Alright. Since it is 06:30, Wednesday, March 11, we will call to order this meeting of the Dilworth Park Board. Since we have no guests, we'll start with roll call. We'll start over with Terry and kinda work our way counterclock or clockwise. Terry Dealers. Melanie Filling. Jerica Lyon. Andrew Randall. Lyle Carinta. Tim Tolleson. This is Angela Miller from staff. Amber Bora from city council. Alright. Have we all had some time to look through the agenda for tonight? And if we have, we'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda.
This is Lyle. I make a motion we approve the agenda. This is Melanie. I second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Alright. Next item is approval of the minutes from February 11, so roughly a month ago. I'll give you a minute to look through that. And if there are no changes to those minutes, we will entertain a motion to approve the minutes from February February 11. This is Lyle again. I make a motion we approve the minutes from February 11. This is Tim. I'll second. All in favor?
Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Alright. First item under discussion tonight is discuss the potential dog park at Whistlestop Park. I thought since Nate wasn't isn't here tonight, I'll pull up his email. That came through. You got it? I I can read it. I got it. Okay. Yeah. He has some other thoughts. Let's see. I think the skating rink at Whistle Stop is a good for a pop up dog park or events, but I'm not so sure about investing money to make it a permanent. I would be interested in other options that are not that close to someone's residence.
Other parks, the regional park plants. That's what his thoughts on. This is Lyle. Since that month to this month and then reading the prepackage you sent out. Yeah. Looking at, the money and the requirements and then, all that stated, one, I wanted to make sure it was one of the things that were being looked at for our new park, Kitty Corner from where we are in the new North Side or wherever it's gonna be on the 8th Avenue, expansion project. Because, I think to have a well thought out planned one with all the stuff that's
in the description here from the League of Minnesota, I think we'd be better off doing that rather than trying to convert it to a full time one in the ice rink. Pop up for the couple events we have there with it, I think, would be sufficient, as we currently do it. But, I do think we should have one, and I think it would be best suited to have it in our our larger regional park. Because just for the simple fact as a dog owner, we're gonna have restrooms at that one. You know? I mean, you're gonna go and knock on somebody's house here, and the depot's not always open.
So it's like, okay. You know? Starting out with that. So my suggestion is, keep it as or, you know, my thought suggestion, whatever the proper word is, is keep this one here for just pop up events and then really put a good, well thought out plan to have one in the regional park. So that's all I have to say on it. Thank you for listening. This is Tim. I would, agree actually with all of that. Again, for a pop up, I think it works. But if we wanna do a dog park, I think we do it right instead of, just kinda tailoring something to what we want it to be.
So then we can take the time, make the plan, spend the money in the right spots, and then make it a a permanent spot, that everybody can enjoy. I just don't see that with a permanent dog park with the ice rink. So So Thank you. Go ahead. This is Melanie. Is this something that we would need to somehow get a feel for how many people are interested in a dog park in the city? You know, is it a need or a want? Is it would it be used? You know, is there a way to kind of check that out? I mean, I know it's come up many times,
people mentioning the dog park. I don't know if a small I I feel like it'd be really small. I I I feel like it's too small to be an adequate regular dog park. I I don't have The rink, you mean? Yeah. Oh, no. I mean, like, at the at the regional park. Oh, of You know? Like, is it I think we could put that in a future plan. I definitely think it should be thought. Yeah. We kind of already have done a couple different surveys, and it does come up Yeah. Quite a bit when people ask. So, I mean, there is some interest. I think having that what did he say?
Having a public hearing on it, I don't know how many people actually come to those. They don't show up very often, to be honest. So but it does on surveys. Usually, that's something somebody that they're interested in. It's came up a few times. So I think there's some interest, but I don't know. I don't I have a lot of hate with this. Like, I have a dog. I would like more places to take my dog, but at the same time, I get everything that everybody's saying. Do we wanna invest money in this? Do we wanna do it the right way? Yeah. It's a lot to think about. Right way. Yeah. Be better in the long run. This is Lyle again. And and just so you know,
I'm I'm not just kinda making this stuff up. It was at the first pause in the park that we were when, Lynn Park, a former chairman of this board, we were talking about, the new one and things that were listed. I, myself, like I said, I haven't seen the written list, but she was going on items that people had already discussed to be put in place in this new, section of parkland out there and things that, were obviously not beneficial and things that were the dog park did fall under beneficial part. And
the other things people wanted already exist in other places. It's called Thunder Road over on I 29. They wanted the go kart track and everything like that there. So it's like, for our regional park, probably not. So that's where I base my what I'm saying on is there. But I I admit I haven't seen the typed out list of what's proposed for there, but she did mention it was there or thought of going in there. So it would be being considered. So if that helps at all or not, I don't know.
