Park Board · Thursday, May 30, 2024 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of April 29, 2024

packet pp.3–8

Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 04-29-24 Park Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Park Board 7:00 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave April 29, 2024 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Park Board Chair & Vice Chair Elections

Hasanthi Hoglund, Business Operations Specialist · packet pp.9–49

Topics: Parks

▶ Watch from 18:23 Open packet at p.9 ↗

Staff report:

REGULAR BUSINESS b) Robin Spear, Park Planning and Development Manager Jeff Watling, Director

Park System Plan Update

Information / Discussion · Robin Spear, Park Planning and Development Manager Jeff Watling, Director Design Workshop Consultant Team

Topics: Parks

▶ Watch from 20:28

5. REPORTS

Youth Representative's Report

packet pp.51–52

▶ Watch from 1:34:28 Open packet at p.51 ↗

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

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Chairperson's Report

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0:03 ↗ okay set up we can get kicked off all

0:07 ↗ right in 701 and I'll call the meeting

0:10 ↗ to order um first thing we'll do is take

0:13 ↗ a

0:14 ↗ roll uh Andrew elquin I think is on his

0:18 ↗ way okay Chris kovak I am here uh David

0:22 ↗ Lou pres you uh sorry new people that's

0:27 ↗ you just say present are here or

0:29 ↗ something

0:31 ↗ um Tim Nicholas and Tim are both excused

0:34 ↗ Katie's excused Brenda Spears here and

0:39 ↗ marleene here uh Ryan olon here and then

0:45 ↗ new members Paul Adair

0:48 ↗ here

0:49 ↗ uh Mary I want to say Mari sorry Mary

0:53 ↗ Stevens and Martha

0:57 ↗ gner perfect uh okay and new members you

1:01 ↗ wouldn't know to do this so I wouldn't

1:03 ↗ worry about this part but uh did

1:04 ↗ everybody have a chance to review the

1:06 ↗ Mee the minutes from last

1:08 ↗ meeting any corrections or

1:13 ↗ objections with that I will approve the

1:17 ↗ minutes from last week and then now

1:21 ↗ santi's gonna Le us into a bit of

1:23 ↗ introductions for new people so welcome

1:26 ↗ to our new members um we have three new

1:29 ↗ alternate members we're so excited to

1:31 ↗ have you here um we just wanted to do a

1:34 ↗ couple of introductions around the table

1:36 ↗ so we'll start with sort of name for my

1:40 ↗ our regular board members that have been

1:42 ↗ here maybe how long you've been on the

1:44 ↗ board um for our new members maybe how

1:46 ↗ long you've lived in isqua um and then

1:49 ↗ uh as the Icebreaker your favorite

1:52 ↗ National Park um and maybe why if

1:56 ↗ there's like a fun story there but

1:57 ↗ keeping it short um and I can kick us

2:00 ↗ off I'm HTI hogland I'm the department

2:02 ↗ operations specialist for the parks and

2:04 ↗ Community Services Department um I have

2:07 ↗ been the staffle aison for the park

2:09 ↗ board for a year and a half we'll say

2:13 ↗ and I've lived in isqua for about three

2:15 ↗ years um and my favorite national park

2:18 ↗ right now I will say is Bryce Canyon we

2:21 ↗ just went last year it's so cool I've

2:23 ↗ never seen anything like it um super fun

2:26 ↗ so but that all pass it on the way and

2:28 ↗ welcome so excited you're here Jeff

2:30 ↗ Watling parks and Community Services

2:32 ↗ director here with the city of isqua um

2:35 ↗ I've been um in this role and with the

2:37 ↗ city since boy fall of 2016

2:41 ↗ so seven seven plus years um thoroughly

2:45 ↗ enjoyed it um favorite National Park

2:49 ↗ have been at quite a few um would love

2:52 ↗ to say Zion but I I grew up in South

2:54 ↗ King County M reer National Park but one

2:58 ↗ just the park itself but that mountain

2:59 ↗ means something to me you get close to

3:01 ↗ that mountain and it just

3:03 ↗ like I feel it so not right here

3:08 ↗ local I'm Chris kovak I've been on the

3:12 ↗ board six years something like that

3:15 ↗ maybe grows a year every few months

3:19 ↗ playing that uh I've been the chair for

3:22 ↗ a year and i' I've lived in a squat for

3:25 ↗ 24 years my favorite National Park is

3:29 ↗ the

3:30 ↗ Olympic National Parks whatever it is

3:32 ↗ out the

3:36 ↗ post yeah great hi I'm Mar waxy I have

3:40 ↗ been on the Park Board I think since

3:43 ↗ 2017 or

3:45 ↗ 18 I think and I'm not exactly sure um

3:49 ↗ some research I was alternate member

3:51 ↗ first um and then have just started my

3:53 ↗ second term and as kind of a full member

3:55 ↗ so that sounds about right um I joined

3:57 ↗ the park board because I was brand new

3:58 ↗ to esan Wasing for meet people and get

4:00 ↗ more

4:01 ↗ involved um let's see I like the Olympic

4:04 ↗ and specifically I really love the whole

4:07 ↗ rain forest um when I grew up in

4:09 ↗ Minnesota um but my I had family who

4:12 ↗ lived in P Angeles I just remember that

4:14 ↗ being so magical um as a

4:17 ↗ kid there anything else I supposed to

4:19 ↗ tell us

4:21 ↗ well I'm David Lou I've been on the

4:24 ↗ board coming up on my second full year

4:27 ↗ so back in 2022 which well um been in

4:29 ↗ isqua since 2017 Summer 2017 um have a

4:34 ↗ family here it's great um and I guess

4:37 ↗ favorite National Park would be

4:39 ↗ originally from the East Coast so

4:41 ↗ Arcadia National Park in Maine it's very

4:44 ↗ old school but I like it and special

4:47 ↗ place because that's kind of the first

4:48 ↗ trip I took with my n wife so yes on the

4:51 ↗ coast

4:55 ↗ yeah right Marth and

5:01 ↗ um I have lived Ina for a very long

5:07 ↗ time and um one of you know uh we

5:11 ↗ recently retired my husband and I and so

5:12 ↗ we have just been going out to National

5:14 ↗ Parks in fact just got back from Utah

5:16 ↗ saw all the might5 but since um J took

5:20 ↗ it I I won't say Bryce but um we did go

5:22 ↗ last year to Grand ton and that was just

5:25 ↗ an amazing amazing and reason why I like

5:28 ↗ it is I'm obsess with bison and we saw

5:32 ↗ live bison go across the road and

5:34 ↗ they're just such amazing animals and it

5:37 ↗ just I don't know I just seeing seeing

5:39 ↗ that amount of just you know um wild

5:43 ↗ animal just right there I I it just

5:45 ↗ really moved me so that's why yeah were

5:49 ↗ you obsessed before you know I was I was

5:52 ↗ obsessed a little bit but really it went

5:54 ↗ even higher I thought pretty cool the

5:57 ↗ video would even still on my phone

6:02 ↗ I'm Mary Stevens and I uh have I live

6:06 ↗ actually in manage but I've worked at is

6:08 ↗ the last Liv and um I'm a huge piece of

6:12 ↗ this community I love it and my favorite

6:15 ↗ National Park is probably

6:19 ↗ Josh it's different than where than up

6:22 ↗ here it's not t all

6:28 ↗ I've I'm Paul

6:30 ↗ uh I I think Mar from just recently that

6:32 ↗ I just moved here I moved here six

6:34 ↗ months ago and really fell in love with

6:36 ↗ it and joined the board because I really

6:37 ↗ wanted to contribute be a part of the

6:38 ↗ community uh for favorite Park 100% sure

6:42 ↗ if it's a national park it's a random

6:43 ↗ one but it's actually White Sands Park

6:45 ↗ in New Mexico that I have a personal

6:47 ↗ attachment to and that my family had a

6:48 ↗ cabin near there and so I would go there

6:50 ↗ a bunch as a kid and it's such like kind

6:52 ↗ of an almost alien place when you're out

6:54 ↗ there just pure white sand all around

6:57 ↗ and just spend a lot of time there and

6:58 ↗ so that's one that I like

7:02 ↗ I'm Brenda Spears and I this is my

7:05 ↗ second year my first year I was an

7:06 ↗ alternate now it's my first year as a

7:08 ↗ full board fullblown board member and my

7:12 ↗ favorite back is Glacier and that was

7:14 ↗ because when I was young and my my

7:16 ↗ husband and I were younger my daughter

7:18 ↗ was young we would hike Glacier

7:21 ↗ constantly and because my daughter was

7:23 ↗ young and very spoiled we carried

7:27 ↗ her and we got known for that and

7:30 ↗ everybody and so my thing was she's not

7:32 ↗ heavy she's my

7:38 ↗ daughter um I'm Ryan olon second year as

7:41 ↗ alternate last year fullard member this

7:43 ↗ year um I don't have a ton of National

7:46 ↗ Park uh you know history but for every

7:50 ↗ single year for like the first 18 years

7:52 ↗ of my life with the

7:54 ↗ Yellowstone and so that is probably one

7:58 ↗ of my favorite parks and then when I uh

8:00 ↗ started riding motorcycles is the first

8:02 ↗ Park I ever took a fullcycle trip here

8:05 ↗ all the way down

8:06 ↗ there amazing

8:09 ↗ Park U my name is Julie kada I'm senior

8:12 ↗ Park planner uh I started about six

8:14 ↗ months ago in this position um say my

8:18 ↗ favorite Park similarly like I'm kind of

8:20 ↗ like is it a national park is it

8:22 ↗ national forest is a kings's canyon seoa

8:25 ↗ um basically High sieras

8:29 ↗ hi everybody I'm Robin spear Park

8:31 ↗ planning and development manager and

8:33 ↗ like Julie I'm relatively new I've been

8:35 ↗ here since last September so very

8:39 ↗ exciting six months seven months eight

8:41 ↗ months so far uh my favorite national

8:45 ↗ park has to be like Brenda Glacier

8:47 ↗ National Park I grew up in the Flathead

8:49 ↗ Valley so that was kind of our

8:50 ↗ playground and used to be able to get up

8:52 ↗ and get in there in less than 45 minutes

8:55 ↗ so now it's a little more challenging

8:57 ↗ but yeah beautiful Park area feel like

9:02 ↗ home thank you everyone thanks for

9:05 ↗ playing

9:06 ↗ along parts to put to the list and yeah

9:11 ↗ welcome okay so our next order business

9:14 ↗ is public comments and it seems like we

9:16 ↗ have a few people to

9:18 ↗ contribute so for public comment

9:20 ↗ audience comment um we've got a spot up

9:23 ↗ here at the table if you want to come up

9:25 ↗ um you have five minutes to address the

9:27 ↗ board um and and yeah I have some stuff

9:31 ↗ to pass out so I came

9:37 ↗ slightly

9:43 ↗ I have my owner

9:46 ↗ too very official yeah welcome to five

9:50 ↗ minutes okay hello uh board members

9:53 ↗ chair uh parks and reck uh my name is

9:56 ↗ Michael Wong I've been uh living here in

9:58 ↗ isal proud to call my home for the past

10:00 ↗ seven years uh my wife and I are raising

10:03 ↗ two young kids here at the foot of

10:04 ↗ squawk Mountain just just right behind

10:05 ↗ here um neighbors with Marlene so she

10:08 ↗ she knows me literally Stone away from

10:10 ↗ one I know you were here a bit about

10:12 ↗ myself uh during the working hours I'm a

10:14 ↗ development manager at VLAN real estate

10:16 ↗ so uh I focus on building you know um uh

10:19 ↗ Class A office uh projects in bie and

10:21 ↗ Seattle but in my off hours so uh I

10:24 ↗ enjoy coaching I'm coaching Little

10:25 ↗ League I actually left my daughter's

10:26 ↗ last game a little early just to be here

10:27 ↗ for this comments but she'll forgive me

10:30 ↗ later or forget it um but I'm also a

10:33 ↗ archery Enthusiast and I'm currently

10:35 ↗ certifying right now as a level two

10:36 ↗ Junior Olympic archery instructor um I'm

10:39 ↗ here before you today to seek your

10:41 ↗ support in including an enclosed

10:43 ↗ enclosed outdoor archery range here in

10:44 ↗ the back corner of tippet Creek Park um

10:47 ↗ as Rob and Jeff will probably sh share

10:48 ↗ with you here uh they performed some

10:50 ↗ public Outreach to see what the

10:51 ↗ community wanted in our Parks they had

10:52 ↗ this really Nifty map out there and uh

10:54 ↗ the results uh are in the first page of

10:56 ↗ that packet of kind of passed out a

10:58 ↗ Junior Olympic partry range smashed it I

11:00 ↗ mean there was more than double of

11:01 ↗ anything else that was actually on there

11:03 ↗ it's something the community really

11:04 ↗ wants um and it's uh and and probably

11:08 ↗ the first question going in your head is

11:09 ↗ like Michael I mean isn't this kind of

11:11 ↗ dangerous I mean you're putting a Mery

11:13 ↗ range in the back over here well I'm a

11:16 ↗ real estate developer design and

11:17 ↗ placement are the first things that come

11:19 ↗ into my mind whenever I think about

11:20 ↗ doing a development project and uh

11:23 ↗ safety is also top of mine for me as

11:24 ↗ well because I live right behind this

11:26 ↗ project I want to make sure something

11:27 ↗ that is bulletproof safe that nothing

11:29 ↗ can get out of so for the same reason we

11:32 ↗ put fencing around a baseball field and

11:34 ↗ we don't put you know kids playgrounds

11:36 ↗ at the outfield for safety same reason

11:39 ↗ why you build uh archery ranges with

11:41 ↗ barriers and back stops to prevent

11:43 ↗ arrows from escaping the enclosure so

11:45 ↗ the design that I've contemplated in

11:46 ↗ there that's in your packet is a actual

11:49 ↗ enclosure that was built in Colorado

11:51 ↗ Springs and Eden Prairie um which is a

11:53 ↗ little suburb off of Minneapolis um in

11:56 ↗ Minnesota um it provides an outdoor back

11:58 ↗ stop that use a simple baffle so there's

12:01 ↗ literally no way you can shoot an arrow

12:03 ↗ out of this enclosure um but however if

12:06 ↗ you happen have mutant powers and you

12:08 ↗ could Bend arrows midair or you your

12:10 ↗ arrows with completed uranium pits or

12:12 ↗ something there is a 60 foot Hill right

12:14 ↗ behind it that will stop anything and

12:16 ↗ 120 foot trees that will undoubtedly

12:18 ↗ stop the kinetic force of a single Arrow

12:21 ↗ um this exact enclosure has been built

12:24 ↗ and tested for 20 years without a single

12:26 ↗ instant I talk with Keith bardos which

12:27 ↗ is a super um supervisor at Eden Prairie

12:31 ↗ and he confirmed he's he's there from

12:32 ↗ the beginning not a single incident has

12:34 ↗ happened where Arrow has escaped the

12:36 ↗ enclosure so the if the enclosure looks

12:38 ↗ reasonable what about accidents right if

12:40 ↗ you're a skeptic like me you probably

12:41 ↗ need stats and facts from legitimate

12:43 ↗ sources and I pulled my stats not from

12:45 ↗ the Q andon blog I got this from the NIH

12:47 ↗ right our department of health and the

12:49 ↗ neiss which is the national electronic

12:51 ↗ injury surveillance system it's very

12:53 ↗ long but it's what insurance companies

12:55 ↗ use to justify premiums cost premiums

12:58 ↗ for um for risk well happy to say

13:01 ↗ unquestionably archery is actually one

13:03 ↗ of the safest things on that list there

13:04 ↗ are no fatalities from archery ranges

13:06 ↗ that have been found and uh no one has

13:08 ↗ actually been shot from an arrow at a

13:10 ↗ public archery Ranch which a little

13:12 ↗ surprising but I ask co-pilot ask Google

13:15 ↗ last chat GPT you cannot find I looked

13:17 ↗ at the medical journal I cannot find a

13:18 ↗ single thing on it the characterization

13:20 ↗ of the injuries are from people who pull

13:22 ↗ it don't wear gloves string slaps their

13:24 ↗ arm or they lacerate their fingers

13:25 ↗ because they're pulling a string that

13:27 ↗ need a practice glove or so that's most

13:29 ↗ of the pain there the actual highest

13:31 ↗ risk of injury for going to hospital is

13:33 ↗ all the Four Courts we currently have

13:34 ↗ there baseball soccer tennis

13:36 ↗ skateboarding court right um those are

13:38 ↗ all the highest chances of injury the

13:40 ↗ insurance in uh industry rates uh rates

13:44 ↗ archery in the same levels bad mitton

13:46 ↗ bowling and ping pong so it's as

13:48 ↗ dangerous as those Sports it's safer

13:49 ↗ than golf guys so you check all my facts

13:53 ↗ everything is sourced in there um is

13:55 ↗ wouldn't be the person do this I'm not

13:56 ↗ an early adopter I'm not even a second

13:58 ↗ adopter we wouldn't be the first on to

14:00 ↗ we'd be the third to be able to do this

14:02 ↗ here in the country but there are other

14:04 ↗ counties that are even less risk averse

14:06 ↗ and uh if you go to downtown Portland

14:09 ↗ Washington Park has an open non-enclosed

14:10 ↗ archery range that's there that has not

14:12 ↗ had an incident either uh Golden Gate

14:15 ↗ Park in the heart of San Francisco in

14:16 ↗ the sunset neighborhood also has has a

14:18 ↗ range there without incident AWA has

14:21 ↗ three ranges out over there I mean so we

14:24 ↗ would not be the first to do this um

14:26 ↗ what does this cost so you're probably

14:28 ↗ wondering like okay this looks good well

14:29 ↗ but what is this you know let's talk

14:31 ↗ cheddar right well back in Minnesota in

14:34 ↗ 2004 it cost $20,000 so let's I know

14:37 ↗ lot's happened between their inflation

14:38 ↗ has happened so let's add uh let's let's

14:41 ↗ inflate that for today's dollars that's

14:42 ↗ $33,000 that's the cost of and help back

14:45 ↗ with a modest trim package but let's add

14:47 ↗ some Pacific Northwest skepticism and

14:49 ↗ premium to it let's raise that to

14:51 ↗ $50,000 okay price is right well I don't

14:55 ↗ mean to sound like an info commercial

14:57 ↗ but um that we have 50% coup here so the

