This conference will now be recorded. >> Welcome to the park board meeting for the city of Zimroda, June 1st, 2026. We'll have a call to uh order and we'll start with the agenda for tonight. I'd like to add an item under D for
unfinished business. I'd like to talk about the park or the lifeguards for the pool next year. I think we need to find out who's going to be the
person running it and start getting lifeguards as soon as possible because if we don't, we're going to be a so as they say because of all the places around here are taking lifeguards and we need to be ahead of it in case people
need training um to get all ready and get ready for the new I'll make a motion to approve the agenda with the added D under unfinished business. >> I'll second that.
>> I opposed. And motion passed. Okay, we got some minutes to read over from last month. I move to approve the minutes from last meeting. >> I passes for May.
>> Sorry. Minute. Sorry. >> Oh my goodness. >> Okay. Minute is the last one. But we have accounts payable. We'll look at next quarter payment this month. >> Shock there. But then I saw what it was
for. So I guess that's not surprising. >> Oh, I don't even want to think about what it would have cost if we didn't pass the pool now. would have been double or triple that probably.
>> I'll move to approve the accounts payable. I'll second. All >> in favor? I >> opposed. Accounts payable for 115,1 or $1.58 passes.
>> Move for public comment if we have any guests or visitors. And then moving on to uh all of our unfinished business, we have the pool updates which uh I don't think Brian's here. Is there anyone else? >> Unless you have anything due to you know
are they going to start demolition or anything? >> Yeah, I believe June 8th is supposed to be started demolition. Uh we had a project meeting out there walk through with vendors, stuff like that and yeah, everybody's ready to get going.
I was going to say I drove by it on Friday just to check it out because I haven't been out there. So, it's good to know that stuff's going to be moving now. >> I don't suppose anybody knows about anything from the fundraiser committee then what they're up to or
>> think communication with them. >> Yeah, >> I haven't heard from them. >> There's a group that is getting back together and and starting to ramp it up. Okay. >> It sounds like they got some of the past people involved. They're still willing
to do the work. Some people are kind of like on the fence still after working so hard. >> But June 9th, um it's here at city hall if you guys wanted to pop in and >> what time?
>> I think 6:30. Or if you want shoot out a >> email or something to remind us if >> to confirm it. Okay. Um, do you want a giant red ribbon or anything to cut with the scissors? A giant scissors. >> Next year.
>> I was going to say bring a sledgehammer maybe and knock some of the walls out. >> 29630 is what I got. >> Okay. >> Excellent. Okay. We're still chewing on the capital planning discussion, but we're always
open to edits and agreements or moving progress on it. You guys need the document printed out at all. Can I get hard copies or >> No, I got it. >> Got it. I wrote down a couple notes. I
don't know. I couldn't find them when I came tonight. Couple of them, but >> it's all good. It's all good. Then you'd follow up with a question like, "Hey, do you want to implement something by end of year 2027 lifeguards
and capital planning? >> Put a little deadline on it." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Or Yeah. Or do we need to, you know, make sure this the trails park and trails ordinance goes through if that's make sure that that's the first step and then
>> Yeah. But, uh, if you read through the ordinance, like it's it's pretty extensive for good reason. Um, it also steps on the toes of what the city was trying to accomplish. So, it's kind of this uh this conversation
has to be loud and us as a group where we're at and what we want for the future to solidify a park board and trail um board and then to have its like authority but autonomy
so that we can act and not be hamstrung but also that we're respecting the transparency and the needs of the city. So, there's like an oversight stuff like that. >> But it's more defined in what I provided than just like, oh well, we'll appoint
somebody and then see what money we have. So that's what the point is is like let's get a set funding. Let's get a set people um that have autonomy or or whatever decision- making powers and then all the other stuff can kind of go
under that with the protection. And of course coming from me I I try to to protect the green space from political divides. So if we implement something in the parks then the next group of council
can't just be like well we're done with that. It's a legacy. It's park park land. I don't know if that's written up in the past ordinances. I haven't seen it. So those are the some of the goals that I'm trying to set forward and I'm just
providing documents. I not choosing what anybody wants to do. So >> um I'm sorry if it prolonged the already parks and trails chance we had. >> I think it's great. >> Yeah, there was a chance now for
something to change. So >> otherwise it would be like when are we going to do a new ordinance? three years. I hope I hope I'm not pushing too hard this year. Maybe I'm like retiring in a couple months and I'm just like get everything done. No, I just have a lot of ideas and this is
like my chance to spill it all out. >> See, we get movement. Good stuff. >> Got some people too that are talking today that um might want to or group that gardens with might want to jump into some pollinator gardens and stuff like that like you spoke about
>> when we met with Bose. So >> I see some of them >> it's not mowed. It it kept a nice length the bank by upstream. >> They haven't mode it again. >> Did they this last couple days? I don't know where we're in that we're kind of in a tugof-war on they like the
maintenance part and so I'm yeah I'm kind of in a tug of war because there is people depending on the level of labor for maintaining it like we discussed or whatever that same group Kim's got might you know go through and do the weeding that you know the cleaning up and stuff
like that. So >> yeah, let's have the park board stay informed right what our Kim needs and yep something that we can do. Can I jump in on another topic that happened this past couple weeks? >> Go ahead. >> It was a meeting with the Soil Water
Conservation District, uh, Bo Kennedy, Brian, and Jeff here, and we talked about the environmental natural resource trust fund that the DNR provides for like parks and environmental resources and so forth. It's a grant I tried to
speed through April 10th. It wasn't going to happen because there was not a real plan. We had a talk about what happened with the S SWCCD and when they took down the bank and they cut all the trees out and all the flowers that they had and then it got mowed down within
