Park Board · Monday, May 24, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Membership

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Staff report:

Park Board About Staff Liaison Created in 1983, this board provides guidance and Milissa Ching, Operations Specialist direction in meeting the City’s parks and Email recreational needs by advising the Mayor and Parks & Recreation Director on matters relating to the Regular Members planning; acquisition, development; and operation 2025 - Vacant of parks, facilities and recreational programs inside 2022 of 2025- Danielle Githens the City limits. 2024 - Marlene Waxe 2024 - Zack Szablewski Membership 2023 - Chris Kovac The Park Board is comprised of nine regular 2022 - Bradley Book members, with four-year terms; and two 2022 - Ruben Nieto alternates, with two-year terms. All members are 2022 - Jonathan Richardson appointed by the Mayor and subject to 2022 - Linda Whitworth confirmation by the City Council. Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For more information, see Alternate Members…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of April 26, 2021

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 04-26-2021 Park Board Minutes 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting April 26, 2021 DRAFT MINUTES

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Welcome new Board members and Introductions, (I)

Director · 10 min · Jeff Watling, Parks and Community Services

▶ Watch from 3:16

Board Elections, (D)

Director and Jennifer Fink, Park Planner and · 10 min · Jeff Watling, Parks and Community Services

Topics: Parks

▶ Watch from 27:43

6-year Capital Improvement Plan – Update, (I)

Director · Jeff Watling, Parks and Community Services

Topics: Budget

▶ Watch from 52:10

5. REPORTS

Chairperson's Report

Youth Report

Director's Report

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0:09 ↗ well welcome everyone

0:11 ↗ uh to the issaquah park board

0:14 ↗ meeting on may 24th 2021

0:19 ↗ sorry for our late start here this

0:21 ↗ evening but we had a little bit of

0:23 ↗ technical issues

0:24 ↗ with webex but um thanks to our

0:28 ↗ team here we were able to pull this

0:30 ↗ together here in

0:32 ↗ uh pretty short order so i think that

0:34 ↗ worked out

0:35 ↗ pretty well given the circumstances so

0:38 ↗ uh before we get started with much of

0:40 ↗ anything i'd like to go around

0:42 ↗ and do a roll call with everybody that's

0:44 ↗ here with us

0:46 ↗ uh and so when i call your name please

0:49 ↗ take yourself off mute if you're there

0:51 ↗ and just acknowledge your attendance

0:54 ↗ uh danielle mr president

0:59 ↗ zach uh present

1:03 ↗ welcome zach uh chris

1:08 ↗ president uh jonathan

1:15 ↗ i thought i saw jonathan somewhere

1:18 ↗ there's jonathan

1:21 ↗ you good jonathan jonathan thumbs up

1:26 ↗ uh linda president

1:31 ↗ uh brenda present

1:34 ↗ welcome brenda thank you thank you

1:38 ↗ we have a couple board members that are

1:40 ↗ going to be joining us a little bit

1:41 ↗ later so

1:42 ↗ we're going to be a little bit um

1:45 ↗ different than our agenda that we have

1:48 ↗ set up but

1:49 ↗ only one item for elections that we're

1:52 ↗ going to push a little bit later to the

1:53 ↗ meeting

1:56 ↗ so i'm going to start with the approval

1:59 ↗ of minutes everybody have an opportunity

2:01 ↗ to review minutes from our last meeting

2:03 ↗ on april 26th

2:06 ↗ any corrections or issues that you want

2:09 ↗ to talk about

2:12 ↗ i'm not seeing any hands uh

2:16 ↗ are there any objections to approval of

2:17 ↗ minutes

2:20 ↗ not seeing any objections i hereby

2:22 ↗ approve minutes from our last meeting

2:25 ↗ thank you everyone

2:32 ↗ so now we're on to uh public comments

2:35 ↗ um i think we do have one person from

2:38 ↗ the

2:39 ↗ community here this evening with us and

2:41 ↗ melissa do you have any

2:43 ↗ uh emails uh or any knowledge of anybody

2:47 ↗ calling in that has a public comment

2:51 ↗ no no emails but i'll go ahead and

2:53 ↗ unmute julian to see if he

2:55 ↗ wanted to provide public comment tonight

2:58 ↗ okay julian did you want to provide

3:00 ↗ public comment tonight no comments

3:02 ↗ tonight

3:02 ↗ okay thank you thank you julian

3:08 ↗ so we will close public comments

3:12 ↗ and uh look at that here we are on time

3:15 ↗ already

3:16 ↗ and we made it up onto regular business

3:21 ↗ we have uh four items on regular

3:23 ↗ business tonight

3:24 ↗ uh first of all we're going to talk

3:26 ↗ about new board members

3:28 ↗ we have board elections this evening

3:30 ↗ which we're going to move

3:32 ↗ to the end of regular business

3:36 ↗ we also are going to have project

3:38 ↗ updates um regarding hillside and

3:40 ↗ blackberry parks

3:42 ↗ and an update on the six-year cip

3:45 ↗ so to start things off

3:49 ↗ i'll pass it on to jeff to

3:51 ↗ [Music]

3:52 ↗ talk about your board members

3:56 ↗ hey uh thanks brad and and thanks

3:59 ↗ everybody for your agility as we uh

4:01 ↗ got through and got on and look at this

4:03 ↗ we're right on right on schedule

4:05 ↗ um yeah hey this isn't going to be so

4:07 ↗ much me talking this is all of us

4:09 ↗ talking this is a chance

4:10 ↗ i thought just to do some quick welcome

4:12 ↗ and introductions um

4:14 ↗ uh with zach and brenda both here as as

4:17 ↗ new

4:17 ↗ board members um zach zablewski

4:21 ↗ did i get that right zach close

4:25 ↗ yeah that's it yeah it's a bliss

4:28 ↗ either way it's fine awesome awesome new

4:31 ↗ new regular member and brenda spears a

4:34 ↗ new member as an alternate

4:35 ↗ i'm so glad you're here i thought we

4:37 ↗ could just quickly go around

4:39 ↗ um i'll lead off but uh just introduce

4:42 ↗ yourself

4:43 ↗ um what's your connection uh to issaquah

4:46 ↗ as a resident

4:47 ↗ perhaps how long you've lived here etc

4:49 ↗ and then what's your favorite thing

4:50 ↗ about issaquah

4:51 ↗ um so again it doesn't have to be quick

4:53 ↗ but just a chance to uh for

4:56 ↗ zach and brendan to get to know us and

4:57 ↗ us to get to know them so

5:00 ↗ zach brenda hi i'm jeff watling parks

5:02 ↗ and community services director here

5:04 ↗ with with issaquah i have been a seattle

5:07 ↗ area

5:08 ↗ person my whole life um um uh

5:12 ↗ had the privilege of becoming director

5:14 ↗ here with this squad about five years

5:15 ↗ ago

5:16 ↗ um and i just have loved it in fact my

5:18 ↗ probably my favorite thing about

5:19 ↗ issaquah there's so much to love

5:22 ↗ um but i'd i'd have to say the people

5:25 ↗ and just the community it's it's a

5:26 ↗ community that cares about

5:28 ↗ um itself it cares about nature um

5:32 ↗ and it uh very much wants to be involved

5:34 ↗ in um

5:36 ↗ shaping shaping its its future

5:40 ↗ i'm gonna i'm gonna hand off i'm gonna

5:42 ↗ pass the baton and when you're done

5:44 ↗ maybe you get to choose who you wanna

5:45 ↗ pass it to

5:46 ↗ so uh brad i'm passing it to you okay

5:49 ↗ that seems fitting well welcome zach and

5:52 ↗ welcome brenda

5:53 ↗ a good opportunity for you to get to

5:54 ↗ meet everybody on the board can't wait

5:56 ↗ till we

5:57 ↗ have an opportunity to do that in person

5:58 ↗ but this is close enough for now

6:01 ↗ and better than the telephone anyway huh

6:04 ↗ i'm brad book

6:05 ↗ i've been the chair now for five years

6:07 ↗ of the park board

6:08 ↗ been on the park board now for nine

6:10 ↗ years uh i moved to the seattle area

6:13 ↗ after i graduated from college in 1976.

6:17 ↗ i've been on squawk mountain now since

6:20 ↗ the mid 80s

6:22 ↗ i've been retired from the insurance

6:25 ↗ industry for about about 10 years now

6:27 ↗ amazingly and

6:32 ↗ you know really my favorite thing about

6:33 ↗ issaquah is all of the public lands that

6:36 ↗ we have surrounding uh

6:37 ↗ the issaquah alps the lake samamish

6:41 ↗ state park i mean it

6:42 ↗ there's just so much that this city has

6:45 ↗ to offer in terms of

6:47 ↗ getting outdoors and it's a unique

6:49 ↗ opportunity that most communities just

6:51 ↗ don't have

6:52 ↗ and as you continue to stay with the

6:56 ↗ park board you'll get a chance to know

6:58 ↗ more and more about

6:59 ↗ all the lands that we actually have

7:00 ↗ available to our community

7:02 ↗ so welcome and i'm going to pass this on

7:06 ↗ to

7:08 ↗ linda

7:12 ↗ hi i'm linda whitworth and

7:15 ↗ i have been on the park board

7:18 ↗ at least nine years i might be 10

7:21 ↗ because i think i was i came on a year

7:23 ↗ before brad did

7:24 ↗ and um i lived in

7:28 ↗ the highlands until 2017 and now i live

7:32 ↗ up this

7:33 ↗ up the road in some amish

7:36 ↗ and um what i really like about issaquah

7:39 ↗ is it's

7:44 ↗ mountain a little

7:48 ↗ what i like about it is that it feels

7:51 ↗ like

7:52 ↗ a nice closed community but it also

7:56 ↗ is is big enough that there's a lot of

7:59 ↗ things to do

8:00 ↗ places to see um mountains to hike

8:04 ↗ and a lot of great places to eat

8:07 ↗ so it's nice to it's nice to come the

8:10 ↗ extra couple of miles down

8:12 ↗ into issaquah and i will

8:15 ↗ pass it off to jonathan

8:21 ↗ hi folks jonathan richardson i've been

8:23 ↗ in issaquah for about seven years now

8:25 ↗ and i think

8:26 ↗ with the parks board for almost four i

8:29 ↗ started as an as an alternate

8:31 ↗ uh you know obviously i am partial to

8:34 ↗ the parks here in the city

8:35 ↗ um but i think also uh you know what i

8:38 ↗ really love is

8:39 ↗ um feels like the city has a good vision

8:41 ↗ for the future that is both

8:44 ↗ uh you know taking stock of uh

8:47 ↗ all the great things about the city that

8:48 ↗ we want to move forward and then also

8:50 ↗ looking ahead to a future we know that

8:52 ↗ more people will be here there will be

8:54 ↗ more things around us to do

8:56 ↗ obviously a great place to live and so

8:58 ↗ really love and appreciate that balance

9:00 ↗ from

9:00 ↗ from the city uh

9:03 ↗ daniel i can get to you

9:08 ↗ i am danielle i am from

9:11 ↗ originally from um fox island so about

9:13 ↗ an hour south of here

9:15 ↗ i we moved to issaquah from seattle

9:19 ↗ in 2004 um when i had a newborn and a

9:23 ↗ two-year-old

9:24 ↗ um and shortly thereafter i joined the

9:26 ↗ park board so i've been on the park

9:27 ↗ board i think probably

9:29 ↗ about 15 years or so maybe more um

9:33 ↗ and uh and through that time i've sort

9:36 ↗ of

9:36 ↗ enjoyed like you know i had the

9:39 ↗ playground stuff with my little kids and

9:41 ↗ then

9:41 ↗ you know like little league and as well

9:43 ↗ youth soccer and then the high school

9:45 ↗ sports so i've sort of

9:47 ↗ experienced um all of our parks and

9:50 ↗ facilities for sure on a very personal

9:52 ↗ level

9:53 ↗ um i love that issaquah still has that

9:56 ↗ kind of small town feel

9:58 ↗ um and we're close to the mountains and

10:00 ↗ our own hills

10:01 ↗ and um in the water and um

10:04 ↗ a bigger city so i just think the

10:06 ↗ location is great

10:09 ↗ uh let's see chris how about you

10:13 ↗ okay hi my name is chris kovac

10:17 ↗ and president of issaquah for all about

10:20 ↗ 21 years

10:23 ↗ for that about eight years in seattle

10:26 ↗ hard to hear me a little bit

10:30 ↗ sorry i don't know where the mic is so

10:32 ↗ lived here 21 years

10:33 ↗ and about i'm a civil engineering

10:36 ↗ consultant

10:37 ↗ and about 20 years ago i sort of

10:40 ↗ stumbled into my first park

10:41 ↗ project and have worked on them since

10:47 ↗ mainly other jurisdictions and just have

10:49 ↗ a passion for parks

10:51 ↗ part of why i moved here was

10:55 ↗ house-sitting for some family members

10:57 ↗ and realizing

10:58 ↗ wow there's trails right here and

11:01 ↗ that that was really the hook that got

11:03 ↗ me here my wife and i

11:04 ↗ raised our sons here and i

11:08 ↗ love the community

11:12 ↗ getting to know so many people and uh

11:15 ↗ have

11:16 ↗ had participation i've been on the park

11:18 ↗ board for about

11:19 ↗ three to four years and i can't really

11:21 ↗ remember exactly and

11:23 ↗ uh before that a few years on the

11:25 ↗ friends of lake samana state park

11:29 ↗ happy to be here glad glad to have you

11:36 ↗ i think that covers everybody chris but

11:38 ↗ let's uh why don't we have ryan why

11:40 ↗ don't you introduce yourself as the

11:42 ↗ representative from the youth board

11:45 ↗ well hi everyone um my name is ryan i'm

11:47 ↗ a junior at liberty high school this

11:49 ↗ year

11:49 ↗ um i've been a member of the advisory

11:51 ↗ board for six years now and

11:54 ↗ i'm just i think probably in my seventh

11:56 ↗ month of being the youth representative

11:58 ↗ for issaquah on the parks board here

12:00 ↗ um i really loved getting to know

12:01 ↗ everyone here and i um you know

12:03 ↗ i felt really connected to the parks

12:05 ↗ after working as a camp counselor last

12:07 ↗ summer and i just love

12:08 ↗ how you know passionate and engaged

12:10 ↗ youth are in a squad i'm really honored

12:11 ↗ to

12:12 ↗ uh be in this role as the youth

12:13 ↗ representative here on the parks board

12:16 ↗ thank you ryan well that covers

12:19 ↗ everybody that's

12:20 ↗ with us oh well jennifer why don't you

12:22 ↗ step in

12:27 ↗ hi everyone i'm jennifer fink park

12:30 ↗ planner and project administrator

12:32 ↗ with the city i have i am

12:35 ↗ almost done with my seventh year here at

12:37 ↗ the city and soon will be starting my

12:39 ↗ eighth which is hard to believe

12:41 ↗ um i have been here since 2007

12:45 ↗ uh raised my two boys in the esqua

12:48 ↗ school system

12:49 ↗ and again love issaquah because

12:52 ↗ it's the best of all worlds it's small

12:54 ↗ town but you're close to the big city

12:56 ↗ you're close to water you're close to

12:57 ↗ mountains

12:58 ↗ got trails and uh just a wonderful

13:02 ↗ wonderful community

13:03 ↗ to live in

13:10 ↗ uh how about melissa look who i found do

13:13 ↗ you want ruben to go before me

13:15 ↗ yeah okay reuben well reuben's joined us

13:18 ↗ reuben

13:18 ↗ uh we're introducing ourselves to our

13:20 ↗ new park board members zach and brenda

13:23 ↗ do you want to introduce yourself and uh

13:25 ↗ say hello

13:28 ↗ brian am i am i unmuted

13:32 ↗ yep we can hear you okay great well i've

13:35 ↗ been here about 30 years

13:36 ↗ love it love everything everybody said

13:38 ↗ about the mountains the creeks the

13:40 ↗ rivers the animals

13:42 ↗ everything from bears to bobcats the

13:44 ↗ trails and hiking

13:46 ↗ and uh just love it here and it's i've

13:49 ↗ been in the park

13:50 ↗ twice now i've been on the board right

13:51 ↗ now i think six years

13:53 ↗ and uh before that i worked for the city

13:55 ↗ for about 11 years and enjoyed that

13:56 ↗ tremendously

13:58 ↗ so this is the my final resting place my

14:01 ↗ home

14:04 ↗ thank you reuben okay melissa you're up

14:08 ↗ okay um so i'm melissa and i'm the

14:12 ↗ operations specialist for the parks

14:14 ↗ department i've been with the city

14:16 ↗ for a little over eight years now um

14:19 ↗ i live up in north bend um but

14:22 ↗ my i think my favorite thing about

14:23 ↗ working in issaquah is

14:25 ↗ feels a lot like home to me back east

14:28 ↗ and my most favorite thing is being able

14:31 ↗ to take my lunch breaks

14:32 ↗ walk down the rainier trail head up to

14:34 ↗ the mountains and

14:35 ↗ be back in time before an hour's up and

14:38 ↗ so

14:39 ↗ just quick easy access to all the

14:41 ↗ natural elements in the community is

14:43 ↗ fabulous

14:46 ↗ thank you melissa we have two members

14:49 ↗ that are going to show up a little later

14:51 ↗ marlene and jeremy so we'll wait till

14:54 ↗ they come to

14:55 ↗ say hello so zach

14:58 ↗ and brenda zach why don't you start

15:00 ↗ first maybe you could introduce yourself

15:02 ↗ to the board

15:03 ↗ and tell us a little bit about yourself

15:04 ↗ and your interest in uh joining us

15:07 ↗ sure hello uh my name is zach uh

15:11 ↗ i've uh lived in des aqua since uh 2018.

