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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-08-28 Agenda & Packet CM OF ,13 Phone: (612)717-4000 P i E UU Fax: (612)784-3462 A °aGe t., Partne�S�' August 18, 1997 Dear Parks and Recreation Commissioners: There has been a change regarding the Community Center plans- VB DIGS are officially out of the picture now. Therefore a new design and revised plans for operations and funding sources will need to be considered. The Council has requested that the Community Center Task Force meet to review these new considerations. I requested that the meeting for the Community Center Task Force be held on the same date as the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting so that we can double up rather than commit two separate evenings to meetings. I hope that you are all able to attend the meeting on Thursday, August 28, 1997 at 6:30 p.m. in Conf. Rm. C. The Parks and Recreation Commission meeting agenda is a short one, so having back to back meetings should not be too late an evening. • If you are unable to attend the meeting please remember to call me at 717-4041. Please make every effort to attend as this is an important one. I have invited the City Council members to attend if they wish. Also in attendance will be Administrator Whiting, Economic Development Director Bennett and WAI Architect. So come with your questions, concerns, ideas, suggestions, etc. Sincerely, -17/771911 Mary Saarion, Director Parks, Recreation& Forestry • i6PRINTED WITH 2401 Highway 10• Mounds View, MN 55112-1499 SOY INK TM ,ecyclea paper Equal Opportunity Employer • MOUNDS VIEW PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA Thursday, August 28, 1997 6:30 p.m. NOTE: COMMISSION WILL MEET AS PART OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER TASK FORCE AT 6:30 P.M. AND WILL FOLLOW WITH PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION BUSINESS. 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 519 . 4. DISCUSSION OF INFORMATION REQUESTED REGARDING THE D. . JONES PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL. p!:, NV,I,t0i/K tit 5. 1998 BUDGET UPDATE 56 3 , iiivitv;046111 6. OTHER BUSINESS 7. ADJOURNMENT 46,P/A 0, 1 ") V\kr 0 MOUNDS VIEW PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION • MEETING MINUTES Thursday, July 17, 1997 6:30 p.m. Parks and Recreation Commissioners met at Greenfield Park before the meeting to observe the complaints of foul balls hit during baseball games and practices. CALL TO ORDER: Chair Burmeister called the meeting to order at 6:50 p.m. ROLL CALL: All Commissioners were present including Burmeister, Silvis, Long, Stevenson, Starr, Gunn and Dentz. Staff present included Director Saarion and Community Development Director Sheldon. Mr. Mike Black was also present to introduce the D.W. Jones Development proposal. MINUTES: Commissioner Gunn made a motion seconded by Commissioner Silvis it approve the minutes of June 26, 1997. Motion passed unanimously. DW JONES • DEV.: Community Development Director Sheldon introduced Mr. Black who is proposing a development at the DW Jones property. The project was reviewed. Mr. Black was looking for Park Dedication preferences and recommendations/credits for a sidewalk. Commissioners had many questions and wanted further information regarding: 1. The possibility of using the St. Paul Waterway Easement for a sidewalk from the existing Sr. Housing Building to the development. 2. The timeline of Silver Lake Road Redevelopment from Cty H - Hwy 10. 3. The timeline of Red Oak Dr. road improvements to determine whether or not the likelihood of a connecting trailway system would be in the near future. 4. Estimate of the cost of the sidewalk along Silver Lake Road. 5. The amount of Park Dedication fees estimated for the development. When asked when this issue would be further discussed, the Commissioners agreed that if need be they could meet with the Planning Commission when this issue is discussed. The Parks and Recreation Commission will discuss this issue at their next meeting August 28, 1997. Staff will pursue answers to the questions stated above. GREENFIELD PARK: As discussed earlier at Greenfield Park, there has been problems with foul • balls damaging cars in the parking lot as well as homes that are located adjacent to the park. Damages include broken windows, dented cars, and downed fences from youth retrieving balls that are hit into backyards. As • the Commissioners stood discussing the problem, 5 foul balls were hit in the vicinity of where Commissioners were standing. Two foul balls hit cars, one being a Commissioners car- denting it. During the ten minutes that Commissioners stood at the Park, there was more than enough observations as to the problems with foul balls. Staff provided options including the installation of additional netting on the sidelines as well as draping over homeplate. The cost of additional netting would be $6,000 - 9,000. Staff explained that users of this particular field are older baseball players, 15 - 18 years old. Teams using the field are not all Mounds View