Park Board · Monday, September 23, 2024 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of August 26, 2024

packet pp.3–4

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 08-26-24 Park Board Minutes Page 1 CITY OF ISSAQUAH Park Board 7:00 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave August 26, 2024 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Urban Forest Management Plan Draft Update, (D,A)

40 min · Dan Hintz, Urban Forest Supervisor PlanIt Geo Consultants · packet pp.5–275

Topics: Trees

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Staff report:

URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN PARK BOARD PRESENTATION

Donation Bench Program Update

Discussion / Action · 20 min · Hasanthi Hoglund, Department Operations Specialist · packet pp.277–286

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Staff report:

Outline I. Current Program Success II. Current Ordinance Language III. Proposed Ordinance Language IV. Park Board Action

Parks and Community Services Summer Highlights, (I)

10 min · Jeff Watling, Director · packet pp.287–303

Topics: Parks

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Staff report:

Parks & Community Services 301 Rainier Blvd. S | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3300 issaquahwa.gov

5. REPORTS

Director's Report

Chairperson's Report

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0:02 ↗ we'll start off with uh uh taking roll

0:06 ↗ um so when I call your name if you could

0:08 ↗ call out present uh Katie

0:13 ↗ Bell uh Andrew

0:16 ↗ eloquin okay we'll wait he may be a late

0:19 ↗ arrival uh I am here David Lou

0:24 ↗ present uh Tim montley has an excused

0:27 ↗ absence uh Ryan Olen

0:32 ↗ here Branda

0:37 ↗ Spears

0:38 ↗ Marlene

0:41 ↗ here uh Paul Adair

0:46 ↗ here Martha

0:48 ↗ gner

0:50 ↗ here and Mary Stevens also has an

0:53 ↗ excused absence so with that um with the

0:56 ↗ folks there and I guess online we we

0:59 ↗ have a quorum and we do we will have a

1:02 ↗ couple decision items tonight so that's

1:05 ↗ important uh let's see uh next thing is

1:09 ↗ approval of minutes uh has everyone had

1:11 ↗ a chance to review the minutes from the

1:12 ↗ last

1:15 ↗ meeting anybody have any corrections or

1:19 ↗ um

1:22 ↗ edits you'll have to tell me if anybody

1:24 ↗ is nodding or raising hand because I

1:27 ↗ can't see

1:28 ↗ everybody yeah all

1:31 ↗ good yeah okay thanks then uh with that

1:35 ↗ we'll approve last uh last month's

1:37 ↗ meeting

1:39 ↗ minutes uh and then now uh do we have

1:41 ↗ anybody for public

1:45 ↗ comment no nobody no one in person and

1:50 ↗ let me just check online real quick I

1:53 ↗ don't see anyone online for public

1:56 ↗ comment

1:57 ↗ either okay

2:00 ↗ rolling right through okay then uh uh

2:04 ↗ we'll move into regular business and the

2:06 ↗ first item is the urbus urban Forest

2:08 ↗ management plan draft plan uh update and

2:12 ↗ that's presented by uh Dan hints take it

2:15 ↗ away

2:17 ↗ Dan thanks Chris it's Jeff Jeff at first

2:20 ↗ for a quick intro um hi everybody uh

2:24 ↗ thank you so much uh you a couple months

2:27 ↗ ago saw a first draft of this document

2:29 ↗ and really appreciated you going through

2:31 ↗ it with us uh through your feedback

2:34 ↗ feedback from the um environmental board

2:37 ↗ as well as Community has really helped

2:40 ↗ uh Dan and Chris to to shape this up

2:43 ↗ into what is really beginning to feel

2:45 ↗ like a final document so uh they are

2:47 ↗ both here uh Chris online Dan here in

2:50 ↗ person if you recall Dan is our Urban

2:52 ↗ Forest supervisor um hard to believe

2:55 ↗ been a little over a year now uh that

2:57 ↗ Dan has been here and uh just um

2:59 ↗ tremendous things happening but on the

3:02 ↗ work plan completing this Urban Forest

3:04 ↗ plan our first urban Forest plan was a

3:06 ↗ really really high priority um you might

3:09 ↗ um have gotten the sense as you read

3:11 ↗ through this um and I just a reminder

3:14 ↗ and as I think we discussed this tonight

3:16 ↗ you know you've seen a park system Plan

3:18 ↗ update now uh you've really shephered

3:21 ↗ that through and now here's a Wars

3:23 ↗ management plan right behind it um just

3:26 ↗ one clear difference between the two uh

3:28 ↗ the urban Forest management plan prob

3:30 ↗ feels a little denser uh because it's

3:32 ↗ intended to be a little denser um a

3:34 ↗ little more into the uh I wouldn't say

3:36 ↗ weeds into the trees into the branches

3:39 ↗ um so just that context as um as we we

3:43 ↗ dig into this but um Dan Chris great

3:46 ↗ work thank you take it

3:48 ↗ away Jeff and park thanks for having me

3:50 ↗ here again um as as Jeff got hinted you

3:54 ↗ know we last uh chatted back in June uh

3:57 ↗ but at that point we had the uh C

4:00 ↗ condition section essentially you know

4:01 ↗ what do we have in terms of trees Urban

4:03 ↗ Forest programs in isqua and that was

4:06 ↗ our first set of um uh bringing the uh

4:10 ↗ kind of draft Vision uh the five guiding

4:12 ↗ principles and then the associated

4:15 ↗ strategies recommendations and and kind

4:17 ↗ of sub goals with those fine guiding

4:18 ↗ principles so hopefully you kind of

4:20 ↗ remember back to that in in June that

4:22 ↗ was really kind of what started this uh

4:25 ↗ you know kind of actual tangible draft

4:26 ↗ of our Urban Forest management plan um

4:29 ↗ Crystal recap this a little bit so

4:30 ↗ hopefully not stealing his Thunder too

4:31 ↗ much but we've been working on this for

4:33 ↗ almost a year now um and really kind of

4:36 ↗ you know foundational pieces of an urban

4:38 ↗ forestry program obviously the the city

4:40 ↗ committing to bring staff like myself

4:42 ↗ like our green isal volunteer

4:43 ↗ coordinator on board but really the

4:46 ↗ other two critical pieces are having a

4:48 ↗ forest management plan to really serve

4:50 ↗ as a kind of guide or road mapap for the

4:52 ↗ next 10 years as we build out this

4:54 ↗ program um and then you know the next

4:56 ↗ big piece which is talked about in this

4:58 ↗ plan and we hope to you pursue in the

5:00 ↗ next year or two is a tree inventory so

5:02 ↗ actually having a little bit um I should

5:05 ↗ say a lot better idea of you know the

5:06 ↗ composition of trees in our Urban Forest

5:09 ↗ you know really focusing on Street trees

5:11 ↗ trees and Main parks and areas like that

5:14 ↗ so um so like I said the current

5:16 ↗ conditions the visions and

5:18 ↗ recommendations is section one of this

5:20 ↗ plan so hopefully there's a little

5:21 ↗ familiarity there from the last touch

5:23 ↗ point we had with you all at the start

5:25 ↗ of summer um what has been added since

5:27 ↗ then that you know is kind of called out

5:29 ↗ an email from sop to review is the uh

5:31 ↗ section three which is implementation

5:33 ↗ and monitoring um so that is you know

5:36 ↗ actually you know kind of starting to

5:38 ↗ sequence starting to prioritize starting

5:40 ↗ to look at kind of levels of funding

5:42 ↗ coordination across departments and

5:44 ↗ within the community to achieve um you

5:46 ↗ know that Vision those five guiding

5:48 ↗ principles and then the associated you

5:50 ↗ know goals strategies and

5:52 ↗ recommendations so tonight I can hand it

5:54 ↗ over to Chris in just a minute here with

5:55 ↗ Planet Geo but we'll kind of go over a

5:57 ↗ little recap on the um uh timeline for

6:01 ↗ the project we'll talk about feedback we

6:03 ↗ received on that first draft and that's

6:05 ↗ framework with those uh principles goals

6:08 ↗ strategies recommendations um focus in a

6:11 ↗ little bit on the new sections with

6:12 ↗ implementation monitoring and then and

6:14 ↗ talk about next steps so I'll hand it

6:16 ↗ off to Chris we have you know specific

6:18 ↗ slide at the beginning here and at the

6:20 ↗ end of what we're actually asking for in

6:21 ↗ terms of feedback and and potentially

6:24 ↗ recommendation to move this forward to

6:26 ↗ council this fall for adoption um but

6:28 ↗ Chris will um kind of tee that up and uh

6:31 ↗ lead the presentation here so um Chris

6:33 ↗ thanks for getting started here thanks

6:36 ↗ man and thanks Jeff as well and uh good

6:38 ↗ to see everyone I did want to start off

6:40 ↗ by saying I'm shaking a cold so if uh my

6:43 ↗ voice isn't fully back yet so if I need

6:45 ↗ to speak up just please let me know um

6:47 ↗ so I just wanted to also say you know we

6:50 ↗ we last met in June and uh Jeff and Dan

6:53 ↗ gave a recap of what we worked on and uh

6:55 ↗ where we're at today and just want to

6:57 ↗ thank you all again for weighing in on

6:59 ↗ the long-term framework which allowed us

7:01 ↗ to move forward with the implementation

7:04 ↗ and monitoring section then of the plan

7:06 ↗ which will'll really highlight in this

7:08 ↗ presentation and uh yeah so I just

7:10 ↗ wanted to start off with a brief

7:12 ↗ introduction again Chris Pier I'm the

7:14 ↗ director of uh Urban Forest strategy at

7:16 ↗ Planet Geo going on 10 years coming in O

7:19 ↗ October and uh I'm the pr project

7:22 ↗ manager for this project and the project

7:24 ↗ is supported by uh Alex and Matt who are

7:27 ↗ both certified arborists experienced in

7:29 ↗ in policy planning and management of

7:31 ↗ trees in the Pacific

7:33 ↗ Northwest and for our uh presentation

7:36 ↗ this is just an overview of what we'll

7:37 ↗ discuss but before I get into a project

7:40 ↗ update and the draft plan itself I'm

7:43 ↗ going to turn it over to Dan again to

7:44 ↗ share our request for the board and then

7:46 ↗ we'll make sure to Circle back to this

7:48 ↗ request at the end of our presentation

7:51 ↗ uh as we get into an open discussion so

7:53 ↗ I'll share this slide now and um we'll

7:56 ↗ talk through a little bit of the purpose

7:57 ↗ and action requested here

8:00 ↗ thanks Chris so kind of kind of hinted

8:02 ↗ at this already but you know really I

8:05 ↗ know it's a big document there's a lot

8:06 ↗ of appendicies we're looking to kind of

8:07 ↗ breaking that out um that's kind of a

8:09 ↗ supporting document so we weren't really

8:11 ↗ expecting everyone to obviously read the

8:13 ↗ whole hundred plus pages of the main

8:15 ↗ part of the plan if you if you did Kudos

8:17 ↗ that's awesome but um uh what we're

8:19 ↗ really kind of hoping for for this round

8:21 ↗ is you know any comments and feedback on

8:24 ↗ the um responses we got to draft one

8:27 ↗ which is summarized uh in a slide coming

8:30 ↗ up here that we actually didn't attach

8:31 ↗ it's pretty far down in the agenda but

8:33 ↗ essentially a tracking document with a

8:35 ↗ lot of feedback from some people on this

8:36 ↗ Park Board as Jeff mentioned

8:38 ↗ environmental board other staff and some

8:40 ↗ other uh Community Partners s call me

8:43 ↗ tribe as well um so that is synthesized

8:45 ↗ the end of the agenda if you're looking

8:46 ↗ for that I think it starts around page

8:49 ↗ 250 um uh so we'll kind of review that

8:52 ↗ here first what's been addressed to date

8:54 ↗ and then you know that really LED that

8:55 ↗ whole process making sure that you know

8:57 ↗ we are on the same page about this

8:59 ↗ framework about those you know goals

9:01 ↗ strategies recommendations that led to

9:03 ↗ us being able to do this next iteration

9:05 ↗ which is the implementation and then how

9:07 ↗ do we actually monitor uh you know and

9:09 ↗ track success of the implementation of

9:11 ↗ this plan uh you know moving into next

9:13 ↗ year the uh you know subsequent years

9:15 ↗ after that so um that's really the kind

9:17 ↗ of purpose that we're kind of hoping any

9:19 ↗ feedback questions

9:21 ↗ clarification um like I said we're going

9:22 ↗ to be going through some Recaps of

9:24 ↗ section one and two which you've already

9:26 ↗ seen or heard about a little bit on

9:27 ↗ current conditions and vision recommend

9:29 ↗ ations um but assuming that that is

9:32 ↗ something you all ready to do we are

9:33 ↗ looking for um you know recommendation

9:36 ↗ to move this forward to city council for

9:39 ↗ adoption so what that would look like

9:40 ↗ would be um bringing this to the Safety

9:43 ↗ Services and arc's Council committee uh

9:46 ↗ in the middle of October for their

9:48 ↗ review we met with them back in August

9:50 ↗ as well um kind of go over that similar

9:52 ↗ uh framework um for the document and

9:55 ↗ then looking at a November full council

9:57 ↗ meeting for approval and adoption of the

9:59 ↗ plan of you know delivery at that time

10:01 ↗ from from planet GE so um this slide

10:04 ↗ will come back at the end of the

10:06 ↗ presentation too so we'll use this as a

10:08 ↗ reference for our discussion here in

10:09 ↗ just a little bit yep yeah thanks Dan

10:12 ↗ and then uh lastly on the uh plan itself

10:16 ↗ I did want to also mention that the

10:18 ↗ appendices are pretty lengthy the idea

10:21 ↗ there is to support the new urban

10:22 ↗ forestry program as the implementation

10:25 ↗ takes place over a 10-year period And as

10:28 ↗ opportunities arise

10:30 ↗ for the final plan we may decide that

10:32 ↗ some of those are supporting separate

10:33 ↗ studies Standalone documents um and so

10:37 ↗ you know there may be some shifts to

10:38 ↗ that and we did also want to note that

10:41 ↗ the executive summary will serve as a

10:43 ↗ standalone document so that it's going

10:44 ↗ to be something that you all can

10:46 ↗ reference without you know combing

10:48 ↗ through the entire plan but there are

10:50 ↗ going to be resources and information to

10:52 ↗ support the urban forestry Journey along

10:54 ↗ the way so a little bit of uh context

10:57 ↗ there and um so what I'd like to do is

11:00 ↗ just go through a brief update of um

11:03 ↗ where we started where we're heading and

11:05 ↗ what our end goal is here and so just to

11:07 ↗ briefly recap the process and the

11:09 ↗ timeline uh beginning late last year the

11:12 ↗ Baseline assessment was completed and if

11:14 ↗ you recall we talked about a top- down

11:16 ↗ canopy assessment and that's just one

11:18 ↗ component and we'll highlight other

11:19 ↗ aspects of the assessments and then this

11:22 ↗ assessment provided context to help us

11:24 ↗ engage with City staff and the community

11:26 ↗ which began in 2024

11:29 ↗ then in the second quarter of the year

11:31 ↗ the draft goals and strategies were

11:33 ↗ developed after you know we had a draft

11:35 ↗ and met with you in June and then

11:37 ↗ revised uh and drafted the

11:39 ↗ implementation and uh monitoring section

11:43 ↗ so here in September we're Gathering

11:44 ↗ feedback on the second draft of the plan

11:47 ↗ to make any final recommendations and

11:49 ↗ revisions before we present the plan to

11:52 ↗ city council with hopes and anticipation

11:55 ↗ that the council will adopt the plan by

11:57 ↗ the end of the year

12:00 ↗ and so the latest draft of this plan is

12:01 ↗ a result of extensive presentations

12:04 ↗ meetings and requests to gather feedback

12:06 ↗ and like Dan said in the packet there is

12:09 ↗ a summary of some of the feedback uh we

12:11 ↗ received and how we're addressing it or

12:13 ↗ or what was completed and so this slide

12:16 ↗ here just shares some of the individuals

12:18 ↗ and groups that were participating in

12:20 ↗ the review and feedback and this table

12:23 ↗ uh paraphrases that feedback that we

12:25 ↗ received and how it was

12:27 ↗ addressed and um that edit tracking

12:30 ↗ table is also a supporting document to

12:32 ↗ make sure that we heard from uh all

12:35 ↗ groups and that we're addressing and uh

12:37 ↗ updating the plan accordingly you know

12:39 ↗ as it fits with the objectives of the

12:40 ↗ management plan and so we can go into

12:43 ↗ more detail during our open discussion

12:45 ↗ but I just want to first thank all those

12:47 ↗ that participated in the reviews not all

12:49 ↗ projects get this much attention and it

12:52 ↗ really goes along way to make this a

12:54 ↗ plan you know truly for

12:56 ↗ isqua and so a copy of the latest draft

