e e e e e e sister Tuesday March 11th 2025 chasa Park and Recreation Commission meeting call to
order Mary if you could do R call please yes uh Jason Branch Elizabeth Wen here georganne ke here Zig here Danielle HEI here Carly
Whitner here Michael Howard here Terry schworm here Kevin Hill here thank you thank Mary before I entertain a motion does anyone have any propos changes additions they'd like to see
made no hearing none I'll entertain a motion to adopt the agenda a second first from commissioner shm second from commissioner hii all those in favor say I I those
opposed motion passes adoped the agenda moving on to item number four visitor presentations any online no one online no n online okay that closes out item number four of the
agenda item number five approve previous meeting minutes from January 14 2025 does anyone have any comments or anything they'd like to discuss from the previous meeting
minutes Dar mad do I have a motion to approve the previous meeting minutes from January 14th 202 from commissioner hi second second from commissioner Hoyer all those in favor I I opposed motion passes and we approve
the previous meeting minutes from January 14th 2025 item six on the agenda receive Council and planning meeting minutes from January 6 2025 January 27th February 3rd and February 24th
forth any discussion items regarding those meeting minutes all right no motion is necessary we have received those meeting minutes moving on to item number seven reports item 7A curling and
events Mary I'll turn it over to you to introduce this evening's presenters thank you uh tonight we we are happy to have with us uh the team from the curling and Event Center um Jeff's got his staff here so they're going to share
some information with us on operations as well as current um and upcoming events welcome you guyscome if I remember how to do this here doing one second I feel I'm on trial in here intimidating let's
[Music] see tell you about us and what we do there we go all right so I I am Jeff isacon I work as the curling and Event Center manager with me tonight are the full
time staff of the facility Scott bich he's our um head ice maker and facility supervisor clay orvik he works as the curling and Event Center supervisor and Devin Cannon who works as the curling and Event Center
coordinator so we're excited to tell you all about what we do and hopefully you have a lot of questions for us so so we'll start with curling and before we get started I wanted to give a shout out to Devon for putting this power Point together she spent many
hours on it and did an excellent job because I don't think the other three of us could have done that lots of pictures lot of pictures but I mean it was great um reflecting on the PowerPoint because it just you start to remember all the good things you do throughout the year
so put a lot of effort into it so thank you so much for that so so we'll start a little bit about membership and I I I like I really like this photo it highlights um some of our Monday curlers so a lot of these are are
instructors and members of the the facility so I think that's one of the greatest things about the sport of curling is just how it brings people together um that's the biggest strength I think and one of the things we're most proud of so this is a group of people
throughout the facility that have got to know each other and they just come in on Monday mornings and do a pickup game and draw cards and play against each other so it's really cool see the friendships that have been formed um when we first um opened the facility Scott and I did a
lot of our learn to curls and we talked about just the friendships you'll meet through the sport and we said you know we've witnessed people getting married you know when you meet someone through curling and we've said we're it's guaranteed to happen here too and we've seen it happen so
it's yeah soos like during curling there was last Fire and Ice and we've seen members who met through the sport actually get married so that's really cool so super cool and it's it's one of those Sports I think is it's just unique
on the sheet next to you you could be playing an Olympian world champion you know we the leading cancer researcher in the country you know seven trip 7 Airline captains and you get all walks of life that play the the sport and people you would otherwise never meet in
your lives you meet through the sport of curling so I think it's just a really neat thing so listen about our facility Curr have 865 members and that does still put us at one of the largest curling memberships in the
country we range anywhere from about 750 to 1100 throughout the year as we add people throughout the spring and summer leagues too but kind of level off about 750 to 850 core winter members so usually
Olympic years we always see that Spike start sign up January one it's good through December 30 yeah our membership season runs October 1st through September 30th and aligns with the other clubs through that winter season but you can jump in at any time and it gets pro-rated throughout the
year so we we see people will jump in for spring leagues which are registrations going on now and then again for summer league so really neat to see a strong membership ship like this um a lot of people have been with us through the start and we continue to bring in new
members which we'll talk about the ways we're doing that so some of the benefits of membership here I mean you can book practice ice with us and use that whenever whenever it's available um it allows you to participate in League Play you can get
Crooked Pint discounts so they often take advantage of that and BOGO range tokens at the Town course so we try to partner with them and do have members that say thank you we we use that all the time so it's it's fun to involve
them too so we do offer some uh discount through the community center too I don't think a lot of people have taken advantage of that but it's something we do Leagues uh so I'm clay irvi I'm the curan Event Center manager um I'm just going to chat a little bit about our
leagues I'm sorry supervisor I manager supervisor giving myself a promotion uh Jeff you're out of a job no I'm just kidding um so um called you here tonight I really am um so as Jeff
mentioned our membership um year runs October to September and that's partly because of that our winter leagues is the start of our um membership year we have a 20we season that runs October to March um we do 13 leagues over six week
nights the only day we don't have any league play as Saturday but Saturdays are usually filled with practice ice with members um especially during the winter when we have competitive uh curlers practicing using our ice they want to practice before they go to uh National or world events that kind of
stuff um we also do two six week a spring and a summer league um the spring League runs May to June the summer league runs August to September um usually those are Monday through Thursday leag nights um it's just when
it's 85 degrees outside people are less interested in curling but we do still tend to get close to filling those um in addition to that this year we did run a six- week beginner League um Friday 8:00 pm it filled up 12 teams it was um six
weeks we did Skip One Week for Valentine's Day um but again it filled up and we had nothing but great feedback from the members or from the people who uh participated in that um we also had uh during that we had
several members from that picture that you saw earlier who came in and volunteered their time to teach these beginner League curlers the sport so that they're learning you know properly we want to make sure that everybody knows the rules and is playing the game properly and safely so that was nice
um any questions on leagues anything we do another beginner League uh that's the plan um one thing we do have to talk about is um several of these beginner leagues wanted to get into our winter leagues now um we do have a few leagues
