Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Absolutely. Chrissy Hanley here. Zman >> here. >> Schultz >> here. >> Samurski >> here. >> And Sher Ingram >> here. Uh next if does anyone have any uh comments about the agenda? Otherwise, I'll take a motion to approve it. >> A motion to approve the agenda today. >> Second. >> Oh, sorry. Who was that? doesn't pay attention. >> Okay. All right. Sorry. Um, so one thing I want to before I do roll call just to orient you, you might see a little bit of a change in the packet. So we did add the vision statement to the agenda and for each of the reports we are trying to reflect back or connect it to the strategic goal of the park board and where relevant the uh strategy. Great. You might have seen that um we do uh use a web web- based portal for creating these that's hosted by a third party and to make changes we actually have to put in work orders and it's not quite where we want it but generally that's uh what it will look like. So hopefully that will help you connect what these items are back to the strategic plan. So I just wanted to point that out. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So I'll do roll call. So uh Christie >> here. No, this is forgend the motion. >> Yes. >> Hanley, >> approve. >> Larman, >> yes. >> Schultz, >> yes. >> Samurski, >> yes. >> And Chair Ingram, >> yes. >> Next, uh, we have minutes from the December 3rd meeting. Does anybody have any corrections or comments on the mean, or do I have a motion to approve the minutes? >> I move that we approve the minutes from the December 3rd meeting. I'll second. >> All right. Christy, >> yes. >> Hanley, >> yes. >> Lairman, >> yes. >> Schultz, >> yes. >> Samurski, >> yes. >> And Chair Ingraham, >> yes. Uh, we don't we are not aware of any citizens wishing to discuss items. So, we'll move on to number six, special matters, of which we have none, which will bring us to the meat of the meeting. Number seven, the business items. Yes, Chair Graham and parkboard members. Um, our first item is a summary of the 2025 season for Great the Grace Bay Marina. And I will um have bring this over to Kaylee. Kelly said I have to attach the microphone to me. So, as you guys can see there in front of you, we had another very successful year at the marina. Um, we started or we opened the boat launch on March 24th and slip holders were able to put their boats in the water in their slips on uh, April 2nd. We were staffing the marina by May 12th and um, that's when we started the operation of gas sales as well. So um, hours of operation at the gas dock covered prime hours and that's that at that time is when we have our restrooms open. There is always a biffy on site for those that are coming before and after the prime hours. Um 23,926 gallons of gas were sold. So um that's a that's a great number. Um right around where we were last year. Um we renewed leases in for the 2026 season in October and we um the slip fee is $4,400. We only had three vacancies at the end of the 2025 season um with a wait list of 179 people, which is a lot. >> So, um for those of you that don't know, it's a 8-year lease, so they can have their slip for up to eight years. At that time, they can join the weight list again and go to the bottom of the weight list. Um so, we move slowly down that weight list, but I think we got through about 10 people this year. Some say no, some are no longer residents. So um we closed for the season October 31st. Um the launch remained open until December 1st when ice formed and then um at that time we closed the gates and then our revenues were about 20 284,000 um which exceeded estimated expenses of 20 or 221,000 by roughly 62 um,600. So, um, we then have an overall balance of, uh, 1,73,861. >> Questions? >> Yes. >> Jennifer, >> how many total slips are there? >> 29th. >> 29. >> Yes. >> And then, do we know when the ice out was? How soon are >> December 1st? Oh, ice out. Um, >> I would say it was maybe a a week or so before March 24th. We have to get the ducks. um placed for the launch. Um right about a week. >> It was around that time, right? >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Great season. What uh what's down with the escrow fund? >> Uh it is for, you know, operational expenses at the marina and the lake specifically. Um so roof upgrades or if we need to replace the dock or the fuel system or whatever may happen at the at the marina. >> And how often is it tapped into? uh not very often. Why? Which is why it's large. We we thought we would tap into it right around this time for um dock replacement. Thankfully, we haven't had to yet. Um but that's what the the reserve money is for. >> Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Other questions Caleb? >> Sure. Um the slip fee, how does that relate to other slips uh that are offered around Lake Minnetonka? >> Um it's hard. It's comparable. Um what we offer is different than what other slips offer and a lot or a lot of um I guess facilities offer. Um some are city-owned, some are privately held. So, um, we are right around the middle. There are some a little bit lower than us, some much higher than us, and it diff it differentiates with how long their leases are, um, the amenities that they have. Um, but we like to be competitive, obviously. So, >> and then the park board, just for background, the park board, review, we've reviews that routinely. I can't remember, it was two years ago, maybe we went through that, >> the the the the setting of the the the fee, if you will. And my recollection is it's a good deal especially with especially with gas on site. >> Agreed. >> Correct. Yeah. Yep. >> So I was also curious um if there's like a a a depth average depth to the slips. Um there there tends to be a der of non sailboat yach club uh slips for sailboats. >> Mhm. >> Uh