hate these things this are the second ones I've tried I hear no like if you crunch paper I hear it perfectly but you talk to me I'm like huh that's danger something never anyway you're good no nobody okay
all right should we call the meeting to order at 50:1 and roll call Joe present Ernie presenter Williams
here all right shall we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and
justice for all all right approval of the minutes I will make a motion to approve the minutes from last month's meeting second any discussion all in
favor I opposed all right new business right on Madam chair can I say something for like 30 seconds real quick um there were some negative comments on social media about the lack of there being a recorded video
for the uh February 3rd council meeting and I just want to say the person that usually does it was attending the coronation of her daughter at the snow days celebration at pealt lakes and congratulations to Deb her daughter Natalie was the queen saw that in the I
that time goes fast with our kids and I think everybody here had no problem with with the whole set of circumstances so I just wanted to put that in record since we have it on video right now thank you all right pickle ball new
business Joe do you want us sure um based on uh previous meeting we directed to looking the pick the ball I did is acquire quotes for Four Courts and two genders
Sports and uh outdoor Specialties um and from those qus for Four Courts I I uh mathematically determined the cost of like two courts six courts based on you know it's xal
percentage more cost equivalent um to give you a range of costs um the quotes um the two different vendors um for discussion purposes they're very close 10 15% which that's a good
indication they're they're getting good bids um I included all the all the estimates I used to generate the two spreadsheets that shows Le Sports outro
Specialties um included a map of the potential area to go on that map shows it's 1.17 AC approximate you know approximately 51,000 Square ft
um I don't I didn't include the component of the size of the courts essentially any size of those courts would fit in that area cu the up to 10 yes okay got it I I
would have I I did do the math for 10 CS the square footage and it's less I I think it's like it's under an acre okay which is so that area um CU north of that area
like to the east it gets wet like that's a little knob there and then you can see the elevations Falls up um we have some property there but not all and where it says like basically 1210 that's going to be swamp any place
it says 121 not cost you know they range from when we go to the spreadsheet on the bottom it says pavement and concrete I know it was identified that to look at both
options um I only did one concrete bid um that was from outdoor Specialties but I used their concrete bid on the Lea sport one as well the concrete person I communicated with three times never got back to me um kind of Not Unusual
Concrete in winter is kind of the off season and as expected concrete or I did have conversations with both vendors um sounds like there's pros and cons with ass and concrete some players
prefer one some players prefer other um they both seem to work I don't play this sport um our basketball court for example is pavement and that I don't know when it was installed I'd say '90s and I think it was painted one time with
a similar surface treatment and it's still pretty good shape I think so the closest thing we can compare that we have here Cross Lake is pavement yep yep and they're very successful and putting for so no reason I think to even
go forward looking at concrete I mean it's it it's it's way cheaper and it's just as good if not even lasting longer and repairable you you may hear um the people that favor concrete the argument
why but you know you have a good understand like you know cost that's why you don't go else want to discuss so that just basically the process I did to come up with the
cost any questions any of those numbers or quotes or um one item too that I didn't include was a trail um that would essentially lead out to that red area and go around it
that was my question on the trail could like I know you can get those concrete 2 by 16 by 16 inch for like a buck 80 or depend you go high level could those be used instead of spending 42,000 on a on a trail or is that not logical it
probably cost more money really the papers yeah they're uh and just to manually just put those Square cuz I've made one of those Trails before it's work but right it it's I mean essentially the pavers are concrete um
I'd have to do come up with an estimate for example we just did a 5 by I think it was 5T up at the col Arium and or the gazebo in the cemetery we just went around it and that was like 1,200 bucks
oh wow um papers have a pretty wide range of price you can get very cheap ones you get very expensive ones but generally when you're talking a hard service I mean asphalt comes in a truck put it in a machine you lay it out it's the least labor intensive
it's I'm just 42,000 I'm just I know the courts in Breezy Point in the golf course there don't have any Trails leading up to them because it's right in the middle of a golf course I mean if we go forward with this that'd be a way we could work on it I guess for the lack of
a better term just just it would be a way to cut costs um the reason new Trails um in there is uh several discussions have people have said more trails around here um and also like if
this was to be seek a grant DNR Grant or something a lot of times it's going to require handic 88 which a trail may help you yes and they will cover like half of
