Park Board · Monday, April 29, 2024 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of Special Meeting March 26, 2024

packet pp.3–6

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 03-26-24 Park Board Minutes CITY OF ISSAQUAH Park Board 7:00 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave March 26, 2024 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

Minutes of Special Joint Meeting February 26, 2024

packet pp.7–9

Previously discussed: Environmental Board · Mar 13, 2024 Park Board · Mar 26, 2024

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES b) 02-26-24 Park Board Minutes CITY OF ISSAQUAH Park Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave February 26, 2024 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Heritage Tree Program and Urban Forest Team Update, (D,I)

40 min · Dan Hintz, Urban Forest Supervisor · packet pp.11–27

Topics: Trees

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Staff report:

REGULAR BUSINESS a) APRIL 29, 2024 | PARK BOARD Dan Hintz, Urban Forest Supervisor

Public Art Update: Pedestrian Park, Senior Center Plazas, (D,I)

20 min · Amy Dukes, Cultural Arts Manager · packet pp.29–43

Topics: TransportationParksArts & Culture

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Staff report:

Public Art Update: Pedestrian Park, Senior Center Plazas APRIL 29, 2024 | PARK BOARD Amy Dukes, Cultural Arts Manager

5. REPORTS

Youth Representative's Report

packet pp.45–46

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Staff report:

Applicable Strategic Plan Goal Areas 2024 WORKPLAN Proposed Meeting (check all that apply) PARK BOARD Schedule ☒Mobility ☒Social & Economic Vitality ☒Growth & Development ☒City Leadership & Services Tentative Timeframe ☒Environ. Stewardship ☒Infrastructure

Director's Report

Chairperson's Report

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0:04 ↗ all right it's 7:01 I'll call the

