Springfield-Greene County Park Board Meeting – April 12, 2024

1. Roll Call
2. Reading and Approval of Minutes
a. March 8, 2024 Park Board Minutes
b. March 8, 2024 Closed Session Minutes
c. March 28, 2024 Property Development/Assessment Committee—Closed Session Minutes
3. Reports of the Officers
a. Park Board Chair Report and Comments
4. New Business
a. Accept and Approve Bass Pro Donation—Lost Hill Pavilion
b. Accept and Approve Bass Pro Donation—Kayaks/Paddles
c. Accept and Approve Forest ReLeaf Donation—Trees
d. Accept and Approve the Missouri Humanities Grant
e. Authorization of Signing and Executing Parks Contracts and Documents Update
f. Volunteer Report—Anne‐Mary McGrath, Superintendent of Recreation
g. Interim Director of Parks Report and Comments
5. Calendar
a. Park Board Meeting: Friday, May 10, 2024, at 8:30 a.m., Springfield Botanical Center
6. Closed Session pursuant to RSMo. Section 610.021 (1) (2) (3)
(1) Legal actions, causes of action or litigation involving a public governmental body and any confidential or privileged communications between a public governmental body or its representatives
and its attorneys. However, any minutes, vote or settlement agreement relating to legal actions, causes of action or litigation involving a public governmental body or any agent or entity
representing its interests or acting on its behalf or with its authority, including any insurance company acting on behalf of a public government body as its insured, shall be made public upon final
disposition of the matter voted upon or upon the signing by the parties of the settlement agreement, unless, prior to final disposition, the settlement agreement is ordered closed by a court after
a written finding that the adverse impact to a plaintiff or plaintiffs to the action clearly outweighs the public policy considerations of section 610.011, however, the amount of any moneys paid by,
or on behalf of, the public governmental body shall be disclosed; provided, however, in matters involving the exercise of the power of eminent domain, the vote shall be announced or become
public immediately following the action on the motion to authorize institution of such a legal action. Legal work product shall be considered a closed record; (2) Leasing, purchase or sale of real
estate by a public governmental body where public knowledge of the transaction might adversely affect the legal consideration, therefore. However, any minutes, vote or public record approving
a contract relating to the leasing, purchase or sale of real estate by a public governmental body shall be made public upon execution of the lease, purchase or sale of the real estate; And, (3)
Hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular employees by a public governmental body when personal information about the employee is discussed or recorded. However, any vote on a
final decision, when taken by a public governmental body, to hire, fire, promote or discipline an employee of a public governmental body shall be made available with a record of how each
member voted to the public within seventy‐two hours of the close of the meeting where such action occurs; provided, however, that any employee so affected shall be entitled to prompt notice
of such decision during the seventy‐two hour period before such decision is made available to the public. As used in this subdivision, the term “personal information” means information relating
to the performance or merit of individual employees.
7. Adjournment