We are calling this parks and recck committee meeting to order at
5:04 p.m. And we will start with the pledge of allegiance
to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.
» Minister Jenkins, will you do the roll call?
» Sure. Chairman's hearing
» here. >> Uh Richard Beglin
» here. >> Daniel Gerky
and Peter Lens >> here.
» We have a quorum. >> All right. Uh we will start with public
comment. Please note that public comments are limited to five minutes per
person.
» Tiff President
wanted to come today. Um I know there's been a lot of talk
and a handful of other people within the village. So I wanted to come and just
kind of give you guys an update of what the soccer club is looking to do down in
field and kind of put together our plan of what we want to do to present to you.
So the club has been talking about making some upgrades down at the field
and you know it's civility work again make sure to come to the forum get the
approval and everything for that so some of the upgrades that we're talking about
doing our lights down there to illuminate the 14 field as well as
talking about the poles we can also illuminate the parking lot and a little
bit of the splash pad as well and then we also were talking about what we can
do to help the grade of built down there right by the E14 field How can we make
that a little bit easier for everybody to navigate, easier for everybody to
maintain, things like that, keep the integrity of the park. So, we are
talking about um getting some bids to put in some concrete pillars if ever
softball diamonds. Um they have these really nice kind of concrete pillars
every four feet stacks up into the into the field. So it allows for a chair to
still be sitting there and still keeps the integrity of the cup. So our plan
right now is to go out and start working on getting some bids for this just so
that we have an idea of what kind of money we're talking about. Uh the v the
soccer club would like to do fundraising for that as well. And then ask the
village obviously for some help. We have some grants that we were looking into um
getting their grants and it's a village park. We talked to the village for some
assistance on some of that. Um, so what we'd like to do is get some renderings
done and come back and be able to present it to part of our committee and
then take it forward from there. So timeline wise, we're looking at getting
bids throughout the rest of the year and then depending on fundraising dollars
and things that would be good. We possibly look at starting to upgrades
with parks out there. So whether that's spring, summer, or fall, not quite sure
yet. We'll have to figure out kind of what all the details behind it. But I
wanted to come tonight and just kind of give you an update as to what Blood is
thinking about, open it up for discussion. Um, like I said, I know
there's been a lot of talk, so I make sure that we have open communications
between blood and the village and the director. So,
» good stuff. >> Thank you.
» You did it. [laughter]
There you go.
[laughter] >> You almost sounded like an insurance
commercial with all the
» um any other public comments.
» Um consent agenda. We need to approve the minutes of the April 9th, 2026 parks
and rec committee meeting. >> Motion to approve consent agenda.
» Second the motion. Okay. Uh take a vote. All those in
favor? >> I I opposed.
Sent agenda passed. Items for action and/or discussion.
Discussion and possible action on 2026 events. Movie night in the park. Three
of those still. And the tree lighting ceremony.
» Yes, we mainly just need dates. >> Are we going to be able to squeeze three
more? removing the money doesn't make me happy. We have sponsorships for two go
up to three unless spread the 11 maybe two spare
we have the money to do and I'd say based on past years and
attendance you know doing one more adult uh movie night school and then two maybe
more kid-friendly ones we spread them out throughout the school year or
whatever you might think. What day is this usually the day that we
usually have these? Weekends, Saturday night,
» Friday or Saturday night. Yeah.
» Um I mean, we're getting into the time of the year now where it's starting to
get darker a little earlier. So, I mean, if we had like a kid-friendly
one to start off the season, we I'm sure like 8:30 probably be dark enough to
actually see the screen. And
I think >> it's get starting to get dark around
eight now. So, >> yeah.
And at least then if it's like a if we found like a movie that's an hour and a
half, I mean that's 10 o'clock. If it's on a weekend, probably not as
much of a big deal for parents. >> I don't think you want to do a Labor Day
weekend because people are going to be out of town and so forth. Have a lower
turnout.
Um, do you guys have a preference on weekends?
» What says Friday? >> Friday.
» We have a preference on like a Friday or Saturday night.
» We have signs made up for Friday. The downfall is you're, you know, if
it's this weekend or next week and you start football. So, you have football on
Fridays. So, you might be competing with a lot of people traveling.
» Yeah, it's this week. >> Carter's first game.
» Saturdays might be the better option. Um, I'm not sure if
the idea is because I know if we run into a rain or bad weather, if you're
still looking at coming back indoors, I think we did here, right? One of them is
to your kid one if you do during the day and then later at night for another one
then you have everything set up everything's there
an option. >> Oh doing like an indoor one for the
kids. >> Uh it could be indoor or something you
know like a movie at 5 and then you know one at eight.
» It's hard to do one at five though because you can't really see the screen
if the sun's out at all. >> Yeah. I'll say it. That's why I was
saying that's why I thought you were maybe saying like an indoor one at five
and then an outdoor one >> later.
» If you would do that then unless you want to travel otherwise it'd be right
outside then it so the benefit is if it is bad weather you
can still have it. You're not canceling it. You're inside and if it's bad
weather later one you bring the later one in.
And we have done them at the school as well. There wasn't very good attendance
» inside or just >> inside.
» Yeah, in the auditorium. We did one in the auditorium and one in the elementary
school gym. >> Yeah,
» I think the elementary school gym was better attended actually.
» And that was such worse weather. >> That was a horrible weather. [laughter]
» I think that was the first event I ever went to. I remember
» no seats. Everybody is on the floor. >> Yeah.
» So, are we thinking like a September, like a midepptember?
» Whenever your heart desires. >> Probably going to be September at this
point. >> We're going to do them outdoors. We
don't want to get too late into the year. It's since they're getting kind of
chilly at night. >> We might be able to squeeze a couple in
» September. >> September.
I know >> the 11th or 12th and the 25th or 26th.
» Mhm. >> Space them out a little bit. We have we
have gone into October as well. We had kind of a
» Yeah, we talked we talked in the office since there's the hype around Halloween
being on the 31st. It' be kind of cool to do a trickor treatish kind of movie.
» Is trick-or-treating on that? >> It's on Halloween.
» It's on Yeah, it's on Saturday the 31st. Yeah. Do we really want to do a movie
that night though? >> I don't mean on that night. I'm just
saying around that holiday. >> If we did it Friday night, you know,
Friday the 13th.
» Maybe not that. But 13th is a Tuesday this year.
» Yeah, there's no Friday the 13th in October.
» Um the only thing once you start getting that later in the year, you're dealing
with cold nights. So, >> I did say like because I know we went to
the October one a few probably last year, year, but I don't remember. But I
know that I was thinking like if we did do that one, I would offer up like my
fire pit and then just bring that and throw some wood in there and have a fire
going >> there that people can warm up near if
they want. Um,
» great house. Have some Christmas trees. Is that great?
» Oh, there you go. Any Christmas trees left over. [laughter]
» All right. So, I'm hearing September 25th could be a evening one.
» I think you said the 11th as well. 11th. >> Yeah. I want to have enough time to
build up hype about >> be the 25th, maybe the 9th of October.
And then I mean two more weeks the 23rd that gets the week before Halloween
everybody's gonna be lighting their costumes on
» your homecoming. >> I hope
» bring a couple of fire. >> I think that'd be kind of cool.
» I think that'd be fun. >> And I kind of said Mary Kra's tongue and
cheek but now that I think about it that might not be a bad venue.
» Really? >> We got plenty of field. had a lot of
field over at Oak. We've got the big uh the back stops you can hang sheet from
to you know do the screen. >> We've got that big old 20 foot screen.
» That's great. >> Forget about that.
» So for a date for October, what are you thinking?
» Well, like I said, I mean, if we do the 25th, the 9th, and the 23rd, that's two
weeks in between each one. >> Yeah. And if we put the adult one in the
middle and then a Halloweenish
fun Halloweenish. >> Yep.
» For the 23rd. >> Let's shoot for that.
» Or if we want to do Saturdays so we don't run into football.
» Yeah, that might be >> the way to go unless
» Oh, 26 and 24. But >> do we know do we have a chance at
knowing what the football schedule is where the games
» maybe if there's games here we could pull some
» out of town guests into >> sports including I don't think the high
school's running any games up here anymore. No, all games are in randomly
again. >> John said,
» "Okay, well scratches that then say if we had some out of town guests maybe
like if they heard there was a movie in the park like then after the football
game they just come and watch the movie."
» Yeah. >> But
» I know everything's up at randomly if you
» starts this Friday and there is there is one on the 25th.
So, >> so maybe we go to Saturdays to avoid
football conflict. >> Yeah.
» And playoffs start on the 23rd of October. So,
» yeah, Saturday might be our best bet. >> So, it would be 10th
» 10th. >> Well, the 10th and then the
» say that likely not available on the 26.
Simon can handle it. [laughter]
» Said he's not available on the 26th. >> Yeah, tied up on the 26. But uh
» but we got the 9th and the 23rd. [laughter]
» So, but the 9th and the 23rd October. So, we'll separate them by two weeks
each time. >> Yeah.
» 10th and 25th. >> 10th and the 24th because football.
» Oh, for Saturday. >> Saturday. We were talking Saturday.
Yeah. So, we're talking the 26th of September. the 10th and 24th of October.
» Okay. >> And tenatively all starting at like 8:00
p.m. >> 7 maybe if it gets darker.
» I mean, yeah, they can always start a little earlier. I think I don't remember
what time sunset is as we get in October. But
» who's our sign? >> At dusk.
» Oh, okay. At dusk. >> Yeah.
» Ask Google, right?
8:30. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. September will
probably be like more 8:30ish, 9:00, but the October one should be probably 8:15.
» First, >> as it starts later,
» dust starts at 6:52 and ends at 7:17 on the 26th of September.
So it'll be dark and what's it the week after? Because then I think it's uh the
throwback time. >> That doesn't hit till November.
» Well, first week. >> Yeah. Yeah. First week of November is
throwback. Yeah. >> I can hear Rob.
» They're talking about it. >> It might happen.
» All right. September 26th, October 10th, October 23rd. The adult one in the
middle and at dusk.
