don't know that we're going to have all right so I'll get started um I'm Katie Dudley and I'm the chair of the committee and I'll just let you guys say who you are and well and then I live in
the Riverwood Hills subdivision I guess I'm Justin Black I live up in the um Cedar Woodland subdivision Jeff mang say I'm over in River Park I'm Marie Rice roer I live over in
river will um Hood as well awesome who is working our computer over here what's your name sir Ryland I course mayor right you're and you're in River edor here
exactly all right and then um Ryan just real quick can you do the audience camera how do you do that sorry the audience camera oh yes just for fun GE thanks I
know all right the three of you could you introduce yourselves please sure I'm Dave Beal I'm with h friendly olad County and I live in uh Rochester and the young man in the back who are you Jason Baker City
administrator and every office person right now or do you have some help yet I can you help office occasionally does time to do that anyway time what's that we find time you have to Y all
right thank you Jason for all that you do all right so um on my agenda I have that we were going to do some previous meeting minutes approved and I still owe you guys um June minutes
I did find a better copy um that actually seemed to be what I meant to have submitted but I only got 20 minutes into the YouTube video to confirm that so I'll have that done um by April and
then um you guys received February minutes but only today so the vets of it cop I got all right um well hang on I guess I'm jumping no
I'm not jumping okay so the meeting minutes from February State um us recommending minutes and seconding it and then the zumra River Regional water Trail the mayor went over details
of what that is for new committee members and then the lcmr with uh the state of Minnesota is going to provide $165,000 for research this will be a river trail only there will be a meeting February 6th to update
stakeholders and asked committee for 175 to renew membership in Greater Minnesota parks and trails commission and Kevin recommends approving the $175 payment to renew membership and Don sector so motion carries to continue our
membership with them the update on do news near Highway 52 the fence um will be installed by an outside party the trail under the highway will not need fence so do stated Rock piles are enough to prevent people
from getting to the medium and then drifter's car club I apologize I'm not going to say this name perfectly but Jim Ashen mucker presented for The Drifter car club to use oroo Park Sunday October 5th for car registration for their annual driving
car show they will not be parking in oron noal park this will benefit local nonprofit organizations up to $6,000 donated between three Charities Club will clean up afterwards but will need trash receptacles to do so several
signs will be placed near the entrance up to 175 cars for around an hour and a half public will be allowed to attend the club may be interested in using the park next year for parking after the cruise has been completed uh the committee
discussed waving the $50 shelter fee but we still have them pay the refundable $100 damage fee and Kevin recommends director Park Club to use Orin noal park for registration and waving the shelter fee but to keep the deposit and Marie
seconds in the motion carried we did mention for The Economic Development Authority that Rebecca Charles stated that Grant programs are open but she needs approval to work additional hours if she is to be the person to apply for them um Marie will
check possibility of community members helping with Grant submissions these grants will come from state federal and private organizations and then we welcomed um Marie as our Council representative and then we still have openings on the
committee um we could have seven members and Marie and Justin will are we're looking into that can supply a list of par needs so committee members should look over this sheet and prioritize needs for the 2026
budget and future budgets and then we didn't have anything to report from city council minutes and the leadership Greater Rochester sign had been installed at the community center Park Kane will check on um what the tennis
and pickle ball court line Looks like in Spring at River Park and the drainfield fence removal is not in the budget currently at Riverwood Hills Park and then our next meeting would be
today so with that um I'm not even sure who I mean I did the agenda out but does anyone have any additions to the agenda excuse me ktie did you get my email from no did you email parks and
trails or did you email CN KT Dudley I parks and trails parks and trails okay today or a different day a week go today okay so that means no I did not see that but um I would like to welcome
Steve Sherry here he's from the liance club and I would imagine your email would tell me you wanted to talk about fireworks yes from what we discussed before so thank you very much for that
okay so that would be one addition to the agenda and then um I already have on there that um Dave Beal is here to talk about Park audits all right we want to approve our previous minutes in the in the uh oh I
did Jump Ahead didn't I all right so I only see under zumra River Regional water Trail um to say Stak holders instead of Stack it's just a misspelling see great uh third
line yeah yeah all good all right does anyone else have any other recommendations for the minutes tonight all right so I make a motion to approve
um Marie can Jason Marie can vote for stuff right or is she supposed to just be listening because I'll second it I'll second it I'm just trying to help help us out rules are not very clear on this with the city and that's go back and
forth on the uh Groove and the body and it's it's been done both ways okay there's no precedence that's going to drop a hammer on us and stop and disrupt everything the hammer president said no there's not okay president so I love it
wonderful so we can include Marie in voting and seconding and so forth I love it yay okay all right so motion carry oh wait all those in favor say I the same sign
okay Steve I have fun trying to run these meetings all those in favor you already said I pose same sign motion carries thank you very much okay so the only thing that I wanted to do then after
meeting minutes approval would be the agenda and I did receive an an email from Steve Sherry saying the orinal Lions Club would like to sponsor a July 4th fireworks display of this year and I would like to discuss this activity with the parks and trails committee at our
March 3rd committee meeting all right and then our idea is to host the fireworks at or noal Park much the same way as they used to be held okay so we added that to the agenda all
right okay now of course I switched to my screen so I think at this time um we'll have our guests visit wait did we already approve the all right I'll make a motion to approve the March
agenda second all right there we go everybody's participate okay all those in favor say I same sign all right motion carries thank you we can move along so um Dave Beal is
here from Olstead what age friendly Olstead County and he wanted to visit with us about AARP Park inventory suggestions so Dave like me you can have the floor we sometimes bring this Podium
out to help people out because it looks like you have something you wanted to read from right no I'm fine make it official okay we'll make it official okay on Wheels that's pretty good Yes W okay right and look ry's
following you so it's perfect you get to see yourself screen um thank you well this is coming out of a conversation we we had with u uh age friendly oronoko