where we can put them um several of the later leagues have some openings um but I would love to do another beginner League because it went so well um maybe one again another six week maybe a winter six week and a uh a fall six week
or something like that so um in spring and summer we offer we always offer beginner leagues as well so yeah the facility is 10 years old this year I believe it's Christmas this year will be 10 years yeah and then what have you
seen in terms of memberships from 10 years ago and to now like what's something um yeah I think like when with the facility was first built and we we peaked around 12 to 1300 which was just
insane like we were not prepared for that many people all at once um a good Benchmark um in the sport of curling for many years is 100 members per sheet of curling ice you're doing really well so we're above that so um we're trending we're we're our
membership's staying pretty consistent year after year now kind of hovering at that 800 no that's a really I think that's a really impressive number because I think when I I first moved to chesa the year before this the facilities built and one of the things I had read about this was
been built and I remember that was reported when we used to have a loal newspaper that was one of the things they talked about it was that the number of people number that's really impressive to see that even if you're just you know that still a little 10 years into it
yeah I remember building the software for this and putting out some the league registration and we actually thought the software broke because it filled in seconds and we were like oh boy it was if you build it they will come success story and then we had to
quickly scramble and build more leagues out and it was just an awesome problem to have so you have any idea of like breakdown of where people are from is it mainly chasa residents or you know uh I don't know the exact breakdown but they're
from sort of all of the southwest suburbs um we do get some members from St Paul area right yeah it's it's much the a regional draw the sport is here so we're drawing from I'd say we're 75% non
chasa 25% so there's opportunities to grow within the city so that's one of our focuses but that was one of the park boards objectives is to build the facility to drive people into downtown so I think it's certainly meeting that objective and doing a good job with that
but um yeah definitely a regional draw we'll see um PE teams come up from mano to play in the spring summer leagues so they it's not on common to drive an hour to play um in addition to the me uh the member leagues we also do junior curling
programs um our Junior cilling program is Saturday morning ages 8 to 18 um runs uh 18 Saturdays during the winter season October to March we do split it into two different sessions uh a nine week uh before Christmas and nine weeks after
Christmas reason we do that is we find that Juniors tend to be busy and they might have something going on in the fall so they can't participate and we don't want them to pay for a full season seon when they can only participate in half um currently we do have 55 kids enrolled in the winter session that is
91% full and it seems to be growing every year so that's a positive it's the future of the sport um we like that um in addition to the junior curling program there is also a Subzero High School curling program several of our Junior curlers have moved on to that
high school program it um provides opportunities for kids to letter in curling at their High School chasa Chan Hassen um we've also had several uh members go on to compete at National and World level events so uh uh I have some
names listed here Brooke and Ali jaru Mason gensel Leighton Hines and will podski you might recognize that last name um so anyway um our Junior curling program is is very successful kids enjoy it and have a great time and they're the
future of the sport so that's always a positive so um any questions on that um in addition to the junior curling we also do several uh open to the public curling events where you don't necessarily need to be a member but you can come in and give it a try um we do
public learn to curl classes where you can sign up as an individual or as a small group up to four people um in 2024 we held 19 classes with a total of 241 participants we also do uh curling Night Out events which are in conjunction with
the on-site restaurant The Crooked Pint come in you get a hour and a half learn to curl um and then dinner and drinks afterwards at the Crooked Pint um uh that's a group of four I believe one of our commissioners has done it before and had a great time it sounds like it was
so fun are UN about doing it you just got to do it yes so much fun um and this in this season we've done over 60 groups of four which is more than 240 curlers or more um we do have another one in April we have one later in March it's
already full another one in April that does have spots available so that number could go up um and then we also do private group events for corporations or families um in the year 2024 we did 252 separate in private
curling events I don't know the total number but we can do anywhere from six uh I think the smallest one we've done was six people and the biggest one we've done I think we did a 96 person one one time over two sessions so there are two-hour classes you get in ruction
about 30 minutes and then an hour and a half of actually playing the game so um uh we also do uh Bond spiels uh we just held a bond Spiel this last weekend called The Brick City um it was 16 teams
we've had teams from uh sou Falls Rice Lake um Frogtown which is in St Paul and the Four Season which up which is up in Blaine in addition to chasa teams um we also do the big Spiel which is a gigantic 96 team uh Bond Spiel
tournament held uh in conjunction with the five clubs in the Twin Cities us Lakeville which is the Dakota Krillin Club Four Seasons Frogtown and St Paul so you the teams will come from all over the country and they play uh at least
one game at I believe they're guaranteed three different clubs so it's a great way to see all the clubs in the area including ours um the Fire and Ice in is our summer Spiel which is is the big city party where there's live music 48 team Bond Spiel um we also do a one-day
Junior Spiel usually held in October uh or late October or early November right around Halloween and then we also have a junior curling Camp um over the course of a week in the summer at the end of that they do a junior bonds peel so we hold all kinds of
events at the chasa curling and Event Center so all right and then um the USA curling's the governing body of the sports so it's been really good to be on positive terms with them our club is a member club and
then our membership has the option to join as an individual as well and there's different tiered memberships and then working with USA curling this past year we hosted um one of their national championships the five and under Nationals for those new to the sport
five years are undere experienced everyone thinks it's a toddler skiel number one question I get it what's it like having three-year-olds out on the ice so great group of ters extremely enthusiastic they're brand new to the sport they love it and I think it's just
a really good thing um to grow the the game across the country in addition to that like one event is usually a lot but we also took on the mix doubles pre-trials as an opportunity for two person teams to get into the Olympic trials which were just recently held so
that was was a fun event um as when that was going on we also had the members assembly um I remember going out to one in New York when we were um becoming a member for the first time there so it was neat to bring that to the Twin Cities and host it and they actually
