You a little freezing, are you? Alright. Since it's 06:30, we will call to order this meeting at Dilworth Park Board, Wednesday, March twelfth. First, we'll welcome our guest, Hunter. Mhmm. And then we'll have a roll call from Park Board, and we'll start down on the right side. Lynn Park. Kyle Kurita. Jerica Lyon. Andrew Randall. Nate Dix. Melanie Filling. And from the staff side, Peyton Mestero. And before I proceed, I'll go. All right. Have we all had a chance to look through the agenda for tonight? Yep. Do you have any additions?
Anything we wanna move around? If not, we will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. This is Jerica. I will make a motion to approve the agenda. Park, I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Alright. Next item is approval of the minutes from January 8. Give everyone a minute to look through those. We have any corrections, additions. If not, we will look at a motion to approve the minutes from January 8. Lynn Park, I'll make a motion to approve. Lyle Krento, I'll make a second. All in favor. Aye. Motion carries. So first item on our discussion,
five a, is the farmer's market update. And I believe Nguyen, I believe that's your area here. My baby, From what I've read through the packet anyway. Oh, is there something on there in here? Yeah. It just says your body. Just the ear. We had a graphic designer offer for free to design for our farmers market and we just got that, end of last week, so she did a really nice job and did a logo and everything for us, so we'll probably switch over to that eventually. So we have a board now. There's a chair, a vice chair, and a secretary.
They're all vendors. So I'm I can just be the liaison and not in charge of everything. And then they have another vendor that's joining and she wants to be part of it too. So we're just starting to put out the word for vendors, in different avenues, different rural newspapers and Facebook and, whatnot. Those will probably start really coming in in April. We're working with, a group that works with new American farmers in Clay County, so a lot of them are interested. So we know for sure we have 10 vendors, At this point, we will improve that with produce as we get into April and,
May. We did have some questions. I've been feeding back and forth with Angela at the city. She informed me about signs on Highway 10, so we're working through that. So we can put up the, we can put up the sign on the fence as long as we don't have, any mention of businesses that are supporting us or something, which we don't at this point. So we have we can put the sign up and we have permission to put up flags, as long as we put them up and take them down right before and right after the market, but we can't leave anything there. We were kind of hoping we could have flags ahead to warn people it's coming,
but apparently that's not a thing you do on Highway 10. Little did I know. And the Minnesota Association of Farmers Markets, we we talked to them. We don't have to pay as a $70 $75 fee, but we don't have to pay that our first year. She said just, so Michelle's working with her to get all the support she can, and she could put her our listing in there for free that first year. So we won't have that cost the first year. We'll work on that for next year. We're trying to work on getting SNAP at the farmers market. I didn't realize how SNAP worked, but,
it is a USDA program, where they will double, people's like, if they want $15 worth of SNAP, they'll double it. I can't remember exactly what it goes up to, but But we have to have our own checking account to do that. So we didn't know if the city wanted to put it had to be a separate checking account that they will put the funds into and then we you the city would have to write checks to the vendors once a month, twice a month, however often you wanted to do it. Okay. So that was one question. Is the city willing to do that? Yeah. And then we will have to make our own little,
laminated tokens or whatever that people will use. Yeah. We just have to learn a little bit more about how that works. So Yeah. Providing treasurer services, for lack of a better term, is similar to we we do something similar for local days. Like, a lot of we pay through the city. Oftentimes, the vendors, like donations will come through us. I'm not sure how that works for a farmer's market in this instance. We may have to check with the league on that just to make sure we're missing something or with our So they financial people.
They give us a they give us a credit card machine. And so, as we denote, how much is going in, they automatically know. And at the end of the week whatever I don't know what how how fast, but they will double that amount and send it to the checking account is what I understand. So they automatically know what the amount is and then we would have to give provide the city what vendors got what amount. So that was one question. The other question they have is local days, usually has art in the park, and it runs the same day.
