[0:04] We are calling this parks and recck committee meeting to order at

[0:10] 5:04 p.m. And we will start with the pledge of allegiance

[0:19] to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

[0:24] stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[0:29] for all.

[0:35] » Minister Jenkins, will you do the roll call?

[0:38] » Sure. Chairman's hearing

[0:41] » here. >> Uh Richard Beglin

[0:43] » here. >> Daniel Gerky

[0:45] and Peter Lens >> here.

[0:47] » We have a quorum. >> All right. Uh we will start with public

[0:52] comment. Please note that public comments are limited to five minutes per

[0:55] person.

[1:00] » Tiff President

[1:04] wanted to come today. Um I know there's been a lot of talk

[1:08] and a handful of other people within the village. So I wanted to come and just

[1:12] kind of give you guys an update of what the soccer club is looking to do down in

[1:16] field and kind of put together our plan of what we want to do to present to you.

[1:20] So the club has been talking about making some upgrades down at the field

[1:25] and you know it's civility work again make sure to come to the forum get the

[1:29] approval and everything for that so some of the upgrades that we're talking about

[1:33] doing our lights down there to illuminate the 14 field as well as

[1:37] talking about the poles we can also illuminate the parking lot and a little

[1:42] bit of the splash pad as well and then we also were talking about what we can

[1:47] do to help the grade of built down there right by the E14 field How can we make

[1:52] that a little bit easier for everybody to navigate, easier for everybody to

[1:56] maintain, things like that, keep the integrity of the park. So, we are

[1:59] talking about um getting some bids to put in some concrete pillars if ever

[2:05] softball diamonds. Um they have these really nice kind of concrete pillars

[2:09] every four feet stacks up into the into the field. So it allows for a chair to

[2:14] still be sitting there and still keeps the integrity of the cup. So our plan

[2:18] right now is to go out and start working on getting some bids for this just so

[2:23] that we have an idea of what kind of money we're talking about. Uh the v the

[2:27] soccer club would like to do fundraising for that as well. And then ask the

[2:32] village obviously for some help. We have some grants that we were looking into um

[2:36] getting their grants and it's a village park. We talked to the village for some

[2:40] assistance on some of that. Um, so what we'd like to do is get some renderings

[2:44] done and come back and be able to present it to part of our committee and

[2:48] then take it forward from there. So timeline wise, we're looking at getting

[2:52] bids throughout the rest of the year and then depending on fundraising dollars

[2:57] and things that would be good. We possibly look at starting to upgrades

[3:00] with parks out there. So whether that's spring, summer, or fall, not quite sure

[3:06] yet. We'll have to figure out kind of what all the details behind it. But I

[3:10] wanted to come tonight and just kind of give you an update as to what Blood is

[3:14] thinking about, open it up for discussion. Um, like I said, I know

[3:18] there's been a lot of talk, so I make sure that we have open communications

[3:22] between blood and the village and the director. So,

[3:27] » good stuff. >> Thank you.

[3:32] » You did it. [laughter]

[3:36] There you go.

[3:40] [laughter] >> You almost sounded like an insurance

[3:42] commercial with all the

[3:47] » um any other public comments.

[3:52] » Um consent agenda. We need to approve the minutes of the April 9th, 2026 parks

[3:58] and rec committee meeting. >> Motion to approve consent agenda.

[4:01] » Second the motion. Okay. Uh take a vote. All those in

[4:07] favor? >> I I opposed.

[4:11] Sent agenda passed. Items for action and/or discussion.

[4:17] Discussion and possible action on 2026 events. Movie night in the park. Three

[4:22] of those still. And the tree lighting ceremony.

[4:25] » Yes, we mainly just need dates. >> Are we going to be able to squeeze three

[4:30] more? removing the money doesn't make me happy. We have sponsorships for two go

[4:37] up to three unless spread the 11 maybe two spare

[4:43] we have the money to do and I'd say based on past years and

[4:48] attendance you know doing one more adult uh movie night school and then two maybe

[4:53] more kid-friendly ones we spread them out throughout the school year or

[4:57] whatever you might think. What day is this usually the day that we

[5:02] usually have these? Weekends, Saturday night,

[5:05] » Friday or Saturday night. Yeah.

[5:11] » Um I mean, we're getting into the time of the year now where it's starting to

[5:15] get darker a little earlier. So, I mean, if we had like a kid-friendly

[5:20] one to start off the season, we I'm sure like 8:30 probably be dark enough to

[5:27] actually see the screen. And

[5:32] I think >> it's get starting to get dark around

[5:36] eight now. So, >> yeah.

[5:40] And at least then if it's like a if we found like a movie that's an hour and a

[5:45] half, I mean that's 10 o'clock. If it's on a weekend, probably not as

[5:50] much of a big deal for parents. >> I don't think you want to do a Labor Day

[5:55] weekend because people are going to be out of town and so forth. Have a lower

[5:59] turnout.

[6:02] Um, do you guys have a preference on weekends?

[6:13] » What says Friday? >> Friday.

[6:17] » We have a preference on like a Friday or Saturday night.

[6:23] » We have signs made up for Friday. The downfall is you're, you know, if

[6:28] it's this weekend or next week and you start football. So, you have football on

[6:32] Fridays. So, you might be competing with a lot of people traveling.

[6:35] » Yeah, it's this week. >> Carter's first game.

[6:38] » Saturdays might be the better option. Um, I'm not sure if

[6:46] the idea is because I know if we run into a rain or bad weather, if you're

[6:51] still looking at coming back indoors, I think we did here, right? One of them is

[6:57] to your kid one if you do during the day and then later at night for another one

[7:03] then you have everything set up everything's there

[7:07] an option. >> Oh doing like an indoor one for the

[7:11] kids. >> Uh it could be indoor or something you

[7:14] know like a movie at 5 and then you know one at eight.

[7:18] » It's hard to do one at five though because you can't really see the screen

[7:21] if the sun's out at all. >> Yeah. I'll say it. That's why I was

[7:25] saying that's why I thought you were maybe saying like an indoor one at five

[7:30] and then an outdoor one >> later.

[7:33] » If you would do that then unless you want to travel otherwise it'd be right

[7:37] outside then it so the benefit is if it is bad weather you

[7:43] can still have it. You're not canceling it. You're inside and if it's bad

[7:47] weather later one you bring the later one in.

[7:51] And we have done them at the school as well. There wasn't very good attendance

[7:57] » inside or just >> inside.

[7:59] » Yeah, in the auditorium. We did one in the auditorium and one in the elementary

[8:03] school gym. >> Yeah,

[8:06] » I think the elementary school gym was better attended actually.

[8:09] » And that was such worse weather. >> That was a horrible weather. [laughter]

[8:14] » I think that was the first event I ever went to. I remember

[8:18] » no seats. Everybody is on the floor. >> Yeah.

[8:24] » So, are we thinking like a September, like a midepptember?

[8:28] » Whenever your heart desires. >> Probably going to be September at this

[8:31] point. >> We're going to do them outdoors. We

[8:34] don't want to get too late into the year. It's since they're getting kind of

[8:37] chilly at night. >> We might be able to squeeze a couple in

[8:42] » September. >> September.

[8:44] I know >> the 11th or 12th and the 25th or 26th.

[8:49] » Mhm. >> Space them out a little bit. We have we

[8:52] have gone into October as well. We had kind of a

[8:55] » Yeah, we talked we talked in the office since there's the hype around Halloween

[8:59] being on the 31st. It' be kind of cool to do a trickor treatish kind of movie.

[9:06] » Is trick-or-treating on that? >> It's on Halloween.

[9:10] » It's on Yeah, it's on Saturday the 31st. Yeah. Do we really want to do a movie

[9:14] that night though? >> I don't mean on that night. I'm just

[9:16] saying around that holiday. >> If we did it Friday night, you know,

[9:21] Friday the 13th.

[9:25] » Maybe not that. But 13th is a Tuesday this year.

[9:29] » Yeah, there's no Friday the 13th in October.

[9:34] » Um the only thing once you start getting that later in the year, you're dealing

[9:38] with cold nights. So, >> I did say like because I know we went to

[9:45] the October one a few probably last year, year, but I don't remember. But I

[9:50] know that I was thinking like if we did do that one, I would offer up like my

[9:55] fire pit and then just bring that and throw some wood in there and have a fire

[9:59] going >> there that people can warm up near if

[10:02] they want. Um,

[10:07] » great house. Have some Christmas trees. Is that great?

[10:10] » Oh, there you go. Any Christmas trees left over. [laughter]

[10:14] » All right. So, I'm hearing September 25th could be a evening one.

[10:20] » I think you said the 11th as well. 11th. >> Yeah. I want to have enough time to

[10:25] build up hype about >> be the 25th, maybe the 9th of October.

[10:33] And then I mean two more weeks the 23rd that gets the week before Halloween

[10:38] everybody's gonna be lighting their costumes on

[10:41] » your homecoming. >> I hope

[10:46] » bring a couple of fire. >> I think that'd be kind of cool.

[10:50] » I think that'd be fun. >> And I kind of said Mary Kra's tongue and

[10:54] cheek but now that I think about it that might not be a bad venue.

[10:58] » Really? >> We got plenty of field. had a lot of

[11:02] field over at Oak. We've got the big uh the back stops you can hang sheet from

[11:06] to you know do the screen. >> We've got that big old 20 foot screen.

[11:11] » That's great. >> Forget about that.

[11:13] » So for a date for October, what are you thinking?

[11:19] » Well, like I said, I mean, if we do the 25th, the 9th, and the 23rd, that's two

[11:23] weeks in between each one. >> Yeah. And if we put the adult one in the

[11:29] middle and then a Halloweenish

[11:33] fun Halloweenish. >> Yep.

[11:37] » For the 23rd. >> Let's shoot for that.

[11:41] » Or if we want to do Saturdays so we don't run into football.

[11:47] » Yeah, that might be >> the way to go unless

[11:50] » Oh, 26 and 24. But >> do we know do we have a chance at

[11:57] knowing what the football schedule is where the games

[12:00] » maybe if there's games here we could pull some

[12:03] » out of town guests into >> sports including I don't think the high

[12:08] school's running any games up here anymore. No, all games are in randomly

[12:12] again. >> John said,

[12:15] » "Okay, well scratches that then say if we had some out of town guests maybe

[12:20] like if they heard there was a movie in the park like then after the football

[12:24] game they just come and watch the movie."

[12:26] » Yeah. >> But

[12:28] » I know everything's up at randomly if you

[12:31] » starts this Friday and there is there is one on the 25th.

[12:37] So, >> so maybe we go to Saturdays to avoid

[12:41] football conflict. >> Yeah.

[12:43] » And playoffs start on the 23rd of October. So,

[12:47] » yeah, Saturday might be our best bet. >> So, it would be 10th

[12:51] » 10th. >> Well, the 10th and then the

[12:59] » say that likely not available on the 26.

[13:06] Simon can handle it. [laughter]

[13:11] » Said he's not available on the 26th. >> Yeah, tied up on the 26. But uh

[13:18] » but we got the 9th and the 23rd. [laughter]

[13:21] » So, but the 9th and the 23rd October. So, we'll separate them by two weeks

[13:25] each time. >> Yeah.

[13:26] » 10th and 25th. >> 10th and the 24th because football.

[13:30] » Oh, for Saturday. >> Saturday. We were talking Saturday.

[13:33] Yeah. So, we're talking the 26th of September. the 10th and 24th of October.

[13:38] » Okay. >> And tenatively all starting at like 8:00

[13:44] p.m. >> 7 maybe if it gets darker.

[13:48] » I mean, yeah, they can always start a little earlier. I think I don't remember

[13:52] what time sunset is as we get in October. But

[13:54] » who's our sign? >> At dusk.

[13:57] » Oh, okay. At dusk. >> Yeah.

[14:00] » Ask Google, right?

[14:07] 8:30. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. September will

[14:11] probably be like more 8:30ish, 9:00, but the October one should be probably 8:15.

[14:21] » First, >> as it starts later,

[14:24] » dust starts at 6:52 and ends at 7:17 on the 26th of September.

[14:30] So it'll be dark and what's it the week after? Because then I think it's uh the

[14:36] throwback time. >> That doesn't hit till November.

[14:39] » Well, first week. >> Yeah. Yeah. First week of November is

[14:41] throwback. Yeah. >> I can hear Rob.

[14:44] » They're talking about it. >> It might happen.

[14:47] » All right. September 26th, October 10th, October 23rd. The adult one in the

[14:52] middle and at dusk.

[14:58] I don't think that's >> 34th.

[15:00] » 24th, I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. >> And maybe we do something closer

[15:07] Halloween themed for the 24th. >> Yeah.

[15:10] » Yeah.

[15:13] » And you're good with still doing a fireman's?

[15:16] » What do we think? We I mean, Fireman's is a good spot. I mean, it's got all the

[15:21] electric there and >> restrooms.

