Park Board on Wednesday, May 13. First, we'll call the order of the park board members. We'll start down with Tim and kinda work our way clockwise. Tim Tolleson. Lyle Carrenta. Jerica Lyon. Andrew Randall. Melanie Filling. Terry Ehlers. Amber Vora, dealers head counsel. And then Angela Miller on staff. Alright. And we'll welcome our guest who's here today. Can I get your first and last name for the Yeah? Mic? Dennis Schmuckke. I'm here with a, long range planning committee for your assistance. Well, glad to have you. Follow-up there Yeah. For anything. I don't think there's Yeah.
They've just asked to be in the loop as we make decisions about Ash Tree Park, so they were invited. Appreciate that. Yeah. And we just ask that if, anybody has a comment, just raise your hand so the mic can pick it up. Otherwise, that gets jumbled on the video, wherever that's at. Alright. So first item on the agenda tonight is the approval of the agenda, for this park board meeting. Have we all had a chance to look through it? And if there's no items to, add, subtract, move around, I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda for tonight. I'll motion to approve.
I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next item is the approval of the minutes from the March 11 Park Board meeting. I'll give you a second, and if there's no corrections, additions, anything with that, we'll entertain a motion to approve the park board minutes from March 11. This is Jerica. I will make a motion to approve minutes. This is Melanie. I second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Alright. The first item on the discussion tonight is the Ash Tree Park update.
Yeah. So there's not much to say, but, at the council meeting, they did approve the agreement with the Dilworth Lutheran Church for, having the park on their grounds. I did have the staff report attached if you looked at it. But like I said, it's been approved. Now it's just getting new park equipment chosen. We'd like to do it as soon as possible. So I did bring some of the packets or the booklets, I should say, if you want if you wanted to reference any of them, you don't need to. But just need to get an idea of what we're looking for in this park so that I can get some quotes and perhaps bring it to the next meeting
so we can maybe have something to choose from at the next meeting. So any thoughts on what you guys would like to see? This is Tim. Was there a a special budget for this, or was this just out of our general budget? This will come out of the general yeah. The k. General park board budget. Yeah. And just for clarification, Angela, is this going on the Northwest Side No. Of the property, or are we still going on the Northeast Side? Yeah. I don't know that we'd Well, I wasn't part of the Oh. The sameality of all that, but it's my Avenue. We'll go with that. That it was gonna be over in the Northwest
parts of the North. Yeah. That's kinda what we had talked about when we had met, that they would work out, and it was kinda by the baseball field, and they thought that that was a good spot for it. So I thought with the Lutheran church for, like, long term funding in case they extended that parking lot that way too, it'd give you guys a little more room that way. Those were all parking lot. Where there was where it was at, we moved over the other side where ultimately, it is I shouldn't say it doesn't matter to us, but it isn't a big issue with us.
Maybe it's better to put on the Northwest Side just for We just thought if I remember right from that meeting, and someone please correct me because it's been a while, I thought with the spacing and then so that way with the baseball diamonds and everything there, we thought it might get utilized better having it on the other side, compared to the Northeast Side because with the restrictions we have with swings and safety precautions, it's tight. Yeah. To put anything in there. We did talk about that. And we would There's mentions of it here too on this ground lease agreement. Yeah. Because I don't think we'd get much in that space we have now.
So we'll just relax. I mean, that's part of your job, I know what the corner that it's in now, somewhere in there, again not my expertise at all, but somewhere in that corner there is a lot of infrastructure underneath and if we were to ever need to expand the parking lot, which is not a consideration at the moment, but if we did, we run into some stuff out there fairly quickly, I guess. So it's just fine that it's not just for us. Was that part of the agreement
with the city council about the city removing? I believe, yeah. We're we're gonna remove the the old equipment. Yes. But we don't know if there's an agreement to install it on the other side of the church. I would I'm sorry. I have not read through the entire agreement. Is there a reason for that reason? Yeah. The park board voted in favor and recommended relocating Ash Tree Park. Yeah. And I think that's the only mention of And then when I was there, we had that discussion on the nineteenth and September 25. We talked about it again then too, and they were fine with it.
So I think it was just seeing what would fit and if that'd work. I know we talked about maybe if there was the trees might have been an issue, but then there was a big space that looked like it would work. So, yeah. So I guess it depends on, you know, what we decide for equipment. If we wanna go out and I'll take a look at it, maybe we wanna field trip, go see what, you know, the space looks like. I don't know. We've they kind of refine oops. Sorry. Sorry. No. There were we had when we had talked, we kinda talked about just having kind of similar equipment, like a swing, a nice slide, something to climb on. So it was just,
you know, whatever side we want and what fits in there. Kinda that's how we ended at the conversation. I was kinda wondering about there's a if you notice, there's a big old concrete like a picnic table thing that's there, and would that be left there? I mean, again, I would think that matters to us. I'm just curious about it. I get of a beast. Yeah. I think they'd take it out. They've taken them out at other places too. Yeah. I don't think they would leave leave it. And, I mean, maybe we can reutilize it somewhere and put it on the other side.
I don't know. But they've taken them out before, so I I would assume they would take that too. Would they take them out as a picnic table or in little pieces? That I don't know. That is a good question because it is quite big. Yeah. Was this gonna be, like, a park with equipment sitting on grass, or was there gonna be anything done? I think you have to. Yeah. Yeah. I at this point, when you put in a park equipment, you're gonna have to put the wood chips in. Yeah. You don't have a choice? Yeah. It's a safety thing at this point. Okay. Yeah. That park's a little, past the safety regulations of 2026.
