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10.PRSR 04-14-2004Item #: 10 MEMORANDUM 13065 Orono Parkway Elk Pover, MN 55330 TO: Park and Recreation Commission FROM: Michele McPhersotii; ,Director of Planning DATE: SUBJECT: B. Park/Trail Developments 1. Park Dedication Fund Balance April 14, 2004 Informational/Update Items for April 14, 2004 Attached please find the March 2004 balance sheet that shows a balance of $1,183,071.02. On April 2, 2004, a check in the amount of $382,000 was received, increasing the balance to $1,565,071.02. 2. YMCA Update, March 3. Article - "Grooming Garbage for Golf 4. Article - "Ice Arena's Fate to be Decided Soon" 5. Article - "At this Library, There is Nothing to Check Out" 6. Lions Park Center Update The City Council agreed to locate the Parks and Recreation Director in Lions Park Center. On April 5, they agreed to expend Park Dedication Funds to complete the remodeling. Staff has managed to reduce the cost of the remodeling from $50,000 to $41,000 by using some in-house labor and used furniture. Phone: 763.635.1000 Fax: 763.635.1090 wwwci.elk-rivecmn.us BALANCE SHEET MARCH 2004 Page: 1 4/5/2004 CITY OF ELK RIVER 12:49 pm As of: 3/31/2004 Balances Fund Type: ll Special revenue funds Fund: 225 -PARK DEDICATION Assets Acct Class: 1000 Current Assets 1010 Cash 1012 Fair Value-Investments 1380 Interest Receivable Acct Class: 1000 Current Assets Total Assets ReservesBalances Acct Class: 2400 Fund Equity 2400 Fund Balance 2600 Change In Fund Balance Acct Class: 2400 Fund Equity Total ReservesBalances 1,181,994.02 -3,282.00 4,359.00 1,183,071.02 1,183,071.02 1,160,638.43 22,432.59 1, 183,071.02 1,183,071.02 Total Liabilities & Balances 1,183,071.02 Item 4.3. ver MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Patrick Klaers, City Ac~m'ni trator DATE: March 15, 2004' SUBJECT: YMCA Update The most recent meeting of the Northstax YMCA Community Board was held on March 11, 2004 at Lions Park Center. Attached for your review are the Mareh 11, 2004 meeting agenda and the February 5, 2004 N~orthstar Y?~1CA Commmunity Board meeting minutes. NorthStar YMCA Community Board Meeting Agenda March 11, 2004 7:OOam LIONS PARK CENTER Informational Items ^ Welcome ^ Opening thought ^ Approve Minutes and Agenda Report Items ^ Committee Updates • Program Committee • Public Relations Connnittee • Finance.YParh~ers • Executive Committee ^ NW YMCA Commmiity Board Meeting - 2/26/04 ^ Boys & Girls Club potential partnership -update New Business/Discussion Items ^ Medica -update ^ Facility site tour - 3/17/04 ^ Strategic Plan UPCOMING EVENTS MATERIALS INCLUDED ^ Conunmiity Board Meetings ^ February Minutes ~' Apri18, 2004 Coimnittee Meetings ^ Communication - 7:OOam - NRG March 19 & April 1, 2004 ^ Program - 8:OOam -Senior Center March 31, 2004 ^ Finance/Y Partners time and date? ^ Executive Committee - 7:00 am -Embers March 29, 2004 ^ Special Events ER C of C Business Expo -March 28, 2004 Sherburne County Fair NORTHSTAR YMCA COMMUNITY BOARD MINUTES FOR MEETING OF FEBRUARY 5, 2004 MEMBERS ATTENDING: Pat Klaers, Ed Stoutenburg, Bil] Helliwell, Ron Touchette, Stephanie Iiliuzing Tom McKimrey NW YMCA, Nick Haidos, Deb Hunter, Toni Lawrence, Stewart Wilsan, Mary Eberley Chair Helliwell called meeting to order at 7:15 AM. Agenda & Minutes for meeting of January 8, 2004 were approved. COMMITTEE REPORTS: 1) Proe~am Comnuttee -Ken Ebel was not able to attend & the conunittee has not met since last month. 2) Communications Conututtee - Ed Stoutenberg reported that their committee did not meet. They will, however, be placing a banner sign on the Kemper Drug building wall. It will promote YMCA activities and membership. Final content has not yet been determined. Joni L. is completing the sign work, and is also looking for a second sign site in Elk River. Cobom's is unable to permit the sign at their site. Highway 169 site is desirable. Conunittee needs clarification on spelling of `9VorthStar" - it was agreed that the name would be displayed & used as: NorthStar YMCA. 3) Finance Comn>ittee: -Nick Haidos reported we have about $700 in om~ fund. He is developing an Expense Report to be subnutted for committee member reimbursements. 4) Chair/Director Report - T. McKitmey reported the Boys & Girls Club is interested in a partnership this summer with regard to camp drop-off site & supervision. The club would be paid, and would also possibly be pemtitted to send kids to Camp Manitou for an afternoon of swinmming and other activities. Members had some concerns about adequate supervision; Tom noted this concern and stated the Y does require supervisioq ID prior to pick-up, etc. He will address specifically with Duane Howard of the Club, and also in the Agreement. 4) NW YMCA Board meetings - Bil] Helliwell & Ron Touchette attended the January meeting. Tom M. talked about a new partnership with Health Parhters to promote healthy life styles and exercise. 