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-4— Bung stand that the City has storm water money. Every year there is afund or two that are cleaned. Grant Wyffels would be the one m direct that to. Grmt would know if it is the City's responsibility or Rice Creek Watershed District's. Breuer said Bel Air School student volunteers, have clewed the creek act in the past. Rice Creek Watershed District contacted us during the winter and they clamed out all the dead branches fisn the area Burg said it would be a good Pagle Scam project. Nonan stated he had the opportunity to kayak up Rice Creek behind the High School. He said there is plenty of opportunity for cleanup back there. An audience member mentioned the possibility of dog park. Haneld suggested Hmaen Perk in the hockey rink ares. Breuer mentioned that when they had discussion about the park designs m the Northwest Quadrant, dog parks came up w the discussion. This was the 10 acres on the northwest side. The biggest issue was the parking. We had no parking in that area. Putting a dog park in m ice rink takes a lot of mainterance. Than there is the expecmtion there should be water and bagsfor picking up. At this time, with budget wrnstrainm, Brauer said she cannot we going down this road. Breuer aboard with the Commission that reduced service levels was an upwming discussion with Council. The Department has seen a reduction nt staffing levels and cannot sustain what we have right now with the staff we have. Staffmade lists of am core and essential services. Weare making decisions about what programs we recommend be cut We have short tern plans on what m do now is order to exist, but there are more programs we need to work through. Some programs am not in our facility. The school district charges us f to be in their facility. Staff clearly came back with the two essential services In keep; parks and the FSC building. positions cannot be filled, so we need to look at cutting services. Breuer stated after meeting with areffmmy crops, there was a Est created of services/pmgmms that we recommend cutting. Strub asked how they can be supportive to Breuer and her team as a Commission. Knowing what is at risk here, be's wondering if this should be a community -wide discussion. Nonan asked if there would be my discussion at the Town Hall meeting regarding this. Breuer stated not to bar knowledge. Sandi commented that this is major, major stuff. Notion said it would be nice to have someone describe this (as Breuajust did) to the citizens. Citizens say we are paying all these property taxes• isn't this awful, and we do not see the commonly resources that are disappearing. The connection is occur made.