So But, you know, people still like it. But yes. Yeah. They don't yeah. Now I think we have to have so much wood chips. Like, doesn't it so deep and so Mhmm. Yeah. It's it's a lot that goes into it. Or do they still be p rocking? I don't think I don't think they do. If I remember right. Yeah. When we did that a while ago. No. You know, it's gotta be the witch. Okay. Well, no. I feel like we need to narrow in our space before we can pick equipment. Because Well I mean, I get that it can be modified, but if we're thinking it's this section,
but they're thinking it's and there's trees and, I mean, we have to consider if we have to remove those trees in our whole budget. Right. I think if we could get an idea of what you guys are looking for, I could bring it to the, you know, the companies that do this, and they would have a good idea of what if what we have would fit or not. You know what I mean? Yep. Because they know what the areas they need for everything. So I feel like that if we have an idea, we could go to them and see what they think and go from there. Because they're really the experts on what space they need around each piece of equipment.
That's kinda what I I feel like we should start with some ideas and and then, we can certainly still look at the space and where it is next time and review it again and see what they've they've brought to us. I was gonna say too if it's they were a Lutheran's property, so we don't wanna put too much there because it's and they're not they're expecting less than that or maybe more than that. So Or could we just kinda go off the idea of what's in there already? Kinda give them that plan and then see what we talked about. What works in that area too. That works in that area. Just at least have a general idea.
Slide Yeah. And A climbing. A climb yeah. There's, like, a climbing spider. Just know she likes her spider. I think there's an old spring is there still that spring thing in there? Yeah. That Yeah. I think those are still there too. Yep. They're just, like, the same type of sump that's there, just updated. Updated? Is there something that might fit better? Yeah. Because those guys know that often a lot better than we do. Mhmm. Alright. Well, yeah, I can let them know that's kinda what we're looking for and see if they think all that would fit fit in the space, where swings take up the most room so that but
yeah, that's what we can do. Yeah. So is this a 2026? Well, I guess it just depends on how quickly I I think at this point, if it was decided on, probably would get it installed until fall is what my guess would be. I know in the past, it depends on, you know, what we pick and when it can get in. Mhmm. Because the supplier I mean, even if we narrow it down to what we want, we kinda rely on them. We've had issues where they've told us something's coming. Right. Yeah. Work out on any timeline now. I just I'll probably do that as soon.
Yeah. I think ideally, we'd try to get it in before it snows. Yes. If it works out Yeah. Budget, all the things, it would be nice to get it in before the end of the summer. Yeah. Start? I think it starts right away. I think after we voted on it, they sent it back. Oh, okay. Yeah. From what I understood. Because they didn't have anything else to go through. They just wanted council to approve it. I think it was already all signed even. So yeah. Or until we get waiting till after the meeting to do the last thing. If we just look at what the upgrades would cost,
what we have in there, at least we know kinda have an idea dollar wise what we're looking at. Yeah. Because that park board budget's gonna go quick. It what is in there right now? I don't even you know, I'm not sure. Okay. I'd have to talk to Perry or Justin see what I'm just trying to think what the slides we put in the last couple of years have ran us. Right. I'm not sure. They've been up they've Mhmm. It's not I wanna say, what, $15.20 grand? I have At least? Yeah. Yeah. I think when we were just ballparking, we were talking around god. If I'm not remembering right, because this discussion was a while ago. We're talking around,
like, 50. So I don't know what we get for that, but that's kind of what I mean, that's our yearly budget anyway. So that's kind of what we were trying to keep it around there. Yeah. And Will someone from the city bring over the lease that has been signed here to the the military church to be signed there? I'm I'm assuming it would be get over there somehow. I'm not sure. I'm not looped in on that part of things. I'm sorry. But I'm sure we'll get there. So So number one is just get the lease signed, and then you guys will do your assessment of that Mhmm.
That corner over there and then figure out what might fit in terms of what kind of equipment to budget. Yeah. Yep. That sounds pretty reasonable. Yeah. Usually, it's, you know, pretty like I said, we pretty much just rely. I mean, once we narrow it down to what we're looking for, the company kinda just takes over from there. So kinda tell you what's gonna work Yeah. Then how much wood chips we need, all that stuff. So they kinda just tell us what to do at some point. Anything else? You wanted me to take back to like I said,
I'm not on a call from a little different area, but I guess for the evening. I don't know if you can confirm where if they wanna move the play around or not. Honestly, I don't think there is even an issue there. No. Yeah. It's just that I know for a fact, I will say for a fact that, it's been talked about where it's at or over in that other corner. And I'm really of no major concern to anybody as far as we're concerned in that other corner. Okay.
So don't sweat that. If you want to check with Elizabeth before you date or something, I'd call you. And I and I have a I'm just not gonna throw up a flag. And I'm sure we'll kind of discuss plans once we know a little bit more, too, what might be going in there because right now, we're kind of shooting from the hip a little bit. May I suggest when you finally get to that point where you're getting at least a cloud of a Yep. Just provide some send it over to Elizabeth. Yep. She'll share it with the counselor or whoever who just said this is looks like
they're gonna do. Yeah. And, Angela, just for a time line's sake, and there's no right answer on this one, how long does it take for those companies to get back to us roughly? It depends on the comp usually, they once I sent them something, probably, like, two weeks, I would get sent back. Oh, okay. Pretty quick. I was thinking too much. Yeah. No. No. It usually goes pretty quick. I'm sure that's all computerized, you know. Yeah. Usually, some take longer. But That sounds good. Mhmm. Yep. Any other discussion points on the, Ash Tree Park project or update?
Just for thinking about, like, our budget once we know what it's gonna cost. Like, do we k. So in the end of for 2025, it said that, there was a total of a 100,000 in the park capital budget because they added 50,000 to our normal 50,000, and that was to fix up the warming house, which we opted not to do. So I don't I know no one here knows this answer, but just wondering if that's still something that was was that just budgeted for that year and then it got pulled back out?
