ready. Calling the meeting to order for June 9th, 2026. The parks commission. We do need to make a change to our agenda. Somebody want to make a motion? >> I make a motion to amend the agenda to
include uh Steve for his uh swearing in. Second. >> A motion's been made and seconded. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I >> I >> I opposed.
Guys have it. Motion is passed. >> With that, Steve, would you please stand, raise your right hand, and read that off to us, please? I, Steve Berseron, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the
state of Minnesota and faithfully discharge the duties as a member of the city of East Bethl Park Commission in the county of Anoka in the state of Minnesota to the best of my ability. So help me God. >> Thank you for joining us. Appreciate it.
>> Thank you for joining the team. >> You're welcome. >> And you pass the reading test. [laughter] Has there been a problem before? >> Oops. >> We forgot to ask you that question. [laughter] >> I was crossing my fingers for you. >> All right. Make a motion to adopt the
agenda. I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda. >> Did I do it? >> We got that. We got that. We need to go to uh minutes. >> Well, you know, my notes are from April. So, >> how about I [clears throat] make a motion to approve the minutes of the meeting.
>> Oh, there you go. Last month. She should be co-chair. [laughter] >> Can somebody Can I get Okay. Okay. Should I make the I'll do it officially. >> Did I? >> Yep. Need a second on the minutes. >> We haven't really read them, but we'll
assume they're good. >> I'll second that. >> All right. Um motion has been made and a seconded to approve the minutes for the I believe it's April 14th, >> 2026 meeting. any
discussion changes. All right. >> I read through them. I didn't know notice anything that was >> I didn't either. It was a pretty short meeting and we had >> I believe a demonstrate we talked to one of the developers right about
>> Yeah. We interviewed [snorts] Steve and Y. >> All in favor? All in favor I >> I >> opposed. >> Motion passes.
All righty. Park financial information. Item four is our financial information. Uh year to date we are sitting at the bottom here at 37%. So we're in pretty good shape. Uh no big surprises so far this year.
um equipment parts is, you know, that one's over budget already, but that can be um happen very easily with any big repairs on any equipment. So, we've got other cushions kind of built into this to help
cover that absorb that cost. So, we're kind of we're going to have our city budget discussion uh coming up here in July. We're not proposing any major changes to the operation budget. I think it's like a 3% increase just to kind of cover cost of everything going up, but
uh yeah, we're in pretty good shape on that one. Is there any questions on anything on there? >> Fuel costs haven't affected you too bad. >> No, fuel hasn't hasn't been too bad for us. >> What about our purchases of the parks
equipment that we've been purchasing? Are we okay on that? >> Yep. as far as ch any changes that might have came through in shipping and stuff. Nope, that's all been paid and well hasn't been paid yet, but it's been agreed upon and uh ordered. So, we're still waiting for delivery.
That takes us kind of down to our second item here. These are our two capital funds, the park acquisition and development fund. This is the fund that gets um money from development that we're going to talk about later tonight in the meeting and uh residential items. We have a balance of 458,000.
Around 175,000 of that is [snorts] spoken for in stuff we've already ordered. Uh that's the playground for Viking Meadows and the picnic shelter for Viking Meadows. We also have to factor in irrigation, some landscaping, things like that. So, we'll probably be
pushing over 200,000 by the end of the year spent out of that fund. The second item below is the park capital fund. This is the fund that is um transferred from our uh general fund from your uh tax
revenues. We had a balance uh general fund transfer each year of 120,000. Our current balance is 280,000. Um we'll kind of talk about a couple things in there. Uh under item 6.0 tonight, too. So those both those funds are in are in
better shape than they've been in a while. We've kind of been bouncing along at zero balances for quite a few years. So, we're finally being able to build these up a little bit. So, it helped having the development uh there along Viking that really helped kick up that acquisition and development
fund. >> Great. >> Make a motion to approve the uh parks financials. >> I'll second. >> A motion's been made and seconded to approve the park financials. All those in favor? I >> I
>> Any opposed? The motion carries. >> Um I need to step up for one second. Excuse me. >> All righty. I have to turn my uh iPad off cuz I think I'm >> All right. Item five. This is the
development that was presented. Um I know you guys didn't get a chance to look at I don't I'm not sure what happened with our with our park packet, but this is the development that's planned behind the these are the East Buffalo apartments. This is Brian Bass. If you want to come
up and introduce yourself to and they can just hammer you with questions. >> We're [laughter] kind of like that. I don't know if you noticed. >> Don't worry. >> I'm Brian Boss. I own BJ Boss Builders up in Cambridge and also have a small
one-man show development company that's me uh called Final Approach Development. Um so I'm proposing this project in East Bethl uh just south of the theaters and south of the apartments. Um it's about a 26
acre site there. That's good chunk of that is wetland area. Um, and so we've mapped out kind of a three-phase project. Uh, the first phase being that the parcel closest to Highway
65 on the right side of the screen. Uh, phases two and three are really just kind of showing and demonstrating to me as the purchaser of the land what could be done with that land at some point in time.
