Current Problems

The Report Team considered these ideas to be current problems, or administrative issues to be dealt with short term rather than long term (see also The Complete List and Other Issues).

  • Provide access to Twin Lakes [2]
  • Affordable, flood free golf course with more acreage
  • Enlarge and update the GV Library
  • Continue to maintain the parks and their programs
  • More multi-use public outdoor fields
  • Make Brookview Park environmentally friendly
  • Brookview Center better utilized
  • Brookview utilized for more activities that appeal to all ages
  • Strive for a balance between arts/outdoor recreation
  • Host a GV community day(s) event
  • Maintain park system [3]
  • Develop a community orchestra [2]
  • Continue to maintain the parks and park programs
  • More options for family recreation
  • Recreation for teens
  • Dedicated city staff member to developing youth/teen activities
  • More youth teams
  • More recreational opportunities for kids
  • Summer day camps or week camps using existing schools and parks to help working parents
  • Some place for people of all ages to gather in winter months
  • Keep summer activities program at parks
  • Continue and expand city Park and Recreation programs for all ages
  • Continue park/rec
  • A longer park and recreation season
  • Extend park recreation hours
  • Provide a place for seniors to hang out
  • Higher standards for teachers of recreation programs
  • No privatization of recreation opportunities
  • Provide better access to ball fields for girls' softball leagues
  • Lighted softball fields
  • More city sponsored ball tournaments
  • Continue girls' softball leagues
  • Keep summer ball program
  • Keep Honeywell field
  • More soccer fields
  • Make GV ice rinks the best
  • Skating rinks with warming houses
  • Maintain our excellent skating and sledding
  • Create a golf league solely for beginners
  • Ladies evening golf league at golf course
  • Maintain quality of golf course
  • Brookview park a destination
  • Make Brookview Park a destination
  • Update community center
  • Expanded community center at Brookview
  • Develop Brookview to have more of a community focus
  • Make Brookview golf course flood free
  • Formal coordinated catalog of all events
  • Increase park visibility
  • Sponsored activities (evening summer leagues, night shows)
  • Continue with good Park and Rec communication of programs
  • Offer concerts in the park
  • Improved communication on recreational opportunities
  • Lessons for teaching children sports
  • Annual GV event/festival
  • GV festival
  • Trash cans along sidewalks
  • Safe walkways with rest areas
  • Emergency phones in public areas
  • Diaper changing facilities
  • More bathrooms in parks
  • Better park bathrooms
  • Develop on-site parking at the parks
  • Adult education that includes American Sign Language classes
  • More community education classes in the evening for all
  • Provide more meeting facilities at Park and Recreation locations at minimal rental fee rates
  • Maintain reasonable fee structures for participation
  • Make Brookview golf course affordable
  • Good, safe fishing
  • Beaches and lifeguards
  • Control mosquitoes in Laurel Avenue Ponds
  • Control Canadian geese
  • Longer library hours
  • Access to General Mills grounds
  • Add bleachers to gyms at Meadowbrook