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Park Board Minutes - 01/25/2001ARP Wichita Falls Park Board Meeting January 25, 2001 Municipal Auditorium City Council Conference Room 1:40 p.m. Presiding: Gary Patrick /Chairperson Members Present; Members Absent: Staff Present: City Council Representative: CALL TO ORDER: RECEIVED IN CITY CLERK'S OFFICE Date - j ` 01 By Time Gary Patrick, Al Norris, Barbara Green, Matthew Bohlen, Clark Waters and Kenneth Haney Mark Howell, Linda Bates, Bob McBee, William Barnes and Ed Godsey Jack Murphy, Glenn Jamison and Genice Wilson Dan Shine The meeting was called to order and the minutes of December 71' were put before the board. Al Norris made the motion to approve the minutes and Barbara Green seconded the motion. Approved unanimously. Kate Teichman and Andy Stanford of the Runner's Club spoke to the board about a donation from the Trails Fest treasury. The Runner's Club would like to make a donation to have a spur built on the trail, which is on the south side of Southwest Parkway. Barbara Green made a motion to have this put on the Agenda for next month and Matthew Bohlen seconded the motion. Approved unanimously. Mr. Murphy will get in touch with Kate Teichman and let her know where it stands. DEPARTMENTAL REPORT: Trails - 1) TEA 21 from the Spillway to Fairway. 2) Parks & Wildlife in Jaycee Park. 3) CDBG from Eastside Dr. to East Scott. 4) TEA 21 application for Holliday Creek trail. Plans for these trails are coming along and doing well. The CDBG linear sidewalk is now under construction. TXDOT indicates the construction on the 2.57 -mile TEA 21 trail from the Lake Wichita spillway to the end of Fairway in Jaycee Park should begin in April. We are finishing the last coach to attach to the Trail Train. There has been some discussion on how this train will be used. It can be used for special events or private rental. The Train was used in some special events in December and went over big. The ornamental structure that will be going up at Harding Street will look like a clock. It will work and you will be able to get the time from it. The tree planting is under way for the season. There will be over 370 trees planted. Approximately 150 trees will be planted in various areas and 300 or more at the golf course. The ice storm and bad weather killed about 8 trees along Kell, but all in all we have had no severe problems. The North Slope at the River Bend Nature Works has failed again and hopefully we will be planting trees there to see if that will help. We are still trying to get a buyer for the portion of Weeks Park up for sale. Jack is pretty sure East Lynwood Park has a buyer at present. The money received from the sale will go into the general fund. The City is looking at another site in the Jefferson Park swap lands with WFISD. The Recreation employees that will be moving to the Wichita Falls Recreation Center in April are Kathy Whetstone, Larry Nash, Clint Strong and Genice Wilson. Clint Strong is the new employee hired to replace Judith Krebs. The Jaycee football field and the soccer field lighting are in need of repair. This has been reported to the Traffic Department and hopefully will be taken care of soon. The bid solicitations are out for playground walls and walks for City View Park, Loch Lomand Park playground and for the Lucy Park water well to be dug next to the small pond. We are preparing a recommendation with Property Management for addressing the encroachment on City land on two sides of Lake Wichita. OLD BUSINESS: A. Review and discussion of the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Plan. A rough draft copy of the Master Plan was given to each Park Board member and there was a discussion on input still needed from board members. Glenn Jamison has worked very hard on the Plan and it is starting to take shape. Glenn went over the information that he received from different sources and how he put this information into the Master Plan. He again requested input from the board. The board assured him that input would be forthcoming. The Board decided to have a special meeting to discuss the Master Plan and try to furnish the input Glenn needs to complete this Plan. The Special Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 7'h at 2:00 p.m. in room 106 of the Memorial Auditorium. B. Purchase of two lots off FM 2380. Mr. Murphy is still waiting on information from the City Manager on this subject. C. Park advocates. Because of the bad weather, most board members in attendance had not been out to the parks designated to them. We were informed that Westover Park has had no use at all. Roselawn Park has some old tree stumps in the park that need to be removed. D. Crockett School triangle monument. The board found that the School District maintains the triangle and the district needs to be called and told about the bad condition of the triangle monument and find out if it is going to be maintained in the future. NEW BUSINESS: A. Discussion of possible new use of a portion of Weeks Park known as Funland. Mr. Baker's contract expires in April and he is to leave the area clean and in a satisfactory condition. The board had a brief discussion on what to do with the property from the Funland area. Mr. Murphy told members they could consider leasing the property or using it as parkland. Some of the possibilities include building an outdoor or indoor rental pavilion or a garden center. B. Recommendation on request by the Tex -Mex Baseball League for extended reservation privilege for Spudder and Williams parks from March 11 through October 28, 2001 on Saturday and Sunday. Kenneth Haney made the motion to approve and Clark Waters seconded. Approved unanimously. C. Discussion of summer flowers. Al Norris made to motion for the City to show leadership and plant drought - resistant flowers that need very little water. We need to show that the medians can be beautiful, even with little water being used. Barbara Green seconded the motion. Approved unanimously. OTHER BUSINESS: Mr. Patrick asked Al Norris to get with the nominations committee and nominate members to offices for 2001. Nominations are to be presented at the next board next. THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 4:00 P.M. THE NEXT BOARD MEETING WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22,200 IN THE CITY COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM, MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM.