[0:14] approval of the minutes from the August
[0:19] 22nd
[0:23] mov I second it all in favor
[0:31] wasn't wasn't here okay we'll go to the
staff report
[1:23] and my daughter played Sports all the
way through college and um now my
[1:29] daughter and F just onla both coach two
different typ sports so if I'm not with
[1:35] here on here I'm chasing them all over
the Missouri now um and just try to stay
[1:41] active my guy sometimes you'll notice
that I have to leave on certain days
[1:45] early and I'll have to say I'll go Che
zo my dad guy is on my home at night and
[1:50] if he is GNA have to be a double bag
have to be there help up but most of the
[1:54] time we're going to try accommodating so
that I can just hook them up later but
[1:59] been here since
[2:03] 20 yeah what um I guess the only person
you probably don't know here is Kyle
[2:07] right do you know okay Kyle you wanted
to introduce yourself uh yeah Kyle squ
[2:14] um year uh pretty involved in Youth
Sports here probably been in the for
[2:21] hours am that there's a lot
[2:27] worse and uh I I Tred stay pretty
involved we got three little girls one's
[2:31] right there we got basketball at 7:30 uh
they pretty involved in that um want to
[2:36] be part
of have a good Recreation I was board
[2:42] for
the softball as
[2:49] well and I'll I'll do a quick reminder
to to make sure that you turn on your
[2:53] mics when you talk it should just be a
button yeah it'll be a red
[2:58] light yeah so those online can hear us
you want to keep it on full time yeah
[3:03] You' flip it on the bottom there you
go just for for recording purposes I'm
[3:10] live you're live all right so further in
let me pull this
[3:17] down all right
so emo Ridge Park updates so as of
[3:24] January 14th EML Ridge Park is waiting
on the shelter installation the park and
[3:29] play are usable but no final walkthrough
has been conducted um once the shelter
[3:33] is installed and warmer weather is in
the forecast we'll have a proper ribbon
[3:37] cutting and celebration got an email
actually today um around lunchtime that
[3:41] the shelter is going to be delivered and
going to be start being constructed on
[3:45] the 29th of January so good news there
and then like I said no final
[3:50] walkthrough has been done yet there has
been a couple little things that have
[3:54] been brought to my attention that um
hopefully they can get done before
[3:57] actually walart weather gets here and
playground is in full use
[4:02] so um Campground road reserving projects
so in the fiscal year 25 budget the
[4:08] board of Alder approved 150,000 in funds
for reserving Smith for Campground due
[4:13] to the heavy construction in the past
two years the road took some significant
[4:17] damage and reserving was completed
before Thanksgiving and gravel is now
[4:21] being added to the sites to bring them
um level with the road Smith for
[4:25] Campground had a great season end of the
year with a 42% occupancy rate this is
[4:29] is up from last year's occupancy rate of
39.4% so um the campground is growing
[4:35] it's one thing that kind of it doesn't
get kicked to the side but it's one
[4:39] thing that is not the prettiest thing
that we do but um it is a is a great
[4:45] source of revenue for the city of
Smithville and our general fund and um
[4:48] really offsets a lot of the expenses
that we have go on um as far as Park
[4:52] maintenance so want to make sure that we
keep that vibrant keep it usable and uh
[4:57] keep campers coming back here after time
so um we had campers from all over the
[5:03] world I think the furthest one we had
this year as a visitor was up in Canada
[5:06] so they saved us for a couple weeks yeah
so that's exciting on the campground
[5:12] side and our campost are coming back
again so um they're well well loved in
[5:16] the campground and then we'll have to
reput that out for bid um after the
[5:21] after this season so it's a three-year
contract he's very useful we camp there
[5:27] yeah quite a bit even though it's just
down the street yeah so you'll probably
[5:29] like the new road race servicing and the
new gravel at every sight so it'll look
[5:34] nice um Community awards banquet so the
community Wars banquet is scheduled for
[5:38] February 27th that's at 5:30 pm that's
at wide Iron Ridge um this is a
[5:44] collaboration between um The Parks and
Recreation Legacy fund with the
[5:49] Smithville Chamber of Commerce to host
uh a night at the CMAs at the white Iron
[5:54] Ridge this Galla honors um accessible
citizens and dedicated volunteers within
[5:59] the community while raising crucial
funds for the Parks and Recreation
[6:02] Legacy fund and Smithfield Chamber of
Commerce um we do need volunteers um as
[6:08] well if you want to attend please let me
know I know Haley's attended obviously
[6:13] the mayor is there um Haley's worked the
silent auction table few times Danny
[6:19] take has taken some pictures so if you
do want to attend this please let me
[6:23] know we'll make sure we get you a ticket
and put you at a table with um City
[6:27] staff at least so I'm not at so I don't
know for sure if I'm in the part of it
[6:32] or not I didn't share it on Facebook or
anything you will get a ticket then so
[6:36] if you're in the final three if I'm in
the final three yeah fin
[6:39] three yeah but if not but if not we'll
help if you want to attend we help we'll
[6:44] cover that through Parks and Recreation
Cityside
[6:49] so still I think Tuesday close Tuesday
or Wednesday I don't know it's on the
[6:55] it's on the memo hang
on here somewhere saw it
[7:00] voting deadline January
[7:03] 22nd
yes vote
[7:08] early voted I didn't share the post so
I'm like well if I got in I didn't
[7:14] vote
[7:19] bios um Smithville Senior Center so in
preparation for the 20125 budget season
[7:24] staff work with Clay County Senior
Services to secure just about 14 ,000
[7:30] additional grant funding so that brings
us a total 68,000 uh Liberty keeps
[7:35] taking so much more of it um to extend
our offering to five meals a week and
[7:39] provide alternative programs on Tuesdays
and Thursdays um this grant also funds
[7:45] our senior services coordinator and we
also have an open position right now for
[7:48] a senior services coordinator assistant
as well so we'll get some more Staffing
[7:53] in there as we continue to grow and go
five days a week um some things have
[7:57] changed over in the senior center the
senior board decided not to renew their
[8:00] 501c3 status um as all financial
management has um other the senior
[8:06] center Is Now overseen by City staff and
other daily responsibilities have been
[8:10] transferred over to Amy uh these changes
were approved by the senior board before
[8:14] the position was hired so this was stuff
that we had um talked about well prior
[8:19] to
that um and we also just on January 7th
[8:24] approved of a new mou with the senior
center um that just kind of outlines the
[8:28] duties and responsibility of both
parties so uh we still want the senior
[8:32] board to be the senior board and be
there for uh any changes or um
[8:39] suggestions that we want to bring to
them and they can um you know we want to
[8:43] make them feel useful and continue to um
grow the senior center as they've done
[8:47] since 2013 so just we're just helping
more and uh helping them get more
[8:54] funds um and then also in the staff for
you don't see it here but on your table
[8:59] I have a um kind of a a year end report
and I can email this to you once we get
[9:05] it out but um it shows kind of the marks
we've made on the master plan the
[9:11] 10-year master plan as well as um the
accomplishments from both the Parks and
[9:15] Recreation Division and some of the
larger projects that um we are having
[9:19] scheduled this year so um make sure you
take a look at that and if you have any
[9:25] questions on that please let me know but
it was a overall was a it was a great
[9:28] year we again our our staff does a
really good job at continue to upgrade
[9:34] um with the funds we have
um definit on the park side and the rec
[9:40] side there was um our numbers keep
growing as you'll see here in the
[9:44] recreation before as we get there but if
you have any questions over this let me
[9:48] know but wanted to provide that to
you um and then
[9:53] lastly we had talked Haley and I have
talked as well as the mayor that we're
[9:57] going to go back to a quarterly schedule
for the Parks and Recreation committee
[10:02] um I'll get those dates on your calendar
but we're looking at January
[10:07] April maybe August and then October so
um I'll get those out to you and we'll U
[10:14] make that
official anything for me before I pass
[10:19] over to Alex for the recreation
[10:23] report all right Alex all you okay just
a quick uh report we'll start with
[10:29] sports um we're currently in the middle
of basketball season we're on week five
[10:33] of nine um for
games um let me
[10:39] see oh Youth Soccer deadline is coming
up soon in a week and a half um and then
[10:47] new this season we have Asos uh play
soccer and they're an organization that
[10:53] reached out to Matt and we're going to
give them a try this season um to take
[10:57] over our little kickers program
uh Aspen is usually over the little
[11:02] kickers clinics and we just have a hard
time finding staff or like high
[11:06] schoolers applying at all so Aspen just
ends up doing it anyways so we're going
[11:10] to try and see how this goes uh this is
like a trial for the fall too and we'll
[11:15] we'll see so that uh registration is
still open just until they're full um
[11:22] and then I included all of our youth