especially sailboats that are, you know, 20 plus feet. So they have usually fixed keels. >> Mhm. >> So they they have significant like depth needs to be in in a slip. >> Mhm. Um, so I'm curious, do you guys how how deep are these? Would would any of them or do any sailboat owners uh have a slip? >> We do not have any sailboat owners. I'm going to go to Mike on the depth. He can speak on that. We >> we don't have an exact depth. Um, you know, the outer slips are deeper obviously, probably in the 12t range. Um, the iners are somewhere in the probably the 7 foot depending on the water level of course. Um, we don't have any sailboats. Uh, and I think generally speaking, that's we don't because of the bridge. >> People want to get out into the into Weisetta Bay and that would be uh prohibit them from doing that. >> Any other questions or comments? >> You know, maybe you get more into this when we look at the pricing, but it's a cooperative arrangement with the DNR. Do they pay for any of the rehab? And um >> so the DNR owns the launch. We own the the gas dock with the slips and then the building. >> Okay. And so we have all the costs associated with the docks and the slips. >> Correct. Yep. >> Okay. Thank you. >> But as a follow up to Jennifer's question, if the parking lot need to be resurfaced, is that a shared cost or is that DNR? >> Uh >> yeah, it's 100% DNR. >> Yeah, it is. Okay, good. >> So we'll do the work, >> right? We've had some repairs there, but the DNR pays for that where the city will do that. It's just a little easier for us to get that done quicker. >> Um, but then the DNR reimbures. Um, so there we also utilize that site for um some rain gardens and some some things like that where the city does put some money into that, but ultimately that it's the DNR's um responsibility and the launch and launch docks are the DNR's responsibility. >> Okay, great. It's a nice nice cooperative venture. >> Mhm. >> Thank you. Nothing further. >> Are there any improvements or changes you want to make in the next year? >> No. Not off the top of my mind. >> Status quo. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Caleb. >> Um, are there any opportunities or Yeah. options for like kayak racks, you know, that people could store and rent [clears throat] or or um like paddle board racks, similar, you know, secured space uh around this area. Has that been investigated? Has that been done in the past? >> Um people have definitely asked about it and we cannot operate um a business out of the launch or out of Grace Bay, >> right? You know, the other issue is we don't have the space there. Um there isn't land to uh to utilize for that and we also don't have individual parking to to supply that that that um that idea. So we only have about six individual parking spaces. The rest are vehicles with trailer spaces. Just to add to that, Caleb, I do know that there are rentals um in downtown Wisetta for standup paddle boards. So, there's concessioners not too far relatively from a lake perspective that you can rent. >> A long time ago, I think there used to be racks at the dam. I don't know if they were managed or controlled, but I mean it's a long time ago. Used to be some there. But anyways, any other questions or comments? Otherwise, I want to thank you for a good report. >> Thank you. >> Good stewardship of the marina. >> Yes. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Uh, next item is the athletic field use summary. >> Yes. So this is obviously a summary of the 2025 uh season and I'll turn this over to Mike. >> Hello. Um just uh to go over this briefly back on the background um long ago we never used to charge for field space. We used to uh give out field space to community organizations. Um back in 2010 we uh implemented the uh the field fee. Um and interestingly enough uh some of the use of the field uh was reduced by by some of the users there the number of hours they were hoarding hours. So this has turned out to be a really good thing uh allowing others to utilize fields as well. Um when that uh fee was established, we uh it was basically to generate some maintenance uh to cover some maintenance, not a lot, but just a little bit. Um have the uh the organizations have some skin in the game, so to speak, and uh also to uh create some uh a small fund for some future capital projects. So, uh the revenue that comes in, we uh we split that basically 67% for for general maintenance and then we uh set aside 33% of the revenue for capital improvements. Um for instance, uh a few years back at uh uh Glen Lake softball field number three, uh there were some improvements to the to the benches and dugouts there. Um and some of that money went towards that to to help fund that, too. Um, in 2025, our field hours uh totaled, and this is where I step up and and uh own my mistake, it uh it's actually 4,418 hours. Um, and so that is still more than 2024. If we maybe switch over to the spreadsheet, I can explain a little bit where that comes from. We have uh what we call dedicated fields. Um and generally that's Big Willow uh fields, Civic Center, uh Gileiams, and uh Lone Lake are kind of the primary locations. Um those dedicated fields mean that that is what that field is used for. So a baseball field is used for baseball. Um uh a field sport field or a soccer field is used for field sports. Um, we don't put softball on a soccer field or soccer on a baseball field for these dedicated fields. The section just below is non-dedicated. Uh, that's different. Those, uh, fields we utilize for, um, might be softball during the the spring or in one season and so and soccer in another season. So, those are utilized more multi-purpose, I would say. Um the uh we've got kind of a comparison from 23, 24, and 2025. Um we had uh um our our revenues um we generated a little