07-13-1995 Park Commission Minutes

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C MINU'I'ES OF THE REGULAR ORQNO PARK COMMISSIQN MEETIN�G HELD�ON JULY 13, �995 (#3} R�PORT ON STATUS C)F OLD CRYSTAL BAY BIKE TRAIL (GERHARDSON) Gerhardson informed the Commission of the pending sale of the land along Old Crystal $ay Road narth of Watertown Road, wlvch is part af the traii system. The property will change ownership in August. The new owner is willing to grant the City an easement to build the trail on t11e property in return fi�r a credit against future Park Dedication fees. The current owner had not wanted the trail ta be a stumbling block for any forihevming sale of the praperty. Gerhardson reported that because of the pending sale, the DNR has granted a 30-day extension from the original deadline of August 30 for the trail to be built. The grant from the DNR has been approved and will result in matching funds up ta a certain dollar amount. Tiae other Sa°/q c�f the funds wiil cc�me fi'om Park Dedica�ic�n money. The grant fanding covers the portion of the trail which is contiguous. This will inelude for 1995 the completion of the trail from the I}ickey�n-operty south to the Luce Line, and narth from the Dickey property across Watertown Road to the top af the hill. Curb and�utter will be instailed south of the Dickey property to the Luce Line because the property owners there were not wiliing to grant an easement. The DNR grant will not cover the eost of curb and gutter but will cover 50% of the traii cost in this area. There wi11 be a 4'grass area provided between the traal and the curb. Gerhardson witl present the Commission with �act dollar costs of the trail se�nents at ihe next meeting including the partion to be paid by the DNR grant. DNR grant for this year is about �29,000 with a �s�ihle�50,440 grant money available in 1996. The DNR n�atchin�;fund grant money is geared towards projects exactly like this one for transit/trails only. McMillan askec� if Hennepin County is participating in the trail. Due to time constraints in updating the contract wit�the City, and a cancern over the Hwy l 2 cloverleaf design near Baker Park, Hennepin County has withheld their participation at this time. White said the County does have the funcls �t asici�and will save this m�ney for the trail segmeni to Baker Park Flint commented that this has been very ftustrating: When the City is ready, Hennepin Parks is not; a year ago when Hennepin Park was ready, the City was not. �,�Ve are fortunate that the delay has not raised the cost of the trail. Gerhardson said that the 1995 work will be com�leted by September af this year. Flint reported that Gerhardson was able to negotiate costs with the contractar obtaining the same cost per yard for the shorter trail segmen# as it wot�id have cost f�r the lon�er se�ment. Narmally a shorter segment is more costly, but not this time because the contraetar was atready in the area doing the Hwy 12 improvement project. Wilsan askect whether the Park Comrnission had formaliy approved the funding from the Park Dedication money. The approval was noted in the ��riE meetin�minutes, page 12, last paragraph of the Old Crystal Bay Road Trail item. 2