Um I'm really uh pursuing the building on the right u right now which uh would be is being proposed as a multi-tenant kind of light industrial or office warehouse type building
and uh and so again the master plan is what you see in front of you which uh would be my goal at some point down the road but hopefully u I I own and and lease uh commercial properties as sort of a side business to our construction
company and I would own and and hold this property in East Bethl. So that's my intent. Um so I'll let you fire away any other questions from there that I maybe didn't answer that you might have. >> So how many tenants are you thinking
that you're going to have in this building? Is it going to be twostory or >> It'll be a single story about 20 ft clear. So, I would uh consider this what uh some people term in the industry as small bay users. Uh could be
construction companies that need a small office, 1,000 or 2,000 square ft with some warehouse space in the back or retail um storage for their inventory, that kind of thing. Um it's not large
industrial. It's it's it's not that at all. It's not large distribution. It's not large warehousing. Um the property is currently zoned um business uh highway which is B3 and I'm working with the city right now
as to uh potential changes to that which would provide a little bit of flexibility. Now I'm getting the phone call. [laughter] >> Um little bit of flexibility in the sense that um you know the the back half of that whole neighborhood is all light
industrial. Mhm. >> And so I I kind of picture this this this property as as a bit more of a light industrial in nature. So I've been having discussions with staff about, you know, do we attempt a reszoning of the
property to to light industrial or do we pursue a language change to the current zoning through a conditional use permit? So the direction in which we go with that
is somewhat immaterial today. Um do have a single user for the property uh right now which would take about 15,000 square ft of the 21,600 square ft proposed.
And um so so that's really what's driving the development today is that user is sort of gives me reason to build it and then the remainder I would attempt to lease to as I mentioned a light industrial type
user. >> So I'm confused why why are we looking at this because we have to look at >> our city code requires the park commission to review any concept plans and then provide comment. Um >> even if it's industrial that kind of
correct not just res dedication fee for it. >> Okay. And then if it fits in any of our trails, plans, wetlands, green space, that type of thing. >> Okay. >> They want comments from the park commission. >> Thank you. I I wasn't quite understanding >> the timing just works out that the last few we've had came to the park commission first before it's even gone
to anybody else. So, you're kind of the first on publicly the middle of it. >> I [clears throat] see. >> So, I know you're building on some wetlands and I know there are some laws regarding that, right? >> That you have to replace what you close up and
>> Right. So, um, I don't know if you have access to it, Nate, but one of the slides shows kind of the the wetlands as they've been identified by my wetland delineation company. So, everything with inside the yellow is is is deemed wetland. And so
>> if you look at our proposed um site plan, we are staying clear of all those areas because I very intently don't want to go into the wetlands because of the sensitivity of the areas, but also the
complications that it creates for me as as the developer and land owner. Um, I don't want to have to replace wetlands by buying out of a wetland bank or replacing it on our site, which is a very, very lengthy
process and involved process. So, we're we're trying to steer around all of that. You can see the wetlands here. The interior line that's marked as wet is the actual border of the wetland based on the the delineation that was done. the secondary line, the dash line around
[clears throat] it is a is a buffer that's required that we can't we also can't build into that. So, we've kind of taken that delineation and done our best to work around those areas. Um, and and really again, it's a
demonstration to me as to what we can do or can't do. And I really I had some ideas of what that might look like, but until I got this delineation back, I really wasn't certain about any of that.