sports registration numbers for
[11:27] 2024 um and every year we go up about a
100 people so that's crazy a 100 kids
[11:35] every year is a lot especially in our
this population so that's great um and
[11:41] then I also included our facility
rentals um Aspen keeps track of all of
[11:45] these for us um and they just they keep
staying steady as well they just keep
[11:50] going up this is the first year we've
done this for a full year so we're
[11:55] excited to see what 2025 so we can start
comparing that stuff yes yep
[12:01] and then on the next page I included
every program or event that we had last
[12:06] year um and then how much attendance we
had um and then if the program was full
[12:12] or not so pretty much half of our
programs were full um a lot were really
[12:16] close but a lot of our little programs
fill up really
[12:20] fast
um and then I put our our rack card at
[12:26] your seat the orange flyer and we put
those out three times a year um and
[12:30] these are our spring programs that we
are offering right now um a lot of them
[12:37] are new Aspen's trying a lot of new
programs this uh season like Valentine
[12:42] cookie decorating um our little we have
monthly clubs for about 20 kids is how
[12:50] much we can handle um we've had kind
Club candy Club um we have science club
[12:56] nature Club coming up those are all new
that we're trying Tri night um and then
[13:00] we just keep continuing to add pickle
ball and I'm working on a lot of new
[13:04] pickle ball programs for the summer um I
was working on that today so we have a
[13:08] lot of pickle ball
coming um we're using grace church for
[13:12] that uh yeah yep for the for spring
lessons we're going to do them in
[13:18] Smith's force park but in the summer
it's so hot we'll do them inside at gra
[13:24] sturch and then just a couple marketing
things to wrap it up um
[13:29] we are going to have a new sponsorship
package coming out soon Matt and I were
[13:33] working on it today hopefully in the
next month um some Banner sponsorship
[13:38] opportunities um digital things on our
website stuff like that so hopefully
[13:42] that'll go live in like a
month um and then one more thing um we
[13:48] as been worked on this a lot this past
or I guess this fall um she merged our
[13:55] uh facility reservation software with
our Sports software and program
[13:59] registration so now it's just all in one
which is really nice it's a lot easier
[14:04] for everyone so if you already have an
account for sports registration then you
[14:07] can use that account to reserve a
shelter or something way easier so I
[14:13] think that's all I have right now yeah I
I'll just kind of chime in real fast on
[14:17] the um AYSO so um that also allowed us
to expand so we we only having we were
[14:25] only able to do 40 now we're able to up
it to 80 so this so they have four staff
[14:31] members and we allowed three time slots
so um they're there they show up um and
[14:38] like we said we're g them a try to see
how it goes they have a um they're um
[14:42] you proba American Youth Soccer
Association they're all over kind of
[14:45] like the West Coast they're making their
way this way um so it would be exciting
[14:49] to get some staff who have the knowledge
of soccer um because we don't want to
[14:55] keep doing the clinic to a bad quality
um so this will really up that up there
[15:00] and have reliability so like she said
Aspen was basically running in all the
[15:05] surveys say we like the girl with red
hair to do it and so I was like well of
[15:09] course Aspen's really good at and I mean
over the years I've had to teach it by
[15:12] myself so this will just get some more
consistency in there it's a really good
[15:16] program and it's 100% helped us grow our
soccer program um so we want to keep
[15:21] doing it so yep there was one really
good guy hunter maybe yeah Hunters are
[15:27] reliable yeah he yep
good right that's all we have for staff
[15:34] report anybody have any questions over
anything of the recreation
[15:39] stuff
cool exciting for another year for
[15:45] sure all
[15:52] right the staff report done yes is that
it okay um next Parks and Recreation
[15:57] review presentation
[16:03] all right so as I kind of mentioned
earlier in my staff report when we
[16:06] introducing shaa the city of Smithville
did a Citizens Academy where 12 people
[16:11] applied um and went through uh what was
it almost six weeks seven weeks I think
[16:16] it was total eight eight weeks of kind
of a review of Just City in general from
[16:22] different departments and got a a real
deep dive into the background so when I
[16:26] did this presentation it was about two
hours and then we went and did a tour of
[16:31] yeah one thing you forgot on
the report future meetings I did say
[16:37] it quarterly we want to
have did the dates work yeah did dates
[16:43] work we were going to do uh January
April August and
[16:51] October
yeah no
[16:55] you're that work for you I think it
works for me I just know that we had I
[17:00] think it was my daughter's birthday on
one of them and I was like no not her
[17:04] second birthday we can we can we can
look to change that August one to a
[17:09] different day that week or something
like that we can oh the third Thursday
[17:12] then and we're th on those Thursday yeah
but I know Haley had a conflict in April
[17:19] maybe we can check in with that and just
see once we get a little closer if that
[17:22] works April 24th would be the next one
and also one of the things with
[17:26] quarterly
meetings I think we have the on this
[17:29] board too if you miss three yeah we have
to have a
[17:32] conversation come to principales often
yeah so we need to make sure we
[17:37] yeah missing
threes even easier to do apparently on
[17:43] quarterly no you might think
it's we've only lost one person to that
[17:48] role
so Bo on this board yeah on this board
[17:53] so yeah yeah corly meetings there'll
just be um not a whole lot going on
[17:58] projectwise as as we were when we were
really diving into the playground and
[18:01] park uh design stuff um and so this will
allow us to have more productive
[18:07] meetings here what we do quarterly
coming up it'll be budget season April
[18:11] so we can really discuss that
[18:15] stuff good good okay so yeah Ci's
Academy the really dope de a deep dive
[18:21] in that when we did this presentation
for them um one first thing I thought
[18:25] was this would be great for um to go
over the parks and committee with um
[18:30] this was about a two-hour presentation
I'm going to really go quick through it
[18:33] to not do that um because you guys do
know a lot and so this is more just a
[18:38] refresher of kind of
what what is going on if anything has
[18:45] changed for you all so um this was our
2024 budget um we operate basically just
[18:52] right under uh just over $900,000 um
obviously you can see almost half of
[18:57] that is in person expenses and we'll
kind of get into Staffing here in a
[19:01] second um but we have nine city
parks 3 acres of Park land with
[19:08] different facilities and uh programs
like that different spaces um as well as
[19:15] the senior center that we look at too
[19:21] so have to up that number too by the way
yeah Alex report
[19:29] youth right so that was yeah hadn't been
updated so that one on a campground
[19:33] 3,000 people probably thousand them
alone
[19:36] or um Parks and Rec staff you can see we
have the director at the top we have the
[19:42] campost which is seasonal we have the
recreation manager which is full-time uh
[19:47] Alex oversees the recreation coordinator
which is Aspen as well as Clinic
[19:51] instructors and part-time staff as
needed um we have the senior services
[19:56] coordinator which is part time that is
staffed out of the Smithville Senior
[20:02] Center and then here soon we'll have a
senior services assistant underneath her
[20:07] and then we have our Parks maintenance
crew leader and we have two Park
[20:11] maintenance worker twos and then
seasonal as needed um for the parks
[20:16] maintenance we usually like to have
between two or three seasonals for them
[20:20] how many of those do you have that have
been like reoccurring seasonals yeah on
[20:24] the parks maintenance side yeah uh we
just lost Eli he finally left us he was
[20:31] with us since he was a junior in high
school and he went all four years of
[20:34] college with us after that and then we
had um Lance he was a he was there with
[20:39] us for two years plus his military time
stuff um Corey has been with us he's
[20:45] part-time year round basically just
comes in three days a week he's going on
[20:49] year two with us so had a lot of
returners nice we had John um Johnny
[20:56] Kennison as well he was a retiree that
was with us for three years I thought
[21:01] was Amy May was there a discussion about
her going full-time there was a
[21:05] discussion about her but we weren't able
to make it happen okay so then that's
[21:08] the part-time assistant
y yeah it was we brought to Liberty took
[21:14] all our money that's what they
[21:22] said your programs in Liberty so Parks
and Recreation master plan obviously
[21:27] many of you were involved in that
um but it's a 10-year plan that kind of
[21:33] puts our future with our half cent sales
tax um together and so as you can see in
[21:39] the accomplishment page I gave you um we
are on year three we just completed year
[21:44] three the master plan um and many of
them were were crossing off we we
[21:49] basically made it through the um
short-term uh plans for that and we are
[21:54] on to the uh medium term period years 4