15:16 ↗ this is a parent of mine

15:19 ↗ uh bella she's a blue headed titanic

15:23 ↗ and uh basically uh i'm originally from

15:27 ↗ ohio

15:27 ↗ i lived in colorado and texas but i

15:29 ↗ think uh

15:30 ↗ out of all of the different cities and

15:32 ↗ townships

15:34 ↗ i think issaquah is my favorite um i do

15:37 ↗ think it's

15:38 ↗ uh probably the best place in the

15:40 ↗ country for

15:41 ↗ trail running i just uh

15:45 ↗ very passionate about the outdoors and

15:48 ↗ um

15:48 ↗ preserving nature and i think that's

15:52 ↗ you know why i'm interested uh most in

15:54 ↗ the park

15:57 ↗ thank you zach and one point of interest

16:00 ↗ to everybody as zach happens to be

16:02 ↗ married to april who is our park board

16:05 ↗ member for the last

16:06 ↗ two years so hello to april in the

16:09 ↗ background if you're there

16:11 ↗ hi hi everyone

16:15 ↗ hi april uh brenda how about you how

16:18 ↗ about telling us a little bit about

16:19 ↗ yourself and your interest in the park

16:25 ↗ i think we gotta get brenda off a mute

16:32 ↗ okay yep right

16:35 ↗ i'm from the kansas city area originally

16:38 ↗ and then i spent 20 years in boise the

16:41 ↗ city of trees and then we moved here and

16:43 ↗ have been here for 20 years which i

16:44 ↗ consider this the city of trees

16:46 ↗ and it's probably why i love it so much

16:48 ↗ i love

16:49 ↗ like you've also said over and over

16:51 ↗ again the trails the parks the water

16:53 ↗ uh the community is so ingratiating

16:57 ↗ it is a great place to live so

17:00 ↗ my career was all in healthcare so this

17:02 ↗ is kind of new i'm trying to

17:05 ↗ think of how i can apply that into the

17:08 ↗ parts department of course i'll be very

17:10 ↗ interested in

17:11 ↗ health and safety and dealing with

17:13 ↗ disability issues and things but

17:15 ↗ just very glad to be here thank you

17:18 ↗ thank you brenda

17:19 ↗ so thank you brenda and zach for uh

17:21 ↗ participating with us

17:23 ↗ and i hope you enjoy the experience here

17:25 ↗ this next coming year

17:27 ↗ and certainly feel free to reach out to

17:30 ↗ myself

17:30 ↗ or jeff or melissa or jennifer any of us

17:34 ↗ if you ever have any questions or issues

17:36 ↗ you want to talk about so

17:38 ↗ thanks for that and with that i think

17:42 ↗ we'll move on to

17:44 ↗ our next item which is uh project

17:48 ↗ updates uh for hillside and blackberry

17:51 ↗ parks

17:52 ↗ and uh jeff and jennifer are going to

17:55 ↗ take us through that that's great i'll

17:59 ↗ give a quick

18:00 ↗ intro and then hand it over to jen uh

18:02 ↗ thanks everyone for the intros that was

18:04 ↗ that was a lot of fun uh and again

18:06 ↗ brenda zack welcome welcome aboard

18:09 ↗ um yeah so on our 2021 work plan

18:12 ↗ uh as you know we've had a couple

18:14 ↗ discussions about

18:15 ↗ [Music]