I don't think that's >> 34th.
» 24th, I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. >> And maybe we do something closer
Halloween themed for the 24th. >> Yeah.
» Yeah.
» And you're good with still doing a fireman's?
» What do we think? We I mean, Fireman's is a good spot. I mean, it's got all the
electric there and >> restrooms.
» Restrooms. Yeah, we could run a concession stand there.
» There you go. Popcorn. Just a boat load of popcorn.
» I think Fireman's is a good spot and it gives people an opportunity to walk
there a lot easier, too. >> Parking is an issue, but
» All right. And then the tree lighting ceremony
that is typically
four, right? And we want to shoot for St. Nick's day.
» So which is when? >> Well, St. Nick is the 1 of December,
right? >> No, St. Nick is like the December.
» Yes, I think. Yeah. >> And that would be a Saturday here. So
that might be a perfect to the >> I mean just be late. Normally we do it.
» That's what I was saying. >> Oh, you want to do it before then?
» Sunday. >> All right.
» Maybe the 29th. >> I know. I know. We offset it last year
for some reason. >> Yeah. Maybe just to accommodate family
vacations or something so we can go >> 29th in November. Thanks.
» So we'll make sure that all the lights work. We'll contact Santa.
» Will people still be on holidays the 29th
» coming off of Thanksgiving? I say that's that's what that's the way we've done it
for many many years and then last year we we did alter it and I don't know how
that changed attendance. I don't know if anybody really
» took note. >> It's in the evening on Sunday though.
You got to be back for work on Monday so you can go cyber shopping. Oh, I mean I
mean so you can work and [laughter] and uh so you probably have a lot of
people coming home side of Sunday during the day and some kids right away. That
works. You can November 29th. That'll be fine.
» Anything else besides the normal lights, Santa? Maybe some hot chocolate that you
want to do? >> Well, I'll provide a fire pit again.
» Provide a fire pit. >> So,
fires. >> Yep.
» I think the fire pit was a hit last year >> having especially it was pretty cold,
but maybe a second one if we can find one.
Um we try to spread the love with the choir. Um so we've gone between NOSD
um divine savior the forget that church group that came one year St. John's.
» Um so we'll continue that rotation. We'll reach out. I think
» divine next. Okay. They just did it. >> Um so we'll continue to spread the love
on who wants to come. Um, any other suggestions what you want to do?
» That's good. >> Yeah. Siren, you have any suggestions?
» All right. This is all you, baby. >> Kids kids.
» Santa and the lights. >> Santa and the lights.
» Yeah. So, we're going to do the uh small Christmas trees at the uh nonprofit
clubs again, decorating them. >> Yeah. Last
» Don't give me anything. [laughter] >> We have those last.
» Yeah. Last year, if you remember, we collected a lot of different um trees
that were kind of handme-downs. >> They I think two of them maybe didn't
make it through the winter. >> Um
» last year, they're all pretty good. >> They were.
» Yeah. >> Year before. I know.
» Yeah. Um, so we'll have them readily available and years past we just toyed
with people paying for them or not and really we're just in the Christmas
spirit, you know, come decorate it for free and we enjoy that. So
um, >> did you want to reach out to the school
about the >> Oh, the decorations ornaments.
Yeah,
» you can tell. We have some some
play every year. >> Yeah, they can make new ones.
» Cool. >> I don't know what it would take, but and
kind of an out of the box idea for us. I mean, there are places that provide
reindeer for events like this. >> Mhm.
» Just a thought. >> Real ones.
» Real ones. >> Real
» like a petty. Yeah. >> I don't think they fly. But
» they don't get their flying magic until Christmas Eve.
Sorry. >> So, Simon, you're on reindeer duty
» and it's just an idea, something to explore.
» Yeah. We'll see what happens. Should we squirrel away one of those elf on a
shelf somewhere in the park and not tell anybody and see if any of the kids spot
it? >> And if they find it, they win a prize.
» But if they touch it, they >> magic.
» Oh, my kids had a meltdown when a friend of ours reached up and touched the elf.
» They were screaming and crying. I mean, that would be something I think would be
neat if you do something like a scavenger hunt there for prizes for the
kids or whatnot, but that'd be kind of fun. Yeah,
» the prize could be as simple as, you know, one of the movie theater size
boxes of candy that you get at Walmart for a couple bucks.
» Yeah. >> Cool.
We'll put some stuff away for you. >> They'll find it. [laughter]
» And once you can spot it, they'll all be pointed out to each other.
It's basically a giveaway as soon as I want to know if they all get to point it
out. >> All right. Good.
» Good. Yep. >> Sounds great. Thank you.
» All right. Discussion and possible action on draft parks and open space
plan. >> All right. Well, it's ironic that our
former former parks chair is here because this project started uh when she
was chair of the parks and wreck program uh
» and uh it has taken that long to get this finalized. So, we're here. This has
been updated from the 2024 plan to 2025 to 2026. We're now in the 2026 reition
or edition and I would really like to get this adopted so it can last just at
least through 2030. Um, I'm not going to go through every page. Um, but this has
been reformatted many times over the last couple years and I'll just kind of
hit on the high points of kind of decisions I need you all to make.
So, we will start with
number these pages a little bit. >> I know I should probably number these
pages. >> I was just saying
» um we'll go to this part that's highlighted here. So, this acknowledges
that this plan is not just ours. Ozaki County, uh, as their partners with their
parks program, they need to review it, too. Um, so the language that's
currently here is from when the plan was last updated. So, once it gets approved
through you all, it'll get kicked to Ozaki County and their land use depart
department to review as well. And part of what they'll update is what their
plans are. And then um you'll see later on there are some properties and open
spaces that we know are within the village that are under their ownership.
So if they have any plans or ideas for property that's within the village that
they own and they will add that to this to this plan.
Um section two talks about planning background. We won't need to go through
but it's just tables of data that we had to update.
Um let's go to the planning process. So that's section three.
So section three talks about uh an inventory. So last year we did an
inventory of our outdoor recreational facilities within the village limits
that you see composed here. Um we did some public participation. We had a
community survey that we did a year or so back. Um so you see information about
that. The part that's highlighted here talks about public participation. We've
done various um reition and renditions of that, but I think having at least one
public hearing for the public to come like Tiffany and other groups like that
to share their ideas that we can include in the plan um would be nice to do.
» Um so that'll be one portion of this. Um a lot of this talks about park
accessibility. Um, so keep in mind that all features that we have are
grandfathered into the village, but as soon as we touch them for like a
crosswalk, for example, then we have to comply with ADA standards. So we need to
think about that as we, you know, whether it's our playgrounds or
entrances into parks, as soon as we say we're going to add a crosswalk, well now
that crosswalk has to be compliant with ADA standards.
Um, you have some definitions on different parks. So we have examples of
mini parks like the one um near trusty Searing's neighborhood. We have
neighborhood parks that are a little bit bigger. We have community parks that are
for everybody. We have county parks. And so it goes to the definitions of that.
[clears throat] And then you move on to section four which talks about our
system of parks that we have. So table five, which is this fancy chart here,
shows the inventory of what parks we have, their sizes, and then what type of
park that they are. And then after that chart, it goes through each park
individually. So this is where I want us to start actually looking at and getting
feedback. So you all took a park tour a couple weeks back. You compiled your
information and ideas. I conferred with director Paulus and lead bars here and
we put together what we feel like are our recommendations that you guys all
have for each park. So the way that this that each park is laid out is it shows
the general parcel information. It shows existing features and then it shows
recommendations. And so that's what I want us to take a look at. So we'll
start with Marie Krauss Park. Some of the recommendations were disc golf
amenities providing additional seating, community pavilion, developing a large
public pavilion, which we'll be talking about a little bit later. Uh trail
signage, so having wayfinding signage along the trail that goes through the
park and uh the abuing disc golf course. Uh inclusing inclusive play, so having
some sort of all-inclusive dry play um access, which again we'll be talking
about a little bit later. Um additional parking. So when we think about not just
Marie Cross Park but Oak Park that's abudding there, we need to think about
what do we do with overflow parking there. And then finally, both in this
plan and past plans, we've talked about having a sledding hill somewhere on the
park. So my first question is, do you feel that all of these things are
representative of what you guys wanted? Do you want to see anything else? Do you
not want to see something say now forever hold your peace?
And again, this doesn't mean it's gonna happen in the next five years, but these
are our goals and recommendations. >> Not next year.
» Probably not next year. >> I like them all. So,
» I think they're all fine. I mean, the sledding hill I'm
» kind of either way on. >> Sledding Hill would be nice because
right now you have to drive the kids to Hawthorne Hills if they want to sled.
Otherwise, we had it right here. Take your sled and walk over there. You know,
» I mean, I get it. You know, >> Hawthorne Hills is really nice for it is
» but it's it's a drive.
» Yeah. If we don't get other properties or we don't have the topography for it,
then it's not going to happen. >> Right. Right. Little bit of pipe dream
right now. >> All right. Go with that one.
Next is Children's Park. Recommendations are evaluating and updating playground
equipment. again making this park more inclusive for um ADA accessibility
playground surfacing replacing um that surfacing with a more conducive play
area like the mulch or whatever you might want to put around there. Um we
talked about this is one of the opportunities for nature-based
education, pollinator gardens, things like that that we could put there
because there's some land to do that. adding seating and gathering areas like
picnic tables and benches and then replacing the existing sign with uh our
branding logo sign. But for that one specifically, we'll still do something
cutesy with that to pay homage to the children's park sign because we think
that's pretty cool. Anything else you want to see at
Children's Park?
Okay, moving on to Fireman's Park. Fireman's Park, again, we would replace
playground equipment. Um, parking we all know is not great there. We have a
little bit of a parking lot next to the fire station and limited parking lot.
Parking along the road, so that'll continue to be an issue. Uh, park
identification signage, again, updating with the branding,
electrical and lighting, improving um light and accessibility throughout the
whole park. there. We have some areas that are lit but not all. Um then the
actual accessibility to the different amenities
and then improving the metobrook crease creek crossing there uh maintaining the
pedestrian bridge. So we have a newer bridge that we put there, but we're
always cleaning up that um water area and all of that for pedestrian crossing.