area um age friendly hestad County uh hestad County joined the age-friendly network in 2020 and when they joined the network they asked if uh Family Service Rochester would serve as the Le agency uh and I'm the uh age-friendly Homestead county coordinator uh with family
service Rochester um and Riley and I have talked I've spoken we've kind of been over the years age friendly H state county age friendly oroka area have been uh talking with
each other and uh about the age friendly work and it looks like we have now an opportunity to kind of work together on a project um we applied for um a grant from age Friendly Minnesota was it's called a technical assistance program
Grant a tap Grant and uh part of that Grant was to do uh Park Audits and I'll talk about what those are and we received funding to do six of these audits our plan was to do some of these in Rochester the Rochester area and then
some in um other communities in the county um I i' noticed when age friendly Oronoco area um completed their action plan that in that action plan was to do
some work around assessing art uh your Parks uh for age friendliness and so it sort of and then our action plan at H friendly hestad County also included doing Park Audits and that's why we applied for the the
funding and um um the mayor and I ran into each other at an at an ageef friendly a state age friendly event and we were reminded that we had this overlap so we talked about kind of getting together and and working on uh uh an audit or two here in oronoko as
well um this would be an age-friendly oronoko area project we're not here to to do the park audits or to run the park audits or to tell you should do a park audit or how to do it we we uh are basically offering we've done one in uh
Rochester in a small community park we uh used that as kind of a pilot project to set up a system of working with the Rochester City Park Department to do other Audits and we're currently beginning to do one in a a city park um
uh probably this month sometime in Rochester so we don't have a lot of experience ourselves but it's not that complicated and basically and I I do have something for you to take a look at uh this is a worksheet that's uh based on comes from some ARP material and I I
just want to share that ARP has some very good resources for the these sorts of projects and basically what a park audit is um is that a group of people um of all
ages using this worksheet as sort of a guide or a worksheet like this walk around the park and go what do we have here is it what we want if we could have something else what might we add I mean it's that kind of
conversation uh and these worksheets uh we've used these worksheets like this to do something called walk audits we've done several of those in Rochester these worksheets are basically kind of focus people's attentions on different aspects of the of the park um it does look at
um the age friendly work uh tries to look at all ages but the point of entry is usually older adults and so it kind of looks at what's what's the park providing for people of all ages and what we generally find is that Parks when people think of parks they
think of parks and playgrounds and they think of playgrounds they think of children and maybe a grandparent sitting on a bench and that's our Parks um but we know that we can get much more out of our Parks um uh and so Parks can be
multigenerational and it doesn't take a lot to make them multigenerational and so that's what the park audit would do is take a look at a park or parks and kind of look at what can we do what do we have what would we like to see and what would it take for us to have that
um and then this information is basically um prob will we come before a body like yours uh what we've done in Rochester is we've established this relationship with our park and re department and it's part of their Community engagement process so it's one among many things that they look at it
doesn't dictate the park it doesn't design the park it just says if you're if you're taking a look at your Parks here's some information from residents uh about what they would like to see and so it becomes part of that input part of what we've done in the audits we've done
so far is try to manage expectations um we had what I thought was a very successful audit in in this neighborhood park um the other thing we did was uh in Rochester they uh we recently passed a a couple years ago a sales tax living and
part of that was dedicated to parks and so they've got a pool of money that they're working with to make upgrades and improvements with parks and so um basically it's helping it's it's providing input into that process and so we looked at a park uh this small
neighborhood park called Rolling Green in the north side of of uh Rochester um uh we had some uh there was there's a actually a Senior residence facility nearby Madonna Towers and it's a neighborhood park and so there's there's a daycare center few blocks away
so people of all ages used the park hadn't been upgraded for a while and we took a look at the park and what the park district did was say this is what we this is what we have this is what we're working on right now this is what we have the money for so we'll take your input about that
project that we've got money for which is basically upgrading the playground but given your input we'll take a look at the whole park and what we might do for the whole park when funding becomes available so we kind of manage expectations so the people doing the
audit and said our inputs going to have impact on this short term and long-term impact maybe on this as as they look at it so that people kind of understand that if what they ask for doesn't show up tomorrow that's why so so these audits are one of the things part of the
process is to make people that are participating understand what the constraints are and have kind of a realistic uh look at at what's possible so uh what we've offered to do um our role is is our
grants our grant was for like six audits and it roughly breaks down to just around $900 an audit and what we'd be willing to do and offering to do is to sort of provide that kind of support uh for some audits here in
oronoko uh we can't be a we can't subgrant it out we can't just hand over the money and then you go do what you want I'd be happy to but so so long as we got receipts so we need to figure out some way where we can manage manage this the use of the funds the mutual use of the funds but that that won't be a
problem but what we would do we have uh funds to support staff time um we have some and R Riley and I were talking at the beginning of the meeting and he said where'd you get the money the figures from and I went you know we guessed uh but we we
have some money for each of the bought some money set aside for for uh for staff time some money set aside for materials uh Refreshments if you want to do something like that have it you know have water or something for people that participate uh and and um as as I share with the
mayor uh we think you know we can kind of move that that money around if we need to so that's that's basically what I think what I'm here to to present to you is uh the this sort of uh partnership that we're interested in having uh like I said what park when
where those are sort of the details that age friendly orinoko area would would determine um to to the extent that we can help uh contribute to that process we're we're open to doing that but we uh uh we also are uh looking to try to
contribute some financial support uh for whatever cost you might incur not whatever some of the cost you might incur okay and that and that's just for the audit we don't have we have no uh grant money for upgrades or Capital
