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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes May 26, 2020 Page 4 1 on and needs to be watered to cool it. What chemicals and particles will be running off the field? 2 How much will the watershed increase with the large change in impermeable area? Is the holding 3 pond able to handle the increase in runoff? How will nearby neighbors be impacted by the smell 4 of chemicals radiating from the field? Nativity Child and Family Center initially used a crumb 5 rubber mulch for one of their play areas and the chemical smell was strong enough that I would 6 get headaches when working nearby. They ended up replacing it with a natural product. Who 7 will be accountable for environmental issues that may arise from turf in Central Park? Will 8 taxpayers have to share accountability if the city is funding a portion of the expense? 9 10 4) There will be a significant amount of waste produced when replacement is required in 10 11 years. Whose responsibility will it be to fund the replacement and disposal of a football field 12 amount of waste? 13 14 5) Given the number of residents who are currently out of work and the unknowns of what 15 returning to school looks like this fall, I think it is worth asking the question if this can be 16 deferred until we are back to functioning within normal parameters. What happens if future 17 capital investment is needed to make facility adjustments for safe return to school and the school 18 has drawn down their levy source?" 19 20 Mayor Stille indicated the first question was for the City regarding proposed lost revenue, 21 $32,000 a year of proposed lost revenue that the City was anticipating coming because the City 22 was going to be increasing the amount of payments that the School District was going to be 23 making on their lease for the community center. The Council has not discussed that yet and 24 $32,000 is something that can and will be addressed but that will not be addressed until the 20/21 25 budget and will not affect the City at all until 2022. There was also a question in regard to what 26 happens at the end and if the City is obligated to contribute to get rid of the turf or other 27 maintenance items and the City is not making any recommendations, commitments or promises 28 to funding the disposal of the turf or dealing with anything such as maintenance. The City is just 29 helping with the lease payments on it. 30 31 Superintendent Corneille explained they try to surround themselves with experts and the 32 consultant was highly recommended. In regard to the waste product she knew that when they go 33 to replace just the turf this would be something that is built into the replacement with the 34 potential for recycling the material. She also knew there were concerns in regard to what is 35 going on today with COVID-19 and what school will look like in the future. She indicated this 36 is something they have spent a lot of time as a School Board talking through about timing in 37 regard to the use of the funds. What she understood is the funding sources being used is for this 38 type of activity. The money being used for this is money that is committed to that type of 39 updates and grades to schools, very similar to using the newest product on the windows. 40 41 Mr. Matt Able: "I would like to offer my support to and encourage the upgrade to the high 42 school stadium field to artificial turf as a whole community project. I feel that especially now 43 that the high school has its own soccer teams and that there is a lot of pressure being placed on 44 the grass fields that soccer and football teams utilize, that if the stadium field is upgraded to 45 artificial turf then the stadium could be utilized more with less damage, especially if the weather 46 has been bad for an extended period of time. Also, if the stadium is upgraded, it will greatly