00:00:06,300	Is Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. Happy Veterans Day, everybody at 5:30 here in the Ed Bosch Frelich meeting room, uh, any additions or deletions to the agenda? None. Hearing none, uh, at this point, we’ll open it up to any public communication from visitors. I think most people are here as part of an agenda item.

00:00:29,870	Uh, that we’ll speak later, um, we’ll close that portion of the meeting. Uh, can we look to approve the minutes from our last meeting October 14, 2024. Uh, regular meeting minutes. I’ll make a motion to approve the uh October 14th, 2024. motion by Comm Milellhhoff. 2, seconded by Comm Scott.

00:00:51,770	Any further discussion? Hey, all in favor say aye. Aye, opposed same sign. Alright, motion carries. All right, item number one, we have the, the Mandan Kiwanis Club here and, and many representatives, uh, here to, uh. Continue to sponsor Mandan Park District, uh, activities and, and, and what we, what we do here and they’ve been great supporters.

00:01:11,500	Uh, Karen Rohr is here. Uh, Karen, uh, past president from the uh the Kiwanis Club is here, uh, Karen, do you want to talk? President of 00 6 00 $0 of this was Do I My colleagues I need to start over now? No, I think we got you.

00:01:57,430	OK, um, I just indicated that we donated a total of $14,560 to the Mandan Park District 6000 for tennis and $8560 for, um, baseball, and I also want to introduce my colleagues to my left here from Man and Kiwanis Club. We’ve got Governor-elect, Carol. We have Todd Humphrey, former president, Jackie Hall is our President-elect. Jean Kalzman, board member.

00:02:24,770	Jim Frelick, everybody knows Jim, board member as well, and then, um, his son is Christian is here as well. So thank you again. No, thank you. Um, we, We appreciate every time you come and and present a check, obviously and and support, I guess, for, for most of us up here support uh the youth programs in our uh in our

00:02:45,170	district and and along with everything else, so uh with that, uh, it’s, it’s great to see that we get your continued support for, for baseball and now some tennis, so, um, we do appreciate that.

00:03:06,300	Anything else, board? It is our pleasure to Support all of It’s such a joy to see you guys tonight being a former Kwanian and, uh, actually a past president as well, um, but just the support we get from you, no matter what the youth activity is, is greatly appreciated. So thank you again for being here. Yeah, thank you. Right All right, we’ll move on to item number 2, update on our golf maintenance building.

00:03:31,370	It looks like we had some hiccups here, that, uh, maybe we can and can’t overcome, but you want to Correct. So President Meski and Commissioners, um, late last week, um, we were notified that we were required to raise the building about 2 ft of the proposed area, um, you have a.

00:03:49,770	And I, um I or attachment in your packet just kind of gives you an aerial of the south end of the golf course near our um cold storage building that we were looking at.

00:04:02,970	And so as we dug into this, um, we were hoping tonight to come before you for approval to advertise for bids and open bids in March, or excuse me, yeah, in open biz in March, a ward in April to proceed with construction with the building as the new information came to light with us about getting it out of the flood plain.

00:04:17,270	We thought we were out of the flood plain, but the city’s required us an additional 2 ft to be raised, um. You saw some of the slopes and the attachment in there and just kind of. put us at a halt, I guess is what I would say.

00:04:31,830	So Plan B is to have a team’s call due to the veteran’s holiday today we weren’t able to, we had a quick conference call, um, couldn’t get everybody on it this morning, um, so we’re meeting tomorrow morning. Um, we’re gonna look at potentially all the options on this site again.

00:04:47,170	Um, the downside to this site, obviously, as you see how far they’ve moved it to the east as it brings it into play of the golf course and then obviously the elevations that’s going to make it be above the road and then excuse me and the cold storage buildings you see to the south, um, unfortunately, it just kind of.

00:05:00,500	is a 3 to 1 slope coming into our building into our parking lot, and it just didn’t really make either one of us, you know, excited to spend this kind of dollars and not have a kind of an area that we like. So we’re gonna look at potentially expanding the current, uh, maintenance building that we’re operating out of today and just have a discussion about if we were to knock it out.

00:05:15,500	The the north end of the building, how could we address storage needs? How can we address golf cart storage needs in the future, and is this the right spot location, cost efficiently, um, and hopefully bring something back to you next month as far as the direction that we plan on going, so it’s very preliminary due to the lateness of last week and the long weekend, um, Friday

00:05:33,100	being a national unofficial holiday for Deer Hoer. A lot of the subcontractors weren’t accessible, and then obviously veterans today, so we did have a quick conversation. I don’t have any more information. in that to share with you, um, the difficult part is that we were, like I said, mentioned earlier we’re trying to get to bid.

00:05:49,270	One thing I wanted to bring into discussion is if we were to build to the south down here like we’ve talked about. The other option would be raising the road so that we’d have a level parking lot driveway when you come into the approach of your building, which we know cost efficiently from the north

00:06:04,830	to the south and is a long gravel road, um, dollars just don’t make sense to spend at that time, so that was one solution we even looked further south to get almost by hole number 6 tee box to kind of see how that area of land would look.

00:06:21,170	It is out is out of the flood plain, unfortunately, the size of the footprint of the building and things that we would have just doesn’t make it adequate. But we’d have to end up moving to tee box, probably removing that tree that’s in between 5 and 6 tee box, um, and pushed the tee box over to the east, which now brings tee

00:06:35,200	shots from hole number 5 onto the tee box at proposed number 6. So a lot of move in part to guess what I’m trying to say, Hopefully next month we’ll have a direction what we’re going with. Is the current building in the floodplain now, the, the current building that we have the cold storage building there.

