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mE 0 TO: Parks and Recreation Committee Members FROM: Kim Stephan SUBJECT: Updates DATE: July 28, 2010 Trail Connection The following is from Mr. Dallas Larson, City Administrator: Mark Statz and Paul Palzer will be at your meeting to review the trail project and provide suggestions to get this back within the expected cost. The project cost estimate was about $1,040,000, bids came in over $1.3 million. Obviously some things will need to be changed. Mark will outline how he could restructure the bid to put more items of the entry park in as alternates. Hopefully the ability to drop some things and scale back the park together with extending the completion date to the end of next season will bring the cost down within acceptable levels. The best bet may be to set the park up in a way that some of the amenities can be added in later years after park fees begin coming in again. Another problem that has come to my attention is the significant amount of landscaping in the plan. I should have raised the issue before, but I am concerned that we may be taking on much more operating expense than we can handle in the budget. I suggest that the landscaping be revised to focus on a couple of areas along the road, but substantially reduce the perimeter landscaping. We simply do not have the staff to take on large its of additional work. July 21, 2010 — Citizen Editorials. Per Chairperson Branch Please print the letter to the editor about the trail connection. Include it in the package for August meeting. Faulty Trail Plan The City of Centerville is finalizing the completion of a trail around Centerville Lake. Its trail plan is faulty, in that one segment is not in the best location. Most people who circle the lake finish that loop by riding or walking down Goiffon Road between St. Genevieve Church and the Parish Center. The lawn between the vacated end of Goiffon Road and the existing path is worn from where people cut to and from the path. If you recall, the church asked the City to vacate that portion of Goiffon in 2002; the section between Sorel and Main streets was closed in 2003. The logical place for the trail would be up Goiffon Road from the end of the trail on Heritage St. to the existing path on Main St., which could be accomplished with a bucket of paint and ten feet of asphalt. The City has plans for two parks along Main near the church. What a natural place for bikers or walkers to stop!