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Home My WebLink About2011-02-28 Parks & Recreation Packet - Special MeetingSPECIAL KENAI PARKS RECREATION COMMISSION FEBRUARY 28, 2011 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 7:00 P.M. AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ITEM 2: AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3: OLD BUSINESS a. Discussion /Recommendation Design Alternatives /Municipal Park Playground Expansion ITEM 4: ADJOURNMENT \the ci of KENAI, ALASKA MEMO: Attachments Village with a Past, Cc w 210 Fidaigo Avenue, Kenai, Alaska 99611 -7794 W t Telephone: 907- 283 -7535 FAX: 907- 283 -3014 1 111r 1992 TO: Kenai Parks Recreation Commission FROM: Robert J. Frates, Parks Recreation Directo DATE: February 18, 2011 SUBJECT: Special Meeting New /Expanded Playground (Site Selection Matrix) The purpose of this correspondence is to provide you some justification why Municipal Park is suitable for a playground expansion along with some cost estimates. Attached you will find a Site Selection Matrix and Municipal Park Playground Expansion Cost Estimates. Each park location was reviewed in detail and scored based on factors administration felt important. These factors range from available space, recognizable hazards, compatibility, access, visibility and parking. Each park location was scored accordingly. Please note that some park locations were not scored simply because of space limitations. Thanks in advance for your review and please let me know if you have any questions. 0 0 F L os L RE f L 8Z TV b£ 1 Sv I r 9Z Zb 6E L L Adequate Parking, New or Existing (1 -10) 00 00 CO 00 W V 00 00 Pedestrian Accessibility to Park (1 -10) 00 LE1 CO o V M I Vl V Visibility to Deter Vandalism (1 -10) L 8 L E 0 Cr L B b L 8 L S Vehicular Access Not Through Subdivisions (1 -10) L 8 OT IN 0 OT or L or Of Compatibility with Existing Park Use (1 -10) O T OT O OT V OT N O.; Vl O Distance from Hazards (Hi -Speed Roadways, Water, Wildlife) (1 -10) I s L__ v t 00 t Ln L z l 0 0 1 Park Strip located on Airport Property and primary use is reserved for Kenai Municipal Airport Space Availible for New /Expanded 1 Playground (Y /N) L N r Z> Y Z 2 r N L N NIA Z Y>- N z Z 1__.._._.... N 9ti I TL I Eb"0 I L9ZJ SC£ I £R s£ co 1 VT S "L J I RL'E 1 V/N I S'£ L bz 1 S. Forest Dr___ AmH Inds'.. Peninsula Ave Beaver Loop 1_ DA 9 Uno j JO uounej'. Frontage Rd any uolssltnt' Main St. Loop _I 1.5 12-109,. pa uoyleleAJ'.. dOOT '1$'win! AMH indS py a8ewd d Spur Hwy______ Spur Hwy I Spur Hwy r saJIMS N. Forest Dr 1 Frontage Rd Name of Park /Facility /Green Space 'Kenai Municipal Park 1 1 Little League Fields I Beaver Creek Park Old Town Park ryred weq&muufDJ Aced anuanv glnod East Kenai Park/Trails [Leif Hansen Memorial Park I [Eric Hansen Scout Park *dins Bled leuaN Adult Sofball Fields _I I Skate Area I L Hied Apwed r L slreJi ssnH alwa9I 'Spur Hwy Bike Path R.O.W. 1 L (splald V)cd) aienbs wmuuagml Kenai Soccer Complex looga$ galH IeuaN] Kenai Middle School [Mt. View Elementary School 'Kaleidoscope School [Aurora Borealis Charter School acs CO 2 TS 0 fej UJ +a CITY OF KENAI MUNICIPAL PARK PLAYGROUND EXPANSION COST ESTIMATE ALTERNATIVE NUMBER ONE Parking /Roadway Cost Item Description Unit Quantity Unit Cost Sub -Total Mobilization Demobilization LS 1 10,000.00 10,000.00 Demo Existing C G LF 50 10.00 500.00 Unclassified Excavation CY 1200 12.00 14,400.00 Classified Fill Backfill Ton 2200 12.00 26,400.00 Crushed Aggregate Base Course Ton 300 22.00 6,600.00 Asphalt (2 Ton 130 125.00 16,250.00 Bollards EA 50 125.00 6,250.00 Striping LS 1 1,000.00 1,000.00 Signage EA 6 200.00 1,200.00 Survey LS 1 2,500.00 2,500.00 Topsoil CY 150 20.00 3,000.00 Seeding LB 20 125.00 2,500.00 Trees /Shrubs LS 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 Sub -Total 92,600.00 ALTERNATIVE NUMBER ONE Playground Cost Item Description Unit Quantity Unit Cost Sub -Total Unclassified Excavation CY 600 12.00 7,200.00 Classified Fill Backfill Ton 800 12.00 9,600.00 Bark /Wood Chips CY 175 35.00 6,125.00 Edging Material AWW 10" x 10" LF 320 10.00 3,200.00 Topsoil CY 100 20.00 2,000.00 Seeding LB 12 125.00 1,500.00 Picnic Table EA 2 650.00 1,300.00 Trees /Shrubs LS 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 Playground Equipment LS 1 85,000.00 85,000.00 Sub -Total 117,925.00 Sub -Total Construction 210,525.00 Design (10 21,052.50 Construction Administration (5 10,526.25 Total Estimate 242,103.75 Page 1 of 2 2/18/2011 CITY OF KENAI MUNICIPAL PARK PLAYGROUND EXPANSION COST ESTIMATE ALTERNATIVE NUMBER TWO- Parking /Roadway Cost Item Description Unit Quantity Unit Cost Sub -Total Mobilization Demobilization LS 1 10,000.00 10,000.00 Unclassified Excavation CY 500 12.00 6,000.00 Classified Fill Backfill Ton 250 12.00 3,000.00 Crushed Aggregate Base Course Ton 125 22.00 2,750.00 Asphalt (2 Ton 50 125.00 6,250.00 Bollards EA 40 125.00 5,000.00 