00:06:50,770	No, it’s not. And We can’t go any direction from there if we attached it to their just you didn’t feel comfortable. the existing. Well, I mean, to the cold storage building that’s down there now to to keep it out. I notice we have spaces between the two is that.

00:07:09,830	Yeah, so unfortunately, we’re not able to tie into it. We’re going to be 2 ft higher than that. And that’s where that 3 to 1 slope comes in and then we have the drain field to the southeast of that building, and that was because we don’t have, we can’t connect to uh sanitary services.

00:07:22,730	So we’re too far away from any type of public services, so we’re able to have a drain field and a septic tank and so to do that you have to have it obviously the building higher than the septic tank for it to drain properly.

00:07:35,900	And then have an aerial land that’s not going to be impacted by the Gulf area where carts and things of that be driving over it, so we’re very limited in the space down there. I thought the concept made sense.

00:07:48,300	We thought originally we could push the building further to the West as much as we could because we were told we were far enough away from the toll of the of the levye, but as we know we’re going through the levy process here at Manda Municipal. Some things have changed and they’re in their accreditation process, so I’m hoping to bring more information back to you next month. Call is with this affect any more parking on that other side of the building.

00:08:06,500	So that is a crucial um need, obviously is parking, so if whatever we end up doing at the existing shop, we want to make sure if we were to impact any type of parking that we’d have to be able to replace it.

00:08:20,330	There is um an area in the center when you come into the golf course that is not paved today, that’s something that we could look at or we can extend the parking that we have on the north side of the current shop further to the north and push it out to the curb and maybe remove some of those, um, Old cottonwood trees and things of that nature there as an option, but we do

00:08:34,100	not want to lose parking spots. That’s correct. Anything else for Cole? OK. Thank you, Cole. All right, moving on to item number 3. Jamie Wetch is back here with us. I don’t know Tyler were here last time. I don’t, I don’t. Tyler’s not here. This is Colin.

00:08:58,870	This Col, OK, I got Tyler written down here. Uh, so he had to go out of town. OK command. Well, thanks for coming back. Jamie, um, yeah, uh, your last presentation, I think we’re all kind of wondering how, how we proceed with this, so, um, if you just want to give us a quick rundown again or uh present any new material that

00:09:21,500	you have for the, for the group, that’d be great. see that somehow we’ll wake up and They’ve got the screenshots right from. OK, yeah, I guess if you wanna put them up there. We just talk about price because yeah, it doesn’t look like this is gonna.

00:10:01,370	OK, so this summer we have been engaging pump tracks, which is the uh company that is working on. Minnats and to my knowledge, they still actually haven’t started my nuts, uh.

00:10:19,430	Uh, Pump track yet, but, uh, we’ve gone ahead and we sent them aerial shots of the land and drawings and talked about kind of what we wanted and they actually came back with uh. Uh, kind of a multifaceted approach when they looked at the slope that was there and it’s and they suggested a few more features instead of just doing a pump track, they thought there was more for more features up there, so what you’re seeing there on the screen, um, on the left

00:10:39,130	side of that would be the uh the current paved path that comes down the hill to kind of set your perspective, so this would be kind of West looking east towards Lyons Park, so the line.

00:10:59,300	That is immediately to the right of that paved path is what they’re calling a jump line, so it uses the natural slope of the terrain and they put some tabletop like BMX track style jumps on there, and that then ends down in the pump track.

00:11:15,370	So that was one feature they suggested adding the one that’s kind of in the middle and to the right that’s hit by the trees a little bit down the hill, so that’s a skills course. So one thing when you’re looking at building up your skills before you hop on trails is riding over bridges, riding over logs, any other obstacles that you might see.

00:11:36,170	So what a skills course is, is a kind of a specifically designed manage introduction for beginning writers to kind of help build your skills before you quote unquote. out in the wild. It gives you an opportunity to go ahead and practice that stuff before you just see it out on the trail, um, it kind of makes your barrier of entry, uh, a lot easier, um.

00:11:51,730	Just to kind of get things figured out, so that line also ends up at the pump track. You can see the two paved areas that go into the pump track, so the bigger area that is on the right side of that picture is the pump track and so the jump line and the skills area end up in the pump track and you can access the

00:12:08,700	pump track separately without going through any of those other features, and so it creates kind of a nice big riding area and uses a chunk of land that’s essentially a hillside that gets mowed, and I think There’s some yeah.

00:12:26,830	So that’s a little bit flatter 3D rendering of it, so on the left side of that image is the jump line, so you can see those BMX style jumps that you’d use coming down the hill, uh, the middle section, you know, the 3D renderings are. Look a little bit too cartoonish when you look at them, but um.

00:12:44,970	I don’t know that we would probably put a pipe on there like that, but you can see that there’s the, the middle line in there, the kind of white looking blocks would be stones, uh, the one. To the left of that, that’s brown, that would be like a wooden boardwalk for people to ride over.

00:13:00,500	They would be fairly low obstacles, because again, what you’re trying to do is get people’s confidence built, and you know, you’re not going to throw them on a bridge 4 ft in the air and be like, OK, go learn, so most of the stuff is seen as fairly safe in a way to increase your skills without uh having like a high danger factor to it, and

00:13:14,470	then over on the way right hand side, you actually see they have a pile of logs, which is, you know, again a little bit kind of a cartoonish representation of it. I think we’ve got a nice, is there a flat or pump track one? OK, that one should work. I wonder.