Improvements or anything like that well and well is it okay if I start asking questions now so some of that staff time would be to cover you to be here with us wouldn't it which would be great yeah yeah I mean that yeah and um in the
conversation we had with ag friendly or in O area there was some mention of some uh person on the city staff that might be right that might need to have some be covered yeah our AG cly monthly meeting we talked about um the possibility of
our parks department being part of that audit with the age friendly and um reimburse the city or wherever the funding is for that an hour couple hours that we do so what I would Envision what we do with this information that we received today and been working with u
DAV is at the age friendly Community Committee would uh probably come back to the parks department again with a more detailed plan or audit of what we'd like to do and and share with the parks committee for anybody that would want to be involved with that and so we're just
kind of still Gathering the information and what we received today was all part of that information gathering so so you'll probably hear more about that and we'll um identify a park or two parks whatever you'd like to have to do the audit on to
so and at the same time ask for your input as well when we do come back to you so yeah I should have mentioned as uh the the assumption is we' work with your Park it's not absolutely necessary to do
it like that but it's working well for us in Rochester I think that's a good way to do it because they're the folks that are are dealing with it so they should have yeah they're on the ground be participating in it y yeah I should ask um Joy um is there anything else
that you would like to add from h friendlink i can you want to unmute she still on there oh okay can you hear me now y okay um so did I hear we are a to
have more than one park that audit audited is that correct I think we could look at that yeah okay if we try to host it our and use a lot of volunteers I'm thinking that for the
$900 maybe we could have a group session and split up so um we have volunteers going to One Park and another Park so we could at least concentrate on two okay then my other question would be
you said material so if we if the park committee even designed their own um audit sheets for the materials to have those printed would that be a covered cost under that $900
Grant yes okay and then also if we had City staff um perhaps take the time to measure how big the park is um how much open area is in within the park that's not actually
developed that would be covered as well mean their staff time yes yeah I think I think before we we go forward we need to sort of settle what that's going to look like so it's not like an open-ended but yes okay I think we all that information
off the Heston County EI GIS system too as far as that area Ty okay those that was a couple of my questions was uh and I appreciate um Dave that you're able to answer those
I'm sorry that I missed that first meeting with the AG friendly when you spoke um so this is helpful to speak with you now thank you Ryan or Joyce so again I know equipment and capital expenses are not covered in that 6,000 so if we determine
we do do the audit we have some opportunities for improvement are there grants to actually get the equipment and other things done or is that something that we would need to prioritize within budget season I would Envision um going
back to ARP okay there's a lot of grants that ARP has for funding Park improvements that type of thing so that would be our first choice okay U versus um going with the DNR for outdoor recreation grants or something like that but I think we were really want to take
advantage of this relationship that we have with ARP and and their community outreach for us as well so and that's what um that's sort of how we're we're working up there I mean that like I said that the the city of Rochester has some funds that they're using and they have
their own kind of upgrade schedule but uh like with that neighborhood park they did a section we've been looking for other Grant dollars ARP Minesota the challenge Grand and AF age Friendly Minnesota so sure I just noticed because some of your questions I think they could even be
like disability related yeah you know not just age friendly but some of that so I didn't know if I if I could just have a comment as well in speaking with Rebecca she had
mentioned that if we had Park audits completed like this it's you're more able to apply for Grants you can show that you've already studied what the Parks need you can have it in written format and uh other businesses or
entities are more likely to give you a grant rather than just asking for money for a park sure and Rebecca is our Rebecca Charles is our Eda executive director she's with the ca representative so okay good point Thank you Joy you're
welcome did well I had something just real quick about the support staff time does that cover any of the grants that we would need to apply for you come out you help us with the audits we're very thankful for that once we have the information would we be able to use any of those resources to help grants or no
I'm going to say no because the the grant was specifically for the audit so yeah okay all right well Dave I appreciate um coming this evening and letting us know about this and do you imagine people from the ageef friendly or an noal area
would probably be the ones to be in contact with next or something I would assume so that's right and uh the one caveat that we sort of need to keep in mind is this grant goes through June 30th of 26 so we'd have to
do this Audi this audit by in in that time frame thank you for that that was going to be my question June of 26 um yeah all right so I would imagine at the
next age friendly or an oal area meeting they would um come up with a couple parks that that we want to work with and find out I mean is there anything else we have to do or can we start organizing when we would do something like this with the city staff I I you know and
like I said I think one age friendly oroko area probably would need to identify the parks and then the dates uh the real com and whatever we can do to help with that that's uh we happy to do so the other thing we sort of need to uh
sort of work through is uh how we how we work the financing yeah and I think we have a treasur or something with the age friendly we have a treasur so yeah that I think age friendly will bring that to
you with all the details so right Joy you want to say something I was just going to mention that but um I personally I would like to see the parks committee where you familiar with your Parks more than age friendly I would
like to hear input from the parks committee as to what parks you would like to have it looked at um I think age friendly Oronoco and age friendly mad County are here to help but you know
your parks I mean our Parks I should say um and I think that we're certainly there to help out but I think we should really rely on the parks committee to give us some input not just the age friendly group to
make that decision yeah that makes sense um the trouble is is that we have eight different ones and of course we'd want to be able to help all of them so would you agree that Orono Park is the
biggest the most well me Anil kind of a thing like E's to get around you know parking available close by you know not a lot of undulation in like you know the land you know
so um that's what I think I would take into consideration can you flip the camera while we're talking and perhaps um age friendly or NOCO could come to your April meeting to and discuss what