5) Tom M. then discussed the cunent NorthStar conunittee shucttne, the proposed structure & its benefits. The new sttucture would include current Program, Public Relations & Financial Development/Y-Partners Committees, as well as special task forces or project groups on an "as needed" basis. The new stmcture also adds an Executive Committee, which would meet regularly, facilitate planning, decision-making set goals, and will also establish the guidelines for operation of the organization. The proposed membership would include the four previously mentioned committee chairs, the overall Chair (Bill H.), Tom M. & amember-at-large. Since there is no facility work to be done inmrediately, this corrunittee will not be included in the Executive Committee at this time. Tom provided a brief outline of responsibilities/duties for the Executive Committee. Ron T. stressed the need to get firm commitment from people for conmzittee participation, work to be done, etc. A level of expectation should be set for membership and participation. The relationship with NW Y group was again discussed. The Nm'thStar Y is, and eventually will be, a separate formal entity-the NW Y will act as "mentor", offer assistance for start-up, and models for guidelines and methods that are already in place and working. M. Eberley made a Motion to adopt [he proposed organizational structure as presented by Tom M, including the establislnnent of Executive Conunittee consisting of up to 7 members; the development of "job descriptions" or expectations and responsibilities for board and conm>ittee membership and participation; development of preliminary operating guidelines and draft by-laws. Stephanie Klinaing seconded the Motion, Motion passed. Ron Touchette proposed an additional Motion, Second-Stephanie Klinzino - to establish and identify membership of the new Executive Committee to include: Program, Financial Dev/Y/Partners, and PR Commttee Chairs, himself as Sttategic Planning group chair, Bill Helliwell as Conununity Board Chair, Tom McKinney-NW Y, and Stephanie Klinzing as member-at-large, for a total of 7 members. Motion passed. Commttee will establish its own schedule of meetings. Founders Campaign is on hold for now. Group discussed a financial goal for the Y/Partners Campaign. Group finally reached consensus on $20,000 -Motion by Stephanie K & second by Ron T., passed. NEXT MEETING: MARCH 11, 2004, 7 AM Meeting was adjourned at 830AM. Mary Eberley Acting Recorder BURNSVILLE Grooming garbage for golf City considers plan to put course atop methane-generation site BY BOB SHAW Paoneer Press Welcome to Methane Meadows - the golf course that generates power as you play. In abizarre-sounding plan, the city of Burnsville hopes to convert a 100-foot plateau of garbage into an IS-hole golf course. And because landfill engineers have learned how to obtain methane from rotting garbage in under- ground bladders, golfers could be putting and driving atop a vast power-generating plant as early as 2007. "This is a fascinating concept,' said Burnsville city planner Jenni Faulkner. Officials will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. March 4 at Burnsville City Hall to consider Details at right BURNSVILLE ~ OANtlTA ~ CQ 13 DAKOTA '•~. COUNTY U IIU V:rIU~ ~..~-- --- ~ ~,~cgtBnt ll JO~aIE~ 100 feet garbage 12-18 inches sand r~: ...:.. ~ 60 mil sheet ~' ,~" ~ polyethylene 24 inches clay 5 feet dirt Water table ALEX LE.CR-'. ?'QNEEB PRESS Heavy equipment spreads out the trash atop the landfill in Burnsville. The top of the garbage plateau offers a 360-degree view of the vast Minnesota River basin. "It's pretty dramatic up there," said Paul Miller, from Gill Miller Inc., agolf-course architecture firm in River Falls, Wis. A course would be built over a landfill that would pump out methane. Grooming garbage (continwed) expanding the landfill, a neces- sary step toward the larger plan. ItJ the short term, officials want to expand the landfill from 31 acres to 119 acres, boosting the total capacity by two-thirds. The L-shaped mega-landfill would contain 26 million cubic yards of waste -enough to fill the Metrodome more than 50 times. But in the longer term, they are seeking to turn a pile of garbage into both golf and gigawatts. The first holes may be completed in three to five years, and the others in coming years. The notion sounds crazy until you get a tour from land- fill manager Mike Niewind. °'^+a ' v~ He sttvg- ~~~ ~, ~` Bled to keep his " ~' SUV on a ~Y l.~', muddy trail up the steep slopes Mike ~ of the 100-foot Niewind plateau. "That's a methane pipe right there," be said, pointing to one- of several S-foot pipes sticking up from the dirt. He explained that bacteria exhale methane, just as humans exhale carbon dioxide. The rotting of household waste - from chicken bones to tea bags - produces methane, especially when kept moist. Usually, the methane bubbles out, as in a swamp. But landfill engineers have learned to pile garbage atop acres of plastic sheeting then put another layer of plastic on top. They seal the edges -just as cooks crimp the edges of a pie. A system of pipes then sucks the gas out and into a small generation plant at the base of the plateau. The garbage generates 4 kilowatts of power, enough for up to 3,000 houses. "It's pretty slick," said Niewind. The methane production goes on for decades but usually peaks at about 15 years. One reason why the idea of golf on garbage isn't such a leap of logic is that the place is dokmright tidy - for a landfill. 