[0:00] It is Monday, August 31st, at 6:00 p.m.
[0:03] I am Jeffrey Wooden. I'm joined tonight
[0:04] by Mrs. Westfall. Miss Hickman could not
[0:06] be with us tonight. We have one item on
[0:08] our agenda.
[0:10] We are revisiting a recommendation to
[0:11] council regarding authorizing the
[0:13] director of public service and safety to
[0:15] enter into a professional services
[0:16] services agreement with American
[0:18] Structure Point for the redesign of
[0:20] phase one and phase three at Duke Park
[0:22] for cost not to exceed $615,000.
[0:26] This was recommended by the park board.
[0:28] Mr. Tinnerton, can you give a rehash for
[0:30] those who may not have been here last
[0:31] week?
[0:32] » Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You had
[0:33] asked that this go to another committee
[0:36] with the opportunity to look at uh
[0:39] our recommended
[0:41] proposal, American Structure Point. We
[0:44] did include an amended packet, a revised
[0:47] packet, that proposal.
[0:50] Uh it's fairly straightforward. Um
[0:53] American Structure Point had
[0:55] drafted a Park and Recreation Master
[0:58] Plan that was adopted by the the park
[1:02] board.
[1:04] The first priority that they that the
[1:06] council and the Park and Recreation
[1:08] boards decided was to do a deep dive
[1:12] into
[1:13] the Duke Park and look at any kind of
[1:16] redesign to make that park more
[1:18] efficient, especially when it came to
[1:20] multi-purpose fields as well as baseball
[1:24] fields
[1:25] while keeping the other amenities that
[1:27] we have at the park and perhaps
[1:30] improving some of them.
[1:31] The 2026 budget did include an
[1:34] allocation or does include an allocation
[1:38] for phase one and phase three.
[1:40] The
[1:42] the staff as well as a couple members of
[1:44] the park board um
[1:47] did um
[1:48] issue a request for qualifications, an
[1:51] RFQ. We received nine different
[1:54] proposals. They evaluated, scored, uh
[1:58] analyzed and scored those, um
[2:01] interviewed the top five firms that
[2:04] submitted. Uh after that first set of
[2:07] interviews, they narrowed it down to
[2:09] three uh interviews. Um
[2:12] ultimately, unanimously
[2:15] um recommending to the park board uh
[2:18] American Structural Point, who again had
[2:21] done the um
[2:22] park and recreation master plan and was
[2:26] fairly familiar with
[2:28] a lot of the elements and the issues
[2:30] that uh we uh the council is uh trying
[2:33] to address.
[2:35] Um it was a unanimous decision of the
[2:37] park board to recommend American
[2:39] Structural Point. Um the criteria in the
[2:43] ORC RFQs are done a little bit
[2:46] differently than uh
[2:48] uh construction bidding.
[2:51] Um
[2:51] and uh uh but the criteria is the best
[2:56] and most qualified. And in doing the
[2:58] scoring, um
[3:00] the staff and the park board came to the
[3:03] conclusion that American Structural
[3:04] Point was the uh the best and most
[3:06] qualified. Uh it is a uh
[3:09] a big a large firm. It is um it has done
[3:13] other projects for the uh city,
[3:15] including their work on the UDC. The
[3:18] project team is in the uh
[3:21] uh the project team uh
[3:23] that is being proposed for uh from
[3:26] Structural Point to do this project is
[3:28] not uh the same lead on the uh on the
[3:32] UDC
[3:33] uh zoning sign. It's uh and uh
[3:36] uh subdivision regulations primarily. Um
[3:39] and so they are separate divisions.
[3:42] Um there's uh leadership overlap, of
[3:44] course, but um the um
[3:47] uh the the daily
[3:49] uh and the the front line uh folks are
[3:52] are different as well. You did mention
[3:55] 615,000. That's what the That's what
[3:58] Structural Point estimated. That's the
[4:00] number that they gave us.
[4:03] And phase two would be to for the
[4:07] council to look at the design and then
[4:10] authorize creating construction
[4:12] documents so that we can go to the next
[4:14] step. Why it went phase one, three, and
[4:16] then two, I don't know. I
[4:20] not sure why they they did it that way,
[4:21] but that that is the way.
[4:23] Um
[4:25] We are not asking for emergency
[4:29] legislation.
[4:31] » Uh I asked Mr. Davis last week, but the
[4:33] rough time that would be 8 months that
[4:35] would they would be in the design phase
[4:36] before we would see anything back. And
[4:39] after that point in time, would we have
[4:40] public hearings on the design to allow
[4:42] the public input on what they they came
[4:44] up with?
[4:45] » Uh you could.
[4:46] Um
[4:47] you know, it
[4:48] Whatever would come back to the to the
[4:51] committee, if that's committee of the
[4:53] whole, if it's this committee, that's up
[4:55] to the president of council, but that
[4:57] would be an opportunity to
[4:59] uh unveil all the designs and then get
[5:02] some as much as input as you'd like to
[5:05] get.
