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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPark Board Minutes 09.06.2018MINUTES CITY OF LAUREL Park Board 09/06/20I8 05:30 PM City Council Chambers APark Board was held inthe City Council Conference Room and called toorder bvLuAnne Enghat05:30PK8on 28. F��� Scott Stokes, Chairman �� Ken Gomer uc� LuAnneEngh,Vioe'[hairrnan �� �� Richard Herr u� Amy Pollock, Secretary �� u�a Iry Wilke Phy||isBrorngard ' �� �� OTHERS PRESENT: 1. Public Input Citizens may address the committee regarding any item of city business xvunthe agenda. The durationfo, an individual speaking under Public Comment islimited mthree minutes. While all comments are welcome, the committee will not take action ooany item not oxthe agenda. a. N/A --Jason O'RearofLaurel Shooting Education Program was in attendance but did not speak during public input. Matt Lurker,CAO was also inattendance. (Cannot input into "Others Present") 2. General Items a. August Minutes not passed onto Board Members sothey were not reviewed. 3. New Business a. NA 4. Old Business a. Lease negotiations: CEO, Matt Lurker, said he has sent an updated lease form for City Attorney, Sam Painter, to review. The form would make the leases standardized between the organizations. Keeping the buildings ADA compliant would also be a part of the lease. The Board asked that the Horseshoe Club be excluded from the new process as they believed they had already recommended renewal of the former lease at the last meeting. They felt Mr. Nick Kisch had been waiting long enough. The minutes will be checked and move forward as noted. b. Swimming Pool: With the new system, there was a breakdown in inviting the YMCA to attend the Park Board Meeting to report on this past summer season. LuAnne will also be requesting the final numbers from Bethany again. LuAnne mentioned in the past that Shirley would give us a detailed report letting us know how much money was lost on the pool. Matt asked why we decided to outsource to the YMCA if we are losing money. We informed him that we did that years ago when the pool was losing money AND becoming a huge headache for the City since they couldn't keep it staffed. Unfortunately, the cost for YMCA has been going up each year and for awhile attendance was down due to cold water/weather and new state restrictions on passing a swim test before being allowed without a parent. Parents aren't always able to accompany their kids so numbers fell. We still don't know how the new rates were accepted. It was noted that the pool often looked full, especially with the warmer weather and warmer water. The shade posts for are on schedule to be installed in September with the actual shade not being put up until next summer to avoid weathering. Hope to have an article in the paper about the pool shade early next summer to promote the pool. Also, LuAnne (and possibly Matt?) is going to check with Bethany about inviting YMCA to our next meeting to report c. Riverside Park: Shortly before the meeting Kurt sent an email with the attached document and asked the members to review and give comment. The members didn't have the time to take a look so we are attaching to the minutes and request the Park Board Members review it for the next meeting. Matt also said the $514,000 has been approved, but it is not in our hand. The Park Board would like to have a committee formed in order for the process to move forward. 2 LuAnneand Amy have offered totalk toMatt Wheeler, who bover the project, and ask him about moving forward with the committee. d. Shooting Complex: Wednesday, g/5/18,several of the local shooting groups met 10discuss the options ofhaving aShooting Complex shared b»the group asa whole, with Tri -County Sportsmen taking the lead. Tri -County Sportsmen (TCS) has agreed to move forward with their group as the "umbrella" with the other sports groups. Each group will maintain their separate legal entity, but they will all work together. They are looking atthe land past the dump 33one location that currently seems like the best option, but they are still looking into other possibilities as well. 5. Other Items a. Jason O'Rear of the Laurel Shooting Education Program presented his proposal of BBGun shooting inJaycee Hall. Hesaid there may have been amis- understanding vvhenSarnPainter,CityAttorney,putoutanoennosayingALL shooting stops in Riverside Park. He felt like LSEP got lumped into this group accidentally which wasn't really the intention. The Park Board wanted to move forward with arecommendation but could not because they nolonger had a quorum. (Phyllis had to leave early for another meeting). It was decided to vote onthe recommendation atthe beginning ofthe October Board Meeting. The timeline showed that should befine soLSEPcan start inNovember. 6. Announcements a. The Park Board adjourned at 6:4013M. Respectfully submitted, Amy Pollock Secretary NOTE: This meeting is open hmthe public. This meeting isfor information and discussion mf