And last year, they had it over at I always forget the name of that, shopping center. Rail district. Rail district. But we're over at Whistle Stop and it's kinda competing things. Can we be together, or what's what's the plan for that? They the intent is to have it over there again. I was thinking last year, we did on Friday. Because I think we're trying to condense things down to just a Friday and Saturday. Let me pull up the I can pull up the agenda, but I definitely know they will want to keep it out there. They're really pleased with that setup, provide a lot of amenities, even having the local businesses there that could participate,
have people, you know, going in and out and have and give an opportunity for those places to to thrive. Might not be on Thursday? Let me double check here what our schedule is. But, yeah, continue on. I'll take a look real quick. Give me a second. So we have a meeting again next week, and I told them I would fill them in on what we found out. So it's moving. There's a lot of enthusiasm for it, where it is starting to spread. I have a I speak at a horticultural event, April 5, so I will pass out information about the market to people that are they are
gardeners for Clay And Becker County. And then I'm also at Red River Market the next weekend and I'll pass out, so that's why I asked Angela for some flyers. Well and we'll just get the word out, a lot of ways. So, hopefully, we'll see it grow. That's all I have. What's your questions? Did you say what date your plan is on starting? Say it louder. What date you're It's the last, Thursday in June, like, the twenty sixth, I think it is. And it goes through October. I think it goes through the October. Let me pull up my calendar
here. So June 26 through October. I can't remember if it's the tenth or the seventeenth or I mean the ninth or the sixteenth. I think it's the sixteenth. So the 10 vendors you already have, that's not any produce yet? One is a small produce farm, but the produce farms kinda they commit when you get into March, April. So we have five that have said they're very interested. So In addition to these 10? Yes. Awesome. So we're hoping that we can convince them to join us. Having a low vendor fee and having vendors make the decisions on the board of
what happens is very, enticing. It's not something you get a chance with Morehead or Fargo's, so we're hoping that will help. And it'd be nice to to allow some of these farmers in this region over here to have a way to to sell even young small farmers. It doesn't have to be the big farms. Mhmm. We local days have art in the park on Saturday last year, actually, and I think that they're planning to do that again this year. Okay. So just after the parade gets going or can So it won't be fine.
Yep. Then it's out there at that time. Is there anything else going on Thursday? You said it's all Friday, Saturday we have to worry about? There will be things Thursday, but it's usually pretty tame until Friday, to be honest with you. I, yeah, I I I don't have the this year's schedule. Like, do they do the kitty parade on Thursday still and that kind of stuff? Or That's on Friday. That's on Friday too. Okay. Yep. Okay. Yeah. We've really tried to condense it down. I would just have to I'm not able to access the current
mock up of where we're hosting things, but, but there might be an opportunity. You have to still obviously do it that week or another opportunity to partner up and move it to Saturday or whatever it may be, however you'd like to do that. On the city's website, I think the information about the farmers market and the application is kinda buried under a different tab. Is there a way to have a, like, a farmers market tab or something a little more obvious to get people there in case they're going there while we're getting our website. We got our Facebook finally.
Amanda had forgotten because she closed the account for the last Farmers Market. She forgot the password, but she found it. So we're back up. Now we have to start putting stuff on there, but it'd be nice if it's a little more visible in city as well. What I can do so we have basically four subject headings at the top. I believe those are pretty static. However so right now, it's under parks and rec Yeah. Then Farmer's Market. What maybe I'll I'll suggest we adjust it to is maybe putting it under residence,
which is a main heading, and then Farmers market right under that. So it's like one level above and under residence instead of departments because that can be a little confusing. That's probably best we could do. However, we could also, put a message on our front page as well. Yeah. Maybe for Yep. If, like, for April, May. What the most important time is when we're looking for business. Started. Yep. And I did do the social media post, which is why I was showing up there. Did that last Tuesday or Wednesday, I believe it was. And we had decent activity on it.
