Go ahead and open the parks meeting at uh 703. Um note that uh Katie is absent. So I'm sitting in in her spot for tonight. And so,
um, we have before us the, uh, the city council or the the the parts agenda for tonight. And, uh, I would like to start out by, um, approving some previous meeting
minutes that we have before us. And I'm going to better start with the oldest one first. would be uh I think that's April 1st to 24. Does
everybody have a copy or need a copy or um you have any extra copies? Just right here. Yeah. Jeff and I are good. All right. So, if you want to glance through those
and if you if u we're all good, make a motion to approve the April 1st, 2024 meeting minutes. I'll second that. Okay. Um discussion. I'm
not just I'm not uh Okay, sounds good. Okay. Any other um all in favor? I I motion pass. April morning April 1st
24 meeting minutes are approved. The next ones that are um new are June 3rd of uh 24. And um does anybody need a
copy? I've got some extra copies of the green printer motion when anybody's ready. the um the the I mean I don't know how important this is but I brought this issue up when this
came up and I don't think it's really an issue but timewise this is June the 3rd 2024 and then it's got under community center park grounds dawn will be working on ordering plants and getting assistance to plant them in May
and this is June so I if it's meaningless I'm fine with But it doesn't make sense. Well, the bottom line is somehow, and I wasn't privy to this, but these minutes got missed and didn't get approved. They didn't get the these did
come up before because I said the only problem with this is that is that Dawn is will be doing something in May and it's already June. If nobody cares, I am f I don't care. I'm not going to put you on the hook for this one. Um, I don't think I'd be the one on that vote, but um, uh, I'm going to bet it just got
copied from the April meeting or the May meeting over to the June meeting. And if everybody says it doesn't matter, I I approve. Yeah. Okay, I'll second that. Okay, we got a first and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor? I post. Motion
carries. Those are taken care of. Now we are to uh current which would be April 7th of this year. Um and with the meeting of minutes uh
before you um I would entertain a motion there and you you've been doing these minutes. Yes, I have been. Thank you. Yeah. Senatorial comment on second page.
The Zumbro River Regional Water Said E. Does it stand for I know it's an engineering company, but thank you for telling me that. Does it stand mean something? I mean, does it S stand for stand for short Ericson? There's three names. Yeah, Ericson or something like that. I
copied that over from somewhere. So somewhere previous to that it's been. So all right, I'll make an update to that and send that tomorrow. And it's great that the the comments about the minutes are not like oh that was devastating. I'll update that and send it to Jason
tomorrow. Well, I'll make a motion to approve the April 7th meeting minutes with the change in SH. I'll second them. and three seconds. Any more discussion? All in favor? On the on
the first page, this the copies the last sentence on the bottom of the page was not legend at all. Yeah, that was probably on my copy. Yeah, it's mine, too. Maybe one of them. I I was doing that at home.
What does the sentence say? Because I don't even have that brace. fire department here to discuss proposal burn riverwood hills drainfield of we'd like to plan this for the fall of
2025 or or spring of 2026 that I do know I saw that before and um the rest of them okay thank you whatever you said the city make sure it's correct
yeah I've already sent what I've sent is it looks different than this so yep Thank you. With that, all in favor? I motion approved. I believe that finally catches us. I
think that catches us, I think. Well, all right. All right. Well, we'll start off for the the agenda for tonight. So, could I please make uh I don't know these are additions, but I wondered from reading the April
minutes and these don't have to be answered now, but I was curious um did they approve the $200 for the planter plants because I'm going up. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And then um I'm hoping at this meeting we can set a date to pull
garlic mustard down at Alice Park. We've done that for the past two or three years. I think those are the two additions. Thank you. Thank you. So now just one addition of the garlic mustard.
Yeah. And I thought we had planned to have that on here. There it is. It's down under Alice Park. Garlic garlic mustard. Oh, perfect. It's down there. Down there. Okay. Um, so, uh, with that,
um, I'd like a motion to approve the agenda for tonight, May 5th. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I motion carries. All right. U, we've
got guests to begin, and that would be Joy. Yeah. I'm presenting about the park audits. All right. Do you want to take one and put that down? I think I made enough copies. So again, my name is Joy Bzinger
and I'm here to help the park committee with your park survey audit. um that you received a $2700 grant to not purchase any equipment, but to perform this survey.
And we're hoping that um we can give enough information to maybe use that $2700 more for engineering costs from what comes from the surveys. So right now I've not received a lot of
surveys. I have eight surveys and five of them are from my family. So my grandson did two and I did three and Lee I think you have Yes. Um
so I just really would encourage um everybody on the committee to do one. Yes. I've been out of town for um quite a while. Were they sent by email? Was this sent by email or postage? Postage. Please say that again. Was this sent by post by snail mail or email? I've been
out of town for quite a while. I should have gotten something from Katie that talked about it and maybe you did not snail mail. Um do you are you on the Oronoko community page? I don't think so. Okay. If you go on Facebook, there's
I I struggle with Facebook and I'm not a big fan of it. So, what it is is Mstead County I've got that. How do I take the survey? Um, so if I have some printed right here, that's what I was trying to
get to. Sorry. If you don't do the Facebook page, that is fine. You want to do a couple, one for each part? Yeah. Okay. So allow my printer ran out of ink this
weekend. I couldn't fill them out. I need free surveys myself. Anybody want those preprinted ones? Do you have three by any chance? My printer ran out of ink. Oh, you do. There if you want to. I
did one online. There's copies out here. That's right. There are copies. So I can hand some of these to my neighbors and ask them to fill them out. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Um and so what will happen is with the money that we receive then um let me
back up. Are you aware of how we got the the grant where that comes from? I assume I know nothing else than than this. So So go ahead. Okay. All right. So um I'll just go on what is here then for
you to just talk about. So, one other thing that I'm looking at is we received a message on a Facebook page that somebody said, "Why don't you do some survey online like survey monkey doc?"
So Mel Gibbs who is the assistant um administrator admin okay she said that for about 45 minutes she could put together a Google doc form and put it online and I said I cannot make that
decision that would be something for this committee to decide if you want her to make something like that so it would be an online survey but that just be for this because isn't the deadline like the 16th 16th. Yeah.
And I think that was a self-imposed Okay. Oh, okay. date that the committee put on May the 16th. Okay. Yeah. Because it could go through the summer. So, if we extended it, if you wanted to extend it, we certainly could do that.