parks your committee and age friendly is looking at together I think I think that idea Joy is kind of where I was going with this having I love Parks committee doing it love it but having an idea from age
friendly oronoko with I the initial information for us to kind of parse down from that because like you were saying oronoko Park is very accessible already so would we want the audit to focus on that but age friendly
or noo might have better ideas with what they would want to see so I think we got to work together enjoy I love your idea of meeting in April I think that's a great idea should I should I motion should we say motion to have age friendly or to invite age friendly
oronoko to come speak about uh their favor rip parks to have a delegate all right I second that all those in favor say I I same sign all right motion carries to um
accept this um opportunity to audit our parks and to work with h friendly or noo area and Dave Beal with Olstead County H friendly I like it okay yes so thank you
thank you very much Dave thanks all right see you again right sounds good thank you for letting us put you on the camera that was very helpful thank you celebrity all right Steve are you ready to go next all right we'll have
Ryland switch the camera all right fantastic it looks like you might well you canix how do you your last name Sherry s h r r y so I am Steve Sherry I'm the current president of the oroa Lions Club and our
club has voted to re or get fireworks started again here for the city of Oro I I was only since I moved to town I've only seen fireworks once and that was in 2021 and it was a Grand Event um I live
downtown here when they set the fireworks off they set them off for me because they came off right over the top of this building it was awesome and we want to get this restarted um that's been a constant question we have every year at um Gold Rush at the Lions Booth
what's going on with fireworks and well we're we're financially in a position where we can we can do that this year we're going to um so that the the current ask from you guys is can we use
or oal park on July 4th to set off fireworks and since we're doing it for the community we would really like to ask get away of the fees and stuff because this is a community event that everybody seems to be very interested in
um and are there there any what are the gotas that we need to prepare for we we're working with Kelly Parker who is the the technician who used to set off fireworks when when gold rush I believe was um he certified to do that so um
actually technically right now he's let his certification laps but talking to him says it's a piece of cake to redo it so we're covered and he's given us a timeline of when we'd have to place the order so we want to make sure we've got
all the permitting or the you know whatever we've got to worry about got all the um eyes dotted and te's cross before we start ordering stuff and spending money and then we run into any roadblocks I checked with Jason and we
kind of went through the um city code looking for anything any gotas there um didn't find anything I've reached out to officer Ren from the uh um hestad County Sheriff's Department he
is going to get back to me if there's any permitting or things we need to worry about but I'm coming to you guys the parks and and trails to see if there's any um regulations or permitting or things that we've got to deal with we
just this is all new to us so we're going in kind of blind probably want to talk to fire because you probably need fire at the ready they already volunteered but chatting with Jason we've got to make sure that just because they volunteered
we got to make sure that if they're there they need to be paid and it's that you all that kind of stuff right so yes the prayer department wants to be part of this somehow some way [Music] um this year since it's the first time
going with it I don't think there's going to be any attempt at putting on a a community picnic or anything like that this time if this goes good and we get good Community participation really means are they can the community help us fund it for next
year um then we may want to grow it and turn it into a Fourth of July celebration of some sort so that's what what the Lions have got to offer this year is we're going to see that we get it put on we are going to
work with other um with the businesses and um get our fly the flag program going and we're going to um put more or you know try to advertise it more that this is a way that you the citizens can help
support this and help fund it so I think this is going to be a great thing to do and we're really looking forward to it there's all kinds of excitement from from the Lions Club and so what questions do you guys have for me what what did Kelly say would be the time
line no by um I think it's around the first April first part of April we've got yes let's sneaking in here yes okay because what what I'm imagining is that is it wrong if I say we give our blessing to figure this out as a parks
and trails committee and then it oftentimes what we do in parks and trails we always send to city council um you know for approval that way and so um I would imagine that's what we would be doing next after we find out um what you guys think so what what do you think is
there a certain radius around where the fireworks are going to be launched that the public can't be at and I guess my ultimate question is is is the park still able to be used by the public while you're there launching fireworks I am attendance and capacity
kind of where I was going that right so I'm sure that there's got to be an off limit Zone I don't know exactly where they would um set the launch site up but I'm sure there has to be a perimeter on I've helped set off fireworks in man in the past and it was there was snow fence
or some kind of a barrier and so what we've done in the past um or loal Park there's that stone wall down at the edge so Public Works would stake off that and put yellow caution tape and then uh kind
of the riverbed the previous River bed there where the you go down the retaining wall is that what you're talking about in or local park there's a stone wall about that high yeah they gets kind of get down to the river walk fad down but through that whole area is where we would put in the steak and then
um couple of the council members would make sure that people didn't kids didn't go over and just were asking to move back behind they always accommodated that so um and then the um the Fire display the fireworks was further around that bend to the South and then they
would shoot out over the lake bin so and um every once while there'll be a fire out in the lake shed Lake Bed and and um so now we have access to get in there but it depends if it's raining or wet the previous day but um they also can
try and sometimes the fire starts in the lake bed and they can reach it from across the the river too they try but a lot of times they just stuff burns out but that's and the basic thing we don't that's all we do is we put up the yellow fence or the Yellow Tape uh everybody
Parks they all come down and um starts at 10:00 maybe last um up to 30 minutes depending on how much money we spend depends on how much money SP so from what we've been talking with Kelly as he said for the amount of money that we're
talking about you should be able to do a a 20 to 30 minute display yeah that's pretty much be that's impressive and if we can get some more money from the community we make give more booms cool cool well actually we want to
sell more flight oh of course so then would they need to I mean we is there any question about the rental of the of anything if they're just going to kind of be down by the river bed the fees that we kind of talked
