HomeMy WebLinkAboutPRMinutes_2010_02_01MINUTES FOR PARK AND RECREATION BOARD MEETING
held February 1, 2010
Present: Ryan Krogman, Erik Dahl, Keith Rounds, September Kirby, Ann Martin, Kaitlin Kwasniewski
Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as printed.
Motion by Dahl, seconded by Eng that the meeting agenda be approved. Motion carried.
Mark Foster was present requesting use of Pioneer Park for the annual Brookings Car Festival on June
13, 2010, and authorizing closing the Park for that day. A motion passed approving this request.
Randy Hansen made a presentation to the Board regarding a proposed new facility for the community
that would feature a building to be used for indoor shooting sports, as well as other uses benefitting 4-H
youth and others. The original YES (Youth Educational Skills) building is now being called the Outdoor
Learning Center. The organizing group is preparing to apply for a Game, Fish & Parks grant to assist in
construction and/or furnishing of the new facility and need to identify a location where it could be built.
Since 4-H and youth involvement will also be expanding to outdoor activities such as winter sports,
water-related interests such as boating, canoeing, fishing, etc, a location somewhere close to the future
Nature Park would be desirable. Discussion centered around specific sites, and consensus was the exact
location be addressed during the upcoming Nature Park Master Plan design. The Nature Park Ad Hoc
Committee has already endorsed the concept. Motion was made and seconded that the Park and
Recreation Board also endorses the concept and recommends that the City Council make available up to
three acres of city property for this purpose, the exact site to be determined as part of the Nature Park
Master Plan. Motion was approved.
Mike Struck, Brookings Community Development Director, reviewed with the Board the proposed Park
Master Plan document that his office has prepared in cooperation with the park and recreation staff and
City Manager. The plan will eventually be presented and approved by the City Planning Commission and
City Council and will serve as a planning guide for future park and recreation facilities. It also inventories
existing facilities and identifies needs currently describable to maintain a quality park system. Following
lengthy discussion and suggestions for additions and modification, motion was approved to accept and
approve the Master Plan document, with additional discussion possible at the next meeting following
further editing by the Community Development office.
The Board reviewed a draft copy of the Park and Recreation Board annual report to the City Council.
Following review, discussion and suggested additions, a motion was passed to approve the annual
report to the City Council.
Meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Allyn Frerichs, Recording Secretary
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