So, that is something that I would ask the committee to take a look at and give me some direction. That might be a nice thing. Kids will be out of school. People are more likely to be at parks. So that might be a little bit better if we can make it, I don't know, mid June. Yeah. Kind of like, you know, change it
from May 16th to the Friday. Yeah. Is there a reason to have it? I mean, I know we need a deadline to call it done, but is there is there a reason not to have the deadline be like late August after kids have used the parks? I think our rationale was to get to budget
cycle. So, we want to we want to prioritize work. I know it's in our later agenda, but we need to come up with a plan for 1, three, five, and 10 years. So, the hope is to get some information of the survey of how we want to think about what park and trail plans
are for those types of My apologies. I've been out of somewhat out of the loop for So, August, I mean, I think we could work I think we're trying to be more proactive on the is to drive the one, five, 10 year plan. Yeah. like what are we what are we trying to do for
parks and trails? And the other thing is the grant came from age friendly Minnesota and it was received by Mstead County Age Friendly and they are sharing that grant fund with Warren Oak. So
three parks I think uh Kevin do you Ryan Ryland do you remember? I think it was seven parks that Olmstead county was going to do and they gave Ornoco three parks to do. So they're
sharing quite a bit almost half with Ornoo. So that is one of the drivers and we have a year I believe it is to use that grant fund but we'd like to finish it early so then you can do the planning
like Marie said for one three and five years we only doing them on those three parks or if you get audits from others are you taking I've had people that I I mean that's why I went a little late but I was up at Terrell Cen's park the Frisbee
golf And there was a gentleman playing frisbee golf and I here you go there and told him the three parks and he said well what about this park? I said you know what do this park we don't hear
about that park. So basically we need to report as a committee on those three parks that we have listed but if we can get information about other parks along the way. I'm working like an idiot, but so what what are the three parks? Are
they on this page? Sure. There are no park, River Park, and Riverwood Hills Park. Thank you. Yes. And if you want to put your email
address on the back of one of these, I'll get you I'll send you off information, too. Okay. So, in going through these surveys that we did get, um some of the comments were um there's
no parking at Riverwood Hills. Um there's limited parking at River Park at Oro Park. Those of us who live in orno go have been around a long time. We know
you park in the middle or on the side, but there are no signs that say where to park. So there um probably need some thought on that. Um Riverwood Hills and River Park, there are no directional
park signs on street roads. Once you get to the park, it says you're at the park. But it doesn't say um other things that um like I noted on the playground
equipment, it says age 2 to 5 only can play on these playground equipment. Um but Riverwood Hills, that one says 5 to 12. So, I reached out to Adam Brace, who
was the one who originally put the equipment. Well, not put the equipment. We all did the um uh who got the equipment. And I want to find out if that was something that that company said you have to put this up for
legalities or if it was a committee decision. So, I'll see if he remembers. Um, nice area for, excuse me, nice area for families. Peaceful River Park, lots to do there. Not handicapped
accessible. When I heard that a lot, especially at the senior's meeting, when I um asked them to fill out a paper, they said, "I can't get to the park. I can't get into the park because it's too
hard to walk in." So like River Park um or no park like the ground's not level. There's no path. Um River Park is that's because it was flooded twice. Yeah. Yeah. River Park is
a little closer that you can get to. But um Riverwood Hills Yeah. that quite a That was a weird park in the first place because it was put there by for for residents that live around the area. not not so much for everybody else. Right.
Right. And it was a new vision that we went through when council was making those decisions on how to put that park in. Um some comments. The equipment is starting to show its age. It's been 20
years that that has been in. Trails need to be paved. More planned activities. So, no, nobody doesn't except for Memorial Park. There's not a planned activity at the parks. Pickle ball courts.
Um, so those were some things. Um, again, like I said, if park committee members can look at the parks with a fresh eye, I think instead of just like, "Oh, yeah. I've been to that park." I think it would be good for each of us to take a a moment. Um, and then I'd like
to know who's going to review all the surveys. Have we thought about that? How is that going to be h handled? And who's going to complete the reviews? And then right, I posted a couple things.
That's pink papers. I posted this. If you don't um get on the Facebook page for the community, you may not have saw it. But on that one, it's about um raised bed gardening maybe at different at a
different part. And I had about 27 like yes, good thing. And then there was this fun little activity where you stand and uh you kind of like walk back and
forth like this kind of rock back and forth like that. And so I looked that up to see how much that would be people thought that would be something to have. Other than that, I'm curious those well, I guess the class would be something
considered planned and then the exercise it's like a station. I mean, not stationary, but it's that would just I think be called like activity equipment as I mean there's planned programs and then I guess activity equipment. I'm trying to think the categories. Yeah, there's there's different ones and I
think Kevin, you researched some of that for our age friendly group ones. Yeah. And so those are just some things that maybe eventually the committee can like you said put together a plan. How much does it cost? How much should what
what's the priority? And so the thought would be that we would get grants to support this plan or we would plan and budget for those. There's kind of the thought that if you have a survey done that talks about we really looked at
this part. we put this together. We think this should be done. You know, these are our priorities. If you want to get a grant, those are some prerequisites to getting a grant instead of just saying, "Huh, you know, we like some benches." You know, we've studied
it. We know there needs to be benches. So, um, do you want me to say or you guys need to vote? Let me know about Mel if you want her to do that. Um, I don't know if the city has to authorize it. It's a committee.
Um, all good questions. I know the end date is May 16th. Is that still your deadline for surveys? No. Didn't you move it to June? Yeah. Great. Oh, okay. I just that's I read it out on Facebook. That's It was We were trying to do just
online presence just ourself. Yeah. And that was some of the discussion was should we change that date out further? And that's where we talked about maybe having because kids will be out of school more. Yeah. I do think it would
be easier for people to do on their phone if Mel would do a survey because the paper it's hard and it's hard. I mean, if you're not downtown, right, to bring it down or email it, it's not always the easiest. So, something online might be nice. And maybe it's something
that just stays open that we capture feedback. Great. Right. I mean, if if we can put it on and it doesn't cost anybody anything to do the survey then on it's one more option to try.
So get back to your question about the the funding and the grants and everything. I think that's what the committee needs to look at is is because we're also having the committees all the committees look at the CIP projects which tend to be higher dollar projects for one three five year time frame but I
think Mar shared the opportunity to so um and I think so I think it's just a matter of all that information will come to the council or through the workshops through the council leazison to the committees to kind of help identify what we want to put in year one
year two three four five. So, there's some priorities that would probably come out of the parks committee to kind of give council direction, too. So, yeah. Um, and I can check with Mel, say if she does a Google doc. I'm not that savvy on
all that stuff. Who gets that information back? Where does it go to and how is it tallying? So, if Mel doesn't or Jason, she doesn't have the bandwidth, I can do it, too. It does. It really doesn't take that long. We just need an email that it goes back
to. I mean, it could go back to park and trails, too. Yeah, that would that's what Katie's been forwarding some of them that she's received to myself. So, is this a standard survey that age friendly Minnesota provided?
