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2017-05-23 Regular MeetingKODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH SEP 1 2011 j PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES May 23, 2017 Regular Meeting 6:30 p.m.-KIB Conference Room CALL TO ORDER CHAIR SALTONSTALL called to order the regular meeting of the Parks and Recreation Committee at 6:43 p.m. ROLL CALL Committee members present were Patrick Saltonstall, Dale Stratton, Ben Millstein, and Steve Paulson. Absent members was Helm Johnson. Excused was Paige Simeonoff. Ex -officio members absent were Rebecca Skinner, Ron Bryant, Alan Schmitt, and Corey Gronn. A quorum was established. COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEIN MOVED to approve the absence of Paige Simeonoff. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY Community Development Department staff present was Tom Quass. APPROVAL OF AGENDA CHAIR SALTONSTALL said he wanted to add to the agenda; Woody Island trails under audience comments. COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEIN MOVED to approve approval of the agenda. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS • March 28, 2017 Regular Meeting • April 11, 2017 Special Meeting • April 25, 2017 Special Meeting COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEIN MOVED to approve the minutes of the previous meeting. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AUDIENCE COMMENTS AND APPEARANCE REQUESTS Audrey Gugel, Woody Island Tribe Travel Administrator (KANA), stated she was asked to push forward a project of putting the Woody Island trails into the road inventory of their Travel/Transportation Program to the BIA. Research was done regarding the historical significance of Woody Island. She handed out a document about the history of Woody Island to the committee members. They would like to put up signage for the trails that can be publicly accessed and utilize narrative signage on the island that identifies these historical sites. A good portion of Woody Island is now in the register and that opens up additional funding for projects such as signs. The borough is also a Page 1 of 4 Parks and Recreation Committee Minutes May 23, 2017 landowner on Woody Island. Andy Schroeder, Island Trails Network, put together a proposal that has specific tasks. She handed out copies of the proposal. The proposal is working with the borough. It includes tasks to meet certain goals; to contact each landowner to gain permission for access to their property with the purpose of collecting the data set necessary for putting the trails into the GIS data set at the borough and with the BIA, and have a community meeting to gather comments regarding involvement of landowners for potentially opening up their trails for public access. We had an agreement for the KANA president, Andy Tauber, for moving forward on this proposal. She hopes to work with the borough to get the trails into the Trails Plan. Woody Island Tribe has funding for the planning aspect but any activity beyond the proposal will be the body of work that she can put in a grant proposal. Trails are very expensive to maintain, a one -mile trail is something like $500,000. CHAIR SALTONSTALL encouraged Gugel to come back to the committee for their help in supporting this idea with the borough, and the committee can do TMO's for Woody Island. OLD BUSINESS A) Killarney Hills Tract 2 Discussion B) Monashka Bandit Range — Clean up and Closure Discussion C) CIP List Discussion D) Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Plan Review Discussion NEW BUSINESS A) Comments from the Trail Summit - Approve COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEM MOVED to approve the comments from the semi- annual Trails Summit. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY B) TMO's for Trail System: Termination Point Discussion COMMUNICATIONS None REPORTS Page 2 of 4 Parks and Recreation Committee Minutes May 23, 2017 Meeting Schedule • June 27, 2017 Parks & Recreation Committee meeting -6:30 p.m.-KIB Conference Room • July 25, 2017 Parks & Recreation Committee meeting -6:30 p.m.-KIB Conference Room COMMITTEE MEMBER PAULSON MOVED to accept reports as written. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AUDIENCE COMMENTS None COMMITTEE MEMBER'S COMMENTS Rebecca Skinner will talk about the joint work session we are trying to do and the process of trying to put together a catalog of the recreational areas and she will ask for a status update of Killarney Hills. She is excited about the catalog of recreational sites, it will be helpful and the joint planning process will be useful. Alan Schmitt stated re: Killarney Hills, it came to the commission around November last year because the proposal had been made to dispose of it. When borough owns property and it's going to be potentially disposed of it first comes to the commission and we only had four commissioners present and it was clear there wasn't going to be a prevailing vote so we postponed it until around February but staff had failed to get out the notices to the public in the area that the meeting was going to happen so we postponed it. Given the items on the agenda, the commission decided to put it on the August agenda. We were thinking things would settle down by then. The people within the notice area, he thinks it is 300 feet around the outer perimeter, so that is where it stands right now. Steve Paulson stated Audrey Gugel was discussing that they are tearing out the dock out there. The Army Corp of Engineers is out there tearing it out, they are taking all the landing piers out and it is not going to be easy to get to unless you go around the island because this beach on this side has a lot of currents. Unless they get some kind of skiff line dropped in, there it is not going to be a good place. With regard to this joint thing, he knows Andy Schroeder has just done some kind of feasibility study on the trails system. It goes from downtown up to Safeway. There is a lot of effort going on. The last time we updated the CIP was in 2014, is that right. Tom Quass stated on Friday, June 2nd at 3:30 at White Sands Beach there is going to be a ribbon cutting ceremony for Termination Point. Greatland Trust is going to be here to do that and he only knows this because Island Trails Network's newsletter has it in there. He did not know anything about it until he seen it. It is for all those involved in the process and the borough is who signed for it. The newsletter, you can get it off their website. He was just talking about the pedestrian plan passes, Near Island is next, and it talks about his work with Woody Island trails. Patrick Saltonstall stated with the Woody Island trails and the dock disappearing, when we come up with TMO's we would say we need a dock. That is something that would stick out, it is something to point to than a bridge. Page 3 of 4 Parks and Recreation Committee Minutes May 23, 2017 Quass stated you won't see Sheila Smith at these meetings anymore because we are cutting back on overtime so they said it's something we just have to muddle through with for the next two or three meetings and after that Daniel Mckenna-Foster will be your staff because he's the Long Range Planner. He is young and he likes this stuff. ADJOURNMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEIN MOVED to adjourn. CHAIR SALTONSTALL adjourned the meeting at 7:59 p.m. KOD AK I AND OR UGH PARKS A REA ION C MMITTEE By: Patrick Saltonsta , air ATTEST By: Z—)Wjon 0-1C Sheila Smith, retary Community Development Department APPROVED: June 27, 2017 Page 4 of 4 Parks and Recreation Committee Minutes May 23, 2017