all right calling the meeting to order at 6:38 p.m is everybody ready ready um we're going to have to pull agenda number three because Bill's not here for
his oath of office so should go pretty quick got it move to adopt agenda short item number three second a motion has been made and seconded all in favor i I All righty
let's look at our meet meeting minutes from March 11th or you made the motion to adopt right sorry i make a motion meeting after the minutes from last month the approved minutes did two people do
that now or what adopt the minute yeah meet the minutes just need someone to second oh I'll second it okay motion has been made and seconded to approve the March 11th 2025 minutes we'll move on to agenda number five park financial information
this is your monthly update on the uh park financials um nothing's changed in the park capital funds we'll go over those more again with the park um capital
plan get this set up here we're at 25% in the park maintenance budget oh as long as I got this up here too i'll show you uh we got the year end one we talked about oh okay cool we actually did go over by like $1,000 was that our fault uh it was just
some late some late um invoices came in was basically exactly 100% so we spent 535603 and our budget was 534200 so
good job pretty good yep i mean we've done better in the past but there's been a lot of repairs that have been made and a lot of pricing increases on items that really weren't absorbed we might have to we're budgeting for this year we're going to
have to bump up a few of these to kind of cover some of those costs going forward but um some of this is like I said before comes from our just overall public works budget the street side of things so we kind of look at the two budgets together when we're doing our department budget
and the street one was down by a significant amount so between the two we were we still have a pretty good cushion on them but the one that says building or um building facility repair supplies what is that so that can be anything
from playground repairs um any repairs to the park buildings it can be trail some sometimes like trail work comes out of there um irrigation stuff comes out of that one so anytime they have to work on irrigation there's quite a few items
that come out of that one have you turned those on already the irrigation no no uh we had pretty good frost last usually it's right around Mother's Day we turn it on we really check in the parts didn't we
and the motor vehicle parts equipment parts 229 where's that yep that's We're doing a lot of that stuff inhouse now so if we if we contract it out it comes out of Oh it comes out of different fund if you contract 402 which we didn't take a
penny out of that one and so both of those two so that's 3500 but that's all of the uh repairs for the equipment yeah most of it's all done by our guys and a lot of the Bobcat repairs come out of this one too so that's a lot of public
works street side of things too but the bobcat gets coded to here for the most part i think he did a great job with that pretty darn good like a 2% lower not that he's doing the math or anything on a half on a half a million dollar
budget that's pretty darn good used to do facilities so that was last year and then uh go back to this year nothing like you said nothing really surprising there so this is our current one
so we already are at 100% for the um equipment replacement charges yep that's a onetime charge comes out the first of the year okay cool so that covers the whole year same with uh the worker uh 151 the workers comp
insurance premium that's done for the year those are the two kind of big ones that's come out right away conferences and meetings should be uh just it's only 500 bucks but that one's done for the year too how are tires yeah we already spent that money tires have gone up a lot in price
um that was for one of the mowers and I asked our guy I forgot what the other thing was we bought oh one of the trucks comes out of this budget too it doesn't take much to get to uh $1,000 that was probably just one vehicle right yeah and
if we have to do one of our tractors um which come out of the parks those are $300 a piece for those tires so I we try and split those up every few years wow we're in good shape on those we don't think we'll have any this year but next year or the year after we might have to
do a couple tractors so better to keep up on it instead wait and have to repair them all at once so yeah for sure all right do you need anything from us other than No that's justformational we don't need a motion on that
all right moving on to agenda number six 2026 through 2030 park capital improvement planning this is a continuation from last uh month's discussion but the park commission prepares a capital improvement plan annually which updates
projects projected projects evaluates priorities and establishes funding for these works for the coming year and for each of the subsequent years for a 5-year period the plan is presented to city council for their approval and used for the preparing the uh coming year's budget attached is the draft 2026 to
2020 2030 park CIP developed from discussions at previous park commission meetings we will discuss those projects that are listed for 2026 and determine if future projects need to stay in their current funding year or be rearranged to reflect any future changes in our park
priorities um other projects can be added and existing ones can be deleted if there's a need for restructuring the schedule and if the park commission is satisfied with the draft CIP then a recommendation can be made to city council so I kind of put together uh from our discussions at mainly the last
meeting and included updated amounts so going into 2026 for the park acquisition and development fund this is the one where we get from park dedication fees we're projecting around $333,000 um going to start off the year
