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Lee, Greg From: Dana Mandoza [mandoza7@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:53 AM To: greg.lee@ci.mounds-view.mn.us Subject: RE: Park and Recreation Meeting Agenda - January 22, 2004 Hi Greg; Thanks for the Park and Rec. agenda. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the meeting. Could you please forward this to the other members. First off e-mail david@cdl.umn.edu, I could not send out a data collection form to this address, I hope everyone else received a collection form. For my part of the data collection I have viewed Random and Woodcrest 15 times and have seen no usage of the area or foot prints. Viewing has been during day times hours and randomly throughout the week. Random has had night time activity inside the facility on occasion, but I am assuming a permit was pulled for that usage. Is that correct? Also around 10-10:30am during the week it seems that the "City" goes into Random, are we doing work in there? I have viewed Silverview 6 times, all between Ilam and 1pm at least 6-10 cars there. Activities have been mostly people stopping to eat lunch. Had sledders twice and 2-4 walkers of trails. Input on putting up a new building on Groveland. I think as a group we need to first determine whether or not Groveland is a location that would best satisfy the needs of our entire city. I would be oppose to a building there as of right now. If not than we need to determine a site. Looking at the data Random's usage seems to be very high and the building will continue to get run down with that kind of usage. I know that when my daughter's girl scout troop meets in there with 15 plus kids, it is run around play time. This also "may" be an indication that we should look at a new building on the south side of Hwy 10. It would be nice to have a new building at Random, but for 200K for a place to hold meetings that is a lot of money. To make it work at all the park should be completely re-designed, to protect the kids from Long Lake and to put in new activity areas,etc. The cost of doing this correctly would be very high and there is not a lot of land there. I would be ok with this option, but I don't think it will serve us as well for the amount of money spent. But it is a park that is used a lot and people drive by it daily. We could do it up right and put our "City" on the map. The only other option I see is Silverview, but to do this up right will be more expensive. Park programs could be year round. In the winter, we could use it as a warming house a flood an area for skaters. We could also use it as overflow for meetings to take pressure off of Random. It would also give residents another option for activities year round. I would put most of my support towards this option. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Dana Original Message From: greg.lee@ci.mounds-view.mn.us [mailto:greg.lee@ci.mounds-view.mn.us] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:04 PM To: mandoza7@comcast.net; davidl@umn.edu; steve.dazenski@ci.mounds-view.mn.us; FSilvis@aol.com; jeanette.steeves@ci.mounds-view.mn.us; JerryKunz@hotmail.com; Jkroe58326@aol.com; marta.mcintyre@ci.mounds-view.mn.us; karen.edmond@ci.stpaul.mn.us; skunza@ci.blaine.mn.us Cc: city.council@ci.mounds-view.mn.us; kurt.ulrich@ci.mounds-view.mn.us Subject: Park and Recreation Meeting Agenda - January 22, 2004 Hi Commissioners, Attached is the agenda and minutes to approve for the Park and 1