13:00 ↗ uh was provided as part of the meeting

13:01 ↗ packet but this slide will provide a

13:03 ↗ high level summary of some key

13:05 ↗ components of the section one current

13:08 ↗ conditions in the current conditions we

13:10 ↗ start off with tree related assessments

13:12 ↗ and then in the plan we describe the

13:14 ↗ conditions of current management

13:16 ↗ programs and the feedback we heard from

13:18 ↗ City staff and interested parties we

13:21 ↗ also look at the current and potential

13:22 ↗ risk and vulnerabilities facing issist

13:25 ↗ trees and the evaluation of all urban

13:28 ↗ forestry components and how they align

13:31 ↗ with industry standards and

13:35 ↗ Frameworks so then diving a little

13:36 ↗ deeper into current conditions this

13:39 ↗ slide will provide an example of uh tree

13:41 ↗ related assessment in the plan's current

13:43 ↗ conditions section and we utilized

13:46 ↗ assessment data that was collected for

13:48 ↗ the green isqua 20-year implementation

13:50 ↗ guide to gain insights into urban Forest

13:53 ↗ composition and since the city currently

13:56 ↗ doesn't have an inventory of public

13:58 ↗ trees you know those trees along streets

14:00 ↗ and in maintained areas of parks this

14:02 ↗ data is a really great first step in

14:05 ↗ understanding the Citywide Urban forest

14:07 ↗ and so we summarized the dominant over

14:09 ↗ sto overstory species the understory

14:13 ↗ species as well as uh primary invasive

14:16 ↗ species that was identified in those

14:17 ↗ green isqua surveys and just one thing

14:20 ↗ to note about this and we go into more

14:22 ↗ detail in the plan you know based on

14:24 ↗ this uh survey we see that the forests

14:26 ↗ appear relatively Young when you look at

14:29 ↗ uh Douglas furs are more abundant

14:31 ↗ compared to Western red seeders and that

14:33 ↗ hemlocks are not among the top five uh

14:35 ↗ dominant overstory species so even this

14:38 ↗ data can start to bring insights into

14:40 ↗ what the urban Forest looks like and how

14:42 ↗ to manage and grow

14:45 ↗ it and so then in the current cond

14:48 ↗ condition section we also provide an

14:50 ↗ example of how uh we evaluated current

14:53 ↗ conditions against uh management

14:55 ↗ programs and practices and on this Slide

14:58 ↗ the table on the left summarizes key

15:00 ↗ planning documents that We examined a

15:03 ↗ brief purpose statement uh how the plans

15:06 ↗ align or do not align with Urban Forest

15:08 ↗ management key statements in those City

15:11 ↗ Planning documents relating to urban

15:13 ↗ forestry and any areas where potential

15:16 ↗ conflicts exist or may arise and how to

15:19 ↗ address those in the management plan

15:21 ↗ this section also summarizes existing

15:24 ↗ and potential tree Pest and diseases of

15:26 ↗ concern and uh these have certain

15:29 ↗ management implications and on this

15:31 ↗ slide we just summarize uh Mediterranean

15:33 ↗ Oak boore as well as the Emerald ashb

15:35 ↗ which are concerns for uh communities uh

15:38 ↗ as we look at Urban trees as well as the

15:41 ↗ um rural areas and just the overall

15:43 ↗ Urban

15:46 ↗ forest and then this slide going again

15:48 ↗ in current condition provides an example

15:51 ↗ of how we examine the vulnerability of

15:53 ↗ trees in the region as it relates to

15:55 ↗ climate change and we used a study uh

15:58 ↗ from the climate change response

16:00 ↗ Frameworks online tools and identified

16:02 ↗ the Common Street trees in the Pacific

16:04 ↗ Northwest that are the least vulnerable

16:07 ↗ to increased heat projections but as the

16:10 ↗ disclaimer notes at the bottom a public

16:12 ↗ tree inventory would provide more

16:14 ↗ specific considerations for tree species

16:16 ↗ selection uh and the city does emphasize

16:19 ↗ planting Natives and locally sourced

16:21 ↗ seeds for improved climate resilience

16:24 ↗ among other beneficial impacts of doing

16:27 ↗ so so just a a quick note on

16:30 ↗ that and lastly for current conditions

16:33 ↗ we roll up all of our findings from the

16:36 ↗ evaluations the studies the assessments

16:39 ↗ into an evaluation based on the US

16:41 ↗ Forest Services Urban Forest audit and

16:44 ↗ the indicators of a sustainable Urban

16:46 ↗ forest and we presented these findings

16:48 ↗ during the June meeting together but to

16:50 ↗ recap these findings supported the

16:52 ↗ development of the plan's goals and

16:54 ↗ strategies that we'll discuss in the

16:56 ↗ following slides and this framework also

16:59 ↗ serves as a um mechanism to Monitor and

17:03 ↗ adapt the plan over

17:05 ↗ time so in in addition to the goals and

17:08 ↗ strategies that are developed the

17:10 ↗ long-term framework consists of the

17:12 ↗ vision principles priority actions as

17:15 ↗ well as appendices to support

17:17 ↗ implementation that I'll cover in an

17:19 ↗ upcoming slide and as I mentioned this

17:22 ↗ entire framework provides um the

17:25 ↗ structure for measuring and monitoring

17:26 ↗ plan implementation progress and it

17:29 ↗ serves as a foundation uh for adapting

17:31 ↗ strategies over time and to Ser to make

17:34 ↗ sure that this plan serves as a living

17:36 ↗ uh road map and a work plan and so we'll

17:39 ↗ get into a little bit more detail of how

17:41 ↗ that implementation and monitoring can

17:43 ↗ take

17:45 ↗ place but before that I'd like to uh

17:48 ↗ just summarize the vision for the urban

17:50 ↗ forest and the road map that is laid out

17:53 ↗ in the management plan to achieve this

17:55 ↗ and so based on our planning results and

17:57 ↗ feedback from staff and the the

17:59 ↗ community the draft vision statement uh

18:01 ↗ reads as isqua envisions a thriving

18:04 ↗ Urban Forest were a diverse and cared

18:06 ↗ for tree canopy strengthens our

18:08 ↗ community for generations to come this

18:10 ↗ verdant tapestry will enhance our

18:13 ↗ livability promote health and well-being

18:15 ↗ support wildlife and habitat and

18:17 ↗ contribute to a sustainable future for

18:20 ↗ all and just note that the draft was

18:22 ↗ revised initially based on feedback we

18:25 ↗ received and it was uh developed with

18:27 ↗ feedback gathered from City St and

18:29 ↗ through our engagement with interested

18:33 ↗ parties then to direct the city towards

18:35 ↗ this Vision guiding principles were

18:37 ↗ drafted and these principles were

18:39 ↗ organized into themes that demonstrate

18:42 ↗ the city's priorities align with the

18:44 ↗ urban Forest audits I discussed and

18:46 ↗ they'll serve as a guiding Compass as

18:48 ↗ Urban Forest resources and conditions

18:50 ↗ change over time and City priorities may

18:53 ↗ change but these principles will guide

18:56 ↗ implementation going forward

19:00 ↗ and so similar to The isqua Climate

19:03 ↗ action plan the IAP the urban Forest

19:05 ↗ management plan or the UFM is a

19:08 ↗ functional plan according to the city's

19:10 ↗ planning framework meaning over a

19:12 ↗ 10-year period the plan May inform other

19:15 ↗ functional plans and the city's

19:17 ↗ comprehensive plan this 10-year road map

19:20 ↗ in the UFM should be reviewed and

19:23 ↗ updated periodically and align with

19:25 ↗ budget

19:26 ↗ Cycles essential to achieving the plan's

19:29 ↗ vision is the implementation and

19:31 ↗ monitoring framework so we discuss what

19:33 ↗ we have in the current conditions and

19:35 ↗ this is how to address the challenges

19:38 ↗ and to meet the vision and so you'll

19:40 ↗ find in section three implementation

19:42 ↗ that the goals and strategies are

19:44 ↗ supported by priority actions initial

19:48 ↗ steps targets rankings um co- benefits

19:52 ↗ of implementing that action Associated

19:55 ↗ costs and the key players involved and

19:57 ↗ the final plan also include a separate

20:00 ↗ interactive implementation worksheet to

20:02 ↗ sort filter and track actions you know

20:05 ↗ maybe there's an opportunity that arises

20:07 ↗ and you can sort by the highest priority

20:09 ↗ with the lowest level of effort required

20:12 ↗ and look at the time frame for

20:14 ↗ implementation to really find those uh

20:16 ↗ actions that you can address um

20:18 ↗ immediately or in a longer term

20:21 ↗ strategy and so section three also

20:24 ↗ includes cost estimates for priority

20:26 ↗ actions and then appendix d details

20:29 ↗ these costs for Budget planning also

20:31 ↗ there's an uh an appendix um that

20:34 ↗ includes potential mechanisms and

20:36 ↗ sources to fund implementation and I'll

20:38 ↗ cover these in a little more detail

20:40 ↗ later but the next slide just gives you

20:42 ↗ an example of a strategy table uh where

20:45 ↗ additional information is provided to

20:47 ↗ support this

20:49 ↗ implementation and so to demonstrate

20:51 ↗ this DET this table details the steps uh

20:54 ↗ the targets and time frames for

20:57 ↗ implementing strategies under goal B1

21:00 ↗ which aims to address public tree

21:02 ↗ maintenance and risk management with a

21:04 ↗ public tree inventory and I do see that

21:07 ↗ you know I'm bringing up the inventory

21:08 ↗ often it's because it was identified as

21:11 ↗ a high priority for the city it can help

21:13 ↗ to um address priority maintenance

21:16 ↗ management decisions planting capacity

21:20 ↗ and levels of service tree canopy cover

21:23 ↗ vulnerabilities and also inform future

21:25 ↗ manage uh budget decisions so it is one

21:28 ↗ we look to um address more in this

21:31 ↗ presentation this evening and this table

21:34 ↗ also outlines the priority uh level of

21:36 ↗ effort required to implement along with

21:38 ↗ those co- benefits so those benefits of

21:41 ↗ implementing Beyond just helping the

21:43 ↗ urban Forest maybe it relates to

21:45 ↗ community or human health or um looking

21:47 ↗ at other themes of supporting and you

21:51 ↗ know to build support for implementing

21:53 ↗ that

21:54 ↗ action and these uh actions also include

21:57 ↗ cost indicators and again they can all

21:59 ↗ be sorted in that interactive worksheet

22:01 ↗ to really nail down um a work plan for

22:05 ↗ making for implementing the management

22:09 ↗ plan so then uh the strategies or

22:12 ↗ actions that do have a direct cost

22:15 ↗ associated with them include an

22:17 ↗ indicator in the tables um that I

22:19 ↗ discussed on the previous slide and

22:22 ↗ these costs are then supported by an

22:24 ↗ appendix that lays out potential funding

22:26 ↗ mechanisms and sources such as is the

22:28 ↗ ones listed here and just note that in

22:31 ↗ the appendix there's more information

22:33 ↗ around these types of mechanisms and um

22:36 ↗ considerations and specific data

22:38 ↗ relating to

22:42 ↗ isqua and so I also briefly mention the

22:45 ↗ appendices of the plan to support

22:47 ↗ implementation and so this slide just

22:49 ↗ summarizes the strategies and actions on

22:52 ↗ the left that are supported by an

22:54 ↗ appendix in the plan listed on the right

22:56 ↗ and the order the appendix name may

22:59 ↗ change a little bit but this gives you

23:00 ↗ an idea that Beyond just saying you

23:03 ↗ should do this we're trying to lay out

23:05 ↗ the steps and considerations the costs

23:08 ↗ uh best practices case studies uh tools

23:11 ↗ and resources out there to really help

23:14 ↗ you know make this possible because in

23:16 ↗ every Community we work with resources

23:18 ↗ are limiting time is always a factor and

23:21 ↗ so this will really help to nail down

23:23 ↗ those priority actions and the first

23:25 ↗ steps for implementation

23:29 ↗ so lastly in order for the UFM to be a

23:32 ↗ living working document monitoring of

23:34 ↗ the plan is critical and this slide

23:36 ↗ summarizes the key components of the

23:38 ↗ monitoring section of the plan it is

23:41 ↗ recommended the city pursue an update to

23:43 ↗ the urban Forest audit and indicators

23:45 ↗ and we're planning to provide the city

23:47 ↗ with training on how to do that uh we'll

23:49 ↗ be here along the way too after the

23:51 ↗ Project's done to help with you know

23:53 ↗ utilizing these Frameworks but I think

23:55 ↗ it really will serve as a consistent

23:57 ↗ framework for monit monitoring over the

23:59 ↗ years and adapting the plan and um we'll

24:02 ↗ provide templates on those audits so

24:04 ↗ that you can you know carry this forward

24:06 ↗ uh among the the tree team or the boards

24:09 ↗ involved with monitoring the plan we

24:12 ↗ also look to um provide guidance on

24:15 ↗ those audit and indicators and also um

24:19 ↗ uh ways in which you can monitor

24:21 ↗ Benchmark values that we established in

24:23 ↗ the planning process one metric is the

24:26 ↗ percentage of tree canopy cover it is

24:28 ↗ recommended to do a follow-up canopy

24:30 ↗ assessment so one Benchmark would be to

24:33 ↗ see how that canopy has changed and what

24:35 ↗ were the causes of canopy gains and

24:37 ↗ losses and how should you adapt the

24:40 ↗ strategies accordingly we also make

24:43 ↗ recommendations on reporting progress

24:45 ↗ internally and externally with

24:47 ↗ interested parties because they were all

24:49 ↗ involved in this process and we want

24:50 ↗ this to be a shared Vision with a city

24:53 ↗ commitment to the plan and so

24:54 ↗ communication is key and also U

24:57 ↗ Gathering feedback to make revisions to

24:59 ↗ the plan the monitoring section also

25:02 ↗ suggests the process for making

25:04 ↗ revisions uh based on your

25:06 ↗ evaluations as well as based on the

25:08 ↗ results of your monitoring and as as

25:10 ↗ changes to resources occur over

25:15 ↗ time so that concludes the presentation

25:18 ↗ uh we started with our requests uh which

25:20 ↗ I'll share again on the following slide

25:23 ↗ we discussed the project timeline and

25:25 ↗ process to prepare this latest draft I

25:28 ↗ covered highlights from the draft plan

25:30 ↗ specifically in the current conditions

25:32 ↗ section and then we looked at the

25:34 ↗ Frameworks and protocols for

25:35 ↗ implementing and monitoring the plan and

25:38 ↗ following this meeting we'll incorporate

25:40 ↗ your feedback into a final draft there's

25:42 ↗ going to be additional styling and

25:44 ↗ design applied to the plan just going to

25:46 ↗ be um looking at making it uh like I

25:49 ↗ said the executive summary as a

25:51 ↗ standalone document and um really just

25:54 ↗ doing the final touches based on the

25:55 ↗ feedback and discussions that we have

25:58 ↗ we'll then incorporate any additional

26:00 ↗ feedback and meet with the services

26:02 ↗ safety and uh Park City Council

26:05 ↗ subcommittee in October and we

26:07 ↗ anticipate adoption of the plan by City

26:10 ↗ Council in November so that the city is

26:12 ↗ ready to implement implement the plan

26:15 ↗ beginning in 2025 and so that's that's

26:17 ↗ our plan but we want to hear from you

26:20 ↗ and so I'm going to turn it over to Dan

26:21 ↗ again to talk about the purpose and

26:24 ↗ action requested of this meeting and

26:26 ↗ really just want to again thank you all

26:27 ↗ for your time and uh you know weighing

26:29 ↗ in on the draft plan and looking forward

26:32 ↗ to the open discussion here so thank

26:36 ↗ you thank you Chris um and again so yeah

26:39 ↗ this is a slide we started off the

26:41 ↗ presentation with um you know kind of

26:43 ↗ the focus again is on uh you know any

26:46 ↗ feedback um any questions you have on

26:48 ↗ the feedback or comments that we've

26:50 ↗ received as part of draft number one um

26:53 ↗ reviewing and providing feedback on the

26:54 ↗ implementation and monitoring sections

26:57 ↗ uh you know if there's any other

26:58 ↗ questions related to current conditions

27:00 ↗ obviously we can cover that too but like

27:01 ↗ I said these are kind of the new uh

27:03 ↗ pieces of information in additions to

27:05 ↗ the forest management plan since we last

27:07 ↗ met with you in June um and then once

27:09 ↗ we're done with questions discussion

27:11 ↗ anything there um we could make a draft

27:15 ↗ motion to recommend move this forward to

