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<br />Parks & Recreation Committee <br />Meeting Minutes March 1,2006 <br /> <br />Management be contacted to see if they would donate garbage receptacles in exchange for an <br />advertising banner being placed in the tent. (Waste Management has agreed.) <br /> <br />Motion was made by Chairperson Peterson, seconded by Committee Member Merkel to <br />request City Council approve the Parks & Recreation Committee sponsoring the Kelly <br />Miller Circus fund raising event contingent upon the review of the City Administrator, Mr. <br />Dallas Larson and the above questions be resolved. All in favor. Motion carried <br />unanimously. <br /> <br />IV. CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES <br /> <br />February 1. 2006 Parks and Recreation Committee Meetine: Minutes <br /> <br />Committee Member Seeley and Committee Member Merkel requested two typographical errors <br />be corrected on page three, paragraph 3, adding a period and changing the name Dew to Drew. <br /> <br />Motion was made by Committee Member Seeley, seconded by Committee Member Peil to <br />approve the February 1, 2006 Parks & Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes with the <br />above corrections. All in favor. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> <br />VI. COMMITTEE BUSINESS <br /> <br />VII. UPDATES <br /> <br />SCORE Funds <br /> <br />The committee will not be able to use SCORE Funds for play structure equipment at Laurie <br />LaMotte Memorial Park as Anoka County does not consider that an acceptable use of funds, even <br />if the play structure revolved around an educational recycling theme. Chairperson Peterson <br />stated that the recycling signs at the entrances to the City need to be replaced and asked if <br />SCORE Funds can be used for that purpose. Ms. Stephan will check and report back to the <br />committee. <br /> <br />Earth Dav Particiuation <br /> <br />Information concerning volunteering for clean-up at City parks has been put on the web site and <br />the cable channel. The committee discussed plans for the clean up. <br /> <br />Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park Play Structure <br /> <br />Chairperson Peterson reported he had met with a sales representative from PlayWorld who put <br />together multiple plans for a play structure with a cost breakdown. The committee reviewed the <br />plans and the estimate of $45,000. This proposal included the border, timbers and wood chip <br />ground covering, as well as the play structure equipment and installation. The wood chips were <br />$3,376 for a play structure this size and the cost of the rubber border was $2,600. The cost for <br />the recycled rubber shredded material instead of wood chips was $20,000, which the committee <br />felt. was too expensive. Committee Member Seeley stated the estimate she received for this <br /> <br />30f5 <br />