3-3-2025 Minutes

1 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE PARKS, RECREATION & FORESTRY BOARD March 3, 2025 The meeting of the Park, Recreation & Forestry Board of the Village of Slinger was called to order by Chairman Bergum at 300 Slinger Road, Slinger, WI 53086 at 6:00 PM on Monday, March 3, 2025 in accordance with the notice of minutes emailed to the members on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. 1. Roll Call & Notice of Meeting: Present Absent Bob Stuettgen x Jeff Behrend x Jennie Stonehouse x Becky Wojtak x Dawn Smith x Jake Bergum x Scott Kusta x _____________________________ 7 Also Present: Josh Feller, Parks & Forestry Supervisor Elizabeth Van Maanen, Recreation Supervisor Margaret Wilber, Administrator It was noted that the open meeting law had been complied with in connection with the meeting , including the notice of the meeting being sent to all who requested it and posting in three public locations. 2. Approval or Correction of Minutes: 3/3/25 Bob Stuettgen made two corrections to the February minutes. The first was that he abstained from approving the February minutes because he was not there. He also corrected the location of the Recreation report because it was moved down the agenda until Supervisor Van Maanen arrived. Motion Stuettgen/Behrend to approve the corrected minutes from 2/3/25. Passed. 3. Public Comments - None 4. Unfinished Business A. Forestry Report Supervisor Feller said staff has finished up pruning with the completion of the Alps and along Beine St. Feller stated that he is working on a list of replacement trees to be planted in 2025. Feller said he met with Wachtel last week to start planning the update for our tree inventory in 2 025. He also stated that he is planning our annual Arbor Day planning with the Girl Scouts and will have updated information at the April meeting. B. Recreation Report Supervisor Van Maanen said that the toddler playtime started today and had four children attend for the entire session. Van Maanen said that this new program will take place on Mondays, providing a designated space for parents and caregivers to bring their toddlers to play and engage in physical activity. Van Maanen also talked about some upcoming special events which include Mom’s, Mimosas and Masterpieces as well as Breuer Family Fun day. Van Maanen stated that there will be Badges, Bows and Arrows and Archery lessons as well this month. She informed the Board that our new and improved Summer Activity guide will be released on March 28, 2025. March 3, 2025 2 C. Adaptive Basketball Clinic Recap Director Dobson said that the 5th Annual Adaptive Basketball Clinic was a huge success. Dobson said that the community came out in full support of this event as always. Dobson stated that the Clinic now includes Slinger, Hartford and Kettle Moraine Lutheran high schools. Dobson showed some pictures of this year’s event and said he is already excited to begin planning for 2026. D. Breuer Park Phase 2 continued discussion Director Dobson presented the Board with an updated map of planning for phase two of Breuer Park. The updates included additional walking trails, pollinator garden, Dog Park, storage shed with restrooms and additional multi-use sport courts. Some additio nal discussion took place regarding Breuer Park including the possibility of adding some volleyball courts to the park using the grass as a playing surface rather than sand. Dobson said that they would be looking into adding a volleyball court or two this year. 5. New Business A. 2025 Music in the Park Schedule Director Dobson said that the 2025 music schedule is all set for Community Park. Dobson said they added additional events and included another Augtoberfest, sponsored by the Slinger Friends of the Park. Dobson stated that all music events for 2025 are spo nsored. Dobson said they will have a schedule to present at the April meeting. Other Discussion Next meeting date will be Monday, April 7, 2025. Some additional discussion took place regarding a water filling station at Breuer Park as well as the Fireman’s Park parking lot resurfacing project. 7. Adjournment Motion Behrend/Wojtak to adjourn at 6:24 pm. Passed __________________________________________ Submitted By Tony Dobson, Parks, Recreation & Forestry Director