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Parks Commission Meeting Minutes December 13, 1999 Page 5 I is received, the survey would have to be postponed until spring. Mr. Kost further stated that he 2 had given Public Works Director Jay Hartman an estimate on the cost of the survey. 3 Mr. Hartman responded and said the next step in the redevelopment was the survey and that 4 many questions could be answered once the survey has been completed. Mr. Hartman stated that 5 the plan would be to make a recommendation to the City Council in the next month or so and 6 then to go ahead with the survey. 7 Marks offered that there is one City Council meeting left for 1999, and that meeting is designated 8 as a tax meeting. Marks suggested meeting with the new City Council after the first of the year 9 as it would be an excellent opportunity to meet the new members as well as to present the plans 10 and the need for a survey. 11 Mr. Kost offered that if the survey is approved by the City Council in January, that the actual sur - 12 vey could take place as early as April, depending on the snowfall between now and then. 13 Wagner reminded the Commission that the Central Park property is roughly half City property, 14 and half School property, and he discussed the possibility that it could take joint approval to 15 move ahead with the project. 16 On that subject, Jindra stated that Kathie Wolff, the School Board Representative for the Parks 17 Commission, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri and thus was not available to comment on the 18 School Board's position on this matter. 19 Mr. Kost said it could take five or six months to obtain the design and survey and put the project 20 out for bids. He mentioned a possible fall date for start of construction. 21 Jensen stated that would be unacceptable because the school would have to outsource all the 22 sports. Mr. Kost reminded the Commission that the Park would be unusable for organized sports 23 activities for more than one season. 24 Jensen said that the Sports Boosters had talked about informing other communities about the 25 City of St. Anthony outsourcing sports activities for possibly 2001-2002. 26 Marks offered that the entire dollar amount of the redevelopment project for Central Park would 27 most likely be designated from more than one year's budget. 28 Mr. Zurbey believed the City should consider the timing of when the fields get used in 29 connection with the layout of the fields. In other words, there are not a lot of fields available 30 that can maintain the older players. He continued by discussing the specific layout of the 31 proposed fields and how each field pertains to certain sports.