used space in the event center um for their their board meeting um they used the ice for on Ice training when the games weren't being played for different workshops and then rented space at the community center too so got to use a bunch of the different facilities and
that was neat to also have the Hall of Fame ceremony for team McCormick which is the ladies team that won a World Championship back in the early 2000s Scott might know the year was it 2003 I think yes it
is but it's really cool to see that as you can see from the photo brought in a bunch of family and friends of the team and they were really excited to celebrate that um and then we're also in discussions about Club Nationals for 2026 that should bring 24 teams and you
would qualify through that through different Regional tournaments so and that'll be right after the Olympics so there'll be a ton of interest on the on the on the sport so I think that'll be an exciting event if we can lock that one down and quickly here I know we have a
lot more slides to get to but just some initiatives that are new this year we have a membership engagement committee um it's very much just getting started but the goal of it is to enhance the member experience um the identified
different areas to work on office socialization skill development improving Bond spills you know coming up on 10 years just recognizing and celebrating all the things that we've done and then improving League Dynamics and then we've also started
hanging banners if you've been in there so um you can see in that photo team gensel was just at a recent city council meeting where they were awarded the championship Banner for winning the u8 Nationals so we're starting to hang those up and getting quite a collection
of teams doing quite well which is exciting to see and Devon is gonna fill you in on the event Cent way yes hi I'm Devon I've been with the city just a little over a year now um but I'm mer curling and Event Center coordinator so I'm mostly
working with our Event Center clients and groups um and so we've got just a couple photos um here but I think one of the things that I love so much about the event center is it really is a perfect space for um all different types of events um it's not just like a wedding
venue it's not just a meeting venue um we host really a wide variety of events throughout the year so um lots of weddings lots of conferences meetings but birthday parties um anniversary parties um different community events so
really just a wide variety um as far as like things that are included with this space we take care of the setup and take down of all the tables and chairs so those are included um we've got the nice fireplace and the the ceilings with like the chandeliers all included um large coat
closets with hangers um the built-in screen and projector system um along with the sound system in the space um and then microphones too um and what's so nice about that is you don't actually have to have like a dj4 your event you can really easily like plug in a cell
phone or plug in a laptop and play a playlist so we've had some weddings take advantage of that instead of having a DJ um but it's used by like a lot of like our party groups as well too um and then we also have the catering kitchen the built-in bar space um The Patio space
and patio furniture too so people can take advantage of that outside space when it's nice out so we've got a picture of um from a wedding when they brought their own cornhole and had that out on the patio during Social Hour um and then some of the other really nice
things about our location is just being right um adjacent to firemen's Park so for all like your photo opportunities um we've also got that outdoor stage space that's used for ceremonies um the curling entertainment I list this on here because even for our
events that aren't curling we'll have a wedding and we see people kind of Wander over to the curling Windows to start to watch the curling um and then um other nice things about the event center I would say is just the affordable room rental rates and so um
having the option like Sunday through Thursday to rent the space for a minimum of four hours at you know our resident rate is $400 our non-resident would be 475 um all the way to like our Friday and our Saturday dates they are like a little bit of a higher price point for
an all day package rental but still really affordable um and then I think one of the big things just having worked at like other event venues and spaces before being with the city is um the ability to choose your own caterer um and to choose your own vendors so um we
work with a lot of different out that all about the space um and then as a little recap of 2024 we hosted a total of 28 events in our space um in 2024 so 178 of the
events were external um so 44 of those were weddings or wedding related events so including like Grooms dinners we had a couple engagement ceremonies or engagement parties um and then 30 of them were rotary meetings so those were our
Thursday morning at six o'clock um opening the building for rotary meetings weekly and then we had to flip a coin usually to see who was opening yeah it was kind of yes yeah very early um and then 27 celebrations so this
would be like our birthday parties um kind of ranging to like baby showers a little bit of everything um 25 school events a lot of this is like our high school sports Banquets but also um like Eastern Car Carver County School District hosts um several meetings and
trainings with us every year um and then 52 falling falling into like an other category so um different like fundraising events um this is more of like our corporate and Conference type events too um and then 30 of them were
internal City events so that's kind of like our community events that's when we've used the space for like Latin music fest um the MLK Day celebration um kind of events along those lines and then our busiest month in 2024 was definitely June we hosted a total of 30
events in June um so pretty much an event it wasn't quite an event every day because we had a couple days where we did two events we did a morning and then an evening one and flipping the space during the
day um and then I did pick out a couple events that I thought would be fun to highlight so one of them was a wedding that we had in August so I've got a couple photos there um they actually did their rehearsal dinner in the event center so they rented the space on a Thursday evening so that they could come
in early set all their um Decor up and then they actually had their rehearsal dinner um in the space on Thursday and then they had a Friday wedding and they did have their ceremony out on the outdoor stage and then they also had their reception um in the event center space and they shared photos with us of
their wedding so um I thought that was a cool one to highlight and then we also had lakins um lakin's Co-op they hosted a two-day seminar with us in October um and so they had two days of um meetings in the event center and then they also
did a group curling event um and so that was a really really cool one to be part of too um and then a couple other ones I did want to highlight was we hosted our Dueling Pianos event which um was an event hosted by the Crooked Pint kind of
in partnership with the Event Center so um The Crooked Pint um really wanted to do a partnership event with parks and wreck and so um we landed on a Dueling Pianos event um we did get some mixed feedback on the actual musicians and performers but maybe maybe you know
where attended or there but um so we did have a little bit of mixed feedback on the musicians um but overall I think the feedback was that people liked that we were hosting an event that was like open to the community in chasa doing something that was live music especially
