Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 01/10/2002

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Parks/Utilities Supervisor Boos said the other proposals didn't address grants, except to say that they were available. Commissioner Olds said their grant experience and diversity of that experience lends credence to selecting them. The other two didn't demonstrate the experience in grants that LH~ did. Parks/Utilities Supervisor Boos mentioned that the Commission .can take action at the January meeting. He said he would like to bring this issue to the Council in January for their vote. The Commission can vote at this meeting if that is preferable. Motion by Commissioner Johns, seconded by Commissioner Olds, to recommend that the City Council move forward with LHB Engineers and Architects, not to exceed costs of $55,000 with those monies from the inter fund loan from park dedication over the course of 2002 to 2003. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Chairperson Cook, Commissioners Johns, Olds, and Rolfe. Voting No: None. Absent: Commissioners LaMere and Ostrum. · Note: Update on Anoka's Pool Funding Request Parks/Utilities Supervisor Boos stated that the City Council did approve funding the Anoka pool for 2 years. He said the source of the money didn't get addressed in the discussion. Chairperson Cook stated he wanted to make sure it didn't come from the capital improvement fund. Parks/Utilities' Supervisor Boos stated that a Commissioner should be present at the Council/Finance meeting in January. Most of these items will be discussed at that meeting. Note: Commercial Plat by the City of Ramsey · Note: City Code Revisions - Chapter 9 Parks/utilities Supervisor Boos explained that there is a PUD with strikeouts in the language on page 65 of the City Code Revisions. Staff is working on the PUD development with city code along with other aspects. Presently, landscape standards and tree preservation is being discussed. During discussions of the Ponds subdivision, concerns were raised of the definition of open space. He posed the question of whether wetlands can be counted as part of park dedication. He said that no action was required on this item. Commissioner Olds questioned which governmental body classifies what is wetland. Commissioner Rolfe stated that it is governed by the type of soils and vegetation that is on it. A wetland survey must be completed. Parks/Utilities Supervisor Boos stated there are a lot of classifications. There are protected and unprotected wetlands. Protected wetlands can have nothing done to them and are DNI~ classified. Also, the city could have an ordinance of what is considered wetland for our use. Twenty percent of the development for The Ponds was given as open space, and that included Park and Recreation Commission/December 13, 2001 Page 8 of 10