0:06 ↗ meeting to order and I'll start by

0:10 ↗ taking

0:11 ↗ roll uh Marlene here

0:17 ↗ Zach

0:19 ↗ Here Andrew

0:22 ↗ e David Luke present Nicholas

0:28 ↗ Lee think he might might be joining

0:30 ↗ because he was asking me for stuff after

0:32 ↗ him so corresponding I should say uh

0:36 ↗ Brenda Spears here kie

0:39 ↗ Bell Tim

0:42 ↗ Motley

0:44 ↗ online and I am here Andrew

0:49 ↗ Myers uh Brad

0:51 ↗ book said he wasn't gonna make it I

0:53 ↗ think so him and then Ryan

0:57 ↗ Olsson hey with that

1:02 ↗ move into the

1:03 ↗ meeting um did everybody get chance to

1:06 ↗ review the meetings for the last the

1:08 ↗ minutes from the last

1:09 ↗ meeting any objections to approving them

1:13 ↗ we had two sets of

1:16 ↗ minute so you have minutes from your

1:18 ↗ February joint meeting with the

1:20 ↗ environmental board and then you had

1:22 ↗ your minutes from the last

1:24 ↗ meeting okay well let's uh the minutes

1:28 ↗ from our last regular

1:32 ↗ think

1:33 ↗ objections so those are

1:37 ↗ hereby and then from The Joint

1:42 ↗ meeting any objections to

1:46 ↗ those so those are

1:49 ↗ approved with

1:51 ↗ that we will move and do um public

1:56 ↗ comments do we we have Connie right have

1:59 ↗ anybody else

2:02 ↗ I think

2:03 ↗ just

2:09 ↗ right hello there sorry for being a

2:12 ↗ little late no

2:15 ↗ worries okay so public comment from we

2:18 ↗ have one one speaker yep let me just

2:21 ↗ unmute you Connie

2:31 ↗ hey Connie you should be

2:44 ↗ here you able to do your video Connie or

2:47 ↗ give us any indication if you're hearing

2:56 ↗ us but she might have just dropped maybe

2:58 ↗ yeah it looks like she dropped she might

3:00 ↗ be calling back

3:01 ↗ in can wait a

3:04 ↗ minute we don't have anybody else we

3:07 ↗ don't have anybody else we did receive

3:09 ↗ comments from her by email which you all

3:11 ↗ received and I can include in the

3:12 ↗ minutes um and we'll see if she's able

3:14 ↗ to rejoin but we didn't have any other

3:16 ↗ or their public

3:41 ↗ what we could do is move into regular

3:44 ↗ business which is the first item is the

3:47 ↗ Heritage tree program and urban forest

3:49 ↗ team

3:50 ↗ update presented by Dan hints I suspect

3:53 ↗ Connie's comments will relate to that so

3:56 ↗ maybe she'll jump in after that what

3:58 ↗ email comments were that's a great

4:01 ↗ idea it

4:08 ↗ away wellan is getting the slides up

4:13 ↗ um think I've met everyone and presented

4:16 ↗ to this group a couple times now but um

4:18 ↗ Dan hint Urban FL supervisor with the

4:20 ↗ city of

4:21 ↗ isqua um been this roll over a little a

4:24 ↗ little over a year now and kind of have

4:25 ↗ two parts for my agenda items today kind

4:28 ↗ of kind of refresh in um our where we're

4:31 ↗ at with our heritage tree program and

4:32 ↗ talking about some kind of nomination

4:35 ↗ process uh updates and some discussion

4:37 ↗ questions to hopefully really pin that

4:39 ↗ down and and and bring that back to the

4:41 ↗ board in the next couple months for a

4:42 ↗ vote to actually move forward with those

4:44 ↗ updates that's that's the goal at least

4:47 ↗ um so we'll kind of dive into that here

4:48 ↗ in just a minute and then we'll have

4:49 ↗ some updates on the urban Forest program

4:53 ↗ over the last year since we've really uh

4:54 ↗ kind of built this out and continue to

4:56 ↗ grow so uh we will stop in the middle

4:58 ↗ for the disc discuss questions uh as we

5:01 ↗ get through the Heritage tree slides so

5:03 ↗ um if you have anything before then feel

5:04 ↗ free to raise your hand but uh just just

5:06 ↗ to be clear we'll we'll stop on those uh

5:09 ↗ slides with the four or five questions

5:10 ↗ we had proposed for you all um coming

5:12 ↗ into tonight

5:16 ↗ so so uh you essentially we'll do a

5:19 ↗ quick quick review of uh Heritage treat

5:21 ↗ programs I guess that could be plural uh

5:23 ↗ you know kind of what those look like

5:25 ↗ across our region um kind of talk about

5:28 ↗ this draft process of how trees are

5:30 ↗ nominated and ultimately selected in

5:32 ↗ isqua um and some of those proposed

5:35 ↗ updates uh and then we have our

5:37 ↗ discussion question so that'll really be

5:39 ↗ the focus to start and said we'll pause

5:40 ↗ there after item number four for

5:42 ↗ discussion and then mostly just updates

5:45 ↗ from the urban forest team after that

5:47 ↗ but certainly open to questions comments

5:49 ↗ you all may have on some of the work

5:50 ↗ we're doing with our team

5:56 ↗ um okay so this is just kind of our

5:58 ↗ cover slide but

6:01 ↗ um this is a few of our trees at the uh

6:04 ↗ hellside Cemetery there no worries just

6:05 ↗ forur i' kind of point out where those

6:06 ↗ pictures are from you've seen a couple

6:08 ↗ of these slides uh when we initially

6:10 ↗ brought this to the park board back in

6:11 ↗ the fall so this like I said early on is

6:13 ↗ kind of a little bit more of a refresher

6:15 ↗ but uh yeah Heritage tree programs are

6:17 ↗ pretty common in cities around the

6:19 ↗ nation really uh meant to recognize uh

6:22 ↗ the significance of trees to the

6:24 ↗ community and we'll kind of get into

6:25 ↗ those different categories for that here

6:27 ↗ in just a moment um recognize celebrate

6:31 ↗ educate about unique unique trees um

6:33 ↗ should also just be clear to point out

6:35 ↗ to you know we do have uh added

6:37 ↗ protections for our existing Heritage

6:39 ↗ trees and we can chat about that a

6:40 ↗ little bit more too so really kind of

6:42 ↗ balancing all of those things in in our

6:45 ↗ program you know recognition celebration

6:47 ↗ and then also the uh you know added

6:49 ↗ added protection that status brings for

6:50 ↗ those trees uh here specifically in

6:53 ↗ isaka our program was launched by the

6:55 ↗ park board in 2005 so we're almost 20

6:58 ↗ years into this but has been fairly

7:00 ↗ dormant the last uh you know almost 10

7:03 ↗ years or so um and you know we really

7:05 ↗ focus on uh you know trees that reflect

7:07 ↗ the character of is AA so the next slide

7:09 ↗ will have a little bit more on those

7:11 ↗ categories so yeah there's the last tree

7:13 ↗ actually a little over 10 years I should

7:14 ↗ say uh that was nominated and selected

7:16 ↗ in 2012 so this is what's a bit out of

7:20 ↗ date and needs some refreshing partly

7:22 ↗ because this is still a you know paper

7:23 ↗ nomination form so very obvious things

7:25 ↗ like getting some uh electronic or

7:28 ↗ online submitt for nomination set up to

7:31 ↗ um but you can kind of see it's it's a

7:33 ↗ pretty basic form with the name of the

7:35 ↗ property owner person nominating if

7:37 ↗ different with a property owner needing

7:39 ↗ a signature from the land owner there at

7:41 ↗ the bottom and then you know kind of

7:43 ↗ brief description of uh the

7:45 ↗ characteristics you know that are really

7:47 ↗ meriting that uh nomination so um that

7:51 ↗ could come from Individual citizens that

7:53 ↗ can come from City staff that could

7:54 ↗ certainly come from parkboard Members um

7:57 ↗ but you know kind of the main main thing

7:58 ↗ there is you that uh approval from the

8:02 ↗ from the land owner there so you can see

8:04 ↗ in the past you know these were

8:05 ↗ generally reviewed on September 1st and

8:07 ↗ we'll talk a little bit about it trying

8:08 ↗ to expand that time frame out both for

8:10 ↗ outreach information gathering and

8:12 ↗ decision- making um definitely based on

8:15 ↗ some feedback from you all the first

8:17 ↗ time we met about how it sounds like in

8:18 ↗ the past uh not sure how many of you

8:20 ↗ were on the board I think this was maybe

8:21 ↗ Brad a little bit more was kind of

8:22 ↗ discussing how it would kind of come in

8:24 ↗ fast decisions were kind of made fast

8:26 ↗ and there wasn't time for a whole lot of

8:27 ↗ context or understanding about you know

8:29 ↗ some of those individual trees that were

8:31 ↗ being nominated so um it is reviewed by

8:34 ↗ the park board once those nominations

8:36 ↗ come in you know if approved the tree

8:39 ↗ the name of the nominator and the

8:40 ↗ property owner will be acknowledged in a

8:42 ↗ a proclamation by the mayor at a city

8:44 ↗ council meeting so those steps will

8:47 ↗ remain somewhat

8:51 ↗ similar so this is where we there's

8:54 ↗ definitely a couple things missing from

8:55 ↗ this flowchart but uh this is General

8:57 ↗ kind of process that we are kind of

8:59 ↗ hoping to build out on an annual basis

9:02 ↗ um I really think it would be neat to

9:04 ↗ use our Spring Arbor Day uh which we

9:06 ↗ usually celebrate in the beginning of

9:08 ↗ April um to kind of really launch you

9:11 ↗ know this this program annually and kind

9:13 ↗ of bring some renewed recognition to the

9:15 ↗ fact that we have this Heritage tree

9:16 ↗ program and uh trying to trying to get

9:19 ↗ some more of that public engagement so

9:21 ↗ really using that as kind of a launching

9:22 ↗ point for for program Outreach um having

9:26 ↗ a request to have nomination form sub

9:29 ↗ committed by June uh so I think this

9:31 ↗ would be different from before where

9:33 ↗ those would kind of come in right up

9:34 ↗ till September 1st so we're kind of

9:35 ↗ looking at a you know two to three month

9:37 ↗ window to really try to publicize I

9:39 ↗ think honestly this time of year is our

9:41 ↗ best time of year for trees everything's

9:42 ↗ so green Lush flowering it's a really

9:44 ↗ good time for photos and and celebration

9:46 ↗ of all our different trees here in isqua

9:49 ↗ um those nominations would be reviewed

9:51 ↗ initially by me or the person in the

9:54 ↗ urban Forest supervisor uh role so

9:57 ↗ that's something that we just want to be

9:58 ↗ clear about too whether those are trees

10:00 ↗ nominated on public land or private um

10:04 ↗ then this is what we kind of talked

10:05 ↗ about was maybe missing a little bit

10:07 ↗ before but you know essentially what I'm

10:08 ↗ kind of looking at is a is a you know at

10:10 ↗ most onepage memo that is kind of

10:12 ↗ looking at uh both the kind of Health

10:14 ↗ assessment of these trees we obviously

10:16 ↗ want to nominate trees that have at

10:17 ↗ least some longevity and staying power

10:19 ↗ we we've already lost a couple Heritage

10:21 ↗ trees that were nominated in the early

10:22 ↗ 2000s that have come down in storms or

10:24 ↗ you know died just from old age

10:26 ↗ essentially um and uh also as we kind of

10:30 ↗ talked about too having a kind of

10:32 ↗ assessment on you know the location and

10:34 ↗ the fit in the landscape with the trees

10:36 ↗ uh you know from any uh other other kind

10:38 ↗ of plans and you know competing needs in

10:40 ↗ those areas so uh this is where you know

10:42 ↗ it does come in to be to be clear you

10:44 ↗ know this this something we talked about

10:45 ↗ last time but through the update of

10:47 ↗ Title 18 Heritage trees are now

10:50 ↗ essentially having added protection from

10:52 ↗ from development and Redevelopment uh

10:54 ↗ they're pretty similar in terms of just

10:56 ↗ basic tree removal they can be removed

10:58 ↗ if they're uh deemed a hazard tree if

11:00 ↗ there's like an imminent risk to people

11:02 ↗ or property um that is still a route to

11:04 ↗ potentially remove a hazard tree but

11:06 ↗ that's the big difference from other

11:07 ↗ trees is this protection from uh you

11:10 ↗ know development

11:11 ↗ Redevelopment um so that's that's where

11:13 ↗ we just want to be really you know

11:14 ↗ certain about you know the longevity of

11:16 ↗ these trees uh you know kind of right

11:18 ↗ tree in the right place and then you

11:20 ↗ know also getting into like hey are

11:22 ↗ there different know will be on the next

11:23 ↗ slide kind of different categories or

11:25 ↗ levels of nomination in certain areas we

11:27 ↗ might be still kind of figuring out that

11:29 ↗ you know kind of you know competing

11:31 ↗ needs potentially with the location

11:33 ↗ certain trees might be at uh so

11:35 ↗ essentially those memos would be

11:37 ↗ developed by by me Consulting with other

11:39 ↗ City staff as it relates to public trees

11:42 ↗ you know working with private land

11:43 ↗ owners as well just to really make sure

11:44 ↗ they're understanding of you know the uh

11:47 ↗ uh requirements of the program and what

11:48 ↗ designation means um and then you know

11:52 ↗ it kind of be sent through uh to to the

11:54 ↗ park director just kind of for uh

11:56 ↗ approval might be the kind of not the

11:58 ↗ exact backward at at that process it's

12:01 ↗ not designation necessarily but just

12:03 ↗ just kind of as a final review of those

12:05 ↗ steps for you know essentially the

12:07 ↗ recommendation to to nominate and move

12:09 ↗ forward with these trees to the park

12:11 ↗ board um you know at the same time you

12:13 ↗ know obviously we'd be notifying uh

12:15 ↗ private uh nominations as well that you

12:18 ↗ know these are moving forward and kind

12:19 ↗ of what the steps are for uh review and

12:22 ↗ potential selection by the park board so

12:24 ↗ that's what that little blue bubble is

12:26 ↗ off to the side trying to kindy to kind

12:28 ↗ of track both the public process in

12:30 ↗ green and and some of the slightly

12:32 ↗ different steps that uh uh would be

12:34 ↗ required for trees on private property

12:37 ↗ so the idea is that you know we'd be

12:38 ↗ bringing a lot more information uh you

12:41 ↗ would have a lot more kind of review

12:43 ↗ amongst uh our our uh team and my you

12:46 ↗ know my position as Urban Forest

12:47 ↗ supervisor and then still be bringing

12:49 ↗ this to the park board in September um

12:51 ↗ some questions will certainly talk

12:52 ↗ through is you know number of

12:53 ↗ nominations you can see right there our

12:55 ↗ current uh uh program States Three Trees

12:58 ↗ per year we talked about that briefly if

13:00 ↗ there would be a reason to bump that up

13:01 ↗ a little bit especially since this

13:02 ↗ program has been dormant I think that's

13:04 ↗ definitely something we want to discuss

13:05 ↗ with you all here in a couple minutes um

13:08 ↗ and then you know really bringing that

13:10 ↗ to the to the board in uh September to

13:12 ↗ kind of review and and help help us

13:14 ↗ select and uh you know ultimately

13:15 ↗ nominate those three or however many

13:17 ↗ trees we settle on so you know my

13:19 ↗ thought is with these um uh these tree

13:22 ↗ assessments you would also touch on our

13:24 ↗ categories

13:26 ↗ which thought we had that slide it's not

13:29 ↗ that's why it's next so actually let's

13:30 ↗ let's hop to that one we might hop back

13:31 ↗ to this one for a second but you know

13:33 ↗ with that just kind of basic tree Health

13:35 ↗ assessment location uh you know kind of

13:38 ↗ review um how does it fit these

13:40 ↗ categories you know and and I'll admit

13:42 ↗ we we've tried to look a lot into

13:44 ↗ specific criteria because that was some

13:46 ↗ of the interest last time we met is like

13:47 ↗ how do how do we have kind of clear

13:49 ↗ definitions on Heritage trees I don't

13:51 ↗ want to say it doesn't exist but it is

13:52 ↗ one of those things that's a little bit

13:54 ↗ subjective you know most these programs

13:56 ↗ I found a little bit out there from city

13:58 ↗ of Seattle where there's some like you

13:59 ↗ know percentage size comparisons to some

14:01 ↗ of the you know same species biggest

14:04 ↗ specimens in the state there's little

14:05 ↗ things like that that could potentially

14:07 ↗ work for specimen but historic and you

14:09 ↗ know kind of cultural significance in

14:10 ↗ history is a little bit subjective and

14:12 ↗ this is where I do want to also make

14:14 ↗ kind of a little add-on that we have

14:16 ↗ been working really closely with the

14:17 ↗ snowy tribe and their new tribal

14:19 ↗ Forester Elizabeth Walker on how we

14:21 ↗ include maybe not just culturally

14:23 ↗ modified trees which we talked about

14:25 ↗ trees that have been modified

14:26 ↗ historically by um uh indigenous people

14:29 ↗ uh but maybe even just that broader

14:31 ↗ cultural significance for you know both

14:33 ↗ the early European migrants and uh you

14:35 ↗ know the tribes that have been living

14:37 ↗ here since time of Memorial uh so that

14:39 ↗ is something that's definitely going to

14:41 ↗ get included in historic that was

14:42 ↗ missing uh there's still stuff that we

14:45 ↗ need to kind of work out on the tribes

14:46 ↗ end in terms of how they want those

14:48 ↗ trees potentially publicized mapped all

14:50 ↗ those sort of things there might be a

14:51 ↗ little bit more

14:53 ↗ um guess privacy around that and and

14:56 ↗ lack of you know specific locations but

14:58 ↗ maybe some more General eneral

14:59 ↗ information on on the type of trees and

15:00 ↗ that cultural significance to tribes

15:03 ↗ like the snami so so essentially kind of

15:06 ↗ get a little off track there but you

15:07 ↗ know making sure that we're tying back

15:09 ↗ to one or maybe multiple uh of these uh

15:12 ↗ nomination categories for you know

15:14 ↗ specimen kind of historic cultural

15:16 ↗ significance and and ecological value I

15:18 ↗ do think an area we could potentially

15:20 ↗ add to this to is you know kind of

15:22 ↗ Aesthetics come into this commonly in

15:23 ↗ programs we don't have that called out

15:25 ↗ but other than that I would say for the

15:26 ↗ most part these three categories are

15:29 ↗ pretty comparable to what other uh

15:30 ↗ cities are doing uh for their Heritage

15:32 ↗ tree programs um s do you mind going

15:36 ↗ back to the flow chart just real quick

15:37 ↗ to kind of finish that out so just just

15:39 ↗ want to want to be clear that there

