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approval of the minutes from the August

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mov I second it all in favor

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wasn't wasn't here okay we'll go to the
staff report

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and my daughter played Sports all the
way through college and um now my

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daughter and F just onla both coach two
different typ sports so if I'm not with

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here on here I'm chasing them all over
the Missouri now um and just try to stay

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active my guy sometimes you'll notice
that I have to leave on certain days

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early and I'll have to say I'll go Che
zo my dad guy is on my home at night and

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if he is GNA have to be a double bag
have to be there help up but most of the

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time we're going to try accommodating so
that I can just hook them up later but

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been here since

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20 yeah what um I guess the only person
you probably don't know here is Kyle

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right do you know okay Kyle you wanted
to introduce yourself uh yeah Kyle squ

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um year uh pretty involved in Youth
Sports here probably been in the for

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hours am that there's a lot

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worse and uh I I Tred stay pretty
involved we got three little girls one's

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right there we got basketball at 7:30 uh
they pretty involved in that um want to

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be part
of have a good Recreation I was board

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for
the softball as

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well and I'll I'll do a quick reminder
to to make sure that you turn on your

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mics when you talk it should just be a
button yeah it'll be a red

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light yeah so those online can hear us
you want to keep it on full time yeah

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You' flip it on the bottom there you
go just for for recording purposes I'm

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live you're live all right so further in
let me pull this

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down all right
so emo Ridge Park updates so as of

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January 14th EML Ridge Park is waiting
on the shelter installation the park and

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play are usable but no final walkthrough
has been conducted um once the shelter

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is installed and warmer weather is in
the forecast we'll have a proper ribbon

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cutting and celebration got an email
actually today um around lunchtime that

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the shelter is going to be delivered and
going to be start being constructed on

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the 29th of January so good news there
and then like I said no final

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walkthrough has been done yet there has
been a couple little things that have

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been brought to my attention that um
hopefully they can get done before

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actually walart weather gets here and
playground is in full use

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so um Campground road reserving projects
so in the fiscal year 25 budget the

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board of Alder approved 150,000 in funds
for reserving Smith for Campground due

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to the heavy construction in the past
two years the road took some significant

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damage and reserving was completed
before Thanksgiving and gravel is now

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being added to the sites to bring them
um level with the road Smith for

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Campground had a great season end of the
year with a 42% occupancy rate this is

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is up from last year's occupancy rate of
39.4% so um the campground is growing

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it's one thing that kind of it doesn't
get kicked to the side but it's one

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thing that is not the prettiest thing
that we do but um it is a is a great

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source of revenue for the city of
Smithville and our general fund and um

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really offsets a lot of the expenses
that we have go on um as far as Park

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maintenance so want to make sure that we
keep that vibrant keep it usable and uh

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keep campers coming back here after time
so um we had campers from all over the

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world I think the furthest one we had
this year as a visitor was up in Canada

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so they saved us for a couple weeks yeah
so that's exciting on the campground

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side and our campost are coming back
again so um they're well well loved in

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the campground and then we'll have to
reput that out for bid um after the

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after this season so it's a three-year
contract he's very useful we camp there

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yeah quite a bit even though it's just
down the street yeah so you'll probably

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like the new road race servicing and the
new gravel at every sight so it'll look

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nice um Community awards banquet so the
community Wars banquet is scheduled for

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February 27th that's at 5:30 pm that's
at wide Iron Ridge um this is a

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collaboration between um The Parks and
Recreation Legacy fund with the

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Smithville Chamber of Commerce to host
uh a night at the CMAs at the white Iron

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Ridge this Galla honors um accessible
citizens and dedicated volunteers within

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the community while raising crucial
funds for the Parks and Recreation

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Legacy fund and Smithfield Chamber of
Commerce um we do need volunteers um as

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well if you want to attend please let me
know I know Haley's attended obviously

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the mayor is there um Haley's worked the
silent auction table few times Danny

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take has taken some pictures so if you
do want to attend this please let me

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know we'll make sure we get you a ticket
and put you at a table with um City

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staff at least so I'm not at so I don't
know for sure if I'm in the part of it

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or not I didn't share it on Facebook or
anything you will get a ticket then so

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if you're in the final three if I'm in
the final three yeah fin

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three yeah but if not but if not we'll
help if you want to attend we help we'll

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cover that through Parks and Recreation
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so still I think Tuesday close Tuesday
or Wednesday I don't know it's on the

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it's on the memo hang
on here somewhere saw it

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voting deadline January

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early voted I didn't share the post so
I'm like well if I got in I didn't

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vote

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bios um Smithville Senior Center so in
preparation for the 20125 budget season

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staff work with Clay County Senior
Services to secure just about 14 ,000

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additional grant funding so that brings
us a total 68,000 uh Liberty keeps

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taking so much more of it um to extend
our offering to five meals a week and

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provide alternative programs on Tuesdays
and Thursdays um this grant also funds

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our senior services coordinator and we
also have an open position right now for

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a senior services coordinator assistant
as well so we'll get some more Staffing

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in there as we continue to grow and go
five days a week um some things have

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changed over in the senior center the
senior board decided not to renew their

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501c3 status um as all financial
management has um other the senior

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center Is Now overseen by City staff and
other daily responsibilities have been

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transferred over to Amy uh these changes
were approved by the senior board before

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the position was hired so this was stuff
that we had um talked about well prior

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that um and we also just on January 7th

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approved of a new mou with the senior
center um that just kind of outlines the

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duties and responsibility of both
parties so uh we still want the senior

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board to be the senior board and be
there for uh any changes or um

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suggestions that we want to bring to
them and they can um you know we want to

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make them feel useful and continue to um
grow the senior center as they've done

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since 2013 so just we're just helping
more and uh helping them get more

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funds um and then also in the staff for
you don't see it here but on your table

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I have a um kind of a a year end report
and I can email this to you once we get

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it out but um it shows kind of the marks
we've made on the master plan the

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10-year master plan as well as um the
accomplishments from both the Parks and

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Recreation Division and some of the
larger projects that um we are having

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scheduled this year so um make sure you
take a look at that and if you have any

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questions on that please let me know but
it was a overall was a it was a great

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year we again our our staff does a
really good job at continue to upgrade

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um with the funds we have
um definit on the park side and the rec

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side there was um our numbers keep
growing as you'll see here in the

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recreation before as we get there but if
you have any questions over this let me

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know but wanted to provide that to
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lastly we had talked Haley and I have
talked as well as the mayor that we're

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going to go back to a quarterly schedule
for the Parks and Recreation committee

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um I'll get those dates on your calendar
but we're looking at January

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April maybe August and then October so
um I'll get those out to you and we'll U

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make that
official anything for me before I pass

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over to Alex for the recreation

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report all right Alex all you okay just
a quick uh report we'll start with

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sports um we're currently in the middle
of basketball season we're on week five

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of nine um for
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see oh Youth Soccer deadline is coming
up soon in a week and a half um and then

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new this season we have Asos uh play
soccer and they're an organization that

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reached out to Matt and we're going to
give them a try this season um to take

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over our little kickers program
uh Aspen is usually over the little

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kickers clinics and we just have a hard
time finding staff or like high

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schoolers applying at all so Aspen just
ends up doing it anyways so we're going

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to try and see how this goes uh this is
like a trial for the fall too and we'll

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we'll see so that uh registration is
still open just until they're full um

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and then I included all of our youth
sports registration numbers for

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2024 um and every year we go up about a
100 people so that's crazy a 100 kids

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every year is a lot especially in our
this population so that's great um and

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then I also included our facility
rentals um Aspen keeps track of all of

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these for us um and they just they keep
staying steady as well they just keep

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going up this is the first year we've
done this for a full year so we're

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excited to see what 2025 so we can start
comparing that stuff yes yep

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and then on the next page I included
every program or event that we had last

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year um and then how much attendance we
had um and then if the program was full

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or not so pretty much half of our
programs were full um a lot were really

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close but a lot of our little programs
fill up really

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fast
um and then I put our our rack card at

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your seat the orange flyer and we put
those out three times a year um and

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these are our spring programs that we
are offering right now um a lot of them

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are new Aspen's trying a lot of new
programs this uh season like Valentine

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cookie decorating um our little we have
monthly clubs for about 20 kids is how

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much we can handle um we've had kind
Club candy Club um we have science club

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nature Club coming up those are all new
that we're trying Tri night um and then

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we just keep continuing to add pickle
ball and I'm working on a lot of new

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pickle ball programs for the summer um I
was working on that today so we have a

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lot of pickle ball
coming um we're using grace church for

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that uh yeah yep for the for spring
lessons we're going to do them in

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Smith's force park but in the summer
it's so hot we'll do them inside at gra

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sturch and then just a couple marketing
things to wrap it up um

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we are going to have a new sponsorship
package coming out soon Matt and I were

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working on it today hopefully in the
next month um some Banner sponsorship

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opportunities um digital things on our
website stuff like that so hopefully

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that'll go live in like a
month um and then one more thing um we

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as been worked on this a lot this past
or I guess this fall um she merged our

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uh facility reservation software with
our Sports software and program

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registration so now it's just all in one
which is really nice it's a lot easier