18:16 ↗ were improvements at both hillside park

18:20 ↗ and at blackberry park what originally

18:24 ↗ sort of per the the budget and council

18:27 ↗ goals

18:28 ↗ uh started as um at

18:31 ↗ blackberry park uh sort of replacing

18:34 ↗ existing play

18:35 ↗ amenities and at hillside park exploring

18:38 ↗ ways to add additional play and

18:40 ↗ address some of the 2014 priorities that

18:43 ↗ the community had

18:46 ↗ both of those projects are progressing

18:47 ↗ right along

18:49 ↗ public feedback has a first phase of

18:53 ↗ public

18:53 ↗ feedback has occurred with both projects

18:57 ↗ i think as i've shared in our last month

19:00 ↗ that public feedback has really helped

19:02 ↗ to inform

19:03 ↗ um in many ways both of these projects

19:06 ↗ and in in a number of ways

19:08 ↗ has begun to modify a bit the scope of

19:11 ↗ each project

19:13 ↗ as the parks themselves blackberry park

19:17 ↗ plopped in the middle of the south lake

19:19 ↗ sammamish neighborhood

19:21 ↗ and hillside park a beautiful forested

19:25 ↗ park

19:25 ↗ tucked in squawk mountain both of those

19:27 ↗ sites are so unique

19:29 ↗ uh these projects are really becoming

19:32 ↗ different and unique

19:33 ↗ in that regard we're beginning to

19:36 ↗ prepare for

19:38 ↗ uh the next phase of public engagement

19:40 ↗ with both

19:41 ↗ um the projects are now i think

19:43 ↗ beginning to progress at a

19:45 ↗ slightly different cadence because of

19:47 ↗ that first feedback

19:48 ↗ um our purpose tonight and what we

19:50 ↗ wanted to do was give you an update on

19:51 ↗ where we're at what

19:53 ↗ some of what we've heard a lot of what

19:54 ↗ we've heard and how we're

19:57 ↗ beginning to prepare for this next

20:00 ↗ set of public engagement and really

20:03 ↗ share the approach that we're going to

20:04 ↗ take with both of these parks

20:06 ↗ and get some feedback from you as to

20:09 ↗ what you think about

20:11 ↗ that approach that we'll take with both

20:13 ↗ hillside park and blackberry so

20:15 ↗ with that uh jen fink project manager

20:18 ↗ for both of these projects

20:20 ↗ take it away thank you jeff

20:24 ↗ give me just one quick moment here to

20:27 ↗ share my screen

20:32 ↗ can everyone see that

20:35 ↗ yep are you seeing hillside park okay

20:37 ↗ great

20:38 ↗ um with that as jeff said uh we've been

20:42 ↗ working on both the hillside

20:43 ↗ park and blackberry parks and i'm here

20:45 ↗ to provide you with a

20:47 ↗ brief update on each of the projects

20:51 ↗ so hillside park as jeff mentioned

20:54 ↗ hillside park is located up on squawk

20:57 ↗ valley park and we were asked to look at

21:00 ↗ how we might be able to find

21:02 ↗ or excuse me squawk mountain hello

21:05 ↗ it's been a long day and it's monday so

21:08 ↗ it's up on squawk mountain we are

21:10 ↗ looking at how to

21:12 ↗ introduce some perhaps play area

21:15 ↗ improvements up at hillside park which

21:17 ↗ right now has

21:19 ↗ just a cleared two-acre playfield and a

21:24 ↗ backstop and some natural trails

21:27 ↗ that people enjoy walking around

21:30 ↗ back at the end of february we held our

21:32 ↗ first public engagement

21:34 ↗ and what we heard and um

21:38 ↗ we're really working on what we've heard

21:39 ↗ from the community as well as far as

21:42 ↗ also what we've learned

21:44 ↗ four major themes have come out of

21:47 ↗ the engagement that we have conducted so

21:50 ↗ far

21:51 ↗ and those are really about the natural

21:53 ↗ environment

21:55 ↗ concerns about the field maintaining

21:58 ↗ access

21:59 ↗ to the park as well as additional play

22:02 ↗ amenities

22:03 ↗ and we'll kind of go through each of

22:04 ↗ these real quickly here

22:07 ↗ as a reminder all the engagement that

22:10 ↗ we've done to date as well as online

22:12 ↗ surveys

22:13 ↗ recordings of the meetings can be found

22:15 ↗ on our website

22:17 ↗ so um i know we've gone over some of the

22:20 ↗ survey results some prior meetings so if

22:22 ↗ anyone wants to have a little deeper

22:24 ↗ dive into those they are available

22:26 ↗ on the website for you but as far as

22:29 ↗ natural

22:29 ↗ environment what we have heard from the

22:31 ↗ community is there's a real strong

22:33 ↗ consensus to

22:34 ↗ preserve the natural character of the

22:36 ↗ park and especially

22:38 ↗ to retain the trees it is obvious that

22:42 ↗ people really love the park as it is and

22:46 ↗ hope that any future improvements would

22:48 ↗ retain

22:49 ↗ that character of the park being special

22:53 ↗ being secretive and being

22:56 ↗ just a special place to go enjoy nature

22:59 ↗ and get away

23:01 ↗ we also heard a lot of feedback

23:03 ↗ regarding the field

23:05 ↗ there's a lot of desire from the

23:07 ↗ community to improve field drainage

23:09 ↗ uh to improve year-round use of the

23:12 ↗ field

23:12 ↗ so um they would like to keep the play

23:15 ↗ field as well as an

23:17 ↗ open area because pickup player just

23:19 ↗ running around

23:20 ↗ is in and of itself a play amenity

23:24 ↗ so we are really looking at what we can

23:26 ↗ do uh to help with that

23:28 ↗ also access from the park this

23:32 ↗ is issaquah's only walk-in park

23:35 ↗ there's no parking available designated

23:38 ↗ parking

23:39 ↗ for park access right now you can walk

23:42 ↗ through

23:42 ↗ various neighborhoods down the streets

23:44 ↗ but even some of the streets lack

23:46 ↗ some access or improved sidewalks so

23:50 ↗ concerns as to how to get to the park

23:52 ↗ but also how do you

23:54 ↗ explore the park once you're within it

23:57 ↗ there's a lot of old

23:58 ↗ trails there's social trails but how can

24:01 ↗ we also enhance access from maybe the

24:04 ↗ upper hillside cemetery

24:06 ↗ which is something that has brought up

24:08 ↗ and been mentioned and also thought

24:10 ↗ about in

24:11 ↗ some cemetery planning also

24:14 ↗ additional play amenities

24:17 ↗ in our survey responses received to date

24:20 ↗ the neighborhood is very split

24:22 ↗ on what to do with additional play

24:26 ↗ amenities

24:27 ↗ there are some that don't want any

24:29 ↗ change to the park

24:32 ↗ and then there's those who do want some

24:34 ↗ change

24:35 ↗ so a lot of families living up in the

24:38 ↗ neighborhood

24:39 ↗ so it's going to be our job to explore

24:42 ↗ different options that seek a balance

24:44 ↗ between

24:45 ↗ those who don't want change or fear um

24:48 ↗ that the play may be like the what's at

24:51 ↗ the

24:51 ↗ lake samana state park how can we

24:54 ↗ introduce play

24:55 ↗ keep it in character but also balance

24:58 ↗ all of the different opinions that are

25:00 ↗ out there and so that's one of the items

25:02 ↗ as we move forward

25:03 ↗ with future engagement we're really

25:05 ↗ going to be focusing on

25:10 ↗ some of our next steps for hillside park

25:14 ↗ is we're going to be holding another

25:15 ↗ public meeting on june 10th

25:18 ↗ and at this meeting we are really going

25:19 ↗ to share a in

25:21 ↗ a little bit more detail than what i did

25:23 ↗ tonight what it is we've heard from the

25:26 ↗ community

25:26 ↗ but also what it is we've learned

25:30 ↗ we have been doing additional work in

25:33 ↗ what to do about the drainage and the

25:36 ↗ lawn area

25:37 ↗ we've also learned a little bit more

25:38 ↗ about some of the trees

25:40 ↗ knowing that the retention of trees was

25:42 ↗ very important to the community

25:46 ↗ so at this meeting we'll also share the

25:49 ↗ existing

25:50 ↗ online survey information with the

25:52 ↗ community

25:53 ↗ this will be our second gathering with

25:56 ↗ the group

25:57 ↗ um then we'll later

26:00 ↗ a date that is yet to be determined

26:03 ↗ offer up an on-site open house for

26:05 ↗ people who want to go out

26:07 ↗ walk the site with us we don't have a

26:09 ↗ date yet and there may or may not be a

26:11 ↗ virtual meeting that accommodates that

26:13 ↗ we still have a little bit of figuring

26:15 ↗ out to do

26:17 ↗ but again the goal of these is to start

26:19 ↗ outlining some of what our common

26:21 ↗ grounds are

26:22 ↗ regarding these four major themes and

26:25 ↗ also

26:26 ↗ further identify what some of the

26:28 ↗ competing interests and concerns might

26:30 ↗ be for the community to help bring some

26:32 ↗ resolution

26:33 ↗ as far as seeking those balanced

26:36 ↗ solutions as we explore further concepts

26:39 ↗ and again

26:39 ↗ any future development for this project

26:42 ↗ would likely be in

26:43 ↗ the future year 2022

26:47 ↗ so with that i will gladly entertain any

26:50 ↗ questions or i can just move

26:52 ↗ on to blackberry if you would like

26:57 ↗ i have a couple uh jen one is the

27:00 ↗ public meeting on june 10th is that

27:02 ↗ going to be uh virtual i assume

27:04 ↗ yes it will be meeting invitations will

27:08 ↗ um be sent out this week i will email my

27:10 ↗ contact list as well as work with

27:12 ↗ communications to get it out and

27:14 ↗ update it on our web page as well

27:17 ↗ and the other thing i wanted to just

27:19 ↗ chat for a second about is

27:21 ↗ access points and i might reach out to

27:24 ↗ danielle here

27:25 ↗ a little bit because i understand

27:27 ↗ danielle did you go out with connie here

27:29 ↗ a few weeks ago to take a look at

27:31 ↗ some potential access points

27:35 ↗ yeah i did go um i spent quite a bit of

27:37 ↗ time at that proper on the property with

27:39 ↗ connie and

27:40 ↗ yes could you share a little bit about

27:42 ↗ what you

27:43 ↗ yeah i would be happy to do that um i

27:46 ↗ had

27:47 ↗ well one one thought along that line is

27:50 ↗ um

27:51 ↗ you know typically in the summer and i

27:52 ↗ don't know if we'll be able to do that

27:53 ↗ this summer but our park board has gone

27:55 ↗ on a field trip

27:56 ↗ um to different park locations and i

27:59 ↗ would think that this summer would be

28:01 ↗ you know to the extent that we can do it

28:02 ↗ as a group and even meet there

28:04 ↗ together it would be really important to

28:06 ↗ i think see hillside park because it's

28:08 ↗ totally different than any of our other

28:10 ↗ parks and i've lived

28:11 ↗ you know i've lived here for a long time

28:13 ↗ now and i had not been there and

28:15 ↗ um until you go there

28:18 ↗ you can't really quite visualize it um

28:20 ↗ access

28:21 ↗ to me to me going there reaffirmed the

28:25 ↗ need to really

28:26 ↗ think about um who it is that we are

28:30 ↗ trying to get public comment from

28:33 ↗ and and to listen to um to the extent

28:36 ↗ that

28:37 ↗ there is no designated parking um

28:40 ↗ i don't think that we want to be

28:41 ↗ building anything that's going to be a

28:43 ↗ city-wide

28:45 ↗ park attraction we need it to be people

28:47 ↗ you know what people who are in that

28:48 ↗ neighborhood can walk to

28:50 ↗ if it's something that if they're far

28:52 ↗ enough away that they're going to drive

28:53 ↗ they can easily drive to tibbetts or um

28:57 ↗ or memorial park or any of our other um

29:01 ↗ gibson park um any of our other places

29:03 ↗ that have play structure so

29:04 ↗ i think when we do our surveys and

29:06 ↗ whatnot we really need to be careful

29:08 ↗ about

29:08 ↗ getting addresses and and thinking about

29:10 ↗ that like

29:11 ↗ to find out what it is how far people

29:13 ↗ are from um

29:15 ↗ access to me it was really i was really

29:18 ↗ struck by

29:19 ↗ the lack of proper access from this

29:23 ↗ upper cemetery

29:25 ↗ it was disturbing to me um we left the

29:27 ↗ park

29:28 ↗ the ball field area and went through a

29:30 ↗ trail and we popped and it was a big

29:32 ↗ trail

29:34 ↗ and we popped out right on right on

29:37 ↗ graves essentially and in order to get

29:40 ↗ through

29:41 ↗ that area you have to kind of navigate

29:43 ↗ that and

29:44 ↗ to me that i was very uncomfortable with

29:46 ↗ it and i understand that

29:49 ↗ the upper cemetery is going to continue

29:53 ↗ to get developed

29:54 ↗ and where people um typically enter

29:57 ↗ from that cemetery road into the park

30:02 ↗ um will be developed with will there

30:04 ↗ will be graves there as well

30:05 ↗ as well um and so that is something i

30:09 ↗ know that's not necessarily

30:11 ↗ like our role or jeff do you want to say

30:14 ↗ chime in

30:15 ↗ with them okay so great great feedback

30:17 ↗ and that if

30:18 ↗ if you saw in the themes that we access

30:21 ↗ is a key point

30:22 ↗ and and i think there's a real need to

30:24 ↗ formalize that access from upper

30:27 ↗ upper hillside cemetery and as jennifer

30:31 ↗ mentioned as we've been doing some work

30:32 ↗ with the cemetery board

30:34 ↗ on cemetery planning this same topic

30:36 ↗ came up and and there's some

30:38 ↗ opportunities with

30:40 ↗ defined setbacks of where plat cemetery

30:43 ↗ plots can and can't go

30:45 ↗ we we believe and we work with love to

30:47 ↗ work with methuen and the community

30:49 ↗ on creating a more designated trail

30:52 ↗ that would not interfere with cemetery

30:55 ↗ function but would create

30:56 ↗ great public access into the park

31:00 ↗ and really from that other side of

31:01 ↗ squawk so we really think there's some

31:03 ↗ opportunities to

31:04 ↗ um to see i think it's really important

31:07 ↗ to get that right

31:08 ↗ and um because when i was up there and

31:11 ↗ for people who use that park they would

31:13 ↗ know this but there were a lot

31:14 ↗ i was struck by how many people walked

31:16 ↗ into the park from that trail

31:18 ↗ you know so they're there right and so

31:21 ↗ and they'll keep coming there

31:22 ↗ um and so if we don't plan for that

31:25 ↗ trail

31:26 ↗ um it's just you know it would it would

31:29 ↗ be a shame real opportunity there yeah

31:32 ↗ and then the other thing that i was

31:33 ↗ struck by um

31:35 ↗ i mean i really think i think probably

31:37 ↗ people with young kids probably

31:38 ↗ my guess is they don't come access the

31:41 ↗ park through like the steep trails that

31:43 ↗ are through the woods they probably come

31:44 ↗ from

31:45 ↗ the the side streets that are um

31:49 ↗ a little bit you know like up

31:52 ↗ higher um i was my understanding is that

31:56 ↗ one of the

31:56 ↗ park possible um playground proposals

32:00 ↗ was located kind of behind underneath

32:02 ↗ the line of sight

32:04 ↗ um on the ballpark and i was you know if

32:07 ↗ that is the case

32:08 ↗ if that was um then that to me that

32:10 ↗ would be

32:12 ↗ not not a good playground location

32:16 ↗ um that was the other thing that i kind

32:18 ↗ of thought about when i was there

32:20 ↗ and i don't know jen you might be able

32:21 ↗ to speak to that is that was one of the

32:23 ↗ options kind of underneath the

32:25 ↗ like downhill from the

32:29 ↗ yes from the field yes and i think

32:33 ↗ i think it's really important as we look

32:35 ↗ at these play options one of the

32:37 ↗ questions we had asked the community

32:39 ↗ was what kind of size of playground they

32:42 ↗ were comfortable with a larger

32:43 ↗ playground

32:44 ↗ medium or a lot of dispersed play

32:48 ↗ obviously if we're working in a more

32:49 ↗ constrained area like

32:51 ↗ the area down below just due to the fact

32:55 ↗ that people want to retain trees

32:57 ↗ it also you know provides a situation

33:00 ↗ where you're not going to be able to do

33:02 ↗ a large lake sammamish sized uh

33:05 ↗ playground because of all the

33:07 ↗ infrastructure that's needed to support

33:09 ↗ that

33:09 ↗ so it would be more dispersed play a

33:12 ↗ little softer touch

33:13 ↗ in those areas but again

33:16 ↗ no decisions have been made as far as a

33:18 ↗ location and we still have additional

33:20 ↗ information we need to further digest

33:23 ↗ um before we can get out there and share

33:26 ↗ uh what our next steps are going to be

33:29 ↗ well i think to the to the extent that

33:33 ↗ to the extent that that that you would

33:36 ↗ not i i

33:37 ↗ mean my assumption is that you would not

33:38 ↗ want to have a playground

33:41 ↗ in that one particular location where

33:43 ↗ you're where it's

33:44 ↗ where you there's no visibility from the

33:47 ↗ from the field area

33:49 ↗ um maybe people feel differently

33:52 ↗ but i would i would i would take that

33:54 ↗ out of the

33:56 ↗ of the options personally as a parent

33:58 ↗ i'm

33:59 ↗ i'm super uncomfortable with that

34:02 ↗ well thank you thank you for your

34:04 ↗ thoughts

34:08 ↗ um and then i just also thought like you

34:10 ↗ know i don't know i can

34:11 ↗ totally see neighbors who want to just

34:12 ↗ keep it as is it's a beautiful place

34:14 ↗ right

34:15 ↗ um and i can see neighbors who are like

34:17 ↗ you know what when my kid is like

34:18 ↗ playing ball i'd like to have a little

34:20 ↗ you know something for my younger kid to

34:22 ↗ climb around on or swing on

34:24 ↗ or or you know so i think that there are

34:28 ↗ there's probably no right answer um you

34:30 ↗ know for this park

34:32 ↗ but i would think that anything that we

34:33 ↗ do would it would need to be like a

34:35 ↗ natural

34:36 ↗ type of touch or look agreed agreed and

34:39 ↗ that's what we're hearing from the

34:40 ↗ community is

34:41 ↗ you know no no metal and plastic right

34:45 ↗ it's keep it natural keep it integrated

34:48 ↗ keep it

34:49 ↗ low visibility keep it natural keep it

34:52 ↗ in keeping with the current character of

34:54 ↗ the park

34:54 ↗ so you're right on yeah and then um

34:57 ↗ there was definitely like

34:59 ↗ like you said like the drainage issue so

35:01 ↗ um like

35:02 ↗ just to be able to have a flat grassy

35:05 ↗ play area on a hill

35:07 ↗ um in a hilly neighborhood is amazing

35:10 ↗ and so you know whatever we can do to

35:13 ↗ fix that drainage so it's a you know

35:15 ↗ it's it works better

35:17 ↗ year round that would be great i would

35:19 ↗ i'd love to have that happen

35:21 ↗ oh great so brad that's kind of all i

35:24 ↗ had on that but i think we should

35:26 ↗ definitely go as a group

35:28 ↗ um

35:31 ↗ i don't in my years at the park board i

35:33 ↗ don't think we've ever taken a field

35:34 ↗ trip there

35:35 ↗ i think it's a great idea for a site and

35:37 ↗ certainly would be our goal to have a

35:39 ↗ yeah let's let's plan a tour uh this

35:42 ↗ summer

35:43 ↗ um as we're getting out of the the

35:45 ↗ pandemic

35:46 ↗ yeah great idea and i believe zach has

35:48 ↗ his hand up

35:50 ↗ uh yeah i just just kind of spent quite

35:53 ↗ a bit of time in this

35:54 ↗ uh park and one of the points that i'm

35:57 ↗ not sure

35:58 ↗ if it's a feasible access but

36:01 ↗ from like the lower cemetery there's