residents but instead are players from the school district area. The field is normally locked to exclude general public use because of its special older age baseball features including the pitching mound and grass infield. Therefore, users of this field are required to sign out a key from the Parks and Recreation Department. Because of exclusive use Commissioners suggested that user Associations should be asked to contribute funding for the additional netting. Motion was made by Commissioner Silvis and seconded by Commissioner Gunn that baseball associations using Greenfield Park should be asked to contribute to the cost of installing additional netting necessary to protect the citizenry. Motion passed unanimously. • Director Saarion reported another complaint called in by the resident of 2356 Sherwood that stated that youth using the Greenfield Park trailway had pulled out her seedlings in her backyard, downed their fence and cut her flowers. Staff suggested that she file a complaint with the police department which she said that she would do. In addition, staff said that her concern would be brought up to the Commission. Upon discussion Commissioners agreed that if problems with dilinquent youth continues the Commission would suggest planting prickly bushes that would inhibit youth from entering her backyard. OTHER BUSINESS: Commissioner Starr reported that a hornet's nest is under the bleachers at Edgewood School and one of the bleacher planks are broken. Commissioner Long reported that branches are obscuring view of th field at Silver View. Staff said that these would be reported to the Parks Maintenance crew. ADJOURNMENT: Commissioner Long made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Starr to adjourn the meeting. Motion passed unanimously. • CITY©t Phone: (612) 717-4000 A [I 5W Fax: (612)784-3462 �o4*Pess • PartnerSs‘s`S August 18, 1997 Dear Community Task Force Members: It is time to meet once again and review a new community center design and operations plan. VB Diggs was unable to provide a funding plan to the City Council. Therefore they are no longer part of the project. The community center design will need to change a bit. The City Council would like to have you review the new design and provide recommendations. In addition, you will be asked to review the operations program and provide your input. This will mean that you will need to think about who you would determine to be priority users (ie. residents versus non- residents, school district activities, youth, adult, etc.) revenue producing programs (such as banquet rentals) and subsidized programs (such as teen center). Who should supervise the day to day operations of the community center? What input will the community have regarding operations of the community center? To what degree should the community center be subsidized, • or perhaps there should be no subsidy and how will that impact activities offered to the community? These and other questions need to be discussed at the meeting - and you will be asked to provide recommendations to the City Council. Community Center Task Force meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 28 in Conference Room C. If you are unable to attend the meeting please call me at 717-4041. Your input is very important so please make every effort to attend. Sincerely, Mary Saarion, Director Parks, Recreation& Forestry • ■T«�� 2401 Highway 10 • Mounds View, MN 55112-1499 tot SOY INKI1, xx+ea Dave, Equal Opportunity Employer • ' MEMO To: Parks and Recreation Commissioners From: Mary Saarion Subject: Information requested re. DW Jones project Date: August 18, 1997 The Parks and Recreation Commission requested additional information before making a recommendation for Park Dedication Fees for the DW Jones Property Development project. Staff has obtained information that was requested. Hopefully this information will provide help in forming a recommendation for Park Dedication Fees which can be passed on to the Community Development Department. 1. What is the time line for improvements to Silver Lake Road from County Rd H to Hwy 10 which includes the segment along this development proposal? Public Works Director Ulrich said that there is no specific year for the Silver Lake Road reconstruction project -that it could be 5 years, 10 years or even longer. At the time of reconstruction, the County would replace any sidewalk or trail that they had to remove for construction at no cost to the City if one already existed. 2. What is the plan for Red Oak Dr. - is there a continuation of a trail on the other side of Hwy 10 that this strip of trailway could connect to? There are no plans for the near future for Red Oak Dr. Other roads that are in more urgent need for reconstruction are listed before Road Oak Dr. 3. What is the estimated amount of Park Dedication Fee for this project? It is estimated that the Park Dedication for this project would be between $20,000 - $25,000. 4. What is the estimated cost of the sidewalk/trailway along this stretch of Silver Lake Road? The estimated cost is $15,000 - 20,000 for paving an off-street trailway.