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Page 4 Frischman stated that with her communication with residents in the area, they feel much has changed since the school was repurposed. If we look at a timeline that is during the time it was a school and then past that time. There is not enough appropriate activity going on there prevents the inappropriate activity. Norton stated that technically the school was closed during the summer, so what prevented things from happening then? Frischman said she can't answer that. All she knows is that residents have told her that there were classroom windows that looked out over the skate park and teachers would call police. Trevorrow felt some of the concerns brought up were vague. We could put more garbage cans out. He feels we should put a bigger skate board area in there. Harreld, stated that a lot of communities do have skate parks. Kids can also go to a facility and pay. This is an activity that is free. She has been up there and seen that the garbage cans are overflowing. The sign of a successful park, is a busy park. Frischman stated she wanted to get a consensus from the Commission on how they want to move forward. Frischman felt; we do not necessarily have to do a . public hearing, but if you would like to let the residents be heard, then that is what we will do. We have 69 residents who want us to remove the skateboard park and 170 who want us to keep it, plus 12 businesses. Heinrich, said it sounds like we should consider the public hearing. It would be good to put it more toward April when these issues are starting to resurface. We need to get the issues to be more specific. List them out and deal with them one at a time. Frischman said that it is her understanding that at the public hearing we will decide whether to close the skate board park, or if not, what do we do to correct the situation. Breuer stated that because we have petitions asking for both closing and keeping the skate board park, the public hearing could be to address whether to keep the skate park open/closed or improve it and state that we welcome public comment. Samuelson said that she sees that most of them feel the skate park is a good thing and maybe some things need to be addressed. Why would we do a public hearing when we have a petition that has quite a few more people than the original petition has? 40 Meyer said there are a lot of different communities that have skate board parks (White Bear is putting one in and Shoreview has one). He suggested that perhaps we are dealing with a few bullies. Budzynski said he read into the petition that there were some bad elements. How do we attack that issue?