during the winter months um and so um they appreciated that they didn't have to like drive into the Twin Cities into St Paul Minneapolis to have like this type of event um and then the um the other one was actually when justed in February it
was um Foundation gala was this nonprofit's very first event they were hosting um but I wanted to highlight this one because they so it was it was a formal event so people were inal Weare they also brought in all of their own audio visual equipment um so a little
bit of a different setup where where the Event Center windows are that's where they had two two screens and draping that they had brought in so um I think it just shows a really wide variety um and then these are just a couple or
few reviews that we've received the past year um that our team is really proud of and so um the first one being from a wedding that we had in June um both the bride and groom worked for a local catering company so they had worked a lot of weddings and events um and so
that's kind of what they were referencing um with being in the events industry for six years um and I thought this one was cool because it highlighted um our events center team it also highlighted Crooked Pint and even our event security um that they had a good
experience with um and then the the second one um was a September wedding that we hosted and they did have their ceremony on the outdoor stage and um reception inside the um Event Center space um and something that really stood out to us about this review was that
they commented um on the fact that they loved like our venue because they could go back and visit because it is a public space and so um they can come back every year and remember that they got married in park um and then this last one this was
actually from the the lak winds group that we saw photos of on the last slide so um where they had the conference um two-day conference in the event center and then they also did the curling as well um and so
yes um and then um this slide we just wanted to recognize there's four of us full-time staff we do have a lot of part-time staff that help us make everything happen um so on the curling side there's 13 ice staff um so those
staff are mostly helping Scott mornings and evenings in between leagues um and then we have 48 um curling instructors and then we have approximately six Junior curling instructors and volunteers um as well as guest service
team members um on the and the guest service really kind of on the curling and Event Center side um and then for for the event center we have our Event Center attendance and these are our staff that are closing out the building at the end of the night so um on Fridays
and Saturdays our building will be open until 1:00 a.m. for events so these are staff that are working the shifts from 5:00 pm to 1 1 a at times and um a little bit of everything in between but it's a lot of weekends and evenings um and then we have internal
and um contracted custodial sta staff so um when we do have back-to-back events we have staff that come in overnight and flip the room from one event setup to the other um and then staff were there during the day in the afternoon too helping us get everything ready for
events um we also work with um contracted event security too so for events that are serving alcohol um we do have a security that's present um and then 46 outside Caterers so that was a number from 2024 we worked with 46
different outside catering companies for events um as well as the Crooked Pint catering team um and then just many um Awesome event vendors so DJs decorators photographers uh day of coordinators rental companies um bringing ceremony
chairs bringing Decor um so that's a little bit of mies up our team and then maybe I'll if you want to take away our all right a little bit more of a FOC then for this year some of our goals just to continue offering opportunities
for the public to come in um we're in talks about a open house event where maybe Community the community can sign up we want to somehow track I guess how many are going to show up so we're not like completely overwhelmed if it does blow up but just a free opportunity to
come in to try curling as well as everything else that we've offered grow that membership I think that beginner League was just showing us that there's still a lot of demand out there and people had a great experience with us so we want to keep growing that um you you know about the in ice
advertising initiative we're trying to get some Revenue through that and then working on the live streaming so most curling clubs now no matter how big how small they are um have live streaming so we're almost catching up
you know to that so but it's just common now to sit at your home and be able to watch curling so anytime we host a big event then we'll be able to stream it across the country and then with the Event Center I mean just those number of events that we
host we just want to continue to build up the staff with event attendance we're going to try a new position this year with the events intern with the focus more on the event center and learning that business and really helping clay and Devon out with all the work that
goes along with that so we're excited to try that continue with the social media presence and developing marketing materials to get our word get our name out there and the big the biggie um 2026 is um carpet and chair replacement going
on 10 years now the carpet's starting to show its stage and some of the stains aren't coming out anymore and the chairs are starting to rip and rust it's just time and we're excited to get rid of the purple so you like purple I apologize but I think a change will be good for the
space so we're excited about that so with that that's kind of what we do and um we're excited about being a small group like this with with a lot of part-time help but just the the amount of things that we pump out each year we're really proud of so thanks to you
guys and Scott didn't want to speak but he's a big part of the success he does a great job with the the ice and the facility you heard about the ice as to say Marshall has many times touted that you've got one of the Premier ice people in the country and is that Scott that
he's talking about yeah he does a great job himself and the crew that he trains and we have world class ice and um that's recognized now with our membership when we first started they didn't know what good or bad curling ice was so but now they're going out they're Bond spaling and they're coming back
it's like wow I see what you mean when you have great ice like you do so we're really we're fortunate so NBC sports did a curly night in America thing here at one point Didn't They is that I don't remember one I just remember it at one point I've seen the
science up that there so we were one of the host sites that was kind of a made for TV event and NBC did it's discontinued now but um that was really neat to host that in a club especially of our size I think it was it was a
challenge but um it went really well but um we were one of the smaller clubs to host that typically it was an arena or much bigger facility so but fun event so that had um countries I don't remember all of them
now Italy China Japan maybe Japan came over and then they played the US teams and then like each week one of those games were featured on NBC so I was in a Mexico vacation recently and in the pool met
people who work out of Kansas C and they had just been to our Center for isn't that wild small world that's super strange and totally not surprising that's awesome we we're well known across the
country definitely um just for our Quality Ice but um it it's it is a destination um people try to make it here one year once a year like for the fire and ice or the big Spiel and they always leave just blown away if the facility so we're always turning teams
