Last year we received $400,000 in a grant from the Legislative Citizen Council on Minnesota Resources. this is an opportunity and that money is specifically for the construction of a new skatepark facility.

Well, you mentioned Golden Nugget and Luns, and as soon as I saw this, I was thinking that's where people are going to park. Golden Nugget and Luns because there's not enough parking.

I will note that the new skate parks can look pretty cool. They're kind of sculptural, I would say, like a lot of the new ones. It's It's not like what you see today or what you even think of as a skatepark initially. Um, they can be very attractive.

I think this is an opportunity for me to again reiterate that skateboard parks aren't necessarily only about skateboarding. They sort of represent a third space for young adults and teens. that they may not be skaters themselves, but they know that there's youthful activity happening in the area and don't want to go, you know, home or back to school. So, they'll hang out here.

And I to me without that information or without a sense of whether even if they're interested the city can buy it. Uh it this kind of seems premature because you can talk about a completely different idea and plan for for that entire segment.

I'll go on the record. I really like number two. I think we got an LC or uh B, I should say. We got an LCCMR grant. I think we have an opportunity to have a showcase facility that's over 20,000 that I heard was to pull um regional.

I think the opportunity to revamp the Glen Lake Park is really exciting and I think we want to make sure that we understand, you know, where it's going. And I think both my daughters are excited to have more transition skating. Uh, there's a lot of street skating parks in the area, but the idea to have another transition skating area is, I think, really cool.

This is um your first look at the capital improvement plan for the city. This is one part of our budget of the overall budget um that the council will be reviewing in June. I know Kelly will talk a little bit about this, but I just wanted to make sure that you are familiar with the fact that this is a draft. So, this is really like you're in the sausage making.

Number one is uh if it's necessary for public health and safety or if it meets a legal mandate. Number two to maintain existing systems or make existing systems more efficient. And then three is expanding uh systems or new services.

Part of the our disadvantage in the in the column master planning was we're Minnitonka so that money gets spread a little more broadly outside of the metro to communities that may not have the resources themselves.

I think your expression of that interest try to figure something out. I think that's what we're looking for. We're looking for your general support to have us come up with ways to fund the Colin Nature Preserve.

I would be supportive of that too if the 200 does something. Me too. I mean I mean Colin's been working on for a long my know for a long time. It's prioritizing and you know meet needs of different park users. I I like skating. I'm not going to say I don't like skating, but I my priority if I had to choose between the two would be Colin at this point in time.

The friends are not supportive of opening up peace meal. And one of the reasons is you know we want the accessibility of course and then we want the interpretation the education that the city the friends will do so people understand the uniqueness of this a rare oak savannah habitat in the middle of a developed suburb and there's no other oak savannah around here.

I would like to recommend that we add a CIP for ADA audit, not not including Burwell and of um park trail, you know, in our wheelhouse, however that would be defined or described.