» Is that that crossing area that goes between that then over toward Marie
Krauss and so forth? >> No, the it's the bridge. It's a bridge
in the middle of the park. >> Right. Right. Okay. Thanks. Thank you.
» Yeah.
» Nope. But we could add it to the plan. >> First time I suggest back.
» Yeah. basketball court.
» The end game was put on the road and the court starts.
» Well, I would have to say since we put the rocks there, people don't park in
there anymore. I mean, there's a lot of people during day night. So,
» your rocks are free. [laughter] if you need more
assist.
» And I I know it's a little late in the game at this point, but since we have
the soccer and softball people here, is there any need or desire for like a
storage shed or what I mentioned? >> Um, soccer, I'm going to say
» yes. >> Yes.
Yes. I mean, yes and no.
» I mean, specifically at firemen's >> at firemen that I don't even know what
storage there >> we
store over there for stuff, right? >> Yeah. Over by the generator, there's a
a room. >> There's a storage room at the back of
the firehouse there. We use that to store some gear and first aid equipment
and so forth. you know, a a field shed that could be
used for things like m you putting up soccer, you know, just storing this
stuff might not be a bad idea. I would like to see something that that way that
storage room in the firehouse could be repurposed for something for the
firehouse. >> We don't typically hold practices there.
It's games on Saturdays.
» And again, it's just a thought. Are you gonna take this opportunity to ask a
couple of the leaders of the clubs?
» You want us to add fencing for basketball
court? >> Does that seem I mean, now that we have
the rocks there, does that seem like it's
» The fencing was to prevent people from driving on the court, right? Well, I
think the best thing would be more to keep the ball in the street
like >> a creek
» I would make for that is you you have Peterson there and they
have a lot of semi traffic um and if kids are using that corridor I've seen
balls go across the street there um so you have the semi traffic coming through
there I mean >> that's a dangerous Thanks.
» Yeah, fence isn't a bad idea. >> I can see a benefit to that.
The other suggestion I wanted to ask about was so as you talk about overflow
parking or parking in general, can we make it more
kind of parking friendly to get people to park back along that empty street and
then actually put like a decent like gravel path from the basketball courts
down to that walking bridge. So it's actually like a nice path that stays dry
to get across and >> go along Welo where the garage is.
» Wheeler or Wheeler >> Wheeler.
» So the issue that we've gone into with that bridge is it's not ADA
and I'm not sure if I have to look more into it. if you're going to build in a
waterway,
how much we can do. So, that was some of the issue was people couldn't make that
bridge or couldn't walk it because of how steep and then step. So, we fixed it
to make it so people could at least get up and down. I mean, the field site
there was it was like this. So, we fixed it, but I mean, if we start making that
it's not compliant that people can walk and think you're just holding cells up
for liability that people are tripping over the bridge or get hurt.
» I was just thinking it's probably I don't know if it's worse for us to have
just like wet grass leading up to a wooden bridge and then people are
getting their shoes nice and wet and slippery and then they go and step on
the bridge. And that's why especially later they would park on basketball
court and face that way so they wouldn't have to get out. They could watch the
game. But if we bring soccer up here,
» that was just my only other is it if we could create a way to make people want
to park along that street and easier access to get to the fields from there.
if it would motivate people more to park along that empty road.
» Just to bring up something I mentioned one other time. Uh if we put like a
crosswalk, know you didn't like that, but put a crosswalk between uh
St. Rose is that the um St. Rose and the Firehouse so that
people could cross. I mean, parking along there would be a short walk, too.
You parking on Milwaukee Avenue, parking in uh St.
Having a crosswalk there that people can hit the button on so they're crossing
with their kids would make that a little bit more appealing, too. And there is a
crosswalk there that might work. I mean, it kind of on the firehouse side, it
comes into the middle of the block, but it does have a little uh one of those
little metal a ramp down to the street and a little metal uh thing for
traction, I guess. So I think the concern lies again is if
we start messing with crosswalks then we say oh now it's got to be ADA and is
there enough room there to make it ADA compliant and
then we open a new cano arms of >> I guess it could be looked into.
» Yeah. >> Don't have to do it but we look into it
and see how >> dramatic a problem it would be. Yeah.
» Okay. So, I got fencing around basketball court.
[laughter] >> We're good.
All right. Um, next is the Guzacowski Retention Pond Green Space. So, for
those who don't know, that's that weird long shaped property here. That sounds
like your parks tour you guys had a lot of fun dreaming big dreams for that
property. So, um, for this one, we talk about, uh, future recreational access.
So, again, uh, how you get into this oddly shaped park with accessible park
and curve ramps and all that stuff. Updating your park identification
signage. And then the next two bullet points are about what do you want to use
and do in this park, right? There's a nature trail option, boardwalk, dog
park. I know you guys kind of brainstormed all of those things
happening down there. Um, what have been your thoughts since
then? >> Remember DJ was talking about birders
setting it up so that there was, you know, it was attractive to birds that
would attract birders to come and spend time in that. The dog park, I don't
know, you know, with that water there, if they get into that water, they're
going to get sick. >> It would have to be fenced.
» Yeah, >> you'd have to fence the whole area to be
a dog park. and and and that just kind of reduces a little bit of the natural
aspect of things when you start whacking fences in everywhere. Uh on the other
hand, if you set it up with a lot of different wild flowers and so forth that
you've got bugs and birds and so forth that make it a nice nature nature area,
I think that may have more appeal maybe with a walking path
that's ADA compliant. So, Maro, the the first bullet point
about developing a nature trail and boardwalk,
» how would that work for ADA compliance and if we just turned it into a nature
trail? Like, if we were using wood chips for walking trails, I guess we'd have to
look into that. I mean, not every state park has ADA compliant hiking trails. to
put in sidewalks is one thing, but to go and now do ramps and that that's where
the ADA really falls in. So, >> yeah. So, they have to access the park.
So, like entering into the park space, we'd have to have a ramp and signage and
all that jazz, but then after that, it's not like we would pave the entire path,
» right? >> Yeah.
So, if we had wood chips, I mean, we could just do wood chip pass through
there and then start throwing out different wildflower seeds.
What's that look for? What else is it good for right now?
» You wouldn't have to mow it. That would be the plus side. [laughter]
All right. So, I crossed off dog park. I Well, but it might be a better place
for that. Um, but I I'll add in language about
pollinator gardens and all that jazz along the trail.
Anything else? >> On the next page, you do have shade tree
and native planted. >> Oh, thank you. Yeah,
» I didn't know you missed those. >> Nope. I just flipped the page over and
didn't see it. Um, this talks about adding shade trees, invasive species
management, uh, storm water education. So, all those
nature-based things that we could do there.
» I mean, what getting back to kind of, you know, native prairie type of plants,
that does require getting some of those invasives out of there, but that's
something that you can get people to volunteer to do occasionally. You know,
I have a party to go out. Alumni weekend at my college, we had a big prairie area
for the for the biology department. And at alumni weekend, they get a whole
bunch of us suckers to go up there at a hot summer day and cut buckthornne out
for hours.
Maybe get a few people to do that here. You know, be camaraderie be a little
fun. What?
looked.
[laughter] >> All right, let's go on to the Metobrook
green space. So, this is the kind of weird two lots
that are separated by Metobrook Drive there. Um, the far east lot is you would
think would be a nice residential lot. Uh, but that is almost completely in the
flood plane and cannot be built on. Um, so that's why it's in our ownership. We
have some trees planted there. And then the longer parcel there is the um
probably more usable park space. So when you look at the recommendations again it
talks about the feasibility of these areas the pedestrian connections. Uh the
big thing here is that if you're going to have a dog park this seem to be a
prime location against less area defense. It's it's elongated to allow
dogs to run back and forth. Um, as far as the setup cost, Eric talked about a
little bit. We'd have to do the fencing. We need to have um, you know, the doggy
bag stations and things like that. And you have a hope and a prayer that people
are going to take good care of the property, right? And if they don't, then
you rely on our team and for maintenance and cleanup of that. So, that's the risk
that you run. Um, but there has been a decent um I'd say uh
resident inquiries about a dog park. It has been overwhelming, but we've been
asked over the in the past. It was in the survey that there was some interest
in it. So, it's really up to you all if you feel like we want to move more
seriously with that because if not, I don't really know what else we do with
this kind of weird shape person. >> I mean, I' I've heard several things
about dog park. we we could use a dog park around here and my experience with
dog parks in the area such as Mutland Meadows and Grafton,
» Peppe Pepe's Playground up in Belgium. I mean, the the patrons in general, I
mean, there's one or two bad bad apples, but in general, they they do pretty good
job of cleaning up after themselves. >> Yeah.
» So,
how would you think about fencing along the creek there? Because the creek still
runs. >> Yeah. Uh the first place she listed in
Brick where was that Grafton? Is that in the open or is that
» it's wooded and uh there's trails? >> Yeah, the one in Belgium is
» that's a wide open field. >> Here you got houses and the creek and
kind of a main thorough area. Not sure if the residents and everything would
like that right there. But it's nice you got nice parking here. Not driving down
the middle of nowhere. So I'm not sure how that would
go with being in the village like
other
» what else you could do with it?
» I've never seen it flood on top there like Stony Creek. But
» is the western portion in the flood zone?
the witch marks >> the the longer section western portion
of it >> I maybe just a little bit over the curve
when the storm sewer can't handle it but when it did it I think this year that
twice where you put the road close signs out with your heavy water high water I
think within 20 minutes it was down >> I mean if we were to put in a couple of
I mean a couple of picnic tables maybe a couple of little grills in the ground
» they'll sit there >> they'll sit there. Yeah. You know,
people might use them. >> No, they'll use them.
» Yeah. >> by the hydrant to prove a point the next
day sit on it. >> Yeah. See, so I mean spot to sit
» turn it into a nice little patch to be a park for a specific purpose. Just a nice
bit of green space for people to uh use, you know.
