The Lake Harriet Pavilion project continues to move forward. On February 3, 2010, the Lake Harriet Citizen’s Advisory Committee recommendations were approved by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB).

At the MPRB Administration & Finance Committee meeting Wednesday February 17, 2010 staff is expected to recommend all members from the Lake Harriet Citizen’s Advisory Committee be invited to participate as members of the review team that will evaluate the requests for proposals. Staff is also expected to propose a time line that outlines the Request for Proposal (RFP) process. Finally, staff will be recommending the current vendor contract be extended by one year to accommodate the request for proposals process. The specific recommendations including the time line can be found in the staff report available by clicking HERE.

The MPRB Administration & Finance Committee meeting follows the regular meeting of the MPRB. For meeting details please click HERE.

Background
The Lake Harriet CAC formally presented its Final Report and Recommendations on Lake Harriet Concessions at the Minneapolis Par and Recreation Board's Planning Committee meeting on January 20, 2010. The report itself was received and filed by the Board on December 16, 2009. The presentation completes the charge given the CAC and concludes its work.

The presentation given can be found HERE.

The Lake Harriet CAC set out to establish a set of defensible, sustainable recommendations that could stand on their own, and that could be successfully implemented by the Park Board. Thanks to the work of CAC members, stakeholders, staff, and other professionals we have met this goal.

The report itself can be found HERE.

Specifically, the CAC recommended that the Park Board provide additional food concession options at Lake Harriet and minimize negative community impacts by expanding concession operations into the breezeway area within the footprint of the existing concession building.

This site was set up as part of a broader effort to provide for an open and transparent public participation process. The public can view any part of this site and download all documents that are posted on it. It will remain online as long as it is serving a useful purpose to the public. With the work of the CAC concluded, the site will not host new material. For official documentation created by the CAC please visit the MPRB Lake Harriet CAC web page HERE.

For further information contact Lake Harriet CAC Chair, Matt Perry at mattp@pobox.com / 612-839-3320.

The Lake Harriet CAC conducted 404 brief surveys of people (832 total) in and around the concession area at the Lake Harriet Pavilion to get their input on some key questions. These surveys were done during late June and early July. The results of these surveys can be found by clicking HERE.

We closed the online survey on Monday, August 17, 2009 in order to have sufficient time to compile and begin the analysis of the responses prior to the Lake Harriet CAC's next meeting.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete the online survey. Your input will be used to help inform the CAC as it develops its recommendations.

Please contact Matt Perry at mattp@pobox.com or mattp@pobox.com if you have any questions.