Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 02/08/2018

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Central Anoka County Regional Trail .. • Recreation Department's annual operations and maintenance budget, which includes revenues from picnic shelter rentals, room rentals, programs, parks entrance fees and the County general fund. Supplementary funding is provided through the Regional Park Operations and Maintenance Grant Program. Public Engagement and Participation The Central Anoka County Regional Trail has been previously identified in the 1996 20/20 vision Plan and the 2006 Comprehensive System Plan for the Anoka County Parks and Recreation Department. Both of these plans conducted public engagement as part of the plan development process. Since the development of those plans, trail has slowly, but surely, continued to be developed. For this Master Plan Amendment, the public engagement process p . osed to engage local cities, population groups and organizations in an inclusive and access' ' anner for feedback. The engagement plan includes goals for the project, who was enga • d, . ds of engagement as well as results from the engagement process. Goals for the engagement process associated with this an amendment include the following: 1. Building positive relationships with local . _..unities esidents. 2. Build community ownership of and understanding of ounty's planning process 3. Receive feedback and comments from the p bout is proposed change to the regional trail. The community engagement process is occurring at%s time. The County has shared the proposed trail realignment with community members tsocial media and will be conducting a few pop-up events that will allow the pu , c to review the proposed change and provide comments. Local and state gove well. 11 be invited to review and comment on the amendment as While we are still receiving inpu the proposed amendment, the County does not anticipate substantive changes to the proposes trail route change. Comments received will be documented in the Appendix with responses and where feasible the comments will be incorporated into the plan. More information regarding the engagement process can be found in the Appendix. Public Awareness Public awareness is an important component to regional park and trail systems. The County will partner with the Metropolitan Council's on their regional -wide awareness program, as well as, provide public information maps, websites (www.anokacountyparks.com & www.anokacounty.us), social media postings, publications and brochure in cooperation with Commute Solutions, the County's Transportation Management Organization (TMO). Public Engagement and Participation • 10