about with this looking at our our fee schedule that would really go on with it was one if they used the park shelter which wasn't sure if that was going to be utilized that's technically a rental fee for that um the other one is the event fee um which I think is what they
were looking at possibly trying to get waved um so it's a gathering permit if you will what just needed so if it's less than 100 that's one or if it's more than 100 it's a different amount and that's per event so this would be one of that and just a clarifying question what are those two
numbers if it's under 100 people it's $50 if it's over 100 people it's $100 there you go what happens if it's a dry season and they don't recommend shooting anything off for 4th of July suck I know it would but wasn't it last year that it was
super dry would they super we able to store them and bring it back next year or push it off to a questions I don't I don't have the answers to that we have down at the garage part local park it's all the uh the fireworks
um canisters for firing them and then hil's aware of that so there may be some work from Public Works to help get those moved out with the skid steer load or something like that we I don't know if Kelly owns them or city owns them or not
sure the detail of that but but typically it's a um come in early in the morning and set up and we watch the forecast very you know if it rains but uh it's all electronically controlled for firing so there's no and
one so I will ask about contingency plans my my nature is to be extremely optimistic um about waving the fee um I think the community has missed I think I think if we wave that fee we're going to get people out we'll get
more Community engagement I don't think we need to nickel and Dy people over firework we haven't done it in four years right I'd say I'd say motion to wave the fee for this man in Alliance Club well yeah it's a community it's more of a community thing than like
a business or something yeah I'll second waving um I mean the the permit fees I'm not sure you guys get to do that at city council we we recommend it
to city council and then city council approves hopefully if they choose not to recommend it it wouldn't even go before city council okay they're basically recommending that go before City Council for approval to wave the fees okay and then with of course the understanding of
working with the fire department to figure that part out all those different things like like you guys were saying how you have to decide how many fire employees can we actually support or or do they want to volunteer their time and we just got to cover equipment they
they're pretty they're really gangho for this too so I don't know best seat in the house all right um all those in favor for the motion to bring to council to wave the um event fee um say I I I oppose same
sign okay motion carries fantastic well thank you Steve for being here we'll have to come to city council and have a chat with um I can bring It Forward yeah marce yeah when is the next meeting I I'd be more than happy
to St 18 18 third Tuesday can I interrupt for just one moment um do you need insurance um you need to talk about
insurance Steve we did talk about insurance with Kelly Parker um and his the insurance is provided through the company that he um works with so they have got
Essen essentially they ensure him for setting them off because he's a technician in charge okay I'm I'm sure that's what city council will ask so I just wanted to bring that up Steve thank you um and just a just a point of
clarification Kelly Parker is the technician who used to set the fireworks off when T Oro had him so it's he's familiar with whatever is needed unless something's changed we should good at Le that's what we're hopeful of because in
the past it was sponsored by Gold Rush is that right Gold Rush sponsored before there is contributions from the city and also from the fire department and so we just got to the point where it was little more expensive than what we wanted to budget for so I think it's
great do we have any money in the City Council budget for it I doubt it right no right okay all right well thank you are you that's my
job if I may yes make sure and Mar I don't know if you can answer I'm trying to look to see if there's anything town if we're looking at a 10 o00 start times there may have to be something by Council to approve that as well because
if we have and I don't know again I'm trying to look to see if you quiet now well the noise ordinance that's over here on whatever Road this is there's that sign saying that there's a noise ordinance in town makes me think I'm trying to find where that's at I feel like I've seen something but that's
something that I'll have to be approved as well because 11 o' well usually quiet hours are 10 o'clock though if you're lighting off fireworks for half an hour got a couple bands play at our house problem the noise ordinance is for 11 we
can you want to double check that as well can I make a motion to change to to have Parks committee also uh amend the noise ordinance temporarily for that day is that we can make a motion for that here that Marie can can bring I'll just
bring it out okay well I don't think noise esses are really enforced on the fourth of July anyways hey they can tell you for sure they are not by me either the we'll still need to get the permit there obviously be an OP but
perance just the Gathering have that Jo has her hand up Jo did you want to say something or is your hand still up from before that's okay I we can't hear you but we can see
you this is Wild's having a good time here tonight getting things recorded I love it um Jason what were you discussing with Steve what kind of permit we still need the Gathering permit Gathering permit is waved that's fine but we still need to get the Gathering
permit all right thank you all right um okay so speaking of fires um well I guess that's fine there so the the next thing on our agenda is
that um Adam brace is the fire chief and he approached me to find out what would need to be done in order for the fire department to be able to do some prescribed burning um the first area that he was requesting was at
Riverwood Hills um a drain the drain field there that would have been that's not it's would you call it an abandoned drain field now decommissioned decommissioned thank you so the decommission drain field now that
place is very much surrounded by homes um and has you know just abandoned tall grasses there but in the past I don't know how so what I I asked Kane about it
in our Public Works and and he suggested visiting with the DNR and then um so as a city we would have to you know approve prove it or whatever but um Jason what were your thoughts on
it where is this at again it's down by the park in the middle of there's a soccer field right there there's houses of town Riverwood Hills Park other side other side from here are they doing it for training
purposes or that's what they wanted to approach us as training purposes yes we just think there would be maybe an easier like accessible area to do that because there's no road
down to there the there's aad enough to get to where they used to have to do some stuff you know the sh Lane I think it's called Sunny View and Valley View or is
that yes yeah it's called it's called Valley View Park in Google so we probably should meaning to work on fixing that but it's okay and they want burn where by the drain the old drain field
but there's a house that butts right up next to it yeah do they have a scale on how big they want these controlled Burns to be I don't like the idea of burning a public park I don't like the idea because it doesn't have great access to