I can ask and find out. Yeah. It just says You know, or does it have a Put an additional 50 into the park capital budget for 2025, which brings the total to 100. And then it talks about the warming house, but we didn't choose to fix that. Sounds good. I can find out. Yeah. It's I've, we should find out, but I don't I think it's still there. I don't think they did anything that I've heard with that being we didn't fix the farmhouse, but I think it'd be a good idea to confirm for sure. Yeah. I mean, as we're getting their quotes and knowing what we want and Especially if we're doing
something at community center too and that's coming out of our budget, we're gonna need to know. I didn't know. We're gonna need to know what's going on. So yeah. Absolutely. Alright. Well, I think we no problem. Yes. Yes. Thank you. I think we got a good kind of a game plan going for that Ash Tree Park project going forward. Next item on the discussion for tonight is the community center playground update. Some proposed designs here. So I think the last time we met, we saw the designs that were a little lackluster. I don't know if this one was available.
No. No. This is brand new. Right. Oh, shoot. I I was gonna try to I'm sure the price is in this proposal somewhere. But, Yeah. So this is just, you know, something that I don't know. Portsmouth, if you're ever in there, it's kinda more contained and has the sides on it. It looks open so you can see what the design is. But they're it's all in I can close, like, little cubes or whatever. So you don't need as much space around it, you know, like, for the other equipment in case kids fall off and stuff like that. So we can get kinda more in there for the space. I don't remember the exact amount.
It might be here at the end of this one, but, it was over 100,000. That's 120? Yeah. It'll be $1.25. And then but that did include flooring, which is a significant cost as well. Did you find out the height of that room? The the height the ceiling is 20 feet. Feel like it's 20 feet. Yeah. This would touch the ceiling. Yeah. So I think this one gets pretty close. But yeah. So allowed to touch the ceiling. Well, it would be enclosed. So it gets pretty close. Yeah. Mhmm. I mean, we'd obviously, you know,
make sure before they that's clear, like, all the corners. But I did I got the dimensions from the construction company. So, yeah. So, yeah, that's what we got. Like I said, it doesn't include flooring. I did get another one. It came to me after let's see. After the, let me just close this out of this. Where am I? I see this up here. From Weber. They took a long time to get back to me. But, theirs was, I mean, not as impressive as the other one. Their design, but they did some of this other stuff here. A lot of open space in there compared to Yeah.
I was gonna go back to them because they did if you see in the I don't know if you can tell here in the floor plan I did tell them that this store, we had decided to move it over here so that there would be more room for, you know what I mean, not having to have, you know, clear a doorway. So maybe they didn't realize that and thought maybe they could maybe they could fill in the space a little more, I suppose. I was gonna I just got it today. So, yeah. So I was gonna mention that, see if they can make it a little bigger. Again, kind of spendy. But I feel like this is kind of a better option than what we were
seeing before. Mhmm. And we might just need to use other parkour funds, perhaps. Yeah. Something we want to do. Question, I think Yeah. It was, like, a 100,000 was kinda what was budgeted. Correct. That's what was in the For the the planned construction. For the community center for a playground was a 100,000, which when you add in the flooring, we're just never gonna get under that without it being Like, what's the ballpark with the flooring cost? We're talking, like, 20,000 or I would probably say, like,
30 to 50. And I was thinking 50. Yeah. Probably 50. Yeah. Yeah. I know it's very expensive. But yeah. And there's lots of different options. You know, they do the poured where it's all just one piece they pour it in. You can get the tile ones, which I think are a little cheaper, and you can replace them, but they kinda wear out faster. So, you know, they can do different colors and designs on them. I mean, there's lots of different options with the flooring, so we could always just get the budget choice if we really feel like that's not where we wanna put our money, but I could look into it more. I just kind of briefly looked at flooring and yeah.
So is there a price for this other option? Yeah. Is it not in the packet? Oh, this one that's this is the one I just got. Yeah. I wonder if it wasn't there. I wonder if it was in the email. Let me pull up that email. Let's see. Oh, here's It'll be right there? The installation is It's like It's like total here. Did they include flooring? The flooring in it. Oh. Let's see. Safety tile? Yeah. Well, yeah. What is the price they gave us? That'd give us an idea what Well, I think it's the safety tile. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,
I'm sorry. I have to pour it over here. I'll just you know, here we go. Oh, that's weird. Well, that's not terrible. That wasn't too bad. Oh, I was thinking it was gonna be way more. With the bigger playground. Yeah. Because we take their flooring and the other Yeah. Yeah. Greens to the floor. We'll take this later. Yeah. I was expecting to be a lot higher for the flooring, but But that's that tile too that you said is probably cheaper. Yeah. And this one is the tile. Yeah. Yep. Right. Put on tile. Yeah. So that's what we we just have other things that they're showcasing here, of course, but, I think yeah. I I kind of like in this I'm liking this idea.
It's on the park floor. There's a system, the soft side, I think is what they call them. Mhmm. Is this it again? I like that too. Is that it? That's it. Mhmm. Because I saw in a quote there was something about a caboose. Yeah. Let me Oh, what was that? I was It was, like, 18,000 for a caboose or something. Is that what they were gonna put by the door? Yeah. Oh, is that what that is? Right there. Yeah. I feel like a bigger place is for that. Yeah. My opinion is the one in here Mhmm. Seems still more conducive to more children than this does.
Mhmm. Mhmm. I mean, I think in the end, the, costs are gonna probably be pretty similar to that one. Yeah. If we got if they made it bigger, it would become more than the other price here. Probably. Is it worth going back to them and asking if they can go bigger and I mean, if they're coming in cheaper. I don't know. But I don't know if they are really. If they're actually coming in higher because it'd be $1.50 something without the flooring. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's what this Right. It is. Is like a little zip line thing.
