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• AGENDA ITEMS 1. Sampson Park Update: Don Messerly took a vote on how any committee members had ever been to Sampson Park. Three of the nine members reported that they had visited the park. Staff reported that we have been doing an extensive amount of work there. The park has had a bad infestation of carpenter ants in the trees and storm damage, which has never been repaired. We had to take some trees down. We placed a safety swing box for the swing set. The park is on a dead-end street and there is no stop sign for those going into the park. Marty Rye, a member of the Planning Commission and resident in that neighborhood, reported it was not unusual for kids to drive at night through the park and get on the trails with motorcycles or cars on joy rides. There was a dead-end sign that was covered by pine trees. The City repositioned the sign in a more appropriate position so that it is more visible. Staff strung up heavy-duty chains at the park entrance with reflectors along with a new stop sign on a tire at eye level. Staff put reflectors on every post in the parking lot as well. They are visible from 500-700 feet from the park. If somehow one gets through that, behind the basket, we put down concrete bumpers. Staff is recommending that we move up the Sampson Park Playground Structure replacement to this year. It is scheduled to be replaced in 2001. Staff would like to get the park improvements done all at once. The play structure is about 18 years old and one of the oldest in the City. Staff will reforest the area where trees we* cut down. Council member Rem donated a tree for that. The City will also blacktop the area from the Basketball Court to the trail. This will complete the trail hook-up from the park. It gets muddy and worn down in that area. Don Messerly reported on the history of the Park's names and trees. The Sampson family took it upon themselves to plant different types of trees there. 2. BRW Park Projects Proposals The proposals are a substantial amount of money. Staff asked for estimates on repairing the bridge over the wetland and the grass trail and moving the warming house as well as replacing the building. A question was raised with regard to what is going to be the purpose of the park fund. We have $475,000 in the park fund. Hazelnut warming house was scheduled to be replaced this year in the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The CIP was allocated $25,000. The warming house is estimated at $132,000. It is a bigger project than what was anticipated 5 years ago when put on the CIP agenda. Pat Krenn asked if the $25,000 estimate was for a wooden building. We want a concrete building due to drainage and vandalism problems. In the meantime, there has been $25,000 allocated in the year's budget. Staff recommends that we take that $25,000 and replace the play structure at Sampson Park, which would come to approximately $19,416. Staff would like the opinion of the Committee and take that recommendation to the City Council for approval. It requires Council action because they voted on the allocation of CIP dollars and not