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NEW BRIGHTON PARKS, RECREATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION MINUTES May 5, 2010 • ^E°Y'" wxUk y. (Minutes in their entirety are kept on DVD at City Hall) I. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by Chair Norton. II. Roll Call Present: Commissioners Frischman, Harreld, Heinrich, Jacobsen, Norton, Strub Council Liaison Burg, Also Present: Parks and Recreation Director Breuer Absent: Commissioner Trevorrow III. Minutes of April 7, 2010 MOTION BY HEINRICH, SECONDED BY STRUB, TO ACCEPT THE APRIL 7, 2010 PARKS, RECREATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION MINUTES AS PRESENTED. MOTION CARRIED. IV. Trails Committee Update — Brian Strub; Chair Stub stated the Trail Committee had a guest speaker, Connie Bemardy from Active Living Ramsey Communities. Connie gave an update on the connectivity of trails and maps that the County has worked on. They are online. The Trails Committee shared with her about New Brighton trails and connectivity that she was taking notes on. There is a meeting on Thursday, May 20"i, hosted by Ramsey County Communities, 6-8pm at Falcon Heights. They will be . discussing, trails, maps, GIS. The Trails Committee meets monthly. They encourage anyone interested to attend. V. Correspondence A. Council Report — Council Member Mary Burg Burg mentioned that not much is happening in the NWQ development. The State changed some rules on how you can use TIF money. They are allowing communities to use a certain portion to spur development. In our community, it totals about 2.2 million dollars. It encourages a developer to come in a start a project. A project would need to start (digging) by the end of next July. The Council looked at some wonderful developments in the Twin Cities. There is not good financing available at this time. New Brighton has a great location, incentive money, maybe adjustment on the land to try to get a project started. We have a short amount of time but we are optimistic for this project. Burg stated there was a meeting last night about Fleet/Non-Fleet. Discussing how we will pay for all the Capital projects that we have not budgeted for. We are working on a policy that we can follow so we can pay for things like the new carpet and the roof. Would like to add some numbers that will help us fund things out into the future. It is a big project for staff. Heinrich asked if it was the west side of the Northwest Quadrant that you are proposing for development. Burg said the high density housing would not go in on the east side. We had asked for some stimulus money, to help with the east side cleanup. We are still waiting on that. The west side is ready to go.