[2:20] Welcome to the Bellmont Parks and Recreation Commission meeting for Wednesday, September 2, 2026.

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[4:20] First agenda item, roll call.

[4:23] All right, Commissioner Emkin.

[4:26] Koenia.

[4:27] Here.

[4:28] Chair Whitmore.

[4:28] Here.

[4:29] Vasavada.

[4:30] Here.

[4:32] Hill.

[4:33] Here.

[4:33] Lee?

[4:35] Lyford?

[4:36] Lyford?

[4:38] And Sothea Narayonan.

[4:39] Here.

[4:40] And absent, we have Commissioner Halinan.

[4:45] Second agenda item, pledge of allegiance.

[4:52] A pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States and America.

[4:56] And to the duty of the Republic for which it stands.

[5:10] Next up, community forum. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the commission on any city matter within the purview of the commission, which is not on the agenda. The period for public comment at this point in the agenda is limited to a maximum of three minutes per speaker. Do we have any raised hands online?

[5:28] Do we have any speaker slips?

[5:32] agenda item number four.

[5:33] Commissioner announcements or agenda amendments.

[5:36] Do we have any announcements or minutes?

[5:42] Okay.

[5:42] I would just say that this last weekend was a really great

[5:45] Belmont.

[5:46] Imagine together festival over at Barrett and appreciate all the support

[5:50] from Parks and Rec is that event went on.

[5:53] Thank you for that.

[5:54] Thank you for coming.

[5:55] I came and attended.

[5:57] Also we have the Belmont Water Dog Run coming up.

[6:00] this is a fantastic community event on September 29th.

[6:05] So if you haven't signed up yet, 26, 26, 26, 26.

[6:10] Thank you.

[6:13] And if you haven't signed up yet, don't send up for the 29th,

[6:15] send up for the 26th.

[6:17] Bring your dogs, bring your kids, it's fantastic time.

[6:19] Eat some pancakes afterwards.

[6:24] And AYSO has got opening day on September 12th.

[6:27] I hope that you can launch lots of kids carrying their banners or their coaches carrying their banners as the kids run.

[6:35] So great fun and everyone's welcome to join.

[6:42] Okay, moving on to the consent calendar.

[6:44] Can send out calendar items are considered routine in nature and will be enacted by one motion.

[6:48] There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a commissioner or staff request specific items be removed for separate action.

[6:56] Do we have a motion to approve the minutes?

[6:58] I move to approve the minutes.

[7:03] Okay, Commissioner Emkin?

[7:06] Kunia?

[7:07] Yes.

[7:08] Chair Whitmore?

[7:09] Yes.

[7:10] Vosavada?

[7:12] Hill?

[7:12] Yes.

[7:13] Lee?

[7:14] Yes.

[7:15] Lifeford?

[7:16] Yes.

[7:16] Okay.

[7:17] Motion passes 70.

[7:20] Okay.

[7:20] Now on to items business, the youth and team summer program recap.

[7:28] Good evening, everyone.

[7:29] My name is Michael Moran. I'm the recreation supervisor for the city of Belmont overseeing the youth and teen division

[7:35] This is my night summer of day. I said eight for the March one side. Oh, okay

[7:41] It's my night summer update with you guys. I'm just completed my night summer

[7:45] So let's get on with it

[7:48] So summer Aquatics at Karmot High School this year. We had six weeks same as last year

[7:53] Lopswam was open from noon to 250 on most days, Rexwam for about two hours on Monday to Friday.

[8:01] We were able to offer three to week sessions with nine time slots per day, so we have nine levels every 30 minutes.

[8:10] And then we are also able to offer private swim lessons this year.

[8:14] And then we also have the Sermary Program, which is a two week commitment for each youth.

[8:19] and they get to learn how to beat some raids and life card skills

[8:22] and teach swim lessons with us.

[8:24] I got photos of us.

