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Parks,Trails&Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes March 18,2014 Page 3 MOTION: Committee Member O'Malley motioned to change the wording of the second sentence of the mission statement to read"The Parks, Trails, and Recreation Committee (PTRC)represents the interests of Arden Hills citizens in leading the continuing preservation, improvement, development and expansion of those resources. The motion was seconded by Committee Member Petersen. The motion carried unanimously 8-0. The committee members indicated they felt they would be more effective as a committee by establishing a task force or subcommittee to work on some of the goals instead of waiting for them to happen and should discuss this when Ms. Olson returns. Public Works Director Maurer indicated he would make a note to Ms. Olson to add discussion of subcommittees as an agenda item for the next meeting. Committee Member Straumann also suggested that staff have a joint meeting with Ramsey County and the surrounding communities to discuss mutually beneficial park projects and activities. B. TCAAP Park Discussion Public Works Director Maurer indicated that Council has asked staff to review with the PTRC the Master Plan recommendations, anaylsis of current programming/field needs and to give recommendations for TCAAP draft master plan park amenities and fields. Public Works Director Maurer presented Powerpoint slides of the Master Plan depicting the draft master plan land use and parks and trails layout. Public Works Director Maurer indicated that he and Parks and Recreation Manager Olson had met with the Planning Group to provide information about existing parks to be used for the layout of parks in TCAAP. The proposed plan does a good job with the number of fields needed but does not provide enough land to put the other amenities that are needed in those areas such as parking, play structures, and picnic shelters. After reviewing the analysis, staff created their own draft layouts and suggest a park in each of the three locations (the Creek Neighborhood, The Town Center Neighborhood and the Hill Neighborhood)but feel there should be an athletic complex,which would have lighted softball and hockey facilities,located outside the neighborhoods as well. In the layout staff provided for the Athletic Complex there are two regulation softball fields along with a hockey rink, pleasure rink and a warming house, which would require approximately 9 acres. The Master Plan has a hockey rink in the Town Center but staff does not think that would be the best location for a hockey rink. For the Hill Neighborhood which is at the south end of TCAAP, the layout includes a youth baseball/soccer field, a larger U10/U12 free-standing soccer field, a picnic shelter, play structures, and a half basketball court which would require a little over 5 acres.