more revenue this year, almost $2,000 more. Um and we also charge our uh primary users are are um organizations that have uh priority use to the field. So, uh, those are Big Willow Youth Baseball. There are three fields at Big Willow that are youth baseball fields. Um, Glen Lake, uh, Mighty Mits, which is Glen Lake youth baseball at, um, at Glen Lake Park. Uh, Gileiam's Youth Baseball, that's Gileiam's baseball field off of Minnetonka Boulevard across from Big Willow. And then, uh, Glen Lake Youth Softball or Gal Softball, that is field number three at Glen Lake Park. those organizations pay a a defined amount, an annual fee. We don't charge them an hourly rate. Um they maintain those fields or help maintain those fields along with our um uh public works um um employees too, but they do a lot of the the field maintenance on there, chalking, raking, those types of things as well. That's where our revenue comes from for the most part. Um and So, the the total amount for our capital fund for uh that we added to the capital fund is uh a little over $15,000. Um and then fees are set to increase uh 10% in 2026. I'll open it up for any questions if you have any. Um I have um I understand the dedicated and non-dedicated and then the designated is there overlap? So I there's Big Willow Youth Baseball, >> right? So >> and then there's Big Willow Baseball Youth up in the dedicated area. Those are separate fields, >> right? So this some of these we have have rented out. So the the Big Willow Baseball Youth is is an a rental that is not the primary user. So there are some other extra hours that are available. But uh to your to answer your question, the the designated the Big Willow youth baseball, Glen Lake youth baseball, uh Gileiams and Glen Lake youth softball, those are on dedicated fields. Those fields are are the fields that are used just for those sports. So that that that >> Big Willow Youth Baseball down at the bottom is different than the Big Willow >> the second one up at the top. >> Yes. Big Willow Youth Baseball at the bottom is the Big Willow Youth Baseball Association that operates at those three youth softball or three youth baseball fields. and the Big Willow Baseball Youth up above are are other organizations that use those same fields that we rented to. >> Oh, so it's the same fields though. >> It's the same fields but differentiating where the revenue came from. >> Whereas Glen Lake is and Gilliams is distinctly separate from anything, >> right? We didn't have any other rentals on those fields. >> Did that answer your question? It's a little confusing. I understand that. I so if I I will tell you back what I think I understand and then you can maybe we can decide if my question's been answered. So it is they're the same fields. It's just how you're collecting the revenue. >> That's correct. >> Okay. So you're using them twice. Well >> just that one. There's just that one. Just the big willow. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> I just a quick eyeball at the revenue. What really caught my eye was the increase at Lone Lake Soccer and wondering if you can give any insight about new user groups, hopefully some diversity since I um >> go to that park and and see that. So, I'm just kind of curious about your take about um that increase. >> Sure. So, you know, that the revenue figures are based off of who reserves. Our uh local organizations pay the least amount. We also have um non-resident users that pay much more. Um and the the amount that you're talking about at Lone Lake uh soccer field was a soccer league that uh rented for the whole summer actually on Sundays. So, um, and they were a non-resident soccer league, so the the fee was much higher, and that's why that is much more than it was last year. >> That's why even though the hours aren't up, the revenue is up a lot. >> Right. Right. >> Um, and to your point about diversity, it was a Hispanic uh, soccer league uh, that was utilizing that. >> That's kind of what I observed. So, I understand a little bit more what happened. >> It's [clears throat] good. That's great to hear. Um can you share why um prices are going up 10%. >> Um keeping in line with other cities um our rates are relatively low. Other cities uh charge anywhere from $15 to $80 an hour. Um, so we're probably low mid to to what other cities charge and our, you know, our costs from public works and and staff uh um wages and that sort of thing are increasing every year, too. We haven't increased since 2023. So, this is, you know, three years at the same rate and now we're going again. >> Okay. >> Okay, Caleb. So, [clears throat] we had about a four a 300 hour increase year-over-year according to your calculations, it looks like. And I'm wondering if you know what the max like we're we're fully booked looks like. Um, and then as a secondary question relative to like what we saw at LO what you you know what we were observing at Lone Lake, do you guys do any marketing of our fields to non city uh or you know to entities? Um and if so what does that look like? How does that look? >> Um can you repeat the first question? >> Yeah. So it was basically what's your what would be like what do you think your max hours would be? >> Um >> you know are we there? Are we have we been there where you know boy it's booked out everything's booked all the fields all year whether it's non city city sponsored these these uh uh kind of designated groups that are basically signing a lease not an hourly >> right yeah you know the the answer to that is I don't know um it is a little bit of our prime time hours are booked >> sure >> the hours that everybody wants it's kind of a little bit like our ice marina manager talks about their prime time hours are always booked, but they they still have 11:00 p.m. available. You know, nobody