Um, age friendly uh homestead county provided this survey. I'm I think for for Or no it would be confusing to see like industrial near you but okay and the the whole idea is if we had time if
we had staff if you had lots of volunteers well I I've done surveys I could help if if if you're open to having assistance if if you're not open to having this I mean I just as a as somebody reading this it's like am I in the right place there's no industrial you know what I'm saying it would be
confusing I think to so I think Last time when we talked the the first thought was to create a day people would come down we would give them instructions and then let them disperse um and then we were going to provide like water and snacks and clipboards and
pencils and all of those things. So there was a budget item that would need it. So we thought let's just try a ad hoc request to see what we would get. Maybe we wouldn't need to facilitate a day for park audits, but maybe we still
get low numbers in June. Well, I'm just I'm just offering to help with um probably hospitality is not my thing, but um I'm I'd be willing to help make this more I say user friendly to our local residents or park visitors. My my
thought is some of those questions opens up my eyes to what we don't have. Okay. I'm I'm just I mean I'm not saying we could I'm not saying they're all wrong. I'm just saying that there's there's a way to make it feel more comfortable for someone taking it. Um
but that's okay. I'm I don't need to No. And I'm not taking that it that that way. So um if you would be able to put something together in the next two days so I could give it to Mel. I I don't know what the committee thinks but that
is something together and you it can be used as a target. That's fine with me. And I I I've done Google Docs. I've done Survey Monkey. So, if I can help with that. Okay. All right. And I'm only here to help you guys. I'm not here I'm not
here doing this and asking for your help. I'm here because your committee asked me to help. So, that's kind of where I'm at. So, all right. Thank you, Joy. Back. Yes. And then Joy,
to your question about tallying the results. Again, I don't know if if Mel would have capacity for that, we could talk to Jason. If not, I'm happy to do that, too, if she wants to send them to me. And if it's online, they get tallied automatically. Yeah, if they're used on Survey Monkey,
but for the We'd have to get those put in. But we could do that. If she puts them in Survey Monkey, then we could go in the surveys that you have. I mean, I'm Okay. I'm fine giving them up. Okay, I can do it, too. But if that's kind of
your Yeah, if Mel's gonna do or if she doesn't have bandwidth, then we can put them into Survey Monkey, then we don't need the paper copies, so then they're all too. Do you want me to take them to Mel too first or But I think it's something that the
committee should look at the actual surveys and what people wrote. Do you that all access? I'm I'm kind of not real privy to it, but that's all accessible on that survey monkey. You
can view others. Yeah, it depends how you set it up. If you want, okay, to see comments or you want tally how many people said agree, like I think it it's pretty customizable. Sure. I think you'd want to see the comments for all of these because that's where the the juice is.
Um Yep. Well, that's great. That's Yeah, I think you know by doing it on the computer for people, it's a lot better than trying to gather all the paper up. So, just one more comment and this is a question that
you had done is that the survey itself came from ARP a so they do park audits, they do city audits, sidewalk audits and one that age friendly or local homestead county brought off the website. There's some books. If you go to AP website,
there's all kinds of community interaction. And so that's where the the format for the park audit came from. We're just trying to use something that's already in place. Sure. And and maybe that's if if that if that's if you want to keep it standardized, then you would want to keep it that. I just think
that if it doesn't need to be standardized, there's a Yeah, I think it was just we didn't take time to Yeah. And if maybe you don't I mean I'm I don't I'm not trying to prescribe anything. I'm just trying to say that it this looks like a as somebody who lives
in Aronokco, it's like why would they be asking me about industrial anyway? Okay. Yeah. I think too though if you look at the survey, you know, again, I think what you're trying to get to is what are we missing? What are what do we need to pay
attention? I don't know if that second then I just make it more succinct. Yeah. the fewer questions and more succinct like what's what do you wish was here what do you wish I don't know if you had a million dollars what would be here or something like
yeah really your your five five and six question six 78 n are your opportunity questions so would okay as a board do you would you
like to see this kind of somewhat revised or just go with what it is and I I won't vote. I think since we have some people that have already filled out the survey as is, I think just keeping the survey just kind of how it is probably going to be
the easiest thing to do. I I get what you're saying with some of the questions there, but just to get things I think we could glean what we are trying to with the rest of the questions and two might be a little confusing, but it
doesn't look like anyone's not doing the rest based on number two being confusing. So, and again, if they don't fill it out and they don't fill that one out, but and how do they know which park they're looking looking at? Well, you get to choose.
Yeah, it's a blank of three. Yeah. And so, this is what most people saw. So, so does does the is the board consensus that um just leave things as they are? You want this back? Yes, I'll email you
with all of the Okay. with that and stuff. I It was emailed to Katie and she was and I thought she had emailed it to every She may have. Okay. I've been out of the loop. I know you've been utter. So,
one last question. How long does it take to get set up that survey monitor? Yeah, based on skills. 10 minutes or 10 hours. I mean, once you have it, it's live. No, that's fine. Okay, good. All right. No, I I'm all in. I talked to Mel
today just to see if there were other surveys here. She said it would take her 45 minutes and she would have it up. Okay. Awesome. She just would need to get your approval to have her do it and then to find out if council approves her
to do that. And her statement was she's there to be your support as a committee, as a city committee. She's there to support you. And that's why she felt that she would be able to do it. But
that's not her decision. She's stated. I can just do it. I'll make a motion to have have that survey monkey started. I can I can make it make it so Mel doesn't have to go through that because
again council doesn't meet for two weeks two weeks. I can work on that. You will do it. I'll let Mel know that. Thank you. Do I have a second? I second it. All in
favor? I motion approves. Thank you. Thank you, Joy. Appreciate it. All right. Next down. We've got Oh, Mark. Well, the fire department does you want to speak on that? Yeah, I
talked to Adam sent a note back about it. They um were having conversations with DNR. I think they're thinking it's too late in the season to do that, but they'll keep the radar on for that prescribed burn. I did let him know that
if they can get some notice, just making sure that we use our city um communication channels for the residents out there um because there could be impact there. But I'm most likely I think what Adam said is it's probably past our window for opportunity this
year. I know there was a question on if DNR was involved and they have submitted that. Okay. Form. Okay. Well, if Yeah, we'll just play it by later on. So,
okay. Um, next on the list would be U Mayor Brown updates on the Zimmer water trail. Right. So, um, we're making some progress with uh we have a meeting Thursday with the it's called the water
watershed alliance for greater Zumbo River. They are policy committee for the Zumbal wershed. So um under that and it's made up of 10 members from the four different counties that make up the
watershed underneath the uh the Zumba River. So there's we're meeting with them basically to talk and share with them as we continue on. We've identified like 46 different spots um potential sites. Uh these are just we
picked the sites which is an engineering company we've been working with for a couple years now. They're out of Minotaa, Minnotonka. And uh so we've identified these sites, they've identified the sites, and we'll go through a process of getting it down to eight, nine, 10 strategic sites that
ultimately will be the sites that we will have on the water trail. But it's important that we try and so what we're talking to these wershed alliance on Thursday is to ask them if if the Zumbrell River Regional Water Trail could be part of their umbrella uh under