the cost with the trail included in there they may cover the whole they might cover the whole trail part yeah because like uh for example our our public uh vexes
um to get that paved we had to do um storm water we had to do curbing gutter we had to do quite a bit wider pavement had to be thicker to meet the grant specifications and then we applied for the grant and they pay for the whole
thing whereas if we would have just paved it on our own on the cheap you know it might have been 50,000 and it would have been as nice but it took a while I I forget how long it was a year or two process for we hired weet they
did the paperwork waited the time and yeah and like you say we you know our next thing is to get more trails in there and more paved Trails so people can use them with strollers roller blades whatever in there so that's it's
a good thing it's kind of Falls in line with our the rest of our plan yeah yeah and this this is you know this is just based on the discussion I came up what I think we give you something to talk about so on the map where would the
trails start it would off from more existing oh great Trail somewhere I mean it's not real it's it's I I GIS and made sure that that would be sufficient length to get
there go around it like you would have to go around it C maybe just getting it to the opening that's for future but yeah and then we'll get that more if we go forward we'll nail that down and walk through it when we
can what are contingencies exactly Joe things you don't expect okay that's what I thought there's always something depending on what route you'd go for that this would proceed I mean
that if you get a very detailed plan you probably don't need if it's a project the city kind of does on its own and we're not as we're not as sure on what we're going to do and yeah
contingencies are typically you look for five 5 10% the general number I've always found appropriate you talked about bathrooms last week to was that going to be portable Portables that would be a
discussion like uh going to you know getting all the background going into the discussion um that would be depends what to go yeah you go portable you know that's the main fixed
cost um if let's say you look at try to do you high structure in because if you're paying a grant wrer once um probably the more things you can get done it might be a little more cost
effective but it's not in the cost yet no not at all got okay we do have bathrooms out there and there will be some right in the building great during office hour it's not really that so
there are some yeah 1500 ft yeah yeah it's it's a walk for some but it's not in the middle of nowhere so we do have some available we have two I mean two two
public bathrooms let's put it this way one accident on the weekend and you have no bathroom um that does happen you talking about the outside ones okay but there's still inside ones right that's the
plan I hope so um the the plan for City Hall is to keep the lobby area open um um that's the plan you know that could also
issues Nar accessibility anticipate that but have having your city hall Lobby open to the public versus uh a concrete structure with no Port um there's
different risks so I mean I'd hope everything works fine and they'd be available but I can see that that could change we did experience you know minor vandalism all summer until we got the people as
fault yeah there's just one toilet in each one for cameras well that's what I was hoping and I guess the building would but you know if they trash something and run off and
it could lead to closures in other cities that's what I've had happen people the if you can't get control on it you limit accessibility and we've not had great deals of it so it's just a
discussion all right so we'll keep that in mind and that's down the road um parking additional parking for it say we get six courts or eight courts or something and then we have a tournament how many you know can we use the back
parking lot that's the dirt one the dirt one and there again you're over a th feet from if they're going to run and play pickle ball for a couple hours they can walk from a parking lot it's all sure I mean that better not be a
complaint if we get the cour it will it will be absolutely will be well all right so we can use that parking lot absolutely okay so we do have overflow parking besides what's going to be put in the front of the building here yeah
the parking's always up if there's not enough of it if it uh you know leaves that area and extends into the neighborhood there'll be complaints that's just the nature of you know people don't like people parking in front of their house even though they're
allowed to that's Citywide each encounters it um that's that's weekend people you know packing a place neighbor cont
stuff you know predicting the uses I don't know that's a large area that can accommodate a lot of okay and again something we at least have there and we can do more detail
work on that as we get way more into this project but that's another thing we definitely have to think think about so I'm glad you put it on there so you've got the possible funding options so we got the grants the DNR is a big one um that I've talked to a
couple cities about uh like you say we can use the budget parts of our budget like we used the 40,000 for the garden we could use a portion of it if we need it um we can save up through a couple years of
budgets fundraiser and donations and what I found out is Cross Lake has a pickle ball Association that their enthusiasts have put together to do fundraising and they've raised you know like 7 $70,000 and do they charge a
membership in three months yeah so you have to get what we need I think what we need is the enthusiastic people in the community to get together and talk about it and see