months. So the the project itself was to stabilize river banks, provide a a bathosphere filtration for the river off the campground, stuff like that. It's it's ugly, right? It's ugly, weedy looking for good chunk of the summer and
then it blooms like crazy and then you have native flowering that is uh supposed to be there, right? So, we had a talk about how the boat could work with us again and approve like a plan and he's trepid trepidacious because you
mowed down my last project that I got grant money for. So, it was a really cordial and nice conversation and we had like a good like warmth to it. It just didn't really go to anywhere. So, the
plan was let's start with education and some signage that park board can make about plants, animals, trees, river banks, the wershed of the umbrella. There's already a kiosk down there, but there's more that we can teach. And then the idea was like, hey, five minutes
every partboard, I could do a little training session on naturalist kind of stuff. If you guys wanted to move forward with those kind of thoughts and the partboard uh mantra motto, that happened and that's kind of something
that I'd be pleased to implement. >> But why didn't you get mowed the first time >> from the story is >> I never heard that until now to be honest. Yeah. Um, you know, I think Brian was a new city administrator and he was working with other um, worker
public works. >> Y >> and they just had a plan on how to maintain plus they wanted a river view and so you know our conversation with me there it was like well we could provide like scenic v uh bench points where you could
enter and see the river. There was an access point for like going down to the river. And so it's easy, not easy, but it's it's necessary for public works to be like, hey, let's get this cleared out so the park can have a river view, but it's like, did you know that these plants needed to be sustained for three
years and then flower? Like that kind of stuff. >> There's a there was a mowing height stipulation and stuff like that. You know, they could be mowed, was it a foot? >> Yeah. >> 10 inches to a foot or whatever once a year or twice a year. >> Yeah. Like at a certain July. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, but then Yeah. the the
preference was um from a couple people they wanted it down mode with the rest of the grass or whatever. >> Makes sense. >> Gets buggy back there. Yeah, I get it. >> Yep. >> It's like a tunnel. >> Yep. So, the the DNR grant or whatever then then Bo had in their contract there
was no hold for Bo to make it stay that way or whatever. So, got >> basically when it started getting mowed, that's where it ended. Fair. >> Yep. lot of information tonight. >> Good stuff. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Yep. I think that's a good idea. >> Education,
>> right? >> Yeah. Talking to the committee, too. >> Yeah. >> Cool. Yeah. Just a little like maybe you just see like a newsletter where it says, "Hey, this is wild flocks. This is what it does. >> Here's a cattail. It can filter like a straw in the water." Like we discussed
too, if you have that group or that following that is educated, they can help you when you do a project like that, they can help maintain it. >> Y >> pull the noxious weeds, get it to what it's supposed to be. >> Yep. >> You know, whatever. And >> nurture it along that way because, you
know, 10 inches to a foot tall a couple times a year isn't, you know, there's plenty of view from that, you know, or whatever. So, and still protecting the flowers you put there. So, Awesome. Lifeguards.
>> Annidler is the name of >> Yeah, I was going to say, do we need to have Ann? >> Yeah, we could have her come back. I know she is. Um, still interested. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> she was a really great resource, too. She always had knowledge of everything
and knew what was going on and So she is still really in >> and she works in the school so she has access to potential lifeguards. >> I believe Brian mentioned too that she is a CPO.
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> So yep. So she did get her CPO. Um we don't have results yet but Paul and I also went in. So we have some redundancy on CPO certifications. So So we'll have two city staff that also have CPOS. Yeah, I say we reach out to her and just
kind of connect for next summer. >> Yep. I can reach out to her. >> She'll require a wage and she'll have like numbers to back it up and wages for the lifeguards she'll bring up, too. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> She's I was going to say she was on top of it when she was running it. So, >> yeah. She knew what everybody else paid and all over it. >> You emailing her right now. >> I'm just going to put an email up so
that I remember it. I will forget >> space the chat. >> On another note that's not on here. Um I will I should have uh some Frisbee golf launchpad numbers coming here shortly or
whatever. So you guys will have you know a cost on that. >> Perfect. >> I am crunching some some of your priority uh project list numbers from back and kind of trying to up update numbers from 2021 that you guys put together kind of where your focus I mean
your pools pools going stuff like that. But you guys had the park road in there and I know there's a couple trestle bridge grants that were awarded. I think Brian mentioned you guys. So that'll then there there'll be some black top, you know, once it's parks and trails. There'll be some there there's part of the trail that didn't get uh resurfaced
at that time. And then there then your park road will probably follow that once all the heavy equipment stuff's done. So I was just trying to get you some being that you're in a budget budgeting cycle by the end of the year. You'll want some of those hard numbers for moving forward. Y
September meeting to have some pretty hard decisions. That's when we decide on the our budgeting and Kim asks us for that. It's like a quarterly, right? >> Yeah. >> And then that will bring us into winter
planning. We can punch it into 2027. >> I'll um get a chance take a walk around that shelter. um just kind of peek at landscaping and then take a look at that deck and kind of see what your guys's feel is on that. Um uh some city staff
and I were out there and kind of looked at it and the deck is um probably beyond any finish putting on it or whatever. So, and then the landscaping in pretty dire need of some repairs. So, those are some other >> Does the deck need to be replaced then? >> I believe within the next few years it's
going to need a replacement. >> Is it cedar? Is it treated or what is >> I think it was green treated at one time, but it's pretty dry at this point. I don't think you're going to revitalize it with anything at this this level. So, >> they live their life and they're done.
