##VIDEO ID:y_Tml2zSe2I## this conference will now be recorded I lost my voice and I need Kayla's help oh my okay welcome to the parkboard meeting in September for got the date 9th and we can look at the agenda tonight and make a motion to approve the agenda the only addition is is 7A which is a tree trimming request per Troy c c c seven something it's fine I'll make a motion to approve the agenda second I opposed motion passed okay and we have approved minutes from August 5th it looks like you guys approved the budget or is it tabled for cl month I was missing last month so oh the budget we did the INE yes yeah I was GNA say I think we needed it approved for the first meeting in September yeah for motion to approve the minutes I'll second opposed motion passed okay now we have accounts payable looks pretty lengthy but only two pages I know was got the dogouts on there on P Island yeah yep so that 3,900 from Pine Island is above and beyond what the check for the booster club cut to them the $7,000 from the twins organization correct I don't remember having that quote from Pine Island but I thought the Pine Island quote was almost a wash from what the twins organization was going to go I didn't realize it was $4,000 $11,000 um we got $7,000 from the twins organization and the booster club cut that check basically directly to pun Island mum I thought that when the quote came in from Pine Island for all just the raw materials it was close to that 7,000 but if that's the case it would have been 11 yep thank you I I couldn't remember the numbers I thought it was in my mind a wash but obviously not I make a motion to approve the accounts payable second all in favor I opposed motion passed okay we have public comment today there's this a not campgr C okay all righty we're going to uh unfinish business of the priority list and talk about that or skip right into the pool fundraising committee all right I think that's me all right um so I met with the pool fundraising committee once maybe twice now there's another meeting tomorrow night here so if anybody's interested uh feel free to come out um it is at 7 pm I believe it's a planning meeting in here Planning Commission before that and then uh full fundraising after yep that's seven um some of the things we discussed were a float in the parade that's already set up U Meg has a wagon or a trailer of some sort and Zona Ford is going to contribute a vehicle we need someone to drive still looking for that um and then um a table at the cover bridge festival down by the vendors um we ordered stickers oh we should get those Miranda and well I could do it but okay we ordered stickers and magnets um the stickers are just U they've got the the pool committee logo on it um well you'll see it and the magnets actually have the QR code that you can scan to donate we didn't want to put the QR code on stickers because we figured those would end up on kids we don't want kids running around with a QR code on it so oh um the magnets are going to change just a little bit because bring them over here the magnets are not here okay no magnets um the QR code had to change so we we had to do a little audible um so we'll have those stickers at the table and magnets and we'll we'll hand those out at the parade as well they'll be candy um so mayor haml authorized me to order these stickers and and uh and magnets but there'll be other upfront costs for the the pool committee like decorating the float things like that there's some other things um and they really don't have any seed money you know other than pledges to the pool and they're a little unsure if they should be using that for that for this function um so the request came up uh of some money possibly from the park board um I spoke to Kim and she said we could take it out the 615 account which is the admin in general um um you know uh we're saying a couple thousand dollars doesn't have to be that whatever the park board thinks if you could contribute something Upfront for the committee just to get rolling um they would appreciate that tremendously see why not 15 account was supposed to be for running the pool this year anyway right correct I mean that's the admin in general the pool account we'll talk about that one next I think it's an no-brainer right absolutely yeah 65 is the pool account nope 615 is the general account and 226 is your savings um well the other the pool account is oh no the pool pool account is 16 616 not 615 there it is I'm proposing 615 for this couple thousand dollars and then 6 616 will be the big one that I'm GNA talk to you about and 615 was at around 100,000 in cash and money market right now 25 and 81 106 and then there's a CD in there for 156 865 y yeah basically the whole budget for 2024 was 131 700 and there we spent 22887 so far so Kim thought that would be a good place if if you choose to give some seed money to the pool committee take it out of 615 you think 2000 is enough to get them roll in yeah I make a motion at give them the money that they're requesting I good decision all right can I move on to the next one sorry step on the president um this is the big one so also in the discussion was the the pool money the maintenance money the the money that we've got on hand and we haven't done maintenance this year of course and we haven't run the pool so we had those uh Levy dollars in there um and we're going to plan on levying those dollars again in the 2025 budget so um right now there's 3,8 5919 in cash and Investments um doesn't all show in that in that 616 account oh that's no that's restricted that's the restricted one that's not the one I was looking for