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Minutes 07/28/1993 R Parks & Recreation Advisory Board (PARAB ) Minutes July 28 , 1993 1 9 i i j 0 MINUTES COLLIER COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD Cocohatchee River Park s Naples, Florida July 28, 1993 PRESENT: Mr. Timothy Blackford, Chairman Ms. Darlene Koontz Mr. Joseph Zaks Mr. Vin DePasquale Ms. Geneva Till ALSO PRESENT: Steve Brinkman, Parks and Recreation Director Ms. Jacquie Minnis, Office Assistant II Gary Franco, Parks Superintendent Mr. John Lawson, Executive Director TECH Laura Altaratz, TECH I. Call to Order - 2:00 pm II. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag 1 III. Minutes of June 23, 1993, meeting approved. Motion by Mr. DePasquale and seconded by Ms. Koontz. IV. Requests for Discussion - Specific Update Items A. Step by Step, South Immokalee Park Mr. John Lawson, representing TECH, spoke regarding the expansion of the Step by Step program in Immokalee. The Step by Step program is a prevention system that minimizes the effects of young children handicaps as soon as possible. Last year a request was made to sub-lease a portable building and another request is being made for an additional portable on this site. This group works directly with the child, as well as with the family. The Step by Step program works with the Immokalee Day Care Center, which provides needed day care for these children. Motion by Geneva Till: PARAB wishes to advise the Board of County Commissioners to accept this request from Step by Step for an additional mobile to be installed at the site. Seconded by Mr. Zaks and approved 5 to 0. B. Launch Fees A packet of information regarding the background of beach and launch fees was distributed. This topic has been discussed many times and no doubt will be reviewed by the BCC again. This topic will be discussed at the next PARAB meeting. Since the beach parking fees were eliminated, attendance figures have almost doubled. C. Clam Pass/Barefoot Concessions The Clam Pass Concession Agreement with the AUO (Registry Resort) has been signed for another five year lease. The Barefoot Beach Concession Agreement should be approved by the BCC at their next meeting. Caxambas Concession and Cocohatchee Concession are being combined in one RFP which is now being prepared. The Caxambas agreement expires December 31, 1993. The new concessionaire at Cocohatchee would then be collecting the launch fee, which is currently being done by County employees. D. Annual Bids As the annual bids come up for review, the bids will be brought before PARAB. V. New Business/Presentations A. Design for Golden Gate Estates Park Twelve firms responded to the RFP. This park will be 15 acres adjacent to the Big Cypress School, which will allow joint use of some of the existing facilities. There will be two recommendations from Parks and Recreation regarding the choice of the desired design firm. One recommendation will be from Staff and one from PARAB. A decision was made that Mr. Zaks and Mr. DePasquale would review the responses to the RFP and make a recommendation. VI. Reports/Updates A. Pool Opening at Golden Gate Community Park The pool at Golden Gate is now open and has proven to be very popular - 600 attended the first day, 800 the second, and 1,000 the third. BCC voted to rescind admission fees for the first month of operation. B. Growth Management Handouts were distributed indicating the level of services, inventory and cost of facilities - all information for the Growth Management Plan. Mr. Brinkman went through the proposed construction of facilities item by item for the five-year CIE plan. Vineyards - name Vineyards must remain in name - probably can add Public to name. Pelican Bay Park is being donated by jr Westinghouse and will present the same type situation. Regional Parks - include beaches, boat launching facilities, swimming pools and gyms. s j i 1 ' 0 Bike Trails - Handled by Transportation and is in their budget. Rec Centers - Cannot use impact fees for the expansion of Golden Gate Community Center. The center comes under a special MSTD. The Department is investigating floating a bond issue for this project. Boat Ramps - Proposing building two lanes in Golden Gate Estates and doing some additional work at Bayview. So. Naples Park - The land adjacent to Lely High School proved to be 70% wetlands. Now contemplating obtaining some land from the Hubschmanns for this facility. Athletic Fields - Money is proposed for building 8 fields at various locations which have not been determined. 1 Clam Pass Utilities & Boardwalk - project to extend water, 1 electric and telephone lines to the beach. The boardwalk will have some sections replace starting October 1. The trams cause considerable wear and tear. Recycled material has been considered for the boardwalk, but cannot be installed on top of the current wooden walk. 3 Tigertail - Consideration is being given to additional parking and building a turnaround so vehicles will not have to actually Center the park when the lots are full. 1 Vanderbilt Restrooms - This project will begin when the State 1 issues the necessary permits. The location of the restrooms became a problem and had to be changed. Vanderbilt Walkovers - These are access areas along Gulfshore Drive that need to be made handicapped accessable. Orange Tree - A 56 acre regional park on Immokalee Road. The Department is exploring the possibility of have a private firm dredge a lake approximately 20 acres. The firm would sell some of the fill, giving the County a certain percentage of receipts, and reserve some fill for use in the park. This would develop into a bid situation with specifications provided by the Department. A master plan of the area would be needed. It would take approximately 3 years for the dredging to be completed and property ready for constructing the park. Community Park #9 - This money is for land acquisition. Golden Gate Estates and South Naples Parks would be completed before this park began. Regarding regional parklands, there are two options. Impact fees could be modified and the money spent as received, or the money could be saved until the needed amount has been accumulated. The other option would be to secure a loan and use regional park dollars to repay the loan - this would mean that not only would we have the construction cost but the need to repay the loan. Next meeting the Department will be looking for suggestions from i 0 PARAB on the expenditure of this money. One option is to enlarge Bayview Park - additional parking and adding more boat lanes. This facility would then be large enough to charge a launch fee as is done at Cocohatchee and Caxambas. A discussion was held concerning the possibility of building some boat docks and renting slips. There is no overnight docking allowed at Cocohatchee, and renting slips was not considered as Westinghouse is building 100+ at their project next door. The possibility of acquiring land for natural areas was discussed - these sites to have nature trails, etc. , not necessarily any recreational facilities as such. C. Budget - Mr. Brinkman went over the budget which will be presented to BCC. D. Ordinance 93 - An ordinance confirming the creation of the Parks and Recreation Board. All Boards that were not established by Ordinance are required to do so in order to make Boards more uniform - terms, meeting requirements, etc. The process for advertising this Ordinance for adoption will be started. Geneva t Till's situation regarding terms will be investigated. E. Telephone Survey. The County performs a telephone survey yearly. Two things on this survey deal with Parks and Recreation - C whether the person is satisfied or not in different areas. On this subject we came in number 2. The other section deals with times parks are visited and how often. 1 The Department would like to establish a survey dealing with Parks and Recreation issues and will bring to PARAB questions for the survey and your impute. Someone in the parks would be trained to help in that area, someone in the beach area, etc. There would be different type of surveys related to boat launching, community parks, beaches, etc. The results of this survey could be compared with the telephone survey, and will give an idea of services desired by the public. The Park Rangers make many personal contacts per day and could help with this survey. F. The next meeting will be held at Veterans Park on Immokalee Road. G. The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 p.m. Anyone interested could take a tour of Cocohatchee River Park facilities with Mr. Brinkman. 9741 OF