a joint powers agreement with with that policy board. Um what that would allow us to do is that they would help coordinate and oversee the 10 different sites that we select. It could be counties, they could be cities, um maybe
private. We haven't really gotten that far yet, but but the point is uh take example for Oronokco. If if Oroco was one of those sites selected or a city selected, then as an oro, we can decide if we want one or two and then we would
also be the fiscal agent. And those are details that we still have to work out. But the point is you a city or a county would be responsible for that site and they would be putting together a plan of what you want to do with that city or with that site whether it's parking
amenities um but that will be overseen by the uh by this watershed alliance as well. So, we're having those discussions Thursday. We did meet with the uh executive director and their planning coordinator for the Greater Minnesota
Parks and Trails Commission last week as we had these kinds of questions. How do we set up this joint powers agreement? And they suggested trying to work underneath this umbrella of the watershed and this watershed alliance policy committee. So, we'll have that meeting. I'm sure we'll get more feedback, but it's still all part of
this ultimately having a master plan um for these strategic sites by the end of the year or early 2026 that we can give to the mission to get their approval. And with that approval of the master plan, then we can start
overseeing. We can, you know, determine where we want to go first or who's ready to to start working on these sites. So, and a lot of those details have to be worked out, but we're we're getting closer and getting some organization to it, and that's the main f focus on the
meeting there. So, um yeah, so just very brief, there's there's four tasks we're going to talk on Thursday is create a comprehensive in inventory of existing access site. We're going to have a wiki map that's going to be open to the public so we can get continue to get more input. input is
very important to the commission uh in solidifying our direction and make sure it's it's uh work for the best for the residents in southeast Minnesota. Uh the task two is identify the select sites for areas of potential intervention. That's what we're trying
to get down to 10. And then we task three is to create concepts of potential interventions and organize information to a master plan. And that's going to happen later this year. and then we'll submit that to the uh to the commission so for future
project funding. So those are the main focus of our meeting and I'm sure there'll be more subsequent meetings after that. So any questions for me still at the 15,000 foot level but we're trying to How many years is this now? I mean it's been developing I wonder what four or
five years I think. Well I've been working on it since about 2017. Okay. Um I originally submitted a plan for Lake Shady Lake bed to be a plan and they came back with a medium ranking because it wasn't strategic enough. I was just
thinking about or no and the surrounding communities where they came back and said no you need to be involved with the whole wershed. There's 150 miles of river that's navigable that we can work with and so with all the north south middle main branches of all the river.
So that's where I worked with the parks supervisor about five six years ago. Old State County Park Supervisor Tom Ryan, he get more focused and so we've been gradually working towards that. So in 2024 um at the guiding committee that
I'm on with three people, we submitted a project to the LCCMR. We got $170,000 and that's being used to help pay engineering to do all this engineering work for us. So and we'll continue to use that funding. So, so it's a very worthwhile project
and uh I'd like to think Oronoko can be part of that and that's my goal as well. Ryland wershed area. What's that? The Ryland watershed area. Just Okay. Um No, that's great. Yeah. Thank you.
So, the next item is Mendock. Um the fence is still planned to be put in place along Highway 52 between um the highway and the Lake J. They've agreed to put the fence in and sometime they'll have a hire a contractor to do that but
it's in the paint it's in the plan for 2025. So okay good. And with that, we can start planning in your one, three, five year plan of how we want to develop that lake shady area. And you know, there's a master plan that was done back in 2011, 2012. And that's that's the
plan unless something changes. So that's good. Any questions for me? Otherwise, that's all I have question. Thank you, Ryan. Yes. All right. Let's see. Um the next one on the item is uh
Lee. Evidently got to wait for council approval, but uh everything is is a go for that. We got some wires crossed. So we'll get it on. Yeah, I did my part. I know they were blaming it on you, Lee.
Yeah, that's okay. That's okay. That was a problem in the packet. there wasn't an application. Okay. So, well, he got his application in, but it didn't make the packet, so we couldn't sign off on it. So, we'll get it in there for
that'll be a a good thing. So, thank you for stepping forward. Um, we've already dealt with the April agenda that was approved. um all
parks budget ideas for 2026. That's something that u well I think with part of what what Joy's got going on and be a whole part of that if I'm not mistaken we
can that yeah I can expand. So, um, an hour before city council meetings, obviously April's done, but May and even potentially moving into the future is having some workshops where we're having the different committees and other um
opportunities come in and talk about what what is their goals that they want to accomplish, what are um fundings that need from a CIP perspective, and then thinking about what are future goals. So thinking about it in a 1, three, five,
and 10 years. So we can start to create budget items that align to what we're trying to do. So looking for opportunities even in parks and trails of what our plan is in those increments and start to think about it so we can start to plan. Obviously, a lot of these
depending on what we pick, there's going to be engineering costs that are not a small amount. So, we'll need to factor that in on where they fall into that plan as well. Um, but starting to be proactive. Um, I know we've talked about that parks and trails doesn't have
budget, so we're always going to city council for things. This would help us plan a little bit more. Um, I know we've talked about just prioritization of things. So, this is really getting to how do we do that for parks and trails moving forward.
I think the audits will help give us some ideas that maybe we don't have listed or haven't captured before to start to think about how do we prioritize? Okay. Those uh workshops you're you said May and June. Are you going to try and
do that every month or I don't know. I know I know the memo went out for April and May. We didn't get anything in April to talk about that. So, we're probably going to have to extend, but it starts on the our next council is May 20th and
it's from 5:30 to 6. So, if we h as a park and trails committee, if we have some suggestions, we can bring those forward or if we need time to talk about what we think in those increments or CIP funds that we're
going to need to pull off of. I don't know if we're all ready to make those decisions, but we should start thinking about what we want for parks. I know lots of talk on pickle ball. Yeah.
Well, I think we'll Well, I guess looking back at the um survey monkey that we want to start here real soon and hopefully we
can get a get a start on on that. Go ahead, Joy. Um, just a thought that the $2700, you could maybe approach your city engineer or a staff member and say,
"Okay, we know we want a pickup ball court. How much would that cost? Could you, you know, with three hours worth of time, could you just give us an estimate as to how much it would cost to do that or trails? What's a general idea? Um, so
that's what you can use that $2,700 for. Okay. So, just a thought. Keep that in mind. Do we have like one or two things that we would want because we're going to need some estimates obviously before we put it in budget cycle. I would hate
for us to pick something in a one year that's not obtainable because we don't have any reserve for finances. Is the $2,700 an annual gift or just a onetime gift? It's a one-time grant. It's $900
per park. So, if um it didn't sound like you had to only use $900 for just that one park. So, if you could roll it together, I think um that would be helpful. But you can't buy equipment.
You cannot you cannot buy equipment. You can't buy signs. Um it's staff time and refreshments. Um and that's that's why we the committee thought it would be best to try to do something online.