27:18 ↗ council or recommend moving it forward

27:20 ↗ with you know if there's any possible

27:21 ↗ revisions amendments that you're hoping

27:23 ↗ to see as part of that process um so

27:26 ↗ yeah we will we'll leave that to uh

27:28 ↗ Chris Chris is the board chair and the

27:30 ↗ rest of you all to to make that decision

27:32 ↗ but um I guess for now any questions for

27:35 ↗ myself Chris possibly Jeff and S as well

27:38 ↗ but

27:40 ↗ uh are you taking questions on like the

27:43 ↗ updates the plan broadly or yes so I

27:48 ↗ guess well we we could go through these

27:50 ↗ you know each of the purpose ones there

27:51 ↗ if you want to but it can also just be

27:52 ↗ broadly related the plan you know

27:55 ↗ current conditions things that we did

27:56 ↗ Cover back in June but certain have had

27:58 ↗ of attitude since then so it can be all

28:04 ↗ that is that a question from

28:08 ↗ Ryan hello this is uh I I tried to go

28:13 ↗ through all the pages and so maybe it's

28:14 ↗ in there and I missed this but if you go

28:17 ↗ Tosh slides back you don't have to but

28:19 ↗ you had said Chris that there's

28:23 ↗ uh a

28:25 ↗ review period and then there's a

28:29 ↗ make a new 5 to 10 year action plan was

28:32 ↗ the review period annually or was it

28:35 ↗ also 5 to 10 years to make a new five to

28:38 ↗ 10 year plan after

28:42 ↗ that yeah good question there so uh one

28:45 ↗ of the recommendations uh looks at

28:48 ↗ canopy cover change and so um there

28:50 ↗ would be supporting assessments and

28:53 ↗ studies that would um provide

28:55 ↗ evaluations but there's um a a full uh

28:59 ↗ revision at um year 10 so there wouldn't

29:02 ↗ be um any major changes in the short

29:07 ↗ term okay yeah no if I could add it's a

29:11 ↗ really good question Ryan just add some

29:12 ↗ context looking back so the ca canopy

29:16 ↗ cover assessment is something the city

29:18 ↗ has done at least in my time here twice

29:21 ↗ now right so I think that that fiveyear

29:24 ↗ Mark is more referenced as Chris said to

29:27 ↗ a canopy cover assessment which is just

29:29 ↗ trying to

29:30 ↗ confirm um where we're at in terms of

29:32 ↗ percent can it be cover I think we

29:34 ↗ covered that in the June

29:36 ↗ conversation um and then updating this

29:38 ↗ type of document every 10 years and Ryan

29:41 ↗ I'll just add to uh you know we are

29:43 ↗ looking at doing annual reports just

29:45 ↗ kind of on General progress I think it's

29:47 ↗ printed you know probably a little bit

29:50 ↗ for um using the the audit tool um you

29:53 ↗ know maybe every two years especially if

29:55 ↗ we're kind of looking at new budget

29:56 ↗ Cycles kind of what we've accomplish

29:57 ↗ what those kind of next near-term you

29:59 ↗ know kind of two-year goals if you look

30:01 ↗ at the implementation section A lot of

30:02 ↗ stuff is one to three years three to

30:04 ↗ five years and then you know maybe more

30:05 ↗ longterm with that five to 10 range so

30:08 ↗ so they're they're kind of different

30:09 ↗ intermediate yeah there's kind of the

30:10 ↗ general kind of annual accomplishments

30:12 ↗ that we want to better kind of formulize

30:14 ↗ and use this plan as as really the

30:15 ↗ framework for how we put those reports

30:18 ↗ together I think every two years we're

30:19 ↗ obviously looking at budget request and

30:21 ↗ you know money to go along with some of

30:23 ↗ those Associated actions um and then you

30:25 ↗ know as Jeff and Chris Manet you know

30:27 ↗ mentioned roughly five years looking at

30:29 ↗ the uh Citywide tree canopy assessment

30:32 ↗ um and then also really that treat

30:34 ↗ canopy assessment really supports some

30:35 ↗ of the goals of Vis climate action of

30:37 ↗ course you've heard a lot about our 55%

30:40 ↗ canopy goal and then certainly with our

30:42 ↗ new land use code Title 18 uh and some

30:45 ↗ of the sub area or I heard we might be

30:47 ↗ changing those to neighborhoods um you

30:50 ↗ know so some of the uh right now I think

30:51 ↗ we have should know this 15 or so um you

30:55 ↗ know essentially sub areas that we have

30:56 ↗ TR canopy data from our first assment

30:58 ↗ back in 2019 and the idea is you know

31:01 ↗ having that data 5 years or so can

31:02 ↗ really help track you know the success

31:04 ↗ of implementing our our tree code and

31:06 ↗ and really try not to go backwards on

31:08 ↗ canopy so lots of benefits across

31:11 ↗ departments here

31:20 ↗ too question I'm looking at

31:30 ↗ was the in question I lost it

31:35 ↗ on in question number seven in the the

31:43 ↗ PDF it's like tracking the tracking on

31:46 ↗ yes

31:47 ↗ yes um that's all the rest of them are

31:49 ↗ in progress are done this is one the

31:52 ↗ only the wildlife the wildlife my

31:56 ↗ question I this was came up last time as

31:59 ↗ like a potential recommendation I don't

32:01 ↗ think last time I we saw it it had the

32:03 ↗ budget tied to it of the

32:06 ↗ $120,000 and so I'm just curious for

32:09 ↗ that amount of money what do we expect

32:10 ↗ to learn that we wouldn't be already we

32:13 ↗ wouldn't already be able to know or

32:16 ↗ understand um existing

32:20 ↗ data that's that's a good question I I

32:22 ↗ might defer to Chris on the kind of

32:24 ↗ budget estimate for that specifically

32:26 ↗ and it sounds like I think you've all

32:28 ↗ that as part of the park system plan

32:29 ↗ we're trying to keep that as consistent

32:31 ↗ as you know possible across plans here

32:33 ↗ we've heard a lot from I think this

32:35 ↗ group is certainly from the

32:36 ↗ environmental board and other interested

32:38 ↗ parties about the importance of uh you

32:40 ↗ know wildlife and habitat as it relates

32:42 ↗ to our Urban forest and and this plan we

32:44 ↗ did focus on it tonight we have a past

32:46 ↗ meetings around the riparian canopy

32:48 ↗ analysis was the first time we did that

32:49 ↗ in this part of this assessment uh you

32:52 ↗ know so that's looking more specifically

32:53 ↗ at you know salmon recovery and some of

32:55 ↗ the wildlife that obviously uses our

32:57 ↗ raran areas as as corridors I think

33:00 ↗ there's a desire to look a little bit

33:02 ↗ further past just those little bit more

33:04 ↗ kind of linear networks and look at

33:05 ↗ connectivity through the city and how

33:08 ↗ that relates to um and Jeff please

33:10 ↗ correct me or if you have different kind

33:11 ↗ of views on this but how it relates to

33:13 ↗ you know connectivity in our Park system

33:14 ↗ being mindful of course wanting to get

33:16 ↗ people from Creeks to Peaks but also you

33:18 ↗ know if we have heavily utilized

33:20 ↗ connections between tiger and squa

33:22 ↗ Mountain how do we kind of plan around

33:23 ↗ that that might even tie into our

33:24 ↗ transportation team in public works in

33:26 ↗ terms of wild connectivity uh whether

33:29 ↗ that's know about getting pipe dream

33:30 ↗ here but Wildlife Crossings or under

33:32 ↗ Crossings around hobar we know there's a

33:34 ↗ lot of Need for connections between

33:36 ↗ tiger and Spock mountains and see that

33:38 ↗ use with our partnership with Woodland

33:40 ↗ Park zoom and some of the camera

33:41 ↗ trapping we do with Wildlife we know we

33:44 ↗ we kind of know where some of these hot

33:46 ↗ spots are at but it's never really been

33:47 ↗ studied formalized or even a little bit

33:49 ↗ more details on what are those kind of

33:51 ↗ habitat UN in consideration for a kind

33:53 ↗ of wider array of species from you know

33:56 ↗ some of our bigger Car Wars to some of

33:58 ↗ our smaller Critters like M things like

34:00 ↗ that that also are really part important

34:02 ↗ part of the lab so Jeff if you anything

34:05 ↗ you want to add to that or yeah great

34:07 ↗ question Marlene I I think

34:09 ↗ it's think what we what would be gotten

34:12 ↗ out of an assessment or a actual you

34:14 ↗ know Urban Wildlife network plan or

34:17 ↗ corridor plan is trying to True up

34:20 ↗ anecdotally what we think we know right

34:23 ↗ so yes we have the partnership with the

34:26 ↗ zoo and have the coexisting with

34:28 ↗ carnivore cameras we have an idea of

34:30 ↗ where patterns and uses are but we don't

34:33 ↗ fully know um the details of of that and

34:38 ↗ so I think it's trying to become that

34:40 ↗ much more informed

34:43 ↗ um just for all aspects of operation of

34:46 ↗ the city um it's certainly a priority we

34:50 ↗ heard from U environmental board it's

34:53 ↗ something we heard from our partners at

34:55 ↗ the tribe um is just again that

34:58 ↗ understanding of not and to understand

35:00 ↗ not necessarily to limit what the city

35:02 ↗ does but to be that much better informed

35:04 ↗ as we are making Capital Investments as

35:08 ↗ we're um doing you know all variety of

35:12 ↗ of um providing services to

35:15 ↗ Residents so I I think that's probably

35:17 ↗ in question we're trying to make sure

35:19 ↗ it's as consistent as possible with you

35:21 ↗ know what ends up getting publish in the

35:22 ↗ park system plan which is you know a

35:24 ↗ month or so ahead of our time frame with

35:26 ↗ the forest management plan so um but we

35:29 ↗ have it in there I think that's

35:30 ↗ something you kind of figuring out the

35:31 ↗ scope Chris I don't know if you have

35:33 ↗ anything to add on you know kind of

35:34 ↗ where that cost estimate came

35:38 ↗ from yeah thanks Dan I was going to add

35:41 ↗ that I looked at my notes here and the

35:43 ↗ reason it says in question is primarily

35:45 ↗ because the terminology may change we

35:48 ↗ heard that it might be Wildlife network

35:50 ↗ instead of corridor and we also want to

35:52 ↗ make sure that we align it with the park

35:54 ↗ system Plan update in terms of

35:56 ↗ terminology and costs um the

36:00 ↗ $120,000 did come from notes received

36:03 ↗ around that it was not a study that we

36:05 ↗ did for estimating costs we can exclude

36:08 ↗ that given that it's a primary focus of

36:11 ↗ the park system plan and not include

36:13 ↗ that cost line item in the UFM but um

36:17 ↗ there's some context and that's partly

36:19 ↗ another reason for uh the status being

36:21 ↗ in question yeah and it is again an

36:24 ↗ estimate um I would I would say as a if

36:28 ↗ and when the city pursues doing that um

36:31 ↗ like we would aggressively pursue Grant

36:33 ↗ funds to help cover um a big part of

36:36 ↗ that there are Grant funds available to

36:39 ↗ to do that

36:41 ↗ work so I I have a question and you know

36:44 ↗ it's there's a lot to go through and um

36:48 ↗ I just get to the

36:50 ↗ um cost because um I I what I hear from

36:54 ↗ the city of Vis plot is that there the

36:57 ↗ are considering Cuts all across the

37:00 ↗ boards so I I noticed here the

37:02 ↗ recommendation that we will have um

37:04 ↗ three

37:06 ↗ arborous is is that I mean I guess my

37:09 ↗ question is um what are other cities

37:14 ↗ like Belleville and Seattle um do they

37:17 ↗ have that many um employees to work on

37:21 ↗ it and then um because for me you know

37:24 ↗ looking at how much in terms of the

37:28 ↗ the salary and the package and um so I'm

37:31 ↗ just and and looking at the like the

37:33 ↗ recommendation for for truck F450 you

37:37 ↗ know here we are we're talking about

37:40 ↗ tree and you know environmental friendly

37:43 ↗ is that something is that the message we

37:45 ↗ want to send we got the

37:48 ↗ F450 going up and down um you know the

37:52 ↗ city so I I I'm just kind of bringing

37:55 ↗ this up as to

37:58 ↗ I try to understand the importance of

38:01 ↗ the of what we're trying to do but at

38:03 ↗ the same time um looking at the cost and

38:07 ↗ just doing the cost benefit analysis and

38:09 ↗ then coming from a taxpayer I'm asking

38:12 ↗ the

38:14 ↗ question you know I mean we're paying

38:17 ↗ the city of Isa employees and now we are

38:21 ↗ who who's who's funding the dis spining

38:23 ↗ the bills yeah no it's a great question

38:25 ↗ I'll take a a first crack at that we're

38:27 ↗ we're always needing to balance cost

38:30 ↗ benefit um I would say as as we look at

38:34 ↗ setting a Target like that of um

38:38 ↗ internal resources for arborists or tree

38:41 ↗ expertise um I can tell you our approach

38:45 ↗ to date is probably what I would

38:47 ↗ recommend our approach moving forward is

38:49 ↗ that we we're not big enough as a city

38:51 ↗ an agency or a park maintenance group to

38:53 ↗ have

38:55 ↗ specialized single task employees so as

38:59 ↗ we look at increasing our arborist

39:01 ↗ expertise internally it's probably

39:03 ↗ someone who's a park maintenance worker

39:06 ↗ who also has an arborous license right

39:09 ↗ it's it's fulfilling that internal um

39:12 ↗ skill set with employees who are doing

39:16 ↗ other stuff as well um that is something

39:19 ↗ we constantly are always looking to do

39:23 ↗ um um in in the department right so as a

39:26 ↗ recommend ation it maybe we look at

39:30 ↗ rewarding it you know I I think our

39:32 ↗ intent

39:33 ↗ isn't three arborous who all they're

39:37 ↗ doing is arborous work they're probably

39:40 ↗ you know up to three of our Park

39:42 ↗ maintenance employees who have an

39:44 ↗ arborous license who are able to give

39:47 ↗ knowledge to Tree Management um

39:51 ↗ currently and again moving into the

39:53 ↗ future there are often cases where um we

39:56 ↗ need Outsource the actual tree work

39:59 ↗ right so how do we make sure we have

40:01 ↗ internal expertise to evaluate to

40:03 ↗ understand what's happening with the

40:04 ↗ tree um but if it's a big enough task or

40:09 ↗ a big enough project that's that's being

40:11 ↗ outsourced um so always a balancing act

40:15 ↗ we're always having to look at at

40:17 ↗ funding but we're all always trying to

40:20 ↗ look for um diversity of skills but also

40:26 ↗ um uh

40:29 ↗ multi capabilities of all of our

40:31 ↗ employees we're not big enough to be

40:34 ↗ single task

40:37 ↗ driven that

40:39 ↗ help I

40:42 ↗ just we do have I mean I got my

40:46 ↗ certification this year and we actually

40:48 ↗ have one of our parts work or two that

40:51 ↗ got that as well so we actually do have

40:52 ↗ two right now but to Jeff's Point yes

40:54 ↗ they're not you know focused ouris 100%

40:57 ↗ of the time and having that skill having

40:59 ↗ that ability to kind of lean as needed I

41:01 ↗ know you've probably have I'm guessing

41:03 ↗ interacted with Daniel Martinez who's

41:05 ↗ one of our community planners and does a

41:07 ↗ lot of our work with our tree permits I

41:09 ↗ know he's been very interested in trying

41:10 ↗ to get his certification that wouldn't

41:12 ↗ change his job dramatically essentially

41:14 ↗ it gives you the credential to to kind

41:16 ↗ of make some determinations hopefully

41:18 ↗ inform determinations on stuff as it

41:20 ↗ relates to trees so I'll say right now I

41:23 ↗ a decent chunk of my time I spend

41:25 ↗ supporting both Community planning and

41:27 ↗ public works it relates to uh needing

41:29 ↗ certified Arborist whether that's

41:31 ↗ recommendations or just you know kind of

41:32 ↗ informal Consulting um but yes having

41:36 ↗ having you know in an Ideal World I

41:37 ↗ would say having you know one in one in

41:40 ↗ Parks one in public works one in

41:41 ↗ community planning would be great like

41:43 ↗ now the only two in the city are

41:44 ↗ actually been Parks Services myself

41:48 ↗ Christie thanks Dan it's a great

41:51 ↗ example I just um also provide a

41:55 ↗ response is that all right

42:00 ↗ it's an important question around costs

42:02 ↗ and one thing that we try to do is put

42:04 ↗ cost to actions um to make sure that

42:07 ↗ this discussion happens I will say that

42:11 ↗ um in the Strat in the longterm

42:13 ↗ framework the strategies and actions do

42:15 ↗ not call for bringing on a three-person

42:18 ↗ in-house arborous crew what it does is

42:21 ↗ goal D3 says evaluate the Staffing level

42:24 ↗ structure and resources for tree related

42:26 ↗ program s and adjust as needed to meet

