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Agenda Item Detail 9.1) Field Development / Regional Planning: At our September and October meetings we began to revisit our 1995 Long '~ange Planning goal that dealt with this area. At the September meeting you were presented with an inventory of community athletic fields in the District 728 area. Some of our individual communities have had experience with planning, developing, maintaining, etc. these facilities while other communities with respect to rapid and expected growth are just beginning their planning and dealing with their new found responsibilities associated with these types of facilities. At our October meeting we identified that the Community Recreation Board could and should be the vehicle in which joint partnerships be established between any number of communities or entities to cooperatively plan, develop, and manage these types of facilities. It was also suggested that these types of relationships with respect to developing facilities are usually top candidates when seeking grant funding. Since the October meeting I have learned that approximately $15-$20K would allow us to have a professional development consultant weave all existing recreational and park plans together and create one master plan for the region. This concept has been quite popular and history suggests that concepts such as this are good candidates for planning and implementation funding support. I am beginning to investigate possible funding sources. Additionally, with the recent school bond passing it appears that this is also a good time to get involved with the District to consider any partnerships with development of the recreational facilities associated with those schools. At the November meeting JA was asked to bring back a "Scope of Work" for Board consideration and discussion to help us formulate and define our objective. Please find enclosed a "MENU" of potential for consideration of developing the "Scope of Work". I will plan to review this at our meeting. B.2Personnel / payroll administration update: At the November meeting JA reviewed some of the inefficiencies associated with our payroll to recreation program staff. The Recreation Board directed staff to investigate streamlining this ~administrative function. It was agreed that the city of Elk River may be of some service with this function. Since the !ovember meeting I have discussed the likelihood with Elk River staff. They are interested in working with us to simplify [he payroll function. It was also determined that to modify our current system we needed to get counsel as it would relate to liability coverage and work comp. issues. Please find enclosed a memo from Dan Greene that suggests our next step. B.3) Consideration of Program Development Commission objectives and operation: At the November meeting JA was asked to bring this matter back for further consideration. Please find enclosed an outline of the objectives, benefits and operation. Please also find enclosed an article that further describes the benefit of these types of citizen bodies. I will also plan to give you an overview of our current program planning practice to help illustrate the benefit as staff view them.