So, the trail runs from the north end of the city all the way down to the south end. Um you can see in the dash green line there's the proposed alignment. So north of the Lake Matonk Regional Trail, we're calling it the Eagle Lake Regional Trail.

along Baker Road, which is County Road 60, we will be moving the uh curb line in. We're going to narrow up the shoulders, narrow up drive lanes so we can get the uh regional trail placed within the rightway um and try to minimize the amount of temporary and permanent easements we may need.

So, the park district, we have a kind of get into our preventive maintenance plan. Um, all of our trails, we [clears throat] try to get 30 years out of the life of the trail. So, every 7 years we have what we call a microsurfacing project where um it consists of a pre-repair project to seal large cracks.

We're hoping everybody's just a willing seller and we're able to work through that on a case-by case basis. Um, I haven't had a project where I've had to use it in the past, but the park district has in the past, but we do not. And we're hopeful that everybody is just willing to work with us on this project.

ebikes. Um, I know you're maybe constrained by the state statute on ebikes, but I I'm concerned personally concerned and I guess as a board member concerned about ebikes existing already like on the Lake Mitaka Trail... Is there anything you can do to restrict ebike usage on your trails or are you you stuck by the state?

I'm curious about the funding source. Was it FHWA or what who was the funding source um for these projects?

I uh tend to think that we have three pillars that hold this up. Um or you might think of them as a scaffold. We turn that on its side. Uh that we start with outreach that creates public awareness. build on that with education that gives residents uh information and skills and then that leads to the broader education that allows them to take action once they're really uh invested in our parks in their own property.

334 volunteers. 79 of those were on ongoing volunteers... 3,300 plus hours of volunteer service. That's the equivalent of one and a half full-time staff members. And the value to our community calculated at about $15,000.

I think that neighbors working with neighbors is very powerful in terms of moral persuasion. uh that peer pressure is really helpful and it can be very good for their kids as well to see the parents modeling that kind of behavior.

one other uh thought I had. I recently read an article [snorts] uh about uh pollinator uh pollinators and how there was some concern about whether we're uh helping the right pollinators... is there any updates to recommendations on what's planted that actually tries to perhaps target these truly uh kind of endangered or uh, you know, much more closely uh, to endangered level pollinators.

If you're looking for honey, it's b they're basically livestock. You you can do that. You're allowed to do that. If you're thinking about pollinators, the focus is habitat. And one of the big messages we try to get to people from with the pollinator um angle is right plant, right place, diversity, healthy soil, food web.

I want to point out that the title of this uh item is not entirely correct. So, it says park investment and trail improvement plan. The trail improvement plan is actually something different and that's not what Darren's here to talk about. So, he's talking about the trail rehabilitation plan.

Goal was to develop a funding mechanism to continue the upkeep of the park. So that was now through the capital improvements program. Now we identify things to replace and improve on a larger scale uh in the parks.

we've generally taken the idea that the community parks is our best place to make the big investments for the large scale AD improve ADA improvements such as poured rubber surfacing or specialized equipment ramps uh things like that.

So, uh I'm just curious, right? You can't make it. So, you want you want to know if you can put it into Wilson. So, if you still have it, [laughter] uh, so anyway, how do you get feedback on are there features that the the neighborhood has fallen in love with and loves and loves coming to the park for it or or not, right?

we're kind of in a tight sandbox. So, and we could get some input, but it's probably not going to change much versus if we're starting with the clean slate like we do in other parks, like when we did Robinwood Park, we built a new park... That's when we're we're starting with the clean slate.

So funding, so park investments and trail rehab is funded through the park and trail improvement fund and that is funded through park dedication fees that are collected through new housing developments, apartments... And then the trail improvement plan for constructing the new trails that is paid that's through the uh uh franchise fees that all property owners in Minnetonka pay on their gas and electric bills.

I'm curious, you know, what where that where that originates. And I also then am curious if and how the city responds to neighbors neighborhoods that are like we need a sidewalk.

as a longtime resident, um my parents always used to say people who lived in Minnetonka specifically said to the city council, "We don't want sidewalks, that it's um we don't want it to look like St. Louis Park or Hopkins. It's different.