00:13:42,200	Yeah, that one, that one you can kind of see there if you picture it from a flatter perspective, so the left side of that image would be the east, uh, the right side would be going up the hill to the west, and so really to put in perspective, you know, again, the pump track is essentially, you know, an asphalt track with

00:13:59,770	um dips and peaks in it that you practice riding and trying not to pedal essentially is what it is. So those are the 3D renderings that they came up with, so what we asked Pump Tras was for a phased approach, knowing that this project would come in, uh, way over what we had intended for just the pump

00:14:16,230	track itself. So they came back and said it would not be a problem to phase anything in, so when we, we would look at doing the pump track as the first phase of the project, it makes the most sense to it, um, and is actually of the three that are there, it’s the largest of the features.

00:14:35,170	So what they came back with for a price wise for the pump track was 180,000, uh, which includes the stone base material under the asphalt, the asphalt, machinery, rental, travel, and labor, uh, to get everything.

00:14:54,170	Installed and put in Uh They have a few additional features that when we get up here that could be added, so some of the individual features too it could be added and changed depending on what we, you know, make a decision when they start building the jump line would be about 130,000, uh, same concept, stone-based material, asphalt machinery, rental, travel, and labor included in that price. The skills course, um.

00:15:16,770	Include stone based material, asphalt, machinery, rental, travel, labor, and about 15 or so skills to make on the site or they can be purchased. There are companies around that, um, you know, less maintenance wise, you can build um rollers out of straight wood, pressure treat, or you can build them out of metal, uh, there would be less maintenance to those, so those

00:15:36,730	are kind of things that they can add, but they’re basically saying for this layout we’ll give you 15 features and we would get the choice to pick those out.

00:15:53,730	So for phase one of the pump track at 180,000 what we were looking at for funding would be using a uh North Dakota RTP grant recreational trails program, Federal Highway dollars that’s administered by North Dakota State Parks, and that is an 80/20 match, so they’d be looking at a 20% local match or $36,000 and that would be our local match, so what we would be asking would be if the park district would be interested in going half

00:16:12,100	with us, um, we would commit to half of it, but we what we would actually prefer to do would be, let’s say term it as up to 5 because we would like the opportunity to do fundraising against the park districts have. Or I should, I shouldn’t say the park districts have against the total local match in general.

00:16:33,430	Mm And then we, our intent would be as the future when we looked at uh finances and donations and that, um, we would be looking at completing these grants.

00:16:58,730	The good thing about the RTP grants is you are allowed to go after the grant multiple times, so the grant itself has a $250,000 limit, so it actually works out better for us to phase it in because it actually gives us the opportunity to go after more grant funding rather than just having a larger part of a local match.

00:17:13,200	So in subsequent years, we would look at Um, going after the grant in multiple phases to build the other sections out. Do you know Jamie did mine out in the other, other pump tracks did they get that grant in the state, uh, that I don’t know.

00:17:30,100	It, it, when we talked to pump tracks, we were under the assumption that would be, they would actually be up there working on it this summer, but that did not happen, so I don’t actually know what to hold up on myott’s pump track is, but as far as I know, pump Trax wasn’t actually up there that year.

00:17:44,670	Or this year because they didn’t, they didn’t, uh, we told them that if they decided to swing through that we would like to invite the park board up there to everybody take a look at the piece of ground, but they never did come up to North Dakota this year, so.

00:18:01,500	Um, Cole, I got a question, is because it’s gonna be bigger than what we talked about in the beginning, is that gonna affect anything with the with the land out there with far as federal federal land, do we have to Worry about that. So the Sunset Park, uh, as you mentioned, has was purchased with land and water conservation. We’re not selling any of the land.

00:18:17,100	We’re just repurposing it into a more recreational opportunities, so there is no restrictions associated with that land and just to add, I did reach out to the city of Manan and talk to Jarrett Wagness, their city engineer, just talked about Division Street being extended, any concerns or anything related with this, and he said no at this time. So if the road were to go through, it should not impact anything.

00:18:30,400	It sounds like if a road was to happen, it would go south of the skate park. Um, around the backside of what you refer to as Davenport Hill. OK Um, and the other question I have is, is, and I know Tustin brought it up when we had our first meeting.

00:18:49,570	I want to make sure even when we extended, will we have worries about water problems or anything, and we’re gonna make sure that’s all taken care of. We did specifically bring that up, uh, Dustin’s concern up with Pump tracks and the East end of the facility, um, the good thing about Pump tracks is your corners are banked, like there’s no flat corners on it, so as the pump track makes a

00:19:09,900	circle around that hill, um. It would just be built such a way that so there’s essentially a curve right there, so there wouldn’t be, cause yeah, we, we told them the concern of it was, uh, we didn’t wanna invite water to be running through the pump track, but they didn’t foresee a problem with that.

00:19:25,500	And Jamie, can you remind me the age group that we’re dealing with here, are we from, are we doing from one year olds to 80 year olds, basically, yeah, essentially there’s really no age limit on these things, um, we’ve seen, you know, a 3 year old kids Strider bikes, the bikes that don’t

00:19:43,570	have any pedals on them that they just run along with, we’ve seen uh kids that age on them to basically anybody that feels safe riding a bike. So yeah, it’s, it’s, there’s really not a targeted age group for it, it’s all ages. All right. And on the, on the. The plans for the the other part of it.

