okay set up we can get kicked off all
right in 701 and I'll call the meeting
to order um first thing we'll do is take
a
roll uh Andrew elquin I think is on his
way okay Chris kovak I am here uh David
Lou pres you uh sorry new people that's
you just say present are here or
something
um Tim Nicholas and Tim are both excused
Katie's excused Brenda Spears here and
marleene here uh Ryan olon here and then
new members Paul Adair
here
uh Mary I want to say Mari sorry Mary
Stevens and Martha
gner perfect uh okay and new members you
wouldn't know to do this so I wouldn't
worry about this part but uh did
everybody have a chance to review the
Mee the minutes from last
meeting any corrections or
objections with that I will approve the
minutes from last week and then now
santi's gonna Le us into a bit of
introductions for new people so welcome
to our new members um we have three new
alternate members we're so excited to
have you here um we just wanted to do a
couple of introductions around the table
so we'll start with sort of name for my
our regular board members that have been
here maybe how long you've been on the
board um for our new members maybe how
long you've lived in isqua um and then
uh as the Icebreaker your favorite
National Park um and maybe why if
there's like a fun story there but
keeping it short um and I can kick us
off I'm HTI hogland I'm the department
operations specialist for the parks and
Community Services Department um I have
been the staffle aison for the park
board for a year and a half we'll say
and I've lived in isqua for about three
years um and my favorite national park
right now I will say is Bryce Canyon we
just went last year it's so cool I've
never seen anything like it um super fun
so but that all pass it on the way and
welcome so excited you're here Jeff
Watling parks and Community Services
director here with the city of isqua um
I've been um in this role and with the
city since boy fall of 2016
so seven seven plus years um thoroughly
enjoyed it um favorite National Park
have been at quite a few um would love
to say Zion but I I grew up in South
King County M reer National Park but one
just the park itself but that mountain
means something to me you get close to
that mountain and it just
like I feel it so not right here
local I'm Chris kovak I've been on the
board six years something like that
maybe grows a year every few months
playing that uh I've been the chair for
a year and i' I've lived in a squat for
24 years my favorite National Park is
the
Olympic National Parks whatever it is
out the
post yeah great hi I'm Mar waxy I have
been on the Park Board I think since
2017 or
18 I think and I'm not exactly sure um
some research I was alternate member
first um and then have just started my
second term and as kind of a full member
so that sounds about right um I joined
the park board because I was brand new
to esan Wasing for meet people and get
more
involved um let's see I like the Olympic
and specifically I really love the whole
rain forest um when I grew up in
Minnesota um but my I had family who
lived in P Angeles I just remember that
being so magical um as a
kid there anything else I supposed to
tell us
well I'm David Lou I've been on the
board coming up on my second full year
so back in 2022 which well um been in
isqua since 2017 Summer 2017 um have a
family here it's great um and I guess
favorite National Park would be
originally from the East Coast so
Arcadia National Park in Maine it's very
old school but I like it and special
place because that's kind of the first
trip I took with my n wife so yes on the
coast
yeah right Marth and
um I have lived Ina for a very long
time and um one of you know uh we
recently retired my husband and I and so
we have just been going out to National
Parks in fact just got back from Utah
saw all the might5 but since um J took
it I I won't say Bryce but um we did go
last year to Grand ton and that was just
an amazing amazing and reason why I like
it is I'm obsess with bison and we saw
live bison go across the road and
they're just such amazing animals and it
just I don't know I just seeing seeing
that amount of just you know um wild
animal just right there I I it just
really moved me so that's why yeah were
you obsessed before you know I was I was
obsessed a little bit but really it went
even higher I thought pretty cool the
video would even still on my phone
I'm Mary Stevens and I uh have I live
actually in manage but I've worked at is
the last Liv and um I'm a huge piece of
this community I love it and my favorite
National Park is probably
Josh it's different than where than up
here it's not t all
I've I'm Paul
uh I I think Mar from just recently that
I just moved here I moved here six
months ago and really fell in love with
it and joined the board because I really
wanted to contribute be a part of the
community uh for favorite Park 100% sure
if it's a national park it's a random
one but it's actually White Sands Park
in New Mexico that I have a personal
attachment to and that my family had a
cabin near there and so I would go there
a bunch as a kid and it's such like kind
of an almost alien place when you're out
there just pure white sand all around
and just spend a lot of time there and
so that's one that I like
I'm Brenda Spears and I this is my
second year my first year I was an
alternate now it's my first year as a
full board fullblown board member and my
favorite back is Glacier and that was
because when I was young and my my
husband and I were younger my daughter
was young we would hike Glacier
constantly and because my daughter was
young and very spoiled we carried
her and we got known for that and
everybody and so my thing was she's not
heavy she's my
daughter um I'm Ryan olon second year as
alternate last year fullard member this
year um I don't have a ton of National
Park uh you know history but for every
single year for like the first 18 years
of my life with the
Yellowstone and so that is probably one
of my favorite parks and then when I uh
started riding motorcycles is the first
Park I ever took a fullcycle trip here
all the way down
there amazing
Park U my name is Julie kada I'm senior
Park planner uh I started about six
months ago in this position um say my
favorite Park similarly like I'm kind of
like is it a national park is it
national forest is a kings's canyon seoa
um basically High sieras
hi everybody I'm Robin spear Park
planning and development manager and
like Julie I'm relatively new I've been
here since last September so very
exciting six months seven months eight
months so far uh my favorite national
park has to be like Brenda Glacier
National Park I grew up in the Flathead
Valley so that was kind of our
playground and used to be able to get up
and get in there in less than 45 minutes
so now it's a little more challenging
but yeah beautiful Park area feel like
home thank you everyone thanks for
playing
along parts to put to the list and yeah
welcome okay so our next order business
is public comments and it seems like we
have a few people to
contribute so for public comment
audience comment um we've got a spot up
here at the table if you want to come up
um you have five minutes to address the
board um and and yeah I have some stuff
to pass out so I came
slightly
I have my owner
too very official yeah welcome to five
minutes okay hello uh board members
chair uh parks and reck uh my name is
Michael Wong I've been uh living here in
isal proud to call my home for the past
seven years uh my wife and I are raising
two young kids here at the foot of
squawk Mountain just just right behind
here um neighbors with Marlene so she
she knows me literally Stone away from
one I know you were here a bit about
myself uh during the working hours I'm a
development manager at VLAN real estate
so uh I focus on building you know um uh
Class A office uh projects in bie and
Seattle but in my off hours so uh I
enjoy coaching I'm coaching Little
League I actually left my daughter's
last game a little early just to be here
for this comments but she'll forgive me
later or forget it um but I'm also a
archery Enthusiast and I'm currently
certifying right now as a level two
Junior Olympic archery instructor um I'm
here before you today to seek your
support in including an enclosed
enclosed outdoor archery range here in
the back corner of tippet Creek Park um
as Rob and Jeff will probably sh share
with you here uh they performed some
public Outreach to see what the
community wanted in our Parks they had
this really Nifty map out there and uh
the results uh are in the first page of
that packet of kind of passed out a
Junior Olympic partry range smashed it I
mean there was more than double of
anything else that was actually on there
it's something the community really
wants um and it's uh and and probably
the first question going in your head is
like Michael I mean isn't this kind of
dangerous I mean you're putting a Mery
range in the back over here well I'm a
real estate developer design and
placement are the first things that come
into my mind whenever I think about
doing a development project and uh
safety is also top of mine for me as
well because I live right behind this
project I want to make sure something
that is bulletproof safe that nothing
can get out of so for the same reason we
put fencing around a baseball field and
we don't put you know kids playgrounds
at the outfield for safety same reason
why you build uh archery ranges with
barriers and back stops to prevent
arrows from escaping the enclosure so
the design that I've contemplated in
there that's in your packet is a actual
enclosure that was built in Colorado
Springs and Eden Prairie um which is a
little suburb off of Minneapolis um in
Minnesota um it provides an outdoor back
stop that use a simple baffle so there's
literally no way you can shoot an arrow
out of this enclosure um but however if
you happen have mutant powers and you
could Bend arrows midair or you your
arrows with completed uranium pits or
something there is a 60 foot Hill right
behind it that will stop anything and
120 foot trees that will undoubtedly
stop the kinetic force of a single Arrow
um this exact enclosure has been built
and tested for 20 years without a single
instant I talk with Keith bardos which
is a super um supervisor at Eden Prairie
and he confirmed he's he's there from
the beginning not a single incident has
happened where Arrow has escaped the
enclosure so the if the enclosure looks
reasonable what about accidents right if
you're a skeptic like me you probably
need stats and facts from legitimate
sources and I pulled my stats not from
the Q andon blog I got this from the NIH
right our department of health and the
neiss which is the national electronic
injury surveillance system it's very
long but it's what insurance companies
use to justify premiums cost premiums
for um for risk well happy to say
unquestionably archery is actually one
of the safest things on that list there
are no fatalities from archery ranges
that have been found and uh no one has
actually been shot from an arrow at a
public archery Ranch which a little
surprising but I ask co-pilot ask Google
last chat GPT you cannot find I looked
at the medical journal I cannot find a
single thing on it the characterization
of the injuries are from people who pull
it don't wear gloves string slaps their
arm or they lacerate their fingers
because they're pulling a string that
need a practice glove or so that's most
of the pain there the actual highest
risk of injury for going to hospital is
all the Four Courts we currently have
there baseball soccer tennis
skateboarding court right um those are
all the highest chances of injury the
insurance in uh industry rates uh rates
archery in the same levels bad mitton
bowling and ping pong so it's as
dangerous as those Sports it's safer
than golf guys so you check all my facts
everything is sourced in there um is
wouldn't be the person do this I'm not
an early adopter I'm not even a second
adopter we wouldn't be the first on to
we'd be the third to be able to do this
here in the country but there are other
counties that are even less risk averse
and uh if you go to downtown Portland
Washington Park has an open non-enclosed
archery range that's there that has not
had an incident either uh Golden Gate
Park in the heart of San Francisco in
the sunset neighborhood also has has a
range there without incident AWA has
three ranges out over there I mean so we
would not be the first to do this um
what does this cost so you're probably
wondering like okay this looks good well
but what is this you know let's talk
cheddar right well back in Minnesota in
2004 it cost $20,000 so let's I know
lot's happened between their inflation
has happened so let's add uh let's let's
inflate that for today's dollars that's
$33,000 that's the cost of and help back
