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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee – April 15, 2025 Page 12 They can bring their completed passport to City Hall to collect a prize. Currently we have 100 water bottles that were donated by Bethel and 10 plants from Committee Member Seemann. Committee Member Seemann is working to incorporate a Grand Prize. There are a couple of businesses she has connected with and she is working on a couple more. She is working with the Economic Development Committee (EDC) and they are excited to partner with the PTRC on this to get additional prizes. Committee Member Olson said PTRC Members are being asked to volunteer to frequently check the letters to make sure they haven’t been damaged or removed. She is asking PTRC Members to adopt a park. They will decide where to put the letter and commit to ensuring the letters are there. The letters will be laminated with some holes punched in them. They can be secured with zip ties to a pole or bench. The letters shouldn’t be impossible to find but they should be a little challenging. It should not be placed on playground equipment. The program begins June 9th so the letters should be placed the weekend before. The program runs through August 15th. Discussion ensued regarding which PTRC Members will volunteer to place and maintain letters at which park. Committee Member Rogers said the first 100 people will get the prize. Anyone who turns it in, even after prizes are gone, will be entered into the drawing for the Grand Prize. Committee Member Ahmed asked if there were any drawings or plans for the lighting at the parks. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said he doesn’t have any schematics. Recreation Supervisor Johnson said getting quotes was difficult, to say the least. The lighting isn’t designed appropriately. Some of the lights have one breaker that controls one light bulb on a post. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said it will probably take a site visit to understand what’s there. Committee Member Ahmed will take a site visit and take photos. Committee Member Jacobson said the neighborhood and PTRC are concerned about how the roundabout looks at Lindy’s. It was planted with tall grass prairie seed two seasons ago. It is a Ramsey County owned roundabout. They were supposed to mow it annually but they didn’t mow it last year. It has tall weeds. PTRC has been talking with Ramsey County Engineering about cleaning it up. Ramsey County said Public Works could apply for a permit to work on it but Arden Hills would have to provide traffic control while volunteers are working. Arden Hills doesn’t have the type of traffic control that Ramsey County deems acceptable. The thought was that we do it on our own by running across the road and work. We knew that wasn’t the right path. A request was made for Ramsey County to mow as soon as possible. Then we will try to partner with them to