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Page 2 . Recreation Board Minutes October 11, 1988 5. Discussion of Woodland Trails Tour The Recreation Board concurred that the City should be looking at applying for a LAWCON Grant to develop the Woodland Trails Park. The Recreation Board also concurred that the most obvious components of such a LAWCON Grant were listed in the 10/7/88 memo to the Recreation Board from the City Administrator. The items listed in this memo included the construction of an entrance into the park, the construction of a parking lot with lights, the construction of a camping area with grills, shelter, picnic tables, etc., construction of bridges over the creek within this park and the construction of a cross country skiing trail and hiking trail system. The Recreation Board also indicated that, as previously noted by Mr. Ring-Jarvi, lights for the cross country skiing trail system would also be a nice addition to the park. The Recreation Board asked that Economic Development Coordinator, Dick Fursman, who would be applying for a Grant on behalf of the City, attend an upcoming Recreation Board meeting to discuss this Grant application. 6. Park Dedication Fees . This item was discussed at the September Recreation Board meeting and at that time, Rolfe Anderson was requested to do additional research on Park Dedication Fees in neighboring comumunities. The Recreation Board reviewed Rolfe's 9/28/88 memo that looked at the Park Dedication Fees in Maple Grove, Andover, Plymouth, Champlin, Anoka and Coon Rapids. BOARD MEMBER CLETE LIPETZKY MOVED TO RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL THE INCREASE OF PARK DEDICATION FEES EFFECTIVE 1/1/89 FROM $200 PER LIVING UNIT TO $300 PER LIVING UNIT. MOTION WAS SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MARILYN VANPATTEN. THE MOTION CARRIED 4-2. Dave Anderson and Rolfe Anderson both voted against the motion and indicated that they were not opposed to an increase, but felt that the increase was not high enough to meet City park development needs. 7. Park and Recreation Financial Status At this time the City Administrator distributed three handouts from the Finance Director, Lori Johnson. These handouts discussed the status of the Park Dedication Fund, the City Recreation Fund and the City Park Fund. This material was reviewed by the Recreation Board and the Recreation Board requested that the Finance Director attend a future meeting during the winter of 1988-89 in order to further elaborate on the financial status of the Park and Recreation Funds. 8. & 9. Communit~Edu~ation U~ate-Char1ie B1esener / City Park and Recreation Update-Phil Ha1s . Charlie discussed with the Recreation Board the status of the senior citizen coordinator. This employee now works 32 hours per week and there is a demonstrated need and desire to have this individual work a 40 hour week. Charlie indicated that he would be working with the City Administration Staff in order to see if this increase in time could be accommodated within the budget.