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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPark and Recreation Advisory Commission Packet 03-14-1985Plymouth Park and Recreation Advisory Commission Regular Meeting of March 14, 1985, 7;30 p.m; Plymouth City Center, Council Chambers AGENDA 1. Call to Order 2. Approval of Minuted 3. visitor Presentations a., Athletic Associations b. Staff Joanne Schmid Mary Patterson c. Other 4. Report on Past Council Action a, Hire Landscape Architect for Neighboxhood. Parks b. Accept:: Annual Report S., Unfinished Business a. Parkers Lake Update b, Community Center Update c.. Neighborhood Park Smprovcmeixts d. 6,, New Business a. Review Plans for Kingsview Heights (RPUD) as per Council Direction b. St, Mary's Offer to Sell Land C. d. 7„ Commission Presentation 8. Staff Communication 9 Adjournment Next Meeting - April 11 t Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission February 1.4._ 198S, 7:30 p.m. Page;S Present Vice Chair ChesebTough, Commissioners Reed, Edwards, La'Tour and Beach,• staff Blank, Cook, Pederson and Peterson Absent: Commissioners, Throinen and Mullan 1. CALL TO.ORDER Vice Chair Chesebrough called the .February meeting,to order at 7.35 p.m. and introduced Carol Beach, PRAC"s most recently appointed commissioner.. Carol. briefly described her background, interests, family and career. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES A motion to approve the minutes was made by Commissioner Edwards and seconded' by Commissioner Reed. The, motion carried, with all ayes: 3. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS a. Athletic Associations.. No athletic association vepresentatives were present at this meeting. b. Staff. Director Blank introduced Mark Peterson,, the City's Park and Environmental Supervisor. Mark gave a brief presentation on the maintenance: of ice rinks, accompanied by several, slides which took the commissioners through: the entire process of flooding rinks, from brooming to the water being applied. He also handed out statistics on the total hours of labor spent this season so far to maintain each rink, Director Blank then introduced Steve Cook, the City's Forester. Steve's presentation included Mlides of our City's urban forest as compared to other cities' true population. lie showed the drastic difference between streets oncepopulated with elms that are now bare due to Dutch elm disease. He discussed the City's latest proposal: a tree replacement program which will be implemented this year. This new program allows property owners who have lost trees to Dutch elm or oak wilt, to receive up to a maximum of two new -trees in replacement. The City is hoping that this program will; encourage homeowners to more willingly report any Dutch elm or oak wilt disease. His slides also showed trees being planted, tree care, how to recognize certain tree diseases, and encroach- went problems the City often encounters, such as gardens, trees, play equipment, etc., begin installed; on City property. Both Steve and Mark then responded to questions asked by the commis- sioners- 4. ommissioners. 4. REPORT ON PAST COUNCIL ACTION Director Blank reported that the Council approved tho Comprehensive Plan amendments,, and the plan has now been forwarded to the Metropolitan Coun_ ci.l for their approval Once that approval has been granted,, new trail and park maps will be printed .for distribution. Council also approved. our 1985 fee Schedule and Park Facilities Rental Policy. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a., Annual Report. It was: suggested that next yearts annual report should. include, on the attendance chart, when meetings are held on dates other, than regularly scheduled ones, out of fairness to those who are absent on those dates. The Commission thanked all who had worked on the report, PRAC Minutes of February 14, 1985 Page 6 citing how +"professional" it looked. A MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER EDWARDS,AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER REED APPROVING THE 1984 PARK AND RECREATION ADVISORY COMMISSION ANNUAL, REPORT., AND .FORWARDING IT TO THE CITY COUNCIL 'FOR THEIR APPROVAL. ''the motion carried with all ayes. b. Combun ty Center, Update. The Commission reviewed,a copy of a memoran. dum sent to Chair Threinen, from Mayor