with a modest trim package but let's add
some Pacific Northwest skepticism and
premium to it let's raise that to
$50,000 okay price is right well I don't
mean to sound like an info commercial
but um that we have 50% coup here so the
Washington State I know if you order now
right Washington state had a recreation
conservation office offers a 50% match
so we could take that 50 oh match
specifically for archery range
construction and I've shared this with
Jeff and Robin already so this thing
comes down from 50 if I'm doing my MTH
right down to 25 that's the cost of the
kiaforte I think we could probably do
that for the park if can afford a
skateboarding uh Park area as well so
applications open in August 7th and are
due on Halloween
so uh why do this design is proven
tested over 20 years target archery is
statistically safe for multiple studies
it's not expensive we have a 50% coupon
and the location that I'm uh suggesting
here at the back corner of tius Creek
Park is underutilized the train is
perfect community outreach clearly wants
it but I'll share one last thought I was
looking at prior minutes and I noticed
that one of the objectives of the board
is to appeal to a broader demographic in
our city archery like golf but safer
than golf uh is something you practice
into your golden years um people in
wheelchairs or with disabilities who
otherwise can't play Field Sports which
I have a cousin who does cannot you know
go running down a baseball field
actually practices archery um and it's
one of the few sports that can actually
do solo without having to get a whole
team to come do it with them and also
Archer is one of the top sports in Asia
you'll probably see this in the Paris
Olympics here in the next few months um
but you know Asians make up 27% of isqua
I think it's evident by the number of
offerings we have dumplings and noodles
at our local Costco here but it's also
something that's also very cultur
prevalent uh in a lot of Asian cultures
um and I've heard the space is limited
in the S Park system but this would take
up a fraction of the space there this is
onethird of an acre that's 1/8 of a
normal baseball field that we have here
in the park I measured it out I brought
my surveyor range find you guys were
talking about I measured it out so it
would take onethird of an acre so um and
it's also something that you use 12
months out of the year you can practice
in the drizzle and the rain well most of
these pars said empty during the you
know during our armpit months of the
year is what I call it so or it's super
rainy draft so this is something you
practice from dawn to dusk so um so
that's why I think for all those reasons
we should include this in our Parks plan
because I think you guys are deciding
upon that in the next uh next few months
and I'm happy to lend any of my
resources I've access to some of the top
Landscape Architects here in town that
are surprisingly I at happy hour I found
out they're also archers too that would
be happy to volunteer some of their time
and effort to help you know establish
this in our community here so uh that's
all I got um
I'm happy to answer any questions but I
think it's just public comment so we'll
leave it at
that yes we had archery in my middle
school so it's not dangerous like we
Minnesota like but like we had it as a
middle school like thing in
JY not great well I'll leave you guys
with
this got money on this so this is the
actual pl we could use so
first year construction manager can
build this so but I have to head back to
the little so I
think any other public comment no I
don't see anyone online those are our
consultants for the presentation later
so I don't think we have other public
comment okay with that uh we go to
regular business okay it seems like
someone else should handle this part
yeah regular buiness our first item on
the agenda is to elect uh our Park Board
chair and vice chair for this coming
year um so thank you new members our
alternate members you all get to act as
regular members tonight
congratulations um because we have three
regular members that aren't here and
we're taking action um you you all will
be voting um in tonight's uh action here
and so for chair and vice chair
uh I will first call for nominations for
the chair position um when all
nominations have been made I will close
the nominations um if only one
nomination um is made we will
um the position is elected by unanimous
consent if there are other nominations
we will have time to sort of discuss as
a board and or hear from the people that
nominate um you can nominate yourself
and and other people can nominate you um
and so with that I will open the floor
for nominations for the chair
position if so
Welling I think the question is do any
of you guys
wanna do it again are you guys like Ryan
orenda or David interest I will make
note that um I do believe our our bot
have that regular members can be
nominated for chair position though the
three of you thank you so much are
acting as regular members for this
meeting um just want to make that one I
can't nominate
myself yeah do I second Chris's
nomination is that how we do that you
can if you
yeah one more year
okay thank you it seems like there
aren't any other nominations for chair
so Chris you are hereby appointed by
unanimous consent um and we'll do the
same thing for the vice chair position
any nominations for vice
chair anyone else
can I get a second oh I seconded oh
great okay very quickly wonderful um
well then welcome Marlene again uh uh
appointed as our vice chair for this
coming year thank
you
great thank you both and with that our
next item all right next item is the
park system Plan update
happy to to tee that up uh Chris um good
evening everyone welcome again new
members so glad you're you're joined the
the part board um Chris Marlene thank
you for your continued uh leadership um
always a pleasure to um to work with you
guys and have a chance to to meet in our
in our meetings as we build the agendas
together um I heard you say Chris and I
I will Echo this right that um it's not
a huge role but it is an additional
respons responsibility and and you know
hearing you say Chris that you're well
you know interested in doing this
another year I'll just I'll put that out
there that that the idea the hope of
chair and vice chair positions is there
is a degree of of turnover and sort of
sharing that sharing that responsibility
so um just something for you all to to
think about as we as we get through this
year yeah real quick if I can do it
anyway and there we we go well so our
one um other than the the chair and vice
chair elections one agenda item tonight
uh is a big one uh lots lots of content
lots of materials lots of discussion I
want to give a little bit of a of an
introduction and then turn it over to um
multiple people we're going to be
sharing the presentation tonight between
our Park planning staff Robin and juler
here but also joining us are our
partners on this project from design
Workshop Anna and luu I'll a chance to
to turn it over to to them uh but I'm so
thrilled uh to have been working with
design Workshop both an and louu just
been terrific team um professionals the
group at design Workshop has been a
great uh group to to Really collaborate
through um throughout the development of
this of this plan update um we do this
every six years
um having the pleasure of done a number
of these through my professional career
these are really important this is
important work this is really important
work with the community this is
important work for us to create a plan
that isn't just something that sits on a
shelf but is it tells a story it it it
it sets a vision for what this community
wants how they want their park system to
perform and so um excited tonight to
really see rolled up a lot of materials
uh that represent a a lot of work uh by
by the staff team Robin Julie HTI um
certainly has a had a big lift in this
um as well as myself but also your work
uh we've had several discussions over
these last couple of months that have
all sort of informed and hopefully as
you see the materials tonight you'll see
how our conversations around the
community survey in the fall around
athletic fields we had a couple of
months ago um around vision and our
joint meeting with the environmental
board hopefully you see all all of that
really informing the the materials
tonight um as as well as really some
very extensive uh Community engagement
uh this will be our final discussion uh
before um creating the draft plan uh
that draft plan would then uh go out to
the community for public comment uh
before it comes back to you all for
adoption so this isn't a final
discussion but really um hopefully sets
the stage uh for giving you sort of a a
final voice to really help us inform um
and help um
um Anna and luu in sort of finalizing
this this document so uh that's our goal
tonight um you want to go to the next
slide Robin I'll just highlight really
quick before turning it over to to Anna
um so we're going to cover sort of five
topics tonight the first four are going
to be covered by our design Workshop
team uh there's there's going to be time
for questions along the way uh we'll
have some pauses and breaks uh to really
open up for a discussion with all of you
U but tonight you're going to get a a
sort of a draft framework if you will of
the chapters and and how we want to lay
out The Narrative of the of the plan and
the story um Anna will dive pretty deep
a little deeper into some analysis
around some of the benchmarking work
we've done I know that's been an
interest by by you all as Park Board um
a really very interesting look at our
community Through Equity mapping and how
that's really informing our
prioritization and and how
and when we might want to prioritize
projects um next we'll talk through a
little deeper the concept of creeks to
Peaks as as really the pillar the the um
the theme the vision for uh the park
system and then lastly turn it over to
Robin and Julie for a really hopefully a
engaging conversation around uh draft
projects but also criteria for how we
want to evaluate those um and then
you'll see the discussion um tonight as
we as we sort of ran those through uh
the criteria for the first time we're
not bringing those as a
final document or a final recommendation
we really wanted to be something that
you feel like you can give feedback not
only on the criteria and the projects
but even just sort of that first look at
boy how does how did how does this how
does the near-term bucket the midterm
bucket the long-term bucket feel and
look and are there are there projects uh
you might want to consider U moving up
and down so really look forward to the
discussion tonight thank you all for all
your work these last couple of months I
really feel like we're headed towards a
a um a really compelling plan and vision
so with that Anna louu welcome so glad
you're
here thank you so much for having us
it's h your system is so such an amazing
one and your community so great that
it's really been our pleasure and the
work that we do all across the country
to be able to spend time uh with your
with the staff here as well as in
investigating all your Park Properties
your Recreation opportunities your open
spaces and what people are looking for
um so I'm GNA walk through a few of
these things actually do you mind going
back to the last slide for just a moment
I wanted to highlight um tonight we are
not going to do a deep dive into all the
analysis uh that we've done to for this
plan we're just going to highlight a few
things of the benchmarking and Equity
that are an update to the work we had
presented earlier so just wanted to
highlight that for you we're also not
going to go walk through some of the
things we've done before around the the
plan strategies and goals and um other
Vision objectives but we'll focus
primarily on a concept of creeks to
Peaks to communicate that larger View
for the park system that's that will
become part of that plan um and then at
the end we'll talk through how are we
prioritizing projects within um within
this plan moves forward for Capital
Improvements as as priorities and how
things are identified so that's what
we'll cover in this and I just want to
give that preface because we can't go
through it all you're going to be seeing
a lot of things in the draft plan and
you've seen quite a few things prior to
this that we've been sharing as updates
um we're just kind of filling you in on
on some last gaps in it before we move
into the draft
plan so with that um on the next slide
near to that um I want to give you a a
sense of what coming with the draft plan
so first up like most plans should have
an executive summary that's really
written for the public that may not have
as much time or um understand some of
the technical things that might be be