» I agree. >> I think that would be a nice inexpensive
way to make these a little bit more useful.
um generate more community.
» I mean, we can always use that flood zone space for that though
» for a sitting hanging. >> Well, yeah, we could do that over there.
We could try to put together a short dog run over here.
» Yeah. Or if we really didn't want to use it for that, I don't know if that
western portion is buildable, but we just consider selling it and let
somebody build there. >> I don't think it's big enough for that.
That's the creek that goes through. >> Okay.
» Yeah, trust me. You know that I would have
suggested that.
» Um, no, this is pretty much unbuildable property. That's why it's in the
village's ownership and can do something with it.
» Um, I like that idea of the kind of seating area to the on the east property
because what else are we going to do with that? It's not big enough for a dog
park, but >> then the rest, you know, that being a
run kind of area for dogs. You make that a seating area. Make sure
the picnic tables have
» I would like to actually see that flood because every time I've been down there,
even in the spring, it's not flooded. Um, so right now on the eastern parcel
talks about a kind of like a playground similar to Children's Park. So, if
that's not what the direction you want to go and it's more just kind of a
natural seating area, then I'll change that language to that. Is that what
you're thinking? >> What's that?
» Right now, in this in this >> document, it says that the eastern
parcel will be like a children's park kind of place with a playground and all
that. >> We don't want another playground to
maintain. >> No.
» Then I will remove that language and say it's a seating. And being that's in the
flood zone, I wouldn't want play equipment and then putting sand down and
everything else and then we'd actually somehow end up in a flood right there
and then [laughter] half the playground's underwater.
» Playground would just set to be a little more expensive.
» But you're good with the western parcel being some sort of walking path past a
recreational area dog park if we've run into funding to do that?
Great. All right. Freedom Park. We all know
about Freedom Park. Um, again, we have improving
accessibility, improving park identification. Uh, this
is a good spot for donor opportunities in the future. We talk about, you know,
benches and tables and all that that we can name after people. Um, fencing. Um,
somebody in one of your surveys you brought up fencing and I don't know what
that means, but I think it's the fencing around the playground wanting to improve
that. I'm assuming >> freedom is the one up by the church by
the >> where Tuesday tunes would
» talked about fencing at this one. >> The only fence that's there is that kind
of couple wood planks that are around the playground. Somebody brought up
fencing and that's why >> a couple years ago
» Oh, good. Yeah,
» along the main road >> go to Freedom Park when we did our
little store. >> Okay,
» we didn't >> I swear on somebody's survey they broke
fencing. >> Oh, maybe they thought they were Freedom
Park. He just said, "Were you talking about fencing at the
» I know I talked about fencing at the park
» by the church." >> By the church.
» Oh, veterans. >> So, he might have had that and blamed
them. >> Maybe I labelled it wrong.
» Are you good with me exing out fencing? >> Yeah. Okay.
» Yeah. Freedom. Yeah. Freedom Parks. Hold on. Triangle over there over the field.
There's the street lighting. >> Um, you guys talked about year round
recreation. So, you know, yard games maybe made of stone or different things
like that to be passively there for people to enjoy. Um, the big thing is
restrooms and concessions. We've talked about that forever. It's now probably a
half a million dollar project. Okay. whenever we would get a grant from on
high. I will say that we got um the DNR wrote back on the grant that I wrote in
spring and politely declined us because there wasn't enough funding, but in the
response they did say, "Send us your updated parks and open space plan and
we'll kick you higher up in the list." So, I would recommend we keep this
language in here because then it helps us later on.
» Okay. Um, and then the pavilion, we all know Eric's headaches with the pavilion
um, fabric that's there. And so having some sort of permanent structure in the
future would be great, but again, that's would only be when money rains from on
high. Um, in addition, we have some shade
trees, uh, which are kind of planted there, but we can increase that. And
then um just upgrading the landscaping, signage, lighting, all of that to kind
of since it is in the middle of the village and getting some nice branding
and marketing about that. Anything else you want to add to Freedom
Park.
All right. Next is Veterans Park. That's the one up there by the church.
» Yeah. Um, this one has not had much attention over the last uh couple years.
We've had some improvements from donors that have helped to that park. U, but
you guys talk about playground safety, playground lo location. I know that was
a part of the plan two times ago that your forefathers talked about just kind
of uprooting that whole playground and moving it somewhere else due to the
location there. I will say it's used a lot by the um church and daycare right
next door. Um, so we have to think about that if we we were to remove it. Um,
again we have accessibility, playground surfacing, updating that property
boundaries. So it's kind of weird because on the east side we have uh just
a a residential property that's right there. So they've talked about doing
fencing at one point to separate public from private. And then on the east side
or on the west side, make sure that we have a nice barrier there, at least some
rocks to stop any pedestrian traffic from the parking lot from going into the
playground. Um, it would be nice to improve that.
We talked about >> rocks, so
Okay, we'll grab those rocks. >> I'm pretty sure the data center guy
probably threw a few at us. reinforcements.
» Oh, we always do local businesses. >> Um, and then we go on to say donor
opportunities again, benches, papers, things like that, improving our park
identification, and then anything that we were to do to improve the veterans
memorial itself. Um, again, we'll acknowledge the Stefan family and others
that have improved that already, but we can always, you know, make it bigger and
better if we wanted to moving forward. So
» I'm sure veteran schools would >> projects too.
» Correct. >> Well, what I was thinking along the east
and west side like towards the front portion is like kind of a wall that
matches like the memorial portion but like more of a decorative wall along
each side there. >> Might be like two feet tall. It's gonna
prevent people from parking in there and then
» a way that should you go forward with an idea like that too.
» I was I was thinking that too if we had some sort of a wall like that platform
for anybody name their face or whatever they served. I mean
» right >> I think I think that would get a lot of
people really >> Yeah. I mean it ties into not just
adding a wall stop looks like it's used for something right as
» y having them decorative along each side
kind of matching each other I think would be beneficial and add a
look to that part for the memorial. >> Cool.
All right, that's veterans. Uh, next is Stony Creek Park. This is
the one that had the most comments and potential.
» Um, storm water management. We all know that that's the area that floods. Um,
we're on it. You guys all know that. Um, let's look at uh pedestrian connection.
So right now that sidewalk goes up to our public parking lot and then it stops
and then it starts right. So the idea would be having this sidewalk that
connects all the way up Filillmore to the park itself.
Um this is the location of uh Simon's idea that he had brought forth towards
the beginning of the year about a nature-based playground. Again we have
the space to do it. It's a more natural setting. Um so if we ever engage in that
um idea then that would be the thought there.
uh recreational courts. This has also been talked about in the past. Improving
the basketball, changing it to um what is it called?
» Pickle ball. >> Pickle ball. Um any kind of things like
that that you'd want to do. Improving the creek and bridge. Our team has been
doing that uh recently, but we can improve that and put the bridge back.
Um we have that fencing on the north end of the property that is in the middle of
no man's land. We don't know if it's ours. We don't know if it's property
owner, it's falling apart, if it's getting hit by trees, at some point we
should probably replace that. Um, grills that are rarely used are still there. We
either need to remove them or update them. Um, talked about adding horseshoes
here, improved park identification, more donor opportunities, more shade trees,
and uh, more natural resource management around the creek that's there. Well, the
area that's a flood plate. I mean, horseshoes, couple of metal spikes in
the ground and a little sand pit. I mean, you get some water in there, it
goes away, and it really you could set that up for things like that.
» I I you know, I can see using that area for for things like for shoes and so
forth. >> What are you allowed not allowed to do
for Are you allowed to do anything
permanent? um like building structures is where
we'd run into issues, but of that I mean if a plays around in the flood plane and
just more likely to get damaged and are
any other thoughts on that? the gorillas if we were to keep them
there. I guess my suggestion would be to take them and move them out closer to
the pavilion rather than >> 40. [laughter]
» I feel like if they would get used then they'd be more likely used during a
party that's kind of had the pavilion. I think the only reason
the last ones where some a couch on there
otherwise they've never I've never seen it's kids that throw sticks and
everything in there.
It's just another thing with that in the long run.
Kind of like the idea trying to find something to do with that half bass
court. It's not really a full court if it could be turned into something else.
I mean, we had people ask about pickle ball. I don't know if it was big enough
for pickle ball. >> I just seen a thing about pickle ball
down at the Somebody had posted something about
» Marie Cra fully converting one of them down at the tennis courts. Yeah.
» To a pickle ball court. So >> maybe.
» So it's got to be pretty close that basketball court.
» Yeah. So we've looked at it. I mean, the condition of it isn't great. We'd
probably end up just tearing out that whole asphalt and and redoing it for
pickle ball. So, it' be a little bit more cost than just painting over it.
» Right.
» All right. Next is the Partridge Lane Nature
Preserve. I'm not even going to go into this because it's just um woodland that
you can choose to walk through and it also acts as storm water management for
the village.
We could. Yeah, I think that's park identification, is that it?
» The homeowners might rip them down. Might not be too happy.
» Yep. Public property. >> Make sure there's a a flock camera
there. So, if anybody not, >> you may be talking about that in about a
month. So, >> I'm sure. Um, next is the multi-purpose
trail. Again, there's not too much to talk about that we haven't already
talked about. This is the trail that runs from Fireman's and then through and
into Marie Cross Park. Um, so again, it's wayfinding and accessibility and
and improvements like that. Um, we've improved when we can the asphalt and
walkways that go through there. We did a decent chunk of it over the last year
here. Um, but other than that, it's improving ramps and doing stuff like
that whenever we have the money and time to do it.
» All right.
» Yep. >> Yeah. And I don't know how much of that
is us versus the railroad company. Do you know like do we do we own and manage
that defensing? >> We don't own it, but we do.
» Okay. No, but if you're talking by the tracks.
» Yes. >> No,
» the maze. >> That the the maze. Yes, that's us.
» The maze. Yeah. >> Yeah. I think uh
the railroad company's right away is a little bit bigger than a normal highway.
