2010-02-03 P & R Minutes Approved

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Parks & Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes 02-03-10 at Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park is also questionable as to the room required. Committee Member Haiden will adapt the PDF form to use for preliminary projects. Mayor Capra felt the committee was perhaps missing a piece by not having early communication with Public Works. Hugo Movie Night Committee Member Amundsen requested adding a discussion of Hugo Movie Night as he had seen in the local paper Hugo’s Parks & Recreation had offered this community event at the grade school and had 250 people attend. The committee discussed doing something similar also as a community event or possibly as a fund raiser. The questions were is it possible to charge for it, would there be legal ramifications or movie rights associated with a fund raising event? More research would need to be done in this area. Mayor Capra stated the White Bear Lake Theater can be rented out for a reasonable rate before regular hours for a party. Consideration of Liebel Property on Main Street (Capra) Mayor Capra asked this be put on the agenda to determine if the committee had an interest in this property for a trail side park. Mayor Capra explained to the committee that there is an Indian Burial Mound on the adjacent property that is protected. There are few documented mounds in this area. In June of 2009 Anoka County was approached by the City to determine if there was an interest in joining together to try and secure a grant for perhaps an interpretive center, but the County was not interested. Mayor Capra reported Mr. Kurt Glaser, City Attorney was asked to research the potential of securing grants through Casinos to develop the Liebel piece of as a historical site. Mr. Glaser reported the general consensus was to not draw attention to the burial mounds for fear of vandalism. Committee Member Seeley said this piece is on a highly monitored section of road and very visible. It was suggested pro-bono services such as engineering could be searched out perhaps by going through one of the Casinos or Tribal Councils. The taxable market value in 2009 was $233,000. There is currently a building on the site which has been used for many years as auto body repair. The piece also has a sliver of property on Peltier Lake. If the committee was interested in pursuing this Mayor Capra will bring it to council to see if Staff could be directed to do some research. The committee is interested, but with budget constraints the difficulty would come in financing the project, even a matching grant would be difficult. The committee would like to ask Staff to do research on grants for this type of project VI. UPDATES 2010 ~ 8K Run Chairperson Branch updated the committee with sponsorship information; from last year the Blue Heron Grill will not sponsor again this year, Creative Kids will be a sponsor and a new sponsor was found with Right Foot Running. There will be more expenses this year since the run will not be in conjunction with the Centerville Lion’s events. Flea Market / Cleanup Days Neither Committee Member Seeley nor Mayor Capra have any updates at this time other than 5 of 6