What is it? Kinda cool. This black piece Oh. Which I thought was kinda cool. I feel like the this one seems more for older and younger kids, and the more colorful playground is looks like same for smaller kids. There's gonna be, like, a net around most of this or what keeps the kids from falling off. Right. Yeah. A net? Yeah. Like Like the same Or a plus. Okay. Does it come in different colors? Yes. Okay. Yeah. We could do anything. This is what they gave us. Yeah. I don't know. I recommend that,
you know, we use some of our funds. But, especially if there's that extra thing in there. Right. Like without knowing what our numbers are and what it might be over there at the church. Right. My opinion is it's definitely worth it to go bigger. We get to do this once. Mhmm. Yeah. And if we want to attract people, we need to do it the right way. Otherwise, people aren't gonna come and then what's the point? I think it's unique. I mean, Quartz Plus has that, but that's not by us. Right. So I don't know. Have you guys been to the Moorhead Library?
You have the playground in there? Yeah. Oh, dear. Because we love it. It's cute. Yeah. Have you ever been to the playground part? Yes. The playground at the Moorhead Library? Yeah. We I was there for, like, eight years. Didn't go. Sure. You So we came in and went to the conference room on that side and you really get to look around and it was really But it's a system. Not as big as this one, but it's a system like this. Yeah. But when is it free? It's free. Yeah. Oh, I I kinda have some pictures, but they're not big. And the walking track is for you guys too. Oh, they have a walking track? Yeah. Yeah. I Oh,
that. I saw it. They're they're walking. Yeah. It's a very nice walk track. And And then sits on the playground. What you Small business center. I did see that where you got your own business. They have a a lot of space for that, so it's not cramped and you're able to do that. So that's really nice in there. But I think this one is more accommodating to a wide range of kits because we're looking at five ish to 12 Mhmm. When we're talking. I think that this one here does more of what we want. This is it as a play capacity of 95.
I saw that. Isn't that insane? Yeah. It's pretty cool. So if we did this, so would we size. We'd extend the budget as much as we could because we wouldn't be able to do anything flooring. Right? So we would Right. Okay. Right. So first, I have to make sure that this is okay to, like, take I'm guessing it will be I can't I the take part for our budgets to, you know, supplement this, and I I think that it will be fine. But it yeah. I mean, it's gonna take a significant amount, especially if we're gonna be doing Ashby Park. So it's something to consider as well. I know we talked about the things,
like, on the walls. I wonder if we could add that, like, the year after or something. Like, does it have to go with another year's budget? Yeah. Yeah. Like, if I mean, again, maybe it doesn't all have to be done at one time. There you go. Mhmm. And then, long with doing that for the public coming in to use it, that's fresh milk, something different, you know. Mhmm. It keeps it alive to keep them coming to you guys. So Yeah. One wall a year. So I can get another idea from the other company as well, something closer to the size, see what they say for price, and they include the flooring. That's nice that they help with that part too.
Mhmm. This one is kinda like not that it matters that much, but it's like an online order they send it to you. You kinda put it together yourself. Not that any of this is bad because it probably saves this money in the long run. But the other one is a little more they are based out of a Minnesota. We're local. We've worked with them many times. There's a little more, I don't know, comfort in this other one. But I don't really know what I'm getting into with this this company here. It was like submit the thing online, and they sent me an email, and it wasn't very personal. Can you hear me? Again, it again, it could have dropped me just fine.
Right? Like, they do all these all the time, but they're nice to see what the other company that's working for. Ask the Minnesota company, can you design something that's 20 feet tall, like 24, and houses 95 kids. Oh, so what is this? Ages three to 10. Interested in what? If we found something that we like, what could you do similar? Yes. I I can I could do that? I could sign up to them and see if they're what what their reaction is. And then It's like the features just to are Yeah. There's just so many more features,
it seems like. In there. Okay. Would you be willing to, like, check-in with Go Play and see if they give flooring estimates? Or do they Yeah. I can do that. Yep. Alright. Any further comments on the community center playground designs? Do they have a set time of when we have to? I know they kept saying sooner the better, but, like, is there a set time? Point, we still have plenty of time Yeah. To still get it figured out. I probably I I would say by the end of the summer, we should have it figured out so we can order it,
make sure we get everything on time. Yeah. Alright. More to come. Next item on the discussion for tonight is the Southside social update. Yeah. I think you guys kind of know most of the stuff. We have the date set there. It's June 10, which happens to be my birthday, so I might not be in there. It's a milestone one too, so yeah. We'll be celebrating. So, yeah. Florida sailing did agree to do the food, so that's great. UC Hope is gonna help, fund part of the bouncy house. We've got AirMed coming. I'm gonna follow-up with the farmers market, see if they can bring some vendors again,
because the farmers market will just be starting here in June, so I'm sure they're just getting everything all lined up. Dilworth, police and fire departments will be there. Ice cream for West Maine. Dumb. Is AirMed bringing the helicopter? Yes. And that's it's out on the call. Yeah. Yep. Wow. Yep. Yeah. I think that'll be interesting to see how Yeah. Yeah. They respond to that. But I think I just have to finish up the flyer and I think most of everything is good. Maybe just a couple of tweaks maybe for some of the things. But, we just need to figure out, like, some prices and,
you know, the door prizes or whatever. Other than that, I think we're pretty much set unless there's something we feel like there needs to be discussed at this point. You brought up a good point, Jerica, on how do you keep those cute three gallon pails of ice cream cold without it, you know but it's, like cardboard stuff, so if it gets wet, Oh. I believe. Right? It's usually that, you know, thick cardboard. Well, that's what because they said so many gallons. Right? So they were gonna Three three gallon containers. Three three gallon. Okay.
