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Home My WebLink About1995-12-04 - MinutesTO: PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD FROM: DALE D. CLARK, PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR DATE: NOVEMBER 29,1995 SUBJECT: PRAB MEETING ON MONDAY DECEMBER 4, 1995, REFRESHMENTS AT 5:OOPM, MEETING AT 5:30PM IN ROOM 326 OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Approval of PRAB minutes - November 6, 1995 II. Green Space - Coody Owner/Developer: Dan Coody/ Jorgensen Location: On Mt Sequoyah at the end of Rogers Drive Park District: Units: 10 Single Family Acreage: 7 51 acres Land Dedication: .25 acre Money in Lieu: $3,000 Master Plan: Priority -None, Neighborhood 4, Existing acres - 7, 1990 needs - 22.5-45, 2010 needs - 25-50 acres. Staff Recommendation: III. Old Business - Veterans Park Naming - action to approve or disapprove naming Hwy 265 East property Veterans Park - HMR Campaign Final Report - Driver/Waite IV. Facilities Committee Report - Johnny James Recommended priorities for HMR tax expenditures 1995 Adult Softball and Concession Report - Mike Heath 1995 Swimming Pool Report - Mike Heath VI. Other Business Informational: The Habitat For Humanity request for release of a portion of Lewis Street lease with U of A has been deleted. • • PRAB REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 4, 1995 The meeting was called to order by Susan Driver at 5:30 pm in room 326 of the City Administration Building. Members Present: Driver, James, Mackey, Richard, Stone, Savage, Waite Members Absent: Knight Staff Present: Clark, Cox, Dugwyler Media Present: Rusty Garrett I. MOTION:WAITE/JAMES The minutes from the November 6, 1995 PRAB meeting were approved unanimously 7-0 I I . GREEN SPACE S,_ „r,W+sti Dan Coody Property �G�'r Owner/Developer: Dan Coody Location: On Mt. Sequoyah, end of Rogers Dr. Park District: SE Units: 10 Single Family Acreage: 7.51 acres Land Dedication: .25 acres Money in Lieu: $3,000 Master Plan: Priority: None; neighborhood 4; 7 existing acres, 1990 needs 22.5 to 45 acres,; 2010 needs 25 to 50 acres A representative from Jorgenson and Associates was present to answer questions. The developer would prefer to pay money in lieu of a land dedication. This is a PUD development which requires the developer to provide 30 percent of the property for green space for the residents. MOTION:JAMES/WAITE The PRAB recommends to the Planning Commission to accept money, $3,000, in lieu of a land dedication for the green space requirement for the Dan Coody PUD development. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY 7-0 1 • • III. OLD BUSINESS: Naming of Veteran's Park Driver: This report is from George Knight so we will pass this item since he is not present. HMR Report Waite* Even though turnout was low, the win was about 60 to 40 percent. People will be watching us closely now. So we need to make improvements people will notice. This tax might not last forever. Driver: This was not a controversial issue, but it would probably still have been the same percentage of win. I am meeting with Betty Turner tomorrow and Jerry Rose later in the week to discuss funding for Adult Center. IV. Facilities Committee Report James:We met on November 29 at FYC. Nancy passed out a list of nine priorities. We asked that the wording be modified and be put into a spreadsheet operation for the next five years. Staff will go to the existing parks and see what needs to be done. We will incorporate that into these new projects. The current staff will have to increase also. There will be a percentage of HMR for the staff salaries which will be approximately five positions. One athletic supervisor will be funded by city when the budget is approved. We will meet again in February. Clark: The engineering selection process will be next week. The committee consists of three city staff and one council member. Driver: The board members feet that the staff has done an excellent job prioritizing the first nine projects for HMR. We just needed the breakdown to figure a percentage for maintenance salaries. Adult Softball and Swimming Pool Heath: 1995 softball consisted of 173 teams and 2400 players. The average cost for each team was $354 and $25 for each team member. The operating expenses for umpires, scorekeepers was $46,182, miscellaneous was $10,449. Concession revenues were $30,300, expenses $22,380. The revenues were up $7,900 from last year. We feel we were really successful and accomplished our goals. We are going to appoint new board members for the softball board. These members cannot be paid by Softball Association. We want more representation from 2 • • • the leagues for better feedback. Next year we need new base sets, topsoil, and new softballs. Mackey: What is the average # players per team? Heath: 13.5 Mackey: Did we collect $25 per player? Heath: No, we collect $450 per team, and we are looking at $480 next year. Typically 95 percent of the teams have sponsors. The other five percent raises their fees or pays out of their pockets. Clark: Mike did a survey of all teams. Mike: According to the survey, the teams wanted to sanction. In the summer definitely sanction, in the fall did not want to sanction. I got insurance in fall anyway for umps and scorekeepers. James: was it only way or another on who to sanction with? Heath: Over 90 percent wants USSSA. Savage: I thought they double sanctioned Mike: Some did on their own, we just sanctioned USSSA. I will survey again next year. It is only $20 per team to sanction. Waite: Any concerns you have heard on fields? Mike: We still need 300 foot fences for upper division. James: Are there scheduling conflicts? Heath: Mostly personal preferences. I would like to go down to 80 teams in the fall. This year it was 90 which is a lot. Mackey: How many young girl's teams were there? Clark: 34 Heath: Our three major objectives for the Wilson Park pool this year were to be: Professional, safe, and have a family atmosphere. We accomplished these goals. Our staff was very professional. They had uniforms, used red cross rules, had three lifeguards and two rovers at all time with rescue tubes. We did have a problem with youth hanging around and people passing memberships. Park patrol and police were called when needed. See pool report for revenues and expenses. The attendance was 32,000 and open for 100 days. Waite: We had sent in a request to raise prices before. Are you going to try again? Clark: One of these reasons for increases was the new requirements for lifeguards. We have to have one present for swim team, lessons, and aerobics. We also kept the pool open after school started. Private parties cost more this year. Swimming lessons are very popular and in demand. They are only $15 for two weeks. If you are 3 • • • going to supplement the pool then at least teach lessons. They used to bus kids from Elkins and other areas. I would like to see that again. Usually an individual promoted it, Red Cross, or etc. Mackey: You only have one option swim. If there were a water slide or something maybe it would be better. I think we are doing a pretty good job with what we have got. Driver: I would almost rather have a small neighborhood place where it is free, and provide air conditioning, recreation, etc. Although I do enjoy Siloam's facility. Other Business: Clark: I attended a Parks school in New Mexico. A lot of Parks and Recreation Departments are outsourcing, privatizing pools, golf courses, leagues, boys baseball, development and manager of facilities. The theme of almost all 300 people there was that any tax support is almost nil. A Parks Director from Oakland said everyone is downsizing, particularly in urban recreation and inner cities where they need it the most. They are giving more to YMCAs, boys clubs, and family service agencies. Parks officials say ADA has made a bid difference. Driver: If privatized would it have to be ADA accessible? Clark: The city does and privates will have too also. Driver: How do they make money on pools? Clark: By adding slides, charge more for longer times, turn more people over. Use up your rides, etc. Driver: How long till Siloam breaks even? Dugwyler: Probably a couple of years. They are charging low rates. If they charged a little higher would have broken even in a year. Clark: The Rails to Trails theme was very popular with the parks officials. They talked like funding would be good. Driver: The annual report for the City Council needs to be pulled together on accomplishments, CIP spent, what is left to carry over to 1996 on CIP's. The January agenda needs to have update on green space collections and if the new procedure seem to be more efficient and where we stand to date on money and their collections. Also we need to have a report on engineering selection. The meeting adjourned at 6:15. 4 Minutes Approve