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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes March 16, 2021 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br /> <br />limits, social distancing and masking. Feedback from residents has been positive, he’s received <br />numerous phone calls and emails each day asking what programs will be available. <br /> <br />Committee Member Beggin asked if they had instructors lined up for the programs. <br /> <br />Staff Liaison Vaughan replied that applications are currently open. The main programs needing <br />staff are the playground programs and some pre-school programs. Coaching is all volunteer, and <br />some of the programs are contracted out with vendors such as fencing, drama camp and yoga. <br /> <br />Committee Member Hinton felt staff did a great job coming up with a variety of programs while <br />keeping within the guidelines. <br /> <br />B. Ice Rink Participation 2020-2021 <br /> <br />Staff Liaison Vaughan reported the City of Arden Hills had 4 ice rinks that were available for use <br />during the winter months at Cummings, Freeway, Hazelnut and Perry Parks. The warming houses <br />weren’t available but staff didn’t receive any negative feedback about that, nor did the rink <br />attendants. Public Works staff did a great job of flooding the rinks and there were a lot of <br />comments about how good the ice was. Freeway and Perry had fewer skaters this year than last, <br />but there was no broomball. Overall there were very good numbers of participants this year. <br /> <br />Committee Member Beggin said he saw the skating areas that neighborhood people had made on <br />Lake Johanna. He wondered if there was something that would restrict the City from maintaining a <br />rink on the lake. <br /> <br />Staff Liaison Vaughan said he would look into it. In past years there was a rink at Valentine Park <br />and he’s not sure why there isn’t one there any longer. <br /> <br />City Council Liaison Grant said they’d have to have the city attorney check on it because if the <br />City promoted it there would be a certain level of liability. He asked if anyone knew of other <br />communities with rinks on a lake, sponsored by the city. <br /> <br />Committee Member Beggin said the ice rink at Valentine Park was left out when the park was <br />redone do to space and drainage. <br /> <br />C. Trail Priority List <br /> <br />Committee Member Straumann reviewed a priority trail list he compiled based on pedestrian <br />safety concerns, projects that fit in with road reconstruction projects, projects when buildings are <br />being built and trail development enhancements. The Mounds View High School trail and Lake <br />Johanna Boulevard trail fit into pedestrian safety. Road reconstruction projects included the <br />Snelling Avenue South trail and from Lake Valentine park to Highway 96 under I-694. <br /> <br />Committee Member Straumann said under the category of new building projects, the senior <br />housing project that is coming next to the Bethel University Anderson Center will be <br />redoing/adding on to the trail, and Bethel will be repairing the trail system on their property. There <br />may also be a trail involved with the new fire station. Also listed under possible new building <br />projects is a trail along the south shore of Round Lake.