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now. Okay. All right. Good evening. This is Monday, May 5th. Zimroda Park Board meeting. call to order. Welcome everybody and we'll get started with this meeting this
beautiful wonderful early wonderfully temperate spring day. So, we have an agenda that's brief. [Music] A motion to approve the agenda for Monday, May 5th. I'll second.
All in favor? I I opposed. All right. Moving on to the approval of minutes last month. Thanks for running it without me. It went fine till the end. Yeah, when my
child tried not to participate, I had to stand up a little bit, but it was fine. Approve the minutes dated Monday, April 7th, 2025. I opposed.
Okay. Moving on to accounts payables. Pretty hefty at $32,04 3PH extension. So if we have the baseline. Oh, so that's what
you suppose Kim will take that out of account 615, right? Did they put that line in already? Yeah. When when did they do that? Just recently. Yeah. Well, I think it
was last week or sometime TJ from Excel got a hold of me and we talked a little bit about it. It was was actually quite a bit more and there's something with the building on it and able to get it under some
billing. This is over $100,000. Holy smokes. I'm just curious with that in the new pool. I still question the whole pool when that's going to go and how that's going to go yet.
I'll make a motion to approve accounts payable. I'll second. All in favor? I I opposed. Okay. Council payable passes tonight and then we have public
comment. Um this time reserved for Brian Gruden. Oh, sorry that was a joke. No public comment tonight, but we uh always invite that. Um pool update. Anybody have uh information on that to
share? I don't think there's anything Yeah. new really. Brian didn't mention anything before he left. So, okay. The money is still kind of trickling in a little bit.
Another brick was sold today. So, brick by brick. Brick by brick. Huh. Mhm. you know, be 40 years later. Okay. I'm sorry. U Memorial Day Field of Honor coming up with the new b new business. Assume that we're going to
continue tradition. Anybody against that or is discussion needed? All in the same place. Yep. And has Brian talked to you about finding the corner? I'll make sure he calls you and
talks to you. Yeah. Needs the corners located. Yep. Excellent. Excellent. And uh Three Rivers Bless Transportation last year. Oh yeah. Oh, do we need a motion for that? I figured
we did that every year. And you you also um you usually do a hard body. So we also motion that if you're inclined to do that as well. About 150 200 bucks a year. Yep.
That's what I'll make a motion to approve the use of for Memorial Day the Field of Honor and to get a portaotti. Is that good? Do you need numbers?
I'll second. All in favor? I I and opposed. Okay. Continuing on with tradition. Well done. Thank you. Now on to Three Rivers bus transportation. Last year pool shut
down. We provided community with uh partial payment of the bus transportation that picks up our community me community members and brings them to the Pine Island pool and it cost some odd 250 I want to say I
think it was 500 500 but I think Brian didn't give me a memo or anything but he met with them la early last week I believe it was uh threeers cool and they are interested in doing it again. Um, it would be we
wanted we just I shouldn't we being the city Brian decided it was probably better to keep it the same as it was last year if you guys want to do it because I think it had been brought up we could do a different pool but we thought you know families are used to the way that it was from last year. So
keep the stops the same, the times the same, the location the same. Um, did Brian give you a price? I I want to say they kept it the same. So, we could um if you need more information, we can
wait until the June meeting as well because I don't I don't think they started it before that last year. I don't think so be there. So, if you want a hard prize on that can get hopefully he'll be
here next month then. Are they even going to be out of school by the time we have our June meeting? just adjust be so the pool will probably have opened the week before. I think most pools open Memorial Day. Memorial Day. Okay. Yep. We
started. No. And I don't know if they run during the lesson time. I think it's just for open swim. Yeah. Because I think the bus only runs every couple of hours. Uh, opposing oppo I can't talk
tonight. Opposing viewpoint. Does anyone want to save a dime, act frugally, and not pay for this and put it towards the pool? Well, I think we should pay for it. Yeah, I'd just like to have a hard number to be honest. But if that hard if
that hard number holds up anybody being able to want to use the service, I say we deal with it right now. But that's not the case. Correct, Miranda? We're not going to hold anybody up by not taking action tonight, are we? I don't believe so. Brian didn't give me a whole
lot of information, so I'm not I mean, we obviously didn't commit to it, so we're not holding anything up by by not giving them an answer quite yet. Right. Um, so I think Yeah, I think waiting until Yeah, I just like the information about when they started up last year,
