Backup 04/24/1991 R Parks & Recreation
Advisory Board
( PARAH )
Hackup
April 24 , 1991
Collier County PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD
AGENDA
April 24, 1991
The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting will be held Wednesday, April
24, 1991, 1:30 p.m. at the Golden Gate Community Park in the Administrative
Office located at 3300 Santa Barabara Boulevard.
1:30 P.M. I. CALL TO ORDER:
II. PTFDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG:
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
IV. REQUESTS FOR DISCUSSION - SPECIFIC UPDATE ITEMS:
V. NEW BUSINESS/PRESENTATIONS:
1:45 P.M. A. Review of PARAB Members visiting Park Sites
2:00 P.M. VI. REPORTS/UPDATES:
A. Bonita Beach Park
B. Recycling
C. Tigertail Vegetation
D. Immokalee Airport Park Bathrooms
E. 951 Boat Ramp Parking
F. Pools
G. Vanderbilt Beach Accesses and Parking
H. Community Centers
I. Football/Soccer Field Immokalee
J. Division Responsibilities for 1991
K. Frank E. Mackie Jr. Building Expansion
L. Conkling Point Boat Ramp
M. Listing of Donated Property
N. Immokalee Child Care Center
0. Clam Pass Park
2:30 P.M. VII. NEW BUSINESS:
2:45 P.M. VIII. ADJOURNMENT:
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NAPLES DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, April 24, 1991
Yanderbilt Beach v
oters say no to
beautification, lighting tax districts
1,4 rY 610 ballots Tuesday night from could not be reached for comment
sBy JENNIFER LENHART Vanderbilt Beach residents, who Tuesday night.
'Staff Writer were mailed ballots April 3. Mor-p Bill Bergen, a member of Con-
^Vanderbilt 'Beach's proposed gan said her office issued 761 cerned Vanderbilt Beach Voters
it Fbeautification and lighting tax dis- ballots and received 666, but 56 and Taxpayers, said Collier Coun
" �` were improperly signed or re- I
,trios. crash-landed Tuesday as turned by the ty government — not individual
iw oth measures died in the polls. Y post office. communities — should be respon-
4m _ Supporters of the municipal sible for improving neighborhoods.
Residents defeated the beauti- service taxing units, or MSTUs,
t fication tax by a 374-to-225 vote. "Our government has an obli-
The proposed lighting tax fell 375 had touted the measures as a way gation and our government hasn't
:. to unify the neighborhood aestheti- done much for us,"Bergen said
t to.220.. call while improving y p g pedestrian The beautification tax would
.' . Mary Morgan, supervisor of safety. Organizers for the pro-tax
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-elections, said her office counted group Vote. Vanderbilt Pride, See TAX, Page 2B
Tax: Voters
defeat distracts
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have financed $1.5 million in
improvements like bike paths and
palm trees. Funds would have
paid for permanent maintenance
as well. The tax would have been
assessed at the rate of one-half
mill for the first three years and a
quarter-mill after that.
The quarter-mill street light-
ing tax would have raised an esti-
mated $726,780 during its 30-year
lifetime.
GOLDEN GATE NUGGET
Thursday, April 11 , 1991
Commission lends its approval
to new YMCA facility in Estates
By BILL ROGERS ject. There is enough money in the trust to purchase
Staff Writer 20 acres at an estimated cost of$10,000 per acre. All
option/purchase agreements will have to be pre-
The Board of Collier County Commissioners sented to the commissioners for review and approval.
voiced their support Tuesday for a YMCA branch fa-
"We have a lot of homework to do," said Sandra
cility to be built in Golden Gate Estates. Taylor, the county's real property management di-
s ;By a 5-0 vote, commissioners approved the con-
mission."rector. `Every proposal will be looked at by the com-
cept of having the county own the land and lease it to
the Y. The commission also directed staff to begin The trust was set up as a result of a 1983
processing the necessary applications to amend he agreement between the county and Avatar Prop-
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Golden Gate Master Plan to allow for a Y to be built obtained from after t GAC declared Avatar r property bankruptcy.can o only be
outside the designated neighborhood areas. obtained from fic things in the property can only re
`I:think it is great,"said Chairwoman Anne Good- used for police stations,things u the schools, such as and
night. "The number one priority for people in the recreational ponce staties. public schools, libraries and
Estates is a recreation and day care facility." recreational facilities.
'-The Y is seeking staff's help in finding a suitable In cussing th i ea of a c Ammar Committee starfad l i y
location for the facility. It is anticipated that a min- for Gol Golden idea of a community recreational facility
imuin of 16 acres will be needed for a facility,which for Golden h Gate.it The Y sent the committee a ranch
would include a y indicating Es that it was interested in putting a branch
pool and day care capabilities. in the Estates.
Gile Seivers,general director of the YMCA of Col- Earlier this year, a development committee was
lier County,told commissioners that Golden Gate res- organized to include Seivers and other local resi-
idents make up 25 percent of the membership at the dents. Two sub-committees were created —one for
Y's Pine Ridge Road facility.
telephone has been ringing off the hook since site selection and the other for programs.The site-se-
My lection group has started looking for suitable prop-
we started talking about this," Seiver said. "They erty for the facility.
want very much to have a recreational facility." The programs sub-committee will be sending res-
The Golden Gate Estates Citizens Advisory idents in the Estates a survey that will provide the
Committee,also known as the Avatar Committee,has development committee information as to what rec-
pledged money from the GAC Land Trust for the pro- reational facilities are most needed.
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Naples Daily News
Marco Islander, April 4, 1991
Workers race calendar to finish
expansion of Mackie Park room
place in the community room to building permit can be processed,
By ANNE RYAN protect the rest of the building said Bill Flynn, county construe-
Staff writer when the side wall is taken out, tion manager supervisor.
Benton said. The new roof will go Before the county's community
Construction workers are on
up before the wall comes down,he development services moved into
the scene almost 24 hours a day said. its new building, site development
now at Frank E. Mackle Jr. Corn- The expansion has to be fin plans and building permits were
munity Center. fished by June 15 — 90 days from simultaneously reviewed, Flynn
Crews from Lynch Con issuance of the county buildin said. The process was changed to
struction of Naples are making y g the current one because it was
p g permit — according to the con thought fewer mistakes would be
Mackle's community room bigger tract awarded to Lynch by the made if site plans were approved
by extending the roof 20 feet in the Board of Collier County Commis-
direction of the covered basketball first,he said.
sioners. Serious consideration is being
courts. Money for the project Lynch got the contract on Jan. given by the project review super-
comes from a discretionary fund 15. The second lowest of four visor to rewriting the self-imposed
of $500,000 split equally among bidders, it won the nod because it rule,he said.
five community parks. estimated the least amount of
Expansion of the building by time to complete construction.
900 square feet called for installa- Though the county goal was
tion of a fire sprinkler system expediency, the building permit
throughout the building. wasn't issued until March 14, two
Bill Benton, Lynch project months after the contract was
manager,said crews are installing awarded. A fire main subcontrac-
pipes and sprinkler heads in the tor was "tagged"by the county on
ceiling between 9 p.m.and 5 a.m., March 13 for beginning work be-
in order not to disrupt Mackle fore issuance of the building per-
classes. The sprinker work is mit.
expected to last three weeks, he In the county permitting set
said. up, a project's site development
A wooden dust barrier is in plan has to be approved before the