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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPark Board Minutes 02.04.2016 City of Laurel Park Board minutes Thursday, February 4, 2016 In attendance were Bruce McGee, Iry Wilke,Scot Stokes,Chuck Dickerson,Amy Pollock,and Gretchen Paulson. Absent was LuAnne Engh. Called to order at 5:30 pm. Others in attendance: Kurt Markegard with City Public Works. Additional items for Tuesday City Council workshop from the Park Board: • Bruce and Chuck recommended to the Council that the appropriate amount of restricted funds for Riverside Park be released for permitting and Kurt obtain a cost estimate from Great West Engineering for engineering plans for all items on the Riverside Park priority list of improvements,as listed below. Amy seconded motion,all in favor. 1. Public comment None. 2. Vault toilets—Next step? Request top priorities for permitting,funds are restricted need to request them to be unrestricted by the Budget and Finance committee. Funds needed for permitting and engineering estimate plus cost of 2 vault toilets and any expected ground prepwork. We need to inform the Budget and Finance committee that we are going to request estimates from Great West. • Bruce and Chuck recommended to the Council that the appropriate amount of restricted funds for Riverside Park be released for permitting and Kurt obtain a cost estimate from Great West Engineering for engineering plans for all items on the Riverside Park priority list of improvements,as listed below. Amy seconded motion,all in favor. 3. Report—Pool Committee • Email from Colete Decker of LARC read and attached. Gretchen will continue to email LARC for updates of their progress. They are invited to attend our meetings to present or send emails of updates. • General city funds to be detailed on Friday, February 12. Until then,we do not know if any funding is available for improvements to the parks, including maintenance. • Discussion followed regarding what the citizen really want regarding the pool. Should there be another survey to understand their wants? Just a paper mailer to go out with the waterbill? Or do we take what we know from the safety mill levy paper survey responses—the citizens want improvements, but don't want to be taxed for it the way the city suggests. 4. Lease negotiation update— Jaycee's lease is signed,good for another 5 years. Item completed. 5. Riverside Park Plan—Review the Park Master Plan list Great West contact sent an email to Kurt showing what they can offer to help the city plan for Riverside Park given that it is in a flood plain. This information would be helpful if Laurel held a public hearing and show what Great West can plan,estimate in costs and have a good basis to move the project implementation forward.See plan attached (10 pages of 75 are attached, Kurt has remainder of document, it was too large to print and include all here). Priority list of improvements requested by the Park Board for permitting: 1. Install vault toilets&ADA ramping 2. Open campground—(Jaycees to manage)Add bbq pits, upgrade tables,add fire pits and shelter(similar to Thomson park shelter). 3. Add playground equipment—flow through materials,tables and/or benches 4. American Legion building improvements—septic tank and drain field work and fix bathrooms. 5. Clean up metal at old dump in back of Riverside Park—previous estimate sent to Kurt Markegard from Billings metal company to come and do clean up work. 6. Other items • Council voted to accept the shelter rate increases we recommended last month. Great job everyone! • A Laurel Rod and Gun Club member contacted Amy regarding the city gifting the building to LRGC. She came today asking where the city was in that process. Iry still needs to get the Hazard report from TetraTech to Heidi (mentioned in#5 item last month)before they can move forward. There are required discussions between the city attorney, CAO and LRGC that need to happen before the gifting of the building can be completed. Further discussion on the shooting in the park,specifically reviewing why there was a shooting sunset date set for May 2018. • Kurt brought up the proposed Cable Park in South Pond with Steve Pottinger,see October 2015 Park Board mintues for more details. Kurt called MMIA(city insurance company)and the MT Health& Human services dept and neither was happy about supporting the project. The city would not be insured by MMIA if the project was approved. Montana Department of Health and Human would not recommend allowing swimming in South Pond: it has stagnant water(not a flow through pond), it is not treated and could not be treated for public swimming since there are live fish. The Cable Park would be a water feature on city property and it would have to be in treated waters to be approved. All other Cable Parks in the country are on private property. March 3 at 5:30pm Agenda items: • Vault toilets—what is our next step? • Report- Pool Committee; update from LARC; ideas to heat the pool and budget funding to support it;are the budget numbers available? • Lease negotiations—are there other leases we need to move forward? • Riverside Park MasterPlan—next step? • Discuss combining committees with Park Board—Cemetery and Tree Board? Bruce to explain. Adjourn at 6:25pm Gretchen Paulson Park Board member Paulson, Gretchen From: Gretchen Paulson <gretchenpaulson4Pyahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 9,2016 6:13 AM To: Paulson, Gretchen Subject: Fw:LARC update to city of Laurel Park Board? On Tuesday, February 2,2016 2:55 PM, "ken©kgomer.com"<ken©kgomer.com>wrote: I am going to try and make the meeting if all works well! Ken Gomer From: C Decker[mailto:col_deck@yahoo.com] Sent:Tuesday, February 02, 2016 1:20 PM To: Gretchen Paulson; ken©kgomer.com Subject: Re: LARC update to city of Laurel Park Board? Hi Gretchen, Thank you! Ken may want to chime in, but here is the basic: We continue to meet regularly. Starting in March the meetings will be the 2nd Monday of every month at Wood's Powr-Grip at 6:30 p.m. Our goal is to explore and someday build an aquatic/recreation complex for the Laurel community. We have been adopted as a project by the newly formed Laurel Montana community Foundation. Saturday, February 13th is our next fundraiser. Ringling 5 will perform at the LHS Auditorium at 7 p.m. So far the main fundraisers we have had: Mauer Chiropractic made us the benefactor of customer appreciation day. St. V's Laurel has adopted L.A.R.C. for the 2016 employee giving program. The Lysa Fox performing Patsy Cline raised a significant amount. 4th of July, concessions at the Jaycees Street Dance The revenues raised will go towards the funding of a feasibility study. Call if you need more info. Colette 698-7908 On Tuesday, February 2,2016 1:00 PM, Gretchen Paulson <gretchenpaulsonCcyahoo.com>wrote: Hello, 1