'You notice anything miss- ing here?" shouted NiewirJd, over the beep-beep of backing trucks and the roar of a 60-ton compactor. "The smell - we are on 100 feet of garbage, and there is no smell." Below him, on the steep slopes of the plateau, two men hand-picked blowing papers so they wouldn't end up in a yard elsewhere. Operators are proud of how far they've come since the 1950s, when anyone could dump anything on the site. "A lot of people still use that four-letter word -dump," said Deb McDonald, engineer with Waste Management, which operates the landfill. It wasn't methane that attracted Gil] Miller Inc., a golf course architecture firm in River Falls, Wis., to the project. It's the views. "It's pretty dramatic up there," said Paul Miller, one of the partners. At the top of the garbage plateau, high above the trees, you get a 360-degree view of the vast Minnesota River basin. The dirt-covered top looks like a park, with deer, clouds of darting swallows, and natural grasses. But there are, as Miller's partner Garrett Gill calls them, "challenges." Garbage collapses over time. No structures may be built on a landfill, except for smaller build- ings such as concession stands on floating slabs of concrete. A clubhouse would be built at the base of the plateau. Holes 15 through 13 would be beside it, on the banks of the river. Garrett said that irrigation pipes must be flexible polyeth- ylene tubing, not rigid PCV pipe. Golf-cart paths couldn't be made of concrete. Then, there are problems with the terrain. No one wants to golf on a perfectly flat course, even one with fabulous views. But if bull- dozers piled, say, a 15-foot ridge A map shows what the golf course might look like if the landfill expansion and Constru Rion plans go through. of dirt for the side of a fairway, that dirt would weigh more than the surrounding 5-foot deep soil. It would slowly sinK into the garbage. So, before the first holes are created, the garbage itself has to be "sculpted" -yes, garbage sculpting is a real job - to fit the contours of the course. Only then would a fairly even layer of dirt be added for grass, trees and bushes. As a bulldozer rumbled past with a rugby shirt on the treads, Niewind laughed as he recalled a phone call he'd answered last week. A Burnsville jeweler said he , was on his way to the landfill - a 2.5 carat diamond worth $25,000 had been thrown away. "He said it was in a white plastic bag," said Niewind, standing amid millions of tons of mashed and rotting garbage. "I said that we had handled about 5,000 white plastic bags that day." Perhaps future archeologists will find it - bui only after much greater value has been recovered from the trash. Bob Shaw can be reached at bshaw@pioneerpreyss.com or 65]-?28-5433. ~i,1~y./ JOE ODEN, PIONEER PRESS ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2004 C 78 WASHINGTON COUNTY } FOREST LAKE Ice arena's fate to be decided soon BY MEGAN BOLDT Pioneer Press Forest Lake School Board members soon will decide the fate of the Maroon and Gold Arena, a move that could affect many hockey families and fig- ure skaters in the area The aging arena, which is Forest Lake's only indoor sheet of ice, is owned by the school dis- trictand has become more costly to operate. Leaky refrigeration pipes make it harder to produce ice, while furnaces and other equipment need to be updated. Board members have three options when they meet Mon- day night. They could close the arena, open it next fall with existing equipment or open it with anew portable refrigera- tion mat proposed by the Forest Lake Hockey Association. "The thought is that the School Board will keep the arena open if there's a financial plan in place," said Dan Poepard, community education director with the school district. "They're not going to risk gen- eral fund dollars and the educa- tion of kids by sending that money to the arena" Poepard said it's unlikely the board would go for opening the arena "as is" next year. It will cost about $50,000 for repairs to the furnaces, sprinkler system, Zamboni and the interior door. Since the refrigeration pipes wouldn't be replaced, it would mean an additional $65,000 in repairs just to make ice for the season. And ice making could be more expensive in the following years, he said. The Forest Lake Hockey Association voted this week to take on a $165,000 loan to pay for the floor mat system, said Greg Jellum, hockey association board member. The association is working out an agreement with the school district to lease it back to the district for mainte- nance and liability reasons. "I think conceptually every- body is supportive of what we're trying to do," Jellum said this week. The district would foot $50,000 for maintenance repairs. "It's strictly fixing and patch- ing things that need to be done if we're going to open the arena," Poepard said. Poepard said if the arena clos- es, the high school teams proba- bly