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Home My WebLink About06-25-2001 Park and Recreation Commission AgendasSaratoga Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting Adult Day Care Center 19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga Monday, June 25, 2001 7:30 p.m. AGENDA I. Or�anization 1) Roll Call: Alberts, Clabeaux, Dodge, Fronczak, Ioannou, Olsen, Seroff 2) Report on Posting of the Agenda: Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2 the agenda was properly posted on June 22, 2001 3) Review of June 4, 2001 Action Minutes. II. Administration 1) Update from Public Works Director John Cherbone 2) Update from Recreation Director Joan Pisani III. Oral Written Communication (This section is for the public to speak on any item not on the agenda-3 minute lunit) IV. New Business 1) Host second community meeting for proposed Azule Park improvement proj ect. V. Old Business 1) Congress Springs Park Fundraising Campaign Update. VI. Commissioner Staff Reports 1) City Hall Update by Staff Liaison Bloomquist 2) Commissioner Reports VII. Adjournment Saratoga Parks and l�ec�eation �ommission 1Vleeting Adult Day Care Center, 19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga .�une 4, 2001 7:30 p.m. �.ction l�inutes I. �all to �rder The meeting was called to order at 7:31 p.m. II. 12011 Call �ommissione� �resent: Alberts, Clabeaux, Dodge, Fronczak, Ioannou, Olsen, Seroff. �ommissioners Absent: None. �thers Present: Council member Nick Streit, Public Works Director John Cherbone, Recreation Director Joan Pisani, Steve Kikuchi, Project Architect, Greg Ing Associates, Saratoga News reporter Oakley Brooks, Saratoga residents as follows: Kris Bakke, Yong Shen, Sue Zhang, Don Johnson, Laura Gloner, Jim Schindler, Joan Greene, Katie Alexander, Gary Wolf, Jim Stallman, Bill Estes, Carmen Estes, Tom Soukeys, Bob Luetz, Jackie Wescoat, Staff Liaison Cary Bloomquist. III. Report on Postin� of the NYinutes: Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2 the agenda was properly posted on May 31, 2001. N. Approval of 1VYinutes of liReetin�: May 7, 2001 Action minutes were approved via a motion from Commissioner Olsen, which was seconded by Commissioner Clabeaux, vote taken, motion carried 7-0. V. Administ�ation: Update from Public Works Director John Cherbone. Budget for Congress Springs Park needs to be increased from $1.2 million to $1.4 million, a$200,000 increase due to the lowest bidder coming in over budget. June 25, 2001, the demolition phase of the Congress Springs Park project commences. Commissioner Alberts made a motion to present to Council a recommendation for an amount not to exceed $1,400,000.00 from Park Development Funds to fulfill the budget requirements for the Congress Springs Park Project. Motion seconded by Dodge, vote taken, motion carried 7-0. Recreation Director Joan Pisani reported the Warner Hutton House Attic Project received a Grant from the Saratoga Rotary in the amount of $20,000.00. VI. ��al Written Communication: None. VII. New Business: Azule Community meeting held, Chair Fronczak recused himself due to conflict of interest at 8:20 p.m. Vice Chair Clabeaux assumed leadership of ineeting. Received feedback from public in attendance and reviewed Azule Park Survey conducted by City. Public in support of project, reacted favorably towards Survey as presented by Staff liaison Bloomquist. Motion made by Commissioner podge to move regularly scheduled July 2, 2001 Parks and Recreation Commission meeting to June 25, 2001 and to hold a special Parks and Recreation Commission meeting on July 16, 2001. Commissioner Ioannou seconded motion, discussion ensued, voted taken, motion carried 5-1-1, with recused Chair Fronczak abstaining and Commissioner Seroff opposed. Chair Fronczak resumed control of ineeting. Motion made by Commissioner Alberts to adopt resolution recognizing July 2001 as "Recreation Parks Month". Seconded by Commissioner Olsen, voted taken, motion carried 7-0. VIII. �ld �usiness: None. ]X. �eAOrts� Staff Liaison Bloomquist: None Commissioner Reports: Commissioner Ioannou gave a brief report on Congress Springs Park. Commissioner Albert gave feedback on Wildcat Creek Clean-up Event held on May 19, 2001. Nearly 600 pounds of refuse pulled from streambed and banks. Commissioner Clabeaux encouraged Congress Springs Park Project fundraising efforts. Challenged each Commissioner to bring in $1,000.00 dollars. Commissioner Seroff commented on fundraising efforts for Congress Springs Park Project. Commissioner podge gave feedback on Congress Springs Park Project fundraising efforts. Chair Fronczak gave general feedback on several topics, including Congress Spring Park Project fundraising efforts. X. Adiournment Commissioner Alberts made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Commissioner Olsen seconded the motion. Vote taken and motion carried 7-0. The meeting was adjourned at 9:35 p.m. Prepared By: Cary Bloomquist, City Staff Representative Resident�, park corr�rn��i�r� kick off A�ule Park la,��n Concerns voiced ;T Ey oA�Y sxooxs Design planning for Azule Park began on June 4, with familiar comments from neighbors who say that they want the park simpleand