00:20:02,770	That’s for more for offroad bike riding. It would help you build skills in that area, definitely the skills track for sure, um, you know, if you’ve ever been out on a mountain bike trail, actually either uh Sunset Park, the rest of the mountain bike trail that’s up there, Harmon Lake Fort Lincoln, whatever, a lot of cases

00:20:19,370	there’s a lot of natural bedrock in the trail, there’s bridges and that and you know, it’s, it’s a safer environment if you want to get to your to some point where you feel safe on those trails or even venturing out to the West side of Sunset Park.

00:20:35,430	where that 4 mile mountain bike trail is rather than uh coming around a corner, let’s say on the west end of Sunset where you know there’s, um, what, probably a 2 ft wide bridge on the other side of that slough, so you kinda shoot down a hill and all of a sudden there’s a hard left with a bridge on it, and you

00:20:48,300	know, it goes over the slough and you’re gonna take about, you know, a 3 ft drop if you missed the bridge. So the good thing about, you know, practicing a bridge on here, you know, the thing’s not very far off the ground, so if you got off to the side, you could just right off the bridge and

00:21:03,130	it wouldn’t be a problem and and the goal on that is when you do tackle some of the off-road trails into town, and hopefully to get you the skills in a more controlled environment, and the jump lines like I don’t even know that I would probably do the jump line.

00:21:16,930	I think it takes a certain, uh, person that’s looking for that adrenaline rush that me personally, I’m safer with my tires on the ground. Thank you, Jamie. Jamie on phase 2 and 3, if, if we were to get the grant, the RTP grant, um, initially, is there any Prior experiences with it where do we know what the chances of us getting

00:21:41,030	Additional grant dollars a 2nd year or 3rd year. I have, I’ve built 20 miles of mountain bike trail out at Harmon Lake, uh, using our TP grants 3 times, so I’ve You know, and each one of those times I’ve gone after 250,000, I’ve gone after the max.

00:21:59,630	Um, the, so if I’m sure you guys are familiar with the score State Comprehensive Outdoor recreation plan, so the RTP. Uh, board when they meet, they take a look at all the projects and basically look at what each quadrant in the state states as something that they’re looking forward to, and that helps that board, um.

00:22:22,100	Gauge where they rank the projects, um, would we get funded? We would obviously hope so. Is there a guarantee to that? Obviously not, um. You know, things like this are kind of new, I think it stands a very, very good chance of getting funded, um, you know, more so than say just oh, we wanna.

00:22:42,470	Paved trail You know, some nondescript, so, but no, there I’ve had good luck with going back to RTP, um, many times and getting fully funded each time. Thank you. To piggyback on that, uh, Comm Scott.

00:23:02,970	So to apply for that grant, do you need anything more than, than what that you’ve presented tonight, do we need to get some surveyors out there. I mean, is there gonna be some upfront costs that we need to do before you apply for that red greens that you have I can answer that Cole could answer it.

00:23:16,030	I mean, you have to prove that you have clear title of the land, um, they would want something in the minutes of the meeting stating that the funds are available to apply, so, you know, if a motion is made that says, OK, you know, with.

00:23:31,500	The public providing half and parks providing up to 50, you know, because they would want some proof when you send your grant in that they want to see in the in the minutes that you have clear title land and also that you have funds available to do it because they want that available regardless of if they fund you or not. So I had $180,000 you said around 18,000 would be 20%, 36,000 if we have it between the groups would be 18,000.

00:23:55,100	So basically, if we, we make a motion to let you go ahead, we’re committing to roughly $18,000. Yup, in a, in the worst case scenario, if nobody wanted to give anything fundraising wise, it would be 18,000.

00:24:15,370	And that’s, and that’s based on their bid, obviously best we have to work off of, and you do provide the bid, you know, with the packet for RTP and that’s what all your funding is based off of anyway, um. You know, we could if we wanted to build a. 10% contingency in. But Cole, I asked this.

00:24:38,330	I asked this Friday, and I’m going to ask it again uh will this affect anything from our strategic plan for budgeting and stuff like that as far as financially impacting the Park District, no, it will not. It’ll only enhance the district as a whole, and we’ve had good success with RTP grants and You know, Jimmie Wetch is spot on. That score is scored high. We, every year or every 5 years we go through this scope evaluation.

00:24:55,830	We score multi-purpose trails and outdoor recreation as an opportunity for growth. So yeah, it will score high on the ranking. Obviously we don’t know who we’re competing with in grants, but I support um this project and I think the local match of the local 20% sharing that 50%, um. It is a good move for both the park District and the Central Dakota.

00:25:11,900	That’s what you want to be called, right? Central Dakota cyclist. OK. I would agree, yeah. I’m, I’m gonna make the recommendation if that’s OK with you guys, um, I approved the Central Dakota cyclists applying for the recreational trail program brand with local match shared by 50/50 between Park District and the user group, and I wanna make special

00:25:33,970	thanks to Jamie for even bringing this up. Tyler Huber, Ian Easton, call Camiad as well. Um, we have a motion by Comm Mutter. Seconded by Comm Frelich, any further discussion? OK. Comm Mutter, Comm Frelick, Mr. Milhhoff, Comm Scott.

00:25:59,970	Yes for me as well thank you very much we will uh keep you posted, um, we’ll go ahead and I’ll be in contact with Cole and because technically the RTP application comes from Mandan Park District, it has to be a political subdivision that applies for it, um, but we’ll work with, yeah, we’ve both of us have done RTP grants independently, so I’m.

