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Teresa Bender From: Pat Branch Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:33 PM To: Kurt B. Glaser; Dallas Larson Cc: heidijonwilldevin @msn.com Grahek; Tom Wilharber Subject: Re: LaMotte Park Settlement Kurt, Believe or not the committee has discussed this possibility. In Aug or Sep one of the Committee members made this same proposal. We will put this on the P &R Agenda for January. I won't attempt to predict the committee's reaction, but will personally support the idea of allowing an annual flag football tournament for the purpose of repaying the city. Have you talked to the Mayor? He may have the strongest opposition. He is the guy who hears the complaints from the neighbors. What are the rules as you have laid them out to the event organizers? The obvious rule is to play on a dry field. Maybe we could work with them to lay their playing field out so that they are not playing over the heavily damaged areas from last year. The biggest stumbling block that I foresee is the need for insurance. As you point out in your note, the two event organizers are very young and not part of a larger organization. It is very unlikely that they have insurance. Is it possible that the City (P &R) could co- sponsor the event and have the event fall under the City's insurance umbrella? From a legal perspective, if the city allows this flag football tournament for the purpose of paying for park repairs, is the city not already "sponsoring" the event? In my lay mind, that implies that the flag football falls under the city's liability insurance the same way that the 8K, parade, or fire works comes under that insurance umbrella. Is that correct? Pat On Dec 11, 2013, at 11:43 PM, Kurt Glaser wrote: Pat, Today the City entered a settlement agreement with the two young men who organized the flag football game which damaged the park. By the end of 2014 they own the City $6500. Frankly, this is going to be a very tough task for them. One man will begin as a student at St. Cloud State and the other is 16 years old (his family is backing this debt). They asked if they could use the park again for a tournament to help pay their debt. We discussed the rules they must follow. They asked to speak to the P &R, and I gave them your name, phone and email address. They may call to make a proposal to you. They seem like well intentioned. They liked using the park and their'patrons' really like using LaMotte Park. They would be happy to organize the event that sounds like it could be a large annual event. I