Striping LS 1 2,500.00 2,500.00 Signage EA 4 200.00 800.00 Survey LS 1 2,500.00 2,500.00 Topsoil CY 80 20.00 1,600.00 Seeding LB 10 125.00 1,250.00 Trees /Shrubs LS 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 Pathway LF 350 50.00 17,500.00 Sub -Total 61,150.00 ALTERNATIVE NUMBER TWO Playground Cost Item Description Unit Quantity Unit Cost Sub -Total Unclassified Excavation CY 600 12.00 7,200.00 Classified Fill Backfill Ton 800 12.00 9,600.00 Bark /Wood Chips CY 175 35.00 6,125.00 Edging Material AWW 10" x 10" LF 320 10.00 3,200.00 Topsoil CY 100 20.00 2,000.00 Seeding LB 12 125.00 1,500.00 Picnic Table EA 2 650.00 1,300.00 Trees /Shrubs LS 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 Playground Equipment LS 1 85,000.00 85,000.00 Sub -Total 117,925.00 Sub -Total Construction 179,075.00 Design (10%) 17,907.50 Construction Administration (5 8,953.75 Total Estimate 205,936.25 Page 2 of 2 2/18/2011 Municipal Park Suggestions: Prepared by Rebecca Lamboum, Parks and Recreation Commission Member There has been a proposal made to the Parks and Recreation Commission that includes expansion of playground areas and the purchase and installation of new playground equipment. It also includes the construction of an additional parking lot in the park. The preliminary cost estimate mentioned has been somewhere between $200,000 to $300,000. The following is a "whole park" plan that is more encompassing of the needs and expectations for the park based upon the input from the public at the work session on 9- 21 -2010 (see attachment 1). The current proposal before the commission addresses only a small portion of the ideas expressed at the work session. This holistic proposal is presented without a firm cost estimate but could be less expensive than the aforementioned plan. Unique Setting Please note that the description of the park that is on the city's website states, "this is a large neighborhood park." The park is heavily used by the relatively densely populated neighborhoods of Redoubt Subdivision and Woodlands Subdivision. What makes this park unique is that it encompasses the last few bluff acres within the City of Kenai that is a natural ecosystem of flora and fauna typical of the Kenai Peninsula Cook Inlet coast. In addition to the beautiful wildflowers, and spruce and birch forest, there is also a long, gently sloping salmon rearing stream and an abandoned beaver pond within the park with a dam and old beaver lodges. The natural habitat of the park is currently used for educational opportunities for families and school outings. In addition, there are cultural sites, including historic and prehistoric trails and byways, and the park overlays the site of an ancient Dena'ina village. This area in the middle of the park, and also on the edge of the park near the armory, includes archaeological sites that have been carbon dated from over 400 600 years ago. There are currently beautiful winding trails used for hiking and biking and a long sloping trail ends at the large parking lot at the end of Spruce Street, providing access to the Kenai Beach and an entrance into the park from the beach. Before moving ahead on an expensive playground and parking lot expansion project we should consider enhancing what makes this particular park very special and best covers the needs of the people who are currently using the park or those visitors who would like to visit a well planned and unique park with great natural beauty and heritage. Specific Proposals: 1. Perform a safety audit on the current playground equipment and replace that which is unsafe. Form a task force of parents who take their kids to the park and let them advise on the replacement equipment most likely to be fun for their kids. Keep in mind a theme of Nature /Heritage when selecting equipment, for example maybe natural colors of the environment,, or a fish theme, or a wildflower theme, animals of the forest, historical, etc. 2. Improve safety along Forest Drive. Install immediately crosswalks across Forest Drive in front of the apartments and also on the end of Forest near the bluff maybe near Toyon Way. Also "children crossing" signs should be included. 3. Work with Kenaitze Indian Tribe and /or archaeologists to make informational /interpretive signs for the site of the ancient Dena'ina village of Shgit. 4. Provide Nature Trail signs that describe the natural processes of how beaver engineer their landscape near the pond. Improve the trail to the pond. One now follows the "sledding snow boarding hill" down to the pond. If the budget allows, continue the trail all the way around the pond. This portion could be finished later. 5. Provide signs that describe the life cycle of salmon and the role of the Shgit Tsatnu (Dena'ina name for the long flat sloping creek) that is a tidal flats creek flowing through the park and winds through the tidal flats and into the mouth of the Kenai River. Signs and school field trips could help teach children to respect the delicate nature of the salmon rearing stream where the salmon fry hang out, feed and grow before heading out to salt water. 