behinds the analysis but it excites them
with an executive summary that brings
all the pieces together and tells them
about the the entire contents of the
plan and in a very brief way next up
we'll talk about what's in the
introduction chapter two is uh the
evaluation and how we've uh analyzed
your system what the findings are from
public
engagement and then chapter three is
really the heart of the plan that's all
those recommendations of what should be
for the future it's where we're
describing the vision the strategies and
so on that really uh and help people
anticipate what to expect in the um in
in this planning
Horizon and then chapter four is about
implementation it's the how to and what
to focus on that your board will be
focused on as well as the staff as and
partnering with other uh others in the
city to make this a
reality okay go next so I'm going to
just give a little bit more detail about
what's in these chapters chapter one
these are some of the things that will
include to introduce people includes uh
describing your community and what it
contains and the history of how how your
Parks have evolved over
time definitely reference the many plans
and um studies that have been developed
previously that interact with this plan
building off of the good work that was
done before and then uh describing some
of the different opportunities and
challenges that the community faces when
it comes to Parks and
Recreation and chapter two uh describes
uh two different components the
Community Vision that comes from a whole
variety of ways that the public has been
engaged as well as stakeholders from
focus groups to surveys uh to the latest
round of Engagement with a public
meeting and Outreach um with online
mapping um all over the the last year of
efforts to engage community members
staff and City leadership as
well um so that will be a summary of the
methods that were used and the findings
of what we learned from that that tell
us about values and
interests the next part is a system
analysis and that is where um two
components we're going to be talking
about night the benchmarking and the
equity prioritization lives as well as
some other things that inform the
recommendations from this plan uh
Recreation Trends understanding what is
popular what are people doing most what
has changed over time um a walk shed
analysis I think we did a deep dive on
that in a previous meeting and looking
at the trails and parks and and
understanding access and where there are
gaps and uh conditions looking at uh the
how the properties are maintained what
they have within them U really looking
into that inventory of of what you have
and what its quality
is so that's this chapters one and two
let's go to the next slide and talk
about chapter three so this this is this
is the one I'm talking about that I know
you all want to spend some time reading
over the vision that's expressed the
concept Creeks to Peaks and the values
goals and
strategies those really will be that
Guide to the future of what you're
looking to achieve um with those goals
as well as some approaches you might
take now those will be a little bit more
flexible you'll have a variety of
options and suggestions of how to get to
those goals with those strategies but
they are built off of things we've heard
from the community as well as best
practices uh throughout the throughout
the country and and within systems like
yours and then chapter four The how will
we do this uh talks about the
prioritization for the capital
Improvement projects uh Partnerships
that are really essential to this
operations and funding strategies so
that is the outline of what you'll find
within that plan uh when you get the
draft to
review go to the next slide so I'm gonna
I mentioned I was going to do a little
bit of Deep dive into some of the
analysis that will be in chapter two uh
the both the benchmarking and the equity
analysis and wanted to share with you
this update of that this composite of
looking at um isqua compared to three
other comparable uh systems for Parks
and Recreation and these were
communities were selected you're
probably wondering how did we get to
these three out of all the ones that you
could possibly pick from uh number of
factors one uh similar population and
its density and
characteristics similar Geographic
characteristics like being bound by
Mountain and water
bodies and um as well as some of these
other things you can see here like the
land area and um the number they have
because you want to pick some benchmarks
where you can kind of compare and say
these are sort of competitors or places
that we aspire to be similar to you
don't want to pick just the bottom of
the barrel type of communities who are
barely getting by with their park system
so um these were selected for comparison
for those reasons and how esqua ranks
compared to that are St backs up is that
uh you can see number of parks for one
thing and then the acreage so um number
of parks in Open Spaces just above that
that box in the green you see you're
kind of right there in the middle of a
number of parks number of Open Spaces
but that open space is really
significant and so you get to this total
parks in open space acreage is is fairly
High compared to these other
communities a big component of that is
the open space you can see in the the
second green box below so that is
definitely contributing greatly to the
to to that acreage comparison point and
this is a pretty common way to compare
systems and see you know do you do you
have enough and do you have enough for
your
population so uh isqua certainly is up
there in in total land that can be used
for parks and open space as a and also
in as a percentage of your total land
area which that really does align with
your community values the survey results
from the community showed that people
didn't think you had too much parks in
open space they really appreciated the
natural values and many said that it was
the reason they they chose isqua and
what they most value about what what you
all provide is those outdoor spaces and
the connection to Nature that's possible
as well as the community Gathering
spaces and
health so we go to the next
slide um so we just wanted to also place
this Within in a national ranking from
National Parks and Recreation
benchmarking and so that this is looking
at communities that are between a
population of 20 to 50,000 people um and
and how those National um brackets fall
and so isqua as well as the other
communities we chose are in that upper
percentile of communities for for the
acreage per resident as well as the
number of residents per Park
so you can see where isqu Stacks with
that we also in the benchmarking
compared then the individual amenities
within the parks and there are some
things that you're lower than other
communities with like sports courts and
there are some things that you're doing
quite well with like single use athletic
fields so uh this helps us just also use
one more way of looking at uh how to in
addition to the Community Values from
the survey recre Trends we're looking at
um as well as understanding what's in
your system right now this is just one
other way to help evaluate what should
be
prioritized Anna can I ask a
question okay yeah Anna we've got a
question in the room okay sounds good
when we are talking about the Acres of
Parkland per resident are we including
the open space in
that good question yes that does includ
this slide I know we talked about like
how great we are when we add open space
but it looks like our Parks specifically
were a little bit below Benchmark yeah
we can go back to that
slide yeah let's go back to that slide
yes we picked up on that as well that
that is a big component of it is the
amount of natural lands you can see
these other communities also included
their open space and in that in these
totals and that also that National
Benchmark we understand that also
includes parks and open
space you can see it in that total
number of parks like that's them in the
middle that's what I'm looking at oh
you're right something we've certainly
talked about and yeah our ratio of
Community Park neighborhood park Spa you
know active park space to open space is
um it's pretty low as as a benchmark
yeah I just want to make sure we heard
that because I think yeah we do a great
job in open space but it can cover up
where the opportunity is
US good question if I could just ask all
of our this area and this count includes
Lakes M State
Park
no this is only a city owned this is
just the city's manag and owned
lands um so it does not include the
surrounding municipalities or those by
other organizations I mean certainly if
you look at um all of the great
especially natural areas that surround
this community you have an abundance
Yeah Anna correct me if I'm wrong the
only way place that's different is the
percentage of land used um as as park
space I believe that 27% reflects other
that reflects State Park as well as some
other County Park land in the city I
think to get to that 27% ratio we can I
can confirm that I think
that's that would include the state park
L's nodding her head yes she was
deepening numbers in
math okay good clarification and
Diving yeah just one last question do we
ever look at the money dimension of this
so what is the allocated budget for the
parks department for each one of these
so how is both operating budget and
capital budget I you know again the
benchmarking is going to go a little
deeper right
Anna yeah Lou you might speak to this of
what we got into for that it's it is
sometimes hard to get Apples to Apples
comparison for those facts um they all
operate a little bit differently and how
they budget and where their funds come
from that can make it a bit challenging
to compare some of these especially when
things come from you know some mix of
general fund and then other sources but
um I think we looked at some
numbers as best we could collect them
from these other communities
it's a great question David yeah I'm
just to go city
council yeah how do we compare in terms
of
investment investment rate
yeah very
good okay Yep this is intended to be a
bit of a summary for this this meeting
today there'll be more in the plan that
helps describe this as well as um kind
of calls out what's important to note
about this benchmarking it AB absolutely
shouldn't be the only thing that
indicates the recommendations the
direction you should go in but it is one
of those factors that can help inform
where are you at today and where do you
want to be in the future that keeps you
up with what other communities
offer okay I'm going to transition then
into talking about the equity mapping
we're not starting off with the mapping
I'm giving kind of the background of
what goes into this mapping um but the
purpose of this is to um increasingly
communities are wanting to Prior equity
and thinking about who are the parks and
recreation offerings serving most and
ensuring that it is um recognizing that
lower income minority populations uh
people experiencing
disabilities um and many other factors
are important in understanding where you
might want to look at how you've
distributed or created access for Parks
and Recreation and if there should be
some adjust adjustments for greater
equity in the community
so um you'll see in this table um an
this assessment was done uh looking at
the the different neighborhoods on the
lefthand column here and noting in the
the the larger brackets here the larger
uh not uh colored blocks those that have
a larger percentage of minority status
or so different social economic factors
so this brought in a a whole variety of
indicators that are from a number of
sources
that help us understand where uh the
different neighborhoods lie within these
these different
categories so everything from
environmental health you can see here
like air pollution indicators and um
transportation infrastructures
availability in those communities to um
looking at uh pre-existing chronic
disease burden of the populations that
are within that area and then there's a
composite score on the very right and so
we see with the that Central isqua has U
more of these uh variables than others
and so that's why it has that larger bar
next to it and on the next map you'll
kind of see how this lays out but wanted
to share this with you of all the
factors that go into creating this
composite map and we do this work
throughout the country and um the the
the communities that are really
innovating and how they prioritize are
working this in as one more factor that
helps them identify where to address and
direct Investments and um actions within
their
community so on our next slide then you
can see some of this laid out of the um
map in the background is representing
those colors here of what are the
highest Equity priority areas like