So, we then took our site plan and and adapted it a bit to to the delineation that was done. And that's what you see here today. >> Could you just point out where So, the the the current place that you're looking at building out is up on the
upper right. Right. >> Correct. Right there. And then where's the the next areas? I just I have a really hard time. >> So yeah, it's it's one 26 acre kind of. >> So this is the this is the plan here. >> It's showing 30 here, but this actually
is a separate parcel right here. So I'm not purchasing this. >> Okay. >> It's it's from this white line >> correct. >> So this is the apartments movie theater. >> Got it. >> Trailer trailer parks down here. >> Thank you, >> Nate. if you don't mind going back to
that other slide. My proposal is to at some point plat this 26 acres into three lots approximately here being a lot line dedicating a road easement to the city
at their request and then also you know lot line lot line this being dedicated road easement of I think it was 80 ft. So again, it's it's sort of this is my
concept plan which came in under my concept plan submission. Um but I'm moving rather quickly on it. I don't think my final plan is going to look a whole lot different than this. Um the question is whether we plat it now
or some point down the road. Right now none of these buildings are scheduled to happen. this building is. >> So, you are going to put office buildings on the other two sections then too >> at some point. That would be my goal. Uh
those those may be owned by me or they may those parcels may go up for sale. But again, this really just helped me kind of understand the possibilities with the property. So the rest of it's laid industrial. What does that allow for
tenency? >> The rest of the property or the rest of the building? >> The rest of the property. Um, it allows everything the business district allows plus some additional things like warehousing, some light manufacturing,
um, more construction type users, which I'm sort of envisioning as as sort of our target group, not just construction, but um, more than just the business retail
sector. And so, um, I'm asking the city for or will be asking the city formally for some flexibility in that zoning. Again, either through a zoning change or some
language change that provides some additional user groups to be allowed in that zoning with a language change. >> So, you are open to having retail? >> Yes. That would be helpful.
>> Park commission's perspective. Any other concerns as far as >> Well, I drove back there today because it's the only place in Mil County where you can get through because I tried to get to Andover and it's all blocked off. >> All the roads are shut down. [laughter]
And I know we had talked about and I tried to look it up online, but the notes and things I couldn't find from the apartment complex when it was going to be mixed use. It had looked at like a medical clinic and I can't remember what the original plans called for, but we
had nixed putting in a park there because the um Cedarwood, is that what it's called? Cedarwood now? >> Uh yeah, I think so. Yeah, something like that. But they're going to get rid of their park now. >> They're trying to. It hasn't. No, that's
none of that's been approved yet either. >> And you butt up part of your property butts up to that, right? The >> correct. Yeah. The southern southern side of your >> southern side of it does. So, the problem is being that it's industrial
housing. I don't know how we would do a parks trail or anything through there because it's pretty busy back there. There's big trucks >> from Shaw and some of the other like
classic constructions back there. >> So, I don't know. I know we looked at initially making some like bike lanes and stuff so you could kids could get from Cedarwood all the way over to Norcland I think it was at one time we talked about
that but it doesn't join up. >> It would probably be widened roads rather than off streetet trails through a lot of that. Yeah, that's why Buchanan has a 80ft easement that's bigger than our normal width road um to provide for some shoulders I guess for parking and
for pedestrians too. But with 26 acres, I think we talked about it our our fee for park dedication and commercial industrial areas is 2,000 an acre. So $53,000 is kind of the the amount that's would be proposed.
>> Park dedication We changed some of our residential um rules in the last year, but the commercial areas stayed the same. And that's due to some rulings by this the courts and how that all plays out too in Minnesota.