I I never know what it means when people are like and sharing things. I don't know what that means. No one does. People act like it means a lot, but I I don't know what it means. So hopefully, success to you Yeah. With it. So I know we have dog treats. We have salsa. We have hot sauce. We have a gal who makes the real sourdough bread, like, she ferments it for a long time so it's safe to eat for people that are gluten free kind of thing. It's really good stuff. Teas, baked goods, freeze dried candy. Seems to be a thing. So I know those are some of them. There's more. So, the produce will be coming next.
So Sounds good. Any other questions on that? Thank you, Lynn. Moving on, we'll look at five b, the Cottonwood Park re grand opening event. Yeah. So this is really just something that the park board has to start identifying in a little more detail as far as what it would like to see for a re grand opening. I'm calling it that. We need I think if we're gonna be doing this on an annual basis, picking out a park, we may just need to come up with a better name for it. We don't have a name.
It's it's one thing if something's a grand opening. Right? And with new equipment, you know, coming in, but these parks have been there for, I don't know, decades. So, what whatever. Maybe we can call them all re grand opening events. But with that said, trying to start to nail down some dates and times and any other type of programming or activities, maybe it would the part where we'd like to see out there. So we can open up the discussion about that and see if we can, yeah, start making a move on it.
We did connect with UC Hope. We love our partners with UC Hope at Glendon. They they've sponsored many events. I know they helped us out with the tree lighting event this past year. That is their designated park Mhmm. For, you know, an organization to come out and help and maintain. And they said they'd like to be involved. So they help for me to to clean up. That's correct. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Lyle Lyle and I were out there. We should have a pickup baseball game. We got the nice field there. You know?
Encourage that, but, of course, we'd have to bring the equipment. But do we have food? Like We don't have anything yet. We've got a park. I don't know what we got yet. Equipment. Well, I didn't know. Carpet Garage was willing to do it again or not. Carpet one, whatever. That's that was my suggestion. They asked me for feedback at our last meeting at UC Hope if we wanted Yep. UC Hope to do the food again, like, tree lighting. But I thought we could use their offer to help in a different capacity if carpet garage or what is it? Floor to ceiling? Yep. Floor to ceiling.
If they're I mean, they've been willing to do all of our other parks. So if they're willing to do that again, then we could get something else. I don't know what that something else is or but Yeah. They've been awesome. We always run into, like, funding problems. So let's use you see hope for the things that we can't get donated. Trying to remember all the events that we did with, BirchTree. When we did that one. What about it? What what did we all do? We just, had a cookout and walked and they just stood around and talked. They didn't do anything other than there was some food over here,
and then we talked about the Girl Scout thing that she did and people went and they talked. So we've never really had anything organized. I think the other one at Pine Tree, we did, we had, like you had brought little lawn games or something. Yeah. We have little lawn games that are at disposal that we use out at local days and such. So those can always be there with having potentially, you see hope. Again, that's getting back to the programming. You know, they can maybe do that. So what that is, I don't exactly know.
So that's why I was wanting to open it up. Like, if we wanted to have something different than what we normally have, something that'd be entertaining and a draw. Because that part is a little concern. I think we're all that's our biggest concern with is just drawing people to that part. Right? So I feel like we may need something catchy. Peyton wants a concert in the park. Or I was gonna suggest, having some, flying some kites down there, but we're doing that on a different day now. So Is this gonna be in the summer, like, it's gonna be warm, or are we talking spring? This is up to the park board.
