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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-12-14 Recreation and Parks Advisory Board Minutes Bozeman Recreation & Parks Advisory Board _1 1. LINKED MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE RECREATION AND PARKS ADVISORY BOARD June 12, 2014 7:00 PM LINDLEY CENTER - 1102 E. Curtiss St. BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Matthew Parsons,Vice Chair Sandy Dodge Matt Hausauer David Cook Richard Shanahan Monica Rodriguez Stephanie Gray Carson Taylor, Commission Liaison Absent: Bob Wade, Chair Brian Close Jenna Pinto Salal Huber-McGee Steve Roderick Beth Thorsen CITY STAFF PRESENT: Mitch Overton, Parks& Recreation Director Doreen Olean, Recording Secretary COPIES OF THE RECORDING ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST The meeting was called to order by Vice-Chair, Parsons at 7:05 p.m. 0.00.15 - Board member Dodge made a motion to approve the minutes of the May 8, 2014 meeting as submitted. Board member Cook seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Open Public Comments. None Announcements: None 0.00.58 - TOP Committee Report— Sandy Dodge At the meeting on May 15, Bob Hawks was re-elected as Chairperson and Sandy Dodge as Vice-Chair. The Committee reviewed Bart Manion's water quality project. The project passed the rough-cut matrix. TOP Program Manager, Jeff Graff, has resigned his position. There is just under a million dollars left in the TOP fund. Some projects may come in under budget and free up more money. Page 1 of 4 Parks & Recreation Director, Overton reported that the Athletic Complex closing date is June 27th. The soils analysis looks good and the water report looks adequate concerning water rights. He is waiting for release of the tax lien on the property. Feels good about this project. The complex will be a community, multi-purpose park. The sports group is setting up a 501(c)3 foundation to raise money to fund this park, existing sports areas and future sport complexes. Bozeman Creek is still in a holding pattern. Trail to the M is in the NEPA process. Trust for Public Lands will be meeting with the TPL attorney and the City's attorneys to review the MOA and purchase and sale agreement. Board member, Cook stated he has been getting comments from the public regarding not getting enough parks from the TOP Bond money. Commissioner Taylor mentioned that the bond language does mention other items besides park land acquisition. Hopefully we will be getting more trail connections in the future and the funding will have covered all of the items in the bond language. Kelly Pohl, informed the Board that GVLT is working on four potential trail concepts that will come forward in the next six months, not all of which will be forwarded to the TOP Committee. Committee Reports: 22:35 - Subdivision Review—Sandy Dodge Flanders Mill— 140 acres that sits between the site for the Sports Complex and the Regional Park. Proposal emphasizes walk ability. There are east/west trail connections between the two parks and north/south well developed trails with workout venues along the way. Committee liked the plan. Would divert the stream that runs through the soccer complex somewhat which will downgrade the classification of the stream, making it less expensive for the sports complex project. Legends II at Bridger Creek—All the conditions that were requested have been met and the committee signed off on the review. The backyard encroachment issue has been resolved with landscaping. Creek access points have been implemented. Laurel Park Condominiums—Laurel Glen Phase I had no recreational development. Phase II developed a park across Laurel Glen Parkway and did not develop to city standards. Laurel Park Condominiums is a proposed 31 dwelling unit duplex development. No park and no where to put park development. Committee would like an offsite dedication of parkland. Cash-in-lieu is not a legitimate solution. Committee also recommended HOA sharing across the street park maintenance cost with Boulder Creek. Board member Parsons would be willing to get neighbor signatures if needed as he lives in this area. 36:34 Traditions— Share large park with Flanders Creek Subdivision. Not sure of how many units and acres they have. Their pre-application proposal has two parks that are not acceptable because they are too small and lack street frontage. Would like to recommend dedicated open space and develop required park in phase 3, when it is known what their parkland dedication will be. 40:12 Southbridge—Motion& Vote. —Former Meadow Creek. Plan review involved a large amount of cash-in-lieu, which the Commission rejected. Subsequent plan meets their parkland dedication requirement, which takes land out of the interim park and creates sufficient acreage in their new development along 191h. The phase that is being developed will trigger development of the interim park. When legal problems are solved with ownership of lots owned by more than one owner,they will subdivide the interim park. If the interim park is developed, it would be a nice grassy area and people that buy houses along this park will be surprised when this interim park is subdivided for housing. Page 2 of 4 Committee allowed them to commit to interim park or cash-in-lieu and will recommend to the City Commission that the Commission let the developer decide which option is best. Board member Cook made a motion recommending