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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee – September 16, 2025 Page 3 Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky said that Council Liaison Rousseau plans to add a slide regarding the Adopt-A-Park program for the EDC business event presentation. She said this is a networking event for Arden Hills businesses. B. Parks and Recreation Report Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky said a youth member was interviewed recently and he was offered the Youth Committee Member position. He is on the consent calendar for the September 22 City Council meeting. Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky said Bark Bash will be in the afternoon on Saturday at Perry Park. She said it is a chance to hang out with your dog. She is looking for ways to expand this event for next year. Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky got preliminary results from the Park Master Plan survey. There were 876 responses. Arden Hills residents made up 90% of the respondents. She noted there are open ended questions. There were 450-500 respondes to the open-ended questions, which is a significant number of people. A survey like this is considered successful with a 4-5% response rate. We got almost 10%. C. Park System Plan Update Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky shared slides from the Park Master Plan Steering Committee meeting. Included in the information are some maps that are in draft form. The maps will show parks, the park classification, the trails, land surface temperatures, distance to a playground and a lot of other information. These maps will help inform the consultants as they are putting together the Park System Plan. The final versions of these maps will be included in the Park System Master Plan. People had some great feedback. The next meeting of the Steering Committee will be in November. Committee Member Olson said she is on the Steering Committee. They made some notes on the maps. For example, a sledding hill was missing. The final versions will be updated with the input the committee gave. Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky said she got several spreadsheets with data that needs to be updated. There are two full time Park and Rec Staff. We also have 20 seasonals and 8 full time Public Works Staff. This process will let us know if we have enough FTEs to ensure we have as much manpower going into Parks and Rec as other cities our size. Parks and Recreation Manager Skalicky has a one on one meeting with the Consultant every three weeks. At the last meeting they presented a draft of the actual Park System Plan. There will be a specific page for every park, showing all of the amenities. The plan will list the life span of each amenity along with recommendations on when to replace them and an estimated cost. That will help Council see this isn’t a wish list. These replacements will be scheduled based on industry standards.