36:04 ↗ like that access road that leads to i

36:06 ↗ believe

36:07 ↗ like it looks like a city storage sort

36:09 ↗ of section with those large green

36:12 ↗ um pole building type tent things uh it

36:15 ↗ looks like it maybe has like gravel and

36:17 ↗ other equipment and stuff in it and then

36:18 ↗ from there there's a

36:20 ↗ slight uphill almost looks like an old

36:22 ↗ like access

36:23 ↗ forest road or something that leads up

36:25 ↗ to the next rail i don't know if that

36:28 ↗ is technically part of the park or not

36:31 ↗ or um but that would be one of the

36:33 ↗ points where i would see potentially

36:35 ↗ having more accessibility

36:40 ↗ yeah zach it's part of the larger

36:42 ↗ 40-acre hillside park

36:44 ↗ um some of the initial scope and

36:46 ↗ definition of this

36:47 ↗ neighborhood park discussion we're

36:49 ↗ talking about and i think it you know

36:51 ↗ danielle's suggestion of going up and

36:53 ↗ walking into that two acre park

36:55 ↗ is that's that's um actually up above

36:59 ↗ topographically it's it's pretty well

37:01 ↗ separated from

37:02 ↗ the area the lower cemetery area that

37:04 ↗ that you're speaking of so not

37:07 ↗ not specifically in the scope of this

37:09 ↗ project but um

37:11 ↗ certainly some of those connectivity

37:13 ↗ questions are are something we'll

37:14 ↗ continue to entertain

37:16 ↗ and even to that point we've had

37:17 ↗ washington trails association and some

37:19 ↗ of our trail partners out just doing

37:22 ↗ some exploratory work

37:23 ↗ as to what what it would look like to

37:26 ↗ connect upper and lower

37:28 ↗ to these 40 acres and in terms of

37:31 ↗ creating a safe trail i

37:32 ↗ i guess what i could say at this point

37:34 ↗ is it would be extremely challenging

37:37 ↗ but certainly something that we would

37:39 ↗ love to see as a long-term goal

37:42 ↗ just for the the benefits that that

37:43 ↗ would provide recreationally for

37:45 ↗ um squawk mountain neighborhood

37:49 ↗ yeah i would sure open up usage to

37:51 ↗ people that live down

37:52 ↗ more in the valley you know they don't

37:55 ↗ live up on the hillside

37:56 ↗ and so that's something to explore so

38:01 ↗ any other questions on this particular

38:05 ↗ park it's a little challenging for me

38:08 ↗ go ahead make a comment sure i live

38:11 ↗ directly on this park my

38:12 ↗ backyard is the park and so i i would

38:16 ↗ welcome you to come and walk through my

38:18 ↗ yard and

38:18 ↗ many children do to visit the park it is

38:21 ↗ a beloved park

38:24 ↗ well i think for sure we're going to go

38:26 ↗ up and do a bit of a field trip sometime

38:28 ↗ this summer i think that's a good

38:30 ↗ suggestion

38:30 ↗ and good timely activity for us to be

38:33 ↗ doing

38:37 ↗ any other crown i think chris has his

38:39 ↗ hand

38:40 ↗ go ahead chris

38:43 ↗ yeah so i live just up the hill from

38:45 ↗ this park and have been in

38:46 ↗ a few times

38:50 ↗ it's going to be a balance but i think

38:51 ↗ we should remember that it's a city park

38:56 ↗ and we look for opportunities to create

38:59 ↗ access that are maybe not intrusive but

39:02 ↗ but defined the

39:06 ↗ trails from some of the other side

39:08 ↗ streets and from the lower

39:10 ↗ lower access points or connections

39:14 ↗ um they might be a little difficult but

39:16 ↗ i think they should be part of our scope

39:18 ↗ or or at least

39:19 ↗ a lot you know phase two or something

39:24 ↗ agreed thank you you know i mean our the

39:28 ↗ initial scope of this project was

39:30 ↗ you know the play area access and we

39:33 ↗ know

39:33 ↗ getting people to the two acre area is

39:36 ↗ so

39:36 ↗ important um but also so is that greater

39:40 ↗ connectivity

39:41 ↗ of the park in general that both zach

39:44 ↗ and you are speaking of so

39:45 ↗ um now it is definitely

39:48 ↗ in our minds as to how to begin to do

39:50 ↗ that uh to create that because we know

39:53 ↗ there's a lot of

39:54 ↗ old trails that have um eroded away and

39:57 ↗ there's also new social trails that have

39:59 ↗ been created

40:00 ↗ by the community um but there is some

40:02 ↗ greater connectivity that certainly

40:04 ↗ needs to take place up

40:09 ↗ because the there is really quite

40:11 ↗ challenging though i think

40:12 ↗ um yes there's a huge bridge in the

40:15 ↗ middle yeah

40:15 ↗ so i mean i think it's much easier to

40:18 ↗ kind of visualize it on a

40:20 ↗ on a map but when you're walking

40:23 ↗ down some of those trails or up some of

40:25 ↗ the trails and kind of can see

40:27 ↗ where you want to connect to it's i

40:29 ↗ don't know how you're going to do it so

40:30 ↗ good luck there's professionals i'm sure

40:34 ↗ who can help but

40:35 ↗ yes yes

40:40 ↗ we've got to slow this one down a little

40:42 ↗ bit and really not planning on any real

40:44 ↗ installation of anything until next year

40:46 ↗ so it gives us plenty of time to do some

40:48 ↗ more scoping work and get more community

40:50 ↗ engagement

40:51 ↗ and so i think that that's a good thing

40:54 ↗ uh to do the we got to get it right and

40:57 ↗ we know there's a lot of passion up

40:58 ↗ there on the hillside to make sure that

41:01 ↗ we do it right so chris pointed out it's

41:04 ↗ about balance

41:04 ↗ and so that's going to be the key thing

41:06 ↗ is to try and reach some kind of

41:08 ↗ consensus somewhere along the line where

41:09 ↗ we can achieve that balance so

41:13 ↗ so i don't see any more hands yet

41:18 ↗ oh chris go ahead go ahead chris

41:22 ↗ sorry quick one thing that i wanted to

41:24 ↗ mention but forgot

41:26 ↗ um with all these little side street

41:29 ↗ accesses i think we're gonna wanna do

41:32 ↗ whatever we can

41:34 ↗ to take into consideration

41:38 ↗ we don't want people parking there uh

41:41 ↗ you want it to become you to attract you

41:43 ↗ know

41:45 ↗ because it's really right next to

41:47 ↗ people's yards

41:48 ↗ but at the same time you know a trail

41:50 ↗ with a couple posts or something

41:52 ↗ so that it's very open to pedestrian

41:56 ↗ access would be great

41:58 ↗ agreed yeah i think a lot of

42:01 ↗ a lot of head nodding on that

42:05 ↗ so let's uh move on to your next uh

42:09 ↗ event here for blackberry park jane

42:13 ↗ great thank you brad um real quick so

42:16 ↗ blackberry park has been moving at a

42:19 ↗ little quicker pace

42:20 ↗ um again we had a community meeting at

42:23 ↗ the end of february was our first

42:25 ↗ workshop

42:26 ↗ um with that um

42:30 ↗ the purpose of our second meeting

42:33 ↗ was to discuss play area options and

42:36 ↗ some concepts

42:37 ↗ and for those of you who are not able to

42:39 ↗ join us

42:40 ↗ for our second workshop um that was held

42:43 ↗ on

42:44 ↗ april 28th i'm going to quickly go

42:47 ↗ through

42:47 ↗ the survey and some of the responses so

42:49 ↗ you kind of know

42:51 ↗ where we're going into our next steps

42:54 ↗ again

42:54 ↗ all of the survey results are posted on

42:57 ↗ our website

42:59 ↗ on the blackberry park website so you

43:01 ↗ can check it all out there

43:04 ↗ so our consultant team brought forward

43:06 ↗ two different concepts for the community

43:08 ↗ to kind of react to

43:10 ↗ the first was caster's castle caster

43:13 ↗ canadensis

43:14 ↗ is the latin name for the beaver and um

43:17 ↗ they're making a

43:18 ↗ great return in the lake smammish area

43:20 ↗ and

43:21 ↗ the industrious way that beavers shape

43:23 ↗ their home

43:24 ↗ really led to the design of this first

43:28 ↗ concept

43:31 ↗ so here's the casters castle sport

43:34 ↗ layout

43:35 ↗ we had the sport court but we also had

43:37 ↗ some swings

43:39 ↗ and a play area and then a trellis and

43:41 ↗ ghost forest

43:43 ↗ as well as some berries here's kind of a

43:46 ↗ blow up

43:47 ↗ of the play area to get a little closer

43:50 ↗ look

43:52 ↗ swings and we've got a little beaver

43:54 ↗ lodge here we have a beaver dam

43:56 ↗ path that could walk around to the ghost

43:59 ↗ forest

44:00 ↗ um which is what beavers end up making

44:02 ↗ of existing trees when they

44:04 ↗ knock all the branches away

44:09 ↗ the other concept that we floated with

44:11 ↗ the community was regarding the little

44:13 ↗ red fish

44:14 ↗ also known as the kokanee which are

44:16 ↗ iconic

44:17 ↗ fish of the area which is also

44:19 ↗ endangered and there's

44:20 ↗ extreme efforts to restore them in our

44:22 ↗ native

44:24 ↗ waterways and tributaries right now and

44:27 ↗ so

44:28 ↗ the little redfish area had many of the

44:30 ↗ same features

44:32 ↗ again a swing area but they had this

44:35 ↗ bigger

44:36 ↗ sweeping walking loop utilize the

44:39 ↗ existing trellis with a new play area

44:41 ↗ underneath

44:42 ↗ but the play area was more like a

44:47 ↗ little foothills area with some

44:50 ↗ fish plate features to kind of look at

44:54 ↗ and so here we had a nature play we had

44:56 ↗ this creek

44:57 ↗ kind of winding through we had a little

45:00 ↗ red fish

45:00 ↗ school and play area here and then we

45:03 ↗ had the foothills with a variety of

45:06 ↗ concepts and a little dock with slides

45:11 ↗ so at the community meeting we heard a

45:15 ↗ lot of different comments

45:17 ↗ we heard great desire for the to keep

45:20 ↗ the

45:21 ↗ pickleball court maybe add an extra

45:23 ↗ basketball hoop

45:25 ↗ add more seating wanted potentially to

45:27 ↗ expand a court

45:29 ↗ we've also heard that they want an area

45:31 ↗ near the court to sit and watch kids

45:33 ↗ play

45:34 ↗ thought about how but how we could add

45:36 ↗ an additional shelter

45:38 ↗ in order to get out of the rain kids

45:41 ↗ also like to play the hot lava game

45:43 ↗ i know i used to play that as a kid in

45:44 ↗ my living room

45:46 ↗ bouncing around on the furniture but uh

45:49 ↗ still a popular

45:50 ↗ outdoor play activity um

45:53 ↗ also trellis there was some conversation

45:55 ↗ about keeping the trellis in its new

45:57 ↗ location

45:58 ↗ uh some ideas about a bigger lawn or

46:02 ↗ less lawn

46:03 ↗ people like the walkway loop that one of

46:06 ↗ the concepts showed

46:07 ↗ bigger play area in blackberries now

46:10 ↗ again this was the feedback we received

46:12 ↗ during our online workshop and we had

46:15 ↗ about 18

46:16 ↗ attendees at that but then we launched

46:19 ↗ for a week an online survey

46:23 ↗ and we ended up with 297

46:27 ↗ people taking the survey and so

46:30 ↗ we're going to quickly walk through what

46:31 ↗ some of the results were

46:33 ↗ and with this park clear

46:36 ↗ uh definition for people really like the

46:39 ↗ log climbers and slides

46:43 ↗ at the park which was part of the

46:47 ↗ beaver caster's castle concept

46:52 ↗ also they really like the log pile

46:55 ↗ over the wood hut we gave them kind of

46:57 ↗ an either or as we're going through some

46:59 ↗ of these play

47:00 ↗ concepts to further hone in and start

47:03 ↗ directing our design being we're in a

47:05 ↗ second

47:06 ↗ phase of engagement we're really wanting

47:08 ↗ to get more direction as to what a final

47:10 ↗ design would be

47:12 ↗ so of the first concept

47:15 ↗ again the log climber and

47:18 ↗ the log pile really came up

47:21 ↗ at the top of the list and then when we

47:24 ↗ looked at the

47:26 ↗ little red fish concept some of the

47:28 ↗ taller mounds with some of the

47:30 ↗ hillsteppers

47:31 ↗ really took prominence

47:35 ↗ but then there was a little bit more of

47:36 ↗ a tie as to whether or not

47:38 ↗ they like the redfish pod climber or the

47:41 ↗ redfish

47:42 ↗ wood hut climber but a little back and

47:45 ↗ forth on that

47:48 ↗ um but then we also asked them about the

47:51 ↗ trellis

47:52 ↗ now as you may recall community members

47:55 ↗ actually built

47:56 ↗ all the existing play improvements there

47:58 ↗ and there is some ties

47:59 ↗ to some of the existing elements because

48:02 ↗ of that

48:03 ↗ and so we asked you know about the

48:05 ↗ existing trellis do we like it where

48:07 ↗ it's at or would it could it potentially

48:09 ↗ move to a new location

48:11 ↗ and 67 percent of people were in support

48:13 ↗ of relocating

48:15 ↗ the trellis and when asked

48:19 ↗ as you may recall if you've been to the

48:21 ↗ site one whole side of the park has

48:24 ↗ a blackberry patch well being that that

48:26 ↗ is an invasive species

48:28 ↗ we don't feel that that is appropriate

48:30 ↗ to maintain at the park so how can we

48:33 ↗ begin to perhaps pay homage to that

48:36 ↗ and the berry picking activity with a

48:38 ↗ different type of berry

48:41 ↗ but how might we do it and so in each of

48:44 ↗ the different concepts

48:46 ↗ there were some raised planters in the

48:48 ↗ caster's castle whereas in the little

48:49 ↗ red fish they were more on trellis

48:52 ↗ perhaps like a grapevine would be out in

48:55 ↗ a vineyard

48:56 ↗ and uh 67 actually really enjoyed the

49:00 ↗ raised planter

49:01 ↗ idea one of the questions we asked the

49:05 ↗ community was

49:05 ↗ which site plan has a better balance of

49:08 ↗ play area and park

49:11 ↗ one of them one of the original from

49:14 ↗ workshop number one that we heard

49:16 ↗ was they wanted more play area so in

49:19 ↗ order to do that with all of our

49:20 ↗ setbacks and still retain

49:22 ↗ an open lawn area one of the concepts

49:25 ↗ did

49:26 ↗ propose getting rid of the sport court

49:28 ↗ uh castro's castle

49:31 ↗ site plan a which retained the sport

49:33 ↗ court was really

49:34 ↗ the most popular from the community

49:39 ↗ and which was our play favorite play

49:42 ↗ story

49:43 ↗ caster's castle the beaver clearly went

49:46 ↗ out

49:47 ↗ over the little red fish

49:50 ↗ so in our online survey we also had

49:54 ↗ an opportunity for people to provide

49:56 ↗ additional comments and you will find

49:58 ↗ that this is a summary of some of those

50:01 ↗ comments but

50:02 ↗ they very much mirror some of what

50:05 ↗ our workshop comments were which was

50:08 ↗ keep the court add additional court

50:10 ↗ expand the space

50:12 ↗ stripe it for pickleball add seating for

50:14 ↗ pickleball

50:16 ↗ we did hear the desire to have more bars

50:19 ↗ for kids to hang on

50:20 ↗ it also provides a space for older kids

50:22 ↗ sometimes to play on

50:24 ↗ beavers are underrated they're cool

50:27 ↗ um healthy fit stations uh was a desire

50:32 ↗ some people actually through this

50:33 ↗ process there's been more support for

50:36 ↗ getting rid of the blackberries than

50:37 ↗ through our first

50:38 ↗ community meeting where they wanted to

50:40 ↗ retain some

50:43 ↗ swings people are really enjoying the

50:45 ↗ introduction of swings asked if there

50:46 ↗ could be more there was an idea for a

50:48 ↗ splash pad

50:49 ↗ which is beyond our budget because of

50:51 ↗ the water filtration which is necessary

50:54 ↗ but also a zipline dog areas picnic

50:56 ↗ tables

50:57 ↗ shade and climbing trellis so what we

51:00 ↗ are doing

51:00 ↗ is we are taking all of this information

51:03 ↗ and we are

51:04 ↗ packaging it up into one final design

51:07 ↗ concept

51:08 ↗ which we will likely send out to the

51:10 ↗ community

51:11 ↗ for an online survey hey did we get it

51:15 ↗ right

51:16 ↗ being we have very clear direction with

51:18 ↗ caster's castle

51:19 ↗ and some of the play elements i think we

51:22 ↗ have a really good

51:23 ↗ direction but what we'll also have to do

51:26 ↗ is start balancing what can we do with

51:28 ↗ our costs

51:30 ↗ and wait what may be a future phase of

51:32 ↗ that

51:33 ↗ park's development so that should be

51:37 ↗ coming here in the next

51:38 ↗ month or so as we work with our design

51:41 ↗ team

51:42 ↗ to try and finish up a final design

51:44 ↗ we'll get that out to

51:46 ↗ everyone and i'll also email the

51:47 ↗ community and then once we get

51:50 ↗ the feedback from that hey did we get it

51:52 ↗ right are the spatial layouts okay

51:54 ↗ any final things we need to tweak uh

51:56 ↗ then we will work on creating a

51:58 ↗ construction drawing set

52:00 ↗ and head into permitting and it's our

52:02 ↗ hope to start

52:04 ↗ maybe mid to late fall this year uh

52:06 ↗ start with project installation

52:10 ↗ so with that um if you have any

52:13 ↗ questions

52:14 ↗ i will gladly answer great

52:18 ↗ great overview jen brad do you mind if i

52:20 ↗ just add a couple of

52:21 ↗ a quick comments just you know as i said

52:24 ↗ in my introduction

52:26 ↗ these sites are similar in that they

52:28 ↗ really

52:29 ↗ are not community-wide park sites and i

52:32 ↗ think danielle you spoke to that

52:33 ↗ hillside egg blackberry is very much the

52:35 ↗ same

52:35 ↗ it really is meant to serve the

52:38 ↗ surrounding neighborhood

52:40 ↗ and i guess we've worked through this we

52:42 ↗ really want to recognize

52:44 ↗ even though these are on different paths

52:46 ↗ i think they're communities that are

52:48 ↗ at different points and wanting to um

52:52 ↗ see what improvements look like in their

52:54 ↗ neighborhood park

52:55 ↗ we want to make sure they're done to a

52:56 ↗ scale that

52:58 ↗ doesn't so we don't out invest the

53:01 ↗ service area

53:02 ↗ um of the site and so that's something

53:04 ↗ we're really going to stay attuned to

53:06 ↗ as as we size this and one last item i

53:08 ↗ wanted to say is you saw those two play

53:10 ↗ stories

53:11 ↗ just an important note that um

53:14 ↗ i i think you might remember when we

53:16 ↗ talked about this in january we wanted

53:17 ↗ to take a new approach to play

53:19 ↗ and and how to incorporate play into our

53:21 ↗ parks and understand

53:23 ↗ play should be unique in every one of

53:24 ↗ our parks plays an opportunity not to

53:27 ↗ just plop a playground but to tell a

53:29 ↗ story

53:29 ↗ and i was really i think captivating to

53:32 ↗ see how the community is responding to

53:35 ↗ um to that approach um and also it's

53:39 ↗ it's a way of

53:40 ↗ of allowing art allowing history

53:43 ↗ allowing some of um i think what we want

53:46 ↗ to celebrate

53:47 ↗ in all of our public spaces to be spoken

53:50 ↗ um

53:51 ↗ while we're also looking at

53:52 ↗ incorporating play so just a couple of

53:54 ↗ quick highlights there

53:55 ↗ love your feedback danielle

53:59 ↗ well i just have a kind of follow-up

54:02 ↗ question similar to hillside is

54:04 ↗ when we did so it sounded like the

54:06 ↗ initial meeting was

54:08 ↗ you know 20 people or so which actually

54:10 ↗ is pretty good representation

54:12 ↗ um based on the past but um and then the

54:15 ↗ online feedback was closer to like 300.