with that account just to kind of give you an update too um currently we got the money from Elvage for that development that's being built right now is $124,000 so that's included in that viking Meadows the total cost is
$373,500 and they've they have uh 70,500 already dedicated so that in 2026 that additional 303,000 that's the remaining um money from Viking Meadows so that bumps it all the way up
to $636,000 i mean a lot of that's going to go towards the Viking Meadows park itself but uh that's in pretty good shape we also have three outstanding developments that haven't paid yet that are just kind of getting started that the park commission voted
to take park dedication fees on that was Hidden Pines Prairie Hills and that Blanco i forgot all the rest of Blanco to whatever it was that was just the $6,000 for the three lot split so So that's an additional 70ome
thousand so that fund is in pretty it's the best shape it's been in decades that I've ever seen so wow um so the big projects we have planned there like I mentioned with the Viking Meadows project um I have right around 350,000 dedicated towards that which is
most of what they submitted for their park dedication fees and then we've got the Booster West ball field lights that's a big investment uh something we can talk about i know Tim had found a possible city that was selling some lights that might be a possibility but
we're kind of keeping our eyes open for something like that to try and cut that cost down and get some used are we still looking at advertising on the boards out there it's been discussed we don't have an official policy on it yet we're kind of focusing right now on trying to get as much as much uh
advertisement at the ice ring as possible but a couple of them have said they'd like to put a banner on the outfield fences too okay and then for 2029 and 2030 I don't really have any projects planned we didn't really have anything in mind as a group so I just kind of left those blank
for now and that'll depend on development and park dedication monies on those so it's hard to project out that far i think that's when we were kind of talking about what to do with Bondi maybe yep so on the next page is our park
capital fund and I do have bond E listed in 2029 as new park development for something to do there that can be moved around if we see a priority where something comes in and we really need to see a park developed i think that would be a good we can move that up to as far
as 20 27 even 26 if we wanted to um I also show for the sources this comes from a transfer from the general fund we're requesting an increase of $10,000 each year to kind of cover rising costs and needs for the parks i
capped it at 150 but if we want if the park commission wants we can keep going up on that request it's up to what you guys think i can see take whatever we get we could just say 10,000 rider i'd keep going up to I
think we said 10,000 is what we were going to ask for anyway so just go to 160 and 2030 there then on the revenue side yeah I don't think that's an easy I mean that might not even be enough by 2030 god only
knows where we're headed i know we're looking at um tree planting but since most of these parks don't have water for irrigation should we be looking at shade structures instead we can we've we've uh we do have a water truck after we the
first year we do water them quite a bit and then if we get into some dry periods we'll send our water truck out too but yeah they're sometimes hard to keep get established we try and the smaller trees are actually easier to get established than some of the larger ones but the problem the small trees is they're easy to vandalize too so it's kind of a
trade-off they make great swords we learned that from our yard we had all these nice ones out in Booster East and I had a buck out there and it used it to do its antler rubs on a lot of them so there's a couple of them are pretty shredded i understand 100%
your yard too oh yeah him and friends there's a pretty good sized buck living out there this last fall i don't know if it survived through the hunting season but or the cars on 220 still so for 2026 we talked about most of the stuff is kind of smaller items for
Booster West spec uh specifically we got a zip line doing some official pickle ball courts over on that side we do have two of the cornhole bags already in place but we're going to put out there this year um the sand volleyball court
which was mentioned by the uh young lady who was here last month um Maya yep i got quotes on that i put 5,000 in there they're actually it's quite a bit cheaper than that we can do that for pretty pretty cheap for the post and the netting um I think it'll be right around
3,000 for that i just put a couple thousand extra to cover maybe some sand hounding some sand and Well we don't know what it's like once you if you have to compact it or something right part of the problem too after talking with some of the guys that have been here a long time there used to be a sand court over
kind of where the used to do the tractor poles over there mhm um it's a nice spot but if in volleyball the ball goes outside the court a lot and if you're playing barefoot it's all sandbur yeah cuz there's no water yeah so the hard part with that would be finding a
spot it may it may work better to put it in booster east somewhere where the grass is a little bit nicer a little more shade um we don't have sandber problem in booster east at all what that open not like that open area over there you can booster east is pretty pretty decent turf compared to booster west
could probably put it over by that cement pad that's what we were looking up there maybe it's kind of nice to have it wherever all the action is because then people use it but I don't know right in the picnic area yeah nobody really uses the horseshoe
pit anymore either i haven't actually haven't seen anybody use those in quite a few years i think it's one of those dying games it's one of those cyclical things somebody like shuffle board you never hear about it until somebody all of a sudden it
