And just a few of the highlights so far include the ribbon cutting we had for the first half of the High Line Trail, the opening of Scrip Road Trail, the building of the second kayak canoe and fishing launch on the Winnebago River and East Park.

It's all part of Mason City's destination Iowa plan for which the city was awarded a four point five million dollar grant.

And while all this was going on, staff and a committee have been working with architects and engineers on the next phase.

But first, Kyle is with uh ISG, the uh firm that has been working on the bike park.

And Kyle, the floor is yours.

Go right ahead.

All right, thank you, uh Mr.

Mayor and Council for having us here.

Uh we were invited by staff to give this just a quick update on the the bike park and the trail project.

So as you know, we've over the the past number of months or or year or so, we've been working with the uh with this city staff on.

Oh, I might have to figure out my scroll wheel right off the bat.

Um, the uh the bike park and trail project through the destination Iowa grant.

We brought up you you had already mentioned just that grant amount, and that the one of the big pieces of that was for the actual bike trails and bike park work in the city.

That's something that's kind of been a longer term effort from the uh the parks and rec department.

Uh, they'd engaged with backyard trails for a facilities assessment and opportunities assessment a number of years ago.

And really, this is bringing some of that facilities assessment and opportunities to to fruition through that grant and through the design work going on right now.

So really uh what some of the grant eligible projects that we're working on right now are mountain bike trails, so single track mountain bikey trails, a bike park where there's a pump track, and kind of what you see here is just a photo representation of that pump track, and then also a bike park area where I think it's a little bit more linear, longer uh stretched out type type facility, and then also a shelter facility to go along with that and trailhead area.

So the the number of areas that were identified in that opportunities map here are shown here in a in a larger map of the city.

The locations that were targeted with this current work are the what we'll call this very north end, the area up by the dog park and the kayak launch.

There's also a location just south, uh sorry, just south of 12th Street there at the kayak launch where some bike trails will be built, and then Evans Preserve is down here in the southeast part of the map.

That there were some some previous trails and and walking area in that Evans Preserve area that will be turned into that single track mountain bike, and then down by the school, so a riverhawk trail down by the middle and high school.

There will be some more single track mountain bike trails and some partnership there with the school and some of their club team and uh the groups there that'll use that.

So when we talk about a couple of these different trail types, here's a photo of a typical single track mountain bike trail.

We're talking approximately three to four feet wide where users can pass each other on that.

But a lot of times it's it's more of a loop or a linear system where we're talking in this current uh you know, our current phase right now, adding over three miles of that mountain bike trail to the city's current system that North Iowa Human Power Trails is already kind of been pulling together there.

So hit touched on a couple of those locations.

The other part of it here, just north of the dog park is going to be where the main parking lot shelter facility building and those other bike park type uh things are.

So that pump track, a couple of photos that represent that are let's see.

So a pump track would be more of the smaller track, almost kind of like uh a bicycle-oriented skate park.

I would I would say where users users ride through and and pump their arms and legs and don't necessarily need to pedal to get through this course, but uh work their way through that.

The bike park area is a little bit more stretched out and longer facilities, but some of the jumps and berms and corners and things like that for mountain bike users to use more in a localized park setting than that longer single track trail.

And then we've got a couple photo representations of, or I guess our initial concept sketches that we went through of the the shelter building where we have that Frank Lloyd Wright architecture style that uh was drawn from, and then we've got a couple renderings here as we've been getting through design on that shelter building.

So that we've got a couple other ones here.

You had a pretty good video rendition of that too.

There was, yeah.

And that's something that I know it doesn't always come across uh well on this this presentation, but there is one that we've uh we've shared with the city, and we've got a few other, we'll have a couple links that you can take a look at, some of that video representation.

Yep.

So beginning of 2023, you get the kind of the grant award and beginning of this project.

Uh the design side of things were at the point we're at right now.

We are through design for the single track mountain bike trail.

So that three and a half miles of source trail.

That one just bid, and that's gonna be later on the agenda tonight for that public hearing and award of that piece of the project.

Since these are all a few different types of projects, we broke it up into a few different pieces where we can have specific contractors that do that type of work bid on that.

So uh the next one will be for the shelter building and parking lot and more of that site amenity type work, and then follow it, which that design is is uh at completion from the design side and ready for bidding, uh going through a little bit of review with staff, city staff on that, and then the follow the the follow-up piece to that will be that final bike park area to supplement the structure building.

So everything right now is slated for construction and completing that in 2024.

So following that, you know, tail end of 2024 season.

I think some of it, depending on how things go with uh that spring construction could be usable, or otherwise for sure a 2025 kind of big grand opening for for things is the the target right now.

Um I kind of ran through a lot of that quick.

That's great, Kyle.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Thank you very much for that presentation.

Very interesting.

Before we get into council discussion here and questions, uh Aaron Burnett, our city administrator just arrived.

Aaron, did you have anything you wanted to add to set this up at all?

Yeah, I I just the intent of this this uh workshop is really to give everybody a good briefing on the projects.

I think more so it's it's also to allow the council to ask questions.

I know you guys get a lot of questions out uh when you're out traveling about, and uh, you know, it's important for you to be able to be representatives of of the destination Iowa project and be able to talk about that.

Um, there's been a lot that's gone into this on the front end, as you can see.

You know, shareholder meetings.

I matt Curtis is here, he's he's been a big part of these discussions with uh with Waynes.