action. All right. Uh let's call to order. Uh Tuesday, June 9th at 6:30 p.m. Uh Park Board and Recreation Commission. Can we please rise and say the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. tablet. Right. Anything any additions to tonight's agenda?
>> I have no additions tonight. Chairman, >> anyone else have any? With that, I'll look for a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. any uh corrections or other information that needs to be discussed
on last month's minutes. If not hearing any, I'll look for a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All post same sign. All right, let's get into the big discussion business.
Yeah, the big hot topic button for tonight. Uh, so as we talked about at the last meeting, Michael Handler isn't able to make it to our Music in the Park event this year. So, uh, he suggest Michael was going to ask some of the people he know, they weren't able to
make it. He had reference us to a site to potentially look for it, but this is all across the state. Um, so what I did is I reached out to Ed Berline from knuckleheads and asked him if he knew of any outdoor groups that might be a good fit for us. Gave him an idea what we're
looking for and he recommended back to us a man by the name of Todd Runnings. He's a local uh person and uh he percussionist music in general and then he has other people he teams up with to do music. Uh he's been doing it around the area for quite some time. So it
looks like Lauren might know this person. I do. I do. >> Would you uh give a recommendation to Mr. >> Yeah. I mean, he plays all over. He goes to Florida and has someone that flies him down there to go play them in Florida. Yeah. >> So, he's good.
>> Okay. >> Strong recommendation. Local mayor, resident. And >> that's awesome. If he can do it, >> uh, he is available. >> He is available and willing to do it. And he would do it for the price of $400. >> Wow. >> Nice. >> Sign that man up.
Sounds like it's done. >> So, if we're good with that, >> yeah, >> I think we'll I'll just let him know that we'll go ahead and pick him up. Archery confirmed that they would be able to uh be at Music in the Park. Uh Glitter Ponies, I told them to they
asked if there was some increased prices with fuel and hay, but I said that's no problem. Book us in. So, we should be good to go on Glitter Ponies. uh waiting to get back brochure and options from uh Midwest Party Supply for bounce houses.
>> Other than that, uh any reporting back on brain freeze ice cream? >> Was that my job? >> At least I only forgot where you sat. >> Okay, I can text them. That's my bad. >> I think I recall. >> I thought I texted you their number and
you were supposed to do it. I'll do it. I got it. Did you text the number? >> I did. I don't know. >> All I remember is asking if you knew who they are. >> That's my bad. >> No. >> I believe uh we're going to invite L Katrina out for the second.
>> Oh, that'll be good. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Fantastic. >> What's the date again? >> September 26th. >> 26th at 11 o'clock. >> Still having the nights come out. >> Alliance.
>> Alliance. Right. We're going to have the Lions come out. I can ask. >> That was for sure not my job. >> I will ask the Lions. >> Right. >> I didn't I He's They've always been there before. So I >> 11 to Journey to Wellness come last year
as well. >> Yes. >> And Jacob was here. Yep. >> Jacob, >> I'll reach out to them as well. >> Journey. Is that like Herbal Life? >> Yeah, >> the one by Snap Fitness.
>> Yeah, that's that's Herbal Life then. >> I'll reach out to them as well. >> I didn't know they were still open. That's interesting. >> I was there today. >> His go there every day if she could. I think uh once uh I'll contact Lions
Journey to Wellness. We'll get Brain Freezy on board and then we should be locked in for the event. >> Perfect. >> I don't think there's anything else we're going to kind of set that uh that that scope of Music in the Park seemed to be a really good fit. Not to expand it, not to shrink it, just
>> Yeah, I I I think it's a great event and I think people really enjoy what's there. >> Hoping with the time change, we'll see more attendance as well, >> right? maybe over that lunch instead of overnight. >> Mhm. >> So, >> yeah, exactly. >> So, yeah.
>> Perfect. >> So, that's what I have on that. >> All right. Uh any commissioner reports? Anybody got anything? >> Uh the splash pad uh fence is going in tomorrow. >> Tomorrow. >> And the benches, too, right?
>> Uh yeah, I got an update on a handful of things there. splash pad. So far, it seems like it's been really well used this season once again. >> First time I've gone out there. >> Odd. >> It's been really good. >> It is this year. >> It's awesome to see. Uh contractors were
here on Saturday and hydro seated the area to establish grass. Uh the back side of the hill was not taken care of because city crews are still uh uh grading that into a proper sledding hill. >> Over the winter it we was not intended to be, but we had people using it
sledding down. So, public works crews. >> That's awesome. >> As we get fill. Uh, so we have fill from some of the housing projects that are being donated. >> Oh, cool. Great. That's awesome. >> I was wondering where some of that had come from. >> Yep. We had reached out to some area people who we knew had fill that they wanted to get rid of
>> and so they dropped it off for free. Save them distance for getting rid of it. So, we're as we get that in, we'll continue grading that in. So, I'd say later in the fall, we'll probably be seating that once it's complete. >> Can you say it's behind the splash pad? >> Yeah. So over the burm down the backside.
