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WO City of 0 NEW ITON the city that works for you Council Worksession May 8, 2012 Present: Mayor Dave Jacobsen Councilmember Char Samuelson Councilmember Mary Burg Councilmember Paul Jacobsen Councilmember Gina Bauman Absent: None Staff in Attendance: City Manager Dean Lotter Director of Park and Recreation Sandy Breuer Director of Public Works Grant Wyffels Parks Maintenance Supervisor Chris Wolla Others in Attendance: Park. Recreation and Environmental Commission (PREAC) Connectivity Priorities: The meeting was called to order at 5:30 PM. Director of Park and Recreation Sandy Breuer stated that the Parks, Recreation and Environment Commission has a recommended list of priority trails connectivity for New Brighton and it's surrounding cities for the Council to view. Mayor Dave Jacobsen gave a brief statement regarding the connectivity trails for the New Brighton area. Director of Park and Recreation Breuer asked Council to consider having the Parks, Recreation and Environment Commission and City Council be involved and look at these projects when Ramsey County, MNDot and other agencies work on these projects. After much discussion Council stated that they will discuss and vote on what happens and when the opportunities present themselves, on a case by case bases, Council would like to be involved and perhaps influence the trail connectivity of these bridges and roads to New Brighton and its surrounding cities. Park Encroachment: Director of Park and Recreation Sandy Breuer gave a power point presentation regarding park encroachment. At September 13th 2011 Council Meeting, Council passed a motion for PREC to obtain a survey due to the potential removal of the basketball court at Silver Oaks Park. This survey was to help determine what is City property what is public property and the survey also helped determined if the basketball court could be moved, but in the end the basketball court remained. Encroachments in several other parks were highlighted. Director of Parks and Recreation Breuer gave a brief review of the City's Code on encroachment and what the City Attorney's response was. The City Attorney stated that the City does not need to do anything to our City ordinance and if a property is parks then that property is parks land. After consulting with The League of Minnesota Cities regarding park lands, LMNC stated that public park property cannot be adversely possessed. Director of Parks and Recreation Breuer gave some examples of the many aspects of encroachments in our City's parks property and also gave some examples of what other cities were doing to correct their parks encroachments. Funding and policy for this parks encroachment situation was also discussed. Staff asked that Council give 1