Minutes - Parks and Recreation Commission - 07/14/2011

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Case #5.1: Consider Park and Recreation Commission Involvement at Happy Days Parks Supervisor Riverblood discussed that the Commission would like to get more involved in other things such as Happy Days and turned it over to Commissioner Chubb for discussion. Commissioner Chubb stated there are two areas that the Happy Days Committee is looking for the Commissions help with. One is assistance with the parade set up and line up and the other is bingo. The Commission discussed volunteer groups for example the girl scouts to assist with monitoring the parade event. Chairperson Shryock offered some Boy Scout names for the Happy Days Committee to contact. CITIZEN INPUT Kotchi Prosper, 15540 Iodine Street NW, Ramsey, the Traveling Director for the Northern Lights Soccer Club. Mr. Prosper was present to speak on behalf of the Northern Lights Soccer Club to discuss if there has been any progress of a building at Elmcrest Park. Parks Supervisor River discussed the CIP and is shown as a placeholder at $500,000 and sanitary sewer needs to be placed there and the other separate project is the play ground element. He discussed a partial match for use with park trust fund dollars and we are looking for a community match to that. Park Supervisor Riverblood discussed the benefit to the local retailers when a tournament is played and what the community payback is. Park Supervisor Riverblood also discussed the best way to start the process is for the residents to speak out in support of a new building as part of park dedication monies. Commissioner Bennett agrees and as a Commission they are in support of this We need to be creative with the use of volunteers and the Northern Lights Soccer club. There was discussion of the entire Anoka Ramsey Youth Association participation in the maintenance of this building. Mr. Kotchi discussed as of right now they host two tournaments and with a building it would attract more tournaments out to this field. Chairperson Shryock discussed the more state wide tournaments that•we can attract and how it would help our future economic growth. Park Supervisor Riverblood discussed the possibility of creating a task force in support of encouraging this issue to continue. The consensus of the Commission is to bring this back for discussion in August as a report from Northern Light Soccer. Park and Recreation Commission /July 14, 2011 Page2of3