Sandy here. Schaefer. Yes. Sh Burns here. All right. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stand. Okay, moving on. Item four, we have
approval of the agenda. Make a motion to approve. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes.
Number five, we have consent calendar. I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Second. motion and a second for the consent calendar. Notice to the public, all matters listed are considered routine by the board and will be enacted by the one motion. There is
no separate discussion of these items unless good cause is shown prior to the time the board votes on the motion to be adopted by roll call. Lisa Miller Sandy, yes. Schaffer, yes. Tripe Burns, yes.
Motion passes. We have no presentations on the agenda. So seven unfinished business. 7A is the Lions Park master plan update. Thank you, Mr. President. And we met at
Lions Park uh last week or a few weeks ago regarding that design and the Lions Club was there to talk about uh their ideas and their grant writing proposals. Councilman Joerger was there also to uh gather that information. And Max, could
you pull that up on the mass on the screen there? Thank you. And so this was his rendering and a great design. The only correction that I would like to add to this is that the pickle ball uh courts be uh associated north and south.
Um, I think they're right now I'm losing that orientation, but I just want to make sure that they are orientated north and south for um just for, you know, visibility and
playability. You always want to have your courts north and south so one person isn't looking into the sunset. Any other thoughts, questions? I had one question regarding that with this park. Would that be as much of an issue as it
is in Memorial given the tree cover and things? Uh, it would, but it could be easily just twist. You know, they're almost square, right? So, I think it'd be just to be safe for future reference. Um, just to have them orientated
properly. I agree. No, I think this all corresponds with the general discussion that we had at the workshop and so I'm I liked how it was white out. Supportive of the layout.
Yep. Yeah, I think it looks good. Mike, are you looking for a motion to approve this new master plan today or Yes, just so that we could move forward and uh get a a engineer estimate on the totals for the pickle ball courts and
all the other improvements that we've listed there just so that we could move forward with a grant. That would be ideal. Okay, I can make a motion. Oh, I like the idea of just changing the pickle ball courts is my only comment.
Okay, I'll make a motion to approve the plan, but moving those pickle ball courts so that they're north and south. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second approving the master plan for Lions Park. Do we have any further
discussion on that? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. same sign. Motion carries. Moving on to the next item, we have 8A, which is approval for decisions of tree
placement in parks. Thank you, Mr. President. And here we have I'm not really even quite sure of the proper proposal or the sequence of uh proposals, but one thing that I'd like to recommend because the park board does have uh some opinion on the
placements that we submit like a yearly plan for all of our trees where they're going to be placed so we can give you a general review of where we're going and and how many trees we're going to be planting. We plant about 15 100 to between 200 100 to 200 trees every year
and uh they're just placed all over, you know, the town. When we remove a tree, our general idea is to replace it um in the boulevards and whatnot. So um we have a lot I've copied you all on that plan where we're going to be taking that
Kuanas and and North Brainard. So we are going to be placing quite a few trees here this year. We're also going to be the DNR has g granted us a grant to plant 20 brand new trees. So that's on top of this master plan and we'll be
planting those. We're going to be staking them this week so I can send you guys out um where they're going to be planted our overall plan and we can look at that also. So this is just a review to indicate just to streamline it. We would like we would be submitting uh
master plan ideas of where our tree placements are going to be going throughout the year and uh we do that in the spring and with a park uh input we can rearrange those and then get a final plan. So just open up for discussion at
that point. We have any questions for staff? Cara. Um, just a comment really, but I feel like James has been really good about like kind of knowing what we like or like just working with us the last couple years. So, he'll be involved too, right? Oh, yes. He's the main individual
that places the trees. So, he is really the lead on that. And like at the Triangle Park, I know Andrew indicated a few, you know, adjustments to that and he was good with that. Um, so we're we're okay with input and and just with
species, he's concerned that we don't get, you know, too close with some species. Obviously, you know, 10 ft away from a sidewalk is ideal. Sometimes in the boulevard that doesn't that's not possible then, but then we get a right tree place uh species that's going to be
in that boulevard that's not going to tear up the sidewalks, too. So, it's all by design. I really like this plan. I think it goes to the city wanting to diversify its tree population and then having the park board review it for park related trees
would I think be a great idea um just to get our input before the quotes go out. I like the yearly planning. Mike, should it be more specific to parks are boulevard? Are we good with you know in that boulevard section that
we just rely on James and and my input? Um, I think that I mean I think that's probably the way we should go is anything in the boulevards. You know, there's a lot of guidance out there as far as trees planting in boulevards is
concerned, right? Um, and I would lean more on staff in that scenario because there's other things in play when you're in boulevards like infrastructure and curbs and trees where in a park open space we have a little more um easy we
have an easier time moving things around. So, this would be specific to the placement of trees in public parks. I mean, we can see the ones in the boulevard just as an FYI. I mean, it's not precluding it if it's all part of one plan, but I don't think we Yeah. are
going to have any place in saying you should plant a tree on this boulevard and not this one. Yeah. Right. Cool. So, public parks. Thank you. Yeah. Any further discussion or questions for staff on that?