it because it is that gravel pathway through there and I don't like it with how close it is to Residents it's not like we're going to a farmer's field in the middle of the township or County and burning a crop this is in a residential neighborhood I have I have a lot of
concerns with this because something could go wrong yeah and quite simply and there's there's tall grasses that go towards butt against the field but there's so many houses that butt up against that grass this area right here if we that field the South catches that
field talking neigh and they're talking it starts about right in through here there's got to be other PL I mean maybe that's something we ask him if there's other locations that just seems too close for comfort I mean there's a lot of houses back
there so Garden Park has been known to have burn pudles burned um and the fire department I think was normally involved in that weren't they or was it just public works when they had the the burn piles I think it's usually just Public
Works that does that that's in Garden Park Public Works should do yeah so there are some there are some natural areas there between the road and the river um but then again that would still be in city limits and that would be you
know still city park at Garden Park where there aren't very many houses you know close by I think if we had Dan sunt around he would also be saying they've been trying to do this all the
time and they just never get anywhere because it is you know too much last year they did a fairly large controlled burn was there one yeah there was I think it was controlled it seemed drove by I hope it was controlled it didn't
get out of control um I don't have let me see it looks like it was right it was right off here on second let me get myself squared away yeah just right off here on second and there was quite a quite a big
smoke it's not in a park though I don't know what it was it was a large burn that they were doing so that was the fire department as well you think I don't somebody I don't know I could pull it up but it was off second I guess it was
off land wonder if we just ask if they have enough option yeah get what they're trying to to do but if there's another location that maybe would be a little so are you willing to walk across the street and ask Adam hey I could I
walk back over there but you are well from your house too right yeah but with your with your connection to because aren't you the rep for not for fire was for first respond oh for first responder who's our rep for fire think J
Jim is still Jim Phillips is okay um I can talk to Adam I can ask him so you can let them know what we talked about and things like that and I can y okay that'd be great okay um so at this point
um for the prescribed burning we're just kind of concerned about on so for the minutes to reflect that we're concerned about it being on who was it that was asking Adam breze he's the I guess is he a new
fire chief or has he been the fire chief for a while the assistant Fire Chiefs is an assistant fire chief no assistant is Dan still on yeah we only have one Fire Chief and we have two assistant Fire Chiefs and then train officer and security okay so it's Dan Dan
Sun Adam bra and who's the other Kane oh Kane's on there too okay over the top three some put that we're concerned about proximity of homes you said that it's also on public land yeah and probably accessibility yeah the access isn't
great either we could there's no roads it's gravel and it washes out there and again I don't know that we want to be I I I'm trying to guess Envision what they're doing but I don't like the idea of them burning the city park I know I
just there's burn piles in city parks but what so the parks there and then the drain Fields like across the like it's across the field so it's not like right but but but there's tall grass right there if you you had any wind it could
jump easily and then your whole field would be up yeah and I know that those trees back there too aren't the greatest those are old and probably easy to spark yeah that drain field butts up against the house there's a house right behind it yeah so
if that's where they're doing C property city property yeah yeah if that's what they're doing it's right there and and even if it's the city park they mow that they mow the field so there's not tall grass in the part drain
field yeah not the drain field yeah yeah yeah yeah what is going to happen with the abandoned drain fields in town have at least three right where yours is different yeah yours isn't really City
even after we've done this conversion it might be got not City I don't know it's to deal with it right now right but that's something that you know who now that it's not subdivisions does that mean that the city's going to be trying
to mow those or something or I don't be determined right okay um all right 3 8 o' so what what I'd like to do well wait what did I say I was going to do on the agenda does anyone else
have it up here's got to talk about the Z water Trail do updates on 52 right and I think Ryan you said you don't really have any updates right now right for the zumber water Trail nothing
different okay and then was anyone able to visit with Rebecca Charles about Park stuff some no no right no okay and then um we could advertise
for more Park committee members continuously yeah I put uh an advertisement on our our Riverwood Hills we or Facebook page now you're not Riverwood Hills sorry C Woodlands um Woodlands you guys have a a
Facebook P Facebook page good yeah hope people liked it but no context I know yeah that we could put something on the just or noal Facebook page too yeah but who does that anybody can anybody can you can make the post do
it you head a ga I left it at home on purpose oh my gosh Joy you want to put something on Facebook
right um if you want me to I you put a note up there sure I I would love that I I've taken on too much stuff and I just can't even though it would take like five minutes maybe but so you're you're good with that on the Orono page now
would that be the oronoko citizens page or the city of oronoko because it could be both right we would want it on both well the city of or go one comes through you right and we already posted on that one repost up again just did you ask for
committee or people participate I was thinking of the our oral committee one the citizens page you mean yeah yeah and how many members do you need Katie well we could have um
you said seven we could have two more we have five right now we have two ABS today and that doesn't include your council rep right right okay I mean if we get excited we could I
mean it's not like there's a limit necessarily they suggest seven but we've really only had five for the last long time okay is there a term that and originally it was really fancy you know like I started doing this in 2017 and
then I was supposed to be done in 2019 but now it's 2025 once you sign up it's forever right right so um and I think it's just because we're not super formal I guess and we don't have enough people to
rotate around you know if we had more people to rotate then it would make more sense you know I I was so for a while our council rep was doing our minutes which was amazing and then I was trying to do them and I didn't do a very good job so now Justin's been doing
them and originally like you're supposed to have like a vice chair to transition into being the chair so trying to groom Justin go so what I feel like right now as chair is I'm kind of in charge of the
agenda reminding people to come um and then I'm super appreciative of on Justin doing the minutes there and then I'm excited that Joy is willing to post something on the citizens
page that's awesome okay um so ran we don't where are we at with the paving trails at Riverwood Hills Park because
