HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-06-06 Park Board MinutesRIVERSIDE PARK BOARD MEETING
MINUTES
June 6, 2006
5:30 p.m.
The Riverside Park Board held their regularly scheduled meeting at E. H. Young Park in
Riverside, Missouri, on Tuesday, June 6, 2006. Chairman Jim Frakes called the meeting
to order at 5:30 p.m. Those answering roll call were: Jim Frakes, Kathy Rose, Lori
Rardeen, Julie Rule, Ron Carlson, Alderman Linda Jones and Brent Miles. Public Works
Director Larry Meyer and Jane Henry, Administration Assistant, was also present. Sara
Thatcher and Jerry Hackenberg were absent.
Jim Wroblewski, a Riverside citizen, in a document given to Park Board President Jim
Frakes, presented his ideas for new parks and grounds landscaping and for maintenance
of the plantings already in place. Rose asked for a plan of attack. Rule said, "We need a
maintenance schedule: 1) Could Jim give us a timeline and how to proceed? 2) Will he
agree to review our operations and maintenance draft?"
Miles offered that parks signage needs to be consistent and standardized. Parks board
members agreed that staff should get cost estimates for new signage from 3 or 4 vendors..
Also, legal and safety requirements at the parks, especially the new skate board park,
need to stand out more, i.e., different colored lettering.
The system for reserving shelter space in the parks was reviewed and discussed. Rose
said we may have come to the point that a staff person needs to be here to monitor on the:
weekends. Public Works staff hours could be staggered to fill the need.
Budget priorities for the parks were discussed. The top 7 high priority items for the
2006-2007 Budget were highlighted.
1) Some park board members are concerned about the condition of the baseball field
in EH Young Park. The Board had decided on no pitcher's mound so it would not
be an obstruction for practice or for play. The field was graded flat for a softball
field. The field needs to be fixed and made ready for tournament play in July.
Meyer will call the company and ask them to mark the base lines and mark the
positions for the base bags and home plate. The field bleachers the board
recommended purchasing are too short. The board would like to have those
bleachers moved to the horseshoe pit area and order new, more standard sized
bleachers for the ball field.
2) Homestead Park upgrades were funded in the 2005-2006 budget and the fencing
should be installed by the end of July. Miles will schedule relining the basketbal l
court and replacing the existing wire cable fence.
3) The repair of the Line Creek Trail that comes into and terminates in Renner
Brenner Park will be proposed as a capital improvement project in the 2006-2007
Budget. The area is approximately 150 feet long and 10 feet wide. Also, the
benches near the Skateboard Park that are in disrepair will be replaced in this
project.
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4) Rose asked Meyer to document his schedule of maintenance and the wear and tear
on the City's lawn equipment so that a replacement schedule can be developed.
5) The development and construction of Line Creek Trail is proposed for the new
budget year and, if approved, should begin in August '06.
6) Rule is working on a flow chart to be used as the basis for a packet for event
planning. She said there is a need to set standards for all groups renting the parks•
and the community center. Rose said some standards would have to correlate
with the number of people generated for an event. Jones advised talking to City
Attorney John McClelland about standards for waiving fees. Miles offered to talk
with him and report back to the park board.
7) The bathroom doors at EH Young Park that are bent are being taken care of,
according to Larry Meyer. Argosy presented 8 exhibits pertaining to the proposed
sewer connection and Kaw Valley will act on it by tomorrow, June 7. John
Jackson, City Engineer, has given Brent a proposal and the costs for winterizing
the restrooms so they can be a year-round facility.
8) The Park Board would like to have input in the streetscape plan. Miles estimated
it will be a 2 to 3 year phased plan starting on Highway 9 at the entrance to
Briarcliff.
The meeting was adjourned.
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