if anyone's interested in making a 401 C3 if we're serious about this um and they raised money and then they work with I got all the information from TJ at Cross Lake about how much they can make on
tournaments and that is going to pay for a lot you can also get like um the wind screens on the side of the fencing can be real banners because wind is a factor and uh We've included windscreens but extra banners also help so reals and
other businesses in the area can put up banners on those and we charge them per year you know like you know yeah so and then also there's you know when we get the ability to have a QR code we can
have people you know offer you know to pay like whenever I use a trail that says you're using the trail want to donate here's a b here's the thing I always put something in it cuz I want him to maintain it so we do um I talked
to Todd and he wants to see all these things uh the what grants how much we can fund raise if we can get a group uh to do fundraising for us we need like the garden group had enthusiasts who are going to take it and
be specialized in and take it forward we need Specialists for this and the guy you brought in was great I know he's got a another guy um in the area um is Ken Peterson so Eric and Ken
Peterson and I spoke with him and he'd be willing to get some enthusiasts from Breezy together and talk about this with uh somebody on our group so if anyone is interested in leading that subgroup to
get this off the ground um um and then how to maintain it he also wants to see how are we going to maintain the pickle ball courts like where's the income coming for that so the full picture before we take it off to the council um so when I was W watched that
presentation just kind of thinking through it seems to me like it would make initially you know the first Four Courts we don't have a tournament of Courts so like really the focus on on it
being for the whole Community it's for a place where everybody can play I mean it I think that's more appealing like to get it going and then as we get people interested and we see the interest it's easier to then do more of the maintenance with tournaments and
expanding it right right um but the that initial getting it getting it accepted in my head anyway is a lot about this is a place for everybody to play right and because yeah so that's just the thought
as I listened to his speech that came that really made sense to me um also over at Northstar they still don't know how many courts or where they're going to put them yet and they're going to be enclosed with garage doors to
open and um but they're not sure if they're going to go across the street or be attached to the building they're not sure so they're still way behind and up in the air about that but but um I was told it was going to be eight you know but their focus also is not
going be feed and that's where I'm feeling like it's a nice differentiator without even saying it I mean it should work they should work together ex you know and so Ken Peterson is working you know he's been working with Northstar on
their courts and he is runs courts in the cities he has his own Court in Delwood up here and own property that Anderson put in so he's really uh he was a tennis pro he's very enthusiastic smart and you know he would
be willing to work with us so bill would you be interested in taking the lead on this and getting this group together since you brought in our first the first guy by taking the lead what exactly does that entail well I'll will
give you Ken's number and then getting this kind of stuff together and seeing what kind of yeah I I don't mind making some calls because I got another guy I don't want to use his name right now but he said he might be interested in helping fundrais I'm going to call him yeah I I'll call some folks you know I still work full-time so my time's a
little limited but I'm willing to you know see if we can get some people together that we at least figure out how do we how do we find uh fundraise and start that process sure do we have the enthusiasm do we have the group of people you know and down you know can right right if we do then then I think
we can feel more confident about like getting you know harder numbers and deciding how many and whatnot but I um so that would you want to give me his phone number I will I'll send that to you yeah do do we know oh turn this on do we know what the
maintenance is going forward so how this would affect the the whole budget I mean maintenance for two four 10 courts it depends on the level I mean really like is it three trash cans
you know pick Oh you mean like maintenance like restriping refinishing the whole just like keeping it going every day on everyday kind of a thing yearly to maintain it keep you know whatever you
have to do it's it seems like it kind of just sits there to me but I don't know anything I mean the Nets you know the wind socks the garbage cans have to be picked up things like that yeah our Park budget we have to be aware if it's significantly different from two or four to 10 right because we don't want this
to take up everything right they'll all be in one spot and then um I would I would anticipate that annual maintenance would be low I would garbage trash um that's not unless there's some damage or
something correct which that can happen anywhere and it's h yeah um the maintenance that would probably be expensive wouldn't be annual that' be every 10 15 years you know what I mean like that's where
all the the the operating budget like do you have doesn't necessarily cover those things like do you have to go in there and blow it off all the time if there's leaves and stuff or sand true mean that kind of like we won't be able to do it daily I mean once a week sure yeah push