So, I don't know. It's like 40 ft something like that
from there. So, and I think that fence was right at the rightway.
» And the maze is meant to to hopefully stop people from walking into the train
tracks.
Well, I I would think stop people like on a bike or something shooting through
» just as a train is shooting through the path that they move fast out here. But
still, >> we can move fast.
» Oh, yeah. [laughter]
» So, you know, it's a safety feature. >> Yeah.
» All right. Any other thoughts on the individual parks and the rest of it we
can speed through here. So section five is a needs assessment.
So this is the table from land area standards and I don't want to bore you
but based off the population in the village you should have so much acreage
of parkland. Long story short we're doing pretty good. We have a lot of
parkland. We go above and beyond the amount of parks that we need to have
based on the population of the village. Um facility needs. It talks about again
the highlights of of improving ADA signage addressing drainage and flooded
flooding. We also talk about the uh little league baseball facility that is
not villain zoned right that's been a priority I think over all the renditions
is that at some point we need to take ownership over Oak Park. Um so that
remains here. Um I'll move on. Table eight shows a
summary of your guys's survey results. Then when you get bored you can look at
all this.
Uh moving on to key opportunities for village parks and open space. It talks
about village green future park. So that's this side of the village where we
don't have any parkland. Um this body knows that the board has been talking
about parkland up there. We have some potential sites for that.
Um, other possibilities, the Partridge Lane, uh, nature preserve, you know, how
could we continue to utilize that space? Uh, we've talked about a proposed Fonia
Creek nature preserves and hiking trail. Um, again, I don't want to bore you with
history, but the original plan had the village purchasing a bunch of property
through the middle of the village uh to create an interconnecting trail. Um I
think during your time we we kind of axed a lot of that because it was
already privately owned and again we we weren't in the business of buying more
public land. Uh but again that idea is still still lives in this document for a
future body to consider. All right. So then we get to the important part. So
this village of Fredonia park improvement projects. So what you have
here is a breakdown of all of the recommendations from each of those parks
that we talked about except for what we just added an associated cost next to
it. So what I need from you all is let's prioritize this and it doesn't need to
be like one through seven. It could be just high priority versus low priority.
So that way in the future we'll add these things to our CIP list and we're
not going to add things that are kind of low of the total for you guys. Maybe a
maybe a fence around the basketball court is a is a easy thing that we can
do one year and just get it done. Well, then that's a higher priority. Or maybe
it's a safety thing and you know that playground's falling apart. We really
need to update it. We need some sort of kind of priority list so that way then
we have direction as a team of what projects to tackle sooner than later. Um
so let's look at Marie Cross Park. Here you see all the listed stuff that we had
talked about. Who has an idea? Let's go.
What's the highest priority on this list? Maybe it would start there.
» It's the highest priority on that list. >> Yes.
» Oh, we're like we're doing each individual thing. I see.
» Yes. You have a little chart. I just got to
fill in higher. I just got to fill in high or low. So like bleachers and
athletic viewing viewing area like Tiffany had just said, is this a high
priority for the village? I would argue if we're going to have a partnership,
right, I would mark it as high so that way we're kind of planning for it
alongside them, >> right? I would say high on that.
» I'd say that's pretty high. I think the disc golf stealth course, it attracts a
lot of people from out. >> It does attract a lot of people. We've
got that national tournament. We've got people coming. I know a lot of people
who disc golf stealth. Oh, you looking for Oh, yeah. I love that color.
» Yep. >> Upgrading that to attract more people
and keep people coming to it, I think. and it's not that expensive to throw in
seating. So, I I'd put that at a higher priority. But
» I was wondering with that if there was more opportunity to partner with like
the school and like their woods program to see if they want to build a bench to
put out there and or like >> individual seats. That's as far as
plenty of opportunities if someone's looking to, you know, build a bench,
donate it, and whatever, then I do a voice coat eagle project.
» There you go, Ne. >> With the I just want to mention, I hold
you up with the seating and the batches of that. Uh, I usually give Dan takes
care of that. So, I usually give them a bench
a bench every year. Uh we talk about if we're getting gar uh garbage cans and
picnic tables, we give him the old ones and then he puts them where he wants. I
mean, we really don't touch that. He takes care of it.
So, I get him a bench, he puts it wherever.
So, and I was down there on Sunday and he was getting ready for this coming
weekend and he was putting the bench out that was here. So, we really don't go
through that. I mean, if he needs help, we'll help him. But,
» but I would argue if we make this a low priority, then we're going to shift from
doing that and moving those assets to something else. You know what I'm
saying? If this isn't a high priority, then we'll stop doing benches for him
and then we'll move that money to something else.
I think it for the most part in the past you used the money that came from the
tournaments. >> Yes. Basically
or he paid to rent the park or rent the disco
» then we bought him a bench for that. So >> money came in and went right back to it.
» So I mean as far as our our priorities as a village I'd probably put that as a
little
Okay.
» Ward started talking about putting in pavilion and we got that donation from
Port Washington. So, >> I mean that has to be a high priority.
If there's throwing money at us, we got to show them that we're putting it up.
» Yeah. >> Yep.
» We can't really put that off, >> right?
» I heard based on the conversation before Sleing Hill is kind of low. Yeah.
» Um, additional parking is, you know, it's going to be low until we have the
opportunity to have space to park, >> right?
» Um, new playground >> that we might be talking about a little
bit. >> Yeah,
» that higher. >> Put that over.
» Okay. And then village ID signage. So, we have the signage kind of there. It's
on the bathroom facility. We would move it to the front of the park. I mean
that's the only cost there which is going to be less than even the free five
that's here. >> I think there is a dollar side in
» there is I know but I'm talking about switching them out.
Okay. Children's
pollinator garden.
» Hello. >> Yeah.
» I mean I like the idea of it.
equipment needed up park.
» Okay. But that is high any accessibility. So a ramp to get into the
park. >> That would be I mean I suppose that
would be high with the upgrades of the equipment.
» Okay. Shade trees.
» I feel like that can be low on the village side and we could probably get
some programs to donate and plant the tree.
adding park table and benches.
» Medium.
» What we got over there right now? We got a bench.
» We have one one built-in bench. >> Not a picnic table over there anymore.
» One one tree, one bench, and one. >> I mean, there ought to be a picnic table
or something so a parent can sit there while their kids screwing around. you
know, some place to sit and >> I mean, it's not like we're talking
about a bunch of picnic tables. >> Say a picnic table at the most.
» Yeah. Um, and then the ID signage.
» I mean, I think ID signage should be kind of a moderate everywhere. You know,
if we can afford to get it done, we ought to do it just so that the village
looks consistent no matter where you go. >> Yep.
All right. This is the last part of this, by the
way. After this is all other data that you can look at whenever you feel like
it. >> Um, Fireman's Park, we have AD
accessibility improvements.
» It's not too bad right now, is it?
» You have to go into the grass and it's all a wheelchair through there.
» Yeah, we talked about we'd extend sidewalk from the fire fire department
parking lot along that full um northern area of the park. I mean,
you get to the playground, you get to the ball diamond.
» So, right along right along Park A. >> Yeah.
» I guess of these three things, what what if any are high?
» They can all the playground >> equipment is over 20 years old. It's
falling apart. It needs to be replaced. I mean me I go for the baseball first
but I'm I'm biased so you know so but the the playground equipment definitely
» they can both be high it's okay >> both the they the playground equipment
slightly higher than the baseball >> that the playground equipment in my one
year at the bubard I placed one full-time year I placed three or four
things in that playground >> yeah would you say that's the worst
playground that we have >> I don't know if it's the worst I think
children wor but the vitamins gets used by more people who are vocal about
» what's going on, >> right?
» Kind of thing. So, um I think children's is in worse shape, but fireman gets used
by more people. >> Fireman's is also more publicly used as
we do have the the the baseball children's play youth league and we have
soccer and so we have people coming there for those kinds of things.
» I know like divine savior will walk the kids over there. They use that.
» So, school does. >> Yeah. So, It'd be I think it really does
have a higher priority than children's or any of the other parks too.
» Then I added fencing for the fireman's park, the basketball
high, low
» I can put it as high and see kind of cost would be to that
» at least along the roadside. >> Yeah. When you mention the fact
basketball gets wet, I'm not as worried about it.
» Yeah. >> As if it ran out in front of a semi.
Right. So >> correct
» or Simon chugging along lawn mower or something.
» All rightski. I removed the dog park. So now we have
the nature path for 5k and ID signage.
» Well, if if we're talking about that park, I
mean that's pretty cheap stuff right there. Make it high priority. Make it
more usable. Make it more used. I mean, this is probably the easiest that that's
like lowhanging fruit that we could we could revitalize that whole park in in a
year. >> Yeah.
» Um and get it done. >> I mean, if we were to then rate the
parks on which one should be tackled first.
» Yeah. That's that's a whole other conversation.
» But >> all right. Uh Metobrook. So, this is
again the dog park. Um fencing and garbage receptacles. Uh this had the
mini playground which you guys removed. And then ID signs.
» And we also talked about maybe having just a couple of picnic tables. Oh yeah.
» Building grills over in that eastern section.
» Yeah. Benches. >> Things that can get wet and aren't that
big a deal.
I think the Yeah. between that and then the the dog park stuff could be probably
be high. And again this the park ID sign like like Pete said.
» Yeah. do them all as as as well.
» Yeah. >> Standardize and you know make us look
like a organized village. >> Um Freedom Park, I would suggest you
mark that as high for the multi-purpose building again for grant.
» Um replacing pavilion. I I'll be honest, I don't I don't think that there's at
least right now there's not a good grant opportunity specifically for that
purpose. So, if you guys ever want to replace that pavilion, I mean, it's
literally us paying the money to do it, >> right?
» Um, which is not fun, which is why you see it quoted like $120,000.
Um, I don't know. We could say it's high, but I just don't think it's going
to happen unless funding comes from on high, you know,
» for like the band shell thing that we're talking about.