42:29 ↗ the goals of the plan and growing

42:31 ↗ demands of the urban forest and so the

42:34 ↗ um cost estimates and the appendix is

42:38 ↗ there for a supporting um resource for

42:41 ↗ consideration it may not be three and

42:43 ↗ you know um Jeff and Dan did a good job

42:46 ↗ of describing that it's going to be an

42:47 ↗ overlap of different you know

42:50 ↗ responsibilities um but I did just want

42:52 ↗ to mention that part of it and uh you

42:55 ↗ know there is a goal to increase canopy

42:56 ↗ C that means more trees more maintenance

43:00 ↗ um and then uh also we did Benchmark uh

43:04 ↗ 19 other cities in the region to see

43:07 ↗ what their Staffing levels were and then

43:09 ↗ the um the internal staff survey spoke

43:12 ↗ to needs for equipment and Staffing so

43:16 ↗ like I said earlier this appendix around

43:19 ↗ cost and an in-house arborous crew could

43:21 ↗ be pulled out of the plan could be a

43:23 ↗ separate document for when the

43:25 ↗ conversation comes up again

43:27 ↗ um but uh it's yeah it's one of those

43:30 ↗ things that um we need to discuss and

43:32 ↗ see where it fits in the plan or if it's

43:35 ↗ um gets rewarded or structured

43:37 ↗ differently so thank

43:40 ↗ you so quick question all the funding

43:44 ↗ I'm looking at this I assume it's

43:45 ↗ conservative we're talking about $8.6

43:49 ↗ million over the next 10 years that's

43:52 ↗ that's the

43:53 ↗ number is that realistic are we going to

43:56 ↗ evaluate that every year I mean that's a

43:58 ↗ big number is it once it's approved it's

44:01 ↗ there you go 8.6 million for the next

44:03 ↗ years defitely much much like the park

44:06 ↗ system plan this is this is meant to be

44:08 ↗ aspirational it's meant to

44:11 ↗ highlight

44:13 ↗ um investment level that the city could

44:16 ↗ take but it is not a budget document it

44:18 ↗ is not a you know adoption of this is

44:21 ↗ not a mandate just like the park system

44:23 ↗ plan right it it's meant to set a vision

44:27 ↗ and then actual funding of this program

44:31 ↗ um is dependent upon annual budget

44:34 ↗ decisions of the city council so yeah

44:37 ↗ not a mandate and understand reviewed

44:40 ↗ every year a great questioning exactly

44:43 ↗ right above there where it says the

44:45 ↗ planning onetime cost 1.6 million right

44:48 ↗ so it's like do we want to spend that

44:50 ↗ knowing that we could cut the rest and

44:51 ↗ never implement the plan or could we in

44:55 ↗ theory use it for something like which

44:57 ↗ we know right I mean it's it's like if

45:00 ↗ you're going to spend the money you

45:01 ↗ should do it otherwise why you spend the

45:04 ↗ money in the first place right but I

45:07 ↗ understand yes we have to reevaluate

45:08 ↗ every year that's the smart thing to do

45:10 ↗ but how that6 is spent just on like all

45:13 ↗ the studies whether we do them or

45:18 ↗ not Chris do you have anything to to add

45:20 ↗ to

45:23 ↗ that they're

45:25 ↗ discussing um I heard the question

45:27 ↗ around the 8 point five the the overall

45:31 ↗ cost over the 10-year period and uh I

45:33 ↗ Echo what Jeff was saying that it would

45:36 ↗ not be fully committing to that cost

45:39 ↗ once the plan is adopted it would be uh

45:41 ↗ up for decision during budget planning

45:44 ↗ and how the city

45:45 ↗ prioritizes um different uh budget needs

45:50 ↗ yeah I don't have the slide in front of

45:51 ↗ me but I I think there 1.6 million in

45:55 ↗ planning I I don't I think that's meant

45:57 ↗ to be that has to be done on the front

46:00 ↗ end um

46:02 ↗ to yeah so marleene Chris I believe is

46:05 ↗ asking so on page 117 of the plan is the

46:08 ↗ summarizing you know potential City

46:10 ↗ incurred cost um and it has a total

46:12 ↗ onetime cost of

46:15 ↗ 1.55 n or yeah one one and a half

46:18 ↗ million plus uh not to be incurred in

46:20 ↗ any single year so I think that looking

46:23 ↗ at some of the kind of plan development

46:26 ↗ spread out through about this but would

46:27 ↗ you mind clarifying that a little bit

46:29 ↗ yeah yeah thank you I'm on that page now

46:31 ↗ and

46:32 ↗ um if helpful if it's permitted you know

46:37 ↗ just let me know if not I can go back to

46:38 ↗ the presentation but

46:41 ↗ um good okay yeah so um what we did was

46:45 ↗ just roll up the entire cost of doing

46:47 ↗ everything and so that you get a feel of

46:49 ↗ what the ask is but if you look at you

46:52 ↗ know really the priority um would be

46:55 ↗ around the inventory that was discuss

46:57 ↗ the plantings to achieve the canopy goal

47:00 ↗ and so um we look at um what the the

47:04 ↗ total onetime cost would be is adding up

47:07 ↗ these um actions and strategies that

47:09 ↗ have a cost to them so it wouldn't be

47:11 ↗ that you're doing an emerald ashor plan

47:14 ↗ the same year that you're doing

47:15 ↗ neighborhood planting plans the same

47:17 ↗ year that you're doing you know the um

47:20 ↗ an engagement strategy to uh um support

47:24 ↗ implementation it would be whatever

47:27 ↗ decided during the budget planning

47:28 ↗ process and this would just be in maybe

47:31 ↗ an Ideal World if everything was done uh

47:34 ↗ what the cost would be um but then the

47:37 ↗ 10-year cost then takes into account the

47:40 ↗ um planting post-planting care ongoing

47:43 ↗ maintenance of trees to achieve um the

47:47 ↗ canopy goal while doing these other

47:49 ↗ things as well you know um Inventory

47:51 ↗ management software and all of the other

47:54 ↗ items listed and it also includes

47:57 ↗ for consideration that threepers

47:59 ↗ arborous crew so there's going to be

48:02 ↗ some reworking of these cost tables on

48:05 ↗ um but this can serve as a separate

48:08 ↗ document as well for you know when the

48:10 ↗ opportunity arises for um considering

48:13 ↗ some of these um actions that require uh

48:18 ↗ funding and uh there's a separate

48:20 ↗ worksheet that really breaks down where

48:22 ↗ these costs come from it just wasn't uh

48:26 ↗ this was the best way to format it in a

48:28 ↗ in a um a summary table but if you have

48:31 ↗ specific questions on the uh cost for

48:35 ↗ plantings because we consider um we

48:39 ↗ consider uh caliper size plantings we

48:42 ↗ consider seedlings consider maintenance

48:44 ↗ uh city-led plantings uh privately Le

48:48 ↗ plantings we also look at um for

48:51 ↗ management costs uh we look at the um

48:55 ↗ post planting care and then the ongoing

48:58 ↗ maintenance for establishment and then

49:00 ↗ as it gets into uh routine tree pruning

49:03 ↗ if it's a tree in you know like a main a

49:06 ↗ landscaped area or along a

49:09 ↗ streetscapes and I'll just add last

49:11 ↗ thing on David's point that Jeff kind of

49:13 ↗ already hinted at when we talking about

49:14 ↗ the wildlife Corridor or network study

49:18 ↗ um you know is also listed here with

49:19 ↗ that $120,000 estimate you know a lot a

49:22 ↗ lot of this a tree inventory included

49:24 ↗ you know we really looking at Grant

49:25 ↗ funds Department natural resources have

49:27 ↗ a fairly strong program that that has

49:30 ↗ has fed most of be tree inventories and

49:32 ↗ some are Forest management plans in the

49:34 ↗ area too so I mean that those will be

49:36 ↗ resources we'll be looking at the short

49:37 ↗ term to to implement some of these

49:39 ↗ short-term goals um but that being said

49:41 ↗ I mean it's still you know there's still

49:43 ↗ you know cost that we look at through

49:44 ↗ the city when that is appropriate when

49:46 ↗ that is available but you know some of

49:47 ↗ these things definitely be leading into

49:49 ↗ to gr programs as well and then the last

49:52 ↗ thing Chris mentioned if you all

49:54 ↗ familiar with says Cal caliper trees

49:56 ↗ where about

49:57 ↗ usually pushing 2 in diameter you know

50:01 ↗ trees so we're talking about ball burlap

50:03 ↗ or large pots so a lot of the estimates

50:06 ↗ around tree numbers to achieve the 55%

50:09 ↗ goal were based on that I think we have

50:10 ↗ somewhere in here you know about 400

50:13 ↗ plus dollars per tree for you know

50:15 ↗ materials and labor um that's that's

50:18 ↗ high end I mean a lot of our planting we

50:20 ↗ do are with seedlings one two gallon

50:23 ↗ even beo plants so younger you're going

50:25 ↗ to have higher mortality they're a lot

50:27 ↗ cheaper you know we're talking more of

50:28 ↗ the five to 10 to maybe 20 $30 a piece

50:32 ↗ obviously some Associated labor and

50:33 ↗ maintenance so there's there's

50:35 ↗ ultimately going to probably be a mix of

50:36 ↗ that but you know we're kind of looking

50:38 ↗ at the high end especially if we're

50:39 ↗ looking at that kind of 10 year time

50:41 ↗ frame and achieving that canopy goal by

50:44 ↗ 2035 you know obviously the bigger

50:45 ↗ material you put in the quicker it will

50:48 ↗ achieve that uh you know canopy height

50:50 ↗ but uh so that that's something I think

50:52 ↗ that's worth calling out too when we

50:53 ↗ talk about caliber treat you know the

50:55 ↗ Assumption for a lot of those planting

50:56 ↗ cost is but we're putting in six s foot

50:58 ↗ tall 2 in diameter trees and not you

51:00 ↗ know one to two foot seed length which

51:02 ↗ which we we do a lot of through

51:05 ↗ qu for you know you going to budgets Etc

51:08 ↗ but on

51:10 ↗ slide it's page three of the plan that's

51:14 ↗ slide 15 in the PDF um it's the existing

51:19 ↗ programs and operations slide one I

51:21 ↗ think your Char is not doing you any

51:23 ↗ favor is the 9.11 versus 8.53

51:29 ↗ aggressive I'm just curious that that's

51:31 ↗ our current right so if I'm looking at

51:34 ↗ this we're spending 36 is it do I read

51:38 ↗ this as we're spending 36% of our budget

51:41 ↗ on tree planting and initial here

51:43 ↗ currently of our tree related

51:45 ↗ expenditures yes so yeah I think I think

51:47 ↗ Marlene's talking about yes so page page

51:49 ↗ three in the plan is Chris talked about

51:52 ↗ doing The Benchmark study essentially

51:54 ↗ comparing us to 19 SAR size cities and

51:57 ↗ our region uh this is information that's

51:59 ↗ all submitted through our tree City USA

52:01 ↗ status which we've been doing for 30

52:03 ↗ plus years now um so yes we are looking

52:06 ↗ at essentially the uh ratios and it's

52:09 ↗ not surprising we do spend a lot on tree

52:11 ↗ planting initial care maybe not quite as

52:13 ↗ much on uh you know the kind of the

52:15 ↗ maintenance and management but of course

52:16 ↗ that's increased a lot just in the last

52:18 ↗ year through hiring my position and our

52:19 ↗ volunteer coordinator um so yeah we were

52:22 ↗ looking at that kind of dollars per

52:24 ↗ capita and you for it's worth you know

52:25 ↗ Tre C say it requires a minimum $2 per

52:28 ↗ capita that St plus some other

52:30 ↗ requirements too but um my question is

52:34 ↗ Right 911 right

52:36 ↗ now what is this plan put us set I'm not

52:39 ↗ sure we've done that

52:42 ↗ calculation and also to to just point we

52:45 ↗ haven't committed to you know spending

52:47 ↗ or funding it's hard to like recommended

52:51 ↗ plan I don't have any

52:54 ↗ scale yeah no it's it's a it's a great

52:57 ↗ point I don't

52:58 ↗ know um it'd be interesting to make sure

53:01 ↗ we're comparing Apples to Apples but at

53:04 ↗ you know $9.11 per capita this is

53:06 ↗ roughly saying you know we're investing

53:09 ↗ about 300 and some thousand a year

53:12 ↗ $36,000 a year in in Tree Management and

53:16 ↗ yeah comped to other 19 cities we we're

53:19 ↗ probably doing pretty well but we also

53:21 ↗ have a big a big you know thousand plus

53:25 ↗ acres of Urban Forest that this city has

53:28 ↗ chosen to purchase over the decades that

53:30 ↗ you know we we need to Steward so um I

53:34 ↗ think it's

53:35 ↗ does I

53:38 ↗ can't yeah you know and I'm not and I'm

53:40 ↗ not defending I'm just saying yeah we

53:43 ↗ we're um I think this does us a good

53:45 ↗ service and that it it we're we're

53:47 ↗ investing at a pretty good rate um my

53:51 ↗ Apples to Apples comment was more I

53:52 ↗ think it would be informative

53:54 ↗ instructive to take that prior table if

53:57 ↗ our Target is roughly and and when you

54:00 ↗ roll up a 10-year number it looks huge

54:02 ↗ right 88 million that's if that rolled

54:06 ↗ up that if that's 800 and some thousand

54:09 ↗ a year that we're saying we want to try

54:11 ↗ and invest over the next 10 years if

54:14 ↗ we're already at 300 and some thousand I

54:16 ↗ want is is that Apples to Apples right

54:19 ↗ is that

54:20 ↗ comparable um that could at least give

54:23 ↗ context to say hey we're doing well with

54:27 ↗ our current investment at X if we really

54:30 ↗ wanted to um start looking at some of

54:34 ↗ these other goals the investment rate we

54:36 ↗ could consider is this but again once

54:39 ↗ once again just like the park system

54:41 ↗ plan this is not

54:43 ↗ requiring us to take this action it's

54:46 ↗ just saying hey here's we really want to

54:48 ↗ be stewards of this for us that the

54:50 ↗ community has chosen to buy over the

54:52 ↗ last 40 years here's what we should be

54:56 ↗ aware of or at least considering so that

54:59 ↗ might help give I don't know if that

55:01 ↗ would

55:02 ↗ help at least give scale least

55:06 ↗ scale so we think we need to double our

55:10 ↗ investment in urban forestry to and that

55:13 ↗ might be true I'm just ask to to to

55:16 ↗ potentially try to accomplish everything

55:18 ↗ in here I mean I I was just doing some

55:19 ↗ just quick quick math you know the

55:21 ↗ things we've presented as possible

55:23 ↗ addition in the next budget cycle with

55:25 ↗ once again the caveat that a lot of us

55:26 ↗ will be looking through you know non-

55:28 ↗ General funds whether that's grant

55:29 ↗ funding whether that's our dedicated

55:30 ↗ tree fund that we haven't to be honest

55:32 ↗ been real great at tapping your

55:34 ↗ utilizing as a city here over the past

55:36 ↗ um you know we looked at putting a

55:38 ↗ placeold for $80,000 in for the uh tree

55:41 ↗ inventory you know another 25 or so

55:44 ↗ thousand dollar for um you know plant

55:47 ↗ material planting over kind of over the

55:49 ↗ next two years so I mean that that is

55:52 ↗ maybe not a doubling as much as it's

55:53 ↗ like about a time and a half so you know

55:55 ↗ with that addition you know kind of

55:56 ↗ status quo we looking at more maybe like

55:58 ↗ $12 per capita or something like that

56:00 ↗ and that that's really just forecasting

56:01 ↗ the next two years where we have a

56:03 ↗ little bit more want to say certainty

56:04 ↗ but a better idea of what we were hoping

56:06 ↗ to pull from this plan and then continue

56:08 ↗ to build out this program and any

56:11 ↗ for in the park plan right so like is

56:15 ↗ this separate from the park plan or is

56:16 ↗ this in the budget of the park plan so

56:20 ↗ like we have a park plan budget and

56:21 ↗ there's an urban forestry budget is a is

56:23 ↗ it sit nested underneath or first this

56:26 ↗ would be this would be separate right

56:28 ↗ the park system plan is really looking

56:31 ↗ at capital investment within the park

56:35 ↗ system this plan is looking at

56:38 ↗ management and maintenance of the urban

56:41 ↗ Forest right um so I wouldn't say it's

56:45 ↗ totally nested there might be some

56:47 ↗ degree of overlap um I think another

56:49 ↗ just key consideration is that per

56:52 ↗ whatever the per capita number is we're

56:53 ↗ at currently or striving to or what will

56:56 ↗ be in the

56:57 ↗ future that likely assumes a decent

57:00 ↗ amount of that as Grant funded as well

57:03 ↗ again how are we leveraging so per

57:06 ↗ capita might be a confusing way to it's

57:08 ↗ not as if everyone's paying $9 and some

57:12 ↗ $12 into it it's that's just

57:15 ↗ the The Divided rate um uh per resident

57:21 ↗ uh but again grants are a huge we're

57:25 ↗ very aggressive with leveraging local

57:28 ↗ dollars with with grants so um maybe

57:31 ↗ there's um there a great discussion it