broom out there that's true that's what they do and actually in my girlfriend's neighborhood they have a shovel and they are out there the minute it starts to get warm enough and they shovel it off and play I mean they're they shovel it theirself yep I mean right now you know
the gazebos and that sort of items you know they get annual maintenance and spring time we clean the concrete off blow the blow the leaves off clean everything up you know the repeated maintenance basically is
just picking up trash and cutting grass um I I just know that with everything we've done to Parks one of the things that we were always conscious of was having enough in our budget to maintain what we have right before we
take something on that would be a high maintenance thing but I didn't I thought it just sit there like the basketball I don't I don't think it would be I I think it would be the the not a lot higher cost items you know the when the Nets were out every 10
years or the painting of the courts but that's a pretty yeah years several years I mean these Court are basketball courts I don't think have ever been painted um so that's coming up on 30 years at least so
I would look at that as you know you don't put that in operating you three four years courts are looking kind of cruddy let's get some quotes up and make it a project similar to you know when when like when the dock we decided to replace
the dock you know there is no maintenance until shot right and it'd be pretty similar when is it a good time to start talking with grant writers because like you said about the about the boat landing um you know you find
out when they go looking for Grants oh you can get this one but you got to do this this this and this um I think the more we know like that would help us make the decision I could get that's where I put like the proposals like if I get
direction to uh get some proposals I'll talk to some people and find out XYZ B what does it cost to do this you know what's what's it going to take do you need you know do you need engineering
specifications for the court that like all that what does that cost to get to that point to qualify that would probably be you know if the committee would like to go that route the sooner I know I could start working on it you know probably a meeting or two I might
have something to discuss and then you could go from there that's something I could also bring the person who did the grant writing for 50 lakes and they hired her and then the source well paid
for the grant writer's cost so that was $6,000 or something they paid for her so we wouldn't have to end up footing that bill either plus the grant got written and they know exactly what they're doing make oh great but I think we even had
the the grant printed somewhere I thought I read I mean what was all involved in it the DNR Grant I had a discussion with the engineer and you you need a site plan yeah um but you've got to print it out somewhere so I had a
brief discussion if if you'd like me to bring that information back to the committee next time I could um and maybe get a little description from the engineer because they just worked with the community um nah they did their master plan that you know they did this plan
the master plan to help them in the grant process because a grant processes depending which one like the DNR one's the one I'm most familiar like sourcewell grants are usually very simple to get but they're usually pretty low
dollar like the the grant for the unity Garden took took me 10 minutes to fill it in and send it to um the more expensive the more the bigger the dollar mo more Works required yeah consensus to at least come
up with something and I'll bring that back at the next committee it sounds like Bill's going to make some calls um yeah this any other questions a question
sure a a grant that you would seek this year do we have like this deadline hasn't passed already for one of these we're thinking of doing something next year with digging we'll have to look at the Grant
and see what the dates are on it we you know that's the next thing we might not make it for this year that's just might not it could be like three years out I don't know about three but I think they're a process yeah that's why the and then there's a chance you know you
apply and you don't get it then then what Jerry knows more about I might have some questions for him excuse me for overhearing some of the things that I've heard but um I hear parking I hear pickle ball I hear
basketball court I hear the garden and I hear uh baseball fields and I hear trails and I think and then I hear grants and and I know
from previous experience that grants are are very tough to get in a lot of cases if you really do your homework for them though your chances are better and what I think you're going to need to do before you even get to a
grant or write a grant is that you're probably going to have to have some kind of a master plan for that whole Park area so that you it doesn't look like my wife's Tupper Ward drawer you we're
going to put it over here and we're going to put it over there I can't find the the top so I really think you need some kind of professional assistance to put together a a plan for that Park so
that you can look at what's there today what you're proposing in the future and when you go to talk to and even solicit private uh contributions if you can show these
people something that what it can look like I think you got a better chance of getting a contribution than you saying than saying well give me $10 you know that the the more background stuff you do the better off you are especially if