Instead of spending3 $400 on incidentals, let's spend it with an engineer cost or staff time to put something together. What would be nice
is like say Riverwood Hills. There's so much open area. who owns what land there to actual I know you can do go on Google's map but if you could do something that had the picture that could say these are actually property
lines so if there's a cost in doing that that would be something to start then you would know how much land you actually have to work for or work within a park today I I sat out there I went out
there And I thought it would be so nice to be able to drive into that park. There's so much uh area that you could have a soccer field down in there. So, is there a large enough easement that
would allow a car to get in there? And if you go through uh the Valley View entrance, right, they call the and you go down in that little um drive, trucks drive through that. Could you
have a car drive through that? And then you open up. Could that be a parking lot? Yeah. So those are some thinking outside the box um thoughts as well that you could maybe didn't engineer cause
for that if that's something the committee felt was most of the access for that was for septic maintenance. That's why they're there.
Yeah. Well, I think it's, you know, something that we can um those kind of ideas that we can use to, you know, apply that money to. Um but yeah, no,
I no, I agree. We got to, you know, we got to utilize the um the grant and however we best way we see fit. And so is there anything? Let's see where we
at. So what I can do is I can get that survey monkey out. I know we're extending it to June. I can also get these responses in there for us to start to think about what are our plans for the next 10
years and what that looks like and if we um for our June meeting to figure out what are some things that maybe we need Joe from an engineering to start to look at. I know one that keeps coming up
is the paving of the Riverwood Hills paths is a big one that's been on the books for 15 years. Yeah. Yeah. We started back in 201 19 with this slain part of it. But
they're all that was 50 $60,000 worth. That was six years ago. Yeah. It's very expensive. It needs to be done. I totally agree. see parents pushing Yeah. baby carts down through the ground. I think that
could be a priority. Yeah. One thing I will check is just rightway paths. You know, the paths that are down there, one from some there's several paths besides the one for the lake for the uh the pave path for the lift station.
The comment about the off the f. How wide is that rightway? Yeah, that's definitely won't have that survey. Don't have an idea exactly how that is. That's for the Riverwood Hills. Probably wide enough for a picture. I mean, there's a sign right outside. I was just there Saturday. Big sign says no motorized
vehicle. So, I mean, you're not right. It's a walking path, right? More than any. Yeah. The only the only path that was accessible with a vehicle was for maintenance way around. Way way around. Uh I'm just going to throw this this is somewhat related in um the city of
Rochester to enable uh people who were in wheelchairs to access rugged hikes. Uh I worked on a committee that arranged for a um a uh wheelchair on
treads made for wheelchair access to rough trails. So, uh I know the ADA uh doesn't want you to change the nature of a park or land um to get grants. So, if it like if it
ruins I mean I can give you examples but there are ways around um making trails flat and you can still so you don't have to make trails flat. You can still make trails accessible with equipment. Um the I can't think of what this pair was called, but Rochester has one and it's
got the um what the caterpillar tracks track and um they they loan it out to whoever like to use it. And our state parks does that too. So that's a way of um saving the nature of um I'll say
rugged trails and still making them um accessible. Those trails are rugged. Like I've almost twisted my ankle on them. There's probably some liability on those on those pathways down to the park. I think the liability comes in when you
make a repair. They didn't do a very good job cleaning off the drain field on the trail, they made a big mess. Okay. I mean, once once you touch something, then I think liability starts. Yeah. So, so is that a recommendation? I mean, again, we don't have all of it. I do
think that that comes up often to pay if we're going to need Joe. I'm with Joe to do some engineering, figure out what costs would be. Again, that doesn't mean we're going to do it. Some preliminary can we break it down into chunks or is
it something every year for many years? I think we should pull our pull the trigger on some forward. Has has some been laid? No. No. Okay. Because I'm going to say if you know what if we said every year we do 100 feet or 10 feet. So I think if we
do the the engineering part right then we get into is it a three? Is it a five? Is it a 10? Are we going to do one part that's feasible for the budget part in the budget right? We're only going to get 15,000. Okay that would do this much. What's our next year plan? Like I
think that's where we need to know how much it's going to cost. And I I what I hear you saying is that this is and I haven't been there but it's too rugged probably even for abled people. It's like gravel chunks. It's rough. I mean this is something that the age friendly could
probably go to towards that planning or that engineering because it would be as far as planning too. If we use Joe's time to do some assessment on those industrials, he could have um so age friendly or
inco you know there's seven of us and we're all volunteers like you are as well. So as far if you can repeat the question what you would want us to assess what you're looking at. I think we could use that 2700 to get Joe to do
some kind of rough estimates of what it would take to pave those trails in that 2700. Yeah, that's one I'm Or the options like paving would be an option. Is there a lesser option? Maybe not paving but um putting you know crushing the rock along the way so it's it's a
flat. I think with this it's hard to get there if we're going to do it. I think we should just pay. I think the plan was always to pave it. Yeah. I'm just thinking of something that's affordable. Yeah. Yeah. Then we'll be doing this again. Yeah. You buy a rock. If we wait
for that, it'll never happen. So, where where are these trails that are sold? Riverwood Hills. Riverwood Hills. Okay. Or Valley View Lane, depending on if you're on Google or not. Yeah. and and other parks too, like even
Oroco Park, if you could pave it to the gazebo. Even if you have a family park or a family picnic and you have people that are in a wheelchair or using the cane or a
walker, it's on level. It's not safe for them. if they could at least get them to the gazebo, I think would be a wonderful thing. So that could be a less amount of money rather than paving all the the
trails. So those are your different options. That's why you're committed to make those decisions. I guess are we ready to pull that trigger or we need some more information? rip the band-aid off and
again I'm not I'm not either way. I just So we you're looking for a motion to I'm just wondering if we have we're going to need some engineering time on whatever. So if if the thought is we need to figure out us for it, right? I think that's the reason take it to the main
committee and move forward with something so that we have have a a plan to do something with that those that grant money. I'll make that motion. You want to go ahead? I'll second it if
you just to be specific here. Are we looking at um Riverview Riverwood Hills? Riverwood Hills or are we looking at No. Well, we could the gazebo. Oh, I mean, well, I don't know. Again, I think that should I think the gazebo should be on
the budget, but I don't think that's as big a project. That's only about a 100 ft to get there. It's the rest of it. We're talking about a mile. Gazebo will probably could be paid out of our own budget, the city budget maybe for next year. I mean, if you budget
for different um I know I haven't been on here forever, but I've been here long enough that we keep often we keep like, you know, like not like with the prescribed burning. Next year it'll be too late to to do the prescribed burning. And I think it's, you know, at what point do
we say what's early enough to to get it on the budget to get it to get it, you know, uh pavement to the gazebo? That's correct. Okay. So, that's that's a budget item for the 2026. And it has to be proposed before the end of the year so that the council can put it in the
budget. And who does who puts it in the budget then? So we make a recommendation that to them. So that's what our planning session for May. So before the May council in probably June,
we're going to have time to think about what our plan is. So that would be where parks and trails would say we want to pave riverwood hills and we want to pave to Oronoko Park and we want to do so these would go in. So whatever we find out from the engineer plus the trail to
the gazebo would go in at the same time. It would be an ask, right? So that would be a budget item. Say we want this. This is what it's going to cost for 2026. Can we get it in that budget or is it going to get cut for the next year or is it something that's our three-year plan? So
we want to save 5,000 every year to cover that cost. So then um thank you. Y then when we come up you know when we look through the results and we come up with the one five 10 year plan when does that get submitted to council? So that's
we're trying to do that before budget season. So that so that would be end of the year when that gets finalized for the we're talking about two different stages here the summer as so we're trying to plan we're trying to balance our checkbook right so we we want to add
on to our house well I can only you don't need to use that on to the house but we're right now we're in May we're going to submit that we want to ask to the engineer to do a estimate of what it would cost Yep. for Riverwood Hills. Sorry, I don't get the name right. And then also um what would it cost to do
the gazebo? And then in the fall, that's the engineering part of it. That's getting cost. We're asking for a budget. No, we're not asking. And then in December, we would be saying this is what we want in the next year, in the next 5 years, in the next 10 years. You
would do that now supposedly. Yes. We'd asking council now. We don't even know what we want yet. We need to know what it's going to cost. So then the ask would be okay. So I'll step back. Okay. So we're trying to assess what parks and trails is looking for prior priorities
for 1, three, five, and 10 year. So we need to know how much it's going to cost, right, to do some of these things. If it's a hundred bucks, maybe we just go to council. If it's 5,000, maybe we get it in 2026 budget.
