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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1953-12-01 Park Board MinutesED _Ntj P UtK :3CARD INIEETING with ADVISORY 'CO:NMITTEE of TWENTY-ONE EDINA RESIDENTS on Tuesdayp December It 1953 The Edin6 Park Board met with nineteen of the twenty-one Edina residents chosen to serve as an advisory committee to the Park Board, in the Library of the Wooddale School at 7:30, Tuesday, December 1. Mr. Hermann H. Strachauer, Chairman of the Edina Park Board, called the meeting to order and introduced those present: Mr. Hermann H. Strachauer Nix. William W. Lewis Mr. James R. Ritebay Mr. Howard Merriman, Secretary to Park Board and Director of Recreation Advisory Committee Members Present -- Mrs. Lee W. Bemis Mr. John E. Bryan Mrs. Alan Charbonneau Mr. Raymond Clausen Mr. Dick Furber Mrs. J. B. Gilfillan Mr. Henry Gregg Mr, Bower Hawthorne Mr, E. W. Ironside Reverend Paul Keller Mr. Austin D. Norton Mrs. C. H. Patterson Mrs. S. J. Phillipi Mrs. George M. Posselt Mr, W. Claude Stevenson, Jr. Mrs. James E. Scholefield Mr. Sam S. Thorpe, Jr. Mr. Harold C. Utley Mr. Richard W. Whitten Members Absent -- Mr. Phillip Neville Mr. Harry K. Wrench Note: All twenty-one committee members had some days previously been given copies of the Summary of Dr. Fitzgerald's Edina Park and Recreation Survey, for study. Mr. Strachauer: Our principal purpose in calling you together is because we definitely need your help ---we, meaning the Park Board as an agent,of the Village Council. We feel that Dr. Fitzgerald's report, ';Recreation and Park Survey for Edina," is very perti- nent and we would like to be able to tell the citizens of Edina that the members of this committee of twenty-one have spoken thus and so concerning the matters covered by this report. We hope that you will speak freely. This is not a meeting 'Coo discue the background of the Park Board but if anyone has questions to ask about the work of this Board, where they get their money, etc., we will endeavor to explain these things to you. (There were no questions). On these Edina Village maps which we have given you --the green boxes indicate the areas owned by the Park Board at the present time; those penciled have come to us through delinquent taxes. Some others have come from purchase by the Village, etc. The green areas show up pretty well against the rest of the map. Actually, they don't amount to much as far as the current needs, and the future needs of Edina are concerned. We have a large map placed in front of the room and.s:inee Dr. Fitzgerald has referred to certain areas by number, Mr. Merr:tman will endeavor to point out these numbered areas to you. Mr. Merriman pointed out the various areas on the large map,, explaining the boundaries, etc. Fifteen such areas were mentioned in Dr. Fitzgerald's report, and four more were indicated --making nineteen in all which were correspondingly marked on each persons map. .Mr. Strachauer: This Park and Recreation Survey which we are here to discuss is not something that came as a result of any unfavorable publicity. The Park Board has endeavored to get the money to spend for this survey for some times and entered into negotiations with the Council for this prior to 1452. This is merely for your informa• tion. Dr. Fitzgerald is eminently qualified to do this sort of thing and has made many important surveys throughout the country He has, in our opinions done a very thorough Job and is one of the most cooperative men I have ever met. We would now like to see what you people think about it and find out what your ideas and recommendations are. Your presence here (19 out of 21) is very gratifying to us. The only absentees.are legitimately absent and have explained their reason for not -being able to attend this meeting. Mr. Wrench and Mr. Neville are out of town. We had hoped to have Dr. Fitzgerald attend this meeting but he also is out of the cit; for some weeks duration. I have a letter from Mr. Neville which I will read in part to get things started: "This survey impresses me as a very well prepared document. It seems to me that this is an excel- lent project. It would appear to me that the only way to proceed is the bond issue mentioned in the report." Mr. Utley: I am thoroughly in accord with the whole plan but we are approacl ing it from the wrong angle. We should proceed first to find ou what the areas are, which the Village now owns which are worth developing,. and whim: ':: lou ild cost to de•aelop them., Do tb:1s; and urea approach i:he problem of the swiruni ng pool oft et wa_ as,, The swimming pool would be used only a few months of th,'- yra at best; so let us develop good playgrounds and park areas f-4.5'.':1+, and then go to the other. Let us have the areas surveyed an estimated, and then proceed. Mr. Strachauer: We have actually only one area of sufficient size- that is ;z:s piece (indicating center of the map) and this is mainly ruar6h area. Mr. Clausen: Does the money mentioned in the report include anything more than the swimming pools any other acquisition of property? Mr. Strachauer: It includes recommendations for acquisition of land. FZb Clausen: Four or five hundred thousand dollars would get you started on this program, wouldnIt it? How much would the taxes of Edina be affected? 