15:41 ↗ would be some kind of uh you know as

15:43 ↗ objective as possible kind of guidance

15:44 ↗ on you know why these trees whoever is

15:46 ↗ nominating them is supposed to kind of

15:47 ↗ provide that but as I'm kind of

15:48 ↗ reviewing them too can kind of add to

15:50 ↗ that or you know highlight that into

15:52 ↗ these uh memos that would go to the park

15:54 ↗ board and essentially you know in the

15:56 ↗ September meeting the park board would

15:58 ↗ be voting to move forward or to deny

16:00 ↗ these trees hopefully with more

16:02 ↗ information than been provided in the

16:03 ↗ past uh and you know assuming we're

16:05 ↗ moving forward with three or whatever

16:07 ↗ number we settle on um that Heritage

16:09 ↗ tree status is awarded as as mentioned

16:11 ↗ earlier at a city council meeting uh

16:13 ↗ with a a mayoral um declaration to so uh

16:17 ↗ this is where there's a lot more to do

16:19 ↗ at the end of this you know how do we

16:21 ↗ publicize this how do we map this how do

16:23 ↗ we provide more uh engaging information

16:25 ↗ and opportunities to learn about these

16:27 ↗ trees you know talks around small QR

16:29 ↗ codes signage things like that all great

16:33 ↗ conversations and open to some

16:35 ↗ conversations on that tonight but I

16:36 ↗ think we are really trying to hammer

16:38 ↗ down the you know kind of points to get

16:40 ↗ us to getting more trees into this

16:42 ↗ program and then you know really uh

16:44 ↗ getting more creative about what uh you

16:46 ↗ know program Outreach and and you know

16:48 ↗ kind of visibility looks like so that's

16:50 ↗ that's kind of where that last kind of

16:52 ↗ public facing part comes in there um

16:54 ↗ before starting the process over again

16:56 ↗ the following year around Arbor a so

16:59 ↗ really really looking at this as a

17:00 ↗ program for a good chunk of our year to

17:01 ↗ be you know celebrating recruiting

17:03 ↗ educating and uh you know hopefully

17:05 ↗ adding to to our heritage tree uh

17:09 ↗ inventory so yeah skip ahead one more so

17:14 ↗ uh really these are some of the

17:16 ↗ discussion questions we are hoping to

17:17 ↗ hear from you all tonight um we try to

17:21 ↗ give you know what are what are very

17:22 ↗ common you know kind of primary reasons

17:24 ↗ or goals for a Heritage tree program but

17:26 ↗ would love to hear kind of more

17:27 ↗ personally what resonates with you most

17:29 ↗ on uh you know why this this program is

17:33 ↗ you know useful necessary uh you know

17:35 ↗ important here in isqua

17:38 ↗ um kind of going back to we talked about

17:40 ↗ does this give you know this process

17:42 ↗ enough uh time and information to make

17:44 ↗ inform decisions as a Park Board um and

17:47 ↗ can try to provide more details or

17:49 ↗ please if there's more requests on

17:50 ↗ things you would like to see throughout

17:51 ↗ those kind of summer months as the

17:53 ↗ nominations come in and then ultimately

17:55 ↗ get reviewed and and sent to the park

17:57 ↗ board um additional information you're

17:59 ↗ looking for to determine if trees should

18:01 ↗ be selected like I said there's there's

18:03 ↗ not necessarily cut and dry criteria but

18:06 ↗ you know if there's things that you

18:07 ↗ would like to weigh over other things

18:09 ↗ this is a good time to kind of discuss

18:10 ↗ that um and then you know how do we

18:13 ↗ factor in that kind of location and

18:15 ↗ context that the that the tree is in as

18:17 ↗ well um suggestions for promotion uh and

18:20 ↗ I would say this is both you know a

18:22 ↗ little less for established Heritage

18:24 ↗ treaties like I kind of mentioned right

18:25 ↗ on the last slide but also how do we

18:27 ↗ just get this program more out to the

18:28 ↗ public and try to encourage

18:29 ↗ participation and whether that's

18:31 ↗ nomination or um you know really helping

18:34 ↗ us kind of generate some some good

18:36 ↗ candidates for our program uh and then

18:38 ↗ this last one I think is really

18:39 ↗ interesting too you know what what do

18:40 ↗ multiple designation levels look like uh

18:43 ↗ you know what does it look like for a

18:45 ↗ collection of trees a Grove of trees uh

18:48 ↗ you know kind of different different

18:49 ↗ designations there um and this is one

18:52 ↗ that that Connie sent over to at the

18:53 ↗ palop uh which has a fairly similar

18:56 ↗ process where there's you know a

18:57 ↗ director approval there's a from the

18:59 ↗ City Arborist uh but they essentially

19:01 ↗ have a um 122 tree list of potential

19:05 ↗ Heritage trees so it's it's almost could

19:08 ↗ be Heritage trees and waiting but they

19:09 ↗ don't have a official designation and

19:11 ↗ you know trying to kind of figure out is

19:13 ↗ that something that we're looking to you

19:14 ↗ know kind of uh you know kind of build

19:16 ↗ out from the community and just get more

19:18 ↗ awareness around trees that are uh you

19:20 ↗ know special for people here in isqua

19:22 ↗ and have a collection that can be kind

19:23 ↗ of celebrated that way and potentially

19:25 ↗ have kind of a different name and Status

19:27 ↗ uh you know for those to too so I think

19:29 ↗ we're really trying to kind of figure

19:30 ↗ out what some of those kind of different

19:32 ↗ tiers and you know still building

19:34 ↗ recognition and and letting people kind

19:36 ↗ of celebrate the trees they love you

19:38 ↗ know knowing that there's still a finite

19:39 ↗ number that we're going to uh you know

19:41 ↗ approve and and and move to the Heritage

19:43 ↗ tree status each year so uh you know

19:45 ↗ along those lines too you know any

19:47 ↗ thoughts on you know number of trees

19:48 ↗ nominated uh I think would be or said

19:51 ↗ number of trees selected would be uh

19:53 ↗ useful too

19:54 ↗ so think I'll pause there and see if

19:58 ↗ there's kind of initial thoughts and we

19:59 ↗ can kind of work through

20:00 ↗ these question by question if that works

20:03 ↗ if you kind of have responses to both of

20:04 ↗ them I think that's okay too or to

20:06 ↗ multiple questions I should

20:09 ↗ say if I get

20:12 ↗ than just check I don't see her

20:17 ↗ back I was just gonna add thank you Dan

20:19 ↗ for just your your work on this um as

20:22 ↗ Dan said we're really hoping tonight to

20:24 ↗ not only you know just provide this

20:26 ↗ update but really uh Frame Up discussion

20:29 ↗ um and and and get some feedback on some

20:31 ↗ of these really important questions um

20:34 ↗ and just also understanding to that

20:36 ↗ latter point you know something we've

20:38 ↗ talked a lot at the staff level is is

20:40 ↗ there a way to create some designation

20:42 ↗ levels where this program doesn't feel

20:45 ↗ like such a hard and fast onoff switch

20:47 ↗ we have a lot of really cool and great

20:49 ↗ trees to celebrate but the context and a

20:52 ↗ setting might be such that it's really

20:54 ↗ hard to um give it a full heritage

20:58 ↗ designation so you know how do we again

21:03 ↗ just yeah craft a program that really

21:06 ↗ does um recognize celebrate the the

21:11 ↗ value and importance of of trees in this

21:15 ↗ town anyone

21:21 ↗ please have a question so I like the

21:24 ↗ idea of having multiple designation

21:27 ↗ levels but these have the same

21:29 ↗ protection status as a Heritage tree or

21:32 ↗ will they have I I don't think it's at

21:35 ↗ least not initially I mean that would

21:36 ↗ have to be something we'd have to you

21:38 ↗ know codify and do which which you know

21:40 ↗ keep in mind that my my understanding is

21:41 ↗ early on Heritage trees didn't have that

21:43 ↗ additional protection either it really

21:44 ↗ was just kind of a recognition and there

21:46 ↗ was a community push to include that um

21:50 ↗ but I think to some extent then that you

21:51 ↗ know

21:52 ↗ maybe reduces the overall number of

21:55 ↗ trees that you know could be recognized

21:56 ↗ I think that's what we're talking about

21:57 ↗ could there be a bigger

21:59 ↗ pool that we still you know kind of um

22:01 ↗ develop and you know provide some

22:03 ↗ information and you know have maybe even

22:05 ↗ some social media campaigns around or

22:06 ↗ things like that uh that could

22:08 ↗ eventually become Heritage trees for

22:10 ↗ sure but yeah I don't think initially

22:12 ↗ that is the um for that yeah and add on

22:16 ↗ to that Katie it's a great question is

22:18 ↗ is I me with with one of the values of

22:21 ↗ having multiple levels is understanding

22:24 ↗ um yeah probably coinciding with

22:27 ↗ multiple levels of different levels

22:29 ↗ either protection or recognition and and

22:32 ↗ understanding and that's a valuable tree

22:34 ↗ and a tree that we really want to pay

22:36 ↗ close attention to or we want to be

22:38 ↗ careful of but because of its location

22:41 ↗ it you know there's there's

22:44 ↗ multiple um questions that still need to

22:47 ↗ be answered to determine um

22:51 ↗ yeah Nicholas you've got your hand at

22:55 ↗ you want to go and then Zach

22:58 ↗ sure yeah start a Title Wave here or

23:01 ↗ follow on one um I just appreciate the

23:04 ↗ presentation I and especially the inside

23:07 ↗ are kind of

23:09 ↗ the comprehensive analysis around um

23:13 ↗ some of our tribal

23:14 ↗ partners and some other jurisdictions

23:17 ↗ and kind of how how this is being

23:18 ↗ handled elsewhere so I think it was

23:21 ↗ great to distinguish you know how isqua

23:23 ↗ is doing it versus how other places are

23:24 ↗ doing it one of the things I remember

23:27 ↗ Connie bringing up in her email and it

23:29 ↗ uh was a question that I have as well

23:31 ↗ just listening to is just to make sure I

23:32 ↗ understood this um is there a a reason

23:36 ↗ that we would limit the number per year

23:38 ↗ or is that something that we're moving

23:39 ↗ forward it seemed like we were trying to

23:41 ↗ govern the amount of Heritage trees that

23:43 ↗ were being recognized in a given year or

23:46 ↗ did I miss the part where you said we're

23:47 ↗ not doing that anymore because we can

23:49 ↗ just you know process them as they come

23:51 ↗ independently or is there a reason we

23:54 ↗ would limit that I don't really

23:55 ↗ understand that

23:56 ↗ part I thanks Nick I I can't speak to

24:00 ↗ the original decision around that 20 or

24:03 ↗ so years ago I don't think any of us

24:05 ↗ were necessarily a part of that um I I

24:09 ↗ do know yeah speaking of kind of that

24:10 ↗ review of other cities a lot of them do

24:12 ↗ have some sort of cap potentially

24:14 ↗ sometimes it's more than three

24:16 ↗ definitely and I think there's a strong

24:17 ↗ argument to um you know think about

24:20 ↗ increasing that but if it's just fully

24:22 ↗ open I don't know I have a hard time

24:24 ↗ saying you know it's it's supposed to be

24:25 ↗ a program that's you know recognizing

24:28 ↗ Fair really unique trees and you know if

24:29 ↗ we are adding 100 a year or something

24:32 ↗ like that you know at what point is

24:33 ↗ there you know kind of a limit where it

24:34 ↗ kind of waters down the program I guess

24:36 ↗ to and that's where like I said not

24:38 ↗ having real super clear cut and dry

24:41 ↗ criteria is a little bit tough because

24:43 ↗ it's not like stuff in our land use code

24:44 ↗ where you know Landmark trees 30 inches

24:46 ↗ diameter you know there's things like

24:47 ↗ that that are just real kind of cut and

24:49 ↗ dry that's generally not how these

24:51 ↗ programs are run especially as we're

24:53 ↗ talking about cultural historical

24:54 ↗ significance that might mean different

24:55 ↗ things to different people um so so I I

24:59 ↗ no I but we are open to discussion on

25:01 ↗ that we are certainly open on to

25:02 ↗ increasing that number I I do think

25:04 ↗ personally that making it Limitless is

25:08 ↗ you know maybe a little far in the other

25:10 ↗ direction but um you know I think it

25:12 ↗ could be something we we uh uh you know

25:15 ↗ kind of see how many nominations and

25:17 ↗ stuff actually come in and if that

25:18 ↗ becomes an issue where we need to like

25:20 ↗ cap that again but you know we could be

25:21 ↗ certainly open to to increasing that or

25:24 ↗ setting that a higher limit or being

25:26 ↗ being flexible about that ultimately

25:27 ↗ that is that is a board park board

25:29 ↗ question and and process that you all

25:31 ↗ would would vote on as as a team just to

25:33 ↗ be clear we we can propose it but that

25:35 ↗ you know the way this program set up is

25:36 ↗ for for you all to approve you know

25:38 ↗ changes to the program like so we're not

25:40 ↗ doing that tonight but the the goal is

25:41 ↗ to hopefully have that kind of ready to

25:43 ↗ go with a uh process to to vote on or

25:45 ↗ make amendments to one last time uh the

25:48 ↗ next couple months that's a great

25:50 ↗ question Nicholas and D what Dan said

25:52 ↗ yeah we're not we're not proposing to

25:54 ↗ keep it at 3 um at this point um we're

25:57 ↗ also not proposing to to change it so um

26:01 ↗ think we're open to the discussion and

26:04 ↗ feedback I you know if I was to guess

26:06 ↗ the original intent of three was really

26:09 ↗ just to recognize and understand that

26:13 ↗ um the the special nature of a Heritage

26:16 ↗ tree and that um necessarily you know

26:20 ↗ every tree becomes a Heritage tree then

26:23 ↗ right what what's the line in The

26:24 ↗ Incredibles I'm showing my right the

26:27 ↗ one's incredible then no is incredible

26:29 ↗ right um you're trying to set you're

26:31 ↗ trying to set things apart um very open

26:35 ↗ to

26:35 ↗ that how do we let thank you for that

26:39 ↗ people

26:40 ↗ know where these Heritage trees are see

26:44 ↗ that's yeah no good question Renda I

26:46 ↗ think that's lacking right now that's

26:48 ↗ definitely part of this kind of need for

26:50 ↗ a better Outreach process but also just

26:52 ↗ better documentation and resources in

26:54 ↗ the first place I mean right now pretty

26:56 ↗ much what we have is a web page page

26:58 ↗ that lists all the nominations each year

27:01 ↗ you know essentially between 2005 and

27:02 ↗ 2012 and it has locations written down

27:06 ↗ but there's no there's no map once

27:07 ↗ you're if you just stumble upon one of

27:08 ↗ those there's nothing that's identifying

27:10 ↗ it as one so I think that's where

27:12 ↗ there's a lot of potential to better um

27:16 ↗ you know whether that's at the at the

27:17 ↗ tree itself whether that's on our city

27:19 ↗ Communications whether that's like I

27:20 ↗ said some of these kind of program uh

27:23 ↗ marketing and you know kind of Outreach

27:24 ↗ around our signature kind of tree

27:26 ↗ planting events like green is aqua day

27:27 ↗ and Arbor

27:28 ↗ um you know I think there's a lot of

27:30 ↗ potential to just better bring this to

27:34 ↗ people's attention whether that's like

27:35 ↗ engaging with you know like I said kind

27:37 ↗ of contest around people submitting

27:38 ↗ photos of favorite trees things like

27:40 ↗ that um it's it's lacking right now it's

27:43 ↗ not on our public GIS map either so that

27:46 ↗ would be a kind of simple addition to um

27:48 ↗ you know what we've talked about is

27:49 ↗ developing kind of Heritage tree walking

27:51 ↗ tours or someone could like download

27:53 ↗ something or have it on their phone

27:54 ↗ through an app to you know essentially

27:56 ↗ be able to kind of go around and have

27:57 ↗ some additional information on those

27:59 ↗ individual trees maybe that species kind

28:01 ↗ of more broadly in general yeah so right

28:03 ↗ now it's it's not a lot

28:07 ↗ so exactly so yeah it's a big big goal

28:11 ↗ of this program update is to do that is

28:13 ↗ to improve Outreach and education of the

28:16 ↗ program itself you mentioned

28:20 ↗ ues that's a great

28:22 ↗ idea a unique grow what was isqu built

28:26 ↗ around was it the yellow cedar and we

28:28 ↗ learn more about that yeah there's

28:31 ↗ probably

28:33 ↗ one city yeah no I I agree and I think

28:37 ↗ that's something that we should consider

28:39 ↗ you know is there a number of individual

28:42 ↗ Heritage trees and if we do decide on a

28:44 ↗ different category like uh you know

28:46 ↗ Groves or collections you know is that

28:47 ↗ something that we're nominating one two

28:49 ↗ three a year as well

28:52 ↗ um yeah that's a great great thing to

28:54 ↗ kind of consider I saw Zach had his hand

28:58 ↗ and then I know Tim has his hand raised

29:00 ↗ as

29:02 ↗ well yes um so I guess um Nick already

29:06 ↗ kind of touched on what I was thinking

29:08 ↗ too about the three if there was

29:10 ↗ anything uh specific reason for that but

29:13 ↗ if it is uh

29:15 ↗ restricted um to a certain number uh in

29:19 ↗ my opinion anyway I feel like it should

29:21 ↗ be somewhat triaged based on like the

29:23 ↗ ecosystem Services of the tree versus um

29:27 ↗ you know other factors in terms of like

29:29 ↗ the longevity of the tree carbon

29:31 ↗ sequestration that sort of thing for

29:33 ↗ instance like the willow there pictured

29:35 ↗ I think is a shorter Liv tree that's

29:37 ↗ more prone to like um dying out and sort

29:41 ↗ of issues it just seems like uh if there

29:42 ↗ is a limit on the amount of trees then

29:45 ↗ um the trees basically in the selection

29:48 ↗ process uh should be uh weighed more

29:51 ↗ heavily I think uh based on the

29:53 ↗ potential lifespan of the tree and

29:56 ↗ ecosystem services or verus like um that

30:00 ↗ that weeping willow there which I mean I

30:02 ↗ also don't think is necessarily A a

30:04 ↗ native so that's just just my thought if

30:07 ↗ there is a restriction that

30:09 ↗ um that should be weighed more heavily

30:12 ↗ in the decision