you're talking about grants I 100% yes I can't uh express enough that I really believe that you need to start with a plan I think you each got a a plan in
your own mind but put that on paper well we've got a master plan which we did last year and this all comes from the master plan but we've talked about it and we've been trying to get a a good map drawn and we're going to and we talked
about getting wood set to maybe do one but we can't just I think you're going to need to do more than just a good map quite frankly it w Seth does could they do the what you're thinking Jerry because are you thinking like an aerial well I'm thinking about an aerial but
I'm thinking about something that pinpoints today pin points the future Improvement uh maybe even you get to a point of of saying well these future improvements Future Point this will come in
2027 steps maybe we'll come priorities and those type of things but I think that would be so helpful in in your endeavors to to get a gr I just uh without it I
think you're unless you're really really creative well I think we're it's required you know at least to have a certain kind of one maybe not exactly what you're talking about said sourceb used to do some things with with
consultants and if you used a consultant that they were tied up with Y then you would get probably 50% or whatever it is today sourcewell only gives one Grant to each Community for
$10,000 and and that's you know the city uses that I think they're maybe even using that to pay part of my wages right now but so well we did get we did get 2,000 from them for the garden too we
got 2,000 from them for the G and that's that's a different type of thing yeah so I'll be honest as to what I was leading to as I was thinking if we get one or two grant writers to come and and kind of pitch themselves they would get give us some of those tidbits of these
are the things you're going to need um to get they're they're going to tell you that you need to do X before they can write right they know exactly what we need yeah right you know what I'm saying that's yeah I I I agree with you but I was just kind of just saying there's
more homework before you can go there okay thank you Jerry yep well and you can bring some benef information as well right can yeah I can help as well so I guess what would be the next
steps for talking to width or and seeing like what that would if you tell them with the scope of what we're looking for like stage a BC or something I'll work with Jerry what would that cost and we're going to have
to budget that in you know what's in our budget this year well your project budget is 50,000 yeah so that that that could get a pretty nice plan um I hope so just off my cuff I mean that could
you know it's not like you know typically um you'd have to ask a councel to authorize yes and we'd still ask for authorization to spend funds on something like that but first you'd have to pass for the funds to be budgeted for
next year yeah and when next year comes the money is available and then you so we're ahead in that sense compared to Old Park projects old park projects you know we went through these steps then it was budgeted then the real stuff
happened the year the next year so I will visit with Jerry um on because he has far more experience with the growing communities and anyone I know and uh he'll help help me out
because I mean right now I'm sure there's a bunch of different ways to go and then so is there a date that we're supposed to be presenting something to the council no not at this point no this is just conceptual and then seeing if we
have consensus and then what we want to go forward you know we have to get all the pieces together and then when we get to like what I said Todd wants to see a comprehensive and the pictures and all that would be part of it and so we're just walking along and that's about how
far we are so far it feel like we hardly can can we start we have no funding to start anything until we get a blessing from the council right we have to give them what all the information from the grants that we think we can get the
money money we think we can raise if we're going to use something from our where is everything coming from so we're a couple months out at least yeah got for yep yep and then you know um Bill talks to a group and we get somebody to
you know get a group of people that are ined and can you know help bring It Forward like we did with the garden I mean that's going to be big um big help too because it's the community not just us uh talking about it it's the people who are actually going to be the ones using it and be very enthusiastic about
it and and um we'll give the whole P then when we feel good about the whole picture we vote on it and then we pass it on got it yep anything else on that I could get that Grant riter to come in and tell us what she did with 50
Lakes if you're interested I just feel like that and we can learn something okay I will do that I'll call her and see if she can do that okay we moving on sure okay or anybody
else anything else on that so to the city logos this kind of came from the community garden sign discussion um last fall um you know we had the two different
logos um some it just it was an idea I ran ran across scale as far as um you know we have kind of different signs everywhere um some signs are wearing out some signs are metal some are wood
um and and we didn't have you know it would be like City fishing pier um this this so I I thought if we could blend uh the city the current city logo with some of our our uh City
features um to see what what folks thought about that because um you know the these were examples Leon at CLC created for us and I know there's like two different colors that shouldn't be