1,y Mr. Strachauer: Mrs. Gretchen Alden, Deputy Village Clerks figured that it would average out about $10 a year per taxable parcel over a ten-year period of time. Mr. Utley: How many parcels in this Village? Mr. Strachauer: Parcel meaning any given taxable piece of real estate --about 8,500. Mr. Clausen: Would the operation of the pool be self-supporting as far as maintenance is concerned? Mr. Strachauer: No, as pointed out in the report; although.it would support it- self in part. Mr. Clausen: How would you exclude non-residents? Mr. Strachauer: You couldntt do this very well. You might make a difference in price of admission. We haven't been excluded from the use of Minneapolis facilities. Mr. Clausen: Is there any place in the country where municipal and private interests have combined on a project of this kind and have excluded outsiders? A facility like this, developed on a com- munity basis, might attract a lot of people, which I personally think would be an unfortunate thing for Edina. Mi. Strachauer: The size of pool mentioned in the report is of a size to take care of a neighborhood of which Edina is a center. %L, Clausen: Is there any way of combining private with municipal? 747. Lewis: Dr. Fitzgerald's report refers to places like Rochester, and a in the report_. St. Cloud which have pools of size contemplated Mrs. Charbonneau: Some of these (Park) areas which could not be developed because they are not desirable --could they be sold? Mr. Hawthorne: No, this could not be done. (Tax -delinquent -acquired prcpert e3 cannot be sold --other properties can). Considering what needs doing --my feeling is that we are ahead of ourselves in talking about a swimming pool now. The Council and Planning Commission have been, for eight or ten years, aware of the limitations of the park facilities in Edina, and the only way of acquiring bigger pieces of land would be through a bond issue. Through the years the school has had to expand and they came first. Now maybe this proposed bond issue should have been floated several years ago. But in my mind, the thing to do first is to acquire the land and then get started on a program which is way overdue and put up tennis courts, swings, and other recreation facil- ities. a very few hundred dollars would make the area in Wood - dale a useable park. The Wooddale PTA is working on this. We should do things like this now, and later talk about field houses, and swimming pools. We have to work out a program that will use to the fullest, the facilities of our community --and if there is a swimming pool at the high school we can make sone eco munity use of it. To me that is the sound solution. There are a number of communities that have done a good job on this. Minneapolis has not, however. Mr.. Strachauer: Dr, Fitzgerald did not recommend in his report the building of field houses. Mr. Hawthorne: I mentioned all of these things because it is necessary for me to leave and I wanted you to know how I felt about them: Mr. Strachauer: The Park Board agrees that the main need is suitable property. To sell the voters on the need for property is a pretty tough job. You have to give them more than just a request for pro- perty. There has to be an over-all project, in order to sell the public on this idea. Mr. Hawthorne: If we did have a swimming pool we could prevent others from using it and only a few of the Edina people would probably use it. Mr. Furber: We need to learn how to walk before we learn how to swim. We are talking about a swimming pool before we have sound building property. What property we have right now is very undesirable. About this bond issue, we couldn't swing a bond issue of $500,000. I think we should tackle this in two parts. Acquire suitable property and later develop something suitable on this property. Whitten: There is some thought of putting a swimming pool in the junior high school which it is expected may be ready for the fall term of 1956. We (The Park Board) first of all went along on the premise that it would be easier to sell a swimming pool than it would the acquisition of property alone. Mr. Hawthorne: The kids of high school and under will use the pool more than auul a, for instance. Putting a swimming pool in the school would cost less to build and m,4 pt:,in than to have it in the open. Mr. Furber: An indoor pool will not serve the same purpose as an outdoor pool. Mr. Strachauer: All this is true. We need land but we realize that the popular interest is in a swimming pool. We have paid Hopkins, out of our limited money, some $500 so that Edina residents might have the privilege of paying $1.00 to use their Shady Oak Lake fac- ilities. There is merit to having a little "frosting" on the cake. You are using psychology if you can go to people and ask them if they would be willing to pay $10 or so a year to have a swimming pool in Edina, plus other park facilities. You can sell it better than just