57:34 ↗ feels like maybe there's some additional

57:37 ↗ context we could give to these

57:40 ↗ um aspirations or maybe you

57:44 ↗ know so like we keep talking about it

57:46 ↗ being aspiration is it like hey it's p

57:49 ↗ in the sky I think we're actually to get

57:51 ↗ 50% of this or is it like about 80%

57:54 ↗ there and maybe you know there's 20%

57:56 ↗ that's probably a little bit too ous

57:58 ↗ well aspiration I'll I'll let I'll let

58:01 ↗ the experts follow me please but I guess

58:04 ↗ when I say aspirational I see it as this

58:07 ↗ is this is we want to get to a level

58:11 ↗ where we can

58:13 ↗ manage the public Urban forest in this

58:16 ↗ way um we're aspirational terms of time

58:20 ↗ are we going to get there in 10 years

58:21 ↗ are we going to be able to do all of

58:22 ↗ this in 10 years probably not um we we

58:26 ↗ want to get to all of this but it might

58:28 ↗ take us 20 plus years to to get there as

58:32 ↗ opposed to as opposed to 10 so it's more

58:35 ↗ the rate than it

58:38 ↗ is how much you want to do similar to

58:41 ↗ the park system plan right that we would

58:44 ↗ love to do everything in the near- term

58:46 ↗ in the near-term midterm longterm but

58:48 ↗ it's really going to be dependent on

58:50 ↗ upon Community deciding how much they

58:52 ↗ want to invest their Capital dollars

58:55 ↗ into the Park

58:58 ↗ system and I guess I'll add to that is

59:00 ↗ the biggest variable cost obviously is

59:02 ↗ this tree planting gold which TR achieve

59:04 ↗ 55% and that's something this group

59:06 ↗ discussed both the feasibility and the

59:08 ↗ practicality of that so I think that's

59:10 ↗ something that we need to revisit

59:12 ↗ throughout this 10year process it also

59:14 ↗ relates to our climate action plan and

59:15 ↗ it's touched upon on this Forest

59:17 ↗ management plan too there's there's big

59:19 ↗ variables that we won't know about for

59:21 ↗ another year or two for instance the

59:23 ↗ state building code is proposed

59:24 ↗ defensible space as part of allow fire

59:26 ↗ preparedness and the initial maps that

59:28 ↗ Publishers stood now advising showed

59:30 ↗ pretty much the entirety isic well we're

59:31 ↗ hoping it's going to be a little more

59:33 ↗ fine grain than that but you know that

59:35 ↗ would be putting huge implications on

59:37 ↗ you know essentially not having Tre with

59:39 ↗ 30 feet structures and all a sudden our

59:40 ↗ C to goal and our planting goals are

59:42 ↗ absolutely getting revised downside so

59:45 ↗ there's there's a lot of variability so

59:46 ↗ I would say the aspirational variable

59:49 ↗ cost of years is is is mostly connected

59:52 ↗ to our 55% Tre canity goal in our isical

59:55 ↗ climate action plan I know there's

59:56 ↗ already been discussions amongst this

59:58 ↗ board environmental board around

1:00:01 ↗ feasibility practicality and I would say

1:00:03 ↗ that is that is aspirational I think

1:00:05 ↗ we'll have some kind of more ground

1:00:06 ↗ tracing on on that over the next few

1:00:09 ↗ years based on things out of our control

1:00:10 ↗ and then certainly you know what we're

1:00:12 ↗ able to to do as a program around around

1:00:14 ↗ funding and tree planting there but like

1:00:16 ↗ I said the wild fire stuff huge in terms

1:00:19 ↗ of impacts that might have on on tree

1:00:23 ↗ canopy it's a great connection Dan

1:00:25 ↗ you're right this the rate of tree

1:00:28 ↗ planting and Tree Management as it

1:00:30 ↗ pertains to trying to hit that

1:00:33 ↗ 55% um will have a cost I mean it has a

1:00:36 ↗ it has a higher cost and not here to

1:00:39 ↗ judge but you know it's that if we're at

1:00:42 ↗ you know 51 or 53 you know what is that

1:00:45 ↗ extra 3%

1:00:48 ↗ 4% costing like Chris or someone might

1:00:51 ↗ have asked that at the meeting June hly

1:00:53 ↗ where there maybe diminishing returns or

1:00:56 ↗ you know where that's at and and I do

1:00:57 ↗ want to call out that I know this isn't

1:00:59 ↗ Revenue but the current conditions you

1:01:00 ↗ know talks about the because we talk

1:01:02 ↗ about the cost of Maintenance the

1:01:04 ↗ installation but you know hopefully not

1:01:06 ↗ lose track of you know also the benefits

1:01:09 ↗ these trees and the serent forest

1:01:10 ↗ providing storm water retention as it

1:01:12 ↗ relates to heat island you know impacts

1:01:14 ↗ we're already dealing with and trying to

1:01:15 ↗ lessen that as it relates to you know

1:01:17 ↗ just our mental health and physical

1:01:19 ↗ health of having a community you know

1:01:20 ↗ that's that's pretty well greened for

1:01:23 ↗ lack of a better term there so that is

1:01:25 ↗ in the current condition section where

1:01:26 ↗ we're looking at you know it tree is

1:01:28 ↗ really the the go-to tool for trying to

1:01:30 ↗ put a value on you know individual trees

1:01:32 ↗ or Urban forests and we're looking at

1:01:34 ↗ two two million plus a year as it

1:01:36 ↗ relates to air quality improvement Stone

1:01:38 ↗ Water Management you know great

1:01:39 ↗ infrastructure carbet SE all that sort

1:01:42 ↗ of stuff so um that's tough because that

1:01:44 ↗ doesn't mean we're getting a check for

1:01:45 ↗ $2

1:01:46 ↗ million but but I hope people don't lose

1:01:49 ↗ sight of the the you know essentially

1:01:51 ↗ ecosystem service benefits that our

1:01:53 ↗ trees are for huge return on that

1:01:56 ↗ and Chris has his hand

1:01:59 ↗ up great thanks and I'll apologize if

1:02:03 ↗ I'm asking for some repeated information

1:02:06 ↗ um learning that it's a little harder to

1:02:08 ↗ hear some some of the folks questions

1:02:10 ↗ and

1:02:11 ↗ comments um

1:02:14 ↗ so with this uh report and uh

1:02:19 ↗ update one of the or two we have kind of

1:02:22 ↗ two options as a board we asked either

1:02:25 ↗ to rec commend moving forward with the

1:02:27 ↗ draft Urban Forest management plan to uh

1:02:30 ↗ for city council to adopt it or uh

1:02:34 ↗ recommend that uh staff make

1:02:36 ↗ modifications and bring back another a

1:02:38 ↗ next version before we uh make that

1:02:40 ↗ recommendation um before we come to that

1:02:43 ↗ decision just hearing some of our own

1:02:45 ↗ comments I guess I'd like to ask for

1:02:48 ↗ maybe clarification if my understanding

1:02:50 ↗ is correct so this is sort of an ideal

1:02:54 ↗ plan with an ideal

1:02:57 ↗ budget and you know it

1:03:01 ↗ is Thoroughly written and and uh you

1:03:04 ↗ know deeply investigated and and

1:03:06 ↗ researched you can you know you can see

1:03:08 ↗ that in it and you can read it um but

1:03:11 ↗ and I think one of the concerns that was

1:03:14 ↗ uh conveyed is hey is this going to take

1:03:17 ↗ 8.6 million from Park facilities that

1:03:20 ↗ are very near and dear to many of our uh

1:03:23 ↗ board members hearts

1:03:26 ↗ and I guess I would like to confirm

1:03:28 ↗ let's say the board you know makes a

1:03:31 ↗ recommendation to move this forward it

1:03:33 ↗ goes to city council city council still

1:03:36 ↗ has to look at both this as part of one

1:03:40 ↗ of their budget items and whatever we're

1:03:43 ↗ asking for whatever parks department is

1:03:45 ↗ asking for for Capital

1:03:47 ↗ Improvements and they will be the final

1:03:51 ↗ decision makers on what budgets get

1:03:53 ↗ approved and what don't

1:03:56 ↗ uh is that is that a correct

1:03:58 ↗ understanding yes very correct Chris and

1:04:00 ↗ even put a finer point on that

1:04:04 ↗ um investments into our Park system

1:04:07 ↗ would be Capital Investments so those

1:04:09 ↗ would be and and uh these Tree

1:04:12 ↗ Management uh Forest management

1:04:15 ↗ conversations would be part of the

1:04:16 ↗ operating budget so just putting those

1:04:19 ↗ these two would not be competing against

1:04:21 ↗ one another for um similar funding

1:04:27 ↗ okay thank

1:04:31 ↗ you are there any more questions I I

1:04:34 ↗ can't quite tell but let me

1:04:38 ↗ know anyone else comments

1:04:42 ↗ questions great discussion and also you

1:04:45 ↗ know there's there's room for some more

1:04:48 ↗ editing and revising here based on this

1:04:51 ↗ conversation um that will definitely be

1:04:53 ↗ happening this is not you know final

1:04:56 ↗ final version um and any action that you

1:05:00 ↗ all take as a board is um advisory and

1:05:03 ↗ can come with you know an extra copy out

1:05:05 ↗ of as long as you know these changes or

1:05:09 ↗ clarifications are sort of added in if

1:05:11 ↗ needed like there's there's definitely

1:05:12 ↗ flexibility there um for that we could

1:05:15 ↗ like email some thoughts later on after

1:05:17 ↗ the fact I was not here I was on part of

1:05:20 ↗ the board when the first draft of this

1:05:22 ↗ was done so I'm still kind of ingesting

1:05:26 ↗ and so this just helped clarify a lot of

1:05:28 ↗ things just in my first P of so I might

1:05:30 ↗ have thoughts later on to just add to it

1:05:33 ↗ even if we were to say this looks good

1:05:36 ↗ pass it along you know absolutely have

1:05:38 ↗ to remind be a public comment process

1:05:40 ↗ for the parts committee if you're

1:05:42 ↗ assuming that's what youall recommend us

1:05:44 ↗ to move forward to in October so I mean

1:05:46 ↗ it is certainly not the last time this

1:05:47 ↗ would be seen with the public but um

1:05:51 ↗ andi's Point too yes if there's you know

1:05:53 ↗ we recommend to move forward but we want

1:05:55 ↗ to reassess look at this whether that's

1:05:57 ↗ you know we've already talked about the

1:05:59 ↗ know 3% in arus crew which is a

1:06:01 ↗ significant cost of that or just you

1:06:04 ↗ know continual kind of reassessment of

1:06:05 ↗ some of those tree planting targets

1:06:07 ↗ relates to IAP you know those are really

1:06:09 ↗ two largest and probably most variable

1:06:12 ↗ cost over the 10 years of this uh you

1:06:14 ↗ know to to maybe more right siiz this

1:06:16 ↗ for uh City

1:06:23 ↗ resources okay Chris can't

1:06:31 ↗ okay so um sounds like we have a

1:06:34 ↗ decision here as a

1:06:37 ↗ board Marlene has one more question yeah

1:06:40 ↗ oh please go ahead sorry chis I know

1:06:42 ↗ you're trying to move us along and I

1:06:44 ↗ appreciate it no problem I just can't

1:06:47 ↗ see is on

1:06:50 ↗ 108 of

1:06:53 ↗ the basically starts on

1:06:57 ↗ my question is about the implementation

1:06:59 ↗ plan priorities

1:07:02 ↗ 321 like can you just explain so I'm

1:07:04 ↗ guessing priority three means it's the

1:07:06 ↗ your lowest priority I just want

1:07:08 ↗ confirm work

1:07:11 ↗ yes page is that um so I mean it's

1:07:15 ↗ throughout the implementation plan I'm

1:07:17 ↗ at page 101 so so three is the highest

1:07:21 ↗ yes three is the highest priority or the

1:07:23 ↗ lowest priority uh Chris correctly if

1:07:25 ↗ I'm wrong in the prioritization for the

1:07:27 ↗ implementation table we have one to

1:07:28 ↗ three with three being a high higher

1:07:31 ↗ highest Priority One being so

1:07:33 ↗ essentially kind of a three

1:07:35 ↗ tier right after

1:07:37 ↗ that number one priority is actually

1:07:40 ↗ priority the way I should this

1:07:46 ↗ right it works well with the interactive

1:07:49 ↗ worksheet the way we have it set up but

1:07:51 ↗ yeah there is a table on page 100 to of

1:07:55 ↗ the plan to describe it but yeah good

1:07:57 ↗ question there and I will say it it

1:07:59 ↗ includes the audit results staff and uh

1:08:03 ↗ uh interested party feedback and our um

1:08:08 ↗ urban forestry recommendation to align

1:08:10 ↗ with industry standards and best

1:08:12 ↗ practices so that's something that you

1:08:14 ↗ know as you uh Monitor and evaluate the

1:08:17 ↗ plan the priority may change but it's a

1:08:20 ↗ starting point to really narrow down on

1:08:23 ↗ um those items to address in the short

1:08:26 ↗ term got it thank you I should have

1:08:28 ↗ heard the key at the top I jumped right

1:08:29 ↗ into the

1:08:31 ↗ details worri I do the same

1:08:37 ↗ thing okay thank you sorry than to you

1:08:43 ↗ Chris uh okay so our decision is do we W

1:08:49 ↗ do we have a motion to recommend moving

1:08:52 ↗ forward with this uh this current draft

1:08:56 ↗ Urban Forest management plan perhaps

1:08:58 ↗ with some you know additional revisions

1:09:01 ↗ responsive to this meeting uh uh for

1:09:04 ↗ city council

1:09:10 ↗ adoption I could make a

1:09:13 ↗ motion oh second it I can second it okay

1:09:18 ↗ so Chris sounds like we have someone to

1:09:20 ↗ second that

1:09:21 ↗ motion okay uh all those in favor please

1:09:25 ↗ raise your hand and Asanti if you could

1:09:27 ↗ help me count yeah so I also all

1:09:30 ↗ alternate um Canon should vote because

1:09:33 ↗ we

1:09:37 ↗ have five I've got six in the room and

1:09:39 ↗ two on screen so

1:09:43 ↗ everyone say again HTI please so that's

1:09:46 ↗ eight votes all eight

1:09:48 ↗ unanimous okay then we don't need to

1:09:51 ↗ talk about the other motion which was to

1:09:53 ↗ revisit it and bring it back

1:09:55 ↗ um okay then I think that concludes that

1:10:00 ↗ item is that

1:10:01 ↗ correct it does can I ask Clarity in

1:10:04 ↗ that 80 thank you for that um Dan Chris

1:10:08 ↗ thank you a bunch is there in our

1:10:11 ↗ discussion I think we talked about maybe

1:10:14 ↗ clarifying the arborist piece a little

1:10:17 ↗ bit more agree with that um clarifying

1:10:21 ↗ some of the I think just the the budget

1:10:24 ↗ piece around

1:10:26 ↗ what do aspirational mean um what what

1:10:29 ↗ does this $8 million number really look

1:10:33 ↗ like you know really good feedback and I

1:10:36 ↗ think it might be helpful Chris P and

1:10:39 ↗ Dan to to try and do some revision

1:10:41 ↗ because I I think parkboard questions

1:10:44 ↗ are going to be very reflective of what

1:10:46 ↗ could be city council questions as well

1:10:48 ↗ so um really really helpful discussion

1:10:51 ↗ big thank you to all of you also big

1:10:53 ↗ thank you we had an ad hoc group that

1:10:55 ↗ helped to do some of the lift here that

1:10:57 ↗ included Brad book former Park Board

1:10:59 ↗ member and Zach as well so uh former

1:11:04 ↗ Park board members who continued to uh

1:11:06 ↗ do really thoughtful and and good work

1:11:09 ↗ so thanks to both of

1:11:11 ↗ them Jeff and yeah thank you all um and

1:11:14 ↗ and Paul to your point to the rest of

1:11:16 ↗ you I yes if you have questions comments

1:11:18 ↗ even minor feedback edits or further

1:11:21 ↗ thoughts on some of these kind of bigger

1:11:23 ↗ budget discussions be had tonight please

1:11:24 ↗ don't take to send them directly to me

1:11:27 ↗ or foron and Jeff whatever is easiest uh

1:11:30 ↗ I would say if possible you know ideally

1:11:32 ↗ in the next you know one to two weeks as

1:11:34 ↗ we kind of shape this up and then you

1:11:36 ↗ know try to get it Council Council sub

1:11:38 ↗ commmittee I should say on October 15 so

1:11:41 ↗ try to have a week lead time for that so

1:11:43 ↗ that's you know about two weeks out that

1:11:44 ↗ we'll be you know putting together um

1:11:47 ↗ memo and materials for that meeting and

1:11:49 ↗ U you know any any adjustments that

1:11:51 ↗ we're still working on this draft and

1:11:52 ↗ the plan um so please don't hesitate or

1:11:55 ↗ if you want set a quick call with me

1:11:56 ↗ that would be

1:11:58 ↗ great thank you I just wanted to say

1:12:01 ↗ thank you for I mean obviously it's a

1:12:02 ↗ very detailed plan um so everybody who

1:12:05 ↗ works on it and also I could just tell

1:12:07 ↗ when you spoke about it you're super

1:12:08 ↗ passionate about it so thank you yeah

1:12:12 ↗ yeah thank you appreciate

1:12:15 ↗ that all right well thank you all these

1:12:17 ↗ are the conversations we need I

1:12:19 ↗ appreciate everyone's thoughtful

1:12:21 ↗ questions so I'll be syncing up with Dan

1:12:23 ↗ to go over these and yeah thank you for

1:12:26 ↗ the time

1:12:28 ↗ tonight good thanks Chris

1:12:31 ↗ Chris thank you Dan and

1:12:34 ↗ Chris okay uh next regular business item

1:12:37 ↗ is the donation bench program update and

1:12:41 ↗ uh HTI is gonna present

1:12:43 ↗ that

1:12:44 ↗ [Music]

