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7 Dialogue From January 21-I-th Council Meeting MA. :, I think that's a synopsis of what the plan is. If therets any questions from the council, be glad to answer them. JS: I think before we go to the Council, is there a member of the Park Board here who is representing the Park Board who would like to made a statement regarding, is Arlyn here? MA: He was coming but he had an .......meeting with the School Board and didn't know if he'd be here at 9:00 O'clock. There's several Park Board members here but I don't think arly's here. JS: Is there any Park Board member representing the Park Board that, or does any Park Board member wish to comment regarding the Plan at this point? Okay, then I think we can start by... AW: I was just going to state that JS: I'm sorry. Mr. Westling. A.W: Yes, I represent the area around Sunnyside, quite close to the Lake and I've been involved in the Park Board for about six months and I'm very pleased with the Plan so far. I hope you people here are also. There's been a lot of work on it and Maurie's done a lot of work and in my opinion it is passive to the point where peopl can enjoy it without a lot of helter skelter and this type of thing. JS: Thank you. Further comments from the Park Board? Are there questions from the Council? FW: Mr. Mayor. I remember some of the input that we received regard- ing the citizen's input to the type of park the citizen's of New Brighton envisioned. Based on the questionnaire. A.nd I under- stand it was tabulated and so forth and it was the preliminary report by you that it is desirous to have a passive type of Park. What you have presented looks to me a very active Park. Boat launches, water skiing .................picnic areas. I think it's quite active. I don't get the feeling from what the questionnaire envisioned ah passive park activities ah compared. to active park activities. I'd like to get a little more explanation from you as to how come suddenly certain activities became desirous in spite of the input of the park neighborhood meetings. MA: I don't know that the word in spite of is necessarily correct. We think, and when I say 'we' I'm talking Staff and Park Board, that we took the input, we interpreted it, granted, that has to be done, but we feel that this in our sense of interpretation, the traditional sense of interpreting 'passive' is what we thought the people wanted. When we talk about a ball field, for instance we're talking about an open area where people can play a game of ball. That's not an active park but it's something, it's an area where people can play. We look at-our neighborhood parks and to some extent, and also Hansen Park, as active parks. They have lighted hockey rinks and tennis courts. Thay have ball fields and skinned in fields, ag lime on them, big high