through six a lot of those are aimed at
[21:59] continuing the neighborhood park Focus
um getting art
[22:04] downtown looking at Trails as we have
the Riverwalk coming up so all that
[22:10] stuff is scheduled and then obviously
that big project working on there as the
[22:14] Smiths Fork project and getting that
done so um here towards the end of the
[22:19] year maybe in no October when we meet
we'll really start diving into that
[22:22] Smith work as it's uh scheduled for
engineering in 2627 so um that'll be a a
[22:30] good project I'll be looking forward to
you guys on um getting ideas down as we
[22:35] start looking at
that yeah because uh one of those
[22:39] medium-term goals included you know the
sports courts of tennis and now that the
[22:43] schools got it on their bond issuance in
April yeah might not be yeah so it' be
[22:48] kind of like basketball and pickle ball
but we did add that into we took those
[22:52] funds and or we took those ideas and put
them into the Smith's Fork project so it
[22:56] all be done at once rather than separate
so but we'll definitely see what what
[23:01] happens
there that could change by by 2026 27 as
[23:07] well
so um H sales tax when we when we put
[23:13] the H sales tax back in 2021 we were
estimated around
[23:17] 450,000 the past two years we've been
averaging somewhere around 700,000 and
[23:22] and sales ta and that is split between
uh public works for storm water projects
[23:28] have been doing projects but we have
been putting our savings aside for that
[23:31] smithw project but it also helped us um
add more money to IMO Ridge because
[23:36] originally we were only looking at
250,000 and then we bumped that up and
[23:40] doubled it so in interest has helped us
too yeah keeping the money in the bank
[23:45] and gaining
interest this is you all Parks and
[23:49] Recreation committee so this your shirts
yeah so uh this committee advises the
[23:57] board of Al any approv ments or
additions they deem important for the
[24:00] city parks and recreation system and may
provide reports and other documents to
[24:03] the Planning Commission related to
improvements or amenities in accordance
[24:07] to the master plan so we have seven
committee
[24:10] members um as you guys we just um did
IMO Ridge project for example but um
[24:17] we've also done the Heritage Park and
different things so we're excited to
[24:21] continue moving on um to
that uh so as you kind of heard me talk
[24:28] about the banquet um the Smithville
Legacy fund so this is kind of our
[24:32] fundraising group so the Smithville
Legacy fund was established in
[24:36] 2013 um was to serve the Community
Foundation uh funds exist to improve the
[24:42] quality of life in in the city of Smith
and surrounding areas um and basically
[24:48] the Legacy fund members will work with
stakeholders to prioritize and ex to use
[24:54] the expenditures for or use the funds
for expenditures and um what was it
[24:58] probably two years ago or three years
ago probably now where the Legacy fund
[25:03] really wanted to focus on Park projects
and so that's where I came on board with
[25:07] the assistant city manager at the time
and and started working with that and
[25:11] now I'm just on there by myself with
them but it's uh we have three members
[25:15] now we have one open spot but um we kind
of did some brainstorming with them a
[25:19] few years back and they really wanted to
focus on raising funds for the Heritage
[25:22] Park stage and so we put some money
together and put a rendering and uh when
[25:27] we go to the banquet or any other events
um we have this here and we want to
[25:32] start raising funds to close the gap in
the funding because currently this is
[25:36] scheduled for 2029 but as we start
raising funds um at the banquet we're
[25:42] hoping we can do this project a lot
sooner um the banqu with the last two
[25:46] years we've raised just over $122,000 so
um we got 24,000 I think in there is
[25:52] actually 26 27,000 now and uh I mean
that's a yeah I think that matters I
[25:58] think I gave him a $2,000 check to put
in there too long ago so that those uh
[26:03] That Money Matters and you think here by
20128 we'll have hopefully more in there
[26:08] and um if we could get close to $100,000
to cut that in half I mean that means we
[26:13] can definitely get that sooner so um
excited for that who's on that board
[26:19] again so it is Jennifer Justice um she
is a real turn town then we have Angela
[26:25] Gillan she's with um Edward
and then Starla Jane she is with um
[26:31] she's got her own realtor company now so
um three big stakeholders that are
[26:35] really good at fundraising um but
doesn't mean we won't um get you guys to
[26:41] help with some fundraising too because I
know you guys are good at that
[26:43] especially Shauna as well so um we'll
really start digging into that I think
[26:48] we have that on our um or we talked
about in our meeting to look at that
[26:52] maybe towards the end of the year to get
some fundraising stuff together and have
[26:56] you guys a little bit more involved with
the banquet to really grow it to not get
[27:00] too stale
so we're running out of board shows to
[27:05] copy
yeah all right so I'm GNA go I'm going
[27:09] to go through our Parks here um and kind
of go over kind of the minties there so
[27:14] we have Heritage Park which is obviously
located just downtown we have two
[27:19] lighted ball fields one unlighted one
shelter bassball Court playground a half
[27:24] mile pave walking trail open Green Space
one restroom
[27:28] and two parking
lots and the improvements of this is in
[27:33] phase two of the master plan which is in
that 40 year or year four to six but
[27:39] it'll probably towards the end of that
around 2029 so it'll be a little bit
[27:44] away but um we have to get sm work done
first before we can do anything to
[27:47] Heritage Park because we can't get rid
of the ball fields
[27:50] um can't give rid of all of our ball
fields basically so but it is looking
[27:55] really good with the Caboose getting
painted in the it is band being gone
[28:01] yeah uh Courtyard Park located right in
the center of downtown this is the Ali K
[28:07] Memorial stage it has electricity we've
added the 911 memorial um perimeter
[28:13] electrical boxes uh shade trees for now
uh picnic tables park benches and
[28:20] restrooms I say the shade trees I do
want to say we've put um they're under
[28:25] contract with Urban Tree Specialists um
they are struggling it's been known
[28:29] since before I was here in 2017 when I
started um they were already on contract
[28:34] and we spent we spent multiple thousands
of dollars to keep them alive and keep
[28:39] them healthy um they're in a very small
space for those kind of trees to be so
[28:43] close to each other they basically fight
over water and sunlight together um but
[28:48] Urban trees is they're out there three
times a year give them what they need
[28:52] and um just trying to get them to grow
and there have been some improvements
[28:56] over the years there are some that are
still struggling
[28:58] so um yeah they give them giant shots
it's they basically do shots of iron so
[29:04] if any if for those of you that don't
know like trees like that need a root
[29:08] system as wide as it is tall and deep
and yeah it's got like 10t of grass and
[29:14] the rest is pavement so yeah it doesn't
get a lot yeah so so we might have to
[29:18] look at shade structures and
Alternatives down there too I think I've
[29:22] just I just sent them a $5,000 check to
for what they've been doing over the
[29:26] past fall so um one of the other things
we struggle with because Matt and I got
[29:30] to see this when we dug the 911 memorial
is there's foundations there because
[29:33] there used to be buildings there and
they didn't take the foundations out so
[29:36] we hit brick we hit rock so that was a
gravel lot so those trees are dealing
[29:40] with that too so so we try to keep the
soil as soft as possible and water it
[29:45] multiple times a day so we're trying for
them but um they are a staple for
[29:51] downtown so we don't want to lose them
but keep trying our best but yeah
[29:55] alternatives are in the back of our
minds for
[29:58] for shade in the future in Columbia a
couple weeks um um couple weeks ago for
[30:03] a wrestling tournament went to a you put
your mic
[30:07] on I think it make sure you can talk
yeah can you hear me now yes I was in
[30:12] Columbia a couple weeks ago at and
pulled into a park just to waste some
[30:16] time and they had like the mesh tops and
they had them in triangles throughout
[30:20] the whole park and I was like it dawn on
me what it was and probably be a pretty
[30:24] efficient way to keep shade on Parks
yeah that would definitely those canopy
[30:28] that we got the splash pad something
similar to that and we've talked about
[30:31] before like if we do so on the Square
since we do like before we do the next
[30:36] stage or whatever but movie in the park
and stuff like that if you if we do run
[30:40] something with a canopies you can put
speakers in and put yeah better Lighting
[30:43] in because the lights down there are not
great yeah during movie night so
[30:48] definitely some future planning there
but um nothing is scheduled to upgrade
[30:52] Courtyard park at the current moment but
um doesn't mean that something could
[30:55] come up at any moment
um we have remembrance Park which is
[30:59] right across the street from City Hall
um right here on the corner of uh bridge
[31:04] and Main Street um that is a veteran
memorial donated in 2007 by mayor and