[15:23] » Restrooms. Yeah, we could run a concession stand there.

[15:26] » There you go. Popcorn. Just a boat load of popcorn.

[15:30] » I think Fireman's is a good spot and it gives people an opportunity to walk

[15:34] there a lot easier, too. >> Parking is an issue, but

[15:41] » All right. And then the tree lighting ceremony

[15:44] that is typically

[15:50] four, right? And we want to shoot for St. Nick's day.

[15:55] » So which is when? >> Well, St. Nick is the 1 of December,

[15:58] right? >> No, St. Nick is like the December.

[16:01] » Yes, I think. Yeah. >> And that would be a Saturday here. So

[16:03] that might be a perfect to the >> I mean just be late. Normally we do it.

[16:09] » That's what I was saying. >> Oh, you want to do it before then?

[16:12] » Sunday. >> All right.

[16:15] » Maybe the 29th. >> I know. I know. We offset it last year

[16:20] for some reason. >> Yeah. Maybe just to accommodate family

[16:23] vacations or something so we can go >> 29th in November. Thanks.

[16:30] » So we'll make sure that all the lights work. We'll contact Santa.

[16:36] » Will people still be on holidays the 29th

[16:40] » coming off of Thanksgiving? I say that's that's what that's the way we've done it

[16:45] for many many years and then last year we we did alter it and I don't know how

[16:49] that changed attendance. I don't know if anybody really

[16:52] » took note. >> It's in the evening on Sunday though.

[16:55] You got to be back for work on Monday so you can go cyber shopping. Oh, I mean I

[16:59] mean so you can work and [laughter] and uh so you probably have a lot of

[17:04] people coming home side of Sunday during the day and some kids right away. That

[17:09] works. You can November 29th. That'll be fine.

[17:15] » Anything else besides the normal lights, Santa? Maybe some hot chocolate that you

[17:20] want to do? >> Well, I'll provide a fire pit again.

[17:23] » Provide a fire pit. >> So,

[17:26] fires. >> Yep.

[17:28] » I think the fire pit was a hit last year >> having especially it was pretty cold,

[17:33] but maybe a second one if we can find one.

[17:38] Um we try to spread the love with the choir. Um so we've gone between NOSD

[17:44] um divine savior the forget that church group that came one year St. John's.

[17:51] » Um so we'll continue that rotation. We'll reach out. I think

[17:55] » divine next. Okay. They just did it. >> Um so we'll continue to spread the love

[18:00] on who wants to come. Um, any other suggestions what you want to do?

[18:10] » That's good. >> Yeah. Siren, you have any suggestions?

[18:16] » All right. This is all you, baby. >> Kids kids.

[18:23] » Santa and the lights. >> Santa and the lights.

[18:27] » Yeah. So, we're going to do the uh small Christmas trees at the uh nonprofit

[18:31] clubs again, decorating them. >> Yeah. Last

[18:34] » Don't give me anything. [laughter] >> We have those last.

[18:38] » Yeah. Last year, if you remember, we collected a lot of different um trees

[18:42] that were kind of handme-downs. >> They I think two of them maybe didn't

[18:47] make it through the winter. >> Um

[18:50] » last year, they're all pretty good. >> They were.

[18:52] » Yeah. >> Year before. I know.

[18:54] » Yeah. Um, so we'll have them readily available and years past we just toyed

[18:59] with people paying for them or not and really we're just in the Christmas

[19:02] spirit, you know, come decorate it for free and we enjoy that. So

[19:07] um, >> did you want to reach out to the school

[19:11] about the >> Oh, the decorations ornaments.

[19:16] Yeah,

[19:24] » you can tell. We have some some

[19:29] play every year. >> Yeah, they can make new ones.

[19:33] » Cool. >> I don't know what it would take, but and

[19:36] kind of an out of the box idea for us. I mean, there are places that provide

[19:41] reindeer for events like this. >> Mhm.

[19:44] » Just a thought. >> Real ones.

[19:46] » Real ones. >> Real

[19:47] » like a petty. Yeah. >> I don't think they fly. But

[19:51] » they don't get their flying magic until Christmas Eve.

[19:55] Sorry. >> So, Simon, you're on reindeer duty

[19:59] » and it's just an idea, something to explore.

[20:01] » Yeah. We'll see what happens. Should we squirrel away one of those elf on a

[20:05] shelf somewhere in the park and not tell anybody and see if any of the kids spot

[20:09] it? >> And if they find it, they win a prize.

[20:12] » But if they touch it, they >> magic.

[20:17] » Oh, my kids had a meltdown when a friend of ours reached up and touched the elf.

[20:23] » They were screaming and crying. I mean, that would be something I think would be

[20:27] neat if you do something like a scavenger hunt there for prizes for the

[20:32] kids or whatnot, but that'd be kind of fun. Yeah,

[20:35] » the prize could be as simple as, you know, one of the movie theater size

[20:39] boxes of candy that you get at Walmart for a couple bucks.

[20:42] » Yeah. >> Cool.

[20:45] We'll put some stuff away for you. >> They'll find it. [laughter]

[20:49] » And once you can spot it, they'll all be pointed out to each other.

[20:53] It's basically a giveaway as soon as I want to know if they all get to point it

[20:58] out. >> All right. Good.

[21:00] » Good. Yep. >> Sounds great. Thank you.

[21:03] » All right. Discussion and possible action on draft parks and open space

[21:08] plan. >> All right. Well, it's ironic that our

[21:12] former former parks chair is here because this project started uh when she

[21:17] was chair of the parks and wreck program uh

[21:22] » and uh it has taken that long to get this finalized. So, we're here. This has

[21:28] been updated from the 2024 plan to 2025 to 2026. We're now in the 2026 reition

[21:33] or edition and I would really like to get this adopted so it can last just at

[21:37] least through 2030. Um, I'm not going to go through every page. Um, but this has

[21:42] been reformatted many times over the last couple years and I'll just kind of

[21:46] hit on the high points of kind of decisions I need you all to make.

[21:51] So, we will start with

[21:57] number these pages a little bit. >> I know I should probably number these

[22:00] pages. >> I was just saying

[22:04] » um we'll go to this part that's highlighted here. So, this acknowledges

[22:10] that this plan is not just ours. Ozaki County, uh, as their partners with their

[22:16] parks program, they need to review it, too. Um, so the language that's

[22:19] currently here is from when the plan was last updated. So, once it gets approved

[22:24] through you all, it'll get kicked to Ozaki County and their land use depart

[22:28] department to review as well. And part of what they'll update is what their

[22:33] plans are. And then um you'll see later on there are some properties and open

[22:38] spaces that we know are within the village that are under their ownership.

[22:42] So if they have any plans or ideas for property that's within the village that

[22:46] they own and they will add that to this to this plan.

[22:50] Um section two talks about planning background. We won't need to go through

[22:53] but it's just tables of data that we had to update.

[22:58] Um let's go to the planning process. So that's section three.

[23:04] So section three talks about uh an inventory. So last year we did an

[23:08] inventory of our outdoor recreational facilities within the village limits

[23:12] that you see composed here. Um we did some public participation. We had a

[23:16] community survey that we did a year or so back. Um so you see information about

[23:20] that. The part that's highlighted here talks about public participation. We've

[23:25] done various um reition and renditions of that, but I think having at least one

[23:32] public hearing for the public to come like Tiffany and other groups like that

[23:36] to share their ideas that we can include in the plan um would be nice to do.

[23:41] » Um so that'll be one portion of this. Um a lot of this talks about park

[23:47] accessibility. Um, so keep in mind that all features that we have are

[23:53] grandfathered into the village, but as soon as we touch them for like a

[23:57] crosswalk, for example, then we have to comply with ADA standards. So we need to

[24:01] think about that as we, you know, whether it's our playgrounds or

[24:04] entrances into parks, as soon as we say we're going to add a crosswalk, well now

[24:09] that crosswalk has to be compliant with ADA standards.

[24:12] Um, you have some definitions on different parks. So we have examples of

[24:16] mini parks like the one um near trusty Searing's neighborhood. We have

[24:20] neighborhood parks that are a little bit bigger. We have community parks that are

[24:23] for everybody. We have county parks. And so it goes to the definitions of that.

[24:29] [clears throat] And then you move on to section four which talks about our

[24:33] system of parks that we have. So table five, which is this fancy chart here,

[24:40] shows the inventory of what parks we have, their sizes, and then what type of

[24:44] park that they are. And then after that chart, it goes through each park

[24:49] individually. So this is where I want us to start actually looking at and getting

[24:53] feedback. So you all took a park tour a couple weeks back. You compiled your

[24:59] information and ideas. I conferred with director Paulus and lead bars here and

[25:05] we put together what we feel like are our recommendations that you guys all

[25:09] have for each park. So the way that this that each park is laid out is it shows

[25:14] the general parcel information. It shows existing features and then it shows

[25:18] recommendations. And so that's what I want us to take a look at. So we'll

[25:21] start with Marie Krauss Park. Some of the recommendations were disc golf

[25:25] amenities providing additional seating, community pavilion, developing a large

[25:30] public pavilion, which we'll be talking about a little bit later. Uh trail

[25:34] signage, so having wayfinding signage along the trail that goes through the

[25:38] park and uh the abuing disc golf course. Uh inclusing inclusive play, so having

[25:44] some sort of all-inclusive dry play um access, which again we'll be talking

[25:48] about a little bit later. Um additional parking. So when we think about not just

[25:52] Marie Cross Park but Oak Park that's abudding there, we need to think about

[25:56] what do we do with overflow parking there. And then finally, both in this

[26:00] plan and past plans, we've talked about having a sledding hill somewhere on the

[26:03] park. So my first question is, do you feel that all of these things are

[26:07] representative of what you guys wanted? Do you want to see anything else? Do you

[26:10] not want to see something say now forever hold your peace?

[26:16] And again, this doesn't mean it's gonna happen in the next five years, but these

[26:19] are our goals and recommendations. >> Not next year.

[26:22] » Probably not next year. >> I like them all. So,

[26:27] » I think they're all fine. I mean, the sledding hill I'm

[26:32] » kind of either way on. >> Sledding Hill would be nice because

[26:35] right now you have to drive the kids to Hawthorne Hills if they want to sled.

[26:38] Otherwise, we had it right here. Take your sled and walk over there. You know,

[26:43] » I mean, I get it. You know, >> Hawthorne Hills is really nice for it is

[26:48] » but it's it's a drive.

[26:52] » Yeah. If we don't get other properties or we don't have the topography for it,

[26:56] then it's not going to happen. >> Right. Right. Little bit of pipe dream

[26:59] right now. >> All right. Go with that one.

[27:04] Next is Children's Park. Recommendations are evaluating and updating playground

[27:10] equipment. again making this park more inclusive for um ADA accessibility

[27:16] playground surfacing replacing um that surfacing with a more conducive play

[27:23] area like the mulch or whatever you might want to put around there. Um we

[27:28] talked about this is one of the opportunities for nature-based

[27:30] education, pollinator gardens, things like that that we could put there

[27:34] because there's some land to do that. adding seating and gathering areas like

[27:38] picnic tables and benches and then replacing the existing sign with uh our

[27:45] branding logo sign. But for that one specifically, we'll still do something

[27:49] cutesy with that to pay homage to the children's park sign because we think

[27:52] that's pretty cool. Anything else you want to see at

[27:56] Children's Park?

[28:06] Okay, moving on to Fireman's Park. Fireman's Park, again, we would replace

[28:12] playground equipment. Um, parking we all know is not great there. We have a

[28:18] little bit of a parking lot next to the fire station and limited parking lot.

[28:21] Parking along the road, so that'll continue to be an issue. Uh, park

[28:26] identification signage, again, updating with the branding,

[28:30] electrical and lighting, improving um light and accessibility throughout the

[28:34] whole park. there. We have some areas that are lit but not all. Um then the

[28:39] actual accessibility to the different amenities

[28:43] and then improving the metobrook crease creek crossing there uh maintaining the

[28:48] pedestrian bridge. So we have a newer bridge that we put there, but we're

[28:52] always cleaning up that um water area and all of that for pedestrian crossing.

[28:56] » Is that that crossing area that goes between that then over toward Marie

[29:01] Krauss and so forth? >> No, the it's the bridge. It's a bridge

[29:05] in the middle of the park. >> Right. Right. Okay. Thanks. Thank you.

[29:08] » Yeah.

[29:15] » Nope. But we could add it to the plan. >> First time I suggest back.

[29:24] » Yeah. basketball court.

[29:31] » The end game was put on the road and the court starts.

[29:39] » Well, I would have to say since we put the rocks there, people don't park in

[29:43] there anymore. I mean, there's a lot of people during day night. So,

[29:51] » your rocks are free. [laughter] if you need more

[29:59] assist.

