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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I CASE CONSIDER THREE-YEAR FUNDING REQUEST TO CITY OF ANOKA FOR · AQUATIC CENTER [Formerly Charles Horn Pool] By: Jessie Hart, Finance Officer Background: Several members of the Anoka Park Board and Pool Fund Raising Committee appeared before the Ramsey Park Commission on November 13, 1997, to request funding from the City of Ramsey towards the construction of the Anoka Aquatic Center [replaces Charles Horn Pool]. This request was for $12,000 over three years and would provide Ramsey residents with "residential" status at the new facility for this three-year period only. Similar requests have been made to the City of Andover which has approved participation at a level of $4,000. The Ramsey Park Commission recommended approval of this request for an annual contribution in the amount of $4,000 for 1998, 1999 and 2000, payable to the City of Anoka for resident status for the citizens of Ramsey at the Aquatic Center, contingent on the funds not reducing the Capital Improvements Program. Attached to this case is the following background information: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 1/I 3/97 Park Commission Case Cover Sheet 1/13/97 Park Commission Minutes 1/17/97 Memorandum from Bryan Lindberg, Anoka Pool Fund Raising Chair 993 Charles Horn Pool Usage Census 998 Schedule of Anoka Aquatic Center Pool Fees Cashflow Projections - Lawful Gambling Fund Observation: The request as approved by the Ramsey Park Commission has no identified funding source and, due to the timing, was not included in the Adopted 1998 General Fund Budget. Although it was discussed briefly at the budget worksessions, this request has not been formally approved by the City Council. Due to the nature of this request it is possible that the funding could be allocated from existing revenues in the Lawful Gambling Fund. Expenditures from this fund are to be used exclusively for recreation, community and athletic facilities, as adopted in the annual Capital Improvement Program, intended primarily for persons under age 21, provided that such facilities and activities do not discriminate on the basis of gender, and that such revenue not be used for operating equipment, supplies, wages or any other non-capital expenditure. The attached cashflow projections for the Lawful Gambling Fund indicate that this source can provide the funding for the next three years without negatively impacting the existing capital improvement program as presented by the Park Commission.