Okay. Moving on to item 8B, 2026 budget. Thank you, Mr. President. And uh we had a uh one workshop um gez it was about what JD a month or so ago we were talking about that and as it's getting
closer I just want to bring this to the park board's attention. Max can you pull that one document up and this the in the items that are listed there the Buffalo Hills Memorial and the ADA is what we discussed.
But I also just want to bring to the parkboard attention um in the first table below that 433,000 that is what we would typically request for to the city council on and then it's
sort of it's stretched out uh throughout you know the number of years I met with Connie and she indicated for this for 26 that is the number that is allocated for parkboard improvements for planning
So the above list was just scroll up a tad Max there. That above list that would total the $433,000 of whatever improvement. We do have some rollover like the Buffalo Hills the playground is rolling over from 25 and
um the ADA funds. We haven't used our allocated 25,000 that we typically get every year for ADA. I'm s sort of suggesting that we maybe it's an idea just an idea that we move that to 26 for
Buffalo Hills and we use you know now we would have 50,000 if we get our allocated 25 every year we would have 50,000 to help with that design of now Lion's Park. Sorry I should have re
renamed that. Um, actually it's technically Lion's uh park at Buffalo Hills. And so that's just an idea for us to do. Um and so just an overall recommendation in the uh agenda item is
that we could call for another budget workshop and have that in mid July and then we finalize that for the July meeting and then we bring that board or JD you would bring that to the city
council in August for final approval. So that's sort of the sequence of what one option is. Paul, so the first table underneath the well, I should say the table underneath
the first table. So we have that 433,000 in the green box. Is that correct? Right. Yep. So we have to identify specific projects to use that funding for. Correct. And so we probably have to jump back into the capital plan that was put together. And then the thought being
is that these two projects, the ADA and the Buffalo Hills playground, we would push off to hopefully line up with the Lions Club overall project. Correct. I think that makes a ton of sense. And then that loosens up the funds for us to
identify specific park improvements based on our Yes. plan. No, I like the idea of having a workshop. I think we get the most done in that type of scenario rather than sitting up here and trying to dive into it. So, I'm all for that plan. Yeah.
Yeah. I would also support that. Mid July workshop. Yes, that'd be good. And just FYI, the memorial one, that one is budgeted uh in 28. Uh that playground is just We should move that up. That's the one that has had some repairs done
already. Correct. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And uh we'll also um I think everyone was copied on that email regarding the playground service at at Gregory Park. I would want to up have one park a year
done on that just to bring them all up to speed so that they're all similar and and in in compliance. Okay. I think we're in consensus for mid July workshop. Is that just going to be an email then? Sure. Yep. with a date.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. Moving on to 8C, approval to enter into an agreement with the city of Brainard and Woundfest staff to conduct concerts at Millsfield. Thank
you, Mr. President. Um the mayor reached out to me saying, "Hey, uh there's a organizer, there's two individual that would like to organize a a concert at Millsfield." I met with them. They're very well organized. They're strong individuals. There was something in the
works of last year. it didn't uh pan out, but they are uh ready to go and move forward in with a date in in September and we just need to get permission to enter into our contract. Lisa has already drafted a a proposal
that we would work with them. Overall, what the first year with any type of big concert, they will typically lose money. So, the city would typically, you know, we would give them something in return for organizing this, whether it be some
uh um campground sites at Lump Park that they could sell as a package with their tickets and a and a a campground site at Lump Park, that individual when they would purchase that from that organizer, they would contact us, contact Lisa, and
leave a deposit for their campsite, confirm that, hey, it's a 20 foot campsite, it's a, you know, 30- foot camp, whatever those details are, but we would give them something um in return because Milfield, as you probably know,