If we're trying to get a bunch of kids there, that bubble machine one year was fantastic. That. Oh my gosh. The foam machine. Do you remember that? Yep. Kids went crazy. Mhmm. Yeah. That's a big thing, that we set up over local days. That's a vendor that we utilize, and they come in and set it up. I can't remember. I can tell you what it cost here. Do we want to get, like, a car department or a police department involved? Or does it have an entire department bring a shiny truck that you bring a
car or something? Kids love the police car. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Or I'm trying to think of something. Yeah. What water do we like if we do it? I don't know if that's the lead. Whatever he wants to do. That will take a look. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to figure some of the things that we could do. Well, don't we have some programs coming up at parks with, like, the dog days and then something else I thought we were doing? And, I mean, is there any way to combine that over there? I don't know. Paws in the park was what we were doing in the fall. Yeah. Paws in the park. Okay with this if it's like you know,
because of the field involved, you know, and the new thing. Would, is May too early, or would it June be better to do it? Because, you know, May can be really nice, you know, and everything. And then it can be really sloppy, wet, muddy. So, yeah, you would have to They always pile all the street snow up onto the park by that tree. So it takes forever to get that big mound of snow to melt, and that's where the park used to be. And so it was always a big puddle till mid June. Now they've moved it over, so it's a little higher ground, but it'll probably still be mucky.
So and then, I don't remember there was two different leagues that were using that too, last year. And I know they they prop that's July and August, so you probably wanna do something maybe June is what we're looking like. Yeah. Because then hopefully the swamp water's gone. Yeah. And then before they actually start using the field and then, you know, we got a practice today. What are you doing? All this stuff. You know, trying to meet your middle ground here, like, June, something like that because, you know, pretty much by then school's at the tail end and, you know. June.
That's the second week in June. I think it's good as week as any. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And one hundred year local days in '99 or any other can be a problem. And then that way, because we'll the park board will be back in May as well. So if there's anything we need to go over last minute. So if we put it down for that time period, and then do you know how much the bubble vendor cost or was that extra little? Contract in front of me, but I do not. I'd Okay. Double check. I can double check and see what they do. And then, I, I admit I don't know what Floor to Ceiling did with the other openings.
They grilled burgers and dogs and chips and Oh, they did. They brought all all the food. They donated everything. Right? So if they take that off Yeah. If that's good to go, that that sounds great. Then Yeah. Since you see hope does have that as their, you know, park and everything, what are the things would do they have in mind to provide, or haven't they got that far yet? We haven't got that far. Okay. Because I had no suggestions. Yeah. Yeah. Would they do that? So that way, you'd have some entertainment. You'd have something to eat. You'd have it in a time frame, like, you know, pre baseball,
you know, practice times, game times, and that, so you'd be able to get it in there. So that would be the thing. You have the lawn games. That would be a good idea. And so could we try, like, pick up, like, kickball game? Then we don't have to hunt down all the baseball equipment and stuff. And I think adults like that sometimes, like, getting in there and playing with the kids. Yeah. Just something informal. Mhmm. Yeah. That would go over. Get on the field, have fun. Yeah. You know, eight like, what's that saying? Eight to 80, everybody likes it. You know, go there and kick the heck out of something. So yeah.
Generally, I think we found you didn't have to over plan. People just came and talked and enjoyed. And then You didn't have to have a whole lot of stuff. Getting back to Amber's suggestion, I do think they like supporting the park board and that, you know, where they bring a truck out to, you know, let kids see what it is and that. And so that every time they see the police or the fire department, it's not a bad situation. It it's good, you know, and everything. And then in your case, Hunter, you know, they all can't wait to hit that switch to make the lights go on or the steering wheel. We're stickers. So so, you know, if if it's feasible,
I think that would be a very inclusive way to have, you know, a truck, a car, you know, something like that. So you got the little footballs? Are those all gone? Now we got flashlights now. Oh, okay. Alright. So with those things in mind, pegging down that week in June, and then, of course, you know, where the location is. Yeah. You know, we have our our friends in the railroad yard there. So, you know, to kinda make sure people can get in there and understand there's gonna be lag time because if, you know, they're parking it there for forty five minutes, you know, people are not gonna venture over.