Davenport asking PRA; to continuo their review and study of a community center for, Plymouth'.. It was docided.that additional public information should be developed prior to the attitudinal survey scheduled for May, because it is anticipated that one or more questions in the survey will deal with the issue of a community center. Commissioner Chesebrough asked staff to research the lease sale-back option and ,find out if this method will require that the citizens vote again. Director Blank has been working on a, video tape that previews community centers, senior centers, etc. It is his hope that this video could run on cable channel 7 prior to the attitudinal; survey. At this time, the video presentation is about half finished. More funds need 'to be allocated in order to complete the project. A MOTION WAS MADE, BY COMMISSIONER EDWARDS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER REED RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL: ALLOCATE $$,000 FROM THE UNEXPENDED FUNDS ALLOCATED IN 19840FOR THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS-ON A COMMUNITY' CENTER. The motion ca,ried with all ayes. Commissioner Beach recommended that staff include coverage of a con ventional pool as well as a wave pool in the video nape, so that the. public will be aware of the differences between them. She believed that showing only a wave pool in, the video might give the public the impression that the City was trying to "sell" the leisure pool concept. If the Council approves the funding, staff will begin working; on the remainder of the video tape as soon as possible, and will show it to the Commission at their March meeting if it's finished by then. c. Parkers Lake date. Our LAWCON grant has been approved by the National Park Service and is now waiting approval by the L.C.M.,R, We"ve been informed by the State Historical Society that an archaeological survey must be performed before any development begins. Staff is now receiv ing bids from a.variety of archaeologists and hopes to have this survey completed as soon as the weather permits. d. Neighborhood Park I rovements U date. Staff has sent proposals to tree lan scope architects for the design and installation of play areas at Circle., Green Oaks and the Luce Line trailhead parks. The selection of an architect is scheduled to be completed prior to the next meeting of PRAC. Commissioner LaTour asked, `Director Blank if he had any more information on the problems at Imperial Hills Park. He indicated that he, along with Office Bob Nesbitt, would be attending a meeting on Sunday, February 17,; with the Imperial Halls Homeowners Association. The association recently designed and conducted,a survey of its residents regarding their use of the park. The results of that survey will be discussed at, the, meeting. PRAC Minutes of Februa 244, 1,985 Page 6. NEW BUSINESS a. 1985 FRAC Training Ideas. It was decided that training. for 1985 would consist of a bus tour of other cities' parks and Facilities. Director Blank will put together a list of possible sites from which PRAC can choose. June was the preferred month for the tour. 7.. COMMISSION PRESENTATION Commissioner Chesebrough discussed the Iceman 'Triathlon which was held on Sunday,; February 10. Fourteen people participated, and even though this number was much lower than anticipated by staff, everyone felt the triathlon was a success. It was thought that the fee should be lowered next time to ;attract more people. S. STAFF CONWNICATI,ON Director, Blank indicated that staff will: be working on putting together a summer triathlon which will include swimming across Medicine Lake, and biking and running around it. He pointed out the calendar of events which had been distributed to each commissioner and stated that next month's would not be quite as detailed since several hours of work were necessary to produce this month's calendar. 9. ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 9;35 p.m. I c wVVa- w 146 va.7,-ww - I DATE;, March, 11, 1985 MEM TO PRAC FROM, Eric Blank SUBJECT. K ngsview Heights. Addition (RPUD 85-1 The City Council, at their March 4 meeting, requested that PRAC review and comment on the Kingsview heights RPUD. Because this is a very large development and contains private open space and private trails, the Council wishes to have PRAC's comments and review of this plat. I met with the developer, Ken Briggs, on Monday, March 11, to review the plan with him. Mr. Briggs will be in attendance at the PRAC meeting on. Thu- s:day to present this development. II have shvded in the three park and open space areas and the City trails that the Council would like to have you review with Mr. Briggs. Prior to the meeting, you might wish to acquaint yourself with how this particular davelopment fits in with. our comprehensive park and trail plan, By way of quick review, we have trail running on the south side of County Road 9 immediately south of this development, and we have trail on the west side of Fernbrook Lane which is incorporated into this development. We also have a neighborhood park site northwest of this site and another one designated east of Fernbrook Lane from this particular site. Plymouth Creek City Park/ Playfield and neighborhood park ;is located two blocks south of County Road 9 from, this site. I'm sorry that T do not have any further maps available at this time, but Mr. Briggs will be able to share with you, at the meeting, the ,specific layout of the open space park areas and some of the play equipment and amenities that they are proposing for each area... np Attachments Ir RO. !: • 1 s 1 a..- ..-5- .. • "VIA A" . ,• KAiI, iK R li 04.46•. 3 i /Atf • i c l LARSf s i A, c 0000. 1—... •• .-...p. .! .. r. 31 µt4• K r• .. 1 w C W Nbf1 1 1 , 1S1 E f i 1 46••. f 0000 M.l iOrN •v •v >t 1 rw 661,11 VAN OCK lot N 1 ltrM av ! 1 t, f•tN IAmm4 F rN N AH[ N i ": r1 f rr 4 6U0 . 1 l..f,l.. 4•, L M AY[ N. i1: • 014 AV 414 41N C7 h " , •vr tr ;J - ` AYE titre f f,.. ! 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I had.contacted'the St. Mary's people three months ago and indicated to the -n that if their deal with the private developer did not work out, that we would like to have another opportunity to discuss. with them the possibility of the City acquiring some of their property. Mr. Johnson has indicated to me that they have been contacted by at least one other private party interested in this property, but at this time, they would be willing to consider an offer from the City for all or part of their property-. Their preference is to sell the entire unused portion of proper4y which is approximately 18 acres in size. T believe it would be appropriate for the City to attempt to acquire property, from St. Mary's church .for the development of a neighborhood' park for planning neighborhood #43. I think that we should consider acquiring between seven and 11.6 acres of ground for an estimated cost of between:$80,000 and $110,000. These numbers were arrived at by assuming a price of $12,000 per acre for good ground and $3,500 for poor soil property I have two appraisals to support these figures. If you look at your comprehensive plan for neighborhood #43, you will see that we have a park deficiency of approximately five acres. Our alt-erna.- tive to the St. Marys site is property currently owned to the west by Mr. Henning. His property is constrained by physical characteristics. The The east side of the Henning property is low and wet, and, the west side is very steep and hilly. The St. Mary's site is relatively fiat and at grade with the road and would be much easier to develop and muchmore useful in the long, run. We have set-aside $80,000 in the 1985 CIP for neighborhood park land acqui- sitiou. At a recent meeting, FRAC discussed the possibility of using some or all of these funds at either the St. Mary's site or the Bass Lake neigh- borhood site. St. Mary's Church Property Page Z March 8, 1985 The church has indicated a willingness to look at a two to three year purchase agreement. I;'suggest the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission recommend to the City Council that staff be directed to negotiate the purchase of between seven and 11.6 acres of property from the St Mary's church to be used for neighborhood park in planning area #43. If an agreement can be reached, this will be reviewed by the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission before it is submitted to the City Council for approval.. np Attachments Legend: gin kx*tft Von-wawOlt" a", r p x tt. ;a• i r x Exbft CCOVWAft N TO Avg. 1 .4 t f Adopbd. ft Com' COWWN - ZI r r). ` , ,!, .: I ' •-C, }• IIT. u, 1610 Avg r 'ITN All. F* i ^ i "." mitis• Y 0 7 t .. t. ark System Plan Plymouth, Minneso M 60do to ROW ITT t Rw:.....R",."'