Yeah. I was like, gosh. Should I just bring my deep freeze out there? I just was thinking, do you yeah. Somebody haul one out? Do we rent one? Or Yeah. I don't know. If I can put my food in your freezer, I can bring a deep freeze. Probably clean my deep freeze out. I don't even know what's in there anymore. Yeah. I don't know. That's something. Or do we I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I think it's like a drink board. You know? Should be Yeah. Because I mean, if it gets warm, it's gonna that's gonna not be good. And deep freezes are light. Like, they're not heavy. The only thing I can think of is,
like, this ice cream is very frozen. And so if you think about, like, if you're serving an ice cream or a vent, if you just pull it out of the freezer and put it on the counter, it has to sit for twenty to thirty minutes before it's a scoopable. So that gives us a little time before it's all melted. I think It could be a shake by the end of the thing. I did ask, Todd from West Main if he has any suggestions. Okay. Okay. Okay. We'll make the balls and stones as for sweeps. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Alright. Guess you can always see what dry ice costs. Yeah. I was thinking that. Like, where do you even buy that? I don't I don't even know.
No. I didn't know. Because I thought that too, but I didn't know where to check. I've never came across dry ice. You know? I wasn't a wild where you can buy it. So I have no idea. For the, inflatable obstacle course, is there just gonna be the bouncy house and obstacle course for inflatables this year? Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. We replaced the there was a game like a baseball game last year and a bouncy house. So instead of the baseball game, it's a bigger obstacle course. Okay. That seemed to be the most popular, and so most of the budget We didn't have a third.
Am I completely wrong? It was baseball and, like, skeeball. Yeah. I think there was three. Okay. I went wrong. Yeah. Or skeeball? Some I feel like there's something. Really? I'm not I never I only did the baseball one. I did the one the one we can't remember is the one I did. But I can't remember anyway. You guys have great memories. But, yes, only the two. But I think the obstacle course is probably gonna be pretty big. I mean, our I didn't look at the measurements, but It looks Yeah, it looks pretty big. It's one of the, you know, the longer ones. Yeah. They were cute. One kid goes in one side,
and then they kinda go wrong and come back out the rest. I think so. I'm trying to think where I might have saved. If I go to games to go, I'll be able to find it. Oh, there we go. That's a good idea. There's an obstacle course tab somewhere. Yeah. Not in there? There it goes. Okay. It's this one. 40 feet. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. That should be fine. There we go. Committee members, is there anything any anything else I need to do for this event you guys can think of? Yes. Can we talk to the railroad this time?
Angela? I'm not I'm not actually being smart aleck. I mean, for real. Just let them know we're having an event. We can tell them. It's because events. The railroad does what the railroad does. I know. But Hunter said they're only supposed to be parked there for fifteen minutes. Yeah. You're like, yes. I've been having a lot of trouble with many veterans. I understand where you're coming from. The good news well, good news doesn't affect this, but they were here recently for city council, and they are all about closing this crossing so doing something different. So, eventually, we wanna have to deal with it,
but that doesn't help this year. Well, this is a yearly thing now. Right? The South Side Social. So there you go. I think that's the plan. So I can see how we can go after this one, I guess. So, prizes, are you gonna order them or should we grab them from somewhere? I can certainly help with some of that. Any should we do the was the pool pass thing a big draw? Did people like getting someone won that one. I think it was Jess. It was Jess. I think that's fine. I don't know. Like, what kind of place is that? Any thoughts? Gave away, like, a bunch of water stuff last year.
Yeah. Like I don't know. Ask Melanie. Three of them. Her whole family won them all. In a row. Oh. Yeah. We'll do that. I'll do the cool pass. I'll think one of those again. That one is that's an easy one for us to do. Mhmm. And then yeah. Or just some are outdoor game things probably. Right? Yeah. That makes sense. I'll leave it there. Okay. Yeah. Yep. When you mentioned door prizes, that reminded me of something from the tree lighting. There was something about a different way to do the prizes, like how to announce them or or send you know, instead of reading the name and going on and nobody there and all that.
I don't remember all the details of that, but nobody was brought up. Yeah. Where you don't have to be present to win. Right. Yeah. I could definitely do that. Just, like, post it social media or website or something with the with one. What we we found them, obviously, whatever. We decide. Oh, yeah. I think we should just draw them after the fact. Just after the fact and not give any out there? What could that do? Or do you think that it that's the excitement out there? I think that's the excitement. The excitement? Yeah. I mean right. Not present to win, but we'll draw them, and if you get it, you can take it home with you. I think we should set a time.
We're gonna do that? Yep. Okay. That's the idea. It becomes awkward trying to yell at everyone and get them all, you know? So the event goes to 07:30. I think like 06:30? Or is that too early? I'm just gonna leave or I feel like I said that's the 05:30 to 07:30 is, like, 07:15. Something that we could consider for a door prize is there's a new restaurant opening in the high host spot early June. If we wanted to, like, do a gift card or gift certificate to that place, I don't know if that would be appealing for anyone,
but just kind of keep it local to Love Girls Head. Yeah. Didn't West Maine talk about a gift card too? They did. So that was I don't know any other details than that. But I believe West Maine also mentioned a gift card. I think that's a good idea. Keep it local. Let me know what it's for. So I think that's great. Yep. What's the new restaurant gonna be called? Grill's. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Anybody ever ask Red Hen for gift cards or anything to for giveaways? We have for local days before. Okay. And, it was we get some it's too bad high, hopefully. He's always so good.
Mhmm. Oh, yeah. Okay. But, yeah, Brad Hand does once in a while. I didn't know if we tried people we haven't asked in a while. Right. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. You could reach out to them. No. Otherwise, try to get there early if you can, and I'll set up. I'll try to get there when I can. You all can make it. Is there any day else that cannot be there that day? I might be a little late Might be true. Depending on how fast they go to the Sanford world. Okay. Don't wanna miss the helicopter. Yep. So I could bring us There we go. We'll arrive in style. Which time would you want us there? 05:00?
