##VIDEO ID:-po6nKPH4wM## e e e e e e e e e e all right I'd like to good evening like to call the September 206 2024 parkboard meeting to order roll call chairperson for here Vice chairperson white here board member Perkins here board member West ber not here and board member egler not here all right do we have a motion to adopt our agenda so move second second all in favor I I any opposed we're good all right um do you guys have a moment to look over the minutes from the July 25th 24 board meeting any corrections changes anything I'll move the acceptance of the July 25th 2024 minutes I'll second it all in favor I all right executive director's report uh only thing I have for you is that uh Second meeting for the uh Park survey is going to be October 2nd so the members that are on there have been to know about that so it's moving well how are surveys coming in from um the public do we know they're calling they're going to be calling them oh they're calling them the phone survey like they did last time oh that's right that's right okay y all right I have a question though for him what's our dog park status uh the refiner started spreading some of the chips as far as the trail goes the benches are all in um the receptacles will be hopefully here tomorrow tomorrow and then water's in fence is in concrete's in sign hopefully will be ordered tomorrow or Monday and it should be good do we have a grand opening date no yeah it all depends on a lot of it's going to depend on the sign and they're usually anywhere between two to four weeks out so so will it be the same style as busy beaver the rock yeah it'll be a rock style but it won't it'll be more rectangular shaped so okay it'll have the address and everything on it just like logo neat look nice it's starting boy when they first took all those trees down I thought how is this ever going to be a dog park but um now that some of because I've driven by a couple times but I haven't in the last week or so but the as the chips get spread you know and then of course as dogs start to use it it's going to wear down but nice shaded area in that grassy area too that would be really nice yeah pretty excited for it good good good so then and that's just open to all the residents in the community and okay very good very good all right um board member reports um I mentioned to Derek that you know talk about uh our Buckthorn day coming up in October and um the need to recruit more volunteers for what we're doing um we've kind of had kind of sparse numbers the last couple years although last year was very cold in October but um just kind of suggestions and ideas to kind of promote this and come up with more volunteers I know you have in the past um posted things or had announcements made at school I have communicated with some of the lead teachers science teachers at Lake Middle and then I've tried like um National Honor Society at the high school just a couple teachers that I have names of that I've shared information the one we get the most of is from um Lake Middle okay I will send them a email again uh I don't know if I did it too early the last couple years but or didn't stay on keep reminding him because he forgot about it because when I mentioned it the week before he says oh I didn't think about it yeah and maybe not well of course next week is October already right but you know maybe waiting until you know the first week in October to start not next week but the following week the first full week I will not be able to be there this year I think this is the first time I will have missed um oh oh who's going to handle the waivers I think I have I think I have a bunch of them too I'm going to look and see but I think I do and the clipboards um and we can get clipboards and waivers and stuff well but I've got I think I've got like this many waivers already that I'd kind of like to get out of my stash perfect I can grab them for me too so um I'll get them to Anita okay and then from what I remember in years past haven't we also done put a flyer together and kind of posted those around and and I think I've got that so do I I say oh you know what we had U we had it ready for uh Pioneer day but because well you know Pioneer Day we didn't have a table as such but um I can make I can make copies and get at least at the um bulletin boards if you want to get um maybe here and then did we send it out to the no because we don't have elementary kids no that's but I will take it for the high school and send that flyer out to them you know what I'll I'll send it to everybody here um because I did update it before Pioneer day and then um I can ask somebody to put one here and I'll do all the bulletin boards around town remember what we decided on a date for yeah it's that uh October 26 I don't know why I didn't bring my planner in that last Saturday in um October it would be October 26th and then if we could get that on the um City website too on the website and on the banner 9 to noon yeah okay and I know I've got a few friends and stuff like that that I've been helping with their kind of different events and stuff and I'm going to kind of hit them up see if I can get them to come and help well that's really a fun thing too are we going to do up at Bailey School Forest again I think we could probably move it to somewhere like like Cedar Lane that park down there and make a more of a difference I think it's a little bit smaller area and not as much and depending on the funding and grants and stuff if they get it for GR School Forest they'll be taken care of most of that buck door and stuff and clearing that all