The Eagan Advisory Parks Commission met on Monday, April 21, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. at Moonshine Park. The meeting featured a presentation from the Eagan Community Center (ECC) team on significant revenue and program growth, an update on the Parks Master Plan, and a vote on a comprehensive guide plan amendment for a proposed residential treatment facility. The commission also recognized two outgoing commissioners.
Good evening. I'd like to call the Eagle Advisory Parks and Rec Commission meeting for April twenty first, twenty twenty-five to order we'll start with uh roll call and fled legions. Any updates to the agenda that was printed? Not at this time, Chair. All right, do I have a motion on the agenda? I move we approve. I second. All right. All in favor. All right, agenda's approved. Minutes for the February meeting. Any questions? If not, do I have a motion? I'll move to approve the minutes. I'll second. All right, all those in favor. I closed. All right. Minutes are approved. Don't see anyone jumping up there, so we'll go on to presentations. Thank you, Chair Palmer. Tonight, we have the ECC division. Um, they tell you when you're a parent not to pick favorites, but I kind of like to pick favorites, and this may be the one. I don't know. This is the team I get the pleasure of working with every single day. Um, I think on slide six or seven, it says something about the challenges that they get to over overcome. And I've thrown multiple challenges at this group, and they always seem to rise above it. Um, whether it's coming up with new birthday parties, being open during construction, renting out more spaces, um adding more fitness members, new specialty birthday parties, all the different things are all fun, and they have consistently rose above and beyond. So at the lead of that team is our um fitness or not fitness facility supervisor, Lindsay Ray Gou. And I'll let you take over. Thank you, Jared. I suspect they 100% believe that you are challenging and that you challenge us. Was that what you were trying to say? You challenge us. Sorry, that's what it's what it was. Appreciate it. Okay. Um, so good evening. Uh, as Jared said, my name is uh Lindsay Ray Gou, and I am the uh Egan Community Center Operations Supervisor. With me tonight, we have Tani Peterson, our fitness coordinator, Erica Kohler, our program coordinator, Seth Fulad, our uh facilities coordinator, and then Michael Meffert, our guest services specialist. Um, as you may know, we offer multiple programs and services at the ECC. Um, they include gym and adult programming, senior programming, family events, large event rentals, meetings and social gatherings, along with fitness programming, the blast indoor playground, the fitness center, youth camps and programs, and then everybody's favorite, those birthday parties. Uh during last year's presentation, we discussed the hardships that the ECC uh had to face from 2020 to 2022, and we embraced the challenge of how do we bounce back from experiencing the unprecedented impact that COVID-19 had on the Egan Community Center. Last year's presentation demonstrated that we were able to check that box and move on into the next phase of our challenge, which is challenge number two. How do we continue to grow and expand, setting our eyes on achieving pre-COVID numbers? We are happy to report tonight that not only were we able to achieve that goal, but we were able to go above and beyond pre-COVID numbers in many of our program areas. The team behind me will uh go into a little more detail, and I don't want to steal their thunder as they kind of describe and walk you through the process and how they were able to achieve these goals, but I will give you some quick hitters. Uh in 2024, the operating revenues grew by roughly uh 331,000 or a little over 20% from revenue levels experienced in 23. Our 2024 fitness membership and daily admission revenues exceeded the planned budget by over 77,000. Our 2024 room and facility rental revenue exceeded the budget by nearly 40,000 and brought in 112,000 more than what we brought in in 2023.