Or I think so. I don't feel like there's a whole lot of setup. It's I think five. If something changes, I'll let you know. Yeah. I'll just need people to man a want someone to man the bouncy houses. Mhmm. I'm not sure if UC Hope plans to be there. I'm assuming probably they were last year, and they kinda manned one of them. Always need someone to stand at the other one. Okay. And then Emma's has scoop ice cream. Oh, yeah. One or two. It might get tired. I have scoop ice cream. Sweet.
I'm happy to scoop ice cream. Scoop for me? Do you wanna put on your set, like, your packing list? Are you writing things down? Yes. A table for the ice cream. And there's that the shelter, but people like to sit in there. They did last year and eat. Did we rent extra porta potties last year? I can't remember. There's because they're that they just have out there. Right. I didn't know if we got an extra one or not for that. Okay. I know Melanie talked about a kickball tournament. Do we wanna do anything with that? Or not a tournament, a game. Use the baseball field, that's fair. Mhmm.
Oh, I think that would be fun. I think so too, but I don't know if people will come and do it. Yeah. I think if we had Why don't if we put it on the sign I mean, or on the flyer? Yeah. Yeah. Like, kickball at six or something. Yeah. Kickball. Whatever you want. I don't know. Citywide kickball or something. People can join and leave as the game goes. Right now. Okay. I'll take a little flare. That sounds good. We need a kickball. Alright. Sounds good. Next last item on the discussion for tonight is the book wag. Yeah. So I had gotten an email with you a few months ago now,
but, I mean, something that does book walks. The one that emailed me, actually, they do bilingual ones where it's you have it's in Spanish, now, English, or whatever language you pick, I suppose. And so I think you kinda saw some of the images there. And so wondering if this is something we wouldn't wanna consider to put in a park at some point. You know, put out around walking path or something, and it's just a book. And then some of the other companies, you can rent the books so that you don't keep them. You can just rent it, send it back. They send you new books. You can switch them out. Some you just buy them and you you switch them out yourself,
keep them, and do them again later. Just wanted to see what you guys are. That and personally, with budget wise, we are I know. I'm thinking gonna be crushed. I think it's a good idea, but it might not be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wonder if this would be something that's fun to have up, like, in the winter in the community center. It you know, like Oh, yeah. I don't know. Yep. Yeah. Along that big long mezzanine there? Yeah. Or Highway, wherever you wanna go. Yeah. Mhmm. I don't know. I really like the idea, but, yeah, I mean, money wise, I think we'd have to wait.
Why they didn't do it. Yes. That would be the yeah. Let me switch books. So where I grew up, like, our summer reading program did a book walk, and just the librarian just, like, laminated pages of a book and set it up in the park for two hours, like, once a month every month in the summer was a new book. And that was kind of cool, but it was just kind of a DIY thing that she did, and it wasn't $5. So Well, yeah. You can also do it I mean, these were all pretty, like, more permanent things Yeah. Like where you can get them printed on, like, those yard signs.
Mhmm. Right? No. That would be less cost. Because most of the cost is the the stand or whatever you're gonna put it on. Yeah. It says there's DIY installations using lawn signs or smaller displays Mhmm. As little as a 100 to $500 per story. If we wanted to try it out and see if people like it, we could always do, like, a Christmassy one or a dog themed one at one of our events and just kind of monitor people who like and use it or if it just is ignored. Mhmm. That's a good idea. That's a good idea. Sounds like the temporary display would be the way to go. Yeah. And I see what you're saying because,
like, Paws in the Park, you could have a story for, you know, like, from there to the arena or whatever, you know, along there. Tree lighting ceremony could have it from, like, where we're doing the s'mores up to where the horse carriages are already on some sudden look at, you know, going along the path rather than just trudging along. So I I see a lot of merit in what you said there. Uh-huh. I have such a good idea. And then based upon that, yeah, then rotating it instead of, like, rotate it, you know, amongst the parks. You know? Of course, if it's,
like, 16 to 20, we need some of the bigger parts. But that might be something kinda neat to, for Keystone, you know, because there are ways saying, well, why don't you put more in there? Well, Well, that would be something kinda neat and different to put it in up there, you know, as, you know, a Yeah. Like, first trial experience. You know, we got, you know, a quick walk at Keystone because it's circular, and there's the path already. So and that would get some attention going that way. So so the question is, do we attempt to do that this year or next year or go for the lower 100 to 500 and struggle with it.
See how we build it. Like, my thoughts would be to table it for later. I'm thinking. Because I think we're gonna So we got yeah. We got a lot of money going on real quick here. Until we know more of that, what the Ash Street Park's gonna be, what the community center's gonna be, where we at. And did we say yes to soccer nets also? Oh, yeah. Mhmm. Yep. We got a net a lot of chance to shop for those that, they're they're not cheap. We're looking a couple of thousand. Did we decide if we were doing one net or two nets? I think what the plan was is to get two and then just put one
out for one out for now and see how it goes. And then we, like, would have, like, a backup or bring out the other one if we feel like we need it. When I talked to Mike, that's kinda what he thought. He's like, let's just start with one, you know, because for them, it's obviously he's always thinking of maintenance and stuff. Let's just see how the one goes, and then if we feel like we need the other one to put it out or else we'll be a backup if something happens. One breaks or whatever. That was his suggestion that we would get to is the idea. A couple thousand each is what they are. I mean, because it needs to be sturdy,
you know, make it through winners, etcetera. Got it. No? Any other thoughts, comments on the book walk? Otherwise, we'll keep on moving. Alright. Existing park reports. We'll just start with Tim and work our way clockwise. Walnut Tree Park is looking good. I didn't see any issues with graffiti, grass anything like that. There is one of the the swings the one that you can sit in is it's like the chain is twisted so it's it's tilted And I tried to untwist it but if you twist
it at the bottom it twists at the top and I have no idea how it got twisted because it's like you have to take the chain off to get it untwisted and put it back on. So I don't know if that's something maintenance wants to look into just because especially for that swing, it's tilted enough where once chain is kinda loose, the other's tight. Sure. So, otherwise, the park looks good. Alright. Well Hi. I have the elm tree, and, I did check on it twice since last meeting. And then this afternoon, I went over there again. I got a huge big bag of sticks.