away for the Fire and Ice unfortunately yeah I mean that's one that's just so much demand and excitement for and um partnering with um parks and wreck you know they do such a great job out in the park with the bands and the Crooked Pint with the food I mean it just it creates
a great atmosphere for a fun summer event so so that one will fill um registrations coming up next week C I think next week Thursday um but in the first second of enrollment it will be full so you're 3 seconds late you're too
late is great your servers ready for that yeah the teams actually in California must have really good Wi-Fi because they did good on registration last year so we'll see who Rises to the top scheduling for a lifetime so that's probably what they're
doing it's such a cool facility though just like the partnership between City and you everything that you need leagues and business and it's just such a cool partnership that I think a lot of communities see stuff like this and they look at our community as leaders and as
an example of what you can do brand these M and you know and then you meet people you know in Mexico that are from Kansas City sou here such a cool cool partnership I think across many different uh you know again see City get
involved with private Enterprise and the leagues and everything I grew up I grew up in Fargo and there was a kin facility up there never knew what it was I had no idea and I would go to hockey games in the facility next to it you know all the time growing up and across the street for NDSU activities I had no idea what
curling was until was on the Olympics yeah and then moving here I'm like oh they're building a curling facility I'm like oh interesting you know but so cool to see that there just a partnership and has run a wonderful facility yeah I think the whole Project's been a really
good um thing for the community there's something really for everyone when you look at the park and the concessions in the beach it's packed all summer long and bringing families in just to eat you can watch curling you participate and curling and then the Event Center itself
just hosts so many wonderful celebrations so it's it's well used and good things one of the number one calls we get is when is curling on so I can come down and watch it and eat and I mean we get that call all the time it's huge I I work I work with the company that that that
owns franchise partner there and I'm in there a couple times a month just for work and it's exactly what it is you know you see people just glued that entire thing it's like the it's like the world's largest television but it's liveaction stuff and people just love it and we had our an IT vendor that
installed a new POS system at the restaurant this last year and they were looking at that and they ended up having their holiday party there doing one of those events you know where they came and curled and ate and the last couple times I've been there it's been corporate events of people coming in eat at the restaurant and go curl and just
talking with everybody they just love it they think that the partnership of all that the activities it's just so cool it's something different you know yeah who would have thought of it you know great vision yeah what are your thoughts on the
advertising in the event or the curling area I'm not familiar with other clubs is there are a ton of advert iing that happens on the ice on the walls yeah I think if you travel around to most curling clubs they're going to have the
walls peppered with different types of advertisements um a lot of in ice logos so we're one that has actually very fewer you know our mainly our own internal you know logos in there so I think there's an opportunity to do it in
a nice professional way and bring in some some Revenue there so and I personally think when it's done right it looks quite nice out on the ice so we'll see where that lands I'm excited for it but it's definitely common to have
that and most facilities really they need that Revenue the their volunteer run or it's just a really small Club so that's just a necessary part of it so and we're getting to that point we just want to explore and make sure we're taking advantage of an opportunity
if there's people that want to get an ad in the ice I think you should try it how superstitious are curers they wear the same socks every time yeah there's a lot of them out there yep so cool same routines I go see
what people do they'll twirl the rock the same way or they'll just yeah sport technology is fascinating a lot of competitive curlers have their lucky socks so that is a thing like okay I want to be in the one that advertises the Crooked pie hail house or
something see Matt Hamilton curler he I think he has a handkerchief or something always hanging out of his pocket same color you know it's just that's what he he's known you know there so there's all those curlers that have these quirks
so you guys have some goals do you need like what do you guys need to achieve those goals what kind of resources support do you guys need money staff no I think we're set up we're
positioned quite well City's um given us the support we need so um I think it's just a matter of going out and devoting the time to get the stuff done we're making good progress on a lot of those goals already
so to putting something different for Flor other than carpet in the event center I mean I'm sure that's quite costly if you were looking at real wood floors or something but to me my first thought is why would you put carpet
where people eat I mean could it last longer and you know maybe it's more upfront but it's going to last longer and I don't know carpet's barely have you guys looked at that or just carpet's the best you want to speak
yeah we we have um we we've looked at it a little bit um a lot of venues you'll see like a polished concrete floor um which isn't necessarily the best for like echoing and things in the space so that is like a problem that um if that I
guess that is one benefit to like the carpet um in addition to it is a little bit less expensive than if you were to go like a wood flooring option or or doing that polished concrete um so we we've looked at a couple different things as far as like the wood flooring
too I mean really it's making sure that we're getting something that's not going to like scuff and scratch too because I think that's a big part of it um although the C like carpet you can see stains at least with what we have right now we are looking to do carpet that's like much lower maintenance so something
that's dark where you're not going to see like the stains but I think um yeah that is one reason we've kind of and you can also replace carpet quickly and easily yeah right if a um tile gets stained you just pull it out and put a
new one in so we're looking at carpet that's that's easily replaceable carpet tiles everybody's really G kind ofch you don't yeah notice it that it's not one seamless carpet
but it it really makes it a lot easier for instance we had a a cater spill some bleach on our carpet a month ago maybe and it was just I mean I think Scott you might have done that but it was real quick to just pull them out and
put new squares in so that wasn't getting replaced so I mean you washed out yeah so yeah so I think I mean I guess we were leaning towards carpet but
nothing is like set in stone yet so we're still kind of exploring options we're actually looking at like a vinyl for the dance FL um because what we currently have on the dance FL we have been polishing it because it's just anytime you're really moving like chairs or things it is showing like scuffs and
kind of scratches so we do polish it but then when it comes to having it like refurbished and Scott can kind of speak to this a little bit more too um because we've polished it so many times have to like fully sand all of that off