[8:27] Our blue rascars there, those are all our swim raids.

[8:30] That was the new addition this year.

[8:32] We learned from last summer's reviews

[8:34] and evaluations from parents and guardians,

[8:38] participants, that they can tell who a swim raid was,

[8:40] versus like a swim instructor,

[8:42] because they are kind of similar ages in some of them.

[8:44] And so this year was great.

[8:46] The summer AIDS raved about them, you know, maybe a current

[8:51] commissioner's daughter can talk about it later.

[8:54] That's in that photo.

[8:56] And then we also have our live cards and slash swimming

[8:59] starters in the red polos.

[9:01] I mean, T-shirts, all the staff you see there, which are 19 of them, nine

[9:07] are returning in 14 out of the 19 are Belmont residents.

[9:12] This year we had someone from November.

[9:13] And we haven't had someone that far since 2019, which is Pacific, because that was the last

[9:18] 401.

[9:20] And we had some lessons, we had an increase of about 600 lessons this summer.

[9:26] That's mostly due to we had a second group of first step swim lessons going on.

[9:31] We saw last year, there was a 30 minute window of opportunities, we wanted to take advantage

[9:37] of that.

[9:37] And so this year we did, which is why you see an increase of almost 500 swim lessons.

[9:42] We also had the same amount of summaries this year compared to last year.

[9:47] It is a long commitment for them to do two weeks consecutively, because of occasions.

[9:52] But as you can see from my 2024, we have kept a great number, we went from 4 to 13.

[10:00] We have been consistent at that 13 number. And then our wreck, swim and lapse from visits this summer, was a little over 2,800. And last summer was a little over 1,400. Mostly due, I would say, to the weather. We had a great, great weather this summer. Compared to a very cold, windy and rain, even though we had a little bit this summer. But now as much as last year.

[10:23] Um, before I continue to the next program, the other thing I'm going to go back

[10:27] when side is for a lap swing next year, so I should have lap swing 2027.

[10:32] We are going to add an extra hour per day, Monday through 30s a day, so we're going to open

[10:36] up lap swing at 11 a.m. starting next summer, so that would be great for the lap

[10:42] swimmers. And here's some photos, who doesn't love photos and the top corner, you can kind

[10:47] of see a red object under the water. That is a swim stand. We've got to this summer.

[10:52] We saw that was the need, and that was also a great way to add that second group of footsteps when lessons,

[10:59] because the footsteps when lessons are young kids, the four to six.

[11:02] And so using those swim platforms helped me to extra steps in the pool for the kiddos to stand on,

[11:08] big hit. We might buy one more. And then the father was Rex Wim at one period of time,

[11:13] to somewhere, just from that lane line to the wall. The Rex from the shallow end only at one point,

[11:19] We counted 138 people at one time in that litter area.

[11:23] And so I had ups and flows, but just the giving idea.

[11:29] Campsore, or camp somewhere outdoor,

[11:31] adventure, recreation is our own in-house camp run by our staff.

[11:36] It's kindergarten through fifth grade,

[11:38] the blue t-shirts, all the hocks, and the green t-shirts,

[11:41] all the eagles, and it is having some fun.

[11:45] You can see us on the meadow, add a field trip,

[11:48] another picture of the meadow, another picture of the meadow,

[11:50] at another field trip and met a we love the metal and then some stats because I know you guys

[11:57] love all your stats is we had 33 part times that fun fact when I started here in 2018 we

[12:03] had like 15 so same with the quadics we had like 10 now you saw yeah so everything as you see is

[12:09] increasing but we had 22 at the 33 stock returning this summer and 22 were Belmont residents and

[12:17] enrollment, a 96% of our enrollments were residents as well, and you can see we went from

[12:24] 825 youth, which was that Barrett Community Center, to 903 enrollments. We didn't think we

[12:29] can get that many but we did. And then so photos mostly are the staff and with some kids all over

[12:36] the programs.