." ..,-L-» , ,. sc h s • ,• xTittsii 0. I. JANSKI & ASiS`OCIA TES, INC. / i i4 w. 26TH STREET bAINNEAPOLIS, MN 55404/612.372-1,40 R E A I... E S 'T' A, T S E" A P P R A I S E R S A N O C 0 '.1 1.. r A TN t .+ THE SITE L I ^ 8 -, t 14 M 5 :: ; I \tel t6'rJ, t y t.,. r y Plat Extract btu s k Vi Location, This property is located at the southwest corner of County Road 15 and Fore stview Lane in Plymouth, Minnesota. Area 11.60 acres per County Auditor Easements To the appraiser's knowledge, there are no easements known to exist concerning this property. Streets County Road 15 borders the property to the north and is a through street which is bituminous -surfaced and provides one traffic lane in either direction. It does not have concrete curbs and gutters, nor sidewalks. Forestview Lane is primarily a residential street. It too is bituminous surfaced: and does not have con- crete curbs nor gutters. February 27, 1995 Doug and Donna Eichten CITY„% 1N sfta 12SOO 46th Avenue N FLYITKAJ I rT Plymouth, MN 55442 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Eichten: Mayor Davenport has forwarded your resident feedback form from the Tuesday, February 19, Town Meeting to me for comment. You state the action you desire the City -o take is to clean skating rinks on, weekends for family use. As I mentioned at the meeting, the current policy is to clean the rinks on Saturdays, but not on: Sundays., A couple of factors were considered in making this decision. First, there is just enough crew (seven full-time and one part-time) during the winter season to clean and flood our 30 rinks on a daily'basis'(Monday through Saturday). If we changed to a split. -week schedule (requiring some personnel to work on Sundays), there wouldnotbe enough staff available during the week to clean all of our rinks in a regular shift. One solution would be to add more full or part-time staff, which would increase the cost of maintaining the rinks. Our second option is to pay over -time for the additional hours needed to clean rinks. We now pay over -gime to our unionized crews on Saturdays, and it. would mean additional over -time hours if they were required to work on Sundays. The second consideration involves skating, attendance at all our parks. We do a daily count of all the skaters at locations with warning house attendants on duty. This data,is used annually for determining the hours of operation at various rinks throughout Plymouth. Based on demonstrated need and desire by residents, the hours of the skating rinks are manipulated to satisfy the needs and wishes of that particular area. In some 'cases, we have found that there are days where there is little or no skating taking; place at certain locations. Thevefore, we have been able to reduce the hours of skating at those rinks. At other locations, where we .find high use of a program or rink, we have expanded the hours in order to meet that need. As we keep records of the skating atten- dance, the weather and ice conditions are also tracked, i.e. whether there is snow on the ice, tmWerature and wind chill, so that we can draw correlations between poor skating 'attendance and poor weather or ice conditions.. . For your information, New Hope maintains approximately 18 sheets of ice in comparison to our 30 sheets of ice, with almost the same labor force available to each of us The fact that Plymouth is so Bauch larger physically than New Hope means that our 30 rinks are spread a greater distance apart, so we spend more time traveling to and from our rinks to maintain them. Finally, I am` told that New Hope sweeps only their hockey rinks on Sundays,, and not their pleasure rinks Each September, the ParkandRecreation Advisory Commission reviews the loca- tion of our skating rinks, previous years' attendance records and the hours and rules of operation for the skating program. Your concern with regard to Doug and Donna Eichten Page 2 February 27,; 1985 Sunday rink cleaning, will be passed along to the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission, and cost implications reviewed to determine whether Sunday maintenance can be justified based on skating attendance. If you would like to supply further testimony, letters, etc., please contact we and I