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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12/15/1982 Parks Board I I I CITY OF THE COLONY DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS 1. Approval of Minutes An EMERGENCY MEETING of the Parks and Recreation Board was called to order on 15th Day of December 1982 with the following members present; Members Ashman, Brantley, Orme and Turner, with Director Herold present.Member Seidler and Chairman Frohardt were not in attendance. Member Brantley, acting chairman called meeting to order at 7:30pm. A motion was made by Member Brantley and 2nd by Member Turner to approve minutes from November 10 meeting..Passed unamiously. 2. Directors Report: Director Herold briefed the Board on the arrival of the new City Manager. Member Brantley asked Herold if we could have Mr. Sartain to attend one of the Board meetings in the near future. Mr. Herold said that he would try to get Mr. Sartain to attend a meeting as soon as he got settled in. Director Herold gave a report on the Winter program and said that he had gotten H & H Distributors to deliver programs door to door. He also went on to explain about the sponsorship from area merchants. the PARD Maintenance department has gone to a Maintenance Chart for Parks acitvities which are to be completed by February 28..Director Herold explained this briefly to Board Members and invited members to go over chart. Member Ashman Asked about the seeding of the parks and wanted to know how far along it was.Director Herold said that seeding (rye) was almost all completed and if any of the Board were out by Turner Street Park to take alook at how well the grass was coming along and said that all the parks seeding should be done before the PARD's Christmas Break. Member Orme asked about Dave Cowan Park (Jaycees) and wanted to know what was being done on that particiular park.. Director Herold told Board that the drainage has been one of the biggest drawbacks to that park and that before anything could be done the drainage problem must be solved and trat department is looking into this problem. Member Turner also asked about the drainage at the Bridges Park and Director Herold told Board that maintneance will be getting to the park after the holidays and would use a back hoe to dig a drainage ditch. Director Herold gave Board brief report on the status of Stewarts Creek Park. He explained that the Corps has approved the The Colony' operating of Stewarts Creek Park, also Corps has approved the proposed fee's that was submitted. Mr. Herold said that the department has to post two signs in the park..one being to post the fee schedule and the other being the danger signs. These signs must be the same as the Corps signs in other parks. Herold was asked what he thought the expenditure and income would be from Stewarts Creek and he responded that he felt it would be in the low $20 for both. He feels it would be or hope it to be a breakeven situation. ~oard Member felt that we needed to get more advertising out on the _cwarts Creek Park, especially how to get there from 423, as they felt ~t is rather difficult to find the park. Mr. Herold said he will see what I can be done. Member Brantley asked how long our lease was for on the park Mr. Herold explained that the present lease is for 3 years and during this time it up to the Board to do a feasibility study of a possible thirty year or twenty year lease to be presented to the City Council and Corps officials. Board also discussed ways of delevoping the park. Member Turner asked about No Parking signs in other parks in the City. Mr. Herold told Mr. Turner and Board that signs have been ordered and would be posted as soon as possible and that he realizes this is a problem. New Business a. Mr. Herold presented to the Board for their viewing the '82 slide show. Director Herold apologized to Board member Orme and Turner for their names not being on slides but this was due to the slides being done before they came on the Board..after the slide show, a discussion was followed on how well and how far the parks and the department has come in the last year. b. a general discussion follwed on goals for 83 and Board just men- tioned a few things they would like to see, but decided to table this until next meeting. OLD Business a. all Board member felt that the fee structure presented was very fair and aksed Mr. Herold to proceed with getting this in its I final stages. b. Mr. Herold briefed Member Turner who was not at the last Board meeting on Dr. Seidlers Proposal. After this was done Board decided to table this until Dr. Seidler could be present. Meeting was adjourned I