[30:02] » And I I know it's a little late in the game at this point, but since we have

[30:06] the soccer and softball people here, is there any need or desire for like a

[30:11] storage shed or what I mentioned? >> Um, soccer, I'm going to say

[30:20] » yes. >> Yes.

[30:23] Yes. I mean, yes and no.

[30:28] » I mean, specifically at firemen's >> at firemen that I don't even know what

[30:32] storage there >> we

[30:35] store over there for stuff, right? >> Yeah. Over by the generator, there's a

[30:43] a room. >> There's a storage room at the back of

[30:45] the firehouse there. We use that to store some gear and first aid equipment

[30:49] and so forth. you know, a a field shed that could be

[30:53] used for things like m you putting up soccer, you know, just storing this

[30:58] stuff might not be a bad idea. I would like to see something that that way that

[31:03] storage room in the firehouse could be repurposed for something for the

[31:06] firehouse. >> We don't typically hold practices there.

[31:10] It's games on Saturdays.

[31:18] » And again, it's just a thought. Are you gonna take this opportunity to ask a

[31:23] couple of the leaders of the clubs?

[31:27] » You want us to add fencing for basketball

[31:31] court? >> Does that seem I mean, now that we have

[31:37] the rocks there, does that seem like it's

[31:40] » The fencing was to prevent people from driving on the court, right? Well, I

[31:43] think the best thing would be more to keep the ball in the street

[31:48] like >> a creek

[31:54] » I would make for that is you you have Peterson there and they

[31:59] have a lot of semi traffic um and if kids are using that corridor I've seen

[32:05] balls go across the street there um so you have the semi traffic coming through

[32:10] there I mean >> that's a dangerous Thanks.

[32:15] » Yeah, fence isn't a bad idea. >> I can see a benefit to that.

[32:20] The other suggestion I wanted to ask about was so as you talk about overflow

[32:25] parking or parking in general, can we make it more

[32:31] kind of parking friendly to get people to park back along that empty street and

[32:38] then actually put like a decent like gravel path from the basketball courts

[32:44] down to that walking bridge. So it's actually like a nice path that stays dry

[32:50] to get across and >> go along Welo where the garage is.

[32:54] » Wheeler or Wheeler >> Wheeler.

[32:56] » So the issue that we've gone into with that bridge is it's not ADA

[33:04] and I'm not sure if I have to look more into it. if you're going to build in a

[33:10] waterway,

[33:14] how much we can do. So, that was some of the issue was people couldn't make that

[33:20] bridge or couldn't walk it because of how steep and then step. So, we fixed it

[33:27] to make it so people could at least get up and down. I mean, the field site

[33:32] there was it was like this. So, we fixed it, but I mean, if we start making that

[33:38] it's not compliant that people can walk and think you're just holding cells up

[33:46] for liability that people are tripping over the bridge or get hurt.

[33:52] » I was just thinking it's probably I don't know if it's worse for us to have

[33:55] just like wet grass leading up to a wooden bridge and then people are

[34:00] getting their shoes nice and wet and slippery and then they go and step on

[34:03] the bridge. And that's why especially later they would park on basketball

[34:09] court and face that way so they wouldn't have to get out. They could watch the

[34:12] game. But if we bring soccer up here,

[34:30] » that was just my only other is it if we could create a way to make people want

[34:37] to park along that street and easier access to get to the fields from there.

[34:42] if it would motivate people more to park along that empty road.

[34:47] » Just to bring up something I mentioned one other time. Uh if we put like a

[34:51] crosswalk, know you didn't like that, but put a crosswalk between uh

[34:57] St. Rose is that the um St. Rose and the Firehouse so that

[35:03] people could cross. I mean, parking along there would be a short walk, too.

[35:08] You parking on Milwaukee Avenue, parking in uh St.

[35:12] Having a crosswalk there that people can hit the button on so they're crossing

[35:15] with their kids would make that a little bit more appealing, too. And there is a

[35:21] crosswalk there that might work. I mean, it kind of on the firehouse side, it

[35:26] comes into the middle of the block, but it does have a little uh one of those

[35:29] little metal a ramp down to the street and a little metal uh thing for

[35:35] traction, I guess. So I think the concern lies again is if

[35:40] we start messing with crosswalks then we say oh now it's got to be ADA and is

[35:45] there enough room there to make it ADA compliant and

[35:50] then we open a new cano arms of >> I guess it could be looked into.

[35:54] » Yeah. >> Don't have to do it but we look into it

[35:57] and see how >> dramatic a problem it would be. Yeah.

[36:04] » Okay. So, I got fencing around basketball court.

[36:08] [laughter] >> We're good.

[36:12] All right. Um, next is the Guzacowski Retention Pond Green Space. So, for

[36:18] those who don't know, that's that weird long shaped property here. That sounds

[36:23] like your parks tour you guys had a lot of fun dreaming big dreams for that

[36:27] property. So, um, for this one, we talk about, uh, future recreational access.

[36:35] So, again, uh, how you get into this oddly shaped park with accessible park

[36:40] and curve ramps and all that stuff. Updating your park identification

[36:44] signage. And then the next two bullet points are about what do you want to use

[36:48] and do in this park, right? There's a nature trail option, boardwalk, dog

[36:53] park. I know you guys kind of brainstormed all of those things

[36:55] happening down there. Um, what have been your thoughts since

[36:59] then? >> Remember DJ was talking about birders

[37:03] setting it up so that there was, you know, it was attractive to birds that

[37:08] would attract birders to come and spend time in that. The dog park, I don't

[37:13] know, you know, with that water there, if they get into that water, they're

[37:16] going to get sick. >> It would have to be fenced.

[37:20] » Yeah, >> you'd have to fence the whole area to be

[37:23] a dog park. and and and that just kind of reduces a little bit of the natural

[37:28] aspect of things when you start whacking fences in everywhere. Uh on the other

[37:33] hand, if you set it up with a lot of different wild flowers and so forth that

[37:36] you've got bugs and birds and so forth that make it a nice nature nature area,

[37:42] I think that may have more appeal maybe with a walking path

[37:48] that's ADA compliant. So, Maro, the the first bullet point

[37:53] about developing a nature trail and boardwalk,

[37:56] » how would that work for ADA compliance and if we just turned it into a nature

[38:00] trail? Like, if we were using wood chips for walking trails, I guess we'd have to

[38:06] look into that. I mean, not every state park has ADA compliant hiking trails. to

[38:11] put in sidewalks is one thing, but to go and now do ramps and that that's where

[38:18] the ADA really falls in. So, >> yeah. So, they have to access the park.

[38:23] So, like entering into the park space, we'd have to have a ramp and signage and

[38:27] all that jazz, but then after that, it's not like we would pave the entire path,

[38:31] » right? >> Yeah.

[38:33] So, if we had wood chips, I mean, we could just do wood chip pass through

[38:37] there and then start throwing out different wildflower seeds.

[38:45] What's that look for? What else is it good for right now?

[38:53] » You wouldn't have to mow it. That would be the plus side. [laughter]

[39:00] All right. So, I crossed off dog park. I Well, but it might be a better place

[39:05] for that. Um, but I I'll add in language about

[39:10] pollinator gardens and all that jazz along the trail.

[39:15] Anything else? >> On the next page, you do have shade tree

[39:20] and native planted. >> Oh, thank you. Yeah,

[39:23] » I didn't know you missed those. >> Nope. I just flipped the page over and

[39:26] didn't see it. Um, this talks about adding shade trees, invasive species

[39:31] management, uh, storm water education. So, all those

[39:34] nature-based things that we could do there.

[39:36] » I mean, what getting back to kind of, you know, native prairie type of plants,

[39:42] that does require getting some of those invasives out of there, but that's

[39:46] something that you can get people to volunteer to do occasionally. You know,

[39:50] I have a party to go out. Alumni weekend at my college, we had a big prairie area

[39:55] for the for the biology department. And at alumni weekend, they get a whole

[40:00] bunch of us suckers to go up there at a hot summer day and cut buckthornne out

[40:05] for hours.

[40:08] Maybe get a few people to do that here. You know, be camaraderie be a little

[40:12] fun. What?

[40:16] looked.

[40:22] [laughter] >> All right, let's go on to the Metobrook

[40:25] green space. So, this is the kind of weird two lots

[40:29] that are separated by Metobrook Drive there. Um, the far east lot is you would

[40:35] think would be a nice residential lot. Uh, but that is almost completely in the

[40:39] flood plane and cannot be built on. Um, so that's why it's in our ownership. We

[40:43] have some trees planted there. And then the longer parcel there is the um

[40:49] probably more usable park space. So when you look at the recommendations again it

[40:56] talks about the feasibility of these areas the pedestrian connections. Uh the

[41:03] big thing here is that if you're going to have a dog park this seem to be a

[41:06] prime location against less area defense. It's it's elongated to allow

[41:11] dogs to run back and forth. Um, as far as the setup cost, Eric talked about a

[41:16] little bit. We'd have to do the fencing. We need to have um, you know, the doggy

[41:21] bag stations and things like that. And you have a hope and a prayer that people

[41:26] are going to take good care of the property, right? And if they don't, then

[41:29] you rely on our team and for maintenance and cleanup of that. So, that's the risk

[41:33] that you run. Um, but there has been a decent um I'd say uh

[41:40] resident inquiries about a dog park. It has been overwhelming, but we've been

[41:44] asked over the in the past. It was in the survey that there was some interest

[41:47] in it. So, it's really up to you all if you feel like we want to move more

[41:52] seriously with that because if not, I don't really know what else we do with

[41:55] this kind of weird shape person. >> I mean, I' I've heard several things

[42:00] about dog park. we we could use a dog park around here and my experience with

[42:05] dog parks in the area such as Mutland Meadows and Grafton,

[42:09] » Peppe Pepe's Playground up in Belgium. I mean, the the patrons in general, I

[42:14] mean, there's one or two bad bad apples, but in general, they they do pretty good

[42:18] job of cleaning up after themselves. >> Yeah.

[42:22] » So,

[42:26] how would you think about fencing along the creek there? Because the creek still

[42:29] runs. >> Yeah. Uh the first place she listed in

[42:33] Brick where was that Grafton? Is that in the open or is that

[42:37] » it's wooded and uh there's trails? >> Yeah, the one in Belgium is

[42:41] » that's a wide open field. >> Here you got houses and the creek and

[42:47] kind of a main thorough area. Not sure if the residents and everything would

[42:53] like that right there. But it's nice you got nice parking here. Not driving down

[42:57] the middle of nowhere. So I'm not sure how that would

[43:01] go with being in the village like

[43:06] other

[43:09] » what else you could do with it?

[43:15] » I've never seen it flood on top there like Stony Creek. But

[43:21] » is the western portion in the flood zone?

[43:26] the witch marks >> the the longer section western portion

[43:30] of it >> I maybe just a little bit over the curve

[43:34] when the storm sewer can't handle it but when it did it I think this year that

[43:39] twice where you put the road close signs out with your heavy water high water I

[43:44] think within 20 minutes it was down >> I mean if we were to put in a couple of

[43:48] I mean a couple of picnic tables maybe a couple of little grills in the ground

[43:53] » they'll sit there >> they'll sit there. Yeah. You know,

[43:56] people might use them. >> No, they'll use them.

[43:58] » Yeah. >> by the hydrant to prove a point the next

[44:02] day sit on it. >> Yeah. See, so I mean spot to sit

[44:06] » turn it into a nice little patch to be a park for a specific purpose. Just a nice

[44:11] bit of green space for people to uh use, you know.

[44:16] » I agree. >> I think that would be a nice inexpensive

[44:19] way to make these a little bit more useful.

[44:23] um generate more community.

[44:28] » I mean, we can always use that flood zone space for that though

[44:32] » for a sitting hanging. >> Well, yeah, we could do that over there.

[44:35] We could try to put together a short dog run over here.

[44:38] » Yeah. Or if we really didn't want to use it for that, I don't know if that

[44:43] western portion is buildable, but we just consider selling it and let

[44:47] somebody build there. >> I don't think it's big enough for that.

[44:52] That's the creek that goes through. >> Okay.

[44:55] » Yeah, trust me. You know that I would have

[44:58] suggested that.

[45:02] » Um, no, this is pretty much unbuildable property. That's why it's in the

[45:05] village's ownership and can do something with it.

[45:09] » Um, I like that idea of the kind of seating area to the on the east property

[45:13] because what else are we going to do with that? It's not big enough for a dog

[45:17] park, but >> then the rest, you know, that being a

[45:20] run kind of area for dogs. You make that a seating area. Make sure

[45:24] the picnic tables have

[45:30] » I would like to actually see that flood because every time I've been down there,

[45:33] even in the spring, it's not flooded. Um, so right now on the eastern parcel

[45:40] talks about a kind of like a playground similar to Children's Park. So, if

[45:45] that's not what the direction you want to go and it's more just kind of a

[45:48] natural seating area, then I'll change that language to that. Is that what

[45:52] you're thinking? >> What's that?