out so it's up to really up to you guys if you want to go to go back to bayy school for us and do it out front like we have been I think we'll probably more effective if we go down the C and really clear that out of the Buckthorn maybe that would be a good change and there's it's wide open too so you can put people in different spots and really work in certain areas and stuff so okay and access is easy good then you'll get all the equipment from what would the address be there if some if somebody wanted to because I would need to put that on the flyer and you know just one of those old houses there um but I think I'll even wait with the posters maybe at least a week because again I don't want to put it out too early and of course there isn't one at Busy Beaver anymore I could maybe laminate it and attach it to something um we could put the address as 1659 Cedar 1659 yep okay Cedar Lane right yep all right so I don't know if you guys saw this or not but k 11 had um on their Facebook page had something about high cut technique for Buckthorn where you cut the Buckthorn up at um I don't know four or five ft and it kind of that kills itself I I have a little thing here but I don't know how I'll share it with you guys um after we're done but it says um for Buckthorn control I have been successful with a high cut technique it is cut a Buckthorn tree with a saw at waist height let the top fall to ground to rot or remove from sight nothing more to be done but to wait a high cut process or produces few sprouts and they lack Vigor be patient after the second year following high cut high cut the Sprouts die after a couple more years the high stump is ready to be pushed over and I don't know if that was something we'd like to try with some of the bigger stuff yeah cuz that sounds like it's more the trees right instead of the little bushes yeah you're going to see some more of the bigger stuff down at cedor Lane there is bigger stuff yeah there is bigger stuff you know half inch to an inch do you know you know if if you cut big pieces of that and strip the bark it is absolutely gorgeous wood we had a um a Boy Scout at our uh Boy Scout and Girl Scout Museum that made a trellis um out of Buckthorn that he did that and it's absolutely gorgeous so we like to tell people you know what w that is and they go Buckthorn but it's very very pretty but so if somebody wants Buckthorn and we cut it they can cut and get those and strip it and do things with them interesting but maybe with the trees themselves maybe that's something we could try it's going to take a couple years it sounds like but you know cut it and they're not using any sort of poison or nothing anything on it just cutting it just cutting it and it the Sprouts well it's another another from Avenue to try I mean certainly the little stuff will and of course now that it's so dry again it's could be hard to pull you know that's when it's really hard to pull um you know when it's we've had a lot of rain it's pretty easy to do but when it's dry like this it's awful know what a month will happen though maybe October will be a wet month could be a soupy soupy month could you go down and breach that Levy and then we'll on theu yeah and then we'll go down and yeah okay that's a that's a good ide I will redo the flyer I'll send it to everybody perfect and I will get it at the parks I will ask maybe I'll just ask Deb to put it here something um and then um we can I'll I'll put one up at the drugstore and I don't know where else but wherever else you can think of we can put one all right sounds like a plan I just had one more thing that I wanted to add from um the July minutes we were talking I was talking about at that July meeting about um possibly trying to reschedule our family fun night something maybe after school had started and I talked with the mayor at uh pioneer days and stuff and I said the big problem would be is with the short and daylight hours and stuff so I think it's something that we'll definitely have to hold off until um January and we'll hope for better results in 2024 no snow in January and a lot of rain in June right yeah yeah so anyway we'll hope for a better outcome in 2025 for our family fun night so but anyway so we'll just have to postpone that until then so do we have our winter family fund night on a on the City calendar do you know I don't know if we decid on Dat yet I thought we did I thought we said that last sat uh Saturday in January I don't have anything on my calendar See I go through the minutes to and look and see if we the 25th yeah don't we usually do it on a Saturday well let's decide now and we can then continue to talk about it so do you want to make it just a tenative well yeah just it what did you say January 25th that's the last Saturday yes otherwise you're first and I don't think there's any holidays that and I know it's not Super Bowl as I know February 9th which someone told me um there's no holidays then not on a Saturday so um speaking of winter family fun night is everything done up there now oh there's still some more grading stuff that we got to get to but we'll get to that before okay okay for the most part and that was 6 to8 on that right y okay January 25 that's been so successful we just hope Mother Mother Nature cooperates yeah you know didn't in 2024 no it was a terrible terrible no snow last year no too warm and now we don't have enough rain and welcome to Minnesota yeah we just never don't um anyone have anything else I do not do we have anot a motion to adjourn I will move to adjourn second I'll second it all in favor I I okay all right