[12:39] I always provide quotes, so I'm just going to read them, bear with me. But my favorite

[12:43] thing about cancer is your enthusiastic welcoming staff, my kids get a shout out in the morning,

[12:49] feel the excitement to see them, it feels above and beyond what I would expect, and I think

[12:54] it helps ease any hesitation the kids may have to enter a new environment.

[12:59] I also love the field trip and swimming to Ventura is very impressed with your staff.

[13:03] Thank you for going above and beyond.

[13:05] It was a great experience for both kids and parents, having camp so close by as the Delmont

[13:10] resident was terrific, especially when the hours offered such flexibility to working parents.

[13:15] It was our kids for a summer at Sora and she had a fun summer. She's already asked me to sign her up for next summer. Thank you for having it

[13:23] and I always try to find a negative review. So here's my negative review. Our kids have

[13:29] Loved came Sora from the start. They rave about all our activities and trips. The counselors are always engaged and seemed to truly enjoy being there

[13:37] It was so refreshing to see compared to the early camps

[13:40] So it was affordable and it runs all day.

[13:42] The only downside is that the camp feels

[13:45] up quickly once the registration opens,

[13:47] but I can't say that I'd blame the people for signing up

[13:49] early when the value is this good

[13:51] and the kids are having a blast.

[13:54] Now I know that wasn't a very bad review.

[13:56] I will say, if you look at my past eight, right?

[13:59] I've always had some good ones this year.

[14:01] We had really positive views.

[14:02] It was really hard to find a negative review.

[14:05] I was actually talking to San Carlos Children's Theatre

[14:07] today. We're having a planning summer, 2027, and they were saying something very similar.

[14:13] Great, great summer. I'll remind us of 2019. One of the owners of San Carlos, here's

[14:18] the, she literally said that today. It was like, 2019, I was like, it was, wasn't it?

[14:22] Don't know why, but great vibes, great weather, great families, great participants all around

[14:27] and I guess great staff too. We also have our council and training program, part of Camp

[14:33] So we had 56 youth a pod which was down a little bit compared to last year, but 37 were still

[14:40] accepted and participated.

[14:42] We had almost 1900 hours of volunteer hours in the eight week program, and as always we offer

[14:48] the AMPM, half day options are all a day for the CIT tubes.

[14:53] And six staff this year came from the CIT program, which we always love.

[15:00] Okay, some of our adaptive camp, as you may or may not remember, we did change it from an inclusive camp to adaptive camp.

[15:10] We continue to offer it five out of the eight weeks when we did serve 24 campers, but the new addition this year, we actually changed it to six children per week instead of five.

[15:21] So, when we started this in 2022, it's always been five children max, this year, with some new logistics and planning, we're like, let's try six children, it worked well, we might try seven next year.

[15:33] We only have so much space for this one specific camp, so we don't want to overwhelm them, but we are looking to increase it because the weightless is usually doubled in the actual enrollments.

[15:43] And as you may remember, but the campers with the versatility support needs,

[15:49] including ADSD, Down syndrome, and more, we provide a cozy corner for them.

[15:55] It's a room filled of sensory toys and equipment, and a quote I'll read from an adaptive person.

[16:01] This is our fourth year in the SOAR Adaptive Program, and I'm so thankful for the kindness, dedication, and care.

[16:08] My child experiences each summer.

[16:10] This program is such a wonderful and inclusion experience for all children and I hope it continues to be offered each year

[16:16] The counselors and leads are amazing

[16:20] Then we have our other part of our summer programs are contractor camps the partners the contractors

[16:27] This year we continue to have 14 unique contractors including local Belmont businesses

[16:33] We offered 173 camps over the eight weeks

[16:38] We had 2,186 enrollments over the seven to eight weeks, and I'll mention that in a second.

[16:46] But as in the photos, you can see we had one of our new camp providers, WonderWorks.

[16:51] They were making strawberry DNA.