00:26:20,230	It won’t be a problem, and most everything that they’ll need on that would be the 3D renderings and such, so, um, we’ll work together and get that grant submitted and we’ll cross our fingers. Perfect thanks guys. All right, moving on to item number 4, presentation of the new app for Park District facilities and programs. Hi, Kelly. Oh, good evening.

00:26:39,530	I’m here today to give you an update on the Manda Park District phone application. um, Tyra Ripple and I in our office started this process earlier this in October, um, basically the goal of this app is basically threefold for the goals, um, to have all of our youth and adult program registration, uh, accessible through this app.

00:27:00,500	basically user friendly, um, medium for patrons to. Sure. Um, the second goal is to have registrations, so, um, reservations through our park shelters and our birthday parties straight from the app.

00:27:20,030	And then the 3rd goal, which was kind of the the biggest kind of what Tyra research on why this app came to be is to basically have our membership scans through this app. So that’s with the raging rivers and the Mandan Aquatic Center. So patrons are also able to renew their membership through this program and also, um, purchase their memberships.

00:27:41,900	So, With that being said, we launched it this past Thursday, um, to the public, and we’re going to continue to market the app through program registration, email marketing, and just to just continue, um, that big push through our Renervers Black Friday sale. Um, also with this app and another really cool thing that I think from the marketing side is you can do push notifications and alerts.

00:28:00,100	Um, so let’s say it’s, you know, raining at baseball, you can send that alert to the specific patrons, so you log into your app and that’s the first thing that you’re going to see. You can also target, um, upcoming registrations. So, um, you log in, kickball is going on for registration. That’s the first thing that you’re going to see, um.

00:28:15,030	We are going to just try to keep on promoting this app, getting people to download it. Um, once you’re logged in, you don’t need to log in again, so that kind of takes kind of a more user friendly approach, so you don’t need to keep logging in, um, you don’t need to call us if you forget your password.

00:28:30,430	So overall, we’re gonna, it’s a learning curve for us, but we believe it’s going to be best for the Park District and for our patrons. Yes. And there’s a link to golf tee times too. Don’t forget to say that.

00:28:48,670	That’s uh first thing, well, first thing I checked, I guess, but yeah and then Tyra and I did create the app ourselves. So again, if we see that a button is not getting clicked on, we can track that in our reportings and we can switch things around or if there’s an upcoming registration, we’re going to make sure that the patron sees that first.

00:29:02,970	Um, so again, kind of a learning curve for us, but we’re gonna, you know, get feedback from our patrons and. Basically make the app what they want it to be.

00:29:18,070	So how long have you had it up, Kelly? I know that when you sent it out or whatever, I downloaded it, but do we have a lot of people that have downloaded it and we run into, yeah, when I, so in our registration, so we have Summer Mac registrations going to be starting in December, so the coordinator Sierra sent that out to, to her patron just saying like, this is how we’re going to register.

00:29:35,600	We strongly recommend you download this app, kind of get ready to register and we’re gonna do the same for Black Friday. Um, when I left on Friday, there was about 100 people that have downloaded it, so we’re just slowly trying to get those and, you know, people’s email box and, um, again, we’ve had some feedback and we’re just, we’re changing things as we go.

00:29:49,830	So we’re open to that. If other people besides besides me have like two accounts floating around out there. What’s the best way to do that? I mean, uh, should you combine them, like you said, the log in once, like I get multiple emails because I think I have, yep, so the best way to handle that.

00:30:05,630	That you’re right, that does happen a lot, um, because people forget their password and then they create another account. Um, we can always merge those households together. So if you do give me a call in the office, I can do that quick for you.

00:30:18,400	Um, and then I can send you your password too, just so you just have one account and again, you don’t need to log in again. Kelly, can you use it on an iPad? Yes, you sure can. I have a question for Cole because I see the fiscal impact. $4020 annually is some of that because the golf course in the raging rivers is on there.

00:30:40,030	Are we taking some of that off there. Budget or is it all coming out of Kelly’s budget. I can answer that. Half of it’s coming out of my budget and then the other half is for Raging Riverse. We really see that this is going to be a huge benefit for aging rivers.

00:30:56,770	Um, what we’ve done in the past for Raging rivers, we had a scanning system where there’s longer lines, um, if you’ve been through it, you know what we’re talking about redeeming your season pass right when it opens in May, um, this is going to speed it up. You’re going to be able to walk up with your phone, scanning, and it’s going to be a quick and easy access.

00:31:11,200	So we really do see that. The region Rovers patrons will be using this app a lot. And Scott for golf. Yes, and golf. All right, any other questions for Kelly? Looks very easy to use I to give it a try, so good luck. Thank you. Thank you, Kelly.

00:31:36,370	All right, we’ll move on to item number 5, construction updates to the bolt ramp, the baseball complex, and Mandan Muty. President, I’m asking commissioners, um, drove down the boat ramp here this morning or this afternoon before the meeting, um, they got a lot more done than I anticipated when I left on Friday, um, parking lots about 80% done, um, should have it done, I would

00:31:54,600	say by the end of next week as long as the weather holds off, um, the actual ramp itself or the boat ramp is installed, it’s been poured about 2 weeks ago, um, fully cured, um, they just poured the apron into the parking lot from the street, um, the.

00:32:12,670	actual, um, gate to prevent access to the facility once the Philly is up and running has been installed. Um, the only really things that we’re waiting on is just the electric which we knew was gonna be last anyways. They ran all their conduit. Um, there’s really no reason why we shouldn’t be substantially completed with the boat ramp.