>> That's awesome. >> Yeah, that is really cool. >> Are we gonna advertise it at some point then? That is >> Yeah, we'll advertise. >> Official sledding hill now. >> Mhm. >> That's cool. >> Figured people are going to use it. Might as well make it a good one. >> Yeah. Didn't even know.
>> Uh fencing like Ryan mentioned will be going in tomorrow. Uh we got the splash pad announced to be closed for uh that day. Hopefully they get done sooner. And if it if we can open it up sooner, hey, great. But uh if not, we got the day blocked off for it. >> Bench curing time and everything will be okay with the
>> core drilling and concrete. >> Yeah, I met with shed and fence on Monday to go over which areas will be surface mount versus core drilled. >> Okay. >> Because the guys uh went out there and spray painted out where the lines are. >> Okay. And they're not worried about like if we were to open it the next day, concrete is going to be cured well
enough. >> Yeah. >> I mean, it should be, but Yeah. >> Or in any tornado, of course. >> Yes. Right. >> Yeah. Yeah, it should rain should be good to go the on Thursday. Um, uh, park benches, uh, for inside are
set to arrive this week. They were supposed to be here today, but we didn't get a phone call, so we'll continue to hear on that. Uh, so that's what we've got for Splash Pad. Uh, disc golf course, uh, city crews, we're going to be having the, uh, brush pile shipped in probably three weeks, and that's going
to provide us with amount of wood chips we're going to start placing around the pads and around the the holes. provide a little br uh a little buffer to help with around the pad is getting a little muddy in some areas. Plus, >> well, and I know that they want them leveled off because the approaches, >> right? Level it off. So, that'll help
with that than around the uh the the poles themselves just a little bit so it's easier to mow around it. Yeah. >> Don't have to weed whip. >> And then uh some of those we are looking at eval are evaluating whether or not we want to extend them. Uh some of the
longer holes, we've been told that the T's are a little bit on the short side for runup. So, we uh identify those and rather than rip out and replace, we're just going to form up and add more concrete to extend them out. >> Sponsorships are still ongoing. We got
nine out of 18 holes uh with and signage. It will be going up soon. I sent those over to Melissa earlier last week for design and then we'll get them off to the Carver County Sign Shop for production. >> Great. uh park benches in the parks. Uh we had uh said that we'd be replacing all of
those to uniform those up. Uh we'll be getting those ordered in the not too distant future. Downtown bench replacement, those have been ordered and waiting on delivery. Uh for memorial benches in our parks where we are we've received and will be replacing Chuck Wheelen's bench.
>> Yep. Um, so they got a free one, so we just outright replace since the arrival was >> we just had to do what we needed to do, replace the slatting on the old design, which was very poor. >> Okay. >> And so just to make sure that that was properly done, we reordered a free one
for him >> in the memorial bench style. And then the two four Lions Clubs should be arriving and we'll get those installed. Um, trail lighting for old schoolhouse. We've got one quote back. can wait and get the other one from the other contractor. So hopefully by the next meeting we'll be making a recommendation
up to city council on that. Um highway tri uh not pseudo park related uh uh next week, the week of the 15th, the portion of the trail from Casey's 400 ft north. It's going to be torn out and replaced. They're hoping to get that
done in one week, but they have a 10day construction window. Their goal is to be done on Friday, though. That's pave redone. So, that'll be back. And one item I'll be bringing up uh probably next month is a draft of a field use policy for Old Schoolhouse Park. We're
getting much more interest from groups, ba youth baseball teams, groups that want to use our fields. So, it's creating a scheduling issue. >> Yeah. >> Uh we've been Mayor Lutheran gets first dibs on them because they've used them historically. So, they will continue to
have that. But the we're getting three four different groups that have been asking to use the the rest of the fields during off times. And so we want to have a policy in place for how we manage that to make sure right now it's kind of a first come first serve depending on open. Uh but I like to get that a little
bit more formalized when you're done. >> Okay. Uh initial thoughts in my head are local teams get first dibs on priority and then you might have some sort of a sliding scale.
How many so if it's an outside team how many mayor kids are on the team will dictate second and third order scheduling. So if it's a truly outside team they would get last place on scheduling. But if you have like 30% or more then you get higher. >> Yep. Makes sense.