too, so we can mirror it and make it the same. Absolutely. Because it did sound like different things were discussed. So I I just barely scratched the surface with him kind of in passing. Yep. And then he and then he was gone. So I just
table it for next month. just kind of this month as an FYI that it's coming for next month then. I think that's good. All right, that business has been tabled for next month. There's no vote on that, right? Like table Roberts. Okay. Um then
a tree planting request. This is going up towards our future dog park. No tree nursery. No. Great priaky trail. We got some 50ome trees from the soil water conservation district in that
area. I I would like to plant have some that would stay along the trail kind of on the south side there, but I'd like to have a new area in tended for transplanting some trees out there. There' be plenty of room to work with up there. We usually offer a lot of trees
to residents. they may have left investment in the trees. So, if that's something that would interest you up in that area to be able to trans plus I'd like to, like I said, keep a few of them kind of along the
trail there, too. What's there right now on that piece? Anything? Dirt. Dirt. They leveled it, right? I think they still have to get some. I think they saw the seed and then they were going to dischank some straw.
So that would be like a second tree nursery for us there. Well, that one down there is the trees. It's about done more, but okay. It's not the trees that are left there besides cutting down. It's not really Okay. Starting over.
Starting on this location. Is it on the curve? Be on Jefferson on the south side. Yeah. One acre piece there. Kind of at the almost at the top of the hill, right? Yeah.
If we yield it to a tree nursery, can we still wander through it or change direction on what we plant there? Yeah. I mean, I I don't I mean, I don't know what it would be, but I mean, those
trees in three, four years, you'd be able to transplant trees out of that already. They're pretty good startup trees. And the ones you have are half some black cherry trees,
so trees. I I think it's a good idea. Yeah, I think it's a good spot for them, too. I think it's a good use of the land, and I think that program is great for our residents.
We need a motion to that. I'll make a motion that we use that area for tree planting. Save the trees that you put down along Jefferson. Yeah, I'll second that. All in favor? I
I and opposed. Okay. Grow down trees. Did you get a grant for that or was it just a donation? They they just had some left over from their sales this
year, city. Good good communication with them. Look at water. Yeah. Good. Good to hear. Um, this is the end of our agenda. And if you guys wanted to freestyle with me
here a little bit, I've been been dwelling on a capital plan for the park since like last year and formulating it and putting it into like some kind of document or at least a presentation we can have every month. And if you guys
wanted to email or email or compile some thoughts or some kind of outline that can add to my thoughts and it's not just a me circling all the past here, but uh
it would consist of basically uh this that we used to look like look at our project. Mhm. Um, we'd have that with the details of the project, what we spent, who's doing
it, and where we need to get money from. It would have grants, available grants for each project, and how we can pursue them, and timelines for grants. Um it would have um a future vision of like
acreage set aside for things that you know you see as benefits or what we can do to manage it or Mike's total direction you know and such as that. Um what else was there
that I thought would be good to bring up? kind of like a three to three, six, nine timeline of things. In three years, we can do this and six years we have this going and then maybe we have the
money, you know, set there so that it just gets paid for and gone. Um and then there's some other things like uh on my side of you know where I'm coming from um tackling the natural
resource that is the flood plane the river the river and the plant life that we have at our hands so that we would with soil and water. Of course, they did our river bank, but we can keep going with that,
but we have to set aside like some odd seven acres to to revamp into a natural flood resistance and maybe look at the park, the flood plane park part as something that we can help with future floods as a
park. So, and that would be in our in our park board agenda, our what is that? or MO. It's like we want to have a natural resistance to flooding to help the community and and also use the flood plan as amazing recreational place like
a mission. A mission. Yeah. So, but it would just be set down into a document. It' be done into a PowerPoint and then hopefully a 3D table with a whole topography. And that's that's what I got going. So, and I haven't brought it, so
it's not here yet. And it's still in the works. I like your thoughts, but I got a question, Bob. He was talking some things that I picked up on that was like long range planning like projects and capital expenditures and things like