Central isqua and then um the orange and
yellow are different levels of of equity
priority so we overlay this on top of
that to get a better sense how does that
relate to the population
density tree
canopy the walk shed analysis we had
completed earlier to understand gaps um
and looking at both parks and
trails so this is these overlays just
help us understand as well of how are
those factors uh playing a role in in
considering um are the right priority
areas identified and are there some
needs within those those areas
so again one more tool that as we talk
about chapter 4 and the prioritization
this aspect of evaluating um the
different neighborhoods of of isqua are
laid out
here okay so we thought we just pause
there and see if there's any questions
or discussion around those items before
we move into talking about creeks to
Peaks now we have have some questions
about benchmarking but any questions
about sort of the equity mapping or
analysis or any of the sort of chapter
outline um items that are going into
those I've got a not so much a question
but a follow on comment um Anna maybe
you can pick up on this too you know
it's not a coincidence that Central
isqua sort of has that Equity map piece
because that's where our the least
number of residents live that's mostly
right now where the
retail um office space is right not
coincidentally the central Isa plan sort
of been the vision that's where density
is sort of intended to go that's where
we may in the next 20 years be seeing
the most residential grow growth as as
as multiuse comes in and I think this
map really helps to confirm that hey we
should be really wise and smart that as
that converts to residential we need to
be thinking of public spaces
connectivity
Trails um how we unify that area that
really hasn't had residential U but as
residential comes how do we unify that
area to the rest of the rest of
town yeah I think that's where it was
useful to Overlay things like tree
canopy and see it is fairly SP sparse in
that area compared to others like the
others that are not developed in the
same way and so thinking about where are
those places that people can easily get
to a place close to home especially with
new homes coming in that you're
thoughtful about that Redevelopment of
Central isqua and what that means for
those outdoor
spaces um but I would just also
highlight those that were had other
characteristics that made us think that
they should be the next level down of
prioritization are also really important
to this and we you can see those number
factors that contribute to them also to
be um important to be looking at through
that this
lens great thanks for keying that
up thank
you
okay well I think then we can move into
describing this exciting concept that is
encompassing for the entire plan it's
described as Creeks to Peaks and luu's
been working through all the graphics
and maps and doing a deep dive to help
story tell with communicating through
visuals so I'm going to have turn it
over to her to walk through this part
this this exciting
concept thank you Anna it's very nice to
meet all of you virtually um so for this
concept in the 2018 um
parksan um green necklace uh only
focuses on Central isal and during our
preliminary assessment period what we
get as a feedback from the trails and
open space focus group are that the
concept should not be just limit to
Central rqua it should be Citywide and
connecting to surrounding public lens as
well so they're also kind of looking for
more clarity of this concept and it's
less about the specific Trail alignment
at the moment it's more about finding
the experiences and elements that would
uh make this concept a reality so
building on top of that we come up with
an upgrade of this con ring necklace
concept is named Quicks to Peaks so ex
expand the concept to a city wide scale
and trying to emphasize pedestrian
experience walkability connectivity and
the quality of life of people that's
living there and uh I think that it's
also about building a healthy resilience
system and fostering um so fostering so
social connections from all of this so
it represents like kind an
energized network of perks and trails
connecting from the valley four to the
surrounding Forest Hills and hence the
name Creeks to Peaks and it's more about
creating the pathways for Community to
connect recreate reflect and Traverse
this um amazing landscape so the key
components that make up um this is kind
of the natural fabric perk system and
the community I think that's what makes
is a different and these components will
be further broken down in the following
slides and if you can go to the next
slide so the first one is about natural
connections and it is maap here
highlighting the tree canopy the creeks
and the py species and it sets up the
context for a sad Park system landscape
and how key Wildlife species also
depends on these connections as their
natural habitat from Creeks to Peaks and
it's also natural environment that
people living here really cherish um STS
and really enjoys and the next part it's
about um the human
connections and if you can go to the
next slide and that includes social
spaces active Recreation spaces so isao
already have great Parks public art um
Gathering spaces that you all enjoy and
supporting activities like Community
concert farmers market that have already
been really successful as well but those
could use could use some more
enhancement and optimization as well as
some active fields and courts in the
community Parks could also use that so
in addition to the existing ones there
could be more potential for the city to
partner with um Partners like Elementary
School um to use their fields and cours
during the time and that uh is what's
been shown on the map as
well so What's um connecting all the
social spaces and park in the park
system are the trails and those are the
connectors that gets the social and
active Recreation spaces get people to
those social and active Recreation space
spaces as well as uh about improving
connections through the trails so this
concept is about improving connections
and then so to break this down into a
hierarchy that give this more more
clarity it's about focusing on the
regional trails that gets you to the
mountains while the local connections
gets you to different areas of the par
spaces so in the online mapping exercise
We Gather feedback on the connections as
well as other improvements that are
needed uh in the social spaces and the
natural spaces so that help us
understand if there's any Community
Support or for certain things or if
anything is missing um from this concept
to illustrate this concept further more
we will be showing um three snapshots
for the future of the system at The
Creeks area hillsides and the Peaks and
those would remain fairly conceptuals
and mainly used as a visual
representation of what would happened
but we are also outlining concrete steps
in strategies and capital Improvement
programs for implementation of this
concept so in the second part of this
presentation um Robin will talk about um
the cibs um the criter that goes into
that and the prior prioritization of
those things so that kind concludes the
concept yeah I'll L you thank you so
much for that that overview um I'm going
to tee up this this slide and really
open it up for for discussion and and as
theu um highlighted this has been a a I
think a conversation and a really fun
collaboration with the design Workshop
team to
again understand green necklace has has
been a um it's been something that's
been thought of here in isqua um it it
um did sort of end up getting
constrained in just Central isqua and so
much of the community feedback was
really saying hey we want we want a we
want a vision or a brand that speaks to
the broad the entirety of the park
system and so um that's really what
we're sort of conceptualizing with this
um and proposing uh to all of you what
this slide represents is
two um drafts of a vision statement and
and would love to read these to you um
open it up to to all of you to just give
your thoughts and initial feedback on on
Creeks to Peaks as as really a way to
Brand the the the system but then also
if you feel like one of these two sort
of resonates over the other um but would
love love sort of your feedback but um
again the the the pillar of this plan is
to really present um um isqua Creeks to
Peaks Park system um draft concept
statement number one is um this is a
diverse system of parks trails and Open
Spaces that unifies the isqua community
from The Creeks along the valley floor
through wooded hillsides to the peaks of
the isqua Alps so really think of it at
Creeks Creeks is meant to reflect the
valley floor Peaks is really meant to
reflect the hillsides that surround us
that are so important important um
concept two similar but but with a few
little riffs um a a diverse Park system
a Parks trails and Open Spaces winding
along our valley floor from our Creeks
through wooded hillsides and
neighborhoods all the way to the peaks
of the isqua Alps fostering connections
between people and the places they
cherish so with that just in general
what what what's your take on on Creeks
to Peaks as a replacement of green
necklace um and something we can build
our system around and any thoughts on on
these statements or
comments yeah you
know D in a little bit um just a couple
things just for answering that question
on the um this is very
uh maybe left or right brain on your
Equity mapping slide you have North
going up and the rest of your slide you
have North going bottom left and just
from a purly looking at one slide to the
next trying to understand where we're
going here was a little confusing just
maybe next time but I I think I've been
like we talked about the beginning is
I'm a little over year here um and so
when I kind of sat in on the the first
12 months of meetings and heard the
concept of the green necklace um I had a
lot of like not sure I understand
exactly what we're talking about um I
can visualize what that means just from
a logical standpoint um when you say
Creeks to Peaks to me that's like very
straightforward to me of what we're
trying to accomplish here's like we have
the Creeks we have the Peaks we're
trying to connect it make it open to
everybody so just from like even
just you know if that's the direction of
moving away from Green Nexus to Creeks
to it it's very logical it feel isqua it
feels more isqua green necklace could be
anywhere I think so I mean I'm not sure
I'd go like it feels more isquat per se
other than it feels like I understand
what we're trying to
do so that's
feedback very helpful do you guys play
around with creeks to Peaks or Peaks to
Creeks
did you want to hear yeah I kind want to
hear how we landed we did we went back
and forth but we did a little bit of a
Google search just to double check and
make sure anyone else wasn't using it
but uh Peaks to Creeks was used um by a
couple other Trail systems and um some
ski resorts
so at the peek and then the water rolls
down so hydrologically yes we Al we we
thought we also thought yeah our system
and how our system serves people and and
and animals and everything and we've
talked about this right our system
starts in the city and and projects out
past our borders and so Creeks to Peak
felt like that was you know Valley to
inside the city to outside so that was
the I was just curious I no no it's a
great question we did we wrestled we did
we went back and forth and
yeah one of those
AA simple question so who is who's this
uh concept statement for who's the
audience is it the is it the city of
missa or is it just city council or
great question I think it's I think it's
all the above I mean I think it's I
think it's it's meant to be the park
systems brand right so it's so it's how
do we reflect to the community how do we
you know is this something that feels
like it resonates enough with the
community that we even go so far as
create a you know iconography and a sort
of our our this is our brand when you
are a trail system you know when you see
that stamp you're part of the Greeks to
Peak system so it could go as as big as
we as big as we want it to
be yeah so my thought was to the initial
point of these two statements I would
say to me especially as an outsider the
second one appeals more to me now
personally it's because a big thing for
me is about Community engagement and
connection and that sort of stuff like
that so specifically your last kind of
the last part that sentence of the the
fostering connections and the places
they cherish is what draws me in and it
gives me the reason why the what the
purpose of all this is more clearly than
I think the first one does well it does
say that in like the uniting people I
think the second part by specifying that
part is
what gives it a real reason why and the