needs a lot of improvement that they would always be contributing to the city of Brainer $20,000, whatever that that that's just a number that I'm using as an example. So, they would help us bring Millsfield up to par so that we would do
that. Now, next year the in the sequence years, maybe they would only do 5 thou or $15,000. Then at the campground, we would start charging them a little bit more. So essentially, we would always be receiving $20,000. The third year it
would be down to $10,000 at improvements at Millsfield and we would start charging them a little bit more at the campground and even a little bit more at Millsfield. So that it it is always that $20,000 mark. The fourth year now it's
$5,000 that they contribute for improvements and now we start charging a little bit more over here. So you can sort of see that give and take that equilibrium of that and that is a good partnership when you start looking at having a concert at this size where they
need a little bit support but then they help us get Millsfield up to par so that we can have a gradea a facility in in hosting these these concerts. So that's just a general idea of what we are thinking as staff moving forward, but we
definitely want input and suggestions from the board. My first question would be how much money um do we need to improve Millsfield? I don't have the budget. Like do you guys know? I would if this
was going to be moving forward, I would we're going to be getting a bid for that concession stand. the concession stand. It only has like a five gallallon um uh hot water tank. So, we want to just get a brand new one and maybe bump up to a
25 gallon or so forth. Just those type of improvements. We also need to do another gate. So, we would get that semi with a stage in there and they would bring in the the semi. We don't want them to do a U-turn in the outfield. They're going to rip up the field. So,
we want gates to be installed. That would be their contribution with that 20,000. And now we do nice skates. Now that's done. And we would have some improvements to do for inside the concession stands. Get that up to par. Won't be perfect by any means, but at
least it would be decent to host a first year concert. But every year we by design we get more improvements on that uh uh facility to host a you know a nice concert. And the organizers are really good. They're for forward thinking in
the sense, okay, Mike, what about these uh individuals homes in the background were um by what is that lake? Uh Rice Lake. Um so he was like, "Hey, what if I went around and I gave them some tickets so that we, you know, it's going to be a
little noisy again. It would be we'd look at that ordinance about the sound ordinance and we won't push that too much." But anyway, it was just nice on their part that they're already forward thinking that, hey, we want to be good neighbors and it was really a good gesture on their part. Whatever they finally decide it, that's really not the
point. It's just that they're already forward thinking on they want to be good neighbors to them. So, it was nice. Yeah. From our walkth through that we did at Memorial, I think the big glaring things that stood out to me were like the
condition of the the decks and um the railings and things. And the other one is of course the concession stand. And I don't recall, wish we had our uh um capital um plan guy here, but do you recall, Mike, if we had anything in our
budget upcoming for Mills, concession? Not. No, but we were when we were out there, Troy, our maintenance uh foreman, uh we looked at uh those and he would just powerwash them to get the slivers off and whatnot. And then, you know,
that could be part of their improvements is that they would stain they would pay for a individual to come in and stain them and so forth. But we could definitely might be a good discussion for our capital or our budget workshop. I did find in um a capital plan, it's
not the most recent one. I don't have that one with me, but concession stands were in there. I believe to bring it fully up to code the way it is is $600,000 slated for 2029. But that would also inquire further discussion of what
do we want the concession stands ability to be and that could factor into the total cost. Right. So right now this is just the motion for us to work in a contract working with our city attorney and so forth and we can start outlying those type of details
and I could uh um just keep everyone informed through emails and so forth even at our workshop. Uh we could talk more specifically to I like that idea. I think I'll make a motion to approve or direct staff to draft a contract with the city attorney
um and work with Lonfest for concerts at Millsfield. Um and then presenting that agreement to the park board at a future date. Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a second? Yes, I will second that. But I do have a question. We have a motion and a second.