[16:54] They're extracting, sorry.

[16:55] Not making.

[16:57] Extracting strawberry DNA.

[17:00] And then we had our Mugglebee Steater with Erin and David doing high school music with theater.

[17:06] high school musical, sorry, at Cipriani, and I took a photo of this one because my first year in 2018

[17:13] they did high school musical as one of the performances, so I thought it was like, whoa, nine years later

[17:18] they're doing it again, it's still a hit, so I thought I'd bring that back.

[17:22] But going back to our enrollments before I continue, as you can see, there's a slight decline from 2,000,

[17:28] And we'll say 2300 to 2100, and that's because, as you may know,

[17:34] and that note, Bellmont, or the school district, is doing a lot of construction on their

[17:37] sites in the summer.

[17:39] So, one of our bigger contractor camps, LaGuarda, could not offer a eighth week, and then

[17:44] also with our MuggleB theater program, they're only able to offer two out of the three sessions

[17:49] and work up in a few other programs like that, can only offer, um, limited this summer.

[17:55] So we had a little decline, but we offered more camps this summer.

[18:01] And then upcoming, save the date for our Belmont Boobash, and we this year, I want to mention

[18:08] we had five additional trunk retreat vehicles.

[18:12] So we're the PD, old PD building, or the Mana House we call it now, the side parking spots,

[18:17] the diagonal.

[18:18] Those would be also trunk retreat vehicles, so we are excited for adding more vehicles,

[18:24] because the wait list is very big for us.

[18:26] So we're trying to make more space for them.

[18:28] And as always, we have the manor haunted house

[18:31] and food trucks and live music.

[18:34] And that is all I have on my summer, 2020, 6.

[18:38] Up day, but I didn't go to class.

[18:39] I don't know.

[18:40] It's going to stay there.

[18:44] Thank you so much.

[18:46] As always, it's great to hear from you.

[18:48] Great updates.

[18:49] Let's do questions and comments together.

[18:52] What's there's off?

[18:54] I'll start.

[18:55] What a quick question.

[18:57] Was this the summer too that we went away from the camp sore the early morning like additional child care hours?

[19:07] How was the feedback from families and staff from having just that like set time?

[19:12] Yeah.

[19:12] We actually took away the after care.

[19:14] That's okay.

[19:15] Thank you for remembering.

[19:17] And no issues at all, and we saw a lot of families

[19:20] did come around that five o'clock time still.

[19:22] We had a couple, you know, a 535, 35s, but now one issue,

[19:27] we did the survey on the survey results,

[19:30] you know, you know, okay with the new times,

[19:31] most people said it's don't change it and you last.

[19:34] So when we don't plan on doing that either.

[19:36] But it's a one quick registration now,

[19:38] versus having to sign it for like three clicks per week.

[19:42] So if you imagine a week, three times,

[19:44] has a lot for the families and now it is one time for all eight weeks.

[19:48] And you mentioned the swimmer aid program and the Commission Affiliated Participants

[19:55] had a fantastic experience.

[19:57] It was a...

[20:00] Okay, yeah, this is just organization, and like the premise of the staff and then the work with the campers, it was all really positive.

[20:07] The one question I had is, of like full-time, like, oh, like, yes, the diswomen structures. How many of those were part of the swim raid program in years before, sort of what's the retention or the promotion for the people?

[20:21] A lot.

[20:23] So in 20, I launched some rate program in 2019 and one of the participants has been a pool manager for the last two years and has worked for us since 2020

[20:32] So that's our first year volunteer is still with us today

[20:35] I don't think I'm going to have our next year though

[20:38] But I would say I have to look at a photo then because then I'll know but over half

[20:44] Over half that's why I wanted to bring the program. I've been in a dry program. I call it camp sore or camps for a long time

[20:51] And I was like, well we have a CIT program, why don't we have like a CIT program for the pool?

