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<br />City Council Regular Meeting - 07/10/06 <br />Minutes - Page 6 <br /> <br />What are your thoughts on updating individual park <br />master plans? <br />Commissioner Wilmus noted the need to update or create <br />master plans for all City parks. Commissioner Wilmus <br />addressed Autumn Grove Park, its status and the need to <br />relocate play areas or amenities depending on the current <br />uses and changing neighborhood demographics. <br />Commissioner Wilmus noted that park master plans cost <br />approximately $10,000 per park, with the City having 34 <br />existing parks. <br /> <br />Discussion ensued regarding incremental planning; <br />advantages of a master plan; ways to reduce planning costs <br />through use of staff or volunteers; grant funding; or college <br />students as a project during their course of study. <br /> <br />Councilmember Pust requested that the Commission make <br />recommendations on how to do the planning more cost- <br />effectively. <br /> <br />Chair Johnson sought Council direction regarding their <br />policy, and appropriate criteria to determine how and when <br />a park plan needed to be initiated or redone. <br /> <br />Mayor Klausing opined that the City Council looked to <br />staff to provide that information to them. <br /> <br />Councilmember Maschka opined that if a plan were <br />developed it needed the nexus toward implementation so as <br />not to mislead the neighborhood while seeking their input <br />for park amenities and then not following through with <br />implementation. <br /> <br />Parks and Recreation Director Brokke reviewed historically <br />that the majority of the original park system dated to the <br />1960's or 1970's and that many of their uses and/or master <br />plans were severely outdated due to changing <br />neighborhood demographics and/or activity interests and <br />noted that many of those parks needed to be <br />reprogrammed. <br />