its activity lirnited. The neighbors voiced their concerns at the first of four parks and recreation com- mission meetings aimed at shaping a final- i2ed Azule plan for the city council to con- sider in mid-August. Azule Park Neighborhood Association Chairwoman Katie Alexander stressed that any new activity areas, such as play- grounds or tennis courts, be placed a good distance from nearby homes. Alexander also suggested modest landscaping improvements in the park. Parks Commissioner Sheila Ioannou said she understood the neighbors' vision forthe park "It should be nice but not in a way that might attract a high volume of people," said Ioannou Local residents worry that features attracting a large number of people to Azule, including fields for soccer and baseball, would congest Goleta Avenue and sunounding streets. Alexander adds that there are plenty of specialty fields and courts elsewhere in the city. "The goal is to have it developed in a way that fits the neighborhood," she said. It's a not a new refrain from azea resi- dents, who several years ago shot down plans to put sports fields at Azule for sim- ilarreasons. But they agree with city officials that some improvemenu need to be made on the abandoned orchard. The land has been dormant since the city acquired it in 1969 and the rotting walnut and oak groves play host to a healthy population of rodents. Surveys from 126 homes returned to the city recently show that most Saratogans agree on simplicity for Azule. Though comments turned up a few pipe dreams— a roller hockey rink and a skatepark—the most popular requests were for the more mundane: benches, drinking fountains and picnic tables. Landscape architect Steve Kikuchi of Greg G. Ing and Associates says Azule's narrow, deep shape will present some challenges in creating a user-friendly park. The back of the park, b'ordered by the highway 85 sound wall, is more than 700 feet from Goleta Avenue. Kikuchi says he'll have to use some creative, but mini- mal, landscaping to make that section of the park inviting but safe and free of van- dalism. "The trick is to pull people intathe park so they don't get collected on Goleta," Kikuchi said after the June 4 meeting. The city will continue to take comments at its next Azule Park meeting on June 25. At that gathering, Kikuchi will present two or three drawings of potential park plans. He hopes to narrow the design down to its final stages by the parks com- mission's July 16 meeting and then make the last adjustments and cost estimates at the Aug. 6 meeting. Public Works Director John Cherbone says he's pushing to have the proposal finalized by eariy August, so the city coun- cil can consider Azule as part of a city- wide capital unprovement effort. The cap- ital unprovement projects will be selected toward the end of August. �mproveme�ts �g Congress Sp�gs Park get appr�vall The city council recently agreed to purchase $115,000 worth of Tifway 2 turf for Congress Springs park. Tifway 2 is the same grass used at Candlestick Park in San Francisco and Network �1sso- ciates Coliseum in Oakland. Public Works Director John Cherbone says the turf will allow sports teams to use the park six days per week. And the city will avoid the regular re-sodding it current- ly does at Congress Springs. Perma-Green Hydroseed- ing Inc. of Gilroy will conduct the demolition and the initial refurbishment of the entire park to the tune of $1,020�50. �nput so�ght o� UP rail trail plar� Sai•ato�a and three other cities, collaborating on a ptan to put a recreational trail on the Union Pacific rail corridor, will host a public meeting on June 7. The fourcities decided in March to fund a feasibility study of the potential trail. Alta Transportation Con- sultants, of San Rafael, has begunthefeasibilitystudyon the route that would extend along the'rail corridor from Los Gatos to Cupertino. Alta will solicit comments on the trail design and con- cerns from neighborhoods to be affected by it at the June 7 meeting, at 7 p.m. in the Quinlan Center, 10185 N. Stelling Road in Cupertino. For more information, call Alta's Project ManagerGeorge Hudson at 503.230.9862, or visit the trail link at www.altaplan- ning. com/spotlight/cuperti- no/index.html Saratoga Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting Adult Day Care Center 19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga Monday, June 25, 2001 7:30 p.m. AGENDA I. Or�anization 1) Roll Call: Alberts, Clabeaux, Dodge, Fronczak, Ioannou, Olsen, Seroff 2) Report on Posting of the Agenda: Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2 the agenda was properly posted on June 22, 2001 3) Review of June 4, 2001 Action Minutes. II. Administration 1) Update from Public Works Director John Cherbone 2) Update from Recreation Director Joan Pisani III. Oral Written Communication (This section is for the public to speak on any item not on the agenda-3 minute limit) IV. New Business 1) Host second community meeting for proposed Azule Park improvement proj ect. V. Old Business 1) Congress Springs Park Fundraising Campaign Update. VI. Commissioner Staff Reports 1) City Hall Update by Staff Liaison Bloomquist 2) Commissioner Reports VII. Adjournment