[45:55] » Right now, in this in this >> document, it says that the eastern

[46:00] parcel will be like a children's park kind of place with a playground and all

[46:03] that. >> We don't want another playground to

[46:05] maintain. >> No.

[46:06] » Then I will remove that language and say it's a seating. And being that's in the

[46:11] flood zone, I wouldn't want play equipment and then putting sand down and

[46:16] everything else and then we'd actually somehow end up in a flood right there

[46:20] and then [laughter] half the playground's underwater.

[46:24] » Playground would just set to be a little more expensive.

[46:29] » But you're good with the western parcel being some sort of walking path past a

[46:33] recreational area dog park if we've run into funding to do that?

[46:40] Great. All right. Freedom Park. We all know

[46:44] about Freedom Park. Um, again, we have improving

[46:49] accessibility, improving park identification. Uh, this

[46:53] is a good spot for donor opportunities in the future. We talk about, you know,

[46:56] benches and tables and all that that we can name after people. Um, fencing. Um,

[47:02] somebody in one of your surveys you brought up fencing and I don't know what

[47:06] that means, but I think it's the fencing around the playground wanting to improve

[47:10] that. I'm assuming >> freedom is the one up by the church by

[47:14] the >> where Tuesday tunes would

[47:17] » talked about fencing at this one. >> The only fence that's there is that kind

[47:21] of couple wood planks that are around the playground. Somebody brought up

[47:25] fencing and that's why >> a couple years ago

[47:30] » Oh, good. Yeah,

[47:32] » along the main road >> go to Freedom Park when we did our

[47:35] little store. >> Okay,

[47:38] » we didn't >> I swear on somebody's survey they broke

[47:41] fencing. >> Oh, maybe they thought they were Freedom

[47:42] Park. He just said, "Were you talking about fencing at the

[47:45] » I know I talked about fencing at the park

[47:48] » by the church." >> By the church.

[47:49] » Oh, veterans. >> So, he might have had that and blamed

[47:52] them. >> Maybe I labelled it wrong.

[47:53] » Are you good with me exing out fencing? >> Yeah. Okay.

[47:56] » Yeah. Freedom. Yeah. Freedom Parks. Hold on. Triangle over there over the field.

[48:00] There's the street lighting. >> Um, you guys talked about year round

[48:03] recreation. So, you know, yard games maybe made of stone or different things

[48:08] like that to be passively there for people to enjoy. Um, the big thing is

[48:13] restrooms and concessions. We've talked about that forever. It's now probably a

[48:17] half a million dollar project. Okay. whenever we would get a grant from on

[48:21] high. I will say that we got um the DNR wrote back on the grant that I wrote in

[48:26] spring and politely declined us because there wasn't enough funding, but in the

[48:31] response they did say, "Send us your updated parks and open space plan and

[48:35] we'll kick you higher up in the list." So, I would recommend we keep this

[48:39] language in here because then it helps us later on.

[48:42] » Okay. Um, and then the pavilion, we all know Eric's headaches with the pavilion

[48:47] um, fabric that's there. And so having some sort of permanent structure in the

[48:51] future would be great, but again, that's would only be when money rains from on

[48:56] high. Um, in addition, we have some shade

[49:00] trees, uh, which are kind of planted there, but we can increase that. And

[49:05] then um just upgrading the landscaping, signage, lighting, all of that to kind

[49:09] of since it is in the middle of the village and getting some nice branding

[49:13] and marketing about that. Anything else you want to add to Freedom

[49:18] Park.

[49:27] All right. Next is Veterans Park. That's the one up there by the church.

[49:32] » Yeah. Um, this one has not had much attention over the last uh couple years.

[49:38] We've had some improvements from donors that have helped to that park. U, but

[49:42] you guys talk about playground safety, playground lo location. I know that was

[49:47] a part of the plan two times ago that your forefathers talked about just kind

[49:52] of uprooting that whole playground and moving it somewhere else due to the

[49:56] location there. I will say it's used a lot by the um church and daycare right

[50:00] next door. Um, so we have to think about that if we we were to remove it. Um,

[50:06] again we have accessibility, playground surfacing, updating that property

[50:11] boundaries. So it's kind of weird because on the east side we have uh just

[50:16] a a residential property that's right there. So they've talked about doing

[50:19] fencing at one point to separate public from private. And then on the east side

[50:25] or on the west side, make sure that we have a nice barrier there, at least some

[50:29] rocks to stop any pedestrian traffic from the parking lot from going into the

[50:33] playground. Um, it would be nice to improve that.

[50:37] We talked about >> rocks, so

[50:41] Okay, we'll grab those rocks. >> I'm pretty sure the data center guy

[50:44] probably threw a few at us. reinforcements.

[50:50] » Oh, we always do local businesses. >> Um, and then we go on to say donor

[50:55] opportunities again, benches, papers, things like that, improving our park

[50:59] identification, and then anything that we were to do to improve the veterans

[51:02] memorial itself. Um, again, we'll acknowledge the Stefan family and others

[51:06] that have improved that already, but we can always, you know, make it bigger and

[51:09] better if we wanted to moving forward. So

[51:13] » I'm sure veteran schools would >> projects too.

[51:19] » Correct. >> Well, what I was thinking along the east

[51:23] and west side like towards the front portion is like kind of a wall that

[51:29] matches like the memorial portion but like more of a decorative wall along

[51:35] each side there. >> Might be like two feet tall. It's gonna

[51:39] prevent people from parking in there and then

[51:43] » a way that should you go forward with an idea like that too.

[51:49] » I was I was thinking that too if we had some sort of a wall like that platform

[51:54] for anybody name their face or whatever they served. I mean

[51:58] » right >> I think I think that would get a lot of

[52:01] people really >> Yeah. I mean it ties into not just

[52:04] adding a wall stop looks like it's used for something right as

[52:10] » y having them decorative along each side

[52:15] kind of matching each other I think would be beneficial and add a

[52:21] look to that part for the memorial. >> Cool.

[52:29] All right, that's veterans. Uh, next is Stony Creek Park. This is

[52:35] the one that had the most comments and potential.

[52:39] » Um, storm water management. We all know that that's the area that floods. Um,

[52:44] we're on it. You guys all know that. Um, let's look at uh pedestrian connection.

[52:53] So right now that sidewalk goes up to our public parking lot and then it stops

[52:57] and then it starts right. So the idea would be having this sidewalk that

[53:01] connects all the way up Filillmore to the park itself.

[53:06] Um this is the location of uh Simon's idea that he had brought forth towards

[53:11] the beginning of the year about a nature-based playground. Again we have

[53:14] the space to do it. It's a more natural setting. Um so if we ever engage in that

[53:19] um idea then that would be the thought there.

[53:23] uh recreational courts. This has also been talked about in the past. Improving

[53:26] the basketball, changing it to um what is it called?

[53:29] » Pickle ball. >> Pickle ball. Um any kind of things like

[53:33] that that you'd want to do. Improving the creek and bridge. Our team has been

[53:37] doing that uh recently, but we can improve that and put the bridge back.

[53:45] Um we have that fencing on the north end of the property that is in the middle of

[53:50] no man's land. We don't know if it's ours. We don't know if it's property

[53:52] owner, it's falling apart, if it's getting hit by trees, at some point we

[53:56] should probably replace that. Um, grills that are rarely used are still there. We

[54:01] either need to remove them or update them. Um, talked about adding horseshoes

[54:05] here, improved park identification, more donor opportunities, more shade trees,

[54:11] and uh, more natural resource management around the creek that's there. Well, the

[54:15] area that's a flood plate. I mean, horseshoes, couple of metal spikes in

[54:20] the ground and a little sand pit. I mean, you get some water in there, it

[54:23] goes away, and it really you could set that up for things like that.

[54:28] » I I you know, I can see using that area for for things like for shoes and so

[54:34] forth. >> What are you allowed not allowed to do

[54:36] for Are you allowed to do anything

[54:39] permanent? um like building structures is where

[54:43] we'd run into issues, but of that I mean if a plays around in the flood plane and

[54:49] just more likely to get damaged and are

[54:57] any other thoughts on that? the gorillas if we were to keep them

[55:02] there. I guess my suggestion would be to take them and move them out closer to

[55:06] the pavilion rather than >> 40. [laughter]

[55:14] » I feel like if they would get used then they'd be more likely used during a

[55:19] party that's kind of had the pavilion. I think the only reason

[55:25] the last ones where some a couch on there

[55:30] otherwise they've never I've never seen it's kids that throw sticks and

[55:35] everything in there.

[55:39] It's just another thing with that in the long run.

[55:45] Kind of like the idea trying to find something to do with that half bass

[55:49] court. It's not really a full court if it could be turned into something else.

[55:54] I mean, we had people ask about pickle ball. I don't know if it was big enough

[55:58] for pickle ball. >> I just seen a thing about pickle ball

[56:01] down at the Somebody had posted something about

[56:03] » Marie Cra fully converting one of them down at the tennis courts. Yeah.

[56:09] » To a pickle ball court. So >> maybe.

[56:12] » So it's got to be pretty close that basketball court.

[56:14] » Yeah. So we've looked at it. I mean, the condition of it isn't great. We'd

[56:17] probably end up just tearing out that whole asphalt and and redoing it for

[56:21] pickle ball. So, it' be a little bit more cost than just painting over it.

[56:25] » Right.

[56:32] » All right. Next is the Partridge Lane Nature

[56:35] Preserve. I'm not even going to go into this because it's just um woodland that

[56:41] you can choose to walk through and it also acts as storm water management for

[56:45] the village.

[56:50] We could. Yeah, I think that's park identification, is that it?

[56:54] » The homeowners might rip them down. Might not be too happy.

[57:02] » Yep. Public property. >> Make sure there's a a flock camera

[57:07] there. So, if anybody not, >> you may be talking about that in about a

[57:13] month. So, >> I'm sure. Um, next is the multi-purpose

[57:17] trail. Again, there's not too much to talk about that we haven't already

[57:20] talked about. This is the trail that runs from Fireman's and then through and

[57:23] into Marie Cross Park. Um, so again, it's wayfinding and accessibility and

[57:29] and improvements like that. Um, we've improved when we can the asphalt and

[57:34] walkways that go through there. We did a decent chunk of it over the last year

[57:39] here. Um, but other than that, it's improving ramps and doing stuff like

[57:43] that whenever we have the money and time to do it.

[57:48] » All right.

[57:52] » Yep. >> Yeah. And I don't know how much of that

[57:55] is us versus the railroad company. Do you know like do we do we own and manage

[58:02] that defensing? >> We don't own it, but we do.

[58:06] » Okay. No, but if you're talking by the tracks.

[58:10] » Yes. >> No,

[58:10] » the maze. >> That the the maze. Yes, that's us.

[58:13] » The maze. Yeah. >> Yeah. I think uh

[58:17] the railroad company's right away is a little bit bigger than a normal highway.

[58:21] So, I don't know. It's like 40 ft something like that

[58:26] from there. So, and I think that fence was right at the rightway.

[58:31] » And the maze is meant to to hopefully stop people from walking into the train

[58:35] tracks.

[58:38] Well, I I would think stop people like on a bike or something shooting through

[58:42] » just as a train is shooting through the path that they move fast out here. But

[58:46] still, >> we can move fast.

[58:48] » Oh, yeah. [laughter]

[58:51] » So, you know, it's a safety feature. >> Yeah.

[58:57] » All right. Any other thoughts on the individual parks and the rest of it we

[59:01] can speed through here. So section five is a needs assessment.

[59:07] So this is the table from land area standards and I don't want to bore you

[59:12] but based off the population in the village you should have so much acreage

[59:17] of parkland. Long story short we're doing pretty good. We have a lot of

[59:21] parkland. We go above and beyond the amount of parks that we need to have

[59:25] based on the population of the village. Um facility needs. It talks about again

[59:30] the highlights of of improving ADA signage addressing drainage and flooded

[59:36] flooding. We also talk about the uh little league baseball facility that is

[59:42] not villain zoned right that's been a priority I think over all the renditions

[59:46] is that at some point we need to take ownership over Oak Park. Um so that

[59:50] remains here. Um I'll move on. Table eight shows a

[59:56] summary of your guys's survey results. Then when you get bored you can look at

[1:00:00] all this.

[1:00:04] Uh moving on to key opportunities for village parks and open space. It talks

[1:00:08] about village green future park. So that's this side of the village where we

[1:00:13] don't have any parkland. Um this body knows that the board has been talking

[1:00:17] about parkland up there. We have some potential sites for that.