1:12:53 ↗ is thanks again

1:12:58 ↗ everyone um so I don't know how many of

1:13:01 ↗ you all know this but we here at the

1:13:04 ↗ city of Visa have a donation bench

1:13:06 ↗ program um that was started actually

1:13:08 ↗ back in

1:13:09 ↗ 2019 um and it's an opportunity for the

1:13:12 ↗ community to sort of make some more

1:13:15 ↗ investments in our Park system and sort

1:13:18 ↗ of support our Park system as a whole um

1:13:21 ↗ offer space for all of our community um

1:13:24 ↗ and an opportunity to have a little bit

1:13:27 ↗ of acknowledgement and recognition um

1:13:29 ↗ either in Parks or places that have

1:13:31 ↗ meaning for them or for loved ones um we

1:13:35 ↗ have um had this program like I said

1:13:38 ↗ since 2019 um and we put a short pause

1:13:42 ↗ on the program um in

1:13:45 ↗ 2023 about um partially because we were

1:13:49 ↗ having some issues with the bench

1:13:51 ↗ manufacturing and and Supply actually um

1:13:54 ↗ and then we also just kind of needed to

1:13:56 ↗ give the whole program another look and

1:13:58 ↗ make sure that it's still functioning as

1:14:00 ↗ it needs to um so I'm going to just go

1:14:03 ↗ through a little bit of sort of what the

1:14:05 ↗ current program looks like how many

1:14:07 ↗ benches we have um and then go through

1:14:10 ↗ what the ordinance language was that

1:14:12 ↗ this program was adopted through so all

1:14:15 ↗ donations at the city sort of go through

1:14:17 ↗ this ordinance process um for how they

1:14:20 ↗ are accepted as a city um so whether

1:14:23 ↗ that's a monetary donation um a donation

1:14:27 ↗ for specific project or um program or a

1:14:32 ↗ donation of actual physical items and so

1:14:34 ↗ we set this program up as um a a

1:14:38 ↗ donation towards the cost of a bench

1:14:42 ↗ that can be then installed in a park um

1:14:44 ↗ and some of the language that we're

1:14:47 ↗ proposing changes to it um just cover

1:14:50 ↗ more of that cost um as we've gone

1:14:54 ↗ through the program realize sort of oh

1:14:56 ↗ just the bench is not quite everything

1:14:58 ↗ that goes into installing a bench in one

1:15:01 ↗ um and then um at the end of this I'm

1:15:04 ↗ hoping for some action from the board um

1:15:06 ↗ to move the ordinance language forward

1:15:09 ↗ for city council to review and then

1:15:11 ↗ adopt the changes and they're pretty

1:15:13 ↗ minor changes but we can go through what

1:15:15 ↗ they are and if anybody has any

1:15:16 ↗ questions please by any means stop me

1:15:19 ↗ during after throughout um so just a

1:15:23 ↗ little look there's a couple of pictures

1:15:25 ↗ of some of our current um donations

1:15:27 ↗ Ventures right now um one of them along

1:15:30 ↗ the Rainer trail near the community

1:15:32 ↗ center there's one in Confluence Park

1:15:35 ↗ and then these bottom two are actually

1:15:37 ↗ at um Central Park looking over some of

1:15:39 ↗ the field space um and so like I

1:15:42 ↗ mentioned the program started in 2019

1:15:44 ↗ and we took a pause in 2023 so far we've

1:15:48 ↗ had 13 benches donated um across

1:15:51 ↗ multiple Community Parks um and we

1:15:54 ↗ actually have one in a neighborhood park

1:15:56 ↗ over at Blackberry Park when that um

1:15:58 ↗ Park renovation was happening there was

1:16:00 ↗ um a group that wanted to donate a bunch

1:16:02 ↗ there and so we don't typically have

1:16:05 ↗ this program available in neighborhood

1:16:07 ↗ parks but that one felt really special

1:16:09 ↗ for that neighborhood and so there's

1:16:10 ↗ actually a bench over at Blackberry Park

1:16:12 ↗ as well um and there's lots of different

1:16:16 ↗ options for where these benches can be

1:16:19 ↗ um and so this map is very tiny on here

1:16:22 ↗ it's really hard to get our our entire

1:16:24 ↗ city

1:16:26 ↗ into one frame and even this isn't the

1:16:28 ↗ whole city but these little dots that

1:16:30 ↗ you're seeing up here are the bench

1:16:32 ↗ location options so um the park planners

1:16:35 ↗ actually went out and looked at all of

1:16:37 ↗ our spaces throughout our Park system

1:16:40 ↗ and mostly in our community parks of

1:16:42 ↗ places where it'd be really great to

1:16:44 ↗ have a bench here we don't currently

1:16:46 ↗ have you know the inventory or the

1:16:49 ↗ funding to cover this but this could be

1:16:50 ↗ a really great spot for a Community

1:16:52 ↗ member who maybe wants to have a bench

1:16:54 ↗ and have some sort of commemoration

1:16:56 ↗ there um and so um I believe the red

1:17:00 ↗ dots are where um benches already

1:17:03 ↗ currently exist um that are part of the

1:17:05 ↗ program and then the black dots are

1:17:07 ↗ locations that are still available um we

1:17:10 ↗ have been sort of going through all of

1:17:12 ↗ our parks and assessing whether there

1:17:13 ↗ are more locations that could be added

1:17:16 ↗ um there are some spaces in one of our

1:17:19 ↗ along one of our nature trails to add

1:17:21 ↗ some benches um down in uh swalk Valley

1:17:26 ↗ North um and so that also may be

1:17:29 ↗ something that we start assessing as we

1:17:31 ↗ sort of work on our Trail network of if

1:17:33 ↗ there's more locations that these

1:17:34 ↗ donation benches could potentially be

1:17:37 ↗ located so just sorry no no it's great

1:17:40 ↗ don't apologize really good overview

1:17:42 ↗ something just I think just to emphasize

1:17:45 ↗ intentionality was a big part of this

1:17:48 ↗ program is um how we in fact coming out

1:17:52 ↗ of the 2018 Park plan adop option adding

1:17:56 ↗ seating along our Trails our community

1:17:58 ↗ Parks was a high priority and so we

1:18:01 ↗ really wanted this program to be one of

1:18:04 ↗ hey let's have our Park planning team

1:18:05 ↗ identify those specific locations that

1:18:08 ↗ really could use a bench and invite the

1:18:10 ↗ community to donate those areas so it's

1:18:13 ↗ really a matching Community need with

1:18:17 ↗ Community interest in um making an

1:18:20 ↗ investment into the into the system so

1:18:22 ↗ it's been a really big success that

1:18:26 ↗ I didn't

1:18:28 ↗ know um so there is a portion of the

1:18:32 ↗ ordinance that I put in here it a lot of

1:18:35 ↗ it is I will say sort of you know

1:18:38 ↗ ordinance jargon um and so there's a lot

1:18:41 ↗ of wear ases in there um but this is

1:18:44 ↗ like the main portion of the ordinance

1:18:46 ↗ that we're looking at that really talked

1:18:49 ↗ about offsetting the cost um of the

1:18:52 ↗ purchase of a bench um and that that

1:18:56 ↗ donation would go towards again the

1:18:58 ↗ purchase price um and potentially some

1:19:02 ↗ Associated costs for maintenance and

1:19:03 ↗ management ongoing and so the reality of

1:19:07 ↗ these benches is they're for the most

1:19:10 ↗ part we've sort of phased them at a

1:19:12 ↗ 15year sort of life cycle for those

1:19:15 ↗ benches and so to maintain and manage

1:19:18 ↗ them for 15 years there's not a ton of

1:19:20 ↗ costs to them um but there is like some

1:19:23 ↗ incremental cost making sure that they

1:19:26 ↗ you know are cleaned every so often um

1:19:29 ↗ and stay free of you know um graffiti

1:19:33 ↗ and dirt and all those things um and

1:19:35 ↗ then also the part that is towards the

1:19:38 ↗ purchase price so when this program

1:19:41 ↗ started in 2019 benches cost a certain

1:19:45 ↗ dollar amount um then Co happened

1:19:48 ↗ benches cost a different dollar amount

1:19:51 ↗ and then during Co actually our manuf

1:19:54 ↗ factur that we were using um their

1:19:57 ↗ quality changed drastically and their

1:20:00 ↗ lead times just became like far too long

1:20:02 ↗ for us to be able to maintain the

1:20:04 ↗ program um so someone was coming and

1:20:06 ↗ saying they wanted to donate a bench we

1:20:09 ↗ were going through the process and then

1:20:11 ↗ for some of them it was up to a year

1:20:13 ↗ later that we were able to actually get

1:20:14 ↗ the bench and install that which didn't

1:20:16 ↗ feel like a really good way it was

1:20:18 ↗ managing a program and the pause that we

1:20:21 ↗ put on the program um and so during that

1:20:23 ↗ pause we sort of been reassessing

1:20:25 ↗ looking at costs um and also

1:20:28 ↗ reevaluating for a new um manufacturer

1:20:32 ↗ and so we found one that matches pretty

1:20:35 ↗ closely that has much shorter lead time

1:20:37 ↗ that is there's a local um supplier that

1:20:40 ↗ we can order them through um and so

1:20:43 ↗ we're sort of ready to make that that

1:20:44 ↗ new um open the program back up um but

1:20:48 ↗ with that the cost of the benches has

1:20:49 ↗ risen about twice to what they were

1:20:53 ↗ originally when this program started

1:20:55 ↗ um so that's that's a big cost and then

1:20:57 ↗ another cost that we sort of have been

1:20:59 ↗ looking at is um the actual foundation

1:21:03 ↗ for the benches so in some of the places

1:21:06 ↗ the concrete foundation already exists

1:21:08 ↗ and so that's a quick easy you know if

1:21:10 ↗ there's a bench there we're sort of

1:21:11 ↗ taking that bench out a couple screws

1:21:13 ↗ put another one in um but for some of

1:21:16 ↗ them we actually have to pour concrete

1:21:18 ↗ paths and so that concrete and that

1:21:20 ↗ labor and maintenance work brings that

1:21:22 ↗ cost up a little bit more to um and I

1:21:25 ↗ think what we've sort of noticed is

1:21:27 ↗ there's more places that need that for

1:21:30 ↗ these benches than not um and if it's

1:21:32 ↗ getting placed in a nature um location

1:21:36 ↗ that obviously the concrete cost is

1:21:38 ↗ different but there is other footings

1:21:40 ↗ that do need to be sort of done and put

1:21:42 ↗ in place um

1:21:44 ↗ so um I kind of already went through

1:21:47 ↗ sort of what the the rationale is for

1:21:49 ↗ these um but the proposed language

1:21:53 ↗ actually this is a change we had a

1:21:55 ↗ conversation with our City attorney

1:21:57 ↗ about this recently um who helps with

1:21:59 ↗ some of our ordinance language um and

1:22:02 ↗ what we're actually proposing changing

1:22:04 ↗ the language to is instead of just

1:22:06 ↗ offsetting the cost to look closer to

1:22:09 ↗ covering the cost of the bench and the

1:22:12 ↗ potential like footing um with the

1:22:16 ↗ assumption that most of them will work

1:22:17 ↗ required at um and recognizes sort of

1:22:21 ↗ the change and Rising costs the current

1:22:24 ↗ language allows for some flexibility to

1:22:27 ↗ um apply those funds outside of just the

1:22:31 ↗ purchase of the bench but this language

1:22:33 ↗ sort of solidifies that there's greater

1:22:35 ↗ flexibility for the mayor to make

1:22:37 ↗ further adjustments to the program into

1:22:39 ↗ the future so it won't necessarily

1:22:42 ↗ require a full ordinance review um and

1:22:46 ↗ going back through Council um to do

1:22:48 ↗ changes if we get to a point where you

1:22:51 ↗ know our our costs are going up just

1:22:53 ↗ because of the nature of products

1:22:56 ↗ becoming more expensive while also

1:22:59 ↗ looking at something that is you know be

1:23:01 ↗ the most costeffective match our our

1:23:04 ↗ current city aesthetic and standards um

1:23:07 ↗ and allow for us to still have sort of

1:23:09 ↗ the plot um installed within the Vance

1:23:13 ↗ so to to reiterate all that great great

1:23:17 ↗ overviews of the um our current

1:23:21 ↗ um bench donation program the Fe is

1:23:25 ↗ $3,000 um as we look at costs now um and

1:23:31 ↗ you know concrete pad installation all

1:23:33 ↗ in um we are really seeing that fee need

1:23:37 ↗ to be closer to

1:23:38 ↗ $5,000 um we still want it to feel um

1:23:43 ↗ doable and not unattainable for someone

1:23:45 ↗ who's wanting to honor a family member

1:23:47 ↗ or donate for whatever reason um and

1:23:50 ↗ then moving forward we we realize the

1:23:53 ↗ changing world we're in and those costs

1:23:56 ↗ um as they go up really asking Council

1:23:59 ↗ to say hey if you agree that the goal is

1:24:02 ↗ to cover the cost of this program um we

1:24:05 ↗ just want the ability to work with the

1:24:07 ↗ mayor's office to increase that fee as

1:24:10 ↗ as we need to we're not trying to make a

1:24:12 ↗ profit on this program we're just trying

1:24:13 ↗ to cover costs and can provide um

1:24:19 ↗ intentional addition of benches and ways

1:24:22 ↗ for for loved ones and family members to

1:24:24 ↗ to recognize um

1:24:28 ↗ someone I'm going to pause there and see

1:24:31 ↗ if there are any

1:24:33 ↗ questions comments thought did you give

1:24:37 ↗ more Supply like were people like more

1:24:40 ↗ people wanted to get benches than you

1:24:41 ↗ had benches to do so like as we almost

1:24:45 ↗ you're basically you're going to end up

1:24:47 ↗ doubling by the time this actually gets

1:24:48 ↗ on the gry sticks right like just things

1:24:51 ↗ move right so like are we going to still

1:24:53 ↗ have enough people at that cost do we

1:24:55 ↗ think I I believe so I believe so I I

1:24:59 ↗ know as we've initiated this and when

1:25:01 ↗ you think about it you know we launched

1:25:04 ↗ this in

1:25:05 ↗ 2019 uh we we did a lot of benches those

1:25:08 ↗ first years a global pandemic hit and

1:25:10 ↗ kind of caused us to Pivot a little bit

1:25:13 ↗ um even as we had to push pause um

1:25:17 ↗ afterwards we have we continue to have

1:25:19 ↗ inquiries we we have a lot of people

1:25:21 ↗ interested like hey you know please make

1:25:24 ↗ this ordinance change seathe we're we're

1:25:26 ↗ ready so yeah I I think interest will

1:25:30 ↗ continue to be out there we have

1:25:33 ↗ interest in the dog park um already for

1:25:36 ↗ a couple benches there

1:25:38 ↗ so people the sidewalk you should do

1:25:41 ↗ little

1:25:48 ↗ ston so am I hearing that you're going

1:25:50 ↗ to be adjusting the cost let's say two

1:25:52 ↗ years from now so the bench costing

1:25:54 ↗ $5,000 it's going to cost

1:25:56 ↗ $6,000 then you're you're you're still

1:25:59 ↗ the language is going to be where it's

1:26:01 ↗ still going to cover exactly yeah yeah B

1:26:05 ↗ city council we want you know we want

1:26:08 ↗ that ordinance to say the intention is

1:26:10 ↗ to cover the costs give us the

1:26:12 ↗ flexibility to to do that

1:26:24 ↗ this to council pardon do you need us to

1:26:27 ↗ propose bringing this to

1:26:29 ↗ council um I just do you agree with us

1:26:32 ↗ yeah

1:26:33 ↗ yeah I don't know when it takes

1:26:37 ↗ a I think I this down as a sort of an

1:26:40 ↗ action item um and I sent some language

1:26:42 ↗ over to to Chris if everyone feels

1:26:45 ↗ comfortable if there's other questions

1:26:47 ↗ or or any sort of um clarification that

1:26:50 ↗ might be needed in there but Ryan has a

1:26:53 ↗ question yeah and I and I just I thought

1:26:55 ↗ it would be nice to bring this back to

1:26:57 ↗ all of you those of you that were here

1:26:58 ↗ in 201819 while we launched this it came

1:27:01 ↗ out of parkboard discussion so just a

1:27:03 ↗ great opportunity to say hey well done

1:27:06 ↗ here's a program that's that's gotten

1:27:08 ↗ legs and you know do we all agree to

1:27:10 ↗ make this this slight little

1:27:12 ↗ tweak sorry Ryan ran go

1:27:18 ↗ ahead oh you're still

1:27:23 ↗ muted uh um do you have the number of

1:27:26 ↗ benches of those 13 by year and how many

1:27:30 ↗ of those more specifically were last

1:27:32 ↗ year or the year 2022 before the pause

1:27:36 ↗ um I do have we do have that data

1:27:41 ↗ whether I have it off the top of my head

1:27:42 ↗ or easily accessible is a different

1:27:44 ↗ question but to my memory I think we

1:27:47 ↗ probably installed about four benches in

1:27:50 ↗ the last um sort of 22 to the 23 before

1:27:55 ↗ we paused it um we had four four benches

1:27:58 ↗ that we

1:27:59 ↗ installed n and so nine prior yeah okay

1:28:04 ↗ yeah it's it's mostly just a a feedback

1:28:08 ↗ um I don't disagree with the proposed

1:28:10 ↗ ordinance language but um if the uh

1:28:15 ↗ generation of the program the root of

1:28:17 ↗ the program was

1:28:19 ↗ to uh provide the community with the

1:28:24 ↗ opportunity to honor someone honor

1:28:26 ↗ something honor some organization or

1:28:28 ↗ people with a bench so that people can

1:28:31 ↗ be finding rest while they're recreating

1:28:34 ↗ or they need to take a break um I don't

1:28:36 ↗ think increasing the cost twofold uh is

1:28:38 ↗ going to get you uh more benches I agree

1:28:41 ↗ it will cover the cost of the bench I'm

1:28:43 ↗ not disagreeing there but if the root of

1:28:46 ↗ the original why this project started in

1:28:48 ↗ the Genesis of it was to fulfill a

1:28:51 ↗ certain

1:28:53 ↗ um kindhearted wonderful Feelgood thing

