08/22/2017 Regular Meetingf
OCT 2 5 2011
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH I
PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE
MINUTES
August 22, 2017 Regular Meeting 6:30 p.m: KIB Conference Room
CALL TO ORDER
VICE -CHAIR JOHNSON called to order the August 22, 2017 regular meeting of the
Parks and Recreation Committee at 6:35 p.m.
ROLL CALL
There were no requests to be excused.
Committee members present were Helm Johnson, Dale Stratton, Ben Millstein, Steve
Paulsen, and Paige Simeonoff. Absent was Patrick Saltonstall. Ex -officio member
present was Alan Schmitt. Absent ex -officio members were Rebecca Skinner, Ron
Bryant, and Corey Gronn.
A quorum was established.
Community Development Department staff present was Daniel Mckenna-Foster.
Also present was Maggie Slife, Borough Resource Management Officer.
COMMITTEE MEMBER PAULSON MOVED to excuse Patrick Saltonstall.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
COMMITTEE MEMBER PAULSON MOVED to approve.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
July 25, 2017 Regular Meeting, July 19, 2017Joint KIB/City Meeting, and July 25, 2017
Regular Meeting
COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEIN MOVED to approve.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
AUDIENCE COMMENTS AND APPEARANCE REQUESTS
Maggie Slife, Borough Resource Management Officer, stated she has a few items that
she hopes the committee will move on, make some decisions in the near future. We will
be continuing to discuss the Killarney Hills Tract. The Planning and Zoning Commission
denied considering it surplus to the borough's needs so we will probably be going into
some master planning efforts. Slife would like to work with the committee to find
solutions. She would also like the committee to consider, in the near future, what the
committee's vision is for the Chiniak burn area. We could use some guideline and vision
from the committee that outlines what you think is important for Planning and Zoning,
Lands Committee, and the borough to take into account.
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OLD BUSINESS
A) Monashka Bandit Range — Clean up and Closure
Staff reported that the signs that Quass puts up keep getting shot down.
Brief discussion of doing another cleanup of the area.
B) CIPList—Update
Discussion regarding what is the process, what items are on the previous list, and their
main priority being the parks plan, and different ideas for possibly going on the list.
C) Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Plan Review — Update
Staff stated we added some trails to Monashka Mountain to the trails map. The GIS
Analyst did a map of all the areas that people use to recreate.
Committee discussion
NEW BUSINESS
A) State of Alaska Parks & Outdoor Recreation grant
Staff reported this is something that the grants manager of the borough sent. It's a trails
program grant from the State.
Discussion of what they could apply for but it is too late this year, and a shovel ready
project.
COMMUNICATIONS
None
REPORTS
Meeting Schedule:
• September 18, 2017 P&R Joint Borough & City meeting -6:30 p.m.-KIB
Conference Room
• September 26, 2017 Parks & Recreation Committee meeting -6:30 p.m.-KIB
Conference Room
COMMITTEE MEMBER MILLSTEIN MOVED to accept reports.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
AUDIENCE COMMENTS
None
COMMITTEE MEMBER'S COMMENTS
Alan Schmitt said Maggie Slife, Resource Management Officer, was correct that
Planning and Zoning Commission past a motion that the Killarney Hills Tract is not
surplus to borough needs and recommended the assembly resume the planning
process. That is going to the assembly and they may not agree with the commission.
Last year, there was a tract on the corner of Sharatine and Rezanof that the Lands
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Committee had recommended that it be declared surplus so it could be sold. The
commission had public hearing where a lot of people came forward saying no, people
do use it for recreation and other purposes, so the commission agreed and voted that it
wasn't surplus. It went to the assembly where they disagreed and said we are going to
proceed with selling this land. Something like that could happen with Killarney Hills.
What the assembly wanted to do, and they directed the manager to put together a
request for kind of proposals to go out to contractors for them to tell the borough what
they can do with this parcel. It was the consensus of the commission that that is a
foolish way to proceed because any developer wants to know what you would like to
see before they put time and energy into a proposal. Schmitt also said the Parks and
Rec Committee meeting would see the agenda for the next month's Planning and
Zoning meeting, particularly, if there were subdivisions or other things coming forward
that might have some impact with Parks and Rec.
Paige Simeonoff said are we supposed to be doing anything for the meeting on the 181h,
we talked about having a survey that we need to make, look up all the different numbers
for different communities that are the same as ours or similar.
ADJOURNMENT
Steve Paulson MOVED to adjourn.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
VICE -CHAIR JOHNSON adjourned the meeting at 7:36 p.m.
ATTEST:
By ! alQ 1t\'6t1
Sheila Smith, Secretary
Community Development Department
APPROVED: October 24. 2017
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