will make the necessary arrangements to share that information with our Park ,and Recreation Advisory Commission and the City Council. Sincerely, Eric J. Blank, Director Parks and Recreation np cc: City Manager Park and Recreation Advisory Commission a. February 26, 1985 err ITY Shelley Hallermann fT11 11740 50th Avenue North Plymouth, MN SS442 Dear Ms. Hallermann: Thank you for taking the -time to fill out the resident feedback form at the Tuesday, February 19 Town Meeting. As we discussed at the conclusion of that meeting, 1 an passing along your concerns with regard to the parking and the appearance of Schmidt Lake Park along 50th Avenue to the City Manager, Park and Recreation Advisory Commission and City Council. I would encourage you, to get the signatures of your neighbors supporting your position for having this portion of the park manicured -to a better looking state. When you have done that, please forward them to me at the City Center, 3400 Plymouth Boulevard. I can assure you that we will give every consideration to your request and keep you informed of our review of this matter. If, at any time, you would like to discuss this subject further, please call re at 559---2800 x 265. Thank you for your time and interest in this matter. Sincerely, 9- 9 BA' -e Eric J. Blank, Director Park and Recreation Dept. nP cc:; City Manager Park and Recreation. Advisory Commission 3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVAPO, PLYMOUTH. 'btiNNESOTA 55447. TELEPHONE (612) 559.2800 AGENDA PLYMOUTH TOWN MEETING ANSA S February 19, 1985 Is INTRODUCTIONS Mayor David 3. Davenport IT.. STATUS REPORTS ON ISSUES OF INTEREST - City Department Heads III. QUESTIONS ERCP; RESIDENTS IN ATTENDANCE IV. CLOSING COWENIS - Mayor David D. Davenport V ADJOURN Rf SIOENT FEEDBACK FORM Please use this forts 11 you have a question or concern which you would like the City to investigate. If you provide your name, address and phone number, we will advise you of our actions. and findings with respect to your concern. MATURE OF CONCERN/PROPERTY ADDRESS INVOLVED: Ji rm tQ ACTION YOU DESIRE THE CITY TO TAKE: A4 C? ... id 'moi 1J Q I`.L U' JI .iJ T • RsaME O CONCERNED RESIDENT: QWRESS OF RESIDENT PHONE NUMBER; Maarch 13, 1905 Len Thiede 10400 Thirty-eighth Ave. No. Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 Dear Eric: This is to request release of the $5000.00 apn-oved by the City Council for the Pilgrim Bane Elementary playground project. The bfz ck may be made to Pilgrim Lane.. PTO. We. recognise that this is a donation and that we are responsible for all aspects of the pro ;'_t. The Pilgrim Lane PT6 will be giving the development to the District 281 School Board. we will again be using materials from Gametime. We are very happy with the pieces we purchased last year., so there is no reason to change suppliers at this time. We plan to build nn.the weekends of, April 27-28 and may 4-5, 1985. This year we have employed the services of their installer for the two weekends, thus expecting to cut down the amount of time necessary for the volunteers to build this year's addition. Let me again express my appreciation for the generous recommendation you and PRAG made to the City Council to make these funds available to us The difference in what we did in 1984 with your help compared with what -e could have done alone is dramatic. With this year's addition, we will, have a facility large enough to relax some of the scheduling restrictions, we have placed.on it this year for safety reasons. Many thanks for your help. Sincerely, Len Thiede Mr. Eris Blanlc r Park and Recreation Director 3400 Plymouth Blvd. Plymouth, Minnesota 55447 Len Thiede 10900 Thirty-eighth Ave. No. Plymouth, Minnesota.55441 Dear Mayor Davenport: It has come to my attention that there was no letter of appreciation sent to the City of Plymouth from the Pilgrim Lane PTO. My sincere appologies for the oversight. Let me assure you that the parents and students at Pilgrim Zane Elementary and the Plymouth residents in the surrounding area are very appreciative. The playground has been used extensively throughout, the school year. The $5000.00 donated by the City of Plymouth was used with the $10,000 raised by the PTO over several years to make a very meaningful start on c = overall concept plan for the playground. School District 281 