Watch:
Heads-Up for the December 17, 2014 Park Board Meeting
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. The meeting will be held in the boardroom at
Park Board headquarters, 2117 West River Road, just north of Broadway Pizza.
Visitors to Park Board meetings can find at the back of the meeting room the
agenda book with all the printed materials for the meeting This will be the
final MPRB meeting for 2014.
4:30 P.M. CLOSED COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING. Discussion regarding Legal
Strategy for Knox and Lagoon Discharge into Lake Calhoun
5:30 P.M. OPEN TIME. Speakers can call 612-230-6400 before 3:00 p.m. the day
of the meeting to sign up or they can sign up at the Board meeting prior to the
start of “Open Time”
Listed below are some agenda items of interest:
–Approving the Memorandum of Understanding and Lease Between the City of
Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board for the Downtown East
Commons
–Approving One-Year Contracts with Rice, Michels & Walther, LLP; Campo and
Associates; Tom Workman; and Lockridge Grindal Nauen, P.L.L.P. for 2015
Lobbyist Services
–Accepting the Non-Appointed Citizen Advisory Committee Recommendations and
Approving Concept Plans for Wading Pool and Playground Improvements at Bethune
Park in North Minneapolis
–Accepting the Non-Appointed Citizen Advisory Committee Recommendations and
Approving Concept Plans for Hi-View Park Playground Improvements
–2014 Lobbying Year End Update and Status Report
–Presentation of the Key Elements of the Draft Central Mississippi Riverfront
Regional Park Master Plan and its Community Engagement Process
–Report on Hennepin County Draft 2040 Bicycle Transportation Plan
–Approving Extension and Amendment to Lease Agreement with SNP Enterprises to
Operate the Tin Fish at the Lake Calhoun Concession Facility
The complete agenda, with staff reports, for the MPRB Board of Commissioners
meeting on December 17, 2014 is at
http://minneapolisparksmn.iqm2.com/Citizens/Default.aspx . Board meeting
agendas and related information are posted on this web page two business days
prior to meetings. Webcasts of MPRB regular board meetings are posted on the
same web page two to five business days following each meeting and are
available for viewing, along with webcasts for the previous two months.
Also of interest and now available to the commissioners and the public are the
monthly reports that Superintendent Miller has initiated for construction
permits and for Planning Department projects. The availability of these reports
is one of the important changes instituted by Superintendent Miller. They are
normally in the agenda packet for the first regular meeting of the month.
View Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board meetings live from 5-9 p.m. on the
Minneapolis Government Meeting Channel 79 on Comcast Cable. You may also view
live meetings online on the Channel 79 webpage:
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/tv/79
Regular meetings are typically re-telecast on Channel 79 on Saturdays and
Sundays at 11 a.m. and on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 5
p.m. Telecast schedules are subject to change.
The Park Board’s website is www.minneapolisparks.org. The phone number is
612-230-6400.
Arlene Fried
Co-founder of Park Watch
www.mplsparkwatch.org