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3 PARKS, TRAILS AND RECREATION COMMITTEE MEETING Page December 18, 2007 Chair Henry indicated he thought the conclusion was that they were going to let the county take the lead on the sign and have some way of calling it the Elmer Andersen Memorial Trail – Arden Hills or Ramsey County. Ms. Olson indicated she would contact Greg Mack from the county to discuss. 8. ARDEN HILLS WALKABLE COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN – Michelle Olson Ms. Olson asked for suggestions on the Walkable Community Action Plan. Chair Henry had a couple corrections to the walking audit recommendations and Ms. Olson will make those changes. 9. WORK PLAN FOR 2008 – Michelle Olson Ms. Olson will be reviewing the updated listing of strategies that were discussed at the last meeting. She feels the committee needs to work a little bit more on making sure that the strategies and priorities are what they want and to make sure they are where they need to be. She felt there should be discussion about how to move forward with funding in 2008. Ms. Olson indicated they are doing a phone survey which has questions asking residents if they would be in favor of helping fund improvements. Chair Henry asked where they are at with the phone survey. Ms. Olson stated she believes they are near completion and ready to go but would check on this. Ms. Olson stated one thing that is in the CIP that the Council did approve going forward with is the CP rail study which would also include engineering. She mentioned this will not only study the underpass bridge, but also which side is best for the trail. This will be done in 2008. The trail study goes from 51 to 96. Chair Henry asked what role CP Rail plays in the study. Ms. Olson indicated CP Rail plays a similar role as they did with Tony Schmidt. CP Rail stated they did not think the bridge needs improvement but they are open to discussing working with the City on getting a trail on one side and they would then want to use their own contractor. They would like to see the City’s proposal and they would then show it to their engineer and would come up with a complete plan. Council Member McClung stated that he felt that if they start early, the engineering aspect can be handled and done so they can get to the utilization portion. He prefers they start this early. The earlier it gets done the more ammunition he has for this to possibly get completed. Chair Henry indicated Ramsey County worked with some graduate students to look at a canoe route on Rice Creek. He stated the study is done and he would like Michelle to get that and bring it to the next meeting in some form for discussion. He stated at some point they will need to talk about whether or not they should have a canoe landing where Rice Creek goes through TCAAP. 10. NEXT MEETING The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 15, 2008. 11. ADJOURN MOTION: Committee Member Werner moved to adjourn and Committee Member Zilmer seconded. The meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m. \\Metro-inet.us\ardenhills\Admin\Committees\Parks Trails and Recreation Committee\Minutes\2007\12-18-2007.doc