to ask for money for land and facilities. Mr. Hawthorne: I agree that it is a need --but not our most pressing need. We don't have public transportation and a pool might not be easily accessible. Lake Cornelia might some day be improved so that we can have a beach. I personally would like a swimming pool in the school but there are some people who are already complaining about this in the school. They ask why this school must have the finest gymnasium, and why it must have the expense of a swimming pool. Mr. Lewis: There is an alternative. If we could acquire property (which is what we really want to do) it may be that later we could add a pool without again going to the people for money. Mr. Bryan: You are looking, then, for this "frosting" (The Swimming Pool) to sell the need for land to the people. What if they were told that there was going to be shuffle board, swings, and tennis courts, and you sell it in that manner? Is it possible that there is a beach area in the village of Edina that could be ac- quired that could be used as a swimming beach. Out on Highway 169, there is a beautiful lake and there is a lot of property available there right now. What if we told the people that a lake would be acquired for swimming --to sell your idea fo the public? Mr. Strachauer: It is generally thought that small lakes, even those that could be cleaned up, are not too desirable for swimming. Even a body like Lake Calhoun gets contaminated and cannot be used at times. That has been the understanding that we have had about lakes or potential lakes in our village. Patterson: I think from the safety angle that any Mother would rather have her child in a pool than in a lake. :k;achauer: We, on the Park Board, believe that what we need most is land, for present and future development. 01 Mks. Patterson: One approach might be through the school children, and the magic appeal of a pool to them would be very strong. If you are going through the effort of floating a bond issue, why not include it now and not have to do it again later? Mr. Stevenson: If you take the pool out, how big would the bond issue have to be? Mr. Strachauer: About $250,000. Mrs. Scholefield: If we could utilize the pool for instruction --the pool that is contemplated being built in the school --that would have a great deal of appeal to the parents. What is the size of the pool being considered by the school? Mr. Merriman: The size of the pool being considered is 75 x 30. Mr. Strachauer: The size of the one Dr. Fitzgerald recommends is 100 x 160. Mr. Keller: Does the Park Board have the power of condemnation? I ask this because Site B looks like the only solution, but the price of approximately $2,500 an acre looks like too much money. The School Board got a piece of land far more desirable than this, which was platted, for $2,500 an acre. Mr. Strachauer: (pointed to the area in question on the large map) Mr;.Keller: If you are thinking for the future, why go out for 8 or 9 acres. I like Site B, but not the price. Mr. Ritchay: Site B was mentioned in the report as suitable for anything. Mr.,Keller: The relationship between the School Board and the Park Board should be ironed out so that we can talk in terms of facilities. I am completely in favor of this type of thinking. I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Fitzgerald, and the way he carried his survey out was very professional. But I believe we should correlate these two agencies. The School Board has been con- cerned with bond issues to the point where we are meeting several times a month. If we could go to the School Board with a propo- sal of this kind, I believe that everybody would feel just as I do that the agencies should work together. Nr, Strachauer: In any kind of village undertaking we should utilize all the facilities of the village. M--, Keller: I think the school should be used. However for example we are School Board, for the school buses responsible, as members of the and we can't say that they are yours to use. It is a very vital working to- relationship and we should have some sort of group ward that end. auer: To get, back to the basic purpose of this meeting: Discussion o this Perk buj:- ey and setting up this Park and Recreation Advisory Cou;�c:ii. Essentially? Edina has nothing today by way of gro,.nld =r= areas and we have no facilities. We don't have anything. The only thing we have, at the present time, is one chute -the -chute slide. Mr. Keller: You would have facilities under the arrangement proposed in Dr. Fitzgerald's Report. .We (the School Board) are finishing the courts, a baseball diamond, etc. We have facilities al- ready, but to get to them (for public use) is another thing. Mr. Strachauer: Yes, but as it is now, the village of Edina has nothing, and if we dont do something about it soon, we are going to be as an entire village in the same position as such areas as the country club. We will not be able to go out and buy land without buying a $50,000 house which is,built on it, Now the question before US.