15:01 ↗ Washington State I know if you order now

15:03 ↗ right Washington state had a recreation

15:06 ↗ conservation office offers a 50% match

15:08 ↗ so we could take that 50 oh match

15:10 ↗ specifically for archery range

15:12 ↗ construction and I've shared this with

15:13 ↗ Jeff and Robin already so this thing

15:15 ↗ comes down from 50 if I'm doing my MTH

15:17 ↗ right down to 25 that's the cost of the

15:19 ↗ kiaforte I think we could probably do

15:21 ↗ that for the park if can afford a

15:22 ↗ skateboarding uh Park area as well so

15:25 ↗ applications open in August 7th and are

15:27 ↗ due on Halloween

15:29 ↗ so uh why do this design is proven

15:31 ↗ tested over 20 years target archery is

15:33 ↗ statistically safe for multiple studies

15:35 ↗ it's not expensive we have a 50% coupon

15:38 ↗ and the location that I'm uh suggesting

15:40 ↗ here at the back corner of tius Creek

15:42 ↗ Park is underutilized the train is

15:44 ↗ perfect community outreach clearly wants

15:46 ↗ it but I'll share one last thought I was

15:48 ↗ looking at prior minutes and I noticed

15:49 ↗ that one of the objectives of the board

15:50 ↗ is to appeal to a broader demographic in

15:52 ↗ our city archery like golf but safer

15:55 ↗ than golf uh is something you practice

15:57 ↗ into your golden years um people in

15:59 ↗ wheelchairs or with disabilities who

16:01 ↗ otherwise can't play Field Sports which

16:03 ↗ I have a cousin who does cannot you know

16:05 ↗ go running down a baseball field

16:07 ↗ actually practices archery um and it's

16:09 ↗ one of the few sports that can actually

16:10 ↗ do solo without having to get a whole

16:11 ↗ team to come do it with them and also

16:14 ↗ Archer is one of the top sports in Asia

16:16 ↗ you'll probably see this in the Paris

16:17 ↗ Olympics here in the next few months um

16:19 ↗ but you know Asians make up 27% of isqua

16:22 ↗ I think it's evident by the number of

16:24 ↗ offerings we have dumplings and noodles

16:26 ↗ at our local Costco here but it's also

16:27 ↗ something that's also very cultur

16:29 ↗ prevalent uh in a lot of Asian cultures

16:32 ↗ um and I've heard the space is limited

16:34 ↗ in the S Park system but this would take

16:36 ↗ up a fraction of the space there this is

16:38 ↗ onethird of an acre that's 1/8 of a

16:41 ↗ normal baseball field that we have here

16:42 ↗ in the park I measured it out I brought

16:43 ↗ my surveyor range find you guys were

16:45 ↗ talking about I measured it out so it

16:47 ↗ would take onethird of an acre so um and

16:50 ↗ it's also something that you use 12

16:51 ↗ months out of the year you can practice

16:52 ↗ in the drizzle and the rain well most of

16:54 ↗ these pars said empty during the you

16:56 ↗ know during our armpit months of the

16:57 ↗ year is what I call it so or it's super

17:00 ↗ rainy draft so this is something you

17:01 ↗ practice from dawn to dusk so um so

17:04 ↗ that's why I think for all those reasons

17:07 ↗ we should include this in our Parks plan

17:08 ↗ because I think you guys are deciding

17:09 ↗ upon that in the next uh next few months

17:11 ↗ and I'm happy to lend any of my

17:13 ↗ resources I've access to some of the top

17:15 ↗ Landscape Architects here in town that

17:17 ↗ are surprisingly I at happy hour I found

17:19 ↗ out they're also archers too that would

17:21 ↗ be happy to volunteer some of their time

17:23 ↗ and effort to help you know establish

17:25 ↗ this in our community here so uh that's

17:27 ↗ all I got um

17:29 ↗ I'm happy to answer any questions but I

17:31 ↗ think it's just public comment so we'll

17:33 ↗ leave it at

17:37 ↗ that yes we had archery in my middle

17:39 ↗ school so it's not dangerous like we

17:42 ↗ Minnesota like but like we had it as a

17:45 ↗ middle school like thing in

17:47 ↗ JY not great well I'll leave you guys

17:50 ↗ with

17:53 ↗ this got money on this so this is the

17:56 ↗ actual pl we could use so

18:01 ↗ first year construction manager can

18:02 ↗ build this so but I have to head back to

18:04 ↗ the little so I

18:10 ↗ think any other public comment no I

18:14 ↗ don't see anyone online those are our

18:16 ↗ consultants for the presentation later

18:18 ↗ so I don't think we have other public

18:20 ↗ comment okay with that uh we go to

18:23 ↗ regular business okay it seems like

18:26 ↗ someone else should handle this part

18:28 ↗ yeah regular buiness our first item on

18:31 ↗ the agenda is to elect uh our Park Board

18:35 ↗ chair and vice chair for this coming

18:37 ↗ year um so thank you new members our

18:40 ↗ alternate members you all get to act as

18:42 ↗ regular members tonight

18:44 ↗ congratulations um because we have three

18:46 ↗ regular members that aren't here and

18:48 ↗ we're taking action um you you all will

18:51 ↗ be voting um in tonight's uh action here

18:55 ↗ and so for chair and vice chair

18:59 ↗ uh I will first call for nominations for

19:02 ↗ the chair position um when all

19:04 ↗ nominations have been made I will close

19:06 ↗ the nominations um if only one

19:09 ↗ nomination um is made we will

19:14 ↗ um the position is elected by unanimous

19:18 ↗ consent if there are other nominations

19:21 ↗ we will have time to sort of discuss as

19:23 ↗ a board and or hear from the people that

19:26 ↗ nominate um you can nominate yourself

19:28 ↗ and and other people can nominate you um

19:31 ↗ and so with that I will open the floor

19:34 ↗ for nominations for the chair

19:38 ↗ position if so

19:45 ↗ Welling I think the question is do any

19:47 ↗ of you guys

19:48 ↗ wanna do it again are you guys like Ryan

19:51 ↗ orenda or David interest I will make

19:55 ↗ note that um I do believe our our bot

19:58 ↗ have that regular members can be

20:00 ↗ nominated for chair position though the

20:02 ↗ three of you thank you so much are

20:03 ↗ acting as regular members for this

20:04 ↗ meeting um just want to make that one I

20:06 ↗ can't nominate

20:14 ↗ myself yeah do I second Chris's

20:18 ↗ nomination is that how we do that you

20:19 ↗ can if you

20:22 ↗ yeah one more year

20:30 ↗ okay thank you it seems like there

20:32 ↗ aren't any other nominations for chair

20:34 ↗ so Chris you are hereby appointed by

20:38 ↗ unanimous consent um and we'll do the

20:40 ↗ same thing for the vice chair position

20:43 ↗ any nominations for vice

20:54 ↗ chair anyone else

20:59 ↗ can I get a second oh I seconded oh

21:01 ↗ great okay very quickly wonderful um

21:04 ↗ well then welcome Marlene again uh uh

21:08 ↗ appointed as our vice chair for this

21:10 ↗ coming year thank

21:16 ↗ you

21:17 ↗ great thank you both and with that our

21:22 ↗ next item all right next item is the

21:25 ↗ park system Plan update

21:28 ↗ happy to to tee that up uh Chris um good

21:32 ↗ evening everyone welcome again new

21:33 ↗ members so glad you're you're joined the

21:36 ↗ the part board um Chris Marlene thank

21:39 ↗ you for your continued uh leadership um

21:42 ↗ always a pleasure to um to work with you

21:45 ↗ guys and have a chance to to meet in our

21:48 ↗ in our meetings as we build the agendas

21:50 ↗ together um I heard you say Chris and I

21:53 ↗ I will Echo this right that um it's not

21:56 ↗ a huge role but it is an additional

21:58 ↗ respons responsibility and and you know

22:00 ↗ hearing you say Chris that you're well

22:02 ↗ you know interested in doing this

22:03 ↗ another year I'll just I'll put that out

22:05 ↗ there that that the idea the hope of

22:07 ↗ chair and vice chair positions is there

22:09 ↗ is a degree of of turnover and sort of

22:11 ↗ sharing that sharing that responsibility

22:14 ↗ so um just something for you all to to

22:16 ↗ think about as we as we get through this

22:19 ↗ year yeah real quick if I can do it

22:27 ↗ anyway and there we we go well so our

22:30 ↗ one um other than the the chair and vice

22:33 ↗ chair elections one agenda item tonight

22:35 ↗ uh is a big one uh lots lots of content

22:38 ↗ lots of materials lots of discussion I

22:41 ↗ want to give a little bit of a of an

22:42 ↗ introduction and then turn it over to um

22:46 ↗ multiple people we're going to be

22:47 ↗ sharing the presentation tonight between

22:49 ↗ our Park planning staff Robin and juler

22:51 ↗ here but also joining us are our

22:53 ↗ partners on this project from design

22:55 ↗ Workshop Anna and luu I'll a chance to

22:59 ↗ to turn it over to to them uh but I'm so

23:02 ↗ thrilled uh to have been working with

23:04 ↗ design Workshop both an and louu just

23:06 ↗ been terrific team um professionals the

23:10 ↗ group at design Workshop has been a

23:12 ↗ great uh group to to Really collaborate

23:15 ↗ through um throughout the development of

23:17 ↗ this of this plan update um we do this

23:20 ↗ every six years

23:23 ↗ um having the pleasure of done a number

23:25 ↗ of these through my professional career

23:27 ↗ these are really important this is

23:28 ↗ important work this is really important

23:30 ↗ work with the community this is

23:32 ↗ important work for us to create a plan

23:34 ↗ that isn't just something that sits on a

23:36 ↗ shelf but is it tells a story it it it

23:40 ↗ it sets a vision for what this community

23:42 ↗ wants how they want their park system to

23:44 ↗ perform and so um excited tonight to

23:47 ↗ really see rolled up a lot of materials

23:51 ↗ uh that represent a a lot of work uh by

23:54 ↗ by the staff team Robin Julie HTI um

23:58 ↗ certainly has a had a big lift in this

24:01 ↗ um as well as myself but also your work

24:04 ↗ uh we've had several discussions over

24:06 ↗ these last couple of months that have

24:08 ↗ all sort of informed and hopefully as

24:09 ↗ you see the materials tonight you'll see

24:12 ↗ how our conversations around the

24:14 ↗ community survey in the fall around

24:16 ↗ athletic fields we had a couple of

24:18 ↗ months ago um around vision and our

24:21 ↗ joint meeting with the environmental

24:22 ↗ board hopefully you see all all of that

24:25 ↗ really informing the the materials

24:26 ↗ tonight um as as well as really some

24:29 ↗ very extensive uh Community engagement

24:32 ↗ uh this will be our final discussion uh

24:36 ↗ before um creating the draft plan uh

24:40 ↗ that draft plan would then uh go out to

24:42 ↗ the community for public comment uh

24:45 ↗ before it comes back to you all for

24:47 ↗ adoption so this isn't a final

24:49 ↗ discussion but really um hopefully sets

24:51 ↗ the stage uh for giving you sort of a a

24:54 ↗ final voice to really help us inform um

24:57 ↗ and help um

24:59 ↗ um Anna and luu in sort of finalizing

25:03 ↗ this this document so uh that's our goal

25:06 ↗ tonight um you want to go to the next

25:08 ↗ slide Robin I'll just highlight really

25:11 ↗ quick before turning it over to to Anna

25:14 ↗ um so we're going to cover sort of five

25:16 ↗ topics tonight the first four are going

25:17 ↗ to be covered by our design Workshop

25:19 ↗ team uh there's there's going to be time

25:21 ↗ for questions along the way uh we'll

25:23 ↗ have some pauses and breaks uh to really

25:26 ↗ open up for a discussion with all of you

25:29 ↗ U but tonight you're going to get a a

25:31 ↗ sort of a draft framework if you will of

25:34 ↗ the chapters and and how we want to lay

25:36 ↗ out The Narrative of the of the plan and

25:38 ↗ the story um Anna will dive pretty deep

25:42 ↗ a little deeper into some analysis

25:44 ↗ around some of the benchmarking work

25:45 ↗ we've done I know that's been an

25:47 ↗ interest by by you all as Park Board um

25:50 ↗ a really very interesting look at our

25:53 ↗ community Through Equity mapping and how

25:55 ↗ that's really informing our

25:56 ↗ prioritization and and how

25:58 ↗ and when we might want to prioritize

26:00 ↗ projects um next we'll talk through a

26:03 ↗ little deeper the concept of creeks to

26:06 ↗ Peaks as as really the pillar the the um

26:10 ↗ the theme the vision for uh the park

26:14 ↗ system and then lastly turn it over to

26:17 ↗ Robin and Julie for a really hopefully a

26:19 ↗ engaging conversation around uh draft

26:23 ↗ projects but also criteria for how we

26:25 ↗ want to evaluate those um and then

26:27 ↗ you'll see the discussion um tonight as

26:31 ↗ we as we sort of ran those through uh

26:34 ↗ the criteria for the first time we're

26:36 ↗ not bringing those as a

26:38 ↗ final document or a final recommendation

26:41 ↗ we really wanted to be something that

26:42 ↗ you feel like you can give feedback not

26:45 ↗ only on the criteria and the projects

26:47 ↗ but even just sort of that first look at

26:49 ↗ boy how does how did how does this how

26:51 ↗ does the near-term bucket the midterm

26:53 ↗ bucket the long-term bucket feel and

26:55 ↗ look and are there are there projects uh

26:57 ↗ you might want to consider U moving up

27:00 ↗ and down so really look forward to the

27:02 ↗ discussion tonight thank you all for all

27:04 ↗ your work these last couple of months I

27:06 ↗ really feel like we're headed towards a

27:08 ↗ a um a really compelling plan and vision

27:12 ↗ so with that Anna louu welcome so glad

27:15 ↗ you're

27:17 ↗ here thank you so much for having us

27:19 ↗ it's h your system is so such an amazing

27:22 ↗ one and your community so great that

27:24 ↗ it's really been our pleasure and the

27:25 ↗ work that we do all across the country

27:27 ↗ to be able to spend time uh with your

27:29 ↗ with the staff here as well as in

27:31 ↗ investigating all your Park Properties

27:34 ↗ your Recreation opportunities your open

27:37 ↗ spaces and what people are looking for

27:40 ↗ um so I'm GNA walk through a few of

27:42 ↗ these things actually do you mind going

27:43 ↗ back to the last slide for just a moment

27:45 ↗ I wanted to highlight um tonight we are

27:48 ↗ not going to do a deep dive into all the

27:50 ↗ analysis uh that we've done to for this

27:52 ↗ plan we're just going to highlight a few

27:54 ↗ things of the benchmarking and Equity

27:56 ↗ that are an update to the work we had

27:58 ↗ presented earlier so just wanted to

28:00 ↗ highlight that for you we're also not

28:02 ↗ going to go walk through some of the

28:03 ↗ things we've done before around the the

28:06 ↗ plan strategies and goals and um other

28:09 ↗ Vision objectives but we'll focus

28:11 ↗ primarily on a concept of creeks to

28:14 ↗ Peaks to communicate that larger View

28:17 ↗ for the park system that's that will

28:18 ↗ become part of that plan um and then at

28:21 ↗ the end we'll talk through how are we

28:23 ↗ prioritizing projects within um within

28:26 ↗ this plan moves forward for Capital

28:29 ↗ Improvements as as priorities and how

28:31 ↗ things are identified so that's what

28:33 ↗ we'll cover in this and I just want to

28:35 ↗ give that preface because we can't go

28:38 ↗ through it all you're going to be seeing

28:39 ↗ a lot of things in the draft plan and

28:40 ↗ you've seen quite a few things prior to

28:42 ↗ this that we've been sharing as updates

28:45 ↗ um we're just kind of filling you in on

28:47 ↗ on some last gaps in it before we move

28:49 ↗ into the draft

28:50 ↗ plan so with that um on the next slide

28:54 ↗ near to that um I want to give you a a

28:57 ↗ sense of what coming with the draft plan

29:00 ↗ so first up like most plans should have

29:03 ↗ an executive summary that's really

29:04 ↗ written for the public that may not have

29:07 ↗ as much time or um understand some of

29:10 ↗ the technical things that might be be

29:12 ↗ behinds the analysis but it excites them

29:14 ↗ with an executive summary that brings

29:17 ↗ all the pieces together and tells them

29:18 ↗ about the the entire contents of the

29:21 ↗ plan and in a very brief way next up

29:24 ↗ we'll talk about what's in the

29:25 ↗ introduction chapter two is uh the

29:28 ↗ evaluation and how we've uh analyzed

29:31 ↗ your system what the findings are from

29:33 ↗ public

29:34 ↗ engagement and then chapter three is

29:36 ↗ really the heart of the plan that's all

29:38 ↗ those recommendations of what should be

29:39 ↗ for the future it's where we're

29:41 ↗ describing the vision the strategies and

29:44 ↗ so on that really uh and help people

29:47 ↗ anticipate what to expect in the um in

29:50 ↗ in this planning

29:51 ↗ Horizon and then chapter four is about

29:54 ↗ implementation it's the how to and what

29:56 ↗ to focus on that your board will be

29:59 ↗ focused on as well as the staff as and

30:01 ↗ partnering with other uh others in the

30:04 ↗ city to make this a

30:07 ↗ reality okay go next so I'm going to

30:11 ↗ just give a little bit more detail about

30:13 ↗ what's in these chapters chapter one

30:15 ↗ these are some of the things that will

30:17 ↗ include to introduce people includes uh

30:19 ↗ describing your community and what it

30:21 ↗ contains and the history of how how your

30:24 ↗ Parks have evolved over

30:26 ↗ time definitely reference the many plans