This is Terry. I just wanna clarify when we're talking about pop up dog park, could that only be at the Paws in the Park event? Or are we trying to add more? Because I know that had been brought up last month that maybe we have a couple extra pop up dog parks, but those would need to be staffed and Good point. Set up for each event. And I and Payton probably would touch on this better, but I thought if we had it open more, we have there's so many rules and regulations we gotta play by too. Right. He thinks, yes. I mean, the So how much does that limit us?
We'd have to have in place if, yeah, there isn't someone there, which I don't think, I guess. The likelihood of having a staff there's There's no a good question, Terry, because to me, what I was thinking of, you know, pop up meant just, you know, when we're doing pause at the park there or, you know, maybe adding it into people who bring their pets for when we have tree lighting there. But it would be just when we're having an event there. Okay. Because, you know, mainly the pause in the park, we would have it at that. And then maybe adding it to the tree lighting parts,
you know, if you had an animal, you could let them run around in there then. But then there might be covered in snow or ice and that, so that's always you know, kinda don't do it then. But that's kinda what I was led to believe would be mainly for Paws in the Park. So I I like your question because, yeah, I didn't even think of that other thing. So No. And this is Andrew. I agree with everything that's been said. I don't have a dog, so I'm just kinda taking it all in per se. But I know in years past when this has been brought up, that's kinda where it stopped because we always wanted we didn't wanna make it retrofit something, make it too small.
We wanted to do it justice. Mhmm. And after that came about, it kinda died there. Yeah. So this time, I was kinda I mean, the board has changed since then, so different needs, different community members might have different say on that. Personally, I don't know if a public hearing is worth it at this point just because we don't have a we have an idea, but we don't have a great plan going forward to present either. And then how many people are gonna get mad because we're just we're not making it big enough, so to speak? Yeah. If I may. Honestly, I don't think $4,000
is a whole lot of money to at least retrofit it for when we do use it. I mean, that's a small chunk of money. It's not that much. Put a gate on there and make it a little bit more appealing for when we do use it. So, I mean, I don't know if we wanna go quite that but, I mean, like, I don't think putting a doggy bag holder out there is a terrible idea or fixing the fencing either way. Like, even when we use it for Paws in the Park, I think it'd be nice to have a gate there so we're not trying to wire something shut and, you know,
I don't think I think that's a small chunk to fix it. And probably any kids who play hockey there would like it kind of improved too. It's been a while since anything over there has been updated. So I don't I mean, personally, I don't feel like that's a waste of our money if we did decide to fix that. So maybe not a permanent park, but kinda jazz it up a little bit for when it is used, I guess, is where I'm going with this. Because the fencing, that'd be year round for the hockey players too. When was the last time we've improved anything in that rink? As far as long as I've worked with it. Yeah.
I don't so I mean, it could we could put a little throw a little money that way and at least fix the gate, fix put up a little doggy bag thing and then they could use it even when they have their dogs at whistle stop. I mean, at least the doggy bag station is there. I don't think that's the worst waste of our money, but it's it's up to you guys. So someone please correct me on this because I don't look at them. Do we have doggy stations anywhere at any of the parks? No. No. I don't think so. So, I mean, I would think Woodbridge would be look at.
A good place to put one too. Just to kind of try to clean that part up a little bit. Yeah. Because we have signs everywhere, but I don't think we have actual, like, things. So I mean, like, we'll get the expense the for the container or whatever, but I can't imagine the bags are terrible. Hish, I don't know. I don't know either. Into the cost of the Would that help keep the parks a little cleaner too? Yeah. And and most people I mean, for the most part, I when we go to Woodbridge, I don't see ton of dog feces everywhere. So we were kinda responsible. So, I mean, it would I think it'd be nice.