wants that, right? Um and it's also a time of year, too. Um you know, that that that shift. So, I I don't have an answer for you on that. I could try to get a better gauge of that. Um and then as far as um you know, looking to uh market that, we have not. Um part of it is we we're we're keeping it more within our own community. um offering that up um for them. And again, because of the prime time hours being booked is what everybody is looking for. >> So you you're probably for the for the uh what's the right word for the primary fields like Glen Lakes Diamonds and the Big Willow Diamonds. You're probably sounds like you're at capacity other than odd odd hours when people probably >> right. odd hours and um you know some of those like the for instance the Big Willow youth baseball fields um you know they aren't used all the time because they also need some time uh for rain outs and practices and things like that. So um generally speaking we are booked prime time though. >> Kelly chair I'll just add one more thing. I think Mike and his staff work with our parks department too and they're looking at the field conditions on a weekly basis and and helping tell us, you know, this field needs to rest for >> x amount of weeks or months or whatever. So, I think we're working with our park staff on condition of the fields. >> Good point. >> Good. Did you have you have a question, Brad? No. >> I don't know if I missed this, so I apologize if I did, but I can you tell me again why under the dedicated field big will of softwell is zeroed out everywhere and there's no revenue attributed to that. um that is basically used for our adult softball program. And so we don't we don't charge our adult softball um program to use the field, although they charge team fees and that sort of thing. >> And why don't we charge them as opposed to any other thing? >> It it's our own recreation program. >> Got it. So it's a rec it's a it's a citizen amenity. um >> because they're in Mitaka Mitaka residents. >> Well, not not necessarily. It's just that we don't charge back to um to our recreation programming >> department. Okay. So, there is a programming budget that receives the revenue that technically doesn't show up here. >> We don't transfer out into this fund. Correct. Got it. >> It'd be interesting to note for future references what that would be. I'd like to know what those dollars are compared to the other ones even though it's not attributed to this budget. I have no idea compared to the other dollars. >> That'll be for comparison. It' be interesting to know. >> It's just a footnote to this. >> Uh there I have I have one one softball question. Easy question. I shouldn't say softball. >> Yeah. >> The Gun Lake foot football courts. That's the at the school the the tennis court that got relined. Is that what that is? >> Right. Right. There's a tennis court there and the football court. >> Yep. >> Great. Thanks. >> Well, if there any questions, thank you, Mike. It was a great report. >> Sure. Okay, now we're on to moving quickly. It's more than eight minutes, but it's still moving quickly. Um, uh, a a information items. >> Yes. uh Cherry Graham and Parkwood members. Um our first information item is a summary of the farmers market, which I'm sure you'll be interested to hear. Um before I turn it over to Ann Davey, um just in case you're wondering why is this an info item, not a business item like the others, because the marsh is technically not a park. So this is something that we're updating on, but it's not something that's really under the purview of the park board because it's not a program in an actual park. >> It's a Kelly thing. It's right. Exactly. [laughter] >> So, I just wanted to declare that clarify that in case you were confused, but now I will turn it over to Ann. >> Yeah. So, I'm just going to summarize our farmers market season. So, this was the first one that we have held at the marsh. Um, previously we were at Bridgedale Commons um the last two years and prior to that we were down at the Minnotonka Ice Arena Bot. Um but we thought we found kind of the perfect spot with the marsh um just because of visibility um parking stalls um that kind of thing. So we took the plunge this year and um moved it over there which turned out to be um very successful for the most part. Um attendance-wise numbers were up almost 3,000 or a little over 3,000 from last year at Ridgale. We saw a real drop off um between year one and year two at Ridgedale. Um so we thought this was a great time to give it a shot over here. Um we didn't have we had 18 markets throughout the season. So the the market runs Tuesdays June through September from 2 to 6:00 p.m. And um no cancellations for weather. Um there were some iffy days. There were a lot of hot days if you um don't remember. They all fell on Tuesdays. Um >> a lot of construction too. >> Yes, we we will talk about that as well. Um there were some air quality alerts and again the high temperatures probably affected the attendance on a certain number of days. Um but overall our highest attended day was 918 which was great. Um and average attendance per week was 711. Um you did see quite a bit of drop off towards the end of the season into September once school got started and that kind of thing. Um so the numbers were lower but um some some great numbers overall. Um each market had an average of 35 vendors. Um we limited community organizations. We used to sprinkle them into each market. And this year, we thought we'd try and have four dates throughout this the summer where we'd invite five to seven community organizations. A lot of them are city departments like our police and fire um community development. Um they're invited. Um, so we had four dates where we invited these groups to come, which turned out great because it filled