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for everyone so if you already have an
account for sports registration then you

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can use that account to reserve a
shelter or something way easier so I

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think that's all I have right now yeah I
I'll just kind of chime in real fast on

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the um AYSO so um that also allowed us
to expand so we we only having we were

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only able to do 40 now we're able to up
it to 80 so this so they have four staff

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members and we allowed three time slots
so um they're there they show up um and

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like we said we're g them a try to see
how it goes they have a um they're um

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you proba American Youth Soccer
Association they're all over kind of

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like the West Coast they're making their
way this way um so it would be exciting

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to get some staff who have the knowledge
of soccer um because we don't want to

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keep doing the clinic to a bad quality
um so this will really up that up there

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and have reliability so like she said
Aspen was basically running in all the

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surveys say we like the girl with red
hair to do it and so I was like well of

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course Aspen's really good at and I mean
over the years I've had to teach it by

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myself so this will just get some more
consistency in there it's a really good

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program and it's 100% helped us grow our
soccer program um so we want to keep

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doing it so yep there was one really
good guy hunter maybe yeah Hunters are

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reliable yeah he yep
good right that's all we have for staff

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report anybody have any questions over
anything of the recreation

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stuff
cool exciting for another year for

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sure all

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right the staff report done yes is that
it okay um next Parks and Recreation

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review presentation

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all right so as I kind of mentioned
earlier in my staff report when we

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introducing shaa the city of Smithville
did a Citizens Academy where 12 people

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applied um and went through uh what was
it almost six weeks seven weeks I think

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it was total eight eight weeks of kind
of a review of Just City in general from

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different departments and got a a real
deep dive into the background so when I

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did this presentation it was about two
hours and then we went and did a tour of

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yeah one thing you forgot on
the report future meetings I did say

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it quarterly we want to
have did the dates work yeah did dates

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work we were going to do uh January
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October
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you're that work for you I think it
works for me I just know that we had I

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think it was my daughter's birthday on
one of them and I was like no not her

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second birthday we can we can we can
look to change that August one to a

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different day that week or something
like that we can oh the third Thursday

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then and we're th on those Thursday yeah
but I know Haley had a conflict in April

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maybe we can check in with that and just
see once we get a little closer if that

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works April 24th would be the next one
and also one of the things with

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quarterly
meetings I think we have the on this

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board too if you miss three yeah we have
to have a

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conversation come to principales often
yeah so we need to make sure we

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yeah missing
threes even easier to do apparently on

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quarterly no you might think
it's we've only lost one person to that

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role
so Bo on this board yeah on this board

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so yeah yeah corly meetings there'll
just be um not a whole lot going on

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projectwise as as we were when we were
really diving into the playground and

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park uh design stuff um and so this will
allow us to have more productive

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meetings here what we do quarterly
coming up it'll be budget season April

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so we can really discuss that

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stuff good good okay so yeah Ci's
Academy the really dope de a deep dive

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in that when we did this presentation
for them um one first thing I thought

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was this would be great for um to go
over the parks and committee with um

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this was about a two-hour presentation
I'm going to really go quick through it

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to not do that um because you guys do
know a lot and so this is more just a

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refresher of kind of
what what is going on if anything has

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changed for you all so um this was our
2024 budget um we operate basically just

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right under uh just over $900,000 um
obviously you can see almost half of

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that is in person expenses and we'll
kind of get into Staffing here in a

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second um but we have nine city
parks 3 acres of Park land with

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different facilities and uh programs
like that different spaces um as well as

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the senior center that we look at too

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so have to up that number too by the way
yeah Alex report

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youth right so that was yeah hadn't been
updated so that one on a campground

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3,000 people probably thousand them
alone

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or um Parks and Rec staff you can see we
have the director at the top we have the

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campost which is seasonal we have the
recreation manager which is full-time uh

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Alex oversees the recreation coordinator
which is Aspen as well as Clinic

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instructors and part-time staff as
needed um we have the senior services

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coordinator which is part time that is
staffed out of the Smithville Senior

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Center and then here soon we'll have a
senior services assistant underneath her

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and then we have our Parks maintenance
crew leader and we have two Park

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maintenance worker twos and then
seasonal as needed um for the parks

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maintenance we usually like to have
between two or three seasonals for them

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how many of those do you have that have
been like reoccurring seasonals yeah on

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the parks maintenance side yeah uh we
just lost Eli he finally left us he was

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with us since he was a junior in high
school and he went all four years of

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college with us after that and then we
had um Lance he was a he was there with

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us for two years plus his military time
stuff um Corey has been with us he's

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part-time year round basically just
comes in three days a week he's going on

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year two with us so had a lot of
returners nice we had John um Johnny

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Kennison as well he was a retiree that
was with us for three years I thought

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was Amy May was there a discussion about
her going full-time there was a

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discussion about her but we weren't able
to make it happen okay so then that's

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the part-time assistant
y yeah it was we brought to Liberty took

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all our money that's what they

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said your programs in Liberty so Parks
and Recreation master plan obviously

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many of you were involved in that
um but it's a 10-year plan that kind of

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puts our future with our half cent sales
tax um together and so as you can see in

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the accomplishment page I gave you um we
are on year three we just completed year

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three the master plan um and many of
them were were crossing off we we

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basically made it through the um
short-term uh plans for that and we are

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on to the uh medium term period years 4
through six a lot of those are aimed at

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continuing the neighborhood park Focus
um getting art

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downtown looking at Trails as we have
the Riverwalk coming up so all that

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stuff is scheduled and then obviously
that big project working on there as the

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Smiths Fork project and getting that
done so um here towards the end of the

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year maybe in no October when we meet
we'll really start diving into that

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Smith work as it's uh scheduled for
engineering in 2627 so um that'll be a a

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good project I'll be looking forward to
you guys on um getting ideas down as we

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start looking at
that yeah because uh one of those

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medium-term goals included you know the
sports courts of tennis and now that the

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schools got it on their bond issuance in
April yeah might not be yeah so it' be

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kind of like basketball and pickle ball
but we did add that into we took those

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funds and or we took those ideas and put
them into the Smith's Fork project so it

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all be done at once rather than separate
so but we'll definitely see what what

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happens
there that could change by by 2026 27 as

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well
so um H sales tax when we when we put

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the H sales tax back in 2021 we were
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450,000 the past two years we've been
averaging somewhere around 700,000 and

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and sales ta and that is split between
uh public works for storm water projects

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have been doing projects but we have
been putting our savings aside for that

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smithw project but it also helped us um
add more money to IMO Ridge because

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originally we were only looking at
250,000 and then we bumped that up and

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doubled it so in interest has helped us
too yeah keeping the money in the bank

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and gaining
interest this is you all Parks and

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Recreation committee so this your shirts
yeah so uh this committee advises the

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board of Al any approv ments or
additions they deem important for the

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city parks and recreation system and may
provide reports and other documents to

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the Planning Commission related to
improvements or amenities in accordance

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to the master plan so we have seven
committee

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members um as you guys we just um did
IMO Ridge project for example but um

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we've also done the Heritage Park and
different things so we're excited to

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continue moving on um to
that uh so as you kind of heard me talk

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about the banquet um the Smithville
Legacy fund so this is kind of our

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fundraising group so the Smithville
Legacy fund was established in

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2013 um was to serve the Community
Foundation uh funds exist to improve the

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quality of life in in the city of Smith
and surrounding areas um and basically

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the Legacy fund members will work with
stakeholders to prioritize and ex to use

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the expenditures for or use the funds
for expenditures and um what was it

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probably two years ago or three years
ago probably now where the Legacy fund

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really wanted to focus on Park projects
and so that's where I came on board with

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the assistant city manager at the time
and and started working with that and

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now I'm just on there by myself with
them but it's uh we have three members

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now we have one open spot but um we kind
of did some brainstorming with them a

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few years back and they really wanted to
focus on raising funds for the Heritage

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Park stage and so we put some money
together and put a rendering and uh when

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we go to the banquet or any other events
um we have this here and we want to

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start raising funds to close the gap in
the funding because currently this is

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scheduled for 2029 but as we start
raising funds um at the banquet we're

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hoping we can do this project a lot
sooner um the banqu with the last two

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years we've raised just over $122,000 so
um we got 24,000 I think in there is

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actually 26 27,000 now and uh I mean
that's a yeah I think that matters I

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think I gave him a $2,000 check to put
in there too long ago so that those uh

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That Money Matters and you think here by
20128 we'll have hopefully more in there

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and um if we could get close to $100,000
to cut that in half I mean that means we

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can definitely get that sooner so um
excited for that who's on that board

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again so it is Jennifer Justice um she
is a real turn town then we have Angela

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Gillan she's with um Edward
and then Starla Jane she is with um

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she's got her own realtor company now so
um three big stakeholders that are

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really good at fundraising um but
doesn't mean we won't um get you guys to

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help with some fundraising too because I
know you guys are good at that

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especially Shauna as well so um we'll
really start digging into that I think

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we have that on our um or we talked
about in our meeting to look at that

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maybe towards the end of the year to get
some fundraising stuff together and have

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you guys a little bit more involved with
the banquet to really grow it to not get

