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MINUTES
NOVEMBER 18,2008
The regular monthly meeting of the Dog Park Committee was held on Tuesday evening,
November 18, 2008 at 6:30pm in the small conference room of the Municipal Office
Building.
PRESENT: Lisa Ventriss, Chair; Jaime Heins,Vice-Chair;Joan Jarvis, Secretary; and
Claire Williams
ALSO PRESENT: Tom Hubbard, Recreation Director
The meeting was called to order at 6:35 p.m.
Tom shared information from a session he recently attended at a conference, including a
copy of the PowerPoint presentation on design of dog parks.
Ideas taken from the presentation for consideration include:
"Welcome mat"for entry area.
Sell bricks for fundraising
Statue,hydrant,and other structures to attract dogs to areas within park away from entry
Fountain with dog height basin
Future-dog wash spray area
Hand sanitizer
Possibility of dividing park in 2 sections so one can re-grow grass while the other is used,
shift off between areas.
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as written.
There are now over 850 dogs registered and if license fee was raised$10 it would cover
annual maintenance costs for the park.
The committee reviewed the initial fmdings of Sanborn-Head site analysis. A full report
will be presented at the next meeting by Matt Poirier.
According to the initial review,the landfill area is a viable site for reuse as a dog park.
Several questions evolved that Tom will address with Matt and report back to the
committee. It appears that some additional work will be necessary to help prepare the
site prior to any construction for the dog park.
As discussed at previous meeting, Tom prepared a draft of a report to folks who indicated
through the survey that they would like to be kept informed about the progress for the
dog park. The idea is to email the"newsletter"to folks that indicated email addresses,
and send out to others through regular mail. A short cover letter will be written with the
newsletter update as a pdf attachment.
The committee discussed the idea of an update to City Council in January. At that point,
we should have the final report and conditions from the site analysis, some preliminary
design concepts, a general idea of cost to build, and will seek approval from Council to
continue moving forward,which will include the permitting process, and fundraising
efforts.
�-1 Committee members felt that having cost figures by that timeframe would be reasonable.
Tom distributed some additional material on several VT community dog parks.
Meeting adjourned at 8:10 p.m.
Next meeting scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 11 th.
Respectfully submitted,
Joan Jarvis, Secretary