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Teresa Bender From: Pat Branch Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:48 AM To: Teresa Bender; John Grahek Subject: Park and Rec Business I will be with the family in Maryland for Easter. It is actually Spring there. The next Park and Rec meeting is that following Wednesday. I will miss that meeting, but do intend to be back for the May meeting. Jon and I had a lengthy discussion this week, so there is nothing new in this know for him. But there are a couple of items I want the Committee to discuss at the April meeting. 1) 1 strongly recommend that we make a change to our Festival of the Lakes events for 2013. 1 want to add a 5 K Run to the schedule and drop the In -Line Skate race. This past weekend Midwest Events held their first Shake Your Shamrock 8K and 5K runs. They used our course. Their 5K was a simple out and back starting at the same time as the 8K run around the lake. About twice as many people did the 5K as ran the 8K. We can do that as well. but we can not do the 5K and the In -Line skate event. I want to drop the In -Line Skate event. It is a high risk and low return event. The speed and drafting techniques of serious skaters makes accidents likely. We have had minor accidents on both of the events we have sponsored. Secondly, we get a very low turn out. About 35 skaters each of the two years. I have learned that this is normal for the skating events. We should get a much better return on our investment by sticking to what we know best - that is running. Please approve my recommendation to add the 5K run and drop the in -line skate race. 2) Please talked about what the Committees priorities are for the proceeds from the 2013 Festival of the Lakes events and the $500 Lions donation. As of now, we have not asked the Council to set that $500 away in a reserve account for a specific use. There are two areas that I think should be considered. !) Park benches and 2) Park irrigation. There are three locations that would benefit from having a park bench. The tennis courts and along Main Street in the area we have called Lakeside park. There are two parks where irrigation would go a long way toward protecting the investment the City has already made in landscaping those parks. They are Cornerstone Park and Hidden Spring Park. I tend to favor setting money away in a reserve account for the irrigation projects. It will take us a few years to accomplish that goal, but that is just the way it is. 3) You should also have in your packages a copy of a note that I sent to Jeff Paar and to the Lions regarding the musical jamboree. This came up as a discussion item in a meeting Jeff held to begin planning the Festival of the Lakes Parade. The discussion covered all of the Festival of the Lakes events. Please read that note for background information. I don't think that there are any open decisions that need to be made at this time. I included it in this note so that we all have the same information and so that this discussion will become part of the official record. If the Committee has an concerns, questions, or suggestions now is good time to bring them up. Thanks everyone. 1