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CBC 11-05-1998 (2)MEETING NOTICE The City Beautiful Commission will hold its regular meeting at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, November 5, 1998 in the Sister Cities Conference Room on the second floor at City Hall. AGENDA I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of the Minutes October Meeting IV. Treasurer's Report V. Committee Reports A. Education - Dottie Funk B. Task Force - Dottie Funk C. Report of Nominating Committee VI. New Business Election of 1999 Officers VII. Miscellaneous Business A. Parks & Recreation Report - Bryan Day VIII. Adjournment City Beautiful Commission + 500 West Markham, Room 108 + Little Rock, AR 72201 + (501) 371-4770 The City Beautiful Commission held its regular meeting Thursday, October 1, 1998, in the Sister Cities Conference Room. Chair Frank Riggins presided. Members Present: Frank Riggins Dottie Funk Molly Satterfield Nash Abrams Carolyn Lawrence Molly Satterfield Director Linda Joyce Also Present Bob Brown, Plans Review Specialist, Planning and Development Bryan Day, Acting Director, Parks & Recreation Gayle Owens, Administrative Asst., Parks & Recreation Approval of Minutes: Minutes approved as distributed. Treasurer's Report: No Treasurer's Report. Committee Reports: • Task Force. Dottie Funk reported that the Task Force had met the day before. Two new members were added to the Task Force. The Task Force has developed a mission statement. " To provide to the City of Little Rock a set of physical development guidelines that protect and enhance the existing natural landscape while allowing for economic and reasonable growth and development of the city." Areas to be tackled are trees (a different tree preservation ordinance), go into more detail with the landscape ordinance, create a separate hillside protection ordinance, go into the storm water management and drainage ordinance, to create new ordinance that has to do with undisturbed natural areas. Discussed having a downtown overlay that would enhance and encourage more development downtown. Also discussed additional enforcement staff and penalties. Landscape Awards. Frank Riggins announced that the Landscape Award Presentations would be at the Agenda Meeting on October 13, at 4:00 p.m. Gayle reported that the plaques were ordered and should be ready by October 9. Frank said we would be sending a letter out to the recipients to let them know to be there. Bob said he hoped he could be there. City Beautiful Commission + 500 West Markham, Room 108 + Little Rock, AR 72201 + (501) 371-4770 NEW BUSINESS. Nominating Committee. Chair Riggins appointed Molly Satterfield, Carolyn Lawrence, and Nash Abrams to nominate the 1999 officers. Bryan Day asked about expiring terms. Frank said that Lin Blair and Pat Torevestad have resigned. Also two members (Frank and Randy) terms are up for reappointment. Polish the Rock Awards. Frank asked if there are Polish the Rock nominations. Dottie Funk nominated Tree Streets to receive the Polish the Rock Award. Motion made, seconded and carried. Award will be given on October 13. Dottie nominated the River Market Trees group. Motion seconded and carried. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS ■ Parks & Recreation. 1. Bryan Day briefed commission on efforts at Rebsamen. Challenges have been made by the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club that has stopped everything. We will be meeting with them next week at their board meetings. Frank said that if the Commission could help with any of the groups to let them know. 2. River Market Trees is another issue that is dear to your hearts. This fall we will have a big celebration for all the donors. Bryan said he would like for City Beautiful to be involved and help co -host the event. If it ever cools down, we will schedule this at the River Market. Commission members agreed that a Polish the Rock Award should be awarded to the individuals responsible for raising the money for the trees. 3. Bovle Park. Carolyn Lawrence asked about progress there. Bryan said it was going slowly. We need to finish up several projects, then we will devote our resources to completing that project. Game and Fish remain interested in putting a nature center in Boyle Park. 4. Two Rivers Park. We want to start Phase II. We envision a 2 mile asphalt walking or biking loop with interpretive graphics talking about the trees and grasses. 5. Soccer Fields. We are building six at Otter Creek Park that will be on-line next spring. We continue to have discussions with the Trust for Public Lands that is a group out of San Francisco that wants to buy property for us. Islands at Bowman and Chenault. Carolyn Lawrence talked about the islands where the trees are planted. These islands have not been kept up. ■ Nash Abrams reported that he was contacted by some people in Ozark, AR about going up there and speaking to a group about clean up projects. Nash said he contacted the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission. They will be going around the state speaking to groups. Nash asked if we should meet with Keep Arkansas Beautiful occasionally to see if there are any areas where we have a similar interest where we could use our strength to develop. Frank thought we could set up some dialog with them. Nash said there had been three articles in the paper last week about urban sprawl. Should we take a position on that, have we in the past, where are we on urban sprawl. Frank said he did not know if we had ever taken an official position. We have talked about our concerns in the last year or so. ADJOURNMENT: 10:00 A.M.