation/Sunmutry (attach supplement sheets as necessory.) SfINIb AL RY: The Parks and Recreation Commission wishes to discuss with the City Council a request to have a $1,(00 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 piddly 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 he self-sufficient for yearly park improvement monies. If the expectation is $50,M) 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 he. 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 detrintemal to the City of Mounds View. a aanon, Director Parks, Recre; on and Forestry Department 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.