54:18 ↗ do we have a way of did we ask people if

54:20 ↗ they lived in that neighborhood do we

54:22 ↗ have a way to like hone in on

54:24 ↗ on what it is that the people who are

54:27 ↗ within walking distance of that park

54:29 ↗ what their preferences are um are we

54:31 ↗ asking that question i guess

54:33 ↗ yes so a lot of the outreach was done

54:36 ↗ targeted at that neighborhood and

54:38 ↗ neighborhood representatives

54:40 ↗ through our communications and our

54:41 ↗ social media channels

54:43 ↗ but also on our first workshop we had a

54:46 ↗ spot for people to

54:48 ↗ leave their email address so after the

54:51 ↗ first

54:52 ↗ community survey we ended up with like a

54:55 ↗ hundred and some

54:56 ↗ extra emails that we added to our list

54:58 ↗ and so those were also used

55:00 ↗ for the second community workshop so

55:03 ↗ each time we keep building

55:05 ↗ and collecting email addresses and so on

55:08 ↗ top of our

55:08 ↗ social media outlet our outreach i also

55:12 ↗ do a direct email

55:13 ↗ um to everyone as well

55:16 ↗ right my question though is actually

55:18 ↗ more related to physical address

55:20 ↗ so i care like i want to know um

55:24 ↗ you know like the people who live within

55:26 ↗ like a mile

55:27 ↗ of that versus someone in my

55:29 ↗ neighborhood which is tablets like i

55:31 ↗ still

55:32 ↗ like got from the city's um just

55:34 ↗ communication like i had you know like

55:36 ↗ like got sent a link to that you know to

55:38 ↗ fill out that survey right so i could

55:40 ↗ have filled out a survey

55:41 ↗ so could as someone from the highlands

55:42 ↗ right but

55:44 ↗ our input isn't going to be as relevant

55:47 ↗ i think as

55:48 ↗ the input from the people who are you

55:49 ↗ know within a half mile or a mile

55:52 ↗ of that park are we tracking physical

55:54 ↗ addresses of people who are

55:56 ↗ we have not been not for this specific

55:59 ↗ outreach however you know the e-blasts

56:03 ↗ have been more targeted through our

56:05 ↗ communications and our neighborhood um

56:07 ↗ outreach program that we have i guess i

56:09 ↗ mean my suggestion is really that we

56:10 ↗ start doing that for neighborhood parks

56:13 ↗ like for parks that are not designed to

56:14 ↗ be you know to

56:16 ↗ draw from from a bigger population

56:21 ↗ just a suggestion

56:24 ↗ i agree with that is there any way to do

56:26 ↗ that jennifer

56:28 ↗ i'll have to work with our

56:28 ↗ communications team to see how we go

56:30 ↗ about

56:31 ↗ doing that because um see how we can

56:34 ↗ track that with our existing

56:37 ↗ survey tools and how we might go about

56:40 ↗ that so i'll need to work with them on

56:42 ↗ that

56:43 ↗ my suggestion would be to add a question

56:45 ↗ something like you know

56:46 ↗ are you just not necessarily with the

56:49 ↗ physical address but you know can't

56:51 ↗ does it take 10 minutes to walk there

56:54 ↗ right or

56:54 ↗ would you have to drive you know

56:56 ↗ something like you know something

56:58 ↗ like that and then if you're able to

56:59 ↗ then sort those answers later it would

57:01 ↗ be super helpful i think for you

57:04 ↗ and for us that'd probably be the

57:06 ↗ easiest way to do it

57:08 ↗ rather than to really base it on

57:09 ↗ addresses to just ask that question

57:12 ↗ and then filter it um yeah do you drive

57:14 ↗ there

57:15 ↗ do you do your kids bike there does it

57:18 ↗ take ten minutes let's take a half hour

57:20 ↗ i mean they're all point room relevant

57:22 ↗ points of reference

57:23 ↗ the driving i think is the most

57:25 ↗ important question for our neighborhood

57:27 ↗ parks because we don't want to be

57:28 ↗ attracting people you know from other

57:30 ↗ parts of the city for those

57:31 ↗ that's not the purpose

57:35 ↗ well plus the the feedback should be

57:37 ↗ weighted for the people that live in

57:39 ↗ that

57:40 ↗ community rather than where you are in

57:42 ↗ palace

57:43 ↗ for sure yeah these are great great

57:46 ↗ comments and feedback and i think what

57:47 ↗ you're speaking to is service area

57:50 ↗ right what is what is the service area

57:51 ↗ of the park and how as we do engagement

57:54 ↗ do we though it's a public space right

57:57 ↗ it's it's there's always that challenge

57:59 ↗ of

57:59 ↗ of the feedback is welcome from the

58:01 ↗ public but how do we

58:03 ↗ make sure we're emphasizing and

58:04 ↗ understanding the service area whether

58:06 ↗ that service area is

58:08 ↗ right eight blocks ten blocks or the

58:10 ↗ whole

58:11 ↗ the whole city so it's great

58:14 ↗ great feedback and in some cases it's

58:17 ↗ bigger than the city right

58:18 ↗ something right if it's a regional park

58:20 ↗ exactly exactly

58:22 ↗ surface area yeah each park has a

58:25 ↗ a unique service area absolutely

58:30 ↗ jen i remember when i joined the meeting

58:33 ↗ uh

58:33 ↗ at least one comment that i made was to

58:36 ↗ kind of

58:37 ↗ a little bit join the two stories i

58:39 ↗ don't know if there's any more

58:40 ↗ discussion about that but you know i

58:43 ↗ i really do like the caster design

58:46 ↗ but i also um of course i

58:50 ↗ my appreciation for kokanee and that

58:52 ↗ effort

58:54 ↗ you know i would hate to lose that

58:55 ↗ opportunity to have maybe some

58:57 ↗ educational experience or some

58:59 ↗ so maybe some artwork or some

59:01 ↗ interpretive elements or something to

59:03 ↗ to also maybe integrate the kokanee part

59:05 ↗ of it

59:06 ↗ is that something that can be considered

59:10 ↗ great great question brad and that's

59:12 ↗ something that um once we got the

59:14 ↗ feedback

59:15 ↗ from the community survey and the online

59:17 ↗ uh the workshop

59:19 ↗ we talked about with the design team

59:22 ↗ like how do we go about

59:23 ↗ balancing some of this when there was a

59:25 ↗ clear

59:26 ↗ winner with the caster's castle and we

59:29 ↗ talked about

59:30 ↗ how we might go about approaching that

59:33 ↗ and we decided that it is such a strong

59:37 ↗ concept in and of itself

59:39 ↗ the kokanee that there may be another

59:42 ↗ place

59:43 ↗ for it you know we're still planning

59:45 ↗ tibbetts valley park veterans memorial

59:48 ↗ field

59:48 ↗ um we still have hillside park we have

59:52 ↗ other opportunities and

59:54 ↗ that just really focusing on the beaver

59:57 ↗ concept keeping it clean keeping it

59:59 ↗ simple

1:00:00 ↗ keeping it all relative was really a way

1:00:04 ↗ to do it and

1:00:05 ↗ integrating art in

1:00:08 ↗ how we're doing it the patterning of the

1:00:11 ↗ concrete

1:00:12 ↗ the introduction of some of the story

1:00:14 ↗ themes that's art

1:00:15 ↗ in a different in a storytelling way and

1:00:18 ↗ so we've

1:00:19 ↗ actually presented last month i

1:00:21 ↗ presented

1:00:22 ↗ these to the arts commission as well to

1:00:24 ↗ walk them through

1:00:25 ↗ where we were at and to get their

1:00:27 ↗ support and where we're heading

1:00:29 ↗ with the integration of art as part of

1:00:31 ↗ these and

1:00:33 ↗ so we really look forward to finding the

1:00:37 ↗ proper home

1:00:38 ↗ for the kokanee it's again it's such a

1:00:40 ↗ strong

1:00:41 ↗ story in and of itself to see where

1:00:44 ↗ might might be a really good home and

1:00:47 ↗ fit for that

1:00:48 ↗ so just because it's not implemented

1:00:51 ↗ doesn't mean it's a

1:00:52 ↗ moot idea that there might be a really

1:00:55 ↗ good home for it

1:00:56 ↗ it was my personal uh my personal

1:01:00 ↗ favorite as well brad if i if i was to

1:01:03 ↗ to give my personal preference and i

1:01:05 ↗ think jennifer's point is spot on as we

1:01:07 ↗ talk with the team and hopefully i think

1:01:09 ↗ as we continue

1:01:10 ↗ to talk with the community at large this

1:01:12 ↗ approach to play this approach to

1:01:14 ↗ to thinking of investments in play areas

1:01:17 ↗ um is an opportunity to do a whole lot

1:01:19 ↗ more

1:01:20 ↗ and and tell these stories and obviously

1:01:22 ↗ the kokanee is so immensely relevant

1:01:24 ↗ to issaquah that i i would echo what jen

1:01:27 ↗ is saying i hope as we

1:01:29 ↗ now revive our master planning efforts

1:01:31 ↗ at both veterans memorial and tibbetts

1:01:33 ↗ and really have community

1:01:35 ↗ park scale community-sized play areas to

1:01:38 ↗ think about

1:01:40 ↗ we hope there's a there's a home for for

1:01:42 ↗ that that

1:01:43 ↗ story well it's a good story and i agree

1:01:46 ↗ that um maybe it's not the best place

1:01:50 ↗ because it might not actually get the

1:01:51 ↗ most attention

1:01:52 ↗ you know frankly you know i think that's

1:01:55 ↗ one that might be more suitable for

1:01:58 ↗ you know the creek corridor or something

1:01:59 ↗ along those lines it's got to be near

1:02:01 ↗ the water

1:02:02 ↗ you know somewhere near the lake you

1:02:05 ↗ know but but also where you get

1:02:06 ↗ more more attention than where south

1:02:09 ↗ cove gets at blackberry

1:02:10 ↗ so it would be great along the creek you

1:02:13 ↗ know

1:02:14 ↗ we'll have a place for it right

1:02:16 ↗ definitely i'm sure of it

1:02:20 ↗ okay any other questions or comments

1:02:24 ↗ about

1:02:25 ↗ uh blackberry there'll be i guess june

1:02:28 ↗ 10th is the next uh

1:02:29 ↗ focus on that one right no that's uh

1:02:32 ↗ hillside is jan

1:02:34 ↗ blackberry uh we're working on final

1:02:36 ↗ design right now a final concept

1:02:38 ↗ so um don't have a date yet as to when

1:02:41 ↗ that would be ready

1:02:42 ↗ um but likely just do the community

1:02:45 ↗ response we've received we'll likely

1:02:46 ↗ just post it as an online survey

1:02:49 ↗ i'm unsure if there'll be an

1:02:50 ↗ accommodating virtual meeting or not

1:02:53 ↗ for that but just really hey did we get

1:02:55 ↗ it right

1:02:56 ↗ give us your feedback okay jen one more

1:02:59 ↗ piece of feedback um

1:03:01 ↗ i i really appreciate the fact that it

1:03:03 ↗ does

1:03:04 ↗ um it looks to kind of have like the

1:03:08 ↗ whole age range

1:03:09 ↗ like that this park will serve everyone

1:03:11 ↗ and

1:03:12 ↗ our neighborhood parks a lot of times

1:03:14 ↗ are you know really like

1:03:16 ↗ serve like kind of like toddlers or you

1:03:19 ↗ know like the younger kids

1:03:20 ↗ um so keeping that keeping the court um

1:03:23 ↗ and making

1:03:24 ↗ you know making it so you can use it for

1:03:26 ↗ pickleball too and then

1:03:27 ↗ you know having the little kids stuff

1:03:29 ↗ and kind of the older ones i love that

1:03:31 ↗ so good job on that for those who did

1:03:34 ↗ not partake in the meetings

1:03:35 ↗ or read the online survey

1:03:38 ↗ the amount of response in keeping that

1:03:42 ↗ court

1:03:43 ↗ and using it for pickleball is

1:03:45 ↗ overwhelming

1:03:47 ↗ for that community and that alone is

1:03:50 ↗ you know a middle-aged to adult

1:03:54 ↗ and senior activity and like you said

1:03:57 ↗ danielle really capturing those other

1:03:59 ↗ ages that oftentimes get left out of

1:04:01 ↗ some of these smaller spaces so

1:04:03 ↗ yeah very thrilled to that the community

1:04:06 ↗ is standing behind that

1:04:10 ↗ okay anybody else got anything

1:04:14 ↗ not seeing any hands so it's a good time

1:04:17 ↗ to

1:04:17 ↗ wrap up blackberry park thank you for

1:04:19 ↗ that jennifer

1:04:21 ↗ thank you and uh time to move on the

1:04:24 ↗ next agenda item which is the six year

1:04:25 ↗ cip update

1:04:27 ↗ and jeff you're on

1:04:31 ↗ all right sounds good uh it could be it

1:04:34 ↗ should be a relatively quick item just

1:04:35 ↗ wanted to have a chance to

1:04:36 ↗ to verbally close the loop with all of

1:04:38 ↗ you thank you again

1:04:40 ↗ many of you joined um the the when the

1:04:42 ↗ six-year cip was transmitted to the city

1:04:45 ↗ council on april 19th

1:04:47 ↗ we had had a chance to discuss at our

1:04:50 ↗ park board meeting that next week on

1:04:52 ↗ april 26th

1:04:53 ↗ i just wanted to share a little with you

1:04:55 ↗ of what's been going on in terms of

1:04:56 ↗ council conversations

1:04:58 ↗ um at a number of meetings in the four

1:05:01 ↗ weeks since

1:05:03 ↗ right now council is on track to likely

1:05:07 ↗ adopt the six year cip on

1:05:10 ↗ at their next regular meeting which is

1:05:11 ↗ june uh the seventh

1:05:14 ↗ i had a chance to share with you later

1:05:16 ↗ this afternoon

1:05:17 ↗ um uh brad as park board chair

1:05:20 ↗ did a really nice job of um

1:05:24 ↗ sort of weaving the feedback you all

1:05:26 ↗ gave on the

1:05:27 ↗ um on the 26th and and some of

1:05:30 ↗ brad's thoughts as well as share as

1:05:32 ↗ chair and shared those with

1:05:34 ↗ the council those were transmitted in a

1:05:37 ↗ memo form

1:05:39 ↗ as well as some of the other boards and

1:05:40 ↗ commissions um

1:05:44 ↗ i'll give a quick update and give brad a

1:05:46 ↗ chance if if he wants to highlight

1:05:48 ↗ some of what was expressed there

1:05:52 ↗ as as we talked about um the

1:05:55 ↗ six year cip is really at least the

1:05:58 ↗ parks and trails element is really

1:06:00 ↗ grounded in its foundation is the park

1:06:02 ↗ strategic plan it's those near-term

1:06:04 ↗ projects that we all went through in

1:06:07 ↗ prioritizing near-mid and long-term

1:06:09 ↗ projects

1:06:10 ↗ so it really became the bedrock and the

1:06:14 ↗ foundation for

1:06:15 ↗ that six-year cip as you've heard me say

1:06:19 ↗ and if any of you have listened to

1:06:20 ↗ finance i talk about over and over again

1:06:23 ↗ this is a planning document this is not

1:06:25 ↗ a

1:06:26 ↗ financial budget document that's cast in

1:06:28 ↗ stone

1:06:30 ↗ but it really is a way of understanding

1:06:33 ↗ hey what is the community interested in

1:06:35 ↗ what is the community desiring what does

1:06:36 ↗ the community need

1:06:38 ↗ in terms of investments in its public

1:06:40 ↗ infrastructure whether it's roads parks

1:06:42 ↗ trails water systems sewer system

1:06:44 ↗ and how does that align with our

1:06:45 ↗ revenues as a city and

1:06:48 ↗ i think if i could encapsulate the

1:06:50 ↗ discussion

1:06:51 ↗ uh that's occurred with council over

1:06:53 ↗ these last three weeks

1:06:55 ↗ i think it's really confirmed that and

1:06:56 ↗ affirmed that hey there

1:06:58 ↗ there are needs within our

1:06:59 ↗ transportation system there are needs

1:07:02 ↗ and interests within our parks and trail

1:07:03 ↗ system um

1:07:05 ↗ not to also mention facilities um

1:07:08 ↗ that are bigger and and

1:07:11 ↗ and um are beyond our

1:07:15 ↗ when you look at our revenue projections

1:07:17 ↗ over the next

1:07:18 ↗ three years five years six years as a

1:07:20 ↗ city in terms of what we invest in

1:07:22 ↗ capital and so

1:07:24 ↗ um that's not meant to be oh my gosh

1:07:27 ↗ it's a crisis

1:07:28 ↗ it's really meant to i think do what

1:07:31 ↗ this

1:07:31 ↗ this document does it's it's hey

1:07:34 ↗ community what do we want to do about

1:07:35 ↗ that

1:07:36 ↗ and and as the council pursues adoption

1:07:39 ↗ um that first meeting in june on june

1:07:42 ↗ 7th one of the things that's being

1:07:44 ↗ considered by the mayor and council

1:07:45 ↗ is um perhaps the formation of a

1:07:49 ↗ of a sort of a funding strategy task

1:07:52 ↗ force

1:07:52 ↗ uh a group of residents um um if there's

1:07:56 ↗ board and commission members that might

1:07:58 ↗ be interested i i

1:07:59 ↗ i don't know how that group would be

1:08:01 ↗ formed but i wanted to let you all know

1:08:03 ↗ uh because i think it's an important uh

1:08:05 ↗ will be a really really important

1:08:07 ↗ citizen

1:08:08 ↗ led conversation uh in terms of

1:08:11 ↗ hey are there some approaches that we as

1:08:14 ↗ a city as

1:08:15 ↗ as residents want to take in terms of

1:08:17 ↗ identifying a funding strategy

1:08:18 ↗ for capital investments again not in

1:08:21 ↗ crisis for next year

1:08:22 ↗ but as we look out 5 6 10 years

1:08:27 ↗ ahead so that very well could be a

1:08:31 ↗ consideration

1:08:32 ↗ of the group that would form later this

1:08:35 ↗ year into 2021 and probably

1:08:38 ↗ perhaps continue their work into 2022.