or maybe it was last month K had moved the pool funds into the restri restricted yes okay so 300, 8599 um the remainder of the 2024 taxes is still to come in that's another 47,000 and some change proposed 2025 taxes um 91,4 188 so all totaled be 439 463 up until the 2026 projected opening of the pool of the new pool um we think we should have two years roughly of operating budget um which would be about 238,000 somewhere in there 240,000 um that leaves 200,000 left and um I I'm requesting that the park board allocate those dollars uh the $200,000 now uh to the new pool you know that way we can say we've got the $100,000 commitment parkboard put $200,000 towards it um we'll still have the operating money available in 2026 to the tune of about that we'll need for the pool so so Kim and I were comfortable with that number so that that that is you can comfortably go $200,000 towards the new pool effort right which would put us at right now then it would put us oh roughly $331,000 into the effort give or take that proactive approach I don't know why we just put it right into it correct you know I mean I mean it'll be used that for something so we've been talking about when the demo so maybe some of that money would be used for that but then that's still is money going into the pool correct right it's all the same y so it's just basically allocated to whatever the needs are for that demo or new pool building or whatever it might be right no it's proactive on multiple fronts I mean one it shows a community that you're getting seed money rolling and doing your thing it shows the taxpayers that you're taking the taxpayer dollars that were already levied for the pool that aren't being used and putting it right back in there you're not redistributing them somewhere else yep and then most importantly that seed money that's there helps keep the effort moving forward versus having to come back all the time and say okay what do we want to do here I mean that that seed money is there yeah and you guys had asked about that a couple of times before too on on what kind of dollars could there be there so this I think this is another Nob brainer y I agree I make a motion to approve the 200,000 above and beyond what was already used for the for the two-year budget we go right into the pool F second get done put an account number on that is that moving from which account to which account that I I believe is 66 rest I think because I think I think Choy is right that it was moved to to 616 I can clarify that just to make sure but and under those conditions um all in favor I I all opposed motion passed three times on the Park Board to do what we just did yes awesome no no we need we're still going to need another uh now we're back to the 1.3 million that we thought we originally needed that's okay we'll get there we can talk about that tomorrow night at the pool um committee but something they did great in Canon Falls too is they had the the public you know display board of the funds that were gathered right at the John Birch Park like what their goal was like 1.5 million was what they wanted and then they went out there just like the old baseball signs and they would move the Marquee sign up like oh now we got 600,000 now we got 700,000 they kept on showing so the to grab a spot somewhere and the committee got that they thought that was great and that'll that might be that'll be part of that that seed money too to come up with some sort of a sign like that something prominent um but yeah I mean and then the fundraising are really so so a lot of it will come from in kind from contractors and things like that that you know even with the the projected on the on the demo and Excavating was I don't know 300 and something thousand well the demo is only going to be about 990,000 and so if Excavating is a little less then all of a sudden you realized a 100,000 or plus right there so that's where a lot of this a not a lot of it but that's where a good share of these extra big pledges will come in that type of stuff too so but yeah we're gonna get going meeting with area businesses and whoever else we can meet with and I think Todd is gonna mayor Hamill is gonna go on a lot of those meetings especially with the bigger businesses so that's exciting see what we can put together awesome congrats well done yeah keep it up um we'll move into the new business the campground R Campground rules discussion remember little little addendum or uh we need to fix something how what's going on we were just got a little Campground over in Wisconsin back in June and they had really basic Campground rules I thought we could you know I kind of crossed out what I didn't think need to go in it you know obviously we're not going to have no laundry facility um they had restrictions about firewood that not be brought in I don't know if that's something you guys want to do or not I don't think we should I mean we we haven't had no restrictions no so I don't think we need that either um um the waiver thing you do not have to do that but then maybe after two weeks ago maybe it's something you want to think about yeah no I think we do want to think about that I don't they probably don't know what happened down there so what what night was that Friday night Friday night when the Storm come through when the wind came through and we had a tenter in the back and she was very not tant didn't say just says a tree fell down a branch come down she told me yeah Branch well okay Branch branch and we just said okay you can move up you know find a different spot she goes no no I'll go back there the next morning she came up she's barely