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PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD AGENDA
Monday October 14, 2024
Minutes
Staff Present:
Kelsey Heiden, Director of Parks and Recreation; Michael Isermann, Assistant Director; Gene
Ballew, Recreation Manager; Andrea Lauer, Business Services Manager; Rusty Warncke, Capital
Projects
Board Present:
David Higdon; Don Hellriegel; David White; John Polasek; Amy Arredondo; Kevin Bishop;
Anthony Branch; Thomas Marty
Council Present:
None
1. Call meeting to order and consider absence requests. With a quorum present,
the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board was called to order on Monday, October 14,
2024 @ 6:00 p.m. David Scott was an excused absence.
2. Hear visitors. Neo Jang spoke about the need for a mountain bike trail near College Station High School, he stated the mountain bike groups could volunteer to
maintain it. He also spoke about connecting trails on the unfunded list. He would like
to hear more about this topic at the November Parks Board meeting.
3. Informational Items 3.1 Presentation and discussion by the Director of Parks and Recreation on
matters pertaining to the Board. Kelsey Heiden spoke about how successful
Mud Day was at Lick Creek Park, and that the Bird City Window Painting Contest is
going on between Oct 5-20. She gave an update on Bond Projects ~ The Central
Park Maintenance shop and Bee Creek/Central Park tennis court contracts were
approved on 10/7, Anderson Park – Futsal/Pickleball contract goes to Council on
10/24, and the construction has started on the Bachmann Park baseball facilities.
4. Regular Agenda
4.1 Presentation, discussion, and possible action on the approval of minutes from the previous meeting. Upon a motion made by John Polasek and a second
by Anthony Branch, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted eight (8) for and none (0) opposed to approve the minutes as written. The motion passed
unanimously.
4.2 Presentation and discussion on Parks and Recreation Department purpose
statement. Kelsey shared Parks and Recreation’s current mission statement, and
went over some exercises that staff did during a couple of team building sessions. At the last team building session we asked staff to pick their favorite purpose
statement. We brought the top two to Parks Board and asked their opinion, the
Board liked parts of both and asked staff to combine the two and bring it back.
4.3 Presentation, discussion, and possible action regarding Mable Clare
Thomas Park Redevelopment BOND 2022 Project. Rusty Warncke went over the results of the Public Engagement Survey, and Public Meetings. He
also went over some of the amenities that could be added to the project such as
shaded seating, active play, courts, multipurpose lawn and arrival/entry points. A
Master Plan is scheduled to go to Council in November.
4.4 Presentation, discussion, and possible action on prioritizing the park Improvement plan. Kelsey provided a list of parks and asked the Board to
prioritize them in order of which needed to be improved first. The Board agreed that if it was a safety issue, passed its usage/life span or was in a heavily used
area that it should be first on the list to be replaced.
5. Discussion and possible action on future agenda items. Trails, Butterfly alley
and proposal to name fields.
6. Items of Community Interest. Christmas Parade Dec. 7th @ 4 p.m.
7. Adjourn. Upon a motion made by Thomas Marty and a second by Anthony Branch,
the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted eight (8) for and none (0) opposed to
adjourn the meeting 7:17 p.m. The motion carried unanimously.
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