30:13 ↗ process Z that's great I mean that's the

30:15 ↗ exact type of feedback we're looking for

30:17 ↗ in terms of how to kind of balance these

30:19 ↗ categories and it might have been you or

30:21 ↗ someone we met last time it's just like

30:23 ↗ we don't want to make this just purely

30:24 ↗ like a giant Douglas fur you know I

30:27 ↗ think you were kind of eradicating from

30:28 ↗ more diversity especially of our native

30:29 ↗ species as well which may not grow as

30:31 ↗ big but could still have a lot of those

30:33 ↗ ecological benefits too and and

30:35 ↗ something that just kind of came to mind

30:36 ↗ too is you know there might not be like

30:38 ↗ said specific criteria but there's

30:41 ↗ there's really cool tools like if people

30:42 ↗ are familiar with it tree which can

30:44 ↗ calculate a lot of benefits of uh tree

30:47 ↗ species at different age you know for uh

30:50 ↗ water quality benefits air quality

30:51 ↗ benefits carbon sequestration so I mean

30:53 ↗ that's something that could like be

30:54 ↗ really easily exported as a report for a

30:57 ↗ you know given spe species uh a little

30:59 ↗ bit of it then customized for our

31:01 ↗ location here you know in isqua but um

31:04 ↗ so yeah that that could be another good

31:06 ↗ good tool as well to you know kind of

31:07 ↗ get more of those ecosystem Services

31:09 ↗ you're talking about Zach yeah or even

31:11 ↗ like I guess under Story I mean I don't

31:13 ↗ know like in terms of like a tree that

31:16 ↗ perhaps has some sort of significance

31:19 ↗ with

31:20 ↗ um perhaps what it does for the underst

31:23 ↗ story in that area may also be a factor

31:26 ↗ that doesn't you know quickly sort of

31:29 ↗ come to mind but is also you know just

31:32 ↗ as important as the the tree itself sort

31:34 ↗ of what it's I don't know perhaps uh

31:37 ↗ preserving or or

31:39 ↗ um you know

31:42 ↗ allowing to sort of grow beneath it

31:46 ↗ essentially yeah that's an interesting

31:48 ↗ conversation we're thinking of kind of

31:49 ↗ Collections and grow especially in

31:51 ↗ natural areas of kind of what that whole

31:54 ↗ Forest structure and ecosystem looks

31:56 ↗ like

32:01 ↗ thanks um Tim you're

32:05 ↗ up thank you yeah this will be quick

32:07 ↗ because between the time I raised my

32:09 ↗ hands the discussion pretty much covered

32:11 ↗ everything that I was thinking about uh

32:14 ↗ so I think the having the public

32:17 ↗ interface is really important I think uh

32:21 ↗ you know we need to think about some

32:22 ↗ kind of little plaque or something that

32:24 ↗ goes on the trees something on the you

32:26 ↗ just suggested something having a

32:28 ↗ website you know people wanted to do a

32:32 ↗ tour one day of the Heritage trees in

32:34 ↗ isqua and they could go from site to

32:36 ↗ site and look up oh this is tree number

32:38 ↗ 47 and it's you know the reason it's

32:41 ↗ important is this so I I think having

32:44 ↗ that public interface so that there's

32:46 ↗ public awareness and public appreciation

32:49 ↗ for the efforts and the energy that

32:52 ↗ we're putting into this and so they

32:55 ↗ understand how much we appreciate and

32:57 ↗ value the trees

32:58 ↗ so you know I don't want sort of that

33:01 ↗ public interface to be pushed down to

33:03 ↗ sort of a also ran status I think it

33:06 ↗ needs to be kind of a a primary uh part

33:10 ↗ of the program because otherwise why are

33:12 ↗ we doing it because if you you you make

33:14 ↗ a tree of Heritage trees and nobody

33:16 ↗ knows it then what have you really done

33:19 ↗ other you put some protections around it

33:21 ↗ so I think being able to get the

33:22 ↗ information out to the public is really

33:24 ↗ important also in terms of the selection

33:27 ↗ of the

33:29 ↗ trees uh I think it's important that we

33:32 ↗ have some diversity and some of this has

33:34 ↗ been touched on um sure all the big

33:38 ↗ Cedars are

33:39 ↗ fantastic um for example but you know I

33:43 ↗ think we should have at least an

33:46 ↗ intention if not a certainly not a

33:48 ↗ mandate but an intention to have the

33:51 ↗ Heritage tree population reflect the

33:56 ↗ population of trees in this aqua

33:58 ↗ so there are you know some Doug fur some

34:01 ↗ Cedars some uh all the the cottonwoods

34:05 ↗ what have you the very important trees

34:06 ↗ in our areas uh rather than just

34:09 ↗ focusing on some of the more eye popping

34:12 ↗ specimens like the the big

34:14 ↗ Cedars um yeah so that's all I have

34:18 ↗ thanks for

34:22 ↗ listening yeah and then um I see sunby

34:26 ↗ you have your hand raised are you

34:29 ↗ did I was just going to say something

34:33 ↗ like along the lines of um Tim was

34:37 ↗ talking about but I think he pretty much

34:39 ↗ covered whatever I was thinking because

34:42 ↗ um at least when I go to some like

34:44 ↗ historical sites like you know there's

34:46 ↗ trees and there's all sorts of other

34:48 ↗ places around isqua I like looking at

34:50 ↗ like the boards that they have there

34:52 ↗ about you know either if it's a tree or

34:54 ↗ a train or something so just I wanted to

34:56 ↗ add on to that y yeah thank you share

35:00 ↗ some actual PLS and recognition so

35:03 ↗ people know what they are um and then I

35:05 ↗ see Connie is back I don't know if we

35:09 ↗ want to continue our discussion and then

35:11 ↗ let's yeah let's wait till we finish and

35:13 ↗ then we'll go to public again

35:16 ↗ Marlene have a couple questions in the

35:18 ↗ com um right now do we do anything

35:21 ↗ different between public land and

35:23 ↗ private land as we think about Heritage

35:25 ↗ trees or they all sort of the same sort

35:29 ↗ of designation same criteria I'm just

35:30 ↗ kind of question as we increase the

35:32 ↗ number of Heritage trees is that add any

35:36 ↗ additional things we need to think about

35:37 ↗ from a private or public land

35:39 ↗ perspective yeah that's a good question

35:44 ↗ um I guess to kind of preface of our

35:46 ↗ current 30 or so Heritage trees we have

35:51 ↗ at best a quarter of them on on private

35:53 ↗ property right now um so it is it is a

35:55 ↗ smaller percentage there's a couple on

35:57 ↗ on an actual like single family resident

35:59 ↗ home and then there's a few that are in

36:01 ↗ like commercial Village

36:03 ↗ areas um the thing that I should be real

36:06 ↗ clear about about the development

36:08 ↗ protection of Heritage tree status uh

36:11 ↗ you know my understanding as long as

36:12 ↗ public lands public land that's in

36:14 ↗ perpetuity so for those trees designated

36:16 ↗ on a public land versus on private land

36:19 ↗ that is you know essentially signed off

36:21 ↗ by that current landowner so Taquila for

36:24 ↗ instance has a uh voluntary Covenant you

36:27 ↗ can like put on your property that

36:29 ↗ essentially would then be you know there

36:31 ↗ with it when you sell it that would be

36:32 ↗ your you know decision to do that as a

36:34 ↗ homeowner so I would say that that is

36:37 ↗ probably one of the key differences is

36:39 ↗ that kind of longevity of the protection

36:41 ↗ if you know someone nominated a tree and

36:44 ↗ moves 10 15 however many years later um

36:47 ↗ that that doesn't necessarily carry on

36:50 ↗ without some kind of thing written into

36:51 ↗ the the deed there um and then I I would

36:54 ↗ say the selection process too you know

36:56 ↗ obviously the the the vetting is similar

36:59 ↗ in terms of wanting to meet those kind

37:01 ↗ of categories we've talked about whether

37:03 ↗ that be is kind of Zach was highlighting

37:04 ↗ some of the ecosystem or kind of

37:06 ↗ ecological Services trees provide

37:08 ↗ whether that be kind of size significant

37:11 ↗ species diversity stuff we've talked

37:13 ↗ about or certainly that kind of cultural

37:15 ↗ historical uh place that the trees have

37:17 ↗ you know that's that's all pretty

37:19 ↗ similar but you know that is definitely

37:21 ↗ going to be coming more from the the the

37:22 ↗ private land owner to kind of tell that

37:24 ↗ story of that tree hopefully and and

37:26 ↗ then still you know making sure that

37:28 ↗ that tree has longevity staying power

37:31 ↗ and and you know they're aware of the

37:33 ↗ you know kind of added protection that

37:35 ↗ comes with that but um yeah homeowner

37:38 ↗ discretion basically yes simply put yes

37:41 ↗ yeah that was kind of my question and

37:44 ↗ then just in a couple of things um I

37:47 ↗ really like what you're thinking about

37:48 ↗ for cultural and historical as it

37:50 ↗ relates to here the Heritage tree

37:52 ↗ program like I think continuing to

37:54 ↗ really lean into that I I love I love

37:56 ↗ that you guys are thinking about that

37:58 ↗ and having a diverse um sort of group of

38:00 ↗ stakeholders in that I think then we

38:02 ↗ should think through how we are inviting

38:04 ↗ those stakeholders into the decision-

38:06 ↗ making

38:07 ↗ criteria be to think about that's a

38:10 ↗ great idea and then it is actually

38:12 ↗ Elizabeth Walker with the S commi tribe

38:14 ↗ who's their tribal Forester was sort of

38:16 ↗ mentioning the um stuff in Seattle where

38:19 ↗ they have some kind of comparisons to

38:20 ↗ size of trees and then kind of

38:22 ↗ broadening out from specifically

38:23 ↗ culturally modified trees meaning trees

38:25 ↗ that have actually been worked with and

38:27 ↗ altered in some way to you know kind of

38:29 ↗ cultural significance too that I think

38:31 ↗ would would be a little bit broader for

38:33 ↗ for what they're looking for so um yeah

38:36 ↗ we are continuing that conversation and

38:38 ↗ kind of waiting but yeah I think that if

38:41 ↗ they have interest in capacity we would

38:42 ↗ absolutely welcome them to you know kind

38:44 ↗ of review provide feedback on you know

38:46 ↗ nominations and and what we have

38:48 ↗ certainly on on public trees um and then

38:51 ↗ I just have a question on like you know

38:53 ↗ how we would measure the different U

38:55 ↗ ecological benefits I know there's also

38:58 ↗ um other things in our city code that

39:00 ↗ sort of relates around like AG of trees

39:02 ↗ and sort of what you can do with them

39:03 ↗ and so I'm just wondering like are we

39:05 ↗ double dipping on the ecological part of

39:08 ↗ the Heritage tree or is there like not

39:10 ↗ protections that we need to also look

39:12 ↗ Beyond cultural and historic that we

39:14 ↗ actually have to look at the ecological

39:15 ↗ I'm just more that's a question that I

39:18 ↗ have um that's a good question I mean

39:21 ↗ certainly certainly as our public land

39:24 ↗ trees go there are a lot of protections

39:27 ↗ around critical areas you know buffers

39:29 ↗ or critical areas things like that

39:34 ↗ um Double Di again I want to make more

39:36 ↗ bureaucracy if we don't if it's already

39:38 ↗ taken care of there should this program

39:40 ↗ be more related to Historic and cultural

39:42 ↗ trees just ask the

39:45 ↗ question it's a great question I don't

39:47 ↗ know that we have a full answer I I

39:50 ↗ think your question is getting to yeah

39:52 ↗ reality

39:53 ↗ that at our code the tree code

39:57 ↗ gives some degree of protection to all

40:01 ↗ trees it also gives some protection to

40:04 ↗ all trees on public land right this

40:06 ↗ Heritage tree designation I think as we

40:09 ↗ really craft the program um we'll want

40:13 ↗ to sort of recog okay what is the how

40:15 ↗ does this differentiate

40:17 ↗ from sort of the the Baseline protection

40:20 ↗ that the code gives I think is that kind

40:22 ↗ of what you're

40:24 ↗ asking the ecological benefits that we

40:27 ↗ need the trees for which is super

40:28 ↗ important right right with something

40:30 ↗ different so I just want to understand

40:32 ↗ like what protections are already in

40:34 ↗ place do you think it's fair to say I

40:36 ↗ wouldn't say that that exists at any

40:38 ↗ level specificity for the individual

40:40 ↗ tree I think is is somewhat I mean we do

40:43 ↗ for like Landmark trees for instance

40:44 ↗ have a little additional protection

40:46 ↗ those are 30 inch diameter plus um I

40:49 ↗ know because if you try to remove a tree

40:50 ↗ in your yard like you can't right so I

40:52 ↗ mean like we know that we have that

40:54 ↗ which I think is great like I'm

40:55 ↗ advocating for that yeah um I'm just I

40:58 ↗ don't want to duplicate efforts and make

41:00 ↗ it more complicated than it has to be I

41:02 ↗ guess it's my question if you're telling

41:03 ↗ me like hey no we need this because

41:05 ↗ otherwise these trees won't be protected

41:06 ↗ through those other codes that's okay

41:09 ↗ but if it's more like he Heritage trees

41:11 ↗ are special for these other reasons that

41:13 ↗ feels like a different yeah if if again

41:17 ↗ if I could add I think marene the you're

41:20 ↗ getting also to your in some ways your

41:23 ↗ question is answering the first question

41:24 ↗ too in terms of what are some of the

41:26 ↗ primary reasons we want to Heritage tree

41:28 ↗ program and I think the Heritage tree

41:30 ↗ program yes has an element of protection

41:33 ↗ but its purpose its primary purpose is

41:36 ↗ not protection alone it's also celebrate

41:39 ↗ it's it's Rec it's recognizing and

41:42 ↗ celebrating this Heritage tree and by

41:44 ↗ celebrating that Heritage tree we're

41:46 ↗ also celebrating the importance of all

41:50 ↗ the trees uh in in the

41:53 ↗ city so yeah I I think again as we craft

41:56 ↗ the program there is an ecological

41:58 ↗ benefit that we'll want to equate and

42:00 ↗ say hey this is you know this singular

42:03 ↗ tree is playing this role or it's

42:05 ↗ playing a part in this bigger ecological

42:08 ↗ function but also as we I think really

42:11 ↗ Define why we do this program it's again

42:15 ↗ it's not a it's not a tree preservation

42:17 ↗ program it's a it's a tree celebration

42:21 ↗ program that has that has protection

42:25 ↗ benefits

42:27 ↗ I like that well so let's let Nicholas

42:30 ↗ go and then

42:30 ↗ I'll oh

42:32 ↗ sorry

42:34 ↗ um there I had a response to something

42:36 ↗ that was said no that's okay um and then

42:40 ↗ my last thing was as we were thinking

42:41 ↗ about how we'd think about how we want

42:43 ↗ to Define these trees I know you had

42:45 ↗ mentioned something like Aesthetics and

42:47 ↗ I guess from my perspective is like if

42:50 ↗ we can be aesthetic is like the most

42:52 ↗ judgment

42:54 ↗ based thing I can do as somebody who

42:56 ↗ makes product for Liv eight people want

42:58 ↗ to tell me which color blue is the right

42:59 ↗ one like I feel you so like let's be

43:02 ↗ careful about like when we stay

43:03 ↗ Aesthetics like let's make sure there's

43:04 ↗ operating definitions around what we're

43:07 ↗ doing I know I know this program is not

43:09 ↗ meant to be black and white and I'm not

43:10 ↗ trying to make it black and white but

43:12 ↗ where we can have operational

43:13 ↗ definitions I think you should

43:16 ↗ try and be to be clear that's not

43:18 ↗ currently specifically called out but I

43:20 ↗ did want to say that that's something

43:21 ↗ you'll sometimes see in other Heritage

43:23 ↗ tree program uh I'm not saying being

43:27 ↗ beautiful is not a good use of a tree

43:29 ↗ like I'm not saying that's wrong I'm

43:30 ↗ just saying like just be careful

43:32 ↗ subjectivity

43:35 ↗ because really good

43:38 ↗ points Nicholas I

43:42 ↗ it thank you and this will actually be

43:45 ↗ quick I hope which is I just would look

43:47 ↗ forward to seeing some data around the

43:49 ↗ volume of request um over time if we had

43:52 ↗ 10 years I'd look at 10 years if we

43:54 ↗ didn't I would look at whatever you have

43:58 ↗ so previous sort of what we volume we've

44:02 ↗ had

44:03 ↗ currently yeah unless you have a

44:05 ↗ forecast but if you don't then I just

44:08 ↗ look back at you know when we say we're

44:11 ↗ debating this and we're changing the the

44:13 ↗ structure the qualities of the program

44:14 ↗ think is important but you know as far

44:16 ↗ as the leveling and what we think is the

44:18 ↗ appropriate throughput it for me it

44:19 ↗ would help determine what I feel about

44:21 ↗ that if I knew kind of are we cutting

44:23 ↗ people off at three or is three really a

44:25 ↗ stretch goal for us already this in the

44:27 ↗ city and if we drive some of this

44:29 ↗ programmatic change is it going to you

44:32 ↗ know increase the

44:33 ↗ volumetrics um hyperbolic curves tend to

44:37 ↗ become ASM totic so yeah unlimited is

44:39 ↗ probably not the best way to move

44:42 ↗ but I think Nicholas it's been pretty

44:45 ↗ small I don't I don't know if I have or

44:46 ↗ we have exact numbers on that I do know

44:49 ↗ a lot of our initial Heritage trees were

44:51 ↗ nominated by our past City Arborist um

44:54 ↗ some of those working with the private

44:56 ↗ land owners you know kind of to educate

44:57 ↗ on the program and then certainly once

44:59 ↗ he nominated and then just brought to

45:01 ↗ the park board so I I don't think the

45:03 ↗ volume was even in the dozens it was in

45:06 ↗ the single digits pretty pretty

45:08 ↗ consistently yeah it's a great question

45:10 ↗ Nicholas and if I can add to just my

45:12 ↗ again observation predates me but

45:16 ↗ um well I guess it doesn't pred current

45:19 ↗ data would tell me that the the interest

45:22 ↗ in updating this program isn't because

45:24 ↗ we need to somehow slow down the volume

45:26 ↗ of application I think our desire and

45:28 ↗ intent in updating this program now that

45:30 ↗ we have Dan here we have an urban Forest

45:33 ↗ supervisor we have an urban Forest

45:35 ↗ management plan happening is this

45:37 ↗ program has needed a refresh what to to

