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All right, it's 5 30.

We will kick off the very first ever parks and recreation committee uh meeting.

Let's see, we got the mayor in attendance for it for this historic moment.

You got a ribbon you want to cut or anything like that.

All right.

As far as our calling to order, we have everybody present except for Alder Norrell.

Alder Norrell is not here.

And I did not receive notification that he was not going to be.

With that, then we'll open up to public comment.

Anyone in attendance have anything they want to say for public comment for the committee?

Is there anybody online?

Nope.

You wait for this update everywhere for the going once.

Going twice.

Public comment is closed.

All right, then we'll get into presentations.

And we do have a presentation this evening.

It's gonna be on the Red Arrow Park Beach Access Improvements Update.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Brock.

I can see my slide.

I can even hear you.

Okay.

All right.

Can everybody hear me?

Um so I I wanted to do an update on our our kind of our biggest uh park and wreck project this summer is our Red Arrow Beach Access Project.

So basically what we're doing is we are um we're taking we're at Red Arrow Park.

We have you know our existing uh parking lot and beach, and it it was and you all know this, but just a quick update.

We we had some issues with access from the parking lot down to the beach.

Parking lots up high, beaches down low, some steep grades, uh not really not great paths.

So um with this presentation, we're gonna kind of go through the goals that we had with this project, um, our our funding sources, the planning and permitting that went into this.

Uh currently we are in the construction phase, so we'll give a little update on that.

Um, see where we're at with our our timeline, and then what's next with this project.

Um project goals, uh improved accessibility to the beach area.

Like I mentioned, um, we've had comments in the past, uh, parents, everybody trying to get down to the beach, struggling to pull their coolers down the hill, through the sand, through the uh beachgrass, just not not great access.

Uh we didn't have steps, we had some some steep concrete ramps that we wanted to kind of replace with it with better uh uh accessibility options.

Um improved safety.

So we've had some accidents in the parking lot with with people traveling at high rates of speed and doing kind of dangerous things.

So we you know, with this project, we wanted to improve parking lot safety, we wanted to improve pedestrian safety, and uh the combination of the two.

And then the last uh goal here was to create a kind of a lakefront event and gathering space that can that the whole community can go to and enjoy.

Um funding for this project.

So the city graciously uh the Alders approved uh capital budgets in in uh 2025 and 2026, 500,000 each year.

So phase one, 500,000.

So we we kind of made a design that you know if something were to happen where we didn't get future funding, we could do something for 500,000.

Um 2026, we were we we got this phase two funding.

Um bringing the project up to a million.

We can do a really great project, everything we hope for for a million dollars, and then um with with that budgeted funding, we were able to uh to get uh uh uh WIDNR, uh Wisconsin DNR Knowles Nelson stewardship funding in the amount of another 500,000 dollars, and then a T-Mobile hometown grant for 5,000, and then the Manitoba County Board of Realtors also donated 7,000 through a national association of realtors grant.

Um other than that, we had a few various individual bench donations.

So that being said, our total budget was up to 1,557,000.

Um so the planning phase.

So going through over the years, we we kind of developed this this plan.

So here's the overall kind of difficult to see, but uh we turned the two-way road here.

We are designing a one-way into the park.

This is still two-way, the south parking lot.

Once you go through the curve, now it's turns to one way.

All the way through, opens up to Green Street with a path out to Green Street.

So with that, we were hoping you know to reduce the amount of traffic because you're not having uh back and forth traffic, it's just one way.

Um this also includes these bump out uh islands or um not really an island, bump outs uh that narrows the driving lane, also slowing down traffic.

We uh went back and forth with doing speed bumps.

We've but we've gotten some um concerns with speed bumps and how they how cars handle them.