Park Board Minutes - 09/29/2005Wichita Fails Park Board Meeting
September 29, 2005
Municipal Auditorium
City Council Conference Room
1:30 p.m. a
Presiding: Walter Tyndale /Chairperson
Members Present: Walter Tyndale, Gary Patrick, Peg Marquardt, Elmer
Emory, Mary Ward, Penny Miller and Alan Donaldson.
Members Absent: Eric Bogaards, William Hinkle, Dennis Kays and Gary
Diehm.
Staff Present: Jack Murphy and Genice Wilson
City Council Representative: Lanham Lyne
Visitors: Brandon Brown, Barry Gaheb and Sandy Shawver of
YMCA and Dave Clark of Planning Department.
CALL TO ORDER:
Meeting was called to order at 1:35 p.m. The minutes of August 25, 2005 were put
before the board. Peg Marquardt made the motion to accept the minutes as
written. Gary Patrick seconded the motion. Approved unanimously.
DEPARTMENTAL REPORT:
• Water Mill ornamental structure location search. This is our 12th
ornamental structure.
• Preparing leases of park land to YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, and Tex Mex
Baseball League. Review with the City Manager is the next step.
• Written comment on Parks and Wildlife Department's proper allocation of
appropriations of Texas Recreation and Park Account by Oct. 15.
• Budget approved. Three above current level appropriations: Kawasaki
vehicle, mulch trailer, and Kemp Center for the Arts maintenance grant.
• Reviewing park ordinances frequently waived by City Council to determine
how an appropriate amendment can be written permitting the city manager
to waive the ordinances.
• University Kiwanis Club donated $4,000 to the City. $12,000 account
balance.
• Runners Club dedicated their donation of $2,000 for a drinking fountain on
Holliday Creek Trail.
• Staff is going to NPRA in San Antonio, October 18 — 21, where our Mobil
Stage will be on display.
• Falls Fest 20'' year, starts Friday evening September 30th and goes through
Saturday October 1't.
Elmer Emory asked if the lease agreement with the YMCA was going to be
discussed at this meeting.
Jack Murphy said that it is not complete at this time and at this time the next
step will be for the City Manager to review the agreement.
The YMCA visitors, that were present, were concerned about whether there
would be any extra cost to them. Jack Murphy explained that this would be a
lease of property and the YMCA would probably be responsible for some
maintenance, electricity and water. Since it is still in the discussion, stage the
YMCA and Mr. Murphy would probably get together and discuss this, as well
as if advertisement in the ball fields would be a possibility.
OLD BUSINESS:
C. Presentation by Dave Clark regarding park land acquisition techniques.
From last meeting there was a discussion about how we set aside park
land in development processes. The bottom line was we had one, but we
don't have one now. Dave Clark confirmed that the park land acquisition is
indeed in effect At the moment it is unenforceable until specific places
are designated for park land. As a board we need to learn how the process
works and designate what properties are needed for new parks. This will
be put on the tour agenda for October.
B. Discussion of planning meeting with City Council. Discussion of October
tour of park sites.
A list of things we would like to look at on the tour needs to be put
together. 1. Gary Patrick's proposal for Lake Wichita Park out by the boat
ramp. 2. Each member needs to go throughout the City picking out areas
that might be designated for Park areas. 3. Obtain maps of city from
planning.
Hopefully we can get the City Council to meet with us and we can take a
tour on the trail train.
Each board member told a little about their assigned parks that they
visited, and will turn that information over to Jack Murphy.
OTHER:
Walter Tyndale wanted to know if the Parks Department had a certified man to go out
and check the old playground equipment especially the merry-go- round. The board was
concerned about the department not having a certified technician. A motion was made
by Gary Patrick to recommend that the Parks & Recreation department designate an
employee to be sent, at City's expense, to the NPRA meeting in San Antonio to be
certified on playground equipment Mary Ward seconded the motion. Approved
Unanimously.