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too stale
so we're running out of board shows to

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copy
yeah all right so I'm GNA go I'm going

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to go through our Parks here um and kind
of go over kind of the minties there so

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we have Heritage Park which is obviously
located just downtown we have two

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lighted ball fields one unlighted one
shelter bassball Court playground a half

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mile pave walking trail open Green Space
one restroom

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and two parking
lots and the improvements of this is in

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phase two of the master plan which is in
that 40 year or year four to six but

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it'll probably towards the end of that
around 2029 so it'll be a little bit

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away but um we have to get sm work done
first before we can do anything to

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Heritage Park because we can't get rid
of the ball fields

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um can't give rid of all of our ball
fields basically so but it is looking

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really good with the Caboose getting
painted in the it is band being gone

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yeah uh Courtyard Park located right in
the center of downtown this is the Ali K

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Memorial stage it has electricity we've
added the 911 memorial um perimeter

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electrical boxes uh shade trees for now
uh picnic tables park benches and

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restrooms I say the shade trees I do
want to say we've put um they're under

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contract with Urban Tree Specialists um
they are struggling it's been known

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since before I was here in 2017 when I
started um they were already on contract

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and we spent we spent multiple thousands
of dollars to keep them alive and keep

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them healthy um they're in a very small
space for those kind of trees to be so

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close to each other they basically fight
over water and sunlight together um but

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Urban trees is they're out there three
times a year give them what they need

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and um just trying to get them to grow
and there have been some improvements

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over the years there are some that are
still struggling

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so um yeah they give them giant shots
it's they basically do shots of iron so

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if any if for those of you that don't
know like trees like that need a root

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system as wide as it is tall and deep
and yeah it's got like 10t of grass and

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the rest is pavement so yeah it doesn't
get a lot yeah so so we might have to

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look at shade structures and
Alternatives down there too I think I've

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just I just sent them a $5,000 check to
for what they've been doing over the

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past fall so um one of the other things
we struggle with because Matt and I got

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to see this when we dug the 911 memorial
is there's foundations there because

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there used to be buildings there and
they didn't take the foundations out so

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we hit brick we hit rock so that was a
gravel lot so those trees are dealing

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with that too so so we try to keep the
soil as soft as possible and water it

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multiple times a day so we're trying for
them but um they are a staple for

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downtown so we don't want to lose them
but keep trying our best but yeah

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alternatives are in the back of our
minds for

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for shade in the future in Columbia a
couple weeks um um couple weeks ago for

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a wrestling tournament went to a you put
your mic

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on I think it make sure you can talk
yeah can you hear me now yes I was in

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Columbia a couple weeks ago at and
pulled into a park just to waste some

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time and they had like the mesh tops and
they had them in triangles throughout

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the whole park and I was like it dawn on
me what it was and probably be a pretty

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efficient way to keep shade on Parks
yeah that would definitely those canopy

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that we got the splash pad something
similar to that and we've talked about

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before like if we do so on the Square
since we do like before we do the next

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stage or whatever but movie in the park
and stuff like that if you if we do run

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something with a canopies you can put
speakers in and put yeah better Lighting

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in because the lights down there are not
great yeah during movie night so

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definitely some future planning there
but um nothing is scheduled to upgrade

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Courtyard park at the current moment but
um doesn't mean that something could

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come up at any moment
um we have remembrance Park which is

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right across the street from City Hall
um right here on the corner of uh bridge

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and Main Street um that is a veteran
memorial donated in 2007 by mayor and

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Mrs Charles hitchborn and they also
added the Gazebo um this past year our

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maintenance guys took it on themselves
to upgrade that so now um has been

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repainted the rust is not there anymore
and now the the roof is as gray and it

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kind of matches a little bit more with
downtown

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so um we got HBY Park which is at one
HBY drive that's about 31 acres and it's

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probably uh my favorite Park that we
have is um it's about 15 Acres of

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Parkland including the 10 acres stock
Lake one shelter that was donated by the

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quanas club got picnic tables around the
the water and shade trees throughout

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it's definitely one of the most peaceful
and um this is in phase three of the

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master plan it looks at putting a
walking trail all the way around it to

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um add a way to use it a little bit more
and no ice fishing at H Park water does

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move people yeah it is part of our
resir we might have been the ones to

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call the police last time those dots on
them there was out do yeah it was it's

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the moving water so does not freeze that
solid the guy said it was 4 inches thick

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of ice but I couldn't have been that way
the whole way around no just on the

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edges yeah yeah H Park I will say the
quanas club because um they're still

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this is kind of what they use as their
fishing derby for their their event and

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they're the ones that added the shelter
and it looks really nice and they're

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looking at possibly seeing what they
could do more there of a walking trail

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to the shelter or um just additional
thing so we're excited to see think they

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added a fire pit this last year yeah
fire pit got added and yeah that that's

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one that we that's kind of going to be
the qu since they use it the most yeah

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they do they can do projects there with
that Derby is huge if you have haven't

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been yeah big yeah really cool big H
fish this big sometimes um Diamond Crest

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Park and okay railroad Trail so uh phase
one of the master plan was to complete

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Diamond Crest park because the splash
pad was there but just by itself in the

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middle of the field um that was donated
um to the city in Le of payment of

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dedication which is um a development
ordinance that when they come in there's

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a fee that goes into um how many um
units are within their development and

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so there's a evaluation and I I'll send
this out to you and I have this link to

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um that ordinance there so you can take
a look at it and see that see that but

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um the Lu payment for Diamond Crest at
the time was just right around um

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$60,000 so they built the Splash Pad but
then gave us to do the rest and in the

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master plan we we put together
$250,000 into um adding the playground

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the sidewalk
um and the fencing around the area so um

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we had been working with um that same
developer to add in a parking lot but

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that and restroom but that did not um
succeed so um in

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2023 for the 2024 budget the board of
alderman allocated $90,000 for a

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restroom and more sidewalk improvements
um we were able to get that done right

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there towards the end of the year it
took a whole year to get it but we

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weren't the only one um and Parks and
Rec departments that were waiting on

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them um I think they were waiting for
Klay County so they could do it all at

413
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:39,560
once cuz Klay County put in six
different restrooms around the area um

414
00:34:37,879 --> 00:34:44,040
but we got that in everything's done
it'll be ready to go for the start of

415
00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:48,000
the season and then um the parking lot
is in discussion so if you've been up

416
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:53,960
there lately there's a new development
going there right there by 169 they've

417
00:34:50,520 --> 00:35:00,599
moved dirt already that developer um has
agreed to add in a parking lot for us um

418
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:06,240
in with his dedication fee and um we
felt this is a lot lot more um better

419
00:35:04,839 --> 00:35:11,119
partnership already than the previous
one we were in so hopefully that'll

420
00:35:08,359 --> 00:35:16,200
parking lot will be in um before we open
the splash pad for the

421
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:20,160
season and just so you don't those you
that don't know the before we built this

422
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:25,160
park all of our Parks except Emerald
Ridge were on Main Street so we had

423
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:32,240
Diamond Crest is the farthest north that
the city goes pretty much and then Ridge

424
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:37,599
is redone now yeah but it but it was
pretty it was pretty bad yeah so in

425
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:41,839
20124 the city was awarded a
recreational Trails program Grant um

426
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:46,359
from DNR that's the Department of
Natural Resources to construct the OK

427
00:35:44,359 --> 00:35:51,240
railroad Trail which was formerly known
as Diamond Crest Trail um this was an

428
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:56,200
old railroad rideway that went through
Smithville and on it way up to from

429
00:35:53,200 --> 00:36:02,560
Oklahoma all the way up to Iowa um and
part of the Grant was some historical

430
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:06,119
references and so um to add some more
points to us we renamed the trail

431
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:11,040
provided the historical reference to
that area and uh we're looking to put

432
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:17,560
that trail out for bid here um by the
end of the month of January if not early

433
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:21,280
February and uh get that out forbid to
hopefully start construction this summer

434
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:27,200
so that'll be almost a 12 foot wide
Trail that'll be concreted um that'll go

435
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:31,720
from the top there of of that diamond
crest Hood all the way to Lake Meadows

436
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:37,680
and provide three neighborhoods with
access to Diamond chis Park so um be

437
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:41,440
really cool once that's done and really
complete that Park once the trail and

438
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:45,839
parking lot have been completed did
Chuck end up doing the engineering on

439
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:50,319
that yes so we so we save the
engineering fuse by doing it in house

440
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:54,920
yeah it's 12 foot line hopefully we draw
but this is part if you guys look at it

441
00:36:53,119 --> 00:37:00,359
on a map for those of you that don't
live up north the plan is to eventually

442
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:05,960
hook into Eagle Heights and the trail
that's going to go down Eagle Parkway to

443
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:10,119
TI and 180th Street Trail yeah we have
we already have the ride away to go

444
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:14,200
behind Lake Meadows which is where phase
two will be and then phase three we'll

445
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:20,200
be getting it from the end of Lake
Meadows somehow back over to F Highway

446
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:25,170
into Eagle Parkway Eagle Parkway Eagle
Parkway now yes Eagle Parkway maybe tman