the parking lot a little bit more and it gave um, you know, visitors a chance to talk to a number of different community organ community organizations on a single day. Um, and then as far as number of vendors throughout the season, we had 63 and 30 of those were new to us this year. So, um, a lot of great new products. Um, and then 33 returning vendors. We have some vendors that have been with us from the beginning. So, it's, um, it's really great to see that they are committed to our market and people come back just to see the these vendors. So, um, as far as product overview, you know, we had the fruits, vegetables, we usually had four to six um, fruit and vegetable vendors per per week. Um, we had meats, proteins, eggs. Um, and then of course like the sauces, the hot sauce, honey was a big thing. Um, coffee beans, pickle jams, jellies, those kind of things. And then baked goods. Uh, we had some really great baked good vendors this year. A lot of sourdough. People still love their sourdough after co. Um, and then we had a great bagel um popup or uh vendor this year that does popups throughout the city during the rest of the year, but they um came to our market every week. Um, Moji bagel. They were great. >> And then of course there's AI pretzels. Everybody loves AIS pretzels. So, um, they came back actually after taking last year off. So, it was great to see them back again. And then we had just kind of the random crafts. Um two or three craft vendors per week with candles, dog um apparel, uh treats, um that kind of thing. Another program that um is has been part of our market for a number of years, it's called the Power of Produce Club, and this is a youth program that gets funded um by sponsors. We've had um uh the name is escaping me. It's a dental >> Salt Lake Pediatric. Thank you. And then um actually Lakewin stepped up. Um we didn't even solicit them. Maybe someone planted a seed for us. I don't know. Um but they came in late, which was really great. We were looking for one more. Um but this program is for kids ages 4 to 17. They can sign up and check in with the information booth each week and then they get a $2 coupon to spend at a fruit and vegetable stand each week that they check in. So, it's a really great program. We had 492 youth participate this year. >> Um, so the challenges, um, Dave, you mentioned the construction. So, there was construction on Minnotonka Boulevard. I'm sure you didn't even notice all summer, >> but um we thought it [clears throat] was going to last maybe two to four weeks of the season. It lasted all season long. So, this kind of threw a wrench into um traffic flow and um accessibility to the parking lot. Um and a lot of times the road was down to one lane and so there were flaggers so it just slowed everything down. Um, so this was a little bit frustrating for us, but we um we had a police reserve come and help us with directing traffic um to try to move things through the parking lot a little bit better. Um but definitely a challenge um in a new space. So um next year it sounds like there may continue to be some construction in that same area. Um, so we're gonna look at um changing our layout a little bit. We're going to move um the vendor stalls to the north side of the parking lot, which will open up the whole east side of the parking lot that where we had vendor stalls this year for parking. Um, so that's that's going to be the the solution we think we hope. Um and then we are going to incorporate community organizations more on a weekly basis again um rather than just doing the one day a month um just to kind of spread out um add more vendors each week and and just kind of spread out those opportunities to to talk to um th those folks. Um lastly, we had a winter market um December 13th. We just did one winter market right before the holidays. And this was a really great day for us. Attendance was up um um to 547. This year we had 34 vendors, three community groups, and live music. And um it just the space was busy all day long and really great variety of products. And um I think people really enjoyed that. So >> that is the summary. >> Any great >> questions or comments? >> Any questions, >> Brad? >> Great. My family loves it. So thank you. Great work. This is a question actually for the board and maybe also for her. Um, in terms of community engagement, what do you think about putting a park board booth at the farmers market so that we actually are describing to our citizens what we're doing? And that could be once a month, it could be every two weeks. I'd be happy to staff it uh with other people volunteering. But I think it's a great way again for us to do our own marketing and tell people what's happening in the parks. >> That's a follow-up question though. Um, >> are we allowed to do that? Well, well, and in natural resources and the you guys do some events. >> Yeah, we do. Yeah, we've had we participated in some of the but that's focused obviously on natural resources. >> Yeah. Or park master planning. We've posted boots before >> and it's been successful. >> It's been you have you know a few marketing pieces out and answer questions just talk about what's happening. >> Kelly just reminded me we do have sustainability commission. they participate. >> Um, >> I'm pretty sure it's allowed. I think the frequency you'd have to try to figure out what's best. Maybe if that's something you wanted to do. >> Maybe we need to talk about I'd be happy to do it every now and again. I just think it's a it's a great way to interact and let people know what's happening. >> You might need to come up with a freebie, a giveaway. >> It helps. Light bulbs, food, sustainability. >> It's a big draw. does bring up the idea of when we do something like having a booth for a master plan effort, if parkboard members are interested in helping man that booth and talk to the community and gather feedback, that's something we could also incorporate into the engagement work that we're already doing. >> That's a really good idea. when you have an objective and a purpose and you're listening for specific project plans coming up this year. I'm thinking my work our work plan are any of those going to have a what you want to call feedback opportunity at the at the uh market. >> Yeah, most likely I'd have to think ahead what we'd be doing at that point Lone Lake by then. >> But if that's something >> that's a great idea. Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity for park board members to hear and and not even if there is a specific topic, just to, >> you know, share if you have any concerns or what you really like. You know, I think it's always good to hear about what we're doing. Well, >> exactly. >> As well as what we could do better. >> I'm in. >> Whether we need a show of interest or it wouldn't be a motion since we >> It's not a motion. That's a good idea. >> It's something we can incorporate. We can ask if anyone's interested. But we just can't have a quorum. >> Yeah, >> we can't we can't violate open meet two of us. >> So it can be no more than two, >> right? >> Well, we could have a quorum if we told people we were going to be there. >> Well, >> right. >> Then you're then you're in official meeting territory. [laughter] >> Okay. Anyway, let's coordinate how that happens. >> Yeah, we'll keep that in mind. >> I think if you just work with Ann on the schedule, maybe we can figure out what what works best. Yeah, that >> and what we have as a not just a freebie for people, but like you know map of the trails or map of the parks or >> we've got we've got stuff on the website that could be pretty >> that would be good to have. >> Yeah, >> it's a great idea. Thank you. >> We'll keep that in mind and we'll we'll look into that. >> Thank you. >> Report back. >> Well, thanks a lot. And you you persevered through I remember several hot days. >> Yes. >> I remember driving by in my air conditioned car. [laughter] avoiding the dust and the heat >> and waving uh cuz it was just too hot to get out of the car. Uh so you guys were troopers. >> Thank you. >> Had a great she did a great job and and um you know adjusting to the construction. We thought it was going to be a shorter period of time, >> you know, so we had to kind of change on the fly. Um you know that next year we think it's going to be kind of from the front doors of the marsh west. They're going to be working on the trail. So hopefully it's a little bit further west. We we'll see. Uh, but I think pushing things back a little bit, offering more parking, it'll be more accessible to people. Um, I think we we're going to try, you know, we got to make some changes where we thought we had some hiccups. So, um, yeah, she did a great job, but we were not anticipating a full season of of uh construction. So, >> I I was personally glad to hear your plan to create a few more parking spaces. Um, I went once and next time if I had gone again, I was going to park over at the community center >> and walk over. Yeah, a lot of people did that. >> It's not a bad walk through the trees there. Mhm. >> But I think the numbers not dipping showed what a good job you did because I I too will admit. I thought about it, but the the construction and the weather and >> I was like, "Ah, next week." >> And the fact that you were dog friendly, it was nice. You could take your dogs there on on a leash. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Uh, next item. >> Uh, so we have one more information item, so I will turn it over to Matt. >> Thank you. Um, Glen Lake Park, uh, the master planning is underway. We have a Minnotonka Matters page live now. We've done um something interesting with the surveys that are available to to the community. Um, they're more interactive where we've added photographs of a variety of parks and we're asking people to sort of click on the vibe of the park that they're most interested in. So, I'm really happy with the help that we've gotten from our consultant to um provide these surveys. So, there are surveys related to the general park master plan update and then uh skate park specific surveys that are available. So, we're getting some pretty good feedback on that already. We hosted a pop-up event uh at Unmapped Brewing. It was well attended. Um, we like to host these popups without a a ton of advanced notice in hopes that we just get folks who are are stumble into the event, didn't necessarily plan on interacting with the park board, but happen to live nearby. Oh, gez, let me comment or that's where my kids played baseball or softball. So, we got some good feedback from folks who aren't totally dialed into the park planning process. And it was it was nice to have groups sort of stumble in. Um, we've also had a lot of feedback with the community groups that have used the Glen Lake Activity Center for many years in those fields. So, we're working closely with them um to make sure they understand the process and what to expect with this park planning going forward. Um, so we are looking at additional open houses and outreach events scheduled for at this point later January into February and working with the consultants on when we'll end up doing that. There'll be one in the community center down here and then one additional one likely, but um more formal with some boards available for people to sort of weight their their preferences when it comes to the park and then we'll be there to provide feedback. Good opportunity for no more than two park board members. [laughter] >> Um and then the the goal would be to to provide a draft master plan to the public and to the park board um I say later this winter, early