They're gonna say, heck with this, and they're gonna walk away. So that's out of anything we do there, that's always the key thing is that railroad. So, I don't know. I don't even know how we would communicate with them or not to kinda see if they could make sure the crossing isn't shut down. You know? So that that's the only concern, only speed bump that I see is the railroad crossing. Otherwise, I think everything they said would fall into place. People show up. They have a good time. I don't know if there's a way to talk to BNSF ahead and just say
there's an event that's gonna happen in this hour and a half, and, yeah, not let your train just sit there. Yeah. You can keep working. You just don't let it stop and sit there for ten minutes. Yeah. Just a warning. Heads up. Plan ahead. Last year, the phone party was $495. Oh, it's a little much. Because what do we pay to have that Chatty Mill ice cream? Wasn't that all the same amount of money? That's all based on her sales. There is a minimum amount that she guaranteed. I was thinking, like, hundred and $50 or something like that. Yeah.
And we can check with her or whoever again to Yeah. This is something else nice. When did we take the original before? It was, like, two Wednesday? I was thinking Wednesday might be better for the summer because church is done. You get the people that are staying longer at the lake or leaving early. No. Because pick a day and roll with it. Don't overthink. Would you It's your Wednesday probably help. Yourself out of any way. Yeah. It's your Wednesday, I would say. K. So Wednesday Wednesday is park board day, so let's do that. The eleventh? Mhmm. K. Come join the park board for a party. That's right. Yeah. That sounds good.
Thinking 05:30 to 07:30 ish. Yep. Or seven, something like that. I'll say 07:30 ish. Okay. Do you should one of us be reaching out to CarpickerUp? Nope. Or to ceiling? I need to write it down. No. We'll we'll check with, them. They're always incredibly supportive of us here. Are there other businesses that wanna support us like that that we could We we can check, certainly. We know they carry everything. I don't wanna wear one out, but also it's nice to give others business a chance to Mhmm.
Express themselves and advertise for themselves. Even if it would to be them for this event, we still have our other park events coming up later. I know. But it's always So we could maybe get one of these newer ones to support one of those, you know, and that'd be a good idea. Sounds good. Any further discussion on that? Or do you think we got pretty decent plan going forward? K. Oh, yeah. Are we doing the bubble bit? I mean, is that it? Does park board or not park board? Does UC Hope need something else? I don't That's pretty simple.
It's because I have to also check on the availability of I know we have water over there because they have to have whatever to hook into to make sure that's in a good location for them, and it sort of runs itself. It's not like you, you know, collecting tickets or anything to go into. You turn on a machine. People run through it. Yeah. The only other thought I I was just trying to look. You ever see like, have you ever heard of Thad's amazing magic? Like, the have you ever seen him? It's actually pretty good.
I mean Yeah. That would be cool. That would be good. But I know nothing about, like it's I've only seen them at, like, the Fargo Dome for the the tree thing they do after Christmas or after Thanksgiving. But if there's a water issue, that could be a Wait. Would you say it is? Thads? Thads. Amazing magic. Okay. Oh, that's definitely something different than me. Yeah. I wanna say we looked at that for local days last year also. I mean, obviously, they didn't come, but maybe a scheduling thing or whatever the circumstance was because we were talking about
what we could put under the the tent. You know, we used to have the kids show there, so just trying to think creatively. And that he may have been busy or she, whatever, may have been busy that day, but we can certainly check on what that cost would be. It'd be something different. Yeah. Out there. Yeah. Yeah. I enjoyed it as an adult. Like, it and you really engaged Yeah. Kids. I mean, it's yeah. We're gonna need something to draw people out there. Yeah. Absolutely. Only thing I can think of the bubbles is what's the temperature like. Yeah. And so if we get that cold,
really June day, then what? Mhmm. It'll be fine. Yeah. Kids are here. Cold, so we'll be good. They'll figure it out. Yeah. I was gonna say. Shorts. True. Gets above above 40. Everybody's in shorts anyway. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. Alright. Next item on the agenda is the improvements at the Depot Building. Yep. Briefly, just wanted to give an update on this. So I did task Mike with looking into this and what things could be done specifically to the kitchen area. He connected with adult a couple of few different contractors on various parts of it,
and they feel pretty confident they can do a lot of the work over there. And, ultimately, what we've decided to do is where this I don't know what you call it. Where the where the door opens, the serving area right there have a, you know, have a cabinet set up on, you know, on the ground. So because right now it's just an open space right there, that location, and then have, some, you know, different, you know, some sort of decorative countertop, something along those lines.