would have to use the State Fair Coliseum in Falcon Heights for home games The teams would be scram- bling for practice times, but they possibly could use the closed arena at St. Paul's Harding High School, he said Transportation would cost about $26,000 and it wouldn't be convenient, Poepard said. "That's not a really attractive option for these kids," he said. `"that's a hard pill to swallow" Amy Becker coatrihuted to this article.Megan Boldt can 6e reached at 651-228-5495 or mholdt@pioneerpress. coin. At this ~~rar~, there's i „~#h~ tt~ check ot~t By Darlene Prois Star Tribune Staff Writer For a definition of "confu- sion," look into Waconias new library. But dotit look for it in a book. There aren't any. There isn't any heat or elec- tricity, either Although the other tenants of the ciy's new $12 million downtown proj- ect moved into sparkling new offices and cozy apartments last mondt, the library space remains empty, cold and dark, thanks to disagreements 6e- tweencity and county officials. City Administrator Susan Amtz said the city has always been cleaz about what it would provide for the new library, a branch of the Carver County system. She said the city as- sumed responsibility for the WacDnia reads aconia hopes to open a new I~r handle growing numbers of .,.,«.,..... 99 '00 01 '02 '03 Source: Carver County Library System exterior of the building .and agreed to contribute $175,000 toward finishing the 11,920- squaze-foot interior space. DISPDTE continues on 69: -The Library Board has a different understanding. Darlene Prois/Star Tribune Although the other tenants of Waconia's new 512 million downtown project moved into their offices and apartments last month, the space far the library remains empty. DISPUTB iFrom Bl Board planned to include many specializedfeaticres That's not exacdy how the Library Board understood the agreement, said Carver County Library Director Melissa Brechon. The Library Board had expected to use the $175,000 allowance from the city for spe- cializedlibrary features, includ- ing heavy-duty carpet, lighting and acoustics, not basics such as heating and electrical sys- tems and walls. "With little screaming kids on one side and people trying to read their newspapers on the other, the acoustical treatment of a library needs to be handled differently," said Anne Carlson, president of the Library Board. "We paid $63,000 in azchitectural fees, and we cant use the plans because the city wont put in what they originally agreed to." Those plans aze part of the problem, according to Arntz. The library architect specified heat- ing and electrical configurations that were considerably more involved than a basic plan, she said. City officials aze unwilling to pay an estimated $125,000 or more to bridge that gap. Representatives from the city and the Library Boazd will meet Monday to attempt to resolve the issue. In the meantime, book lov- ers can continue to use the city's small, crowded library on Elm Street. Last year, there were more than 67,000 visits to the 2,800-square-foot library, Brechon said. The library had originally,haped to move into its new home this month, but Brechon estimates it could take three or four months to finish construction if a deal is reached with city officials. For [he city, acceptable altemadves include trimming costs by adjusting the Library Board's plans or making the new library smaller. "Our goal is to put a library here," Amtz said. "But if we cant resolve the issues, the City Councff has given me authority to look at other alternatives." Darlene Prnis is at dprou @starhibune. co m. Memo Project Name: Elk River Natural Resource Inventory and MLCCS Mapping To: Michele McPherson From: Paul Bockenstedt and Liza Gould Re: Project Update Client: City of Elk River File No: 1482-04-100 Date: April 8, 2004 Bonestroo Rosene Anderlik & Associates Our efforts to date have focused on collecting background information (Task 2) and beginning the aerial photo interpretation process (Task 3). The data license agreement with Sherburne County was recently finalized, with all necessary signatures secured. As a result, we now have the electronic mapping layers that we need, and have created an ArcView GIS project for the inventory. This week we also received the information from the DNR on known occurrences of quality natural areas and rare species, and will begin to transfer that to our base map. The next step is to identify natural areas where a field visit is appropriate, based on aerial photo review, so that property access can be requested for those areas. We anticipate completing this process within the next several weeks. In all, the project is moving ahead smoothly, and we are eager to complete our advance work and begin the field inventory process. If you have any questions about the project or any of the work that's been completed to date, please feel free to contact us. Thank you, Paul Bockenstedt (651) 604-4812 Elizabeth Gould (651) 604-4763 Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik and Associates, Inc. 2335 West Hiahwav 36+ St. Paul. MN 55113+ Phone: 651-636-4600+ Fax: 651-636-1311