Park Board Minutes - 08/26/2004Wichita Falls Park Board Meeting
August 26, 2004
Municipal Auditorium
City Council Conference Room
1:30 p.m.
Presiding:
Members Present:
Members Absent:
Staff Present:
City Council Representative:
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Gary Patrick/Chairperson
Gary Patrick, William Barnes, Kenny Haney, Elmer
Emory, Walter Tyndale and Peg Marquardt.
Steve Chaney, Kenny Catney, Alan Donaldson and
Gary Diehm.
Jack Murphy, Glenn Jamison and Genice Wilson
Mike Norrie
Visitors: Jennifer Mercerl "Safety City ", Brandon Brown/YMCA,
Ronnie London /Boys & Girls Club, Frank Haschke
along with several members of the WF Dog Obedience
Club. Jim Berzina/City Manager and Matt Benoit/
Assistant City Manager.
CALL TO ORDER:
Meeting was called to order at 1:50 p.m.
OTHER:
Jennifer Mercer with the "Safety City" project handed out maps of the site for
Safety City and gave a detailed explanation of the site. They are going to have
two educators which will be DPS and MSU. Their offices will be at Safety City.
Students will be bussed to and from the site so parking will not be a problem. Mr.
Patrick wanted to know what the timeline would be. Jennifer stated that they
have a draft lease that they are working on and as soon as the City Council
approves the lease then the committee will begin fund raising. Mr. Patrack
wanted to know the estimated cost on this project. About 700 hundred thousand
dollars is the approximate cost Jennifer Mercer said that they have also agreed
to put some money in escrow to cover cost of removing and taking back to grass,
if the facility for some reason or another were to be abandoned.
CALL TO ORDER:
The minutes of June 20 were put before the board. William Barnes made the
motion to accept the minutes as written and Kenny Haney seconded the motion.
Approved unanimously.
NEW BUSINESS:
A. Request for extension of extended reservation privilege to the YMCA for a fall
baseball league in Kiwanis Park from September through October, 2004.
Brandon Brown with the YMCA presented the request to the board. Jack
Murphy said that the staff recommended approval and he could see no
foreseen problems. There was a discussion and Peg Marquardt made the
motion to approve the extension. Kenny Haney seconded the motion.
Approved unanimously.
C. Consider request by the Boys and Girls Club for waiver of Sec. 82 -62 and Sec.
82-63 of the Code of Ordinances to permit game admission sales, food and
drink sales, and advertisement signs and waiver of Resolution 2509 as
amended to permit non payment of the percentage of gross sales and
admission at the Lake Wichita Park football /soccer fields during their fall
youth football league Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00
p.m., September 11 through November 13, 2004.
Ronnie London was introduced representing the Boys and Girls Club. Mr.
London put the request on the table and it was discussed. Jack Murphy
stated that he had been thinking about presenting a proposal to lease this
property to the Boys and Girls Club. This will do away with waivers.
Kenny Haney suggested that the Boys and Girls Club get with Coca Cola and
explain that they need to take down the sign due to a City resolution that they
were unaware of.
Mr. Haney also suggested that the Parks Department come up with a basic
agreement that we could use for all clubs and organizations who request
waivers, so the board would have something to go by as far as approvals.
Motion was made by Elmer Emory to grant waiver to permit game admission,
food and drink sales. The motion was seconded by William Barnes.
Approved.
There will be no action taken on the waiver of signs and non payment of the
percentage of gross sales. Walter Tyndale wanted it to be formally noted that
we would have some specific guide lines to go by on such waivers by the end
of 2004. He made this a motion and Kenny Haney seconded the motion. No
vote was taken.
D. Recommendation to lease approximately three acres of Lake Wichita Park to
the WF Dog Obedience Club for them to construct a building in which to
conduct the City's dog obedience classes.
Proposal was presented to the board by Frank Haschke of the WF Dog
Obedience Club to lease the old soccer field in Lake Wichita Park to construct
a building. This would be used to hold classes for the Recreation Department
and meetings for the club and at a later date a dog park.
Motion was made by Kenny Haney to approve the request and seconded by
Elmer Emory. Approved.
B. Revision to tennis center contracts regarding a reduction in hours of
operation.
The Parks and Recreation Tennis Policies were gone over by the board and
general changes were made. Staff recommends reduction in hours.
Kenny Haney made motion to revise the tennis center contracts regarding
reduction in hours and William Barnes seconded the motion. Approved.
DEPARTMENTAL REPORT:
OLD BUSINESS:
A. Budget FY 04 -05.
ADJOURNMENT:
THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 3:47 p.m.
Signature: . �� /�i57
Gary Pa ck/Chairperson