There'll be other improvements as well that will go on. He's still working through some of those details, but they feel confident they'll be able to knock out a lot of it themselves. They may have to get some help with various parts of it, but they are working towards that to hopefully aesthetically improve the depot experience. Do we have a ballpark idea where we're running I don't think he knows yet. I've told he is gonna be providing me with a budget, we'll say. You know? Hopefully, by doing a lot of doing some of the work ourselves,
we'll be able to save a little bit of money. They are going down one employee right now. We're trying to hire another one, you know, have applications open for the next couple weeks. But so so that could delay a few things, but, hopefully, they'll they'll be able to knock out some of this pretty soon. Is there a way to seal the building to keep all those beetles out that come in and are everywhere in that building all the time. They must come in through cracks in the foundation or the Florida wall.
I just wonder if we could figure out where they're coming in and make that better. I can mention that. Nothing I was gonna make note of I can't remember if I put this in here or not. No. So over at the fire hall, there's gonna be an extra furnace that we're gonna end up with. I don't have to get into the old details what happened, but the city has its has a furnace that we need to do something with. And Mike is looking to actually get it installed over at at the depot because
that one's pretty old. And, so that, yeah, it'd be a brand new furnace for free, but, you know, part of this whole upgrade process here. Sounds good. Mhmm. Yep. Warm building. We like that. Yeah. Alright. Moving on. We'll look at the park reports and assignments. We'll start with Lynn. Oh, excuse me. Any updates concerning have the one now. Right? Yeah. Apple Orchard. No. I don't have anything for that one.
Oh, you still got you on Birch. Am I still on birch? I don't know. Well, according to this Oh, I am. I thought somebody was taking that. I haven't looked at birch at all. But apple orchards. Okay. The trees are still the apple trees are still dying with that black, what's it called? It's a fungus. And I know that, Mike maintenance was gonna check with county tree people to find out is indeed is that indeed that fungus and what how can we stop it so we can keep the trees and he's never had an answer.
I think he forgot to ask the first time and he did ask the second time, but he never got feedback. I don't know. But we're gonna lose two trees if we don't do something. So we're either gonna have to replace two trees next year or refix them this year. But that's all I have. Hello? I didn't get by there yesterday or today, but couple weeks back, I drove by there, and they were in the typical spring condition, you know, melting and stuff like that. So it's like, yeah, not heck of a lot going on. Again, that would be about three weeks ago. So but I didn't I did not get there today or yesterday.
So, yeah, just kinda waiting for more warmer weather, maybe a nice rinsing rain, not a storm, but rinsing the dust off everything would be okay. So and, yeah, that's both elm and walnut, and that's the ones I got. So Jerga? Nothing at Oaktree that needs addressed. I have not been to Constitution in months because there's just a lot going on over there. So I just have it gone. Alright. I've got nothing on my parts. Nate? Yeah. Melanie? Yeah. Amber? I was over at Woodbridge, the one other cement bench picnic bench thing.
Now that's loose. I didn't even wanna say anything because if they take that out, that's the only one there. The By the blue pack? By the green park. That's cement. Oh. Yeah. It's like the benches are loose, not the table this time. So they don't feel like they're gonna fall apart or anything. Like, the last one was very unstable. It doesn't like that, but maybe maintenance might be able to fix it now. I don't know if they wanna go take a look. And my park is just dirty. Yeah. Needs a good rinsing. Rinsing. It's wet, melty, dirty. And that's all I got.