1:08:41 ↗ so i wanted to

1:08:43 ↗ share that update with all of you um

1:08:45 ↗ i'll leave it at that

1:08:47 ↗ brad i don't know if you wanted to add

1:08:48 ↗ anything about the memo i see danielle

1:08:50 ↗ had her hands up as well

1:08:53 ↗ uh go ahead daniel first well i just so

1:08:56 ↗ historically

1:08:57 ↗ um well at least like in in my time on

1:09:00 ↗ the park board

1:09:01 ↗ um this is sort of the time when we we'd

1:09:03 ↗ be looking at doing a new park bond

1:09:05 ↗ right because we've

1:09:06 ↗ we've spent ours down we've developed

1:09:08 ↗ those projects

1:09:09 ↗ and then historically we've funded them

1:09:12 ↗ with park bond kind of money

1:09:13 ↗ what i'm hearing you say is that um the

1:09:16 ↗ city would be considering

1:09:18 ↗ options not limited to just a park bond

1:09:21 ↗ but

1:09:22 ↗ perhaps different strategies absolutely

1:09:25 ↗ correct

1:09:26 ↗ yep and is a park bond on the table or

1:09:28 ↗ that would just be one of one of many

1:09:31 ↗ kind of different options i would

1:09:33 ↗ imagine it would be on the table

1:09:34 ↗ right but but that's just it let's look

1:09:36 ↗ at all of the

1:09:37 ↗ let's look at all the arrows in the

1:09:39 ↗ quiver in terms of funding ideas what

1:09:41 ↗ are the pros and cons right a bond

1:09:43 ↗ you're right historically that's been it

1:09:45 ↗ but that's basically residents putting

1:09:47 ↗ money on the credit card

1:09:48 ↗ so you're all you're all still paying

1:09:50 ↗ for those bonds

1:09:52 ↗ is that an approach that makes sense for

1:09:54 ↗ the residents

1:09:55 ↗ uh there's other funding mechanisms that

1:09:57 ↗ that look and feel a little bit

1:09:58 ↗ different but

1:09:59 ↗ yeah definitely an option but really a

1:10:01 ↗ chance for for

1:10:03 ↗ community to explore all of them i would

1:10:05 ↗ think it'd be

1:10:06 ↗ super important to have um some people

1:10:08 ↗ from this board on

1:10:10 ↗ whatever you know whatever committee or

1:10:14 ↗ is form yeah i agree

1:10:18 ↗ i think a couple things that i pointed

1:10:21 ↗ out

1:10:21 ↗ it would be nice for us all really to

1:10:24 ↗ have a better understanding in terms of

1:10:27 ↗ um you know how the budgeting process

1:10:30 ↗ works in uh in collaboration

1:10:34 ↗ with the six-year plan

1:10:37 ↗ um because you know this is kind of a

1:10:40 ↗ wish list to some extent

1:10:42 ↗ but there's really no funding behind it

1:10:44 ↗ in in

1:10:45 ↗ in in stone anyways and to some extent

1:10:49 ↗ it'd be nice

1:10:50 ↗ to know going into making a six-year

1:10:52 ↗ plan you know how much funding you

1:10:54 ↗ really do have at least for the

1:10:55 ↗ first two years so that you can really

1:10:58 ↗ kind of pick and choose your priorities

1:11:00 ↗ you know to actually get the funding and

1:11:02 ↗ do the projects

1:11:03 ↗ so so it'll be interesting when we get

1:11:07 ↗ to budget time here or later in the year

1:11:09 ↗ for us to somehow see how that process

1:11:14 ↗ works a little better you know so we see

1:11:17 ↗ how council

1:11:18 ↗ actually looks at the six-year plan

1:11:22 ↗ when they are actually creating some

1:11:24 ↗ funding you know for the following year

1:11:28 ↗ the other thing should we just for you

1:11:29 ↗ to think about is that um when we've

1:11:31 ↗ done park bonds

1:11:33 ↗ we do a community service in connection

1:11:36 ↗ with that

1:11:37 ↗ to see like what it is that really

1:11:38 ↗ resonates with the community

1:11:40 ↗ because those would be the things that

1:11:41 ↗ you know the theory is that that's what

1:11:43 ↗ will

1:11:44 ↗ you know entice people to vote for it

1:11:45 ↗ and so we're doing big projects and then

1:11:47 ↗ we're doing

1:11:48 ↗ um open space purchases and we also do

1:11:52 ↗ you know doing neighborhood projects so

1:11:53 ↗ it's a combination of all those

1:11:55 ↗ but those big projects are never going

1:11:57 ↗ to be short-term projects without some

1:11:59 ↗ sort of like

1:12:00 ↗ big you know big money coming in

1:12:03 ↗ and so if we don't have something like

1:12:05 ↗ that how are how are we going to fund

1:12:08 ↗ our big projects and get them off that

1:12:10 ↗ five-year six-year plan

1:12:12 ↗ um you know into something so to the

1:12:15 ↗ extent that we've kind of relied on

1:12:17 ↗ a park bond to push us over the edge to

1:12:20 ↗ say like yeah we'll

1:12:21 ↗ we'll do confluence park right you know

1:12:23 ↗ like that's or we'll do the turf fields

1:12:25 ↗ up in the highlands

1:12:26 ↗ those came out of park bond projects um

1:12:29 ↗ it's hard to imagine how you would do

1:12:30 ↗ that if you didn't have

1:12:32 ↗ you know something big pushing you

1:12:36 ↗ [Music]