like that it should be consistent that green should be the same like that I think it just a printer yeah deal yeah don't get too into the into the Weeds on it it's just a conceptual kind of a thing right at this point yep so he did
that um and then uh scale secured uh like a community garden this would be more comparable to the sign we have kind of by our flowers it it would be a uh it's not wood it's a more durable
outdoor material well it's kind of like it's wood it's kind of like plywood I mean but put together in a way that's going to last like 15 to 20 years you it would be more comparable to you know a more
a wood look you know versus Metal or plasticky looking cuz yeah 3D it's carved and and the approximate cost on these would be you know a couple thousand on these here and then if you
if for example if you did a metal version It's they're still not cheap they're still 500,000 bucks so oh they were yeah I just talked to Cross Lake has if you drive in there they've got a new one on the on the way into town off of three where that roundabout is they got a new one it's they're aluminum and
PVC then they've got finally where that 1950s Brown sign was when you turn to go to the park uh Community Center there's a huge new one there and then when you enter in there's another one there so just that's a whole different new kind
of an aluminum look it's colored it's painted um they he said it was guaranteed for 15 years they so you could look at that this would be wood we're going to get a sample of this a mini sample of this to see what it looks like and
pricing um this is a smaller sign you know like 2x3 versus this next one would be the bigger sign um out at the recreation area in the parking lot so that's what that's
for so those are the two signs that we don't have up where we have something there and we haven't signed it yet so those are the two we're working on but we thought if we work on these things let's think about in the future what all the other ones are like and try to make something
that's going to be some continuity and what look do we want for it so I like the symbols on there because they match what's on the road signs too and it tells you right away what you
can do there I like that I mean community garden you don't really need any Forks or anything there we know what that means so but you know we could use some of those and are these like walking trail sign the names donors yeah that's
nice donations yep so we've had a few donations like of the arbor and um some some money and things like that so those are just you know PL a placeholder for what could go there a little plaqu
um and we would just fill those in as we get do we need do you think now sign not presently no so how many just these two for for right now but thinking into the future we want to go with something that we can keep keep
going with yeah they feel like these ideas I just want to clarify you're not thinking of jumping in for five signs no all at once no to change them all over simultaneous no just like hey do you guys like the idea that they're all going to look the same and not be all
different and I like it do we want a wood look do we want a metal look do we want to or do we want to keep looking around um but if we like this then um then we can get pricing on it but if they we don't like this then people
aren't going to sit and work up pricing I like I like them okay we could also look to do it in the metal too in the metal look um with you know your sources and all that so then you can start taking that and of course these would
have wooden posts and you would be putting those in right yeah inst so they would install so I I think I understand and this is more like a 4x5 so it's huge in the parking lot further
investigation yeah he was G to get it I don't think he got done so we have signs like this already up at a like the fishing pier in the city beach I know I I've seen some signs already they're kind of a hodg Podge right now right they're they're not nothing there's nothing uniform
rectangular some are like this yeah yeah okay and and as Gail mentioned um trying to get a if this is a style to as things wear out um let's so they're
all uniformed look the same I see okay a place for a QR code you know could be in one of these spots too at any of these signs for more information when we get that going through absolutely QR code sign which should have been on
here um you know so that's how if someone's there and they just take a picture with their phone donate or just find out more information on what's up with that park or that trail or that Pier whatever they're at that community garden it says
your name is that for marking where people have paid for their plot or is that for donation okay and we wouldn't even you know we'd start with two or whatever and then add on as we get them or how many ever we have we just going to leave some
space and this might not be the exact proportions right now we have to figure out what plaques we're going to use and all that but yeah our current sign uh right by the flower garden has list of donations under it it's very similar to that
size and look so look over there just in that parking lot it's no it's only like it's narrower and taller and this one might even be a little smaller than that because it's going to be right in front of the door of the garden that's kind of maybe even a little bit
bigger so next um do we like the rounded on top squared off on the bottom versus all round or versus oval I like this shape this shape anybody else yeah I like the oval because the squared
bottom reminds me of a tombstone to a degree but that I mean what do I know you know well it does look like one if you look at this picture right here it looks like it's lying down actually shirt I it is I mean that's how it how it is on our
