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Home My WebLink About1959-03-16 Park Board Minutesmentors Press= staven�, absol"'O": wheeler, strachaner, and Lswis maved and W" Jacus se' oxxiec'Z that the Minutes of the AW Dcar,6 - �e Z-Iotiorz -pas ee-61 Vlestinp, �;f h 2, 1959 ba appyovzd. ras vrit, r,4, 1 R-5 -1 Fee Whadals for NO. French reported that jost Septegbar at ths budget meeting between the Council and the Park Board on the pacrea%jon and Park Departn-innit budg�,-,(, -lhat the Countil suggestad that the park Ward studq an& Diake recommandatioas fOr a summar fee alledulao It would peyhaP6 awiFs in direction of r%akinthe 2ass approach core nva&7 the Actual cost of the WNW! OW Howevar, we were cautioned at the time timt -,72.6 not c.esL""-ealbbe, "-,o prdr-e g. e t,1-19 p ;iv, n ,a out of the reach of all taxpaycrs. eek ,.bt'rd.t- c a proposed fee soh4`.:du3a. Which ealle-61 for rai-sing 'Vhe f,, ;1 , th, th, first child in a femily would pay 64, and each j, that fandly. would pay $3, The its schedule also called d C b for a $1 rsgictration fee for each OJ',� `,.hese ju Softball, and Girls Softball: and a 12 We foi tennis instructicne StevzAs moved that the fee schedu3m as submittv! th (a(, vix, m -at tl-ie Council be ac WKS= -us Beconded L'hs c-arr'.'.nd, park as tb pe-tq-- tf Q "Ne Ed Lvnoz a tit to-aa present to prsscnn-�, `,o T-qs 1"4F.rit Ye, paption of Village Ada'. 1471rqpezz'�--, , , Ln, return for a parto , f Block 2 61 W 710 DiscResion of this matter diaClasedt Wora is still L that the Wast proposea Vol- ajignmen af Highnay #16, mvy still the part SaLrd felt that =16s TrYk lis be h014 by the Village pouding 0W 906atlon of Righway liope Qlh x this qNA, an- majorPar? Of it, W still bo used ns it warz ; t, AS besdom," Oft of the WIN yse? suald, not satisfy, park neeis A that 'is, Ga the bcsis of these reasons Mr. GuIlklay-moved that 2t W to V, Lynch's prnpoaal for UK= a PAM Of Usrf" Efrk Ono z n P - lien ok E2roh, 2 be rejected and that Hr„ ly&h be WA Le PaYing the W- 71OU of parriz 3-K 00 Kr. Harrison presented and describ". the second preliminaryplan for Jackson- Belmore west corner of the park area which the Village should at some future time e partlyand add to the park.. Also., that the streetcar right of way which lies Hopkins and partly in Edina and is adjacent to the north end of the park should also be acquired for park property, Mr. French farther stated that he had consulted with Mr. Harris$ Supt. of Recrea- tion in Hopkins.. to determine whether Hopkins is interested in acquiring the right of way,, and Mr. Harris has told him that both their Recreation Commission a. nd Planning Conmission are in favor., Furtherl.that the planning commission is not favort1iatw liand.Between groundsright of, way and the 16-rley HopItins school there Noneintervening street., 2nd Street, which carries fairly heavy traffic twice a day, in the morning and again in the evening,, During .: day this street is virtual2y deserted. The Hopkins Recreation Department runs a summer recreation program on the Harley Hopkins school grounds and a skating program in'the winter* The grounds.there .....r large enough for an official size baseball d but e Edina park i s not. slidingTherefore., in planning our Edina Park property tm have thought of it as a neigh- borhood playground to include a mull softball area., elementary school age play facilities., a hill$ and keeping.s mach oera:ae*.exists _ in ,e corner of thepark. After thoroughly studying the plan,, Mra Stevensr .'•, amnd the approval of this plan and request Harrison & Associates to proceed with a cost study of this and development plan for stage one developme -.,.. 2 y seconded d p.A. , which carried. .. 