Crookston Parks & Recreation met Monday, August 19, at City Hall and discussed policies, .
The first agenda item was for approval of a Hot Weather Policy to be added to the Parks and Recreation Policy. This was requested by Councilman Jerde at the City Council Meeting on Monday, August 12. Crookston Park and Rec Director Jake Solberg had gone a step further and put together an Inclement Weather Policy for the board to look over. “I did some research through other Parks and Rec Departments here in Minnesota and kind of around the Midwest, and they look like they all have inclement weather, so they talk about safety situations in a tornado or where here in the winter,” said Solberg. “When they close their facilities down, air quality, things like that, so, I kind of took it a step further and added all those inclement weather types into the policy.”
Solberg included the following policies: Air Quality Advisory, Excessive Heat, Thunder and Lightning, Tornado, and Winter Weather. With a few minor changes, the board agreed on the policy, which will be put on the agenda for approval by the City Council on Monday, August 26.
The second agenda item was to seek approval to use the community room at the Crookston Sports Center for Hockey Players to shoot or Ice Skaters to practice. Solberg said there has been a lot of interest this summer in using the synthetic ice and shooting tarp donated by the Blue Line Club, and this room seems to be a good place to do so. “I’ve noticed this summer for sure there’s been a lot of high school kids, youth hockey players from probably six years old all the way up to high school using this synthetic ice this summer,” said Solberg. “I’d like to keep that going, and I’d like to put it in the Community Room at the CSC.”
Solberg says synthetic ice is a plastic material on which you can wear your ice skates. The shavings sweep away when the athletes are done.
Carol Gregg was present to hand out flyers about Fin & Fit and its mission to get people in the pool. Carol also wanted the board to know that Fin & Fit has committed to paying for a boiler part that is needed for the pool. The cost of the part is $5,100, and it has been ordered.
The next Crookston Parks & Recreation meeting is set for Monday, September 16, at 4:45 p.m.