* 1. In general, is the survey or is it not a good survey, and are the recommendations made in it desirable for action, If so, let us consider it as being desirable and then we can get down to other phases. How much of Dr. Fitzgeralds rec- ommendations should we accept? Mr. Furber indicated before he had to leave that he was not in favor of the swimming pool at this time but was in favor of acquiring land. I have felt all these years, and this has been strengthened in talking to friends in.the Village, that if we were to go out and try to get a bond issue floated for acquiring land only, we would be laughed out of town. Mr. Bryan: What if you float a bond issue and promise the people, among other things, a pool, but take care of the other needs first? Mr. Strachauer: We would not be able to carry on the swimming program that we have been conducting, in an indoor swirning pool. Mr. Ritchay: A pool 30 x 75 could not accommodate a hundred people at one time so as far as the village of Edina is concerned, it would not work. Mr. Iieller0 You would have to conduct it similar to tle Y. Mrs. Gilfillan: We are doing this for the children and so it should be for the year around. Maybe we could get a large enough indoor pool so that it could be used twelve months of the year. Our Minnesota summers often do not allow much use in the summer of an outdoor pool, Your tennis courts could be flooded in the winter and maybe we could really get started on that. +�L•o Keller: I don't think they would go for flooding the courts. X?s. Posselt: Who is privileged to use the school tennis courts? Merriman: That has not been decided as yet. Judging by the way the Park Board has been able to work with the School Board, we are h•p­ ing that the Park Board will be able to use them. Mr. Keller: I think this could be done, but I still think your basic probl�'n is Lo get land and I think you had better start. Mrs. Charbonneau: Could we get any revenue from the Village liquor store? Mr. Utley: I think that funds from the liquor store is a possibility. Mr. Stevenson: Before you start to talk about the land, you need a bond issue. Mr. Whitten: Could the vote (to the School District and to the Village) be put in such a way to the people that if they accept one phase of the programs they accept the other? Mr. Strachauer: Referring to Dr. Fitzgerald's Report we are working with two the Village) and in legal bodies (The School District and additions our school district includes the village of Morning- side. Mr. Ritchay: It has to be a separate Village bond issue. Mr. Strachauer: Dr. Fitzgerald has repeatedly stated that we must not think of but the needs of all recreation in terms of children onlyo with one of age groups in mind. A reservation type of area as part the land acquisition is desirable. You have to think of it with a long-range viewpoint in mind. Mrs. Patterson: If the bond issue were cut down, would it be possible to get money for a swimming pool later? Mr, Strachauer: Probably not. We should ask for money for both land and pool at one time. Mr. Keller stated that the 6chool Board is going The Park Board ahead with plans for acquisition of property. like to along with Dr. Fitzgerald who recommends that would go the Park Board buy an adjacent piece of property and thereby make joint use of facilities.. We. Charbonneau: Would it be feasible for us to go together with the School Board organizations and buy property.. and then turn to our various like PTA, Lions Clubs etc., and ask them to take on projects to develop various areas without going in too deep on the part of the Park Board: Mr. Strachauer: That sounds fine. It was pointed out earlier that Wooddale PTA to suitable property. is doing thiso but first you have get W s. Scholefield: Don't you think that we could sell the need to the people with- the are ready to be out the swimming pool? I think that people sold on this. This is a family community and I think a place would be appreciated where people could go to enjoy picnics etc Gregg: Basically, you have to get the land. Minneapolis acquired land thought we many, many years ago. And now.. even though people did this they are now proud that Minneapolis were crazy when we and lakes. The people in Edina are intereste. is a city of parks in things for their children and families, and. I think with Tleverend Keller that we should get hold of a desi-able piece of land. Get organizations like the Women's Club interested. If we get it up in a readable., concise form, I think it could be put over with all these d;.fferent groups, without the swi:ming pool now, but in the future, Develop a park area in this community to be proud of. Go after funds for a recreational program. Mr. Strachauer: Anything we do is going to take a terrific build-up. Mr. Bryan: You could show the voters just exactly what they are going to get. You could put the swimming pool at the bottom of the list and you could tell the people that they voted on these things. W.. Stevenson: If we are going ,after the acquisition of land, we should go after the bond issue and make it all inclusive rather than to have to go back to the people later. It will be just as easy to sell $5002000 as $250,000. Mr. Ritchay: That is my idea, too. Mr. Stevenson: Out of these 950 kids that were swimming last year at Calhoun in the Park Board program, and 200 or 300 in the baseball pro- gram—maybe 1,200 kids altogether reporting back to their 400 families --right there is a pretty good nucleus for favorable votes for a swimming pool. Mrs. Patterson: TbEre is another thing. It would keep a family together to have a park with a good swimming pool so that all the members of the family could play together. Mr. Bryan: Get the swimming pool in there as part of the program someplace. Mr. Clausen: You can't isolate Edina from a social problem like this. Edina is not a self-sufficient commu-ity like St. Cloud and others. If you undertake a program out here, you are going to get resi- dents from Richfield, Robinsdale, and many other places, and if you undertake a program like this, immediately you are going to be doing a lot of good for others rather than for your own people. Your tax payers are going to ask how much is being spent for our own people and how much for outsiders. It would be too bad if we undertook a half -million dollar program includ- ing $250,000 for a pool if half of the benefits went to other people. A pool attracts a lot of teen-age kids and they are the kind that will come from all parts of town. ;`,-c Bryan: Maybe a guest cord arrangement would work. ,t:r,; Ritchay: If this were a problem, it would be a mechanical problem of handling. You could exclude, if you want, non-residents. Stevenson: How can we stint our own program just because some outsiders might come in"? Mr. Thorpe: Should we not consider in the original cost, the cost of upkeap also? Could it be eha;.ed with the School Board? I think we ought to take one or -two members of this comm- ttee to cons"01:''i with the School. Board to see what it would amcvunt- to in dollars and cents to consolidate the cost. That might take care of Mr. Clausen's problem of excluding outsiders because ou.:siders would not be apt to crash the school facilities. They ooald find out what it would cost. Mir. Strachauer: You remember that Dr. Fitzgerald recommends that to operate and conduct a program, it should be conducted by a group of five men. Now, we have nothing to offer the School Board but a plan. Mr. Thorpe: Maybe we could combine with the School Board. Mr. Keller: The School Board could not give you an answer until we have a mandate by the voters and our hands are tied until this is done. Mr. Ritchay: The School Board has not been sold yet. Mr. Strachauer: The Park Board has two things to do: First, we want to find out from you people whether in principle, in part or in full, this Park and Recreation Survey is good, so that we can sell it to our boss, the Village Council. We have recom-.,ended its acceptance to the Council but don't know if they will accept it. We will be stronger if we can tell them that you have recommended that the survey is good. Then, we will go to the School Board and do the same thing. If they, as a Board, think it is a good thing, then in order for them to be able to do anything they will have to have the authority by the voters to join the Park Board in a joint recreation operation. Mr. Keller: I wonder if the word authorized on Page ? (of the Report) should not be changed. Mr. Strachauer: Perhaps. Mr, Keller: How much money does the Park Board have in the bank? Mr. Strachauer: None. Mr. Ritchay: We have a potential income of $20,000, in 1954. Mr. Keller: The School Board takes an option on property before the vote has come in. Mr. Utley: Yes, get the option before you start voting on it. NL. Ritchay: Don't you think that we are five years at least late on this? Mr. Utley and all: Yes, twenty-five years late on it. Mr. Ritchay: I personally think that the people could be sold on the half - million bond issue. Mr. Strachauer: If the Council turns us down., I propose that we go over the Council, tt.) the people. The Council is UT -1 dollar conscious. Mr. Bryan: As I inid3rstand it,, t-11, e ovor-a-.)_ 1 program D()t OYI-s"` k.7by parcel of taxable property over $10 a year f0ir 4,-,c;ge'Uha:.- for don't we make a motion to the effect that we stand that $110? a bond issue of a half -million dollars based upon Mr. Stevenson: A program of the kind we are talking about is going to make the they something for their tax money people feel that are getting that they dontt feel they are getting now. Mr. Strachauer: Exactly. We have 169000 population and in the fifteen years In 1952) that I have been here it has grown from about 5.,000- if everybody's taxes were paid, with our two mills maximum al- lotment the Park Board would have received $20.,000. Next year because of increased valuation of the Village, we are going to get in $24,000, 1 don't think there is any question but that we must do something now if we are going to do anything at all. A lot depends on how all of us are going to carry the mission-- We letts give Edina sore park property and park;facilities. will have to set it up with as much planning and drive as any worth - with the Village Council. while project. I don't