orovided the base ti<<bers and gravel at a cost in excess of $2000.00. The entire project was completed with volunteer labor. As you might imagines, this is a great source of pride and accomplishment, for those who did the physical labor as well as. those who worked so hard.on the fundraisers. Even though our beginning efforts are not enough to support the entire recess groups at one time and we have had to schedule time on the facility by rooms, the quality of recess time has improved immeasurably. The Plymouth contribution was significant. in that it allowed us to build enough to make it manageable. Thank you so much. The contribution of Eric Blank should not go unrecognized. Eric shared unselfishly his expertise and knowledge of additional resources available to us. He was totally encouragina at every sten of the way. He is a real credit to the City of. PIVmou Sincerely, Len Thiede 1 Mayor David J. Davenport. City of Plymouth 3400 Plymouth Blvd. Plymouth, Minnesota 5544'7 RuERR1i TL)" Ci'Y xLVai,FR , CiiL' t aL ECti f i," W Ck NRECTOR -.. r fLA:S+fiG GiRECtOR is riftiY 02ECTOR CS1STAW KITTLAUS COMPANY i,ia ""'— Tax 6 e crt hvestments Eric Blank March 12th, 1985 Director.Parks and Recreation City of Plymouth 300 Plymouth Blvd.' Plymouth. M. i. 55447 Dear Eric. In follow-up to our last: two telephone conversations recarding the Imperial Hills Park and, its development. I as a director of the Mitznetonka-Plymouth Rotary Club have made the following proposals That we as the Kinnetonka-Plymouth Rotary Club adopt, the Imperial mills Park as an on-going project and profide funds for the errection and/or maintenance of playground equipment. The board has adopted the above proposal with the understanding that the City of Plymouth will profide matching funds and the labor to professionally errect the equipment. As the 1985 donations h&d allready been earmarkedo an, amount of $300.00 will be made available this year, with a larger donation to follow in 1986. Ivery much agree with you that we should meet and design a master plan so that each year we can deside as to what will be needed and. what kind of funds will we need to bring it about. Looking forward to your answer to this proposal, Re' and I' ,, 1 i JEL DE BOEF 4Ndh WbbashSuite 41,10, Chicago, IL60611, 3,12/828-9595 t 1 • .. a taw. February 19, 1985 To Mayor Davenport and Council Members The neighbors of Schmidt Lake Park on 50th Avenue North, would like something done about the appearance of the park site along 50th Avenue North. This site is a convenient spot for passing cars to dispose of their, garbage. Also near by neighbors disposing of excess sod, grass clippings, excess rocks as shown in the enclosed picture and horse droppings, There are also people with allergies and the weeds are very bothersome in full. bloom. We enjoy having the park near buy, its just the unpleasant site along 50th Avenue North that wreck its beauty. 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Eric Blank, Re; AMIAC Meeting of Feb, 28, 1985 Page 2 One resident commented that she would like to be able to give input before the plan is already set and the public hearing is held 'just so that people can "bitch.,, h t ty Jessen from Hennepin County Park Reserve responded to many of the concerns,. but I`m sure that they may be raised again. Bob Scribner indicated that he would send copies of the official meeting minutes to you. lnp tiEtt:FRAL TO Orf F iC war,,, A 1<,.:r tL; `, Sq..-, w, , . mow-. ParAsmYou-Go Phllosdohr,,T]V.. WinsCom I aity Support For Recreation Facility In Williston, ND., citizens gave a resounding "NO" to borrowing $500,000 for a new recreation center, but dug into their own pockets for $2 million in private donations, When Steven Neu arrived in Willis- ton, N.D., in )anuary,1977, the city was in the midst of an ill-fated bond issue referendum, which sought, 523,000 to construct a 30,000- square -foot community recreation complex. NOW,= community de- velopment grant would complete the funding. Recently hired as Williston's di- rector of parks and recreation, Neu discovered that there was little doubt the center, was needed for the community's active recreatio1 program, which served three coun- ties in North Dakota and Montana. The program had been operatingg out of the former National Guard Armory, built In 1912, for 20 