Do we have any further discussion? Yeah. Cara, is it uh is Lonfest the ones like it looks like Brandon Lakes area's newest rock music event? Is that them? Like they just did Buck Cherry a few years ago. Okay. So, will they be bringing in only rock music? I'm not
sure. They did indicate we we met out there with a fire marshal and our police uh chief. They needed what they really need was the capacity. And so for certain bands you need they want to make sure that they're going to make money
and they wanted that threshold. So we need to meet we met out there. We got our capacity our occupancy load. The fire marshall was good with it and then I've sent it off to him. He's been very hush hush about uh indicating that after
I indicated hey we got our our um fire marshall's approval. He still he said Mike we're we're uh loaded. We're we signed agreements. So now we're just waiting on you guys to have an agreement. They just want exclusive rights. So that all their work, their
upwork just like even any any business, their first few years is going to be huge, a lot of work to get this going. So they just want some exclusive rights and rightly so. I totally support it. Yeah, that was going to be my second question actually was like, can can we bring Hairball here then? But it sounds
like no. I mean, we'd have to obviously pay for them, but like they won't let any other bands it would have to be them as the organizer bringing it to the Millsfield. And um just sort of like Leg Jam, they have an agreement with their organizer
that if it's going to be any other bands coming that they organize it, it's on their underneath their umbrella, their organization would be bringing it to the city of Brainard and so forth. So they would have exclusive rights. If we wanted something else, they would organize it and they would bring it to
Millsfield. And we we could indicate a fiveyear, even a two, three year. It just would the longer you can have it, the stronger we can indicate the dollar amount. Um, and I was very forthright with them. As we start we that threshold
as we as they progress on we can also start asking for ticket sales you know percentage of that concession stands percentage of that just to help offset the improvements of our of our you know Millsfield because that's a big item.
The exclusive would only be for Millsfield though. Correct. not lying white or because I was very forthright that that's would not be a part of that. And sorry, one more thing. Um just like making sure as um with the community ed
stuff that we're working through how it was kind of like sort of gray in like you know making sure that this is like you know if they don't follow or whatever we can you guys know how to do that but just making sure that that's like going to be easy to get out if
needed which I'm sure we won't have to. It sounds like this is going to be really great, but no disappoint way to have that statement because we need we need that. Yeah. To protect us. Yeah. The motion said to work with the city attorney on it. Yeah. So, that's
helpful. Y we have any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. We are moving on to item
8 D fall softball league update with the YMCA. Thank you, Mr. President. At this time, there's really no update. Um YMCA staff, they've been on vacation or one of them has been on vacation. So, but when I did meet with them, they were very strong on
having a program in the fall. And so, and Lisa's been in contact with Emily, I believe it is. Jessica. Jessica. And um so we've been working with that and I'm pretty confident that the Y is well
ready for something in the fall. But we can just constantly have this on on the agenda so that we can bring it up and because I know it's it's important to the board. I just have one question. Um probably more so for Kayla. If the YMCA does not
come through with being able to fulfill this, how long would you need to put something together inhouse if we were to go that route? Two, three weeks. And you would I don't know, two to three weeks. Okay. So, if we if we waited till
July, we're fine. Yeah. I was more so worried about timeline of of that. What I can do also, Mr. president is I can reach out to the Y and uh just email them. Copy Lisa. I'm going to be on vacation uh starting tomorrow, but that
way she could reply and indicate more specifics so that we can we'll be informed on their steps that they've been moving forward and that they're well organized for this. So, um I know this is important to the board and it's also important to us. So, we will do our
due diligence and we'll maybe start even planning some backup plans too with us. There's community individuals. Cara, you sent us some of those individuals. So, thank you. And we can reach out to some of them too to get everyone invol involved with this.
Any other questions? Okay, moving on. We will go to the public forum. Got to pull up my little speech. All right. Public forum. This is time
allocated for citizens to bring matters not on the agenda to the attention of the board. Time limits may be imposed um if necessary. And I will open the public forum now at 4:33 p.m. I don't know how this works. I've never
been to a meeting. Come on up to the podium. So, I am here because I play MS2 softball. Yeah, if you could just state your name first, please. My name is Carl Ba. Perfect. Thank you. I'm the manager for VFW team on Tuesdays and I just have a few issues. Um, I've had conversations
with Mike and Kayla and there are just kind of some rules that are in questions and I was told this was the place to bring them up. We've had multiple meetings last year with Haley and the mayor was even there for a few of them and he said some rules are going to be implemented and nothing has changed. Um,
and we keep being told that things are going to change and I'm hoping they do, but I just kind of want to see if there's a way we can get a guarantee that that's going to happen because one of the big things that we have is we have guys who play Wednesdays that come into the Tuesday nights and just wipe