447
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:30,920
right there so it's you go yeah there's
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448
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:35,760
um Trade Winds I think is the road yeah
yeah we have right away on the street

449
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:41,560
it's just getting from Lake Meadows to
that so we're excited to to move on this

450
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:45,920
park and hopefully um we'll be completed
here it won't take long to concrete all

451
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:49,119
that once it's out and and done so
hopefully by the time the splash but

452
00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:53,960
opens up around Memorial day we'll we'll
see a lot of progress down in 188th to

453
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:59,440
like Bainbridge is part of the
development going in by Eagle Heights

454
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,440
right by Wildflower yeah

455
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:05,920
in Ridge Park you guys have heard a lot
about that one

456
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:08,599
um won't spin too much but that current
playground that was there that you see

457
00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:13,480
on this side of the left that was
installed in the year

458
00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:18,200
2000 um but as you guys worked through
and um we have what we have now so

459
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:22,800
excited to get that shelter in there um
here in the coming weeks smooth Fork

460
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:28,119
park uh this is our largest park it's
250 plus acres that the city leases from

461
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:33,720
the US Army Corp of Engineers
has one lighted and one unlighted ball

462
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:38,240
field and socer area a lighted football
field two shelters electricity two

463
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:43,079
shelters without
electricity uh two

464
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:49,480
restrooms skate park self-supplied
driving range uh a campground special

465
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:53,359
use Scout area Girl Scout special use
area and fishing um from the Smithville

466
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:59,040
Lake
Dam this is obviously in phase three

467
00:38:56,319 --> 00:39:05,680
phase two and three of the master plan
first phase obviously is the um sports

468
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:11,359
complex and then uh phase three is
deeper on as we for like a destination

469
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,359
playground which is listed in the master

470
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:18,440
plan smooth for Campground this is a
full service Campground each site has

471
00:39:16,319 --> 00:39:23,839
electricity water sewer and
connections um that separates us from

472
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:28,040
the County campground because they um
have just electricity at each Campground

473
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,400
yeah they're like side but they don't
have yeah they have dumps and then you

474
00:39:30,319 --> 00:39:36,880
got to fill up your tank so a lot of
people enjoy a campground just because

475
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:41,359
we're all service and um it's a lot
easier to stay longer at our Campground

476
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:47,640
um we have a restroom and shower housee
on site um throughout the years we

477
00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:52,560
officially upgraded all SES to 2030 amps
um previously it was just right around

478
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:57,480
2021 where um we only had half the
campground at 50 amp and all the RVs

479
00:39:55,040 --> 00:40:02,160
were um just getting bigger and bigger
and so on the board of alderman allowed

480
00:39:59,359 --> 00:40:05,760
us to upgrade that and uh we were
turning we were turning people away

481
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:11,680
because we didn't have 50 amp and they
had to have it um so now we're all 50

482
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:15,680
amp which is what most use and then 3020
for different Services

483
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:20,040
there and you guys have almost got all
the all the water lines are we're about

484
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:25,680
halfway yeah we're about halfway to get
frost free lines in um and then sewer we

485
00:40:23,359 --> 00:40:29,440
put a new pump station in so we good for
a while on that sewer is good we do

486
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:33,200
probably there looks to probably be some
kind of tree roots in the sewer some

487
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:37,680
yeah we're doing the lateral but yeah
your station's new station's new and

488
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:41,440
you'll see on the accomplishments um the
parks and R department they completed uh

489
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:47,680
10 water leaks at Smith for Campground
which is down from 2024 which is or down

490
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:51,680
from 2023 when we did 14 so that is good
we want them to go down we don't want

491
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:57,000
them to keep 2017 you did 10 a week yeah
just about um the water line is really

492
00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:02,079
old there just crumbling um and in years
past they did quick fixes and just um

493
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:06,280
capped it rather than going from the
spet to the main and so Chase has really

494
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:11,000
made that a priority ATT to each water
lake they get even if it's a small one

495
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:14,839
at the top they'll just go from the spet
all the way to the main water line to

496
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:18,400
prevent um all the Le that we were
getting so and the pressure has

497
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:23,119
increased as well yeah the pressure has
well there's not holes in the line yeah

498
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:26,240
you would actually barely on two dishes
and it would just sometimes we did a

499
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:30,800
whole new water line right when we did
the pump station

500
00:41:27,839 --> 00:41:35,480
didn't we put in new they they did for
didn't not the campground they went

501
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:39,160
around the campground yeah the um but
yeah no but we actually didn't get our

502
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:43,160
first water leak until September so we
opened in April D so we had 10 water

503
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:49,480
leaks between September and October and
2 months so not sure what happened but

504
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:55,720
something happened dried up dried up it
is what did really didn't happen yeah um

505
00:41:53,240 --> 00:42:03,480
yeah so the campground um brings in
about $270,000 in Revenue um that was

506
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,920
about the same and then the I put this
gu right around that time so that's

507
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:10,560
probably pretty accurate how we ended
the season so I know this is off subject

508
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:15,280
for as a camper we would appreciate if
we could open up I know it doesn't open

509
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:19,119
to April 1st but like we go the first
year there we take 15 campers down there

510
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:22,680
because it's close to home if something
breaks we have waterline breaks if we've

511
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:26,359
forgotten something um and then we also
do Easter there so it's hard for us to

512
00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:30,240
plan if we don't know we can all get in
there so we be nice if we could bump it

513
00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:35,000
up just even a half a month well we
talked about opening up in first of the

514
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:39,640
year which I don't know if we I did talk
to the campost about it and um I mean

515
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:43,559
open kept going we kept going over like
the cons and what was going on different

516
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:47,599
things like that and so we just decided
to keep it the same and then we'll look

517
00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:51,720
at it again this year a little
earlier maybe open half of them

518
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:55,319
available for first of the year for
people that want to book things in

519
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:58,559
advance we just didn't feel like we were
we were going to be able to get out the

520
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:01,960
word quick enough to everybody this year
on but at least if we can go this year

521
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:05,880
but K just heads up they Camp Coast can
spread the word that we're open up

522
00:43:03,079 --> 00:43:10,480
January cuz um obviously holidays are
the big big thing and that goes so quick

523
00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:14,680
those are what gets booked on April 1 is
the holidays so we wanted to make sure

524
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:17,960
we were fair and got it out to everybody
well and you could be like lost and I

525
00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:21,359
they they box out you can't do those
till a certain time yeah so you're not

526
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:25,760
innovated all at once for everything and
it crashed you guys turned on the system

527
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:28,839
what two or three years ago you crashed
well we need to look at doing what the

528
00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:33,440
county does too with the holiday
weekends of requiring more day bookings

529
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:36,960
five days at Clay County yeah Clay
County we do we do minimum three night

530
00:43:35,319 --> 00:43:41,040
which is yeah but they're at five now
and people will pay for five even if

531
00:43:38,839 --> 00:43:46,319
they use two or three and it's yeah they
do yeah just yeah and and one thing too

532
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:50,720
for those of you that don't know all the
revenue we make at smth Fork Matt

533
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:55,079
mentioned it's least yes s all the money
we make there we have to spend there we

534
00:43:53,319 --> 00:43:57,760
can't make a bunch of money off the
campground and then go spend it on

535
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:03,440
Heritage Park
the agreement with the lawsuit which we

536
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:09,559
talked about last week and when the park
was built and the dam was built the city

537
00:44:07,559 --> 00:44:14,960
originally had talked about that's their
park they're going to whatever the city

538
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:19,640
then had a lawsuit with the core we the
city lost so we essentially have a

539
00:44:17,079 --> 00:44:25,520
balloon payment loan
at for that land yeah so and Matt knows

540
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:29,040
the numbers but it escalates pretty
steeply in a couple years to where we're

541
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:35,880
paying a six figure lease every year
right now we're we at 40 46,0 24 and

542
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:40,160
then we're paying 53,000 this year yeah
and then it and it keeps creeping up so

543
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,559
when you look at like the campground the
shelter houses all the things that Smith

544
00:44:41,599 --> 00:44:45,079
Fork you're like oh we could have more
shelter houses if you look at the

545
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,760
numbers for rentals you look at the
campground numbers if we added more we

546
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:57,119
have to spend it there so it can't be
used for anything else yeah so Ballfield

547
00:44:52,920 --> 00:45:01,200
rentals Matt's time staff's time the the
electrical upgrades we did there it's

548
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:04,240
because the money was made at that Park
we have to spend it at that Park we

549
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:08,559
can't take that money and use it for a
revenue generator somewhere

550
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:12,359
else so that number looks like oh yeah
we made a lot of money but then you look

551
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:16,280
at the 150,000 we just spent on pavement
the money Chase spends on Frost freeze

552
00:45:14,599 --> 00:45:21,359
it adds up really really
quick so you can see in the winter of

553
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:27,319
2020 and 2021 we uh 49 SS were upgraded
to 50 amp uh and then that increase from

554
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:32,160
2020 21 occupancy rate increased by 9% %
so those were money money well spent

555
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:37,680
there and those improvements uh Lake
remote Trail so this is part of Smiths

556
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:42,079
Fork park it's a 3.95 mile of um no ice
fishing there either improved for uh 40