spring or so. questions. >> Um, I am excited to get into the Minnotonka Matters page. I haven't looked at it yet. Um, is there some space that's general use for the general public too besides the specifically skate borders? >> Good question. That's why I I'm really trying to emphasize that this is a park master planning effort that we have a a really valuable corner in our community there. And yes, the skate park is going to be, you know, a a thoughtful element, but really we need this to be opening and and and welcome for the community. There's a lot of trails and sidewalks here at that area. There's a lot of walkable commercial areas. It really needs to function on a variety of levels. So, the skate park would ultimately be an element of that park, but really we're looking at making it as welcome and and um you know, longlasting on that that high viz corner for as long as we possibly can. So, it needs to serve a variety of purposes beyond just the skate park. >> Okay. >> But but we're not anticipating a enclosed meeting space area. the plan at this point >> based on feedback and where the the conceptual design um per this community facilities study that the council decided to tear down the Glen Lake Activity Center and and turn it into a park space. So that's that's the guidance we're following at this point. >> And is there again I apologize for not having looked yet, but is there a plan to for restrooms? >> We're we're talking that through. So there is a restroom associated with the concession stands, the ball field, but that's not open all the time. So it currently we're not necessarily planning on building a brand new building unless that was to come out of this planning effort, but for now it'll be an open park space. We can talk through um you know how a bathroom facility would work. We have some parking challenges and quite a lot to fit in that corner. So, um, we're just preliminary concepts at this point, looking to see what the community has to say, >> but we certainly hear a lot about the availability of public restrooms. That's getting a lot of >> talk in the park planning world these days that certainly we don't do do enough of that and have enough high quality restrooms in our park spaces. So, it's it's certainly on our radar. >> Thank you. >> Another question. I've got one. I think I might have asked this last time, too. Uh, and it's not your area, but maybe you heard across the street the greenhouse. Any update on what's happening there? >> I had heard recently that there were development plans that have since been shelved and that develop or pulled those plans and it's >> there's no I heard >> it's in limbo for now. >> Is obviously the proximity depending what goes in there. >> Yep. No, those those more recent plans were shelved at this point. Okay. Great. No other comments or questions and I too need to log into the MAT matters on that. I haven't yet. So, I will. Thank you. >> I tried to log into the Minnitankka Matters today. Yeah. >> Well, I tried to get into it and it asked me for a login information. I don't think it's ever asked me that before. >> So, I paused and I backed out and I was worried, oh no, lots of other people are going to do that. >> No, we it's always been that way. you've always needed to sign in because what we don't want is people >> filling out the survey a variety of times. >> So, we we have folks log in and it associates with that IP address of your computer. >> That's nothing new. Okay. I don't know why it happened. All right. Thanks. >> I had to do it for um Big Willow. >> So, if you want to vote multiple times, you need to go to different places. [laughter] The library. >> Okay. Thank you, Matt. Um updated upcoming meeting schedule. Yes. Um so, uh we are in January in the new year. Uh obviously pretty late tonight, but next meeting in February will be a little more meaty. Uh we do have the chair and vice chair appointments. So that's an annual uh considered your annual meeting. So the officers will uh need to be reappointed. Uh and then our uh goal is to bring the Big Willow Park master plan draft, a full draft to you. Um I don't know is the consultant coming at that point or is that just you presenting? >> No, I was hoping to have the consultant. We'll have a consultant come >> and then along with that the Cullen Nature Preserve Master Plan as well. >> Uh and then the Cullen is the the intent is that it's the final draft looking for a recommendation to send that to the city council for adoption >> at the at the February meeting. >> At the February meeting, >> but not Big Willow. >> Not Big Willow. >> Okay. >> I don't think correct. Yeah. Uh and then in March we have our our hope is to have an update from Three Rivers Park District on the Bryant Lake Trail. Um there may be some delay. I've heard from Matt, but our goal is still in March. So Matt will follow up on that to make sure that can happen. Uh and then we also are going to hear from Darren on the park investment plan and the trail maintenance plan. So provide an overview. As you recall, there was a lot of discussion around rehabilitation of uh playgrounds and other equipment. And so he can talk through that whole plan and >> hopefully you can better understand what you know life cycles are and things like that. And then we typically will also provide a natural resources division update. Uh this is focused on um our division. We have a uh we always produce kind of an annual report from the past year and then also talk about upcoming education and engagement activities if park board members are interested in participating any. We're always looking for volunteers and Christine Peterson our engagement coordinator will be providing that. And then in May we have uh we hope to bring back the Glenn Lake Park plan. So that would be a draft plan