walking and getting out of her car I mean all on her leg it was a limb I mean it was crushed the picnic table Yeah broke the picnic table right yeah so I don't know it's up to you guys if you still want to do that or not I was going to say no but after that you know I think you should have just rulle saying that we're not responsible and then just sign that piece of paper is that something want to get maybe me abely we'd have to get mad inv to take a look at the word I mean everybody comes in with hand that paper to sign this that be a good idea just keep it with the envelope and pass it off to you when we bring up the money that we can keep on filed any Happ this way yeah we're GNA and you know maybe it's more of a standard because we're going to do one for the shelter as well oh okay W reliability also some rules we burned a hole in the deck I don't know if you heard about that yeah that was also when we were gone that be a good idea just a catch all thing and if we're already got mat looking into the shelter that'd be a good ide well we will we were kind of waiting to yep see where this one went so I mean this is just basic rules um ours is pretty General neutral for this uh pretty neutral for our Campground already um we just have to enforce the people with cats and dogs without leashes because we have do you think do you think there's anything from the second version that really would need to go in the first version that you think sticks out that you see more than anything else I think a good reminder is the firearm and fireworks okay you know because we had Charli o saying that we had fireworks done and we never have because we did stop it you know if we heard it y um you'll have no smoking signs on the building so I don't know if we need that speed limit you know last few I've had has been really five miles and 7.5 that we've been in and it's like we have 10 but they still they go through rape ape you know cars or Cycles Cycles or whatever they're terrible I mean we get that new one going they're going to have to slow them down somehow because oh yeah all campers be right along the road yep I know that that means putting a speed bump in some place before that or I don't know that come down just leave well you know I went to some division in Rochester and it had like not the speed bump it had like a tabletop where you had to slow down and then come down where it' be easier to plow over can't remember what division I went to pick up something up in that area what's that fox copter up up up by but there's tabletops you know it's like does slow you down because you don't want to go fast over it we did talk to the ATB guy that comes with his Sun through there and he goes in fast fast he wants to get air with him you know what mean I talked to him about that so but we found out why he does it he has an Autism kid and that's his thrill I said well can we slow it down there you know but we try to R it best we can out there was that the discussion I was trying to remember why this came up because we had that just because I see school rules and I thought they were pretty basic nice a little less little more condensed yeah three pages we have three four three pages yeah cuz no one's going to sit and read these when they come to a campgr and you got three pages where this is just a smaller font it's only 17 total and if you want to make the signature page you know this waiver thing on the back it's one sheet then we would know too who's there all the time because sometimes they pay cash we don't know them and when we have storms we go on their vehicles they're they're gone and it's like I don't even have a number to call them say hey guys got to get back here there are a number of things look like it you know we have a two week stay right limit that doesn't appear to be in the the proposed one or the or the condensed one do we want that no we have we have people longer than that I mean I mean you bringing money in white make them leave you know we've ever been turn everybody really down so I limit to how many you can have like that that stay longer I don't want to use them all for people staying long you know sure yep oh flash floods that we need to have that one in there I guess twice in one year we get yeah we get three hours of notice but still flash it takes a while get get them out of there yeah I know and we try to go around you know like with a couple of those um well the popups back again but we keep after them about keeping your stuff picked up yeah they thought they were gone for the summer but they're back well maybe we should take a shot at revising combining and condensing the two the ones that are pertinent yeah and then coming back and looking at like a REV one draft next month I mean because now the camping season is pretty much over correct so plenty of time plenty of time got plenty of time to get this ready for next summer and we had some discussion as well about people dumping in the park as well and think we're g so we might want to add something to that because we discussed nothing for sure but about having a charge for people to come out I think you should and people that don't camp that weekend is Sunday morning it's just freaking lineup we want to stop yeah because got new Campground that started outside by the it's supposed to be for smaller campers is it ramer's place or yep yeah come dump there they come dump oh makes sense cuz they have no place to do it supp the one Sunday morning we had a line up on the road even dumping it's like you none of you guys even camped here what kind of a charge I'm thinking five five to $10 don't you at least