takes off and then everybody's doing it the bags I think kind of took over the horseshoe yeah horseshoes are a couple generations old yep 2027 looking at some pickle ball courts in some of our smaller parks um we don't
really I've got a couple in mind that people requested we can kind of as we get closer we can kind of pick through that to see decide where we want to put are we just looking at the parks that already have tennis courts to do that most of the courts places that we have tennis courts those courts
are beyond repair they need to be removed and replaced or to start over um we have Anderson Lakes uh Wild Rice Drive that's concrete and it's cracked and busted really bad yeah that was the one where we found the picnic bench
inside basketball some got the picnic table up over the top of that thing inside oh my gosh um Whispering Aspen there's a tennis court there that one's a little bit better shape we're going to try and resurface that one and just paint lines
on that one but I've got requests for like Eve Park and some of these smaller neighborhood parks there's a lot of people that really want to play pickle ball well how much would the 90,000 cover uh we figured about 15 to 20,000 a
piece so oh quite a few of them depends if we do black top or concrete on them what holds up better concrete if you do it right holds up better but it's hard to get it
right black top if you have a crack you can repair concrete's hard to repair yeah I was going to say concrete if it there's a if there's a freeze and it bumps up then it just crumbles right yeah it's you can't patch it very well i was going to hit up some of the
companies that do it and kind of pick their brain on what they say is the best way to do it and might have to contract at least the pad itself out our guys can do the net install and all that stuff but and then if we want to put fencing around them some of them just have
fencing on one end um the pickle ball doesn't go very far like a tennis ball where it would shoot off for a couple hundred feet sometimes right uh what else we talked about a couple disc golf goals doing a couple in
Booster West next year and a couple in Booster East the following year um we have some Booster West drainage and fencing upgrades if you've ever been out there you notice after heavy rains we get a lot of lime washing out trying to repair some of that we might try and do some of that with our maintenance budget
too uh Ham Lake has a paver that we're going to try and borrow and do some overlays on a couple of our trails that are falling apart out here with our own staff and then maybe try and pave some of that area around the uh bleachers and Booster West where the wash outs are so
that one that one might come off the list if we can do it ourselves but 2028 we're looking at a full overlay of Booster East parking lot that thing's getting pretty beat up um we we patch it and whatnot but at some point we have to
do an edge mill and overlay on that 2029 is booster or excuse me Bondi Park um 150,000 in there depending on what we decide we want to do in there i have had I've had a request for a
medium-sized grass baseball field from some of the youth sports teams so they could really use that not as big as our class A more for the the middle-aged group of kids so is there a water is there irrigation at Bondi so
we'd have to put that well irrigation power so that would be part of it yep and we had that in the budget at one time yeah we did we met with we should do that when we met with the soccer people okay and they said they didn't want to use it so we pulled that off but
yeah we did have that in there at one time and then 2030 is uh kind of the same thing with Booster West that parking lot over there is going to need some some work any additions subtractions movement anybody recommends or heard from anybody
in the community what about the concession stand do we need to do anything with that in booster blast no uh we we do some of that with our maintenance repairs um well I know that there's refrigeration and stuff in there do we need to do anything with
that so the the refrigerator itself was was purchased by the SBA so we don't have we don't cover any of that we've had vandalism over there they busted the countertop off pretty bad um the roof's still in good shape over there we're going to take care of that little
irrigation shed ourselves we're going to redo that with our maintenance budget um probably in the fall of this year yeah the concession stand it's kind of just maintenance painting kind of keeping up on that that's we've replaced a couple toilets in there um the
partitions are okay the sinks are okay they're kind of grubby but a lot of that can come out of our maintenance budget kind of pick away at it what about like the bathrooms at John Anderson do we have to worry about those at all that big building kind of the
same thing as the one out here um siding has been damaged again on that John Anderson one i don't know if you remember a few years ago we put vinyl siding on there it looks really nice for a while but kids throw rocks at it they tried breaking the windows with the
brick here over this past 6 months so no no I don't know if any big capital projects would be needed there it's mainly just maintenance stuff the roof is okay the shingles are good on that anybody
else where did we say we were going to go there on our tour yep we can look at it yeah we can we can walk out and look at it and show you the the graffiti shame no I think that looks pretty much like what we talked about last month you You
move the stuff around the way we asked you to looking at the 2026 beginning balance we're kind of starting from scratch there just kind of let everybody know too that and that depends a lot on what the uh baton trail comes in at for pricing
too so um worst case scenario we might have to borrow a little bit of money from the park if we go under if it goes over I think we hadund didn't you last month here yeah we had 120 budget for that
project and then 20 for John Anderson so depending on those two come in um we'll depend on what that 10,000 is but we also have uh we're going to try and resurface Whispering Oaks so that's shown with that already removed that
10,000 too so the tennis court there all right you don't need anything from us on this right uh recommendation if you want with the change to 160,000 in 2030 and we'll bring this to city council then when we do the uh budgeting stuff so all right anybody
want to put a motion together i'll make a motion i'll second motion's been made to add $160,000 as our money for 20 30 2030 yep add 10,000
add 10,000 add 10,000 add 10,000 [Applause] or add 160 to the 150 oh that'd be great we could do that might not be able to slip that one back well you never know worth a try all right can I get a vote
all in favor i I have it so moved so moved we're moving on all right tim Miller isn't here tonight but we will do the agenda seven city council reports and other business yeah Tim couldn't make it he wanted to
thank all you for all your hard work and say keep up the good work and if anybody had any questions to reach out to them um for us we're in full go gear um parks are going to they're going to open up the ball fields probably next Monday for
uh baseball so it'll be packed out here again and looks like the weather is changing so we've had a lot of rentals at the uh ice arena for dry floor the baseball league specifically has been up there just about night batting cages uh
they have they do soft to soft toss and um throwing pitching and stuff are they doing any lacrosse there no we didn't have any requests for lacrosse this year i know that's in the past we've had that andover lacrosse was wanted it but they have the it must be the fieldhouse over
there now they've been using at the community center and St francis doesn't have a lacrosse program so but we've we've uh taken in more revenue than ever at the ice for dry dry land events
i think I think moving in-house with the management has done a lot right jason's has a lot of connections with he grew up in the hockey association he he's worked in that building so he's it's made it a lot better uh we did lose some revenue
from East Bethl um or not East Bethl St francis Youth Hockey they lost three of their teams but because they had a drop in participation so there was some rental sales that were lower this year from them specifically we did pick up a lot of ice time from other communities um
Mountains View uh NOA or Andover rented a lot um North Branch should have more next year again and the girls hockey team was practicing a lot at Iani this year where they normally were at St francis all right cuz it's three schools to band together so
so the the ice sales were down a little bit but uh we've had a lot of we didn't have hardly any negative comments about the building it looks really nice on what's in there um so I think it's been a good good for the city and it's saving the city capital $60,000 to the taxpayers of East
Bethl is is coming out of our tax budget being paid for by the youth hockey organizations too so it's actually saving the the residents money of East that's what we like to hear that's awesome that's great um what else town hall meeting town hall meeting the 24th
Thursday if anybody's interested on that 629 again I think it's going to be the same format starts over at the senior center and moves into chambers here and then for the we talked about doing the June parks tour is everybody still on
board for that i'll I'll uh get a bus lined up and we might be gone second week of June i think Bill will be gone let me look at our calendar we could do it calendar honey um in May too I suppose if that would work
better we've typically done in June just cuz it's lighter out longer but it's usually pretty light in May and we usually start a little bit earlier usually we go out like six I think we're going on a little vacation around our anniversary
see yeah we're going to be gone we leave this 8th and I think the June is the 10th for our meeting sounds right we probably won't have a July meeting what do you want you want to try
and do it in May a tour we can because we'll be in a bus so even if it's raining we can still see out the window we'll be here for that we can keep it kind of short i know 13th it's the 13th yeah okay
okay we'll plan on that i didn't hear from Bill on May so he might be able to meet that one too i don't know cuz I might not be able to do the steps into the butts we'll get you Well they have those um lifts so maybe Yeah I can check on and see if they have uh
we'll get you a little princess chair you can stand on Tim's shoulders and Al can shove you in such a challenge what What time will that start will it start a little early we'll probably say six does that work for everybody yep okay
sure so May 6 May 13 we're not driving all over the place i meant May meeting six bondi John Anderson any other parks anybody wants to see um do we need to go to like Rod Norma Smith or any of those out
outer banks i'll do some thinking on that if anybody has any requests you shoot me an email there's any nobody wants to see will we meet here yep we'll meet here we'll hop on the bus we'll do a quick uh start in here do we need to look at Fish Lake at all because we haven't been there for a while that's
not too far to get up if we're going around this north side did you get a call i think it was Brad Norma from from Connie yes yep okay yep got her all squared away great thank you
yep i had a couple other little things yep when are they coming in uh usually in the next couple weeks here they'll be out okay and then um the adopted park for the memorial yeah I got your message i was going to ask you we can if you
want to do it after me so the that's fine bonnie you need to speak into your the when they adopted the parks down at in the Lake Beach area that one wasn't listed on there so it was it was on our end it wasn't on the application and I was looking at the property record