[31:11] Mrs Charles hitchborn and they also
added the Gazebo um this past year our
[31:18] maintenance guys took it on themselves
to upgrade that so now um has been
[31:22] repainted the rust is not there anymore
and now the the roof is as gray and it
[31:26] kind of matches a little bit more with
downtown
[31:29] so um we got HBY Park which is at one
HBY drive that's about 31 acres and it's
[31:35] probably uh my favorite Park that we
have is um it's about 15 Acres of
[31:41] Parkland including the 10 acres stock
Lake one shelter that was donated by the
[31:45] quanas club got picnic tables around the
the water and shade trees throughout
[31:51] it's definitely one of the most peaceful
and um this is in phase three of the
[31:54] master plan it looks at putting a
walking trail all the way around it to
[31:58] um add a way to use it a little bit more
and no ice fishing at H Park water does
[32:04] move people yeah it is part of our
resir we might have been the ones to
[32:09] call the police last time those dots on
them there was out do yeah it was it's
[32:14] the moving water so does not freeze that
solid the guy said it was 4 inches thick
[32:20] of ice but I couldn't have been that way
the whole way around no just on the
[32:24] edges yeah yeah H Park I will say the
quanas club because um they're still
[32:29] this is kind of what they use as their
fishing derby for their their event and
[32:33] they're the ones that added the shelter
and it looks really nice and they're
[32:36] looking at possibly seeing what they
could do more there of a walking trail
[32:39] to the shelter or um just additional
thing so we're excited to see think they
[32:44] added a fire pit this last year yeah
fire pit got added and yeah that that's
[32:49] one that we that's kind of going to be
the qu since they use it the most yeah
[32:54] they do they can do projects there with
that Derby is huge if you have haven't
[32:58] been yeah big yeah really cool big H
fish this big sometimes um Diamond Crest
[33:05] Park and okay railroad Trail so uh phase
one of the master plan was to complete
[33:10] Diamond Crest park because the splash
pad was there but just by itself in the
[33:13] middle of the field um that was donated
um to the city in Le of payment of
[33:18] dedication which is um a development
ordinance that when they come in there's
[33:23] a fee that goes into um how many um
units are within their development and
[33:29] so there's a evaluation and I I'll send
this out to you and I have this link to
[33:34] um that ordinance there so you can take
a look at it and see that see that but
[33:39] um the Lu payment for Diamond Crest at
the time was just right around um
[33:44] $60,000 so they built the Splash Pad but
then gave us to do the rest and in the
[33:50] master plan we we put together
$250,000 into um adding the playground
[33:56] the sidewalk
um and the fencing around the area so um
[34:01] we had been working with um that same
developer to add in a parking lot but
[34:07] that and restroom but that did not um
succeed so um in
[34:12] 2023 for the 2024 budget the board of
alderman allocated $90,000 for a
[34:17] restroom and more sidewalk improvements
um we were able to get that done right
[34:22] there towards the end of the year it
took a whole year to get it but we
[34:25] weren't the only one um and Parks and
Rec departments that were waiting on
[34:29] them um I think they were waiting for
Klay County so they could do it all at
[34:32] once cuz Klay County put in six
different restrooms around the area um
[34:37] but we got that in everything's done
it'll be ready to go for the start of
[34:40] the season and then um the parking lot
is in discussion so if you've been up
[34:46] there lately there's a new development
going there right there by 169 they've
[34:50] moved dirt already that developer um has
agreed to add in a parking lot for us um
[34:57] in with his dedication fee and um we
felt this is a lot lot more um better
[35:04] partnership already than the previous
one we were in so hopefully that'll
[35:08] parking lot will be in um before we open
the splash pad for the
[35:12] season and just so you don't those you
that don't know the before we built this
[35:18] park all of our Parks except Emerald
Ridge were on Main Street so we had
[35:23] Diamond Crest is the farthest north that
the city goes pretty much and then Ridge
[35:29] is redone now yeah but it but it was
pretty it was pretty bad yeah so in
[35:35] 20124 the city was awarded a
recreational Trails program Grant um
[35:39] from DNR that's the Department of
Natural Resources to construct the OK
[35:44] railroad Trail which was formerly known
as Diamond Crest Trail um this was an
[35:48] old railroad rideway that went through
Smithville and on it way up to from
[35:53] Oklahoma all the way up to Iowa um and
part of the Grant was some historical
[35:59] references and so um to add some more
points to us we renamed the trail
[36:04] provided the historical reference to
that area and uh we're looking to put
[36:08] that trail out for bid here um by the
end of the month of January if not early
[36:13] February and uh get that out forbid to
hopefully start construction this summer
[36:19] so that'll be almost a 12 foot wide
Trail that'll be concreted um that'll go
[36:23] from the top there of of that diamond
crest Hood all the way to Lake Meadows
[36:29] and provide three neighborhoods with
access to Diamond chis Park so um be
[36:34] really cool once that's done and really
complete that Park once the trail and
[36:39] parking lot have been completed did
Chuck end up doing the engineering on
[36:43] that yes so we so we save the
engineering fuse by doing it in house
[36:47] yeah it's 12 foot line hopefully we draw
but this is part if you guys look at it
[36:53] on a map for those of you that don't
live up north the plan is to eventually
[36:57] hook into Eagle Heights and the trail
that's going to go down Eagle Parkway to
[37:03] TI and 180th Street Trail yeah we have
we already have the ride away to go
[37:08] behind Lake Meadows which is where phase
two will be and then phase three we'll
[37:12] be getting it from the end of Lake
Meadows somehow back over to F Highway
[37:17] into Eagle Parkway Eagle Parkway Eagle
Parkway now yes Eagle Parkway maybe tman
[37:22] right there so it's you go yeah there's
[Music]
[37:26] um Trade Winds I think is the road yeah
yeah we have right away on the street
[37:33] it's just getting from Lake Meadows to
that so we're excited to to move on this
[37:39] park and hopefully um we'll be completed
here it won't take long to concrete all
[37:43] that once it's out and and done so
hopefully by the time the splash but
[37:47] opens up around Memorial day we'll we'll
see a lot of progress down in 188th to
[37:51] like Bainbridge is part of the
development going in by Eagle Heights
[37:55] right by Wildflower yeah
[37:59] in Ridge Park you guys have heard a lot
about that one
[38:03] um won't spin too much but that current
playground that was there that you see
[38:07] on this side of the left that was
installed in the year
[38:10] 2000 um but as you guys worked through
and um we have what we have now so
[38:15] excited to get that shelter in there um
here in the coming weeks smooth Fork
[38:20] park uh this is our largest park it's
250 plus acres that the city leases from
[38:25] the US Army Corp of Engineers
has one lighted and one unlighted ball
[38:30] field and socer area a lighted football
field two shelters electricity two
[38:36] shelters without
electricity uh two
[38:40] restrooms skate park self-supplied
driving range uh a campground special
[38:47] use Scout area Girl Scout special use
area and fishing um from the Smithville
[38:52] Lake
Dam this is obviously in phase three
[38:56] phase two and three of the master plan
first phase obviously is the um sports
[39:03] complex and then uh phase three is
deeper on as we for like a destination
[39:07] playground which is listed in the master
[39:11] plan smooth for Campground this is a
full service Campground each site has
[39:16] electricity water sewer and
connections um that separates us from
[39:21] the County campground because they um
have just electricity at each Campground
[39:26] yeah they're like side but they don't
have yeah they have dumps and then you
[39:30] got to fill up your tank so a lot of
people enjoy a campground just because
[39:34] we're all service and um it's a lot
easier to stay longer at our Campground
[39:39] um we have a restroom and shower housee
on site um throughout the years we
[39:44] officially upgraded all SES to 2030 amps
um previously it was just right around
[39:49] 2021 where um we only had half the
campground at 50 amp and all the RVs
[39:55] were um just getting bigger and bigger
and so on the board of alderman allowed
[39:59] us to upgrade that and uh we were
turning we were turning people away
[40:04] because we didn't have 50 amp and they
had to have it um so now we're all 50
[40:08] amp which is what most use and then 3020
for different Services
[40:13] there and you guys have almost got all
the all the water lines are we're about
[40:17] halfway yeah we're about halfway to get
frost free lines in um and then sewer we
[40:23] put a new pump station in so we good for
a while on that sewer is good we do
[40:27] probably there looks to probably be some
kind of tree roots in the sewer some
[40:31] yeah we're doing the lateral but yeah
your station's new station's new and
[40:35] you'll see on the accomplishments um the
parks and R department they completed uh
[40:39] 10 water leaks at Smith for Campground
which is down from 2024 which is or down
[40:44] from 2023 when we did 14 so that is good
