Buffalo Trails Board Minutes for August 13, 2008
Feb 10, 2009
Author: Bill Cooley

Buffalo Trails Board

Minutes for August 13, 2008

A regular meeting of the Buffalo Trails Board (BTB) was held at Buffalo’s City Hall at 12:00pm on August 13, 2008

The following board members were present:
Bill Mentock, Jerry Gladson, Council Member Don Vogle, City Planner Colin Betzler, Assistant City Planner Alicia Bankston,
Absent members: Bill Cooley

Chairman Mentock called the meeting to order at 12:05pm.

The first agenda item was to approve today’s agenda. Mr. Gladson made a motion to approve the agenda and Mr. Vogle seconded. All members present voted aye.

The next agenda item was to choose a vice-chairman. This item was tabled, as a full board was not present.

The next agenda item was to discuss the new trail system logo and trail head signs. In regards to the logo Chairman Mentock expressed an interest in having all four legs show on the buffalo, and Mr. Gladson expressed an interest in example C as long as the trail was added to it and the buffalo should not be touching the trail or creek with it’s mouth. Mr. Betzler mentioned that he would like to see a reverse version of the logo. That is, if the brown areas were white and white areas brown with a silhouette of the mountains. Chairman Mentock and Mr. Gladson expressed an interest in the font being the straighter one versus the script option. Chairman Mentock mentioned as far as color he liked the idea of brown, as it is a universal color for recreation. Mr. Betzler mentioned he would like to see the logo in black. Discussion then centered on the color of the logo. Ms. Bankston then placed a call to RDG (the company developing the logo) and talked with Sonia on speakerphone. Ms. Bankston relayed the comments mentioned above to Sonia. Sonia then reviewed the comments and the phone call ended. Discussion then centered on the trailhead kiosk. Dave Osmundson of Arrowhead Forge was asked to come up with a design. The BTB then discussed Mr. Osmundson’s design and a favorable response was noted. Chairman Mentock mentioned that the design should be such that vandalism is hard to do. Ms. Bankston mentioned that Mr. Osmundson was chosen to do the design because of the quality of his work. Mr. Betzler mentioned that having a local artist create the signs would potentially encourage citizens to take ownership of the signs. Mr. Gladson mentioned that one of the designs had natural log posts and he believed that natural log posts would be hard to maintain. Mr. Gladson expressed an interest in using Trex as a material.

The next agenda item was an update on the bridge. Mr. Betzler explained that we have not yet received an official letter to proceed but is expecting that letter later this week. Chairman Mentock asked if Myers Construction was prepared to start. Mr. Betzler mentioned that he has spoken with Myers Construction and a completion date will be set for 2-3 weeks after starting the project.

The next agenda item was the Shiloh Trail update. Chainman Mentock mentioned that he and Ms. Bankston had gone before the Recreation Board to see if they would allow the BTB to use some of the funds that had been received for the Shiloh Trail to repair the Greenbelt Trail. Discussion then revolved around the amount of money and what repairs needed to be done to the Greenbelt Trail. Mr. Gladson asked what the recreation boards response was and Chairman Mentock mentioned that the authorized the transfer of use of funds. Chairman Mentock mentioned that he had talked with 3-Way Inc. about what needed to be done to the Greenbelt Trail and they were onboard.

The next agenda item was to discuss the BTB budget. Chairman Mentock mentioned that the city had awarded 2000 to the BTB and the remaining funds from last year were to be carried over to this year’s budget. As of August 1, 2008 the BTB budget is 2685.94. Mr. Gladson then asked Councilman Vogle to clarify the reason the city council only awarded 2000 when over 8000 had been requested. Councilman Vogle’s response was hard to understand in the recording. As best as could be heard, the response was that the city did not have enough money to award the full amount requested. Discussion then ensued about the cost of dog bags and other miscellaneous expenses including muratic acid for the pine trees. Discussion then centered on the dog-waste stations. Ms. Bankston mentioned that she had been checking into different types of garbage cans to be associated with the dog bag stations. There was further discussion in regards to how to fill the dog waste stations. Mr. Betzler mentioned that it would be a good idea as mentioned earlier in the year to have a small structure to keep tools and things like the dog bags.

Mr. Gladson mentioned that he had a meeting to get to, so the BTB decided to quickly talk about a couple of items. First, Ms. Bankston asked that Chairman Mentock type us item number 11 in an email (Governors Proclamation). Ms. Bankston and Mr. Betzler talked about presenting the Trails Master Plan to the City Planning Commission on Wednesday August 27, 2008 at 5:00PM. They asked that one or two members of the BTB go to that meeting to answer questions. Then Ms. Bankston mentioned the Trail Work Day on Sat. Sept. 27.

The BTB then started a discussion on whether to add a county position on the BTB. The general opinion seemed to be that it would be a good idea.

The next meeting date was determined to be August 18, 2008 at Noon.

The workday on the 30th was determined to not be a good day as it was Labor Day weekend and no date was set for a workday.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:28pm
Bill Cooley
Secretary