the floor with us. And like I said, we've been told things are going to change and I hope they do. But is there a way we can be sure? Because I was pretty uh last year we were kind of told by Haley that this was going to happen and we had multiple meetings and like I said
nothing's changed and I have four or five teams that are kind of with us on this. They show up play Tuesday nights and they don't even get to play full games. And for what we pay to play softball, we should be able to finish our games on Tuesday nights because we're not even getting the full time
allotted. And yeah, um, another thing is I was slapped with a misconduct two weeks ago or misconduct warning. Um, because I argued a foul ball and I spoke with the umpire and he said he never issued me a
warning, but I was informed by uh, the parks and art department that I was issued a warning. And after speaking with him, he said he didn't even say the word warning. Um, and then I was also informed by Parks and Wreck that I was going to be kicked out or that I was on the verge of being ejected. When I also
spoke with the MP, he said he never mentioned that. So, I'm just kind of curious who who has the ability to issue a misconduct warning. And I don't know if this is the place to bring that up, but I was told to come here and kind of air all this. So,
yeah. Yeah. And I know we have teams that have quit because no rules have changed. Um because they just get pounded into the ground. Can we ask a question? Okay. I don't play softball, but why can't you why don't you get to play your whole time on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays? You said you get There is a there's a uh what is it like 10 limit or 10 run rule? There's different rules for like how far you get into the innings. Sorry, I'm not a public speaker, so I'm a little nervous right now, but there's different Yeah, there's different rules where if you're head by so many runs by
a certain inning, you don't get to finish your game. Oh, yeah. Okay. We went into the fourth week and we played a team that's pretty new. And the guy came up to me, the manager at the end, and he's like, "We appreciate you letting us play a full game. We haven't played a full game in four weeks." Sorry, three weeks because one week was
canceled. So, you're asking us to to do what? To fix that. so that team the teams are more evenly like we would just like a rule. We're being told that there's rules implemented like that you can only have certain ranked players but that doesn't help in our league because
nobody's ranked and I don't know Kayla maybe you know different but when I tried to pull it up I think I found two people I found Cory Neabar and Brady Anderson um and we would just like there to be a limit on guys that play on Wednesday nights to play in Tuesday nights and you Wednesday night is a stronger they're
stronger players than Tuesday night. Yes. Okay. Mhm. Okay. Like I said, we've been told over and over again the rules are going to change. I went to like four meetings last year. I skipped the manager meeting this year because it didn't seem like it was doing any good and I just had a
practice with my guys instead. But it just doesn't seem like anything's changing. And we are losing teams. We have teams that we forfeited a game because our game was made a joke because they that's what they do to us. They come out and just make a joke out of us. It's just not fun.
Did you have something, Paula? I didn't know if your hand went up. Okay. All right. Um, well, we will take these notes and see what we can do. Um, and then I'm not going to promise anything just because I can't speak for the other
four members on the board. Uh, but I have played softball for years, so I understand some of your frustrations. Uh, so that's that's kind of my stance on it right now. I've been there and I I get frustrations and I don't know what the
right answer is, but we'll do our best to come up with what we can do. All right. And then I guess a question for that misconduct. Is that something I talked with Mike about and Kayla, I guess, or because I don't understand that whole thing, how I got hit with the misconduct, but I didn't he didn't even
say anything about it. So, like I'm curious where does that come from? Because I feel like some of the stuff that we talk about in the office of parks and wreck gets leaked to other teams and now I feel like I have a target on
my back because I'm the main person that's coming forward with all this. Like I talked to the other managers and I'm the only one that has the time to come in here. So, I guess how would I who would I talk to about that? Um, I'm assuming they don't have all the information with them since it wasn't on the agenda, but Mike, would you be able
to gather information and find a way to reach out to Carl? Yes, I have his contact and we've spoken multiple times. Um, we did bring the rule change idea to the board several months ago and we had
a game plan, you know, moving forward. There's mult there's a couple things that we can do to resolve some of these things and we can address all of these and then we can um discuss them again with as our staff and present this and
answer all these questions and we can email the board and then after a review or JD if you indicate yep that is sounds good I can then meet with Carl again and then we can move forward in that that manner. Yeah. Could you also
find the information that he's referring to about the misconduct warning? Yes. Yes, I can. Yep. We have um because we are aware of some individuals not being such sportsmanlike, we've indicated to
our umps, hey, no one as they approach that line of being, you know, unsportsmanlike to stop the game and to issue a warning. And our umps are all in favor with that. they've indicated, you know, hey, this person may be on the
verge of being ejected and uh we have noted those um and so we re our umps are the individuals that issue an ejection. We do not we don't uh get involved with that when the ump is is when it's when
