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<br />PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION <br />CITY OF RAMSEY <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />The Ramsey Park and Recreation Commission conducted a regular meeting on April 10, 2008, at <br />City Hall Council Chambers, 7550 Sunwood Drive N.W., Ramsey, Minnesota. <br /> <br />Commission Members Present: <br /> <br />Chairperson Jill Johns <br />Commissioner Amber Erickson <br />Commissioner Randy Backous <br />Commissioner Bridget Barr <br />Commissioner Steven Hansen <br />Commissioner Tom LaMere <br />Commissioner Melody Shryock <br /> <br />Members Absent: <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />Also Present: <br /> <br />Parks Supervisor, Mark Riverblood <br />Civil Engineer II, Leonard Linton <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER <br /> <br />Chairperson Johns called the Park ~d Recreation Commission meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. <br /> <br />CITIZEN INPUT <br /> <br />Local resident Ben Deemer, 14501 Sunfish Lake Boulevard, approached the Commission to <br />submit and present the following letter regarding the Sunfish Lake Park site. <br /> <br />"This topic resurfaces again after being put to rest in the 1990s, and it appears. to be driven again <br />by staff of the city, who like to put lines on map. NONE of the owners of the shoreline were ever <br />in favor of any sort of trail or walkway along the shoreline of the (at the time) totally private lake, <br />with no public access. With the construction of Sunwood Drive on the south, any real reason to <br />want to look at this water has left. The egrets and sand hill cranes were the last and the trumpeter <br />swans left when construction started. Even the number of geese using the lake is decreasing. <br />The geese effectively keep other water birds away while they are there. The Seagulls left when <br />the landfill closed to dumping. <br /> <br />The idea that people who own lake frontage would like a trail in their front yard is ludicrous. <br />They pay extra in taxes for this land classification, and that is their front yard! There is the <br />reason it is called lake frontage and stated that the property fronts on a lake or waterway. Even if <br />the trail is in a backyard, the first thing that happens is the six-foot high fence to create the <br /> <br />Park and Recreation Commission/April 10, 2008 <br />Page 1 of 18 <br />