1:28:57 ↗ uh doubling the cost I don't think is

1:28:59 ↗ going to do that but again I don't

1:29:01 ↗ disagree with the proposed ordinance I'm

1:29:02 ↗ just making a

1:29:04 ↗ note yeah it's it's a totally fair point

1:29:07 ↗ that it does it was one of the reasons

1:29:10 ↗ during the pause it took us sort of

1:29:12 ↗ longer to review it the Hope was that we

1:29:14 ↗ were going to pause for like three

1:29:15 ↗ months and then reopen it at the

1:29:16 ↗ beginning of the year and that didn't

1:29:18 ↗ happen um and and the reality is we we

1:29:21 ↗ want to make sure that these benches are

1:29:25 ↗ are still able to be sort of purchased

1:29:27 ↗ and and aren't eating into current

1:29:30 ↗ current funds and and be able to

1:29:31 ↗ actually still offer this program um and

1:29:35 ↗ just given the DraStic change in

1:29:38 ↗ landscape from 2019 to today 2024 I mean

1:29:43 ↗ it's not something that we want to have

1:29:45 ↗ to do is to raise the price almost

1:29:47 ↗ double um but there there probably

1:29:50 ↗ should have been some marginal changes

1:29:52 ↗ and increases sort of every year um for

1:29:56 ↗ this program and that also just didn't

1:29:58 ↗ happen um so I I agree with you Ryan I

1:30:02 ↗ will say we do have like maybe three to

1:30:05 ↗ four people that have inquired um we

1:30:08 ↗ haven't released that this is sort of

1:30:10 ↗ the new pricing and so that's part of

1:30:12 ↗ this process is making sure that we've

1:30:14 ↗ sort of reviewed all of this and that

1:30:16 ↗ it's approved by city council before we

1:30:17 ↗ make that that change um but that will

1:30:20 ↗ be coming and so that will sort of tell

1:30:22 ↗ us yeah

1:30:24 ↗ but yeah materials materials costs and

1:30:27 ↗ everything have changed since

1:30:29 ↗ 2018 so we so basically we have a a

1:30:33 ↗ manufacturer that that we and you got

1:30:36 ↗ quote and based on the quote and the

1:30:38 ↗ assessment of how much it would be to

1:30:41 ↗ maintain it that's the number you're

1:30:43 ↗ coming correct okay right but that makes

1:30:46 ↗ more sense because like you said

1:30:48 ↗ 3,000 in

1:30:50 ↗ 2019 right corre so things yeah yeah the

1:30:54 ↗ change that's done and then Brenda I saw

1:30:56 ↗ I was just I'm thinking the opposite

1:30:58 ↗ side of this I think probably get more

1:31:01 ↗ people requesting to donate then you can

1:31:04 ↗ build these three or four spots to show

1:31:06 ↗ you have benches available and how can

1:31:08 ↗ you broaden this so that they can donate

1:31:10 ↗ to other things in memorandum or

1:31:13 ↗ whatever and I don't see the price

1:31:15 ↗ increase problem at all I think my what

1:31:17 ↗ I've saying is you don't have enough

1:31:19 ↗ placement to put benches and what else

1:31:21 ↗ besides benches can people

1:31:25 ↗ yeah it's a great question BR as we

1:31:27 ↗ launched this program we talked about

1:31:29 ↗ hey let's let's you know crawl before we

1:31:32 ↗ walk walk before we run let's get this

1:31:35 ↗ down with benches and who's to say um we

1:31:39 ↗ make you know picnic tables and other

1:31:42 ↗ amenities or site Furnishings an option

1:31:46 ↗ open other options so exactly that is

1:31:50 ↗ the that's where we're hoping to to take

1:31:52 ↗ this

1:31:54 ↗ that oh so to that point is there

1:31:56 ↗ anything you need to add to this

1:31:57 ↗ ordinance that could give you that

1:31:59 ↗ flexibility later without having to go

1:32:01 ↗ through a whole bunch of steps could you

1:32:03 ↗ add it I don't know if that's already in

1:32:04 ↗ there or not yeah no that's a great

1:32:06 ↗ Point um for this particular program it

1:32:09 ↗ is tied specifically to the to the bench

1:32:12 ↗ donation program and there's like

1:32:14 ↗ programmatic documentation that went

1:32:16 ↗ with that that still has to stay like

1:32:18 ↗ stating that this will go towards sort

1:32:19 ↗ of this bench that you get a plaque and

1:32:21 ↗ what sort of goes into it however there

1:32:24 ↗ was a another discussion this year with

1:32:27 ↗ city council um regarding donations and

1:32:30 ↗ financial policy actually for the

1:32:32 ↗ acceptance of donations um that does

1:32:36 ↗ allow some flexibility there so if there

1:32:38 ↗ were someone that came with a site

1:32:40 ↗ Furnishing that they would like to

1:32:42 ↗ donate or they would like to offer the

1:32:44 ↗ option of adding you know Stone papers

1:32:47 ↗ and and do a program like that there is

1:32:49 ↗ already language that would allow the

1:32:52 ↗ city to accept that type of Don

1:32:54 ↗ through a

1:32:56 ↗ process I think what we are also trying

1:32:59 ↗ to is um really mesh the interest of

1:33:04 ↗ donations with um effective management

1:33:08 ↗ of your public space right so we're

1:33:12 ↗ trying to identify those standard pieces

1:33:14 ↗ of equipment or standard look and feel

1:33:17 ↗ that's going to make it easier for us to

1:33:18 ↗ maintain and not necessarily look like

1:33:21 ↗ oh that's table is totally different

1:33:23 ↗ that table which is totally different

1:33:25 ↗ than that because that becomes really

1:33:27 ↗ really can become really really hard to

1:33:29 ↗ manage um um so so yes it's um it's a

1:33:36 ↗ great question Brenda and a great point

1:33:38 ↗ and um I think one we would love to sort

1:33:41 ↗ of expand this into other other

1:33:44 ↗ amenities this is not quite about the

1:33:46 ↗ ordinance but it was from the earlier

1:33:48 ↗ discussion around um sort of the

1:33:51 ↗ locations in your map um and I love the

1:33:54 ↗ idea about like where are the walking

1:33:56 ↗ trails that could use a bench and I

1:33:58 ↗ might even suggest like asking the

1:34:00 ↗ senior center so I know would like my

1:34:03 ↗ mother-in-law chooses her walks based on

1:34:06 ↗ where there are enough benches right so

1:34:09 ↗ could be interesting stakeholder group

1:34:14 ↗ yeah absolutely there are definitely

1:34:17 ↗ some more Trail sort of review that I

1:34:20 ↗ want to do sort of internally for for

1:34:22 ↗ where it loc could get at

1:34:26 ↗ it I love seeing the two benches close

1:34:28 ↗ to our office right there the Rainer

1:34:31 ↗ Trail in the community center right by

1:34:32 ↗ the lawn you know since we added those

1:34:35 ↗ it's just so cool to see how often

1:34:37 ↗ they're

1:34:38 ↗ used and then again properly placed

1:34:40 ↗ seating um makes a huge difference and

1:34:44 ↗ and something of people lingering and

1:34:46 ↗ not just going so great

1:34:51 ↗ program great

1:34:54 ↗ thank you everyone um I guess with

1:34:58 ↗ that if you all feel ready I'll pass it

1:35:01 ↗ to

1:35:02 ↗ press yeah so the request here is do we

1:35:05 ↗ have a motion to recommend moving

1:35:07 ↗ forward with the changes to to the

1:35:10 ↗ donation bench program for city council

1:35:12 ↗ to review and

1:35:15 ↗ adopt yes

1:35:19 ↗ motion second and David

1:35:22 ↗ second uh all those in favor raise your

1:35:27 ↗ hand 7 eight great all eight thank you

1:35:32 ↗ thanks all thank you

1:35:35 ↗ everyone okay then then we move on to

1:35:38 ↗ the next item the last item of regular

1:35:40 ↗ business which is the parks and

1:35:42 ↗ Community Services summer highlights by

1:35:46 ↗ Jeff yeah thank you everyone thank youti

1:35:50 ↗ looks like you're gonna drive I'm try to

1:35:53 ↗ okay I app appreciate that um for the

1:35:55 ↗ sake of time great discussions tonight

1:35:57 ↗ on all these items I've just shared with

1:35:59 ↗ you um some communication I had with

1:36:02 ↗ city council um always love the

1:36:04 ↗ opportunity to just give you an update

1:36:06 ↗ on activities but also um just give a

1:36:10 ↗ shout out to uh the work of this

1:36:12 ↗ department and and a really really

1:36:15 ↗ amazing um team that um we should all be

1:36:19 ↗ really really proud of um rather than

1:36:22 ↗ reciting I I shared with you in in the

1:36:25 ↗ memo really some some fun facts of of

1:36:29 ↗ participation but also some some really

1:36:31 ↗ compelling data um I'm gonna just not

1:36:34 ↗ read these word for word because of time

1:36:36 ↗ but um highlight a number of them that

1:36:38 ↗ are really Parks and Recreation program

1:36:41 ↗ related um for the purposes of council

1:36:44 ↗ um I included uh some other really key

1:36:47 ↗ parts of our department Human Services

1:36:49 ↗ as a reminder is in our parks and

1:36:51 ↗ Community Services Department uh

1:36:53 ↗ provides a a really cool opportunity to

1:36:56 ↗ to join our Recreation programs with our

1:36:58 ↗ Human Services programs and

1:37:00 ↗ professionals um this first slide is a

1:37:03 ↗ great example of that um we have a a

1:37:05 ↗ great Community event we do um chalk art

1:37:10 ↗ festival that's held at the community

1:37:12 ↗ center um we've leveraged that fun event

1:37:15 ↗ by having a human services fair at the

1:37:17 ↗ same time uh and it's been great to see

1:37:19 ↗ how those um um of events have have

1:37:24 ↗ really helped us support uh support one

1:37:26 ↗ another um I won't dive too far into

1:37:29 ↗ some of the Human Services work since

1:37:31 ↗ it's really overseen by the Human

1:37:32 ↗ Services Commission but um just I think

1:37:35 ↗ important for all of you to know as as

1:37:37 ↗ Park board members uh the diversity of

1:37:39 ↗ this department really um adds to um

1:37:43 ↗ what we're able to to to do and how

1:37:45 ↗ we're able to provide services to the

1:37:47 ↗ community um if you go to the next slide

1:37:52 ↗ um Arts

1:37:54 ↗ and art staff did a film festival um if

1:37:57 ↗ any of you were interested in film uh

1:37:59 ↗ this was really really cool and Regal

1:38:01 ↗ Cinemas partnered with us um um read the

1:38:05 ↗ notes uh we had three students um come

1:38:08 ↗ back and really collaborate on this uh

1:38:12 ↗ Film Festival um very very popular event

1:38:15 ↗ that um went away a little bit um like

1:38:18 ↗ many of our events for the pandemic but

1:38:21 ↗ came back with a

1:38:22 ↗ flourish um the next slide highlights

1:38:25 ↗ again an art piece but one that I we

1:38:27 ↗ love in parks and and you all played a

1:38:30 ↗ real role in if you remember where do we

1:38:32 ↗ locate Jacob how do we locate Jacob

1:38:35 ↗ Jacob's been a huge hit Jacob had his

1:38:37 ↗ first birthday on September 1st of this

1:38:39 ↗ year um amazing to think um

1:38:42 ↗ conservatively 250,000 people have come

1:38:45 ↗ to visit Jacob um many of those are

1:38:48 ↗ non-residents that have come to to enjoy

1:38:51 ↗ and experience the squa um we are very

1:38:54 ↗ intentional about having um Jacob on an

1:38:57 ↗ accessible Trail the reor trail and

1:38:59 ↗ close to downtown so so many of those

1:39:02 ↗ visitors then turn around and go into

1:39:04 ↗ Oldtown and enjoy a beverage or or a

1:39:07 ↗ meal and so um art uh properly placed in

1:39:11 ↗ Parks can really be a pretty cool

1:39:13 ↗ economic incubator and Jacob has

1:39:16 ↗ certainly proven that to be the

1:39:19 ↗ case next slide as we um uh launch into

1:39:23 ↗ some of our events um touching on this

1:39:25 ↗ one really really quick culture Fest is

1:39:28 ↗ an event we do to kick off the school

1:39:30 ↗ year East Side communities all around us

1:39:32 ↗ have a different welcoming week they

1:39:34 ↗ call event um it's been really cool to

1:39:36 ↗ see how this has grown uh we did this on

1:39:39 ↗ September 6 again the community center

1:39:41 ↗ lawn was alive with great music and

1:39:44 ↗ great food and uh Community coming

1:39:48 ↗ together in some some pretty cool ways

1:39:53 ↗ also on the lawn our concerts um

1:39:56 ↗ experienced another great summer um even

1:40:00 ↗ in spite of some kind of goofy Tuesday

1:40:03 ↗ weather I don't know if you guys notic

1:40:04 ↗ in summer sometimes a certain day of the

1:40:06 ↗ week sort of gets the Oddball weather

1:40:08 ↗ Tuesdays this year kind of got that the

1:40:11 ↗ the the odd weather and yet we still had

1:40:13 ↗ probably over 7500 people come

1:40:16 ↗ throughout the eight events to enjoy

1:40:18 ↗ great summer

1:40:20 ↗ sounds there at the community center

1:40:22 ↗ lawn um ironically also on the lawn wow

1:40:25 ↗ I do this but a lot of action on that on

1:40:28 ↗ that lawn uh July 4th um the the the

1:40:33 ↗ down home fourth has been a a tradition

1:40:35 ↗ here in isqu for many many years uh this

1:40:38 ↗ year represented a first and that we as

1:40:40 ↗ the parks department were asked to to

1:40:42 ↗ take the lead in in operating and

1:40:46 ↗ providing uh the Fourth of July event uh

1:40:49 ↗ led to some great work by the team uh we

1:40:52 ↗ we did a little bit of reinvention of of

1:40:55 ↗ the event um added a lot more fun and

1:40:59 ↗ and diversity of activities in the the

1:41:02 ↗ field of fund so post parade extended

1:41:05 ↗ the parade down Front Street a little

1:41:06 ↗ bit to come and the LA um I had the

1:41:10 ↗ opportunity with uh one of our city

1:41:11 ↗ council members council member Russell

1:41:13 ↗ Joe uh we co-c the the main stage and

1:41:17 ↗ some Minute to Win It um games and

1:41:19 ↗ activities but um I think from my

1:41:22 ↗ vantage point seeing 3,000 plus people

1:41:24 ↗ really just having a great time and and

1:41:26 ↗ a really fun day which um again hats off

1:41:29 ↗ to the to the

1:41:33 ↗ team uh day camps uh looking at some of

1:41:36 ↗ our programs you may recall uh some of

1:41:39 ↗ the conversations we had at the

1:41:40 ↗ beginning of the year about recognizing

1:41:43 ↗ that um though we can call um summer

1:41:47 ↗ daycamps filling up in 10 minutes um a

1:41:50 ↗ success and that isn't necessarily a

1:41:52 ↗ custom service experience that we wanted

1:41:55 ↗ and so we really very intentionally set

1:41:58 ↗ about ways to increase capacity within

1:42:00 ↗ our our camps and how we looked at doing

1:42:03 ↗ registration um and again just hats off

1:42:06 ↗ to the to the uh Recreation team uh we

1:42:09 ↗ went from a um roughly you know

1:42:14 ↗ 2,300 uh Camp registrations in 2023 we

1:42:17 ↗ increased that um almost double 50%

1:42:21 ↗ increase to to

1:42:23 ↗ 3,500 um Camp registrations throughout

1:42:26 ↗ our full spectrum of camps that's not

1:42:29 ↗ without a lot of hard work by

1:42:30 ↗ programming staff a lot of hiring and

1:42:33 ↗ training a part-time staff to to be our

1:42:37 ↗ um sort of Frontline um programmers if

1:42:41 ↗ you will um there really are a heart and

1:42:44 ↗ soul of those those camps and so just a

1:42:47 ↗ great work by the the recreation team

1:42:49 ↗ and uh the community was very supportive

1:42:52 ↗ of that effort to add capacity to camps

1:42:56 ↗ um a few quotes that came from our

1:42:58 ↗ evaluations I I included in our um in

1:43:03 ↗ the email summary

1:43:07 ↗ there next slide looking at oh Pickering

1:43:11 ↗ Barn yes um another one of our

1:43:14 ↗ facilities that we manage uh Farmers

1:43:17 ↗ Market continues to just hit it out of

1:43:18 ↗ the ballpark again we had record numbers

1:43:21 ↗ in 2023 only to have them broken in

1:43:25 ↗ 20244 the fact that we're averaging over

1:43:27 ↗ 4,000 visitors every single Saturday um

1:43:32 ↗ if you want to sort of get a taste of

1:43:34 ↗ what our department is um any given

1:43:37 ↗ Saturday go to the farmers market it's

1:43:39 ↗ our programming staff doing amazing work

1:43:42 ↗ the park maintenance team what they've

1:43:43 ↗ done to the grounds at Pickering Barn

1:43:46 ↗ such an inviting space um it's just a a

1:43:50 ↗ great um example of of what we do um on

1:43:54 ↗ an equity standpoint this is the first

1:43:56 ↗ year that we added both um EBT and snap

1:44:00 ↗ match those are State um um programs

1:44:04 ↗ that uh really align and encourage

1:44:06 ↗ access to healthy local food um those

1:44:10 ↗ programs have both been instituted and

1:44:13 ↗ had um huge participation both from

1:44:16 ↗ participants but also it requires our

1:44:18 ↗ vendors to be willing Partners um in

1:44:21 ↗ that so

1:44:24 ↗ close to 5,000 in fact well now this

1:44:28 ↗ next Saturday is our last Farmers Market

1:44:30 ↗ of the Season we're well over $5,000

1:44:34 ↗ and and funds redeemed through that

1:44:38 ↗ through that program so Pickering Barn

1:44:41 ↗ staff does great great work um also at

1:44:44 ↗ the barn as the photo suggests uh that

1:44:47 ↗ is a a space that we really wanted to be

1:44:50 ↗ intentional about um diversifying how

1:44:53 ↗ the barn is rented and it's been really

1:44:55 ↗ really cool to see just a variety of

1:44:58 ↗ rentals the types of rentals 93 bookings

1:45:01 ↗ um as of the time we did this till the

