I have like 10 seconds. Um Okay, we're we're Good evening. It's time for our Park and Rec uh committee meeting. It's May 18th. Um we'll start quickly with just a roll call. So, anybody with at home knows who's on the dais here. We'll start with Owen. My name's Owen Beckers. Blake Farber. Alex Heim. Adam Duer. Larry Schulz. Amanda Cahill. Mary Larson. And Alyssa Nelson, staff. Okay, thank you. Um The first item on our agenda are announcements and open forum. Uh does anyone in the audience want to address the committee? No, I see no one here to do that. Uh okay, we'll move on to item three. We want to adopt the final agenda. Um Does anybody have anything that they'd like to have different on the agenda, add? If not, a motion's in order to accept the agenda. Motion to approve. Okay, motion is made. Is there a second? Second. A motion made and seconded to adopt the final agenda. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed, say no. Motion carried. Thank you. On to the regular agenda. First item is approval of the committee meeting minutes from our last meeting, which happened to be April 20th, 2026. Uh those minutes were sent to you. Uh does anyone uh want to make a motion to accept those minutes, or are there any corrections? I just have a question, Alyssa. Um that meeting was like quite in-depth and very lengthy with our discussion, and I know the meeting minutes aren't supposed to reflect everything that was discussed, but like is there a way to convey to the public or those reading the minutes like, you know, that these were our recommendations, but these are the city's next steps, or like this is cuz there was a lot of discussion around timelines and um what the city, you know, was going to be doing um to get new, you know, quotes and and things like that. I just think someone reading it might not be as well informed about like the process next. For sure, we can absolutely, if the committee so desires, include a a next steps on the meeting minutes. See at least one head nod. I'll do you the favor of that. Then um the motion would be approved committee meeting minutes for April 20, 2026 as um discussed. I approve to uh or I motion to approve the committee meeting minutes for April 20, 2026 with addition as discussed. Is there a second to that motion? Second. And by Blake. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of the motion signified by saying I. I. I. Opposed, say no. Motion carried. On to our main agenda item, which is review of the trail gap priority list. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Alyssa. Thank you, chair and committee members. And before we start, just a quick housekeeping note, and we do have the new AV system and new microphones. So, they are removable. Um if you need to get them closer to you, please do so. We want to make sure everyone can hear you at home. Um but let's kick it off to talk about trail gaps. Um I know there's some new faces um to the committee, so we wanted to talk a little bit about what our trail gaps are. Um and then we'll delve into uh Highway 5 and how Highway 5 has impacted our trail gaps um in a positive way. And then we'll talk about what do our new priorities look like. Um and specifically, are we missing any trail gaps as part of that, too. Um so, but first, what are trail gaps? It's really an unconnected segment of our trail system currently. Um so, and you'll see on a map I'll have some uh images of what our trails currently look like. Um really, it's if we're trying to get from point A to point B, making sure people can do so. If there's a missing piece in there, um that's what we consider a trail gap. Um and really what they um occur to uh why they happen is mostly because of older developments um or sometimes we do a development here, this one doesn't come in for years later, um and that connection wasn't really added as part of that first older development. Sometimes it's related to physical barriers such as wetlands um needing to add in specific roadway structures, sometimes it's not having right-of-way access or easement access, so there's a variety of different things on why these trail gaps exist. Um and then what is the trail gap priority list? Well, the committee uh a number of years ago, um I think 2020 2019 >> 18, I have a document from Um the committee did a deep dive into the city's trail system and brought forward these gaps that are well known and some that aren't necessarily well known within our trail system. Um and then as part of that there was a ranking discussion and the ranking was based on a variety of things, some of that was engineering difficulty, some of it was cost, um some of it was community impact, um and then the trail gaps that were identified were then ranked in this priority system. Uh how do staff use that? Well, staff uses it to one, um when we're having conversations with developers, um we're bringing these trail gaps forward, so if there's a development that happens to be adjacent or near a trail gap, um we're bringing that forward as a recommendation to be included in a development even before it hits um the Parks and Recreation Committee table cuz we've already identified it. Um we also bring that to our other government agency partners such as Carver County or the state of Minnesota when we're doing transportation projects of saying, "Hey, we know this gap is here. We're doing a roadway or you're doing a transportation or roadway project alongside that trail gap, let's group them together. Um so we use it in that way. Um and then in historic, we've also used them to help uh complete trail gaps, too. Um and because of there is a ranking list that helps us understand um funding priorities for that. And then I should note before I just jumped on to that, um my last bullet point is we do review this periodically, try to annually, just to ensure that this priority list is accurate, which we know it's already not. Um so we want to make sure that it's up to date, and we also want to make sure that if there's any trail gaps that are missing from here that they are added. Which back um at the last conversation this committee had about the trail gaps, two additional gaps were added. So we know that there's some out there, we just want to make sure that they're highlighted. Cuz again, we might not be able to fund them all on their own, but when we're having these conversations with partners, we can get them added as part of larger projects. So this is the ranking as it sits today with a big asterisk um that we do have to make some modifications to, and I'm sure we'll talk about that um as part of the discussion. Um but I'm just going to highlight the top three, and we're going to go through each of these individually. Um but the top three, at least to this list, are Bavaria Road East, um which is Highway 5 to 82nd Street or County Road 18. Um County Road 43, there's a section between the Watermark development and the stoplight at County Road 11. And then County Road 11, um the Cheval neighborhood to Red Fox Drive. And I'm going to throw in another one cuz we know it's big on this list, it's eight here, we know it's higher. Um is the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail westward connection to um the Lake Bridge development. So like I said, I'm going to go through each of these, but before I do, um you've seen this slide before, I've shown it multiple times including the last uh last meeting. Um but just a a quick highlight of our system overview, where are we sitting today when it comes to just our abundance of trails and sidewalks? City Victoria has over 50 miles of them, um split almost even between the trail and sidewalk connections. Um this specific number was brought um together in 2023, so we know that we've increased this number since then. Then we look obviously as a community park system as we're looking at, you know, Carver Park Reserve or things like the Arboretum, we have over 100 miles of trail and sidewalk available to our residents. And if you're interested in what that looks like, um these little bold blue lines on the screen are exactly what our trail system is. Um we have a number of them obviously hitting Carver Park Reserve, but just even in our community alone, we have um a good chunk of uh trail and sidewalk. >> them? Mhm. Yeah, I love this map. And I will have an illustration >> Yeah. You can, and I will have an illustration later um at my end of the slide where I will have this map a little bit bigger, um and then I will overlay it with the gaps, um so you can see the connections as they relate to this larger trail system. There it is. Maybe I brought it forward. I don't remember that. Yes, so the gaps are the ones that the dotted red lines. Um the other piece I noted um one of the topics that has been brought up to by this committee, but also the senior advisory committee that we have, is yes, we know we have gaps. However, um what's really important is the communication that we are working on these gaps or the communication between the challenges of why these gaps exist and we'll go through that. Um but then also leveraging the trails that we have. We have over 53 miles of trail and sidewalk