we want them to go down we don't want
[40:49] them to keep 2017 you did 10 a week yeah
just about um the water line is really
[40:54] old there just crumbling um and in years
past they did quick fixes and just um
[40:59] capped it rather than going from the
spet to the main and so Chase has really
[41:04] made that a priority ATT to each water
lake they get even if it's a small one
[41:08] at the top they'll just go from the spet
all the way to the main water line to
[41:12] prevent um all the Le that we were
getting so and the pressure has
[41:16] increased as well yeah the pressure has
well there's not holes in the line yeah
[41:21] you would actually barely on two dishes
and it would just sometimes we did a
[41:25] whole new water line right when we did
the pump station
[41:27] didn't we put in new they they did for
didn't not the campground they went
[41:32] around the campground yeah the um but
yeah no but we actually didn't get our
[41:36] first water leak until September so we
opened in April D so we had 10 water
[41:41] leaks between September and October and
2 months so not sure what happened but
[41:47] something happened dried up dried up it
is what did really didn't happen yeah um
[41:53] yeah so the campground um brings in
about $270,000 in Revenue um that was
[42:00] about the same and then the I put this
gu right around that time so that's
[42:04] probably pretty accurate how we ended
the season so I know this is off subject
[42:08] for as a camper we would appreciate if
we could open up I know it doesn't open
[42:12] to April 1st but like we go the first
year there we take 15 campers down there
[42:17] because it's close to home if something
breaks we have waterline breaks if we've
[42:20] forgotten something um and then we also
do Easter there so it's hard for us to
[42:24] plan if we don't know we can all get in
there so we be nice if we could bump it
[42:28] up just even a half a month well we
talked about opening up in first of the
[42:32] year which I don't know if we I did talk
to the campost about it and um I mean
[42:37] open kept going we kept going over like
the cons and what was going on different
[42:41] things like that and so we just decided
to keep it the same and then we'll look
[42:45] at it again this year a little
earlier maybe open half of them
[42:50] available for first of the year for
people that want to book things in
[42:53] advance we just didn't feel like we were
we were going to be able to get out the
[42:56] word quick enough to everybody this year
on but at least if we can go this year
[43:00] but K just heads up they Camp Coast can
spread the word that we're open up
[43:03] January cuz um obviously holidays are
the big big thing and that goes so quick
[43:08] those are what gets booked on April 1 is
the holidays so we wanted to make sure
[43:12] we were fair and got it out to everybody
well and you could be like lost and I
[43:16] they they box out you can't do those
till a certain time yeah so you're not
[43:19] innovated all at once for everything and
it crashed you guys turned on the system
[43:23] what two or three years ago you crashed
well we need to look at doing what the
[43:27] county does too with the holiday
weekends of requiring more day bookings
[43:31] five days at Clay County yeah Clay
County we do we do minimum three night
[43:35] which is yeah but they're at five now
and people will pay for five even if
[43:38] they use two or three and it's yeah they
do yeah just yeah and and one thing too
[43:44] for those of you that don't know all the
revenue we make at smth Fork Matt
[43:47] mentioned it's least yes s all the money
we make there we have to spend there we
[43:53] can't make a bunch of money off the
campground and then go spend it on
[43:56] Heritage Park
the agreement with the lawsuit which we
[44:00] talked about last week and when the park
was built and the dam was built the city
[44:07] originally had talked about that's their
park they're going to whatever the city
[44:12] then had a lawsuit with the core we the
city lost so we essentially have a
[44:17] balloon payment loan
at for that land yeah so and Matt knows
[44:23] the numbers but it escalates pretty
steeply in a couple years to where we're
[44:27] paying a six figure lease every year
right now we're we at 40 46,0 24 and
[44:33] then we're paying 53,000 this year yeah
and then it and it keeps creeping up so
[44:38] when you look at like the campground the
shelter houses all the things that Smith
[44:41] Fork you're like oh we could have more
shelter houses if you look at the
[44:44] numbers for rentals you look at the
campground numbers if we added more we
[44:47] have to spend it there so it can't be
used for anything else yeah so Ballfield
[44:52] rentals Matt's time staff's time the the
electrical upgrades we did there it's
[44:59] because the money was made at that Park
we have to spend it at that Park we
[45:02] can't take that money and use it for a
revenue generator somewhere
[45:06] else so that number looks like oh yeah
we made a lot of money but then you look
[45:10] at the 150,000 we just spent on pavement
the money Chase spends on Frost freeze
[45:14] it adds up really really
quick so you can see in the winter of
[45:18] 2020 and 2021 we uh 49 SS were upgraded
to 50 amp uh and then that increase from
[45:24] 2020 21 occupancy rate increased by 9% %
so those were money money well spent
[45:29] there and those improvements uh Lake
remote Trail so this is part of Smiths
[45:33] Fork park it's a 3.95 mile of um no ice
fishing there either improved for uh 40
[45:40] acre setting trails and three different
trails with three different type
[45:43] Services we have agim um maintenance 10-
foot cut and single track um you can go
[45:48] fishing there and then the Girl Scout
area is back there very peaceful walk
[45:52] through there um actually Ben if he was
here he's been doing some work out there
[45:57] he's been uh cutting down some Limbs and
different things like that so he's been
[46:02] trying to do what he can back there do
you have a trail counter out there is
[46:05] that how you're keeping track of people
I do have a trail C I have a i' I've it
[46:10] was at uh Main Street and then I moved
it over just I really wanted to see how
[46:13] many people were using it so
yeah they're all over the Katy Trail so
[46:19] it's you know good to see do we have
that I think this I'm not sure what
[46:24] cross country sometimes goes back to
that probably that was probably that was
[46:27] probably uh one of the cross country
days also the uh we also at Lake remote
[46:31] it's our second year doing it'll be
third year this year but the archery
[46:34] club postes a 3D archery event out at
Lake remote which is really cool to
[46:39] bring it back to its roots because um
Lake remote was built by an archery club
[46:44] in the early
1990s so um they're the ones that added
[46:49] the shelter there and it was a for an
archery range that um it's starting to
[46:54] come back to a trend in on the
California side but um the archery club
[47:00] now does their 3D um High School meet
back there so it's I think there's a 3D
[47:05] tournament also they have it's open to
anybody so one of their fundraisers keep
[47:08] an eye out for it if you do shoot that
they have a 3D open to anybody
[47:12] tournament
yeah that's a cool partnership with the
[47:16] school and uh they're easy to work with
just don't shoot those real
[47:20] deer Main Street Trail that's one of the
sports are not supplied by Misha it's
[47:25] not a sport it's a it's not considered a
sport so they don't get the funding we
[47:29] need to support if we can yeah uh Main
Street Trail is 1.4 Mile Trail that
[47:33] connects downtown to Smithville to
Smithville lake and Klay County parks of
[47:38] their 34 mile or 34 miles of Trails um
it was a recreation Trail program Grant
[47:45] similar to what we got for the OK
railroad Trail
[47:49] um it was also tied the funds were also
tied into the 2018 bond for the
[47:54] streetcap phase one this is an 8 to 10t
wide concrete trail with water fountains
[47:59] bike fixing stations bike racks and and
benches um and only one air pump because
[48:05] someone stole the other
one H weld those things in man yeah we
[48:11] were averaging about 30 visitors and
that was just at the top where our shop
[48:16] is there's obviously a lot more that um
only go to about Grace Church and turn
[48:20] around so um numbers are it's really
well attended throughout the day like
[48:25] people are walking it in the morning
when I get to work and they're walking
[48:27] it when I leave work so um that was a
great addition to downtown and Grace is
[48:33] continually added to their shelter too
it's been nice that they're they're
[48:36] putting money into that too to get
people a place to stop and it's not
[48:39] we're not having to spend money on that
so that extent across 169 we under under
[48:45] 169 so the river yeah so the River Walk
is um it's being engineered right now Y
[48:52] and we're looking at 2026 for um
hopefully by the completion by 2026 and
[48:58] that's with second Creek sidewalk so
that gets us all the way to that gets us
[49:01] all the way to PL that'll gets you to
downtown yeah it gets us so and if you
[49:05] look at the so we had a we did we had
the board of Alman meeting two months
[49:09] ago now that we went over the plans it
was in January it was our last it was
[49:13] our first January meeting first January
meeting yeah so each um so it'll go
[49:18] second Creek up to like the subdivision
AC it's on the North side and then it'll
[49:24] CR there'll be a crosswalk and then
it'll tie in every sidewalk in um Cedar
