Quality of Life

Quality of Life had their first meeting of the year

Quality of Life Board members:
Adam Redmond- Excused Absent
Cheryl Kielman- Present
Jim McEvers- Present
Robert Sizemore- Present
Craig Foster- Present
Marcie Lowery- Present
Dustin Phipps- Excused Absent

City Council Liaison- Charlie Youngs- 12th straight absence

The Agenda

There were two Items on the agenda today at the Quality Of Life Board; Parks Phase 1 and 2 updates and the Parks and Recreation monthly update:

1. The lettering for the signs at the parks have been sent to the fabricator and in a few months will be installed. City Park still has a few more trees and grass to be planted for Phase 1. The flag pole is about to go back up at City Park. At South Park, the 116 sidewalk project will connect the new sidewalk with the walking path. Dirt work at High Chaparral, Heritage, and Highland Parks have started. Oncor will be cutting down the oak tree at Highland Park where the power line is tangled up in it.
     Phase 2 will be brought to the City Council on February 5 regarding the bathrooms. The package is for three new bathrooms and a retrofitted one. They are made from a company named CXT precast. The new bathrooms are pre-made at the company and then brought to their installation location. They will have LED lights, Maglocks, and have anti-graffiti paint on them. The locations for the bathrooms will be at Field 8, Field 4 and 5, and to the right of the swimming pool. South Park will have their bathroom retrofitted. The cost is $328,000. It is already part of the parks upgrade.

2. Parks and Recreation monthly report.
Joe Brown gave the board some exciting news today. The very first issue of the Golf Course Newsletter will go go out today. The newsletter will be a quarterly publication and this issue is 12 pages long. It will be a digital publication, to save money. Look for it soon!

Youth sports highlights. Winter Soccer registration closes on January 11 and already has 104 players. That is an increase from last year. Basketball games will start on January 12 and has 448 players. This is also an increase from last year. Recreation tackle football had only 100 players this last season compared to 165 players last year. Pop Warner football had only 19 players last season. Mr Brown said this may be the only season for Pop Warner tackle football due to area organization problems in other communities. Costs for December report was $2100 net revenue minus total expenditures of $5653.36 equals total revenue of$-3553.36.

Aquatics. The new ADA chair lift has been installed at South Park pool.

"The 5K to Polar Bear Plunge" will be January 26, 2019, at 6:30 am, at City Park. This year it will be dedicated to Mayor Frank Seffrood, who passed away this past December 28, 2018.

"Fishing in the Park" will be on February 16, 2019, at 9:00 am, at City Park.

Golf information. According to the report, there were 2812 rounds of golf played last year at our golf course. That was with 20 bad weather days, also.

As of December 31, 2018, these are the membership stats:
29 Annual Regular memberships
50 Annual Senior memberships
2   Annual City Employee memberships
19 Annual Dependents memberships
51 Annual Cart Storage memberships
26 Annual Trail Fees
11 Golf Course Employee memberships
6  Semi-Annual Regular memberships
2  Semi-Annual Senior memberships
0  Semi-Annual City Employee memberships
2  Semi-Annual Dependent memberships
0  Semi-Annual Cart Storage
0  Semi-Annual Trail Fees
0  Marshals
1  Volunteer
The total is 199 different memberships.

The only concern that came out about the condition of the 8 city parks was from South Park. Evidently there are people feeding the feral cats out there and leaving the cans at the park. They are also leaving camouflaged small kennels for shelter for those feral cats.

Quality of Life Board meeting at the Golf Course, on January 10, 2019