just maintained and owned or within the City of Victoria, over 100 miles between Carver Park, the city of Victoria, and the Arboretum. Um, and just a small section of the Arboretum for that matter. Um, so making sure that people are aware that these exist. So, between the two committees they created what's called walking routes. Um, really creating these, um, age-friendly routes around the city of Victoria um, to really highlight and emphasize and give people the ability if they're looking to explore their neighborhood, um, explore just the other parts of the city, connect to different parks, um, and different areas that they can just hop on a bike or walk there or take a car cuz all these are parkable as well, um, and take a a walk from one to I think the highest is about 5 miles, um, in length. So, it's just an option for people to to leverage our trail system as it currently sits today recognizing that we do have trail gaps, but they're also very challenging trail gaps at this point. Let's get past this one. And then a quick national comparison of where we sit today. Um, we don't have market cities. That's not necessarily the easiest information to find, but that's something that is on our list that would be great to have. Um, and market cities would be comparable cities to us within Carver County or the metro area that are similar size, scope, growing at the same rate capacity. Um, however, we do have national averages from the National Recreation and Parks Association. Um, and on a national average each city has about 19 miles of trail that they maintain. Um, cities less than 20,000, which is where we sit, has 4 miles of trail. If you bump that up, um, to Sorry, not 10, but 20,000 to close to 50,000, um, it's 10 miles of trails and we're sitting right about 25 plus. So, we're doing well on a national comparison. Now, let's go through the gaps, but before I do that, I just want to stop here and see if there's any preliminary questions. All right. Oh. Are you going to talk more about the funding? We can touch on the funding, yeah. >> Okay. Yep. So, let's talk about the gaps first. Um so, gap number one is Bavaria Road East. It's about 1.2 miles and it's our first priority um out of the 13 that we've identified. Um you can see it on the screen. Um and I do want to note and we'll talk more about this piece specifically, but this is one of them that will be completed as part of the Highway 5 project. Um in comparison for cost scope, we do because this is something that's recent. Um this trail gap of one uh a roughly a mile cost um just shy of a million dollars to complete. So, when we're talking about budget and cost, um these aren't necessarily the simplest things. They are uh expensive. Trail number two is that County Road 11 to Watermark neighborhood. Um and I do want to note and I have this later, too, but there's a small piece that was already completed um just right over here to the Greencrest neighborhood that's right here. Um so, that part was already established. So, now we're just trying to work on the remaining piece. You can see there's a trail connection up here already. Um so, that's about a half a mile. Um and really the challenging piece to this is we do not have right-of-way access. This is along a county road um which happens to be one of our challenging issues for a lot of these part or a lot of these trails. Um since we don't have easement, right-of-way, um we don't really necessarily have the authority to make trail decisions um at this point. And it has been council's priority and policy then when it comes to ones that are along county roads, state roads, roads that are not within the city's jurisdiction um to wait for there's till there's transportation projects going on um similar to what we're seeing with Highway 5. Um, County Road 43 is on the county's list for realignment. They don't have a deadline for that yet, um, but we do know that's going to come eventually, and when they do, this is one of those that we'll be bringing forward as a priority for the city. Number three is along County Road 11. Um, so we're just south of the stoplights here, um, connecting the Cheval neighborhood, um, to part of the southern end of Deer Run, um, over by Red Fox Drive. There's a little bit of a trail connection here. Um, there's a few ways of managing through this, whether it's through crosswalk, um, trail on either the west or the east side. Um, no matter how you split it, it is expensive. There's significant wetlands and elevation changes in this space, which makes this road, uh, and this trail development a very expensive one. Um, and there has been conversations, um, of just this neighborhood asking for a crosswalk, just to even get across County Road 11. Um, again, this a county road, we don't have any jurisdiction on crosswalks, and the county's policy for any crosswalks there has to be, um, roadway improvements done first. Um, so again, County Road 11 is one of those that needs to be, um, improved upon. Um, so county's policy is to wait for those improvements to happen before you add crosswalks. Uh, um, it's just shy of 0.3 miles, um, in size. Trail number four is Bavaria Road West. So we talked about Bavaria Road East, this is on the other side of the road. Um, this part is completed, so there would just be this small section to Adas Street, um, down to, uh, 78 or up to 78th Street. Uh, it's just shy of a mile in itself. Um and due to the Arboretum area transportation plan and Bavaria Road East being completed, um the county did decide to focus on East and not put any allocation towards the West project. They wanted to focus on one. Number five uh is the paving of the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. This is also going to be completed as the high as part of the Highway 5 project with Carver County. Um just as a a tidbit, um so the trail that's behind us, the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail, was previously owned by Three Rivers and the city of Victoria. Um within the last year that ownership was transferred to Carver County. Um so now they're the ones that own and manage the trail all the way up until um the county's boundary um when it hits the Hennepin County boundary once it goes north. And then it goes back to Three Rivers. Um so again, Carver County is leading this project. But it will be done. It's about a a little over a mile. Um there's this section here and then there's a smaller section up to the north. The entirety of it will be paved as part of the Highway 5 piece. Is that one this summer or a different time >> I don't have that information at the top of my head um of exactly when that is planning on being done. Oh wait, I see it. It's It's here. Midsummer. Okay. This midsummer to winter 2026. I believe they're going to try and do it alongside the rest of the trail projects and we'll get into that in a second. Trail number six um is along County Road 43, Church Lake Boulevard. Uh we saw a part of this up above. Now we're just going farther south over to Wassermann Lake Preserve and Marsh Lake Road um and Tellus. So this is a longer stretch um in between these two areas and then also the connection to the Wasserman Lake Preserve. We hear about this one quite frequently cuz the Wasserman Lake Preserve is a well-used park and people do access it especially for the fishing element and folks that are from the northern areas like Ambergate or Rhapsody Watermark um try to walk to Wasserman Lake but are not able to do so without entering or walking alongside the county road. Um the challenge again with this one is um the right-of-way access and the multiple crossings that are needed for this for this trail project. Number seven is the safe cross at Madeline Creek Park. Um currently we do have a section of trail that just ends um alongside County Road 5 with the tree clearing and the brush clearing along Highway 5. This trail um is a lot more visible than it used to be. Um so you can very clearly see it if you go east um from City Hall um along Highway 5 um and then this project was specifically to do a safe crossing underneath to connect to the south end of Victoria or the southern part of Highway 5 in Victoria um connecting into Madeline Creek Park. This will be completed as part of the Highway 5 project. Number eight um is the Lake Bridge connection as part of the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. Um so Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail is headwatered at uh Kirk Lookout Park. This would extend the trail um all the way to our current trail section which connects Lake Bridge to the Watermark neighborhood. So continue along that regional trail. This would be a partnership with Carver County um as Carver County is the owner of the regional trail so we'd have to work with them on that. But, really the challenging piece that comes into this, and you can't quite see it on the screen, but there's multiple property owners that are alongside this. Um, we haven't necessarily had the policy conversation recently, but previously council had did not uh, want to do any sort of eminent domain, um, over uh, property owners, uh, related to trails. Um, so really