oh yeah yeah I think so find out what the standard is Right find out where they're being charged someplace else and say they be up there they charge if you don't Camp there I I can double check on that fa you know yeah that's something else we could add yeah because then we could post it and monitor it and I think that's going to happen as we dig into this that we're going to find more and more stuff that we say correct well I forgot about it or we should add this but appreciate you guys coming in and telling us some of your thought so that's very helpful absolutely River quality drink not usable parasites bacteria my son spends half the summer in there floating told don't open your mouth I guess another thing I wanted to ask as long as we're here is the permanent sites seasonal sites I should say is the cost going to be 1,500 like we talked about besides your meter gosh I can't remember I that's what I thought we talked about but we ever nail down I think we talked about increasing it but we never talked about an actual price where we at now 12 13 13 13 but then they're going to pay for their electric now so yeah it would make a big difference for the bill out there you know what I mean well you know if you guys want to discuss that maybe we should start discuss also about their deposits right now they're just 200 if it's going to go up to 15 I think you should get a little bit more for deposit yeah do you think should go to 15 i' I'd say leave it at 15 the first a few years at least to get started because they they're full we have no shortage of demand they're already all spoken for they spoken I thought I saw someone out there oh yeah things out they're all picked out already then I think this the the seasonals we got now they have the gravel and sewage they should go to least 40 a night they're going to be full hook ups there now five of them these sides yeah but it Chad per premium is 40 bucks a night water 30 that'd be sewage and water see and 50 amps that's fair yep I think so anyway seasonal out there is uh for 50 Water and Sewer 50 3,200 bucks but we don't have a bounce thing and Lake yeah here you go probably want to wait till 2026 there coms next year so there's two families with kids next year oh okay so they may like that anybody from out of town yeah okay so out of the 10 there's five of us so five that are here there now us and the other four so then you got the two Rochester families they're young couple young couple with kids um Sr bonds probably would be bringing their kids they're from Red RNG or what is boring Bor yeah and then you have is a Becca Becca something from Rochester older than couple I think there's her son lives in town right yeah I think so and then who's the last one I can't think right now but they're all full I know that yeah part of the argument from that group was they're going to be all local people they're not going to be spending other money in Z well no sounds like most of them are not paying Z tax yeah because the permanence or the seasonals right now you got Texas resident cuz she changed hers to Texas now actually probably two of them probably two because the other one's going to Texas every winter the other one's from Waterville and in Dean and an O see and they're chopping downtown using you know so a that's back up I got her taken care of she's been she's been soad could get got her in I would have been killed yeah she's been very persistent which I don't blame her she wanted it and now she's got it but the funny thing about that woman she don't have a camper she's going buy one she's got to buy one oh my gosh she ask what kind to buy that's funny that'll be fun right first here oh gosh well they used to have aamp delivered they used to have a camper and then they brought it a son with get it bring it down they will Camp during the day and go home at night you well they must because they want to back yeah action place over did you yeah so next month we'll put on the agenda we'll discuss the rates and then look at the new revision one of the combined rules or something yep perfect fantastic bless you bless you twice and then Mike are they going to move any of the the swing stuff or not [Laughter] okay I guess I don't have anything else right I mean basically unless you got questions for us and and just for for the public and kind of uh you know the way this Campground went and of course we had a group of detractors um that had a lot of suggestions and a lot of comments and um it's being said that we didn't listen to any of their comments which is obviously untrue the parkboard listened to a lot of their comments and it changed substantially since this whole thing started uh maybe part of not getting a grant had some impact on it but you also moved it farther away less sites um not touching any of the trees or the playground which evidently the one gentleman's grandkids like to play on so all that's going to remain so I think if you hear out there that we the park board or we didn't listen to them um I would dispute that because I think you guys listen to them quite a bit and made quite a few changes based on those comments I think so too I mean I did tell a couple of other seasonals to if they our Mr Nelson would come Nelson right would come down and talk to them that they shouldn't be talking to him and they can come up here and talk to you yep yep that's what we told him just yep if he asks questions just say excuse me I can't talk to you it's what I told him one the one week when we were gone we come down to Neil he didn't realize it was NE well you're the another one that don't like me I'll talk to Donny when he