557
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,960
acre setting trails and three different
trails with three different type

558
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:50,200
Services we have agim um maintenance 10-
foot cut and single track um you can go

559
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:56,119
fishing there and then the Girl Scout
area is back there very peaceful walk

560
00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:59,880
through there um actually Ben if he was
here he's been doing some work out there

561
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:04,559
he's been uh cutting down some Limbs and
different things like that so he's been

562
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,400
trying to do what he can back there do
you have a trail counter out there is

563
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:11,880
that how you're keeping track of people
I do have a trail C I have a i' I've it

564
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:16,839
was at uh Main Street and then I moved
it over just I really wanted to see how

565
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:21,760
many people were using it so
yeah they're all over the Katy Trail so

566
00:46:19,359 --> 00:46:25,720
it's you know good to see do we have
that I think this I'm not sure what

567
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,800
cross country sometimes goes back to
that probably that was probably that was

568
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:33,160
probably uh one of the cross country
days also the uh we also at Lake remote

569
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:38,000
it's our second year doing it'll be
third year this year but the archery

570
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:42,359
club postes a 3D archery event out at
Lake remote which is really cool to

571
00:46:39,839 --> 00:46:46,240
bring it back to its roots because um
Lake remote was built by an archery club

572
00:46:44,839 --> 00:46:52,240
in the early
1990s so um they're the ones that added

573
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:57,000
the shelter there and it was a for an
archery range that um it's starting to

574
00:46:54,440 --> 00:47:03,559
come back to a trend in on the
California side but um the archery club

575
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:06,880
now does their 3D um High School meet
back there so it's I think there's a 3D

576
00:47:05,359 --> 00:47:09,920
tournament also they have it's open to
anybody so one of their fundraisers keep

577
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:14,319
an eye out for it if you do shoot that
they have a 3D open to anybody

578
00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:18,680
tournament
yeah that's a cool partnership with the

579
00:47:16,359 --> 00:47:23,240
school and uh they're easy to work with
just don't shoot those real

580
00:47:20,839 --> 00:47:27,800
deer Main Street Trail that's one of the
sports are not supplied by Misha it's

581
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:32,000
not a sport it's a it's not considered a
sport so they don't get the funding we

582
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:36,160
need to support if we can yeah uh Main
Street Trail is 1.4 Mile Trail that

583
00:47:33,599 --> 00:47:42,920
connects downtown to Smithville to
Smithville lake and Klay County parks of

584
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:47,040
their 34 mile or 34 miles of Trails um
it was a recreation Trail program Grant

585
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:52,920
similar to what we got for the OK
railroad Trail

586
00:47:49,359 --> 00:47:57,520
um it was also tied the funds were also
tied into the 2018 bond for the

587
00:47:54,599 --> 00:48:02,359
streetcap phase one this is an 8 to 10t
wide concrete trail with water fountains

588
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:08,000
bike fixing stations bike racks and and
benches um and only one air pump because

589
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:13,680
someone stole the other
one H weld those things in man yeah we

590
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:18,240
were averaging about 30 visitors and
that was just at the top where our shop

591
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:23,920
is there's obviously a lot more that um
only go to about Grace Church and turn

592
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:26,440
around so um numbers are it's really
well attended throughout the day like

593
00:48:25,359 --> 00:48:31,079
people are walking it in the morning
when I get to work and they're walking

594
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:35,200
it when I leave work so um that was a
great addition to downtown and Grace is

595
00:48:33,079 --> 00:48:38,000
continually added to their shelter too
it's been nice that they're they're

596
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,119
putting money into that too to get
people a place to stop and it's not

597
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:49,440
we're not having to spend money on that
so that extent across 169 we under under

598
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:55,920
169 so the river yeah so the River Walk
is um it's being engineered right now Y

599
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:59,799
and we're looking at 2026 for um
hopefully by the completion by 2026 and

600
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,520
that's with second Creek sidewalk so
that gets us all the way to that gets us

601
00:49:01,119 --> 00:49:08,040
all the way to PL that'll gets you to
downtown yeah it gets us so and if you

602
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,880
look at the so we had a we did we had
the board of Alman meeting two months

603
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:15,240
ago now that we went over the plans it
was in January it was our last it was

604
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:21,960
our first January meeting first January
meeting yeah so each um so it'll go

605
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:25,960
second Creek up to like the subdivision
AC it's on the North side and then it'll

606
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:32,359
CR there'll be a crosswalk and then
it'll tie in every sidewalk in um Cedar

607
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:36,079
Lakes oh really so Cedar Lakes from the
furthest sidewalk that you guys the the

608
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:40,280
furthest entrance all the way will be
connected to this Trail so is that going

609
00:49:38,319 --> 00:49:43,920
to be on the south side then of the
Street then it be it'll be on the Cedar

610
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:48,520
Lake Side once it gets to Cedar once it
crosses over to Cedar Lakes so it'll be

611
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:52,520
on the North side up to lman to that
other subdivision then it'll cross yeah

612
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:57,200
and then it'll catch you so yeah it'll
connect Cedar Lakes what's the other one

613
00:49:55,400 --> 00:50:02,440
across the street and then
yeah I for just getting to that point

614
00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:07,240
would be awesome expecting yeah one of
the things too is um so we have to you

615
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:12,319
know bolt onto the bridge um because it
goes in front of those houses that are

616
00:50:08,359 --> 00:50:15,400
there to connect them and then um we're
following if you look at it how it

617
00:50:13,839 --> 00:50:22,520
follows because the city owns the corner
of 169 in Maine we on the North West

618
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:25,319
Corner yeah and we're kind of following
closer to the river because if you try

619
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:30,559
to come up under the bridge and go
straight it's really really steep but we

620
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:35,480
are tying into the sidewalk on
169 theas Stone Creek Villas yeah and I

621
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:38,559
would almost recommend if when they go
to look into that they use the first

622
00:50:37,119 --> 00:50:42,880
utilize the first entrance if you're
going to cross that first one

623
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:45,480
and I think that's where it was yeah
yeah that's what he's saying and then

624
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:49,720
it'll be a sidewalk yeah then it'll
continue up all the way to connect all

625
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:53,599
of them1 and the tie-ins are going to be
the same width as existing sidewalk so

626
00:50:51,359 --> 00:50:59,319
it won't look wonky anything similar to
what we did yeah that was a mark funded

627
00:50:55,720 --> 00:51:05,359
Grant too and so that we
end I think we ended up getting close to

628
00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:10,400
90% on one of them yeah
so that it's it's being engineered right

629
00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:15,200
now so I've seen the flags and stuff I
just wasn't for sure and it is going

630
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:19,520
next to the river you know so it our
River a lot of it is flood way so if

631
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:23,720
there is a time where they have to open
the dam like they've had before the

632
00:51:21,559 --> 00:51:27,400
water gets up it could cover part of the
trail but that's it has to like we have

633
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:30,599
to do that just like with park it has to
flood if there's a flood it's actually

634
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:34,799
on our list to talk a little bit more
about the Riverwalk Trail more detail um

635
00:51:33,559 --> 00:51:37,720
to kind of really just get that out to
the public as well yeah because we want

636
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:41,720
to know we want your guys' input on kind
of

637
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:45,680
like the grant is for the concrete we
have to do some little bit of signage

638
00:51:43,079 --> 00:51:51,440
because the Watershed and there is a um
the hawk signal like we have at by Grace

639
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:57,640
yeah that's in the plan but other than
that there's no amenities type of stuff

640
00:51:54,640 --> 00:52:01,720
along it because it is but sidewalk even
we have to do 8 foot right for the grant

641
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:07,160
M so even the second Creek sidewalk Park
will be 8 foot the trail will be wider

642
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:11,119
or but minimum we have to do8 foot even
along second Creek and that's what we

643
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:14,839
have going out this way is eight foot
right 10 foot yeah it's 8 foot in front

644
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:18,480
of a couple houses because they didn't
want to do the full easement but once

645
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:22,839
you get past the houses it's 10 foot 10
foot yeah 2026 is going to be a big year

646
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:27,040
as Chase said he goes man I'm 26 is
going to be crazy so wants to ride it

647
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:33,000
side by side down the new Trail and
clear snow I know I told him but yeah

648
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:36,760
it'll open up that River for walking for
fishing I mean it opens up a lot running

649
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:40,040
you'll be able you'll be able to run a
train for a marathon and stay on Trails

650
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,960
because commercial is going into at the
same time around the same time

651
00:52:41,319 --> 00:52:45,880
commercial is going in this year this
summer this summer so yeah so you

652
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:50,359
commercial to the school which will tie
into Hills of Shannon and the new

653
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:55,160
subdivision South Fairview Crossing y so
you'll be able to run from Fair Crossing

654
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:59,720
which their sidewalks already in or walk
all the way down to downtown

655
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:03,680
and then go east to west yeah that's
exciting I think that will bring more

656
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:07,599
appeal to the city than Smith forks I
think it's because it's tying in your

657
00:53:05,599 --> 00:53:12,240
local neighborhoods yeah so I think
it'll be appealing

658
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:16,799
forun yeah finally not going to be on an
island anymore