real point of it um similarly I think
the C Creeks the discussion I I agree
with it being Creeks first again because
I think said it's who's yeah the
community bringing you out and
connecting you together and like it
starts here in the town I think that
that's how I read it as well when I saw
it that in that order so really hopeful
for me that's the second more
appealing I agree and as a former
language arts
teacher the top one starts out saying a
diverse system of parks trails and open
spaces and the second one says a diverse
Park system parts that drives me crazy
so if we could have that like top
sentence that first
part the bottom part is actually
speaking to the people as well not just
the what it is becomes more personal
yeah yeah hopeful but you're right we we
can strike the first
part thank you I think whichever one you
go with I like that neighborhoods isn't
that second one um so if you do need to
go with like a less romantic right where
you end up on on one like I still think
there are pieces of the second one you'd
want to include right so I like the
second one too it is a little long in my
opinion yeah um so I think we could word
Smith it a little bit shorter but um I
do like the idea of community and I
really think neighborhoods should be in
there because sometimes we forget about
our neighborhood parks and you know it's
a system that serves
people yeah I really heard that loud and
cl thank you that's
great yeah I I think
um some people may not even be familiar
but the green necklace concept really
was built around isqua Creek through the
center of town and so it was one strand
you know one curve curved alignment um I
think
this captures the whole
city so I for that reason I like it I
think you go with either of these two um
the second one is is a little fun and
romantic I
guess it's warmer um you know either
either one I think gives the city the
flexibility to you know work within this
and grab a lot of different projects and
efforts that is the vision statement
it's helpful yeah we've actually um this
is we've been noodling on we've had a
chance to talk to several Community
Voices um shared this with uh the mayor
and other just to say hey what do you
think how's it feel a lot
of was entirely positive feedback um
interestingly enough one of our
conversations I hope I don't think Ken
will mind Ken codings Mark if you're
familiar with that name actually served
on the original Central Isa task force
so when the centralis plan was sort of
starting um that group is that group of
residents sort of came up with this the
idea of the green necklace and Ken
really appreciated this because he felt
like the the in the initial intent of
the green necklace was to be systemwide
as it morphed into the central plan it
almost took this it almost created a
more restrictive definition that that he
really felt like something like this
gets back to the
origin if you will of dealing more
system so that felt very encouraging
that um and very supportive in terms of
okay if this feels like we're not we're
not saying goodbye to the green necklace
we're almost going back to the to the
original
intent
so it's all really
helpful can I ask one more question
because the mk's upside down I'm
all where's that potential new park it's
on the like three slides earlier oh I
believe that's the W Highlands Park
um yeah yeah so um Isco Highlands um
you'll sort of hear this a little bit in
the project description but you know if
you're if you're familiar with is
Highlands yeah west of Highlands Drive
that was all planned as office that CH
that plan has changed in the last 12
years is a lot more residential on that
side there were never Parks planned on
that side and so we are proposing a new
neighborhood park on the west side of
Highlands Drive we've actually
identified a parcel that could be a and
city owns it fantastic neighborhood park
and a great potential for a trail
connection down to the ISA Preston Trail
so again not only a a DOT if you will as
a neighborhood park but also a a really
good connector from the highlands down
to the valley so know it remain a
predominantly wooded neighborhood
park some diversity
system I really like
P I just think it's it's very succinct
and I don't know it just the whole green
necklace I didn't I just didn't get that
as much you know but I just think
there's a lot in a name too I don't know
I I I like it really really helpful
thank you um Anna luu again thanks for
presenting it I I think again as you see
you know you'll see the draft document
this really becomes a a pillar at least
of how we're going to describe the
vision as we get into specific projects
so thank you very very much speaking of
specific projects so yeah Anna please
yeah oh I was just going to say to that
comment about liking the name I'm kind
of reflecting on how it's very
distinctly yours you know it really does
reflect your place and it you it does
kind of unite it kind of says we're all
within this together that whole range
and so that was the kind that inent of
this this you have a spectrum and the
really the three dimensions that this
this mapping provides us to be able to
communicate of how um the topography
shapes things is so important in
communicating given the Community Values
and I'm excited for us communicating
what we heard from survey results what
we heard from Deep dive conversations
with focus groups really that reflection
of people's values and what they hold
dear in in what they hope the system
would be and what they love about it now
um and that's what I think this name
gives us a chance to really align with
what is Uniquely Yours and the um
abundance that you have that people so
want to preserve and
enhance well
said Thank you thank you Robin
Julie all right next steps uh so what
yeah one question are you zoomed in on
your slides
as far as I know I
am
yeah I'm not familiar with if you
unshare and then share it
again sorry thanks everyone running on
is a little bit of a difference system
than we normally
do yes we came early tonight to see the
ID Department we had the the big
TV very quick
sh so hats off to Our IT team Tim schaer
shout out thank you
Tim so one of the main components or a
larger component of the plan um is what
we've been working on the past two
months and that's to
to develop a capital Improvement program
which Julie's going to explain about the
our near Mid and long-term projects but
in order to get there we had to develop
some criteria that we could weigh the
projects against one another so what we
looked at were our focus group feedback
from our survey the 2018 Park plan
strategic projects and I believe there
were about 40 40 Projects that a little
more than that um our current six-year
CIP list uh again the community survey
feedback and our interactive map
feedback um and throughout that we
developed our list of
C's
now there we go so through through that
process we developed um a prioritization
method uh that we could work through and
take every single project through this
list of criteria uh we wanted to make
sure that we were still resonating back
in with um our previous work that we've
done on the plan uh if you remember I
think it was back in October we were
looking at goals and policies which we
have eight of those so and for the new
members um our main goals were parks for
today and future Generations a balance
Park system we're looking at
connectivity again Creeks to Peaks a lot
of that was a connectivity piece uh
planning and design considerations as
we're looking at projects and going
through the per and planning process
Environmental Protection was a large
component that came out of the
survey um maintenance and stewardship
Partnerships and
implementation and again checking back
in we just developed our draft core
values of vibrancy balance connectivity
and resiliency and I just want to add in
that arts and culture is definitely a
part of vibrancy along with placemaking
um social interactions and amenities uh
balance is making sure we have a balance
between our Park system our Trails our
amenities um and the open space uh
connectivity obviously making sure our
trails are connected to our Parks our
parks are connected to our neighborhoods
and we're connected to each other and
then resiliency uh really is our
stewardship piece of it our
environmental piece to make sure we have
conservation protection and preservation
integrated in with the plan
now we started thinking a lot about as
we run through the process of developing
a park or a trail there's um a lot of
capabilities and feasibilities
and um I want to say during the process
that we have to think of and I know just
being on both sides of Permitting and
designing uh some projects are more
complicated than other projects um some
appear easy just looking at it it but
when you dig into the details and
knowing that we're we're really land
constrained we have a lot of creeks we
have a lot of buffers we're trying again
to balance those that some simple
projects just become a little more
complicated because of that so we really
factored wanted to factor that into the
criteria
also so we came up with eight draft
criteria that we took every project
through um the main topics were
Improvement in performance of Park
system
where does a project really provide a
varied or needed amenity that
diversifies Recreation elements within
the system and provide a closure in the
Gap area again and alluded to the um or
talked about more about the equity
mapping and looking at our gaps there uh
our gaps in connectivity our gaps in the
Parks so that's factored in um and how
to maximize the park potential for
multiuse you know as Jeff keeps saying
and as we keep realizing we're very very
land constraint especially on the valley
floor so we have to make sure that
whatever we do uh really offers as many
and maximize as many unities as we can
one space we have a diversity in equity
does a project increase equity and
access relative to the equity in theater
map that Anna showed um and enhance
enhance disadvantage areas of the
community so we want to make sure that
within that balance uh we're balancing
the location of the parks and the ameni
need to make sure everybody has equal
access to that uh balance of vibrancy
and connectivity again going back to our
draft core values uh health and safety
urgency or
immediacy uh that really deals with does
IT project really require uh immediate
improvements you know was there a
landslide near the park or uh is there a
safety issue that we have to address
right away is there something going on
interde departmental that have to
address with uh save Public
Works uh implementation feasibility was
a project identified in the 2018 plan
and can be easily permitted attained or
accomplished I know Easy's kind of in
quotes lately but um how feasible is the
project from a funding from an imp
implementation side um and can we really
accomplish it you know we have some big
Visions but you need big Visions you
know in order to make a system as great
is the one we have or even better uh
operational maintenance and Longevity is
the cost benefit of the project in
alignment with funding and operational
capabilities uh that's one of my
personal pet peeves is if we design
something that we can't maintain is that
Park successful we want to make sure
that it's successful on every level but
especially for our maintenance staff as
well um and can it be effectively
maintained of course uh big one
resiliency conservation preservation and
sustainability again going back to the
survey and back to the feedback from the
public in the the community they really
want to maintain our Open Spaces
increase it if possible and make sure
that we're stewards of the amazing land
that we have right now and we definitely
want to do the same and want to be able
to integrate best practices in with any
new
design um Partnerships and collaboration
uh does a project Foster local regional
state or indigenous tribe Partnerships
and provide mutual benefits again we've
been discussing um with iqu school
district um Partnerships um private
Public
Partnerships collaboration with uh lak
Sam and the state so we're definitely
trying to identify more Partnerships are
feasible and we think it's just going to
benefit the community as a
whole so with that I am actually going
to turn
our oh we have discussion um did anyone
want to add anything in or feel anything
is critical when we're looking at
prioritizing projects and developing
that
criteria I think we sent you a lot of
material the
agenda thank you and thank
you but one of the items that we sent
out was the project prioritization
criteria and questions for view so the
these were really the questions that we
the planning team sort of looked at all
these projects from and sort of answered
those questions of where do these where