It'd be handy to have some of those things around. Yes. Even if, you know, that Keystone along that walking path, just have something. Just even one somewhere. You know? I don't know. So we'll just look at getting some doggy stations, maybe fixing it up a little bit, but not making it up per minute. That's what we're Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we could make it look a little bit better and put a little money that way. And they would use it for the hockey rink anyways. So, I mean, even if we fixed it up, it wasn't, like, just for the dogs. It'd be for year round fixing up kind of.
Because what's in right now, that gate thing is just kinda swiping. Yeah. Yeah. Does this skating rink get used? Like, the hockey area? I honestly if I honestly don't know I'm sorry. Yeah. I don't know. I'm it was a very short season this year with the with one of the other. And that yeah. I mean, there's a lot too. But it would make it nice for the paws in the park at that. Yeah. Because we got a lot of dogs there last year. And night to unite, we could, you know, maybe say something for that too. And what else is over there? I mean, do the farmer's market?
I don't know if that's anything they wanna have going on, but at least night to unite, Paws in the Park. And then that way, you know, if you investigate the price of one station and how much the back cost is for that, that would give us, you know, like, next meeting or whatever to go forward if we wanted to put one. I don't think we need to do more than one, but that's my own opinion, in each of our other parks. Yeah. You know? And just okay. We put one in each park regardless of the size of the park and that and that. This is what we'll provide. We're not providing for everybody, but this is what we'll put in.
And then that way, you'd have at least prices and that. So you say, okay, yeah, well, we got one done and here's for the other 11, and this is what it would be. And then we'd have something to go by. So I kinda recommend we'd probably do a follow-up on that based upon your info. Yeah. I can look at the the cost on some of that at the next meeting. I have no clue how much doggy bake station even. Yeah. That's what I was just thinking. Yeah. And I don't think we need anything fancy. Just something I don't know. Something make it look a little more appealing, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Fresh coat of paint.
I don't wanna do it. But Yeah. Any other questions, comments, concerns on the, potential dog park item? Hearing none, let's move on. Next item is on the agenda is the Southside social. I'm sorry? Did you need a vote on that? No. We don't. Okay. Just a minute. K. Yeah. So so I think last meeting you guys discussed, you just wanna do the same event pretty much, you know, in the Cottonwood Park and discuss what exactly what ideas you guys might have. We just need to form that committee as well for that.
I think Nate agreed to do that. Oh, he's volunteered too. Yeah. So you can assist with the committee if you know. Absolutely. I think, Do we talk about the farmers market down there? Possibly at this last time too. Yeah. That was we're going to extend an invite as far you know, everything what we had before. Yes. Mhmm. But then also to extend an invitation to the farmers market to be there because remember how things were laid out really good, but we still had a lot of space that could be utilized there, especially, like, off the street. So,
you know, if they sent their vendor huts up there, they don't have to lug their stuff too far. That was a proposed place for them to do. So we're gonna, discuss it to I don't know what the real term, but, like, invite them over if they wish to be part of that and then actually pick a date in June. We did not pick a date in June. And I emailed, and we were kinda thinking June 10. It's the second Wednesday in June, like, last year. Oh, okay. Unless there's any objections. But there's the Farmers' Market. That's usually on the third sixth. Yeah. Because reading here, I didn't know if that was last year's date. I can't remember. So I was like, oh, but,
yeah, that's that that, was work out there too. And then, yeah, that's why I don't. And I think we could extend the invitation to the farmers market. Do they do that on a Wednesday versus a Thursday just because of the crowd we get down there? Would that help them out a little bit more? Mhmm. Yeah. Worst case scenario, they say no and okay. We do it anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Even if the farmers market itself, like, doesn't we could offer vendors to come aside from that. Like, I don't see a reason we need to charge them. Yeah. But,
I mean, there's maybe vendors that don't do farmers market because of the commitment. Yep. I like that idea. I don't know if we really wanna I mean, I think we should limit it. I don't think there's any people knocking down the door to set up out there, but yeah. I have a contact with the farmer's market, so I can send her a note saying let them know. Everybody knows what we're doing, and they can come and they want and anything else? I was gonna mention, the bookmobile. We had wanted to get them last year, but they were already booked. Should I reach out to them as well to come?