[20:57] Because we always have had a great success having CITs be staff for us.

[21:02] And those staff usually shine for us because there are no other programs.

[21:05] They know some of the campers.

[21:07] So we just copied it and obviously we stopped it because of the pandemic and changed it a little bit.

[21:12] But it's doing great.

[21:14] Great.

[21:14] Thank you very much.

[21:17] Thank you for all the data.

[21:18] I love your presentations.

[21:19] are always so comprehensive, and half my questions are gone, though, because you answer them during

[21:24] the presentation.

[21:25] So I love it.

[21:27] The private swim lessons was that new this year, I can't remember.

[21:29] Yes.

[21:30] I should have probably talked more about it, but I'm changing it a little bit next year, so in

[21:34] March, I'll talk a little bit more about it, but so it's sort of that within 10 hours when we

[21:38] open the district, and we were offering three lessons per week for a 10 and 10, 30

[21:45] Love in AM and sold out people upset because it sold out so we added a few more, but we also have group lessons

[21:52] We wanted to make sure to take care of those fun fact, and I'm sorry I didn't mention this

[21:57] We had adults take private swim lessons and that's as you that's what was made for it. It's for adaptive

[22:03] Children or adapted anybody and adults or any teens

[22:07] I felt uncomfortable taking children

[22:09] So musn because we can't just offer adults one lesson class in our bit our in our current structure

[22:16] So, yeah, we had three adults, we had a family, do private lessons too, like a whole family child

[22:22] and a adult, that was great, and next year we're looking to adding like a three clock time

[22:29] slot, and that was a big feedback, but the afternoon lessons are very difficult for staffing, due to

[22:36] like, not just cool activities, summer, but summer activities like football practice, or some kind of thing,

[22:41] So it's really hard to sustain, so we can't commit too much.

[22:44] We're already offering nine group lessons,

[22:47] plus life cards and everything.

[22:49] So yeah, it went very well.

[22:51] I think we end up doing like double them and anticipated.

[22:55] So yeah, it sounds like it was a wonderful addition

[22:57] to your catalog of wonderful activities.

[23:01] Great.

[23:02] And then the only other question I have is,

[23:03] is there anything else you need?

[23:04] You mentioned the swim step and maybe

[23:05] get another one of those, but was there anything else

[23:07] that would have made the summer go a little more smoothly?

[23:09] Yeah, I have to staff every year to what do you want?

[23:12] Let me make sure job better.

[23:14] They ask for more shape.

[23:15] So we're working on that in the live card stands

[23:16] because it was a very hot summer.

[23:19] I would love a swim stand.

[23:21] And that's a bad idea for the pool for the pool,

[23:24] I'm gonna say.

[23:25] Okay, thank you.

[23:27] Yeah, congrats on nine updates

[23:28] and those rash guards, I'm pretty jealous.

[23:30] I might have to get one of those.

[23:32] I'm not very good at swimming,

[23:34] but I can think it could be an aid.

[23:36] Oh, my God.

[23:37] I might need to take actually

[23:40] I don't have many questions either.

[23:43] I was curious about the contractor camps.

[23:46] You mentioned a couple of times how we're kind of back into that

[23:49] 2019 vibe.

[23:50] And I just targeted on those numbers where we had like,

[23:54] what was it like 2022 contractor camps 2019?

[23:58] And we've kind of consistently been at 14.

[24:01] Does the city do outreach to get those?

[24:04] Or is it kind of, what's the process?

[24:06] Could you walk me through a little bit?

[24:07] at great question of either they come in naturally or we go out depends. I'm currently the president

[24:14] of the contracts in the San Mateo County of all the municipality cities that we meet

[24:19] quarterly as well to talk about what contractors work or don't. So that's how we kind of

[24:23] look for them or they come in naturally. So that's it. And then once we get that interest form

[24:28] or we each out for them, we interview them, we look at the certifications, the licensing and the

[24:35] curriculum and see what they offer.