1:12:37 ↗ then we're gonna have to think rethink

1:12:39 ↗ kind of how how do we strategize what

1:12:41 ↗ the important projects are

1:12:42 ↗ for our community well i think this

1:12:45 ↗ committee that

1:12:46 ↗ jeff's talking about might be a really

1:12:48 ↗ good next step you know to really see

1:12:51 ↗ what kind of funding opportunities there

1:12:53 ↗ are beyond bonds

1:12:54 ↗ and and see what happens from that and

1:12:57 ↗ then

1:12:58 ↗ if not enough happens from that we do

1:13:00 ↗ need to give some consideration to

1:13:02 ↗ another park bond at some point maybe

1:13:04 ↗ over the next few years

1:13:10 ↗ do anything that comes out of our master

1:13:12 ↗ plans if we want to actually

1:13:15 ↗ put them to life right

1:13:19 ↗ any other questions or comments on uh

1:13:23 ↗ six-year cip

1:13:26 ↗ well there'll be more along the way here

1:13:30 ↗ on this but that's a good update for now

1:13:32 ↗ on that

1:13:36 ↗ so we'll close out that part of the

1:13:37 ↗ agenda and uh

1:13:39 ↗ move into reports

1:13:42 ↗ and i guess that's me first here this

1:13:44 ↗ time around

1:13:46 ↗ so i have brad i'm sorry real quickly i

1:13:49 ↗ just just want to interject do we want

1:13:51 ↗ to do elections now or do you want to go

1:13:52 ↗ through reports

1:13:54 ↗ i'm sorry i had a little bit of slip

1:13:55 ↗ there yeah no worries

1:13:57 ↗ i was kind of hoping that we'd have

1:13:58 ↗ marlene but i don't see her and so

1:14:00 ↗ we do have jeremy with us so that's um

1:14:04 ↗ jeremy can you um

1:14:08 ↗ i don't see you can you actually see us

1:14:11 ↗ and hear us

1:14:11 ↗ and can you talk

1:14:18 ↗ jeremy brad i got an email from jeremy

1:14:23 ↗ he can hear you guys but was having some

1:14:25 ↗ connectivity issues

1:14:27 ↗ so i don't know if he's going to be able

1:14:28 ↗ to um to talk

1:14:30 ↗ okay okay okay well if you can hear us

1:14:34 ↗ jeremy even as we're going through this

1:14:36 ↗ um yeah if you have if you want to add

1:14:39 ↗ comments

1:14:40 ↗ in can we use the chat box

1:14:45 ↗ that would be an option as well yeah

1:14:52 ↗ so um brad i'll i'll start this off

1:14:55 ↗ as is identified in in

1:14:59 ↗ your rules and and procedures as a park

1:15:01 ↗ board

1:15:03 ↗ you all elect a chair and a vice chair

1:15:07 ↗ every year here we are again

1:15:10 ↗ in may with our new board members so um

1:15:15 ↗ but what we would do is uh we'll start

1:15:18 ↗ with the

1:15:19 ↗ chair position um i think you're all

1:15:22 ↗ familiar with the chair role

1:15:24 ↗ brad is in that current role you really

1:15:27 ↗ administer the meeting

1:15:29 ↗ um you get the privilege of of working

1:15:32 ↗ closely with melissa

1:15:33 ↗ and and somewhat with me on a

1:15:37 ↗ pretty regular basis in terms of

1:15:38 ↗ building the agenda putting out a work

1:15:40 ↗ plan beginning to sort of think a couple

1:15:42 ↗ of meetings ahead in terms of how we

1:15:44 ↗ want to sequence uh the the time so

1:15:48 ↗ that's the role um i'd love to know if

1:15:51 ↗ there are any

1:15:52 ↗ volunteers that are interested in the

1:15:54 ↗ chair position or

1:15:56 ↗ uh nominations

1:15:59 ↗ i'm i'm not volunteering um i've done my

1:16:02 ↗ time as a chair but i do want to really

1:16:04 ↗ encourage like

1:16:06 ↗ i think that it's healthy for our board

1:16:08 ↗ to have

1:16:09 ↗ have new new leadership now and then

1:16:13 ↗ um and to the extent that brad's done it

1:16:15 ↗ for five years i think that's

1:16:16 ↗ you know that's great and he's done a

1:16:18 ↗ fabulous job um

1:16:20 ↗ but i would really love to see some of

1:16:23 ↗ our members who

1:16:24 ↗ have been you know around for three to

1:16:27 ↗ four years

1:16:28 ↗ um kind of take that opportunity to sort

1:16:31 ↗ of you know to

1:16:32 ↗ give us a different um

1:16:36 ↗ you know a different vision so um

1:16:39 ↗ anyway i i don't want to nominate anyone

1:16:41 ↗ who put anyone on the spot

1:16:43 ↗ but if if somebody is interested in

1:16:46 ↗ doing it i would love to

1:16:48 ↗ to hear that and and if not

1:16:51 ↗ i think next year it would be really

1:16:53 ↗ good to kind of have these conversations

1:16:55 ↗ ahead of time

1:16:56 ↗ um and know what people's people are

1:16:58 ↗ thinking

1:16:59 ↗ um so we can have some leadership

1:17:02 ↗ transition

1:17:04 ↗ it's my two cents

1:17:08 ↗ yeah we've actually had something we've

1:17:10 ↗ actually had some talks

1:17:11 ↗ jeff and i have about how to about how

1:17:14 ↗ to go about maybe changing the future of

1:17:17 ↗ leadership

1:17:17 ↗ at some point um uh you know

1:17:21 ↗ you know maybe and we're not going to do

1:17:23 ↗ it this year because it's really

1:17:25 ↗ something that needs to be worked out

1:17:26 ↗ with the city

1:17:27 ↗ across the board for all boards and

1:17:29 ↗ commissions uh but some of the other

1:17:31 ↗ non-profits use

1:17:32 ↗ systems um like you know

1:17:36 ↗ the chair um becomes the

1:17:39 ↗ you know kind of the the the ex-chair

1:17:41 ↗ for a year to be

1:17:43 ↗ still in the loop to help out while new

1:17:45 ↗ leadership comes in

1:17:47 ↗ or steps down to be a vice chair so that

1:17:50 ↗ they're still there

1:17:51 ↗ while a new chair is learning the job or

1:17:54 ↗ or a vice chair comes in

1:17:56 ↗ and you know with the understanding of

1:17:57 ↗ maybe being the chair the next year so

1:17:59 ↗ man there are a lot of different

1:18:01 ↗ um uh policies that that non-profits use

1:18:05 ↗ uh for for boards and commissions

1:18:08 ↗ and so that's something this year that

1:18:11 ↗ really

1:18:12 ↗ i think will needs to be worked out you

1:18:14 ↗ know to get

1:18:15 ↗ you know more substance to it um this is

1:18:18 ↗ probably not right now

1:18:19 ↗ the way to be doing it but i just wanted

1:18:21 ↗ to at least put that out there that that

1:18:23 ↗ is something

1:18:24 ↗ i do agree with you danielle that you do

1:18:26 ↗ need to actually have some

1:18:28 ↗ some fresh visions uh over time with the

1:18:32 ↗ right people but

1:18:32 ↗ you also have the people that are

1:18:34 ↗ interested in doing it too

1:18:36 ↗ and not just you know hand pick somebody

1:18:39 ↗ and they just kind of

1:18:40 ↗ you know do something just because you

1:18:42 ↗ know somebody wanted them to they really

1:18:44 ↗ need to

1:18:45 ↗ you know want it and so

1:18:48 ↗ yeah i appreciate you bringing up that

1:18:50 ↗ upright and you're absolutely right we

1:18:51 ↗ have talked about that

1:18:52 ↗ uh with linda as well and and um

1:18:56 ↗ yeah to formalize a sequence like that

1:19:00 ↗ maybe a vice chair to a chair to a past

1:19:03 ↗ chair sort of uh term it is certainly

1:19:06 ↗ something worth conversation

1:19:08 ↗ i i would entertain this that as as you

1:19:11 ↗ all in your current rules and procedures

1:19:12 ↗ have one-year terms for each there's

1:19:14 ↗ nothing that would

1:19:16 ↗ wouldn't have to be formal but um

1:19:19 ↗ to consider a you know a vice chair and

1:19:21 ↗ understanding that vice chair in in the

1:19:23 ↗ next year

1:19:24 ↗ um um if they're still interested

1:19:28 ↗ um would would become chair um but um

1:19:31 ↗ yeah there's ways with which um yeah you

1:19:36 ↗ can create that

1:19:37 ↗ sort of healthy sense what i'm hearing

1:19:39 ↗ you both say danielle and brad

1:19:41 ↗ uh just that healthy sense of term and

1:19:43 ↗ that you're not

1:19:44 ↗ it's not a popularity contest if you you

1:19:47 ↗ serve your term

1:19:48 ↗ you're applauded and job well done

1:19:54 ↗ so again any volunteers interested in

1:19:57 ↗ the the chair role for this for this

1:19:59 ↗ next year

1:20:06 ↗ well let me put that out there that um i

1:20:08 ↗ think it's time

1:20:09 ↗ to some extent for change i don't know

1:20:11 ↗ whether or not this year or next year

1:20:13 ↗ certainly by next year i think

1:20:17 ↗ if there's somebody that wants to

1:20:19 ↗ volunteer for the position

1:20:21 ↗ i'm certainly willing to step down at

1:20:23 ↗ this point

1:20:25 ↗ and acknowledge somebody's interest

1:20:29 ↗ but at the same token if no one wants to

1:20:32 ↗ do that

1:20:32 ↗ i'm still willing to volunteer for the

1:20:34 ↗ position for an additional year

1:20:36 ↗ so i i guess i'd phrase it like that

1:20:46 ↗ i would i will take that as brad is

1:20:48 ↗ interested in

1:20:49 ↗ remaining on his chair any um

1:20:54 ↗ feedback or um

1:20:58 ↗ i could i could certainly take that to

1:20:59 ↗ uh take that to a vote

1:21:05 ↗ hearing no other volunteers or

1:21:07 ↗ nominations

1:21:08 ↗ i um sorry i don't know

1:21:12 ↗ i don't know all the right rules of

1:21:15 ↗ procedure here but

1:21:16 ↗ um all in favor of brad remaining on his

1:21:20 ↗ chair

1:21:21 ↗ say i

1:21:28 ↗ melissa is it would it be helpful to do

1:21:30 ↗ a roll call vote or

1:21:35 ↗ um or if everybody wants to just

1:21:38 ↗ raise their hand and hold it for a

1:21:40 ↗ second

1:21:45 ↗ alternates and regulars i'm seeing

1:21:51 ↗ all hands perfect thank you so much

1:21:56 ↗ and brad thank you yeah thank you

1:22:00 ↗ appreciate it the discussion as well

1:22:02 ↗ again i think that

1:22:04 ↗ just to put it out there i think this

1:22:06 ↗ needs to be my last year

1:22:08 ↗ coming forward and i'm glad to work with

1:22:11 ↗ the city

1:22:12 ↗ in a transition for a new leadership

1:22:14 ↗ protocol

1:22:15 ↗ um you know next year so everybody be

1:22:18 ↗ thinking about that

1:22:19 ↗ and and you know voice your input along

1:22:23 ↗ the year or two

1:22:24 ↗ as you see fit

1:22:28 ↗ really good comments brad thanks for

1:22:29 ↗ that i totally agree

1:22:31 ↗ so vice chair similarly one year term

1:22:35 ↗ linda is currently in that role any

1:22:40 ↗ comments from the current vice chair or

1:22:42 ↗ volunteers or

1:22:43 ↗ nominations i would just like to say

1:22:46 ↗ that i would like to

1:22:49 ↗ not continue i think i agree with

1:22:52 ↗ danielle and brad that it's time for new

1:22:55 ↗ leadership and so

1:22:56 ↗ i am not interested in continuing on i

1:22:58 ↗ would like

1:22:59 ↗ one of the other members to take the

1:23:04 ↗ position

1:23:06 ↗ well there we go appreciate that honesty

1:23:10 ↗ and candor linda

1:23:11 ↗ um certainly have appreciated the role

1:23:15 ↗ of the vice chair is to certainly serve

1:23:17 ↗ as chair in in the absence of

1:23:20 ↗ of the chair it also is a chance i know

1:23:22 ↗ in at least in my time here

1:23:24 ↗ we've established a regular monthly

1:23:26 ↗ meeting with the chair and the vice

1:23:28 ↗ chair again to help build the agenda for

1:23:30 ↗ the next meeting and to look ahead

1:23:31 ↗ several months and so

1:23:33 ↗ vice chair really plays a key role in

1:23:35 ↗ helping um

1:23:37 ↗ just give that perspective and voice of

1:23:39 ↗ the whole park board as we're as we're

1:23:40 ↗ building agenda and looking ahead

1:23:43 ↗ any nominees or

1:23:46 ↗ interested volunteers

1:23:53 ↗ i would potentially be interested in

1:23:55 ↗ volunteering although i don't know if

1:23:56 ↗ that's

1:23:57 ↗ appropriate being like just kind of

1:24:00 ↗ starting

1:24:00 ↗ out but it seems like maybe a good

1:24:04 ↗ opportunity to

1:24:06 ↗ learn as well for

1:24:10 ↗ the future and we really appreciate that

1:24:14 ↗ zach

1:24:22 ↗ anyone else interested i he i hear zach

1:24:25 ↗ interested and absolutely that the

1:24:28 ↗ bylaws would allow any regular member to

1:24:31 ↗ uh to serve that role so there's not a

1:24:34 ↗ a requirement of years served so to

1:24:42 ↗ speak

1:24:45 ↗ all right well hearing and seeing zach's

1:24:48 ↗ interest

1:24:50 ↗ and hearing no other volunteers or

1:24:52 ↗ nominations

1:24:53 ↗ um going off of melissa's protocols

1:24:57 ↗ can i see a show of hands of the board

1:25:00 ↗ members if you are in support of

1:25:03 ↗ zach serving as your vice chair

1:25:09 ↗ all right i see all regular members

1:25:11 ↗ saying yes so

1:25:13 ↗ zach thank you and congratulations

1:25:16 ↗ thanks

1:25:18 ↗ it's great all right thank you for that

1:25:23 ↗ hey thanks everyone that's another

1:25:25 ↗ election year it seems to keep changing

1:25:27 ↗ in terms of how we go about doing it but

1:25:29 ↗ we'll get it right here we'll get some

1:25:31 ↗ protocol in place here one of these

1:25:33 ↗ years

1:25:33 ↗ and uh maybe all boards and commissions

1:25:36 ↗ will do it the same way

1:25:37 ↗ and uh look forward to that you know in

1:25:41 ↗ years past we've actually just kind of

1:25:42 ↗ nominated people

1:25:44 ↗ and i like the idea of volunteers

1:25:46 ↗ because it shows an interest that people

1:25:48 ↗ have for a position

1:25:51 ↗ rather than just being selected and

1:25:53 ↗ taking it

1:25:55 ↗ thanks for that and thanks for the vote

1:25:56 ↗ of confidence

1:25:58 ↗ and uh appreciate zach's uh volunteer to

1:26:01 ↗ step in and learn the process they look

1:26:03 ↗ forward to working with you zach here

1:26:05 ↗ this next year

1:26:11 ↗ you know at the beginning of the year

1:26:13 ↗ when we are asking people to renew

1:26:16 ↗ like to reapply or whatnot kind of that

1:26:18 ↗ that time it might be

1:26:20 ↗ might make sense to reach out and talk

1:26:22 ↗ to everybody on the board and see what

1:26:23 ↗ their

1:26:25 ↗ you know take take their temperature

1:26:26 ↗ that time so people have time to

1:26:28 ↗ actually think about it

1:26:29 ↗ and learn a little bit more about the

1:26:32 ↗ time requirement and whatnot

1:26:34 ↗ i agree that's that sounds like a good

1:26:36 ↗ sequence i agree

1:26:38 ↗ i mean like i said i think you know jeff

1:26:40 ↗ and i and zach can work uh this year

1:26:43 ↗ because needs to be some discussion with

1:26:45 ↗ the mayor about

1:26:46 ↗ you know how to maybe change leadership

1:26:48 ↗ strategy for the future

1:26:50 ↗ and really would be nice to actually

1:26:52 ↗ have kind of a

1:26:53 ↗ protocol in place for all boards and

1:26:55 ↗ commissions to do something more

1:26:57 ↗ consistently

1:26:59 ↗ rather than just kind of wing it which

1:27:01 ↗ kind of has been the

1:27:02 ↗ way it's gone for a number of years

1:27:04 ↗ really so

1:27:07 ↗ so uh when that part of it and um

1:27:11 ↗ chair report i have three items that i

1:27:13 ↗ wanted to talk about one is

1:27:16 ↗ rules and regulations this is always a

1:27:18 ↗ good time to

1:27:20 ↗ revisit rules and regulations and

1:27:23 ↗ we actually have two new board members

1:27:25 ↗ that really need to review them

1:27:27 ↗ so um i'd like melissa is it possible to

1:27:31 ↗ send

1:27:32 ↗ those out electronically to everybody on

1:27:35 ↗ the board

1:27:36 ↗ yeah i can um send those out

1:27:38 ↗ electronically and then we'll also have

1:27:40 ↗ an

1:27:41 ↗ upcoming training from the clerk's

1:27:43 ↗ office

1:27:44 ↗ on june 22nd that will be sent out to

1:27:47 ↗ the new members and i'm happy to forward

1:27:49 ↗ that along to

1:27:50 ↗ the rest of the members if anybody else

1:27:51 ↗ is interested in attending that training

1:27:53 ↗ as well

1:27:54 ↗ okay so be on the lookout for that take

1:27:58 ↗ a review of it reach out let us know if

1:28:00 ↗ you have any questions or issues about

1:28:02 ↗ it

1:28:04 ↗ and for uh brenda and zach

1:28:07 ↗ we'll need to get a signed copy of that

1:28:09 ↗ from you

1:28:11 ↗ at some point no real urgency probably

1:28:13 ↗ when we

1:28:14 ↗ meet together would be a good time to do

1:28:16 ↗ that but

1:28:17 ↗ we have a signed copy from everybody

1:28:19 ↗ except the two new members

1:28:21 ↗ so but i encourage everybody to take

1:28:23 ↗ another quick look at that

1:28:25 ↗ just to refresh yourself

1:28:28 ↗ um

1:28:32 ↗ i attended the the kokanee work group

1:28:35 ↗ quarterly meeting on may 5th

1:28:37 ↗ just kind of wanted to briefly

1:28:40 ↗ point out a couple highlights from that

1:28:42 ↗ meeting

1:28:43 ↗ we had about 35 people attend from a

1:28:46 ↗ variety of agencies around the region

1:28:50 ↗ we had a good presentation from

1:28:51 ↗ washington department of transportation

1:28:55 ↗ and for those of you that don't know

1:28:57 ↗ there's actually a supreme court ruling

1:28:59 ↗ called the culvert case

1:29:01 ↗ in washington it came down here over the

1:29:04 ↗ last couple years

1:29:05 ↗ and basically it enforces the state

1:29:09 ↗ to actually free up um fish passage

1:29:12 ↗ on some old uh culverts that are not

1:29:15 ↗ um serving the fish very well

1:29:19 ↗ and uh we actually have uh several

1:29:22 ↗ tributaries running off cougar mountain

1:29:24 ↗ and squawk mountain into lake sammamish

1:29:26 ↗ that are going to be affected by this

1:29:28 ↗ right now the most prominent one is

1:29:31 ↗ lewis creek

1:29:32 ↗ which is right just a little ways east

1:29:35 ↗ of

1:29:35 ↗ the west lake sammamish parkway if you

1:29:38 ↗ see

1:29:38 ↗ a lot of work over in that area you'll

1:29:41 ↗ know now why that is

1:29:43 ↗ and there's over a million dollars it's

1:29:45 ↗ already been funded

1:29:47 ↗ uh for some design and development work

1:29:49 ↗ on that project

1:29:50 ↗ and that's the primary one that the

1:29:53 ↗ state is working on

1:29:54 ↗ is to free up lewis creek which is going

1:29:56 ↗ to open up several

1:29:57 ↗ a couple miles of additional fish

1:29:59 ↗ patches up

1:30:01 ↗ up beyond the kind of the south side of

1:30:05 ↗ i-90

1:30:07 ↗ but three other creek systems closer in

1:30:10 ↗ issaquah will be affected by this

1:30:12 ↗ um and that is

1:30:15 ↗ west village uh creek schneider creek

1:30:18 ↗ and tibbetts creek

1:30:20 ↗ those are not all funded as yet but

1:30:23 ↗ those are

1:30:24 ↗ part of the state's plan over the next

1:30:27 ↗ year or two to try and do something with

1:30:30 ↗ those

1:30:31 ↗ creeks as well the goal is to

1:30:34 ↗ have 90 percent of the culvert problems

1:30:37 ↗ in the state resolved by

1:30:39 ↗ 2030. so they got a lot of work to do in

1:30:42 ↗ a short amount of time

1:30:43 ↗ and who knows where they're going to get

1:30:45 ↗ all the funding for this but at least

1:30:47 ↗ they have over a million

1:30:48 ↗ dollars for the lewis creek culvert

1:30:49 ↗ right now so it's at least moving in the

1:30:51 ↗ right direction

1:30:53 ↗ a couple other main things that the

1:30:55 ↗ meeting we talked about was a habitat