30:29 ↗ and um studies that have been developed

30:32 ↗ previously that interact with this plan

30:35 ↗ building off of the good work that was

30:36 ↗ done before and then uh describing some

30:40 ↗ of the different opportunities and

30:41 ↗ challenges that the community faces when

30:44 ↗ it comes to Parks and

30:46 ↗ Recreation and chapter two uh describes

30:49 ↗ uh two different components the

30:51 ↗ Community Vision that comes from a whole

30:53 ↗ variety of ways that the public has been

30:55 ↗ engaged as well as stakeholders from

30:58 ↗ focus groups to surveys uh to the latest

31:00 ↗ round of Engagement with a public

31:02 ↗ meeting and Outreach um with online

31:04 ↗ mapping um all over the the last year of

31:08 ↗ efforts to engage community members

31:11 ↗ staff and City leadership as

31:13 ↗ well um so that will be a summary of the

31:15 ↗ methods that were used and the findings

31:17 ↗ of what we learned from that that tell

31:19 ↗ us about values and

31:21 ↗ interests the next part is a system

31:23 ↗ analysis and that is where um two

31:26 ↗ components we're going to be talking

31:27 ↗ about night the benchmarking and the

31:29 ↗ equity prioritization lives as well as

31:31 ↗ some other things that inform the

31:33 ↗ recommendations from this plan uh

31:36 ↗ Recreation Trends understanding what is

31:38 ↗ popular what are people doing most what

31:41 ↗ has changed over time um a walk shed

31:44 ↗ analysis I think we did a deep dive on

31:46 ↗ that in a previous meeting and looking

31:48 ↗ at the trails and parks and and

31:50 ↗ understanding access and where there are

31:52 ↗ gaps and uh conditions looking at uh the

31:57 ↗ how the properties are maintained what

31:59 ↗ they have within them U really looking

32:01 ↗ into that inventory of of what you have

32:04 ↗ and what its quality

32:06 ↗ is so that's this chapters one and two

32:09 ↗ let's go to the next slide and talk

32:10 ↗ about chapter three so this this is this

32:14 ↗ is the one I'm talking about that I know

32:16 ↗ you all want to spend some time reading

32:18 ↗ over the vision that's expressed the

32:20 ↗ concept Creeks to Peaks and the values

32:24 ↗ goals and

32:25 ↗ strategies those really will be that

32:28 ↗ Guide to the future of what you're

32:29 ↗ looking to achieve um with those goals

32:33 ↗ as well as some approaches you might

32:35 ↗ take now those will be a little bit more

32:37 ↗ flexible you'll have a variety of

32:39 ↗ options and suggestions of how to get to

32:41 ↗ those goals with those strategies but

32:43 ↗ they are built off of things we've heard

32:45 ↗ from the community as well as best

32:47 ↗ practices uh throughout the throughout

32:49 ↗ the country and and within systems like

32:52 ↗ yours and then chapter four The how will

32:55 ↗ we do this uh talks about the

32:57 ↗ prioritization for the capital

32:58 ↗ Improvement projects uh Partnerships

33:01 ↗ that are really essential to this

33:04 ↗ operations and funding strategies so

33:08 ↗ that is the outline of what you'll find

33:10 ↗ within that plan uh when you get the

33:12 ↗ draft to

33:15 ↗ review go to the next slide so I'm gonna

33:18 ↗ I mentioned I was going to do a little

33:20 ↗ bit of Deep dive into some of the

33:21 ↗ analysis that will be in chapter two uh

33:24 ↗ the both the benchmarking and the equity

33:26 ↗ analysis and wanted to share with you

33:28 ↗ this update of that this composite of

33:31 ↗ looking at um isqua compared to three

33:34 ↗ other comparable uh systems for Parks

33:38 ↗ and Recreation and these were

33:41 ↗ communities were selected you're

33:42 ↗ probably wondering how did we get to

33:43 ↗ these three out of all the ones that you

33:45 ↗ could possibly pick from uh number of

33:47 ↗ factors one uh similar population and

33:51 ↗ its density and

33:53 ↗ characteristics similar Geographic

33:55 ↗ characteristics like being bound by

33:57 ↗ Mountain and water

33:59 ↗ bodies and um as well as some of these

34:02 ↗ other things you can see here like the

34:03 ↗ land area and um the number they have

34:07 ↗ because you want to pick some benchmarks

34:08 ↗ where you can kind of compare and say

34:11 ↗ these are sort of competitors or places

34:13 ↗ that we aspire to be similar to you

34:15 ↗ don't want to pick just the bottom of

34:17 ↗ the barrel type of communities who are

34:18 ↗ barely getting by with their park system

34:21 ↗ so um these were selected for comparison

34:23 ↗ for those reasons and how esqua ranks

34:26 ↗ compared to that are St backs up is that

34:29 ↗ uh you can see number of parks for one

34:32 ↗ thing and then the acreage so um number

34:35 ↗ of parks in Open Spaces just above that

34:38 ↗ that box in the green you see you're

34:40 ↗ kind of right there in the middle of a

34:42 ↗ number of parks number of Open Spaces

34:46 ↗ but that open space is really

34:48 ↗ significant and so you get to this total

34:50 ↗ parks in open space acreage is is fairly

34:53 ↗ High compared to these other

34:55 ↗ communities a big component of that is

34:58 ↗ the open space you can see in the the

35:00 ↗ second green box below so that is

35:03 ↗ definitely contributing greatly to the

35:05 ↗ to to that acreage comparison point and

35:08 ↗ this is a pretty common way to compare

35:10 ↗ systems and see you know do you do you

35:12 ↗ have enough and do you have enough for

35:14 ↗ your

35:14 ↗ population so uh isqua certainly is up

35:17 ↗ there in in total land that can be used

35:19 ↗ for parks and open space as a and also

35:22 ↗ in as a percentage of your total land

35:24 ↗ area which that really does align with

35:27 ↗ your community values the survey results

35:29 ↗ from the community showed that people

35:31 ↗ didn't think you had too much parks in

35:33 ↗ open space they really appreciated the

35:36 ↗ natural values and many said that it was

35:39 ↗ the reason they they chose isqua and

35:41 ↗ what they most value about what what you

35:43 ↗ all provide is those outdoor spaces and

35:45 ↗ the connection to Nature that's possible

35:48 ↗ as well as the community Gathering

35:49 ↗ spaces and

35:50 ↗ health so we go to the next

35:53 ↗ slide um so we just wanted to also place

35:57 ↗ this Within in a national ranking from

36:00 ↗ National Parks and Recreation

36:01 ↗ benchmarking and so that this is looking

36:04 ↗ at communities that are between a

36:06 ↗ population of 20 to 50,000 people um and

36:11 ↗ and how those National um brackets fall

36:14 ↗ and so isqua as well as the other

36:16 ↗ communities we chose are in that upper

36:19 ↗ percentile of communities for for the

36:22 ↗ acreage per resident as well as the

36:25 ↗ number of residents per Park

36:28 ↗ so you can see where isqu Stacks with

36:30 ↗ that we also in the benchmarking

36:32 ↗ compared then the individual amenities

36:35 ↗ within the parks and there are some

36:37 ↗ things that you're lower than other

36:39 ↗ communities with like sports courts and

36:42 ↗ there are some things that you're doing

36:44 ↗ quite well with like single use athletic

36:46 ↗ fields so uh this helps us just also use

36:50 ↗ one more way of looking at uh how to in

36:54 ↗ addition to the Community Values from

36:56 ↗ the survey recre Trends we're looking at

36:59 ↗ um as well as understanding what's in

37:02 ↗ your system right now this is just one

37:03 ↗ other way to help evaluate what should

37:05 ↗ be

37:07 ↗ prioritized Anna can I ask a

37:11 ↗ question okay yeah Anna we've got a

37:13 ↗ question in the room okay sounds good

37:17 ↗ when we are talking about the Acres of

37:18 ↗ Parkland per resident are we including

37:21 ↗ the open space in

37:23 ↗ that good question yes that does includ

37:27 ↗ this slide I know we talked about like

37:29 ↗ how great we are when we add open space

37:31 ↗ but it looks like our Parks specifically

37:34 ↗ were a little bit below Benchmark yeah

37:36 ↗ we can go back to that

37:38 ↗ slide yeah let's go back to that slide

37:41 ↗ yes we picked up on that as well that

37:43 ↗ that is a big component of it is the

37:44 ↗ amount of natural lands you can see

37:46 ↗ these other communities also included

37:49 ↗ their open space and in that in these

37:52 ↗ totals and that also that National

37:54 ↗ Benchmark we understand that also

37:56 ↗ includes parks and open

37:58 ↗ space you can see it in that total

38:00 ↗ number of parks like that's them in the

38:02 ↗ middle that's what I'm looking at oh

38:04 ↗ you're right something we've certainly

38:06 ↗ talked about and yeah our ratio of

38:09 ↗ Community Park neighborhood park Spa you

38:11 ↗ know active park space to open space is

38:14 ↗ um it's pretty low as as a benchmark

38:17 ↗ yeah I just want to make sure we heard

38:19 ↗ that because I think yeah we do a great

38:20 ↗ job in open space but it can cover up

38:23 ↗ where the opportunity is

38:26 ↗ US good question if I could just ask all

38:30 ↗ of our this area and this count includes

38:33 ↗ Lakes M State

38:34 ↗ Park

38:36 ↗ no this is only a city owned this is

38:40 ↗ just the city's manag and owned

38:44 ↗ lands um so it does not include the

38:46 ↗ surrounding municipalities or those by

38:48 ↗ other organizations I mean certainly if

38:51 ↗ you look at um all of the great

38:53 ↗ especially natural areas that surround

38:55 ↗ this community you have an abundance

38:58 ↗ Yeah Anna correct me if I'm wrong the

38:59 ↗ only way place that's different is the

39:02 ↗ percentage of land used um as as park

39:07 ↗ space I believe that 27% reflects other

39:11 ↗ that reflects State Park as well as some

39:13 ↗ other County Park land in the city I

39:16 ↗ think to get to that 27% ratio we can I

39:19 ↗ can confirm that I think

39:23 ↗ that's that would include the state park

39:28 ↗ L's nodding her head yes she was

39:29 ↗ deepening numbers in

39:35 ↗ math okay good clarification and

39:40 ↗ Diving yeah just one last question do we

39:43 ↗ ever look at the money dimension of this

39:46 ↗ so what is the allocated budget for the

39:48 ↗ parks department for each one of these

39:50 ↗ so how is both operating budget and

39:53 ↗ capital budget I you know again the

39:55 ↗ benchmarking is going to go a little

39:57 ↗ deeper right

39:59 ↗ Anna yeah Lou you might speak to this of

40:01 ↗ what we got into for that it's it is

40:03 ↗ sometimes hard to get Apples to Apples

40:06 ↗ comparison for those facts um they all

40:08 ↗ operate a little bit differently and how

40:10 ↗ they budget and where their funds come

40:12 ↗ from that can make it a bit challenging

40:14 ↗ to compare some of these especially when

40:15 ↗ things come from you know some mix of

40:18 ↗ general fund and then other sources but

40:21 ↗ um I think we looked at some

40:23 ↗ numbers as best we could collect them

40:25 ↗ from these other communities

40:28 ↗ it's a great question David yeah I'm

40:29 ↗ just to go city

40:33 ↗ council yeah how do we compare in terms

40:35 ↗ of

40:37 ↗ investment investment rate

40:41 ↗ yeah very

40:43 ↗ good okay Yep this is intended to be a

40:45 ↗ bit of a summary for this this meeting

40:47 ↗ today there'll be more in the plan that

40:49 ↗ helps describe this as well as um kind

40:51 ↗ of calls out what's important to note

40:53 ↗ about this benchmarking it AB absolutely

40:56 ↗ shouldn't be the only thing that

40:57 ↗ indicates the recommendations the

40:59 ↗ direction you should go in but it is one

41:01 ↗ of those factors that can help inform

41:03 ↗ where are you at today and where do you

41:05 ↗ want to be in the future that keeps you

41:07 ↗ up with what other communities

41:10 ↗ offer okay I'm going to transition then

41:13 ↗ into talking about the equity mapping

41:15 ↗ we're not starting off with the mapping

41:17 ↗ I'm giving kind of the background of

41:18 ↗ what goes into this mapping um but the

41:21 ↗ purpose of this is to um increasingly

41:24 ↗ communities are wanting to Prior equity

41:28 ↗ and thinking about who are the parks and

41:31 ↗ recreation offerings serving most and

41:33 ↗ ensuring that it is um recognizing that

41:37 ↗ lower income minority populations uh

41:40 ↗ people experiencing

41:42 ↗ disabilities um and many other factors

41:44 ↗ are important in understanding where you

41:47 ↗ might want to look at how you've

41:49 ↗ distributed or created access for Parks

41:51 ↗ and Recreation and if there should be

41:53 ↗ some adjust adjustments for greater

41:55 ↗ equity in the community

41:58 ↗ so um you'll see in this table um an

42:01 ↗ this assessment was done uh looking at

42:03 ↗ the the different neighborhoods on the

42:05 ↗ lefthand column here and noting in the

42:08 ↗ the the larger brackets here the larger

42:12 ↗ uh not uh colored blocks those that have

42:16 ↗ a larger percentage of minority status

42:18 ↗ or so different social economic factors

42:21 ↗ so this brought in a a whole variety of

42:24 ↗ indicators that are from a number of

42:26 ↗ sources

42:27 ↗ that help us understand where uh the

42:30 ↗ different neighborhoods lie within these

42:32 ↗ these different

42:33 ↗ categories so everything from

42:35 ↗ environmental health you can see here

42:37 ↗ like air pollution indicators and um

42:40 ↗ transportation infrastructures

42:42 ↗ availability in those communities to um

42:45 ↗ looking at uh pre-existing chronic

42:48 ↗ disease burden of the populations that

42:51 ↗ are within that area and then there's a

42:53 ↗ composite score on the very right and so

42:56 ↗ we see with the that Central isqua has U

43:00 ↗ more of these uh variables than others

43:04 ↗ and so that's why it has that larger bar

43:06 ↗ next to it and on the next map you'll

43:08 ↗ kind of see how this lays out but wanted

43:10 ↗ to share this with you of all the

43:12 ↗ factors that go into creating this

43:13 ↗ composite map and we do this work

43:15 ↗ throughout the country and um the the

43:18 ↗ the communities that are really

43:21 ↗ innovating and how they prioritize are

43:23 ↗ working this in as one more factor that

43:25 ↗ helps them identify where to address and

43:28 ↗ direct Investments and um actions within

43:32 ↗ their

43:34 ↗ community so on our next slide then you

43:37 ↗ can see some of this laid out of the um

43:41 ↗ map in the background is representing

43:43 ↗ those colors here of what are the

43:46 ↗ highest Equity priority areas like

43:48 ↗ Central isqua and then um the orange and

43:52 ↗ yellow are different levels of of equity

43:55 ↗ priority so we overlay this on top of

43:57 ↗ that to get a better sense how does that

43:59 ↗ relate to the population

44:01 ↗ density tree

44:04 ↗ canopy the walk shed analysis we had

44:06 ↗ completed earlier to understand gaps um

44:09 ↗ and looking at both parks and

44:11 ↗ trails so this is these overlays just

44:14 ↗ help us understand as well of how are

44:16 ↗ those factors uh playing a role in in

44:19 ↗ considering um are the right priority

44:21 ↗ areas identified and are there some

44:23 ↗ needs within those those areas

44:27 ↗ so again one more tool that as we talk

44:29 ↗ about chapter 4 and the prioritization

44:32 ↗ this aspect of evaluating um the

44:35 ↗ different neighborhoods of of isqua are

44:38 ↗ laid out

44:41 ↗ here okay so we thought we just pause

44:44 ↗ there and see if there's any questions

44:46 ↗ or discussion around those items before

44:49 ↗ we move into talking about creeks to

44:55 ↗ Peaks now we have have some questions

44:57 ↗ about benchmarking but any questions

44:59 ↗ about sort of the equity mapping or

45:01 ↗ analysis or any of the sort of chapter

45:04 ↗ outline um items that are going into

45:09 ↗ those I've got a not so much a question

45:12 ↗ but a follow on comment um Anna maybe

45:15 ↗ you can pick up on this too you know

45:17 ↗ it's not a coincidence that Central

45:18 ↗ isqua sort of has that Equity map piece

45:21 ↗ because that's where our the least

45:22 ↗ number of residents live that's mostly

45:26 ↗ right now where the

45:27 ↗ retail um office space is right not

45:32 ↗ coincidentally the central Isa plan sort

45:35 ↗ of been the vision that's where density

45:37 ↗ is sort of intended to go that's where

45:39 ↗ we may in the next 20 years be seeing

45:41 ↗ the most residential grow growth as as

45:44 ↗ as multiuse comes in and I think this

45:47 ↗ map really helps to confirm that hey we

45:49 ↗ should be really wise and smart that as

45:51 ↗ that converts to residential we need to

45:53 ↗ be thinking of public spaces

45:56 ↗ connectivity

45:57 ↗ Trails um how we unify that area that

46:01 ↗ really hasn't had residential U but as

46:04 ↗ residential comes how do we unify that

46:05 ↗ area to the rest of the rest of

46:09 ↗ town yeah I think that's where it was

46:11 ↗ useful to Overlay things like tree

46:13 ↗ canopy and see it is fairly SP sparse in

46:16 ↗ that area compared to others like the

46:18 ↗ others that are not developed in the

46:20 ↗ same way and so thinking about where are