45:41 ↗ basically create a face for the program

45:43 ↗ I think this program really hasn't had

45:45 ↗ an outward face um and how do we uh

45:48 ↗ again update this um give it more of a

45:52 ↗ um give it more visibility than it than

45:55 ↗ it really has so

46:01 ↗ okay I have some comments

46:03 ↗ um previously when and let me

46:07 ↗ preface you're gonna think I don't like

46:09 ↗ trees but I do like

46:11 ↗ trees I think they're incredibly

46:14 ↗ important yes see they're coming after

46:17 ↗ me already um previously when we have

46:21 ↗ discussed this and when I have discussed

46:22 ↗ this and also I think you know

46:25 ↗ conversation with you was haunty we

46:27 ↗ talked about the code uh recognizing

46:31 ↗ significant trees and landmark

46:33 ↗ trees um but I've taken a moment to look

46:36 ↗ at the code and it separately and

46:40 ↗ specifically identifies Heritage

46:42 ↗ trees and I bring this up because it

46:45 ↗ says right here no person may remove

46:47 ↗ excessively prune or top any protected

46:50 ↗ nonprotected significant tree Landmark

46:52 ↗ tree or Heritage tree except as provided

46:54 ↗ by this chapter and there's a bunch of

46:56 ↗ rules

46:57 ↗ so we are by by participating in this

47:01 ↗ herit tree program we are participating

47:03 ↗ in a tree

47:04 ↗ protection uh effort so it's it's it's a

47:07 ↗ little different than I think we've been

47:09 ↗ uh our understanding has been um what I

47:13 ↗ don't see in here is anything

47:17 ↗ about

47:19 ↗ um the you know the designation so we

47:22 ↗ have that flowchart that we would

47:24 ↗ participate in and then I think based on

47:27 ↗ our role we could maybe provide a

47:29 ↗ recommendation and then it would

47:31 ↗ continue on um but what I also don't see

47:34 ↗ here is anything about a homeowner or

47:37 ↗ transfer title or anything like that and

47:41 ↗ so it's sounding kind of fuzzy and and a

47:44 ↗ little bit um potentially dangerous and

47:47 ↗ you know it's great to protect trees but

47:51 ↗ seems like it could become an issue um

47:54 ↗ for a homeowner a private property owner

47:56 ↗ that's something probably need to

47:57 ↗ clarify and it could even be for the

47:59 ↗ public

48:00 ↗ property

48:03 ↗ City and then whatever we end up with

48:06 ↗ hopefully it's some type of program

48:07 ↗ despite what I think after my these

48:10 ↗ comments um I do think it should be on

48:13 ↗ the the gis site and you some sort

48:18 ↗ of identification and story about each

48:21 ↗ tree or little documentation so that

48:23 ↗ someone can look it

48:24 ↗ up go investigate further

48:30 ↗ excellent points and you're right the

48:32 ↗ code the code makes reference to the her

48:34 ↗ street program but that does not get

48:36 ↗ into the specifics and so again thus the

48:39 ↗ need to really update some ways clarify

48:43 ↗ the hered street program so we have some

48:46 ↗ of that understanding and whether it's

48:48 ↗ on public property or private property

48:50 ↗ there's an understanding of what

48:51 ↗ somebody

48:54 ↗ is should be expecting and and you're

48:57 ↗ right Chris it's a great point my intent

48:59 ↗ earlier was not to say there's no

49:01 ↗ protection as part of this program there

49:03 ↗ is

49:04 ↗ but I think as Dan and I are looking at

49:06 ↗ this and you look at how other cities do

49:08 ↗ the program right is it first and

49:10 ↗ foremost a protection program because of

49:12 ↗ it

49:17 ↗ is I would have some concerns with that

49:19 ↗ I'll just say that as staff that becomes

49:21 ↗ really hard as sta um if it's a program

49:24 ↗ that has we we really wanting to

49:27 ↗ recognize and understand the value and

49:29 ↗ importance of trees and while we have

49:32 ↗ this Heritage tree program we understand

49:34 ↗ there are protections that come with

49:36 ↗ that designation and we're going to

49:38 ↗ commit to

49:40 ↗ those I would be concerned and and

49:44 ↗ forgive me if this is going too far but

49:46 ↗ you know there are some who would want a

49:49 ↗ Heritage tree program to become a

49:52 ↗ weapon um or or sort of weaponize that

49:55 ↗ as a way of getting around development

49:58 ↗ or getting around something happening

50:00 ↗ and that would as we go into this

50:03 ↗ program and try and develop it we want

50:05 ↗ to be really intentional and really

50:07 ↗ Artful in it not being a program that's

50:10 ↗ seen as a or is used as a weapon but is

50:13 ↗ used as a way to celebrate um trees and

50:16 ↗ the importance of trees and protect

50:18 ↗ trees but do it in a in a valued way not

50:21 ↗ in a we're going to protect this tree to

50:24 ↗ make sure something else doesn't happen

50:25 ↗ that that that loses the merits of the

50:29 ↗ program and I guess if I can add just

50:31 ↗ real quick to kind of to Marlene's point

50:33 ↗ I mean we essentially have two routes

50:34 ↗ for tree removal there's you know just a

50:36 ↗ standalone tree removal permit and

50:38 ↗ that's where you're kind of lumping

50:39 ↗ significant trees Landmark trees

50:41 ↗ Heritage trees that's not significantly

50:43 ↗ different even though I'm pretty sure

50:45 ↗ Heritage tree can't be removed under the

50:47 ↗ nuisance tree definition but if it's a

50:49 ↗ deemed a hazard tree if it's dead dying

50:51 ↗ or diseased and can you know cause

50:53 ↗ issues with that spreading essentially

50:55 ↗ that's not much added protection from

50:58 ↗ what we have through the Standalone tree

51:00 ↗ removal permit the thing that ID say is

51:02 ↗ is is different is you know the

51:04 ↗ development route or or Redevelopment of

51:06 ↗ property where you're a little bit more

51:09 ↗ allowed I guess like of a word to remove

51:12 ↗ trees as long as then you're replacing

51:13 ↗ and hitting certain canopy you know uh

51:15 ↗ replacement or retention requirements

51:17 ↗ that we have in our code for different

51:19 ↗ sub areas in the city so that to me is

51:22 ↗ is is the biggest difference and to your

51:24 ↗ point Chris I don't I don't know

51:25 ↗ anywhere that specific Al says about the

51:28 ↗ um lack of a covenant or anything like

51:31 ↗ that that's just talking to our planners

51:32 ↗ is like oh I don't think anything like

51:34 ↗ that would exist around this program but

51:36 ↗ that's not written into our code saying

51:38 ↗ that you know after you move or sell

51:40 ↗ your home or and you know anything like

51:42 ↗ that that that doesn't get handed down

51:44 ↗ but you know if we need to make that

51:46 ↗ clear or something that's something we

51:47 ↗ could decide but that's just my

51:49 ↗ understanding is that a program like

51:50 ↗ this similar to palop it's it's an

51:51 ↗ optional thing that you kind of have to

51:53 ↗ proactively put on your property uh to

51:56 ↗ to if you want that to be included in

51:58 ↗ the sale of that property in the future

52:00 ↗ yeah that's my understanding too most

52:01 ↗ cities where they a a designation of a

52:05 ↗ tree on private property um we would

52:09 ↗ want to clarify that in as as part of

52:11 ↗ the program maybe not necessarily in the

52:13 ↗ code but that that that owner should

52:16 ↗ expect and understand it's it's their

52:18 ↗ choice they can choose to put something

52:20 ↗ on the title as a permanent Covenant if

52:23 ↗ they do that that

52:24 ↗ will that could could have impacts on

52:28 ↗ the value of their private property um

52:31 ↗ but private residents also have the

52:33 ↗ choice to designate a Heritage tree not

52:36 ↗ put something on their title and then

52:38 ↗ that allows when it's sold the next

52:40 ↗ private property owner to make their own

52:43 ↗ the herit that Heritage designation

52:45 ↗ doesn't stick with the stick with the

52:48 ↗ property seems like we should include

52:50 ↗ that you know almost like a disclaimer

52:53 ↗ correct in

52:57 ↗ you know okay I'm going to do this

52:59 ↗ somebody nominated my Tre and it says

53:02 ↗ you know I citizen citizen accept this

53:07 ↗ or you know sign this but down below it

53:10 ↗ says you know this does not persist

53:13 ↗ after you sale of property or something

53:15 ↗ like that yeah I I think even even just

53:17 ↗ like a simple write up of what the

53:19 ↗ difference is between general you know

53:21 ↗ whether that be significant tree

53:22 ↗ Landmark tree tree removal and

53:24 ↗ development tree removal processes and

53:26 ↗ how cage trees is either the same or you

53:28 ↗ know different in those two paths and

53:31 ↗ also the private property so yeah we

53:32 ↗ could essentially have like a couple

53:33 ↗ paragraph Just and you know linking to

53:35 ↗ the code for the code it's the same as a

53:38 ↗ significant tree or lar and that's and

53:40 ↗ keep in mind that's Standalone tree

53:42 ↗ removal but if you're removing it as

53:44 ↗ part of development you can remove a

53:45 ↗ landmark tree as part of a development

53:47 ↗ it might have higher replacement

53:49 ↗ requirements you cannot remove a

53:50 ↗ Heritage tree as part of a development

53:52 ↗ or Redevelopment so that's a different

53:54 ↗ part of our code

53:57 ↗ and I'd be happy to I can look that up

53:58 ↗ and and send that back over to but yeah

54:01 ↗ and again that's where as we're posing

54:04 ↗ these questions and what you know do we

54:06 ↗ want to

54:08 ↗ offer different levels right different

54:11 ↗ levels of designation could that be

54:14 ↗ something we consider

54:16 ↗ or again given that Heritage designation

54:19 ↗ brings with it

54:24 ↗ all I guess you know based on kind of

54:27 ↗ what we're talking about and sort of

54:29 ↗ what we want the Heritage tree to move

54:30 ↗ into where people see them

54:32 ↗ or do we want to have private property

54:35 ↗ trees in this

54:39 ↗ program I mean they could be included

54:43 ↗ and not included on that like map of

54:45 ↗ visitation and like they could be mapped

54:48 ↗ and and noted as

54:49 ↗ private add complexity so I'm just

54:53 ↗ trying to simplify right like you guys

54:54 ↗ know I'm always trying to simplify stuff

54:56 ↗ so like my question is is the benefit of

55:00 ↗ having private Heritage trees worth the

55:03 ↗ added complexity of all the things we've

55:05 ↗ been talking about which is probably

55:06 ↗ just scratching the surface of all the

55:08 ↗ things we'd actually need to do yeah I

55:11 ↗ would distinguish the between commercial

55:13 ↗ which is privately owned but I would

55:15 ↗ argue to some extent certainly publicly

55:17 ↗ accessible and that's where we have a

55:18 ↗ lot of our private or i' say you know

55:21 ↗ four of the six or five of The Seven

55:23 ↗ Trees we have on private property or

55:25 ↗ commercial property right next to is

55:26 ↗ Coffee Company where hundreds of people

55:28 ↗ go every

55:29 ↗ day Gilman Village so there's a little

55:32 ↗ difference versus yeah single family

55:33 ↗ home or multi family homes that are

55:35 ↗ truly like private residences um that is

55:38 ↗ a good question I don't know the answer

55:40 ↗ I'm just sort of asking question that's

55:42 ↗ what I'm saying I do differentiate

55:43 ↗ between between those areas in terms of

55:46 ↗ kind of how the the ability for people

55:48 ↗ to go connect with these trees is which

55:50 ↗ is great point in terms of mapping that

55:52 ↗ that yeah we would there would need to

55:54 ↗ be some notation of how you know where

55:56 ↗ you could view it and where you could

55:58 ↗ view it from seems like if it's a

56:01 ↗ private property say that the system

56:03 ↗ does evolve to include private property

56:08 ↗ trees it would be appropriate to say do

56:11 ↗ you want yeah what sort of

56:13 ↗ level want this listed I don't think

56:16 ↗ that's too different too too different

56:17 ↗ from what we're kind of weighing with

56:19 ↗ the snowy tribe to in terms of what

56:21 ↗ level of information they want uh

56:23 ↗ publicly

56:24 ↗ available it might be okay the species

56:27 ↗ and the cultural significance behind it

56:28 ↗ they really want to push that education

56:30 ↗ but not the specific location not

56:32 ↗ attracting tons of people out there to

56:33 ↗ go see it even if it is on public

56:36 ↗ land that's kind of my take Zach you've

56:39 ↗ got your hand up thanks for Patiently

56:41 ↗ Waiting no problem uh I guess just just

56:44 ↗ thinking not to I guess it might come

56:46 ↗ across as someone antagonizing what's

56:48 ↗ the point of a Heritage Tree on a

56:50 ↗ private land obviously if a land owner

56:52 ↗ is nominating their tree they value it

56:54 ↗ they're not going to cut it down it

56:56 ↗ doesn't carry through in any sort of

56:57 ↗ protections other than what they write

57:00 ↗ and stipulate into the sale of their

57:02 ↗ home um so it seems as though I mean

57:05 ↗ other than I suppose celebrating the

57:07 ↗ tree but in terms of protections I mean

57:10 ↗ uh if they value the tree the tree will

57:12 ↗ be protected and if they sell it and the

57:14 ↗ person purchasing the land does not

57:16 ↗ value the tree then the tree will not

57:18 ↗ persist right I mean um I guess unless

57:23 ↗ it's on like a private land that's like

57:25 ↗ a condimenti or something but generally

57:27 ↗ like a a single like homeowner um it

57:31 ↗ doesn't seem like since it doesn't

57:33 ↗ really carry through in terms of like um

57:35 ↗ affecting the sale of the house or

57:37 ↗ whatever you would have to stipulate it

57:39 ↗ in your the sale of the home it seems

57:41 ↗ like there's not really a lot of value

57:43 ↗ in uh creating like a Heritage Tree on a

57:46 ↗ private land owners um wait yeah it's a

57:50 ↗ great great Point Zach and and again

57:52 ↗ that that is a decision of the that's a

57:55 ↗ decision of the property owner how other

57:58 ↗ cities have handled that to so to your

58:00 ↗ your point I don't think it's ant

58:02 ↗ antagonistic at all it's it speaks to

58:05 ↗ the the question and the value that

58:07 ↗ private property owner would have that

58:09 ↗ private property owner if they wanted to

58:11 ↗ make sure that tree was protected in

58:13 ↗ perpetuity they then could choose to put

58:16 ↗ that Covenant on the title as the owner

58:20 ↗ um and then realize that by putting that

58:22 ↗ Covenant on the title you you may when

58:26 ↗ it does come to re time to resell you

58:28 ↗ know that that's again that's your own

58:31 ↗ that's your own personal decision to

58:33 ↗ weigh the the pros and cons of but

58:37 ↗ that's how other cities have done it and

58:39 ↗ I think how Dan and I have talked about

58:41 ↗ is um that ability for that private

58:44 ↗ owner to

58:45 ↗ put um the Covenant protection on the

58:48 ↗ title is a a sole decision of theirs to

58:53 ↗ make would be a sole decision of theirs

58:55 ↗ to make

59:01 ↗ so I

59:03 ↗ think a little bit about an e static

59:06 ↗ value so um can you elaborate a little

59:09 ↗ bit more on um you compared with other

59:13 ↗ Tre programs I they usually say of

59:16 ↗ aesthetic value it's a Criterion but in

59:20 ↗ this case we specifically removed it as

59:23 ↗ a sort of a criteria um I wouldn't say

59:26 ↗ removed it just it wasn't included

59:29 ↗ initially um so yeah whether whether

59:31 ↗ that's something we would want to Bren

59:33 ↗ out I think is kind of more of the

59:34 ↗ question but

59:36 ↗ um we have a bunch of beautiful blooming

59:39 ↗ trees up and down it it it really does

59:41 ↗ get into yeah a lot of the cherry trees

59:44 ↗ things like that and we certainly have

59:45 ↗ some of those in our in our program

59:47 ↗ they're they're by no means like the

59:48 ↗ biggest trees or even necessarily

59:50 ↗ biggest of that variety um they may not

59:53 ↗ have huge levels of ecological value

59:57 ↗ necessarily but third core I get I get

1:00:00 ↗ calls randomly about like what what type

1:00:02 ↗ of variety of cherries or even what

1:00:03 ↗ variety of dogwood we have on Front

1:00:05 ↗ Street I just got a call this week from

1:00:07 ↗ someone passing through town just asking

1:00:08 ↗ if I could tell them so I mean it

1:00:09 ↗ definitely stands out and and you know

1:00:11 ↗ gives us you know character to our kind

1:00:13 ↗ of downtown core but yeah it's it's uh

1:00:16 ↗ uh it's something that I think yeah kind

1:00:17 ↗ of kind of fits those type of species

1:00:20 ↗ maybe more than you know kind of Zach

1:00:21 ↗ was highlighting some the native species

1:00:22 ↗ and ecosystem benefits or you know

1:00:24 ↗ obviously some of the indigenous kind of

1:00:26 ↗ cultural significance or you know ties

1:00:28 ↗ to early isqua you know in terms of like

1:00:30 ↗ European migrants and all that

1:00:34 ↗ so and maybe uh just comment on the some

1:00:37 ↗ of the discussion points on number four

1:00:40 ↗ you ask about

1:00:41 ↗ participation um have you thought about

1:00:44 ↗ maybe doing a sponsor program same way

1:00:47 ↗ we do for V in the par where you can

1:00:51 ↗ invite our residents to um sponsor the

1:00:54 ↗ pl

1:00:58 ↗ uh regarding number five I think

1:01:01 ↗ Heritage we need uh re re-education

1:01:05 ↗ first on what a Heritage tree is I

1:01:08 ↗ selfishly I I'm a part board member but

1:01:12 ↗ before this was brought up I had to

1:01:14 ↗ Google what tree is so before expanding

1:01:19 ↗ to the other designation level it will

1:01:22 ↗ be better to um enrich the re education

1:01:27 ↗ or from informing the residents on what

1:01:34 ↗ ahead your definitions whether it's one

1:01:36 ↗ level or multip yeah it's a great

1:01:40 ↗ Point anyone

1:01:44 ↗ else great discussion Connie

1:01:48 ↗ available is available and we can do

1:01:50 ↗ public comment and then I'm going to ask

1:01:52 ↗ Dan to be very quick with the rest of

1:01:53 ↗ his presentation

1:01:56 ↗ oh well

1:02:00 ↗ there's um Connie are you there do you

