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Arena Commission Minutes Page 6 June 23,2016 • Wednesday(June 29) the Parks and Recreation Commission has their meeting and they are going to review their Master Plan and start prioritizing what they would like to see included in the referendum. It sounds like about $5 million in park improvements,whether that would be in trails or acquisition of land at one point they wanted to add bathrooms to some of the trails. • On Tuesday (June 28) will be the regular City Council meeting. • July13`h is another Parks and Rec Commission meeting where they can finalize their recommendations. • July 18 the final recommendations need to be to the Council. • August 1s`there will be a regular council meeting to work on the verbiage for the referendum. • August 10 will be another Park and Rec Commission meeting. • August 15th a council meeting • August 26 the final date to get the verbiage into the county for the referendum. • November 8 voting day. Commissioner Cunningham asks if it has to go on the ballot, or if that is just the direction the City is taking. Commissioner Westgaard responds it doesn't have to, as we could theoretically levy • for it,but it's not a smart move. The rationale is to gauge how much the community wants a new facility. A $35 Million referendum would increase a $100,000 household's taxes $80/year for the next 15 years (based on today's dollars),but all of that fluctuates. It costs $12 Million/year to run the city. $9.5 Million of that goes to Police, Fire and The Street Department. The rest is for the library, parks, the Arena, etc. Westgaard adds if the referendum passes, the timeline would be to begin plan development in the winter months hopefully to start construction in the spring. Arena patrons could use the new facility,in theory beginning in fall of 2018. If it is built at Lions Park,with the soil correction, there will be a surcharge period. We want a new building to last 50 years so we want to make sure we are doing it right, even if that means waiting 6 months for the ground to be ready. Arena Manager Czech adds if it is built on the Lake Orono site,it will displace the ballfields that will need to be moved to the YAC. The Mayor wanted to be sure that it could be done in such a time frame that there is no down time. Commissioner Cunningham says it takes about a year for a ballfield to be ready to be played on. Commissioner Westgaard asks about the "option 3" renovation drawings from 292 group drawn up in 2011 when Arena renovations were being discussed that took out • POWEREDR HI NATURE