>> This is the shelter by Kids Kingdom, right? >> Yep. Yep. The shelter that gets rented out. >> Yeah. And I know the composite numbers are pretty scary right now or whatever. And that's >> agreed. I checked for something. I haven't Me, too.
>> I won't be doing it anytime soon. >> There were some bids in town a guy I know got or whatever and they were about $114 a square foot. >> Yeah. >> So, with labor. >> So, you can get a deck this big.
>> Just enough to stand on >> that deck's,40 square feet out there. So, if that tells you anything, what kind of dollars you're looking at? >> And you're over $100 a square foot. So, >> we just put a back step on our porch.
It's like two steps and it has just a platform, not quite this, not as long as this, but a little bit wider. It was $1,200 more to do the composite versus just treated.
That was a crazy number. >> Everybody wants it, too, because it lasts forever. >> Yeah. And it looks nice. >> Never have to stain or play around with it again, especially here in Minnesota. >> Um, did the dogs get wrapped with chain
link yet? >> I haven't been over there to see go by there every day, but I did not look over there. >> Yeah, I never I did too, and I never look. to like crank on and then pin it. >> Uh he's got the stretcher cuz he ordered one with the whole kit. So he's got the
the puller piece that's got the fingers on it that grabs the chain link, I think. Then yeah, I think he must just ratchet strap from there. >> Bath house is coming good, too. I saw they got the front wall almost three4 done, so it's looking sharp.
>> Yep. should finish up about in time um the eth or the following week there or the 15th. Um then the framer should be here. Brook trusses and your uh interior framing, your wood walls inside and your steel liner and all that stuff should be
right right behind it. And then yeah, right into um bathrooms and eventually epoxy floors and rest of the concrete. >> That's like we paid for all of that, didn't we? here. Is there more coming from that? >> Uh we have there was both side was able
to gather that have been got you know for that but we have not paid for all of it. No. >> Okay. Fair. Okay. >> Yep. They will be billing um the block layers they they did up to the grade level. Yeah. >> You know before so they build for that
part and then now we'll have the >> okay >> up above. But like yeah certain things are paid for but >> y >> only up to Yeah. Nobody nobody overbuild what they've accomplished. >> I didn't remember how deep we're into it yet. So cool.
>> Yeah, you'll start. Yeah. In our meetings to follow, you'll start seeing some polls, some draws coming up. >> Y >> balance on our accounts from Kim last month. It's a month old, but minus 115. I guess
we got the 225 fund which is like our operating cells. Got to tally that up. Uh sorry I don't have a total line 65.
It's in four different colum columns. Maybe I'll just send it out to you guys. >> Sure. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Sorry, it's kind of hard to read. And I'll send it out so that you know what kind of money we have this summer.
>> Awesome. >> Yeah. Okay. >> And you're making progress. I see the sign that was being moved from out by Quick Trip to over by the bridge here. I see. >> Yeah. getting that prepped or >> gonna catch him today. I um we got a
quote back for to continue some pavers and or concrete. So, I was just going to throw those numbers at him to see what I did. He didn't ever give me dollars really he had to spend for that. So, I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page when we moved forward. >> And then we ended up going to uh Oh,
kind of like the otherformational signs had that kind of that red iron pedestal. >> Yep. >> So, we're going to um have one of those built also to hold that. And then on the front there'll be a plaque um with a little bit of verbage on there saying you're saying where it used to be and how the you know the old debuke trail
and just that it was moved. >> No. >> No. They were they had the skid loader up there but I think they blew a hose they had uh they figured it was about 18 18 to 24 inches thick that base. was >> good thing nobody like hit it or anything. >> Yeah, the rest of it. Yeah, the rest of
it. >> I don't know. Maybe somebody did. I don't know. Ever hit that? Did you know? >> They hit the roundabout. >> Launch again. Trying to get away from state patrol. >> Yeah, the sign crews are very busy.
>> They are. >> Oh, I just don't understand. Never thought of that one. >> Um, I don't fancy a motion to adjurnn at any time. >> Make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I >> opposed. >> Short and sweet. >> Thank you everybody. >> Make sure you tell Fred Rash about that, too. It's always like hour, hour and a half, 2