Do we wanna go back to talking about getting some benches? I mean, in addition to our depot repair? I don't I don't go to that park, so I don't know. Like, it's I think it'd be nice to have another table, but, like, maybe the metal kind with the, you know, the plastic. Like, our bench The wood bridge? Are you talking about wood bridge? Yeah. Yeah. Getting more benches? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we all start about a picnic table because we lost that one too. So So now if we lose you for one, you know? It does need a sitting place for Yeah. Parents with kids, watching their kids. It does. So maybe that's something to think about what I suppose Maybe I may know what
our What they cost. What they're doing on the depot for sure. If we see if we have an extra $500, we get a bit I don't know how much they cost anymore. I'm sure it's worth 500. Yeah. But, yeah, it does need a bench. Council liaison report. I am going to yield my time to Hunter. If you wanna talk about your Oh. Kite thing. But I don't think anyone's gonna have a question. Well, I was just gonna yeah. You're good. Go for it. I was just gonna introduce you a bit simply. We're trading microphones. I think that battery might be dead too. Sorry about that. There's a lot of buzz about that kite flying thing.
That's kind of exciting. Taking a life of its own right now. So, as of right now, this is kind of an impromptu national kite or month was for April. So we're looking to do something a little more festive. Last year, we had, I think let me count them all on one hand. Four kids that might have shown up. So this time now, we've actually decided to pay someone, one of those professional flyers with the big, huge things that can actually move people. We're bringing some out of Jamestown. So he had he did have a bill required for that.
We did have some money coming in from a a corporate sponsor. So we're gonna use part of those funds to bring him in in addition to some other another individual from that area who wants to sell some possibly kits or some other kites or some other activities. But as of this morning, Stacy Pritchard saw 122,000 views of this kite thing. This, yeah, so this is really kind of taking a life of its own. So what we're looking to do is, we're looking at Bob Marshall Field, the baseball field. So I've already talked to Tracy Tellifson. So we do have access to that on April 5.
The gentleman that we're gonna hire, it's Wings on Strings from Jamestown, it's the name of the club. There isn't really anything else in the area. Jamestown has this this whole niche. Detroit Lakes was gonna do it. Something fell through on that one. So this is the only area that would even have something of this magnitude. So I don't know how many kids we're gonna have. We did order. I know we had free, kites for the first sixty kids. Right now we had 64 kites from the last event. After we saw some other numbers, we just purchased another 94 today.
So now food truck vendors. We did offer a couple food trucks. We just got an email this morning from Busy Bee Coffee who's actually offered to come out with another food truck they'd like to be, you know, participate in this event as well. So it really has taken a life of its own right now. So it's gonna be a big event. I I'm I'm not sure how big between four and four thousand. We'll leave it at that. So it's gonna be fun though. Planning. It should be fun. So we you know, when I talked to Tracy, her comment was just make sure we're on the grass because that's the only really viable area if we're gonna have for an open field without any power lines or
anything else like that. I know with mister Mastero, we did talk about the Rail District area as a possibly as a secondary, but with the amount of people we might have and the parking available, I think would be beneficial right now for the Bob Marshall Field. So but that is, one thing we're doing. So a lot of officers are gonna be there. Kids, bring everyone. They like to fly a kite. I just hope the weather. Yeah. We'll leave it at that. That's all I got right now. Any other questions, concerns, comments? No. Will you always do April even though traditionally April's pretty cold and good to have
snow on the ground? I I do not. Is this an annual thing or is this still what's going on? I don't this is the first time. We just kinda chalked it up to let's do a kite event. Oh, April's National Kite Month, which I'd I was unaware of it. So then we're looking for some times because I gotta go out of town Friday for hockey. Yeah. So we're just finishing up that season still. So I don't know. I I'm not gonna say yes or no if this is gonna be, yeah. I like June and July personally, but we have a lot of other events during that time. We got baseball season, everything else. So we got a lot happening,
