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MINUTES CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2000 7:00 P.M. 4364 W. ROUND LAKE ROAD CITY HALL CALL TO ORDER Chair Don Messerly called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. ROLL CALL Present were: Don Messerly, Committee Chairperson, Louis Speggen, Don Tix, Jim Crassweller, Jim Johnson, Rich Straumann, Steve Zilmer, Patrick Krenn, David Grant, Council Liaison, Thomas J. Moore, Parks & Recreation Director, and Michelle Olson, Recreation Program Supervisor. Absent: Dorothy McClung. • APPROVE MINUTES January 25, 2000, minutes were approved without changes. COUNCIL REPORT Mr. David Grant reported that since we last met, Council approved the Bethel project. Part of the discussion involved where the trail would go, the homes affected, etc. A map of the Bethel project was included in everyone's packet. Council is in favor of moving the trail closer to the tennis courts and adding trees on the other side of the trail so it will go tennis courts, trail, trees, residents. So the residents will no longer have people walking through their backyards. It is better screening for the residents because the elevation drops off from the tennis courts. The residents were still concerned about the amount of screening both in terms of between themselves and the complex and themselves and the portable restrooms. Bethel said that they would be willing to spend up to $10,000 for additional landscaping, to be determined after the project is near completion. Jim Johnson asked: Does that have any effect on the City's easement property. Are they going to leave that as it? David Grant responded: They will leave the City property line. There was discussion, using the map, with regard to placement of the trails. The trail will be on • Bethel property. It is a $1.8 million project. They are now in the process of trying to raise the