[49:28] Lakes oh really so Cedar Lakes from the
furthest sidewalk that you guys the the
[49:34] furthest entrance all the way will be
connected to this Trail so is that going
[49:38] to be on the south side then of the
Street then it be it'll be on the Cedar
[49:42] Lake Side once it gets to Cedar once it
crosses over to Cedar Lakes so it'll be
[49:45] on the North side up to lman to that
other subdivision then it'll cross yeah
[49:50] and then it'll catch you so yeah it'll
connect Cedar Lakes what's the other one
[49:55] across the street and then
yeah I for just getting to that point
[49:59] would be awesome expecting yeah one of
the things too is um so we have to you
[50:04] know bolt onto the bridge um because it
goes in front of those houses that are
[50:08] there to connect them and then um we're
following if you look at it how it
[50:13] follows because the city owns the corner
of 169 in Maine we on the North West
[50:19] Corner yeah and we're kind of following
closer to the river because if you try
[50:24] to come up under the bridge and go
straight it's really really steep but we
[50:27] are tying into the sidewalk on
169 theas Stone Creek Villas yeah and I
[50:34] would almost recommend if when they go
to look into that they use the first
[50:37] utilize the first entrance if you're
going to cross that first one
[50:40] and I think that's where it was yeah
yeah that's what he's saying and then
[50:43] it'll be a sidewalk yeah then it'll
continue up all the way to connect all
[50:47] of them1 and the tie-ins are going to be
the same width as existing sidewalk so
[50:51] it won't look wonky anything similar to
what we did yeah that was a mark funded
[50:55] Grant too and so that we
end I think we ended up getting close to
[51:01] 90% on one of them yeah
so that it's it's being engineered right
[51:07] now so I've seen the flags and stuff I
just wasn't for sure and it is going
[51:12] next to the river you know so it our
River a lot of it is flood way so if
[51:18] there is a time where they have to open
the dam like they've had before the
[51:21] water gets up it could cover part of the
trail but that's it has to like we have
[51:25] to do that just like with park it has to
flood if there's a flood it's actually
[51:28] on our list to talk a little bit more
about the Riverwalk Trail more detail um
[51:33] to kind of really just get that out to
the public as well yeah because we want
[51:36] to know we want your guys' input on kind
of
[51:38] like the grant is for the concrete we
have to do some little bit of signage
[51:43] because the Watershed and there is a um
the hawk signal like we have at by Grace
[51:49] yeah that's in the plan but other than
that there's no amenities type of stuff
[51:54] along it because it is but sidewalk even
we have to do 8 foot right for the grant
[51:59] M so even the second Creek sidewalk Park
will be 8 foot the trail will be wider
[52:04] or but minimum we have to do8 foot even
along second Creek and that's what we
[52:09] have going out this way is eight foot
right 10 foot yeah it's 8 foot in front
[52:13] of a couple houses because they didn't
want to do the full easement but once
[52:16] you get past the houses it's 10 foot 10
foot yeah 2026 is going to be a big year
[52:21] as Chase said he goes man I'm 26 is
going to be crazy so wants to ride it
[52:25] side by side down the new Trail and
clear snow I know I told him but yeah
[52:29] it'll open up that River for walking for
fishing I mean it opens up a lot running
[52:35] you'll be able you'll be able to run a
train for a marathon and stay on Trails
[52:38] because commercial is going into at the
same time around the same time
[52:41] commercial is going in this year this
summer this summer so yeah so you
[52:44] commercial to the school which will tie
into Hills of Shannon and the new
[52:48] subdivision South Fairview Crossing y so
you'll be able to run from Fair Crossing
[52:52] which their sidewalks already in or walk
all the way down to downtown
[52:57] and then go east to west yeah that's
exciting I think that will bring more
[53:01] appeal to the city than Smith forks I
think it's because it's tying in your
[53:05] local neighborhoods yeah so I think
it'll be appealing
[53:09] forun yeah finally not going to be on an
island anymore
[53:13] yeah uh so then we got we got Wildflower
Park um this is 6.23 Acres um off wild
[53:21] wild Drive in Haley's neck of the woods
um it's close to Eagle Heights
[53:25] Elementary it's a small retention pond
on the property um the guys actually
[53:30] Mark I'll say Mark has taken upon
himself to really clean up that pond so
[53:35] if you've been out there the trees have
come down it's a lot easier to to use
[53:39] there's some big fish in that pond yeah
and so um we'll continue to look at
[53:43] possibly stocking that keeping that up
and then um this is in phase three the
[53:49] master plan um kind of later on but
we'll definitely get with that
[53:52] neighborhood and kind of go over what
they want it to look like because um a
[53:57] lot of them attended the master plan uh
when we were going over that to the
[54:01] public and there was a lot of ideas and
there was some ideas that we had and we
[54:05] scrapped them and went and just built uh
Diamond crust instead so um we'll
[54:11] definitely come back to that because it
is a lot of kids in that neighborhood a
[54:15] lot of families so it'll be a really
great Park um some news on that there's
[54:20] a development that's going there to the
south side of Wildflower neighborhood um
[54:27] okay where they've done where they've
kind of staged all that piping and stuff
[54:31] back there that'll be a new subdivision
that's it's in Planning Commission right
[54:35] now it hasn't has it been approved by
then it has been approved by then and so
[54:40] they'll they've got different phases
phase one is to add kind of the front
[54:42] part and they're going to be adding a
sidewalk in front of that neighborhood
[54:46] uh which will help us be able to get a
sidewalk from there up to Eagle Heights
[54:50] on that road there um part of their park
dedication is to get part of
[54:56] Wildfire right yep and they've uh added
a track of land that they're donating
[55:01] and they're going to kind of clean up
the area and so we'll add more land more
[55:05] acres to this park and so well maybe be
able to add a second entrance um for
[55:09] parking in the future um but yeah some
be really cool to have that some ideas
[55:15] coming through there G US Park or
concrete they're going to have to donate
[55:19] acreage to us so they're doing they're
doing they're doing both they're doing
[55:22] sidewalk and acreage so the park
dedication is about 700 bucks a door
[55:27] right is where we're at now so if it's
apartment we did it per door apartment
[55:32] complexes whatever so they're 200 I
think houses two 200 something so it's a
[55:38] substantial amount and they'll be on
site doing the work anyway so for them
[55:40] to put the concrete in it's easier
where's the sidewalk going right yeah
[55:46] right Eagle Parkway yeah it'll be on
their side eagle Parkway just be a
[55:50] sidewalk with their land they the goal
is west or the goal is to connect on the
[55:54] west to connect uh the trails crosswalk
we did to Bainbridge which is that next
[56:02] intersection right by Rollins and then
like you're going golf course that road
[56:08] yeah hopefully we can get the county to
help with from Bainbridge to 180th
[56:14] because they were talked about going
like connecting 188th to 180th across
[56:18] the golf course or somehow in that area
but if they go along that rway it makes
[56:22] more sense so that people can walk out
of the park up and then yeah we did
[56:25] apply for a grant for that um sidewalk
that would go from 180th all the way up
[56:30] to Eagle com I was trying to get on
there neighborhood people to comment it
[56:34] didn't score very well for some if you
look at 180th to Bainbridge though like
[56:38] there are some ditches in there that are
pretty bad so we want to to get culverts
[56:42] in those and get a trail on those would
be very helpful to those Property Owners
[56:45] yeah so it's on it's on the list and it'
be it'd be great to connect those areas
[56:50] uh we have Humphrey Nancy Smith Park
that that was something um that's that
[56:54] picture there um right here that's where
this is uh First Street here so it's
[57:01] it's this area here and also this little
corner here but in
[57:06] 2026 again they're going to be doing or
is it 27 she said 27 27 to7 they're
[57:12] putting a roundabout here um that will
take away some of this road so this will
[57:17] all it'll take that whole road goes away
it'll take away this road and this
[57:20] Second Street will connect all the way
through here and so this will all become
[57:24] one big Gra area so yeah we could do
something there
[57:31] in yeah oh it gets you out a lot faster
at roundabout yeah it takes as long as
[57:37] the bridge is taking 180 Day projects
we're not touching the bridge well I
[57:42] know that bridge right here is already
it's not we're not doing anything to the
[57:45] bridge I know happening right now good
thing we found out in the last meeting
[57:49] is that crates gone that big hole gone
yeah so this will be all be one big
[57:54] green space and it'll allow us an
opportunity to do something with that
[57:57] Park so there's a obviously assistant
living over here so there could be we
[58:02] can get creative and do something so
that road up top where that just connect
[58:07] straight across then y yep straight
across Second Street goes by this the