00:32:27,030	I’m thinking by the end of November, as long as weather holds off, um, they’re moving very quickly as you saw or you see in the agenda document with you, there are some things that we have left to just kind of add that we hear, um, signage, um.

00:32:42,700	obviously a sign for the boat ramp with all parties, city, county, and, and Park District will be in there. That’s going to be added. The boat dock has been applied for through state parks. Um, they don’t accept applications till February and then we find out if we’re notified for a matching grant with them.

00:32:56,330	If we aren’t funded through the grant, obviously we’re going to have to purchase one outright from them. That’s been um submitted. The ADA picnic table and covered shelter has been ordered and hopefully will be delivered here sometime in the next 2 to 3 weeks if it’s ready in the weather allows, we will install it, otherwise we’ll wait till spring. Um, again, two benches for shore fishing.

00:33:14,000	We did get a request about some ADA, um, shore fishing opportunities we have not looked into that ADA needs, what that would include, um, there’s been some information shared with us about an ADA, um, lift that gets you into a boat. Um, we are not adding that at this time.

00:33:30,970	Um, we’re not sure of all the costs associated with that and location as far as where that would go, um, doesn’t mean we can’t look at it in the future and if that’s something that is a need, but that has been brought to us through some of our social media comments and some emails I received.

00:33:44,500	Um, in your packet is a copy of one of the vault toilets, um, Tim Nielsson from County Parks, um, he works with this group out of South Dakota, very efficient, um, toilet system instead of having porta potties, um, it’s a basically a vault system that we’d have to get pumped out.

00:33:58,370	I think it’s 1000 gallon, um, vault toilet that gives us the opportunity to probably pump it out once or twice a year and then shut them down for the winter with no water in there, um, nice avenue for us to use and then we are looking at a bridge, um, connecting both the south and the north side of the properties.

00:34:12,900	Um, we got cements from that, just had a conference call this afternoon with uh A2S with Jesse, um, estimates have come in quite a bit lower than originally talked about. We met with two crane companies.

00:34:28,770	They would love to be able to get that bridge in this winter when the ground is froze with the crane, um, the structural engineer is what we really are trying to work on between now and the end of the year with Freeze up is can we get the abutments and the structural needs as far as concrete poured in and placed before freeze up happens and then we can actually install that bridge.

00:34:44,700	You know, between now and freeze up or spring thaw, excuse me, um, so in a perfect world we want to get that concrete in as soon as possible, which probably we’re getting structural hopefully back by the end of the week and see if we can able to get that done and we would just amend the contract um with Prairie View and Exhi um to get that implemented.

00:34:59,230	Any questions on the boat ramp at this time. I did see this, there was a story on the news tonight about the, the boat ramp that was kind of nice to see, get it out there a little bit, and then the only question I had for you, Cole, is I know when we had the visitors here the one night, um,

00:35:15,800	one of the things that was brought up was signage showing that there’s really no turnaround, uh, access once you get beyond the the entrance, uh, is that part of the signage that you’re talking about or what do you think in there? I’m talking about more recognition of a park.

00:35:33,430	facility as far as our address and our hours of the actual boat ramp, but as you go to the north, there is an actual sign, not a through street, um, that’s already in place here today, and we worked with Public Works if we need to add additional, we definitely can.

00:35:48,830	We are working with the city though as far as turn lanes from their, um, uh, the red and black signs. I can’t think of the word right now if they use them, um, throughout the community, we are looking at trying to add a bolt ramp to one of those so they understand, take it Mandan Avenue and use that entrance, not go by Culvers and try to stay away

00:36:02,930	from the. residential areas. So it is more efficient to come through Manon Avenue and then way more efficient. People that use that all the time will never go by. So we’re hoping that we can redirect them through our destination signs I mean you got to go all the way around there, so.

00:36:18,770	Um Oh, it’s been a uh, we don’t have lights up there yet. I know there’s not a lot of residents right close by there, but are we making sure that those lights aren’t shining on and keeping it still somewhat, you know, dark as far as what the the roads and things like that we have two lights, one by the

00:36:34,900	ramp at the top of the um parking lot that before it crests to the ramp down to the water side. There is one at that end, there’s one on the west end near the approach, so we’re able to have them shining to the parking lot.

00:36:46,700	We did not put one in the middle at this time. And as it allows and needs, but we think with the gate and just the opportunities that we have down there is definitely cleaned it up even with the trees being removed and now the leaves being off, it’s definitely opened up a lot more security measures in place.

00:37:04,600	Yeah Hold on the Fish cleaning station was Tim looking at a sponsor for that or something. We’ve had some information from some businesses that have been showed interest in putting in a fish cleaning station, the difficult part that we’re running into is not that we don’t want a fish cleaning station, but in order to connect a fish cleaning station,

00:37:19,500	we have to tie in the city water. And the nearest area to connect to city waters to the north. We got a preliminary estimate of about $60,000 to tie in just to the city water. And then The fish clean stations right around $4000 to $50,000.

00:37:38,230	We’re looking at about 1000 to $110,000 for a fish cleaning station for roughly 90 to 100 days a year, so we’re, we’re, we’re having further discussions. We’re not ruling it out.

00:37:53,700	If we wanted to use the water from the Missouri River, that’s another permit through the Corps of Engineer that we’d have to apply for and at this time we don’t want to slow down the process, so if we put a fish clean station in, we have to have somewhere to dispose of. Um Obviously the items that we’re grinding in there. Thank you. Ah, one item for me, um. I’m a little nervous putting that bridge in without knowing.