» Yeah. Is there opportunity instead to try to utilize like one end of the
pavilion that we build at Murray Krauss? So then the bands are always covered and
there's like there's opportunity for people to be inside and outside
» hanging out there. Kids can be playing in the splash pad where music's going.
» Oh, I see. Moving it to Marie Krauss. to Marie Krauss and making that kind of our
dedicated Tuesday tune spot because >> there's opportunity there to be playing
the >> fields. People can, you know, kids can
run around in the fields. >> Yep.
Less traffic or parking. I don't know. I don't know where you
located. I don't know. I have to look the space again. But if you have that
hash the clamshell kind of looking out toward the soccer fields and so forth. I
mean, you got all that green space. I got a couple of log chairs. I can carry
those over there, set it up, and enjoy the music all evening long, you know.
» Just throw out there like tonight. >> Oh, yeah.
» Yeah. We just move Tuesdays on the week. >> I mean, we can coordinate we can
coordinate things like that. >> I just, you know, if we're going to
move, it's kind of nice to have things up there at the entrance of the village.
So, >> yeah. But Marie Krauss was much larger
and and probably we give the kids who are interested in listening to the band
something to do. >> Yeah, we just have to be more strict
about, you know, renting out our park and reserving dates for everybody so we
know when they're going to be there versus us and all that. But
» um Okay. So, under Freedom Park, I put hi
for the multi-purpose building pavilion. I mean, we can say hi. Again, it'll
happen when it happens. Year-round yard games
was passionate about that. >> I think I mean, it it's a nice idea.
» Yeah. >> But I I don't think it's necessarily
dark. >> So, when I was doing research on it a
few years back, it's like concrete. So, They're there all the time. They
want
to go in >> or stone chest board.
» Yeah, >> I've seen those. Corn Germantown has a
part with those in it. >> Yeah, they weren't stupid expensive
in >> your mowing over the cornhole bags.
» Yeah, Eric and I both want to do something like this there. Um, our
concern is do you provide the chest pieces?
What happens when somebody takes one? What happens when it blows off, gets run
over in the road? Or your cornhole bags? Do you provide those? What happens
somebody takes one? Are you buying a new one every year or every two weeks?
» And so, if you're putting the games, but you're not providing the equipment for
the games. >> I think it's easier for people to bring
a bag of bags to toss, right, than to bring the whole board.
» Yeah. But does it I mean there's no cost
efficiency to it or and you're not but does the cost of putting it in if you're
not providing the equipment to use it make sense?
» Well, I mean like with chess boards people are you know if people know
there's a chess board there they can bring the pieces
so it's right. >> I mean if we put in horseshoe pits do we
have horseshoes? >> Right.
That's the I don't know. >> That's like I I don't recommend we
provide the items to use the games because you run into the risks of okay,
now there's unsupervised kids at the park and horseshoe rings.
um what possibly people this would add to the shops here and so
forth, but if we had like a place where people could go and get these items, you
know, so stopping by here and putting $10 down for a bag of bags for the
cornhole, >> right? I I don't want to add more work
» to the people, but you know, if you come back and you've only got six of the
eight bags, well, you're not getting your 10 bucks back because you got to
replace those bags. >> I don't know if there's like a way that
they do like a vending machine where you just
put a dollar in and you get access to whatever's in there. And I mean,
» suppose it's like a >> get it back. But if there's some sort of
I mean like they do those shopping cart things that you put like 50 cents to buy
the shopping cart back cents back. I don't I don't know if there's a way to
do that with a with play. those systems are.
» I've been to parks that have both and most of the time the ones I see that
have like where they have the bags there or the like the horseshoe rings there,
they're kind of more private type playground
spaces or like at campgrounds and they're that stuff is near like a
building where there's almost always like somebody to kind of supervise that
stuff. I don't really recommend having because even what stops then a
10-year-old kid from putting a dollar in and then pulling out the horseshoe rings
and um I'd much rather have it where yes, we have these spaces to use this
stuff and you bring your bags with you or you bring your horseshoe rings with
you. >> I think that's the better way to go.
» Yeah. >> So, I'm hearing that our team really
wants to put these in. Do you agree in putting it as a high priority? They're
not that expensive. I no problem.
» Would you use them if the stuff wasn't there to use them? [laughter]
» Uh, personally, no. I don't.
» Yeah. But if you knew it was there and then you happened to be at Wally World
and you saw that there was a sale on [laughter] Cornhole.
» There you go. >> Would I buy them just to go through?
There you go. >> But if I'm down there
playing, >> they could be provided. We could have
them and be provided when we have events going on.
» Sure. >> Yeah.
» That's that's a nice kind of >> or somebody rents the park.
» I know you guys do have a fee for renting the park and you have a if
something gets broken or whatever it comes out of there. Correct.
» So, >> oh yeah,
» you don't get it back is to charge people for it.
» Yeah.
» Cool. >> Right. Veterans Park, uh, replacing the
sand with some other material, providing those vehic vehicular barriers or the
wall fencing that we talked about, and then other ADA stuff and silage.
» And don't forget the the well with the wall. Yeah. Maybe using
» I'd say that define property through fencing or landscape would
» I think that would be a real priority simply because it would motivate you get
people interested in hey we're doing something profession doing something and
people can participate they can buy a brick for a family member or something
that you know I I really think that would be
» an excellent uh way to just kind of get the people in the village motivated
in the village.
And I think that kind of kills two birds with one stone. It will define the
property line and then the one above it to provide the barriers for traffic. So
» yeah. >> Cool. Um do you care about replacing the
sand like we've been doing in our other parks?
» Well, is isn't that required? Isn't that something that
» it's technically not considered saving? Soction wise
» and to be consistent with the rest of the playgrounds in the village, it
probably ought to be replaced. >> All right, let me skip down to
» uh Stony, >> right?
» Um Stony Creek, we talked about that pedestrian connection to Fredonia AB. So
again, that's extending sidewalk all the way up there.
Um, removing replacing outdoor playground equipment, possibly the
naturebased play playground, converting the basketball court to
pickle ball, removing a fence, moving grills, adding
horseshoe. What are your thoughts?
» That that dilapidated little slide that's on the western edge of the park
area, it needs to go away. Walk in and that looks so bad. I hope we get that
off by the end of the year. [laughter] by the end of the week.
» Looks like if you kicked it, it would fall over.
» We've been talking about getting rid of that.
» What happened when you mentioned it? Eric says, "Not yet." [laughter]
» Some sort of emotional connection to her.
» I don't know if it was there when he went there as a kid or something, but
» All right. So, replacing playground equipment. Some of it was kind of done
recently, right? The Lions Lions did some stuff.
» Yeah. >> Yeah. Some of some of it's in good
shape. >> What? The big metal one.
» The big metal. >> I love that big metal.
» Have a nose bleed when you went up on that one.
» You go to the top of that metal one, you get a nose bleed, man.
» All right. So, sidewalk up to the park. >> Yeah.
» Who care? Low, high. >> And most people are going to drive, so I
don't know that it makes that much of a difference.
» Low it is. Um, replacing the playground equipment.
» Sounds high to a few people in this room.
» Yeah, some [laughter] of the stuff really needs to just
» go. It makes it look bad. I mean, >> you said replace, maybe not.
Yeah, some of it can just be >> refurbish
» um chain link fence. >> Well, where would we be putting that?
» It's on the north side there already falling apart. We don't know whose it
is. There's branches going property owner wouldn't mind if we just tore it
the hell out. >> He wants it out.
» We've talked about pulling it out, replacing it. He wants it out. Doesn't
want it replaced. >> Well, if it's on our property, then
» does it need to be replaced? Do we need it, sir? We don't have fence anywhere
else in the park, do we? >> No, it's just to separate that woodland
from the >> There is one by the house that's right
next to that parking lot. >> Oh,
» that separates the house from the park. >> Yeah,
» but they but they put that >> Yeah, it's for other reasons.
» I mean, yeah, take that out and get rid of it.
» So, just remove don't replace. >> Yeah. What do you think? And I can see
kids are going to start going through those woods and that property owner is
going to get kicked off. >> Then he's going to want his own damn
» fence. He can put up his own. There we go. [laughter]
» I think he thinks it's his fence. So if you put a new one in, you'd have to pay
for it. That's my guess is why he doesn't want a new one.
» Well, but >> okay, we'll have that conversation. Uh
grills. Do you care about grills? >> Getting getting the old ones out of
there would be a good thing. uh moving putting a couple of newer ones near the
pavilion. >> Sounds like they're not used though.
» Doesn't sound like they're used I guess. So,
» but Falls has a really cool thing in one of their parks. They have a big old like
fire pit type grill on one end of the pavilion. It' be kind of interesting to
look into down there. Not anytime soon, but something to think
» until someone puts a couch in it. >> Till someone puts a couch in it.
» Until someone puts a couch in it. That'd be a really good kel grill to put on.
But I mean, I know we've used it for engineering group outings and stuff,
cook our barbecue and whatever on it.
» I skipped over that pickle ball court conversion. That high low.
» There are enough people interested in having a pickle ball court somewhere in
the village. I I'd put that at higher, right?
Is there high enough demand and in addition to the ones that are at Wabonia
Park and the >> Well, those are task courts really.
They're not really mapped out for pickle ball. I don't know much.
» Yeah, they're lying for it. >> But that stuff out there that that's
higher tennis ball tennis instead of pickle ball is supposed to be lower or
something. So technically they're not pickle ball regulation even though they
are for pickle ball. That would be the argument.
» Can the Nets be moved? >> Can the Nets be moved down though?
» Yeah, I don't know.
But
» is the location of it
» cross the highway right there is miserable on
a bike. There's no good way to get there unless you're driving.
So that would be the only >> Stony Creek would be a nice
» Is that accessible from park side? >> Is there a way to get there?
» No. No. There's a driveway, but I think it's
private. [clears throat] >> Yeah.
» And over by Stony Creek Park right there, you've got that uh uh adult
daycare center. I don't know if they'd be able to have day eight trips over to
do a little pickle balling, you know, that folks. I don't know. You know, but
» having it in the village like that, you know, a place that's reasonably easy to
get to makes some sense. >> Guess I need to learn about pickle ball.