>> Something of that. I've been looking at other field policies from other cities on that front. >> Um, that's >> since you brought that up, I've heard other people talking since there's more use of the ballpark in the fields, do we decide on
turning the the old schoolhouse park or ball field into parking lot? >> Say that again. >> So, the little one right on this Yeah. >> Right across from here. >> Yeah. take that. And then
>> I see a lot of people practicing and playing in there though. >> That's actually really that this one right across by, you know, between us and Zion, that's actually one of our most used. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I see pretty busy. >> People are up there quite a bit. >> Yeah. >> But I mean, are the other ones empty?
>> Um, they get used, but I'd say this one, the sand lot we got out here, gets used way more than people think. >> Okay. Mhm. >> So, I think with our parking lot expansion, since we went from 48 spaces to 84, we've done a good job at expanding parking. And I was actually
talking with uh public works uh this week just about how much that's getting used. And we may even think about doing some modest improvements to that to kind of uniform out the bases, maybe put out some better distancing. So, that could actually be used as a fourth
>> secondary field of sorts. regrow plant. >> There was no other field. >> It gets used. It gets used a lot. >> Well, just last night when I came in, they were out playing in it. >> Throwing balls in the park. >> I think it's a good test though, uh, if we do get some teams playing down below
here just to see how well the parking is and and maybe look at it again in the future. >> Yeah. I'm just making, you know, a point of, you know, with >> more stuff going on, we might have to look at it down the road. I mean, >> yep. >> It's convenient because it's right
there, but if there's not as many people down at the other fields, it just go to the other fields type of thing, >> right? It's a little it's a little more lock and get some more exercise. We gain probably we could gain another at least 60 probably >> and maybe there's a it could be in the
future obviously but maybe there's a discussion with Zion that you shift the field down >> a little bit more real estate to build out some more parking >> because then Fourth Street can just go straight into the parking lot >> right >> and then we won't have as much the
depression >> well that's getting improved again and we're going to lose a few spots right >> um >> current parking. >> Yeah. Four when the access go in. And that's slated for week of June 22nd >> for that to be done. >> Down to 80,
>> correct? >> Yeah, we'll be down to 80. >> Be nice if you if Zion would would take it and just move it to there just where the other old ball field used to be by Zion. >> Yeah, but I think they do. >> There was two that old diamond that was over there because there was two up there.
>> There was Don't they use that for recreational stuff for the school though? I I I'm not saying that that we go and ask him. I'm just saying that would be a nice compromise. I got >> right if we could move that. But >> yeah, >> but if you shape this up, get proper
basis and see clean up the lines, >> it'll be >> it is it is a highly used spot. I will say that >> it'd be a really nice minor practice field. You probably would never play games on it, but >> you could practice on it. >> Yeah. take some of the load off these
fields >> because what it >> sorry >> the main field and then it looks like you would use the out of the two bottom fields you use the one on the left and then the >> yeah so this main field is uh proper
high school regulation field so you're talking your 14 15 U plus >> are we you're getting that now >> no that's >> okay I'm just >> I don't think it's I don't think It's ever been irrigated. >> Well, it's there. >> Is it? >> Yeah. Irrigation was all put in when
when the field was put in. >> Interesting. >> I will talk to Kyle about that a bit more because he probably has good history. Uh the south, so field two down here, the base distancing on both of these are the same. This is uh more of
your 10US plus. >> Okay. uh pre-hitting this because the base distances are shorter than the main field. Baseball on this one's more set up. You can play similar to this, but this is more set up as a softball field. >> Okay.
>> But it could be used for 10U, 12U type of stuff. Softball, T-ball. >> And I know that they are being used. >> This is a permanent mount and this has a movable mount. Yeah, I know that they are being used because I've had a couple people request
>> possibly putting in like even chain link dugouts with that like a cover. >> Yeah. >> Like a screen cover just somewhere to get some shade >> for the players. >> Okay. So, if we're going to do a management policy to rent out the
fields, then do we need to then maybe think more seriously about updating the dugout on the main field? >> Well, structurally, the engineers said they were good. >> Good for the time being. Yeah, they're not going to go anywhere, but
>> we had talked about ripping them down and replacing them, but it' be a good project for the CIP for next year. >> Yep. >> Mhm. >> Then we just do all the dugouts at the same time. Correct. put in simple dugouts, simple overhang type with benches. >> And not to add more to your plate, any
chance you can reach out to the scoreboard company and see if we can get an updated maybe chip or whatever it needs to connect. >> Yeah, I can figure out that. >> Like I said, not to add that more to your play, but >> No, we just never found where the
>> Right. We never figured out where the where the controller went. So, the scoreboard's there. It'd be nice for them to have an opportunity to use it. >> Yep. Agreed. >> Okay. >> All right. >> So, that's what I've got for uh updates.
>> Awesome. >> On all things happening around the city. >> Anybody else have anything else they wanted to add or question? >> All right. With that, I'll look for a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I. Motion carries.
Motion is >> our workshop last night. Second special. No, we're