this one is dependent on some sort of development happening for either those neighbors. Um, there's also a large parcel, um, right in this area, which will be brought to you at a later date. Um, if you've been here a couple of years, you might have remembered the Amira project that has been brought to our table. That project is, um, no longer, but there's somebody else at the table now, um, that is interested in this site, and so we'll be bringing that back to you, um, as part of a sketch plat, again. Um, and talking through that, um, and then of course we'll talk specifically about this trail, cuz this is the more and more we can get that developed, um, the better it will be for us, so the closer we'll be. Number nine, also will be completed as part of the Highway 5 project, um, is along Rolling Acres Road, um, really from this trail that ends just north of Freeburg all the way up into where the trail connects again just south of the Highway 7 and Rolling Acres intersection. Um, this is a fun trail because as soon as you just continue walking there's just a sign that says dead end, um, but it's at the end of the trail, so you've already made the distance, um, so we're really excited to remove the sign and actually complete this trail. Um, it's just shy of 5 acres, um, and it's been a great partnership with Carver County to get this one done. Trail gap number 10, um, we've been focusing really on the southern end of Victoria, but now we're kind of moving to the north end. This is along highway uh, State Highway 7, um which connects the neighbors that live along Smithtown or Virginia Shores Circle um in that area to the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail, which really then brings them to the rest of the Victoria community. Um so this has been one of those priorities um that has been highlighted year after year. It's a very small connection. Um we just connect from this cul-de-sac here all the way down um to the lake or to the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. Um however, um what you can't see as part of this image or what you may kind of see as part of this image um is that requires a bridge alongside the ravine um which happens to add additional cost. The other piece to this is that um it's alongside um MnDOT right-of-way, this being a state highway. Um the positive news is is that the um the city of Shorewood is partnering with a lot of cities in this area including the city of Victoria about doing um improvements to State Highway 7. Um so as we're continuing to have those conversations and as MnDOT's continuing to lead that area or that that project of improving Highway 7, um we will be bringing our trail projects forward along with other safe crossings that might be found in this stretch um of Highway 7. Hey Alyssa. Yeah. Um cuz I love your new um map and safety improvement information, the um the Rolling Acres one that you just spoke to um isn't isn't highlighted on here, the trail. >> let's get that added. >> um I think just people would probably ask about that or love to see that. Yeah. Good call. There we are. Uh number uh this was added in 2022 when uh a resident in the neighborhood um reached out to the city about making an additional connection um along Highway 5. This is west of downtown. Um this is the Auburn Drive neighborhood right across the street from the Lake Bridge uh neighborhood. We're making a connection um so these residents have access to uh the the regional trail as well as downtown and the rest of our trail system. Um so this one was added um that year. It's about uh 0.5 mi in length, so not extremely large. However, um we did do some preliminary cost analysis of that at that time. And in 2022, this stretch was about $2.5 million. So this is not a a significant uh sig- well, it is a significant cost for such a short trail. Um but it is a good indicator of just again how expensive these trail projects can be. Um one where again um um right of way, um but it would also include some sort of bridge. There is a protected stream um that is along here. Um you can slightly see it there as well as needing a boardwalk through about 1,000 ft of wetlands. So, um that increases the cost instrumentally. And the current construction that's going on for the roundabout there doesn't change what uh what's pictured here? It would not. No. >> Okay. Number 12, uh this was added just recently to the committee's list. Um and this is the connection between Waterford Lane and the Waterford development. Again, we're on the north side um by Highway 7, connecting them to the Rolling Acres uh development. Again, we're in county road or uh highway uh state highway access here in their right of way. Um and it's another one of those because there's already talk about Highway 7. Um these are one of the areas that we will be um highlighting to that group about in creating on that trail connection through that project. And then the last is a safe crossing at Woodstone Drive. So County Road 43 is right here. If you can remember, we just had, I think it was number two or number three, this green line here that would connect um County Road 11 all the way to this trail here. So this is just another crossing from the Deer Run neighbors to access that trail system. This again is County Road jurisdiction and would also need to stripe a pedestrian crossing, which we we briefly touched on is left within the county's hands. So it is one of those that as County Road 43 gets developed, we will include this as part of our plan reviews with the county. I did want to highlight that we have had some completed projects as part of this task and this priority list. So the first one is there was an addition to our County Road 18 trail alongside Lions Park. So this is one that has been added as part of that park as part of this trail gap priority listing, which has been helpful and that was also done in conjunction with Carver County in reconstructing or doing some improvements to County Road 18. Coachella Lane when the Brickmore development came through, we worked with the developer to make sure that there was a trail connection from the north end of Coachella Lane to the south end of Coachella Lane having that trail connection being crossed off the list. And then that small section of County Road 43, which I mentioned earlier, which connected the Green Crest residents um County Road 11. And then the other one, which is part of the Bavaria Trail project, but we did do uh a small piece of the Bavaria Trail from Hill Point all the way to County Road 18. Again, that is going to be extended as part of the Highway 5 project all the way to Highway 5. And I also want to touch on some of the safety pedestrian improvements that are also occurring as part of Highway 5 that aren't included on the priority list. Specifically wanting to call out um that there will be a trail underpass, the Lake Minnetonka uh regional trail and underpass installed at um Rolling Acres Road. So, that is something that was not on the list, but is also a really huge win for our community. Um another one is a trail overpass um at 78th Street entering into our downtown. Currently, we don't have um any sort of crosswalk or uh crossing space um for that area. So, we're really connecting um this whole edge of town to our downtown area through this add. Um so, a couple different ones that we thought uh to highlight and we thought were important as part of this. Now, I kind of highlighted the trail gaps that will be completed as part of the Highway 5 project. I'm showing the graph again and the check boxes that are above are the ones that will be completed. So, again, that's Bavaria Road East. We're checking that one off the list. Um the the paving of the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. Um the safe cross at Madeline. And then the Rolling Acres Road um piece as well. Would you Would you say like we should just remove the other Bavaria trail because they've decided on the one side of the street? You know, that is a great question for for committee. Um and there's a few different ways to think about it. One, you can say, "Yep, we've already done one side of the the trail, um, and we're going to leave it off the list." Um, however, again, like this is more of a guiding document to staff and council when we have conversations with our partners and developers. So, once it gets taken off the list, um, 10 years down the road when it's a new person sitting in my seat or new people sitting in your seats, they might not recognize that need and it might not be brought to the table. Um, so just something to think about. Yes, it can absolutely be removed. It could also be shuffled down on the priority list, too, um, recognizing that we did complete the other part or you guys could say we like it where it is and it's still a larger priority for our community, too. There's no wrong answer. It probably depends a bit upon a bit upon if they're putting crosswalks on, right? If people can cross the street, then you definitely, you know, I feel like the need for a west side would go down drastically if there's crosswalks. If there's not, maybe it stays on the list, but moves