but we'll see how this goes. I'm hoping the weather cool. Well, it might be cool. Let's hope it's not too cool. I've seen it shared in so many different groups. Yes. And I'm not The FM area is like, wow. It is really yes. It's kind of mushroomed out too. Unfortunately, that's also the horticultural day, so I'll be speaking. So I can't come. I want No. You have your choice. You choose not to go. Stop speaking. No. I Go to the night. Would would you like to mention some other events that the PD is working on for this coming season? Thank you. We have a couple other items. This was brought to me by the rail district on May 15,
in front of Nygard Nursery, we'll be having a flower planting station for kids. So they'll be able to plant, like, plant zinnias and other marigolds in some solo cups, and we're gonna have some pins together. We have a pin making machine that's titled let me see if I have that with me. Sorry. They made a step away. Bring out some pins, and I'll kinda pass it around. Kinda self explanatory. It's kinda cute. Is that the fifteenth, you said? That is gonna be May 15. Thursday, May fifteenth at the Rail District Barbecue. They're putting this on, so we're just gonna have a little area for ourselves for the police department as
well. That's the day of the barbecue? That is the day of the barbecue from fifteen hundred to nine three to 7PM. Sorry. Used to military time. Excuse me. So let's grow together. So we'll be handing out these pins out. So a nice little event in the Rail District for the kids. They've done a they've done a lot for us in the past as well. So it's fantastic. And the big event, night two night, tenth anniversary. So from night two night, since it is our tenth anniversary, we'll be forming a voluntary committee for this one. Miss Bora, Miss Pritchard from our office, two citizens and,
the spouses of a lot of the officers are gonna be partaking this committee. So we're having a lot of events. We're We're still piecing everything together right now. We did send some letters out earlier for some corporate sponsors. We have positive feedback. So we've had a a lot of interest, and we just wanna make this bigger and better. Kinda reminds me of, the anniversary, I think, with Dilworth about ten years ago. We did the fireworks and everything else. Not that we're doing fireworks. That'd be fantastic. The park board wants to give us 20,000. No. I'm sure. Whatever extravaganza. Everyone likes fireworks. So so that's gonna be on,
April 5 from, five to seven o'clock at night. So these are the big events we're coming up with. But with this committee, we're also trying to get a lot more back into the city and a lot more back to the community. It's kind of fun. Cool. Alright. Absolutely. Anything we can help you out with, Hunter? Not as of right now. Okay. If there's a good contact person, I can probably go through miss Borra if we need to. K. If that works as a conduit for us, that'd be fantastic. Yeah. Is that okay, I mean? Yeah. Sounds fair. Alright. Any way we can help out? I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks, Eric. Anything else on the council liaison report?
I was gonna mention, you should have got an email from me about next Wednesday's open house for public input. First public input opportunity for the new community center project. We just kicked off design on it. So if you're available next on the nineteenth from 05:30 to 07:30, I encourage you to come by there. Or say that again? At the elementary school Oh. In the gym. Okay. Yep. Alright. And as we as we work through that process,
I know there will be some input and some other opportunities that I know Zurburg, that's our architectural firm, is going to be looking for from the park board. Another study that we have, and it's not a study, but we're updating our comprehensive plan as well, Did our last one in February, '2 thousand '18, somewhere in there. The comprehensive plan is a city's vision for the future, how we see things progressing and unfolding, more of a planning document.
But within it, there'll be some recreational references and other, you know, opportunities for this group to provide some feedback with it. So I will keep you updated when those open houses or if our consultants, which is just MetroCog, could, you know, come and maybe address the park board. I'll see what their schedule is like maybe just so they can have that information. I'll I'll turn the best way forward with it, but I just wanna put that on your radar too. Speaking of that, I did have a thing with the Castplay.
Yep. And they kinda mentioned putting, like, food security in the comprehensive plan. Yep. So I was gonna touch base with you on that. But, is there anything more from the lines at both community gardens? Have we heard any of them? Okay. I was going to bring that up in the meeting today, then I figured I had nothing really to say. So I'm not gonna bring it up right now. K. Alright. Any last words from anybody? If not, we will be adjourned until May 14. Jeez. Perfect.