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I ROSEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION 2 MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 4, 2011 3 ROSEVILLE CITY HALL —6:30PM 4 5 PRESENT: Azer, Diedrick, Doneen, Etten, D. Holt, M. Holt, Pederson, Ristow, Simbeck 6 ABSENT: 7 STAFF: Brokke, Anfang, Tullberg, Evenson, McDonagh, Dietman, Schultz, Boettcher 8 9 1. INTRODUCTIONS/ROLL CALL/PUBLIC COMMENT 10 Chloe Boehm was introduced as Roseville Area High School Sophomore interested in the youth 11 commissioner position on the Parks and Recreation Commission. 12 13 Chloe has a long background of involvement in parks and recreation programs and community 14 volunteerism. Chloe credited her involvement in Parks and Recreation soccer programs for sparking 15 her interest in soccer. Chloe has always had an appreciation for parks and sees an opportunity to be 16 involved with the Parks and Recreation Commission as a way of giving back to the community. 17 18 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES— September 6,2011 MEETING 19 Commission Recommendation: 20 Minutes for the September 6, 2011 meeting were approved unanimously. 21 22 3. STAFF INTRODUCTIONS 23 Brokke provided a brief overview of the parks and recreation department structure. Parks and 24 recreation currently has 23 full time equivalency positions in four divisions—recreation, skating 25 center, golf course and maintenance. Following Brokke's introduction, department managers 26 introduced themselves and talked about their individual job responsibilities,providing a breadth and 27 scope of Roseville's Parks and Recreation operations and answered commissioner questions. 28 29 Commissioner Etten thanked the parks and recreation staff for all they do to provide quality 30 programs, events and facilities to the community. 31 32 Other commissioner comments included; 33 o Its easy to take Parks and Recreation for granted because of the work done by the staff to 34 make sure facilities are safe and well maintained, programs and events are interesting, fun 35 and meeting community wants and needs. It takes significant resources and a strong 36 commitment to maintain a system like we have in Roseville. 37 38 Three staff members were unable to attend the October meeting and will attend the November 39 meeting to talk about youth recreation programs,Nature Center and Skating Center facilities. 40 41 4. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TASK FORCE REPORT 42 Greg Simbeck and Randall Doneen updated the Commission on the status of the Community 43 Engagement Task Force. Recently, the Community Engagement Task Force held a Community 44 Forum to get input as to how people are currently involved in the community and how our 45 community communicates. 46 47 The next steps for the Task Force include a second Community Forum to review information and 48 recommendations compiled from the first forum and continue the dialogue on community 49 involvement and communications. The Task Force is also looking into a more interactive website 50 that would encourage connections between community members and exploring best practices for