[1:00:21] Um, other possibilities, the Partridge Lane, uh, nature preserve, you know, how

[1:00:27] could we continue to utilize that space? Uh, we've talked about a proposed Fonia

[1:00:34] Creek nature preserves and hiking trail. Um, again, I don't want to bore you with

[1:00:39] history, but the original plan had the village purchasing a bunch of property

[1:00:43] through the middle of the village uh to create an interconnecting trail. Um I

[1:00:48] think during your time we we kind of axed a lot of that because it was

[1:00:53] already privately owned and again we we weren't in the business of buying more

[1:00:56] public land. Uh but again that idea is still still lives in this document for a

[1:01:01] future body to consider. All right. So then we get to the important part. So

[1:01:05] this village of Fredonia park improvement projects. So what you have

[1:01:09] here is a breakdown of all of the recommendations from each of those parks

[1:01:12] that we talked about except for what we just added an associated cost next to

[1:01:16] it. So what I need from you all is let's prioritize this and it doesn't need to

[1:01:22] be like one through seven. It could be just high priority versus low priority.

[1:01:26] So that way in the future we'll add these things to our CIP list and we're

[1:01:31] not going to add things that are kind of low of the total for you guys. Maybe a

[1:01:35] maybe a fence around the basketball court is a is a easy thing that we can

[1:01:39] do one year and just get it done. Well, then that's a higher priority. Or maybe

[1:01:43] it's a safety thing and you know that playground's falling apart. We really

[1:01:46] need to update it. We need some sort of kind of priority list so that way then

[1:01:50] we have direction as a team of what projects to tackle sooner than later. Um

[1:01:54] so let's look at Marie Cross Park. Here you see all the listed stuff that we had

[1:01:58] talked about. Who has an idea? Let's go.

[1:02:06] What's the highest priority on this list? Maybe it would start there.

[1:02:10] » It's the highest priority on that list. >> Yes.

[1:02:13] » Oh, we're like we're doing each individual thing. I see.

[1:02:17] » Yes. You have a little chart. I just got to

[1:02:20] fill in higher. I just got to fill in high or low. So like bleachers and

[1:02:24] athletic viewing viewing area like Tiffany had just said, is this a high

[1:02:28] priority for the village? I would argue if we're going to have a partnership,

[1:02:32] right, I would mark it as high so that way we're kind of planning for it

[1:02:35] alongside them, >> right? I would say high on that.

[1:02:39] » I'd say that's pretty high. I think the disc golf stealth course, it attracts a

[1:02:42] lot of people from out. >> It does attract a lot of people. We've

[1:02:45] got that national tournament. We've got people coming. I know a lot of people

[1:02:49] who disc golf stealth. Oh, you looking for Oh, yeah. I love that color.

[1:02:52] » Yep. >> Upgrading that to attract more people

[1:02:56] and keep people coming to it, I think. and it's not that expensive to throw in

[1:03:00] seating. So, I I'd put that at a higher priority. But

[1:03:04] » I was wondering with that if there was more opportunity to partner with like

[1:03:07] the school and like their woods program to see if they want to build a bench to

[1:03:14] put out there and or like >> individual seats. That's as far as

[1:03:23] plenty of opportunities if someone's looking to, you know, build a bench,

[1:03:26] donate it, and whatever, then I do a voice coat eagle project.

[1:03:33] » There you go, Ne. >> With the I just want to mention, I hold

[1:03:36] you up with the seating and the batches of that. Uh, I usually give Dan takes

[1:03:43] care of that. So, I usually give them a bench

[1:03:49] a bench every year. Uh we talk about if we're getting gar uh garbage cans and

[1:03:55] picnic tables, we give him the old ones and then he puts them where he wants. I

[1:04:00] mean, we really don't touch that. He takes care of it.

[1:04:06] So, I get him a bench, he puts it wherever.

[1:04:10] So, and I was down there on Sunday and he was getting ready for this coming

[1:04:15] weekend and he was putting the bench out that was here. So, we really don't go

[1:04:20] through that. I mean, if he needs help, we'll help him. But,

[1:04:24] » but I would argue if we make this a low priority, then we're going to shift from

[1:04:27] doing that and moving those assets to something else. You know what I'm

[1:04:31] saying? If this isn't a high priority, then we'll stop doing benches for him

[1:04:34] and then we'll move that money to something else.

[1:04:36] I think it for the most part in the past you used the money that came from the

[1:04:40] tournaments. >> Yes. Basically

[1:04:45] or he paid to rent the park or rent the disco

[1:04:49] » then we bought him a bench for that. So >> money came in and went right back to it.

[1:04:55] » So I mean as far as our our priorities as a village I'd probably put that as a

[1:05:00] little

[1:05:07] Okay.

[1:05:13] » Ward started talking about putting in pavilion and we got that donation from

[1:05:17] Port Washington. So, >> I mean that has to be a high priority.

[1:05:21] If there's throwing money at us, we got to show them that we're putting it up.

[1:05:24] » Yeah. >> Yep.

[1:05:25] » We can't really put that off, >> right?

[1:05:28] » I heard based on the conversation before Sleing Hill is kind of low. Yeah.

[1:05:32] » Um, additional parking is, you know, it's going to be low until we have the

[1:05:36] opportunity to have space to park, >> right?

[1:05:39] » Um, new playground >> that we might be talking about a little

[1:05:44] bit. >> Yeah,

[1:05:45] » that higher. >> Put that over.

[1:05:48] » Okay. And then village ID signage. So, we have the signage kind of there. It's

[1:05:55] on the bathroom facility. We would move it to the front of the park. I mean

[1:05:59] that's the only cost there which is going to be less than even the free five

[1:06:02] that's here. >> I think there is a dollar side in

[1:06:07] » there is I know but I'm talking about switching them out.

[1:06:13] Okay. Children's

[1:06:18] pollinator garden.

[1:06:21] » Hello. >> Yeah.

[1:06:23] » I mean I like the idea of it.

[1:06:27] equipment needed up park.

[1:06:32] » Okay. But that is high any accessibility. So a ramp to get into the

[1:06:35] park. >> That would be I mean I suppose that

[1:06:39] would be high with the upgrades of the equipment.

[1:06:42] » Okay. Shade trees.

[1:06:47] » I feel like that can be low on the village side and we could probably get

[1:06:50] some programs to donate and plant the tree.

[1:06:55] adding park table and benches.

[1:07:00] » Medium.

[1:07:04] » What we got over there right now? We got a bench.

[1:07:06] » We have one one built-in bench. >> Not a picnic table over there anymore.

[1:07:13] » One one tree, one bench, and one. >> I mean, there ought to be a picnic table

[1:07:17] or something so a parent can sit there while their kids screwing around. you

[1:07:21] know, some place to sit and >> I mean, it's not like we're talking

[1:07:24] about a bunch of picnic tables. >> Say a picnic table at the most.

[1:07:30] » Yeah. Um, and then the ID signage.

[1:07:34] » I mean, I think ID signage should be kind of a moderate everywhere. You know,

[1:07:38] if we can afford to get it done, we ought to do it just so that the village

[1:07:41] looks consistent no matter where you go. >> Yep.

[1:07:47] All right. This is the last part of this, by the

[1:07:51] way. After this is all other data that you can look at whenever you feel like

[1:07:54] it. >> Um, Fireman's Park, we have AD

[1:07:57] accessibility improvements.

[1:08:02] » It's not too bad right now, is it?

[1:08:07] » You have to go into the grass and it's all a wheelchair through there.

[1:08:12] » Yeah, we talked about we'd extend sidewalk from the fire fire department

[1:08:16] parking lot along that full um northern area of the park. I mean,

[1:08:22] you get to the playground, you get to the ball diamond.

[1:08:24] » So, right along right along Park A. >> Yeah.

[1:08:33] » I guess of these three things, what what if any are high?

[1:08:37] » They can all the playground >> equipment is over 20 years old. It's

[1:08:41] falling apart. It needs to be replaced. I mean me I go for the baseball first

[1:08:45] but I'm I'm biased so you know so but the the playground equipment definitely

[1:08:50] » they can both be high it's okay >> both the they the playground equipment

[1:08:55] slightly higher than the baseball >> that the playground equipment in my one

[1:09:00] year at the bubard I placed one full-time year I placed three or four

[1:09:03] things in that playground >> yeah would you say that's the worst

[1:09:07] playground that we have >> I don't know if it's the worst I think

[1:09:10] children wor but the vitamins gets used by more people who are vocal about

[1:09:16] » what's going on, >> right?

[1:09:17] » Kind of thing. So, um I think children's is in worse shape, but fireman gets used

[1:09:23] by more people. >> Fireman's is also more publicly used as

[1:09:26] we do have the the the baseball children's play youth league and we have

[1:09:31] soccer and so we have people coming there for those kinds of things.

[1:09:35] » I know like divine savior will walk the kids over there. They use that.

[1:09:39] » So, school does. >> Yeah. So, It'd be I think it really does

[1:09:44] have a higher priority than children's or any of the other parks too.

[1:09:48] » Then I added fencing for the fireman's park, the basketball

[1:09:52] high, low

[1:09:56] » I can put it as high and see kind of cost would be to that

[1:10:00] » at least along the roadside. >> Yeah. When you mention the fact

[1:10:04] basketball gets wet, I'm not as worried about it.

[1:10:07] » Yeah. >> As if it ran out in front of a semi.

[1:10:10] Right. So >> correct

[1:10:12] » or Simon chugging along lawn mower or something.

[1:10:16] » All rightski. I removed the dog park. So now we have

[1:10:20] the nature path for 5k and ID signage.

[1:10:26] » Well, if if we're talking about that park, I

[1:10:30] mean that's pretty cheap stuff right there. Make it high priority. Make it

[1:10:34] more usable. Make it more used. I mean, this is probably the easiest that that's

[1:10:37] like lowhanging fruit that we could we could revitalize that whole park in in a

[1:10:42] year. >> Yeah.

[1:10:43] » Um and get it done. >> I mean, if we were to then rate the

[1:10:46] parks on which one should be tackled first.

[1:10:48] » Yeah. That's that's a whole other conversation.

[1:10:51] » But >> all right. Uh Metobrook. So, this is

[1:10:55] again the dog park. Um fencing and garbage receptacles. Uh this had the

[1:11:01] mini playground which you guys removed. And then ID signs.

[1:11:07] » And we also talked about maybe having just a couple of picnic tables. Oh yeah.

[1:11:11] » Building grills over in that eastern section.

[1:11:13] » Yeah. Benches. >> Things that can get wet and aren't that

[1:11:18] big a deal.

[1:11:22] I think the Yeah. between that and then the the dog park stuff could be probably

[1:11:28] be high. And again this the park ID sign like like Pete said.

[1:11:33] » Yeah. do them all as as as well.

[1:11:36] » Yeah. >> Standardize and you know make us look

[1:11:40] like a organized village. >> Um Freedom Park, I would suggest you

[1:11:45] mark that as high for the multi-purpose building again for grant.

[1:11:50] » Um replacing pavilion. I I'll be honest, I don't I don't think that there's at

[1:11:56] least right now there's not a good grant opportunity specifically for that

[1:12:00] purpose. So, if you guys ever want to replace that pavilion, I mean, it's

[1:12:04] literally us paying the money to do it, >> right?

[1:12:07] » Um, which is not fun, which is why you see it quoted like $120,000.

[1:12:13] Um, I don't know. We could say it's high, but I just don't think it's going

[1:12:16] to happen unless funding comes from on high, you know,

[1:12:20] » for like the band shell thing that we're talking about.

[1:12:23] » Yeah. Is there opportunity instead to try to utilize like one end of the

[1:12:30] pavilion that we build at Murray Krauss? So then the bands are always covered and

[1:12:37] there's like there's opportunity for people to be inside and outside

[1:12:41] » hanging out there. Kids can be playing in the splash pad where music's going.

[1:12:45] » Oh, I see. Moving it to Marie Krauss. to Marie Krauss and making that kind of our

[1:12:51] dedicated Tuesday tune spot because >> there's opportunity there to be playing

[1:12:55] the >> fields. People can, you know, kids can

[1:12:58] run around in the fields. >> Yep.

[1:13:01] Less traffic or parking. I don't know. I don't know where you

[1:13:06] located. I don't know. I have to look the space again. But if you have that

[1:13:11] hash the clamshell kind of looking out toward the soccer fields and so forth. I

[1:13:15] mean, you got all that green space. I got a couple of log chairs. I can carry

[1:13:18] those over there, set it up, and enjoy the music all evening long, you know.

[1:13:24] » Just throw out there like tonight. >> Oh, yeah.

[1:13:29] » Yeah. We just move Tuesdays on the week. >> I mean, we can coordinate we can

[1:13:36] coordinate things like that. >> I just, you know, if we're going to

[1:13:39] move, it's kind of nice to have things up there at the entrance of the village.

