Park Board Meeting
Dec 31 1969 - 7:00pm
Microsoft Word agenda documents are available here.
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Some possibly interesting topics to be discussed at this meeting include:
- Buckthorn Removal
- Earth Day
- Arbor Day
- Goose Management Plans
- Beach Closures
- Brackett Park renovation bid
- Approval of hiring athletic officials
- Approval of NRP funding agreement for $375,000 for Lake of the Isles restoration
- Parking fees
- Revised expenditures and revenues (spending $42 million instead of $40 million)
- New ordinance amending the ordinance relating to conduct
- Co-sponsorship of the Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society public celebration of the installation of the statues at Wirth park, the Wirth-While Weekend.
- Approve some interesting accounting transfers from the 3 different AP funds to pay for the Armatage Park athletic field improvements of $72,000.
- Approve Mississippi Watershed Capital Improvement Program of $2.965 million to improve "water quality" and recreation facilities at the Park Board Headquarters, East River Flats, Father Hennepin Bluffs, Miss. River Gorge, and Edgewater Park.
- Armatage Park athletic fields improvement for $498,630.
- Lake of the Isles phase III-a rehab for $407,888.95 (and not a penny less!)
- Requesting the City Council and Board of Estimation and Taxation sell debt and assessment bonds to pay for the Park Board's capital improvement program.
- Skate parks discussion.
- Reopened beaches discussion.