I know zero. >> I got enough hobbies. [laughter]
» I I I only know anything about it because my wife and my kids play it on
E. Well, that [laughter] kills the point of playing the sport for
real, but okay, whatever. >> All right, I'm hearing that it's time.
» Sure. uh adding horseshoe.
» Well, >> I mean it's cheap, but there's no
priority on that. >> All right. And then just so we can book
it and finish this last one is Village Green Park. So this is the again
proposed space up by the Hillrest lots. Um so if and when it gets to the point
that we were to develop that lot, then this is the stuff that it talks about.
So, small playground, planting shade trees, pedestrian. I would argue this is
probably all low in our priority list since we don't even have the property
technically. >> Yeah.
» And then when we do, then we can talk about updating it.
» I agree with that. >> Great. Um, let me just quickly flip
through this, see if there's anything of importance. While I do that,
um, the next steps, so I'm be looking for recommendation
um, tonight for this document now that we've cleaned it up. The next step would
be a public hearing or public participation um, time period. So that
would happen in front of you all >> um, to get their feedback. So pretty
much what I would plan on doing is I would probably make a little
presentation. We'd present it to the public and say, "These are our ideas.
What's your feedback and and response?" And then we would um add their feedback
to this plan and then it goes to the full board for adoption. And once you
guys adopt it, again, it's not just you. We have to kick it to the county for
their approval. Um if you read through the front, the engineer has to approve.
I mean, there's a lot of levels in order for it to be a um DNR qualified parks
and open space plan. But then again, that's what allows us to get access to
the grants and all that other good stuff. So,
that sound good? What's the What's the timeline look
like? >> When do we have to have this public
hearing? Are we talking >> I mean, it can happen as quickly or as
slow as you want. Right. This is technically a 2030 plan and we're only a
year in. Um so I probably, you know, maybe in fall
we can do a public hearing. Um choose one night, make it, you know, really
well known that we're doing this and the people that are interested in groups
like that that want to come and give feedback. So in October like maybe
» yeah be good. >> Right.
» Um so I would make a a motion to recommend parks and open space plan as
amended and then set a public hearing. You know we could say for sometime in
October. >> So moved.
» Thank you. >> So seconded.
So we >> motioned and Okay. So all those in favor
» I >> I
» All those opposed. Motion passes.
» While we're all sitting here, do you want to set a date for the public
hearing that works for everybody? >> What about
the first meeting in October? >> Like like do
» when would our first meeting be in October?
» We talk first meeting board meeting. Yeah. So October 1st.
October 1st is when Elena >> think so.
» Think we're gonna have that much participation?
» I do. >> Oh wow. Okay, we'll come
» we'll come back on some of the surveys that we did and public hearings
even some of that it was two plus
» well so for the first the first board meeting would be October 1st.
» Yeah. or well given that feedback I I didn't think we I mean just based on
every every other public hearing I've seen very little feedback u maybe we
need to do an abandoned >> we just'll designate a night outside of
a meeting >> do we want to have it on if we have a
planning park parks and recck meeting >> well it would be a park
» basically be our parks
» I was just thinking we do it on a board meeting night just just free up the
schedule, but it sounds like we're going to have
» some participation. >> So maybe we go independent of board
maybe. >> So if you want to keep it Thursdays, we
can do it on the 8th maybe. So a village board parks thing and then village board
in the month of October. >> Are Thursdays good for you?
» Yeah, I mean I keep my Thursdays pretty open for board meetings.
» Should you Thursday the eth? All right. October 8th.
And what time do you want to start? You want to do six?
» You won't be able to be here. [laughter]
» Perfect. >> You can make it work. You'll be here.
» Yeah. The only thing on my calendar that night is honor soccer practice.
» 6 p.m. >> 6 p.m. So, October 8, 6 p.m.
» Yeah. All right. All right. Thank you. Are we going to have this open-ended or
are we going to put a cut off on it? I mean,
» well, it's a public meeting and you're chairing, so it ends whenever you say,
"All right, we've heard enough." You hit the
» gap. You can tell people, "You got five minutes. That's it."
» I would I would make sure we have some structure, right? You know, whether it's
five minutes per person or whatever. Let's, you know, we'll have
» Did you have a deep desire to be able to attend?
» I mean, we could change it. >> Don't change it. I mean, yes, I do have
a deep desire to make. >> So, I'm saying what about Wednesday?
I'll just see that practice. >> Wednesday's definitely don't work for
» you're going to run into counter stuff. >> Oh, yeah. That's great.
» All right. Just tell Hal you got something better to do.
» Okay. I mean, I want to honor you as the person that
» Y >> I I 100% appreciate that. I will make it
work. I can tell you that when we did an
Wow. >> And there was a lot of
» That's good. We want to see that. >> It was really really good.
» Discussion. >> So
» people are very >> nobody needed a police escort.
[laughter] >> All right.
» Cool. And so you and I as chair can talk about the structure of that meeting and
what you want it to look like. So >> great.
» All right. discussion and possible action on Marie Krauss pavilion.
» All right. Uh we're building a pavilion. >> Oh,
» you good? >> Yeah.
» Okay. Uh we're building a pavilion, believe it or not. Um so we got $65,000
from Port Washington State Bank uh for this pavilion. Um, we also are uh in I'd
say in in almost final talks with No Lumber to donate some if not all of the
lumber materials um for this and then in final talks with
Andrewj Construction to assist with project management and um at least
getting the concrete at cost um for this pavilion as well. So, a lot of a lot of
great community partners that are coming together to to do this. Um you see in
your map here this kind of structure laid out. So we've measured it. Um do
you know the approximate size up top you're in?
» No. >> Um well it's pretty it matches what you
see here in the picture. The plan would be on the northern side. That would be
enclosed uh storage areas um with access to electrical and plumbing facing
towards the inside of the pavilion. Um and then enough space there for a good
amount of you know uh picnic tables and things like that to go underneath there.
Um plus of doing this obviously is it makes the rentability of that park so
much more higher birthday parties for splash pad um gathering place for soccer
groups and whatever else want to utilize that space. Um and again future events
and things like that that we'd want to do. We now have an a covered structure
to do that. Um, if we really wanted to go big, we've talked about um,
winterizing that structure. If you've been in a county park, you'll see that
there's rolling doors that are there that kind of enclose it. Um, we I I
don't think we'll have the capital to do that. Um, but if there's a way to maybe
set this up so that way in the future we could add features like that, then that
would be nice for us to do. >> I think the biggest draw to that park is
summer activities. So, I mean, the soccer, the
» the splash pad, the
I would guess not because
» nice. >> Well, if we have a sliding hill, he's
going to have to.
» Good thing Eric left. You'll tell him all about all the things we approved. He
was gone. >> Um, so again, we don't know the exact
dimensions, but it's a pretty sizable pavilion that'll be there. Um, we're
restricted to the north because we still need to have some storm water drainage
that's going to continue there and then it hits the parking lot where we have
storm water drainage set up too. Um, but other than that, it's pretty exciting
project. We're really just kind of letting you know and if there's any
major things that you want to tell us about the pavilion that you want or
don't want, you know, now's the time. But we appreciate all the donated and
community efforts to make this happen. So, any thoughts?
I'm excited about it. >> Yeah.
» Solar panels to help power it. >> Dude, my electric bill is 73 cents,
right? >> That gas.
» I don't know if you've seen those solar panels on my roof, but uh they make
» they pay off, right? >> And we got all these roofs without any
solar panels. >> You think the energies would install
those for free? [laughter] >> Well, they're not free, but they would
pay for them. How far in are you in
to like offset the cost? Cuz I looked into them too, but it would
take me like even if my electric bill went down to nothing,
» it would take me like 10 years or something to
» Oh, where am I? >> So, I'm like,
» but it's not like they're going to come down. They don't have any moving parts.
» Yeah. >> And they keep the roof going from
wearing those quick. Was Eric's plan to have storage in that storage?
» Yeah. >> Well, it' be an addition to Yeah. Um
» the shed. >> Oh, yeah.
» I think you said that was the original plan for that shed. So talk about moving
it but idea is
» part of our fundraising
generates funds to
» cool um so I know it says action on here I
mean I guess your action is this looks good please proceed with getting a free
pavilion.
If you want to make a motion that's a little bit
» motion to move forward on building a pavilion at Marine Crow Park to the spot
» as presented. >> As presented.
» Thank you. >> Second.
» All right. Uh all those in motion say I or all those in favor say I.
» I. >> Opposed.
Motion passes. Right. discussion and possible action on
Robert >> Omi Amy
» Omi Amy >> Amy donation
» um so we got a significant donation as you all know about $96,000 from Robert
AB foundation or from the foundation to us um it's been sitting in our account
segregated for a parks and wreck purpose um the chairman Seiring and I have
talked a little bit about um creative ways to use those funds and really it's
up to the discretion of the village of what we want to do with it. Um to to
back up on an accounting standpoint, so we've been talking about it for a number
of years of segregating our parks and wreck funds away from our general fund.
So we have finally done that. So like this nice revenue thing sheet that you
see here in front of you. All of the revenues that we generate from events
this year goes into that segregated fund. It'll earn a little bit of
interest and it'll help to fund future events and things like that that we do.
So right now the Robert Amy donation is also sitting in that segregated fund for
that purpose. You guys could leave it there. It could earn interest for 10
years, right? And grow and wait to spend it or you could say we have a really
cool project and we want to spend all the money right now. Um my
recommendation is probably to do a little bit of both, right? I think you
can use this money as foundational support for something, right? Whatever
you want it to do and then maybe split the other half to earn yummy interest
over the years and grow that fund. Um, and so that's where I'll leave it
because Trusty Sering had a cool idea of what maybe we could do with some of that
money. Take it away. >> Yes. So, as you can see in the
renderings, um, the idea of adding a playground behind the splash pad and the
new pavilion. Um, but as I talked to Mr. Jenkins. Um, I
would like this playground to be more than just like a little kid playground.