1:02:02 ↗ want to

1:02:05 ↗ unmute we are ah look at that I actually

1:02:08 ↗ solved my problem you can hear me this

1:02:10 ↗ time right you can hear you loud and

1:02:12 ↗ clear hky Dory totally my fault uh

1:02:18 ↗ so uh Heritage trees I actually tried to

1:02:22 ↗ get Heritage trees as a community member

1:02:25 ↗ on public property uh I don't even

1:02:28 ↗ remember how long ago that was but my

1:02:31 ↗ concern is the London plain

1:02:33 ↗ trees uh planted in the 70s by the parks

1:02:37 ↗ department along tibits Valley Park in

1:02:40 ↗ Newport Way and the City of iso wants to

1:02:44 ↗ widen that section of Newport Way and

1:02:48 ↗ their their

1:02:51 ↗ plan

1:02:52 ↗ would threaten that big long long stand

1:02:57 ↗ of trees along Newport Way and then

1:02:59 ↗ going up into Tibbits Valley Park and so

1:03:04 ↗ I was shut down because it was more than

1:03:06 ↗ three

1:03:08 ↗ trees uh I was grumpy I continue to be

1:03:12 ↗ grumpy

1:03:14 ↗ right the city of isqua has been a tree

1:03:17 ↗ City USA for a very long time our code

1:03:20 ↗ does not particularly protect trees it's

1:03:24 ↗ really quite easy to say we can't save

1:03:28 ↗ these trees and they say okay you can

1:03:31 ↗ plant offsite we don't really know what

1:03:33 ↗ that means yet uh or you can replant

1:03:37 ↗ onsite so the idea that we have a strict

1:03:42 ↗ code that is protecting our larger or

1:03:45 ↗ more significant

1:03:48 ↗ trees is is not really true they have to

1:03:52 ↗ explain why they need to take the trees

1:03:54 ↗ down but in our world of climate and

1:04:01 ↗ development and a City Identity heavily

1:04:05 ↗ based in trees it seemed to me

1:04:09 ↗ exceptionally important to try to bring

1:04:11 ↗ along the community and the city in

1:04:15 ↗ understanding what the most important

1:04:17 ↗ trees are to protect in order to

1:04:20 ↗ preserve our environment and our sense

1:04:24 ↗ of place

1:04:26 ↗ and the changes that I can see to the

1:04:31 ↗ code initially don't don't

1:04:35 ↗ serve that purpose so when I went

1:04:38 ↗ cruising around I did like peup creating

1:04:42 ↗ a list of the trees that they thought

1:04:45 ↗ were worthy

1:04:47 ↗ of significance and they were worthy of

1:04:51 ↗ saving and because they have a very old

1:04:53 ↗ town they asked the community to come

1:04:56 ↗ out and and say what trees do they think

1:04:58 ↗ are important and I think that that is a

1:05:00 ↗ a big part of isqua is we have all these

1:05:04 ↗ people who are looking at isqua going

1:05:06 ↗ wow this is the greenest most tree

1:05:09 ↗ oriented town I have ever seen and isn't

1:05:13 ↗ it amazing and then you have another

1:05:15 ↗ group of people whom I won't mention who

1:05:19 ↗ think well you know trees they'll regrow

1:05:22 ↗ again and it's not that big of a deal so

1:05:27 ↗ I think

1:05:30 ↗ everybody could be educated on what

1:05:34 ↗ trees we need to keep for me I think

1:05:38 ↗ trees in this area especially have grown

1:05:40 ↗ in groups and so the idea of single

1:05:43 ↗ trees being something that you protect

1:05:47 ↗ is is not really the habitat that was

1:05:50 ↗ originally here and um does not serve

1:05:54 ↗ the purpose of Place making in isqua uh

1:05:58 ↗ it was it was groupings of trees maybe a

1:06:01 ↗ little bit of meadow and then I

1:06:04 ↗ have the the uh idea that the Park Board

1:06:11 ↗ needs to have more say in advance of

1:06:13 ↗ decision being done by the park director

1:06:16 ↗ I think you all should my particular

1:06:19 ↗ thing didn't really come back to Park

1:06:21 ↗ Board because I was just told no be

1:06:25 ↗ because they didn't think the the

1:06:27 ↗ application was for more than three

1:06:29 ↗ trees and so it's like I didn't you know

1:06:34 ↗ I got to whine and whale with department

1:06:36 ↗ heads and staff as many as I could get

1:06:39 ↗ but it didn't sort of broadly educate

1:06:41 ↗ the community on a thing so I think it's

1:06:43 ↗ important that the park board get this

1:06:47 ↗ uh decision making before the deal is

1:06:51 ↗ done all right one last thing we have as

1:06:55 ↗ our City tree Eddie's white Wonder

1:06:58 ↗ Dogwood which is a nonnative sort of

1:07:02 ↗ gnarly Dogwood um and I don't know why

1:07:08 ↗ it seems like perhaps we would want to

1:07:11 ↗ have trees that could be future Heritage

1:07:15 ↗ trees as our our our city tree anyway

1:07:20 ↗ hopefully this was uh you understand a

1:07:23 ↗ little bit better the story of how we

1:07:25 ↗ got to where we are at this point in

1:07:28 ↗ time

1:07:30 ↗ thanks thanks

1:07:38 ↗ Connie

1:07:40 ↗ okay okay well back to Dan go through

1:07:43 ↗ these like I said these are hopefully

1:07:44 ↗ mostly just kind of quick kitting

1:07:46 ↗ updates on our Urban forest team uh I'll

1:07:48 ↗ chat briefly about uh green isqua uh

1:07:51 ↗ some of the Environmental Education work

1:07:53 ↗ we're doing as a team uh our park range

1:07:55 ↗ team and just kind of some recap on tree

1:07:58 ↗ work over the last year or so so that's

1:08:00 ↗ uh Alex Anderson on the right our park

1:08:02 ↗ ranger Taylor Nichols in the middle our

1:08:04 ↗ volunteer coordinator for green isqua

1:08:06 ↗ and Vera who was our seasonal park

1:08:08 ↗ ranger last

1:08:11 ↗ year um so hopefully everyone's familiar

1:08:14 ↗ with our green isal program uh this has

1:08:16 ↗ been in place for a few years now but uh

1:08:18 ↗ run inh house since my position in

1:08:19 ↗ Taylor's position started about a year

1:08:21 ↗ ago uh really looking to improve forest

1:08:23 ↗ and Natural Area Health uh vze and

1:08:25 ↗ inform and involved community Through

1:08:27 ↗ stewardship volunteerism and ensure you

1:08:30 ↗ know long-term sustainability for our

1:08:31 ↗ forested parks and natural areas which

1:08:33 ↗ Encompass about 1500 Acres or you know

1:08:35 ↗ pushing almost 20% of our city land

1:08:40 ↗ mass so these are just kind of some

1:08:43 ↗ quick hitters for green ISO in 2023 and

1:08:46 ↗ hopefully you're maybe familiar to that

1:08:47 ↗ we have a 20y year implementation plan

1:08:49 ↗ so we actually do have a guide for this

1:08:52 ↗ program and goals that have been set

1:08:53 ↗ annually through the next well next 15

1:08:56 ↗ or so years now at this point but over a

1:08:58 ↗ 20- year period uh so I won't read all

1:09:00 ↗ of these but you can see we we far

1:09:01 ↗ surpassed our volunteer hours which is

1:09:03 ↗ great by um we had a goal of I think

1:09:05 ↗ 2400 that's not written there sorry but

1:09:07 ↗ we had 30 almost 3200 volunteer hours in

1:09:10 ↗ 2023 70 events you can kind of see the

1:09:12 ↗ mix of corporate work parties public

1:09:14 ↗ events hosted by Forest stewards so

1:09:16 ↗ those are dedicated ongoing recurring

1:09:18 ↗ volunteers that do some of their own

1:09:20 ↗ work even lead their own small events uh

1:09:22 ↗ and then really you know leaning on work

1:09:23 ↗ with our partners like is Els trails

1:09:25 ↗ Mount sound Greenway trout unlimited has

1:09:27 ↗ been super involved starting this year

1:09:30 ↗ uh that also uh run events at isqua

1:09:32 ↗ parks it's part of green isqua uh so

1:09:33 ↗ we've had 10 active foror stewards and

1:09:35 ↗ we have two High School interns uh me

1:09:37 ↗ and Leilani and they've been very

1:09:38 ↗ helpful on some of the Heritage tree

1:09:40 ↗ research uh this year too in the in the

1:09:42 ↗ bottom right there uh so really focus on

1:09:44 ↗ that Hands-On stewardship but also the

1:09:46 ↗ uh you know kind of education and

1:09:48 ↗ engagement for folks that might want

1:09:49 ↗ more of the context or maybe aren't as

1:09:52 ↗ able to come out and pull blackberry and

1:09:53 ↗ plant trees so birdwalk

1:09:55 ↗ for Steward training and really

1:09:57 ↗ expanding educational opportunities uh

1:09:59 ↗ kind of mentioned book ending our

1:10:01 ↗ planting season with green is a in the

1:10:02 ↗ fall and Arbor Day at the start of the

1:10:04 ↗ spring um so s we can hop to the next

1:10:07 ↗ one which I think we'll have a little

1:10:08 ↗ more on Environmental Education uh so we

1:10:10 ↗ hosted 29 events in 2023 topics were

1:10:13 ↗ kind of wide ranging Forest Health plant

1:10:15 ↗ identification salmon ecology a little

1:10:18 ↗ bit on our carbon credits Ranger

1:10:19 ↗ programs you know how to be good outdoor

1:10:23 ↗ uh users of our park space and you know

1:10:24 ↗ that engage AED 400 people and you kind

1:10:26 ↗ of see the youth adult breakdown on that

1:10:28 ↗ too so

1:10:32 ↗ um and then Park Rangers I mentioned

1:10:34 ↗ Alex Anderson we do have a new seasonal

1:10:36 ↗ park ranger Casey Shane who just started

1:10:37 ↗ with us a few weeks ago so we have uh

1:10:39 ↗ everyday coverage in spring and summer

1:10:41 ↗ months that's a six-month position so

1:10:43 ↗ he's about a month into that position uh

1:10:45 ↗ so routine Patrol uh this is not law

1:10:48 ↗ enforcement I think you all know that so

1:10:49 ↗ we really focus on what we say

1:10:51 ↗ enforcement through education um so

1:10:54 ↗ there's kind of the current staff and

1:10:55 ↗ you know they do work really closely

1:10:57 ↗ with our Human Services team on on

1:10:58 ↗ homeless Outreach uh they do some you

1:11:01 ↗ know kind of General parks and Trail

1:11:02 ↗ maintenance support a ton of our green

1:11:04 ↗ isical work as well and and as we kind

1:11:05 ↗ of chat chatt on that last slide a lot

1:11:07 ↗ of the interpretation and and outdoor

1:11:08 ↗ education as

1:11:11 ↗ well um these are just from the first

1:11:13 ↗ quarter our park ranger if you ever to

1:11:15 ↗ see more of these does annual reports

1:11:16 ↗ and then quarterly reports of the type

1:11:18 ↗ of contacts and kind of some other

1:11:19 ↗ metrics so you know you can kind of see

1:11:21 ↗ the stuff that he's responding to

1:11:22 ↗ Illegal dumping offleash dogs vandalism

1:11:24 ↗ graffiti homeless Outreach so this is

1:11:26 ↗ you know just in January through March

1:11:28 ↗ of this year 141 total contacts this is

1:11:30 ↗ all tracked on GIS which is great so we

1:11:32 ↗ can go back to it see where there's

1:11:34 ↗ problem areas see where there's hot

1:11:35 ↗ spots uh that's probably a low quarter

1:11:37 ↗ about 1100 pounds of litter or legal

1:11:39 ↗ dumping pulled out of our Parks you know

1:11:41 ↗ sometimes that's 2,000 plus uh then you

1:11:43 ↗ can see some of the education

1:11:44 ↗ initiatives leave no Trace you know

1:11:46 ↗ signs pamphlets really educating on you

1:11:47 ↗ know like said how to be responsible at

1:11:49 ↗ recreators in our Parks park ranger

1:11:51 ↗ responsible dog owners that's actually a

1:11:53 ↗ national park program that we're

1:11:54 ↗ borrowing Ranger program and then Alex

1:11:56 ↗ has gotten really good interest in our

1:11:57 ↗ outdoor 101 really trying to get people

1:11:59 ↗ more comfortable with with recreating in

1:12:01 ↗ the outdoors that maybe haven't done

1:12:02 ↗ that much

1:12:04 ↗ before and then kind of summarizing some

1:12:07 ↗ tree work here so this one just just to

1:12:09 ↗ kind of caveat this is uh our planting

1:12:12 ↗ season so kind of starting in October of

1:12:14 ↗ of last year through Arbor Day just a

1:12:16 ↗ few weeks ago which which ended our

1:12:18 ↗ planting season uh we've put in 2500

1:12:20 ↗ native trees across 15 different parks

1:12:23 ↗ and other 730 native shrubs really f

1:12:25 ↗ focusing on under story as we've talked

1:12:26 ↗ about and Forest Edge habitat you know

1:12:29 ↗ along our Trail corridors in a lot of

1:12:30 ↗ places we've really upped our tree

1:12:32 ↗ pruning whether that's for visibility

1:12:34 ↗ clearance or certainly tree Health as

1:12:36 ↗ well so that's both you know contracted

1:12:37 ↗ pruning work and then also our our Parks

1:12:39 ↗ operations team so that has already

1:12:41 ↗ doubled the amount we did the previous

1:12:43 ↗ season that 829 trees uh and then 19

1:12:46 ↗ trees you know lost or removed you know

1:12:48 ↗ a lot of these trees come down in storms

1:12:50 ↗ and you we end up cleaning up from our

1:12:51 ↗ Trail stuff like that too so to kind of

1:12:53 ↗ differentiate between there so that's

1:12:55 ↗ kind of what we what we've lost so far

1:12:57 ↗ this past season and then yeah

1:12:58 ↗ celebrated our 32nd city of isqua Arbor

1:13:01 ↗ Day on April 6th could book end that

1:13:02 ↗ planting season so that's like I said

1:13:04 ↗ our 32nd year is a Tre City

1:13:08 ↗ USA and then uh you know this is kind of

1:13:11 ↗ looking at those green isqua goals

1:13:13 ↗ moving forward 2,800 volunteer hours 12

1:13:15 ↗ Forest stewards so adding at least two

1:13:17 ↗ more we're hoping to do more than that

1:13:18 ↗ we actually just had a forest Steward

1:13:19 ↗ orientation this past Saturday and had

1:13:21 ↗ eight people show up but they seem

1:13:22 ↗ really interested a few folks new to

1:13:24 ↗ isqua and you know kind of building

1:13:26 ↗ Community through our green oal program

1:13:28 ↗ which is awesome uh and then upping our

1:13:30 ↗ Acres enrolled in restoration to almost

1:13:33 ↗ 100 which this past year our goal I

1:13:35 ↗ believe was 65 or 70 and we we were just

1:13:38 ↗ short of that but pretty close and these

1:13:40 ↗ are some of the initiatives I kind of

1:13:41 ↗ mention we've already had this year

1:13:42 ↗ March March 2nd was our Outdoors 101

1:13:44 ↗ coexisting with carnivore panel was

1:13:46 ↗ great kind of connecting the work we're

1:13:47 ↗ doing around uh Forest conservation

1:13:50 ↗ Restoration in our wildlife in isqua

1:13:52 ↗ Arbor Day at Confluence Park new for

1:13:55 ↗ Steward orientation and then really

1:13:57 ↗ really kind of quick update this week

1:13:58 ↗ com back to you all in the next couple

1:13:59 ↗ months on the urban Forest management

1:14:01 ↗ plan the last time I did talk to you all

1:14:02 ↗ was the joint meeting with the

1:14:03 ↗ environmental board as we launched the

1:14:05 ↗ survey thank you all for participating

1:14:06 ↗ in that spreading the word we end up

1:14:08 ↗ having about 235 responses to that and

1:14:10 ↗ our Consultants are really kind of

1:14:12 ↗ working to analyze that plus some of the

1:14:14 ↗ other benchmarking and kind of forest

1:14:16 ↗ audit stuff they've been working on

1:14:17 ↗ based on some of our existing City

1:14:19 ↗ documents interviews with City staff

1:14:20 ↗ stakeholders all that sort of stuff uh

1:14:23 ↗ so we should have a draft outline goals

1:14:25 ↗ strategies uh and recommendations to

1:14:27 ↗ bring back to you all in June is the is

1:14:29 ↗ the goal and um hope to have that

1:14:32 ↗ something a little more tangible it's

1:14:33 ↗ going to start looking like the bones of

1:14:34 ↗ the plan uh which is really

1:14:37 ↗ exciting and that I believe is it um

1:14:41 ↗ might be a yeah slide at the end there

1:14:44 ↗ so yeah thank you all for like I said a

1:14:45 ↗ lot of really really good feedback and

1:14:47 ↗ food for thought today and excited to

1:14:49 ↗ bring both you know more info on the

1:14:50 ↗ forest management plan and herited trees

1:14:52 ↗ back here in a couple months

1:14:56 ↗ just real quick U more of a comment like

1:14:58 ↗ one thank you for all the Outreach and

1:15:00 ↗ all of the like education that you guys

1:15:01 ↗ are doing I think that's really cool to

1:15:03 ↗ see the STA I don't think we see that

1:15:04 ↗ all the time so I just really appreciate

1:15:06 ↗ that and then one of the things we

1:15:07 ↗ talked about and it was a little bit

1:15:08 ↗ different it was more about like w

1:15:10 ↗ facilities last month last month it was

1:15:12 ↗ about um connecting more with the school

1:15:14 ↗ district um so I know obviously a school

1:15:17 ↗ high school and a school middle school

1:15:18 ↗ you know they're right out on tiger um

1:15:20 ↗ Nick and my son are actually in the same

1:15:22 ↗ class which is backyard forest and so

1:15:24 ↗ they spend a lot of time learning about

1:15:26 ↗ the environment going on Hikes doing

1:15:28 ↗ that stuff so that might be another

1:15:29 ↗ potential way to reach out that's a

1:15:32 ↗ program that's pretty popular I think in

1:15:34 ↗ the middle school at least so it might

1:15:35 ↗ be a good place to try to make a

1:15:38 ↗ connection and I if you want to connect

1:15:39 ↗ with the person who runs that that would

1:15:41 ↗ be awesome when I hear from my my

1:15:42 ↗ husband just been on their hike last

1:15:44 ↗ week he a plethora of information so

1:15:48 ↗ figure out ways we get support to that

1:15:49 ↗ us Gibson a has been kind of our main in

1:15:51 ↗ but knowing the high school and middle

1:15:53 ↗ school there's a lot more potential

1:15:55 ↗ there to do some of the youth education

1:15:57 ↗ too so that's a great great Point um Dan

1:16:00 ↗ thank you very much for that update um

1:16:03 ↗ not only as a for supervisor but really

1:16:05 ↗ bringing your skills we've really been

1:16:08 ↗ able to up our in many ways create a

1:16:10 ↗ natural resource division natural

1:16:12 ↗ resource team within our park operations

1:16:14 ↗ team so it's really um as the the

1:16:17 ↗ results show really helped us diversify

1:16:19 ↗ how we're stewarding our Parks um and

1:16:22 ↗ all the diversity in our system so big

1:16:25 ↗ big thanks um big thanks as well for the

1:16:28 ↗ Heritage tree discussion all of you um

1:16:31 ↗ very helpful um you know our public

1:16:34 ↗ spaces speak to our culture and our

1:16:36 ↗ heritage and who we are as a community

1:16:39 ↗ um in so many ways and um um if I can

1:16:43 ↗ segue Chris I think another thing that

1:16:45 ↗ speaks to our in our public spaces and

1:16:47 ↗ our culture is is history is Art um and

1:16:50 ↗ and Amy's here to give a really fun

1:16:52 ↗ update on um

1:16:55 ↗ on our uh plazas project we're calling

