Community Planning & Transportation Committee - workshop

where it should be and hopefully we're done with phase 1 before they start with the medieval market.

That's just a joke. Marie Ecker is the person I would call responsible for the medieval market. There are a lot of people, but she is the main person. She was on the Reeves Park Committee. And I think they arranged it as well as possible so that it is the most advantageous for them. Her big concern was to install a few sockets in the park. But yes, they were definitely involved in making this plan. According to this time plan, the fair will take place in April.

It would be interesting if they celebrate it and the people on the way to the medieval market would point to it.

Yes, and we will, as I will show you in a moment, hopefully at this point also with a toilet project and new subsets ready. The complete completion of the timetable for the demolition of Kids Space begins in November and in 2027 we will actually start with the work on site. We have to hire someone. It's a pretty big area. We have to set up a measuring device. We work together with a local architect to ensure that everything will be watered down properly. It's a big investment. We don't want floods on the terrain and the Reefs Park tends to have areas where a lot of water accumulates in heavy rain. We plan to simulate exactly what we did in 1990 when building the original Kids Space in March by organizing a community building over a whole week. in cooperation with the schools in Normen and of course all our residents, so that we can build the playground as quickly as possible. Hopefully we will be done with the projects of the first year in April. This includes walkways, lighting, equipment and so on, together with the playground. In September, next year at this time, we will start with the second round, which is basically worth $ 300,000 per year. The first year covers the main building of the playground. Next year the children's playground will be in line. And then hopefully by the end of next year we will be done with the project. So we do not plan to build a community for the small playground. We plan to pay an applicant for it. He comes and installs it. So that it is done faster and more stress-free for the parking office. When we talk about this point, I would like to emphasize that 299,000 dollars of T-Asset come annually, a total of 519,000 dollars. The minimum share of the city is 20 percent, so 119,000 dollars, but today we are asking for 400,000 dollars so that we can implement this project correctly and in the highest standard. As I said, it is the most important playground in the park system of Norman. It would be a total investment of about $ 1 million for everything. Another $ 600,000 coming from TS-Ed, so that costs of about $ 400,000 would arise for us. All this is financed by Norman Forward. I would like to make it clear that the grant is also financed through Norman Forward and as soon as we have retained the funds from TSA, they flow back into the Norman Forward funds. This is the appearance of the projects, i.e. the things that we will achieve. The play area for the 5- to 12-year-olds will be completed in the first year. Surrounding the playground as well as sidewalks and signage. I'll show you the art wall in the next picture. It is a hand-drawn layout for the lighting that goes there. All in all, we try to implement everything with solar lighting in this project. In the second year, the small children's area for the two to five-year-olds follows. Art in the public space, a fence, as well as the completion of the walkways and the signage for the project. At the same time, there are various projects that are not necessarily included in the costs of one million dollars. Wir haben einen großen Unterstand, der insgesamt etwa 80.000 Dollar kostet. Wir haben bereits eine Präsentation dazu gehalten, die im Bereich von 400.000 Dollar liegt. Dies würde von der Architekturfakultät übernommen werden. Ein kleiner Unterstand, den wir Ihnen im nächsten Bild zeigen werden. Wir planen drei kleine Unterstände. Wir hoffen, dass wir das Holz wiederverwenden können. Jeder fragt sich, wie wir das alte Kidspace in das neue integrieren. We have developed a few ideas on how to take the old wood from the kids base and build three small stands around the project from it. We also have a toilet building that was financed over the household year 2025. We would have built that almost a year ago. It was far above the budget, so we pressed the pause button to agree to everything. We will try a new concept, write it out again and hopefully finish everything with this project by April. This was hand-drawn by our park development office and above in the project calendar, right next to it, you can see an encryption of everything. Ignore the pasted areas when we scan the future floor plan that is not included in this project. It will be right next to the toilet building. This toilet building will consist of seven families of toilets that are designed as single cabins. There are no men's or women's toilets so that families can use them together. One of them will be completely barrier-free. Everyone will be barrier-free, but one will be big enough to accommodate a table for adults. A little brighter here are our three stands.

A little brighter, sorry.

I probably took the wrong drawing from the network. But over here you can see it a little brighter. This is our 5 to 12 playing area. We set the swing at all our projects, usually separated from the playgrounds. Next year we come back and build the small children's playground at the end of the year, which we add. Everyone who is familiar with the Kidspace knows that we have built a donation wall when the children helped to build the original Kidspace. All children have decorated a small fleece and put it on there. So this wall will not disappear. We plan to build a new donation wall right next to it for this next community building. Hopefully everyone will do exactly the same. When the children come, they will decorate a new fleece and we will add a twin wall. And the OU base will be built in the same area. So that will be the courtyard for the playground. So, short and simple, that was all I wanted to say. I'm happy to answer any questions.

The 400,000 dollars that are demanded by the city, are they for one year or are they divided into the two years?

