HomeMy WebLinkAbout3.13.24_board_minutes PARK BOARD MEETING MINUTES
FOSTER COMMUNITY CENTER
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2024
BOARD Members Present: Mike Dombrowski, Rick Kibbey, Joan Lenhard, Tirstan Walters, Rayvnne
Gilmore
CALL TO ORDER: 6:35 P.M. Foster Community Center
BOARD MEETING MINUTES
February 14, 2024
Vote to approve: motion by Rick, seconded by Tirstan. Pass: 5-0
NEW BUSINESS
A. ART Path
Sarah Hopkins provided a list of the selected artwork for Art Path 2024.
Brett K. made comments related to ease of destruction, maintenance, or theft for some of the pieces.
B. Sky Quilt—Henry Moonrod
Henry was absent from the meeting.
C. Parks Foundation
Samantha, chair of the foundation talked to the board. It was started in 2020, she joined recently and needed
to take care of boilerplate items (taxes, bookkeeping, etc.). Ensure feedback is coming from the whole
community. Neighborhoods surveys, fliers, signs.
Rick K. spoke about how he helped initiate the parks foundation to help neighborhoods organize for
neighborhood parks.
D. MMMBA
Tom Poole, trail coordinate for Fulton/Fine/Hunter's Ridge spoke to the board. They've seen that good
activity has driven out bad activity (hunting, fires, ORVs, partying)within the parks where they have built
trails. Working to get DALMAC grant for kiosks for info +maps. Goal for this year: no expansion, make the
parks welcoming, friendly, more contact with neighborhoods.
Moving the parking lot has gone well, solved problems. Would like to add features if possible.
E. Hunters Ridge Park
Spoken about by Tom Poole in above agenda item.
F. Placemaking Project
Kahleea from LEAP spoke about a project to install artwork just north of Play Michigan! along trail:
LANSING in big letters. The project is funded by ARPA and LEAP.
Vote to support placemaking art project for LEAP at Saginaw and Grand: motion by Tirstan, second
by Rick. Pass: 5-0
OLD BUSINESS
A. Board Annual Report
Vote to approve with change to add sentence about, "storm restoration and cleanup": motion by Joan,
second by Rayvnne. Pass 5-0.
Mike D. to make change and forward.
B. Fenner/Disc Golf meeting recap
Brett K. and Joan and Mike were present at the stakeholder meeting held at Fenner and agreed it was a good,
well-attended meeting. The department is open to recommended hours to use the disc golf course.
Brett K. mentioned that this park is ripe for renaming because of confusion about its current name.
Lindsey Epstein, an attendee, made a comment that she is in support of a new disc golf course in the city but
has issues with the location, like flooding.
Brett K. responded that many courses are located in flood plains (Grand Woods). The department looked at
Kimberly, Bancroft, and Scott Woods Parks as alternate locations, but those would require lots of
tree cutting.
C. CIP Projects
Brett K. told the board that the mayor approved the CIP list as the board submitted.
D. Playground Process
Brett K. mentioned it's 8 weeks of lead time to get a playground installed.
UPDATES
Master Plan due 2/1/25
Brett said bids came back$30k- $230k to do the Master Plan and he is discussing with the mayor how to
move forward.
Parks Millage Renewal—Ballot August 2025
State of the City
Brett said that the Fenner Pathway and Capitol playground were mentioned during the state of the city.
CORRESPONDENCE
A. Emily Shupp re: Disc Golf Course at Sycamore
VIII. REMARKS BY BOARD MEMBERS
Tirstan commented that he appreciated the work at Kay North. Asked if the department works with LCC and
LSD for hiring. Brett said yes, at job fairs.
Brett mentioned that the Fulton overlook project is moving forward even though the bid was over budget.
The difference will be made up using money from the citywide repair and maintenance budget.