down. And there's not a crosswalk at the end of the trail. Right, on the south side, right? Makes sense. So, this is the priority ranking if we were to remove those. Um, so we still have a number of left to complete. Um, and I should have noted previously, um, these two, when the committee first completed this in 2019, um, they reviewed them and did uh extensive conversations about ranking them between environmental sustainability and sensitivity, engineering difficulties, and ranked them and gave them each a score. Um, for these last two, cuz they were added, um, kind of late, we didn't go through that extensive conversation and we didn't provide that that level of detail for it. So, I did just put them as I think I just gave them each the same percentages, so that's why they're looking short and they're the each of the bar areas, um, are exactly the same. Um, so just as an FYI to that, they the difference between, you know, this color and the color below, there's no significant difference to them. It was just me throwing it out there, so they showed it on the graph. Can you talk a little bit about how something new would get added to this list? And maybe when the Like did all of these get added at the same time, or have they sort of come piecemeal in over time? Great question, committee member. Um, it was a mix of both. Um, a lot of these, and I'm looking to my senior committee members, a lot of these were added in 2019 as part of that initial process. However, um, these specifically last three, um, the Highway 5 Auburn Drive, the Waterford Lane, and the Safe Crossing at Woodstone were added later. Um, the Auburn Drive happening in 2022, um, the Waterford and Safe Crossing Safe Crossing happening last year. Um, so they have happened through staggering time frames. Um, what comes out of that then is that these ones have have follow this graph table of public support, environmental sustainability, engineering difficulty, local connection impact, um, where more of the newer ones don't follow that protocol cuz we didn't do that exercise when these ones were added. Yeah. I I think the the first ones, um, that were done in 2019, uh, we just collected all the information that we already had and we ranked those. And as we heard from other people in the community, or there were new developments, uh, then we added some and we will want to continue to add them if there are some. Uh, as of this time, we aren't aware of any. Doesn't mean that there aren't some out there. Uh, the other thing to keep in mind, too, is, um, all of the time we're not looking for the, you know, route A to route B at a a line. Uh, so while some some may want to do that, if you have to go a quarter mile out of your way to get from A to B and still be on a trail, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to have trails on every street. Mhm. Um uh sidewalks, yes, but you know, the trail system. So, we kind of look at those things as well. So, if uh any of our new members are um aware of, you know, areas where there might be, please bring them up. Yeah, because Waterford Lane was specifically um a guest that came to our meeting and pointed that out, uh a resident, um that, you know, knew that we were talking about trail gaps that evening and came and and, you know, to show that we are listening, we, of course, added that to this list. And then, actually, I believe it was Jacob who pointed out, um our committee member, Jacob, who pointed out how people are trying to use the trails at with the safe crossing at Woodstone, like, okay, this neighborhood recognizes they don't have trail on their side of the road, you know, so they're crossing here to get to the next trail type thing. And the last thing I do want to mention uh to committee member Cahill's point, um there has been a lot of conversation about funding um related to this. We do have a CIP, a capital improvements plan that is dedicated towards um trails, uh trail reconstruction, uh trail construction, um the mix of the two, um that is still currently existing. However, the funding of that isn't necessarily based on this trail gap piece. Uh council's policy has really been because of all these are so intertwined with other projects, specifically transportation projects, that that is the time when we fund and construct these trail gaps. Or I should say development projects cuz we do have the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail Extension. And I know in the past, Alyssa and committee members, that uh we've looked at granting opportunities as well. In fact, uh one year we did get a $150,000 grant, which would have helped towards the project. Unfortunately, uh we weren't able to get right away from uh a landowner, and so we had to send the money back. Um but I noticed in the Star Tribune this morning there was an article on the legislative session that ended yesterday, and they passed a bonding bill, and I clicked on the link, and I saw in the link that under the Metropolitan Council there was uh $10 million. I believe it was 10 million, at least 10 million, allocated for uh regional parks and trails. Uh so, there might be an opportunity there for a grant, or at least to look into to see if there's a possibility of that uh should we choose to uh or the council would choose to pursue one of these. Absolutely. I think that's a great thing to note, uh chair. And to note, when these projects do come through as part of construction or development, um the city still does have a cost share. Um it's not like that we're just putting the ownership on other partners. Um for example, the Bavaria East project that we're currently working on with Carver County, um the city does have a cost share to that. And we also received uh a state grant to help offset that cost, about $250,000 cuz it is a almost a million-dollar project. So, um that is something that we're currently and always actively looking at is how do we reduce the cost of these trail gaps um when they do come through. So, I guess maybe that does answer that answers a question that I had and and so it still is valuable to rank these trail gaps especially if they're um connected to a transportation project. Say for instance, anything that needs to uh be dealt with the county for like county road portions. Like it's still reasonable to rank that in a higher part of our priority list even though we can't do anything until there's like a county-wide Okay. Cuz we still pay a little bit, so it still needs to be prioritized. As staff, we do find the priority list valuable. And I will say um we just met the city engineer and myself with Carver County. They're going through a trail um master planning process. It's actually a parks and trail master planning process. Um but they're reaching out to all the cities to talk about what are their goals, what are their you know, what would they like to see when it comes to regional trail connections or what are their plans for trail connections? And um they were pleasantly surprised to see this list existing. They've talked to other cities and this doesn't exist anywhere else in the county. Um so, we were able to have that very detailed conversation with them and the transportation engineer about what um are our priorities and how does that intertwine with the county system as well. So, I I don't know the the results of that. I don't think they're ready to push out their master plan, but I do expect that to be coming out shortly. And then that will be shared with you all, too. And then I just wanted to highlight the trail system again um and then overlaying that with the trail gaps um just to help with some conversation. Um but at this point, I'm going to turn it back to the chair, help answer any questions, and then really look to the committee to see um and I can bring this back up to and just kind of pivot wherever the committee would like to have their slides in front of them. but um this ranking list, now that the Highway 5 project pieces are being completed, um do we want to rearrange this priority list, and how do we want to do so? Okay, thanks, Alyssa. Um opening up for conversation, comments, questions. I think we need to make a correction for the one that was in error from what we did last year first. So, for um the Kirkwood Park to Lake Ridge development was currently listed at number eight, and I think last year we had it at like two or three. Yes. Um from my notes on our November 18th, 2024 meeting, um there is a bit of movement in the top areas. So, we had Bavaria Road East as 1A, and then we had Bavaria Road West as 1B. Then we had the Kirkwood Park to Lake Ridge neighborhood as 2A, and then County Road 43, um County Road 11 to Watermark neighborhood as 2B, and then County Road 11 Chevelle number three. Yeah, the I I recall that that was different in this list, too. So, we can you're incorporate that into this, and also change this as we we'd like, um Okay. going forward, but you're you're correct. Uh I noted that, too, and I think Mary saw that as well. And then I have a little star on here, too, that it is in different color pen, so I don't know when I wrote this. But, um like Steiger Lake Lane from Highway 5 to the