CSC 06-2024Community Services Commission Meeting
Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 7:00 pm
Washington Park Building (76th Street & 17th Avenue)
Commission Members
Kris Anderson, Grace Bronken, David Vrieze Daniels, Michael Devane, Tessa Johanson (Chair),
Adam Kerekes, Jeff Klein, Jessica Johnson-Kreps, Jim Reilly, BJ Skoog, Hayley Tompkins (Vice Chair)
Staff & Other Liaisons
Ben Whalen (City Council Liaison), Karl Huemiller (Recreation Services Director), John Evans (Analyst/Recording Secretary)
CALL TO ORDER (Acting Chair Jim Reilly)
PUBLIC COMMENT
•Comments and items not printed on agenda
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
•Regular May CSC Meeting (5/21/24)
STAFF REPORTS
•Recreation Services (Huemiller)
DISCUSSION ITEMS
None
ACTION ITEM
None
COMMITTEE REPORTS
•Transportation Commission (Devane)
•FOWL Board (Johnson-Kreps)
•Planning Commission (Kerekes)
•Arts Commission (Skoog)
•Sustainability Commission (Anderson)
NEXT MEETING
Tuesday, July 16, 7:00 pm
Richfield Municipal Center (Heredia Room)
ADJOURNMENT
May 21, 2024
REGULAR COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Madison Park Building
PRESENT CSC:Adam Kerekes, Hayley Tompkins, David Vrieze Daniels, Mike Devane, Jim Reilly, Jeff Klein
STAFF: Karl Huemiller (Recreation Director), John Evans (Analyst/Recording Secretary), Jeremy Johnson (Recreation Supervisor)
ABSENT CSC: Tessa Johanson, Kris Anderson, BJ Skoog, Jessica Johnson Kreps
CALL TO ORDER
Acting Chair Tompkins called the joint CSC/SC meeting to order at 7:02.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Motion and second to approve the minutes of the regular April 16 meeting. Approved.
STAFF REPORTS
Recreation Services
Jeremy Johnson reported on park building rentals restarting after eight years, saying that staff took inventory and determined condition and
opened up rentals for three of the enclosed buildings. $62/four hours. He summarized the rentals we’ve received so far this year and
anticipates a lot of great usage this year. It fills a need for weekend usage of a building for events like small birthday parties. He talked about
the Bluetooth-enabled locks that will enable people to unlock the building through remote permission from staff. He said Public Works can
add the building to their routes for cleanup. He said that it was built in 1994, but is in very good shape. Whalen mentioned food preparation
space. Tompkins mentioned using them for coworking space. Huemiller said that the buildings are used for the playground program and
could be utilized for programming by Wood Lake during the construction of the new building.
Huemiller provided the staff update:
• Filling pool, first teams will swim May 28
• Splash pad supplies are being delivered, construction will begin.
• RFP for Arena prime-time ice time rental will be sent out. Neighboring communities’ ice sheets will be down this year, so we are
looking to enter into a five-year agreement.
• Farmers Market has started for the season. 70 vendors.
• Wood Lake: four responses received for Construction Manager at Risk. RFPs have been sent out for a company to construct the
nature displays.
• Wetland delineation at Wood Lake done; showed that we have more room to build than we had anticipated.
• Wood Lake open house for the building project: about 100 people attended. Talked with Fraser for input from them about students
with disabilities. Meeting with MIRA for input this week.
• Site concept and design meetings have begun.
• Interviews completed for naturalist position being vacated by Scott Ramsay, who is retiring.
• New Recreation Program Manager, Jill Murphy, started this week.
• Field rentals have a lot of interest and recreation program registration is strong.
• Augsburg Skate Park expansion opening was going to be June 8, but will be rescheduled to August.
• Run Richfield, one-mile fun run at Augsburg Park.
• Bike Park season kickoff was well-attended.
• Local Sales Tax: staff training and booths at events
• Bonnie Muellerleile, the Farmers Market Coordinator, is now our full-time Recreation Coordinator.
• Pie Cycle podcast interviewed Karl about the bike park.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
FOWL: Johnson-Kreps, Planning: Kerekes, Arts: Skoog, Sustainability: Devane
OTHER/NEXT MEETING/ADJOURNMENT
Regular June Meeting: Tuesday, June 18, 7:00 pm, Washington Park Building (76th and 18th Ave)
Adjournment: Meeting adjourned by consensus at 7:45 pm.
DRAFT MINUTES UNTIL APPROVED BY THE CSC.