it's technically it's not officially a park it's a tax forfeited property that the city owns it's kind of been turned into Memorial Park but I don't know if we need to go through an official process to have that named a park or if we're okay doing it how it is but the city owns the property though right it's
a it's a tax forfeited lot from We actually have quite a few of them down in Kon Lake Beach they're kind of mixed throughout the neighborhoods down there we're It's in the It's in the It's being discussed possibly we talked about it before doing a brick
walkway mhm from one to the other and that's why I was wondering because originally I had said that we were going to adopt all three and I mean I've kind of assumed that you guys adopted that one because you've done all the work in there right so we're all good
i mean no one else is going to be adopting it or anything so it's kind of already your guys' responsibility for a lot of the stuff in there so but if they want it officially on a proclamation I guess we could go through that process too but I think like I said I don't know
for sure if it's officially a park it's still listed as just city property but um interesting it wasn't park we did all that if we did all that and then put the a walkway with people's names and did that whole thing it wouldn't all of a sudden
be sold out from under yeah or just that that was the only thing I'd be worried about i don't parked that tax forfeit property can be auctioned off at some point but Right so maybe we need to do something formal with the city council formal how do we do that i'm not sure i was going to look more into that that'd
be interesting it's never I don't know that it's ever been done but we have a lot of those properties i think the assumption was that it had already happened but we kind of learned that in years past that didn't happen that didn't happen didn't happen things that we thought happened hadn't happened yeah
cuz I mean I personally thought I don't know if you were here or not when that whole thing came about but it was designated as a memorial park so maybe we should move through with a little bit must have
been I think we should just make it official and get started yeah see what it takes to do that before we before the you guys invest a whole bunch more and then all of a sudden they're like "Oh we're sorry to tell you." Yeah i don't think that would happen but if it's
officially park land then then it makes it a lot harder we've seen many things that we never thought would happen that have happened you can't sell once parks is dedicated it can't be sold it can be given back to the developer but it cannot be sold or because there has been a resident there that said "Had we known
we would have purchased it tried to purchase it." Mhm there's a couple property there's one going up for sale on the end of uh I think it's is it Forest or Elm the little stub i think it's
Elm but the county owns that one through tax forfeite and it's up for auction either just sold or it's going to be up for auction shortly you don't have an address do you i'm curious uh I can pull up my map
i can show you i wonder if it's on Forest has it got It's down on the end the roof's collapsed got holes all over in it that's next to Delbert on Forest oh way down there on the very end of Forest Road yep on the south end of Forest yeah
yeah the um trying to remember who lived there yeah i'm not sure where just curious been abandoned or several years yeah and it was shouldn't have been lived in the last several years he lived in it who's next to it um who's the guy
with the really thick glasses mike mike mike yeah he's in a home though that was his house that's where he lived oh it's Mike's yes okay gotcha so do we need to make a motion or anything to get that whole thing started
no I I'll I'll keep working on it and uh I just I would feel really bad that so much time and investment has been put in and then to find out that Thank you i would too because it looks really nice could be just some It's really little glitch or some somebody all you need is
a whole turnover and then right and it could stink and getting the lawyer involved and might make it more valuable for us though yeah maybe for the investor you mean so so do we have to um start raising money for this in the
community so that we can donate money for doing it what now i'm just being facicious it should be covered by the city cuz it's city properties i'm just being facitious here but don't put that in the minutes when you guys do the bricks will you be charging for those i
guess we should it's just being tossed around okay it wouldn't be a fundraiser it would No it's not necessarily Well it wouldn't be a fundraiser it would be more of a kind of like everything else well it's a memorial park yeah so
we are doing something where a little money might be we're looking at a calendar where a little money might be going that direction possibly designated well if it's a park we can put more money right because it'll be something we own
instead of splitting it with the seniors and that kind of thing that we've done in the past yeah it's been it must have been back a long time ago that it was tax a lot of those were in the 30s I think well I remember
who used to live there and it was a dump on the on the where the memorial park is oh yeah oh yeah that was terrible it was a dump and they were So it wasn't that long ago then um it was in the 80s probably no we've been out there a long
time memorial Park no that property yeah where the memorial park is there was a little shack on it and this Marv and what was her boy that's been a long time that was in the 80s I think we moved out there yeah I'd say probably in 80 you
were out there earlier but yeah and that was after that all right anybody have anything else to add for no city council meetings i would uh motion to adjurnn sure motion's been made do we have a second
second motion's been made and seconded all in favor i we will adjourn quick meeting tonight yeah