do these land and how does that help us
get to what's next and and how we're
going to actually Implement all these 46
different projects um and so the
question to you all as a board is kind
of is there anything that feels like
it's missing is there a lens that we're
not seeing is there a blind spot that we
maybe have from some of these um just
from another
perspective lens is a great word right
these are eight lenses we're g we're
trying to run all these projects through
and it's complex and I know we're we're
not trying it's just it is trying to
plan for and Implement and invest in a
park system it it is there's there's no
simple way to do this but um hats off
Rob and Julie and I I appreciate and I I
would speak hopefully you've seen these
eight questions didn't come out of thin
air they really came out of our goals
and policies that you guys had such an
important touch in if you remember those
values not only our work with design
Workshop but that joint meeting we had
with the environmental board if you
remember that and really that that
meeting resonating with this idea of
both vibrancy the active elements of our
system and resiliency we we need we need
a plan that does both that doesn't have
those competing against one other and so
hopefully you're
seeing so the formation of these
criteria came out of all of that
work yeah initial perspective is is it
too complicated but then I'm like if I'm
looking at the list I can't find one
that I want to cross off right right so
that's like the you know typically don't
like to look at that many variables in a
decision criteria but I also don't know
what I would kick out so really
appreciate the same thought you need
eight spider eyes to do
this have four right over there
do the eight priorities have all equal
weight or do they have one more
important than the other is a waiting
the criteria
criteria run it through with five points
and Longevity were threee points as an
example yeah I would say health and
safety urgency or IM mediacy kind of dro
towards the bottom and that's kind of a
a special case scenario too that may
come up later but I say that would have
the least amount of weight um I want to
say our Improvement in performance of
the park system which meet our elements
goal ab and D um making sure we have
varied amenities I think have the
heaviest
weight so we want to make sure that
again you know are we balanced in our
amenities are we balancing our open
space and natural areas with with our
active Recreation passive
Recreation um you know we're looking at
economic benefits as well that came out
of the goals and policies um arts and
culture is a big part of it and we want
to make sure we're integrating that now
and with every Park project to maximum
extent
possible um let's see so diversity and
equity and I think going back to the
core values we want to make sure that
those if we're saying those are our core
values we're waiting those a little bit
heavier now to and again it goes back to
getting that vibrancy and resiliency and
connectivity back in there
I just i' just second third kind of what
s said if it's as you're looking at
these project these are the lenses
you're looking two things
is from a resident and a individual
those are the lenses that want you look
and
stuff see
there's i'
say Ad here takeway there it covers
really what we're great yeah
then of course the next conversation of
okay now let's here's a here's a first
run of these through these crit what do
you all you know let's again as Julie
goes over them and and you're welcome to
sort of give feedback on near Mid or
long but re remember this is a six-year
plan so what what really starts to
resonate as near term that that really
becomes our our focused actions in these
next six years um so
right yeah thank you U so hopefully you
have the chance to look in your packet
um just want to share that the near-term
projects like Jeff said or that one to
six year time frame midterm would be
seven years uh to 15 years and this is
the projects getting started they're all
going to vary quite a bit of whether or
not they're going to get knocked out in
that time period or if they're going to
extend for the duration and into the
future uh those would be like longterm
which are 16 uh years and Beyond
also uh in addition to those projects
there are existing continuous programs
that support ongoing life cycle
replacement programs those are in there
we're interested in keeping those going
um and also there's like a really
healthy bucket of amenities um that can
be considered really for each of these
projects as um the planning uh happens
uh for each one um especially in the
public input process those amenities
were really what was um shouted um from
the rooftops um from the public so um we
have a a variety of new amenities added
to that list compared to the 2018
plan
um and so I'm just going to try to spin
through um what we'd like to do after I
kind of spin through the near term the
projects have been shifted through um
the criteria and so right now they're in
these buckets of near Mid long um and
I'll spin through the near ones because
like Jeff emphasized those are the ones
that um we're going to see some action
in uh potentially um and um but we would
really love to know if you have which
what your priorities are um you know
maybe you know your top one two or three
if you um want to contribute that to the
discussion afterwards so I'm just going
to run down the list um one is uh the
Anthology linear Park Improv ments so
that is a um city-owned sequence of Park
spaces within the Anthology development
in the new uh Newport neighborhood um
they're really a blank slate right now
they're ready to go uh Central Park Pad
2 this is the area of Central Park um
that currently has two underutilized um
baseball fields with drainage issues um
so these amenities and their Arrangement
will be reconsidered as part of the
project now in Confluence Park uh e
house restoration would get the E house
structure up to Snuff for Community use
which it's currently um not uh and this
would include involvement in
coordination with other organizations um
the project can includ include
additional improvements like expanding
the playground um and other improvements
that kind of northeast corner of
Confluence Park hey we have the East
Sunset way trail head
improvements uh that would take this
amazing little in town trail head and
improve it with more durable surfacing
for parking um and possibly restrooms
running water
woohoo at the
top um an additional wayf finding and
storytelling um signage to really bring
that trail um head city um to the Heart
of the City uh Fringe uh anyways Harvey
Manning Park Trail read uh sorry Harvey
Manning Park Trail development would
develop a trail system in the recently
acquired wooded bergsma uh property it
would connect the lower like new portway
the transit center the the new King
County big tree Ridge Trail Head really
yeah connect these lower um connection
points to the upper like the developed
portion of the existing Harvey Manning
park that has the playground basketball
court um parking as well as the Talis
neighborhood as a whole and connections
to the um Regional Park Cougar Mountain
um and we have picked back up coordinat
with King County on um the beginnings of
the development of that trail system um
and kind of how that would hash out
between the two agencies as the trails
would um go between the two lands
managed by the two agencies we have the
hillside Park loop trail this would
provide a trail system through the large
wooded Hillside Park this area of squawk
uh neighborhood doesn't have many
sidewalks so this project would go a
long way for connectivity um in the
neighborhood including connecting to
Oldtown
uh the mountains to sound Greenway Trail
is still on the docket to solidify a
trail alignment for this Regional bike
trail to get it built through isqua to
close the gap and connect to the
existing portions of this Regional Trail
and adjacent communities um this project
is uh largely Public Works project but
Parks is involved in any way we can to
get this big time Vision closer to
reality for BigTime connectivity and Big
Time
adventures um Pickering bar
uh Park improvements involve activating
kind of the blank slate between the barn
the adjacent roads and Pickering Trail
um precise amenities for this would be
uh determined in the planning
process uh we have the isqua school
district sport field partnership in the
near term um would involve getting
allseason sport Fields constructed on
one of three potential City Elementary
School properties um for joint public
and school use uh the concept has been
developing um along with School District
staff so there's some good momentum
building um for that
partnership um and uh kind of capacity
building um for the sports Fields uh
squawk Valley Park
Redevelopment um would see Improvement
to connectivity including safely uh
safely accessing the park since
pedestrian access to that Park is sub
far currently um also provid proving
connectivity between like the two
portions of the park and also provide
connectivity potentially to squa
Mountain um and even possibly further uh
towards Tiger Mountain and being kind of
a link between um those
areas and also possibly change up some
of the amenities with consider okay
three more tiits bailing Park
Redevelopment is a a long time coming um
planning had begun begun previously so
this would um pick things back up
uh the park would be redeveloped in
phases after the planning phase uh to
meet the needs of the anticipated high
density uh Central esqua neighborhood
and the larger Community major
considerations would be environmental
around tibits Creek and providing
durable surfacing for a variety of play
spaces including Sports
Fields uh Veterans Memorial Park and
Depot Park Redevelopment is intended to
continue the momentum that's being
created now with the um the projects uh
that are hopefully transitioning to
construction soon at pedestrian Park in
a senior center or on the Veterans
Memorial um to really kind of round out
and fill the gaps between the projects
to kind of update the design of these
public spaces and unite them um and so
this would probably start with Depot
Park uh and then be followed by a
Veterans Memorial Field so reactivating
these
spaces the final one on the list here
for near-term is this mentioned
previously the West Iso Highlands
neighborhood park um which as mentioned
it would be a neighborhood park in um
that portion of the Highlands that um is
going to see a higher density housing um
in this uh wood wooded area is near the
Swedish Medical Facility um and it would
be a wooded park with connections down
to this pressent trail
and I think with that if we could open
up to discussion um to hear what have to
say and how you're feeling about project
list ex sorry excellent overview Julie
well done if I could just add something
to the prior slide that talked about
ongoing Capital programs just as a
reminder you might recall as we were
doing our six-year CIP those of you that
were here a couple years ago um that
work we proposed and it's Curr it's it's
in now the city budget but um just an
important sort of um
um drawing differentiating those
near-term are really looking at projects
and invest specific Investments uh these
programs were really reflected as more
of those ongoing that this is sort of
think of this as the taking care of what
we got and and we really feel like these
are this is ongoing work that coupled
with the near-term
projects become our near-term strategy
we we'd want to keep these ongoing
programs going acquisition strategy
playground replacement irrigation
replacement Trail repairs think of those
as also near-term strategies um so they
really sort of create that that healthy
mix of capital programs and capital
projects quick besides us as individuals
on the
parkboard voicing our opinions about how
to rank some of these um what will be
the formal process to rank these
yeah really good question um in terms of
the once the draft or the document is
done
or yeah who and how will these be ranked
or by whom and so we've done most of
this sort of internally through staff
while looking at the current six-year
CIP that was adopted um through city
council looking at the 2018 Park plan
and those projects how they came about
we did some engagement with the
parkboard ad hoc committee and had them
sort of review and give their their top
fiveish for these near-term projects um
and reviewed the longer list of projects
um it will go to all of you all and then
it will be included as part of the park
draft plan um so it there there won't be
necessarily I guess like specific
project prioritization moving things up
and down for um full community as its
own entity um but it will be included in
the full Park plan um and this is 20e