46:22 ↗ those places that people can easily get

46:24 ↗ to a place close to home especially with

46:28 ↗ new homes coming in that you're

46:29 ↗ thoughtful about that Redevelopment of

46:31 ↗ Central isqua and what that means for

46:34 ↗ those outdoor

46:37 ↗ spaces um but I would just also

46:39 ↗ highlight those that were had other

46:43 ↗ characteristics that made us think that

46:45 ↗ they should be the next level down of

46:47 ↗ prioritization are also really important

46:49 ↗ to this and we you can see those number

46:52 ↗ factors that contribute to them also to

46:54 ↗ be um important to be looking at through

46:56 ↗ that this

47:01 ↗ lens great thanks for keying that

47:04 ↗ up thank

47:08 ↗ you

47:11 ↗ okay well I think then we can move into

47:13 ↗ describing this exciting concept that is

47:16 ↗ encompassing for the entire plan it's

47:19 ↗ described as Creeks to Peaks and luu's

47:22 ↗ been working through all the graphics

47:23 ↗ and maps and doing a deep dive to help

47:26 ↗ story tell with communicating through

47:28 ↗ visuals so I'm going to have turn it

47:30 ↗ over to her to walk through this part

47:32 ↗ this this exciting

47:35 ↗ concept thank you Anna it's very nice to

47:38 ↗ meet all of you virtually um so for this

47:42 ↗ concept in the 2018 um

47:45 ↗ parksan um green necklace uh only

47:48 ↗ focuses on Central isal and during our

47:52 ↗ preliminary assessment period what we

47:54 ↗ get as a feedback from the trails and

47:56 ↗ open space focus group are that the

47:59 ↗ concept should not be just limit to

48:01 ↗ Central rqua it should be Citywide and

48:04 ↗ connecting to surrounding public lens as

48:07 ↗ well so they're also kind of looking for

48:09 ↗ more clarity of this concept and it's

48:13 ↗ less about the specific Trail alignment

48:15 ↗ at the moment it's more about finding

48:17 ↗ the experiences and elements that would

48:20 ↗ uh make this concept a reality so

48:23 ↗ building on top of that we come up with

48:25 ↗ an upgrade of this con ring necklace

48:28 ↗ concept is named Quicks to Peaks so ex

48:31 ↗ expand the concept to a city wide scale

48:34 ↗ and trying to emphasize pedestrian

48:36 ↗ experience walkability connectivity and

48:39 ↗ the quality of life of people that's

48:41 ↗ living there and uh I think that it's

48:45 ↗ also about building a healthy resilience

48:48 ↗ system and fostering um so fostering so

48:52 ↗ social connections from all of this so

48:55 ↗ it represents like kind an

48:57 ↗ energized network of perks and trails

49:00 ↗ connecting from the valley four to the

49:02 ↗ surrounding Forest Hills and hence the

49:04 ↗ name Creeks to Peaks and it's more about

49:07 ↗ creating the pathways for Community to

49:09 ↗ connect recreate reflect and Traverse

49:12 ↗ this um amazing landscape so the key

49:15 ↗ components that make up um this is kind

49:18 ↗ of the natural fabric perk system and

49:22 ↗ the community I think that's what makes

49:24 ↗ is a different and these components will

49:27 ↗ be further broken down in the following

49:32 ↗ slides and if you can go to the next

49:34 ↗ slide so the first one is about natural

49:37 ↗ connections and it is maap here

49:39 ↗ highlighting the tree canopy the creeks

49:42 ↗ and the py species and it sets up the

49:45 ↗ context for a sad Park system landscape

49:47 ↗ and how key Wildlife species also

49:50 ↗ depends on these connections as their

49:53 ↗ natural habitat from Creeks to Peaks and

49:56 ↗ it's also natural environment that

49:58 ↗ people living here really cherish um STS

50:01 ↗ and really enjoys and the next part it's

50:05 ↗ about um the human

50:07 ↗ connections and if you can go to the

50:09 ↗ next slide and that includes social

50:12 ↗ spaces active Recreation spaces so isao

50:15 ↗ already have great Parks public art um

50:18 ↗ Gathering spaces that you all enjoy and

50:21 ↗ supporting activities like Community

50:23 ↗ concert farmers market that have already

50:26 ↗ been really successful as well but those

50:28 ↗ could use could use some more

50:30 ↗ enhancement and optimization as well as

50:34 ↗ some active fields and courts in the

50:36 ↗ community Parks could also use that so

50:39 ↗ in addition to the existing ones there

50:41 ↗ could be more potential for the city to

50:44 ↗ partner with um Partners like Elementary

50:47 ↗ School um to use their fields and cours

50:49 ↗ during the time and that uh is what's

50:52 ↗ been shown on the map as

50:54 ↗ well so What's um connecting all the

50:58 ↗ social spaces and park in the park

51:01 ↗ system are the trails and those are the

51:04 ↗ connectors that gets the social and

51:07 ↗ active Recreation spaces get people to

51:10 ↗ those social and active Recreation space

51:12 ↗ spaces as well as uh about improving

51:16 ↗ connections through the trails so this

51:18 ↗ concept is about improving connections

51:22 ↗ and then so to break this down into a

51:25 ↗ hierarchy that give this more more

51:26 ↗ clarity it's about focusing on the

51:29 ↗ regional trails that gets you to the

51:31 ↗ mountains while the local connections

51:33 ↗ gets you to different areas of the par

51:36 ↗ spaces so in the online mapping exercise

51:39 ↗ We Gather feedback on the connections as

51:41 ↗ well as other improvements that are

51:43 ↗ needed uh in the social spaces and the

51:46 ↗ natural spaces so that help us

51:48 ↗ understand if there's any Community

51:50 ↗ Support or for certain things or if

51:53 ↗ anything is missing um from this concept

51:56 ↗ to illustrate this concept further more

51:59 ↗ we will be showing um three snapshots

52:01 ↗ for the future of the system at The

52:03 ↗ Creeks area hillsides and the Peaks and

52:07 ↗ those would remain fairly conceptuals

52:09 ↗ and mainly used as a visual

52:10 ↗ representation of what would happened

52:13 ↗ but we are also outlining concrete steps

52:16 ↗ in strategies and capital Improvement

52:18 ↗ programs for implementation of this

52:20 ↗ concept so in the second part of this

52:22 ↗ presentation um Robin will talk about um

52:24 ↗ the cibs um the criter that goes into

52:27 ↗ that and the prior prioritization of

52:29 ↗ those things so that kind concludes the

52:36 ↗ concept yeah I'll L you thank you so

52:39 ↗ much for that that overview um I'm going

52:43 ↗ to tee up this this slide and really

52:45 ↗ open it up for for discussion and and as

52:48 ↗ theu um highlighted this has been a a I

52:52 ↗ think a conversation and a really fun

52:54 ↗ collaboration with the design Workshop

52:55 ↗ team to

52:57 ↗ again understand green necklace has has

52:59 ↗ been a um it's been something that's

53:02 ↗ been thought of here in isqua um it it

53:06 ↗ um did sort of end up getting

53:08 ↗ constrained in just Central isqua and so

53:10 ↗ much of the community feedback was

53:12 ↗ really saying hey we want we want a we

53:14 ↗ want a vision or a brand that speaks to

53:16 ↗ the broad the entirety of the park

53:18 ↗ system and so um that's really what

53:21 ↗ we're sort of conceptualizing with this

53:24 ↗ um and proposing uh to all of you what

53:26 ↗ this slide represents is

53:29 ↗ two um drafts of a vision statement and

53:32 ↗ and would love to read these to you um

53:34 ↗ open it up to to all of you to just give

53:37 ↗ your thoughts and initial feedback on on

53:39 ↗ Creeks to Peaks as as really a way to

53:41 ↗ Brand the the the system but then also

53:44 ↗ if you feel like one of these two sort

53:46 ↗ of resonates over the other um but would

53:48 ↗ love love sort of your feedback but um

53:52 ↗ again the the the pillar of this plan is

53:55 ↗ to really present um um isqua Creeks to

53:59 ↗ Peaks Park system um draft concept

54:03 ↗ statement number one is um this is a

54:06 ↗ diverse system of parks trails and Open

54:08 ↗ Spaces that unifies the isqua community

54:11 ↗ from The Creeks along the valley floor

54:13 ↗ through wooded hillsides to the peaks of

54:15 ↗ the isqua Alps so really think of it at

54:18 ↗ Creeks Creeks is meant to reflect the

54:20 ↗ valley floor Peaks is really meant to

54:23 ↗ reflect the hillsides that surround us

54:25 ↗ that are so important important um

54:27 ↗ concept two similar but but with a few

54:30 ↗ little riffs um a a diverse Park system

54:33 ↗ a Parks trails and Open Spaces winding

54:35 ↗ along our valley floor from our Creeks

54:38 ↗ through wooded hillsides and

54:39 ↗ neighborhoods all the way to the peaks

54:41 ↗ of the isqua Alps fostering connections

54:43 ↗ between people and the places they

54:47 ↗ cherish so with that just in general

54:50 ↗ what what what's your take on on Creeks

54:52 ↗ to Peaks as a replacement of green

54:55 ↗ necklace um and something we can build

54:57 ↗ our system around and any thoughts on on

54:59 ↗ these statements or

55:06 ↗ comments yeah you

55:08 ↗ know D in a little bit um just a couple

55:12 ↗ things just for answering that question

55:16 ↗ on the um this is very

55:19 ↗ uh maybe left or right brain on your

55:22 ↗ Equity mapping slide you have North

55:25 ↗ going up and the rest of your slide you

55:26 ↗ have North going bottom left and just

55:29 ↗ from a purly looking at one slide to the

55:31 ↗ next trying to understand where we're

55:33 ↗ going here was a little confusing just

55:36 ↗ maybe next time but I I think I've been

55:39 ↗ like we talked about the beginning is

55:41 ↗ I'm a little over year here um and so

55:44 ↗ when I kind of sat in on the the first

55:46 ↗ 12 months of meetings and heard the

55:48 ↗ concept of the green necklace um I had a

55:51 ↗ lot of like not sure I understand

55:53 ↗ exactly what we're talking about um I

55:56 ↗ can visualize what that means just from

55:58 ↗ a logical standpoint um when you say

56:01 ↗ Creeks to Peaks to me that's like very

56:04 ↗ straightforward to me of what we're

56:05 ↗ trying to accomplish here's like we have

56:08 ↗ the Creeks we have the Peaks we're

56:10 ↗ trying to connect it make it open to

56:12 ↗ everybody so just from like even

56:15 ↗ just you know if that's the direction of

56:18 ↗ moving away from Green Nexus to Creeks

56:20 ↗ to it it's very logical it feel isqua it

56:25 ↗ feels more isqua green necklace could be

56:28 ↗ anywhere I think so I mean I'm not sure

56:30 ↗ I'd go like it feels more isquat per se

56:33 ↗ other than it feels like I understand

56:35 ↗ what we're trying to

56:36 ↗ do so that's

56:39 ↗ feedback very helpful do you guys play

56:42 ↗ around with creeks to Peaks or Peaks to

56:45 ↗ Creeks

56:47 ↗ did you want to hear yeah I kind want to

56:50 ↗ hear how we landed we did we went back

56:52 ↗ and forth but we did a little bit of a

56:54 ↗ Google search just to double check and

56:55 ↗ make sure anyone else wasn't using it

56:58 ↗ but uh Peaks to Creeks was used um by a

57:02 ↗ couple other Trail systems and um some

57:06 ↗ ski resorts

57:08 ↗ so at the peek and then the water rolls

57:12 ↗ down so hydrologically yes we Al we we

57:16 ↗ thought we also thought yeah our system

57:20 ↗ and how our system serves people and and

57:23 ↗ and animals and everything and we've

57:25 ↗ talked about this right our system

57:28 ↗ starts in the city and and projects out

57:31 ↗ past our borders and so Creeks to Peak

57:33 ↗ felt like that was you know Valley to

57:36 ↗ inside the city to outside so that was

57:38 ↗ the I was just curious I no no it's a

57:41 ↗ great question we did we wrestled we did

57:44 ↗ we went back and forth and

57:47 ↗ yeah one of those

57:49 ↗ AA simple question so who is who's this

57:53 ↗ uh concept statement for who's the

57:56 ↗ audience is it the is it the city of

57:58 ↗ missa or is it just city council or

58:02 ↗ great question I think it's I think it's

58:04 ↗ all the above I mean I think it's I

58:06 ↗ think it's it's meant to be the park

58:10 ↗ systems brand right so it's so it's how

58:13 ↗ do we reflect to the community how do we

58:17 ↗ you know is this something that feels

58:18 ↗ like it resonates enough with the

58:19 ↗ community that we even go so far as

58:23 ↗ create a you know iconography and a sort

58:26 ↗ of our our this is our brand when you

58:28 ↗ are a trail system you know when you see

58:30 ↗ that stamp you're part of the Greeks to

58:32 ↗ Peak system so it could go as as big as

58:36 ↗ we as big as we want it to

58:39 ↗ be yeah so my thought was to the initial

58:43 ↗ point of these two statements I would

58:44 ↗ say to me especially as an outsider the

58:47 ↗ second one appeals more to me now

58:48 ↗ personally it's because a big thing for

58:50 ↗ me is about Community engagement and

58:52 ↗ connection and that sort of stuff like

58:53 ↗ that so specifically your last kind of

58:55 ↗ the last part that sentence of the the

58:58 ↗ fostering connections and the places

58:59 ↗ they cherish is what draws me in and it

59:02 ↗ gives me the reason why the what the

59:04 ↗ purpose of all this is more clearly than

59:06 ↗ I think the first one does well it does

59:08 ↗ say that in like the uniting people I

59:09 ↗ think the second part by specifying that

59:12 ↗ part is

59:13 ↗ what gives it a real reason why and the

59:16 ↗ real point of it um similarly I think

59:20 ↗ the C Creeks the discussion I I agree

59:22 ↗ with it being Creeks first again because

59:24 ↗ I think said it's who's yeah the

59:27 ↗ community bringing you out and

59:28 ↗ connecting you together and like it

59:30 ↗ starts here in the town I think that

59:32 ↗ that's how I read it as well when I saw

59:35 ↗ it that in that order so really hopeful

59:38 ↗ for me that's the second more

59:41 ↗ appealing I agree and as a former

59:45 ↗ language arts

59:46 ↗ teacher the top one starts out saying a

59:50 ↗ diverse system of parks trails and open

59:52 ↗ spaces and the second one says a diverse

59:55 ↗ Park system parts that drives me crazy

59:58 ↗ so if we could have that like top

1:00:00 ↗ sentence that first

1:00:03 ↗ part the bottom part is actually

1:00:05 ↗ speaking to the people as well not just

1:00:08 ↗ the what it is becomes more personal

1:00:11 ↗ yeah yeah hopeful but you're right we we

1:00:13 ↗ can strike the first

1:00:17 ↗ part thank you I think whichever one you

1:00:20 ↗ go with I like that neighborhoods isn't

1:00:23 ↗ that second one um so if you do need to

1:00:26 ↗ go with like a less romantic right where

1:00:29 ↗ you end up on on one like I still think

1:00:32 ↗ there are pieces of the second one you'd

1:00:33 ↗ want to include right so I like the

1:00:35 ↗ second one too it is a little long in my

1:00:37 ↗ opinion yeah um so I think we could word

1:00:39 ↗ Smith it a little bit shorter but um I

1:00:43 ↗ do like the idea of community and I

1:00:44 ↗ really think neighborhoods should be in

1:00:45 ↗ there because sometimes we forget about

1:00:46 ↗ our neighborhood parks and you know it's

1:00:50 ↗ a system that serves

1:00:52 ↗ people yeah I really heard that loud and

1:00:55 ↗ cl thank you that's

1:00:57 ↗ great yeah I I think

1:01:00 ↗ um some people may not even be familiar

1:01:03 ↗ but the green necklace concept really

1:01:05 ↗ was built around isqua Creek through the

1:01:09 ↗ center of town and so it was one strand

1:01:13 ↗ you know one curve curved alignment um I

1:01:18 ↗ think

1:01:19 ↗ this captures the whole

1:01:22 ↗ city so I for that reason I like it I

1:01:25 ↗ think you go with either of these two um

1:01:28 ↗ the second one is is a little fun and

1:01:31 ↗ romantic I

1:01:33 ↗ guess it's warmer um you know either

1:01:38 ↗ either one I think gives the city the

1:01:41 ↗ flexibility to you know work within this

1:01:43 ↗ and grab a lot of different projects and

1:01:47 ↗ efforts that is the vision statement

1:01:51 ↗ it's helpful yeah we've actually um this

1:01:54 ↗ is we've been noodling on we've had a

1:01:56 ↗ chance to talk to several Community

1:01:58 ↗ Voices um shared this with uh the mayor

1:02:02 ↗ and other just to say hey what do you

1:02:03 ↗ think how's it feel a lot

1:02:06 ↗ of was entirely positive feedback um

1:02:10 ↗ interestingly enough one of our

1:02:12 ↗ conversations I hope I don't think Ken

1:02:14 ↗ will mind Ken codings Mark if you're

1:02:15 ↗ familiar with that name actually served

1:02:18 ↗ on the original Central Isa task force

1:02:22 ↗ so when the centralis plan was sort of

1:02:24 ↗ starting um that group is that group of

1:02:28 ↗ residents sort of came up with this the

1:02:30 ↗ idea of the green necklace and Ken

1:02:33 ↗ really appreciated this because he felt

1:02:35 ↗ like the the in the initial intent of

1:02:38 ↗ the green necklace was to be systemwide

1:02:41 ↗ as it morphed into the central plan it

1:02:44 ↗ almost took this it almost created a

1:02:46 ↗ more restrictive definition that that he

1:02:49 ↗ really felt like something like this

1:02:51 ↗ gets back to the

1:02:52 ↗ origin if you will of dealing more

1:02:55 ↗ system so that felt very encouraging

