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Home My WebLink About1993-05-24 - MinutesPRAB GULLEY PARK PUBLIC MEETING MAY 24, 1993 6:30 pm Present: Driver, Kimbrough, Palmer, Savage, Waite, Wright Staff Present: Braswell, Clark, Cox, Edmonston Guests Present: See attached list Dale Clark welcomed the public and introduced PRAB and staff. He informed the public that the Parks Department had received a $25,000 matching funds grant from the Arkansas Outdoors. The basic needs for Gulley Park are restrooms, water, and play equipment. COMMENTS: Public = P P : Clark: P : Clark: P : What about widening the trail? It is too expensive. I am against tennis courts, pool. You should not have to worry core either. rec center, and swimming about those or the fitness The City should be forced to improve access from Old Wire Road. We also need more sophisticated playgrounds. The present ones are for little children. We need a parking lot off of Old Wire. P : People are driving into the park at nights and lots of beer cans have accumulated. P : Clark: We need one more light over the bridge. There is no power in that area of the park. It could be costly to install it. P : The light would shine into our house P: Clark: You could put timers on the lights. Those are costly, but we will check prices with Jim Hill. Sweetser: Mrs. Gulley might let us come across her property with a trench. What would be the location of the bathrooms? P : They need to be above the flood plain. P : What about porta-potties in the meantime? Clark: They are costly. Sweetser: If you get them long term, it is cheaper. GULLEY Page 2 Edmonston:The existing parking lot will have to be paved soon, because it is aCity regulation. Clark: The current consensus seems to be: 1. Bathrooms 2. Water 3. Playground equipment The Civitan plans to build a gazebo valued at $5,000. Colwell: It will be big enough for something like "Pops in the Park." It will have electricity. Clark: There will be times when some of the neighbors won't be happy such as concerts etc. P : Will the bathrooms be left open all night? Clark: Yes, it would be too difficult to open them after park closing and before park opening. Sweetser: There are bathrooms that you can see underneath to prevent people from staying in there. P : You could use portables, but they would smell. Clark: The time table for this project would be late summer or early fall. We will put in paper when this item is on our Parks Board agenda. Shireman: I left the last meeting thinking we would leave parts of Gulley unmowed. I thought there would be wild areas. I have drawn a plan on what I think should and should not be mowed. P : Do you mean never mow these areas? Shireman: No, I mean keep them managed. P : Kids do a lot of open play like kite flying in these areas. They need to be mowed. P : The only high dry area in the park is up in the corner. Kids need a place to play. Waite: What about the pond. It is so dried up. What if we eliminate it? P : Why not dredge it? Edmonston:We have once. Shireman: Palmer: Dunn: Clark: P : Shireman: Clark: P : Colwell: P : Clark: P : Colwell: P: Sweetser: GULLEY Page 3 If we leave pond, just let it grow up with trail around it. If not, then fill it in. The Water and Soil Conservation can test the pond to see if it will hold water. Mr. Gulley kept it filled for years. When you see geese come off of the pond in the mornings, you will change your mind about filling it in. We can leave area beside this trail and pond as is. We can stay away from mowing banks unless they are sheer. We will have to mow those for safety. This doesn't mean we will never mow. We will probably still have to mow once a year. We can try this for a year on a trial basis. I will help with setting stakes on where not to mow. I am in the process of trying to get a donation map installed. Can we get a map of Gulley Park the way it is now? Can we get some straw to cover bare areas until grass grows? We planted wildflowers and most of those got mowed. Plantings need stakes to show where not to mow. Why did pine trees get planted here? They grow fast and are good shade. Dogs need to be on leashes and we need signs installed saying so.. I hate to walk in dog poop. These people should have to carry a pooper scooper. Meeting adjourned at 7:40 pm