659
00:53:13,799 --> 00:53:24,280
yeah uh so then we got we got Wildflower
Park um this is 6.23 Acres um off wild

660
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:27,799
wild Drive in Haley's neck of the woods
um it's close to Eagle Heights

661
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:32,960
Elementary it's a small retention pond
on the property um the guys actually

662
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:36,799
Mark I'll say Mark has taken upon
himself to really clean up that pond so

663
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:41,119
if you've been out there the trees have
come down it's a lot easier to to use

664
00:53:39,359 --> 00:53:46,640
there's some big fish in that pond yeah
and so um we'll continue to look at

665
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:51,720
possibly stocking that keeping that up
and then um this is in phase three the

666
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:54,960
master plan um kind of later on but
we'll definitely get with that

667
00:53:52,799 --> 00:54:00,319
neighborhood and kind of go over what
they want it to look like because um a

668
00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:03,920
lot of them attended the master plan uh
when we were going over that to the

669
00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:08,559
public and there was a lot of ideas and
there was some ideas that we had and we

670
00:54:05,799 --> 00:54:13,079
scrapped them and went and just built uh
Diamond crust instead so um we'll

671
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:17,319
definitely come back to that because it
is a lot of kids in that neighborhood a

672
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:23,079
lot of families so it'll be a really
great Park um some news on that there's

673
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:29,520
a development that's going there to the
south side of Wildflower neighborhood um

674
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:33,559
okay where they've done where they've
kind of staged all that piping and stuff

675
00:54:31,119 --> 00:54:37,400
back there that'll be a new subdivision
that's it's in Planning Commission right

676
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:41,400
now it hasn't has it been approved by
then it has been approved by then and so

677
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,240
they'll they've got different phases
phase one is to add kind of the front

678
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:48,400
part and they're going to be adding a
sidewalk in front of that neighborhood

679
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:54,119
uh which will help us be able to get a
sidewalk from there up to Eagle Heights

680
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:59,240
on that road there um part of their park
dedication is to get part of

681
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:03,040
Wildfire right yep and they've uh added
a track of land that they're donating

682
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:07,640
and they're going to kind of clean up
the area and so we'll add more land more

683
00:55:05,319 --> 00:55:13,200
acres to this park and so well maybe be
able to add a second entrance um for

684
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:18,280
parking in the future um but yeah some
be really cool to have that some ideas

685
00:55:15,319 --> 00:55:21,359
coming through there G US Park or
concrete they're going to have to donate

686
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:25,039
acreage to us so they're doing they're
doing they're doing both they're doing

687
00:55:22,839 --> 00:55:30,200
sidewalk and acreage so the park
dedication is about 700 bucks a door

688
00:55:27,599 --> 00:55:35,240
right is where we're at now so if it's
apartment we did it per door apartment

689
00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:39,400
complexes whatever so they're 200 I
think houses two 200 something so it's a

690
00:55:38,079 --> 00:55:42,280
substantial amount and they'll be on
site doing the work anyway so for them

691
00:55:40,799 --> 00:55:48,240
to put the concrete in it's easier
where's the sidewalk going right yeah

692
00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:52,000
right Eagle Parkway yeah it'll be on
their side eagle Parkway just be a

693
00:55:50,119 --> 00:55:57,880
sidewalk with their land they the goal
is west or the goal is to connect on the

694
00:55:54,520 --> 00:56:06,240
west to connect uh the trails crosswalk
we did to Bainbridge which is that next

695
00:56:02,599 --> 00:56:11,039
intersection right by Rollins and then
like you're going golf course that road

696
00:56:08,799 --> 00:56:15,160
yeah hopefully we can get the county to
help with from Bainbridge to 180th

697
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:20,640
because they were talked about going
like connecting 188th to 180th across

698
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:23,839
the golf course or somehow in that area
but if they go along that rway it makes

699
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:28,440
more sense so that people can walk out
of the park up and then yeah we did

700
00:56:25,559 --> 00:56:32,799
apply for a grant for that um sidewalk
that would go from 180th all the way up

701
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:36,000
to Eagle com I was trying to get on
there neighborhood people to comment it

702
00:56:34,839 --> 00:56:40,039
didn't score very well for some if you
look at 180th to Bainbridge though like

703
00:56:38,359 --> 00:56:43,559
there are some ditches in there that are
pretty bad so we want to to get culverts

704
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:48,319
in those and get a trail on those would
be very helpful to those Property Owners

705
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:52,640
yeah so it's on it's on the list and it'
be it'd be great to connect those areas

706
00:56:50,839 --> 00:56:57,760
uh we have Humphrey Nancy Smith Park
that that was something um that's that

707
00:56:54,720 --> 00:57:03,920
picture there um right here that's where
this is uh First Street here so it's

708
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:08,799
it's this area here and also this little
corner here but in

709
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:15,559
2026 again they're going to be doing or
is it 27 she said 27 27 to7 they're

710
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:18,760
putting a roundabout here um that will
take away some of this road so this will

711
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:22,480
all it'll take that whole road goes away
it'll take away this road and this

712
00:57:20,599 --> 00:57:28,680
Second Street will connect all the way
through here and so this will all become

713
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:31,079
one big Gra area so yeah we could do
something there

714
00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:40,280
in yeah oh it gets you out a lot faster
at roundabout yeah it takes as long as

715
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:44,160
the bridge is taking 180 Day projects
we're not touching the bridge well I

716
00:57:42,079 --> 00:57:48,440
know that bridge right here is already
it's not we're not doing anything to the

717
00:57:45,599 --> 00:57:53,559
bridge I know happening right now good
thing we found out in the last meeting

718
00:57:49,559 --> 00:57:56,440
is that crates gone that big hole gone
yeah so this will be all be one big

719
00:57:54,839 --> 00:58:01,000
green space and it'll allow us an
opportunity to do something with that

720
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:05,480
Park so there's a obviously assistant
living over here so there could be we

721
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:08,839
can get creative and do something so
that road up top where that just connect

722
00:58:07,559 --> 00:58:13,920
straight across then y yep straight
across Second Street goes by this the

723
00:58:10,839 --> 00:58:16,680
cemetery yep y okay so just connect it
yeah so they don't that that

724
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:20,680
intersection is super wonky to get in
and out it so that bridge where that

725
00:58:19,039 --> 00:58:23,880
Road's going north now we could have
that utilize that whole Space because

726
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:28,119
there won't be that road there we have
all that available to do another

727
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,119
playground Poss

728
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:36,920
yeah if we can get the water yeah yeah
this area does flood but when they redo

729
00:58:34,359 --> 00:58:40,880
the roundabout um they're going to fix
that so also the road might go through

730
00:58:39,039 --> 00:58:45,319
into like where left Pote is too because
the property owner to the right there

731
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:49,079
where mat got the thing they're planning
on bringing the parking lot to the road

732
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:53,000
so yeah bringing something through there
eventually we got wildf we got humre and

733
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:59,920
then some other sites that we maintain
are City Hall Senior Center and the old

734
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:04,200
schoolhouse if you know you guys know
the old

735
00:59:00,799 --> 00:59:07,599
schoolhouse got a new roof yeah we
manage we don't we don't manage the

736
00:59:06,079 --> 00:59:12,520
schoolhouse but we manage the land that
it's on so it's we mow it to say at

737
00:59:10,319 --> 00:59:16,960
least take care of the trees so you
don't you own the land but don't own the

738
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:22,760
schoolhouse itself correct correct does
the Historic Society is responsible for

739
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:28,119
the school house
yeah there wasn't even in Clay County uh

740
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:32,839
Smith Senior Center so it's fully funded
by Klay County Senior Services it was

741
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:36,920
remodeled back in 2012 and opened up in
2013 for the senior centers it was just

742
00:59:35,359 --> 00:59:42,640
kind of a brick and mor building then we
added the um you mean a Morton Building

743
00:59:40,039 --> 00:59:45,960
Morton Building sorry Morton Building um
that's where development used to be

744
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:51,240
located at but then turn into a senior
center um large common room with chairs

745
00:59:49,359 --> 00:59:55,720
and tables for 50 guests large
residential kitchen uh we host senior

746
00:59:53,559 --> 00:59:59,480
lunches senior Fitness classes now
Monday through Friday and then we open

747
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:04,640
it up for reservations Monday through
Sunday after uh 4:00 during the week and

748
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:07,559
then all day on Sunday and Saturday you
guys took the cabinet shop I don't

749
01:00:06,079 --> 01:00:11,160
remember that and I lived here at the
time you guys took the cabinet shop

750
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:16,760
completely down and built it over no
they uh there was that um Morton

751
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:22,000
Building here and then they put stuck Co
around it basically and then redid the

752
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:27,079
inside so yeah very
creative yeah stuck o brick stuck o

753
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:32,359
brick they got by c not too long ago and
it's got replaced we did get that

754
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:38,240
replaced it looks fine Bo and
yeah it's great the can we get sometime

755
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:42,319
before the next meeting get like the
like 10e trend on reservations since

756
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:45,599
we've changed policy and all that stuff
for the uh I could probably give you

757
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:49,640
Revenue I can't give you probably guess
because we started keeping care of that