1:02:57 ↗ that um and very supportive in terms of

1:03:00 ↗ okay if this feels like we're not we're

1:03:01 ↗ not saying goodbye to the green necklace

1:03:03 ↗ we're almost going back to the to the

1:03:05 ↗ original

1:03:06 ↗ intent

1:03:08 ↗ so it's all really

1:03:10 ↗ helpful can I ask one more question

1:03:13 ↗ because the mk's upside down I'm

1:03:16 ↗ all where's that potential new park it's

1:03:21 ↗ on the like three slides earlier oh I

1:03:24 ↗ believe that's the W Highlands Park

1:03:29 ↗ um yeah yeah so um Isco Highlands um

1:03:33 ↗ you'll sort of hear this a little bit in

1:03:34 ↗ the project description but you know if

1:03:36 ↗ you're if you're familiar with is

1:03:38 ↗ Highlands yeah west of Highlands Drive

1:03:40 ↗ that was all planned as office that CH

1:03:44 ↗ that plan has changed in the last 12

1:03:45 ↗ years is a lot more residential on that

1:03:47 ↗ side there were never Parks planned on

1:03:49 ↗ that side and so we are proposing a new

1:03:52 ↗ neighborhood park on the west side of

1:03:54 ↗ Highlands Drive we've actually

1:03:56 ↗ identified a parcel that could be a and

1:03:58 ↗ city owns it fantastic neighborhood park

1:04:01 ↗ and a great potential for a trail

1:04:03 ↗ connection down to the ISA Preston Trail

1:04:05 ↗ so again not only a a DOT if you will as

1:04:08 ↗ a neighborhood park but also a a really

1:04:12 ↗ good connector from the highlands down

1:04:14 ↗ to the valley so know it remain a

1:04:17 ↗ predominantly wooded neighborhood

1:04:20 ↗ park some diversity

1:04:23 ↗ system I really like

1:04:26 ↗ P I just think it's it's very succinct

1:04:29 ↗ and I don't know it just the whole green

1:04:32 ↗ necklace I didn't I just didn't get that

1:04:34 ↗ as much you know but I just think

1:04:36 ↗ there's a lot in a name too I don't know

1:04:37 ↗ I I I like it really really helpful

1:04:40 ↗ thank you um Anna luu again thanks for

1:04:43 ↗ presenting it I I think again as you see

1:04:46 ↗ you know you'll see the draft document

1:04:48 ↗ this really becomes a a pillar at least

1:04:51 ↗ of how we're going to describe the

1:04:53 ↗ vision as we get into specific projects

1:04:56 ↗ so thank you very very much speaking of

1:04:59 ↗ specific projects so yeah Anna please

1:05:02 ↗ yeah oh I was just going to say to that

1:05:05 ↗ comment about liking the name I'm kind

1:05:08 ↗ of reflecting on how it's very

1:05:09 ↗ distinctly yours you know it really does

1:05:12 ↗ reflect your place and it you it does

1:05:16 ↗ kind of unite it kind of says we're all

1:05:17 ↗ within this together that whole range

1:05:20 ↗ and so that was the kind that inent of

1:05:22 ↗ this this you have a spectrum and the

1:05:26 ↗ really the three dimensions that this

1:05:28 ↗ this mapping provides us to be able to

1:05:30 ↗ communicate of how um the topography

1:05:33 ↗ shapes things is so important in

1:05:36 ↗ communicating given the Community Values

1:05:38 ↗ and I'm excited for us communicating

1:05:40 ↗ what we heard from survey results what

1:05:42 ↗ we heard from Deep dive conversations

1:05:44 ↗ with focus groups really that reflection

1:05:47 ↗ of people's values and what they hold

1:05:49 ↗ dear in in what they hope the system

1:05:51 ↗ would be and what they love about it now

1:05:54 ↗ um and that's what I think this name

1:05:56 ↗ gives us a chance to really align with

1:06:00 ↗ what is Uniquely Yours and the um

1:06:02 ↗ abundance that you have that people so

1:06:04 ↗ want to preserve and

1:06:07 ↗ enhance well

1:06:11 ↗ said Thank you thank you Robin

1:06:16 ↗ Julie all right next steps uh so what

1:06:21 ↗ yeah one question are you zoomed in on

1:06:23 ↗ your slides

1:06:27 ↗ as far as I know I

1:06:31 ↗ am

1:06:44 ↗ yeah I'm not familiar with if you

1:06:48 ↗ unshare and then share it

1:06:51 ↗ again sorry thanks everyone running on

1:06:54 ↗ is a little bit of a difference system

1:06:56 ↗ than we normally

1:06:58 ↗ do yes we came early tonight to see the

1:07:01 ↗ ID Department we had the the big

1:07:06 ↗ TV very quick

1:07:10 ↗ sh so hats off to Our IT team Tim schaer

1:07:14 ↗ shout out thank you

1:07:17 ↗ Tim so one of the main components or a

1:07:19 ↗ larger component of the plan um is what

1:07:22 ↗ we've been working on the past two

1:07:24 ↗ months and that's to

1:07:26 ↗ to develop a capital Improvement program

1:07:29 ↗ which Julie's going to explain about the

1:07:31 ↗ our near Mid and long-term projects but

1:07:33 ↗ in order to get there we had to develop

1:07:36 ↗ some criteria that we could weigh the

1:07:38 ↗ projects against one another so what we

1:07:40 ↗ looked at were our focus group feedback

1:07:42 ↗ from our survey the 2018 Park plan

1:07:46 ↗ strategic projects and I believe there

1:07:47 ↗ were about 40 40 Projects that a little

1:07:50 ↗ more than that um our current six-year

1:07:53 ↗ CIP list uh again the community survey

1:07:56 ↗ feedback and our interactive map

1:07:59 ↗ feedback um and throughout that we

1:08:03 ↗ developed our list of

1:08:06 ↗ C's

1:08:09 ↗ now there we go so through through that

1:08:13 ↗ process we developed um a prioritization

1:08:17 ↗ method uh that we could work through and

1:08:19 ↗ take every single project through this

1:08:22 ↗ list of criteria uh we wanted to make

1:08:24 ↗ sure that we were still resonating back

1:08:26 ↗ in with um our previous work that we've

1:08:29 ↗ done on the plan uh if you remember I

1:08:32 ↗ think it was back in October we were

1:08:33 ↗ looking at goals and policies which we

1:08:36 ↗ have eight of those so and for the new

1:08:39 ↗ members um our main goals were parks for

1:08:41 ↗ today and future Generations a balance

1:08:44 ↗ Park system we're looking at

1:08:46 ↗ connectivity again Creeks to Peaks a lot

1:08:48 ↗ of that was a connectivity piece uh

1:08:50 ↗ planning and design considerations as

1:08:52 ↗ we're looking at projects and going

1:08:54 ↗ through the per and planning process

1:08:57 ↗ Environmental Protection was a large

1:08:59 ↗ component that came out of the

1:09:01 ↗ survey um maintenance and stewardship

1:09:05 ↗ Partnerships and

1:09:07 ↗ implementation and again checking back

1:09:09 ↗ in we just developed our draft core

1:09:11 ↗ values of vibrancy balance connectivity

1:09:15 ↗ and resiliency and I just want to add in

1:09:18 ↗ that arts and culture is definitely a

1:09:20 ↗ part of vibrancy along with placemaking

1:09:23 ↗ um social interactions and amenities uh

1:09:27 ↗ balance is making sure we have a balance

1:09:28 ↗ between our Park system our Trails our

1:09:31 ↗ amenities um and the open space uh

1:09:35 ↗ connectivity obviously making sure our

1:09:37 ↗ trails are connected to our Parks our

1:09:39 ↗ parks are connected to our neighborhoods

1:09:42 ↗ and we're connected to each other and

1:09:44 ↗ then resiliency uh really is our

1:09:46 ↗ stewardship piece of it our

1:09:48 ↗ environmental piece to make sure we have

1:09:50 ↗ conservation protection and preservation

1:09:54 ↗ integrated in with the plan

1:09:56 ↗ now we started thinking a lot about as

1:09:58 ↗ we run through the process of developing

1:10:02 ↗ a park or a trail there's um a lot of

1:10:06 ↗ capabilities and feasibilities

1:10:09 ↗ and um I want to say during the process

1:10:12 ↗ that we have to think of and I know just

1:10:15 ↗ being on both sides of Permitting and

1:10:17 ↗ designing uh some projects are more

1:10:20 ↗ complicated than other projects um some

1:10:23 ↗ appear easy just looking at it it but

1:10:25 ↗ when you dig into the details and

1:10:27 ↗ knowing that we're we're really land

1:10:29 ↗ constrained we have a lot of creeks we

1:10:31 ↗ have a lot of buffers we're trying again

1:10:33 ↗ to balance those that some simple

1:10:35 ↗ projects just become a little more

1:10:36 ↗ complicated because of that so we really

1:10:39 ↗ factored wanted to factor that into the

1:10:41 ↗ criteria

1:10:44 ↗ also so we came up with eight draft

1:10:47 ↗ criteria that we took every project

1:10:49 ↗ through um the main topics were

1:10:52 ↗ Improvement in performance of Park

1:10:54 ↗ system

1:10:55 ↗ where does a project really provide a

1:10:57 ↗ varied or needed amenity that

1:10:59 ↗ diversifies Recreation elements within

1:11:01 ↗ the system and provide a closure in the

1:11:04 ↗ Gap area again and alluded to the um or

1:11:07 ↗ talked about more about the equity

1:11:09 ↗ mapping and looking at our gaps there uh

1:11:12 ↗ our gaps in connectivity our gaps in the

1:11:15 ↗ Parks so that's factored in um and how

1:11:19 ↗ to maximize the park potential for

1:11:20 ↗ multiuse you know as Jeff keeps saying

1:11:23 ↗ and as we keep realizing we're very very

1:11:25 ↗ land constraint especially on the valley

1:11:27 ↗ floor so we have to make sure that

1:11:29 ↗ whatever we do uh really offers as many

1:11:33 ↗ and maximize as many unities as we can

1:11:35 ↗ one space we have a diversity in equity

1:11:39 ↗ does a project increase equity and

1:11:41 ↗ access relative to the equity in theater

1:11:43 ↗ map that Anna showed um and enhance

1:11:46 ↗ enhance disadvantage areas of the

1:11:48 ↗ community so we want to make sure that

1:11:50 ↗ within that balance uh we're balancing

1:11:52 ↗ the location of the parks and the ameni

1:11:55 ↗ need to make sure everybody has equal

1:11:57 ↗ access to that uh balance of vibrancy

1:12:01 ↗ and connectivity again going back to our

1:12:04 ↗ draft core values uh health and safety

1:12:07 ↗ urgency or

1:12:08 ↗ immediacy uh that really deals with does

1:12:11 ↗ IT project really require uh immediate

1:12:14 ↗ improvements you know was there a

1:12:17 ↗ landslide near the park or uh is there a

1:12:20 ↗ safety issue that we have to address

1:12:22 ↗ right away is there something going on

1:12:23 ↗ interde departmental that have to

1:12:25 ↗ address with uh save Public

1:12:28 ↗ Works uh implementation feasibility was

1:12:32 ↗ a project identified in the 2018 plan

1:12:34 ↗ and can be easily permitted attained or

1:12:37 ↗ accomplished I know Easy's kind of in

1:12:39 ↗ quotes lately but um how feasible is the

1:12:42 ↗ project from a funding from an imp

1:12:45 ↗ implementation side um and can we really

1:12:48 ↗ accomplish it you know we have some big

1:12:50 ↗ Visions but you need big Visions you

1:12:52 ↗ know in order to make a system as great

1:12:55 ↗ is the one we have or even better uh

1:12:58 ↗ operational maintenance and Longevity is

1:13:01 ↗ the cost benefit of the project in

1:13:02 ↗ alignment with funding and operational

1:13:05 ↗ capabilities uh that's one of my

1:13:07 ↗ personal pet peeves is if we design

1:13:10 ↗ something that we can't maintain is that

1:13:12 ↗ Park successful we want to make sure

1:13:14 ↗ that it's successful on every level but

1:13:16 ↗ especially for our maintenance staff as

1:13:19 ↗ well um and can it be effectively

1:13:22 ↗ maintained of course uh big one

1:13:25 ↗ resiliency conservation preservation and

1:13:28 ↗ sustainability again going back to the

1:13:30 ↗ survey and back to the feedback from the

1:13:32 ↗ public in the the community they really

1:13:34 ↗ want to maintain our Open Spaces

1:13:36 ↗ increase it if possible and make sure

1:13:39 ↗ that we're stewards of the amazing land

1:13:43 ↗ that we have right now and we definitely

1:13:45 ↗ want to do the same and want to be able

1:13:47 ↗ to integrate best practices in with any

1:13:51 ↗ new

1:13:52 ↗ design um Partnerships and collaboration

1:13:56 ↗ uh does a project Foster local regional

1:13:58 ↗ state or indigenous tribe Partnerships

1:14:00 ↗ and provide mutual benefits again we've

1:14:03 ↗ been discussing um with iqu school

1:14:06 ↗ district um Partnerships um private

1:14:09 ↗ Public

1:14:10 ↗ Partnerships collaboration with uh lak

1:14:13 ↗ Sam and the state so we're definitely

1:14:16 ↗ trying to identify more Partnerships are

1:14:18 ↗ feasible and we think it's just going to

1:14:20 ↗ benefit the community as a

1:14:24 ↗ whole so with that I am actually going

1:14:26 ↗ to turn

1:14:29 ↗ our oh we have discussion um did anyone

1:14:33 ↗ want to add anything in or feel anything

1:14:35 ↗ is critical when we're looking at

1:14:37 ↗ prioritizing projects and developing

1:14:39 ↗ that

1:14:40 ↗ criteria I think we sent you a lot of

1:14:42 ↗ material the

1:14:44 ↗ agenda thank you and thank

1:14:47 ↗ you but one of the items that we sent

1:14:50 ↗ out was the project prioritization

1:14:53 ↗ criteria and questions for view so the

1:14:56 ↗ these were really the questions that we

1:14:58 ↗ the planning team sort of looked at all

1:15:01 ↗ these projects from and sort of answered

1:15:04 ↗ those questions of where do these where

1:15:05 ↗ do these land and how does that help us

1:15:08 ↗ get to what's next and and how we're

1:15:10 ↗ going to actually Implement all these 46

1:15:14 ↗ different projects um and so the

1:15:16 ↗ question to you all as a board is kind

1:15:17 ↗ of is there anything that feels like

1:15:20 ↗ it's missing is there a lens that we're

1:15:22 ↗ not seeing is there a blind spot that we

1:15:25 ↗ maybe have from some of these um just

1:15:28 ↗ from another

1:15:32 ↗ perspective lens is a great word right

1:15:34 ↗ these are eight lenses we're g we're

1:15:36 ↗ trying to run all these projects through

1:15:41 ↗ and it's complex and I know we're we're

1:15:44 ↗ not trying it's just it is trying to

1:15:47 ↗ plan for and Implement and invest in a

1:15:50 ↗ park system it it is there's there's no

1:15:52 ↗ simple way to do this but um hats off

1:15:55 ↗ Rob and Julie and I I appreciate and I I

1:15:57 ↗ would speak hopefully you've seen these

1:15:59 ↗ eight questions didn't come out of thin

1:16:00 ↗ air they really came out of our goals

1:16:02 ↗ and policies that you guys had such an

1:16:04 ↗ important touch in if you remember those

1:16:06 ↗ values not only our work with design

1:16:09 ↗ Workshop but that joint meeting we had

1:16:11 ↗ with the environmental board if you

1:16:12 ↗ remember that and really that that

1:16:14 ↗ meeting resonating with this idea of

1:16:16 ↗ both vibrancy the active elements of our

1:16:18 ↗ system and resiliency we we need we need

1:16:21 ↗ a plan that does both that doesn't have

1:16:23 ↗ those competing against one other and so

1:16:25 ↗ hopefully you're

1:16:26 ↗ seeing so the formation of these

1:16:29 ↗ criteria came out of all of that

1:16:31 ↗ work yeah initial perspective is is it

1:16:34 ↗ too complicated but then I'm like if I'm

1:16:35 ↗ looking at the list I can't find one

1:16:37 ↗ that I want to cross off right right so

1:16:39 ↗ that's like the you know typically don't

1:16:41 ↗ like to look at that many variables in a

1:16:43 ↗ decision criteria but I also don't know

1:16:45 ↗ what I would kick out so really

1:16:47 ↗ appreciate the same thought you need

1:16:49 ↗ eight spider eyes to do

1:16:52 ↗ this have four right over there

1:16:58 ↗ do the eight priorities have all equal

1:17:00 ↗ weight or do they have one more

1:17:04 ↗ important than the other is a waiting

1:17:06 ↗ the criteria

1:17:09 ↗ criteria run it through with five points

1:17:11 ↗ and Longevity were threee points as an

1:17:14 ↗ example yeah I would say health and

1:17:15 ↗ safety urgency or IM mediacy kind of dro

1:17:18 ↗ towards the bottom and that's kind of a

1:17:20 ↗ a special case scenario too that may

1:17:23 ↗ come up later but I say that would have

1:17:25 ↗ the least amount of weight um I want to

1:17:28 ↗ say our Improvement in performance of

1:17:30 ↗ the park system which meet our elements

1:17:33 ↗ goal ab and D um making sure we have

1:17:36 ↗ varied amenities I think have the

1:17:38 ↗ heaviest

1:17:39 ↗ weight so we want to make sure that

1:17:41 ↗ again you know are we balanced in our

1:17:44 ↗ amenities are we balancing our open

1:17:46 ↗ space and natural areas with with our

1:17:49 ↗ active Recreation passive

1:17:51 ↗ Recreation um you know we're looking at

1:17:55 ↗ economic benefits as well that came out

1:17:57 ↗ of the goals and policies um arts and

1:17:59 ↗ culture is a big part of it and we want

1:18:01 ↗ to make sure we're integrating that now

1:18:03 ↗ and with every Park project to maximum

1:18:05 ↗ extent

1:18:07 ↗ possible um let's see so diversity and

1:18:09 ↗ equity and I think going back to the

1:18:11 ↗ core values we want to make sure that

1:18:14 ↗ those if we're saying those are our core

1:18:16 ↗ values we're waiting those a little bit

1:18:18 ↗ heavier now to and again it goes back to

1:18:21 ↗ getting that vibrancy and resiliency and

1:18:23 ↗ connectivity back in there

1:18:26 ↗ I just i' just second third kind of what

1:18:29 ↗ s said if it's as you're looking at

1:18:31 ↗ these project these are the lenses

1:18:33 ↗ you're looking two things

1:18:35 ↗ is from a resident and a individual

1:18:38 ↗ those are the lenses that want you look

1:18:40 ↗ and

1:18:41 ↗ stuff see

1:18:44 ↗ there's i'