that was that written into the after Water and Sewer was done that was that written into anything or is that just kind of yeah that me the Riverwood Hills Trails we've we've paved the One path from the IST Lane down to the playground
equipment we're close but uh rusted PL the path we like to pay but we haven't put anything into the budget it could be part of potentially a capital Improvement budget but nothing's really um been discussed for 2026 but or 2025
but the idea was to wait until the sewer project was done before because some of the paths followed exactly where some of the sewer lines were at so I do think it's a very worthwhile to continue to look at that and use our outdoor recreation or DNR outdoor recreation grants but Eda is
also looking at this as well um that's a possibility of of applying for Grants but sometimes those grants tie into the Citywide system versus just a park but if you're connecting a park to other parks within the city uh there's some
possibility for applying for Grants but and usually they're 5050 50% donations so that's where it comes into a budget issue if we did that audit for AG friendly potentially with
herwood hills maybe we could get some funding from ARP leave those Trails yeah that's another possibility yeah they're very expensive the one we did from Mr Slaine to the playground equipment was uh I say
about 1,200 feet and that was about $70,000 so that was three years ago and was that paid through Capital Improvement plan or different I think it's just there's a lot of a lot of ideas of how to use the capital budget
money and that's something that the council will have to deal with going forward and planning for whether it's a budget item or a capital budget I think that's where we would need as the parks committee to say like for
2026 here's our top three priorities and here's what it's going to cost and maybe we start finding grants and saving and and bringing it into the budget for 2026 and even 2027 if it needs to go that far but just getting like here's our first
two here's our next two whatever like having some prioritization to that list and Daniel mentioned um mee too but we start to start looking at projects for 2026 is July time frame so I think there's some more discussions to start
there so you said Danielle the other Daniel Springer other council member yes okay um what I have here from Kane is um some different ideas that that he
put together you're welcome um and so we can kind of look at this and and maybe come back with you know which which ones would be the most important to work on or something um what I do find very interesting though
is he has one two three four five six seven eight nine properties that are not Parks but require groundskeeping and I don't believe this is even referring
to the abandoned drain Fields so that's one of them is which one is the abandoned draam field River Park River Park oh yeah the River Park draam field okay yeah um
does anyone have any comments on how to move forward with this list well we got technically 28 items uh and two thank you Steve hi Steve
um coming up with a plan by what July do um are we going to sit here tonight and say this is my top three this is your top three or do we kind of readdress this at the next meeting and say these are my three priorities that
we need to start pushing through do we want to have input from the community about these do we reach out for inut the community about things I mean if it's just us I can pick my top three but how do we come to a consisting I don't know if
some of these I mean again some of these are just to me public Works items that I don't know if we need to necessarily like Kane's probably got to deal with it but I don't know if we need to so maybe we need to put them in two
different buckets yeah I mean stuff like a brush dump I mean that's nothing really we would have to if they use our Parks adop a road ditch clean up I mean again I think that's a bigger probably
Community engagement thing what's it jus no what what are you saying about oh I was saying about that brush dump you know we could do that it's a garden park easy place you know we had one there before but knocked out out of the list but yeah some I mean stuff that's obviously can be more expensive than
others and and the whole brush dump thing was something about allowing Community to bring brush somewhere yep right yeah um kind of on that same note I had something about uh like garden park or something like that is there like a community compost or is
that just like way taboo way too many yeah I see that look no I hav't been here long enough to answer that one so it seems like if you're doing garden plots and gardening having just a general like three Compass are we even doing garden plots in Garden Park
anymore I know we did that for a couple years last year I don't think there was anything there but we did have sewer was kind of down there yeah the sewer stuff was a mess last year here I do believe we still have a water source down there the the shed I believe is still there y
um and it's just a matter of if we have people requesting to rent a garden poot so it's still available there I mean this is would we put on our own as as kind of hosts of the park right to
make it look good or on the PE schedule yeah it's still on the fee schedule yeah I mean we're we're Mar here I mean I mean if that's going to happen we need to start talking about that soon because I mean may people want to be down there getting that tilled up
and we had to put fence around it and well we didn't do that individuals did that okay so that that's the case of that and um we used to sponsor the tilling if if
people wanted to use the space but we really haven't had any demand for it um there you so I don't know and in order R when in order for us
to have gotten is this Lane paved we had to have like Joe Palin come up with like a how much it would be or how did that work would have Council would have to authorize a feasibility a feasibility report which could report cost
$10,000 $6,000 so it cost money to figure out how much money it's going to be too we have a design spec and that's what they would do and there isn't anything like that already out there even know it's well there's one from six years
ago right well out of date but not in detail that's when the first Feast build was done for all the trails and we just picked this first one and then they did a in-depth design okay after that it made someone
move their fire pit something yeah yes okay that's why I think we'd have to say these are our top two for 2026 and go to council and say we would need that type to know what the costs
would acre but these are plans for 2026 and 2027 numers three and four on that list or whatever whatever is you know the top two or three from this group um
like some of these things even like remove the fencing like I don't want to volunteer my husband but no that's what I was saying last time like I I'm over there I can just walk across the street and start ripping this up where do we put them right I know there we don't want to step on toes right we don't want to step
on anyone's toes we got to store these things as well because what are what are options with these these properties that they maintain what are our options there do we have any can we just say let them go just grow they does the community complain when we have
you know knee high grass everywhere and rodents sing you know sorts of Critters property should be maintained we expect we expect others to maintain theirs be maintaining ours don't see an option there
to they're all City properties but does this go so does this fall more on the city side or on the parks do we just have to give them the green light to say yeah roll a m mower through there or they're doing that right now I would think already is more like a trying to