We need to get those two council to say our plan for the next year is to pay. And when does that go to council? In November. Well, anytime between now and when budget season is what we need, council needs to finalize a preliminary
budget. We can set it at for the whole city. We made it for talking purpose. We set it 1.2 million. So that's the highest figure we can go. So we do all this workshop and evaluation and comments from all the committees and we go through council workshops. We'll go
through three or four workshops in the August September time frame. By the end of September we have to submit to the city county our preliminary budget and what that budget is. It's the highest level we we go lower but we can't go any higher. So October, November, and December is when we continue to refine
the budget, take fund down funds out of it or move it around and then we approve it at the December meeting. Okay. It's out of this board's hands in September then kind of for the next year. August for the next year. Yes. Okay. That's
what I'm trying to work on this timeline. Long August date would be a good date to kind of Okay. If you're going to pick a date for park Yeah. recommendations, they have it all done. have a list ready to go. Yeah. Still for 2026
other subsequent years too to start identifying those projects. Every year is already at the end. Sure. But I mean annually except our in terms of the next year's budget our job is kind of done at the end of August for the for the next year's budget for our assets. Can you
explain what the CIP plans are? I mean is that that's just preliminary budget or is that those are for bigger ticket items right continuous improvement or CIP is it stands alone from the 100 fund 100 fund is all of our budgets
that is an operating budgets and throughout the year CIP is capital improvement projects the big projects um if we were to do all the trails in Riverwood Hills it' probably be $100,000 it's really expensive right does it have a threshold does it have a
threshold like 10,000 or more or 50 or,000 or more be any amount. It doesn't have a low threshold, right? Okay. So, there's no threshold, but the the county the council will pick. In the past, what we've done is for example, for a couple years, we had $75,000 in capital
improvement fund on parks, lease, fire, whatever committee we had. And we haven't been following it very closely because of our budgets, the pot of money that we have. Don't tell me we're not following it closely. just lie about that part, but go ahead. Don't lie. But I mean, go
ahead. But so when but we I guess I'm looking for our role and the the deadlines for our role in next year's planning and how we plan how we help the council decide to agree or not agree for one year, five year, 10 year. Okay.
Sorry, I interrupted you. I'd say it' be one August. I would shoot for that date for your August meeting. Okay. So the first I mean that's not very long from now. Not very long. No, it's not. It's That's why we're That's just going to work. That's why we need our wish list
ready to go to formulate. Yeah, it really is a wish list, right? Because we're not going to get everything. Let's just be honest, right? So, we we have to figure out what our big ticket items and maybe it goes to a CIP fund or we start to put money in a pot and we save and we
know in five years we're going to pay that. Right. So, we need $10,000 to go into a pot and being saved or whatever. Then, do we also Sorry, just shut me up in just a second. Not right now. Kane, I
bet Kane has a list of things that need to be done and need to be budgeted. Last last month, he gave us a list. I was on Zoom. A lot of them though are like to me, I don't know if they could have done us. Can I take a picture of
that? So, some of those top I know we considered these last It seemed like most of them we talked about last month was the the land that we own out like I don't know if that I mean yeah that's another that's a whole
another issue. Go bet you scheduled meeting Well so we were working on a motion here. Where did that end? I don't. Where was I? Motion to spend the $2,700 on engineering fees. I'll make the motion.
I'll make the motion that we approve getting some estimates with Joe Palin, who is our city engineer for Riverwood Park, Riverwood Hills Park to pave those trails and a cost estimate of
the oro to the to the gazebo. access to the access to the picnic shelter and we would use the $2,700 from the parks audits to pay for that
time. I second that. Any further discussion? I think we've talked that death in favor. Motion approved. Thank you everybody for your Q&A.
All right. Uh, where am I at on this? Lost it. Down to Are we down to Alice Park? No. Remove garlic mustard. Removal of Sure. Um, set up. Last time I just kind of We
just did it. We just did it. We didn't have an organized. We did. Let me just Well, two of you give me a phone call when you do it and I'll meet you out there. We have set a day. I think you haven't been able to make it like last year and I think you I mean I made a date. Yeah. Okay. Well,
great. Yeah. You you would have went above and beyond. I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to not you have you guys talk us out of making a date unless you don't want a date for I mean you I think you know it to me and and this
is just from experience from last year but we got Alice Park and everybody knows it's right down there by the old damn site that area down there gets covered with garlic and mustard. So I would just encourage any and all committee members if you've got time and
you don't have to you know we don't have to you know set a time frame. We just say it's really hard to set a time because then you have to post it because then it becomes a meeting. Okay. I don't know why this is getting so hot and and
for the last three years we have set a day you nobody needs to show up. We do post it in the post office and we've had like 10 people from the community show up. You can still set your time. I just was something we've done for the last three or four years and has worked. I'm not dissing anybody. I mean, you've
gone. Yeah. Yeah. No, I understand times, but may I set May I set a date where I show up and everybody else is invited to join? Okay. A second then I'm thinking that we're probably just about got Alice Park lit. Yeah.
Yeah. After last year, we we went after that. We'll take a look at or no park. And for everybody who has worked on this, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And community members come out too. Yeah. But how about I say, and I know I say my work in invasive species, it has to be done by before July the 4th. How
about we say May the 21st? And if you're there, you're there. I'll probably bring donuts or something really delicious. If you're not there, too bad. So, and and if anybody wants to go in any other time and they want to just bring their own garbage bag or when
we did it, we did brought their bags and filled them up, threw them there by the by the uh restroom right there. Called Kane Kane, just FYI, there's bags there. They come pick them up about that. It doesn't get it doesn't get any simpler
than that, really. It's just And it gets done. Yay. So, okay. Thank you. Thank you. You're going to Alice Park. No, never mind. I No, no, never mind. Well, then what's our next park after Alice Park or in Oak that's infested?
