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2011-06-28 Regular Meeting KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH - PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE I AUG MINUTES -- - - ' CLE June 28, 2011 Regular Meeting 7 p.m. in the KIB School District Conference Room CALL TO ORDER CHAIR SIROFCHUCK called to order the June 28, 2011 Parks & Recreation regular meeting at 7 p.m. ROLL CALL Requested to be excused was Hans Tschersich and Rick Lindholm. Committee members present were Jeff Huntley, Sandra West, Mike Sirofchuck, Pam Foreman, Patrick Saltonstall, Andy Schroeder, & Willy Bethea. Absent were Hans Tschersich and Rick Lindholm. Ex- officio member present was Casey Janz. Absent ex- officio members were Kevin Murphy, Ian Fulp, Chris Lynch, Peggy Rauwolf, and Norm Wooten. Community Development Department staff present was Bud Cassidy. A quorum was established. COMMITTEE MEMBER SALTONSTALL MOVED to excuse Hans Tschersich and Rick Lindholm. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY APPROVAL OF AGENDA Sandra West requested to add bike path to the agenda. COMMITTEE MEMBER SALTONSTALL MOVED to approve the agenda as amended. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS COMMITTEE MEMBER FOREMAN requested a correction on page 2; it should say FOREMAN requested to be excused due to the Relay for Life. COMMITTEE MEMBER FOREMAN MOVED to approve the June 14, 2011 minutes as amended. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AUDIENCE COMMENTS AND APPEARANCE REQUESTS OLD BUSINESS A) Joint City /Borough Letter of Cooperation CHAIR SIROFCHUCK stated Natasha Hayden was at our last meeting advocating for the City & Borough's Parks & Rec Committees looking together on some sort of Parks& Fields Plan. Natasha would write a letter that would be coming from both committees that we could present to the city council and the borough assembly. She and Sirofchuck worked up this P &R Minutes Page 1 of 4 June 28, 2011 draft that is in your packet. She will be sharing it with the city P &R on Thursday. If we can persuade the 2 bodies to go forward with the plan do we want to do joint meetings or form a third entity? Do we want to ask the city and borough to pay for it, consultants to do a creative plan, or do we want to try to do it on our own. During discussion, it was the consensus that we need to meet with the City Parks & Rec to hash out what it is we want to do. We do want to do the letter that should define the problem, say the 2 committees want to meet and invite the Assembly, City Council, and the mayor to the meeting. They decided on July 12th for the meeting, and CHAIR SIROFCHUCK will talk to Hayden. B) Bike Path Update COMMITTEE MEMBER WEST said the shoulder of the road has been cleaned. We are waiting for the State budget to come through and find out if the project made the cut. Getting the big project done will be between 2012 -2015. In the meantime, we have a construction permit. Rob Greene may start this week running a machine from Horizon's crane to Deadman's Curve. West said she mowed from Maritime Helicopters into the Coast Guard property because there is a trail there. There are 2 bridges in the airport to base area; a little one that Rob Greene is working on that will connect the airport to the end of the runway, and then a major bridge going across Devil's Creek which is on Coast Guard property/State owned that GCI has a fiber optic cable going across there that is tied up with a rope so she is hoping to get all 3 entities together and everyone pitch in 1/3 so we can get a bicycle bridge across there. She thinks the Coast Guard will be working on a bicycle safety class. NEW BUSINESS A) FY 2012 CIP CHAIR SIROFCHUCK said in your packet is last year's CIP List. During discussion, there was consensus of the following 2012 -2016 CIP List: 1. Bike Path Extension (Marine Hill — White Sands) 2. Parks & Fields Plan 3. Mill Bay Beach Site Plan & Construction 4. Multi- Purpose Fields Construction (KANA, East, Softball Complex) 5. White Sands Beach Improvements 6. Womens Bay Boat Ramp 7. Three (3) Walking Trails to North Star 8. ATV Park 9. Fairgrounds Improvements COMMITTEE MEMBER WEST MOVED to accept the numbers. VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY B) Trails Guide - What Form (Map, Electronic, Booklet) Cassidy stated we are at the Trails Guide section of the project. Where do you think we should go? If we go electronic it will take a lot of maintenance and we do not have a GIS person right now, or we could do booklets. If we do electronic we'll have to ask the P &R Minutes Page 2 of 4 June 28, 2011 Assembly for more money. Alta's quote to do an electronic version was about $8,000- $9,000. During discussion, there was consensus that the committee supports electronic but they want to see a physical map, and if push came to shove they would settle for electronic. They want Cassidy to get the template from the consultants. The committee gave Cassidy a list of what they want on the template. C) Trails Guide - Questions about Trails on Private Land Cassidy stated his conversation with Gilpin was your concern is folks that want to take private trails off the map, and Gilpin spoke with native corporations were comfortable with having the trails identified on their properties. Cassidy has tried to confirm it but hasn't heard back from anyone. There was consensus that anything we put out clearly shows there is a trail here but it's on so and so's land, it's your responsibility to deal with the land owner. D) Perenosa Right of Way Update Cassidy stated he's talked to Bob Scholze about it. Scholze hasn't written any letters but he's talked to all the land owners. This is the part of Perenosa from Katmai to Sitkinak Drive and you've got folks that are impacted the most are Local Electric and Bill Alwert's gear shed. Alwert is going to move his stuff and Charlie knows there's a need to move his stuff off. E) Summer Schedule — (Change in meeting twice /month ?) It was the consensus to put this on the next meeting schedule. COMMUNICATIONS There were none. REPORTS Meeting Schedule: • July 12, 2011 Parks & Recreation Committee meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the KIB Conference Room • July 26, 2011 Parks & Recreation Committee meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the KIB Conference Room AUDIENCE COMMENTS There were none. COMMITTEE MEMBER'S COMMENTS Sandra West said there was discussion at the last public meeting and does anyone know what the legality of shutting down a 17b easement. One example we talked about was Boy Scout Lake where they put a gate across. The concern is that there is a 17b easement that goes from Swampy Acres over to Tom Stiles Road and the Coast Guard shut it down. Mike Sirofchuck said the Natives of Kodiak put that there. P &R Minutes Page 3 of 4 June 28, 2011 Sandra West said Natives may have put one up but the Coast Guard put one on the other side, but it's a 17b easement. Andy Schroeder thinks it starts as a 17b easement on NOK lands but when you cross from NOK lands onto Coast Guard lands it no longer is a 17b easement, and that boundary probably isn't marked. Cassidy said BLM 17b specialist may come to one of your meetings, he's just awaiting confirmation. ADJOURNMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER BETHEA MOVED to adjourn. CHAIR SIROFCHUCK adjourned the meeting at 8:31 p.m. ODIA • I D BOROUGH B PA J : I �� COMMITTEE Y: .1 ', Mike 1irgfchuck, Chair ATTEST / By: ShP.:Dri Sheila Smith Community Development Dept. APPROVED: July 26, 2011 P &R Minutes Page 4 of 4 June 28, 2011