ADJOURNMENT:
THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 3:40 p.m.
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Wichita Fails Park Board Meeting
November 3, 2005
Municipal Auditorium
City Council Conference Room
1:30 p.m.
Presiding:
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
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Walter Tyndale /Chairperson
Members Present: Walter Tyndale, Gary Patrick, Peg Marquardt, Elmer
Emory, Mary Ward, Penny Miller, Eric Bogaards and
Alan Donaldson.
Members Absent:
Staff Present:
City Council Representative:
Visitors:
William Hinkle, Dennis Kays and Gary Diehm.
Jack Murphy and Genice Wilson
Lanham Lyne (absent)
Karl Langford (concerned citizen)
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CALL TO ORDER:
Meeting was called to order at 1:30 p.m. The minutes of September 29,200S were.
put before the board. Peg Marquardt made the motion to accept the minutes as
written. Gary Patrick seconded the motion. Approved unanimously.
DEPARTMENTAL REPORT:
• On our tour this afternoon we will be seeing the new Mobile Stage that was
picked up in San Antonio at the NPRA meeting.
• We are continuing to work on leases with the YMCA and Boys & Girls Club.
Jack Murphy has gone over the leases with the City Attorney and City
Manager, next step is to send it to the City Council. We should have the
leases completed and we will discuss them at the December meeting. The
December meeting will be on Thursday, December 1st.
• The Fall/Winter flowers have all been planted. Elmer Emory wanted to
know what the spring/summer flowers were that were planted In Kiwanis
Park by the entrance sign. The flowers covered up the sign and it couldn't
be seen. The flowers planted there were called Copper Leaf. The parks
department will see if they can plant something next spring that will not
cover the sign. (The pansies just planted will not be a problem.)
NEW BUSINESS:
Discussion of citizen safety concerns regarding the hill in Lake Wichita Park.
Early in October Walter Tyndale received an e-mail from Karl Langford with
some concerns about the hill in Lake Wichita Park.
Carry Langford was introduced to the board. She wanted to know what the
purpose was for the dirt hill in Lake Wichita Park. Her daughter and class
mates were on a field trip at Lake Wichita Park and after lunch they decided to
go up the hill. On the way back down her daughter lost her footing, tripped
and rolled a ways down the hill. She received scraps, bruises and a broken
bone. Mrs. Langford went with her daughter after the incident to see where
her daughter had fallen. Karl Langford's concerns are:
1. What is a tall dirt hill doing in a Park,
2. There are coke cans, pipes and broken glass buried in the dirt on the
hill. These can cause injury, and need to be removed.
Jack Murphy explained that this is a project that started about 3 - 4 years ago.
The goal is to get the hill to 100' or more. We plan on putting a trail leading up
to the top with a small picnic shelter on top. The sides will be landscaped
with grass, trees and bushes.
The Parks Department has placed four signs around the hill that say, "Use
Caution When Climbing Hill." The staff discussed putting a fence around the
hill until it was completed, but that was rejected. We will have the Parks
maintenance crews remove dangerous objects on the hill and hopefully make
it a safer place.
The board also discussed having the Parks Department put up additional
signs describing possible future plans for development of the hill.
Gary Patrick also added that the original reason we put the hill in was to put
terraces on the south side and possibly have a Recreation Outdoor Concert
Theater there. (This is only one of the many possibilities for development of
the hill in the future.)
Bus Tour of Parks:
The Park Board went on a bus tour and saw the New Mobile Stage. They went
by Tesco Park and discussed the Softball fields that will be removed to
accommodate the upcoming new roadway. Then they went out to the Lake
Wichita Boat Ramp area next to the Spillway. There was a discussion of
possibly purchasing lands in this area for City Parks by the lake and the
concern that the lots may be sold before we could act on this.
OTHER:
ADJOURNMENT:
THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 3:00 p.m.
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Walter Tynd a /Chairperson