logo now M yeah our current logo you know the water is the end of it and then again that leaves room to put the QR codes and whatever else we might need to add onto that sign all right so we're
going to go with the this one got it and we'll come back with some more firm pricing on those and hopefully we can get them in so we can have them up and running this year Parks whichever it's going to be the colors
the the green and orange yeah the colors would be the same is our current unless we decide to update them but been here for yeah um then are we going to move on to
staff reports then okay uh the Snowshoe route signed flag those signs showed up um the guys we talked about uh designating sleding Hills but it seems
like they kind of designate themselves because my understanding there's people sliding all over the place where the hills are big don't know if we really need to designate it um that's pretty much all I
had on that um followup from a couple meetings ago that was some direction I was given that's the only thing I can think of that is you know someone asked me like I know you park and wreck where's there a sliding Hill and I said oh right and
they live in the neighborhood and they didn't know that you could park in that parking lot and you you know go in and use that hill and that we were leaving a bathroom up there so you know when we have we have more staff and we have a web the web um there's signs up there right now on the highway but Facebook
updating yeah but they don't know where I mean when we get this sign in that goes in front too cuz it's just kind of it it is very common to our community I mean there's a lot of people that live in our community that don't know they live in the Citys away it's like yeah
they think they live in Pequot Lakes or um and we have people in Pelican Township that think they're part of Breezy Point um it's part of what our community is about you know it's not square blocks and clearly defined
um if you keep to yourself you can not even know you're in the city Breezy um I get every year I there's and new people I mean there's new people always filtering through there's some people come for 5 years they move on the new people come in and it's the same old
questions um over and over um like for example before I started working for the city like I did not know you could go into the resort I thought that was a private Resort guess only and that's a city street doesn't seem obvious but nah has
similar deal like around Grand View that's a city street you would think so like where I grew up um it seemed very awkward to me navigating this area because I farm kid section roads everything square and then I move up
here and it's like this feels like a driveway I should not be on here but it's a city street um I think we just for lack of Staff the website the Facebook pages aren't just getting I mean putting out things like that on on
an annual bases like the website should be updated and you know if they click on sledding hill then there's where you park and there it is but we're not we're not able to do that right now yep but these are questions I've had repeated you know all sorts of things so there
were a few community events I know there's the aviation day and there was something else and when when those fast yeah well when some of those things happen maybe you know we should think about having a booth or something and handing out things we have done that for
um golf cart uh permits um yeah yeah we have done that at Aviation Days we had a booth last two or four or five years um and there's you know police officers there but I think it's part of not
National neighborhood the yeah the one around here we've had representatives from the garden go to that and then we told them this is where the New Garden is going to be and things like that so you know just in community events tell them what's in the community because we are doing things and when things are
changing we're adding things so it's it's good that's good idea with let me know that's something sounds good used to love to more people know the the more I'm just happy we have
snow can SN shoot and slide barely all right [Music] and so we're moving on to the community garden y um this kind of an update items
to be uh that remain that you know we need to get button down um by Springtime you know um basically there's approximately 2500 and now it's less than that we've we've
acquired um we're acquiring the final water stuff the sprinkler heads control zones in preparation for spring but like a compost bin spet hoses spray nozzles um the garden group is going to acquire
those they're trying to acquire those so hopefully we don't have to purchase those out of the community budget um the yard way spin plot markers rules sign um all those items remain you know where to put the arbor put the
benches um essentially the things that don't fit in that 45 $40,000 budget that the council uh gave out last year going forward this year um you know if we can't get these items under that budget
we could take it out of park operating budget we could take it out of the park project budget if necessary and I don't you know I I can't say that we're going to need to
just because we're not done yet um once we get done we'll address it as we get closer um I anticipate you know once the ground's frozen that's when we can get to work so that can be anywhere from April to
June because most of the most hardest the work that's going to take the long is to dig in the water lines and irrigation system and after that you know some of those other items won't impede it working so and um then as far
