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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-05 CITY OF LAKEVILLE • PARK AND RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES FEBRUARY 5, 1986 Roll call: Anderson, Grenz, Gramstad, Messinger, and Lovelace were present. Committee member Briscoe called and was ill and could not make the meeting. Park Director Steve Michaud was also present. The next order of business was the approval of the January 29, 1986 Park and Recreation committee minutes. 86-14 It was moved by Messinger, seconded by Grenz, to approve the minutes as read. Motion passed. The next order of business was the Park Director's report. Staff reported that the ice skating program and maintenance was going .well. General public and the leagues were still using the ice rinks and the public pleasure skating areas quite a bit. The grooming of Ritter Farm Park trail system is continuing. Today there was a Section IIIB cross country high school meet which consisted of fourteen different schools. Snow conditions are still good to excellent throughout the entire trail system. We are continuing to groom the high school race course and Independence Park. • Staff then went on to report on a one day seminar he had attended concerning the insurance crisis and liability questions now being considered at the state legislature. Staff reported the session was very good and gave alot of useful information concerning the updated problems in park areas relative to lawsuits and liabilities. The next order of business was discussion and brainstorming on the strategies on the bond referendum proposed. Staff first updated the committee on several areas of progress which included: 1. Staff had met with Clair Pope who represents the owners of the property around Valley Lake Park. Mr. Pope informed staff that his client was ready to get rid of the land and it is up for sale. Steve informed Mr. Pope that the city was interested in approximately nine acres around the lake. Mr. Pope gave staff permission to have the area surveyed. Surveys will be ready by the end of the week. Once the surveys are complete and we are positive of the exact boundaries of the land we are proposing to acquire, staff will meet with Mr. Pope to negotiate an option on the land. 2. The Antlers Park acquisition proposal has met once in the condemnation hearing court. There was no progress on this hearing, only the preliminary stages of this have taken place. • 3. Staff reported that the North Park property location being considered is property just north of the Barrett farmstead and east of the Christina Huddleston school. At present,. the topography is being Park and Recreation Committee minutes • February 5, 1986 Page -2- analyzed as to conduciveness to constructing an athletic complex. As soon as we determine that this land is feasible, surveys will be taken on this land and staff will meet with the landowners to prepare a land option. Staff has made contacts with the landowner which seemed to be very positive. Staff went on to discuss potential bond referendum task force members. Steve informed the committee that he had contacted Ed Mako, Larry Olmsted, Chris Stohs and Kent Stever requesting them to be part of the task force. Other committee members also have secured several names of interested citizens, whom they will be contacting. All those who have expressed an interest will be invited to the February 19th Park and Recreation Committee meeting far a presentation of the complete park referendum proposal. Staff went on to explain that several contacts had been made with the leaders of various civic groups, the Chamber of Commerce and other interested groups. Continuing on with the discussion, committee spent some time discussing the needs of the Hockey Association and the ice arena. Staff informed the committee that North Park was being proposed • tentatively at the site along Ipava across from Huddlestons because of the availability of sewer and water. An area is being set aside that would accommodate a future ice arena and support facilities. The committee then spent considerable amount of time discussing key individuals located in the various developments located throughout town that would support the issue or be a member of the task force committee. Several names were recorded and will be contacted by various members of the Park and Rec committee asking if they would support the issue and be involved. A list will be started, using the computer, identifying all those people supporting the issue, what part of Lakeville they are from and what association or organization they represent. Committee members are reminded to call in all interested supporters on a daily basis if necessary so that we can keep this computer bank of names updated constantly. Staff then went through some informational items that highlighted various successes and failures on major and minor bond referendums throughout the country. The outline also included the various aspects of the main task force and all their subcommittees. Staff suggested to committee that he will rewrite the suggestions in an outline form. This outline form will be used in the presentation to the citizen group at our next meeting. The outline will provide various duties and responsibilities of the task force and all their subcommittees and what exactly would be required of those persons involved. Staff will • get this outline out to the committee as soon as possible for their review. Park and Recreation Committee minutes • February 5, 1986 Page -3- It was suggested that staff give a call to the chairperson of the police station referendum committee and to Rich Radermacher to discuss the strengths and weaknesses which they encountered in their referendums. The committee then moved on to new business. They were concerned about the large apartment building being built by Lamplighter Apartments. Staff informed the committee that he was not aware of that building being built and was not contacted relevant to any park dedication fees. Discussion followed concerning construction of several apartment buildings by Brad Johnson that also were exempted from the park dedication fund. Committee members were very concerned about the amount of major apartment buildings being built in the city of Lakeville that are being exempted from the park dedication fund requirements. The committee's concern is that if there is a state law then there really isn'.t anything we can do; if it is a city ordinance then city council should be concerned that we charge $350-375 per dwelling unit in residential areas and we allow apartment buildings to be built with 40 to 50 new families per unit which are not paying any money. The impact of these high density areas on existing platted areas being • exempted from park dedication fees is considerable. 86-15 It was then moved by Grenz, seconded by Anderson, to direct staff to investigate whether or not these apartment buildings are governed under the state law or through city policy. The committee would further like to go on record as having council look at this situation as being an important issue considering the lack of funds available for the construction of park facilities compared to the amount of people and families that these high density developments are bringing into town. Motion passed unanimously. Continuing under new business, staff brought up a suggestion by a citizen in Lakeville that there are several children riding their bikes along County Road 70 from the major neighborhoods trying to reach the McStop. He suggested there should be some consideration to a bike trail leading out to that area of town which should develop rapidly over the next several years. It was also suggested as a strategy for the bond referendum that we involve our communications specialist and Metro Cable into doing some taping of some of the presentations to the public. Committee discussed their next meeting date. It was decided that the committee would meet at approximately 6:45 on Tuesday evening, . February 11, 1986. The meeting will be held at the Ole Piper Inn in Valley Park. This meeting will be to review the outline of duties and responsibilities for the citizen bond referendum committee. Park and Recreation Committee minutes . February 5, 1986 Page -4- 86-15 There being no further business, it was moved by Messinger, seconded by Anderson, to adjourn the meeting. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 9:30 PM. espectfu y s it ed, ~ ~i, ~ ~ ~L r G ald S. Michau Direc or Parks and Recreation GSM:jr • •