Yeah. They were at a Paws in the Park, and they actually had quite they were very happy. And they said I I asked them how it was going, and they said really good. We're getting a good response. Yeah. Okay. Paraphrasing it. Because I did go up to, you know, see if they were and that was at a pause in the park we had they showed up. So that would be a good idea. Yeah. And you wanna do that for the ceiling? Should I ask them again if they wanna It's awful nice. Know that. People seem to like that. Free food. Yeah. Okay. I just wanna know the date you were surprised that was in there. I just asked Angela if we could come up with a date because I have
have a few different things that I was reaching out to some places for. Mhmm. I'm not getting very much response, but, one was, I don't know if you guys were at Glendon Days a couple years ago, but, Bayer Crop Science, like, donated words are hard. Dippin' Dots. Like, I didn't even know Bayer Crop Science was a place in Glendon. Do you guys I didn't know this. But so I've been trying to reach someone there to see if they'd be interested in clearly, they're part of the community. I don't I don't know anything about them.
And then I saw on, sorry, on Facebook last summer that AirMed helicopter comes to community events just like these. I can't help with that one. Can you because I so I sent the Thank you. A respond or an inquiry to the AirMed event thing, and no one answered. And then I found the lady who had posted it last year, and I messaged her. And she's like, I no longer work with them, but I know the contact. She's like, I'll email you and her, and she never did that either. So it,
like I mean yeah. So if you know more about that, I thought that'd be something different to add because I I read that, and I was like, that is so cool. They just park there, and I think, like So they can come as long as they don't get a call. Sometimes they'll have to leave from the event to go on a scene flight or whatever they're going on. That's understandable. Yeah. Yeah. But I have seen them go to other things. Yeah. They're real. I've never been anywhere. I just happened to see it. We'd have to have a good open space without any lines and stuff, so I don't know if that field can be used.
But then you have to think of the dirt flying. Those are my exact, like, things. I literally have no idea what it They can land on pictures, mom. No. Just come right down on pictures, mom. Yeah. They probably But I I like the idea because, yeah, we have the fire department, we have the police, and have air med there. It would really be a very good thing, you know, overall. These are all the services that are here for you. And, actually, Dilworth Fire, they might know how to land them and everything because I think they might chew it out in the town. They came to local days when you're gonna pay a couple years ago?
I think so. Yeah. So they land in that little area over by Constitution, and they didn't have any issues. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that here. Mhmm. So, yeah, I mean But I don't know about here. Is really good. I'm not getting anywhere. I'm not getting anywhere. I don't know what that would do for that. Is that Melanie's on it. No. You get a blue Melanie's on it. Yes. Right behind it. No. Right right there. Is that part of the park or not? I believe. Not sure to tell you the truth. I don't know. Yeah. It looks like it's all mowed the same. Yeah. Somebody did that all.
That's parcel now. Quick. K. Because I think I have a picture of Layla in there when she was really little at local days. While we're looking for it, I think we should also talk to the railroad because we can't have that happen again. That was way too long. Oh, shit. We had a more in there for you higher. There you go. Do we ever ask the railroad? Well, didn't, Hunter say they can only be parked technically for fifteen minutes? So they were parked way longer than they were supposed to be blocking the road. Yeah. So So some of this is ours. Right here. Is that same So is that piece the park? Yep.