find ways to involve the parks and trails committee and doing things like have a hand in helping out our our Park guys y you know because they're they our our Public Works carries many titles y so this is a way to kind of help alleviate some of their
Parks duties and you know some of the things that Kane feels you know can be brought to you guys to to take charge on some projects to work on some things to organize to lead you know the funding a lot of the funding we have in the budget for stuff
it's just Manpower and time we don't always have the time to do it so these were you know the list items that he put together of stuff that he knows you know need to be done or can be done and don't require you know a ton of effort or time or all that kind of stuff but you know
something to get the ball roll and if there's other things that aren't on there great this was just Kane's list that he knows starting off that stuff is on his list to do so plus it would help prioritize his work and work yeah and this would be in
conjunction with with Public Works working with Kane and them you know to to get these things done it's done it's say all on you guys but at the same time there's something where you're like hey we could get our a group of six of us together and go do this great work it out with Kane they'll help give you
supplies or whatever you need give you a little bit of direction and then we'll do it great like you know that's kind of what this list was for so I think you know ultimately you know if looking at the list want to come back to next month and say all right these are my top five these are my top five and kind of see
where everybody's at put them together you know maybe get it get it together before the meeting so when they come to the when you guys come to the meeting you've got the the list of everybody's top five and you know if there's any that are multiple sure don't give guidance we should have asked Steve
about number 10 maybe the Lions Club has some money for veter Memorial I feel like yeah going through or the Lions Club the VFW is a great Community place for us to work with I'm sure they'd love to help kind of do
something beer heads all right help work in tandem with that find a don't have par said funny to make a big thing with but I also know there's some other Parks you don't really utilize so maybe
turning one of them into a Veterans Memorial Park we already have Memorial Park we could just change it to Veterans Memorial Park yeah that the one by T yeah do what you want I'm just saying like it's one of those things that you
know there's can think outside the box and utilize them the space we have and just slapping a sticker on top of that one that's pretty good oh boy all right so we'll take some time to look through this and then next month
we'll all say these are the things that we want and we'll talk to Kane in the meantime about how we want it back great all right who knows what I'm adding to the list uh basketball court somewhere I got a feeling we're going to get a basketball court where do you want
that basketball court roal Park oh well own base you know that's I'm being recorded if you can change the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America we can change Memorial Park to Veterans Memorial Park that's man I can do it right there okay um I don't know that I have anything else on the agenda right now I do feel like and I I apologize Kane he's
not GNA hear this but I am a little confused as to what we can do to help with some of this stuff like I don't I don't think he would imagine us out there mowing anything a through I I think the one thing we can do he want
is we can we can remove that fence to help them with they wouldn't have to trim then but I I don't a through h i i i don't know what we can do I mean I don't know if he could come in and say what he would think we could do can mean can we say as a Parks committee that
okay to let that stuff get longer but not ridiculous I don't know um but what has to happen to be able to say we can remove a fence how and it's vinyl fencing as well so we have to store it somewhere I'd
imagine right I mean do we recommend the council to or do we just do it that's where I get confused so is that that is that now now that it's we have sewer now that is now Community or sorry city
property so I mean that's technically the city's fence CU I believe there's fence at Riverwood Hills too oh yeah yeah so I mean it's just a chunk in the middle of River Park River Park all of the dreams that was that was
F Patrick's for a while property has there's fence by Riverwood Hills is like over two by or over 4x4 not as much yeah they might be 6X sixes I mean don't chainsaws and I think it's
vital so then dig out yeah I mean I I'm not gonna say I've gone over there and just angrily shaken a fence but that's not anything I've done before but judging by the looks of them they're they're probably in there pretty strong um I don't mind I don't mind RI him up
that's fine is that the perview of Kane I mean it's he's as the director for that overseas to take those fences down because they don't serve a purpose anymore the drain Field's done it's city property it's going to make it easier for him to mow yeah and you know so that's one of the
things I think he's looking at is just say looking for our permission to take him out he's not looking for he's looking for help oh I got it I think is the big thing is his projects are is going to take them time that's something comme wants to help take on
and you know work with them work with Kane and them to figure out uh maybe there's a Saturday that works for people to put you you guys put together a work party you know maybe get the neighborhood involved community members involved and say put stuff out say hey we're going to work party to take this stuff down we're going to pull it out can they can bring
in the supplies and helps you know bring supplies people volunteer their time come in remove stuff and you know and then we figure out what we're going to do with it obviously but you can put in a pile somewhere and we can deal with that after for the
fact yeah yeah figur it out random Pile in town not my favorite thing'll get all right good we should talk just what he needs and maybe we just post something on Facebook and ask for volunteers you probably get
a lot of people yeah I think next month we'll all have top five I think that's fair basketball court will put that up there for you so are are you able to tell Kane that we'd be willing to help him out with something or you want me to make like an official thing to send to count and kind
of let them know let us know what we're go over this again and we'd like you to be here next month to help give guidance and I mean I don't know if we're all picking our T I think he needs to tell us when we could do
something help him I guess and then we could try to organize that so all right I don't know I think he's pretty open it ISS uh take it and make a decision and and move forward
exactly all right okay does anyone have anything else for this evening good yeah yeah and Ryland already helped me do my calendar flinging sorry
I appreciate you letting me do it though um okay so um our next meeting would be April 7 and um by
then um the ground will be Tha more I don't know and then if there's things like that that fence we'd be willing to help him do that however that works and all the different things
um okay so I make a motion to adjourn at 820 I'll second that motion all those in favor say I Poe same sign all right motion carries
Joy are you still here I bet you she she