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11/28/2001 - Meeting Minutes SALE* GORPO:°1� 4IOa RICHARD GRAHAM _— ROSS C. "ROCKY" ANDERSON PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES MAYOR Salt Lake City RECEIVED 'E��, Recreation Advisory Board APR 0 9 2002 Wednesday,November 28, 2001 , 3:30-5:OOp.m. CITY RECORDER Fairmont Park Pool 1044 East Sugarmont Dr. (2225 South) (Behind Granite Furniture) AGENDA • TOUR OF FAIRMONT POOL Debbie Butler • WELCOME, REVIEW MINUTES, AND FOLLOW UP David, Spatafore, Chairperson • RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD ORDINANCE UPDATE Rick Graham • COORDINATION BETWEEN THE CITY, COUNTY, AND SCHOOL DISTRICT David Spatafore • SALT LAKE COUNTY RECREATION UPDATE Debbie Butler • RECREATION TRANSPORTATION ROUTE Kate Deiss • OTHER BUSINESS AND SET NEXT MEETING **To request accommodations for individuals with disabilities,please call Kathy Rollman at 974-2420 or fax her at 974-2401. Please allow 72 hours for special accommodations. SORENSON MULTI-CULTURAL CENTER 855 WEST CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84104 TELEPHONE: 801-974-2420 FAX: B01-974-2401 v „Ec.o�Eo P.oPEa RICHARD GRAHAM :A' p a M� =dK C--AO -'0 A' k'. Nab ROSS C. "ROCKY" ANDERSON PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES MAYOR Salt Lake City Recreation Advisory Board Meeting Minutes November 28, 2001 Present: Board Members Salt Lake City Staff David Spatafore, Chairperson Rick Graham Jeffrey Morrow Kathy Rollman Meryl Redisch Janet Wolf Mary Talboys Salt Lake County Staff Maynard Koncar Board members toured the Fairmont Aquatics Center. The pool will open to the public between Christmas and New Year's. Salt Lake County will hold a Grand Opening Ceremony in January. Fairmont will pick up a lot of the Steiner East swimmers when the Salt Lake City Sports Complex is turned over to SLOC on January 15, 2002. Jeffrey Morrow made a motion to approve the October Board meeting minutes as written. Meryl Redisch seconded the motion. The motion passed. Salt Lake City Recreation Program Advisory Board Ordinance Rick Graham updated the Board on the progress of the revised ordinance. Mayor Anderson supports the changes to the ordinance. The ordinance is at the City Attorney's office and, on approval, it will be sent to the City Council. Rick expects the City Council to get the ordinance sometime around the middle of December. Rick will let the Board members know when it is put on the Council agenda. New Board members will need to be appointed after the changes in the ordinance are official. New Salt Lake City district boundaries should be set soon. Three members who will represent recreation centers also need to be appointed. (Steiner/Fairmont, Central City/Kiwanis, and Northwest/Sorenson Center.) Coordination between the City/County/School District David Spatafore recently met with Kathy Black, Patrick Garcia, and two Community Education representatives. As an important 1st step, Community Education will mail out a brochure in December that will go to 80,000 homes in Salt Lake City. Included in the brochure are programs and/or contact phone numbers from the Sorenson Multi-Cultural Center, Mayor's Youth Programs, Salt Lake County, and local youth sports organizations. The next step is to establish a database from which people can get SORENSON MULTI-CULTURAL CENTER B55 WEST CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84104 TELEPHONE: B01.974-2420 FAX: 801-974-2401 :: E. Eo PaPEa information about programs in their specific areas. David reported that it might be possible to qualify for Tier 2 ZAP tax funding to cover the cost of future publications. Salt Lake County Report Debbie Butler was ill and will report next meeting. Transportation Route Kate Deiss was unable to make the meeting, so she will report next meeting. Other Business Rick reported that thanks to Tree Utah and Meryl Redisch, some 4-14 ft. trees would be planted in Fairmont Park after the Olympics to replace trees that were lost due to construction of the Aquatics Center. Janet Wolf announced that Global Artways is now housed in a building next to the Fairmont Aquatics Center. Janet hopes to expand the Mayor's Youth Programs to other park sites in Salt Lake City. Rick Graham reported that a 1/2 million-dollar request has been submitted to the City Council for construction of a skate park on the site of the old Fairmont Pool. The Jordan Park skate park is about 40% complete. He anticipates a March completion date for the Jordan Park skate park. Rick recently met with Jim Jensen, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake, to discuss ways to mitigate future parking problems at Fairmont Park. In their discussion, Jim Jensen mentioned that the Boys and Girls Club organization owns 4 acres of land around Meadowlark Elementary. The Boys and Girls Club may be interested in partnering with Salt Lake City to donate the land for the construction of a future skate park. Jeffrey Morrow noted that the Rotary Clubs of Salt Lake City have donated apparatus for the construction of a playground for disabled patrons at Liberty Park. David announced that in August 2002, Herman Frank Park would host the W.B.B.A. World Series. Rulon Gardner is scheduled to throw out the first pitch. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday,January 4,2002 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 138 of the City/County Building. David Spatafore asked Rick Graham to send Board Members a packet containing the new Recreation Program Advisory Board Ordinance so they can look at it before the January 4 meeting. The meeting adjourned at 4:40 p.m.