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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes January 19, 2022 <br />Page 4 <br />Committee Member Poelzer said the city has a YouTube page that hasn’t been utilized much and <br />thought they could do videos of featured areas in the parks with a link on your website pointing to <br />the YouTube channel. <br />Committee Member Hinton liked the idea and said some people are familiar with certain parks <br />but not others, and maybe they could feature a specific park. <br />Committee Member Anderson said she also liked the goals from 2017 with some updates. She <br />wondered if they could explore equipment geared more toward adults. <br />Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen added there will be six exercise stations at the <br />senior living facility. The trail will be constructed in 2022 and hopefully the equipment will be in <br />by fall. <br />Committee Member Poelzer said they could probably find out the cost of that equipment in case <br />they wanted to duplicate it somewhere else. <br />Committee Member Anderson thought they could encourage outdoor events in winter at the <br />parks. <br />Committee Member Poelzer suggested a collaboration with another organization to rent snow <br />shoes and have instructional classes. <br />Committee Member Anderson felt and Earth Day parks clean up might be a good idea. <br />Committee Member Poelzer thought they could possibly get more involvement from students at <br />Bethel University. <br />Committee Member Nelson commented that they could try to consolidate recreation information <br />into a mobile app. <br />Council Liaison Scott noted the city web pages are adapted to work on mobile phones but they <br />could give feedback regarding it. <br />Staff Liaison Vaughan added that when the website was redesigned a few years ago the mobile <br />version was revamped quite a bit. There are map locations for each park, but they don’t have a <br />designated app. <br />Committee Member Nelson said adding trails to an app would be helpful so you know where you <br />are. <br />Council Liaison Vaughan said he thought the could set up geocaching at a couple of the parks, <br />but there had been concerns raised about vandalism since the objects are hidden and sometimes <br />people will pull apart equipment while they are looking for items. But it might be a good thing to <br />add to the work plan. <br />Committee Member Anderson thought geocaching would draw people to Arden Hills and it’s fun <br />for any age and to do as a family too.