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-2- 6. LAKESIDE PARK: The Lakeside Park Beach will be officially closed on Saturday, August 25 after a successful summer of operation. A complete aquatics report will be submitted for the Commission's review at the Sep- tember Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. 7. CITY COMPOSTING SITE: I would encourage each of the Park Commissioners to drive past Ardan Park to see the composting site and how we have cleaned the area up and extended the fence area. In addition to cleaning the site area up, we are in the process of installing a class 5 road through the center of the site as proposed by the Park Commission and staff feels this improvement will better facilitate traffic in the future. I have enclosed a copy of an article by Darby Nelson, Minnesota House of Representatives regarding landfill issues within the metropolitan area. The article is of major interest to the City of Mounds View as the new landfill abatement fund could provide future funding. I spoke with the Metropolitan Council Representative, Dan Krivat, and indicating our need for additional funding for not only our composting site but also to estab- lish a recycling program in Mounds View. He felt with our past success, we would be very high on the eligibility list once the funding program is established in 1985. Staff will keep the Commission apprised of the com- posting and recycling programs in the future. 111, 9. RECREATION PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: Staff has been working in conjunction with the City of Minnetonka and Hopkins in reviewing a metropolitan recreation survey in which we have included five tables for your review. Staff indi- cated at the July Commission meeting that there is a need to review our existing program fees and as can be seen in figure 7, we currently are ranked number one in fee supported recreation programs in the metropolitan area. Although some of these figures are somewhat misleading, as each municipality includes different data, it does point out that our fee structure currently needs to be evaluated in terms of how much more we can be charging for program services. The City of Minnetonka is currently reviewing specific program fees and we hope to have a detailed report of how our program fees stand in relationship to other municipalities at the September Commission meeting. 10. CLOSING OUT OF SILVER VIEW PARK FUND: The City Council adopted a resolu- tion dated July 9, 1984 authorizing the transfer of $2,634 from the park improvement fund to close out the Silver View Park fund. This resolution formally closes the Silver View Park grant fund and our total City expend- itures to date for Silver View as $57,750 based on preliminary estimates. A complete breakdown on the cost versus revenue for Silver View Park dur- ing the past two years will be presented to the Park Commission once we do a final audit. BKA/sll Attachments 111/1-