That's a one-time demand. So everything would be put in there now. We try to do as much as possible. We only have to raise the $119,000 for that, but that will all be financed in advance. And then we have that available for this two-year project. And I know a few weeks ago we talked about the fact that there were still the additional Norman Forward funds. Was that on this list or was that okay? Yes, that was part of this $400,000 request. And that actually reduced the TESA contribution that we had applied for. We knew somehow that it would come. When we presented it for the first time, the number has dropped by a million dollars so far.

There are many trees there. We get all of them.

Most of them. It wasn't quite visible, but ... They are there. There are trees along the way. There are a few old Park Place trees that we will probably remove, but these are invasive species anyway, so we do not recommend planting them first. But they are already there, but most of the time hardly any trees are removed and every tree that we remove is replaced by a new planting.

And the way in the middle, it's not part of it, but it's being made new.

This area. Yes, it's pretty much all around. Where the old toilet was and where the ... And then the toilet actually moved in order not to interfere with this tree cleaning. And then ... And you can see the cracks in the trees here.

Yes. And then at some point we remove the parking lot on the south side of this entire passage.

This parking lot will no longer exist.

And then ... The old swing, which does not belong to the children's area, but is directly north of it.

Will it also be removed? Perfect. Will I have a new swing?

From the original. Not the original playground, but the original playground from my childhood.

That's the last piece. We should leave it.

I say yes. If it's not in the way, then we should just leave it there.

I want Dr. Pepper's here. Yes, exactly.

Um, it's a good swing for adults to turn on it. So, the remains of the original playground, but also the elements of the, uh, Kidspace, will be preserved by something. Any part that is preserved and built around it, or something like that. We will check it, but... Apart from the wall you were talking about, the donation wall, is there anything else? One of the towers or a slide or something like that?

We will check it. None of it meets the current security standards, so it will not be able to be used as a playground. Some of it could serve as art in public space if we can completely preserve it during the demolition.

I know, Edmund did it with this rocket-shaped slide. It was four floors high and stands in one of their city parks. They kept it, but took it out of operation. You can't climb in anymore, but they kept it. And that's why I asked myself that. And then the name tags. I assume there are people or families who belong to them and want to have them. But if not, is there a possibility to put the remaining signs somewhere on a wall as a kind of monument?

Ja, das ist alles möglich. Wir haben darüber gesprochen und wir werden definitiv versuchen, das ursprüngliche Kidspace von 1990 irgendwie zu verewigen, irgendwie zu verewigen. Das könnte eine Möglichkeit sein, wie wir das tun. Wir müssen nur noch mit dem Kunstrat sprechen und einen Weg finden, dort Kunst im öffentlichen Raum zu schaffen. We just don't know exactly what it should look like or don't have a concrete idea.

I'm sure of that. But we will try to preserve everything we can. Some may no longer have a family on site, so it would be good to find a way to preserve them. That's what I want to get out of it.

I wanted to ask if we see anything about ADR conformity or sensory games in the update. I think the old playground had a music thing, but it was designed with wood chisels, so it wasn't very barrier-free.

If we look back at our master plan, all our community parks, all our playgrounds are much more barrier-free than before. But our goal in the master plan is that our community parks achieve what we call high-grade accessible. So this park will be one of those that will raise it to a whole new level. We will have a cast-down floor instead of the Well, we're not using any more hakschnitzel, but instead the artificial grass type. And we will also work with our provider, the same one we used for the original Kidspace, to develop such features.

Okay, and I don't know if the concert is already very far. But there is a landscape plan that...

I'm sorry. Can you repeat the question? Very interrupted.

I know this is concept A and it's probably still early, but is there a landscape plan for this?

We have chosen the architect that we are using here. He gave us two concepts and this is the one that the staff chose. But yes, there will be a landscape design. We have two landscape architects with us and they are really good. So we will try to go out there and design the landscape afterwards. Of course, with native plants and all the great, durable species. We want it to be butterfly friendly and

We're talking about ADR conformity. Are there plans for a wheelchair-friendly swing there?

We'll make sure to include that.

This park is the first thing I've seen here. I don't know if it's this red swing that looks like a chair. I don't know if it's conformist. It looks like one for children with disabilities, I think. But it's the first one I remember in a park in Norman that was like that and it's still there. This red chair. So yes, it would be nice to have all this.

And as soon as we have completed the playground, I would like to come back and do it with all the parts, so that the community knows exactly what is being built. That should be in the next 30 to 45 days. It will be quite fast.

Well, are there any more questions or comments? Well, there is an application for approval of the contract. Everyone who is for it, please say yes. Everyone who is against it.

All right, very good.

Point 2 is the approval to go to a non-public meeting according to Oklahoma Statutes, Title 25, section 307B4 to investigate the ongoing investigation and the claim regarding the Young Family Athletic Center. I expect an application to terminate the special session and to call in a non-public meeting.

Application to disperse. Second.

Application to interrupt the special session and to go to a non-public meeting. Everyone who is for it, please say yes.

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