00:38:14,600	The parking lot use when it’s just for the boat ramp and, and 40 some boats. Um, my worry is that people using the nature trail we’ll all park up there in, in. Limit the The boat parking, um, so I, I was happy that it was going to go to a future phase so we could uh get a season of.

00:38:36,400	Watching the patterns, so, um, a little concerned with that I think Comm Mh that is a valid, um, valid question and a valid concern. The only concern from a funding standpoint that these dollars have to be spent by May of 25, so for ours to wait a full fiscal year to review the access of it, the dollars would

00:38:51,900	go away, um, I think that we can obviously, you know, people are in a park there, especially this time of year when the boat ramps are closed, people would park there and move over, um, I can’t remember the exact individual stalls. I want to say it was.

00:39:06,470	Like 25 individual parking stalls for cars, um, and then I think there’s 45 for the boat and trailers, um, so hopefully it definitely can maximize each other where they’re in the mornings, maybe it’s the boaters and in the afternoons depend on the time of year and obviously during the week, I don’t think the boat ramp will get used near as

00:39:19,570	much as the weekends. But they still will be able to have the parking on the gravel side on the outside. Um, that they currently parked there today, but you’re right, they’re gonna come to that parking lot and walk across the bridge, especially with the vault toilet.

00:39:34,630	I so those parking spots those individuals, they are on that south side of the parking lot, yep, on the south side facing car bodies. And there’s 20 some I I believe there’s 25. Yeah. There was only 8 or 9 to start. That’s what I, that’s what I thought. No, you’re correct. We did expand that, yeah, I won’t be so bad then. Good point.

00:39:54,930	Youth baseball complex cool. So youth baseball, I was hoping they would be installing turf on Diamond 9 this morning. Unfortunately, they haven’t unwrapped the um. Dr Dr paper on the turf today, they unloaded it on Saturday when I was down there.

00:40:13,670	Um, I was excited to know that they showed up, um, but yeah, unfortunately they are prepping the stone. I’m hoping we’ll see something Monday or Tuesday of this week to get Diamond 9, the turf installed, as we know, turf’s the easy part. It’s gluing the seams with the temperatures that we have right now, as long as we stay over 40 degrees, we’ll be fine.

00:40:27,970	It drops over 40 degrees, and we’ve got to have a special glue if we decide to go that route at this point we haven’t chosen to go that route. Um, the daytime temperatures are appropriate. Um, they haven’t had any concerns. They finished diamond 10 about 3 weeks ago.

00:40:43,500	They’re still doing some little bit of um the black beads getting installed and fine tuning it. They’ve been over at Bismarck’s um Park finishing their field and then today like I said they had about 8 or 10 guys there working, which is good.

00:40:57,970	I’m working on the weekends with the weather allowing so I’m not too concerned on the turf unless the temperatures were to have a drastic drop, I think they should have the turf pretty much installed and glued hopefully by the weekend of next weekend and then they’ll start adding the beads from there.

00:41:12,830	Um, they did it during the cold snap that we had previously on Diamond 10, and there was no concerns with the beats at that time that they can come and brush them in as time allows, but things are moving quick. Um, the fencing down there has, I would say is almost 100% done, um, other than the netting. And diamond nigh, as I mentioned before, but other than that, a lot of the fencing has been completed.

00:41:29,370	Backstops are in which the hoods are always the hardest part, um, things are moving very well with that. Um, the only thing that we are a little concerned is that we have not fired up the irrigation systems for diamonds 11 and 12. Those are still grass fields. They’ve made the connections. We won’t fire the system up until spring. Um, we’re still gonna, um, monitor that as we go.

00:41:46,200	There’s still a few connections and then as we’re back filling all of the alleyways, um, where the irrigation line. running electrical lines are running. Obviously we’re gonna have all the concrete poured to tie in the sidewalk, so a lot of concrete is still gonna get poured between now and then.

00:42:00,900	Uh, other than that, um, it’s been moving rather quick, I think for the Hate that we were kind of concerned with the temperatures. The only thing I wanted to add, um, this was mentioned that our administration portfolio, but BNC Bank does have. get this BNC Bank, uh, BNC National Bank, excuse me, does have, uh, the naming rights.

00:42:22,830	As you can see here, I’ll zoom out. So they do have the naming rights of the field on Memorial ballpark, um, when that happened in 2019. They were a major donor have their name on the field. They negotiated a deal with a man in baseball club to have their name on Diamond 9, which essentially is the JV field.

00:42:42,030	the many memorial ballpark, and so as you see there this sign will be placed at the entrance, very similar to the Ban An Tennis Center and star in sports Complex has the same look.

00:42:55,900	It will not be double-sided, unfortunately, we’re in a 45 it to the entrance to kind of tie in with the trees that are in the outfield there, um, and there’s a flagpole that goes above it, um, but I just wanted to bring to your attention, obviously we’re going to still remain at Veterans Memorial Ballpark. That is what the facility is called, um, but we want BNC National Bankfield this, um, signage.

00:43:13,200	will be paid for by BNC and then if there’s additional amenities that need to be added, that’ll be part of the overall construction costs. There’s no cost to the Man and Park District for this, but I just want to bring to your attention, um, how that sign will look in time with the rest of our signage throughout the

00:43:23,800	park system. Questions on the youth baseball. to come together. It is. And then last, just the Manan Municipal golf course. As you know, I shot some information out regarding that toe trench, um, I did reach out last week just to kind of get an idea where they’re at.