gets back but he never don't talk to [Laughter] me won to be like Shades or what yeah yeah it only gets loud when you got the uh water aerobics going in the pool yeah that was you probably heard it did you yeah there was the first couple times I walk out on my front porch like what on Earth is going on C that's a big deal because I talked to quite a few that went to wam Mingo for water aerobics this year Well Mary's one of them and so hopefully we can get that pool going and get that back keep all those people when I was at the booth at the fair there was a couple of people that came by that that I don't have kidss anymore but I love that water aerobic and currently I have to go here there everywhere to get so I want it back here we going to ask about the what do you guys think about the uh to put Wi-Fi back there like on on the new bathroom just have a a hub thing so did some campers ask for that you know I mean do you have Wi-Fi I know can use one system up that made a new bathroom maybe I don't know I'm not sure how that works um you know we have carriage points to run our cameras but those are dedicated right um depends on how many devices up right and you could tell that when we've been in different campgrounds yeah where was it we went to Harvest Farms couple weeks ago and it's like no service during busy time nine till about 7 couldn't get in off your phone at all and then it's like after o' or before :00 we could my phone would just go everything was coming in but I mean it's something to think about I guess yeah the carriage points are cellular that that's Verizon right our internet here is is currently Spectrum but zot telephone is going to bring fiber into the building so we'll be switching to them so we could talk to Jake and see what the options are you you must have Z telephone out your way right I mean fire at my house y y so it wouldn't be too far away then really yeah they're going to put it up in our neck of the woods too we might be switching I'm waiting for me too I had it out there at the farm we were at where the end one but we got it four miles out of town yeah they said they were putting rural ones were the first ones the big gr dollars was theur first but we didn't they didn't know if we get it works perfect out there so yeah people have asked about that too so again if you have it that was a password that was given to us at the Wisconsin yeah didn't have it we'd have to give it out and then yeah yeah it' be just a reoccurring cost the campground and that can be built into and then to get into the bathrooms and the shower rooms it was codes codes like we talked about that everybody can't use it from town like they do now stop take showers in the morning oh yeah oh yeah should send my son down there it's [Music] [Laughter] expensive so they split up as showers yeah yeah yeah y but I think the bathrooms the showers for sure needed um the bathrooms I think you you know cuz he's there check them should be okay yeah it'd be nice to have just maybe have a sign or postage up there saying if there's anything you out of toilet paper out of Sil once in a while it happens not very often but you know to come down and tell the camp Hol we can replenish it so in the bathrooms I think they might just be unisex because there's only going to be one stool in each one right basically with a locked door oh there is going to be urinal oh okay oh there okay see I was told only be one stool each one that's kind of small that makes sense though that makes sense then you don't want those unisex ones because then yeah the seats are always a mess for the ladies uhuh say that about guys bathrooms I was going to say I have to share a bathroom at work with a lot of men I'm like I can tell which ones are married and which ones are not because of the seat Well I think it should just always be up because then you don't be no well it down because I don't want to have to touch it every time I got to go to the bathrooms it's great to your wisdom here thank you for sharing tips and tricks here y thank you guys we want to make a motion on right now get a lock box code box anything going or just wait till next season and the repairs okay T till next month table to next we your work all right moving on to Covered Bridge Park entrance sign some bricks losing some mortar and such and such well I think I guess I was looking more proba needs to be a fres pain the back side that's got that plexiglass place where you put signs in I think that could be nobody uses it a whole lot I don't think and I think that could be just dressed up on I don't know I was just thinking maybe a map of the park or something on who did you say would do that um Miranda um oh the one that did fixed our sign out on 52 he's got a really cool business card it's aluminum Billow just something that I don't know I was looking at it the other day we repainted the metal work on it once but it doesn't last I don't know what has to be done to get that paint to but then I was thinking on the back side of it maybe that's where you want one of your electronic signs up there that tells you how much is one for the pool or how much you have for the pool you can get your power there I mean you could have advertise some stuff on there for the park or whatever suggestions on how to spiff it up yeah get a quote get a couple yeah maybe a couple different ideas of what to do and couple different quotes we can figure out what we want to do you guys know who painted this image two blocks that way behind the oh of a tat yeah I don't know who did that but it looks really nice had that I think Terry would know on the posting online