Yeah. This is all the park. Yep. That's right on by the city and so it's just over here. Okay. I guess that's where I'd see it landing then. Yeah. Yeah. Because, off, that side is where all the inflatables were set up. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, that would be better to put them on that side. Just get people spread out around the park too. Mhmm. I think that's a great idea, Jerica. Thank you. Oh, and so we were talking about floor to ceiling here. Like, I don't wanna over over ask them because they've been great. Like, they really like, is there when we talk to them,
can we offer to help pay for some of their supplies, you know? Mhmm. I'm sure in the end, they will agree to do it, and we'll cover that. But I just feel like we just kind of assume they will do it. Mhmm. And I don't want to they're all very nice, and so I don't think that they're gonna have that opinion that all are just calling us to do this. So I think at least making the offer to, you know, pay for some of the they're expensive. You know, put it out there. And then if they want to, we will. And if they don't, well, okay. Thank you very much. Yeah. Because I think it's a good offer so that they know we're aware of how
much we appreciate them. Yeah. I think it's a good draw for people Mhmm. To bring people in to have the food and something other than just plain hot dogs. Like, they do a great job. They're friendly. I mean Very good job. Yeah. And so I really want them to know that we appreciate them. Uh-huh. Will we consider asking one of the district, ref like, businesses in the real district to, like, sponsor dessert or something. That could be just kind of break it up a little bit. Maybe, they have ice cream at what's the place? West Main. Yeah. Yeah. I think someone asking someone in Dilworth and
For context, the You get a ton of gear. Carpet people or whatever they are. I mentioned it. See you talking about you guys for sure. Okay. There we go. In a row. Yeah. I thought Melanie and I will work with Nate. So, come up with those things. I think if we get these new things to fly along with what we already had would be, you know, good because I don't wanna, like, get anybody's overloaded. So adding this a little bit extra this year to what we already had, kind of baby step theory is what I'm looking at. Yeah. And then that way, none of us get gosh. I'm never gonna do this again type feeling.
You know? So I think that would be kind of enough for maybe for this year. Yeah. I think you see hope would be interested. It is their adopted park. I I don't wanna outgo whine all the time, but I know you're out there. I don't I don't like to comment because of, like Yeah. But if I think you should reach out to them. I can email somebody. When you say this is their adoptive park, are they, like, a sponsor of it? Or Yeah. They yeah. So all the parks are available for adoption, and they contacted us about adopting Constitution Park.
I'm no. I'm sorry. Yeah. Park. Cottonwood Park. I'm sorry. No. So yeah. And they picked that one. We only have one other park that's adopted right now at is Oaktree Park. So And that's the Lionesses, isn't it? Or That's Oaktree Park is no. It's, a a lady. She was in Marla's Apartments nearby. Oh, okay. Oh, that's nice. Brenda. She worked really hard on those roses. That's so nice. Yeah. The only other item that Nate brought up, I looked at his email, was looking at a possible t shirt for Terry. Oh. Jerica. Not to add more to the list here. T shirt for what? For Terry.
Terry. Because we have those t shirts last year. Oh, yeah. Because I got one. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I mean, the diction. Get one or not? Yeah. Yeah. I mean So we have something to look We can change it every year. So Yeah. Other than that, some Yeah. Sounds good. Member was really happy. She didn't have to wear that old beat up thing that jumped out of the closet at her. So But, yeah. Yeah. Committee members, if you need anything, reach out. Let me know. I can help out too. Alright. There's the button. That's Yeah. Alright. I just want, you know, a way that Next item on the discussion is the playground system at the community
center. Yeah. So I contacted Dakota Playground. That's kind of who, the construction company works with on this kind of stuff. So that's why I contacted them, and they and I said kind of what you guys said. Like, just a people theme, we come up with walls, the climbing walls, sensory boards. And you probably saw the picture, and this is what they came up with. And, Very underwhelming. I that's what I mean, that's what I felt like. I mean, everybody has their own opinion. I mean, I really think the train is cute, and I I like all the elements. But I feel like, yeah, it wouldn't maybe draw a lot of people in.
So I did go back to them after seeing it. Well, I'll show you also they have here's the plan floor plan. And I asked about having the climbing wall and then having it, like, on the wall, which they said they don't usually do. It'd be custom if we wanted to do that. And this is something they've done before. And it's just this little wall over here. But there's still at least a seven foot radius around the climbing wall. And so that all, you know, takes from space from, like, the main play structure. So if we wanted to do that, we would have to consider that.