years.. That, was, adequate for most of that period, but by the late 1970s, an oil production boom in the Williston Basin was just beginning and the population was swelling, particular- ly among the 3045' age group, work- ers with young families who would place more. demand pressure than ever on Williston's limited recrea- tion resources. We were operating programs out of every ball field and gym we could get our hands on," says Neu. But. It wasn't enough." MQi:Bi'RiIICT BOIM10 M10 Despite ail that, the bond issue was soundly defeated in April, 1977, with 51 percent voting against it. The defeat should surprise no Major fund raising had. been almost nonexistent in Williston for 20 years and no one had ever tried to raise the amount of money we were looking for. We had to ask ourselves seriously how much we could reasonably expect to raise. Then the questionbecame, did any- one have the time to com- mit to raising funds? The thing could drag out for- ever." one. Tucked away in the northwest- ern corner of North Dakota, Willi-,. ton was merely exhibiting the kind of northern plains individualism so common to the region, where it is; often considered better to do with- out ithoutthantomortgagethefutureand where self-reliance is clearly prefer- able to dependence on public tax es. Although in some ways a setback for the community's recreation pro- gram, the defeat hardly spelled the end of the dream for a community center. In the three years following the referendum, a number of groups continued to meet, formal- ly or informally, to discuss ways of solving Williston's recreation space crunch. They included community leaders, activity clubs and sports groups such as the youth hockey organization. Meanwhile, the oil boom reached its peak around 1980. Williston's population, which had stood at. 11,000 in 1977, would mushroom to 17,000 by 1982. The pressure on Iim- ited recreation; resources was in- tense. With this tremendous influx of youngg people, we were seeing in credible increases in the demand for some programs," says Neu. ii the summer of 1980, Mayor Jim Haugen appointed a committee to study all the public facilities in Wil- liston. That committee, not surpris- ingly, recommended that a new rec- reation center be built to replace the old armory and in 1981 a parks and recreation committee was formed to make preliminary plans for the facility and to determine how it was to be funded.. MMYATI PUM RARM g1111111FLIMM A survey of participant groups and service clubs found that most; peo- ple much preferred a private fund- raising effort, rather than another bond issue attempt. That seemed. Kontinwd on PAS* dW Air nc, suimm%. Match. 190 w montes wd %m pVr 74 er $250,000 was available in state en- "The reason it Wonted so' especially wise since two other pub- ergy grants, but that left well over lic facilities had only recently been $2 million to be raised from private Well is that We Were askingfinancedthroughbondissues, leav donations., The prospect was awe- ing many convinced that the city some. people to be involved at was "bonded out." Major fund raising had been al- whatever level Of particip& Members of move tlwt;hD oraani. zations, ranging from square dance most nonexistent in Williston for 20 years," says Neu, "and no one had tion they felt Comfortable groups to volleyball associations, were invited to a meeting to discuss ever tried to raise the amount of money we were looking for. We me could contributey the issue. More than 100 people had to ask ourselves seriously how moneyor theycould con - turned out, from which a steering committee was formed to finalize much we could reasonably,expect to raise. Then the question became, tribute their time." plans for the facility and initiate the did anyone have the time to com- fund-raising campaign. In addition mit to raising funds? The thing to likely sports and recreation par- could drag out forever." ticipants, the committee included bankers and business people who M0FISSIONAk I= RAMA MW saw the long-term benefits to the The solution, the committee decid- community as a whole. ed, was to hire a professional fund Pians for the new facility were am- raising firm to handle the cam- bitious, making the 1977 goal of a paign. They selectedWard, ©resp- 1 million, 30,000 -square -foot facil- man& Reinhardt, Inc, of Worthing- ity seem modest by