Committee Minutes

Jazz & Blues Heritage Festival

Memorial Park Improvements Recommendation

FLOODPLAIN BOUNDARY POLICY COMMITTEE  RECOMMENDATION:
Floodplain Boundary Policy Committee unanimously recommended:

1. Continue to support the Floodplain Policy requirement that no fencing/structures be permitted in the hydraulic floodway;

2. Direct the City, via the Parks & Recreation Subcommittee, to proceed with the minimal upgrades to walkways and electrical service outside of the hydraulic floodway in Memorial Park to support the Heritage Festival; and,

3. Direct the Public Works Department staff to work with the Jazz & Blues and Hills Alive Festivals to identify alternate sites that would accommodate the activities and to identify the required upgrades to those sites, if any.