and so we usually have to block off full week to do that kind of stuff so it it kind of limits us for a week we try to do it in the winter when we're a little bit slower but unfortunately that it does take I think a week at least if not
longer yeah it was like about a week at time so um in this this kind of like winter spring we didn't really have like a solid week where we didn't have anything booked in the space so um it's something that we'd potentially look into like a different material possibly
like a vinyl or wood for that that we don't need to polish all the time is it tile now or what is it or a laminate or it's a stained wood stained wood high maintenance value
and integrity and so yeah we'll F that's what they're saying now it's been sanded a little too many times so explore other options there so and we're also going out to do site visits just to see what other cities are doing
too we've done a couple of those and we hope to do a couple more just to get some ideas call and say oh I'm deciding between X venue and ours like who are who is our nearest like competitive that competitor that's like same price point
same amount of people it can hold um I would say like a similar price point um the Minnesota Landscape Arbor they actually rooms like a similar kind of price point to ours um similarly they're also like a semi-public space as
well so I think that's one thing um we're an interesting facility because we are like the Event Center we've got the restaurant we've got the curling piece in the park too so it is we're semi-public um I would say that one is probably like the closest one to us I
mean there's also a lot of like Golf Course venues too um so it really just depends on um where where they'd be looking we've got like um The Outpost Center as well um which I would say they're a little bit higher in price point but they are more of like a
private location so um but then our community center spaces too um I think I I think one reason we stand out um is that we do allow Caterers from anywhere as long as they have a license um that's a big thing I know I think the herb
breum makes you use certain Caterers whereas we say I mean we get several events that are Somali events or heat eras where they want to use Caterers that specialize in their Cuisine and we allow that which is a huge huge thing
things it for better price points for the consumers and wide range of more things that have very speci yeah does that includ the alcohol too or do you have limitations on for alcohol they do have to use the Crooked Pint Yeah
abely couple things so thank you so much for the presentation this is this is really cool to hear things and I'll be honest I have never curled but I think it's something we need to do vo later for that being the next time yes exactly exactly
yeah I definitely want to do that that that sounds like a instructor right here she's our trainer I know in the past um we've discussed the need to expand like the lounge and and stuff like that for the
curlers is has that gone anywhere I don't think we've talked about that for maybe a year or something I think that's going to be stalled for quite some time um you know it's a I think that's the Ultimate Dream for the facility just to have a bigger
space to socialize in initially that was the biggest knock on the the facility is just because people curlers are coming in from that traditional Curling Club mindset where you have a dedicated Club room there's not that competition with
the public you know in the restaurant so that was just what the norm was but I think now I think some of that is dying down you're not hearing it as much and we're really embracing what we have which is an awesome facility so it's still a dream you know to have that
space I think that would allow us more member opportunities for socialization when we host these National events it gives a space for the you know officials um the curlers it would be really important for junior
curling events um that's we're not seeing as many of those anymore just because when you go to a junior Bond Spiel you're going there generally for the weekend with your family um so it can be parents are coming grandparents are coming so then it's if you want to
just hang out for the day you're you're kind of doing that in the Crooked Pint and you know they're wanting to turn tables over you know they're really good to work with but obviously you know that's a business we want to be respectful of too so having that space of our own where there's not that competition and people could just hang
out would be ideal for our facility plus it's an additional place to rent for corporate events it's a PO way toing events page you go and you get three options you can do event space like the restaurant or the players options yeah I think I think
that's what Marshall talked about a couple years ago we talked about the naming Rights was the revenue from the naming rights would be specific F building out that players expect to make it because you really see people wonderful events and they eat but then they want to hang out socialize
but you see that just it's it just feels weird with the flow MH actual traffic flow having a dedicated space would be just ideal I think for those groups specifically especi got people over having that dedicated space ideal for sure it's best
advertising that could possibly be for the club it's uh 10 to 15,000 cars a day going through that intersection and if they were able to see the activity generated in there yeah because those windows are right on
that corner volum it's funny they didn't really know what that room was going to be used for when the facility got built it was just kind of this awkward space but they knew that intersection was there and they wanted it to look nice so that's kind of
way the glass windows got put there but then the space was never really designed to with a purpose so I think looking back I think that's the number one thing if we could do it again and that space would have been double triple that size or go the length of the building
so I just had one last question about parking guys there really any parking issues out there when you've got events and because it doesn't feel like the parking can go anywhere because of you're just sort of locked in there when we know there's going to be um big events taking place we try to get a um
ahead of it um we have a nice parking map that's our city hall friends here put together which just gives options to overflow into down Town show the options up at Veterans Park and then across the street so we have a nice map made which we'll we like on League nights where we
know it's going to be busy we'll email the curlers just an FYI it's going to be packed and wedding events I know we've used that before so we we try to communicate out the best we can and we we really don't I think it's a pretty rare event yeah pretty rare we're
parking is an issue um fire ice is usually the time but that's 5,000 people or whatever whatever so um and then we just kindly tell people you want to see parking problems go to St Paul Curling Club we'll really see what it's like so
we have it pretty good here I think I think you guys do a fantastic job and I think the facility has become one of those things that is chesa is becoming known edified by and for people can say the about the community CER here it's
easy and I think obviously point to Hazel team because of the international recognition Golf and whatnot but just in terms of this become one of those things that helps to identify where Jas is and you know hey it's on J oh I've got the C in about
C I know we get several events in the event center where they say oh we attended a wedding or an event here and we loved it and so we wanted to book it I mean that's that's I've given several tours where the people say that that's what happened they they attended a