comparison.. ton, Ohio, a company with consid- The tenter would total 90,000 erable experience in raising funds square feet of space, including an for YMCAs and ice arenas. ice arena, three gymnasiums and a organizing the volunteers into weight room. Thepricetag was es- teams of solicitors, Ward, Dresh- timated at $3 million. man & Reinhardt developed a pros- The park board had $125,000 set pest list of likely contributors. Such aside in a building fund and anoth- Continued on Paye 87) THE BEST IS BY WEST FIELD UENELER ROCK DRAG For softball and baseball flel&! CLEANS and removes rocks and foreign objects from playing area.. CUTS and shaves buildup from heavy repetitive playing. DRIES and rolls mud and refurbishes it with dry dirt. REPAIRS by filling in holes and crowns field for a finer playing surface. D DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION P.O. BOX 10, STURGIS, MICHIGAN 49091 THE BEST IS; BY WEST` (616) 651-2961 . 0001) M Ckdo 74 011 ft IfltQ "tim %quest CNd ATHI FTIC I11Ui1NESS. Watch, 196S z Modal tConria wd hong pw M 400,000, but actually raised The reason it worked so well is r targeting is essential to effective 713,462. that we were asking people to be in - fund raising, since experience has A total of 1,500 people contribut - volved at whatever level of partici- shown that the largest portion of a ed financially to the campaign,. but pation they felt comfortable with," fund-raising effort comes from a the top 10 gifts totaled $286,00x, says Nei. `They coild contribute relatively small group of contribu- while the next 2D repi esented an- moo" or they could contribute tors. other $223,000 -- approximately their time." Two distinct campaigns were one-fourth of the campaign total The campaign itself was geared to conducted in Williston, one begin- from only 30 people. maintaining the interest of the cont- ning in April, 1982, and the second While the major cash contribu- muniry, as well as the participants. in May, 1963. With a goal of $1 mil- tions tended to be drawn from a We used a team approach, with lion, the first netted $1,162,294, ac- relatively small part of the commu- each team having goals set, and cording to Harold Treash, chairman nity, itwas the broad public support meetings held periodically to report . and president of Ward, Dreshman that created the climate for a suc- progress. It gets to be very competi- Reinhardt. The second sought cessful campaign.: tive and it really builds enthusi- asm," says Neu. Take Your Best Shot Cfry ACCUSTOM" ?0•Ai-YOU40 All of this is nothing new to Willis- ton residents, who have maintained a successful recreation program forWityearswithlittletaxsupport. Only 60,000 is budgeted from property Backstop ssioct9d taxes for operating the program an - for IX Pan Amerken Games.Gaa nually. Activity and user fees ac - Caracas, Venozuela count for more than $165,000 and sponsor or booster contributions for youth programs total some 40,000. All adult programs are en- tirely self-supporting. Movwe (Iasi ONI WJUT NG IN sSupport t " Plate Construction began on the center in the fall of 1983 and enough of the Ballast waight- center will be completed by late this Salt LewlinglNon•Marking Fk car Stops 1100 LB, ballast year to make the facility function- Ons Step Hydraulic System Casters- al. Final completion is not expect - Operation -electric or manual 1200 LBS rating ed until 1988, however. Construction on the project isMctanqularGlassBank -with padding Safety geared to income and the pledges Ker Lock Control Panel Locking ser were spread over a five-year peri - White Ensmal Finish Full Padding od," says Neu. WT. 2roo LBS. When you're: looking t ;t in the beginning, that may seem like a long time to wait. But the beauty of this is that when the building is completed, it's bought and paid 3I1 t t h d lic for." na urns y rau hand pump operation; Model 241E.features electric operation For further information on complete line of backstops, request catalog, RECREATION EOUIPMENTCORP. 724 W Eighth St. a P.O. Box 2188A a Anderson, IN 46018 Anderson; (317) 643-5315' Manufacturers of Basketball Backboards, Swimming Pool Deck Equipment and Playground Equipment When you're looking at it in the beginning, it may seem like a long time to wait. But the beauty of this is that when the building is completed, it's bought and paid for."