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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
City Council Regular Meeting: July 16, 2019
AGENDA ITEM: Authorization for Temporary Street
Closings and Adding of Events to Service
Agreement
AGENDA SECTION:
Consent
PREPARED BY: Dan Schultz, Director of Parks and
Recreation AGENDA NO. 6.g.
ATTACHMENTS: None APPROVED BY: LJM
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Motion to approve street closings for the Big Wheel Races
and Parade as part of the 2019 Leprechaun Days Celebration and to add the events listed
below to the 2019 Leprechaun Days Service Agreement.
BACKDGROUND
In the spring of 2019, the City Council approved a service agreement with the Leprechaun Days
Committee. As in years past, street closing requests and the addition of events to the service agreement
have been brought to the City Council for approval.
The current requests for street closings include:
1. Big Wheel, Trike and Scooter Races plus Penny Scramble - Wednesday, July 24 - 5:00 pm to 8:30
pm, Burma Ave. from 145th St. to 146th St.
2. Parade - Saturday, July 27 - 8:30 am to 1:30 pm or as soon as the parade ends.
At 8:30 am 145th Street will be closed at Diamond Path and at Cimarron Avenue; Cobalt, Dallara,
and Davenport Avenues will be closed at 145th Street West; and Shannon Parkway will be closed
at 144th Street and at Dodd Road.
At 10:30 am, the rest of the driveways and side streets intersecting the parade route along 145th
Street will be closed.
The Committee has also requested that the activities listed below be added to the service agreement:
• Wood Carving Social Club
• The Warehouse – Various exercise classes
• Free Yoga in the Park
• Steeple center Book Club
• Dominoes – Steeple Center
• Free Vinyasa Yoga
• Pets in the Park
• Bridge – Steeple Center
• Woodcarving – Steeple Center
• Smooch Your Pooch Kissing Booth – Chuck and Dons
• Bid Euchre – Steeple Center
• Open Painting – Steeple Center
• Bunco – Steeple Center
• Read with a Black Belt – USA Karate
• Canasta – Steeple Center
• Water Balloon Toss Contest
• Card Bingo – Steeple Center
• “Only if we had Ireland over here” Irish Entertainer
• Cribbage – Steeple Center
• Double Pinochle – Steeple Center
• Celts Beer Garden
• Hand and Foot – Steeple Center
• Root Beer Floats at the Rosemount
• The Prospects at Carbone’s
• Not Fast and Furious .2K Irish Run
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Council authorize the closure of the aforementioned streets for Leprechaun Days
2019.
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