[58:10] cemetery yep y okay so just connect it
yeah so they don't that that
[58:15] intersection is super wonky to get in
and out it so that bridge where that
[58:19] Road's going north now we could have
that utilize that whole Space because
[58:22] there won't be that road there we have
all that available to do another
[58:25] playground Poss
[58:28] yeah if we can get the water yeah yeah
this area does flood but when they redo
[58:34] the roundabout um they're going to fix
that so also the road might go through
[58:39] into like where left Pote is too because
the property owner to the right there
[58:43] where mat got the thing they're planning
on bringing the parking lot to the road
[58:47] so yeah bringing something through there
eventually we got wildf we got humre and
[58:51] then some other sites that we maintain
are City Hall Senior Center and the old
[58:57] schoolhouse if you know you guys know
the old
[59:00] schoolhouse got a new roof yeah we
manage we don't we don't manage the
[59:06] schoolhouse but we manage the land that
it's on so it's we mow it to say at
[59:10] least take care of the trees so you
don't you own the land but don't own the
[59:13] schoolhouse itself correct correct does
the Historic Society is responsible for
[59:19] the school house
yeah there wasn't even in Clay County uh
[59:25] Smith Senior Center so it's fully funded
by Klay County Senior Services it was
[59:30] remodeled back in 2012 and opened up in
2013 for the senior centers it was just
[59:35] kind of a brick and mor building then we
added the um you mean a Morton Building
[59:40] Morton Building sorry Morton Building um
that's where development used to be
[59:43] located at but then turn into a senior
center um large common room with chairs
[59:49] and tables for 50 guests large
residential kitchen uh we host senior
[59:53] lunches senior Fitness classes now
Monday through Friday and then we open
[59:57] it up for reservations Monday through
Sunday after uh 4:00 during the week and
[1:00:01] then all day on Sunday and Saturday you
guys took the cabinet shop I don't
[1:00:06] remember that and I lived here at the
time you guys took the cabinet shop
[1:00:08] completely down and built it over no
they uh there was that um Morton
[1:00:15] Building here and then they put stuck Co
around it basically and then redid the
[1:00:18] inside so yeah very
creative yeah stuck o brick stuck o
[1:00:24] brick they got by c not too long ago and
it's got replaced we did get that
[1:00:28] replaced it looks fine Bo and
yeah it's great the can we get sometime
[1:00:36] before the next meeting get like the
like 10e trend on reservations since
[1:00:40] we've changed policy and all that stuff
for the uh I could probably give you
[1:00:43] Revenue I can't give you probably guess
because we started keeping care of that
[1:00:46] but you Revenue yeah yeah that well or
total number of reservations or whatever
[1:00:50] you yeah we could probably do that I
think I I cuz I saw him line dancing in
[1:00:55] there last night I think yeah they do
Tuesday nights okay or yeah you would
[1:01:00] have saw them Tuesday night Tuesday
night yeah okay when you were here for
[1:01:03] the board meeting yeah that's what it
was I went out front yeah uh special
[1:01:07] events uh we host an uh many special
events in our Downtown Courtyard or we
[1:01:13] host a numerous of special events every
year our Downtown Courtyard is perfect
[1:01:16] destination for festivals vender fairs
concerts as well as we offer uh spacious
[1:01:21] Smith Fork park Green Space for outdoor
concerts and special events so um
[1:01:25] obviously you can see these numbers
we're a little behind but we go to 25
[1:01:28] vents in 2023 and then around 3,000
people for haunted Campground or
[1:01:35] so uh facility management as you can see
as we talked about in our staff report
[1:01:40] 2024 is the first year we really dived
into um facility rentals we have 13
[1:01:45] sites across nine Parks um cost range
around 15 to 50 or50
[1:01:51] $50 um those open up on January 1 for
the full calendar year you get updated
[1:01:56] picture of the shelter yeah definitely
looks nice now we got different beams
[1:02:00] here they took down the roof um the guys
did a really good job at that getting
[1:02:04] those
upgraded Youth and adult sports um we
[1:02:11] have little kickers all the way down
through here as you guys saw um some of
[1:02:16] the new things we added were the senior
Fitness classes we expanded those um
[1:02:20] pickle ball adult basketball did you go
on Tuesday
[1:02:26] what where's it at and where do you guys
have it at Grace it was
[1:02:32] ated I'm assuming website it's different
every time okay just wherever we can get
[1:02:37] availability there's one more in
February I think call your own
[1:02:42] foul uh I mean honestly I think I mean
there was times where last year there
[1:02:48] was there's 20 people there but it's
just consistency it was also
[1:02:54] freezing this week think if you had
consistency would be yeah my son-in-law
[1:03:00] drives up to go to do it why can't he do
it
[1:03:02] here yeah you talking about pickle ball
basketball okay Mosby used to do a group
[1:03:10] he used to do adult they used to go over
to the prison and play the prisoners
[1:03:14] there used to be adult league out of
here that was like that so get a hold of
[1:03:18] Mosby and them and you could probably
get more engagement yeah yeah it's
[1:03:22] sporic for sure CU we just the
availability School gives us is not
[1:03:28] consistent but is I thought Eagle was
pretty wide open though they don't ask
[1:03:32] Eagle too much oh okay yeah we had to
beg for little hoopsters to get Eagle
[1:03:37] you want to shoot me the email I'll
share it with like Sherry fils and your
[1:03:40] old people that used to do it up here at
the high school yeah I would love that
[1:03:44] it's just got to be consistent you know
you can't do it every six months and
[1:03:48] expect people and then I I had to text
Rob I forgot today honestly I know it
[1:03:52] comes in the newslet yeah yeah yeah it's
every Tuesday it's easy yeah exactly
[1:03:57] yeah you just got to have you know every
second
[1:04:01] Tuesday and we got little hoopster
basketball clinic that was started so
[1:04:04] this is our second year doing that um
well attended where's
[1:04:10] tennis that was that's pickle ball there
I know where's our tennis
[1:04:15] classes we did tennis classes before
back when Mike worked
[1:04:20] to uh we got Youth and adult programs as
you can kind of go back to the staff
[1:04:24] report look at all these but um big
changes over the last couple years since
[1:04:28] Alex has been here on
[1:04:32] that Park maintenance three full-time
maintenance uh hired part-time and peak
[1:04:37] season maintain nine Parks including
Smiths for Campground over 300 acres of
[1:04:41] Parkland all the
facilities um one of the big things that
[1:04:46] the park maint has strive to do is to uh
meet the expectations to have uh zero
[1:04:51] rest restroom reported concerns um this
is now year four when we did put this
[1:04:56] together that we didn't have any
restroom reporter concerns again so um
[1:05:00] and there's a picture of the shelters
yep them upd the shelter so just so you
[1:05:04] guys know six years ago I got a call
probably every week on
[1:05:10] restrooms yeah we did this is like no
even comments about him I actually I
[1:05:16] actually got told I was at Snack Daddy a
couple I told you this I think a couple
[1:05:21] months ago somebody said who cleans your
bathrooms and I'm like why because you
[1:05:26] never know it's going to come out like
those are the cleanest Parks bathrooms
[1:05:28] I've ever seen in my life like oh great
that's what they do so so yeah we yeah
[1:05:34] kudos to the guys they've seen some bad
stuff in there so yeah that's the thing
[1:05:37] too is they're consistently there before
anybody's there yeah so if there is
[1:05:41] something they can shut it down but they
show up within a matter of what we
[1:05:45] called you up for lak Fest within 15
minutes yeah yeah and that's usually if
[1:05:49] somebody Sunday morning that that person
came in so yeah yeah yeah it's it's been
[1:05:53] it's been amaz like seven years
ago it was pulling teeth to get them to
[1:06:00] even like put a checklist on the door
that they looked at the bathroom I think
[1:06:04] we actually had somebody quit over that
and now it's just just Clockwork every
[1:06:08] day I see a truck down there and every
night there's a truck down like the guys
[1:06:12] are there they're taking care of it good
to them yeah great great job and then uh
[1:06:18] let's see here the top of water laks
y us the so we got the back and then the
[1:06:24] truck and
those are big equipment pieces for us
[1:06:28] there digging up the campground water
leaks is your water trailer on there is
[1:06:33] not on there it's not one that picture I
mean is it in your presentation no it's
[1:06:36] not no I did it when we did this I did a
tour okay we did a tour out the shop so
[1:06:41] we got to show them that and it took his
presentation took our whole night so I
[1:06:45] mean yeah yeah Water trailer is awesome
they use that a lot too yeah uh so
[1:06:50] what's coming up in Smithville we have
the US Sports in Ridge Park update okay
[1:06:54] ra TR grants
got that done River
[1:06:58] Walk So This is the millions right yeah
this is the millions currently down at
[1:07:02] the um OK row Trail probably know is
Diamond Crest park so really awesome
[1:07:06] Trail around this time of year with the
shade and just the views of the trees
[1:07:10] how it kind of arches over so Goos for
