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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PARK COMMISSION <br /> Wednesday, September 10, 2020 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 5 of 27 <br /> <br />6 intersection past the Lurton Dog Park. He asked the County Designers to give him a rough estimate of <br />what that cost would be to the City, and noted they originally have $1.4 million but they’ve been able to <br />refine that number down to $929,000. He noted he has it in red because it completely blows the City’s <br />budget. <br />Roath asked where the Trail starts. <br />Edwards answered this would continue the trail from Old Crystal Bay Road all the way up to County <br />Road 6. <br />Roath stated there was an interim phase that just went from Orono Orchard to just before Lurton Park. <br />Edwards clarified that within the existing master plan for the road, there is a version of the trail that goes <br />to the far side of the school property. <br />Roath asked if that is in the $929,000. <br />Edwards answered that is not, and the pricey bit starts on the far side of the school going West and the <br />reason that it is so expensive is because the trail would have to be included within the existing County <br />right-of-way and the only way to get it in the right-of-way is to build an artificial slope on the North side <br />of the roads as they go through the two sets of wetlands. He reported it’s the same thing they had to do as <br />they went past Long Lake in Phase 1, which shut the road down for a good eight months as they did the <br />process and that it is expensive. <br />Roath asked where the funding is from here to the school. <br />Edwards replied most of the funding comes from state turn-back funds, not from the City, and there is a <br />little pot of money that is not in the Parks CIP but is in the Community Investment Fund CIP and he <br />thinks it’s around $500,000 that was set there many years ago waiting for Phase 3 to happen and that pays <br />for the City’s part of signaling, intersections, streetlights and other things not covered by the state part of <br />the funding for the project. <br />Roath asked if they could go top to bottom, noting this document is a great tool for the Commission to <br />help create plans, subcommittees and work for the coming year. One thing he has always struggled with <br />this document is differentiating what things have been decided, what things the City or the Council has <br />decided and what things are just ideas that are placeholders right now. He asked if Edwards could <br />categorize each item. Then if there is an idea that the Commission agrees they want to do some work on, <br />that may create a subcommittee or some of the work they tackle in the coming year. <br />Edwards clarified that on the CIP, everything is still at a proposal level, although sometimes it may be a <br />multi-year project and he will put an actual number in there. He said even after the City Council approves <br />the CIP later in the year, it doesn’t mean that the projects are actually approved, as he must bring each <br />project individually before the Council for approval. <br />Roath said there are certain things on the CIP that the Commission has talked about and decided to go <br />forward with, and there are other things such as lawn bowling on the golf course which are placeholders.