[1:13:42] So, >> yeah. But Marie Krauss was much larger

[1:13:47] and and probably we give the kids who are interested in listening to the band

[1:13:53] something to do. >> Yeah, we just have to be more strict

[1:13:56] about, you know, renting out our park and reserving dates for everybody so we

[1:14:00] know when they're going to be there versus us and all that. But

[1:14:07] » um Okay. So, under Freedom Park, I put hi

[1:14:12] for the multi-purpose building pavilion. I mean, we can say hi. Again, it'll

[1:14:17] happen when it happens. Year-round yard games

[1:14:22] was passionate about that. >> I think I mean, it it's a nice idea.

[1:14:27] » Yeah. >> But I I don't think it's necessarily

[1:14:31] dark. >> So, when I was doing research on it a

[1:14:35] few years back, it's like concrete. So, They're there all the time. They

[1:14:41] want

[1:14:44] to go in >> or stone chest board.

[1:14:47] » Yeah, >> I've seen those. Corn Germantown has a

[1:14:52] part with those in it. >> Yeah, they weren't stupid expensive

[1:14:58] in >> your mowing over the cornhole bags.

[1:15:02] » Yeah, Eric and I both want to do something like this there. Um, our

[1:15:06] concern is do you provide the chest pieces?

[1:15:11] What happens when somebody takes one? What happens when it blows off, gets run

[1:15:16] over in the road? Or your cornhole bags? Do you provide those? What happens

[1:15:19] somebody takes one? Are you buying a new one every year or every two weeks?

[1:15:24] » And so, if you're putting the games, but you're not providing the equipment for

[1:15:27] the games. >> I think it's easier for people to bring

[1:15:30] a bag of bags to toss, right, than to bring the whole board.

[1:15:34] » Yeah. But does it I mean there's no cost

[1:15:39] efficiency to it or and you're not but does the cost of putting it in if you're

[1:15:44] not providing the equipment to use it make sense?

[1:15:47] » Well, I mean like with chess boards people are you know if people know

[1:15:51] there's a chess board there they can bring the pieces

[1:15:55] so it's right. >> I mean if we put in horseshoe pits do we

[1:15:58] have horseshoes? >> Right.

[1:16:00] That's the I don't know. >> That's like I I don't recommend we

[1:16:06] provide the items to use the games because you run into the risks of okay,

[1:16:12] now there's unsupervised kids at the park and horseshoe rings.

[1:16:18] um what possibly people this would add to the shops here and so

[1:16:24] forth, but if we had like a place where people could go and get these items, you

[1:16:30] know, so stopping by here and putting $10 down for a bag of bags for the

[1:16:36] cornhole, >> right? I I don't want to add more work

[1:16:40] » to the people, but you know, if you come back and you've only got six of the

[1:16:44] eight bags, well, you're not getting your 10 bucks back because you got to

[1:16:47] replace those bags. >> I don't know if there's like a way that

[1:16:49] they do like a vending machine where you just

[1:16:53] put a dollar in and you get access to whatever's in there. And I mean,

[1:16:58] » suppose it's like a >> get it back. But if there's some sort of

[1:17:02] I mean like they do those shopping cart things that you put like 50 cents to buy

[1:17:06] the shopping cart back cents back. I don't I don't know if there's a way to

[1:17:11] do that with a with play. those systems are.

[1:17:15] » I've been to parks that have both and most of the time the ones I see that

[1:17:19] have like where they have the bags there or the like the horseshoe rings there,

[1:17:24] they're kind of more private type playground

[1:17:30] spaces or like at campgrounds and they're that stuff is near like a

[1:17:35] building where there's almost always like somebody to kind of supervise that

[1:17:38] stuff. I don't really recommend having because even what stops then a

[1:17:44] 10-year-old kid from putting a dollar in and then pulling out the horseshoe rings

[1:17:48] and um I'd much rather have it where yes, we have these spaces to use this

[1:17:55] stuff and you bring your bags with you or you bring your horseshoe rings with

[1:17:59] you. >> I think that's the better way to go.

[1:18:01] » Yeah. >> So, I'm hearing that our team really

[1:18:04] wants to put these in. Do you agree in putting it as a high priority? They're

[1:18:09] not that expensive. I no problem.

[1:18:14] » Would you use them if the stuff wasn't there to use them? [laughter]

[1:18:18] » Uh, personally, no. I don't.

[1:18:23] » Yeah. But if you knew it was there and then you happened to be at Wally World

[1:18:28] and you saw that there was a sale on [laughter] Cornhole.

[1:18:31] » There you go. >> Would I buy them just to go through?

[1:18:38] There you go. >> But if I'm down there

[1:18:46] playing, >> they could be provided. We could have

[1:18:50] them and be provided when we have events going on.

[1:18:53] » Sure. >> Yeah.

[1:18:55] » That's that's a nice kind of >> or somebody rents the park.

[1:19:01] » I know you guys do have a fee for renting the park and you have a if

[1:19:06] something gets broken or whatever it comes out of there. Correct.

[1:19:08] » So, >> oh yeah,

[1:19:09] » you don't get it back is to charge people for it.

[1:19:12] » Yeah.

[1:19:16] » Cool. >> Right. Veterans Park, uh, replacing the

[1:19:21] sand with some other material, providing those vehic vehicular barriers or the

[1:19:27] wall fencing that we talked about, and then other ADA stuff and silage.

[1:19:33] » And don't forget the the well with the wall. Yeah. Maybe using

[1:19:38] » I'd say that define property through fencing or landscape would

[1:19:43] » I think that would be a real priority simply because it would motivate you get

[1:19:48] people interested in hey we're doing something profession doing something and

[1:19:54] people can participate they can buy a brick for a family member or something

[1:19:58] that you know I I really think that would be

[1:20:00] » an excellent uh way to just kind of get the people in the village motivated

[1:20:05] in the village.

[1:20:09] And I think that kind of kills two birds with one stone. It will define the

[1:20:12] property line and then the one above it to provide the barriers for traffic. So

[1:20:17] » yeah. >> Cool. Um do you care about replacing the

[1:20:22] sand like we've been doing in our other parks?

[1:20:26] » Well, is isn't that required? Isn't that something that

[1:20:30] » it's technically not considered saving? Soction wise

[1:20:35] » and to be consistent with the rest of the playgrounds in the village, it

[1:20:39] probably ought to be replaced. >> All right, let me skip down to

[1:20:47] » uh Stony, >> right?

[1:20:51] » Um Stony Creek, we talked about that pedestrian connection to Fredonia AB. So

[1:20:55] again, that's extending sidewalk all the way up there.

[1:20:59] Um, removing replacing outdoor playground equipment, possibly the

[1:21:03] naturebased play playground, converting the basketball court to

[1:21:07] pickle ball, removing a fence, moving grills, adding

[1:21:12] horseshoe. What are your thoughts?

[1:21:15] » That that dilapidated little slide that's on the western edge of the park

[1:21:20] area, it needs to go away. Walk in and that looks so bad. I hope we get that

[1:21:25] off by the end of the year. [laughter] by the end of the week.

[1:21:30] » Looks like if you kicked it, it would fall over.

[1:21:33] » We've been talking about getting rid of that.

[1:21:36] » What happened when you mentioned it? Eric says, "Not yet." [laughter]

[1:21:43] » Some sort of emotional connection to her.

[1:21:45] » I don't know if it was there when he went there as a kid or something, but

[1:21:54] » All right. So, replacing playground equipment. Some of it was kind of done

[1:21:57] recently, right? The Lions Lions did some stuff.

[1:22:00] » Yeah. >> Yeah. Some of some of it's in good

[1:22:02] shape. >> What? The big metal one.

[1:22:08] » The big metal. >> I love that big metal.

[1:22:15] » Have a nose bleed when you went up on that one.

[1:22:18] » You go to the top of that metal one, you get a nose bleed, man.

[1:22:22] » All right. So, sidewalk up to the park. >> Yeah.

[1:22:25] » Who care? Low, high. >> And most people are going to drive, so I

[1:22:31] don't know that it makes that much of a difference.

[1:22:32] » Low it is. Um, replacing the playground equipment.

[1:22:39] » Sounds high to a few people in this room.

[1:22:41] » Yeah, some [laughter] of the stuff really needs to just

[1:22:44] » go. It makes it look bad. I mean, >> you said replace, maybe not.

[1:22:48] Yeah, some of it can just be >> refurbish

[1:22:51] » um chain link fence. >> Well, where would we be putting that?

[1:22:57] » It's on the north side there already falling apart. We don't know whose it

[1:23:01] is. There's branches going property owner wouldn't mind if we just tore it

[1:23:05] the hell out. >> He wants it out.

[1:23:08] » We've talked about pulling it out, replacing it. He wants it out. Doesn't

[1:23:11] want it replaced. >> Well, if it's on our property, then

[1:23:14] » does it need to be replaced? Do we need it, sir? We don't have fence anywhere

[1:23:18] else in the park, do we? >> No, it's just to separate that woodland

[1:23:21] from the >> There is one by the house that's right

[1:23:25] next to that parking lot. >> Oh,

[1:23:27] » that separates the house from the park. >> Yeah,

[1:23:29] » but they but they put that >> Yeah, it's for other reasons.

[1:23:33] » I mean, yeah, take that out and get rid of it.

[1:23:37] » So, just remove don't replace. >> Yeah. What do you think? And I can see

[1:23:41] kids are going to start going through those woods and that property owner is

[1:23:44] going to get kicked off. >> Then he's going to want his own damn

[1:23:46] » fence. He can put up his own. There we go. [laughter]

[1:23:50] » I think he thinks it's his fence. So if you put a new one in, you'd have to pay

[1:23:52] for it. That's my guess is why he doesn't want a new one.

[1:23:57] » Well, but >> okay, we'll have that conversation. Uh

[1:24:02] grills. Do you care about grills? >> Getting getting the old ones out of

[1:24:07] there would be a good thing. uh moving putting a couple of newer ones near the

[1:24:12] pavilion. >> Sounds like they're not used though.

[1:24:15] » Doesn't sound like they're used I guess. So,

[1:24:18] » but Falls has a really cool thing in one of their parks. They have a big old like

[1:24:22] fire pit type grill on one end of the pavilion. It' be kind of interesting to

[1:24:28] look into down there. Not anytime soon, but something to think

[1:24:32] » until someone puts a couch in it. >> Till someone puts a couch in it.

[1:24:36] » Until someone puts a couch in it. That'd be a really good kel grill to put on.

[1:24:41] But I mean, I know we've used it for engineering group outings and stuff,

[1:24:46] cook our barbecue and whatever on it.

[1:24:51] » I skipped over that pickle ball court conversion. That high low.

[1:24:56] » There are enough people interested in having a pickle ball court somewhere in

[1:24:59] the village. I I'd put that at higher, right?

[1:25:04] Is there high enough demand and in addition to the ones that are at Wabonia

[1:25:09] Park and the >> Well, those are task courts really.

[1:25:12] They're not really mapped out for pickle ball. I don't know much.

[1:25:17] » Yeah, they're lying for it. >> But that stuff out there that that's

[1:25:22] higher tennis ball tennis instead of pickle ball is supposed to be lower or

[1:25:26] something. So technically they're not pickle ball regulation even though they

[1:25:31] are for pickle ball. That would be the argument.

[1:25:35] » Can the Nets be moved? >> Can the Nets be moved down though?

[1:25:41] » Yeah, I don't know.

[1:25:45] But

[1:25:50] » is the location of it

[1:25:55] » cross the highway right there is miserable on

[1:25:59] a bike. There's no good way to get there unless you're driving.

[1:26:02] So that would be the only >> Stony Creek would be a nice

[1:26:06] » Is that accessible from park side? >> Is there a way to get there?

[1:26:10] » No. No. There's a driveway, but I think it's

[1:26:14] private. [clears throat] >> Yeah.

[1:26:18] » And over by Stony Creek Park right there, you've got that uh uh adult

[1:26:23] daycare center. I don't know if they'd be able to have day eight trips over to

[1:26:27] do a little pickle balling, you know, that folks. I don't know. You know, but

[1:26:32] » having it in the village like that, you know, a place that's reasonably easy to

[1:26:36] get to makes some sense. >> Guess I need to learn about pickle ball.

[1:26:41] I know zero. >> I got enough hobbies. [laughter]

[1:26:44] » I I I only know anything about it because my wife and my kids play it on

[1:26:48] E. Well, that [laughter] kills the point of playing the sport for

[1:26:53] real, but okay, whatever. >> All right, I'm hearing that it's time.

[1:26:58] » Sure. uh adding horseshoe.

[1:27:03] » Well, >> I mean it's cheap, but there's no

[1:27:06] priority on that. >> All right. And then just so we can book

[1:27:10] it and finish this last one is Village Green Park. So this is the again

[1:27:15] proposed space up by the Hillrest lots. Um so if and when it gets to the point

[1:27:22] that we were to develop that lot, then this is the stuff that it talks about.

[1:27:26] So, small playground, planting shade trees, pedestrian. I would argue this is

[1:27:30] probably all low in our priority list since we don't even have the property

[1:27:33] technically. >> Yeah.

