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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018-04-05 Parks Board Minutes RIVERSIDE PARKS BOARD MEETING MINUTES April 5, 2018 6:00 p.m. The Riverside Parks Board held their regularly scheduled meeting at Riverside City Hall, 2950 NW Vivion Road, Riverside Missouri 64150. Those in attendance were: Noel Challis, Deana Winter, Jill Hammond, Elaine Warren, LaNette Ingram, and Cathy Kline. Call to Order The Parks Board Meeting was called to order at 6:04 PM by Noel Challis. Approval of Minutes The minutes from March 1, 2018 were reviewed. Elaine made a motion to approve the minutes as submitted. LaNette second. Motion approved. Fitness Court The proposed location of the Fitness Court and the pros and cons of possible locations were discussed. A possible location off of Cliffview Drive was considered as there is access to this area from Renner Brenner Park. This location is not as ideal for parking. After discussion, The Park Board felt that the Community Center is the best location with the following notes. The Fitness Court can be a first phase to future improvements for a more park-like setting or community gathering space. It will be important to heavily promote the location and educate. A lot of this promotion can come with help from the YMCA and the National Fitness Campaign. We should do what we can with the first phase to beautify the area and make it look inviting. Jill Hammond made a motion that the Park Board recommend the Community Center site as the best location for the Fitness Court with the caveat that we would like some future beautification to be done to that area to make it have more appeal. E. H. Young Master Noel reviewed the results from the Community Open House from Monday, March Plan Progress Report 26. There wasn’t as strong of a turnout as the first meeting in February. Overall, it was a good discussion and opportunity to introduce more people to the project. People were excited about the concepts and making changes to the park. There was some concern about the baseball field going away. Noel took the concept boards to the Easter Egg Hunt and this concern was also expressed there. We could look at an option where the baseball field stays in the park for the first phase of construction. th We are moving towards a single concept that will be presented on May 15 to the Steering Committee and the Board of Aldermen. The BOA presentation will be during their regular meeting at 7pm. Noel asked if the Park Board would like this meeting to replace their regular Park Board meeting for May. The Board agreed that since there are other topics to discuss in May, we should plan to have our regular meeting. Art Brainstorming A couple of options for proceeding with a first call for art were discussed. 1) We could focus on the Monarch Migration Trail or 2) a general call for art similar to other cities. If we want to do a general call for art where the art pieces are temporary with the opportunity to be permanent, we will need a budget and program. LaNette asked if we did this general call every year or every other year, is it feasible to get this into the budget. The answer might be yes, but right now we don’t have a good understanding of how much the art would cost if we wanted to make it permanent. We can do more research and work on this program in the future. The $15,000 is available for this next fiscal year as the seed funding for this program. If we think we need more funding than that, we need to have a budget recommendation for the BOA to consider. Monarch Migration Trail We decided to focus on the Monarch idea as our first pursuit. Deana recommended that we allow a single artist the option to do all 6 pieces along the trail. This would make the reimbursement to the artist more worth their time as compared to just doing one or two pieces. If the artist knows the budget going in, we may be able to get a good turnout. Elaine asked within the $15,000 would we need to budget signage and everything else like installation, etc.? Yes, we would need to provide all of this. The signs could be small. Kathy suggested that signs can be printed directly onto metal. Elaine said it would be helpful to understand of the $15,000, how much might be left for the artist. Kathy said Gary Staab might be happy to come and make a presentation or answer questions. Kathy will reach out to Gary. In knowing how much to budget for the pedestals, Kathy suggested talking to monument base providers. Goals are for this to be permanent and quality. Noel will work on a budget for the overall costs, including signage and installation. Next Meeting The next meeting will be held on May 3, 2018. Adjournment Deana made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:00 pm. LaNette seconded the motion. Motion approved.