1:18:46 ↗ say Ad here takeway there it covers

1:18:51 ↗ really what we're great yeah

1:18:56 ↗ then of course the next conversation of

1:18:58 ↗ okay now let's here's a here's a first

1:19:00 ↗ run of these through these crit what do

1:19:03 ↗ you all you know let's again as Julie

1:19:05 ↗ goes over them and and you're welcome to

1:19:08 ↗ sort of give feedback on near Mid or

1:19:11 ↗ long but re remember this is a six-year

1:19:14 ↗ plan so what what really starts to

1:19:16 ↗ resonate as near term that that really

1:19:18 ↗ becomes our our focused actions in these

1:19:22 ↗ next six years um so

1:19:25 ↗ right yeah thank you U so hopefully you

1:19:27 ↗ have the chance to look in your packet

1:19:29 ↗ um just want to share that the near-term

1:19:31 ↗ projects like Jeff said or that one to

1:19:33 ↗ six year time frame midterm would be

1:19:37 ↗ seven years uh to 15 years and this is

1:19:40 ↗ the projects getting started they're all

1:19:42 ↗ going to vary quite a bit of whether or

1:19:44 ↗ not they're going to get knocked out in

1:19:45 ↗ that time period or if they're going to

1:19:47 ↗ extend for the duration and into the

1:19:49 ↗ future uh those would be like longterm

1:19:51 ↗ which are 16 uh years and Beyond

1:19:56 ↗ also uh in addition to those projects

1:19:58 ↗ there are existing continuous programs

1:20:00 ↗ that support ongoing life cycle

1:20:02 ↗ replacement programs those are in there

1:20:06 ↗ we're interested in keeping those going

1:20:08 ↗ um and also there's like a really

1:20:10 ↗ healthy bucket of amenities um that can

1:20:13 ↗ be considered really for each of these

1:20:15 ↗ projects as um the planning uh happens

1:20:19 ↗ uh for each one um especially in the

1:20:22 ↗ public input process those amenities

1:20:24 ↗ were really what was um shouted um from

1:20:27 ↗ the rooftops um from the public so um we

1:20:30 ↗ have a a variety of new amenities added

1:20:33 ↗ to that list compared to the 2018

1:20:36 ↗ plan

1:20:39 ↗ um and so I'm just going to try to spin

1:20:42 ↗ through um what we'd like to do after I

1:20:45 ↗ kind of spin through the near term the

1:20:47 ↗ projects have been shifted through um

1:20:49 ↗ the criteria and so right now they're in

1:20:52 ↗ these buckets of near Mid long um and

1:20:55 ↗ I'll spin through the near ones because

1:20:57 ↗ like Jeff emphasized those are the ones

1:20:59 ↗ that um we're going to see some action

1:21:01 ↗ in uh potentially um and um but we would

1:21:06 ↗ really love to know if you have which

1:21:09 ↗ what your priorities are um you know

1:21:12 ↗ maybe you know your top one two or three

1:21:15 ↗ if you um want to contribute that to the

1:21:17 ↗ discussion afterwards so I'm just going

1:21:19 ↗ to run down the list um one is uh the

1:21:22 ↗ Anthology linear Park Improv ments so

1:21:25 ↗ that is a um city-owned sequence of Park

1:21:28 ↗ spaces within the Anthology development

1:21:30 ↗ in the new uh Newport neighborhood um

1:21:33 ↗ they're really a blank slate right now

1:21:34 ↗ they're ready to go uh Central Park Pad

1:21:37 ↗ 2 this is the area of Central Park um

1:21:41 ↗ that currently has two underutilized um

1:21:43 ↗ baseball fields with drainage issues um

1:21:46 ↗ so these amenities and their Arrangement

1:21:48 ↗ will be reconsidered as part of the

1:21:49 ↗ project now in Confluence Park uh e

1:21:53 ↗ house restoration would get the E house

1:21:55 ↗ structure up to Snuff for Community use

1:21:58 ↗ which it's currently um not uh and this

1:22:01 ↗ would include involvement in

1:22:02 ↗ coordination with other organizations um

1:22:05 ↗ the project can includ include

1:22:06 ↗ additional improvements like expanding

1:22:08 ↗ the playground um and other improvements

1:22:11 ↗ that kind of northeast corner of

1:22:12 ↗ Confluence Park hey we have the East

1:22:16 ↗ Sunset way trail head

1:22:18 ↗ improvements uh that would take this

1:22:20 ↗ amazing little in town trail head and

1:22:22 ↗ improve it with more durable surfacing

1:22:25 ↗ for parking um and possibly restrooms

1:22:28 ↗ running water

1:22:30 ↗ woohoo at the

1:22:33 ↗ top um an additional wayf finding and

1:22:35 ↗ storytelling um signage to really bring

1:22:37 ↗ that trail um head city um to the Heart

1:22:41 ↗ of the City uh Fringe uh anyways Harvey

1:22:45 ↗ Manning Park Trail read uh sorry Harvey

1:22:47 ↗ Manning Park Trail development would

1:22:50 ↗ develop a trail system in the recently

1:22:51 ↗ acquired wooded bergsma uh property it

1:22:55 ↗ would connect the lower like new portway

1:22:58 ↗ the transit center the the new King

1:23:01 ↗ County big tree Ridge Trail Head really

1:23:04 ↗ yeah connect these lower um connection

1:23:07 ↗ points to the upper like the developed

1:23:10 ↗ portion of the existing Harvey Manning

1:23:12 ↗ park that has the playground basketball

1:23:14 ↗ court um parking as well as the Talis

1:23:17 ↗ neighborhood as a whole and connections

1:23:19 ↗ to the um Regional Park Cougar Mountain

1:23:22 ↗ um and we have picked back up coordinat

1:23:24 ↗ with King County on um the beginnings of

1:23:27 ↗ the development of that trail system um

1:23:29 ↗ and kind of how that would hash out

1:23:31 ↗ between the two agencies as the trails

1:23:33 ↗ would um go between the two lands

1:23:35 ↗ managed by the two agencies we have the

1:23:38 ↗ hillside Park loop trail this would

1:23:41 ↗ provide a trail system through the large

1:23:43 ↗ wooded Hillside Park this area of squawk

1:23:46 ↗ uh neighborhood doesn't have many

1:23:47 ↗ sidewalks so this project would go a

1:23:49 ↗ long way for connectivity um in the

1:23:52 ↗ neighborhood including connecting to

1:23:53 ↗ Oldtown

1:23:55 ↗ uh the mountains to sound Greenway Trail

1:23:58 ↗ is still on the docket to solidify a

1:24:00 ↗ trail alignment for this Regional bike

1:24:02 ↗ trail to get it built through isqua to

1:24:04 ↗ close the gap and connect to the

1:24:05 ↗ existing portions of this Regional Trail

1:24:07 ↗ and adjacent communities um this project

1:24:10 ↗ is uh largely Public Works project but

1:24:13 ↗ Parks is involved in any way we can to

1:24:15 ↗ get this big time Vision closer to

1:24:18 ↗ reality for BigTime connectivity and Big

1:24:21 ↗ Time

1:24:22 ↗ adventures um Pickering bar

1:24:25 ↗ uh Park improvements involve activating

1:24:28 ↗ kind of the blank slate between the barn

1:24:31 ↗ the adjacent roads and Pickering Trail

1:24:33 ↗ um precise amenities for this would be

1:24:36 ↗ uh determined in the planning

1:24:37 ↗ process uh we have the isqua school

1:24:40 ↗ district sport field partnership in the

1:24:43 ↗ near term um would involve getting

1:24:46 ↗ allseason sport Fields constructed on

1:24:49 ↗ one of three potential City Elementary

1:24:51 ↗ School properties um for joint public

1:24:54 ↗ and school use uh the concept has been

1:24:57 ↗ developing um along with School District

1:25:00 ↗ staff so there's some good momentum

1:25:01 ↗ building um for that

1:25:04 ↗ partnership um and uh kind of capacity

1:25:07 ↗ building um for the sports Fields uh

1:25:10 ↗ squawk Valley Park

1:25:12 ↗ Redevelopment um would see Improvement

1:25:14 ↗ to connectivity including safely uh

1:25:18 ↗ safely accessing the park since

1:25:20 ↗ pedestrian access to that Park is sub

1:25:22 ↗ far currently um also provid proving

1:25:24 ↗ connectivity between like the two

1:25:25 ↗ portions of the park and also provide

1:25:28 ↗ connectivity potentially to squa

1:25:30 ↗ Mountain um and even possibly further uh

1:25:33 ↗ towards Tiger Mountain and being kind of

1:25:35 ↗ a link between um those

1:25:38 ↗ areas and also possibly change up some

1:25:40 ↗ of the amenities with consider okay

1:25:44 ↗ three more tiits bailing Park

1:25:46 ↗ Redevelopment is a a long time coming um

1:25:50 ↗ planning had begun begun previously so

1:25:52 ↗ this would um pick things back up

1:25:55 ↗ uh the park would be redeveloped in

1:25:57 ↗ phases after the planning phase uh to

1:25:59 ↗ meet the needs of the anticipated high

1:26:01 ↗ density uh Central esqua neighborhood

1:26:03 ↗ and the larger Community major

1:26:06 ↗ considerations would be environmental

1:26:08 ↗ around tibits Creek and providing

1:26:10 ↗ durable surfacing for a variety of play

1:26:12 ↗ spaces including Sports

1:26:14 ↗ Fields uh Veterans Memorial Park and

1:26:17 ↗ Depot Park Redevelopment is intended to

1:26:20 ↗ continue the momentum that's being

1:26:22 ↗ created now with the um the projects uh

1:26:26 ↗ that are hopefully transitioning to

1:26:28 ↗ construction soon at pedestrian Park in

1:26:29 ↗ a senior center or on the Veterans

1:26:31 ↗ Memorial um to really kind of round out

1:26:34 ↗ and fill the gaps between the projects

1:26:37 ↗ to kind of update the design of these

1:26:39 ↗ public spaces and unite them um and so

1:26:41 ↗ this would probably start with Depot

1:26:43 ↗ Park uh and then be followed by a

1:26:45 ↗ Veterans Memorial Field so reactivating

1:26:48 ↗ these

1:26:49 ↗ spaces the final one on the list here

1:26:52 ↗ for near-term is this mentioned

1:26:54 ↗ previously the West Iso Highlands

1:26:55 ↗ neighborhood park um which as mentioned

1:26:58 ↗ it would be a neighborhood park in um

1:27:01 ↗ that portion of the Highlands that um is

1:27:04 ↗ going to see a higher density housing um

1:27:06 ↗ in this uh wood wooded area is near the

1:27:10 ↗ Swedish Medical Facility um and it would

1:27:13 ↗ be a wooded park with connections down

1:27:14 ↗ to this pressent trail

1:27:19 ↗ and I think with that if we could open

1:27:21 ↗ up to discussion um to hear what have to

1:27:25 ↗ say and how you're feeling about project

1:27:27 ↗ list ex sorry excellent overview Julie

1:27:31 ↗ well done if I could just add something

1:27:33 ↗ to the prior slide that talked about

1:27:35 ↗ ongoing Capital programs just as a

1:27:38 ↗ reminder you might recall as we were

1:27:40 ↗ doing our six-year CIP those of you that

1:27:43 ↗ were here a couple years ago um that

1:27:45 ↗ work we proposed and it's Curr it's it's

1:27:48 ↗ in now the city budget but um just an

1:27:52 ↗ important sort of um

1:27:54 ↗ um drawing differentiating those

1:27:57 ↗ near-term are really looking at projects

1:28:00 ↗ and invest specific Investments uh these

1:28:03 ↗ programs were really reflected as more

1:28:05 ↗ of those ongoing that this is sort of

1:28:07 ↗ think of this as the taking care of what

1:28:09 ↗ we got and and we really feel like these

1:28:12 ↗ are this is ongoing work that coupled

1:28:14 ↗ with the near-term

1:28:17 ↗ projects become our near-term strategy

1:28:20 ↗ we we'd want to keep these ongoing

1:28:21 ↗ programs going acquisition strategy

1:28:24 ↗ playground replacement irrigation

1:28:26 ↗ replacement Trail repairs think of those

1:28:29 ↗ as also near-term strategies um so they

1:28:33 ↗ really sort of create that that healthy

1:28:35 ↗ mix of capital programs and capital

1:28:41 ↗ projects quick besides us as individuals

1:28:45 ↗ on the

1:28:46 ↗ parkboard voicing our opinions about how

1:28:49 ↗ to rank some of these um what will be

1:28:51 ↗ the formal process to rank these

1:28:55 ↗ yeah really good question um in terms of

1:28:58 ↗ the once the draft or the document is

1:29:01 ↗ done

1:29:03 ↗ or yeah who and how will these be ranked

1:29:07 ↗ or by whom and so we've done most of

1:29:12 ↗ this sort of internally through staff

1:29:14 ↗ while looking at the current six-year

1:29:16 ↗ CIP that was adopted um through city

1:29:19 ↗ council looking at the 2018 Park plan

1:29:21 ↗ and those projects how they came about

1:29:24 ↗ we did some engagement with the

1:29:25 ↗ parkboard ad hoc committee and had them

1:29:28 ↗ sort of review and give their their top

1:29:30 ↗ fiveish for these near-term projects um

1:29:32 ↗ and reviewed the longer list of projects

1:29:35 ↗ um it will go to all of you all and then

1:29:37 ↗ it will be included as part of the park

1:29:39 ↗ draft plan um so it there there won't be

1:29:43 ↗ necessarily I guess like specific

1:29:46 ↗ project prioritization moving things up

1:29:49 ↗ and down for um full community as its

1:29:53 ↗ own entity um but it will be included in

1:29:56 ↗ the full Park plan um and this is 20e

1:29:59 ↗ Vision this isn't you know actually

1:30:02 ↗ six-year CIP this isn't budget this is

1:30:05 ↗ just sort of 20-year Vision helping us

1:30:08 ↗ sort of hone in and get community input

1:30:11 ↗ on where we want to sort of take some of

1:30:14 ↗ these um and all of these came from

1:30:16 ↗ Community input

1:30:18 ↗ already does that sort of help then yeah

1:30:21 ↗ the draft the the draft plan itself will

1:30:24 ↗ again go out we've developed quite a a

1:30:26 ↗ database of of folks that have provided

1:30:28 ↗ input everyone will be sort of invited

1:30:30 ↗ to review this draft plan how is it how

1:30:33 ↗ is it resonating and then just a double

1:30:35 ↗ down on what HTI said remember this is a

1:30:38 ↗ this is a planning document it's really

1:30:40 ↗ really important but it this isn't a

1:30:43 ↗ this isn't a budget document we're not

1:30:44 ↗ making we're not making budget decisions

1:30:47 ↗ we're trying to set a path and identify

1:30:49 ↗ priorities that will inform those budget

1:30:52 ↗ decisions over the next six years

1:30:54 ↗ thanks for the question Chris um I don't

1:30:57 ↗ see the pool in here that we talked

1:30:59 ↗ about a couple times ago is that because

1:31:01 ↗ it's already in flight or like what's

1:31:03 ↗ the story with pool and then the

1:31:05 ↗ community center really really good

1:31:07 ↗ question on both of those so as a park

1:31:09 ↗ system plan document this is really

1:31:12 ↗ meant to be focused on our land pieces

1:31:15 ↗ those facilities um are certainly in and

1:31:18 ↗ part of the facility Capital planning um

1:31:21 ↗ and remain priorities but this isn't a

1:31:23 ↗ this is not a Parks and Recreation

1:31:26 ↗ system plan it's really focusing on our

1:31:29 ↗ outdoor infrastructure so those are main

1:31:35 ↗ priorities can I just get I think youve

1:31:37 ↗ tried to say this a couple different

1:31:38 ↗ ways I believe I'm understand correctly

1:31:40 ↗ but just want to make sure I understand

1:31:42 ↗ so for example like the mountains to

1:31:44 ↗ sound Greenway

1:31:45 ↗ Trail is a near-term project that you

1:31:48 ↗ want to put Manpower at to develop a

1:31:51 ↗ plan but the actual project is a 16 plus

1:31:55 ↗ year

1:31:55 ↗ project I don't think I quite understand

1:31:58 ↗ what I'm looking at no no great great

1:32:00 ↗ question I I'll take it I'll take a try

1:32:02 ↗ at this um each one of these projects

1:32:05 ↗ has a different length Runway so so I I

1:32:08 ↗ don't by by saying that all of these are

1:32:10 ↗ some of these will would get

1:32:11 ↗ accomplished in the near term there's

1:32:13 ↗ others of these that are so complex we

1:32:15 ↗ want to get started on them they they

1:32:17 ↗ might not be all the way through to

1:32:20 ↗ completion but we feel like they're an

1:32:22 ↗ important enough priority to to get them

1:32:25 ↗ started right so I think that's yeah

1:32:28 ↗ yeah you know what I mean I mean yeah

1:32:30 ↗ the conversation is happening now but

1:32:32 ↗ the actual duration of the work that

1:32:34 ↗ needs to be done is the four box bubble

1:32:37 ↗ thing yeah yeah as Robin mentioned early

1:32:39 ↗ on is we're we're going to try and

1:32:41 ↗ graphically showing the plan it's like

1:32:42 ↗ each of these have a a different

1:32:45 ↗ longevity um not every project is

1:32:47 ↗ created the same unfortunately

1:32:58 ↗ did Anna want to add something or are

1:33:00 ↗ you

1:33:01 ↗ good um yeah this might have been

1:33:03 ↗ clarified already but you can kind of

1:33:05 ↗ notice here that these will not be

1:33:08 ↗ included in the plan numbered priority

1:33:10 ↗ one through 20 or whatever uh

1:33:13 ↗ intentionally because they're also going

1:33:15 ↗ to be based off of what opportunities

1:33:17 ↗ come up if you get a partner if you get

1:33:20 ↗ grant money if you get um just something

1:33:23 ↗ is it just makes sense to move it

1:33:24 ↗ forward faster you want this plan to

1:33:26 ↗ give you that flexibility to respond to

1:33:29 ↗ opportunities in that way additionally

1:33:32 ↗ there will be concept plans that are

1:33:35 ↗ developed for each of these projects um

1:33:38 ↗ and which includes additional public

1:33:40 ↗ engagement where people can influence

1:33:42 ↗ what exactly goes into that site where

1:33:44 ↗ you talk to neighbors and you understand

1:33:46 ↗ what their challenges or or issues are

1:33:49 ↗ with them and so there is a lot of time

1:33:51 ↗ within that 20year duration with this

1:33:54 ↗ work to to work through more of the

1:33:56 ↗ details in it but the point of

1:33:58 ↗ prioritizing is so that one um this the

1:34:02 ↗ state that we uh state requirements for

1:34:05 ↗ these plans do want to see

1:34:07 ↗ prioritization of what you're going to

1:34:08 ↗ be focused on for Clear projects as well

1:34:11 ↗ as for the purposes of transparency

1:34:14 ↗ about what is a priority to your

1:34:15 ↗ community move forward and what are some

1:34:17 ↗ things that you know they may not be as

1:34:20 ↗ clear a focus of what the resources

1:34:22 ↗ should be going towards

1:34:25 ↗ great great points um I'm going to under

1:34:28 ↗ the director's report little

1:34:29 ↗ foreshadowing I'm I'm going to highlight

1:34:32 ↗ um one thing we're putting into this

1:34:33 ↗ plan is accomplishments from the 2018

1:34:36 ↗ plan and um I I'll talk a little bit

1:34:39 ↗ about it but we'll share that and add

1:34:40 ↗ that in the minutes um it's important to

1:34:43 ↗ sort of look back and and I think Anna

1:34:45 ↗ your points are so spoton because you

1:34:47 ↗ know the priorities of the 2018 plan

1:34:49 ↗ really set a lot of important work but

1:34:52 ↗ you'll see in terms of what was

1:34:53 ↗ accomplished there was opportunity sort

1:34:56 ↗ of embedded in what we're able to get

1:34:58 ↗ get completed

1:35:00 ↗ so great addition thanks

1:35:08 ↗ an there other comments in regards to

1:35:12 ↗ the priority

1:35:14 ↗ project I'll make some comments I was

1:35:16 ↗ kind of waiting to see but jumping in um

1:35:19 ↗ for those of you who don't know me I'm

1:35:20 ↗ always team tibits so

1:35:24 ↗ just you know I'm I'm excited to see it

1:35:26 ↗ on this list I would love us to

1:35:28 ↗ challenge ourselves to say what can we

1:35:30 ↗ do to accelerate time on this project

1:35:31 ↗ like I don't love seeing the bubble in

1:35:33 ↗ the Box chart the way it's sitting um I

1:35:38 ↗ I think we need to challenge ourselves

1:35:39 ↗ to do better than that it's going to sit

1:35:42 ↗ right in smack dab in the middle of

1:35:44 ↗ where you guys where we're talking about

1:35:45 ↗ prioritizing from a Dei

1:35:47 ↗ perspective um I would prefer to have

1:35:50 ↗ fewer things on the list and make faster

1:35:52 ↗ progress there

1:35:55 ↗ [Music]