[1:27:36] » And then when we do, then we can talk about updating it.

[1:27:40] » I agree with that. >> Great. Um, let me just quickly flip

[1:27:45] through this, see if there's anything of importance. While I do that,

[1:27:50] um, the next steps, so I'm be looking for recommendation

[1:27:54] um, tonight for this document now that we've cleaned it up. The next step would

[1:27:59] be a public hearing or public participation um, time period. So that

[1:28:04] would happen in front of you all >> um, to get their feedback. So pretty

[1:28:08] much what I would plan on doing is I would probably make a little

[1:28:10] presentation. We'd present it to the public and say, "These are our ideas.

[1:28:15] What's your feedback and and response?" And then we would um add their feedback

[1:28:20] to this plan and then it goes to the full board for adoption. And once you

[1:28:24] guys adopt it, again, it's not just you. We have to kick it to the county for

[1:28:27] their approval. Um if you read through the front, the engineer has to approve.

[1:28:32] I mean, there's a lot of levels in order for it to be a um DNR qualified parks

[1:28:37] and open space plan. But then again, that's what allows us to get access to

[1:28:40] the grants and all that other good stuff. So,

[1:28:43] that sound good? What's the What's the timeline look

[1:28:47] like? >> When do we have to have this public

[1:28:50] hearing? Are we talking >> I mean, it can happen as quickly or as

[1:28:53] slow as you want. Right. This is technically a 2030 plan and we're only a

[1:28:57] year in. Um so I probably, you know, maybe in fall

[1:29:03] we can do a public hearing. Um choose one night, make it, you know, really

[1:29:08] well known that we're doing this and the people that are interested in groups

[1:29:11] like that that want to come and give feedback. So in October like maybe

[1:29:15] » yeah be good. >> Right.

[1:29:22] » Um so I would make a a motion to recommend parks and open space plan as

[1:29:28] amended and then set a public hearing. You know we could say for sometime in

[1:29:33] October. >> So moved.

[1:29:36] » Thank you. >> So seconded.

[1:29:42] So we >> motioned and Okay. So all those in favor

[1:29:47] » I >> I

[1:29:49] » All those opposed. Motion passes.

[1:29:52] » While we're all sitting here, do you want to set a date for the public

[1:29:54] hearing that works for everybody? >> What about

[1:29:58] the first meeting in October? >> Like like do

[1:30:02] » when would our first meeting be in October?

[1:30:05] » We talk first meeting board meeting. Yeah. So October 1st.

[1:30:11] October 1st is when Elena >> think so.

[1:30:14] » Think we're gonna have that much participation?

[1:30:16] » I do. >> Oh wow. Okay, we'll come

[1:30:19] » we'll come back on some of the surveys that we did and public hearings

[1:30:25] even some of that it was two plus

[1:30:29] » well so for the first the first board meeting would be October 1st.

[1:30:33] » Yeah. or well given that feedback I I didn't think we I mean just based on

[1:30:39] every every other public hearing I've seen very little feedback u maybe we

[1:30:44] need to do an abandoned >> we just'll designate a night outside of

[1:30:49] a meeting >> do we want to have it on if we have a

[1:30:51] planning park parks and recck meeting >> well it would be a park

[1:30:56] » basically be our parks

[1:31:00] » I was just thinking we do it on a board meeting night just just free up the

[1:31:04] schedule, but it sounds like we're going to have

[1:31:07] » some participation. >> So maybe we go independent of board

[1:31:11] maybe. >> So if you want to keep it Thursdays, we

[1:31:14] can do it on the 8th maybe. So a village board parks thing and then village board

[1:31:18] in the month of October. >> Are Thursdays good for you?

[1:31:24] » Yeah, I mean I keep my Thursdays pretty open for board meetings.

[1:31:30] » Should you Thursday the eth? All right. October 8th.

[1:31:35] And what time do you want to start? You want to do six?

[1:31:38] » You won't be able to be here. [laughter]

[1:31:41] » Perfect. >> You can make it work. You'll be here.

[1:31:45] » Yeah. The only thing on my calendar that night is honor soccer practice.

[1:31:54] » 6 p.m. >> 6 p.m. So, October 8, 6 p.m.

[1:31:57] » Yeah. All right. All right. Thank you. Are we going to have this open-ended or

[1:32:02] are we going to put a cut off on it? I mean,

[1:32:04] » well, it's a public meeting and you're chairing, so it ends whenever you say,

[1:32:09] "All right, we've heard enough." You hit the

[1:32:11] » gap. You can tell people, "You got five minutes. That's it."

[1:32:14] » I would I would make sure we have some structure, right? You know, whether it's

[1:32:16] five minutes per person or whatever. Let's, you know, we'll have

[1:32:19] » Did you have a deep desire to be able to attend?

[1:32:22] » I mean, we could change it. >> Don't change it. I mean, yes, I do have

[1:32:25] a deep desire to make. >> So, I'm saying what about Wednesday?

[1:32:30] I'll just see that practice. >> Wednesday's definitely don't work for

[1:32:33] » you're going to run into counter stuff. >> Oh, yeah. That's great.

[1:32:36] » All right. Just tell Hal you got something better to do.

[1:32:44] » Okay. I mean, I want to honor you as the person that

[1:32:49] » Y >> I I 100% appreciate that. I will make it

[1:32:52] work. I can tell you that when we did an

[1:32:59] Wow. >> And there was a lot of

[1:33:03] » That's good. We want to see that. >> It was really really good.

[1:33:08] » Discussion. >> So

[1:33:12] » people are very >> nobody needed a police escort.

[1:33:17] [laughter] >> All right.

[1:33:18] » Cool. And so you and I as chair can talk about the structure of that meeting and

[1:33:22] what you want it to look like. So >> great.

[1:33:24] » All right. discussion and possible action on Marie Krauss pavilion.

[1:33:29] » All right. Uh we're building a pavilion. >> Oh,

[1:33:36] » you good? >> Yeah.

[1:33:37] » Okay. Uh we're building a pavilion, believe it or not. Um so we got $65,000

[1:33:42] from Port Washington State Bank uh for this pavilion. Um, we also are uh in I'd

[1:33:49] say in in almost final talks with No Lumber to donate some if not all of the

[1:33:55] lumber materials um for this and then in final talks with

[1:34:00] Andrewj Construction to assist with project management and um at least

[1:34:05] getting the concrete at cost um for this pavilion as well. So, a lot of a lot of

[1:34:10] great community partners that are coming together to to do this. Um you see in

[1:34:15] your map here this kind of structure laid out. So we've measured it. Um do

[1:34:20] you know the approximate size up top you're in?

[1:34:23] » No. >> Um well it's pretty it matches what you

[1:34:26] see here in the picture. The plan would be on the northern side. That would be

[1:34:31] enclosed uh storage areas um with access to electrical and plumbing facing

[1:34:38] towards the inside of the pavilion. Um and then enough space there for a good

[1:34:42] amount of you know uh picnic tables and things like that to go underneath there.

[1:34:47] Um plus of doing this obviously is it makes the rentability of that park so

[1:34:52] much more higher birthday parties for splash pad um gathering place for soccer

[1:34:57] groups and whatever else want to utilize that space. Um and again future events

[1:35:03] and things like that that we'd want to do. We now have an a covered structure

[1:35:07] to do that. Um, if we really wanted to go big, we've talked about um,

[1:35:11] winterizing that structure. If you've been in a county park, you'll see that

[1:35:15] there's rolling doors that are there that kind of enclose it. Um, we I I

[1:35:20] don't think we'll have the capital to do that. Um, but if there's a way to maybe

[1:35:26] set this up so that way in the future we could add features like that, then that

[1:35:29] would be nice for us to do. >> I think the biggest draw to that park is

[1:35:32] summer activities. So, I mean, the soccer, the

[1:35:36] » the splash pad, the

[1:35:40] I would guess not because

[1:35:45] » nice. >> Well, if we have a sliding hill, he's

[1:35:48] going to have to.

[1:35:54] » Good thing Eric left. You'll tell him all about all the things we approved. He

[1:35:59] was gone. >> Um, so again, we don't know the exact

[1:36:03] dimensions, but it's a pretty sizable pavilion that'll be there. Um, we're

[1:36:07] restricted to the north because we still need to have some storm water drainage

[1:36:11] that's going to continue there and then it hits the parking lot where we have

[1:36:14] storm water drainage set up too. Um, but other than that, it's pretty exciting

[1:36:18] project. We're really just kind of letting you know and if there's any

[1:36:21] major things that you want to tell us about the pavilion that you want or

[1:36:24] don't want, you know, now's the time. But we appreciate all the donated and

[1:36:29] community efforts to make this happen. So, any thoughts?

[1:36:35] I'm excited about it. >> Yeah.

[1:36:37] » Solar panels to help power it. >> Dude, my electric bill is 73 cents,

[1:36:45] right? >> That gas.

[1:36:47] » I don't know if you've seen those solar panels on my roof, but uh they make

[1:36:51] » they pay off, right? >> And we got all these roofs without any

[1:36:54] solar panels. >> You think the energies would install

[1:36:58] those for free? [laughter] >> Well, they're not free, but they would

[1:37:02] pay for them. How far in are you in

[1:37:06] to like offset the cost? Cuz I looked into them too, but it would

[1:37:11] take me like even if my electric bill went down to nothing,

[1:37:15] » it would take me like 10 years or something to

[1:37:18] » Oh, where am I? >> So, I'm like,

[1:37:21] » but it's not like they're going to come down. They don't have any moving parts.

[1:37:24] » Yeah. >> And they keep the roof going from

[1:37:28] wearing those quick. Was Eric's plan to have storage in that storage?

[1:37:33] » Yeah. >> Well, it' be an addition to Yeah. Um

[1:37:40] » the shed. >> Oh, yeah.

[1:37:45] » I think you said that was the original plan for that shed. So talk about moving

[1:37:50] it but idea is

[1:37:55] » part of our fundraising

[1:38:00] generates funds to

[1:38:07] » cool um so I know it says action on here I

[1:38:11] mean I guess your action is this looks good please proceed with getting a free

[1:38:16] pavilion.

[1:38:19] If you want to make a motion that's a little bit

[1:38:22] » motion to move forward on building a pavilion at Marine Crow Park to the spot

[1:38:28] » as presented. >> As presented.

[1:38:29] » Thank you. >> Second.

[1:38:33] » All right. Uh all those in motion say I or all those in favor say I.

[1:38:39] » I. >> Opposed.

[1:38:42] Motion passes. Right. discussion and possible action on

[1:38:47] Robert >> Omi Amy

[1:38:49] » Omi Amy >> Amy donation

[1:38:53] » um so we got a significant donation as you all know about $96,000 from Robert

[1:38:58] AB foundation or from the foundation to us um it's been sitting in our account

[1:39:04] segregated for a parks and wreck purpose um the chairman Seiring and I have

[1:39:09] talked a little bit about um creative ways to use those funds and really it's

[1:39:14] up to the discretion of the village of what we want to do with it. Um to to

[1:39:18] back up on an accounting standpoint, so we've been talking about it for a number

[1:39:22] of years of segregating our parks and wreck funds away from our general fund.

[1:39:26] So we have finally done that. So like this nice revenue thing sheet that you

[1:39:30] see here in front of you. All of the revenues that we generate from events

[1:39:34] this year goes into that segregated fund. It'll earn a little bit of

[1:39:38] interest and it'll help to fund future events and things like that that we do.

[1:39:42] So right now the Robert Amy donation is also sitting in that segregated fund for

[1:39:47] that purpose. You guys could leave it there. It could earn interest for 10

[1:39:50] years, right? And grow and wait to spend it or you could say we have a really

[1:39:54] cool project and we want to spend all the money right now. Um my

[1:39:58] recommendation is probably to do a little bit of both, right? I think you

[1:40:01] can use this money as foundational support for something, right? Whatever

[1:40:05] you want it to do and then maybe split the other half to earn yummy interest

[1:40:08] over the years and grow that fund. Um, and so that's where I'll leave it

[1:40:12] because Trusty Sering had a cool idea of what maybe we could do with some of that

[1:40:16] money. Take it away. >> Yes. So, as you can see in the

[1:40:20] renderings, um, the idea of adding a playground behind the splash pad and the

[1:40:27] new pavilion. Um, but as I talked to Mr. Jenkins. Um, I

[1:40:36] would like this playground to be more than just like a little kid playground.

[1:40:41] I want something for even like our teenagers that can actually be there.

[1:40:46] Maybe when a parent is with their kids as flash or we did move Tuesday tunes

[1:40:51] where even teenagers are having fun with us. This rendering is smaller than the

[1:40:55] one I sent you, but >> they would. I looked at a larger one and

[1:40:59] possibly I know a lot of parks that I've been do with my kids, the ones that have

[1:41:03] the zip lines are packed all the time. So maybe the idea of a a larger zipline

[1:41:10] along the back of it for kids to be having fun with.