I have recipes. Okay. Certainly. Excuse me. You know, cookies. If the 21 if if uh Alice looks like it's cleaned up and there's still time and people got time, head on down
to or local park and do the same thing. I mean, it's Yeah, good idea. Very cool. So, you said by July the 4th because it's all garlic mustard's pretty well shot its seed out by the mid part of June.
It's um depends on the season. It doesn't uh it it gets its seed. the seed is is uh green and starts turning brown and by July the 4th they start bursting open. It's not every year but July the rule I do this for money and my rule is
like by the July the 4th it's too late. Yeah. corner July more. No, not it's depends on what side of the hill hill it's on or how much sunshine it gets. But Oh, that's a Okay, that's it's
amazing. Salt south facing hills. I've torn some off, torn off the root. It's like throwing it on a hot trail and they still develop seeds from like zombies. Parsons just like that too. There's something right here in previous
lake bed. What that white? Yeah, I understand it's Lake Shady, but they're just What? Um, what's going Oh, we're talking garlic mustard there also. Is that Oh, I think this is just We're just going through each park. Each part needs to be addressed or anything.
Anything anybody wants to bring about last year? nest. Just for your information, we've been public works have been mowing trails down inside the lake bed this last year. Yeah. But there's been some flood damage. They need to remove some sand so
it's easier walking. And that's on the Joe Beta to get quotes help improve the path under the three bridges so it's more walkable. Right now it's kind of big rocks and sand and so that needs to be cleaned up.
Is that are we expecting parks or not park but uh Kane and his crews to do this or are we looking at we'll get us we'll get quotes for it and state pay 75% of it pays 25%.
And the same thing at River Park. You probably notice there's still a lot of sand down at River Park. Yeah. And that's go out for a quote too to get cleaned up. Okay. took care of the trees, but we got them taking care of the sand and also the path going down to Alice Park to the river that was washed
out. Yeah. Runs in. That'll be cleaned up and straightened up. Add a rock. That was all part of the flood damage from last year. Sure. Garden Park need a update the city website on this. Rachel asked about
this page. Well, the next was that River Park dual pickle ball court option requested that that was me. Okay. Yeah. So, um, currently it's set up as a tennis court, and I know they've painted
a pickle ball court on either side of the tennis net, but a tennis net isn't a regulation pickle ball net, and it appears that it does need to be repainted anyways, and I think it needs a new net. It was full of duct tape last year. And I guess my request was just,
you know, there's people that have their own nets. You know, you could do a BYO, like bring your own net, but have rather than using the space back and forth for the pickle ball net, have it perpendicular to the tennis court. And
now you can create two courts, and it would just be painting the lines. Um, and you know, this year it could be bring your own net. Maybe in future budgets there could be the option to
have nets. Um the Pine Island courts are phenomenal and they use nets that you can roll back and forth. You know, it's contained within a hockey rink and so it's a little bit different. You know, they probably don't deal with theft or
vandalism, but you know, I don't I haven't really Yeah. Well, and even floods, you can just pick them up and take them, you know, safety when you know the river is coming out. Mhm. Um, and so that's when I emailed parks and trails with the idea if you could just
have two separate courts painted and and the tennis court net stay up. Yeah, that's what the net would stay in the middle. You'd have your tennis court still, but there should be enough room to have a court on either side of the net. They would just run the opposite
direction. Would you be okay with not having any kind of a back stop because it is open on either side? Yeah, pickle ball, you know, the ball doesn't travel like a tennis ball. Okay. I I see no I don't see any problem with this. I mean, if we're repainting the
lines or anything, I think, you know, putting two pickle ball courts on a tennis court could make the lines a little scrambly, but that's something that if you're playing tennis, you know where your tennis lines are. If you're playing pickle ball, you know where your pickle ball is. Or you could just paint the pickle ball courts. Yeah, there you
go. Well, hey, I'm over there. I know that mark in that pickle ball court pretty well. Oh, and while we're talking about that, the back I don't know if it's back stop, but there's like a green board. I think you can just play by yourself. There is
a hole in it. Yeah. No, I mean I'm pretty good. My accuracy is I've tried to wear that. Is that something we could ask gain the patch or I mean? Yeah, that's I mean he put it up so I'm sure I mean I'm all I'm all I'm all for it. I
know that pickle ball's huge. My wife plays it about five days a week, six days a week. And so yeah, I I don't I I walk through the park, but I whenever
I do, I don't see anybody utilizing that that port. And I know it does at times, I'm sure. So, might as well let it let it be used for what people want to use it for. Yeah, I mean I don't think there's going to be a lot of investment, but I'm certainly
willing to, you know, have it brought before council to have have the the maintenance guys kind of fix it up and if you need volunteers for a paint job or whatever you guys
want to do. So, yeah. So, do we need to That doesn't require a motion. We just have to ask Kane to do it. That'd be all right. Wouldn't it Wouldn't that be fun? I mean, we we would probably have to bring it to council because there's no budget item for this and Kane's time and paint.
