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City Council Regular Meeting — 07110106 <br />DRAFT Minutes - Page 6 <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 parlcs. Commissioner Wilmus <br />addressed Autumn Grove Parlc, 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 parlc, with the City having 34 <br />existing parlcs. <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 proj ect during their course of study. <br />Councilmember Pust requested that the Commission malce <br />recommendations on how to do the planning more cost- <br />effectively. <br />Chair Jacobson sought Council direction regarding their <br />policy, and appropriate criteria to determine how and when <br />a parlc plan needed to be initiated or redone. <br />Mayor Klausing opined that the City Council loolced to <br />staff to provide that information to them. <br />Councilmember Maschlca opined that if a plan were <br />developed it needed the nexus toward implementation so as <br />not to mislead the neighborhood while seel�ing their input <br />for parlc amenities and then not following through with <br />implementation. <br />Parks and Recreation Director Brol�lce reviewed historically <br />that the majority of the original parlc system dated to the <br />1960's or 1970's and that many of their uses andlor mast�:r <br />plans were severely outdated due to changing <br />neighborhood demographics anr�/or activity interests and <br />noted that many of those parlcs needed to be <br />reprogrammed. <br />