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Parks and Environmental Commission Regular Meeting Minutes September 23, 2024 Page 5 solved. The PEC can have more conversations about the exact location while the funding is 1 being researched. The cost would be similar in another location. Chair Fee had questions 2 about a Park Levy. Mr. Yunker stated it depends on when a decision is made. From a levy 3 standpoint, it would be several years out. 4 5 Commissioner Swiontek asked if the PEC should come up with the location prior to 6 determining where the funding would come from. Mr. Yunker stated they can be looked at in 7 parallel. It would be wise to have a location discussion. 8 9 Chair Fee described Totem Park in New Brighton and its renovation. The cost for the 10 pickleball courts there was close to $300,000. 11 12 Commissioner Swiontek stated the safety netting is critical as far as a priority for timeliness. 13 Commissioner Guest suggested making the ice rink more usable perhaps for a dog park. Mr. 14 Yunker asked the Commission if the pickleball courts would be a priority over the Central 15 Park lighting. Chair Fe asked if there are any grant opportunities for lighting upgrades. Chair 16 Fe stated this fits into the Climate Action Plan. Commissioner Swiontek suggested the priority 17 be the netting, the lighting and then the pickleball courts. 18 19 The minutes from the June 3, 2024 meeting were approved after a quorum was present. 20 21 VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 22 23 Ms. Cindy Lenner-Smith, 3100 29th Ave NE, stated she has lived on Silver Point Park since 24 1991, noting the park is being renovated. She does not know if there were any design 25 programming conversations with the neighbors regarding the playground design. She showed 26 pictures of the park to the Commissioners. She understands they are going to remove another 27 handicapped parking space for ADA accessibility. There is no parking for the playground 28 area. There were cars parked at the end of her driveway with kids left in the car. She called 29 Public Works and they agreed they cannot fix stupid. Kids run across their driveway going to 30 the park. She proposed removing the hockey rink and warming house and putting in some 31 portable bathrooms and more parking. She is surprised no kids have been hurt in the parking 32 lot. The ice rink is rarely used. The basketball court is used often. Parking is really needed. 33 34 Mr. Paul White, 3201 32nd Avenue NE, stated he is following up on the possibility of a dog 35 park in St. Anthony. For the last several years, he has had discussions with Councilmembers 36 and Commissioners. He has done a couple of rounds of surveying residents regarding a dog 37 park. There were 100 responses and 95% were in favor of a dog park. More recently he 38 created a survey with 12 questions. He launched the survey this weekend. There have been 53 39 responses so far. 40 were residents of St. Anthony. 92% are in support of the dog park. He 40 reviewed the other questions on the survey. 41 42 IX. ADJOURNMENT. 43 44 Motion by Commissioner Swiontek, seconded by Commissioner Guest, to adjourn the 45 September 23, 2024 meeting of the Parks and Environmental Commission at 8:15 p.m. 46