So I came back to them and I said, okay, why don't we try this? Can we get a proposal for one, like, main play structure and, like, kind of just go all out and see what kind of we can get there? And then another one where there's a main play structure and, b, if there's a little bit of room, we can we'll squeeze in the climbing structure and some of the sensory walls and see what we get a price for that. You know, those two things. So he didn't have them ready yet, so I don't have them to show. But we just wanted to get your guys' feel on things and what what you would like to see. I know that we're hoping for the climbing wall thing and sensory boards,
which I think the sensory boards are easy. He said we can put those on a wall. That's no big deal, and you don't need any radius on those. So that would be easy to do. But, They said that's a requirement for seven feet on a climbing wall like that. What Well, so, like They didn't do, like, a walk climbing see, like, this is where the train is. Even on this, there is this radius that they have to have between equipment and what it is here and then the climbing wall. Obviously, you can see the sensory boards doesn't have any radius on it. So it can't be any a wall or other play structure.
What is that? This is the this is the climbing wall right here. Where is it at? Oh, so it's the This thing right here. So kids could climb on this. So then it has that seven foot radius around it. Would you need a radius if, say, you put something against a wall, but instead of, like, a climbing wall? It's like I don't know. Those Like this. These are just sensory boards. So they they're just, like, things you play with on board. I was thinking more of, like, the box you see at Chuck E. Cheese, but you have it up against the wall,
so it's kind of enclosed so nobody can fall off. But there's still stuff to climb up through, tunnels or something like that along a wall. Would you still need a radius or something like that if there's a wall that nobody can fall out of? So then you can maximize space on something like that. I that's about that. That's a good idea. Mhmm. Nice to understand. Yeah. I definitely agree the sensory panels are wasting the space in the middle. Yeah. Putting those on the wall. And I'm with you on the train, like, cute,
but What are you doing there? So much space. Yeah. Look at the pictures on the wall of trains. Yeah. Yeah. And with a steering wheel up on the thing. Someone to paint a mural. I know. Yeah. And if that climbing wall is just gonna be, like I mean, because that's pretty looks like it's pretty small. The one they're referring to is over it. I mean Yeah. I'll try to talk. No. When you look at that down the next picture, though, it looks like it's three actual different it's there's three panels. Yeah. Yeah. So they climb up and then back down? Yeah.
Up, over, and around. How tall is this room? Something with that. 20. Yeah. 22 something? Because he said looked back at an email, but I, for some reason, I had 18 was the height we could go to in my head, but maybe Well, I think that climbing won't because the the basis was three to 12 year olds. So they're looking at your average height of a three to 12 year old climbing up and over. The ones we're more used to seeing are for, like, okay, obviously, teenagers and people in our twenties and thirties, which is way bigger.
You know? Like, those portable ones, the ROTC come around and put up, you know, their little trailer and that. You know? This one, we're asked for three to 12 year olds. So for three to 12 year olds, that would be okay in their opinion. Not mine, but theirs. But, yeah, I don't know. The bedroom is 20 feet tall. It's 35 by 40. Yeah. I would definitely like to see something else. I don't know. It's pretty underwhelming. The train can be a mural, a painting, a photograph. The sensory thing can be on the wall. Mhmm. And then the main middle play thing can obviously be bigger.
And then, yeah, I seven feet kinda seems a little too much, but, you know, maybe there's a reason for it that I I'm not aware of. Mhmm. This is all. You know, rules. Yeah. So, you know, for a three to 12 year old kid, that would be appropriate. It's not, like, bigger kids or young adults or anything. But I would like to see more more of the system for them to do things on. Mhmm. So I I would not do the locomotive thing. There could be something else. And, yeah, then we can actually have room to put something in there, then that's what it's for.
It's a play area. Right. As we're planning for the community center, we're really kind of, hoping, kind of thinking on that this playground will bring a lot of, like, birthday party rentals. Mhmm. So we want we want it to be something that a number of kids can play on at a time so that, you know, to accommodate that kind of thing. So we wanna try to keep that in mind that That's why I keep thinking of Chuck and Cheese. That's why I'm thinking of a a bigger PlayStation in there so you can have more kids playing on it. The hard part is the cleaning of that stuff. Mhmm. And who's gonna keep that clean? I'll put your name down.