Victoria the new Victoria Vet is a potential other missing trail connection. That I think that one was from the one that's going to be fixed with the Highway 5 project. I think that's from uh the uh Steiger Lake access road to uh the Rolling Acres underpass. That was the paved part that was added. It was on there, but I think we highlighted it. So, that one's going to be covered anyway, I believe. So, I just see like Steiger Lake Lane right in right out. So, Alyssa, is that going to then have a trail along it? >> No, it's the existing trail that isn't paved. There's a Is this the one that goes past here? It's Lake Minnetonka trail. Regional trail? Yeah, it's where that road that you turn into to go down to the lake access. Uh there it's that road right there. The trail is paved from downtown to right there. And then it's >> but if but if you go like this uh 78th Street Trail overpass right now, and if that just goes right over Okay. Do you Can you picture it? And then it's by like that auto shop. There's like no Okay, so what you're what you're saying is what's going to happen after the overpasses are going to be a new gap. Correct. >> Yes, okay. I don't know that we discussed that at the time cuz we didn't know there was going to be an overpass there. Yes, correct. So so that that may be there's a potential of that being a a new trail gap. I don't do do you know Alyssa where that uh overpass is going to come out at? Chair, committee members, I think that's a really good question and I can talk to our city engineer about where this will land. Um if it does not land in a natural space that has a pedestrian connection, do we want to add this to the list? Yes. Mhm, sounds good. And then if it doesn't if it does make a natural connection, we'll leave it off, correct? Yes. Okay, perfect. We can do that. I guess I was under the assumption it had a natural connection, otherwise why Yeah, I mean cuz this 78th Street, you know, um that's on the screen right now is a nice is you know, like a well-utilized trail and I only know this from like running across Highway 5 here. Um uh to get to Steiger, you know, to connect to downtown. There there isn't currently any sidewalk or trail right along the road, right? Like I I understand the the LRT is Well, probably probably you don't need one along You probably don't need one along Steiger Lake Lane, but you have to get from the overpass 78th overpass to the Lake Minnetonka Trail and then you're right downtown. Yeah. If it connects to the trail. Right. Like Minnetonka Trail. Yeah, if it It if if it connects to the road then there's not a trail there. >> There'll be a walking path in the in the grass. Okay, good point. All right, so what would the committee First of all, any other questions before we attempt to Anything else? >> Is it So, the on on this graph, which ones are de- are dependent on not just the city of Victoria, but whether it's Carver County or Shoreview and stuff for Highway 7? Cuz if there are a few that are entirely within our control, could slightly shift priority, but if that's a crazy view, then we can just move on. Uh committee member, that is not a crazy view. Um what is The crazy piece is that every single one of these has a direct connection to external partners. >> Okay, well, then that makes sense to me. My question was somewhat related, but I guess an add-on to that is Do we have any line of Like, so Bavaria Road West is a good example with the construction being done to complete East? Do we have line of sight into any timing of upcoming county road projects or at least general forecasting where we could provide footnotes or asterisks to some of these items um to clarify, right? Cuz it's like we could keep Bavaria Road West right where it's at, and it's it might be three in the list, but it's kind of just going to get passed over because presumably they're not going to do another project for quite some time on that road. So, it seems most logical to move it back, but it would be nice to note for future committee members or someone picking this up um to note why that gap would be moved further back. Um provide that clarification, I think, would be would be helpful context as we look at this year over year or someone picks it up fresh as a member of the public. Good point. I think for uh uh Bavaria Road West, uh I would leave it on the list, but I'd push it uh back towards the lower end because the likelihood of anything happening there is pretty slim considering a lot of dollars are going in there now and there isn't a trail now on the one side of the road. So, there's probably other trails that you know, if there was uh choice between that and something else, you probably want to do one where there are no trails at all first. Um but to Alyssa's point earlier, uh it's probably good to leave it on the list in case uh you know, the opportunity would present itself sometime in the future. Other thoughts, comments? >> Yeah, I think I think in some of our meetings we've had that same request is like to put dates on these because if you guys really want to dig like super deep into this, you can look up the Arboretum area um transportation plan and they have like a lot of this stuff in there and then they will tell you like right now it's a 2033 construction, right? So, if if that's the case, then I think it would be nice to have like this this trail is connected to Arboretum area transportation plan construction date right now is 2035 or whatever it might be cuz it is surprising sometimes to find these dates that far out. Right? So, that Alyssa. Can I make a comment committee members on what we typically do when it comes to these projects especially since they're not city projects is we're very hesitant to put dates on items one because if they change we're not necessarily the owners of that so we're not always in the loop so now we're putting inaccurate information on our site two those dates are all subject to change even that map that I provided it says an asterisk on the bottom these dates are subject to change because things come into play such as funding and other challenges that come into any sort of project specifically transportation projects that once you put formal dates out there people have it in their mind that it's going to complete 2030 all of a sudden now it's 30 2032 2033 and those are challenging to make sure that we're updating all of the pages what we do do on that um that that page that we sent out as part of the agenda packet that lists all the walking routes as we link back to the Arboretum area transportation page site so then if people are looking for those project pages and those specific dates that go along with that they can find that through the Carver County webpage It's I imagine it's probably tough to continually confirm that what we've got laid out as a trail gap is necessarily in scope for whatever project whether it's the Arboretum or road construction like it might not necessarily be confirmed that it's in scope all the time I would assume is that a fair assumption or do they usually communicate that pretty well We're pretty in tandem with our county partners specifically ones that are in the city of Victoria Yeah since since I've been on this is my ninth year on the committee and I believe every time that we had something on this list that there was a project it got included >> that's good. >> So, and I I think that the staff does a good job of bringing it up. >> Yeah. And and the city council addresses it and puts and we've been able to get it, so. The other thing I I think, too, is it used to be, I real important to list these in order because I think there was a thought at one time that, okay, we'll try to tackle these one at a time. But when we got a cost estimate and we're talking million plus and millions for all of them, excuse me, it appeared that it wasn't really practical, so the city council I think came up with a really good plan of let's try to work these into existing or projects as they come up. Not only will be cheaper, but it'll just be one big project at a time. So, as we were talking, I just found the safe crossing at 78th Street. It is in the Arboretum area transportation plan. Uh and this is from my printout in 2021, but um it's projected to connect to the LRT. Um however, it the date on here was 2045. So, that's why I say like these dates, I again, like I understand your concern, too, but like if you're not deep diving into this and people say like, oh, like even me, like, oh, that's great that that we're going to get that safe crossing connect to the trail, but then right here I see it's 2045 and projected 2045 dollars are 6 million for that. So. Alyssa. Yeah, and if I can note on that one as you were saying that I haven't I was looking for the the specific images of that trail connect connection, um but I do believe it loops and connects to the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. I will find that information and share that with the committee to confirm that. Um but I do want to note that again timelines do change. This will be included as part of the larger Highway 5 project, so um in the next couple of years, not 2045. >> Okay, so