Vision this isn't you know actually
six-year CIP this isn't budget this is
just sort of 20-year Vision helping us
sort of hone in and get community input
on where we want to sort of take some of
these um and all of these came from
Community input
already does that sort of help then yeah
the draft the the draft plan itself will
again go out we've developed quite a a
database of of folks that have provided
input everyone will be sort of invited
to review this draft plan how is it how
is it resonating and then just a double
down on what HTI said remember this is a
this is a planning document it's really
really important but it this isn't a
this isn't a budget document we're not
making we're not making budget decisions
we're trying to set a path and identify
priorities that will inform those budget
decisions over the next six years
thanks for the question Chris um I don't
see the pool in here that we talked
about a couple times ago is that because
it's already in flight or like what's
the story with pool and then the
community center really really good
question on both of those so as a park
system plan document this is really
meant to be focused on our land pieces
those facilities um are certainly in and
part of the facility Capital planning um
and remain priorities but this isn't a
this is not a Parks and Recreation
system plan it's really focusing on our
outdoor infrastructure so those are main
priorities can I just get I think youve
tried to say this a couple different
ways I believe I'm understand correctly
but just want to make sure I understand
so for example like the mountains to
sound Greenway
Trail is a near-term project that you
want to put Manpower at to develop a
plan but the actual project is a 16 plus
year
project I don't think I quite understand
what I'm looking at no no great great
question I I'll take it I'll take a try
at this um each one of these projects
has a different length Runway so so I I
don't by by saying that all of these are
some of these will would get
accomplished in the near term there's
others of these that are so complex we
want to get started on them they they
might not be all the way through to
completion but we feel like they're an
important enough priority to to get them
started right so I think that's yeah
yeah you know what I mean I mean yeah
the conversation is happening now but
the actual duration of the work that
needs to be done is the four box bubble
thing yeah yeah as Robin mentioned early
on is we're we're going to try and
graphically showing the plan it's like
each of these have a a different
longevity um not every project is
created the same unfortunately
did Anna want to add something or are
you
good um yeah this might have been
clarified already but you can kind of
notice here that these will not be
included in the plan numbered priority
one through 20 or whatever uh
intentionally because they're also going
to be based off of what opportunities
come up if you get a partner if you get
grant money if you get um just something
is it just makes sense to move it
forward faster you want this plan to
give you that flexibility to respond to
opportunities in that way additionally
there will be concept plans that are
developed for each of these projects um
and which includes additional public
engagement where people can influence
what exactly goes into that site where
you talk to neighbors and you understand
what their challenges or or issues are
with them and so there is a lot of time
within that 20year duration with this
work to to work through more of the
details in it but the point of
prioritizing is so that one um this the
state that we uh state requirements for
these plans do want to see
prioritization of what you're going to
be focused on for Clear projects as well
as for the purposes of transparency
about what is a priority to your
community move forward and what are some
things that you know they may not be as
clear a focus of what the resources
should be going towards
great great points um I'm going to under
the director's report little
foreshadowing I'm I'm going to highlight
um one thing we're putting into this
plan is accomplishments from the 2018
plan and um I I'll talk a little bit
about it but we'll share that and add
that in the minutes um it's important to
sort of look back and and I think Anna
your points are so spoton because you
know the priorities of the 2018 plan
really set a lot of important work but
you'll see in terms of what was
accomplished there was opportunity sort
of embedded in what we're able to get
get completed
so great addition thanks
an there other comments in regards to
the priority
project I'll make some comments I was
kind of waiting to see but jumping in um
for those of you who don't know me I'm
always team tibits so
just you know I'm I'm excited to see it
on this list I would love us to
challenge ourselves to say what can we
do to accelerate time on this project
like I don't love seeing the bubble in
the Box chart the way it's sitting um I
I think we need to challenge ourselves
to do better than that it's going to sit
right in smack dab in the middle of
where you guys where we're talking about
prioritizing from a Dei
perspective um I would prefer to have
fewer things on the list and make faster
progress there
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personally second that
definitely heard that but I think we're
GNA partner real well together because
you know I'm in fact driving over here
it was great to see that some of the
fields were actually utilized you know
being utied they get utilized in fun
through the spring and summer yeah like
that Park is Jam in summer and then it's
quiet you go up to the highlands in the
winter kids are still all playing on it
yeah so you can solve that Y and it
doesn't need to take 10 years no as
staff we we we Echo that we share it
it's time it's Pastime T TVP needs a new
vision it needs a new um and yeah
certainly appreciate that and um
there'll be a lot of a lot of community
conversation um there is yeah a lot of
complicating factors with that really
really important community park that
happens to be tucked in a high hydrology
Valley so yeah the sooner we get working
on it um and really start trying to
solve solve those the better I just want
to sit and planning for three years like
we need to start making some
moves thank
you love that would love
that and that's where that funding you
know implementation right as we
prioritize our work um
rate of spend rate of investment thank
you David for your benchmarking question
you're right you know how as residents
how quickly do you want to invest and
what is the scale of that investment you
want to make in your Pro system is going
to be really really that that will
determine a lot of the rate we get done
on these projects too so um really good
we agree it's a it's a it's a critical
community park that needs to perform
better absolutely needs to perform
better I think Chris you brought up a
really good good point if you were to
call this down to a narrower narrower
list what would you prioritize out of it
maybe looking at those near-term
projects are there like a top three a
top five that really y for you as
community members as uh you know
represent atives from your neighborhoods
and other community groups things you've
been hearing are there projects in there
that feel
like they deserve the extra
star definitely think
tibits just make a list
of all it's like a DOT exercise all
three of your dos are going I think
Central Park Pad 2 has a lot of demand
and also has sort of a more you know a
low low hanging fruit
project currently underutilized as well
needs better to perform better I have a
question just as the um when we talk
about this kind of stuff is being
included in
the
as
challeng that part of
it yeah it's a great question and it is
it's part of you know as we as any of
these projects goes through per
yeah all those questions of concurrency
and transportation and parking are all
are all key elements to the project
yeah that was kind of my question around
um I wrot it on my list no I forgot um
the park that's like really hard to get
to because of traffic
Valle yeah so and like I guess my
question is we're not going to solve the
traffic on Isa
Hobart so like how much more going south
for those that don't know yeah it's like
the last Park as you're right on our
Southern right on our Southern border so
it's a great question Marl and one we as
staff and as we talked to the community
and saw needs to connect better better
connect to squawk Mountain better
connect to Tiger Mountain that that Park
um I'm just going to speak
hypothetically here you're right it its
location not being in a neighborhood is
kind of constrained to use as a
predominant Sports field um or some of
those other things but it's extremely
well positioned on the creek Corridor to
be potentially a trail head um
potentially an alternative way to get up
and into squawk mountain and the squawk
Mountain State Park um the the s what's
called squawk Valle Park North sits
right at at across it's right across
this the front street from Park point so
if you can imagine a trail that would
actually link West Tiger Mountain to
squawk Mountain potential there right so
we we see that that Park could function
more um in in different ways so I get
that's as as Julie explained the sort of
the programmatic makeup of that park it
feels like it needs to be something
different um it's it's a relatively
isolated Park so would something like
additional Sports courts down there
would would people if if there's a again
increased desire for tennis and pickle
ball is that something we want to
consider well but again multiple
different times a day I mean that it's
not just I yes they practice at 6:30 is
probably not the best time to go but
there are other times throughout the
week and day when
it's not as constrained and not not
saying that's what we're proposing but
are there is it a different mix of
elements that Mak sense Community
Gardens Community has clearly said
they're interested in Community Gardens
but is there a potential for community
garden down there so um that's the again
it's a it's a park that has had
investment but again Fe from this sort
of what's the role we're asking it to
play in the system maybe it it could it
could serve a really important role but
it's a different
role my other question was around so you
mentioned e house restoration as well as
the veterans and Depot so I know we
haven't started Depot but like question
are those just like additions to what
we've already done is it like the phase
two of the stuff we've started is that
what that those are exactly phase two is
a good way to put it
yep another question um you have to go
up to the last map image of The Creeks
Peaks there are these potential
connections um that look like three of
them high into Hillside Park if I'm
reading the map
correctly is that what those are
doing is that Hillside
Park yeah yeah are connec connection
anywhere in in
this they're not they're not they're
not called out in the list no this is
sort of so the the vision for this
Creeks to Peaks image is being able to
sort of see all of the community parks
and the neighborhood parks potentially
connected so this could like help get
one of those to this list but it's not
they're not specifically trails that we
have I identified as they're probably
not for the short term near term they're
not they're not but they but they
longterm there's a tibits valy park to
squawk Trail so that's probably the line
going between those two parks I think
there's also um kind of squawk going
down to Oldtown with one possible
routing being via elide I think that is
in there also but I think they're long
term yeah those are in the long term I
think those are I don't want to put them
in the in the near term um because I
think tiet seems to be the top of the
near term I don't want to take away from
that but I do think that connectivity is
an important aspect especially given you
know the the both the uh draft concept
statements include that connection and
bringing people together uniting so
really good and good good catch and
you're right you're looking at the
entirety of the the vision of the
document again we updated every years we
try to cast a 20year vision but we're
not going to wait 20 years to update it
we going update it in a shorter term but
we still try and keep that Long View um
and you're right the very essence of
creeks to Peaks is this really really
bold ambitious Vision I'll just say but
could be really amaz there's not many
cities around us in the pon area that
literally every part could be
connected again it would be hard to do
it would take a long time but it's
possible with the the park system that
you all own as residents to to think of
connecting them
all Jeff this is a good reminder that we
