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Home My WebLink About01/20/05 CDC MINUTES I THE COLONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGULAR SESSION JANUARY 20TH 2005 PRESENT: Susan King - President STAFF: Pam Nelson Vicki Briggs - Member Kathy Neal John Sanders - Vice President Richard Boyer - Member Sue Walden - Treasurer ABSENT: Sam Fitzgerald Don Beckel - Secretary Allen Harris Bunker Hill - Excused Meeting called to order at -7:00 p.m. 1. CITIZEN'S INPUT - Cindi Lane, 5105 Pemberton, The Colony - Cindi expressed her desire to have a Dog Park built in The Colony. She spoke to a Piano Parks & Recreation employee and was told their dog park is the busiest park in the city. Their park is built on 2.3 acres of land off of Spring Creek, cost them $100,000, and costs them $22,000 to maintain. She said Piano has a 30-minute presentation about the dog park if we want to see it. Cindi volunteered to serve on a committee to do research about dog parks. Susan informed Cindi that the board has been discussing the idea of building a dog park. Susan asked I staff to contact Cindi to set up a committee for the dog park. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF DECEMBER 16TH 2004 - Motion to approve - Sanders; Second - Briggs; motion carries. 3. REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION OF ACTION TO BE TAKEN AS A RESULT OF THE PUBLIC HEARING - The Board was given an updatedfund balance worksheet. The worksheet does not show where the funding will come fromfor the Civic Center, updates to the 4B Master Plan, the Citizen Survey and the matchingfund program with the arts group; that is what the board needs to determine. Options for funding the Civic Center are a 5 or 20 - year note; using Fund 59 - Park Improvement Fund, to fund the survey and update the 4B Master Plan. The suggestion was also made to use money that is allocated for existing park improvements and apply it to the Civic Center as the board has done a lot of work in the parks over the past couple of years and now may be a good time to scale back on the existing parks and focus on the Civic Center - show the community that we do more than just focus on parks, athletics, and kids. Pam asked the board to review the questions used in the citizen survey that was done in 2000 and submit their recommendations to her by Feb. 3,d. The board was also asked to review the fund balance worksheet and determine where they want to reallocate funds to fund the Civic Center, update to the 4B Master Plan, the Citizen Survey, and the matching fund program with the Arts. There was discussion to establish perimeters, guidelines, for the matching fund program with the Arts. I Motion to discuss the allocation of funds to pay for the proposed expenditures for the Citizen Survey, the Civic Center, amd the update to the Master Plan at the next meeting and have it on the March agendafor approval- Walden; Briggs - 2nd; motion carried 4. RECEIVE REPORT FROM LANDSCAPE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN - The committee members are Don, Susan, Pam, Sam, Joe Murray, and Brian Wade. At their next meeting, they are going to do a survey of all the parks. Don told the board about the Texas Tree Foundation. This organization has a tree farm at Richland College. They sell 10-gallon trees for $30, they grow them, and for $10 they will plant the tree. The trees are 1 inch - 2 inches caliper and grow 6ft. - 8ft. This could be a good outlet to utilize to get trees. 5. UPDATE FROM DIRECTOR / ASST. DIRECTOR- FINANCIAL STATEMENTS- The sales tax collected is a little short from this same time last year. TRAIL LIGHTING AT FIVE STAR- We have received a bidfrom Gaunt Electric; we are still trying to get a bidfrom Groves Electric. Fundingfor these lights could come from the Five Star or Trailfund SCOUT PARK- The sidewalk along North Colony iffinished At this time, the board does not want to build anymore sidewalks at Scout Park. HIDDEN COVE PARK- Marine Quest is now operating the park. Pam and Sam have meetings scheduled with the Saratoga Homeowners Assoc. to discuss the new development of the park and how their community will be effected Sam is attending one of those meetings tonight. With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 8:00 p.m. tf&il~ . ~&:. Kat y Neal, ecording Secretary Susan Kiug, Pr; ide~ _e~___··"·_"_ MINUTES I THE COLONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION PUBLIC HEARING JANUARY 20TH 2005 PRESENT: Susan King - President STAFF: Pam Nelson Vicki Briggs - Member Kathy Neal John Sanders - Vice President Richard Boyer - Member Sue Walden - Treasurer ABSENT: Sam Fitzgerald Don Beckel - Secretary Allen Harris Bunker Hill - Excused Meeting called to order at - 6:30 p.m. 1. RECEIVE PUBLIC INPUT REGARDING FUNDING A PORTION OF THE COSTS RELATED TO THE PROPOSED CIVIC CENTER BUILDING- Christie Martin, 5904 Madison, The Colony - She thinks it's wonderful that we are building this and will help in any way she can. 2. RECEIVE PUBLIC INPUT REGARDING FUNDING A CITIZEN'S SURVEY AND UPDATES TO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (4B) AND I PARKS MASTER PLAN - Mark Peterson from Hometown Survey was present to answer questions and give a brief description of the survey his firm would do. The survey would include 400 telephone responses, there will be no internet survey, they will get input from all areas of the city, and it will have a good representation of various age groups and gender. The survey could take up to 30 days to complete. Mark assured the board they would be able to review all the questions to be included in the survey before the survey begins. With no further business to discuss, the Public Hearing was closed at 6:50 p.m. ~l~ ~~ ~J- Kathy Nea!, R cording Secretary Susan King, Presid t I