Yeah. I I I think we would get more things to a bigger PlayStation to take, you know, like you said, for the purpose of it, have more people come in on that. Because right now, there's not a lot for a little amount of kids to do, let alone large amounts. So If the ceiling's 20 feet tall, how tall can we make a structure? Can it touch the ceiling? Can it touch the ceiling? Probably not. But I I don't know exactly what that would be. Yeah. That's what I said last meeting. Like, we need to there's there were some in those books, like, we need to go up Yeah.
Because of the limited space. But I'll be interested to see what they come back with one large structure because that takes away all those safety areas. Like, right now, there's so many different areas you have to have around it where you have one big system. You just have the area around it one time instead of Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So You know, though Mhmm. Tim, the one at the zoo. Like, have you seen that one? I think so. Is that what you're thinking about? Like, so it's all the different blocks up the whole wall, and then you climb from this one to this one to this one. Because if there's,
you know, walls there, nobody can fall 15 feet down, but you could still climb 15 feet up. Kids love that stuff. When I left, they were all in our tree or my tree. All our kids were in the tree. So I was like, oh. They can be block structures or something a little more unique, maybe a little more custom, but that's just what I was thinking because you because if you have seven feet around, I mean, you could probably go 70 feet out from the wall then or something like that. At least maybe that's two blocks thick of whatever that structure is,
without having any other safety area around it. Yep. Right. Awesome. And then it's tucked up against the wall, so you can still maximize the rest of the space. Mhmm. I know the play place at Quartz Plus has, like, a little kid's space on one side up against the wall without things to necessarily climb up. I think there's, like, one little slide over there and just some, like, hanging things to, like, run around and play in. And then there's a much taller structure. I don't know if that's an option to kind of, like, put a younger kid area in a corner against the wall.
And then, of course, this is a super tall system. It's a taller room than 20 feet. I'm certain. But Yeah. I I would like to see something different, something taller. Mhmm. A lot of different. And that train. I mean My kids are out of this age, like birthday parties and stuff, but I wouldn't book a birthday party there if looking at the surrounding facilities in other places. Yeah. Gotta have something they want. Mhmm. I mean, our parks outside are have more to do. Get a focus group of kids. Yeah. When do they need to know this?
We're we're not close to having that. That's what I was hoping. Okay. And I did bring some of the books, and they we probably get one a month. They just mail them to us. So if you wanna just take one home just to look through it and get ideas, you certainly can. Or they just sit on the desk. So if it helps to look through it and it inspires some ideas, you can grab one or two or the whole stack. Okay. Is is Dakota Playground what we've always used for them? No. Actually, it's not. We were introduced to them through the construction company because that's who they go through.
We usually do, Saint Croix reparations, which is based out of Minnesota, but Dakota Playground isn't far away, which is even closer. So that would kinda be nice to not buy so much of that shipment and all on all the things. So Sure. I didn't think it sounded familiar. No. Any other comments, questions, concerns on the playground system at the community center? Alright. We'll keep moving on to existing park reports. We'll start with Terry Terry again and kinda work our way clockwise. Orchard Park looks good. I just drove past it today.
Most of the snow was melted, but there's still a little mountain there. It's kinda muddy. Pine Tree Park is good. There'll be need grass needs to be planted and stuff after the winter, but and then what's my other park? It's not on there. Went to the other park. Can't remember the name of it. My other park, that has a few different things. I think the kids were painting with mud all over the equipment, so it really needs to be washed. It's kinda cute. And then the bike rack that's there, there's, like, holes missing all through the thing,
so it needs a new bike rack. There's a pile of sticks and there was a broken metal pole and stuff that looked like a safety hazard. I threw that in the garbage, but there's a big pile of sticks there too under the tree. I don't know. We've had a rough winter. But, oak tree and in constitution, well, they're both fine. There wasn't garbage or anything. I don't think anyone's probably actually going to Oaktree. I mean, really at all. And did I see you on Facebook somewhere the lions are renewing their mission out there.