758
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:53,079
but you Revenue yeah yeah that well or
total number of reservations or whatever

759
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:57,039
you yeah we could probably do that I
think I I cuz I saw him line dancing in

760
01:00:55,440 --> 01:01:01,799
there last night I think yeah they do
Tuesday nights okay or yeah you would

761
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:04,760
have saw them Tuesday night Tuesday
night yeah okay when you were here for

762
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:10,920
the board meeting yeah that's what it
was I went out front yeah uh special

763
01:01:07,599 --> 01:01:15,039
events uh we host an uh many special
events in our Downtown Courtyard or we

764
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:18,680
host a numerous of special events every
year our Downtown Courtyard is perfect

765
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:23,079
destination for festivals vender fairs
concerts as well as we offer uh spacious

766
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:26,599
Smith Fork park Green Space for outdoor
concerts and special events so um

767
01:01:25,559 --> 01:01:32,119
obviously you can see these numbers
we're a little behind but we go to 25

768
01:01:28,319 --> 01:01:38,520
vents in 2023 and then around 3,000
people for haunted Campground or

769
01:01:35,319 --> 01:01:42,200
so uh facility management as you can see
as we talked about in our staff report

770
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:48,559
2024 is the first year we really dived
into um facility rentals we have 13

771
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:54,079
sites across nine Parks um cost range
around 15 to 50 or50

772
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:58,480
$50 um those open up on January 1 for
the full calendar year you get updated

773
01:01:56,440 --> 01:02:03,119
picture of the shelter yeah definitely
looks nice now we got different beams

774
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:07,000
here they took down the roof um the guys
did a really good job at that getting

775
01:02:04,559 --> 01:02:14,400
those
upgraded Youth and adult sports um we

776
01:02:11,839 --> 01:02:17,960
have little kickers all the way down
through here as you guys saw um some of

777
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:23,839
the new things we added were the senior
Fitness classes we expanded those um

778
01:02:20,599 --> 01:02:28,960
pickle ball adult basketball did you go
on Tuesday

779
01:02:26,559 --> 01:02:34,920
what where's it at and where do you guys
have it at Grace it was

780
01:02:32,319 --> 01:02:39,160
ated I'm assuming website it's different
every time okay just wherever we can get

781
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:45,960
availability there's one more in
February I think call your own

782
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:51,160
foul uh I mean honestly I think I mean
there was times where last year there

783
01:02:48,839 --> 01:02:57,520
was there's 20 people there but it's
just consistency it was also

784
01:02:54,319 --> 01:03:02,079
freezing this week think if you had
consistency would be yeah my son-in-law

785
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:06,760
drives up to go to do it why can't he do
it

786
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:12,880
here yeah you talking about pickle ball
basketball okay Mosby used to do a group

787
01:03:10,599 --> 01:03:16,440
he used to do adult they used to go over
to the prison and play the prisoners

788
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:19,880
there used to be adult league out of
here that was like that so get a hold of

789
01:03:18,279 --> 01:03:25,119
Mosby and them and you could probably
get more engagement yeah yeah it's

790
01:03:22,599 --> 01:03:30,559
sporic for sure CU we just the
availability School gives us is not

791
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:35,160
consistent but is I thought Eagle was
pretty wide open though they don't ask

792
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:38,480
Eagle too much oh okay yeah we had to
beg for little hoopsters to get Eagle

793
01:03:37,359 --> 01:03:41,760
you want to shoot me the email I'll
share it with like Sherry fils and your

794
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:46,319
old people that used to do it up here at
the high school yeah I would love that

795
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:50,359
it's just got to be consistent you know
you can't do it every six months and

796
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:55,839
expect people and then I I had to text
Rob I forgot today honestly I know it

797
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:59,440
comes in the newslet yeah yeah yeah it's
every Tuesday it's easy yeah exactly

798
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:03,319
yeah you just got to have you know every
second

799
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:06,920
Tuesday and we got little hoopster
basketball clinic that was started so

800
01:04:04,839 --> 01:04:13,200
this is our second year doing that um
well attended where's

801
01:04:10,359 --> 01:04:17,960
tennis that was that's pickle ball there
I know where's our tennis

802
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:23,279
classes we did tennis classes before
back when Mike worked

803
01:04:20,039 --> 01:04:27,359
to uh we got Youth and adult programs as
you can kind of go back to the staff

804
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:31,799
report look at all these but um big
changes over the last couple years since

805
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,799
Alex has been here on

806
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:39,240
that Park maintenance three full-time
maintenance uh hired part-time and peak

807
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:43,400
season maintain nine Parks including
Smiths for Campground over 300 acres of

808
01:04:41,279 --> 01:04:49,200
Parkland all the
facilities um one of the big things that

809
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:54,599
the park maint has strive to do is to uh
meet the expectations to have uh zero

810
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:57,799
rest restroom reported concerns um this
is now year four when we did put this

811
01:04:56,799 --> 01:05:02,559
together that we didn't have any
restroom reporter concerns again so um

812
01:05:00,799 --> 01:05:07,960
and there's a picture of the shelters
yep them upd the shelter so just so you

813
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:13,119
guys know six years ago I got a call
probably every week on

814
01:05:10,799 --> 01:05:19,559
restrooms yeah we did this is like no
even comments about him I actually I

815
01:05:16,119 --> 01:05:23,480
actually got told I was at Snack Daddy a
couple I told you this I think a couple

816
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:27,240
months ago somebody said who cleans your
bathrooms and I'm like why because you

817
01:05:26,079 --> 01:05:30,160
never know it's going to come out like
those are the cleanest Parks bathrooms

818
01:05:28,359 --> 01:05:35,480
I've ever seen in my life like oh great
that's what they do so so yeah we yeah

819
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:39,680
kudos to the guys they've seen some bad
stuff in there so yeah that's the thing

820
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:44,640
too is they're consistently there before
anybody's there yeah so if there is

821
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:47,359
something they can shut it down but they
show up within a matter of what we

822
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:50,760
called you up for lak Fest within 15
minutes yeah yeah and that's usually if

823
01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:58,200
somebody Sunday morning that that person
came in so yeah yeah yeah it's it's been

824
01:05:53,359 --> 01:06:01,880
it's been amaz like seven years
ago it was pulling teeth to get them to

825
01:06:00,559 --> 01:06:06,279
even like put a checklist on the door
that they looked at the bathroom I think

826
01:06:04,079 --> 01:06:10,920
we actually had somebody quit over that
and now it's just just Clockwork every

827
01:06:08,799 --> 01:06:14,640
day I see a truck down there and every
night there's a truck down like the guys

828
01:06:12,559 --> 01:06:21,760
are there they're taking care of it good
to them yeah great great job and then uh

829
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:26,240
let's see here the top of water laks
y us the so we got the back and then the

830
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:30,000
truck and
those are big equipment pieces for us

831
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:34,720
there digging up the campground water
leaks is your water trailer on there is

832
01:06:33,039 --> 01:06:38,920
not on there it's not one that picture I
mean is it in your presentation no it's

833
01:06:36,359 --> 01:06:43,480
not no I did it when we did this I did a
tour okay we did a tour out the shop so

834
01:06:41,279 --> 01:06:47,559
we got to show them that and it took his
presentation took our whole night so I

835
01:06:45,359 --> 01:06:51,160
mean yeah yeah Water trailer is awesome
they use that a lot too yeah uh so

836
01:06:50,039 --> 01:06:56,119
what's coming up in Smithville we have
the US Sports in Ridge Park update okay

837
01:06:54,079 --> 01:07:00,559
ra TR grants
got that done River

838
01:06:58,079 --> 01:07:04,359
Walk So This is the millions right yeah
this is the millions currently down at

839
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:08,480
the um OK row Trail probably know is
Diamond Crest park so really awesome

840
01:07:06,599 --> 01:07:12,559
Trail around this time of year with the
shade and just the views of the trees

841
01:07:10,119 --> 01:07:15,520
how it kind of arches over so Goos for
recommending it for pictures because my

842
01:07:14,359 --> 01:07:18,960
girlfriend took the friends out there
did she do it yeah especially in the

843
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:23,799
snow the snow time out there is is
pretty cool yeah I know Kyle is just

844
01:07:22,319 --> 01:07:27,520
complaining about the bridge a little
bit but I'm I'm sure that it's saving

845
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:32,240
him from going near the bump out so he
can just go 169 cross he's good this is

846
01:07:30,799 --> 01:07:36,359
obviously the River Walk that I want to
put in like we have this um on our

847
01:07:34,319 --> 01:07:42,200
future agenda to talk about this into
more details but um as you can see we

848
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:47,240
have it here's 169 there's that road
that'll be kind of up it'll go around

849
01:07:43,799 --> 01:07:50,440
then back under along the way and into
Heritage Park and um these are kind of

850
01:07:49,119 --> 01:07:54,359
the some of the minis we'll need to talk
about of what this looks like and once

851
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:57,880
the trails actually in there yeah and
one of the things it's not going to be

852
01:07:55,559 --> 01:08:01,920
on this map because it's newer as part
of the development across the street

853
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:06,880
they their park dedication part of their
park dedication is they're building a