wedding or an event in chassis at the chassis Event Center and loved it and wanted to come back for their event whatever it is yeah and you guys keep the place really clean too I mean it just it's always clean it's like impeccably clean all restrooms just
everything it's always clean and well I a great job I thank you much we're really proud to work for the city and parks and wreck and uh love what we do so glad people um really love the facility because it is a community
treasure I think so it's you don't see many of these types of facilities around the country anywhere so we're really fortunate thank you thank you thank you very much great job
[Laughter] thank you thanks I know [Music] job moving on to item number eight discussion items 8A Park updates and next we have dep Department happenings
Mary I'll turn it over to you thank you um yeah I just want to cover uh real quick for kind of the general public as well as um anyone that couldn't um make the meeting earlier um so we have Hickory Park
that'll be coming up for Renewal this year um so we had the um assistant director of Public Works Scot SC Selen with us earlier today um to discuss the
park renewal and Hickory Park is located in downtown chasa um scottt brought with him some renderings for the Commissioners to look at um to replace the current playground
he shared three of those with the Commissioners tonight and the Commissioners narrowed it down to two um next week uh March 18th will be a um meeting at the park uh to review the
drawings get some feedback from them and um kind of keep that going so we can get those decisions made that will be um as I said the 18th at 6: pm at the park if there is inclement weather we will move
it to the White Oak Room at the community center we'll also have the plans available they currently are available um online so folks can um go to our website and look for that information as well
uh and that's it for me the address that's 120th North Hickory Street near the Athletic Park just if people aren't aware where it is uh letters did go out to the
immediate neighborhood last week so they have been informed and we actually had a call today on it so um yeah hopefully we'll have a nice evening and we can actually have it out in the park that'd be great yeah it is nice to get kind of
a feel for how much space it is yeah we'll be going it is definitely tucked in there so it is kind of a little different than our other Park areas but um it's a very nice area so if you can make it join us um yeah what we
typically typically see for turnout for meetings like that I think I'm only going to do one maybe two um FKS Park Savannah was probably one of our larger ones um I would say you know anywhere from 10 to 15
maybe I can remembera Woods had a good when we did that but it was pretty nice weather also that might have a factor yeah yeah we'll see so yeah that is all I have
um Aaron's got some stuff so turn turn it over to her yeah I'll just give a quick update on the um Southwest chasa Park project website is up and running as of kind of the end of last week um and there is a community an online
community survey that's a part of the website I did put a little sheet I think at all of your up there that have QR code and the link to check out the project website um it's it's uh made to be very interactive people can comment
um add pictures ideas things like that so the online survey um or the survey will be available through April 4th so that's when that will close uh F focus group meetings are scheduled for uh next
week or the week after they're scheduled for soon within the next two weeks it's a week I think it's the week after next yes and so those um are kind of eight different focus groups we'll have our Athletic Association our active
older adults and one within the Lodge at the community center um the Lions and the rotary groups will be a focus group together um our park and W staff we have our um families with people with disabilities and other disability uh groups um the neighborhood around the
Southwest chasa Park the they will be invited for a focus group as well and there is a postcard that's being mailed to them this week and then um one with some District staff and possibly some high school students as well so those are all uh scheduled um with that Community
survey we're really going to be pushing that out far and wide um you know besides these focus groups we're going to be you know our Facebook pages um websites you know posters within our facilities like City Hall the community center the curling and Event Center um
just all of our email lists that we have culturally Liaisons with the schools um you know really just trying to think of all of the contacts we have and really try to get as much engagement with that before that closes on April 4th um Pros Consulting is the subc
Consultant Group that's working with Confluence for the planning and they are the ones that are conducting uh market analysis for the park and we are going to be hearing from them uh next Thursday that is next week I know um with what they've kind of found with the market
analysis um as they've looked at you know what we've provided them information for what chasa has right now with our parks and different amenities they'll look at the communities around us um and even farther out too with other communities that might be a similar size to chasa and what those communities have
in terms of um amenities they're really going to be kind of looking to see are there any gaps and and things that we um might want to consider with the new park so we'll be fun to hear from them next week um and then there's I know this is information I think Marshall already provided but the park and wre commission
work session will be April 8th and that'll be to review um the feedback that's been gathered um and kind of talk through goals and priorities as we move into more of the concept development with the park and then late April we're working on planning some uh tours to
different Parks um that we can kind of you know ones that people might want to take a look at we know that we like different amenities there or our popular parks um maybe some that have a miracle League field along with them as well uh so that information will be coming out uh soon and then there's a park of paloa
event it's going to be Thursday May 8th at the community center and that will be you guys will all be invited to that event um along with staff and it'll be a a fun day to just kind of be creative and have the opportunity for people to just kind of brainstorm and draw and and
the Confluence architect group will be there too so I think that is kind of it for Southwest chasa Park update I think the survey last night was pretty fun awesome pictures and get to rank stuff I passed it along to all my
friends so good spread the word for sure so does it collect any information is there any I'm just wonder if there's anything to prevent Kevin from putting it you know a million times or something like that so
just going it does uh track like IP address I think so I think it will kind of if somebody wants is taking the survey unique users yes so I think it will capture that if Kevin tries to take it 30 times it will probably see that trying to skew the data just gonna say I
might have my five kids take in exactly so that's great they have different preferences 30 might be excessive but if they want to that's how they want to spend their time and there is some optional demographic questions too as
part of the survey at the end um so we were able to um really introduce which will kind of come with the happenings um but our we had our community center an annual Carnival um this past Friday night and that was kind of right when the project website was ready and um so
Confluence um Brad and mam from Confluence were there and we were able to kind of catch all of the people that were at the carnival to come over and um give some input on some boards that that they had brought with different pictures and themes to try to um get some input
