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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 10, 2023 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 4 of 8 them. They have the tools to give us nice graphic displays to scale and do some calculations. We use their expertise to tell us well, if you want to build a new baseball field with an ag lime field, this is what the going rate is today. It's meant to be very collaborative, but they have some skills and some software and some tools that we just don't have on our staff. We can say can you show us if we tried to do two baseball fields or a soccer field, for example, what's that look like on this space. Benson asked if Park Commission subcommittees have ever included citizen representatives from the community. Several examples of community involvement on Parks subcommittees were mentioned. Johnson moved, Seals seconded, to approve Hackberry Park Master Plan Design Services. VOTE: Ayes 4, Nays 0. ADDITIONAL PARKS REPORTS Lemons said he had a meeting the next day with Hennepin County cities that work with the tree canopy growth cohort. The meeting will include updates on grant opportunities for cities and information on Arbor Day and Earth Day. He said the City is working on finishing its tree inventory and then will develop a tree management program. Council Members asked about a federal grant program that some cities are using to offer bare root trees inexpensively to residents. Lemons said he is optimist about being able to open the golf course the week of April 17. The park staff finished rebuilding the irrigation satellite boxes over the winter and look forward to an operating irrigation system this year. The golf course also has a new junior league starting. It is anticipated 60 kids will join. There are already 40 signed up. The league is for ages seven to 12. The school district will come in starting next week to have some practices at the golf course and also participate in clean-up. Other upcoming parks activities include the restoration of the grounds at Crystal Bay playground following the playground improvement; spring transitions; installing docks, and doing playground inspections. The Parks Commission is working on supplemental pickleball location after turning down the golf course as a site. The house in Hackberry Park is going to be burned after police and fire use it for training. Lemons said anything of value has been salvaged. Edwards added the departing residents and their family took what they wanted out of the building. Other things that were left such as appliances were removed for Clean-up Day to be re-used by the Salvation Army. 10. ADOPTION OF NEW STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PROGRAM PROJECT #22-029 Edwards said State permits require the City to update the stormwater pollution prevention program periodically. He presented the finished document that the City has been working on for the past year, plus Exhibit B for information rather than approval as the changes shown will be part of the code revision process.