We haven't they haven't contacted us yet. Okay. I have heard from Brenda that they wanna do that garden again. They've talked about the garden, but they have not contacted us about it. Okay. I can try and talk to Chris about that too because I think he was the one Okay. That brought that up with the lions. Okay. Uh-huh. Otherwise, yeah, both of the those two parks Yeah. I guess with my two parks walk around a couple weeks ago, just that average winter, spring ish, whatever we're dealing with right now stuff. I got nothing to add. Hi. This is Lyle. I have Elm, and, yeah, it's late winter, early spring. The only thing,
again, like, you she talked about planting grasses to get some effective, thistle control in that park is the paramount thing. Otherwise, it's doing good. I mean, I got I've helped the neighbors. I got those self growth trees cut down and pulled last year. Wife and me did what we could with the thistles, but it needs more of an industrial application or maybe just if that's not gonna work, maybe we just take those two beds out of there then because, there's if you can control it, there's nice flowers that are in there. But if you can't,
then you just got a nice bed of thistles. And it's like, you're gonna have one or the other one, you know, and just pull it out if if that's what it is. So that's where it sits right now. This is Tim, and I have the Great Walnut Park. It looks really good right now. Snow has been melting, and it's been draining really well, so we don't have any standing water in the grass. I and all the equipment looks like it's working fine. I didn't see any graffiti. There is still the I think I brought this up before. There's kinda, like, chilled dirt areas, underneath the trees, kind of along the people's yards fences.
And I didn't know if we wanna plant grass there, if something can grow, if the history is nothing does grow there. But it looks like it could it looks like it's been kinda worked a little bit. It didn't just die and then dry. So it looks like the ground's been worked, so I don't know. And then there in in the middle of it too, there's a little, plant structure. It looks like it a small flower bed or something like that. It's just sitting there. I don't know if we put that there or a homeowner put that there. But, otherwise, everything else looks really good. I've stopped by Whistlestop.
It's dirty, but it's fine. There's just typical snert everywhere and Yeah. The rope the ice skating rink's almost gone. It's kinda sad. I mean, it's cool, but sad. Didn't get much use out of it. But other than that, it was fine. Alright. I was just gonna mention quick, the farmer's market. So they have contacted me and they're getting, you know, geared up or whatever. They're gonna be going from June 4 to September 24 this year, so it's a little bit longer. Four to seven on Thursdays. Just wanna let you know. I did talk to, since Lynn isn't the lay liaison, and they don't really feel like they need one.
They said if they need anything, they'll just come through me, let you guys know whatever the question or issue might be. That's kinda where we're at with that. And I was also just going to mention we talked about the software net for Woodbridge. And so we're we started kinda pricing it out, and I've been talking to Mike for maintenance. His concern, of course, is mowing and how we're gonna handle that. Like, are we gonna have something that's anchored down or something we can move? Or it's moving. Anybody could move it. So we're trying to weigh some of the the things with that, so we're still working on the supplement. Thank
you. Alright. Council liaison report. I don't have much. Just the pond dredging and wood bridges going on. You guys all, I'm sure, seen that and smelled it. And so that's who they say, I think that they said it was only gonna be a few days. Right? It doesn't take them very long? But, I think by the end of the month, I'm sure. Yeah. It wasn't very well, a few days. It would, like yeah. Because Summerwood went pretty fast and it went smoothly. And they said there wasn't a lot of, like, clean up to do. They pretty much cleaned it all up. So, hopefully, that that one goes the same way. Safety fair at the elementary school,
if you guys are around 10AM. It starts on Saturday. The police department has a big thing going on with lots of events. So if you guys are free, stop in there. They said it's more geared for adults. So I don't know. But I guess That's a Saturday, right? Yep. That's a Saturday at 10AM at the elementary school. And then the police department also has their kite day coming up on May 9. It was a pretty big deal last year, so I think a few of us should show up and just tell them good job. Walk around, be seen maybe, and support them. I'm also just gonna mention local days,
they've geared up for that. And so we should probably start thinking about if we wanted that scavenger hunt in the park. We wanna maybe adjust that. I know it's hard with the letters because they can't keep getting pulled off, but, sometimes you just start to hang up. Up. Okay. Alright. With that being said, we will be adjourned until May 13. Twice.