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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PARK COMMISSION <br />April 3, 2023 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 1 of 11 <br /> <br />ROLL CALL <br />The Orono Park Commission met on the above-mentioned date with the following members present: <br />Chair Brian Roath, Commissioners Janice Berg, Rick Carter, Gordy Stofer, Kjersti Duval, and Cameron <br />Porter; and alternate commissioner Sandy Rasmussen. Representing Staff was Josh Lemons, Parks <br />Director. <br /> <br />Chair Roath called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m., followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. <br /> <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES <br /> <br />1. FEBRUARY 6, 2023 PARK COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES <br /> <br />Carter moved, Berg seconded, to approve the minutes of the February 6, 2023 Park Commission <br />meeting as submitted. VOTE: Ayes 7, Nays 0. <br /> <br />PUBLIC COMMENT <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />CHAIRMAN’S REPORT <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />STAFF REPORT <br /> <br />2. GOLF COURSE PARK ENHANCEMENT <br /> <br />Roath said looking at enhancements at the City’s golf course began in early 2022 and is at the point of <br />needing to make a decision whether to move forward to design or not. The purpose of design is to answer <br />many of the outstanding questions on costs, aesthetics and noise abatement. <br /> <br />Lemons said the project began with a proposal to add pickleball at the golf course. The Park Commission <br />conducted a feasibility study. The study showed that site is feasible and the City had limited public <br />engagement at that point. He said the staff sees two options: move forward into preliminary design which <br />gives options to continue community engagement and focus on true cost or to remove this Golf Course <br />Park Enhancement Plan from the City’s CIP (Capital Improvement Plan) goals. <br /> <br />Roath said the park commission had considered the golf course enhancement at the February meeting and <br />the March workshop meeting and decided to postpone the topic until this meeting in order to understand <br />the feedback from the community and bring all park commission members up to speed since work on the <br />proposals had been broken out by committees. From the March meeting there were two takeaways. One <br />was there were some additional sites that we wanted the time to review. The second thing was the long- <br />term financial viability of the golf course, and how pickleball and an ice rink and other golf enhancement <br />projects would contribute to that.