recommending it for pictures because my
[1:07:14] girlfriend took the friends out there
did she do it yeah especially in the
[1:07:17] snow the snow time out there is is
pretty cool yeah I know Kyle is just
[1:07:22] complaining about the bridge a little
bit but I'm I'm sure that it's saving
[1:07:25] him from going near the bump out so he
can just go 169 cross he's good this is
[1:07:30] obviously the River Walk that I want to
put in like we have this um on our
[1:07:34] future agenda to talk about this into
more details but um as you can see we
[1:07:39] have it here's 169 there's that road
that'll be kind of up it'll go around
[1:07:43] then back under along the way and into
Heritage Park and um these are kind of
[1:07:49] the some of the minis we'll need to talk
about of what this looks like and once
[1:07:52] the trails actually in there yeah and
one of the things it's not going to be
[1:07:55] on this map because it's newer as part
of the development across the street
[1:08:00] they their park dedication part of their
park dedication is they're building a
[1:08:03] gravel parking lot just north of 13 so
yeah this apartment complex that's going
[1:08:08] across the street from City Hall yeah
that it'll be they're Paving that one
[1:08:12] and they're building a secondary gravel
lot in it'll go kind of like down into
[1:08:16] this area almost and they've already put
a lot of the gravel and stuff or fill
[1:08:21] dirt in there already that's where
Funeral Home north of the funeral home
[1:08:26] thought they doing simp this lot they're
doing do that as well too so they have
[1:08:29] to improve this slot they're redoing the
lot around United fiber and then next to
[1:08:34] the funeral home is going to be a paved
striped lot but then right below that if
[1:08:39] you like if you drive to the back of
that lot you can see there's kind of
[1:08:41] road that goes to the apartments okay
they're doing a gravel lot there that's
[1:08:44] like eight eight or 10
spots and they already put fi dirt in
[1:08:48] there because they took the dirt out of
the hospital site for someone that wants
[1:08:51] to come walk the trolls they can just
come there and park at right and they
[1:08:53] can get to it from bridge or from church
yeah so we'll have a we'll be parking
[1:08:57] you'll be able to park here down here
and then also at the Overflow lot here
[1:09:01] as well and get to the trail Heritage is
when they're going to connect to cross
[1:09:05] to the other rest of the part of the
right now it's just going to stop right
[1:09:08] here at the Overflow parking lot here
because then you have the walkway here
[1:09:12] and that'll bring you into Heritage R
Trail Heritage already has a trail
[1:09:15] around it in Cross I was talking about
Crossman I forgot right there at where
[1:09:19] Le rickz would be right there at the
stop sign that's where they connect to
[1:09:22] the trail to go out to the lake if they
were coming from P's house yeah right
[1:09:25] here yeah oh over here is what you're
talking about yeah so yeah yeah and if
[1:09:29] you look at the grading there if
somebody asked why we weren't coming
[1:09:32] just like straight South after we go
under the bridge that part is like super
[1:09:36] steep so if we go further to the west
and then kind of come back south it it's
[1:09:42] more ADA Compliant and less of a gr less
dirt work yeah it might feel more natur
[1:09:48] than walking right on side right we want
to keep you closer to the river and the
[1:09:53] creek and that's the presentation it was
a very nice presentation we learned a
[1:09:58] lot I mean it kept all of us very
intrigued but sewer is your favorite
[1:10:03] actually I learned a lot out I had to
say it was not my favorite to attend but
[1:10:07] it was like my favorite to know learn
things like there was so much I would
[1:10:10] have never known had I take that course
I recommend it to anybody that's in this
[1:10:14] room I highly recommend applying and
getting into it because I did learn a
[1:10:17] lot but sewer is where I learned the
most I was just shocked on some of the
[1:10:22] things um just some quick facts here so
this was kind of for the um Citizens
[1:10:29] Academy but it's always a good reminder
that the city of smithf only handles all
[1:10:33] parks with ins side city lmit so we
don't do anything around Smithville lake
[1:10:37] or their Parks um Smithville Park is
owned by the arm core of engineers um we
[1:10:43] managed Trails here and then when I send
you this presentation you guys will be
[1:10:46] able to click on this and see um I put
the Carney plans here cuz it's a good
[1:10:51] reference of what uh cost were and so
they have some really good facts here of
[1:10:57] what they just went through it'd be very
similar to what if we ever wanted to do
[1:11:00] something it'd be very similar to that
right and if you go back to slide number
[1:11:03] one huh didn't they con vote part of
that down5 yeah it was a big and
[1:11:08] Liberties failed at 75% in the same
ballot and that was to improve their
[1:11:13] existing Community Center and add some
sports courts further down but the the
[1:11:19] Carney and Liberty actually just put it
Liberty has a ballot initiative and
[1:11:23] Carney has a ballot initiative
um Matt said our sales tax we originally
[1:11:27] thought it was going to be 400,000 for
half cent and we're getting 700 any
[1:11:32] guess is what Liberty gets on a 1% sales
tax
[1:11:36] estimate
7.5 Carney Carney is also if you look at
[1:11:42] this um sales tax Carney this was to do
a increase to property tax and a sales
[1:11:48] tax and to use existing CID funds from
their price driver CID because that's
[1:11:53] what part of that was for and they were
still going to have to get all this to
[1:11:56] fall in line to be able to do it we we
don't have enough property to cuz they
[1:11:59] have a lot more commercial s property
tax we don't have enough to even get
[1:12:03] close to the bond they're looking at
yeah so this is this they did some
[1:12:07] really good math and I think it's as as
far as the property tax stuff goes I
[1:12:11] think it really goes in it shows you how
much like if just a percentage of the
[1:12:15] property tax what would do to it's just
it's not it's not a lot per person but
[1:12:20] it does generate they generate a lot
more sales tax because they are on a big
[1:12:24] highway now they have two Highway off
ramps they're going to have a lot of
[1:12:26] development but also the other thing
that people don't realize is the land
[1:12:32] that they were going to use was donated
well bought with a lot of donated money
[1:12:37] yeah and we don't have their land is
that there was donated is right in a
[1:12:42] great spot that already has
utilities um and I think Shauna learned
[1:12:46] a lot of this with the sewer water
master plan there's a lot of places in
[1:12:49] Smithville that do not have
utilities um that the housing we're
[1:12:54] talking about uh 188 in Eagle Parkway um
that's all in sepic still there's no
[1:12:59] sewers over there there's no there's a
water line there's um a lot of land that
[1:13:06] doesn't have sewer even on it let alone
that anybody's going to give us for
[1:13:12] free and then you got to operate it yeah
it's always good like the city is not
[1:13:15] against a community center in the future
it's just having sure we have the right
[1:13:19] funds and that getting when Smith is
growing when I learned in this class
[1:13:23] smithl is just a long skinny r what
we're growing is outside of the CI
[1:13:27] limits so you're not going to get those
taxes well and the thing the reason we
[1:13:32] talked about doing distributed
Recreation like having stuff at Eagle
[1:13:36] Heights and Grace Church and all these
different places throughout the
[1:13:39] community is no matter where we put a
community center it's going to be the
[1:13:42] wrong place because I live if you put it
in the dead center everybody's five
[1:13:46] miles except people downtown if you put
it on South End people are 10 15 miles
[1:13:51] and you know the places that make sense
like by Price Chopper that's Solid Rock
[1:13:55] they took a lot of blowing stuff up to
get sewer in there like it's and it's
[1:13:59] not free land it's yeah I'll send this
email to you and as I said throughout
[1:14:03] this presentation there's links um where
you can you can really like click on and
[1:14:10] and get some more information it'll take
you to different sites so I I recommend
[1:14:14] doing that it'll take you a lot of these
will take you to like Google Maps to
[1:14:17] show you where it is so like you don't
know where emo Ridge is was that first
[1:14:21] picture AI yeah if you can go too it'll
show you where it's at so um just some
[1:14:25] details just in case was your first
Parks picture up there AI generated this
[1:14:30] one no the one on the first like the
first
[1:14:34] slide this one uh one after that no one
after
[1:14:38] that next I thought you had one that had
like some f funky trees and
[1:14:44] stuff oh you talking about when they
were doing Heritage proposals I don't
[1:14:48] yeah no that was okay we got to get
little girl basketall she got to go to
[1:14:52] basketball any new business any public
comment yeah any public comment you got
[1:14:58] anything to
say got demand something so you want
[1:15:02] some more basketball courts I look
forward to working with you guys new
[1:15:07] business if anyone has any comments I'm
tending the um sales public sales tax
[1:15:12] committee I start on that on Monday so
if
[1:15:16] anyone okay I'll adjourn the meeting
motion new
[1:15:21] Jour second second