propose to stop I Mr. Utley: Maybe public subscription is the answer. Mr. Strachauer: It could be. All this depends on whether you yourself are the ball --not sold. But if you are) we have to really carry just a little at a time. Mr, Utley: It would be a waste of time to work on a little piece at a time. Mr. Ritchay: How much could you r4ise by public subscription? Mr. Utley: You can't tell --maybe a great deal) maybe not. Mrs. Charbonneau: But if you have something definite,, something specific, it will go over. Mr. Bryan: Could the retirement of the bond issue be 20 years instead of 10? Mr, Keller: I so move that we accept Dr. Fitzgerald's report in principle and that action be further taken for the furtherance of going out for a half a million bond issue. (In the ensuing discussion, there was no second to the motion). iir. Clausen: I object to accepting the report in full—there are some things contained in it that I would not go along with. 'Ar. Bryan: People will want to know whether this committee will be con- onsulted suitedas to the expenditure of this money if the bond issue is successful. 12 - Mr. Strachauer: If the $500,000 is voted, the money will be spent by the Par: Board for the following: 1. to acquire land 2. to construct facilities 3. to build a swimming pool Such moneys as would be obtained from year to year for the operation of a recreational program would be spent by a legally appointed Recreation Commission of five people made up of: 1. One member from the Park Board 2. One member from the School Board 3. Three from (Refer to Dr. Fitzgeralds report) the Village at large. Mr. Bryan: I suggest that this present Advisory Committee of 21 be made a permanent committee. Mr. Utley: 1. I believe that we are all in favor of the park recreational program. 2. On point of development, we are not quite in agreement as to what should come first. a. The choice of location, including what we now have that is worth developing b. additional land c. the determination of the cost of those things and cost of maintenance. It will cost you $100,000 a year for maintenance and operation, I think. We are talking generalities and have not yet said what it is going to cost us. Someone should set down what it is going to take to put this program into effect. 4:, Clausen: We are ready to say that we think the tax payers of Edina can afford a half million dollar park program. As far as alloca- tion of those moneys is concerned, that is a matter of techni- cal study that will come later. 1-Irs. Patterson: Assuming that the Park Board membership changes and someone comes in and has a different idea, this $500,000 --could it be used for some other purpose? .'L•, Strachauer: If a bond issue is approved by the voters you have to use the money for the purpose for which the money is voted. Regarding the permanency of this committee, we had hoped that this committee, as it exists, would continue as an advisory committee to the Park Board, advising us and helping us in all our affairs. Mr. Strachauer was then asked to read the letter which he had received fr-.a Mr. Utley outlining his ideas. This was done. Mr. Thorpe: You are going to have to sell this to the voters so yor w4.111 have to have an over-all program to tell the voters about, Mr. Norton: You want the approval of the park program? Mr. Strachauer: The Park Board believes that this survey is good. 'vie recommend it. It is high time we get started and we want to get money for this purpose. Mr. Ritchay: We feel that a three-man Park Board is not able to accomplish what we want, so we called this committee together to help us decide where we want to go ai-d how to get there. Mr. Utley: We will have to tell the voters what we are going to do with a half million dollars before we can go to them and ask them for it. The swimming pool is put way up on the list and most of us were thinking that it should be down. The voters are going to reduce it to what it is going to cost them. iJhat I am propos- ing is that we go into this to determine what we can use of present facilities that are worth doing anything with, by some- one used to estimating the cost of making them useable; what it is going to cost,for annual maintenance, etc. The same thing with the pool. 1. I move that in principle this committee agrees as to the need for a park and recreational program, generally along the lines as outlined by this report under discussion. This was seconded by Mr. Bryan, and passed unanimously. The individual members present were asked if they were willing to serve on this committee on a continuing basis. All agreed. Mr. Strachauer; I move that this committee be made permanent. Kr, Stevenson: Seconded. (It was carried unanimously). 117_,, Thorpe: When will our next meeting be? Strachauer: We will meet with Dr. Fitzgerald. All were in favor of this and since no time could be found in the days before Christmas, it was decided to meet the fust Monday in January --January Lp, Copies of the complete Park and. Recreation Survey Report were passed out to all committee members present. Respectfully submitted, Ardyee H.r LaPray, Stenograpi