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r Item 9.C.4 City of Elk -�. River MEMORANDUM TO: Park and Recreatio. Commission Lel FROM: Michele McPherso 7. irector of Planning DATE: October 8, 2003 SUBJECT: Establish a Greenway Subcommittee Attachments • September 24, 2003 e-mail from Hannah Dunevitz • Natural Resource Guidance Checklist • September 24, 2003 Memo Regarding MN ReLeaf Grant • Greenways Natural Resources Assistance List After the September 22 joint meeting with the City Council,the City Administrator requested that research continue to determine the cost to complete a natural resources inventory in order to implement the greenway concept. I would like to establish a small subcommittee of the Commission to prepare a request for proposal to accomplish this objective. Rebecca Haug, Environmental Technician will be working with Sherbume County in order to identify oak forests within the community and then identify areas of oak wilt and prioritize their treatment. The work that will be done under the ReLeaf grant will be a small subset of the overall natural resources inventory. I have contacted Dave Schwarting,County Engineer,regarding the County's plans to fly the City for aerial photography. We believe that work that we are doing relating to geographic information systems can be "bartered" for high color resolution orthographic photos. Staff will continue to work with Sherburne County regarding the photography portion of the project. I anticipate the subcommittee meeting two - five times to identify the components of the RFP, review the text of the RFP prior to distributing them to those on the attached Natural Resources Assistance list, and to review the RFP's once they have been submitted in order to make a recommendation to the City Administrator regarding the firm to be hired. The Commission should note that there is currently no money budgeted for this activity,however it could potentially be a 2004 park CIP budget item.