>> I think our best bet is take park dedication fees and run. >> I agree. >> I think that's >> Do you want action? Um just just recommendation. Yep. After the city council, I don't think there's really another option there, >> right? Like I said, I I drove through there. I don't see how we could do a
trail or anything or >> So, this tonight's just a concept plan. When we get a we get an actual uh plan submitted, >> then we take official action on park dedication, but they kind of want to get comments from everybody up front here with concept plan. So,
>> does anybody else have any other comments? I'm in agreement with um cash and the plan. >> I'm good with it. >> Mhm. >> Steve, >> good with it. >> Okay. >> I think you're going to have a lot more questions from the planning commission,
but yeah, for us that's >> Yeah, understood. >> Yeah, we're pretty easy compared to them. >> We're just getting you primed up for the main events. [laughter] >> Thanks. Thanks for the practice. >> I I expect that. So yeah, appreciate
your time and I I kind of >> It's nice that you came in prepared. >> Well, yeah, I don't know that I said anything novel here, but I I did think about what might, you know, how could we collaborate with parks and it's sort of a tough
>> piece of property and it's in a tough location to to do much good as I saw it. Um, so yeah, I think the cash could be used better elsewhere maybe, but uh, yeah, appreciate your feedback. >> We've got other parts that it would really help with. >> Yeah,
>> thank you. >> Yeah, thank you for coming in and showing us what's going on. >> Of course. Yeah, >> you're going to hear coffee shop, grocery store. [laughter] >> Well, those are all still welcome, but I >> Oh, man. We need >> I hope that could happen. I've heard
that grocery store a few times. [laughter] Good luck. >> Thank you. Thanks for coming in. >> Yeah, appreciate it. >> I know. >> So, no official action there. I'll just
provide those comments to Eric and he'll he'll give those to the planning commission and the city council. >> Okay. >> And then, >> oh, you do you do fancy stuff like me. [laughter] >> There we go.
Um for this item, item six, just general discussion. I I provided that kind of the cost estimate for the basketball tennis courts at um Goon Lake Beach. Is that something you want to try and pursue rather than take out the concrete? I think it's a lot cheaper.
I've never really done much of it. The concrete lifting. Um >> well, isn't it just like that foam stuff and you push it up and even it out? >> I did have to be done again, right? package. >> It's not included in this cuz it's I didn't want to officially put it public
information cuz I only got one. I don't want to >> interfere with any other potential quotes that we get. >> We're going to be between say 6 and $8,000 >> somewhere in there >> to do to [clears throat] do the lift, the concrete >> lifting. It's actually a poly it's a
it's not concrete jacking. It's a polyurethane that they use to lift it up. >> And how long is that supposed to last? Do they know it? I I read up it's like 10 to 15 years is what it lasts and you might have to do it because I feel compresses over time. >> Oh yeah, because people are going to be
well and it's got the sun beating on it and >> the other option is to do a full tear out and rebuild. >> And what would that cost? >> Well, that's be significantly more cuz we'd have to redo all the fencing and everything too then. >> What? >> That that'd be a lot. >> Yeah. >> Are we looking at >> probably
>> 40 grand to do that? Um, were we looking at doing that this >> Well, if we have the money to do it, I could we could knock it out this year if we wanted to. >> I think we should. >> It's needed. It's dangerous down there. It's very bad. >> It is dangerous. Even for when we were walking through there, just
>> youngsters as we are. >> It's bad. >> Yep. >> And And it does get used. >> It does more. >> It will just get worse. >> I mean, our our demographic in the neighborhood is changing a little bit. >> We've got a lot more younger people. Yeah. And if you do do that, look at
those fences, too. And those gates that have the thing that sticks to them. >> Yeah, the gates would have to We just redo the hardware on those. >> That would be awesome. >> That would But the fence line's in pretty good shape still. So, >> yeah. >> Tie the fence down. Make sure the balls don't go out. >> The repair is going to be roughly 25% of
the cost of what replacing. >> Yeah, maybe. >> Are we talking about replacing the fence though, or just fixing it? >> Just fix the It's just the gates that are beat up. The fence line itself is in pretty good shape. >> What about the trees that need to be trimmed? We'll just do that ourselves. Yeah. >> You need a chainsaw.
>> Yep. >> Isn't trimming part of the normal? >> Yeah, it's it's coming from the neighbor's tree. Um they gave us permission just recently to go in there and take whatever we want down. They can take the whole tree down, but >> it's in a pretty tight spot. >> It's a big tree in a small spot.
>> Yeah, we don't want to be doing that. >> Yeah, they'd much rather have us take us how it >> works. Sometimes they remove it's the city's tree now, >> right? Exactly. >> Okay. So, I I'll what I'll do is I'll uh get quotes on that. Um and if we if it
looks good, I'll probably just go ahead and get that work scheduled down there then. >> Perfect. >> I'll probably I'll have the account city council. We'll have to sign off on it because it's over $5,000. But, um >> as long as we're on that topic,
>> we did get the youth basketball hoop. >> Okay. At your convenience, if you want to reach out to me >> and get it installed, >> we can maybe hang it. >> Yep. >> It's not a little tikes, is it?
