08/02/2000BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING
CITY OF CLEARWATER
August 2, 2000
Present: Jean Stuart Chair
Candace Hider Vice Chair
Marcia Blakemore Committee Member
Steve Brown Committee Member
Also Present: Kevin Dunbar Parks & Recreation Director
Leroy Chin Parks, Planning & Projects Manager Ms. Sally Foote Visitor
Bobbie Downs Staff Assistant II
Absent: Brooks Hammac Committee Member
Vacancies (2) Committee Members
The Chair called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. at the Municipal Services Building.
To provide continuity for research, items are in agenda order although not necessarily discussed in that order.
#2. Approval of Minutes of July 5, 2000. Member Brown moved to approve the minutes as recorded and submitted in written summation to each board member. The motion was duly seconded
and carried unanimously.
#3. Correspondence. Jack Alvord from Historic Bayview called to say he was unable to attend the meeting. He also said the Trust for Public Land in Tallahassee has enough money to purchase
the William Conley property in the Bayview section.
#4. Status of Parks Master Plan – Leroy Chin, Parks, Planning and Projects Manager
Staff is in the final stages of completing inventory and is determining how to utilize City’s GIS system. Mr. Art Kader is looking for an agency to do telephone surveys before public
meetings are held. Public meetings will be held in the fall. There will be two or three months of meetings in the 7 planning districts as well as meetings with co-sponsor groups such
as Little League and soccer. The final plan will be presented to the City Commission in early spring after the March election.
#5. Old Business
Status of Capital Improvement Projects – Mr. Dunbar reviewed the following progress: Countryside Infrastructure Improvement, expected to go out for bid in September, with April 2001
completion date; Countryside High and Countryside Sports Complex Field Renovations, working with School Board to regrass fields, which would give City 2 soccer fields; Ray Green Park
Expansion, property being acquired for site of North Greenwood Recreation an Aquatic Complex; Skate Park, will build at west side of SPJC building, which city takes over Oct. 1; McMullen
Tennis Complex, installing 8 clay tennis courts and extensive landscaping. The Committee may tour there when completed.
Nominations for Beautification Awards – Properties discussed were Home Depot, Ramada Inn, Walgreens and the storage facility near Walgreens. Member Brown nominated Home Depot to receive
an award. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously.
#6 New Business –
Reply to Proposal to Parks and Recreation Board re: William Conley Property – Mr. Chin reported the Board has asked to hear speaker Loren Westenberger and the Committee Chair and Co-chair
before making a decision to support the committee’s recommendation that the City pursue buying the land at Historic Bayview and use it as a passive park. Mr. Dunbar said the Commission
is not unreceptive to the idea and has asked for more information. Commissioners are concerned with cost to maintain the grounds and what amenities would be placed there.
Items not on the agenda:
A plan is being developed by Engineering Department to tie the Millennium Park with the new Memorial Causeway bridge.
Ms. Foote’s application for committee membership is to be heard by City Commission on August 17.
Member Hider expressed concern that reclaimed water was available to IMRgloble yet not available to residents along the pipe line.
#7. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at 9:02 a.m.