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Memorandum To: Parks and Recreation Commission From: Michael Hecker, Parks and Recreation Director Date: November 4, 2020 Subject: Director’s Report This report is a monthly highlight of department activities related to recent collaborations, strategic planning, staff changes/developments, and park operations. Multipurpose Facility Naming Rights Front Page News! In case you have not heard, the new multipurpose facility has a name. It is Furniture and Things Community Event Center. A logo for the new facility will soon be presented to the City Council for approval. The Council approved the naming rights agreement that will bring in $975,000 over the course of 15 years. We are excited to have a local business invest and furnish its name. Naming Rights Consultant Chris Potenza has been working on this and other names for the other assets in the facility. More soon to come………. Active Elk River - Orono Park Plans SRF continues to work on the construction documents for Orono Park and YAC. We are continuing to work on bid documents for the YAC concessions building for bids this winter with the plans for construction to be done by the spring baseball season. Trott Brook Barn We are working on opening the Trott Brook Barn for rentals and will follow the COVID guidelines to allow 25% capacity, which will be 10 people. There will only be one rental per day, and it will be cleaned after each rental. There will be two lockboxes at the Barn so people can access the keys instead of coming to City Hall. Staff is planning to update the rental fee structure as we update the rental fees for all of our park facilities, including the packaging of fees for all of our facilities – for example, Furniture and Things Community Event Center meeting spaces and Rivers Edge Commons Park for weddings. Item: 10