The two property owners on their tree branches, you know, break off. So when I filled up one old big one, took that to the stick pile, the major concern about that is the distal issue around the outside and in the two flower beds. And, I know I did email Mary back. She's I got a person who adopted the park, but she's also had didn't pry or anything, but she last seen she had a neck brace on and had some back problems. So I don't know how much she's gonna be around. But what I'm thinking of based upon this year,
if the thistle stuff can't get controlled because it's it's a big deal there and it goes to seed quick and everything, you might, you know, give it one more summer, but then kinda think about, okay, in the fall, take the flower beds out, just go to grass. Because, I don't I don't have time to go out there and weed the flower beds all the time. And, you know, I I already went there four times last year. I know I was using my own Roundup to try to kill it, and then I told I can't do that. So it's like, okay. So, I mean, at least that was kinda keeping it down, but as soon as they stopped, they started going again. So
I you know, long range, if that doesn't get solved in that, you should take those two flower beds out. Just put it all in grass. Otherwise, not yeah. It was one bag of, bloating garbage from you know, like, it all happens when you go down the alley and they dump you all into the garbage truck. The lighter stuff will blow in. But it was you know, it's understandable. But yeah. I think oh, and then the other tree did get cut down. It was up in the corner there. And so that is gone. There's a little stump and I don't know. They're gonna do stump removal or
don't know. It's usually some start to remove that at separate times. So they take the trees down and then when all that's done, then they have them come through and take stumps out a few days later. Okay. Well, yeah. It's yeah. Because that was, like, a month ago, and I could see with the wind and the cold weather and everything. So but, that's elm in a nutshell. Mhmm. Okay. Oak tree, all good out there. Two sections that need some grass in them other than the rose area, rose bush area. But there's other two sections that are pretty much perfectly square that are
were dug up or something. Okay. Need some grass. And someone was over there with that community garden? Does it look like a spot for the community garden? No. You know, because the community garden's, like, along Yeah. What, the West Side? Yeah. See, this is closer to, like, the house. Like, I was trying to look at, like, the property line. I don't know if it was there, but Okay. Yeah. No. There's two sections that are I mean, it looks intentional, but I don't know what for. Okay. Do we know anything, Tim? Did you I haven't had a chance to talk to Chris yet, and I assume he's gonna be pretty busy because he's the one that's opening,
Cafe ten. But I'll try and send him another email, see if I can get an answer otherwise. Yeah. There's like Lyons. See if because I haven't heard from what I've seen from Lyons meetings. There hasn't been any mention of community garden or anything like that. So I'm thinking that they dropped it, and I assume Chris was the driving force behind that. He's got a lot going on right now. So degree. And then Constitution. Everything is fine there, except on, forgive me for my lack of knowledge. But like the transformer box,
is that what those are? The big, like, electrical box? There's graffiti on the backside of it. Okay. Like I think there's only one cover on it? The the box had a cover on it? It's the huge Oh, that okay. I don't know what that is, but the I have a picture. Okay. It's the huge something box that's right by the road. Yeah. I got it. On the back. And then this is something that I feel like we wanna take time to do. But I'm just curious, the shelter, is that the park and city, or is that the racetrack? It's It's the city's, but the rate of the
club or whatever uses it and maintains it, cleans it, helps it, uses it. It is ours. The on the back seat. The benches are real. Just an eyesore. The benches? Yeah. They need to be painted, but not just paint slapped on them because that's what has been done the last 10 times, you can tell. It's all peeling off and I've seen that when I was over there. You've seen it? Yeah. It looks really Yeah. Not good. Only because my kids are messing around. I had to yell at them and get away from there. But, yeah, I I did see that when we were over there for a fire hall thing.
It does look like it could use, like, a scrape and Yeah. Like, maybe even It doesn't look like it's if anyone wants to do that, but it's it would look nice. Yeah. Alright. I did Woodbridge. Walked through it a little while ago. Didn't see anything. Drove by tonight. Looked okay on the outside. Kids were playing kickball in a makeshift kind of baseball field there. Kind of going through that again here soon. Keystone, I haven't seen much out there besides the normal. I'm heading to my napters, so I'll send you an email. Okay. Apple orchard is good.
There's some weeds or grass growing in the volleyball court. Otherwise it was good. Do you know what it is, like, used? I have no idea. Is that a 16 Of Wood Park? It is. Yes. When we walk there, I don't see anybody playing on the wall anymore. I saw kids playing on the swing set today, and that was it. Okay. My list of stuff was fine. There was people playing. I don't I don't see anything real crazy. Same stuff that's always there. Graffiti on this whole slide. It won't come off, but that's about it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Should we think about assigning someone ashtray then?
Since we're not I don't know. I think I only have one mark. Lyle, did you want to take it? Because you have just had that one with us over here. Right? It's up to you or whatever. If I voted against us, continue in Ash Tree, so I would rather Not. Tim. I've already against it too. Maybe I don't want that. I want tears, and I have two parts. Moving on. I would take it if you had to take one of my parts. Take ash. Okay. No. That's good. Alright. Council liaison report. No. Not much. Peyton is leaving. I have that. And Becky's retiring.