that's another one of those things do really change at at a rapid pace um when it comes to these large infrastructure projects. I think the other thing as we look at these, I think the one thing that I know I've learned over the period of time I've been on this is it's important to set out expectations because if we say, you know, if we when we first came up with this I think the expectation of the committee members is well, each year hopefully we'll be able to knock out one of these and then we got the engineering study and found out how much it cost and how many dollars there were. It just wasn't practical, so um I think it's important to say you know, why we have the gaps um how we're going about them, which I I think the council is now outlining. We're trying to do these with other projects, make that clear. Um we continually look for grant dollars. We do that, but I don't think we can promise that uh you know, any of these are going to get done at a specific time. Uh but I think we can uh probably assure the public that if a project comes up with the county on a road or the state on Highway 7 or Highway 5 uh beyond uh what it is now that uh, that discussion will take place at that time. And if it's on the list, it makes it easier for the city to discuss that with our other partners. I think you made a good point about do we even bother ranking if it's all based on projects happening with a county or state partner? The only one that really isn't I mean, the um, the Kirk Lock and one is a little bit different because it's not really based on a highway going through, highway improvement. It's more the base based on a development. Yeah, that one is probably the only one that's not based on highway construction. I I think I think that that makes you make a good point there and I think that differentiates that one from the others. That's dependent on a couple other things. That's the the value >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> But I think from a city standpoint, uh, you know, maybe that one we had that up higher in the list. What do you think? We keep it up higher in the list, whether it's one, two, whatever. And then maybe we lump the others by um, I I think we just have the list, but we could put them lump them together several these are based on highway seven. So, if the highway seven project they're talking about that af- in the next few years at least there's a study going on. Suppose it all depends on funding. We could lump the highway set two highway seven ones together. We can lump the two county 43s together. Um, the what's there's one county road 11. Mhm. I think and I think I think that one county road 11, Chavel to Red Fox No, we had ranked it number three. I think the discussion around that one had revolved around that that's the missing connection to the growth areas in Victoria, in the new parks, and also the elementary school. So, like I think that was a really strong committee discussion around like reasonings for wanting to keep that kind of towards the top is like that we we we saw all the south of that trail getting developed towards Victoria downtown. Yeah. Yeah. Again, it's a county road, though. So, if we don't have access right away. So, you know, the the one argument is just here's our list. You know, we'd like all these done. Uh you know, let's take advantage of opportunities when they come up with our partners. Be one way to look at it. The other way is continue to make a list, put numbers on it, and that say they're all important, but these if dollars became available somehow outside of those projects, this is what we would think would be in the best interest. So, if sometime the council said "Wow, somebody left some money to the city for trail improvements, uh where would you like to put them?" They could look at the list and say, "Well, here's the priorities." And I think you could do that based like still grouping them and then ranking them within the groupings themselves. So, the ones that aren't reliant, the ones that are reliant on County Road 43, the ones that are reliant on County Road uh 11, Highway 7, and then we can rank within those ones whether it stays the way that it is here today, but if it's reliant on the project itself we can't really say when or if it's going to be done regardless. And so, but then if we get down to, "Okay, Highway 7 project is happening, where do we want to put our money within the Highway 7 project to apply cuz we can't do all of the the the trail gaps for instance, then at least they have something to go off of there. But comparing them to each other doesn't necessarily make sense because we have no say over it. So >> Right. Right. I don't think we should belabor the ranking, but if there's something as big as the Highway 5 project and we can knock four of them off the list and it might move the Vario West down the list a little bit. That's probably the extent of the discussion we would need >> to have I think. Doesn't make sense to just reevaluate every year for the sake of it to move three to four and six to seven or whatever, right? Yeah. He's after, right? Have the right group Yeah. on the Make sure the list is as complete as possible. >> Yeah. The most important thing is we have them on the list and the second most important thing is when the project comes up is that we we work very closely to try to get all those on that that list done in that area because it probably it's going to be more difficult to have it happen later. Alyssa, how does that conversation go with new projects as far as understanding when the in you know, in in kind of the instances we have of next big projects of the county road or highway projects and and how they come in and then how the discussion goes with respect to adding in these trails and and would we, you know, using 43 as an example of two projects like would we have time to engage in that discussion or hierarchy of what we put forward as part of that or Not typically um does the Parks and Recreation Committee be engaged in infrastructure or transportation projects? That's really what the list is there for is to, you know, have all these to the table and then we can talk about them to our partners. Um I do want to look at creating kind of that hierarchy right at the beginning to help with those conversations, too. Um, I'm just kind of typing up what I'm hearing, what I was thinking, and I don't have it up on the screen cuz I'm actively working on the the slide deck, so you can see it in front of you. Um, but to take, like you said, create those groupings, so you have the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail, that's a standalone, then you have something like Highway 7. Um, we already have that ranking available, so I would just take the ranking that's already created as part of that, and then put those two together. Um, same with the County Road 43 project as we have three of them, and then I would take that ranking based on the list the priority list that we currently already have, and then do that for the rest of them, if that makes sense to the committee. I think that's the right way to look at it, and then I think we should cross-check it with the notes that you have, Amanda, and see if those rankings still line up, and then within their subgroups, and then we can figure out how that all shakes out. Okay, why don't we start want to start Why don't we go on your list and just that you had of what we talked about at our meeting last year or the year before. Last year, I think. Well, are you working on trying to show us something first Yeah, I was thinking if I can list these out, then Amanda, we can cross-check what you have. If that works for the committee. And apologies, these are just my really quick writing these down notes. I believe in 2019, one of the big rationale of County Road 43 was completing that trail because that's uh um connection to the Lions Park where a lot of kids, you know, could ride their bikes or whatever, but that road's terrible for walking. I won't want my kid walking on that road, but then we found out it's an engineering nightmare cuz it's uh and it's also county road, so >> Right. So sorry, friends. Okay. Again, very high-level notes not taken um if any sort of spelling or grammar accuracy, just my trying to jot things down to at least make it clear. And I will also note I did not place the highway connection in any order, so we can make that change too um if we feel like we need to. So, I put Highway 5 cuz it was the first thing I grabbed, County Road 43 second, County Road 11. So, those can be switched or the committee can say we don't want to do any sort of priority rankings outside of the individual groupings, um and we can make those notes as well. Um so, in this Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail that connection to Lake Bridge um is a standalone, um so it obviously has no priority within that section. Um for Highway 7, we have that Virginia Shores Circle um connection to the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail is that priority one within that grouping. Priority two would be the Waterford connection to Rolling Acres Road. County