INDIANAPOLIS GREENWAYS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEEREVISED MINUTES OF PUBLIC MEETING -- June 23, 2005 City County Building -- Room 118 Voting Members Present: SILVER, SHIKANY, HICKS, BARTON, PAYNE, JOHN, SOMMERS, and QUINN Voting Members Absent: DORSA, MOONEY, VOLLMER, MYERS, HENNEKE, PAPENMEIER, and MASON Others Present: Ray Irvin, Terri Van Zant, Lori Keys & Chris Smock (Indy Parks), Sean Derry, Morris Kurz Meeting called to order at 5:10 PM Minutes from May 2005 IGDC meeting were approved. GUEST PRESENTATIONS Sean Derry, artist and recipient of the Indianapolis Art Council's Great Ideas award, presented his project "Charting Pogue's Run". Sean used historic maps to remap the stream's location as of 1831. Although Pogues Run was depicted in a fragmentary way on maps, it did have significant impact on the city. A two- to four-inch preformed blue therma-plastic line will delineate the original stream course where Pogues Run currently travels underground. To permanently provide artistic interpretation of the stream's historical significance, about 30 four-inch steel medallions will be inlaid along the stream's original course. Chris Smock of DPR Arts Services presented an update on his plans for the 49th Street Winthrop Supply mural located along the Monon. Chris's calls the project "We," and it entails repainting the Winthrop Supply name, adding the Indy Parks logo, and recognizing the names of all the artists who participated in the multiple murals. Artist Morris Kurz presented a new mural concept for four art pieces in the Broad Ripple area. The first mural, depicting Native Americans on the White River, will be installed on the American Legion building at 64th and the Monon Trail. Morris wants to use other buildings in the area to create three other murals reflecting Broad Ripple during different eras. PROJECT UPDATES: IRVIN, KEYS and VAN ZANT reported on the following: Eagle Creek Greenway -The 1.8-mile trail piece currently under construction will connect 56th and 46th Streets. Asphalt is down on entire trail, and the topcoat is being applied. The boardwalk/bridges are almost complete, and the trail and soccer park should be finished in August. Fall Creek Greenway -The bid packet for Phase II from 56th to Skiles Test (Shadeland Ave.) was re-bid at the end of May, and Harco Asphalt was low bidder at 1.3 million. INDOT paperwork remains to be sorted out, and then a preconstruction meeting will be held.Pogues Run - Pogues Run Art and Nature Park native plant restoration continues, as biologist visited from Chicago to assess the wetlands. On July 14, kick off will be held with BDMD, Indy Parks, Caleb Mills Organization, and IUPUI to create a Site Master Plan. Sixty students from the Key Learning Community participated in a service learning day at the basin. Recent revitalization has occurred in the area, as DeQuincy Street, access road to the park, was repaved, and many homes in the area have been refurbished. Central Canal - Greenways has participated in a partnership with Indianapolis Water, Veolia Water Indianapolis, and IUPUI to clear the canal banks from 30th Street to Burdsal Pkwy to provide service road and eventually a trail. In doing so they are remove invasive plants. These entities have joined forces with the community and churches to initiate a clean up of the area on July 23, 2005. Volunteer Projects - On June 11, 2005 about 30 members of Trader's Point Christian Church volunteered to help clean up the south Monon as part of the church's Great Day of Service. Bags of trash were collected from 54th Street to Sutherland, and light weeding was completed on many of the landscape beds along the trail. Americorps VISTA Students - Indy Parks Greenways has three student volunteers on staff this summer. The students have scheduled projects they have to complete by the end of their 10 weeks with Greenways. The projects include initiating a walking group on Pleasant Run, completing beautification projects along the Pleasant Run Greenway, and assisting with Canal beautification projects. One of the Canal beautification projects was working with 19 Nazarene volunteers from Michigan as part of the One Heart Many Hands campaign that the church sponsors annually. The VISTA students worked with the volunteers for a weeklong project, cleaning up and repairing the Central Canal Towpath. Meeting adjourned 6:15 PM Respectfully submitted by Lori Keys and Terri Van Zant, Indy Parks Greenways *All IGDC meetings are recorded and aired on WCTY Channel 16, copies available through WCTY. |