for review. Um, also, um, based on the last discussion at the last meeting, uh, what we're calling the park areas of need and just sort of digging into what that, uh, looks like and what that means in the post plan. Uh, I think it was we referred to figure 45 if you recall. Just sort of kind of dig like three circle. >> Yes. Yes. >> Uh, and then, uh, in June would be the 2027 to 2031 capital improvement plan. Um, it could potentially come in May if it's ready. Um, probably more likely June. Uh, and that'll be a draft plan for you to review. So, that's what's coming up. And then we have other meetings. Kelly, >> other activities. Yeah, Sun in the Park is going. We've had a couple We had some extended hours over the holidays. It's been very busy out there. I got on and looked and you there's it's rare to find open Sun in the Park spots right now. So, um, very busy. We're just open Wednesday. So today was the first Wednesday. Uh and Jesse said it was a little bit over half full today. So um I think FANA in the park is going really well out at Shady Oak Beach. Uh and we're less than a month away from KidsFest. So our second largest um event uh KidsFest here at the community center uh will be Sunday, February 1st. Kid games, activities, dog sled rides should be here. I think we have enough snow. LA last couple years I think we've had to cancel with without any snow. the horsedrawn uh trolleys. So, um a lot of fun kids events which uh it's a big event for us Sunday, February 1st. So, >> that's it. >> Do we have that at the pavilion last year? >> I'm drawing a blank. We had something in the pavilion and stuff. >> Uh I think it was two years ago. We were in Hopkins. The Hopkins Pavilion. Yeah. We went back and forth and and tried to figure out if that was a better space. It was we had some challenges over there, too. I mean, with 2500 people, there's challenges everywhere. So, yeah. So, it's a fun event. Great. Thank you. Was that um any park board member reports? Item nine. Ann >> um I went to the light up the commons >> event and there were I don't know what the expectations were for how many people. There were lots of families. The children seemed to be very excited about the candy drop. Um, there was a fire truck that was very festively decorated. Um, I don't know if the candy drop was was that was the fire people involved in the candy drop? No. Okay. I wasn't sure how the candy appeared cuz I never saw it happen. >> We hid it ahead of time and then they go and find it. >> Ah, so it was buried in the snow in that area. Okay. >> Elves. >> Great. >> Elves. Yeah, the elves. >> Elf on the shelf. >> Yeah. Okay. So, um it was cold, but >> people were good naturatured about it. A few people with dogs were talking about how the dog's feet were cold, so they were going to go home. >> Um so, it's seemed like a fun thing for that space. >> How many people do you think were there? >> Oh, I haven't a clue. I'm sorry. I'm not good at >> estimating. Somebody I'm sure was out there with a clicker. Yeah, I think we estimated like 200. >> So great. >> I miss >> the stuff that was going on in the little building was quite popular. >> I [clears throat] think there was food in there. >> No, the the little heated uh the restroom and >> there's like a meeting room. >> Little mini mini meeting room. >> Yeah. >> Other reports. >> I have a question. Um, did city council have any feedback on our strategic plan at all or was it >> It hasn't happened yet. >> Oh, it hasn't happened. >> No, it will go to the council on February 2nd. Yes, >> it second. >> Second, I think. >> Whatever you told me. >> Yeah. >> First Monday of February, whatever that date is. >> And that's when all of the >> boards and commissions plans and work plans will go. Y >> um I have an unrelated to the event comment or question. Um at the last meeting, Lesie had explained that the city council was going to review how the dog situation was in purgatory before any other park uh was set aside for dogs. And um so I had wondered if staff was willing to discuss how the or explain how the um how the status was being assessed. I'm sorry if that didn't sound clear, but and I you you emailed me, but I thought it'd be nice if it was in the record. >> Yep. Makes sense. um public works staff were working directly with police and community safety. Um and we were discussing what data to be collecting and this has been ongoing for weeks at this point. Um I'm having them, you know, look at the sign conditions and and making sure all our um data points are available to us when we go to present that later in June this year. So, we're working directly with the police and and the and the parks maintenance folks that do the plowing out there. um and making sure we're we're creating all the data and the information necessary to tell a full story. >> So, does uh it sounds a little bit to me like you have to call the police and complain about something for it to be registered or no? >> Community safety police are out in our parks um on a call basis, but then they also travel through >> there's also like a QR or something people can self-report. >> Yep. Correct. there's a >> concern QR code. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> So, they've been in inventorying all of that. And >> so, nobody has to dial 911 in order for something to get registered. >> No, no, no. It it we're collecting that data. We would certainly recommend you call 911 if you felt necessary, though. I think that please make that clear. But, um, >> but yes, there's a certainly a lot of data being collected. >> Thank you. Any other qu comments or courts? Otherwise, I take a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Second, >> everyone on board. Right. All right. All right. >> Thank you. Good evening. Super >> 55 minutes. >> [music] [music]