[1:41:14] Um, this was kind of my idea to do with some of those funds is to start the

[1:41:20] process to create a fundraising for a playground at Marie Cro or Try Play.

[1:41:27] » Yeah. So, when we've talked about it, it's the next kind of next signature

[1:41:31] project that we'd be working on. So, the splash pad, you know, took us about a

[1:41:34] year to fund raise and then we got it done the following year. Um, this I

[1:41:38] mean, we're going to have to look at a lot of specs, right? We'd start with

[1:41:41] that of what we want kind of want the park to look like. Um what I envision is

[1:41:46] we'd spend the rest of this year coming up with that kind of plan of action.

[1:41:49] This is what it's going to look like. These are the features we want. Um this

[1:41:52] is the area that's going to cover. And then then we hit the ground running in

[1:41:57] 2027 with some sort of fundraising campaign. And I'll be as honest with you

[1:42:02] as I was with the splash pad. Um, you know, we need to be cognizant of the

[1:42:08] market that we're in, the the small close-knitness of the village. Um, if

[1:42:14] there's other fundraising efforts going on at the same time, right, we don't

[1:42:17] want to be cannibalizing each other. So, there's a lot of things like that that

[1:42:20] we need to think about. Um, but based off of what the quotes end up coming in

[1:42:25] at to build, if this is a million-doll project, then, you know, this might be a

[1:42:30] five-year fundraising campaign, and we as long as we're okay with that, right,

[1:42:33] then that's what it is. Um, but we also don't want to set our goals too high

[1:42:38] that we're going to raise a million dollars in a year. I don't think that's

[1:42:41] realistic, right? So we can lay the groundwork this fall of getting again a

[1:42:46] rough idea of what we want the park to look like, a rough cost estimate, and

[1:42:50] then I can come back to you guys end of this year, beginning of next year with

[1:42:53] all right, where's our plan of action and we're good to go. So

[1:42:58] and using and let me tie back using that 50k of the Amy donation as a kind of

[1:43:02] founding amount.

[1:43:10] » Yes. Okay, based on this conversation, just

[1:43:14] the initial thoughts, I'm sitting on 30 seconds, but we're working together and

[1:43:18] it's the soccer club and softball club and the village is working together to

[1:43:24] make that part of a a good part that there's things that a soccer club

[1:43:31] whatever we can fund raise for them, we would donate

[1:43:36] 50 grand on softball raises, you know, maybe for heart or

[1:43:43] bathrooms or whatever it is to donate. And we're all working together

[1:43:48] to try and generate those funds for the bigger cause, right? My goal is for that

[1:43:54] every day down there was to have a complex. It's softball and soccer and

[1:43:59] smash splash and you know an all all place for everybody to go. The only way

[1:44:07] to do that is to have everybody working together with the

[1:44:11] village to make that happen, right?

[1:44:16] » Oh, I I mean, as he was saying, you know, cannibalizing and making sure

[1:44:20] we're not over overlapping each other and fighting each other for donations,

[1:44:24] but >> working with each other.

[1:44:27] » Yeah, >> that that's much better.

[1:44:30] » And, you know, on the account of transparency, I'm huge on transparency.

[1:44:35] So once we put that plan together and had an idea and knew what we wanted to

[1:44:41] do for an end goal, then we build a program to make sure we're being

[1:44:44] transparent with the donors. So we're constantly putting some type of news out

[1:44:50] there of like here's the next thing of our, you know, that we're trying to

[1:44:54] raise right now. And then when we get there, that next goal and then at the

[1:44:58] end we have that whole entire thing in full contrast of like, okay, we've made

[1:45:04] it. we're, you know, it's time to celebrate that. So, um, but yes, working

[1:45:09] together is very beneficial because the soccer club might pull in donors that

[1:45:14] the village might not and the baseball club might pull in donors that the

[1:45:18] village might not or the soccer club might not. So, I think everyone working

[1:45:22] together is a huge opportunity to see Marie Krauss turn into something amazing

[1:45:27] for all of the families to enjoy. So, >> yeah.

[1:45:32] [clears throat] So then in again we're doing our leg work this fall. I mean

[1:45:37] you're going to do the same thing. So >> should be different

[1:45:44] » suggestions on that. >> Yeah I think I think that

[1:45:47] » yeah I think that timing works fine because then whatever we present then to

[1:45:52] you all for this is the entire package right it can include your needs and our

[1:45:56] needs and all that. So that'd be cool. And even if somebody finishes or wraps

[1:46:01] up their leg work faster than another, we just wait to put it all together.

[1:46:06] Yeah. You know, at the same time. >> Yeah. It should be a cohesive plan.

[1:46:12] » Yeah. I mean, the the difference is that at the end of the day, this is all

[1:46:16] village property, right? So, we appreciate that these community

[1:46:19] organizations are helping to support that, but at the end of the day, they're

[1:46:22] helping to improve our own property. So, we should

[1:46:27] take that support. Yeah. Cool.

[1:46:33] So, to tie it back to what we're discussing,

[1:46:37] are you comfortable with that split of the Amy donation? So, again, it's a 96k.

[1:46:42] It would stay in our fund, but we'd segregate about half of it for this

[1:46:46] future complex purpose or do you want to spend that money on something else?

[1:46:51] » What was in the donation

[1:46:56] package? from >> it was very vague. They just wanted to

[1:47:00] see it used for parks and recreational purposes. They didn't expect naming

[1:47:03] rights or any of that. Um >> I still think it would be opposed to us

[1:47:08] the Amy playground or something that >> Yeah. But but we also don't want to

[1:47:13] hinder ourselves because if it's a million-dollar project and they only

[1:47:16] only donated 50,000, right? You know, and I don't know, Port Washington State

[1:47:21] Bank gives us another million dollars, right? You want to

[1:47:24] » Yeah. But yes,

[1:47:28] » I mean, >> if all else, you know, there's going to

[1:47:32] be probably benches around the playground, like I of course would

[1:47:36] definitely say, >> especially like you said, if we if they

[1:47:40] did 50,000 and then somebody comes in and they're like, "Oh, I'm going to give

[1:47:44] 500,000." >> Yeah.

[1:47:46] » If you name the playground after me. Well, we already got that claim. like

[1:47:52] but I definitely feel like yes we'll have a plaque on the bench or

[1:47:56] » there will be something that mentions that

[1:48:00] » flash all the donors out there >> right

[1:48:05] » maybe another sign like that or a PWSB playground in partnership with OSBA

[1:48:13] and maybe >> Yep.

[1:48:18] » Great. We're putting the car before the horse.

[1:48:22] » What do you want to do with Amy money is what I've tried to get.

[1:48:25] » I would like to see that bit be set aside to

[1:48:29] doing something like this for the future of that complex.

[1:48:32] » I mean, they wanted the money used for something like this. Setting some aside

[1:48:35] so that we can do future projects, but using some of it in a a a

[1:48:41] way that is visible, that is we're clearly using this to get this started.

[1:48:46] I think that that sends a message to the family that yes, we're using their money

[1:48:51] for what they wanted us to use for. So, I think that's a good idea.

[1:48:58] The location I've always thought and is to use that money at Children's Park.

[1:49:06] I think if you use I mean maybe not all of it, I think that money there gets you

[1:49:10] a new playground. Um I think it's it's it's very easy that

[1:49:16] ends up in six figures very quickly. Um the size of Children's Park with that

[1:49:21] current playground, I think you're looking somewhere like 50 60 grand. Last

[1:49:24] time I had now it's probably gone out. Um

[1:49:29] but if you're using that money, >> did they have a connection to Children's

[1:49:32] Park or you just saying? >> I don't know. Costwise, if you're

[1:49:35] looking because we know that park was so bad that equipment is so bad that it

[1:49:39] needs to be replaced but it's not used as much as every other playground. So

[1:49:44] now you're moving into the back end of the office in terms of use indeed. Um

[1:49:49] maybe not maybe using donation money for a playground that doesn't get used as

[1:49:52] much isn't necessarily a great idea, but um that's not using money that the

[1:49:57] village is then bringing in its donated money.

[1:50:03] I mean that was always my since that donation came in. That was my thought

[1:50:06] like why don't we use that for to to fix that part.

[1:50:10] » And I think you have a point there. It does get pushed to the back because it's

[1:50:13] a small park that doesn't get used a lot. And that's probably why it's in the

[1:50:16] condition that it is. >> And yeah, I don't see I don't see it

[1:50:21] getting any better. >> Does get used a lot by the residents in

[1:50:25] that neighborhood. Um that's for sure. >> I know my kids use it all the time.

[1:50:33] » Yeah, I would imagine people down there use it. It's not You're not coming from

[1:50:37] St. John's to use Children's Park, right?

[1:50:41] What if we were to use some of the Amy money, not the whole 50 or 96 or

[1:50:48] whatever, but some of it to start a fundraising program for Children's Park.

[1:50:57] Again, I wouldn't be running multiple fundraising bids at the same time. Let's

[1:51:01] shoot ourselves in the foot. Um, but we can maybe if there's interest

[1:51:07] in this idea of two, we could explore getting some quotes on playgrounds and

[1:51:11] then maybe if it is more in the 25 30k range. I just don't want to eat up all

[1:51:17] the money right away. >> Yeah, I agree. I think I think I think

[1:51:21] you could very easily get a play on the size of the current children's park for

[1:51:25] 50 grand. Um, I'm not I don't want to say that it's for sure because it's like

[1:51:30] I said, it's probably gone up. last time last year and

[1:51:35] we all know how things are are increasing in price. So,

[1:51:39] » um but I think it's it's feasible to get a playground in there with a half that

[1:51:43] money. >> Okay,

[1:51:48] we can definitely look at that. >> Yep.

[1:51:53] » So, in October, I'm just trying to think through this

[1:51:58] through here. In October, we'll have our parks open space public hearing and

[1:52:04] finalize that. Again, depending on how long it that

[1:52:08] meeting is, you could also have an actual parks and wreck meeting where we

[1:52:13] bring these kind of rough sketch plans and a quote on that and then you can

[1:52:18] kind of give a final determination or guidance on the Amy dollars to um but if

[1:52:23] the public hearing is going to be three hours long, then we might want to just

[1:52:26] look at another date further into the year. So,

[1:52:29] » okay. >> So, I don't even know that now, but I'm

[1:52:32] just trying to think of stuff we got to do by the end of the year.

[1:52:35] » Yeah. >> Yeah. All right. So, do you want to take

[1:52:39] any official action on the Robert Amy donation? I would say for this, you'd be

[1:52:43] giving a recommendation to the village board to then, you know, we'd pass a

[1:52:47] resolution designating these funds for this purpose. But if you're not ready to

[1:52:51] do that because we might spend it on a different thing, then we should wait.

[1:52:55] If you are going to be taking a look into what it would cost to do moderate

[1:53:01] steps of rebuild on uh children's as well as

[1:53:07] whether or not 50k would be the starting punch

[1:53:11] » for uh the playground down at Marie Krauss,

[1:53:17] then I think we should wait till we get the numbers to get an idea of what how

[1:53:21] this money might have to be divided up. So I I don't know. I'd say we wait until

[1:53:27] the next time we meet so they have a chance to repeat the numbers.

[1:53:31] » Yeah. >> And I I think in in the grand scope of

[1:53:34] the playground at Marine Corral, I think 50,000 would get

[1:53:41] swallowed up in in the grander scheme of things and less significant.

[1:53:46] » Yeah. >> Whereas if Mr. Amy contributed to the

[1:53:51] total rehab of an entire park. That's kind of has a little bit of weight

[1:53:56] behind it. So I think we should explore that idea.

[1:54:00] » Yeah, maybe make a decision later on. >> Yeah, don't worry. That

[1:54:10] » right now on that then. >> I just Yeah, take no action. Should be

[1:54:14] good. Well, we're kind of glad that Tuesday Tunes got to cancel it because

[1:54:18] we correspondence. >> We're able to take time and get

[1:54:20] everything done. >> Yeah.

[1:54:22] » Um I have no correspondence. >> All right. Items for future

[1:54:25] consideration. >> We talked them to death.

[1:54:28] » What's that? >> So, we talked them to death. There'll be

[1:54:30] a lot of items for future consideration. >> Yes. [laughter]

[1:54:34] » Motion to adjourn. >> Motion to adjourn.

[1:54:37] » I motion to >> Oh, okay. I'll second that.

[1:54:42] » All those in favor? I >> I

[1:54:45] » opposed. All right. This meeting has ended.

[1:54:53] » What's that?

[1:54:56] [laughter] >> That's a good sign.

[1:54:58] » My wife's sitting here texting me like, "Where are you? What's going on?"

[1:55:02] » I told my wife as we make dinner when I got home an hour ago.

August 18, 2026 Parks and Recreation Committee meeting

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