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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes October 21, 2014 Page 2 She commented that her first article was an overview of the parks, the second article was on Hazelnut Park, and now she is finishing up an article on Cummings Park. Ms. Kulzer indicated the purpose of her visit is to see what kind of information the PTRC members might have on the parks and to find out what they, as a committee, would like the articles to communicate to residents and if they have any ideas about certain projects coming up in terms of renovations. She indicated that she has been looking for some historical information on each park and is getting information from the residents of Arden Hills and other information from City records. Committee Member O’Malley suggested Mr. Kulzer ask the elderly residents for history on the parks as they might have more information. Co-Chair Van Valkenburg asked Ms. Kulzer to forward her contact information to Ms. Grant so she can then disperse to them. Ms. Kulzer commented that she would give Ms. Grant her contact information and send anything pertinent to her. Co-Chair Van Valkenburg asked Ms. Kulzer to let the PTRC know which park she is writing on, one or two months in advance, so they can get information to her. Council Liaison McClung questioned whether the committee had discussed establishing a liaison. Ms. Stephens indicated she would be willing to act as liaison and suggested Ms. Grant email the park evaluation summary to Ms. Kulzer as it lists the improvements that are scheduled for each park. Mr. McClung recommended that Ms. Kulzer not write about the parks by quadrant but rather on a pre-season basis to get people interested in the parks. He also stated that there are also non-park specific items that they would like to make residents aware of via the newsletter. Ms. Kulzer indicated any items would need to be reviewed by the Communications Committee before being included in the newsletter and any items could be sent to her and she could present them to the Communications Committee. B. Review of PTRC March 2014 Goals Co-Chair Kramlinger recapped that the PTRC did their goals last spring and that the attention was mainly focused on TCAAP. He suggested they revisit the goals to see if anyone has any sub items related to the goals that they are interested in including. He also recapped that the committee discussed the Park Tour Evaluation results at the last meeting and that there would be further discussion tonight. Mr. Kramlinger suggested the PTRC take the results from the Community Survey Analysis that was done in 2013. He stated from the comments in the survey his main interests are safety and access to trails and he would like to rekindle that goal. Council Liaison McClung suggested the committee take an in depth look at the results of the survey and draw out some conclusions and action items that they can bring to Council. Co-Chair Van Valkenburg suggested they have a subcommittee that does the in depth analysis and then come back to the committee for discussion. Committee Member O’Malley offered to do the analysis. Co-Chair Van Valkenburg asked Ms. O’Malley to send an email to the other members to see if anyone else was interested on being on the subcommittee. Co-Chair Kramlinger suggested that all members review the comments from the survey. Committee Member Stephens asked Ms. Grant to email her the Community Survey Analysis as the survey was taken before she joined the PTRC.