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f . , 1 PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES OF WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2000 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chairperson Davis, Commissioners Joseph, Slusser, Swope and Truscelli COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners LaBerge and Morton GUESTS PRESENT: Vince Truscelli STAFF PRESENT: Superintendent Gary Hover, Secretary Denise Monroe, Manager Julie Hannon, Manager Ramon Aguilar The regular meeting of the Park and Recreation Commission was called to order by Chairperson Don Davis at 7:30pm in Room 5 at the Community Activities Building, 1400 Roosevelt Avenue, Redwood City, California. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The following corrections were made to the January minutes: 1.) Item 1, motion should read, "To grant the heritage tree permit to Mr. Washington contingent on Mr. Washington providing plans to renovate his yard to the Public Works Services Department for their approval", 2.) Item 4, Stulsaft Park Remediation, the last sentence should read, 'The State and County have approved the process and we should be able to proceed". The minutes of the January meeting were approved as corrected. CORRESPONDENCE -A newsletter from the Fifth Annual "Great Gathering 2000" which is a youth advisory commission/council leadership conference. The conference will be held on Saturday, March 4 at the San Carlos Youth Center. ITEM 1 - SKATE PARK U PDA TE Manager Julie Hannon reported that we recently received correspondence from Attorney Bill Conklin of the NFL Association asking for the measurements of the proposed skate park. Staff is currently obtaining the measurements and will provide them to Mr. Conklin. She explained that we are working on a master plan for this area of Red Morton Park which includes the property for the skate park. Staff is proposing that a temporary skate park be installed on the site rather than a permanent one. This will allow staff to monitor the usage of the site, age and number of participants, staffing needed to supervise the site, equipment and safety needs, and other concerns. A temporary site would include a paved area with structures placed on top of the paving, but would not involve permanent structures dug into the ground. Manager Hannon stated we will be working with the neighbors to assess the temporary site and deal with issuesm Chairperson Davis volunteered to work with staff in discussions with the neighbors. Commissioner Slusser agreed with the proposed temporary skate park concept and felt it was an excellent approach to have a Utest" site before a permanent skate park was installed. Manager Hannon stated that staff will be working with