1r E ,.': .,+t:. ^. it. detailit Play' J.. recalledthat portion of the west end of Woodftle Park where tile small childrens play ground area is to be, ' Mr. French forthe Park Board that there was some $1,200 ItAft in contributed funds for Ifooddale Park and that coupled with the $200 fron the Mrs. Ja7cees vould be available for this play area developmnt' Paso,, A d _ organizations m y desirous p d r this n0neY on further development at I. oo d "' and'as expeditious2y as possible. it _ _ certain was !F 14differentorganizations - ' � -: � ` � � ems. �,. features ! vi either ' .,.. 3 Board financial contribution a work R,, , project. 14r. Stevens moved that the Park orse ple the plan., and fliat the costs of development be studied and Mr. French report bacIc sthen ready,, Mr, Crinkrley seconded the motf.,. unanimously., While on the subject of Wooddale Park the matter was brought up with regard t the deplorable a conditio of the south bank of the creme as the result of cor- struction by the Edina Counbry Club. last fall the Village Park Maintenance crew did an excellent job in cleaning up eine exesk bed, but now a grewt deal o. dirt cmd debris his rolled d the bank into the creed, bed. Thu Park Board had mored this and mer unaninoits in their, agreement that this should be brought v -c the attention of appropriate Country Club officials and ,e situation be ccr e -c c ,, waaa advised to asj,, tise tigc Mmaror to iinke .the appropriate eque—,' tfla , the, i-70 4 kV,., done ter; ,x.59}, 1.1r,, French reported that the last few summers the Recreation and Park Department had sponsored several youth recreation activities such as street dances# pimios# craft .ses.. and that !.r each o .. e.activities committee • , �. school students 6 been organized to.l7ities under the guidanceof Recreation . Department, This year we propose to -have high school nights at the swimming pool and repeat some of the above activitiesp and possibly smv. new ones would be added. Mr. French proposed to save time and get an early start., that the high school council take, on as a project the forming, of a Summer Activities Youth Council. This group would be ogganized before school is out and the summer activities be planned sir.organized bythis groupunder the gadance of theRecreation Park r • Mr. Stevens moved that the %are-ation Director be encouraged to proceed with the organization of the Sunrier Activities Youth s iAt Mia . Crinklc7 seconded the motion and it carried, The idea met with considerable enthusiasm from the entire •ark Board was advised -to contact, proper school authorities to present the proposals Mr. Crinkley,then moved and Mr, Jacus seconded that ,., Boardencourage idea of desimiating specific nights at the Mina Municipal + as high school nights and adult nights. The motion carried, J As chairmn of the Board subcommittee on ene matter of awards and ognition of ser7ice to the Community in Recreation and Parkes Iftr. Stevens re- ported that rather than andorscplan of,recognitionoffered National Recreation Associations oa consider instead a plan FIse • a on d' .. locallevels Park Board consider making such recognition perhaps 3 or 4 times a year*x Further, since a very successful ice hockey season has just been completed that it would perhaps be well to start the process by citing some person or persons in the Hockey Organization itself,, for the. good job jimt completed* As for an individual., Mr., Stevens suggested that Mr. Jack, Wright o for several wh years has devoted much tims and effort to the coachinrg, of hundreds of boys* After discussion of the pros and cons,, the Park Board approved the idea and asked Mr,, French to prepare the necessary materialo+ for Mr. Jack. Wright i report back on this at the next meeting. aContri.biltion Mr. Jacus moved that im accept with thanks the contribution made by the EdIns, Womnts Club a thati' with the purchase • picnic tables and Mr, Stevens asked that the following be placed on the April 6,, Agenda�-; I. Discussion and studyBoard can -a to bi,- more helpfula,the total maintenanceof theparks,, The meeting was adjourned at 10:55 p ene _