6. Connect existing trails to make continuous running and /or biking trails for park users, and available for local schools' training for track and cross country teams. There are several beautiful steep trails for those who want the challenge! Make maps of the trails already there. 7. Connect trails in the park to the beach trail that crosses the bridge below Old Town Kenai and the walking tour of Old Town Kenai. Provide maps to tourists at the Visitor Center. (These trails already exist.) 2 8. The central section of the park was at one time a campground and the lovely remaining "senior friendly" winding roads in the park are used on a daily basis by the "over 50" crowd for walking /dog walking. It is also popular with the "capture the flag youngsters The campsites should be removed but keep 4 to 6 of the BBQ grills for day use picnickers in case the main pavilion areas are in use. 9. Install park benches along the winding trails for the more senior folks who have a hard time sitting on the ground (and getting back up). 10. Move the handicap access picnic area to the main pavilion area but keep the current handicapped access trails that overlook the beach. The handicapped access picnic area is rarely used due to the windy bluff site. 11. Continue to maintain the large open grassy area that is popular with young teenagers and parents with their children for informal games, soccer, Frisbee, etc. 12. Provide park benches around the outside of the grassy area. Older and younger folks can socialize and enjoy the sunshine on this protected end of the park and watch the children play. 13. Maintain the surface of the basketball court and the nets. This is a very popular spot, especially on summer evenings. 14. Current usage of the park is served well by the two small parking lots at either end of the park and the large parking lot at the Kenai Beach entrance to the park. Any overflow that might develop occasionally due to large groups having picnics could be handled by allowing parking on the park side of Forest Drive with "no parking" signs in the area directly in front of the playground and to either side of the crosswalk. Parking could be allowed from the north entrance along Forest Drive toward the southern entrance (see map). 3 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1 STATE OF ALASKA ss: Denise Reece being first c sworn, on oath deposes and says: That 1 am and was at all times here in this affidavit mentions, Supervisor of Legals of the Peninsula Clarion, a news- paper of general circulation and published at Kenai, Alaska, that the Parks Rec Meeting PO #93963 a printed copy of which is hereto annexed was published in said paper one each and every day for one successive and consecutive day in the issues on the following dates: February 24, 2011 X SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN t me before this 24th day of February 2011 y NOTARY PUBLIC i n favor for the State of Alaska. My Commission expires 26- Aug -12 E CIAL KENAI PARKS RECREATION COMMISS FEBRUARY 28, 2011 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMRE hftp://www.ci.kenai.alcus WORK SESSION Expansion Protect `Municipal P AGENDA Design AI MEETIN TE M 3: OLD BUSINESS Discuswon/Recommendabon Playground Expansion TEM 4: ADJOURNMENT The public isPinvi ed to attend and participate. Additional information is available through he City :Clerks office at 210 Fidalgo Avenue or visit our website at htto://www.ci.kenai.ak.us Carol L. Frees, Kenai City Clerk D600/211 /Municipal Park PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF ALASKA Denise Reece sworn, on oath deposes and says: That I am and was at all times here in this affidavit mentions, Supervisor of Legais of the Peninsula Clarion, a news- paper of general circulation and published at Kenai, Alaska, that the Parks Rec Work Session PO #93963 a printed copy of which is hereto annexed was published in said paper one each and every day for one successive and consecutive day following dates: February 24, 2011 X this, 24th clay of February ss: being first duly in the issues on the SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to me before 2011 NOTARY PUBLIC in favor for the State of Alaska. My Commission expires 26- Aug -12 KENAI P RECR E AT ION NOTICE WORK SESSION rks ecosion ill tin a work session flbe: o Monday, FeP bat: ruary 28, 2011 at 6:00 mmis p.m. The topic of cu wl uni P reation ark Playgro C und Expansion Proje `Th work seion will be held in the Kenai City Co uncll dis Chambersssion located at The 210 Fidac Avenue,' Kenai. The public as nutted to atte and participate Kenai the Kenai If u hay stit 7535 yo extension ve an 231 Carol L. Frees, City Clerk