>> No. Uhhuh. No. No. >> No. It's a little bit. >> We did a little bit better. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> We do have a rebounder attached where we kind of were thinking about putting it, but we want your input for sure on it, Nate. But I just wanted to let you know that we have it. >> I'll get in touch with you.
>> Is that a donation? Do we need to do something if they It's donated? >> Yeah. >> Um, how do you know what the value was on it? >> 350 bucks. >> Yeah, I can check and see. We might have to just have a formal adoption of
donation by the council on it. >> Usually the lower items, it's not that big of a deal. Yeah, if you can throw that in there because it'd be nice to have it out for the kids. >> Where did we get it from? >> The community center >> out of park fun.
>> They have their own They have their own park fun down there. And I [snorts] think you guys just bought it from like sporting goods store >> like Dick Sporting Goods. I think >> commercial places we looked at were crazy expensive. >> Always. >> And it wasn't like that. >> And they're not even that usually better.
>> 2000 or something. It was crazy too cheap. >> Yeah. That's why I was kind of asking is there >> Yeah. Uh Viking Meadows Park, the playground equipment sounds like I just got an email today from them. I might be come getting close to getting here. >> So once we get that aligned up, we're
going to have that installed here in the next month or so. Um the the shelter that we ordered after we ordered it, they told us the lead time was 26 weeks. >> Half a year. >> Six months. So it'll show up in December. So that won't go in until [laughter]
But we can put the slab down before that, can't we? >> Um, probably. Well, we need to get the anchors and that comes with it. And we just figure we'll just wait and do it all at once in the springtime so we know we have everything in the right place. >> There you go. >> But we'll we'll lay it out so that pl that spot's open. We can get the
irrigation put in this summer yet and then uh just put that up next spring. So, >> okay. >> And then we can have a little >> dance in the pavilion there. You can do square dance pavilion. Uh, and the zipline will go into. We already have
that delivered. So, and what else? Booster Park. We're working on the the, uh, pickle ball courts. The company that we were planning on trying to get some quotes from decided they didn't want to they were too busy to help us out this year. So, I think we're going to have to end up being the general kind of on it and contracting out everything
separately. Um, there's one other company I'm waiting to hear back from to see if they want to give us a price on running the whole thing, but and I'll get that back to you guys. >> Is that like a certain kind of underllayment or something that we have to put there or >> Well, you can either do asphalt or you can do concrete and then they put a
surface on top of that. It's that kind of like we use on our tennis courts and then basically an 8ft fence around it with uh some screening to help stop the wind. And then we decide how many we want to put in, I guess, too. But
>> I keep hearing the more the better. >> That's what we always hear, too. Yep. >> People want to have tournaments. So, >> so for July, um Oh, the John Anderson Trail Connection. Yeah, we're still working on that. We need to uh we'll probably have to invite the homeowners
in to a meeting here >> adjacent and talk about how we want to handle that fencing issue. So, >> that's going to be our July meeting. You think? July probably won't we won't probably have a meeting that's booster week >> because it's it's also right after 4th
of July. So >> yeah, it's always hard to have a July one. In August, I think we're going to do the meeting in the park with uh Oakbrook Acres. Invite everybody there. The two uh ladies that were here with the petition.
>> Oh yeah. >> In August, maybe September we'll invite we'll work on the John Anderson Trail. you can ask. >> So that's kind of all I have and all on that >> that back to that basketball hoop was about $330.
>> Okay. >> I'll uh I'll probably put something just on a on the city council as a resolution accepting donation kind of deal just for >> from the community center. So we have it officially on there. And [clears throat] then Tim wasn't
going to be here tonight, so we do not have item seven. Um, last night's meeting, there wasn't a lot on there. A couple of >> Do we have the exact Can we get it on the record what the exact date is for booster day? >> You want to share that?
>> Well, yeah, because it's only a month away. >> Yep. >> What is it? July 9 >> 18th. >> 18th >> booster day. July 18th, third Saturday in July, >> and they're looking for volunteers yesterday.
>> So, if anybody wants to be in the parade, they have a parade now. Again, royalty, I believe, is now set up again. I don't know if they're having a ceremony or anything, but you can come meet me. I'm usually at the city booth.
>> The what booth? >> The city booth. Oh, I thought you said something else. >> Probably be at the lion's booth. >> Yep. >> All right. Anything else? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second.
>> Motion's been made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. Any discussion other than happy Independence Day? Nope. All right.