1:45:03 ↗ end of summer um we'll be well over a

1:45:06 ↗ 100 bookings uh throughout the

1:45:09 ↗ throughout the calendar year at Turing

1:45:11 ↗ bar for all variety of events and

1:45:13 ↗ programs it really is an iconic an

1:45:16 ↗ iconic building for isqua and it should

1:45:19 ↗ be used by the public in in a wide

1:45:21 ↗ variety of of way

1:45:24 ↗ transitioning to one of our other

1:45:26 ↗ facilities the the bomes pool um much

1:45:29 ↗ like our camps again it could be a badge

1:45:31 ↗ of honor to say wow we're we know we

1:45:34 ↗ book some lessons in three minutes um

1:45:37 ↗ but again not the best customer service

1:45:40 ↗ experience that we want so um Zach and

1:45:44 ↗ the pool team did an amazing job also of

1:45:47 ↗ how do we add capacity uh to a a

1:45:49 ↗ burgeoning very popular swim lesson

1:45:52 ↗ program

1:45:53 ↗ um summer numbers um again U showed a

1:45:58 ↗ record 2023 of 900 plus registrations

1:46:01 ↗ for swim lessons we to 1,200 uh this

1:46:04 ↗ this summer so again speak to speaks to

1:46:07 ↗ some great work by uh our staff uh

1:46:10 ↗ that's well over 50 lifeguards and

1:46:13 ↗ part-time instructors that we hire um

1:46:17 ↗ Katie's familiar in the swim community

1:46:19 ↗ with many of those employees we hire um

1:46:22 ↗ um it's it's really really important

1:46:25 ↗ intentional work um in hiring and

1:46:27 ↗ training those lifeguards and and swim

1:46:29 ↗ instructors

1:46:30 ↗ and much like Camp staff and I think you

1:46:33 ↗ guys have heard me say this before we're

1:46:35 ↗ often a first employer to many teenagers

1:46:38 ↗ that's a program in and of itself and is

1:46:41 ↗ is launching and teaching kids to be a

1:46:43 ↗ great employee um and be responsible and

1:46:47 ↗ both the pool staff and the and the

1:46:50 ↗ community center staff just do a

1:46:52 ↗ fantastic job with that not to be

1:46:55 ↗ outdone on the on the park side of

1:46:57 ↗ things um some of you have hopefully

1:47:00 ↗ seen as you've gone around town our new

1:47:02 ↗ our new signage our new Trail signage

1:47:05 ↗ example here at the readio trail as well

1:47:07 ↗ as some of our Park signs that have

1:47:09 ↗ gotten updated great job by the park Ops

1:47:12 ↗ team instituting that um as we talked

1:47:16 ↗ about Park plan and as we've talked

1:47:17 ↗ about urban forestry what's the rate

1:47:19 ↗ with which we will be changing out signs

1:47:21 ↗ out will be really dependent on budget

1:47:23 ↗ availability but we hope um as through

1:47:27 ↗ the coming years we'll we'll see more

1:47:29 ↗ and more of these signs and the

1:47:31 ↗ standardization of of signage uh

1:47:33 ↗ throughout the throughout the

1:47:35 ↗ system another project that the teams

1:47:38 ↗ LED and done a great job with working

1:47:40 ↗ very closely with our Cemetery board but

1:47:42 ↗ um certainly a shout out to the parkops

1:47:44 ↗ team um a number of years ago pre

1:47:48 ↗ pandemic uh we took a really hard look

1:47:50 ↗ at the cemetery and the cemetery fumed

1:47:52 ↗ the fact that that cemetery is getting

1:47:54 ↗ really close to capacity and yet the

1:47:56 ↗ cemetery fund isn't as healthy as we

1:47:58 ↗ would want it to be to to be able to

1:48:00 ↗ sustain maintenance uh so we've really

1:48:03 ↗ started to look at creative ways to add

1:48:05 ↗ capacity within the existing footprint

1:48:07 ↗ of the cemetery this is a one example of

1:48:10 ↗ that where we created a a colian plaza

1:48:15 ↗ um and did a first installation here uh

1:48:18 ↗ there'll be room for expansion uh this

1:48:20 ↗ is in the lower Cemetery uh but as a

1:48:23 ↗ cemetery fund is really meant to

1:48:24 ↗ function as an Enterprise we'll wait for

1:48:27 ↗ these col area to get the

1:48:30 ↗ 70% um capacity um sold um and then

1:48:34 ↗ we'll add some additional columber

1:48:38 ↗ capacity to that area so Rick still our

1:48:40 ↗ Park ops manager has done a great job of

1:48:43 ↗ working with the cemetery board on that

1:48:45 ↗ that

1:48:46 ↗ project also just overall some great

1:48:49 ↗ work done by Park Ops please take a

1:48:51 ↗ minute in the memo to see just some of

1:48:53 ↗ the fun um data when you really look at

1:48:55 ↗ the volume of work that our team does

1:48:59 ↗ well over 200 Park sh shelter

1:49:01 ↗ reservations those don't just happen we

1:49:03 ↗ have to um s of manage and and maintain

1:49:07 ↗ those um larger weekend Sports

1:49:10 ↗ tournaments that we're seeing happening

1:49:12 ↗ within our systems both lacrosse and

1:49:14 ↗ baseball and softball always great to

1:49:16 ↗ see um the amount of fence that was

1:49:20 ↗ done uh the Trail repair work that we've

1:49:24 ↗ been able to do with with some of our

1:49:25 ↗ Capital Trail repair program um great

1:49:29 ↗ work there we talked a little bit

1:49:31 ↗ earlier tonight about trees um 2,000

1:49:34 ↗ trees planted this summer over 800 trees

1:49:37 ↗ pruned uh throughout the system that's a

1:49:40 ↗ really really important work in terms of

1:49:42 ↗ not only looking at the canopy within

1:49:44 ↗ our our city but the health of the

1:49:46 ↗ canopy within our within our

1:49:50 ↗ city last couple slides here Park

1:49:53 ↗ planning related updates um excited to

1:49:55 ↗ say Hillside Park is under construction

1:49:58 ↗ well under construction um there's a

1:50:01 ↗ couple photos from the the site uh as

1:50:04 ↗ the new play area in the corner of the

1:50:07 ↗ the field is really starting to take

1:50:08 ↗ shap um a couple photos there of the the

1:50:12 ↗ new trail that we've cut in um along the

1:50:15 ↗ buffer area so this is uh really

1:50:17 ↗ removing that age-old conflict of

1:50:19 ↗ neighbors wanting to get access to the

1:50:21 ↗ park cutting through the culac of the

1:50:24 ↗ cemetery and through gravestones this

1:50:27 ↗ allows for a little more respectful um

1:50:30 ↗ access to Hillside Park um the field and

1:50:34 ↗ the Field improvements um the drainage

1:50:37 ↗ is all in we just us did the seating uh

1:50:40 ↗ the contractor did the seating late last

1:50:42 ↗ week uh we're now waiting for um like

1:50:45 ↗ we're talking about with with u benches

1:50:49 ↗ um supply of of playground equipment

1:50:51 ↗ waiting for that to to show up but when

1:50:54 ↗ all is said and done and grass is in

1:50:57 ↗ really excited for a a great

1:50:59 ↗ neighborhood party um as we um as we

1:51:02 ↗ reopen that Park um next

1:51:08 ↗ spring and then our other big Capital

1:51:11 ↗ project our plazas project The

1:51:14 ↗ Pedestrian Plaza and Senior Center Plaza

1:51:17 ↗ um little bit of a of a blip we're

1:51:19 ↗ hoping to be opening bids today we had a

1:51:22 ↗ a small administrative item we caught so

1:51:25 ↗ we're going to be opening bids we let

1:51:27 ↗ all of our contractors know we're going

1:51:28 ↗ to open bids this Friday um again

1:51:32 ↗ continues to be a lot of excitement

1:51:34 ↗ amongst the Contracting Community for

1:51:35 ↗ this project so very encouraged we'll

1:51:38 ↗ open bids on Friday um and then take

1:51:42 ↗ this for bid award to City Council on

1:51:44 ↗ October 7th um know Council Community

1:51:49 ↗ are pretty excited about this project

1:51:50 ↗ too um we'll look at be doing some type

1:51:53 ↗ of a ribbon cutting not a ribbon cutting

1:51:56 ↗ a groundbreaking got to do the

1:51:57 ↗ groundbreaking before the ribbon cutting

1:51:59 ↗ um but a ground breaking uh this fall uh

1:52:03 ↗ with an anticipated opening of this new

1:52:06 ↗ space late spring early summer next year

1:52:09 ↗ so a lot happening excited to get both

1:52:13 ↗ of those projects through permitting and

1:52:15 ↗ now looking um head long into into

1:52:19 ↗ construction of both of those so very

1:52:21 ↗ very busy summer

1:52:23 ↗ again an amazing amazing staff in parks

1:52:26 ↗ and Community Services I'm happy to

1:52:28 ↗ answer us any questions you might have

1:52:30 ↗ but um I'm just proud of a team that

1:52:33 ↗ that continually makes some some pretty

1:52:36 ↗ amazing investments into your uh into

1:52:38 ↗ your Park

1:52:46 ↗ system

1:52:48 ↗ next I heard very good feedback about

1:52:50 ↗ the new CIT program so oh yes you know

1:52:55 ↗ my kids age group is at Middle School

1:52:57 ↗ like CIT age group

1:52:59 ↗ so were big fans of not having to commit

1:53:02 ↗ to an entire summer but still letting

1:53:04 ↗ them have a couple weeks to do it so

1:53:06 ↗ that's great so CIT is our Council and

1:53:08 ↗ training program thank you Marlene

1:53:10 ↗ you're you're right so within our summer

1:53:12 ↗ day camps uh it's really a great

1:53:14 ↗ opportunity for those early teens a

1:53:17 ↗ pre-t group to get a taste of

1:53:19 ↗ responsibility and still have a camp

1:53:21 ↗ experience

1:53:23 ↗ but really sort of be on the other side

1:53:25 ↗ of the curtain and helping us deliver

1:53:28 ↗ deliver the program

1:53:30 ↗ so 38 I believe we had 38 cits

1:53:34 ↗ throughout the summer this year yeah

1:53:37 ↗ just an ADOT from me first of all yeah

1:53:41 ↗ six-year-old daughter went to six

1:53:42 ↗ different camps only one I just you said

1:53:46 ↗ that was the

1:53:49 ↗ pirate it's great to hear

1:53:53 ↗ the six-year-old it must have been

1:53:54 ↗ Kinder Camp yeah yeah could you only get

1:53:58 ↗ into one

1:54:08 ↗ Camp that's great thank you

1:54:12 ↗ both well I I have to say that um jaob

1:54:15 ↗ two trees that's that's just been

1:54:17 ↗ phenomenal I was out walking the dog and

1:54:19 ↗ my husband on Sunday and somebody an

1:54:23 ↗ older couple that was coming up as we

1:54:25 ↗ were we were coming down the RoR Trail

1:54:27 ↗ already from it and by kind of by the

1:54:30 ↗ community center and then there was a

1:54:32 ↗ couple that asked us oh where's this

1:54:34 ↗ Troll and how far is it and you know

1:54:37 ↗ because people don't you know really

1:54:39 ↗ know I'm like you will not be

1:54:41 ↗ disappointed it's not very far to do it

1:54:44 ↗ you know but it was I was surprised even

1:54:46 ↗ how proud of it was every time I go it

1:54:49 ↗ seems like there's always people knowing

1:54:51 ↗ about and one thing too that I really

1:54:53 ↗ appreciate is how clean the trail has

1:54:56 ↗ been kept because as we all know those

1:54:59 ↗ of us who've been here a while and not

1:55:01 ↗ always been a very clean Trail so um I

1:55:04 ↗ just think it's such a great he's just

1:55:07 ↗ been such a wonderful part of our

1:55:09 ↗ community you

1:55:11 ↗ know thanks thanks for that and you're

1:55:14 ↗ right what its location was very

1:55:16 ↗ intentional um and you're right not too

1:55:19 ↗ long ago 3 days 10 20

1:55:23 ↗ you know a dozen years ago that portion

1:55:25 ↗ of the raineer trail did not feel

1:55:27 ↗ comfortable and welcoming and it's been

1:55:29 ↗ really really cool to see that begin to

1:55:32 ↗ change and and I I think you know the

1:55:35 ↗ location of our future Dog Park public

1:55:38 ↗ art down there all of that really

1:55:39 ↗ creating that natural surveillance and

1:55:42 ↗ that positive the positive recreational

1:55:44 ↗ use corre really makes those that want

1:55:47 ↗ to do unsanctioned things uncomfortable

1:55:52 ↗ so I just um it just makes me feel proud

1:55:55 ↗ because he you are telling somebody to

1:55:57 ↗ your point Jeff of people visiting out

1:56:00 ↗ out of

1:56:01 ↗ town you're almost there get a j you

1:56:05 ↗ won't be

1:56:07 ↗ disappointed yeah it's just very very

1:56:08 ↗ positive it is that's

1:56:13 ↗ great well thank you

1:56:16 ↗ all you

1:56:18 ↗ Chris so next item is the reports uh

1:56:21 ↗ Jeff do you have a director's

1:56:23 ↗ report a a really really quick one

1:56:26 ↗ looking at time um you maybe have heard

1:56:29 ↗ um and it was mentioned a little bit

1:56:31 ↗ earlier we're in the midst of budget

1:56:33 ↗ process that would be our 2025 2026 uh

1:56:37 ↗ next planal budget um interim Finance

1:56:41 ↗ director Andrew Snider last Monday night

1:56:43 ↗ did it gave up I think a really good

1:56:45 ↗ overview of some of the strains and the

1:56:47 ↗ issues that we're uh needing to come to

1:56:50 ↗ grips with she gave that update to the

1:56:51 ↗ city council

1:56:53 ↗ gives good context there's a variety of

1:56:55 ↗ reasons why we are in a really hard

1:56:58 ↗ operating budget Point um as departments

1:57:02 ↗ were being asked to look at reductions

1:57:04 ↗ looking at creative ways to um either

1:57:08 ↗ reduce or modify how we provide some

1:57:10 ↗ services in some cases having to look at

1:57:13 ↗ what some staff reductions uh would

1:57:15 ↗ really look like so hard hard time um I

1:57:19 ↗ don't have details um the plan is for

1:57:23 ↗ the mayor to present um her proposed

1:57:25 ↗ budget to city council the details of it

1:57:28 ↗ probably late October um so probably at

1:57:32 ↗ our October Park board meeting we'll be

1:57:33 ↗ able to share with you what it might

1:57:35 ↗ mean what that looks like for um our

1:57:38 ↗ department um know that much like summer

1:57:41 ↗ we remain committed to whatever the

1:57:44 ↗ investment level is uh for investments

1:57:47 ↗ into our our Parks programs and and park

1:57:51 ↗ space es uh we will be really good

1:57:54 ↗ stewards of those uh Investments so more

1:57:57 ↗ to come and

1:58:00 ↗ budget awesome thank you okay and then

1:58:03 ↗ uh for my report we're going to pass on

1:58:05 ↗ that and we're gonna move into other

1:58:07 ↗ business we have one I think fairly

1:58:09 ↗ quick item to discuss uh Nicholas Lee

1:58:14 ↗ has respectfully resigned he's got a new

1:58:17 ↗ position now I can't remember where it

1:58:19 ↗ is but maybe with like city of Ron and

1:58:22 ↗ so he's he's gota shift his H focus

1:58:26 ↗ elsewhere and Jeff and HTI if you can

1:58:29 ↗ let us all know what that means for us

1:58:32 ↗ uh as a board yeah so um yes Nicholas

1:58:36 ↗ Lee has has moved to some other work

1:58:40 ↗ though is excited to re-engage with the

1:58:42 ↗ board as needed um which is always a

1:58:45 ↗ great thing to hear from our former

1:58:46 ↗ members um so that position actually

1:58:49 ↗ right now is going to just stay vacant

1:58:51 ↗ um because we have enough really great

1:58:53 ↗ engagement from all of our members

1:58:55 ↗ including our alternate members so thank

1:58:57 ↗ you um so I had a conversation with the

1:58:59 ↗ city clerk's office and they felt like

1:59:01 ↗ it made sense to sort of keep that

1:59:02 ↗ position open through the remainder of

1:59:05 ↗ um this cycle and then when they do Rec

1:59:08 ↗ the next recruitment cycle that position

1:59:10 ↗ will be up for a a recruitment to then

1:59:12 ↗ fill um so uh and if I'm not mistaken

1:59:16 ↗ the term was to expire next year so it

1:59:19 ↗ would it would be presented as a

1:59:23 ↗ so the recruitment the next recruitment

1:59:25 ↗ is February is when all the board

1:59:28 ↗ recruitments are and so it would be just

1:59:30 ↗ recruiting for a a

1:59:33 ↗ full-term position

1:59:36 ↗ but yeah it might be filling for one

1:59:39 ↗ year and then a full year but I'll have

1:59:43 ↗ to look C CL

1:59:46 ↗ rules yeah I'll wait to see what they

1:59:48 ↗ think but the position will stay vacon

1:59:51 ↗ um until we do that next recruitment

1:59:52 ↗ cycle um but if you have friends that

1:59:55 ↗ are interested in joining a for let them

1:59:57 ↗ know that that recruitment CLE will be

1:59:58 ↗ starting in February and um for any of

2:00:01 ↗ our alternates that are interested in

2:00:03 ↗ that full-time position um we'll we'll

2:00:05 ↗ have a conversation Clos to that

2:00:07 ↗ recruitment CLE um and then I have one

2:00:09 ↗ little small update for our youth

2:00:11 ↗ members that usually come and represent

2:00:14 ↗ um for the park board there is a lot of

2:00:17 ↗ interest from the rest of the board to

2:00:18 ↗ sort of offer that opportunity to more

2:00:21 ↗ than just the two that have been coming

2:00:22 ↗ to our meetings for the last two years

2:00:24 ↗ um and so I'm actually going to their

2:00:26 ↗ November meeting I believe to talk to

2:00:29 ↗ the group about this opportunity um so

2:00:32 ↗ potentially at our meeting but more

2:00:34 ↗ likely at our January meeting we will

2:00:36 ↗ have um some new youth Advisory board

2:00:38 ↗ members joining us at for Park

2:00:44 ↗ Board okay um anyone else have any other

2:00:48 ↗ business they'd like to discuss

2:00:54 ↗ I'm seeing no around the

2:00:57 ↗ room okay then with that look at that

2:01:00 ↗ 902 um I will adjourn the meeting the

2:01:03 ↗ meeting is adjourned thank you all thank

2:01:07 ↗ you

2:01:10 ↗ Ryan thank you

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