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Park Board Meeting Page 3 Gunderman suggested that citizen pressure should be exerted on the school board to obtain community use of the school's hockey rinks in New Brighton This should relieve some of the pressure on municipal rinks. He re- commended that Smith, Z~?eissman and ti~?icklund form a subcommittee to recommend a course of action to be reported back to the Board. Lighted School House Gunderman explained that School District 621 has applied for state funds to initiate a lighted school house program in the district. This program involves community utilization of school facilities. He suggested that New Brighton was in a position to obtain at least a portion of the program within the Village. Smith, as the representative of the Park Board on the School District's Recreation Committee, was going to be attending a meeting to discuss this program. It was suggested that he inform the school district that the Village would be prepared to assist initiation of this program in New Brighton. Rush Lake Dahl informed the Board that she attended the public hearing on the land use plan. The Rush Lake area was discussed at the meeting and it was indicated by those attending that a final decision had been made concerning county purchase of property in the Rush Lake area. This decision excluded the purchase of Rush Lake itself. She felt that in the course of the Board's discussion of this matter that it was not a final decision but merely an input of the moment and that further discussion would be held when the county presented concrete proposals. The Board requested that the council be informed that its previous recommendation concerning the county's involvement in the Rush Lake area was only a preliminary recommendation and that they hoped that the opportunity was available to discuss this issue in more detail. Department Report 1. The Board was informed of the fixst meeting of the New Brighton Senior Citizen's Club. ^1 he meeting was attended by 31 people and it appears that potential for a viable organization is excellent. 2. The Fourth of July Celebration at Hansen Park generally was successful. The park emerged in tact witYi little damage despite the large number of people attending. The University of Minnesota Band will present two additional concerts in the park this summer.