Board Meetings
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR MEETING.
Reports of officers.
The Board will be voting to approve the Lower Glen cooperative agreement with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District to repair the WPA walls at Minnehaha Falls and to restore the Lower Glen in Minnehaha Park for an amount not to exceed $2,871,000 from the Park Board.
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR MEETING. The Board will be voting on the approval of a Lower Glen cooperative agreement with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District to cooperatively repair the WPA walls at Minnehaha Falls and to restore the Lower Glen in Minnehaha Park for an amount not to exceed $2,871,000 from the Park Board.
Regular Meeting 5:00
Agenda is changed to remove the New Business with the Twin City Catering issue ( they should have been paying taxes on the portion of the MPRB Headquarters building they lease for their headquarters ... will they re-negotiate their lease? will they be forgiven the back taxes? ) and to remove the motion regarding the agreement for Victory Memorial DR improvements to accommodate buses.
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. The agenda item to pay attention to is item 8.1 listed inexplicitly under unfinished business. Turns out that the Park Board's sole tenant, a for-profit company, has been in violation of the law and of its lease by not been paying its required personal property taxes. Read more about this issue on http://www.mplsparkwatch.org/
Details for Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting
Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon C. Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Date: 6/18/2008 Time: 5:00-8:00 p.m. Type: Regular Location: MPRB Administrative Offices, Board Room Suite 255 Address: 2117 West River Road
Details for Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting
Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon C. Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Date: 6/04/2008 Time: 5:00-8:00 p.m. Type: Regular Location: MPRB Administrative Offices, Board Room Suite 255 Address: 2117 West River Road
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING.
5:30 P.M. Open Time.
6:00 P.M. ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Committee will be voting on an exclusive ground lease agreement with Seed Academy/Harvest Prepatory School for Humboldt Triangle Park. Some questions here are is there compensation for this lease agreement and what is meant by "exclusive"?
Some highlights:
REGULAR BOARD MEETING. It was announced that the new Minnehaha District Manager will be Obie Kipper. He will replace Eileen Kilpatrick who recently retired.
The Board voted to accept 23 bids totaling $350,000 for stump removal and $950,000 for tree removal through March 31, 2009.
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING.
5:30 P.M. OPEN TIME.
5:45 P.M. PLANNING COMMITTEE. There will be a study/report presentation by the East Phillips Park Committee Design Team.
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. The Board requested that the Board of Estimate & Taxation amend the adopted financial policy statements with respect to the City's Independent Boards allowing for the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board to levy property taxes at the level of up to 4% of its Total General Fund Operating Budget for the fiscal years 2009 through 2013.
Details for Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting
Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon C. Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Date: 5/21/2008 Time: 5:00-8:00 p.m. Type: Regular Location: MPRB Administrative Offices, Board Room Suite 255 Address: 2117 West River Road
Details for Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissisoners Meeting
Commissioners Walt Dziedzic, Bob Fine, Carol Kummer, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tracy Nordstrom, Jon C. Olson, Scott Vreeland, Annie Young and President Tom Nordyke.
Date: 5/7/2008 Time: 5:00-8:00 p.m. Type: Regular Location: MPRB Administrative Offices, Board Room Suite 255 Address: 2117 West River Road
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. Superintendent Jon Gurban submitted his monthly activity report. The Board approved the new 2008 golf rates and the schematic design for the East River Parkway Trail Improvements.
Some highlights:
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. The Board will be requesting that the Board of Estimate & Taxation amend the adopted financial policy statements with respect to the City's Independent Boards allowing for the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board to levy property taxes at the level of up to 4% of its Total General Fund Operating Budget for the fiscal years 2009 through 2013.
The following Parks Update is from the March 24, 2008, issue of the Southwest Journal. It is Mary O'Regan's last Park Board article; she is no longer with the Southwest Journal. We will miss her.
Parks update Mary O'Regan
Bringing back swim docks