as this was last week um uh how many are uh reserved the 10 by 18s we had 18 reserved last week the 4x8 by 17s we had two out of I think four or
five and then U the four by by 32s are 13 so it's than half of those are gone it's over half full and since I tally numbers last week I think two or three more
have gone and I had another question so I would anticipate I mean if they don't go this year next year Word of Mouth we it'll be full and there's two um people that aren't in our community soon as the weathers up people
think about it yes and a lot of people are gone the ones that are gone want to grow chickens in there yeah yeah so we're not we're actually pretty happy about this at this point we were thinking about 25% would be rented
by now we were hoping and so we're at 50 and we're ahead of the game so we're thinking that's good yeah and the folks i' I I've done several of the reservation you know take their money and stuff they're very excited about it
yeah they're very enthusiastic the they they like it's a good project they're excited for that so this is the ad that Leon at CLC Community College people did this for us they made our little logo
too and they did this for free and um we put that ad in the in the community aded for peat Community Ed so that is in there they can't sign up through them but it tells them more to go and then we're using this as just Flyers to put
around town so if you know of anywhere to put one of these up or one or two and you can take some they're over at City Hall and Joe can print out more um our garden group is putting them up where we know like there's a bulletin board um
like at the gym or at the grocery store whatever your church um please grab some and uh take them and put them up that would be amazing so that's free advertising for us and it looks really nice and it I just think it's just great
because the kids at the college can show that this is the work they did too and it's a win-win for us um and our logo our city logo is there and our QR code is there so when they click that all the garden guide guidelines come up and the
uh registration form to our yeah try I have a question for you I hope it works now be before this starts are you getting all the people together and then going to give them like instructions like what is organic fertilizer yes absolutely
good question yeah um the group is getting ready we were trying to figure out an open house or a grand opening I should say and Todd was interested but with all that's going on at City Hall we're probably going to not do a big
deal until for the signed up people want requirement verb it's mandatory we're having a mandatory meeting and then we're going to record it um and the people who couldn't make it then can go to watch it on the YouTube or whatever
that we're going to record from the initial meeting just to say what the rules are at have question and answers and then we'll have seminars on all the different things like we'll have little not all the different things but a few key things like what should you use in
the soil and what you shouldn't for fertilizer and for amendments and whatnot like that yeah yep so that's pretty exciting yeah so definitely if you can help with any of that or know anybody you could
donate um houses or spigots or anything else that would be great um and so that is good that's the last thing then committee reports I just wanted to show you
um what the arboretum's doing they're doing bike um that's cool yeah and they're working with Cuna to design these so they're entry level so that then people can go to Cuna and
you know this is their start and then they can go there and mountain bike in the woods there so they're doing I thought quite a um it's going to be Central Minnesota's largest bike park and I think is it's going to connect to the
Crosby no this is going to be at the Arboretum in brainer okay at the ARB way back in the back yeah you can they've already started digging like where the gardens are across the road from that on the other side they can't ever build
anything there because it's Wasteland where they I used to play golf there when I grew up well they've uh yeah they dumped uh yeah they dumped everything so they can't dig in there so they can do things only above ground and that's the perfect thing actually I mean
they got the skiing we were snow Sho there last weekend so I mean it kind of been parallel to kind of similar things we're doing but you know in some of our little places that are left for future thinking I mean we could do a little something like that maybe down in some
of those spots we have off of our walking path so just wanted to show you that and I thought they did a really nice job of and then they have a donate like here look at this donate on this page so yeah I like that so they're think you
know we're going to be thinking the same way so that's all that's all I had anybody else mhm I don't think it's something I'm going to do anytime soon I appreciate it for other people but it
it's a good thinking they also um have just they're really booming they just put up a natural play area um they made a big hill with a tunnel going underneath it and then just wood and and digging things and sand a big natural
play area and an outdoor like just a little um stage for music musicians and uh just lots of cool things are happening there so yeah if you ever get there check it out all right does anybody have anything
else to report and we didn't have any open Forum so I guess we can call the meeting to ajour Second all in favor toour hi so Gil do you have that phone number
if can I'm GNA give you that hold on and I already spoke to him and he's already gearing people up for it so hold on let me Shut the video off