854
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:10,760
gravel parking lot just north of 13 so
yeah this apartment complex that's going

855
01:08:08,319 --> 01:08:14,200
across the street from City Hall yeah
that it'll be they're Paving that one

856
01:08:12,559 --> 01:08:19,279
and they're building a secondary gravel
lot in it'll go kind of like down into

857
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:23,960
this area almost and they've already put
a lot of the gravel and stuff or fill

858
01:08:21,679 --> 01:08:28,159
dirt in there already that's where
Funeral Home north of the funeral home

859
01:08:26,839 --> 01:08:32,239
thought they doing simp this lot they're
doing do that as well too so they have

860
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:36,719
to improve this slot they're redoing the
lot around United fiber and then next to

861
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:40,359
the funeral home is going to be a paved
striped lot but then right below that if

862
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:42,960
you like if you drive to the back of
that lot you can see there's kind of

863
01:08:41,480 --> 01:08:45,960
road that goes to the apartments okay
they're doing a gravel lot there that's

864
01:08:44,199 --> 01:08:49,080
like eight eight or 10
spots and they already put fi dirt in

865
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:52,239
there because they took the dirt out of
the hospital site for someone that wants

866
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:55,520
to come walk the trolls they can just
come there and park at right and they

867
01:08:53,480 --> 01:08:59,239
can get to it from bridge or from church
yeah so we'll have a we'll be parking

868
01:08:57,239 --> 01:09:03,520
you'll be able to park here down here
and then also at the Overflow lot here

869
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:07,520
as well and get to the trail Heritage is
when they're going to connect to cross

870
01:09:05,159 --> 01:09:11,000
to the other rest of the part of the
right now it's just going to stop right

871
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:13,960
here at the Overflow parking lot here
because then you have the walkway here

872
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:17,560
and that'll bring you into Heritage R
Trail Heritage already has a trail

873
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:20,799
around it in Cross I was talking about
Crossman I forgot right there at where

874
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:23,600
Le rickz would be right there at the
stop sign that's where they connect to

875
01:09:22,159 --> 01:09:27,400
the trail to go out to the lake if they
were coming from P's house yeah right

876
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:30,759
here yeah oh over here is what you're
talking about yeah so yeah yeah and if

877
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:34,199
you look at the grading there if
somebody asked why we weren't coming

878
01:09:32,159 --> 01:09:39,560
just like straight South after we go
under the bridge that part is like super

879
01:09:36,480 --> 01:09:46,799
steep so if we go further to the west
and then kind of come back south it it's

880
01:09:42,679 --> 01:09:50,960
more ADA Compliant and less of a gr less
dirt work yeah it might feel more natur

881
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:56,480
than walking right on side right we want
to keep you closer to the river and the

882
01:09:53,840 --> 01:10:00,520
creek and that's the presentation it was
a very nice presentation we learned a

883
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:05,400
lot I mean it kept all of us very
intrigued but sewer is your favorite

884
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:09,040
actually I learned a lot out I had to
say it was not my favorite to attend but

885
01:10:07,199 --> 01:10:12,640
it was like my favorite to know learn
things like there was so much I would

886
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:16,080
have never known had I take that course
I recommend it to anybody that's in this

887
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:19,080
room I highly recommend applying and
getting into it because I did learn a

888
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:27,040
lot but sewer is where I learned the
most I was just shocked on some of the

889
01:10:22,480 --> 01:10:31,840
things um just some quick facts here so
this was kind of for the um Citizens

890
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:35,520
Academy but it's always a good reminder
that the city of smithf only handles all

891
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:40,840
parks with ins side city lmit so we
don't do anything around Smithville lake

892
01:10:37,159 --> 01:10:45,199
or their Parks um Smithville Park is
owned by the arm core of engineers um we

893
01:10:43,199 --> 01:10:49,640
managed Trails here and then when I send
you this presentation you guys will be

894
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:55,679
able to click on this and see um I put
the Carney plans here cuz it's a good

895
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:58,280
reference of what uh cost were and so
they have some really good facts here of

896
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:02,040
what they just went through it'd be very
similar to what if we ever wanted to do

897
01:11:00,159 --> 01:11:05,640
something it'd be very similar to that
right and if you go back to slide number

898
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:10,920
one huh didn't they con vote part of
that down5 yeah it was a big and

899
01:11:08,719 --> 01:11:15,880
Liberties failed at 75% in the same
ballot and that was to improve their

900
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:21,640
existing Community Center and add some
sports courts further down but the the

901
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:25,520
Carney and Liberty actually just put it
Liberty has a ballot initiative and

902
01:11:23,159 --> 01:11:29,080
Carney has a ballot initiative
um Matt said our sales tax we originally

903
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:34,199
thought it was going to be 400,000 for
half cent and we're getting 700 any

904
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:36,440
guess is what Liberty gets on a 1% sales
tax

905
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:45,679
estimate
7.5 Carney Carney is also if you look at

906
01:11:42,639 --> 01:11:51,000
this um sales tax Carney this was to do
a increase to property tax and a sales

907
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:54,840
tax and to use existing CID funds from
their price driver CID because that's

908
01:11:53,159 --> 01:11:58,040
what part of that was for and they were
still going to have to get all this to

909
01:11:56,239 --> 01:12:01,760
fall in line to be able to do it we we
don't have enough property to cuz they

910
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:05,920
have a lot more commercial s property
tax we don't have enough to even get

911
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:10,040
close to the bond they're looking at
yeah so this is this they did some

912
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:13,639
really good math and I think it's as as
far as the property tax stuff goes I

913
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:18,800
think it really goes in it shows you how
much like if just a percentage of the

914
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:22,320
property tax what would do to it's just
it's not it's not a lot per person but

915
01:12:20,480 --> 01:12:25,639
it does generate they generate a lot
more sales tax because they are on a big

916
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:29,159
highway now they have two Highway off
ramps they're going to have a lot of

917
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:34,560
development but also the other thing
that people don't realize is the land

918
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:40,639
that they were going to use was donated
well bought with a lot of donated money

919
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:44,000
yeah and we don't have their land is
that there was donated is right in a

920
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:47,760
great spot that already has
utilities um and I think Shauna learned

921
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:51,880
a lot of this with the sewer water
master plan there's a lot of places in

922
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:58,159
Smithville that do not have
utilities um that the housing we're

923
01:12:54,440 --> 01:13:01,880
talking about uh 188 in Eagle Parkway um
that's all in sepic still there's no

924
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:10,199
sewers over there there's no there's a
water line there's um a lot of land that

925
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:14,199
doesn't have sewer even on it let alone
that anybody's going to give us for

926
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:17,480
free and then you got to operate it yeah
it's always good like the city is not

927
01:13:15,639 --> 01:13:21,400
against a community center in the future
it's just having sure we have the right

928
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:25,679
funds and that getting when Smith is
growing when I learned in this class

929
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:29,400
smithl is just a long skinny r what
we're growing is outside of the CI

930
01:13:27,199 --> 01:13:33,880
limits so you're not going to get those
taxes well and the thing the reason we

931
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:38,400
talked about doing distributed
Recreation like having stuff at Eagle

932
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:41,719
Heights and Grace Church and all these
different places throughout the

933
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:45,679
community is no matter where we put a
community center it's going to be the

934
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:48,360
wrong place because I live if you put it
in the dead center everybody's five

935
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:53,440
miles except people downtown if you put
it on South End people are 10 15 miles

936
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:57,719
and you know the places that make sense
like by Price Chopper that's Solid Rock

937
01:13:55,280 --> 01:14:02,400
they took a lot of blowing stuff up to
get sewer in there like it's and it's

938
01:13:59,480 --> 01:14:07,080
not free land it's yeah I'll send this
email to you and as I said throughout

939
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:12,120
this presentation there's links um where
you can you can really like click on and

940
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:16,320
and get some more information it'll take
you to different sites so I I recommend

941
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:18,880
doing that it'll take you a lot of these
will take you to like Google Maps to

942
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:23,360
show you where it is so like you don't
know where emo Ridge is was that first

943
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:27,800
picture AI yeah if you can go too it'll
show you where it's at so um just some

944
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:32,320
details just in case was your first
Parks picture up there AI generated this

945
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:38,120
one no the one on the first like the
first

946
01:14:34,440 --> 01:14:41,639
slide this one uh one after that no one
after

947
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:46,040
that next I thought you had one that had
like some f funky trees and

948
01:14:44,199 --> 01:14:50,480
stuff oh you talking about when they
were doing Heritage proposals I don't

949
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:55,199
yeah no that was okay we got to get
little girl basketall she got to go to

950
01:14:52,360 --> 01:15:00,239
basketball any new business any public
comment yeah any public comment you got

951
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:04,520
anything to
say got demand something so you want

952
01:15:02,639 --> 01:15:10,159
some more basketball courts I look
forward to working with you guys new

953
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:14,440
business if anyone has any comments I'm
tending the um sales public sales tax

954
01:15:12,719 --> 01:15:16,560
committee I start on that on Monday so
if

955
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:25,560
anyone okay I'll adjourn the meeting
motion new

956
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:25,560
Jour second second