1:16:58 ↗ Plaza plural pedestrian Park Plaza and

1:17:01 ↗ Senior Center Plaza but just um some

1:17:04 ↗ really really fun work happening with a

1:17:06 ↗ local artist so Amy please take it

1:17:11 ↗ away and um I thank you for having me

1:17:14 ↗ this evening I think it's been about a

1:17:16 ↗ year since I've been here so I'm not

1:17:18 ↗ sure that I have met all of you but I'm

1:17:20 ↗ Amy Dukes I'm the cultural arts manager

1:17:22 ↗ of the city um and I'm continue on with

1:17:26 ↗ the celebrating trees theme and it'll

1:17:28 ↗ all make sense in just a few slides so

1:17:33 ↗ um so as Jeff mentioned um this is an

1:17:37 ↗ update on the public art that is going

1:17:39 ↗ into the downtown plazas pedestrian Park

1:17:42 ↗ and Senior Center plazas I'm I think you

1:17:45 ↗ all had a update of those projects

1:17:47 ↗ pretty recently right so um you may have

1:17:50 ↗ heard that there is Art being included

1:17:52 ↗ in the plazas um we actually we're

1:17:55 ↗ planning to put art in no matter what

1:17:57 ↗ but fortunately we're able to receive a

1:17:59 ↗ grant from um the Washington State Arts

1:18:02 ↗ commission through our creative District

1:18:04 ↗ designation so we um recently were

1:18:08 ↗ awarded

1:18:10 ↗ $112,000

1:18:12 ↗ 12,500 um to put uh public art into

1:18:15 ↗ these two projects so just really helped

1:18:17 ↗ to up that budget so that the art could

1:18:19 ↗ be

1:18:23 ↗ significant it's really tiny on there

1:18:26 ↗ but the artist for this project um oh I

1:18:28 ↗ think it was on the other slide as well

1:18:29 ↗ is Jun sakaguchi um so we um the Arts

1:18:34 ↗ commission put out a call for H

1:18:37 ↗ qualifications um to select an artist we

1:18:40 ↗ had great response we had I think like

1:18:43 ↗ 40 something submissions which is really

1:18:46 ↗ wonderful um and it was nared down to a

1:18:49 ↗ handful in the Arts commission reviewed

1:18:51 ↗ everything we review everything um kind

1:18:53 ↗ of in a blind

1:18:55 ↗ way so that they're really looking at

1:18:57 ↗ just previous artwork um and they

1:19:00 ↗ selected um June as their first choice

1:19:03 ↗ um usually they select a couple of

1:19:04 ↗ choices because sometimes we select

1:19:06 ↗ artists who are really busy and popular

1:19:08 ↗ and can't quite fit their um into our

1:19:11 ↗ timeline so fortunately she was

1:19:14 ↗ available to take the

1:19:18 ↗ commission and um so her process I just

1:19:20 ↗ want to share with you this is actually

1:19:22 ↗ her presentation that she gave to the

1:19:23 ↗ Arts commission earlier this month so

1:19:25 ↗ I'm sure I won't quite do it justice but

1:19:28 ↗ um I will try so her um research um the

1:19:31 ↗ first thing that she wanted to do um and

1:19:33 ↗ I should note June was actually a

1:19:36 ↗ resident of issaqua for many years I

1:19:38 ↗ don't know if any of you know her but

1:19:40 ↗ she um was very actively engaged in the

1:19:42 ↗ community um she's moved away probably

1:19:45 ↗ about a decade um ago um lives in the

1:19:48 ↗ Tacoma area but has since moving away

1:19:51 ↗ become a pretty well-known uh nationally

1:19:54 ↗ um public artist with commissions all

1:19:56 ↗ over the place um but isqua holds a

1:19:59 ↗ special place in her heart so and she's

1:20:01 ↗ very familiar with the community um so

1:20:03 ↗ part of her process was um to research

1:20:06 ↗ um sort of just to kind of come up with

1:20:09 ↗ some themes that she might want to

1:20:10 ↗ explore and so she actually met with a

1:20:13 ↗ couple of members of the snow quami

1:20:14 ↗ tribe um Ginger De Los Angeles is

1:20:17 ↗ actually the artist who um we worked

1:20:20 ↗ with for the Jacob two trees um

1:20:23 ↗ sculpture she's actually the one that

1:20:24 ↗ braided the cedar for his um bracelet

1:20:28 ↗ and hairband um and then we also worked

1:20:31 ↗ with Stephen on that project as well

1:20:33 ↗ who's the archaeologist for the tribe so

1:20:35 ↗ she met with both of those members um

1:20:37 ↗ she also met with the history museums um

1:20:41 ↗ and then um she I think is personal

1:20:43 ↗ friends with meleno

1:20:46 ↗ um movich who um used to run pomegranate

1:20:50 ↗ Center in isqua a long time ago and who

1:20:53 ↗ was one of the original champ I of the

1:20:55 ↗ isquat treasures I don't know if you

1:20:57 ↗ guys know the treasures but I think it's

1:20:59 ↗ from the late 90s do you guys and

1:21:01 ↗ there's like 35 things about this Aqua

1:21:04 ↗ that people hold dear um that the

1:21:06 ↗ community voted on um so she kind of

1:21:09 ↗ looked at that list um in addition to

1:21:12 ↗ that um the Arts commission had um had

1:21:16 ↗ contracted with Don Fels a local artist

1:21:18 ↗ to do kind of a a plan with history and

1:21:22 ↗ art and some themes that are important

1:21:24 ↗ to to is a qua um and then she of course

1:21:27 ↗ had her own personal Reflections on

1:21:29 ↗ raising her family here and living here

1:21:33 ↗ um and then um I think she pretty early

1:21:36 ↗ on especially with her conversations

1:21:38 ↗ with the tribe started to zero in on um

1:21:41 ↗ just sort of n nature as a theme and she

1:21:45 ↗ kind of looked at some of the various um

1:21:48 ↗ local Laura and FAA for

1:21:52 ↗ inspiration but um ultimately L she

1:21:55 ↗ landed on the western red cedar um as

1:21:59 ↗ the inspiration for the sculpture that

1:22:01 ↗ she wanted to explore and um she kept

1:22:04 ↗ hearing from all the people that she

1:22:05 ↗ talked with how important the cedar was

1:22:07 ↗ to life in isqua um among all different

1:22:11 ↗ cultural groups um and she was really

1:22:14 ↗ drawn to it in large part because of the

1:22:18 ↗ um the braiding of the um what's the

1:22:23 ↗ right word see I'm not a tree person

1:22:27 ↗ the the the needles or the is it needles

1:22:32 ↗ yeah so she really she works her work is

1:22:35 ↗ um very much influenced by geometric

1:22:37 ↗ forms and so she started to really

1:22:40 ↗ explore the braiding um as well as the

1:22:44 ↗ cone um and then just sort of the reason

1:22:48 ↗ why she uh decided that the cedar was

1:22:51 ↗ the place to really um put her emphasis

1:22:54 ↗ just all the ways in which um it was

1:22:57 ↗ important to people

1:22:59 ↗ here so um this is I this is a huge jump

1:23:03 ↗ from

1:23:05 ↗ that and maybe I will um hold on one sec

1:23:10 ↗ maybe I'll go back to those um so um

1:23:14 ↗ another pattern that she explored was

1:23:16 ↗ actually the cellular structure of the

1:23:19 ↗ cedar um so she was really interested in

1:23:22 ↗ the way under the microscope how that

1:23:23 ↗ looks and those different patterns and

1:23:26 ↗ textures are um and as it turns out um

1:23:30 ↗ with the sculpture that she started to

1:23:32 ↗ create she actually needed to fill in

1:23:34 ↗ some open space for safety and other

1:23:37 ↗ reasons so this became an extra layer

1:23:40 ↗ within her sculpture um the materials

1:23:43 ↗ that she plans to use are steel and then

1:23:45 ↗ there's a coating that is similar to

1:23:48 ↗ powder coating but is a new process um

1:23:50 ↗ that enables which I'm excited about

1:23:52 ↗ because this enables the sculpture to

1:23:54 ↗ get touchups without having to be like

1:23:56 ↗ removed and sanded down and re um powder

1:24:00 ↗ coated so she's going to use this new um

1:24:02 ↗ material um and we've identified a

1:24:04 ↗ fabricator so now I guess I will go back

1:24:08 ↗ too um so she came up with two different

1:24:12 ↗ um sculptures so I can show you the site

1:24:15 ↗ plan after these my I'm sorry my uh I

1:24:18 ↗ feel like she did this in such a better

1:24:21 ↗ smooth way um but the

1:24:24 ↗ um sculpture here would be at The

1:24:27 ↗ Pedestrian Plaza um and that

1:24:31 ↗ one you can kind of see it from

1:24:35 ↗ a 3D perspective so height-wise um you

1:24:40 ↗ know all these people are sort of normal

1:24:41 ↗ sized adults um this would be I'll show

1:24:45 ↗ you on the map where a pedestrian Plaza

1:24:47 ↗ I believe this is one and then the

1:24:51 ↗ second large sculpture is this one um

1:24:55 ↗ which has a more elongated again her her

1:24:59 ↗ um artwork is not intended to be literal

1:25:02 ↗ at all so this is the essence of the

1:25:06 ↗ western Cedar um and you know it would

1:25:10 ↗ have that extra layer which you're not

1:25:12 ↗ seeing um woven in uh which is that that

1:25:16 ↗ cellular structure pattern and then

1:25:19 ↗ these cones are actually um enormously

1:25:22 ↗ exaggerated because the cone on the

1:25:24 ↗ western red seedar is actually quite

1:25:26 ↗ tiny so um again it's just all um kind

1:25:31 ↗ of inspired

1:25:35 ↗ by let just kind of give you some

1:25:37 ↗ different I dis size so um this would be

1:25:41 ↗ the pedestrian Park um Plaza area and

1:25:46 ↗ where that where that star is down

1:25:48 ↗ beneath is where that would go where

1:25:50 ↗ you're seeing um yellow circles there

1:25:53 ↗ will be some smaller sculptures that

1:25:55 ↗ will kind of guide you through and so

1:25:57 ↗ the idea for those which she doesn't

1:25:59 ↗ have a mockup on this presentation but

1:26:01 ↗ is that cone um structure so there would

1:26:04 ↗ be the large and then the cone and a

1:26:06 ↗ cone and then you would cross over to um

1:26:11 ↗ the Senior Center Plaza and there would

1:26:12 ↗ be another large sculpture and then

1:26:15 ↗ where you see the yellow circle there

1:26:17 ↗ would be a

1:26:19 ↗ c so those are the concepts to share

1:26:24 ↗ really great Concepts and as you the the

1:26:27 ↗ where the stars are I thought it was

1:26:29 ↗ interesting that the conversation with

1:26:31 ↗ the Arts commission and the artist

1:26:34 ↗ on understanding these two parks have

1:26:37 ↗ some physical separation and and letting

1:26:39 ↗ the art pieces sort of be beacons if you

1:26:42 ↗ will wanted yeah so the

1:26:46 ↗ so the thought would be that these would

1:26:48 ↗ be placed so that you could see the the

1:26:53 ↗ sculpture here at the senior center

1:26:55 ↗ plaza as you're standing over at

1:26:57 ↗ pedestrian Park um and so the little the

1:27:00 ↗ little cones along the way kind of guide

1:27:03 ↗ you to that the artist is also designing

1:27:07 ↗ um some ideas for the space in between

1:27:10 ↗ the two plazas in the hope that we will

1:27:13 ↗ be able to make that connection and then

1:27:16 ↗ we would of s it up

1:27:18 ↗ really right no I really appreciate it

1:27:21 ↗ and and we've talked a lot right as

1:27:23 ↗ we're phase one um realizing this needs

1:27:28 ↗ to function in its phase one state but

1:27:30 ↗ also realizing the goal is that with

1:27:33 ↗ Community response and use phase two

1:27:36 ↗ that middle are Depot Park really

1:27:38 ↗ becomes the that next phase of of

1:27:42 ↗ development

1:27:43 ↗ so just a question only project be

1:27:47 ↗ completed um so the designs have gone to

1:27:51 ↗ Arts commission um creative District

1:27:53 ↗ Advisory Board and you guys um so the

1:27:56 ↗ designs are now kind of going to actual

1:28:00 ↗ um to engineering and Fabrication but

1:28:03 ↗ we'll hold a little bit on fabrication

1:28:05 ↗ until we fully understand the

1:28:07 ↗ construction timeline for the plazas um

1:28:10 ↗ so fabrication would probably only take

1:28:12 ↗ a couple of months and then the

1:28:14 ↗ installation would happen more toward

1:28:16 ↗ the end of the the part project so we

1:28:20 ↗ are hopefully on the tail end of

1:28:22 ↗ permitting we should be out to bid

1:28:24 ↗ I think right now we have bit award for

1:28:26 ↗ the project for the park the capital

1:28:29 ↗ projects to be going to Council in July

1:28:32 ↗ with the goal if you remember we we

1:28:35 ↗ anticipate ribbon cutting completion

1:28:38 ↗ spring of next year so imagine you know

1:28:41 ↗ cutting a ribbon on these spaces in

1:28:43 ↗ April as the weather is turning good the

1:28:45 ↗ goal would be as we cut a ribbon these

1:28:47 ↗ art pieces are

1:28:50 ↗ there yeah and they did they we were

1:28:53 ↗ able to get

1:28:54 ↗ generally the all the um footings and

1:28:58 ↗ locations and everything into the

1:29:00 ↗ permitting set so um it should be pretty

1:29:04 ↗ easy to to get install and and I did I

1:29:09 ↗ really appreciated your comment about

1:29:12 ↗ the eight different colors and

1:29:14 ↗ everybody's got an opinion so the color

1:29:16 ↗ that you saw on those sculptures on the

1:29:19 ↗ interior um was green and that is still

1:29:23 ↗ sort of being worked through with methun

1:29:25 ↗ um you know who's working on the designs

1:29:27 ↗ and also making decisions about colors

1:29:30 ↗ of site furniture and other things so

1:29:32 ↗ we're trying to agree on a color that

1:29:36 ↗ will harmonize

1:29:39 ↗ everything Nichola I see your hand

1:29:42 ↗ up oh yeah I didn't know if anybody else

1:29:44 ↗ was in the room was gonna say something

1:29:46 ↗ so just thank you um for Art thank you

1:29:49 ↗ for Grants um you know spending other

1:29:53 ↗ people's money on art is always more fun

1:29:55 ↗ than spending you know City general fund

1:29:58 ↗ on Art and so uh I just can't express

1:30:02 ↗ enough in my opinion just one person how

1:30:05 ↗ much art is goes such a long way in

1:30:08 ↗ placemaking um I can already think of

1:30:10 ↗ some of the installations that are

1:30:12 ↗ around the senior center and how uh

1:30:14 ↗ welcoming that is for Outsiders who

1:30:16 ↗ maybe aren't in the senior center to

1:30:18 ↗ approach the space engage with it in a

1:30:21 ↗ different way um and I just am excited

1:30:24 ↗ to see more of that throughout our um

1:30:27 ↗ art our Parks complex essentially thank

1:30:31 ↗ you thank you for those comments I did

1:30:34 ↗ want to mention um the story behind the

1:30:37 ↗ artwork we really do want to make sure

1:30:39 ↗ that that is told well um so we have and

1:30:43 ↗ I wanted to jump in when Dan was talking

1:30:46 ↗ we have an app that we have a

1:30:48 ↗ subscription to for the arts program

1:30:50 ↗ which is called story but

1:30:52 ↗ sqr wise and um we're we're working on

1:30:56 ↗ updating it with all of our public art

1:30:58 ↗ collection but it has infinite

1:31:01 ↗ possibilities for other um City assets

1:31:04 ↗ so we could include Trails or Heritage

1:31:07 ↗ trees they just did a huge um revamp of

1:31:10 ↗ the app and so now it's very

1:31:12 ↗ aesthetically pleasing and it's really

1:31:14 ↗ easy to create itineraries and things so

1:31:16 ↗ I can chat more with you guys about that

1:31:18 ↗ but we'll at the very least have some

1:31:21 ↗ signage and QR codes and then connection

1:31:24 ↗ this app so people can better

1:31:27 ↗ understand just to just to tag on to

1:31:29 ↗ that Andy that's great and and really

1:31:31 ↗ you know our our desire as managers of

1:31:35 ↗ of these public spaces is how cool would

1:31:36 ↗ it be to have one sort of one resource

1:31:39 ↗ that one app that is able someone's able

1:31:41 ↗ to look up the art pieces in isqua Parks

1:31:45 ↗ or the Heritage trees or the um the

1:31:49 ↗ memorial benches right that that could

1:31:52 ↗ could be another asset that can all be

1:31:55 ↗ folded in so that's aome we can have

1:32:00 ↗ 99 yeah lot

1:32:03 ↗ of thank you for having me thank

1:32:15 ↗ you hey we move into

1:32:21 ↗ reports youth Representatives yes Sundy

1:32:25 ↗ and ARA it's all you for your youth

1:32:31 ↗ report okay so we haven't really I don't

1:32:35 ↗ think we have that much of a big update

1:32:37 ↗ since our last you know since our last

1:32:40 ↗ parkboard meeting we've still been

1:32:41 ↗ working on planning the hackathon that's

1:32:45 ↗ supposed to happen on June

1:32:48 ↗ 1st and we did just have an event it was

1:32:52 ↗ our Middle School Dodge B tournament on

1:32:55 ↗ Friday April

1:32:56 ↗ 26 that was a big hit we had like a

1:32:59 ↗ bunch of people show up um everyone

1:33:02 ↗ really liked it and so yeah I think Nick

1:33:06 ↗ son organized it didn't they Nas wasn't

1:33:09 ↗ your son one of the main organizers um

1:33:12 ↗ well he at least refereed it but I can

1:33:14 ↗ say that what was interesting about

1:33:16 ↗ being there is I saw marle there and

1:33:19 ↗ that wasn't planned and I saw several

1:33:22 ↗ other members of kind of cross community

1:33:25 ↗ um uh attendance from that event so I

1:33:28 ↗ saw parents from you know my son's old

1:33:30 ↗ soccer club they now play on the Gunners

1:33:32 ↗ or I guess they're called Liverpool and

1:33:35 ↗ just other community members so it was

1:33:36 ↗ just such a great because it's not a

1:33:39 ↗ specific School sport it was just

1:33:41 ↗ drawing kids in from all over the

1:33:43 ↗ different uh I guess the areas of isqua

1:33:46 ↗ school district I don't know if it was

1:33:47 ↗ just middle schools in the area or what

1:33:49 ↗ have you but it was uh it was really

1:33:51 ↗ well attended and yeah it was emotional

1:33:53 ↗ there were highs there were lows and

1:33:55 ↗ then there were cupcakes so it was

1:33:57 ↗ great it was a it was a huge hit so hats

1:34:00 ↗ off the youth board and staff I know a

1:34:02 ↗ staff we been T I think we might have a

1:34:04 ↗ a tradition uh tradition for fun usually

1:34:09 ↗ I think prior not last year but the year

1:34:13 ↗ before Dodge B used to be called Dodge

1:34:15 ↗ Bond DS it used to just be um an annual

1:34:18 ↗ kind of thing that the youth board used

1:34:20 ↗ to put on um you know back back when we

1:34:23 ↗ were fifth graders so we weren't we

1:34:25 ↗ weren't on the youth War we know about

1:34:26 ↗ any of this but it used to be an annual

1:34:28 ↗ thing that they did for middle and high

1:34:31 ↗ schoolers and then other than the Dodge

1:34:33 ↗ wall event there is another event that

1:34:35 ↗ youth youth board is hosting called arts

1:34:38 ↗ in the park I believe it's also supposed

