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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — NOVEMBER 7, 2024 11 Councilmember Monson feels like the budget is way bigger with the Park Dedication Fee as the cap. She asked for a reminder on how Park Dedication Fees are calculated. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said on the residential side it is per unit. On the commercial it is based off a percentage of the value of the land. Stacie Kvilvang said $6,500/unit and 10% value of the land. Those were sized around a cost of $16 million. The deal says the parks will cost $16 million and the developer needs to invest at least $16 million into the parks. The Park Dedication Fees will be set so he will get the $16 million back. He has to pay up front and he won't get those fees until building permits. Mayor Grant remembers Bob Lux had offered to do some work when doing mass grading he would save $3 million. So the City said we are going to get everything we need. If he saves money, fine. But now the mix has changed between residential and commercial. Whether the number is still $16 million or maybe it's $20 million, he's still saving money instead of Park Dedication Fees. We should be able to go back and say we need additional parks or bigger parks because we added additional residential and they need a place to recreate. Stacie Kvilvang said you can also say the City will reimburse him the Park Dedication Fees up to the amount he spent. Any remaining Park Dedication Fees come back to the City for us to spend how we want for capital needs at the other parks. Councilmember Holden said we still need to look at it. Discussion ensued regarding what meeting the PTRC will be invited to attend. Council said the PTRC could join the Special Work Session on November 18. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said in preparation for that meeting she will work with Alatus to see if she can get some maps of current designs to have for the discussion. Councilmember Holden thought Council should meet, as a group, first to discuss park sizes and amenities. She doesn't think getting the PTRC together to understand how we got where we are now is a valuable discussion. If they don't have the information in advance there would have to be another meeting after that when they've had time to digest the information. Councilmember Rousseau said the PTRC only meets once a month for an hour and a half and they have a full agenda working on the 2025 Work Plan. That would push the discussion out a couple months. If the consensus is we don't want to invite them to sit at the table then Council should just discuss. Councilmember Holden thinks Council should have all the information, in advance, before it's discussed. Everyone should see the memo. Everyone should learn what the parks were and why; and the number of people that were surrounding the parks and what the new numbers are. Then Council can discuss what additional equipment is needed. She asked if anyone on the PTRC specializes in playground equipment. Councilmember Rousseau said most of the members are passionate about nature. There are a few members who have kids at Valentine and they are playground enthusiasts.