00:43:48,530	Lower heart Water Resource District is doing additional research more to the O&M of what it takes to have this toe trench system in place. I think it’s a viable option for everybody that minimizes any implications to the golf course, still allows us to be open, um, the only concerns we’re gonna have is just how it will look when it’s done,

00:44:04,630	meaning what’s the toad trench gonna be made out of? the type of stone, what type of fence are we going to have to preserve or prevent the golfers from crossing into that area, you know, I don’t want to see a chain link fence, but maybe we can do some type of maintenance, you know, picket fence, so to

00:44:17,230	speak, that kind of gives a little more character to it at the same time still prevents people from going in there, um. Not a lot to report on that. Again, as I mentioned, November 26th is our next lower heart Water Research District, um, as we mentioned last month, Beering Associates did attend the last month’s meeting on a

00:44:34,330	on a team’s call to provide information and concerns, but at this point, we just don’t have any direction on what lower heart would like to do.

00:44:50,100	So I can’t rule out that there will be a large improvement at the golf course at this time, not knowing costs, not knowing O and M and not really knowing what direction as a board from Lower Hart would like to go. K, what’s the deadline from FEMA for doing this.

00:45:04,770	I think the deadline for Lower Hart’s probably been a few months ago, maybe even years that they were, this has been going on for 3 to 10 years, um, 10 years ago when it first started 3 years ago was when we were negotiating with the Legion Park, and as I mentioned, you know, they came before us in May of this year, and I hadn’t heard anything further since 3 years ago, so I think there’s a lot of changes that are happening with the Corres of Engineers, and

00:45:17,330	they’re kind of moving the goalpost as far as what needs to get done for improvements and levy requirements for certifications and it’s just kind of taken a while to get that completed. So we’re not gonna worry about, um, citizens.

00:45:34,170	have to buy flood insurance, so none of the information as far as the direction from the board, we got to get direction from lower heart what they support, and then they’ll bring that before the board. So it’s really in their court to make a decision on what options they want. OK. Thank you. So I really hope that Towtrench system works out.

00:45:48,030	It just seems like that’s a, a good, good thing for both entities and and we don’t have to shut down that golf course and redo it for two years and we can still protect homes, so. So you are, do you meet with him, Cole, on the 26th and 2? OK. All right. Any, any questions on that? OK.

00:46:06,800	All right, we’ll, uh, move to item 6, approval of monthly bills. I’ll move to approve the payment of the monthly bills by Comm Mhhh. Thanked by Comm Frelich. Any further discussion? They all in favor, say I. Uh, motion carries, uh next uh next meeting will be a regular meeting here on December 9th, uh, 2024 at City Hall at 5:30.

00:46:31,300	Do we want any Comm? Ports I just want to thank Kelly for that, for that, um, what you call it. That app, um, the only reason I’m bringing it up is because I’m working with two different organizations who can’t get their software even updated and the park men in Park District is moving up in

00:46:55,830	their areas of improving themselves, and I really appreciate that. So thank you guys for doing that. Do you have anything to add, Cole? Any more reports? I want to share is like Memorial Highway special assessments went out. Just want to let you know as the park district, we are in that assessment.

00:47:12,830	We are in tier 2, we’re assessed $35,000 for each site, which is soccer, DCP and Prairie West Golf Course, so about 100 and 110,000 $105,000 that we reassessed. Um, so as you see this development and come through with the Park District, um, we are obviously going to get special assessed that won’t come on until the project is completed as we.

00:47:32,630	2025 is when it will start on the West End and work its way east, or excuse me, starts on the east end, work its way west, um, it’s gonna be an implication to some of our facilities and sites we’ve talked to staff already about it.

00:47:47,530	As far as how access will be, but coming from the east going west, it will be a little bit difficult at times. One lane traffic, but hopefully people can adjust and it’s gonna be a good project in the end when we’re all said and done. And then just last as we are updating our strategic plan. I know I’ve shot it out before.

00:48:00,370	We’re in the process of updating that next week with all of the leadership team and then once we get that to a rough draft, we will send that out. We’re probably looking at January to present here to the board as far as a final approval. Kelly, do you want to add anything? Yeah, yes.

00:48:21,170	So we have our Raging Rovers Black Friday sale coming up that starts November 25th, which is the Monday before Thanksgiving, um, and just encourage people to again, download our app and purchase that way. Um, if for some reason you can’t download our app, we always have that on our website as well. Um. And again, any questions you can feel free to reach out.

00:48:40,470	OK, Comm Mutter, anything else? I’m already done. I’m sorry. I just I didn’t know if you wanted 2 terms or not, so we’re going on, Mr. Feli. Mr. Melhhoff, uh, no report, Mr.

00:48:55,970	Scott, uh, no, just wanted to point out and, and I don’t know if this has been shared with everybody, but in our sale, the sales tax, uh, in our packet, uh, was, is, is quite a bit, um, quite a bit higher than it has been in the year. We did get some kind of some good projections and news that was at 2.

00:49:17,700	7:28 in uh sports complex could be paid off 27, 27, very early, so, uh, that’s good news. That’s good for Mandan. Obviously that, uh, Um Our sales tax continues to rise here in, in the city and be able to pay for some of those amenities, so. All right, with that, uh, can I get a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Motion by Comm Scott. by Comm Frelich.

00:49:39,300	Any further discussion? All in favor say