1:35:58 ↗ personally second that

1:36:02 ↗ definitely heard that but I think we're

1:36:04 ↗ GNA partner real well together because

1:36:07 ↗ you know I'm in fact driving over here

1:36:10 ↗ it was great to see that some of the

1:36:12 ↗ fields were actually utilized you know

1:36:14 ↗ being utied they get utilized in fun

1:36:16 ↗ through the spring and summer yeah like

1:36:17 ↗ that Park is Jam in summer and then it's

1:36:20 ↗ quiet you go up to the highlands in the

1:36:22 ↗ winter kids are still all playing on it

1:36:24 ↗ yeah so you can solve that Y and it

1:36:27 ↗ doesn't need to take 10 years no as

1:36:30 ↗ staff we we we Echo that we share it

1:36:33 ↗ it's time it's Pastime T TVP needs a new

1:36:36 ↗ vision it needs a new um and yeah

1:36:40 ↗ certainly appreciate that and um

1:36:43 ↗ there'll be a lot of a lot of community

1:36:45 ↗ conversation um there is yeah a lot of

1:36:48 ↗ complicating factors with that really

1:36:50 ↗ really important community park that

1:36:52 ↗ happens to be tucked in a high hydrology

1:36:57 ↗ Valley so yeah the sooner we get working

1:37:00 ↗ on it um and really start trying to

1:37:03 ↗ solve solve those the better I just want

1:37:05 ↗ to sit and planning for three years like

1:37:07 ↗ we need to start making some

1:37:10 ↗ moves thank

1:37:12 ↗ you love that would love

1:37:15 ↗ that and that's where that funding you

1:37:17 ↗ know implementation right as we

1:37:19 ↗ prioritize our work um

1:37:23 ↗ rate of spend rate of investment thank

1:37:26 ↗ you David for your benchmarking question

1:37:27 ↗ you're right you know how as residents

1:37:30 ↗ how quickly do you want to invest and

1:37:32 ↗ what is the scale of that investment you

1:37:34 ↗ want to make in your Pro system is going

1:37:35 ↗ to be really really that that will

1:37:37 ↗ determine a lot of the rate we get done

1:37:40 ↗ on these projects too so um really good

1:37:45 ↗ we agree it's a it's a it's a critical

1:37:47 ↗ community park that needs to perform

1:37:51 ↗ better absolutely needs to perform

1:37:57 ↗ better I think Chris you brought up a

1:37:59 ↗ really good good point if you were to

1:38:02 ↗ call this down to a narrower narrower

1:38:06 ↗ list what would you prioritize out of it

1:38:10 ↗ maybe looking at those near-term

1:38:12 ↗ projects are there like a top three a

1:38:15 ↗ top five that really y for you as

1:38:19 ↗ community members as uh you know

1:38:23 ↗ represent atives from your neighborhoods

1:38:26 ↗ and other community groups things you've

1:38:27 ↗ been hearing are there projects in there

1:38:31 ↗ that feel

1:38:32 ↗ like they deserve the extra

1:38:36 ↗ star definitely think

1:38:39 ↗ tibits just make a list

1:38:44 ↗ of all it's like a DOT exercise all

1:38:47 ↗ three of your dos are going I think

1:38:49 ↗ Central Park Pad 2 has a lot of demand

1:38:52 ↗ and also has sort of a more you know a

1:38:54 ↗ low low hanging fruit

1:38:57 ↗ project currently underutilized as well

1:39:00 ↗ needs better to perform better I have a

1:39:03 ↗ question just as the um when we talk

1:39:05 ↗ about this kind of stuff is being

1:39:07 ↗ included in

1:39:08 ↗ the

1:39:11 ↗ as

1:39:14 ↗ challeng that part of

1:39:17 ↗ it yeah it's a great question and it is

1:39:20 ↗ it's part of you know as we as any of

1:39:22 ↗ these projects goes through per

1:39:24 ↗ yeah all those questions of concurrency

1:39:26 ↗ and transportation and parking are all

1:39:30 ↗ are all key elements to the project

1:39:42 ↗ yeah that was kind of my question around

1:39:45 ↗ um I wrot it on my list no I forgot um

1:39:49 ↗ the park that's like really hard to get

1:39:50 ↗ to because of traffic

1:39:53 ↗ Valle yeah so and like I guess my

1:39:56 ↗ question is we're not going to solve the

1:39:58 ↗ traffic on Isa

1:40:00 ↗ Hobart so like how much more going south

1:40:04 ↗ for those that don't know yeah it's like

1:40:06 ↗ the last Park as you're right on our

1:40:08 ↗ Southern right on our Southern border so

1:40:11 ↗ it's a great question Marl and one we as

1:40:12 ↗ staff and as we talked to the community

1:40:15 ↗ and saw needs to connect better better

1:40:18 ↗ connect to squawk Mountain better

1:40:20 ↗ connect to Tiger Mountain that that Park

1:40:24 ↗ um I'm just going to speak

1:40:26 ↗ hypothetically here you're right it its

1:40:28 ↗ location not being in a neighborhood is

1:40:30 ↗ kind of constrained to use as a

1:40:33 ↗ predominant Sports field um or some of

1:40:36 ↗ those other things but it's extremely

1:40:37 ↗ well positioned on the creek Corridor to

1:40:39 ↗ be potentially a trail head um

1:40:43 ↗ potentially an alternative way to get up

1:40:46 ↗ and into squawk mountain and the squawk

1:40:48 ↗ Mountain State Park um the the s what's

1:40:52 ↗ called squawk Valle Park North sits

1:40:55 ↗ right at at across it's right across

1:40:57 ↗ this the front street from Park point so

1:41:01 ↗ if you can imagine a trail that would

1:41:05 ↗ actually link West Tiger Mountain to

1:41:07 ↗ squawk Mountain potential there right so

1:41:10 ↗ we we see that that Park could function

1:41:13 ↗ more um in in different ways so I get

1:41:16 ↗ that's as as Julie explained the sort of

1:41:19 ↗ the programmatic makeup of that park it

1:41:21 ↗ feels like it needs to be something

1:41:23 ↗ different um it's it's a relatively

1:41:26 ↗ isolated Park so would something like

1:41:30 ↗ additional Sports courts down there

1:41:32 ↗ would would people if if there's a again

1:41:36 ↗ increased desire for tennis and pickle

1:41:37 ↗ ball is that something we want to

1:41:41 ↗ consider well but again multiple

1:41:43 ↗ different times a day I mean that it's

1:41:45 ↗ not just I yes they practice at 6:30 is

1:41:49 ↗ probably not the best time to go but

1:41:50 ↗ there are other times throughout the

1:41:52 ↗ week and day when

1:41:54 ↗ it's not as constrained and not not

1:41:55 ↗ saying that's what we're proposing but

1:41:57 ↗ are there is it a different mix of

1:41:58 ↗ elements that Mak sense Community

1:42:00 ↗ Gardens Community has clearly said

1:42:02 ↗ they're interested in Community Gardens

1:42:04 ↗ but is there a potential for community

1:42:07 ↗ garden down there so um that's the again

1:42:10 ↗ it's a it's a park that has had

1:42:12 ↗ investment but again Fe from this sort

1:42:15 ↗ of what's the role we're asking it to

1:42:18 ↗ play in the system maybe it it could it

1:42:20 ↗ could serve a really important role but

1:42:22 ↗ it's a different

1:42:26 ↗ role my other question was around so you

1:42:29 ↗ mentioned e house restoration as well as

1:42:32 ↗ the veterans and Depot so I know we

1:42:33 ↗ haven't started Depot but like question

1:42:36 ↗ are those just like additions to what

1:42:38 ↗ we've already done is it like the phase

1:42:40 ↗ two of the stuff we've started is that

1:42:41 ↗ what that those are exactly phase two is

1:42:44 ↗ a good way to put it

1:42:46 ↗ yep another question um you have to go

1:42:51 ↗ up to the last map image of The Creeks

1:42:57 ↗ Peaks there are these potential

1:42:59 ↗ connections um that look like three of

1:43:02 ↗ them high into Hillside Park if I'm

1:43:05 ↗ reading the map

1:43:09 ↗ correctly is that what those are

1:43:13 ↗ doing is that Hillside

1:43:18 ↗ Park yeah yeah are connec connection

1:43:23 ↗ anywhere in in

1:43:25 ↗ this they're not they're not they're

1:43:28 ↗ not called out in the list no this is

1:43:31 ↗ sort of so the the vision for this

1:43:33 ↗ Creeks to Peaks image is being able to

1:43:37 ↗ sort of see all of the community parks

1:43:41 ↗ and the neighborhood parks potentially

1:43:43 ↗ connected so this could like help get

1:43:46 ↗ one of those to this list but it's not

1:43:49 ↗ they're not specifically trails that we

1:43:52 ↗ have I identified as they're probably

1:43:54 ↗ not for the short term near term they're

1:43:58 ↗ not they're not but they but they

1:44:00 ↗ longterm there's a tibits valy park to

1:44:02 ↗ squawk Trail so that's probably the line

1:44:04 ↗ going between those two parks I think

1:44:07 ↗ there's also um kind of squawk going

1:44:10 ↗ down to Oldtown with one possible

1:44:13 ↗ routing being via elide I think that is

1:44:17 ↗ in there also but I think they're long

1:44:18 ↗ term yeah those are in the long term I

1:44:21 ↗ think those are I don't want to put them

1:44:23 ↗ in the in the near term um because I

1:44:27 ↗ think tiet seems to be the top of the

1:44:28 ↗ near term I don't want to take away from

1:44:30 ↗ that but I do think that connectivity is

1:44:32 ↗ an important aspect especially given you

1:44:35 ↗ know the the both the uh draft concept

1:44:39 ↗ statements include that connection and

1:44:41 ↗ bringing people together uniting so

1:44:45 ↗ really good and good good catch and

1:44:47 ↗ you're right you're looking at the

1:44:49 ↗ entirety of the the vision of the

1:44:50 ↗ document again we updated every years we

1:44:53 ↗ try to cast a 20year vision but we're

1:44:55 ↗ not going to wait 20 years to update it

1:44:57 ↗ we going update it in a shorter term but

1:44:59 ↗ we still try and keep that Long View um

1:45:03 ↗ and you're right the very essence of

1:45:04 ↗ creeks to Peaks is this really really

1:45:07 ↗ bold ambitious Vision I'll just say but

1:45:09 ↗ could be really amaz there's not many

1:45:11 ↗ cities around us in the pon area that

1:45:14 ↗ literally every part could be

1:45:17 ↗ connected again it would be hard to do

1:45:19 ↗ it would take a long time but it's

1:45:21 ↗ possible with the the park system that

1:45:23 ↗ you all own as residents to to think of

1:45:26 ↗ connecting them

1:45:29 ↗ all Jeff this is a good reminder that we

1:45:32 ↗ should when we're talking about concept

1:45:34 ↗ we should continue to say 20-year

1:45:36 ↗ concept um paint what that vision is but

1:45:40 ↗ recognize that this plan is one that

1:45:42 ↗ you're updating every six years will

1:45:45 ↗ likely uh every six years chip away a

1:45:47 ↗ little bit more at accomplishing this

1:45:49 ↗ Vision exactly yeah y that point I think

1:45:54 ↗ and you guys know I always push on

1:45:55 ↗ accelerate time but um I think the

1:45:58 ↗ school collaboration might be a way to

1:46:01 ↗ get some fields in the valley turfed

1:46:04 ↗ faster right if you know I don't want to

1:46:07 ↗ take the pressure off tibits because I

1:46:08 ↗ want that done but like you know in a

1:46:10 ↗ very short term you know in the valley

1:46:15 ↗ some more Turf for kids in the winter I

1:46:17 ↗ think is another like could be an easier

1:46:19 ↗ lower hitting through wi that would be

1:46:22 ↗ another one that I would push

1:46:24 ↗ thank you right scored in the near term

1:46:27 ↗ both in terms of equity mapping and the

1:46:28 ↗ sort of needs coincidentally we had a

1:46:31 ↗ great conversation with isall school

1:46:33 ↗ district Capital staff just yesterday so

1:46:36 ↗ again those conversations are already

1:46:38 ↗ under way how can we make this

1:46:42 ↗ real in the interest of

1:46:45 ↗ time not great at doing this but um I am

1:46:49 ↗ G to sort of ask for maybe last thoughts

1:46:52 ↗ on of near-term projects or if there's

1:46:55 ↗ anything that you all saw as you were

1:46:56 ↗ reviewing in sort of midterm or

1:46:59 ↗ long-term projects that you feel like

1:47:01 ↗ you want to move up um let us know this

1:47:05 ↗ is not the only time you have the

1:47:07 ↗ opportunity to tell us this go home

1:47:10 ↗ think about it send us some emails um

1:47:13 ↗ and this will also be included in in the

1:47:15 ↗ larger draft plan that you all will see

1:47:16 ↗ in the next couple months as

1:47:18 ↗ well

1:47:20 ↗ cor where is cor Park

1:47:24 ↗ I I'll I'll take a stab at it so if

1:47:26 ↗ you're in the if if you're at Veterans

1:47:28 ↗ Memorial

1:47:29 ↗ Field and you're in the you're by the

1:47:32 ↗ ball field by the infield so that would

1:47:33 ↗ be the

1:47:34 ↗ north east corner of the

1:47:38 ↗ park for Park is right across the East

1:47:41 ↗ Fork of of isqua Creek maybe a block and

1:47:43 ↗ a half away it was established as a um

1:47:47 ↗ life estate acquisition a number of

1:47:49 ↗ years ago uh we just um just received

1:47:53 ↗ ownership we're now maintaining it for

1:47:55 ↗ the first time so it's right in the

1:47:56 ↗ middle of

1:47:57 ↗ Oldtown um provides a really cool

1:48:01 ↗ potential almost expansion of a Memorial

1:48:03 ↗ Field into that neighborhood uh brings

1:48:06 ↗ East Fork of Isa Creek a little closer

1:48:09 ↗ into

1:48:12 ↗ Oldtown so think of it yeah yeah it's

1:48:15 ↗ really in terms of Oldtown region you

1:48:17 ↗ know how to really make that

1:48:20 ↗ um parks within Oldtown

1:48:23 ↗ feel

1:48:25 ↗ connected could could we try something

1:48:28 ↗ where again this goes back to product

1:48:30 ↗ and all that but what we have here this

1:48:32 ↗ backlog right and so would it be

1:48:34 ↗ feasible to not right here but maybe

1:48:36 ↗ have an offline dock where we could all

1:48:38 ↗ get like 10 stickers and then you can

1:48:41 ↗ vote for of all these things put your 10

1:48:43 ↗ stickers wherever you want whether you

1:48:44 ↗ want to put all 10 on Tippets or you

1:48:46 ↗ want to spread them out and then we have

1:48:48 ↗ some sort of ranking within this group

1:48:50 ↗ um more consideration more thought goes

1:48:52 ↗ into it suppos I want this one I want

1:48:54 ↗ that one

1:48:56 ↗ yeah we can definitely do that

1:48:59 ↗ do

1:49:01 ↗ yeah meet our uh our obligations as open

