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.
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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
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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.
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' 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