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PARKS AND RECREATION AND FORESTRY COMMISSION 6:30 P.M. I JULY 27, 2023 I MOUNDS VIEW CITY HALL = `*` MEETING MINUTES MOUNDS VIEW 1. CALL TO ORDER at 6:30 PM 2. ROLL CALL: Commissioners: Anderson, Arel, *Lillemo, Lundberg, Mills, *Palm, *Wake Wiesner Staff: Peterson I Thomas *to be absent 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Motion to approve by Lundberg, 2nd by Arel. Motion passed 4- 0. 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES June 23, 2023: Motion to approve by Mills, 2nd by Lundberg. Motion passed 4-0. 5. PUBLIC INPUT Citizens may speak to issues not on tonight's agenda. Before speaking, please give your full name and address. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Julie Clark @ 8005 Woodlawn: started a nonprofit to promote parks, specifically to promote Ardan park area. Project Ardan. Reminded commissioners of previously presented plan for Ardan Park area. At 7:55 PM, public input revisited: Chris Kalina @ 2407 Greenfield PI.: thanks for replacing pitching mound in greenfield park, but mound is not ideal. Formally offered $2K towards purchase of clay mound. The current mound is an artificial mound: "official babe ruth mound," and has a safety issue with metal cleats. Residents teams use metal cleats and thinks older groups in IBL use metal cleats. Artificial mounds are used to alleviate divots and digging and clay mounds require more ongoing maintenance. Resident will send requests to Don on more work to have done: cleaning up infield, shoring up infield, sprinkler head broken towards home plate. Resident also asked about a dog park in Ardan park and recommended a port-o-potty for dog waste. Commissioner Arel suggested homework for commissioners: check out current mound at Greenfield- Don stressed the work is not done. 6. STAFF REPORTS A. Parks and Recreation —Andy: We have hired a new recreation coordinator to start in August. Still have open positions for facilities maintenance. Summer leagues ended July 26th; it was a good season with both soccer and baseball. Registration is closed for fall leagues, there are 80 participants in fall league, which is growth since last year. Explore more park program is going well, they are currently in week 7 and were at the children's museum today. 4 more weeks remain. Parks half day program has one more week left. Fall volleyball registration is open. Sand volleyball is ongoing. Continuing to expand offerings. There's been an increase in events for Fridays and Sundays after hiring a facility coordinator about 3 months ago. Open gym is typically slow in summer, but less slow than normal this year. Revenue numbers- almost to budget goal for the year. Provided a parks usage chart which showed number of bookings and hours booked- Commissioner Lundberg requested available time booked or previous year's numbers for reference. Sept. 16: 4th annual community resource fair- combined effort with Pursuit church, which meats in community center, and Ralph Reeder. Parks advertises 6 weeks ahead of fair.