The Advisory Parks Commission of Eagan, Minnesota, met on August 17, 2026, at 6:00 P.M. at Moonshine Park. The meeting featured a detailed facilities presentation by Superintendent Mark Vaughan, a discussion of the 2027-2031 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) led by Director Andrew Pimental, commissioner round-table comments, and staff reports. The Commission supported moving the five-year CIP forward to the City Council.
Hello, I'd like to call the Egan Advisory Parks and Recreation Meeting for August 2026 to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. One nation on our individual liberty and justice for all. All right. Any updates to the agenda as it was printed? No, sir. All right. Do I have would someone move to approve the agenda? I make a motion to approve the agenda. We have a second. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed. Agenda's approved. On to minutes. Any changes to the minutes that were printed? Seeing no changes. Do I have a motion for the minutes? I make a motion to approve the meeting. All right. We have a second. I second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed. All right. Minutes for the last meeting approved. Visitors to be heard not on the agenda. Not seeing any. We will move along to presentations. Thank you very much, Chair. Tonight we have our facilities superintendent, Mark Vaughn, who oversees the Civic Arena, Cascade Bay, and the government buildings division. All right, Mark, you should be all set in two seconds. There you go. Thank you, Chair and Commission. He just took my first slide. As Jared mentioned, we take care of the arena, the water park, and then also government buildings, which I'll talk about later is a lot of buildings. But I'll do I'll talk about the three and then I'll pause in between if there's any questions, or just hold your questions to the end about that. But we're going to start with the Civic Arena. It's our core because we teach people how to skate, and our goal is to feed our partners, and we're trying to make lifelong sports activities for people to do. A lot of people may leave our skate school and go into the hockey program. They may go into the figure skating program. Or they may just come to public skaters. Hopefully, skate for the rest of their life. Anything to do with skating at the Civic Arena. So open skate, or really the core is the skate school. You can see our numbers there, and those are uh eight-week commitment by the register. So when they come and register for that class, they're committing for eight weeks to take that class with us. Um, as you can see in the summer, we had 275 people.