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Teresa Bender From: Pat Branch Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 6:52 PM To: Jeff Paar Cc: Dallas Larson; Steve King; John Grahek Subject: Re: County parcels Jeff, If you not mind an input on this item regarding lakeshore property. There are two parcels of lakeshore that the City has the opportunity to buy. If possible, we should buy both. The first parcel is a strip of land on Centerville Lake at what we have been calling Trailside Park. St Paul Water Services owns that land and has granted us permission to use it for the purposes of hold Bald Eagle Water Ski Shows every Thursday evening. They are willing to selling to the City. They want market value. Dallas had an appraisal done on this property. It appraised for $8,900. This issue just came to my attention about a week ago. I would put the Centerville Lakeshore (Trailside Park) as my number 1 priority and the Olson property on Peltier Lake as #2 priority. Bear in mind that I would really like to see the City buy both. I rank the Centerville Lakeshore as #1 because we have an immediate and continuing use for that property (the waterski shows) and it is much more affordable. Last summer was the first year that the waterski shows were at that location. They drew 200 to 250 people per show. I think that is an impressive turn out; obviously the community enjoys the show. The Committee has not yet discussed either property as this has all come up in the last week or so. It is on their agenda for next Wednesday. I believe that we will have raised enough money to go out for bids on the sand volleyball court for LaMotte Park by this summer. I have recommended to the Committee that we continue to pursue that project as our number 1 priority. However, as soon as we have the $10,000 required for the volleyball court secured in a reserve account, I am willing to commit to raising the funds necessary to secure the St Paul Water Service property adjacent to Trailside park. (Those are my views not the Committee's commitment - as I said, they have not yet discussed the issue.) We can not make the same commitment for the Peltier Lake property. $29,000 is beyond the reach of our Committee. Dallas and I have discussed the use of the Peltier lake site a couple of times. We have talked about putting a sail boat mooring field there and /or racks for canoes or kayaks. this will take some planning to figure out what could be done. I will not be at the Committee meeting this Wednesday evening. Maybe Steve can fill us in on the views of the Committee. Pat Branch On Mar 4, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Jeff Paar wrote: > Dallas, > Is this going to be on an upcoming agenda for discussion? If not, can > we add it? > Thanks, > Jeff > From: Dallas Larson > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:44 PM 1