1:34:40 ↗ to happen sometime in June um I believe

1:34:43 ↗ it's also targeted towards Elementary

1:34:45 ↗ schoolers elementary and middle

1:34:47 ↗ schoolers so that's that's pretty much

1:34:51 ↗ go that's what's going on with the youth

1:34:53 ↗ board cuz we basically have our Like

1:34:55 ↗ official end date in about like a month

1:34:58 ↗ and a month or so like month and a half

1:35:01 ↗ maybe so

1:35:05 ↗ yeah yeah but that's it from the youth

1:35:08 ↗ board thank you have a

1:35:13 ↗ question might I ask a question really

1:35:15 ↗ quick yeah uh so just is there uh thanks

1:35:19 ↗ for presenting here it's been great

1:35:21 ↗ having you all at meetings um if I could

1:35:24 ↗ show up it would be even better um but

1:35:27 ↗ just is there a need for U for like a

1:35:31 ↗ call for applications to help backfill

1:35:35 ↗ you know sometimes if the season's

1:35:36 ↗ ending that that might might mean some

1:35:37 ↗ people are moving off the isqua youth

1:35:39 ↗ boards so are they looking for new

1:35:41 ↗ members yeah so applications have been

1:35:45 ↗ open since April

1:35:47 ↗ 1 um I don't know how many spots there

1:35:50 ↗ are in the youth board I don't believe

1:35:52 ↗ we talk about that as much thing that's

1:35:54 ↗ more something that's left up to Katie

1:35:56 ↗ and Kathy but yeah the youth board does

1:36:00 ↗ do most of the interviewing and

1:36:01 ↗ application reviewing process and the

1:36:04 ↗ stuff to apply should be up on the youth

1:36:07 ↗ board on the youth Board website website

1:36:09 ↗ on the yeah I do know that the

1:36:11 ↗ applications close on May 7th though

1:36:14 ↗ yeah so to anyone if you could all

1:36:16 ↗ spread the word that' be great because

1:36:18 ↗ we're looking for tons of new

1:36:21 ↗ applicants Nicholas it's a great

1:36:24 ↗ yeah yeah as a city as a city run

1:36:27 ↗ program it's yeah it's something that we

1:36:28 ↗ have the application Cycles open this

1:36:31 ↗ spring and again youth board do a great

1:36:33 ↗ job of helping us screen uh future or

1:36:37 ↗ those applications for the next school

1:36:39 ↗ years um group um usually youth board

1:36:42 ↗ over the past 20 plus years has probably

1:36:44 ↗ averaged anywhere from 30 to 40 um youth

1:36:47 ↗ board members every every

1:36:49 ↗ year yeah that usually ends up being our

1:36:52 ↗ number

1:36:55 ↗ yeah Jeff um inside the community center

1:36:58 ↗ there's a tile program for it looked

1:37:01 ↗ like cross town rivalry youth boards

1:37:04 ↗ like Belleview versus you know they have

1:37:06 ↗ like a like inside there's like a mosaic

1:37:09 ↗ I guess and it were I don't recall this

1:37:11 ↗ from when I was in Maywood Middle School

1:37:14 ↗ like way back in the day or you know

1:37:16 ↗ Liberty but um is there a reason that

1:37:18 ↗ that stopped or is that something

1:37:19 ↗ they're

1:37:21 ↗ gonna or should we is there a way to

1:37:23 ↗ well I should maybe ask the youth board

1:37:25 ↗ members I wonder if there's ever any PL

1:37:26 ↗ plans to start kind of spreading out the

1:37:28 ↗ youth board engagement to make sure that

1:37:30 ↗ we're talking Cross City uh for I think

1:37:35 ↗ we have

1:37:36 ↗ actually like this was in like one of

1:37:38 ↗ our goals I don't know when it's going

1:37:39 ↗ to get executed whether it's this year

1:37:41 ↗ or next year but we were hoping to

1:37:43 ↗ collaborate with another youth board I

1:37:45 ↗ think maybe isqua Highlands or something

1:37:47 ↗ like that um because they have their own

1:37:49 ↗ board um and kind of like collaborate

1:37:51 ↗ and do a community service project

1:37:53 ↗ somewhere nearby so yeah so I know our

1:37:57 ↗ leaders add on to that I think our

1:37:59 ↗ leadership team was also looking at that

1:38:01 ↗ this year given um the we've the youth

1:38:04 ↗ board's been a little bit Rocky this

1:38:05 ↗ year given the different like cuts that

1:38:07 ↗ we've had to make to our annual events

1:38:09 ↗ like we're not having the AC kids

1:38:10 ↗ triathlon this year we've had to cut um

1:38:13 ↗ couple of other annual events

1:38:16 ↗ so I think this this might be something

1:38:19 ↗ we're looking forward to next year and

1:38:21 ↗ like our said um isaa Highlands is

1:38:23 ↗ something we were looking at I think

1:38:24 ↗ some imish was also on the board so

1:38:28 ↗ probably something that'll happen next

1:38:29 ↗ year and I do just want to make note

1:38:32 ↗ that the uh youth Advisory Board is

1:38:34 ↗ actually open to middle and high school

1:38:37 ↗ students within the entire Esa School

1:38:39 ↗ District so it's open to our our

1:38:42 ↗ neighboring cities as well we have

1:38:44 ↗ representatives from pretty much all of

1:38:47 ↗ the middle schools and and high schools

1:38:48 ↗ including some private schools um as

1:38:51 ↗ well as working um to include the home

1:38:53 ↗ home school population as well so we try

1:38:55 ↗ to be as inclusive as possible with the

1:38:57 ↗ ISA um you Advisory Board and yes

1:39:01 ↗ applications are open they're due soon

1:39:03 ↗ they'll be reviewed in mid-may and

1:39:05 ↗ decisions will be made um in June for

1:39:07 ↗ which positions will be open and

1:39:09 ↗ available and usually that comes with

1:39:11 ↗ students that either want to rotate off

1:39:13 ↗ of the board because they have other

1:39:15 ↗ obligations um or those that are

1:39:17 ↗ graduating our seniors

1:39:19 ↗ that

1:39:21 ↗ yeah thank you both

1:39:27 ↗ direct support oh my turn you okay

1:39:33 ↗ okay um so yeah boy along with youth

1:39:38 ↗ Advisory Board and coming to an end of a

1:39:40 ↗ school year uh April also brings a

1:39:42 ↗ transition to boards and commissions um

1:39:46 ↗ um our newly appointed Park board

1:39:49 ↗ members will be starting in May I wanted

1:39:51 ↗ to give a big thank you and acknowledge

1:39:54 ↗ those that are stepping off the the park

1:39:56 ↗ board um that includes Brad book and

1:39:59 ↗ Zach and Andrew um I first want to just

1:40:02 ↗ give I know Brad wasn't able to join us

1:40:04 ↗ tonight but just a big public kudos to

1:40:07 ↗ to Brad book Brad is served on this park

1:40:10 ↗ board for 12 years uh it's multiple

1:40:12 ↗ terms six of those years he served as

1:40:15 ↗ Park Board chair um I know he was chair

1:40:18 ↗ when I arrived as in my role um in 20

1:40:22 ↗ late 2016 16 um and just so appreciated

1:40:26 ↗ working with Brad in that role um his

1:40:29 ↗ role as chair and in my role as a new

1:40:32 ↗ director just understanding s of um

1:40:36 ↗ culture of the park board what had been

1:40:38 ↗ going on with the park board uh we've

1:40:40 ↗ seen a lot of transition with the park

1:40:42 ↗ board and and I think some real exciting

1:40:45 ↗ engagement in terms of uh real advisory

1:40:48 ↗ work that the park board is doing and

1:40:50 ↗ and I give a big thank you to Brad um

1:40:53 ↗ and and those early years um working

1:40:56 ↗ with him as the chair so um his passion

1:40:59 ↗ his heart for isqua is huge um I think

1:41:02 ↗ we all know that so um just a a public

1:41:06 ↗ thank you to to Brad book and and all

1:41:08 ↗ the the the work that he has done for

1:41:11 ↗ this community and we continue to work

1:41:13 ↗ uh Brad has certainly said and and thank

1:41:15 ↗ you I'm glad we've added ad hoc groups

1:41:18 ↗ to the park board Brad's very excited to

1:41:20 ↗ continue to to work with all of us in an

1:41:22 ↗ ad hoc um or in some of those ad hoc

1:41:25 ↗ roles so big thank you

1:41:29 ↗ there and just also wanted to say oh

1:41:32 ↗ yeah Round of

1:41:36 ↗ Applause um I just wanted to say a quick

1:41:38 ↗ thank you to both Zach and Andrew you

1:41:41 ↗ all um having been on the board during

1:41:43 ↗ my tenure here and just thank you for

1:41:45 ↗ both of your engagement on our ad hwks

1:41:48 ↗ um and Zach for you know I know you were

1:41:50 ↗ the co-chair and then chair for a a

1:41:53 ↗ couple of years and just a big thank you

1:41:55 ↗ to you

1:42:00 ↗ both yes big thanks so yeah we'll have a

1:42:04 ↗ couple some new members joining us uh in

1:42:06 ↗ May but um boy all three of you your

1:42:09 ↗ service has been well

1:42:12 ↗ appreciated um Farmers Market kicks off

1:42:15 ↗ uh here we are the end of April uh next

1:42:18 ↗ uh this coming Saturday May the 4th May

1:42:20 ↗ the 4th be with you um um start Wars Day

1:42:24 ↗ head to Farmers

1:42:25 ↗ Market um on Saturday uh and and that

1:42:29 ↗ season kicks off uh Park system Plan

1:42:32 ↗ update uh continues to to move along

1:42:35 ↗ well we have an online mapping survey

1:42:37 ↗ that is out uh and open we're going to

1:42:39 ↗ be extending that opening um that survey

1:42:43 ↗ being open it's going to close on May

1:42:45 ↗ the 7th uh so thank you for getting that

1:42:49 ↗ news out and and spreading that uh

1:42:51 ↗ please continue to do that um Robin and

1:42:54 ↗ Julie and Asanti are going to have a

1:42:56 ↗ presence at at Farmers Market on

1:42:58 ↗ Saturday just as another way of of um

1:43:01 ↗ sharing that the park system plan

1:43:03 ↗ updates going on and inviting responses

1:43:06 ↗ to that online mapping tool so thank you

1:43:08 ↗ very much for that um um that's huge um

1:43:14 ↗ speaking of the the park Plan update uh

1:43:16 ↗ still U May 30th our upcoming Park plan

1:43:20 ↗ meeting we're going to be bringing to

1:43:21 ↗ you um a lot of that plan as it's

1:43:25 ↗ starting to to form and Take Shape all

1:43:27 ↗ this public Outreach is working towards

1:43:30 ↗ an actual document design Workshop is

1:43:33 ↗ beginning to draft some of the early uh

1:43:36 ↗ chapters um we as staff are beginning to

1:43:38 ↗ take a look at calling through all the

1:43:41 ↗ public feedback and the feedback that's

1:43:42 ↗ coming on the survey tool by May 30th

1:43:45 ↗ we'll have a list of in a general

1:43:47 ↗ description of some projects um some

1:43:50 ↗ beginning looking at criteria and how we

1:43:52 ↗ will want to prioritize those projects

1:43:55 ↗ so um we'll be meeting with the ad hoc

1:43:58 ↗ group um prior to that May 30th meeting

1:44:01 ↗ but uh just saying that with a little

1:44:02 ↗ foreshadowing that there's some uh I

1:44:05 ↗ think some exciting work and all of this

1:44:07 ↗ park system plan work that you've been

1:44:09 ↗ giving and feedback you've been giving

1:44:10 ↗ over the the recent months has not been

1:44:13 ↗ for not uh the document's really going

1:44:15 ↗ to start to to come together and and I

1:44:18 ↗ hope um you all um enjoy that I know I'm

1:44:22 ↗ I'm getting excited about it on April

1:44:24 ↗ 18th we hosted a a public meeting um at

1:44:27 ↗ that meeting we been to reveal uh some

1:44:30 ↗ of the the the themes and the goals that

1:44:33 ↗ we've been talking about they were very

1:44:35 ↗ well received uh thank you assanti I

1:44:38 ↗ know on the website for that project for

1:44:41 ↗ the park system Plan update if you look

1:44:42 ↗ on the timeline you can pull up or

1:44:45 ↗ anyone listening in the public I can

1:44:47 ↗ pull up the PowerPoint presentation that

1:44:49 ↗ was presented that night um of note uh

1:44:53 ↗ you may recall we've been talking about

1:44:56 ↗ um how to take the concept of the green

1:44:59 ↗ necklace that sort of lived this little

1:45:01 ↗ insular life um not included as sort of

1:45:05 ↗ all the city and Rebrand the green

1:45:07 ↗ necklace and more of a Citywide Citywide

1:45:10 ↗ and Beyond Vision uh we revealed that um

1:45:13 ↗ at the April meeting we've been sort of

1:45:15 ↗ beginning to tease it out um um I share

1:45:19 ↗ with all of you uh the the concept that

1:45:21 ↗ we are beginning to really build um that

1:45:24 ↗ narrative around is Creeks to Peaks we

1:45:27 ↗ really feel like that concept goes

1:45:29 ↗ beyond green necklace but when you

1:45:31 ↗ really think of who we are as a city um

1:45:34 ↗ the importance of water in this town the

1:45:36 ↗ value of the creeks in the valley up to

1:45:40 ↗ um the Alps and the peaks of the Alps

1:45:42 ↗ it's no coincidence that those Peaks are

1:45:44 ↗ outside the borders of the city and so

1:45:46 ↗ really trying to create a vision and a

1:45:48 ↗ narrative that speaks to that inside out

1:45:51 ↗ concept that we've talked about so much

1:45:53 ↗ so more work to be had but um please

1:45:57 ↗ take a look at that PowerPoint

1:45:58 ↗ presentation uh there's a number of

1:46:00 ↗ slides that we kind of go into some

1:46:02 ↗ description of of creeks to Peaks and

1:46:04 ↗ why we think there's some something

1:46:06 ↗ there to to build a story around um if

1:46:09 ↗ any of you have any feedback or thoughts

1:46:11 ↗ on that please don't hesitate to get a

1:46:13 ↗ hold of s and I and I or just be

1:46:17 ↗ prepared to bring your thoughts um on

1:46:19 ↗ the 30th but um things are really

1:46:21 ↗ beginning to to come together there with

1:46:23 ↗ the park plan projects are cruising we

1:46:25 ↗ had a fun joint meeting with uh the city

1:46:28 ↗ council and the school board uh just

1:46:29 ↗ last Thursday uh presented um some

1:46:33 ↗ partnership opportunities updating our

1:46:35 ↗ joint use agreement speaking

1:46:37 ↗ specifically about athletic fields and

1:46:38 ↗ the opportunity to do some exciting

1:46:40 ↗ Community Sports fields on elementary

1:46:42 ↗ schools that was very well received so

1:46:46 ↗ um I'll stop there I've been going too

1:46:49 ↗ long lots lots going on thank you Chris

1:46:57 ↗ over to

1:46:58 ↗ me uh I sent you all the update of the

1:47:02 ↗ activities and they are more and more

1:47:05 ↗ because the weather's getting nicer and

1:47:08 ↗ uh certainly the uh Farmers Market is

1:47:10 ↗ now weekly

1:47:12 ↗ thing uh and funny that I start sending

1:47:15 ↗ those and then we have time in our

1:47:16 ↗ meetings but that's fine we'll stick

1:47:17 ↗ with

1:47:19 ↗ it and then before I finish up

1:47:23 ↗ thank you so much to Brad book um Brad

1:47:28 ↗ was there when I first joined the

1:47:30 ↗ friends of L Manish board and i' had

1:47:31 ↗ never been on any board had no idea what

1:47:33 ↗ to do and he was one of many that kind

1:47:37 ↗ of helped me

1:47:38 ↗ grow this role and then continued to

1:47:43 ↗ sort of uh run Point into parp so

1:47:48 ↗ special thanks to Brad book even though

1:47:49 ↗ he's not here it's worth acknowledging

1:47:52 ↗ and then Andrew and Zach thank you for

1:47:54 ↗ stepping up especially during you know

1:47:57 ↗ tumultuous times of uh pandemics and

1:48:00 ↗ things like that thank you sorry to see

1:48:03 ↗ you go both of

1:48:05 ↗ you and that's all I

1:48:08 ↗ have uh any other business

1:48:13 ↗ announcements I have two quick ones um I

1:48:18 ↗ just wanted to um remind everybody that

1:48:21 ↗ yes we will have some new members coming

1:48:22 ↗ in um Ryan will be transitioning into a

1:48:26 ↗ regular member position starting next

1:48:28 ↗ month yay um we'll have him for four

1:48:31 ↗ more

1:48:34 ↗ years I don't know if you know that

1:48:37 ↗ noting um and then we will have three

1:48:40 ↗ new alternate members joining us um

1:48:43 ↗ starting next month um we'll be doing

1:48:45 ↗ sort of an I'll be doing an orientation

1:48:47 ↗ with them and then you'll start seeing

1:48:48 ↗ them at our at our next few meetings um

1:48:51 ↗ and that also means that next meeting we

1:48:53 ↗ will also be voting on and nominating um

1:48:57 ↗ for chair and vice chair positions um I

1:49:01 ↗ want to put this call out to everybody

1:49:03 ↗ on the board if you have interest or

1:49:06 ↗ want to know more or want to throw your

1:49:08 ↗ your name in that hat please I encourage

1:49:11 ↗ it um let us know feel free to reach out

1:49:13 ↗ to myself and Jeff and we can talk about

1:49:16 ↗ um that process but we'll be taking

1:49:18 ↗ nominations um at the next meeting and I

1:49:21 ↗ will ask you all to vote on those so

1:49:24 ↗ this is another note to everybody to

1:49:26 ↗ check your schedules and and see that

1:49:28 ↗ this meeting is on your calendars

1:49:30 ↗ because it is a different date than our

1:49:32 ↗ normal meetings um there is this fun

1:49:35 ↗ little holiday that's happening on our

1:49:36 ↗ normal Monday Memorial Day um so the

1:49:40 ↗ meeting will be that same week but

1:49:42 ↗ Thursday May 30th so it's a Thursday

1:49:45 ↗ evening same time um 700 to 9:00 p.m

1:49:48 ↗ here in tibits um but on May 30th which

1:49:51 ↗ is a Thursday

1:49:53 ↗ um yeah that's what I've got

1:49:57 ↗ for just want to say thank you so much

1:50:00 ↗ for the the time it's been a privilege

1:50:03 ↗ pleasure honor being on the board with

1:50:06 ↗ you all getting to know you a little bit

1:50:08 ↗ these past couple years and can't

1:50:10 ↗ believe it's been a couple years already

1:50:12 ↗ so uh I'm still living downtown in the

1:50:16 ↗ area I'm sure we'll run into each other

1:50:18 ↗ um as as things go and um very much open

1:50:22 ↗ to out as hoc committees or other needs

1:50:26 ↗ come up so feel free to to reach out if

1:50:30 ↗ needed look forward to seeing all of

1:50:32 ↗ these great ideas and plans come to

1:50:40 ↗ tuition okay anything

1:50:43 ↗ else it the meeting is adjourned that's

1:50:47 ↗ all thank you minutes 82

1:50:55 ↗ thank you

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Chris Kovac, Chair Director

Marlene Waxse, Vice Chair Hasanthi Hoglund, Department Operations

Zach Szablewski (Virtual) Specialist

Andrew Eliquen Dan Hintz, Urban Forest Supervisor

David Liu Amy Dukes, Cultural Arts Manager

Nicholas Lee (Virtual)

Brenda Spears Community Members / Guests

Katie Bell Arsheya Thakkar

Tim Motely (Virtual) (Virtual)

Sanvi Madan

Ryan Olson

Andrew Myers

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Bradley Book, Alternate Connie Marsh

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