Road 43, we have three of them, so that first one is that connection um for that end of the trail down to County Road 11. The second is that Teller's Road to Marsh Lake Road, so connecting Rhapsody um and the Ambergate neighborhood to Wasserman Lake Preserve down to Marsh Lake Road, um and then the last one is that safe crossing um intersection from Deer Run to the Watermark neighborhood. Standalone again is County Road 11, that Cheval neighborhood safe crossing connection or that trail alongside. Um and then State Highway 5 again a stand alone, that's the Auburn neighborhood connection. Um and then the last um but not least is Bavaria Road West. Another stand alone. I I think the best place to start is is it a good idea to rank these groups against other groups. In my opinion, I don't think it's worthwhile because it there's it's not really our priority of when a county road project transportation project goes. So, if everybody's in favor of that, then maybe we can just go and switch over to looking at the sub or the the groupings within each uh county road or highway. Yeah. I I would I I would agree with that. Okay. I think the the key thing that's on the list is the most important thing. Or I mean Oh, right. The fact that it exists. Yeah. >> it exists. >> Yeah, agreed. Because I think then the city staff and council can when the state comes and says gets the communities together and around Highway 7, we have you have something to bring to them. Right. Um or County Road 43 or 11 and you're right. If we don't if we rank these um against each other and we come up we're setting the expectation that County let's say we put County Road 43 second on the list and then well, that project isn't coming up for 15 years. You're going to have people with expectations something was going to happen and it isn't. We'd be better off to say, here's our list uh when those roads are um under construction or new project comes up, uh these are the gaps that we're going to be discussing and hopefully be able to complete at that time. Completely agreed. >> [snorts] >> Other thoughts? Are there any other ones that people aren't aware that aren't on this list that people are aware of? I think that's probably good going back to The only one was the one that Amanda brought up earlier that Alyssa thinks that looks like it connects but so I'll put a quick note at asterisk at the bottom and take it off the list if it's solved and if not we'll leave it on there. That's the overpass at 78th that we're talking about? Yeah. Yeah. And if it connects to Steger [clears throat] Lane. I'm guessing >> Yeah, or if they're working on the Steger or the trail. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think. Wherever the overpass is connecting to a trail that Hopefully it doesn't just go down to grass basically. I doubt it does. It sounds like it doesn't based off of what you're saying Alyssa. I'll confirm that. I'm fairly positive it does but again if it doesn't um we'll make sure it's added. It would be silly for us to do that large overpass without it having some sort of connection. Yeah, we don't want to create create a new trail gap. >> [laughter] >> Okay, it seems like there's a consensus around you know, not ranking these against each other but ranking within or at least listing within in case they can give us some feedback if um there was only one of these going to be done with the project that which one we prefer. Yeah. Call it listing by dependency. Yeah. Or otherwise. >> With a you know, the the danger in doing that you start doing that and you could end up getting some cut out of a project too by saying oh that's a lower and then really didn't have a so high priority. We'll just kind of skip over that. That's not happened before. >> Yeah. I I was just going to ask. Um how did the little connection from um Victoria Drive to the Crest Green Crest Green Crest. Like how did that connection get made? Like if we if if we really don't need to rank at all? Like because there are sometimes that the city sees an opportunity and is like we're just going to get this piece done. I cuz if you could share how that happened? Yeah, absolutely council members. And I will preface this by saying I wasn't in the Parks and Recreation Department at that time. Um what I do know is because that connection was on the trail gap priority list. It was already something that was tightened in council's awareness. Um we did have residents in that area to reach out to the county and reach out to the city that lived in the Green Crest neighborhood and said, "Hey, this is a priority trail gap. Can we look at what the costs were?" And the costs were fairly low when it comes to trail gap connection costs. Um so that was something that the county and city was able to do um in a relatively short time frame. Um so it really was just kind of a this is something already on the list. We can make it happen. Let's do it. One of the least challenging ones of all the others that were on the list. And And I >> [clears throat] >> I look at the list that we have here and I look at the number of ones we've done over the last few years because of projects or are in the works because of uh the our the Highway 5 project. Um you know, they are getting done. It's uh so we know that Highway 7 is under consideration for project in the not too distant future. So that happens. Hopefully these couple can be included in that and then down the road some of these others. They're going to happen at some point in time. May not be on our time. But certainly not my time. But they'll eventually get it done if they're on the list and the projects take place. The other thing I think is very important to keep in mind and we have input into this because the new developments come to us for comments. Is that we always look at the trail connections within those new developments. So we don't create new problems for down the road cuz we all know from the experience we've had here is that once there's a gap and there's no road project, it's not likely it's going to get done very soon. But if it's a development coming in new, we can get it done right away. It's uh not a problem later. I do like that. I do like the thought of not ranking them against themselves. But at the same time if we simply group them by road construction projects or otherwise, does it kind and this is a genuine question. Does it kind of give the impression we just kind of throw our hands up until road construction happens? I I I don't I don't know. I just wanted I just wanted to propose that to the group. I was going to just ask a similar question but not exactly the same is that if residents would be disappointed if if they are following along and and have seen these rankings in the past and then all of a sudden the ranking or priority list is gone, are they going to be is there going to be some disappointment there? >> Confusion. >> I I think that the way to do that is it's all in the communication. I think what we're saying is all of these are important. What we're saying is when they're done is dependent on the true dependencies. >> Yeah, so we're not saying we shouldn't do any of these and we're not saying one is more important necessarily than the other. We're just saying we want to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves. >> And even in the past we weren't necessarily saying one's more important than the other even if it might look that way with a a stacked bar chart on the left that's higher than the ones on the Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I agree. Did want to add anything, Alyssa? Terry, that was exactly what I was going to note is that we can include that communication. We do have the webpage available so we can note that there um that the shift has changed and that we're not necessarily ranking these on priority but just showcasing what gaps that we have in our community and then uh illustrate the the direction that council has set when it comes to lumping these into other projects due to a variety of different reasons and I was thinking as as I was mentioned is we were talking about expectation setting um that we want to make sure that the expectation is also there that we're not prioritizing these by construction. They're prioritized by something different. Um so I think there's some communication that we can do on the front end that will help with that. And like you said earlier, Alyssa, like the true value is the fact that the list exists and you're chatting with uh county or state you know, road MnDOT engineers, right? And we've got we actually have a list of trail gaps that need to be addressed and so if yeah, you're building this by the way here at these are the ones that we've been identi- that have been identified for a while. I think the that's the real value of of the list, not necessarily well, this one's ranked two of nine and this one's ranked eight of nine. How do you feel about doing both? And I think it's as a community community member, it may be equally as disappointing if you were to see maybe the lack of a priority listing, but also if you're looking at the priority listing and the number one priority hasn't