Becky is retiring. Met met her, but she's retired. The hell. There's not really a whole lot that I can think of that we need to talk about dessert. Anything that you need. I had a couple of things I was just gonna bring up. We did order the dog station bag things. I don't think they put them up yet. We ordered five. They just wanted to try it out, see how it worked before we invest something for every park. So Sat Maintenance wanted to know if there's certain parks you'd like to see them in. Like, I mean, they could certainly just go for whatever they got, but they thought they would see what you guys thought. And Well,
if you got five, we definitely think, you know, Whistle Stop and Cottonwood and then Woodbridge. Mhmm. I definitely think those three should. To be quite honest, it's it would be if you got extra, okay, put one in l, but, you know, I think the other ones see more traffic. And, what do you think? Walmart or Cottonwood? Walmart gets traffic, but, I mean, there's people walking through using that. So What about Keystone? Right? I was just thinking about that. Their dogs? Yeah. Yes. I would have. Okay. Well,
that'd be four, and then I guess Walmart could use one. But, you know, he's still I think anything that we can do about. Right? And then isn't Birch Tree have one too, Nate? Birch or climb? Maybe Birch is the climbing structure. Right? Yeah. That might be it. I haven't noticed any dog stuff out there because there's just that one big round path or whatever. Mhmm. Okay. Yeah. Go with whatever on the fifth one. Okay. We'll see. Yeah. That's what they think too. Okay. So I was just gonna let you know I mean, as I price them out and, each one each of the boxes is a $115.
So we got five of them. And then we got a case of the bags. So the whole case was 160, but it comes with 3,200. But they come with the headers, like, they're combined together and, like, you can fit, like, two of those in each thing. So it'd be enough to get you some in each of them and a little extra if they'll rebuild it in the summer. So that's why we went with that many. So that's why I'm gonna do it. They're they're gonna try to just put it on, like, a post that's already there. So we didn't order poster. It was just the box anyways. And then, I was gonna mention the adopt the part. Yep. That,
she was adopted. So make sure we're talking that up if anybody's asking about that. We only have three that are adopted right now. So My daughter brought I told my daughter about that. Now she wants to adopt walnut because they wanna put flower beds in. Oh. Well, maybe you can take the blocks from home and take over to walnut and put it there. And then I mentioned the farmer's market starts June 6. Mhmm. So I haven't seen a lot of applications come in for that. Hopefully, they're getting some. I did wanna just bring it up because we talked about the Northside Park the
last time just briefly, and I know we have some new members. Just to kinda get an idea, this is our future land use map, and so you can see this section here is where it would be, this green. The green indicates park. So it kind of gives you an idea in town where it is, is in north of those baseball fields. It's a significant amount of space. So kind of see what kind of snow. This is kind of a long range plan. Plan. It's not gonna be any time soon. There's gotta be a lot of planning. We really need someone to develop along 8th Street before we can put the infrastructure
and, like, get a street into that area. That's part of the other thing that we have to wait for. So, but I just wanted you guys to kinda see where that would go. Like I said, it's up here. It's it's gonna be pretty big. The next slide is just oh, I'm gonna just go on again here real quick. Oops. Sorry. This is a rendering that was done many years ago, and it's just an idea somebody had back when. You can see that, you know, including a lot of different things. The baseball fields, there's like a pond pool splash pad, things like that are in there. Not like this is not the plan.
This is just something that came just so you have an idea. Like, we're looking for these are the type of things we're being looking for in this park. We want walking paths through the whole thing. Mhmm. So this kinda gets you an idea of what we're looking for. So it's it's more regional. Right? Yeah. It's yes. It's gonna be a much larger, right, park, obviously. So How big is it supposed to be? Because I Well, you know, I I am not good with, like, acres and numbers. But, I mean, like I said block or You can see the where those baseball fields are. And then it's,
like, twice as I mean, it's because I wanna say Peyton said one time is, like, three or four times the size of, like, Bob Marshall Field. That whole area would be Yeah. Oh, big. Yeah. It it's big. It's a lot. 40 I heard one forty acres and the other one was 60 acres. Yeah. I don't believe it's trying to get certain Yeah. Per acreage and then a 100 acres of middle class housing. Right. So middle income, I guess. Yeah. And on on the like I said, this is the future land use map. And so on the map, this is, like, the yellow is, like, single family homes. This would be more multifamily,
like townhomes, condos, maybe apartments, or whatever. Same thing over here. So that's kind of what they're looking for around the park. Like I said, we're just we need a developer to get in there before we can just by putting in a street just take just a little park. Yeah. And then part of it being that size is just gonna have parking so that because it's Yeah. There'll well, there'll be a parking lot. It's not gonna be just the diamonds and the pool splat. You're gonna actually have parking, and there's gonna be restrooms in there and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Mhmm. So when you start putting all that in there,
it it takes up a lot of land space real quick. So Yeah. So I just wanna show that. And then I was just gonna briefly put this up. We did a survey. This was probably five years ago now, what people wanted to see in their in the the regional park. And, where's the slide over for? Here. What do you think amenities people would most enjoy? So we can take a little closer look. You know, you can see, like, how many people, you know, opted you know, voted for whatever, green space, playground, picnic tables, shelters, benches, walking paths, everyone obviously built parking,
church where you can see the things that people had mentioned they'd like to see. I think we have a few more like that here. Let me just What recreational activities would you like to see? Get a little closer in here. Yep. Geocaching. Do people still geocache anymore? Pick them all. Yeah. So anyway, so I just wanted to see some of the newer members what this is all about. So that's kind of all. I don't want to take any more time, but just kind of bring you up to speed on what the regional park is. Like I said, it's it's out there. We're not gonna be doing this for a while.
So alright. That's all we got. Alright. Any other Have we talked about I know we I talked about it, but has there been any more talk about opening another bench in that Woodbridge? Because they took that picnic table out. I did. They replaced it with the bench, so now there's just one there. Put it on the maintenance Okay. The list for them last time. So every time you guys have a meeting, I write it down, and I get it to maintenance. And I do this. That's I put shade it. On there again. K. Yeah. Okay. Alright. With that, we will be adjourned until July 8.