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THE PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD
REGULAR SESSION
AUGUST 13 2003
Present: Rene Asprion - Chairman Staff: Pam Nelson
Brian Wade - Member Sam Fitzgerald
Jim Briggs - Member Kathy Neal
John Sanders - Member
Susan King - Vice Chairperson
Rich Lewis - Member Guests: Lucy Billingsley
Paul Neglar
Absent: Lisa Leary - Member - Excused Lucillo Pena
Dennis Sims
I. CITIZEN'S INPUT - None.
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF JULY 23RD 2003 -
Motion to approve - Sanders; Second Wade; Motion carried.
3. RECEIVE PRESENTATION AND REQUEST FROM LUCY BILLINGSLEY
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A PARK AT AUSTIN RANCH -
Lucy said Austin Ranch has a park fees arrangement with the City. To date we have paid
$2.2 million in park fees. We have 1,000 apartments with approximately 1,600people,
that is 6-8% of the city's current population. As Austin Ranch grows, so will the
popidation and the need to provide parks and amenities will also be greater. We
anticipate 25,000people Hying in Austin Ranch. That is why we want to work with the
Park Board to develop the amenities and parks. We've made plans to preserve large
areas of trees. We have done a survey to see what the residents of Austin Ranch want,
and they said they want football fields (we have 5-6 adult.flag teams), soccer fields, sand
volleyball courts(we have 10-12 adult teams), half busketball courts, and a dog park. The
football and soccer fields would be used as practice fields. We have set uside lS acres
of wooded areas for pocket parks.
Pam said that even though there is a great area for a dogpark at Austin Ranch, Lucy
might want to wait on building that because that is something we are considering
building. Dogparkx attract a lot of people from other communities and they are
considered public parks.
Lucy wants the Park Board to provide funding to develop a park and start working on it
as quickly as possible.
4. RECEIVE UPDATE FROM STAFF ON THE CONSTRUCTION STATUS OF
FIVE STAR AND DISCUSSION OF SEPTEMBER 6TM OPEN HOUSE EVENT -
2t partial walk-through is scheduled for next week. There has been a lot of construction
on the south parking lot. Flowerbeds are being weed-eated. All the baseball fields have
been hydro midched, but some will have to be re-hydro-mulched. The owners from
Adolfson/Peterson have been instrumental in getting some issues resolved and have
personally apologized for all the problems we have experienced. The punch list is getting
shorter.
The Open House is on Sept. 6th. The Parade of Athletes will begin at 9.'00 at the Little --
League fields and proceed to the high school. There will be a carnival set up from Sept.
3rd 6th in the south parking lot. The dedication ceremony will begin at approximately
10.'30. There will be some speeches and introductions. There will be an airplane flyover,
games, bounce houses, food, the Chamber of Commerce is having a business expo. We
are trying to get some celebrity athletes to attend, and there will be a dedication plaque.
There is also a major announcement that will be made during the ceremony.
5. CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF A REQUEST TO CDC FOR FUNDING
PARK PROJECTS FOR 03-04 -
The board agreed that Slay~Baker Park is in desperate need of improvements.
Motion to request CDC to fund improvements to Slay~Baker Park and to reallocate funds
from the adult softball fields to improvements at Carr/Chapman Park- Sanders; second
Wade. Motion carried.
6. UPDATE FROM DIRECTOR / ASST. DIRECTOR -
Sprayground - Theplatforms were delivered on Tuesday and they started installing the
equipment today.
Skatepark - The equipment is supposed to be here on Monday. It should take 3 days to
install.
Beautification - The surveys have been tabulated and the results will be presented to
City Council on Monday night. We hope to get direction from them at that time on how --
next to proceed.
There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
Kathy Neal,t Recording Secretary p