should when we're talking about concept
we should continue to say 20-year
concept um paint what that vision is but
recognize that this plan is one that
you're updating every six years will
likely uh every six years chip away a
little bit more at accomplishing this
Vision exactly yeah y that point I think
and you guys know I always push on
accelerate time but um I think the
school collaboration might be a way to
get some fields in the valley turfed
faster right if you know I don't want to
take the pressure off tibits because I
want that done but like you know in a
very short term you know in the valley
some more Turf for kids in the winter I
think is another like could be an easier
lower hitting through wi that would be
another one that I would push
thank you right scored in the near term
both in terms of equity mapping and the
sort of needs coincidentally we had a
great conversation with isall school
district Capital staff just yesterday so
again those conversations are already
under way how can we make this
real in the interest of
time not great at doing this but um I am
G to sort of ask for maybe last thoughts
on of near-term projects or if there's
anything that you all saw as you were
reviewing in sort of midterm or
long-term projects that you feel like
you want to move up um let us know this
is not the only time you have the
opportunity to tell us this go home
think about it send us some emails um
and this will also be included in in the
larger draft plan that you all will see
in the next couple months as
well
cor where is cor Park
I I'll I'll take a stab at it so if
you're in the if if you're at Veterans
Memorial
Field and you're in the you're by the
ball field by the infield so that would
be the
north east corner of the
park for Park is right across the East
Fork of of isqua Creek maybe a block and
a half away it was established as a um
life estate acquisition a number of
years ago uh we just um just received
ownership we're now maintaining it for
the first time so it's right in the
middle of
Oldtown um provides a really cool
potential almost expansion of a Memorial
Field into that neighborhood uh brings
East Fork of Isa Creek a little closer
into
Oldtown so think of it yeah yeah it's
really in terms of Oldtown region you
know how to really make that
um parks within Oldtown
feel
connected could could we try something
where again this goes back to product
and all that but what we have here this
backlog right and so would it be
feasible to not right here but maybe
have an offline dock where we could all
get like 10 stickers and then you can
vote for of all these things put your 10
stickers wherever you want whether you
want to put all 10 on Tippets or you
want to spread them out and then we have
some sort of ranking within this group
um more consideration more thought goes
into it suppos I want this one I want
that one
yeah we can definitely do that
do
yeah meet our uh our obligations as open
public meetings act but we can we can
figure that out yeah yeah yeah I think
it's a great idea yeah again just we
really really invite feedback um um
you'll see this in in various forms I I
think maybe another ad hoc uh meeting as
as this
gets finalized will be important as well
Robin thanks for having this slide up
I'm just going to mention it really fast
I know time is short um Julie mentioned
this we also want to have along with our
Capital programs these capital projects
this list of amenities it's very clearly
identified as hey we heard this loud and
clear from the community these are these
are important amenities that might not
be projects by themselves but as we're
doing this sort of reimagination of our
Park system these amenities really need
to resonate and be priorities that we're
trying to weave into these projects so
um you heard Michael tonight so glad he
came speaking you know his advocacy for
archery um how and where we might fold
that in U much less you know dog parks
and you know disc just some of the other
amenities that really resonated from not
only the survey but the online mapping
uh feedback we got so we feel that's
another really important list to have
and and live in this do
well thank you all Robin Julie thank you
so much for your your your all work this
represents a lot of a lot of work um and
ALU as well we feel like you know not
only the vision of this document but
sort of rubber meets the road you know
how does this really start to inform our
Capital planning moving forward um it
it's a it's a document that Bridges um
all of that
so thank you with
that we're we're done we have more work
ahead L you Anna thank you for joining
us I know you're an hour ahead of us so
uh pretty amazing for having us amazing
distillation of information into all
those Graphics
that's awesome just just wait till you
see the plan document I'm telling you
it's coming a little snapshot it's gonna
pop yeah so thank you both so much
excited for it thank you all thank
you thank so
much okay
uh we'll move on to reports um our youth
representatives are not here they are
not here and they are wrapping up their
youth Advisory Board um year they had an
event yesterday I believe in confence
park and then they have their last event
at hackathon on June 1st
wrapping up at the end of school and
taking their a little katus for the
summer high schoolers do yes sorry sorry
to
see as much as all this stuff that we do
is pretty cool that for me is one of the
most inspiring moments to see them
involved at that
age okay then your
report yeah uh couple what's that yeah
no not everybody this is all good but be
all have our place I get it I get it no
uh two items really fast I Rob if you
don't mind sharing thank you um first
and well I'll do this one first this is
great um I mentioned it I want I'm going
to include this we want to include this
in the minutes we want to send this all
to you this um sort of keeping with this
theme of the park system plan some is
important context for you all um one of
the pages we'll speak to hey we did a we
adopted a 2018 plan what are what are
the accomplishments that we got done um
uh we have a little narrative that goes
with it it's it's hard to remember 2018
we had this I like to refer to it as the
covid blip that happened between a
pretty significant
International um event Global event uh
that disrupted a lot of things uh but in
spite of that um this is really
representation of 17 really really big
movements and actions that this city
took that came right out of the goals
and policies right out of the projects
that were adopted in that 2018 PL so um
important for us to tell the story
things from you know some really key
Acquisitions like bergsma and and you
know sort of connecting our Valley up
into the mountains another key one at
squawk Mountain some really important
work some neighborhood park improvements
at Blackberry um what we've done in park
operations and maintenance if you
remember that was a really important
goal let's take care of what we got and
I think we've heard time and again that
the the level of service and the
maintenance improvements that we've made
these last number years come directly
out of a goal of the park plan so please
when you get this take a take a chance
to look at that uh we just think it's an
important story to tell as we go from
that plan to to adopting another one and
really reminding all of us that these
are documents this is a document we
don't want sitting on a shelf this is
this is going to inform Capital planning
for the next and and operational
Investments the next six years so look
forward to sharing that um last item I
have we are embarking speaking of pools
and Recreation programs on we just
launched yesterday a recreation program
survey um we really want to reach out to
the community and ask how how is our
array of recreation programs how's our
array of recreation facilities from the
community center to the pool to the
senior center to Pickering barn and
Farmers Market just sort of a how are we
doing what's missing uh what is a
community are you are you interested in
seeing more community events are you
interested in seeing more you know other
programs other types of programs Etc um
these little um um information sheets
are going to be showing up on social
media and at our facilities we're going
to be pushing this out we're happy to
send you an email so please send us out
to your neighborhood spheres of
influence we really some really good
feedback because this will again help
inform us our our programming uh for
years to come and as a Cadence we
probably want is I've worked with Brian
and the recreation team we probably want
to every three years you know have some
type of recreation uh survey going out
uh Recreation programs is never it's not
something you ever arrive at it's a
market
driven anomaly that we constantly need
to be tweaking and adjusting so um thank
you for helping us get the the news out
on this one just give you a quick
feedback on this
please um especially this one in
particular I think it really could Ed
a sixth option instead of like someone
dis satisfied too highly satisfied to I
don't interact with that program um
because I think you you might skew your
uh results with people that don't
actually have kids in summer camp um
things like that is where do you slide
it on satisfi or unsatisfied something I
don't I don't go senior Cent I don't
know how to answer that on your Ser so
just a do
really
good it's you phone sir I think that
brings it to and actually have two
minutes um that doesn't usually happen
but one thing I'll I'll keep this to one
minute uh I crawled all over the
websites and created this list um rather
than try and list them off and run out
of time there are so many things going
on and you can't read it from there but
um when you get it take a look it's
pretty cool how many opportunities we
have by all the different organizations
from DIA and trot unlimited and isquat
historic museums and uh so give that
list a look over and you'll probably
find some things that you want to do and
it's it's High season we're not even in
concert season
yet and that's it for me um any other
business or
announcements I just I just thank you
you too again for accepting your
nominations and continuing your
roles um and then I just have one item I
always do I feel like um looking at
dates for next meetings so our next
meeting is scheduled for June 24th that
likely will stay um but when we hit July
we actually are going to potentially
need a different meeting than our Late
July meeting um because of Park plan um
so we have some sort of document
adoption that um will be happening
pretty soon some draft documents coming
out in the beginning of July um and an
opportunity for parkboard to give their
sort of final feedback and um take
action to move that that planning
document forward so you'll be getting an
email from me soon asking for um
potentially time during the week of July
15th um I need to work with the city
clerk's office to find out a date in
there that is okay to to ask and use um
but somewhere within that week um if we
are able to make that meeting happen we
will likely um cancel the later July
meeting um because we won't need a
meeting in another two weeks um but that
is the only other update that will be
coming soon and I wanted to tell you all
now I'm sure you all have summer
vacations planned and by all means take
your summer vacations that's what
excused out are for um but just wanted
to put that one out there
now I don't know if we need to do
anything but I think for that June 24th
you're gonna be gone and I'm gonna be
gone too oh yeah we do practice run
for here um June 24th yes both our chair
and vice chair will not be in attendance
um we can decide now as a board if
somebody knows they're going to be able
to be here and feel
um interested in accepting the duties of
chair to run through the meeting um if
anyone feels comfortable making that
known now that'd be great if not we can
do it over email later um but I have a
little uh blank agenda that I can share
with you know just to walk you through
it I I used it the first couple meetings
and I don't anym but it helps you know
what you're supposed to
do and then we have our we have our
monthly meeting where we meet with you
all to sort of build the agenda so you
know if if we get a name in the next
week or two and invite that person to
come to that meeting too so you're
queued up and ready to go
need right yeah thank you Ryan thank you
great we will I'll we be in touch and
you'll sort of get a a little thing that
you can use to help you through it too
yeah thank
you that's great discussion tonight
thank you everybody
Thank you new members yeah
welcome I know
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doing so good and then all a sudden 848
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