he calls game that field is his and we follow their direction and lead all the way through. Um they have indicated to us some unsportsmanlike conduct um involving several teams uh one being VFW
um but uh that's not here or there but it's just something that we rely heavily on with our umps. We don't get in the middle of them. Yeah, I was there last week and I saw many acts of it. not and I'm not going to call out any specific team, but it was
leaguewide and I'm glad that the email went out from Kayla about that. So, um, but yeah, if you could maybe as as he's asking just find out what that misconduct was so he's aware of what that action was and then know how to
move forward from that. I think that would help you. I spoke with Yump. He said he didn't issue a misconduct warning. That's why I'm asking him to find out the information and get it to you. Okay. Because yeah, I had already talked with Mike and he told me to go talk to the um so I did and he's like I don't know why they slapped you with it. I didn't give you one. And he's like, I
think it's he said, honestly, I think I they hear from gossip cuz there was a whole another issue where apparently I said something sitting at a bench. And I had brought up an issue to Mike in the past because one of the teams that we forfeited against was kind of causing an issue and he said, "Well, I can't monitor everything on the field, but yet
I got a talk into last week cuz somebody heard me say something on a bench." Like, how does that even like equate? because I don't understand how I can get slapped with saying something that somebody allegedly heard, but when I file a complaint about a team harassing
my team, it's there's nothing. I don't I just don't understand how they can pick and choose who they punish or give warnings to for certain things. I will um schedule a meeting for myself
and Mike to sit down and review it in further. All right. I guess Mr. Sure. I mean, I would just like to maybe once all this information is collected, if we could have an item on the next park board meeting um maybe just an
educational lesson for the board members that are not as familiar with rules and things. Yeah. Um regarding misconduct and um I know that rule was brought up earlier in the season and maybe an update on that too would be helpful for the board on implementation. I don't
know if we ever made a decision on that or if it was Yes, we did. We just indicated that we would because what we decided on is with our we we can do a multiple of things and at the end of the season we could if a if the if the whole league is if we have some individuals at
100 uh you know 500 you know is if you have a 500 season you're right in the middle right you have just as many wins as you do losses. If you have a couple teams that are in the 100 range, then you could split up your playoffs at the end. You could have make, you know, you could make two different brackets and
that's makes it a little bit more fair. But if now if teams are in the 400, you know, range now, it's it's, you know, doable. It's still uh you can have one tournament for that. So, there's a couple things that will play into factor when we would when we would talk about
that, but we would also uh you know, we can discuss that at that time, too. Okay. And then me and Michael work to schedule a meeting. I wasn't on the board last year during those meetings, so that'll kind of get me more up to speed as well. Okay. Thank you. Okay.
Thank you, Carl. Do we have any other community members, public members for the public forum? Seeing none, I will close the public forum at 4:44 p.m. We will move on to
staff reports 10A. Thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to outline we've already done this but just to reiterate the July having a um a formal you know uh approval of our budget. We've indicated in the earlier
sessions that we'll have a workshop and that in the July meeting we'll have to formally approve the budget so that JD you can bring forward to the city council um our our ideas request for that. So, I just wanted to outline the
next few meetings. Is there anything else that the board would want? Um, in the next uh few meetings, any overall I was also going to be, you know, looking at uh our pricing like our
with our pricing schedule. We don't charge um community ed Y BVBA on anything like that. I would like to review that and discuss that for 26 we are if we could apply some national standards we would really see a
significant shift in how you know and what we bring in as far as a dollar amount. So that's something that I would like to you know the board to direct me to uh dive into. So I just first is just the budget for
July and then anything else that you'd like me to work on. I think um a few meetings ago I think we talked about the agreements with um you know you kind of got to it a little bit already but the agreements with um community ed the Y and having those
reviewed and I thought the discussion was kind of this time of year so that when the winter comes right when January 1 comes we're basically we have had all the discussion about what we need to with the existing agreement and what changes we want to implement for the next one. So that I think the last at
least even back to my time I think those agreements were coming on the agenda in like May June and this feels like we're behind and so I think getting a jump start on that would be a good conversation for the board to have. Um I will be curious about concessions.
I mean, I know that'll probably be like October, but like, but if you're talking next meeting, um, yeah, if you have ways for the parks to, yes, make a little bit more cash or whatever you're saying. Um, that would be interesting to read or to
go over, right? And the concession is one, you know, last year we lost $20,000 in our concessions and just the amount of work that has been on our staff just to even let's say we make $5,000.
