Transcription: Excerpt - August 3, 2004 PC meeting
[Re Absence of Park Plan, and review of Sultan's Comp Plan in Hearing Examiner deliberations]
Fallgatter
I'm a little confused, Rick. If we don't have a park plan, how does the hearing examiner check an application for conformity to it?Cisar
He'll look at the section that requires the recreation and open space, uh, in the onsite recreation areas and he'll follow that section. You know, until we, we formalize, uh, and, and, and we readopt some type of a park plan -- and Donna [unintelligible] is working on that -- the council back in…what? two, three years ago? Adopted a plan for state approval. So I [unintelligible] to go after funds for parks. It's a procedural thing, where we've gotta have some plan adopted, so we did that. And that's what -- and that's expired.Murphy
Exactly.Cisar
Yeah, it's expired now, so -- I mean, we can't right now apply for any park funds through the state, the state system. What we'd like to do is come back and just update that plan that we had, uh, just to get it on the books. And it'll, it will probably -- we'll recommend, you know, if the comp plan is recommending [unintelligible] parks up on the plateau. And that gives us, you know, a foot in the door so we can actually go after and apply for some funds if, if some property should come up.Green
Is that anything we would discuss here?Cisar
Uh, we will shortly, but [unintelligible] what you did last time as far as the adoption.Murphy
And that was -- I think that was in '96, '97. It was quite some time ago, really.Cisar
And again, as a procedural thing, we'd, we'd be able to get a plan on the books just to go after, you know, state funding. Now if you did do that successfully, you're getting some dollars for -- [simultaneous comments]Murphy
[unintelligible] interagency [unintelligible] in recreation, they require this plan. And so without that we would not have received a lot of the projects that are grant-funded in Osprey Park.Cisar
I think it may be a generic [unintelligible] that we need to [unintelligible] parks up on the plateau that we need [unintelligible]. We may [unintelligible] apply some ballfields or soccer fields or something like that. But you have to jump through that hoop of the state to get that and approve that, so we can come back with a, an application to [unintelligible].[Note to Mayor Tolson and City Attorney Tom Graafstra: Could one of you, of both, please instruct Mr. Cisar to enunciate clearly and speak up? More important is the need to relocate Mr. Cisar's current seat during Planning Commission meetings from the far north side of the room to the front of the room next to PC Chairman Tom Green. Mr. Cisar's "speech impediment," (i.e., "enunciphobia-mumbleitis") combined with the absence of a PA system for PC deliberations, might some day move this simple and oft-made complaint from us, to an official ADA lawsuit by someone else.]