there so there was a lot of Engagement and a lot of great um they had some different color dots people could put on what was sticking out to them as far as if it was you know some water features if was it ice stuff ice rink you know is it um nature play Ninja Warrior just all
of those things so it'll be fun for them to kind of um summarize all of that input from Friday too so that's awesome how turn out for the carnival it was really good I you know I'm I I'm bad at guessing numbers for attendance but we definitely as a staff we all thought
that this year was busier than the last few years I mean I would say we at least had you know maybe 5 to 600 uh people within the quick two hours um with our carnival games and uh the bounce house and balloon artists and all that kind of stuff so people came right away you know
lots of young kids and so I think they came right away so that they could get them home to bed great thanks I did think of one other thing I almost forgot um Meadow Park just a short update for that um
staff put out an online survey that's currently available for residents to take and provide feedback as well um a postcard mailing was sent out to nearby um households staff attended um the
recent community meeting for the County Road 10 um that was uh couple weeks ago I think um which had great attendance so that was a great opportunity to promote um the park there Ashley and Marshall
Marshall were on site um at the nearby chasa Place Apartments the complex um and they timed it where PE folks were coming home um from work and were able to talk with them about that and encourage them to take the survey as
well um thus far I think we're right around like maybe 70ish um with uh kind of talking to people about surveys and actually having it done um it will remain open until May 7th so we've got
some some time there but um as the weather gets better they're certainly doing a lot of work on it on that area so it's exciting to see yeah that's all I have thank you
thank you that closes out 8B moving on to item number nine other business 9A Round Table we'll start with commissioner schw um only thing I would note in
relation to the Southwest Community Park is it did go out on the Harvest neighborhood Facebook page which was about 900 members so that's great comments already that and then I just want to shout out and I don't even know who does it other
than it's a single family homeowner who actually takes the time to snowblow the trail throughout Savannah HKS Park not all of them but a nice Trail around the playground and main part of the park and he doesn't done it
all wanted to publicly thank that person because the trails are well used it allows the space for people to get there walk their do so he've done that all winter long and it's a big commitment but it's been
nice that he's done it um I said I I participated in the curling event and sounds like have B April highly recommend people get together with it was super fun um taking lots of community surveys about Parks lately I feel a little bit concerned
that now I'm in a different age bracket and so that's so maybe prob a little bit more next time like mid-30s to also the 20s so cool worry she was on social media
recently so um I don't I have one thing just uh more of a question that is there a lot more things in that Center area of the community center I feel like every time I go in there now there's always something going on that like rotunda area there's something set up there's tables or something is that by design
that there's just or we've just had a lot of activity more recently or is that the ideasa use that space more for meetings and activities definitely open space yeah I can speak to that a little bit um we when we had the uh Wellness um event and
open house in earlier this winter that we partnered with the Southwest uh chamber um we did have a lot of table set out with just all different information on our you know rentals and birthday parties and programs and all of those types of things and so um we ended
up leaving that information out for a while after that thinking this is a great space for people to kind of you know learn more and um and so uh with our Carnival event that we had on Friday those tables kind of came back out with the intention of you know um having information that can be out for a while
and our activity guide just came out um so I think uh we do need to get a little bit more information on those tables but the the thought is that that space is there it's a hight traffic area that a lot of people kind of go through so you know why not use that for some marketing
um and we did have a big uh dinosaur photo backdrop that was stayed up for the weekend we thought you know what there's G to be more kids coming through that might want to I think that came down today or was coming down some adults yeah it was just interesting last few times I've been in there I feel like
I've seen table set up and oh just seems cool like I agree I think it seems like a great place to put information you yeah yeah people are kind of you know either hanging out in that space where the um tables and chairs for swimming lessons or you know just passing through between the arena and the other side of the building
so awesome I appreciate that that's all I I brought this little flyer with me that was mailed to my house and um lots of information the curling and Event Center the community center but I'm really excited about the
biking like brand new bike club if I had to guess I do you guys know is it Bob Lincoln who's doing it yeah did you guess yeah I don't know wild wild guess but um I'm just like so excited a little
nervous I've never joined a bike club but I think you know the rule is no biker left behind so that's good so even if you yes I still remember that you're like I was all these people just zoomed up the
hill and I was like what and like it didn't have an ebike and like all everyone else did they all just like zo by like okay Welling bikes oh my gosh yeah so I encourage
everybody to sign up if you're interested and see what it's all about m cool did you sign up not yet okay but I just got the flyer the other day I have nothing to
share um I just want to say I'm excited for the community park I think it's gonna be a fun kind of exercise for all of us to partake in um and that that should be really exciting got
nothing service yeah 30 kids what do you like to do for hobbies when you're not at school surveys that closes out our Round Table discussion and before we adjourn for the
evening I just want to remind everyone that our next meeting is Tuesday April 8th at 6:30 p.m. and Commissioners there will be a work session as we heard earlier at 5:30 yeah yeah yeah and then just a
gentle reminder for everyone else out there we always meet second Tuesday of the month come watch one more thing one one more exciting thing might be great to end with um I wanted to mention that we had
a um employee recognition um breakfast for the whole city last week and um Joan seedorf who you guys got to meet at our presentation um in December I think who has been with the city for um over 23 almost 24 years um received a quality
service award so it was a very very well all great work she works primarily with our active older adults and within the lodge space um but does much more than that that's kind of her primary role but she's always been super involved with a lot of different events
um and just really uh cares and you know sees the big picture of the city of chasa as an organiz ation um so anyways I just wanted to to let you know that um she received that quality service award so that's great see her next um
congratulate yeah yeah we'll do thank you with that a motion to a journ also move commissioner Keyport commissioner
Whitner all those in favor hi hi post