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• MEMO TO: Mounds View Parks and Recreation Commission FROM: Sta f 4 lc--- 4e- DATE: August . , 1• :3 RE: Neighborhood Park Planning Council During the past two months , staff has been working with the Groveland Park Foundation in developing their program as well as attempting to start to other neighborhood park planning councils . Staff has included a copy of the Grove- land Park Foundation Newsletter which goes out to approximately 600 local residents and includes highlights of their progress as well as upcoming projects . One of the parks that we will be stopping at on our tour will be Groveland Park to show you some of the projects that we have worked on up there including the development of a new park sign and benches that are being constructed by the Groveland Park residents . Staff feels that the Groveland Park Foundation is proceeding very positively and will prove to be an excellent model for other neighborhood park planning councils to be established after. SIn addition, staff has met with Darlene Miller and residents of the Ardan Park neighborhood to attempt to establish a second planning group up in the Ardan Park, Greenfield Park and Oakwood Park areas . There were approximately eight residents that met with dtaff during the month of July and a. review of their concerns and issues is included for your review. Staff would like to invite some general discussion on the development of park planning councils by the Park Commission to determine if we are going in the proper direction . One of the major issues that staff is finding is that developing five separate park planning councils takes a great deal of staff time , and it may potentially segment the City more than we would like to . In addition, the City Council has established a neighborhood park planning fund as a fairly high priority and we need to begin discussing initial guidelines as to how a fund such as that could be utilized by local neighborhood park groups . BKA/sll 410