too we can get a hold of that thank you well let's turn it into some kind of like holiday warm wishes kind of electric flashing sign I was the other route and say like spooky Halloween creepy that's just there's so many okay Christmas there are so many Halloween decorations out right now and I literally have to have my husband pull me away because I will buy every single one of them I'm so bad no no it is spooky season I think You' have trouble changing the front of it Troy because people would probably not be happy with with us if we tried to change the front I just look at it some way in the back that we can utilize that back just a little more for I don't know if it's a map of the park and pointing out idea like or maybe even a a map of town where maybe some of the other parks are you know we can incorporate that but that plexiglass there's East Park there's this that the other thing so there's a lot of opportunities we have for the back of that on the back side is just kind of it it has a little bit to be desired when I was looking at okay so we are going to get a quote and then we are going to all come up with one idea for a Halloween sign and then we are going to make a move I got the Halloween sign down that's true daily pumpkin little turkeys oh look at the ideas possibilities are endless but let's get it fixed up for our Park what do you guys think yes yes okay all right thanks how are you today perfect colors on Troy what are you talking about trees for us no one talks about trees at parks a m of the guard reach out to me about a branch that was um trimmed and still left in the tree right next to the memorial out there and I already took a picture of it sent it to Mike Mike and the boys are going to take care of it so this one is already taken care of thanks to Mr Olsen yep already being addressed I can very briefly though segue into a quick update on the dugouts um a group of volunteers the weekend before last actual Labor Day holiday weekend got together and installed all 24 of the post the big six by6 post so the construction is well underway we just got to put in the headers and start building the actual flat roofs so um Fred rash and a couple of the retired Carpenters have volunteered to donate some of their time as well and now that all the heavy lifting is done so it shouldn't be long now they're known as a geriatric crew they call themselves construction crew yep but they do a fantastic job Yep looks great slow slow so great progress is finally being made thank you very very much Yes exced actually taking shape yeah great progress lately any uh that letter I asked for for mindat and the roundabouts am I off limits there yeah so I need I've always been told we can't do anything in the rounds right Mike we were told that so um I haven't except except mowing yeah they want us to mow them but we can't do anything else to them um and then that letter oh gosh I'm trying to remember now didn't I email you back in that um because the letter was for it seemed like it was for something else other than what you were looking it was like permission the city would like like or is in favor of um project of tree planting oh yeah thee along there the I think the the what you the link you had sent or was for um like grants or loans a loan for I can't remember what it was I didn't think it was but yeah then I completely forgot about it so yeah I'll get it I will put another reminder here that tag there it was minda in the ases by the VFW uh not VFW the memorial vress memorial and um they have they direct me to another sub Grant Helper place that we need to fill out a form for and they asked for a letter from the city saying hey that's okay that you do that then Brian's like I don't think we need to write a letter because letters are for old people no exactly my thought was well if we're gonna get if they're GNA partially fund it then we got to do it that it's in the minda they should do the work and do it but maybe maybe it was just that maybe it was just yeah I was just looking for trees want you to do it bu trees I'll look at it again here cool yeah and I'll make sure to tag it if it's missing everyone happy with tonight's discussion just that I think markers are going to start on the sewer and water for that campground next week oh answer the questions they're they're working on Ninth Street now and of course there's a little Parkland dedication next to that so how much that one point well it was 1.93 Acres was the total and I can't remember what we ended up with of the Parkland indication somebody bought a dog park there to me it's I don't think it's an acre or just barely over an acre I don't think it was an acre either for some reason I think it was just underneath an acre yeah wead I think they're better off waiting for sewer plant north side of that road or is it down the South Side still that swamp or area down towards there was that no it was pretty much where the hill was that big right where the hill used to be yeah yeah so be nice for something the trail is gonna go right by it so we'll throw it on our map plexiglass right new park let's do it Hillside Park Hillside Park uh I don't know that's revision number one make everybody Happ and call it the Indian Trails Park yeah exactly thinking about calling it The Troy Nest Park negative rename the fields that pretty soon $1.1 million donated we will get my lights add in CAG cool guys are you entertaining a motion to adjourn do I have to say that loud I thought I was giving you that face I'll make a motion to adjourn since you're entertaining it all in favor May okay thank you very much I get to a church C