[5:05] » Okay.
[5:06] Uh Mr. Westfall, do you have any
[5:07] follow-up questions?
[5:08] » Was my concern whether we would get
[5:10] public input.
[5:12] » Uh do any other members of council have
[5:14] any questions?
[5:16] Do any members of the public have any
[5:18] questions or comments?
[5:21] Please come forward. Name and address,
[5:22] please.
[5:25] » Dana Schilling, uh 1 West Franklin
[5:28] Street, Troy, Ohio.
[5:30] Um I just want to say I mean, I think
[5:33] it's you got wonderful parks in out at
[5:36] Duke already. I've had grandkids playing
[5:39] ball, soccer,
[5:41] dogs in the park, and all that stuff.
[5:46] You know what you don't have is the Troy
[5:49] Park that anybody that comes to town and
[5:52] might meander around sees. The Troy Park
[5:57] needs some work. To spend more money at
[6:00] Duke
[6:01] before you do anything to the play
[6:03] equipment at the main park is is kind of
[6:07] I just kind of silly.
[6:09] For one thing, even if you before I said
[6:11] even if you just fix the surfacing
[6:14] I don't know if you've ever been to
[6:15] Vandalia, to Sydney, to
[6:18] Springfield all of those have like a
[6:22] a foam I can't I it's not foam but it's
[6:25] kind of a soft material.
[6:28] Um or they have turf.
[6:31] This isn't even handicap accessible in
[6:34] in um
[6:36] that
[6:38] wood chip stuff.
[6:39] Um I think you ought to consider at
[6:42] least if you can't afford playground
[6:44] equipment fix the surfacing where
[6:49] the kids are playing so it's a
[6:51] uh you know, you get tired of coming
[6:52] home with your grandkids or great
[6:54] grandkids with
[6:55] all these wood chips all over them and
[6:58] it's just a mess. So, would you consider
[7:01] doing something with that?
[7:03] » So, you said Troy Park. Do you mean
[7:05] Community Park?
[7:05] » The municipal park Troy Park.
[7:07] » All right. Across from uh Hobart Arena.
[7:09] » Right. That one. Yeah. The municipal
[7:10] » So, um there is funding in this year's
[7:14] budget. Uh we recently replaced the
[7:19] playground equipment at Duke Park last
[7:21] year.
[7:22] Uh we are replacing Community Park's
[7:25] playground equipment this year which
[7:28] will also include a um a turf surface
[7:33] uh underneath it. So, that all will be
[7:36] upgraded.
[7:37] » For both sides of that then?
[7:39] » Uh I haven't seen the whole footprint
[7:42] and and what it's going to look like but
[7:44] it'll be a different configuration and
[7:46] so you know
[7:48] I there's one amenity that that
[7:52] everyone wanted to keep out there as
[7:54] part of the playground equipment but
[7:55] everything else is being replaced. It
[7:57] will be ADA accessible and it will have
[8:00] the uh
[8:01] » Okay.
[8:01] » The turf surface.
[8:03] » And at some point in time you were
[8:04] talking about putting a splash pad in. I
[8:07] can't think of a better place to put a
[8:09] splash pad in than at the municipal park
[8:13] where
[8:14] kids that don't have a lot of money
[8:16] they they live close by they can ride
[8:18] their bicycles and just come by splash
[8:20] and wet like today would be great. But
[8:24] you know there's plenty of room in that
[8:25] area to do that too.
[8:28] And still not involve the you know if
[8:31] you want to play frisbee or something I
[8:32] don't think it's going to bother that
[8:33] but well thanks for that. I'm glad
[8:35] you're considering it. Would you please
[8:38] make a trip down to Vandalia especially
[8:41] down behind Kroger's the brand new one
[8:43] they put in and see that has a splash
[8:45] pad but it also has the
[8:48] uh I think it has turf there. And that
[8:51] healthy school is another one that would
[8:53] really be good to research so you can
[8:55] see what they're doing and thank you.
[8:58] » Thank you.
[8:59] » We still are waiting uh the final park
[9:01] and recreation master plan uh to come in
[9:04] from uh the park board that needs to go
[9:06] to them first with all the amenities. If
[9:07] you guys recall I'm sure many of you
[9:09] filled out the survey last summer. Uh
[9:12] they're still working through all of
[9:13] that to see what amenities were kind of
[9:15] where they were ranked and what we want
[9:16] to do. At the top of that list was Duke
[9:19] Park um
[9:20] which is why we're here today
[9:22] uh with the flooding of the baseball
[9:23] field so that's where that that survey
[9:25] has led us here to today so
[9:28] um
[9:29] Do any other members of the public have
[9:31] any other questions or comments?
[9:34] » Do you have a recommendation?
[9:35] » To move forward?
[9:36] » Uh it is unanimous to move forward. Is
[9:38] there anything else to come before the
[9:39] committee tonight?
[9:40] » No, sir.
[9:40] » We stand adjourned.