The board. Yeah. But if we're going to paint lines, we'd probably need Kane to give us some estimates and bring it to May. Well, they would do it. I mean, don't they they do their own painting? Depending on the priority list and how everything else is going, it could, but
like you like Kevin said, we did if we can talk to Kane about getting the supplies and everything, then as Kevin said, we can organize someone. Well, yeah. And I think it behooves us to invite people that are involved with pickle ball so they know exactly what
needs to be painted and where, how they want their, you know, your lines and everything. But I would think it it's probably bigger than that, too. If the net's shot, we should bucket it as we want a new net. You're going to paint the tennis lines anyway. We want some
paint for pickle ball. We want that board fixed. Sure. I know there's already pickle ball like pickle ball marks and tennis court marks on the same different colors. We somehow try to remove the existing pickle ball lines
and then put the new ones on so it doesn't look like an etchy sketch out there. Sand out the power wash. You wanted to paint the pickle ball court solid car wash the cement. Just
write Picasso in the lower right hand corner. Yeah, I think that would go to council. I would just make a recommendation to have public works look at striping two pickup all courts and fixing the back court. That's all you can do is make
recommendations of anything perpendicular. Nothing else is for documentation. So when we do that, who actually makes the recommendation? Would you want to make that recommendation for at the council meeting? Say make the recommendation then park. I think what
Ryland was saying is we make that recommendation and have take it unless I heard him wrong but I think that's fine. Just so I guess just to do the Are you Are you thinking Ryland that we would make a recommendation and just work through Kane? Yes. It wouldn't even
need to go to council unless there was council. What? You don't you have to? Yes. Okay. The recommendations to council because council decides the action to work with Kane. came back and says, "Hey, my manpower won't allow me
to do this, but I can do that." Okay. You have a budget. Do you have money left in your budget? Parks never had a budget. That's where we would have to look at line item in the budget of where we could use some funds. Good one-year
plan, right? And Kane asks what Kane can bring back to the council and Kane might have something in his if he is planning onation. Yeah, there's budget for recreation in there. Okay. So, we don't need any
other official motion to do any Go ahead. I'll make the motion to take it to Kane and and go from there. I move that we ask Kane or recommend
Kane figure out how to restripe the pickle ball and tennis courts and repair the back stop on the tennis court and get the get it get it lined up for pickle ball. Right. Yep. And what about
the net? Well, currently there is no net in River Park unless it's been put up in the last three days. I don't want to speak out of school, but there is no net in River Park right now. It's probably damaged from the flood. Correct. It's just gone. It was tearing pretty bad last year. Yeah, last year it wasn't in the best shape, but it's currently there
is no net up. Minute is is the pick is the court now is uh if to set it up pickle for a pickle ball net. Are you able to do that now? Today
I could because the tennis net net was down there. Okay. So you're the uh deck is is is able to withhold your or you are able to set
up your net then. Yeah, I haven't tried, but yeah, I'd be able to because the tennis net isn't there. Well, I can work with Kane, but are we asking for a new tennis net, too? I don't know. It might be in the flood
damage. I don't know. Could that Can they get replaced because of the flood damage? It might be covered in the flood damage. Okay. Okay. He may have ordered already. I But if we don't need to I don't know how
to say that, but if we don't need to put the tennis net up, if it doesn't get used that much, and I don't know if it does, and and allow it for the pickle balls. I use it. That's what I need to know. Well, I think if we had something that people would I didn't catch your
name before we spoke. Tara Bloomster. Hi, Tara. Uh something that Terra had recommended is leave the tennis net up because we can you can play penn opposite opposite direction but two perpendicular. You could just have the net as a nice it's a good divider divider. Oh okay. Well that's why well
and then it I you know when I came up with the idea I didn't want to detract from the tennis players in the community. You know they expect that there it's the only one you know be like ah pickle ball's taken over. But then, you know, when I've played there, it
isn't technically a true game because, you know, it's the net's a different size. Regulation. Yeah. Yeah. It's not regulation. And so, I was like, well, I have my own driveway net that I play with the kids that it'd be nice just to have a nice court and otherwise, you
know, I would be going to Pine Island when I could just walk down to the park. What's a pickle ball course cost? Great cost. I know Katie's kind of looking at Memorial Park with that basketball court pickle ball court over there. That's kind of been her pet project for a bit
now. For a pickle ball court, I'm sure there's that'd be the place to put it if we're going to do a true court. It' be nice to have one on each side of the highway. And then if you can have two, then when you make plans, you're
like, well, more than likely at least one will be open. If you're trying to get a group together, Like I said, Pine Island could fit three of them in a hockey ring. Like a little four. Do you have like So you start with a motion, Kevin. On
the uh do I really need one? I guess I was kind of talked out of it, wasn't I? Or do we? Out of the net. On the net. Yeah, because we think that seems to think that that was part of the flood damage and it's have to check with Kane to see
if it's origin. Sure. But then do you want to add something about Memorial Park because we could strike that too if true Memorial Park two stripe yet? We'd have to install going to try to install install that basketball hoop/pickle
court there. Oh, that's not there. That's part of the five. Never mind. Like, wow. Okay. What did that there? Okay, let's go. We put parking lot in there, but Okay. From the future,
so everything's good. We're good at River Park. Really weird question. I don't know. Does anyone know anything about the like little man-made tents? Is there someone sleeping out in the woods out in River Park? There's always little like Oh, down there off when you're walking down the trail. There's there's
small little shelters. Someone is practicing shelter practice. Totally fine. It's the kids. The kids, they make shelters the tree things. Yeah, there's a lot of like interesting leantos and there's Oh, okay. Okay. Rock and roll. I thought there was someone just like
hanging out like in the woods some shed. If you remember, I see it's been dismantled. No, not that shed. But there's also these TPS. Yes. Yeah. And sometimes on the island. Watch that river. Oh, no. They don't go on the island. Oh, there was one on the island. It's the one like right across from the
parking lot. Yeah. Yeah. They put that one. Totally. Is this seesaw? Whiteies. Okay, cool. Seesaw's fun. Dangerous. Fun. Whiteies still down there. The white squirrels. Yes. I didn't see them. I've seen them. Oh, every once in a
while they come out like on River Park Place and I see them across. Okay. I think we're uh Was there a motion? I You started Well, I started one and then I got Did we do the one about
the painting the stripes? Yeah, I start You started it and I I got it half written here, but I wouldn't finish it until All right. So yeah, we never voted on that. Okay. Did we? No. What's the motion? I've kind of just interpreted as
have a motion for Kane to look into striping two pickle ball courts onto River Park Tennis Court. I I'll go with that motion. I haven't need a second. I need a second river.
Any further discussion? All in favor? I oppos. Motion carries. Carol Cen Park. That's pretty much just the uh Thank you. Oh, thank you. Sorry. The the uh
disc golf disc golf. There anything that we need to I haven't looked to see what kind of condition those are in. They've been there for a while. So, I haven't I haven't spent really any time. We'll see if we get a survey from it. Yep. Yeah. No. Plays there a couple times a week,
he says. It's probably It's like a part three executive golf course. Very long. Well, and then there's really nothing there in the Riverwood Hills Park. We kind of discuss
the trails and stuff like that. Pavement on the trails. Um, so it says Valley, you I submitted something. You can go on Google and you could submit, you know, an edit and I
did. Um, they acknowledge that nothing's changed last time I checked. So, that's something you want to try doing. And I click on the where it says Valley View Park. It'll come up. You can edit the tenant edit and submit it. And
maybe enough people they actually change it. Yeah. Memorial Park. I was approached by one of my neighbors the other day was thanked uh whomever put the soccer goals up. He he liked that for his kids were
over there playing soccer. Um only input he had was um the wind had blown one of them over and he felt that if there was a kid just there playing they might have a hard time picking them up. There was an adult around. So he was wondering if we could if they could somehow be staked
down so we could get a couple pieces. So something Kane could go like ankle down. That's I think that be something we could ask. Would that be something we could ask Kane to see if he can run over there with some kind of
steak to stake them down? They'll probably move them around. Yeah, they like I guess they didn't take that. So, yeah, that's fine. You see it tip over, put it back up again. Okay. Um many other any other
uh items that need to be discussed tonight. Next meeting is June 2nd. I will not be here. I'll be out of country. So I will after relinquish these duties back over.
So anybody did anybody have anything else? Otherwise, I'll entertain a uh a motion to adjurnn. I'll second none. All in favor? Motion carries.
Thank you all. Thank you. I did not think it was going to say we need to check. We have do love our park.