1:49:05 ↗ public meetings act but we can we can

1:49:07 ↗ figure that out yeah yeah yeah I think

1:49:09 ↗ it's a great idea yeah again just we

1:49:12 ↗ really really invite feedback um um

1:49:16 ↗ you'll see this in in various forms I I

1:49:18 ↗ think maybe another ad hoc uh meeting as

1:49:22 ↗ as this

1:49:23 ↗ gets finalized will be important as well

1:49:26 ↗ Robin thanks for having this slide up

1:49:27 ↗ I'm just going to mention it really fast

1:49:28 ↗ I know time is short um Julie mentioned

1:49:32 ↗ this we also want to have along with our

1:49:35 ↗ Capital programs these capital projects

1:49:38 ↗ this list of amenities it's very clearly

1:49:40 ↗ identified as hey we heard this loud and

1:49:42 ↗ clear from the community these are these

1:49:44 ↗ are important amenities that might not

1:49:46 ↗ be projects by themselves but as we're

1:49:49 ↗ doing this sort of reimagination of our

1:49:51 ↗ Park system these amenities really need

1:49:53 ↗ to resonate and be priorities that we're

1:49:55 ↗ trying to weave into these projects so

1:49:58 ↗ um you heard Michael tonight so glad he

1:50:00 ↗ came speaking you know his advocacy for

1:50:03 ↗ archery um how and where we might fold

1:50:06 ↗ that in U much less you know dog parks

1:50:08 ↗ and you know disc just some of the other

1:50:11 ↗ amenities that really resonated from not

1:50:13 ↗ only the survey but the online mapping

1:50:16 ↗ uh feedback we got so we feel that's

1:50:18 ↗ another really important list to have

1:50:21 ↗ and and live in this do

1:50:26 ↗ well thank you all Robin Julie thank you

1:50:28 ↗ so much for your your your all work this

1:50:31 ↗ represents a lot of a lot of work um and

1:50:35 ↗ ALU as well we feel like you know not

1:50:38 ↗ only the vision of this document but

1:50:40 ↗ sort of rubber meets the road you know

1:50:42 ↗ how does this really start to inform our

1:50:44 ↗ Capital planning moving forward um it

1:50:47 ↗ it's a it's a document that Bridges um

1:50:49 ↗ all of that

1:50:51 ↗ so thank you with

1:50:55 ↗ that we're we're done we have more work

1:50:57 ↗ ahead L you Anna thank you for joining

1:50:59 ↗ us I know you're an hour ahead of us so

1:51:05 ↗ uh pretty amazing for having us amazing

1:51:08 ↗ distillation of information into all

1:51:10 ↗ those Graphics

1:51:13 ↗ that's awesome just just wait till you

1:51:15 ↗ see the plan document I'm telling you

1:51:17 ↗ it's coming a little snapshot it's gonna

1:51:21 ↗ pop yeah so thank you both so much

1:51:24 ↗ excited for it thank you all thank

1:51:27 ↗ you thank so

1:51:30 ↗ much okay

1:51:32 ↗ uh we'll move on to reports um our youth

1:51:36 ↗ representatives are not here they are

1:51:38 ↗ not here and they are wrapping up their

1:51:41 ↗ youth Advisory Board um year they had an

1:51:44 ↗ event yesterday I believe in confence

1:51:47 ↗ park and then they have their last event

1:51:49 ↗ at hackathon on June 1st

1:51:52 ↗ wrapping up at the end of school and

1:51:55 ↗ taking their a little katus for the

1:51:57 ↗ summer high schoolers do yes sorry sorry

1:52:00 ↗ to

1:52:02 ↗ see as much as all this stuff that we do

1:52:04 ↗ is pretty cool that for me is one of the

1:52:06 ↗ most inspiring moments to see them

1:52:09 ↗ involved at that

1:52:11 ↗ age okay then your

1:52:14 ↗ report yeah uh couple what's that yeah

1:52:18 ↗ no not everybody this is all good but be

1:52:21 ↗ all have our place I get it I get it no

1:52:24 ↗ uh two items really fast I Rob if you

1:52:26 ↗ don't mind sharing thank you um first

1:52:29 ↗ and well I'll do this one first this is

1:52:31 ↗ great um I mentioned it I want I'm going

1:52:33 ↗ to include this we want to include this

1:52:35 ↗ in the minutes we want to send this all

1:52:36 ↗ to you this um sort of keeping with this

1:52:39 ↗ theme of the park system plan some is

1:52:41 ↗ important context for you all um one of

1:52:44 ↗ the pages we'll speak to hey we did a we

1:52:47 ↗ adopted a 2018 plan what are what are

1:52:49 ↗ the accomplishments that we got done um

1:52:52 ↗ uh we have a little narrative that goes

1:52:53 ↗ with it it's it's hard to remember 2018

1:52:56 ↗ we had this I like to refer to it as the

1:52:58 ↗ covid blip that happened between a

1:53:00 ↗ pretty significant

1:53:02 ↗ International um event Global event uh

1:53:05 ↗ that disrupted a lot of things uh but in

1:53:07 ↗ spite of that um this is really

1:53:10 ↗ representation of 17 really really big

1:53:14 ↗ movements and actions that this city

1:53:16 ↗ took that came right out of the goals

1:53:18 ↗ and policies right out of the projects

1:53:20 ↗ that were adopted in that 2018 PL so um

1:53:24 ↗ important for us to tell the story

1:53:26 ↗ things from you know some really key

1:53:28 ↗ Acquisitions like bergsma and and you

1:53:30 ↗ know sort of connecting our Valley up

1:53:32 ↗ into the mountains another key one at

1:53:34 ↗ squawk Mountain some really important

1:53:36 ↗ work some neighborhood park improvements

1:53:39 ↗ at Blackberry um what we've done in park

1:53:41 ↗ operations and maintenance if you

1:53:43 ↗ remember that was a really important

1:53:44 ↗ goal let's take care of what we got and

1:53:46 ↗ I think we've heard time and again that

1:53:48 ↗ the the level of service and the

1:53:50 ↗ maintenance improvements that we've made

1:53:51 ↗ these last number years come directly

1:53:53 ↗ out of a goal of the park plan so please

1:53:56 ↗ when you get this take a take a chance

1:53:57 ↗ to look at that uh we just think it's an

1:53:59 ↗ important story to tell as we go from

1:54:02 ↗ that plan to to adopting another one and

1:54:05 ↗ really reminding all of us that these

1:54:08 ↗ are documents this is a document we

1:54:10 ↗ don't want sitting on a shelf this is

1:54:12 ↗ this is going to inform Capital planning

1:54:14 ↗ for the next and and operational

1:54:16 ↗ Investments the next six years so look

1:54:19 ↗ forward to sharing that um last item I

1:54:22 ↗ have we are embarking speaking of pools

1:54:25 ↗ and Recreation programs on we just

1:54:28 ↗ launched yesterday a recreation program

1:54:31 ↗ survey um we really want to reach out to

1:54:34 ↗ the community and ask how how is our

1:54:36 ↗ array of recreation programs how's our

1:54:38 ↗ array of recreation facilities from the

1:54:40 ↗ community center to the pool to the

1:54:42 ↗ senior center to Pickering barn and

1:54:44 ↗ Farmers Market just sort of a how are we

1:54:46 ↗ doing what's missing uh what is a

1:54:49 ↗ community are you are you interested in

1:54:51 ↗ seeing more community events are you

1:54:52 ↗ interested in seeing more you know other

1:54:54 ↗ programs other types of programs Etc um

1:54:58 ↗ these little um um information sheets

1:55:02 ↗ are going to be showing up on social

1:55:03 ↗ media and at our facilities we're going

1:55:05 ↗ to be pushing this out we're happy to

1:55:07 ↗ send you an email so please send us out

1:55:10 ↗ to your neighborhood spheres of

1:55:13 ↗ influence we really some really good

1:55:16 ↗ feedback because this will again help

1:55:17 ↗ inform us our our programming uh for

1:55:20 ↗ years to come and as a Cadence we

1:55:22 ↗ probably want is I've worked with Brian

1:55:23 ↗ and the recreation team we probably want

1:55:25 ↗ to every three years you know have some

1:55:28 ↗ type of recreation uh survey going out

1:55:31 ↗ uh Recreation programs is never it's not

1:55:33 ↗ something you ever arrive at it's a

1:55:35 ↗ market

1:55:36 ↗ driven anomaly that we constantly need

1:55:39 ↗ to be tweaking and adjusting so um thank

1:55:42 ↗ you for helping us get the the news out

1:55:44 ↗ on this one just give you a quick

1:55:46 ↗ feedback on this

1:55:48 ↗ please um especially this one in

1:55:50 ↗ particular I think it really could Ed

1:55:52 ↗ a sixth option instead of like someone

1:55:56 ↗ dis satisfied too highly satisfied to I

1:55:59 ↗ don't interact with that program um

1:56:01 ↗ because I think you you might skew your

1:56:03 ↗ uh results with people that don't

1:56:06 ↗ actually have kids in summer camp um

1:56:09 ↗ things like that is where do you slide

1:56:11 ↗ it on satisfi or unsatisfied something I

1:56:14 ↗ don't I don't go senior Cent I don't

1:56:16 ↗ know how to answer that on your Ser so

1:56:18 ↗ just a do

1:56:24 ↗ really

1:56:26 ↗ good it's you phone sir I think that

1:56:29 ↗ brings it to and actually have two

1:56:32 ↗ minutes um that doesn't usually happen

1:56:36 ↗ but one thing I'll I'll keep this to one

1:56:39 ↗ minute uh I crawled all over the

1:56:43 ↗ websites and created this list um rather

1:56:47 ↗ than try and list them off and run out

1:56:48 ↗ of time there are so many things going

1:56:51 ↗ on and you can't read it from there but

1:56:53 ↗ um when you get it take a look it's

1:56:55 ↗ pretty cool how many opportunities we

1:56:57 ↗ have by all the different organizations

1:56:59 ↗ from DIA and trot unlimited and isquat

1:57:02 ↗ historic museums and uh so give that

1:57:05 ↗ list a look over and you'll probably

1:57:06 ↗ find some things that you want to do and

1:57:08 ↗ it's it's High season we're not even in

1:57:10 ↗ concert season

1:57:14 ↗ yet and that's it for me um any other

1:57:18 ↗ business or

1:57:20 ↗ announcements I just I just thank you

1:57:22 ↗ you too again for accepting your

1:57:24 ↗ nominations and continuing your

1:57:29 ↗ roles um and then I just have one item I

1:57:32 ↗ always do I feel like um looking at

1:57:35 ↗ dates for next meetings so our next

1:57:39 ↗ meeting is scheduled for June 24th that

1:57:41 ↗ likely will stay um but when we hit July

1:57:46 ↗ we actually are going to potentially

1:57:48 ↗ need a different meeting than our Late

1:57:51 ↗ July meeting um because of Park plan um

1:57:55 ↗ so we have some sort of document

1:57:57 ↗ adoption that um will be happening

1:57:59 ↗ pretty soon some draft documents coming

1:58:01 ↗ out in the beginning of July um and an

1:58:04 ↗ opportunity for parkboard to give their

1:58:06 ↗ sort of final feedback and um take

1:58:09 ↗ action to move that that planning

1:58:11 ↗ document forward so you'll be getting an

1:58:13 ↗ email from me soon asking for um

1:58:17 ↗ potentially time during the week of July

1:58:20 ↗ 15th um I need to work with the city

1:58:23 ↗ clerk's office to find out a date in

1:58:25 ↗ there that is okay to to ask and use um

1:58:29 ↗ but somewhere within that week um if we

1:58:32 ↗ are able to make that meeting happen we

1:58:34 ↗ will likely um cancel the later July

1:58:37 ↗ meeting um because we won't need a

1:58:39 ↗ meeting in another two weeks um but that

1:58:42 ↗ is the only other update that will be

1:58:44 ↗ coming soon and I wanted to tell you all

1:58:46 ↗ now I'm sure you all have summer

1:58:47 ↗ vacations planned and by all means take

1:58:50 ↗ your summer vacations that's what

1:58:51 ↗ excused out are for um but just wanted

1:58:54 ↗ to put that one out there

1:58:55 ↗ now I don't know if we need to do

1:58:57 ↗ anything but I think for that June 24th

1:59:00 ↗ you're gonna be gone and I'm gonna be

1:59:01 ↗ gone too oh yeah we do practice run

1:59:08 ↗ for here um June 24th yes both our chair

1:59:13 ↗ and vice chair will not be in attendance

1:59:15 ↗ um we can decide now as a board if

1:59:19 ↗ somebody knows they're going to be able

1:59:20 ↗ to be here and feel

1:59:23 ↗ um interested in accepting the duties of

1:59:27 ↗ chair to run through the meeting um if

1:59:29 ↗ anyone feels comfortable making that

1:59:31 ↗ known now that'd be great if not we can

1:59:34 ↗ do it over email later um but I have a

1:59:38 ↗ little uh blank agenda that I can share

1:59:41 ↗ with you know just to walk you through

1:59:43 ↗ it I I used it the first couple meetings

1:59:45 ↗ and I don't anym but it helps you know

1:59:46 ↗ what you're supposed to

1:59:48 ↗ do and then we have our we have our

1:59:50 ↗ monthly meeting where we meet with you

1:59:51 ↗ all to sort of build the agenda so you

1:59:54 ↗ know if if we get a name in the next

1:59:56 ↗ week or two and invite that person to

1:59:59 ↗ come to that meeting too so you're

2:00:01 ↗ queued up and ready to go

2:00:04 ↗ need right yeah thank you Ryan thank you

2:00:09 ↗ great we will I'll we be in touch and

2:00:12 ↗ you'll sort of get a a little thing that

2:00:14 ↗ you can use to help you through it too

2:00:16 ↗ yeah thank

2:00:18 ↗ you that's great discussion tonight

2:00:21 ↗ thank you everybody

2:00:25 ↗ Thank you new members yeah

2:00:33 ↗ welcome I know

2:00:36 ↗ two got the odds of us I thought we

2:00:39 ↗ doing so good and then all a sudden 848

2:00:52 ↗ h

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Council / Members (8)

Chris Kovac

Marlene Waxse

David Liu

Ryan Olson

Brenda Spears

Mari Stevens

Paul Adair

Martha Ginthner

Staff (10)

Jeff Watling, Director

Robin Spear, Park Planning and Development Manager

Julie Cassata, Senior Park Planner

Hasanthi Piyasena, Department Operations

Specialist, Parks & Community Services

Anna Laybourn, Design Workshop

Consultant

Luyu Zeng, Design Workshop Consultant

Michael Wong, Community Member

Christina Bruning, Community Member

Excused

Andrew Eliquen

Nicholas Lee

Katie Bell

Tim Motley

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a) Minutes of April 29, 2024 There being no corrections, the minutes are approved as presented.
They asked the board for feedback on near term projects and anything should be moved up or down in the lists.