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Park
Board Meeting
Dec. 18, 2012 Meeting In The Park |
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call -- All Present: Adam Steidley, Eddie Tidwell, Ted Wright, & (Cheryl Hunt, and Glen Reaser arrived during item 4).
3. Approval of minutes from November 20, 2012 Special Meeting. -- Approved
4. Status
on Land and Water Conservation Grant. -- Barbara Tartar
(of LandPlan Consultants) presented a drawing showing initial plans for
the next funded park improvement: A paved connecting trail from the trail
currently under construction (from the tennis courts to near the splash
pad); 2 new picnic shelters, and additional paved parking on the north side
of the road near the basketball court.
5. Status
on Trail Construction. -- The park board members walked
over to the south end of the new trail and could see the partially paved
trail which is expected to be "substantially" completed by the
first week of January.
The park board was joined by Pam Polk, Angela McGinness, Steve Tinker and
Brad Francis at the Tuesday meet at City Park. (see additional photo below),
6. Discussion
and possible action on recommendation for Park Shelters.
-- Approved (i.e a recommendation to the city commission): the "Northwest"
shelter design with a request for an alternate bid for potential addition
of stone columns. The photo above/right shows stone columns that are not
included in the quoted estimate ($34,134 for each of two picnic shelters).
The slab is also not included in that quote but is covered elsewhere in
the Land & Water Grant (see item 4 above).
7. Adjournment.
Workers were smoothing a section of the trail paving just east of the softball field Tuesday Dec. 18th. (Previous Coverage) |
Ted Wright comments in purple
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