been fixed for x amount of years and it and number two and number four and number six are crossed off, it's like, well, I thought that was the number one priority. And the one that you live next to is eight and has been eight for a while. No, yeah, it's more education about how how these all come about and how they're funded because it's it's complicated. >> Yeah, right, exactly. And I think that the grouping of these actually provides more clarity in the sense that it's not just this is number one and this is the one we're going to do next because if number one's County Road 43 and number two is County Road 11, those two aren't going to happen in linear order. It's going to be whenever the the road project occurs. So, this tells you, here's what we're looking at whenever these things happen and I think that that actually provides way more clarity to people in the community. Okay. Any other thoughts, comments? A um I think the key thing's going to be communication. I think in the communication too, not only what we just talked about, but I think um to give some people an idea of what a trail costs because I think there's some people say, well, you know, you know, come up with 50,000 and we can finish this mile and a half and the 50,000 won't even get half the cost of the engineering study to look at it. So, um I think anything like that would be helpful. So, do we want to have a motion to adopt this list. Um and uh maybe put in that we feel they're all important and um we should take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves uh with road projects, etc. I think the council's probably already adopted that, but it doesn't hurt for us to reinforce that. Mhm. If so, does someone like to make a motion? Alex, if you like, it's yours. >> [laughter] >> Um No pressure. I guess motion to provide the trail system list to council noting that all of these trails are equally important, but to be uh utilized when the opportunity presents itself. Does anyone want to second that? >> I second that motion. Okay. Motion Did I hear a second? I second. >> Okay. All right. Uh any further discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion signify by saying "Aye." Aye. >> Aye. Opposed say "No." Motion carried. And I guess if the council wants us to uh do something different as far as prioritization or whatever, they will ask us to take a look at something if they have a would like us to do that, but All right. Next on the agenda is emerging issues. Do you have any emerging issues? It looks like you do. I do, Chair. Just a few things. And one that's not on this list, but it's at the top of mind, so I don't want to forget it is we do have new artwork behind you in Council Chambers for those that do not know um we partner with the Deb Zeller of Zeller Studios. She's a Victoria resident, has her studio in uh Hopkins. Um just in Main Street if you're ever interested in taking a field trip. Um but she works with the city to provide on a a bi-monthly basis, so every other month um new artwork in Council Chambers. So whatever is at her art studio and when that's done they'll bring portions of it here and then she continuously works with local artists to get it updated. So we do have a partnership is what we call the program um voting sheet in front of you. Make sure before you leave if you want to vote, please do so. It's kind of like the the winning um picture we do every single um new artwork um grouping that we have in. So take time to do that at the end um after the meeting is adjourned. Um but a couple other things to highlight for you. I'm going to go backwards just cuz I'll go from the quickest to longest um that we do. Um we previously communicated that we were hoping to cancel the June 15th Committee Meeting. Um however, we do have a new development that it's it's at sketch plat phase. It's actually that one um that's right along the Lake Bridge neighborhood. Um that old Amira project. Um we would like to bring that to the Committee and we'd like to include it on June 15th. However, because it was previously talked about at this committee as being canceled, I did want to check in with all of you to see if one you'd be open to keeping that many committee meeting on the calendar and even if you have booked over things, I want to make sure we have a quorum for that as well. So I just want to pause here to see if there's any um thoughts on bringing that back on to the calendar. Looks like it's looks like we'll have enough. I still have it on my calendar. >> [laughter] >> I saw enough thumbs up so we're we're good. So yeah, it's full. Well, then we will be joined um by our city planner, Brian McCann, on that one. He'll showcase the development and talk about um some of the park and trail impacts to that. And then the last one I wanted to update you on Hunters Brook and Marsh Hollow Park. Um as you remember at the end of the very long discussion in April, um the next step was to bring it to city council at their following meeting on the 27th of April um to talk about um if they approved the committee recommendation and then the steps to move forward. I will say um that we are moving forward with the park projects um a little different than the committee's recommendation. Uh council decided to allocate additional funding to both of those parks um utilizing the park dedication fees. So, they're trying to include um additional amenities at both the spaces. They did provide some minor feedback to the original layouts that we saw. Um they still kept the two priority the priority concept that the committee recommended. So, the priority for Hunters Brook uh was number one. Marsh Hollow was that number two design um but trying to keep all the elements within those. Um so, not necessarily limiting uh the elements that we worked so hard to eliminate because of budget on that. Um so, we are working now with the design firm ARIS G for the bidding package and moving forward with um getting that kind of finalized construction and design layout um completed. So, more news on that, but I did want to provide that update for you. Is that a common or rare occurrence that um council decides to tap into the parks funding to get the whole package or whatever the case may be? Um committee members and the rest of the committee, I I wouldn't necessarily say it's rare or common. Um we're kind of in a a different situation um where we have a little bit more funding um in that park fund than um typical or maybe not even typical, but we don't necessarily have a lot of park projects on the radar. Um and we have two really big park projects that are in this new area of town that have zero park elements around it, and I think they they captured that of this is the south growth area. These are going to be the regional parks for this area, so we want to make sure that they fit the need of that community. Um and they really wanted to make sure that they were something cool and special for that neighborhood. Awesome. Do you know if it changes construction timeline or start date at all? Not for either of those two parks. Okay, no cool. I was I watched that meeting. I was really glad to see that they were utilizing those funds. I think that was a very wise move. Uh the funds aren't doing any good sitting in an account when they're set aside, so it was nice to utilize those for for the people out in that area and for the regional park. Could I ask another question, Alyssa? Uh cuz it's not reflected in the minutes. Did they add things then that we kind of discussed uh maybe those neighborhoods not wanting at the parks? Great question, committee members and the rest of the committee. Um they did add back all the amenities at Marsh Hollow. Um so I know there was conversation about removing um like the community garden spaces um or that natural trail piece or the hammock grove. Um they opted to add those in um and to see what that would look like for a cost. In the discussion on the community park piece, uh staff did point out that the committee uh had indicated a a concern about, you know, the appearance and all that that we had brought up. And uh they discussed it, and um they also said that uh people in that area really don't have access to uh, garden space like the rest of the community because they're farther out. And so, that's why they added that back in. So, it it made sense to me how their discussion took place and it was, uh, to me, I was glad to see they were adding things back in instead of taking things out that we thought were important. So, A great point, Jared. Thank you for noting that. That is all I have. Okay, any committee members have any other emerging issues they'd like to bring up? So, Owen, are you graduating this year? I'm not. No, I'm a junior. So, I'll be here >> Oh, okay. All right. I was going to say, well, we may have to congratulate you, but we'll have to wait a year to do that. >> [laughter] >> Okay, anybody else? If not, thanks for your attendance and, uh, everybody have a great Memorial Day weekend. Is there a motion to adjourn? I motion to adjourn. Second? >> Second. Okay, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. The meeting's adjourned. Thanks again.