1:30:57 ↗ actions

1:30:58 ↗ really going up throughout the watershed

1:31:00 ↗ if lake wash lake smash

1:31:03 ↗ fish management and community engagement

1:31:05 ↗ so those were really the four main

1:31:07 ↗ topics that were talked about at the

1:31:08 ↗ kokanee work group

1:31:11 ↗ i'm sure you don't want to have any real

1:31:15 ↗ details on any of that but if you do let

1:31:17 ↗ me know and i can pass on lots of

1:31:19 ↗ information

1:31:21 ↗ we actually have a new kind of director

1:31:23 ↗ of the kokanee work group from king

1:31:25 ↗ county that puts out

1:31:26 ↗ a really good comprehensive

1:31:31 ↗ document at the end of our meetings that

1:31:33 ↗ talk specifically about

1:31:35 ↗ everything that went on so if you want

1:31:36 ↗ that let me know and i'll pass it along

1:31:38 ↗ to you

1:31:40 ↗ last thing i had was actually an event

1:31:43 ↗ finally uh

1:31:45 ↗ you know things are starting to come

1:31:46 ↗ together here where we're starting to

1:31:47 ↗ get out and about

1:31:49 ↗ and uh i just saw today you know an

1:31:52 ↗ event that may

1:31:52 ↗ interest you uh that's being uh

1:31:55 ↗ sponsored by

1:31:57 ↗ esqua alps trails club uh on june 4th

1:32:01 ↗ which is a week from this friday

1:32:05 ↗ at four o'clock in the afternoon

1:32:08 ↗ there is a a educational hike planned

1:32:14 ↗ to start at the east sunset trailhead

1:32:17 ↗ which is

1:32:19 ↗ right there by the freeway entrance

1:32:22 ↗ everybody should know where that is and

1:32:25 ↗ dan

1:32:26 ↗ heintz from mountainous greenway

1:32:29 ↗ uh is actually going to put on a

1:32:32 ↗ a brief walk the topic is forest

1:32:37 ↗ health hike and uh so

1:32:40 ↗ i know dan he'll put on a really good

1:32:42 ↗ educational opportunity for those that

1:32:44 ↗ are interested to talk about

1:32:46 ↗ habitat issues what the forest health is

1:32:49 ↗ looking like

1:32:51 ↗ basically it's going to go up along the

1:32:53 ↗ tradition lake

1:32:54 ↗ plateau area and

1:32:58 ↗ start to go by big tree trail anybody

1:33:01 ↗ any new

1:33:01 ↗ anybody know where that is but it's

1:33:03 ↗ going to be about a three mile hike

1:33:05 ↗ to take a couple hours anyway it starts

1:33:08 ↗ at four o'clock

1:33:10 ↗ it may be enough of an intro this is all

1:33:13 ↗ for the most part on issaquah parkland

1:33:16 ↗ but there is some dnr land as well

1:33:19 ↗ that's going to be involved um it's a

1:33:22 ↗ registration kind of situation

1:33:24 ↗ and so um because of the fact that this

1:33:27 ↗ is as close to parks

1:33:29 ↗ and as it is i'm going to go ahead and

1:33:32 ↗ send out

1:33:33 ↗ the invitation to everybody on the park

1:33:35 ↗ board so that you can submit your

1:33:36 ↗ registration if you want to do that

1:33:39 ↗ i'd encourage it it's a i think it'll be

1:33:41 ↗ a good educational opportunity

1:33:43 ↗ and it especially you know kind of runs

1:33:46 ↗ in line with

1:33:47 ↗ um with green issaquah too to some

1:33:50 ↗ extent and so that's why i think

1:33:52 ↗ getting some first-hand knowledge from

1:33:53 ↗ mountain sound greenway will be a good

1:33:55 ↗ opportunity

1:33:58 ↗ uh so that's all i had for my chair

1:34:00 ↗ report

1:34:02 ↗ and we're on to

1:34:05 ↗ ryan to talk a little bit about the

1:34:07 ↗ youth board and what's up with

1:34:09 ↗ with you guys well thank you ron

1:34:12 ↗ um so i just had a couple of things i

1:34:13 ↗ wanted to talk about the advisory board

1:34:15 ↗ put on that food and book drive i was

1:34:18 ↗ talking about

1:34:19 ↗ at the last park board meeting uh we

1:34:21 ↗ ended up collecting more than 800 pounds

1:34:23 ↗ of donations for

1:34:24 ↗ the issaquah food and clothing bank and

1:34:27 ↗ lots of children's books for eastside

1:34:29 ↗ baby corner so that was really great to

1:34:30 ↗ see the community come together and

1:34:33 ↗ give to that effort and then the other

1:34:35 ↗ thing is

1:34:36 ↗ i've been working with jennifer um on a

1:34:39 ↗ presentation i gave at the last youth

1:34:40 ↗ advisory board meeting on the wayfinding

1:34:42 ↗ project and

1:34:43 ↗ so we had a lot of great discussion with

1:34:44 ↗ youth advisory board members and got

1:34:46 ↗ some really great feedback there with

1:34:48 ↗ the wayfinding project um had some time

1:34:50 ↗ for some small group discussions and

1:34:52 ↗ give them a chance to follow the survey

1:34:54 ↗ and

1:34:54 ↗ we're really hoping going forward that

1:34:56 ↗ that can be something we do regularly

1:34:57 ↗ with other parks board projects in the

1:34:59 ↗ future

1:35:03 ↗ thank you ryan for that appreciate your

1:35:05 ↗ engagement with us

1:35:07 ↗ and all that you do i assume that you

1:35:09 ↗ pass things along to the board

1:35:11 ↗ on what our meetings might talk about is

1:35:13 ↗ that is that helpful

1:35:15 ↗ at all yeah that's something that all of

1:35:17 ↗ the youth representatives do whenever

1:35:19 ↗ we've had a meeting since the last use

1:35:20 ↗ of youth advisory board meeting

1:35:22 ↗ we always make sure there's time for uh

1:35:24 ↗ the youth reps to give

1:35:25 ↗ have a chance to sort of discuss what's

1:35:27 ↗ going on so yep i always talk about what

1:35:28 ↗ happens here at the

1:35:29 ↗ board you're going to be joining us

1:35:31 ↗ again

1:35:32 ↗ next year or okay good good

1:35:36 ↗ hey brad can i just do a little quick

1:35:39 ↗ shout out for ryan

1:35:40 ↗ he did the most excellent job in prevent

1:35:44 ↗ in presenting the wayfinding project to

1:35:47 ↗ the youth advisory board

1:35:48 ↗ did a stellar presentation beautiful

1:35:52 ↗ promotion of conversation promotion of

1:35:54 ↗ feedback

1:35:55 ↗ and i just really wanted to give a huge

1:35:58 ↗ shout out to

1:35:59 ↗ the effort he put forward and uh

1:36:02 ↗ the meeting he ran i was just there as

1:36:05 ↗ ears on the wall he did an

1:36:06 ↗ excellent job well thank you for that

1:36:11 ↗ and thank you for sure brian

1:36:18 ↗ so i'm hoping next year they'll have

1:36:20 ↗ like the youth triathlon and all the

1:36:22 ↗ other

1:36:22 ↗ like all the other in-person activities

1:36:25 ↗ hopefully those will all be back next

1:36:26 ↗ year

1:36:27 ↗ so that's the plan that's my fingers

1:36:30 ↗ across

1:36:32 ↗ thanks for sticking with us this year

1:36:36 ↗ yeah well done ryan again you you you've

1:36:40 ↗ you spoke uh very humbly of of that

1:36:42 ↗ effort that was very well done and

1:36:44 ↗ and i think the context of wayfinding

1:36:46 ↗ it's wonderful to get

1:36:47 ↗ the voice of the youth in in that um

1:36:51 ↗ you know we've had the survey up if any

1:36:52 ↗ of you've been out on our trails you've

1:36:54 ↗ seen that the survey boards with the qr

1:36:56 ↗ codes

1:36:57 ↗ we've already had 1100 plus responses

1:37:01 ↗ uh from residents and giving us feedback

1:37:03 ↗ on wayfinding and what they like don't

1:37:05 ↗ like about

1:37:06 ↗ those four concepts we really think

1:37:08 ↗ we're going to get some really really

1:37:10 ↗ good feedback from the community and

1:37:13 ↗ ryan your efforts and and really trying

1:37:16 ↗ to get the

1:37:17 ↗ the teens out reinforce that and

1:37:20 ↗ make sure we're getting team perspective

1:37:22 ↗ and that is is terrific as well

1:37:24 ↗ so great job by jennifer very creative

1:37:28 ↗ and working with the communications team

1:37:30 ↗ honestly as as we've had to get creative

1:37:33 ↗ with covid i

1:37:34 ↗ i think we're finding some options and

1:37:36 ↗ again more arrows in the quiver for

1:37:38 ↗ getting feedback in new ways

1:37:40 ↗ and i'll tell you the cost of of putting

1:37:43 ↗ up some

1:37:44 ↗ some artful displays along our trails

1:37:47 ↗ with qr

1:37:48 ↗ codes and giving residents a chance to

1:37:50 ↗ give feedback on their own time

1:37:51 ↗ it's really i i think showing that

1:37:54 ↗ um meeting people where they're at

1:37:57 ↗ getting to where people are at and

1:37:58 ↗ letting them provide feedback on their

1:37:59 ↗ own time is

1:38:00 ↗ is obviously um invaluable

1:38:04 ↗ for us getting feedback along those

1:38:07 ↗ lines

1:38:08 ↗ jeff i just saw i just saw the big one

1:38:10 ↗ out on tradition lake when i was out a

1:38:12 ↗ couple days ago

1:38:13 ↗ and that just gets such a mass amount of

1:38:16 ↗ people out there

1:38:17 ↗ that you know i it was positioned really

1:38:19 ↗ right i could really see

1:38:20 ↗ putting those out to be a great way of

1:38:22 ↗ getting some feedback

1:38:24 ↗ yep yep absolutely two other really

1:38:27 ↗ quick updates

1:38:28 ↗ um another project that we had a

1:38:30 ↗ discussion on and you all gave us some

1:38:32 ↗ great advice on earlier this year

1:38:34 ↗ um is uh central park pad 3 our turf

1:38:37 ↗ replacement project if you recall

1:38:39 ↗ we came to you really beginning to

1:38:41 ↗ explore how we want to consider

1:38:43 ↗ infill and what infill options we want

1:38:45 ↗ to look at

1:38:46 ↗ great news we've got that project at the

1:38:48 ↗ bid that is going to start

1:38:50 ↗ here the week of june 7th we'll begin

1:38:53 ↗ that replacement project

1:38:55 ↗ and weather pending and all goes well we

1:38:58 ↗ will

1:38:59 ↗ have that project done and ready for

1:39:02 ↗ fall sports use both football and soccer

1:39:05 ↗ come august so jennifer will be serving

1:39:09 ↗ as project manager we're going to be

1:39:10 ↗ getting signage up at central park

1:39:12 ↗ letting the community know that closure

1:39:14 ↗ issaquah highlands association

1:39:16 ↗ um and neighborhood groups have have

1:39:18 ↗ been informed and will continue to stay

1:39:20 ↗ in the loop there

1:39:22 ↗ the infill that we're going with is the

1:39:25 ↗ um sort of most

1:39:26 ↗ up-to-date um combination of cork and

1:39:29 ↗ sand infill so we're going to be going

1:39:31 ↗ to a natural organic infill

1:39:33 ↗ a great pilot for us as we're looking

1:39:36 ↗ at our other synthetic fields

1:39:39 ↗ and perhaps even future synthetic fields

1:39:42 ↗ pending

1:39:44 ↗ a funding strategy conversation where we

1:39:46 ↗ might go so

1:39:47 ↗ i think it's a really good time for us

1:39:49 ↗ to look at

1:39:51 ↗ these alternatives it's it's very much

1:39:53 ↗ everything i'm seeing and talking with

1:39:56 ↗ my colleagues turf vendors of all kinds

1:39:59 ↗ will tell you

1:40:01 ↗ um organic infill is is where the

1:40:03 ↗ industry is going so

1:40:05 ↗ i'm glad we're taking this chance to

1:40:07 ↗ this to this opportunity to

1:40:09 ↗ to do it here in in issaquah and see how

1:40:12 ↗ it performs

1:40:13 ↗ uh last item i have is uh within our

1:40:16 ↗ park operations team

1:40:18 ↗ i had shared with you as the budget was

1:40:20 ↗ adopted that

1:40:22 ↗ we had been out for recruitment for a

1:40:25 ↗ new park operations manager

1:40:27 ↗ this position will really oversee matt

1:40:29 ↗ meckler and the park maintenance team

1:40:32 ↗ really provide leadership and strategic

1:40:34 ↗ leadership as we're looking at all of

1:40:36 ↗ these new things we're doing from green

1:40:38 ↗ issaquah

1:40:38 ↗ to expanding volunteer efforts

1:40:44 ↗ taking a real hard look at forest health

1:40:46 ↗ taking a really hard look at how we

1:40:48 ↗ maintain

1:40:50 ↗ our our park system and the diversity of

1:40:52 ↗ our park system i'm happy to announce

1:40:54 ↗ that kirsten chapman

1:40:55 ↗ um has she started last week i'll i'll

1:40:59 ↗ have it

1:41:00 ↗ kirsten come join us hopefully in june

1:41:02 ↗ so she can introduce herself

1:41:04 ↗ um long time uh park operations expert

1:41:08 ↗ spent last 20 years with king county

1:41:10 ↗ most recently

1:41:12 ↗ at the management level she's over has

1:41:15 ↗ had overseen six of their divisions

1:41:17 ↗ spread throughout the county so brings

1:41:19 ↗ with it just a wealth of leadership

1:41:22 ↗ great diverse experience from again

1:41:24 ↗ stewarding open space and natural

1:41:26 ↗ systems to

1:41:28 ↗ ball fields and and play equipment and

1:41:30 ↗ all the active elements that

1:41:32 ↗ exist within our system so um look

1:41:34 ↗ forward to introducing you all to

1:41:36 ↗ kirsten i think will be a tremendous

1:41:38 ↗ addition to the

1:41:38 ↗ to the issaquah parks team

1:41:42 ↗ oh and one last item brad since you

1:41:44 ↗ mentioned the uh

1:41:46 ↗ dan heintz and the the hike that they're

1:41:49 ↗ hosting it's wonderful to hear that dan

1:41:51 ↗ was really

1:41:52 ↗ was a key part of um our green issaquah

1:41:56 ↗ partnership as fortera has reached out

1:41:59 ↗ to mountains to sound greenway

1:42:01 ↗ that's great we'll make sure to get

1:42:02 ↗ promotion out um

1:42:04 ↗ both through glad alps trails club is

1:42:07 ↗ doing that in mounts to sound but

1:42:08 ↗ certainly through our green issaquah

1:42:09 ↗ network as well

1:42:10 ↗ because that's precisely what it is

1:42:12 ↗ let's let's continue to find

1:42:14 ↗ opportunities to educate

1:42:15 ↗ on forest health um within not only the

1:42:19 ↗ the public system around us but within

1:42:20 ↗ our own city system and

1:42:23 ↗ you know 300 acres of of forested land

1:42:26 ↗ that we

1:42:27 ↗ own as a city and and need to maintain

1:42:29 ↗ in steward so

1:42:32 ↗ we'll promote that promote that as well

1:42:34 ↗ it's great to hear

1:42:36 ↗ and with that i'm done jeff where are

1:42:38 ↗ things at with the park ranger position

1:42:41 ↗ yeah thank you park ranger um also began

1:42:45 ↗ last monday sorry i didn't mean to to

1:42:47 ↗ overshadow that

1:42:48 ↗ uh peter walters um is our new park

1:42:51 ↗ ranger who was hired

1:42:53 ↗ also last monday so kirsten and peter

1:42:55 ↗ started the same day

1:42:57 ↗ i was just meeting with them earlier

1:42:59 ↗ today as we're

1:43:01 ↗ looking at all the program development

1:43:04 ↗ details we actually

1:43:06 ↗ spent about an hour with police and

1:43:08 ↗ working through some of the protocols

1:43:10 ↗ and some of the interface

1:43:11 ↗ that that position is going to have with

1:43:13 ↗ uh with pd

1:43:14 ↗ so realistically it's probably the next

1:43:17 ↗ two to three weeks of continued program

1:43:19 ↗ development training

1:43:21 ↗ equipments getting radios ready for the

1:43:24 ↗ the ranger and

1:43:25 ↗ uh we look forward to launching uh that

1:43:27 ↗ position this summer with

1:43:29 ↗ some pop-up opportunities and other ways

1:43:31 ↗ to get the ranger out there

1:43:33 ↗ as any of you or all of you may remember

1:43:36 ↗ the ranger really is going to be that

1:43:38 ↗ bridge position a lot of ways between

1:43:40 ↗ that interface with police so from an

1:43:42 ↗ enforcement standpoint

1:43:44 ↗ being another set of eyes in our park

1:43:46 ↗ system but really also

1:43:47 ↗ an educator and an ambassador for what

1:43:50 ↗ it means to steward our parks um to

1:43:53 ↗ really ensure

1:43:54 ↗ excellent customer service and excellent

1:43:57 ↗ experience that residents have within

1:43:59 ↗ our parks so

1:44:00 ↗ um peter's a welcome addition as well

1:44:04 ↗ gonna have a special uniform they are

1:44:07 ↗ gonna have a uniform we're still

1:44:08 ↗ finalizing what the hat's gonna look

1:44:10 ↗ like but

1:44:11 ↗ um yeah probably not to the deliver

1:44:14 ↗ to the level of um

1:44:17 ↗ canadian can you know canadian mounted

1:44:20 ↗ police

1:44:20 ↗ but uh somewhere somewhere in a very

1:44:23 ↗ recognizable sense

1:44:25 ↗ of of a khaki greenish um

1:44:28 ↗ q i like it that would be great having

1:44:31 ↗ those two new people

1:44:33 ↗ on online absolutely

1:44:38 ↗ so uh is that it jeff okay

1:44:41 ↗ good anybody else have any other

1:44:44 ↗ announcements or other business

1:44:47 ↗ discussion i just want to point out that

1:44:50 ↗ um

1:44:50 ↗ as as as things are opening up and

1:44:53 ↗ people are getting back out into the

1:44:54 ↗ parks um

1:44:56 ↗ it i've had an opportunity to drive by

1:44:58 ↗ the skate park a bunch of times um sort

1:45:00 ↗ of on my regular route to wherever

1:45:02 ↗ i go and it is packed like all the time

1:45:05 ↗ and with young kids with you know

1:45:09 ↗ teenagers with adults i'm shocked at how

1:45:11 ↗ many adults are out there

1:45:13 ↗ um and so i just i feel like we did a

1:45:16 ↗ really good job with the group of people

1:45:18 ↗ who

1:45:18 ↗ worked on um for all that time on

1:45:22 ↗ on figuring out where it should go where

1:45:23 ↗ to locate that new skate park

1:45:25 ↗ and and then how that the other design

1:45:28 ↗ is it seems to be at least from me i

1:45:29 ↗ don't know really have any

1:45:31 ↗ personal knowledge but it seems to be

1:45:33 ↗ working well uh

1:45:34 ↗ and seems to be a great location so um

1:45:37 ↗ like i'm just it just makes me happy

1:45:39 ↗ every time i drive by and see it full

1:45:42 ↗ so thanks to you those of you who have

1:45:44 ↗ worked on it

1:45:48 ↗ i think that uh probably our next

1:45:50 ↗ meeting is still going to be virtual

1:45:51 ↗ would be my guest

1:45:52 ↗ i don't know i haven't heard anything

1:45:53 ↗ from yet from the city but i i doubt

1:45:56 ↗ anything's going to be in person until

1:45:58 ↗ later in the summer

1:45:59 ↗ we'll just have to see when that rolls

1:46:01 ↗ out but expect june meeting probably to

1:46:03 ↗ be virtual

1:46:06 ↗ that sound about right jeff

1:46:10 ↗ yes it does it does and yeah as i get

1:46:13 ↗ more

1:46:14 ↗ details and specifics and what back to

1:46:16 ↗ work looks like

1:46:17 ↗ um in terms of um all city departments

1:46:21 ↗ you know parks and community services i

1:46:24 ↗ we've been back to work for a long time

1:46:26 ↗ now um in terms of providing services

1:46:29 ↗ but

1:46:30 ↗ yeah i know administration and clerk's

1:46:32 ↗ office are beginning to put some details

1:46:34 ↗ around what

1:46:35 ↗ uh in-person public meetings start to

1:46:37 ↗ look like so

1:46:39 ↗ i'll share that as i learn more okay

1:46:42 ↗ sounds good gonna be all 78 comments new

1:46:45 ↗ business

1:46:47 ↗ not seeing anything well we're five

1:46:50 ↗ minutes early i like that

1:46:52 ↗ so looks like that's a wrap and uh

1:46:54 ↗ meeting is adjourned

1:46:56 ↗ uh have a great weekend everybody thank

1:46:58 ↗ you

1:46:59 ↗ thanks everybody welcome brenda and zach

1:47:06 ↗ welcome

1:47:16 ↗ you

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