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Town of Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado, November 20th, 2015
Minutes of a Regular meeting of the Parks Advisory Board of the Town of Estes Park,
Larimer County, Colorado. Meeting held in the Town Hall Rooms 202 & 203, in said
Town of Estes Park on the 20th day of November, 2015.
Present: Merle Moore
Celine Lebeau
Dewain Lockwood
Terry Rustin (via conference phone)
Also Present:Travis Machalek, Assistant Town Administrator
Greg Muhonen, Director of Public Works
Bob Holcomb, Trustee Liaison
Kevin McEachern, Public Works Operations Manager
Brian Berg, Parks Division Supervisor
Sam Phillips, Contract Administrative Assistant
Bob Brunson, Rotary
Vicki Papineau, future Board member
Carlie Bangs, future Board member
Lori Mitchell, Senior Center Director
Absent: Ronna Boles
Chair Lebeau called the meeting to order at 10:59 am
GENERAL BUSINESS
It was moved and seconded (Lockwood/Lebeau) to approve the October meeting
minutes with the motion passing unanimously.
Two unofficial Board members, Vicki Papineau and Carlie Bangs, who are to be
appointed in December, were in attendance and introduced to the current Board
members. The December meeting will see the Board at its full capacity.
PUBLIC ART ORDINANCE
Laurie Mitchell, the Senior Services Director, gave an overview of the Senior Center and
its activities. She explained that the art is rotated approximately every 1-12 months with
new art appearing throughout the year. She requested that certain pieces throughout
the Center be exempt in the upcoming AIPP Consideration process. Board members
made a command decision that already existing artwork hung for display shall be
grandfathered into the inventory. Merle Moore requested that even pieces that are
exempt be included in the Town Artwork Inventory. The Board then switched their
thoughts from partial exemption for the Senior Center artwork to full exemption since the
Senior Center has had good standing with the Board throughout all of its artwork
choices. The Board decided that total exclusion will be given to the Senior Center,
which is to be added into the policy before the December PAB meeting. Moore made a
motion to include the Senior Center in the exemption list which was seconded by
Dewain Lockwood. It was encouraged by the Board members that the Senior Center
follows the guidelines per the AIPP policy.
REVISIONS TO AIPP POLICIES
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Approval was sought for the AIPP brochure created by Merle Moore and Samantha
Phillips. With minor edits such as correcting the website link, the brochure was
approved and will be presented to the Town Board in a future meeting.
Attention was brought to the “Wishful Thinking” sculpture in regard to its water flow
feature which fails to function the way the artist intended it to. It was inquired on whether
Parks Supervisor Brian Berg and Public Works Director Greg Muhonen could assess
the piece and brainstorm a way to keep the water flowing while being able to clean it
easier and properly. The piece is at an exceptionally difficult location in regard to spring
runoff making it dangerous for maintenance.
OPEN LANDS NAMING POLICY DISCUSSION
Brian Berg gave a brief overview of the Naming of Town-Owned Property Facilities,
which was created by Assistant Town Administrator Travis Machalek. Travis gave
special attention to the clarifying both 3.a.iii and 3.b.i. with Board members who were
concerned over what significance level must be reached by an individual, or business,
for The Town to consider naming a facility after that individual.
With no other business to be discussed, Chair Lebeau adjourned the meeting at 11:56
am, with all voting in favor.