That's a lot of work. Um, and we could easily add another program in there to offset our concessions. Um, I'm sure there's we could talk to different community groups if they had wanted to take that on. we would have to get the license and we would charge them
whatever we, you know, whatever the license requirement is to get that license, we would charge them for that. And we had always, we'd have that right to say, "Hey, every every time that you open up that concession, we get X number of dollars." And because that's our
facility, that's our amenity. And we would charge them the license plus X number of dollars, you know, to be in our house, if you will. Yeah, we talked about that a couple years ago and sorting concessions has always been a Yeah, that's always been something
because we know we lose money and staffing is hard and so yeah, if we could offer another program in place of that. I mean, yes, I would I think we would all love to hear some ideas for that, right? You guys ready to report next meeting or
you know August fine is fine too, but towards the end of summer. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. End of season. So we kind of like can see dollars. I know it takes, you know, that's why it was like October, but it would be nice to see something before the end of the year so we could like plan for
next year. What's that? I think outsourcing concessions is a fantastic idea. Always wanted to support I've always supported that. If we can make I'm sure you guys would appreciate that. I know the nightmare. Believe me. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr.
President. Okay, moving on to 10B June staff reports. Or did you do that all in one? I'm I'm currently uh working on pickleball leagues. Uh there's eight teams on Tuesdays, nine teams on
Thursdays. Uh softball league Monday through Thursdays, and concessions at three locations. So, Memorial, Bane, and JC's. And now Bane and JC's is completed uh since the BBA tournaments are done.
So now it'll just be memorial for the rest of the summer and into the fall as well. Um I'm also working on fall leagues coming up soon for uh getting registration started and end of summer softball
tournament. I'll be looking into adding that soon. And um if you want to move on to the next one. Oh, I think we still Sorry. I think we had maintenance.
That's all right. That's in the It's in the packet, so we're good. All right. Kale, are you ready for 10C, the fishing clinic? Yes. So, Mike already covered that last time and went over how that went. So, I just wanted to post the summary of the fishing clinic
and how that went. Uh, so you guys can view that. Okay. And then the next one is the movies in the park. So, that's coming up really soon. Uh July 5th at
900 p.m. at Lyman P. White Park and uh this is partnered with Community Action. Uh the show is the Goonies. Um so there's popcorn for purchase. Uh you can bring your own chair and blanket for the
movie. And that is at the amphitheater. Then the next one is the grand opening at Lum Park. So that's Sunday, July 13th at 4:00. So the ski loons performance is
at 5 and food will be served by the ski loons starting at 400 p.m. Um and then our sponsors are Jake Jacob's Voice, Smiles for Jake, and the Ski Loons. Then for the next one,
um I've posted the adult fall kickball league that's at Memorial Park. Uh so registration is now open. Games are played Monday evenings and we're hoping to start around August 25th as long as
we don't keep getting rain days. Uh and then it'll go until end of October. So hopefully we can have some nice weather for that. And the deadline to register a team is August 8th.
Let's hope for no more rain. Really hope so. And that's everything that I have. Okay. Thank you, Kayla. Yep. Moving on to item 11, board member reports. Starting with Paul. I just want to give staff a great
kudos on the roundabouts. They look absolutely fantastic. I saw the guys out there one day. Um I was emailing Mike about the one at Four Street by the Civic Center and um it looks fantastic now. So I uh like driving through a well
maintained manicured roundabout. So thanks to staff. Anything else? Okay. Um for me, Kayla, great job on the email to uh softball. I would just stress to the softball league if any of them are watching to please do
your best and follow the instructions in that email. Um, and then uh if we could get for our public's sake, if we could get the public forum moved up to right after the consent calendar on the agenda, I think that would be a nice service to the
public so they don't have to sit through all of it if they choose not to. While I encourage them to partake in everything, some of them don't want to other than that, I don't have anything else.
Um, I just wanted to follow up on the JC Park thing. Are we do we I thought it might be in the agenda, but do we need to move that to the agenda? Do we need to discuss that more as far as parking or is that just going to be like a we wait till next year to tackle that or
that will be on our capital plan for in our workshop? Okay. what we want to do with it. Yes. Okay. Got it. I have two different designs. I met with the city engineer and we have a couple different designs and met with council person that is heavily involved with that also. So,
yeah, we have we've already looked at a couple designs and I'll bring forth that those ideas at the workshop. Great. Okay. Thank you. That's all. All right. Moving on. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. I have a
motion and a second. All those in favor I I opposed. Motion passes. Meetings adjourned.