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<br />side door. We're looking at doing a new sidewalk, oh, it's underneath the tree, right here there's
<br />going to be a new sidewalk leading up to the gate, so now people can come directly into this area
<br />and that will make it easy for the Parks Department to charge for events here, allows this area to
<br />set up bleachers. They can do teaching off the courts. This gives a great opportunity for coaches
<br />to go up and down through the courts or for spectators. It only effects approximately 20 ft., I
<br />think that it's 20 ft 8in down through here. There are 17 existing trees, large evergreens. We had
<br />Brent Thompson out there when we were looking at this ... do we expand north, do we expand
<br />south, and he determined that this area and all of these trees need to be left as is. These trees are
<br />good. These are mature, they're growing together so the lower branches are losing sunlight and
<br />falling off onto the courts. Brent's recommendation was to remove these 17 trees and come back.
<br />I just got an email from Brent last week and he recommends going back with 12 Bald Cypress
<br />trees, and that they're going to do the best down there, and then S new deciduous trees up in the
<br />north half. He's recommending a tri -color beech, a hybrid elm, black gum, [unknown] and a
<br />horse chestnut. Basically, these trees will be placed according to Brent. The Parks Department
<br />will be providing and installing their own trees. Brent will be the one doing that. Based on the
<br />current C of A we would still be planting 17 trees, but it's 12 evergreens and S deciduous. The
<br />fence lines on the west, north and east will remain as is. We're going to replace the fence,
<br />replace the asphalt, totally re -done. The existing stone wall will remain, it will not be touched.
<br />So, the only change is that we're going to pick up these four existing lights and just move them
<br />straight back, so the lighting will stay the same. Right now, there's an alternate in the bid to put
<br />in new lights, but I think that budgets and cost will determine that and it may have to be a future
<br />project. For right now, we're looking at ripping up all the existing asphalt and bringing in a new
<br />gravel base, new asphalt, new color coating... this is the color coating that the Park Department
<br />has chosen because it is the colors chosen by the US Tennis Open for their courts. I think that's
<br />it. The schedule, the Parks Board at 4pm this afternoon approved going out for bid, pending
<br />your review and approval. It will go out for bid next week, and the bids will come in at the July
<br />16m Parks Board meeting and construction should start the first week of August. It's kind of fast
<br />tracked, but we want to get in there because we have to get the color coating on before bad
<br />weather. So, the last youth tournament is the first week in August and after that, the Monday
<br />after that, you'll see the demolition started down there. Our target is to be done by the first of
<br />October, around that time. If we miss the fall window and have to wait til spring it's going to be
<br />4`h of July before we're done, so ... I'd be happy to answer any questions.
<br />Klusczinski: Thank you. Any questions.
<br />Sporleder: Yes, for clarification, sorry. So there are going to be all new court, and all new
<br />fencing 10 foot high?
<br />Brown: Yes, the current fencing is ]Oft. high.
<br />Sporleder: What is the surfacing of that?
<br />Brown: This right here, this is concrete, that's where the wear and tear is, that's where the
<br />bleachers would sink into the hot asphalt. This here we're taking as an alternate just in case we
<br />have to protect the budget when we bid. This strip will be concrete, unless the bids come in high
<br />then we'd have to go back to asphalt in this area.
<br />Sporleder: You mentioned bleachers...
<br />Brown: They're portable bleachers.
<br />Sporleder: But where do you store them?
<br />Brown: Right now there are just two or three between the trees. What they may do is pull the
<br />bleachers in here and take them some other place.
<br />Klusczinski: Any other questions?
<br />Choitz: I have one. To find out what you had in mind about those low trees, bushes really at
<br />least for the next few years, in place of mature trees. Because of the way things happen around
<br />town and everywhere in the world these days, I've always been able to see through there when
<br />I've let a kid out and go ... and I know that there's nobody in there, or if there's someone that
<br />should be there is there. I don't really think that if those are really going to take years and years
<br />to grow and they'll still be completely covering that up...
<br />Brown: Installed through here?
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