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Home My WebLink AboutPRHSPSC PKT 03-17-1997 . • Parks Recreation and Cultural Services Department CIP Update as of March 1997 BPA Phase II: The Public Works Department is currently bidding the project. The construction is targeted to begin spring 1997. Neighborhood Park Improvements: The Mirror Lake Neighborhood Park improvements is scheduled to start summer 1997. Lake Grove Ballfield Renovation Project: The project is currently out to bid March 1 - April 4. Bids open at 3:10 p.m. at City Hall on April 4. The construction for the sports field is targeted to start in July 1997. Lake Killarney Master Plan: Hough -Beck and Baird are currently working on the documents and specifications for the Lake Killarney Open Space Park. The public bid is scheduled for spring 1997. The project construction phase is targeted to begin summer 1997. Sports Field Complex: Staff is currently working with the Sports Field Committee. PARCS staff is working with Michael Williams and the US Army Corps of Engineers on the 1997 Nationwide 26 wetland permit for the site. Visitation Retreat and Cultural Center, Performing Arts Theatre/Restroom: The restroom project is currently out to bid, March 1 - March 21. Bid opening is March 21 at 3:10 p.m. at City Hall. Mark Twain: The King County CDBG has approved the revised 1997 CDBG project the sports field renovation at Mark Twain Elementary School. The revised interlocal agreement for the Mark Twain sports field renovation is currently being reviewed by the legal department as well as the PSA for Marty Lyon, Landscape Architect and Earth Tech Engineering and Surveying Inc. VRCC Signage: Linda Feltner is currently working on the interpretation signs for the VRCC. Ms. Feltner is the graphic and wildlife designer that created the Dumas Bay interpretive signs. Projects that are complete: Lake Killarney Master Plan VRCC Civic Theatre Conceptual Plan "Plan - B" Lake Grove Neighborhood Play Structure • • CITY OF FEDERAL WAY Item 3A PARKS, RECREATION AND CULTURAL SERVICES MEMORANDUM DATE: March 12, 1997 TO: Parks and Recreation Council Committee FROM: David Wilbrecht, Deputy Director SUBJECT: OFF - LEASH PARK At the March 6, 1997 Parks and Recreation Commission meeting, several citizens attended in support of an off -leash dog park. The Commission first heard from citizens in the public forum portion of the March 6 meeting and decided to move the off -leash dog area topic to the first item on the agenda. The Parks Commission discussed the Parks Committee's motion to review the 1997 - 1998 work plan to decide which item could be moved to include the off -leash dog areas in the Commission's work plan. The members of the Commission gave considerable time to the topic and recognized it as an important area due to public interest and willingness of citizens to volunteer their time to research and report their findings to the Commission. Since an off -leash dog area is not a simple item and may require research, information and public meetings (the City of Seattle and King County have had considerable public process in off-leash dog areas), the Commission accepted the citizens offer to continue research and informal reporting to the Commission at future meetings. Some members of the Commission agreed to work with the citizens as private citizens. The Commission did not determine which work plan item could be moved during this discussion. Later in the meeting, the Chair decided to include off -leash dog areas on the April meeting agenda. • • SUMMARY OF OFF -LEASH DOG PARK MARCH 6, 1997 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING PUBLIC FORUM: Off-leash Dog Park: As spokesperson for the off -leash dog concern, Linda Kent distributed a handout and reported on the City of Seattle's off -leash pilot program that is being conducted at this time. The project started June 15, 1996 and will end June 14, 1997. This program consists of seven sites geographically dispersed throughout the City of Seattle. The dog interest group attending the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting would be willing to form an ad -hoc committee, conduct background research and do all legwork required to present a proposal to the Commission to add this project to their work plan for 1997 -1998. They felt with 80,000 citizens in the city and a good share of them dog owners, this type of program (low cost, multi - ethnic, social, healthy atmosphere - not only dog issues, but social issues as well) would benefit the citizens of Federal Way. After much discussion i w decided to make the off -leash agenda item y uc it was g first for Commission business. Michael Maas presented a petition, thru the City Clerk's Office, with more than 300 signatures asking for this type of program to be established in the City of Federal Way. The Commission reviewed the Parks Committee motion from the February 24, 1997, meeting to place the item on the Parks Commission's work plan if another project could be moved. After a lengthy discussion which included costs, potential sites, staff resources to set up a program, moving a work plan item, include off -leash dog areas as an adopt -a -park use, parameters of project, and Council Committee concerns from their last meeting, the Commission agreed that off -leash dog areas had interest from the community and merit, but were unable to agree to move another work plan item. McColgan suggested the citizen committee continue to work on this project and report back to the Commission on a regular basis of their findings and on the final recommendations from the City of Seattle's pilot program. McColgan complimented the citizens on the good job the group is doing in covering this project. Later in the meeting, McColgan used his executive authority to include the off -leash issue as an agenda item for the April 3 Parks and Recreation Commission meeting.