that. Does the city like have through the city council like some kind of long range planning that would maybe dovetail with some of the stuff of the park board? Um, didn't he have something laid out with with certain things they wanted to
accomplish? I thought so too, Bob. I remember hearing or seeing something. I know. I want to remember that the road was on there. Repainting that road and some other things was on there. Yeah, we have a priority list. Or maybe it's priority list. But I think that's a good natural place to start the comprehensive
plan that the city had and I think there was a comprehensive planning for there was but that's something that and I can find that comprehensive but like you said maybe to blend them or see if there's something
that yeah because if some of the work is already there we don't want to be number one but our heads against it number two if It kind of aligns with a lot of the things that you just said. That would be huge. I mean, some of the stuff that was
in that plan, like the trail going underneath and all the way up to the other side of town. Um, there was all kinds of things in there like that. The campground was in there. I mean, all that stuff was in there. So, I think
that's a real good place to start. But yeah, I I like your ideas. Good to hear. And then it gives us a good idea of how we need to plan. Mhm. Because if we know that in six years we have to replace
Kids Kingdom or whatever it is, I don't want to ever go through what we're going through with the pool again, right? We're now I mean how many I mean we've had that pool for how many years and now we knew it wasn't going to last forever,
right? Yep. And here we are. And that would totally benefit us benefit us as we apply for grants because we'd have this outline. Mhm. Um the second part that we already know is
that there'd be possible assignments to each of us or to recruit people which we've seen down with pool board pool committee and how hard that is to do but it it's like your own personal goal at that point. Sure.
That's great to hear feedback. Um, just want to spitball that and see if I can produce something. And every month I'm like, "Bring something. Bring something to the board and show them what Appreciate your thoughts." Yeah, that's good. Yeah. And then we should be able to get those reports from Yeah. wherever
they're at. Yeah. And then put it together with all that stuff. Yeah. I've been compiling accounts payable, too. Yep. just trying to get a line graph of everything. It really doesn't show anything cuz just like here's one $12,000 month, right? Okay. To work on
something like that, can we have a work committee that's not in this time? You know, I know we're not supposed to discuss things not in meeting, but if we called a work group to work on something like that, is that okay? Have a we can.
Yeah. Yeah. So open throw ideas and stuff, right? Meet you guys. Any other discussion you want to have tonight? I do have one more thing to mention. I um
Donnie brought it to my attention for the campground. We added two more fees this year. So now my permanent sign that was going to be so handy is correct.
Got to stick the thing over. I'm like, do I just get like some cardboard just to the side? I'm like, so I don't know. Do you guys want me to just make a different? It'd be like 300 bucks, 400
bucks, something like that. because it's like Yeah, that's what I think. No, because I I'm guessing that the different fees are going to stick now for pretty
heavily discussed sometime, right? What's it made out of? Poly vinyl. Metal metal. I think they just give it back for a re re wrap. Not from a company I got it from.
cuz I order it online. You cool with graffiti writing? Yeah, just paint it. So, as long as we're talking about signs, we still I think next meeting we should maybe discuss that softball
[Music] sign that somehow I don't know bridge signals to have the price on that course. You have to get some other
people involved. Um that old sign says out of the shop just so we don't lose there was quite a few sponsors people that we should maybe talk about what what you guys want to do with
[Music] that. All right. Next month, be prepared to get these signs taken care of. And a pickle ball net. My boy says it was windy. Okay, I'll talk to the parkboard about it.
Do you want me to uh surrounding net so he doesn't have to run around? Oh, I see. He wants a cage over the whole thing. Okay, there we go. protect. Do you want me to proceed with the sign now so we have it ready for the camp season
or do you want me to wait? Okay. Yes. Do we need to have a motion on that? So you make a motion that we get a new campground sign with the updated rates on it just like the one that was there before. 60-day money back guarantee. Exactly.
I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. The motion carried. I will uh ask for an entertainment. Is it that time? That time it is. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. All
second. Any in favor? I all oppose and it's a carried motion. 20 minutes. Out.