that the City Commission give the applicant of Southbridge the option to develop the Interim Park or provide cash-in-lieu for the remaining park dedication requirement. Board member Shanahan seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Parks Master Plan Update—Mitch Overton 54:48 - Bozeman Pond Park Expansion Master Plan—Motion& Vote— Park Master Planning Committee held two public meetings on May 20 & 27th. Public comment was taken online through the City of Bozeman website. Dick Pohl, Landscape Architect and member of the Park Master Planning Sub-Committee prepared the master plan. Northwest corner has a pedestrian activated signal across Fowler from Bozeman Pond Park to Aasheim Fields. This area also has a fenced, off leash dog park, which will be funded by Run Dog Run. A paved path will run by the western edge of the park along Fowler. The western edge of the trail will be heavily treed. Pond Row will connect with Ravalli. A 35 parking space gravel lot will be located south of the dog park. Further south is a bermed natural play area, with restrooms by the parking lot. There will be five small picnic shelters with one table each scattered around this area, which will include about 1.9 acres of turf grass. A trail system will run alongside the stream, which will have some improvements. The southeast portion will be native grass & trails. The next phase of this project is approval, with any changes recommended, by the Recreation& Parks Advisory Board. Once the conceptual plan is adopted by RPAB,the Master Plan goes forward to planning for the development review process. Board member Cook moved to accept the Bozeman Pond Expansion Master Plan as presented by Dick Pohl. Board member Dodge seconded. Motion passed unanimously. It was recommended to present the new Master Plan with the southern part of the existing park included. Division & Gallatin Valley Land Trust Reports: 1:24:14—Kelly Pohl, GVLT, updated the board on the National Trails Day, which included about 120 volunteers. They resurfaced about one mile of trail in Lindley & Burke Parks. Sixty volunteers put in about '/z mile of new single track trail by the hospital. The City helped with dropping gravel and MCC led a lot of the crews. Bozeman Deaconess Hospital was also a partner. Landfill Bike Park is a concept GVLT is working on. Parks & Recreation Director Report—Mitch Overton— 1:28:05—Director Overton reported that Bogert Pool is scheduled to open on Sunday, June 15th. Dan McCarthy's last day of work as Aquatics Manager will be June 23`d. His going away event is June 13th from 4 to 6 p.m. at Bogert Park Pavilion. The new aquatics facility was on the City Commission agenda on June 81h. The pool will be built in the Regional Park in conjunction with the YMCA's facility. Timelines are similar for both entities in 2015. The partnership agreement will be the next step and then a 3.1 acre lease agreement. Aquatics &the Y will have a shared lobby and front desk. The pool will be an indoor&outdoor facility. An inter-local agreement will be signed between the city and county. The first round of the budget went to the City Commission on June 81h. The City budget needs to be cut, so each department is looking at ways to cut money. Parks is cutting Park Improvement Grants of $100,000 this year. The filtration system Capital Improvement Project of$130,000 at the Swim Center is also being cut for FY 15. Macy's donated $250 from their"Heart of the Parks"program for Lindley Park. Parks are very busy. Recreation Division has a display in the window at First Security Bank highlighting some of the new programs. Work is starting on the Fall, Winter& Spring Recreation Brochure. Page 3 of 4 City Commissioner Perspective— 1:38:00 - Carson Taylor—Commissioner Taylor stated that he was willing to discuss the City Commission vote on the Aquatics facility with anyone. The Commission looked out 50 years to try to determine what the city's needs would be and tried to protect the city's investments for the long and short term. The proposed budget is at the maximum without going to the voters for a levy. The budget adds 4.4 FTE's in employment. Park Improvement Grants will not go away permanently. Commissioner Taylor feels it is important to work on the city community environmental plan and global warming. The budget will be addressed again at the June 23`d meeting for a vote to approve. Commissioner Taylor is the liaison to Inter-Neighborhood Council. He suggested that neighborhood councils develop their own community garden and oversee it in conjunction with Thousand Garden people and share the products. He wondered if there is space in some of the parks that could lend itself to community gardens. There currently is a wait list for the Langohr and Westlake garden plots. There was concern from the Recreation& Parks Advisory Board that the Park Improvement Grants would be cut from the budget permanently. David Cook requested to have an update on the PIG projects that are in process and what needs to be done to complete these projects at the next Recreation& Parks Advisory Board meeting. F.Y.I.—2:04:05—Vice-chair, Parsons mentioned that a letter was sent from the Board to Dan McCarthy thanking him for his service as Aquatics Manager. Adjournment—Meeting was adjourned at 9:12 p.m. Matt Parsons, Vice-Chairperson ATTEST: Britney Morten on, Recording Secretary PREPARED BY: Doreen Olean, Recording Secretary Approved on 14 0 O 1 4 Page 4 of 4