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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee – April 15, 2025 Page 5 Recreation Supervisor Johnson said we have some partnership with Roseville, Mounds View, New Brighton and Shoreview. We team up with them, especially, with youth sports. There aren’t necessarily discounts. If you sign up for an event through the Arden Hills website for an activity in Mounds View it will be a cheaper rate. If you sign up through Mounds View’s website, you may have to pay the non-resident rate. Committee Member Rogers said sometimes residents don’t know that. That should be part of the messaging. Committee Member Julius commented that budget is a huge limitation. She likes how they are trying to get the community thinking in terms of tradeoffs. She agrees leaving it open ended will garner responses that everyone wants everything. She thinks the community is ready to respond. Framing it in a way so residents can understand the data is important. Bryce Shearen agreed it is important that people see the real costs. Committee Member Jacobson agrees it is important to balance the cost of things against what can be done. Recreation Supervisor Johnson said having the Master Park Plan will eliminate the guessing game. Committee Member Rogers said it’s so important to have a vision. We want to be known as a welcoming City. Right now our infrastructure doesn’t allow that because there is so little parking at our parks. We need to vocalize that and change our course, if we want it to be a welcoming place. She wondered if this process would look for those types of deficiencies. Bryce Shearen shared a story about another community that had environmental sustainability in their plan. After some invasive plants were cleared, some in the community wanted to take that open land and make a soccer field. The plan identified that the community wanted environmental sustainability. Trees were planted. They were able to tie it back to a document that everyone has agreed upon. Committee Member Julius asked if we have a “north star” community. Is there a community that we want to be more like, who is similar to us in terms of size and structure? Bryce Shearen said that will be a question to ask to community. Committee Member Juilus asked if another community has reusable plans, it wouldn’t make sense to reinvent the process. Bryce Shearen said they do pull ideas from similar cities and compile what makes sense. Committee Member Rogers said Arden Hills is looking ahead at what could potentially be done. These are typically 10-year plans. How will that incorporate the open developable land. Council Liaison Rousseau said TCAAP is not included in the scope of this Park Master Plan. That will come in as a whole different project.