I want something for even like our teenagers that can actually be there.
Maybe when a parent is with their kids as flash or we did move Tuesday tunes
where even teenagers are having fun with us. This rendering is smaller than the
one I sent you, but >> they would. I looked at a larger one and
possibly I know a lot of parks that I've been do with my kids, the ones that have
the zip lines are packed all the time. So maybe the idea of a a larger zipline
along the back of it for kids to be having fun with.
Um, this was kind of my idea to do with some of those funds is to start the
process to create a fundraising for a playground at Marie Cro or Try Play.
» Yeah. So, when we've talked about it, it's the next kind of next signature
project that we'd be working on. So, the splash pad, you know, took us about a
year to fund raise and then we got it done the following year. Um, this I
mean, we're going to have to look at a lot of specs, right? We'd start with
that of what we want kind of want the park to look like. Um what I envision is
we'd spend the rest of this year coming up with that kind of plan of action.
This is what it's going to look like. These are the features we want. Um this
is the area that's going to cover. And then then we hit the ground running in
2027 with some sort of fundraising campaign. And I'll be as honest with you
as I was with the splash pad. Um, you know, we need to be cognizant of the
market that we're in, the the small close-knitness of the village. Um, if
there's other fundraising efforts going on at the same time, right, we don't
want to be cannibalizing each other. So, there's a lot of things like that that
we need to think about. Um, but based off of what the quotes end up coming in
at to build, if this is a million-doll project, then, you know, this might be a
five-year fundraising campaign, and we as long as we're okay with that, right,
then that's what it is. Um, but we also don't want to set our goals too high
that we're going to raise a million dollars in a year. I don't think that's
realistic, right? So we can lay the groundwork this fall of getting again a
rough idea of what we want the park to look like, a rough cost estimate, and
then I can come back to you guys end of this year, beginning of next year with
all right, where's our plan of action and we're good to go. So
and using and let me tie back using that 50k of the Amy donation as a kind of
founding amount.
» Yes. Okay, based on this conversation, just
the initial thoughts, I'm sitting on 30 seconds, but we're working together and
it's the soccer club and softball club and the village is working together to
make that part of a a good part that there's things that a soccer club
whatever we can fund raise for them, we would donate
50 grand on softball raises, you know, maybe for heart or
bathrooms or whatever it is to donate. And we're all working together
to try and generate those funds for the bigger cause, right? My goal is for that
every day down there was to have a complex. It's softball and soccer and
smash splash and you know an all all place for everybody to go. The only way
to do that is to have everybody working together with the
village to make that happen, right?
» Oh, I I mean, as he was saying, you know, cannibalizing and making sure
we're not over overlapping each other and fighting each other for donations,
but >> working with each other.
» Yeah, >> that that's much better.
» And, you know, on the account of transparency, I'm huge on transparency.
So once we put that plan together and had an idea and knew what we wanted to
do for an end goal, then we build a program to make sure we're being
transparent with the donors. So we're constantly putting some type of news out
there of like here's the next thing of our, you know, that we're trying to
raise right now. And then when we get there, that next goal and then at the
end we have that whole entire thing in full contrast of like, okay, we've made
it. we're, you know, it's time to celebrate that. So, um, but yes, working
together is very beneficial because the soccer club might pull in donors that
the village might not and the baseball club might pull in donors that the
village might not or the soccer club might not. So, I think everyone working
together is a huge opportunity to see Marie Krauss turn into something amazing
for all of the families to enjoy. So, >> yeah.
[clears throat] So then in again we're doing our leg work this fall. I mean
you're going to do the same thing. So >> should be different
» suggestions on that. >> Yeah I think I think that
» yeah I think that timing works fine because then whatever we present then to
you all for this is the entire package right it can include your needs and our
needs and all that. So that'd be cool. And even if somebody finishes or wraps
up their leg work faster than another, we just wait to put it all together.
Yeah. You know, at the same time. >> Yeah. It should be a cohesive plan.
» Yeah. I mean, the the difference is that at the end of the day, this is all
village property, right? So, we appreciate that these community
organizations are helping to support that, but at the end of the day, they're
helping to improve our own property. So, we should
take that support. Yeah. Cool.
So, to tie it back to what we're discussing,
are you comfortable with that split of the Amy donation? So, again, it's a 96k.
It would stay in our fund, but we'd segregate about half of it for this
future complex purpose or do you want to spend that money on something else?
» What was in the donation
package? from >> it was very vague. They just wanted to
see it used for parks and recreational purposes. They didn't expect naming
rights or any of that. Um >> I still think it would be opposed to us
the Amy playground or something that >> Yeah. But but we also don't want to
hinder ourselves because if it's a million-dollar project and they only
only donated 50,000, right? You know, and I don't know, Port Washington State
Bank gives us another million dollars, right? You want to
» Yeah. But yes,
» I mean, >> if all else, you know, there's going to
be probably benches around the playground, like I of course would
definitely say, >> especially like you said, if we if they
did 50,000 and then somebody comes in and they're like, "Oh, I'm going to give
500,000." >> Yeah.
» If you name the playground after me. Well, we already got that claim. like
but I definitely feel like yes we'll have a plaque on the bench or
» there will be something that mentions that
» flash all the donors out there >> right
» maybe another sign like that or a PWSB playground in partnership with OSBA
and maybe >> Yep.
» Great. We're putting the car before the horse.
» What do you want to do with Amy money is what I've tried to get.
» I would like to see that bit be set aside to
doing something like this for the future of that complex.
» I mean, they wanted the money used for something like this. Setting some aside
so that we can do future projects, but using some of it in a a a
way that is visible, that is we're clearly using this to get this started.
I think that that sends a message to the family that yes, we're using their money
for what they wanted us to use for. So, I think that's a good idea.
The location I've always thought and is to use that money at Children's Park.
I think if you use I mean maybe not all of it, I think that money there gets you
a new playground. Um I think it's it's it's very easy that
ends up in six figures very quickly. Um the size of Children's Park with that
current playground, I think you're looking somewhere like 50 60 grand. Last
time I had now it's probably gone out. Um
but if you're using that money, >> did they have a connection to Children's
Park or you just saying? >> I don't know. Costwise, if you're
looking because we know that park was so bad that equipment is so bad that it
needs to be replaced but it's not used as much as every other playground. So
now you're moving into the back end of the office in terms of use indeed. Um
maybe not maybe using donation money for a playground that doesn't get used as
much isn't necessarily a great idea, but um that's not using money that the
village is then bringing in its donated money.
I mean that was always my since that donation came in. That was my thought
like why don't we use that for to to fix that part.
» And I think you have a point there. It does get pushed to the back because it's
a small park that doesn't get used a lot. And that's probably why it's in the
condition that it is. >> And yeah, I don't see I don't see it
getting any better. >> Does get used a lot by the residents in
that neighborhood. Um that's for sure. >> I know my kids use it all the time.
» Yeah, I would imagine people down there use it. It's not You're not coming from
St. John's to use Children's Park, right?
What if we were to use some of the Amy money, not the whole 50 or 96 or
whatever, but some of it to start a fundraising program for Children's Park.
Again, I wouldn't be running multiple fundraising bids at the same time. Let's
shoot ourselves in the foot. Um, but we can maybe if there's interest
in this idea of two, we could explore getting some quotes on playgrounds and
then maybe if it is more in the 25 30k range. I just don't want to eat up all
the money right away. >> Yeah, I agree. I think I think I think
you could very easily get a play on the size of the current children's park for
50 grand. Um, I'm not I don't want to say that it's for sure because it's like
I said, it's probably gone up. last time last year and
we all know how things are are increasing in price. So,
» um but I think it's it's feasible to get a playground in there with a half that
money. >> Okay,
we can definitely look at that. >> Yep.
» So, in October, I'm just trying to think through this
through here. In October, we'll have our parks open space public hearing and
finalize that. Again, depending on how long it that
meeting is, you could also have an actual parks and wreck meeting where we
bring these kind of rough sketch plans and a quote on that and then you can
kind of give a final determination or guidance on the Amy dollars to um but if
the public hearing is going to be three hours long, then we might want to just
look at another date further into the year. So,
» okay. >> So, I don't even know that now, but I'm
just trying to think of stuff we got to do by the end of the year.
» Yeah. >> Yeah. All right. So, do you want to take
any official action on the Robert Amy donation? I would say for this, you'd be
giving a recommendation to the village board to then, you know, we'd pass a
resolution designating these funds for this purpose. But if you're not ready to
do that because we might spend it on a different thing, then we should wait.
If you are going to be taking a look into what it would cost to do moderate
steps of rebuild on uh children's as well as
whether or not 50k would be the starting punch
» for uh the playground down at Marie Krauss,
then I think we should wait till we get the numbers to get an idea of what how
this money might have to be divided up. So I I don't know. I'd say we wait until
the next time we meet so they have a chance to repeat the numbers.
» Yeah. >> And I I think in in the grand scope of
the playground at Marine Corral, I think 50,000 would get
swallowed up in in the grander scheme of things and less significant.
» Yeah. >> Whereas if Mr. Amy contributed to the
total rehab of an entire park. That's kind of has a little bit of weight
behind it. So I think we should explore that idea.
» Yeah, maybe make a decision later on. >> Yeah, don't worry. That
» right now on that then. >> I just Yeah, take no action. Should be
good. Well, we're kind of glad that Tuesday Tunes got to cancel it because
we correspondence. >> We're able to take time and get
everything done. >> Yeah.
» Um I have no correspondence. >> All right. Items for future
consideration. >> We talked them to death.
» What's that? >> So, we talked them to death. There'll be
a lot of items for future consideration. >> Yes. [laughter]
» Motion to adjourn. >> Motion to adjourn.
» I motion to >> Oh, okay. I'll second that.
» All those in favor? I >> I
» opposed. All right. This meeting has ended.
» What's that?
[laughter] >> That's a good sign.
» My wife's sitting here texting me like, "Where are you? What's going on?"
» I told my wife as we make dinner when I got home an hour ago.