HomeMy WebLinkAboutPRBMINUTES080499City of West University Place Parks & Recreation Board Meeting
Minutes of August 4, 1999
Members Present: Guests Present:
Marcella Chennisi
Burt Ballanfant
Evans Attwell
Bill Findley
Connie Spencer
Kathy Hall
Will Bertron
Pat Lawrence
Ann Martin
The meeting was called to order @ 7:35 PM.
Minutes from the July 7, 1999 meetings were read, and a motion to approve was made,
seconded and unanimously approved.
Kathy Hall Dobbs, sister of Bill Hall, presented a model of the proposed "Bill Hall
Memorial Playhouse" to be built in Huffington Park. The recommended placement of
same as determined after a meeting at the Park by Mark Mailes, Will Bertron, Kathy Hall
and Craig Hughes, is within the "circle" of trees and columns in the middle of the Park.
A motion to "approve the submitted design and authorize Kathy Hall to send the
design to a structural engineer for review" was made, seconded and unanimously
approved.
Kathy was asked to meet with an engineer to determine what changes, if any,
need to be made, and also with builder Craig Hughes to determine the estimated
cost. Once these two items are resolved, Kathy will return to the Board and
present her findings in hopes of a final approval to proceed.
Evans Attwell asked Burt Ballanfant the reasoning behind City Council's "revisit" of the
Whitt Johnson Park basketball goal height matter. Evans expressed concern that Council
apparently did not weigh very heavily, if at all, the previous work and recommendations
of the Parks & Recreation Board. Connie Spencer expressed similar concerns and went
on to say that she was disappointed that there was no apparent conferring with the PR
Board regarding this change.
Burt Ballanfant remarked that much of the reason for changing one of the two discussed
goals' heights from ten feet down to eight feet came from perceptions he and Councilman
John Bertini had while campaigning through the areas immediately surrounding Whitt
Johnson Park.
August 1999 Minutes (cont'd)
It was generally agreed by the PR Board that the need exists to identify the extent
to which Council will value and accept the judgment and recommendations of the
PR Board going forward.
Marcella Chenessi reported that the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) will be submitted,
as discussed, to the three identified consulting/planning firms in hopes of their making a
presentation to the PR Board at either the September or October meeting.
There being no further old or new business, the meeting was adjourned.