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Council Minutes of S/17/99 ,,,~ for this proposed skateboard park, the recommended action by the Law Department was ~: that the agreement for services be made with the city. Second, funds were advanced from Outside Services for the first site visit by Alan Fishman for this project. Council was assured that the amount expended for the purpose would be reimbursed from funds raised by the park once those funds have been appropriated. Visitor Rae Ann Thomas offered information regarding Alan Fishman's background and experience along with making videos available regarding skateboard safety. Councilman Miller posed reservations regarding the proposed location of the park, the potential for participants cutting through private property to reach the park and the potential for the location to interfere with future recreation expansion. With regard to the question of recreation expansion, the Service Director responded that this location will not interfere with that possibility. He also stated that drainage was no longer an issue with the redesign of the park. The issues of the safety and the location were discussed, and several contradictory concerns arose in regard to this location and its visibility for the police and others. The question was raised as to whether the police had been contacted regarding safety, and it was determined that the police had not been formally contacted. Mayor Musial presented an assurance that he did not believe that safety was an issue and that police can patrol the area. With the understanding that no further city funds would be expended on this project, that the city funds already expended will be replaced, that the plans will be subject to all relevant boards and commissions and that no actual construction will take place until the total funds necessary to complete the construction have been raised, the ordinance was recommended by a vote of 2 to 1 with Councilman Miller dissenting. Because Councilman Miller raised a series of concerns, another meeting was set for 7:15 this evening. Some of the issues presented by Mr. Miller are as follows: • A request for documentation for all expenditures from city funds. • Whether a yes vote on this ordinance would provide only engineering services for only this one particular site. • Whether other sites had been considered and, if so, why were they rejected. • What is the current use of the present site and whether alternative plans for relocating activities that are presently taking place in this area have been made. • A request that the Police Department perform a review of this facility and proposed area and give Council a report on whether or not they feel it is a safe place to construct. • Liability issues. The issues have been presented to the administration for their response. In the meantime, the ordinance will continue on second reading. Mr. O'Grady, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on August 10. Present were committee members O'Grady, Limpert and Kasler; Council members Gareau, Miller, Nashar and McKay; directors of Finance, Service and Safety; Springvale managers Marty Young and Mark Wallace. The committee discussed the following legislation: • Ordinance 99-87 makes and transfers appropriations for the year ending December 31, 1999. In this ordinance, a total of $729,000 is transferred. Of this amount, ~,, $600,000 replaces those funds that were temporarily moved pending note borrowing. :,;~. One thousand dollars was moved from the Sewer Fund to the storm sewer material 3