[24:37] We don't look for double classes, so let's say you want to contact me and offer

[24:41] 10th classes right now.

[24:42] I would most likely say no.

[24:44] We have two 10th instructors.

[24:46] We want to make sure that their classes go.

[24:48] So we don't look for duplicate offerings as much as we can.

[24:52] And then if both parties agree on the percentage of everything,

[24:56] we onboard them and go from there.

[24:58] To answer your question.

[25:00] It dropped at 14. Last week, we had a close bearer for camp sore. This year, when we reopened bearer, it was no camp sore. A couple of the contractors are no longer in business like PAW. Some of you guys may or may not remember PAW. There were one of my PAW camppossum was the cause of pets like camp. And a few others like that have shut down recently. Some of the smaller, I would say, Mama and PAW companies.

[25:27] And when I, I don't have so much space to embarrass it. So back in 2019, we offered a lot of morning only camps or afternoon camps.

[25:37] And that's when a lot of people I guess were able to drop off kids or not.

[25:41] And then we noticed even after the pandemic.

[25:43] And we started noticing around 2019, people need to all day camp.

[25:47] So we kind of closed our room now for one contractor versus having two contractors in the same room.

[25:53] We would put like contractor A in the morning, they would leave, contractor B in the afternoon,

[25:58] in that same room, two different camps, they had no idea they were there, but now we're

[26:03] more to like, okay, you're getting the all-a-day camps, because the half days are just canceled

[26:06] left and right.

[26:08] I came to call when we've had one go in the last couple of summers to be honest.

[26:12] It's been introverted, we're talking about that recently in our contractor group, how like, what

[26:17] can we do, because people need the eight to four at least.

[26:21] Interesting, thank you.

[26:26] Congratulations on the success.

[26:27] I mean, everything here sounds like it's all going in the right direction and congratulations

[26:30] on nine years.

[26:31] That kind of continuity has to be helping to make it grow.

[26:34] So I really appreciate that.

[26:36] I don't have any questions.

[26:37] I just think that the adaptive camp in the group from there.

[26:40] It's a real bright spot.

[26:41] I would be here at congrats.

[26:45] I was wondering, I noticed obviously the number of campers is growing quite a lot every

[26:50] year.

[26:51] What are the plans for next year?

[26:54] Like, what is the limit?

[26:55] Are we going to expand?

[26:57] And if we have bearer construction whatnot, how much would that hinder?

[27:01] Great questions.

[27:02] For campsore, we're being the lodge, most likely, so that should be okay from the construction

[27:07] at bearer if that were to happen.

[27:10] And I would say, we're right at that.

[27:12] I don't see that 903 going up a little bit higher,

[27:16] maybe a hair with a doctor camp, but we typically,

[27:19] if you think of the lodge, we have about 110 campers,

[27:23] plus 33 staff, plus about 15 CATs, and some AIDS,

[27:29] usually for the duct of campers.

[27:31] So I'm glad the fire department probably doesn't like,

[27:33] but we're right there.

[27:34] I'm saying, like, we're a girl, okay, I promise,

[27:36] fair and family, but we're like,

[27:37] right, I could pass it to you for the logic we are growing it so if we ever do get a new

[27:40] community center, sorry, when we get a new community center, I can't wait to explain

[27:47] can't sort into that center to really grow even more.

[27:52] I, it's truly funny, I have to echo Commissioner Amkin that you preempted, I was writing

[27:58] that questions, I answered that one, so that was really good, I really appreciate the numbers

[28:03] I really appreciate you proactively giving me analysis, because it's really helpful, and I really like some of the innovations, especially with this swimming and all of that, I mean, it's great, it's great to get people young people in a position of leadership and giving them a chance, both aquatic and both dry and wet as you think you'd put it.

[28:27] So I think that's really, really good.

[28:30] I also really adore the adaptive programs.

[28:33] I know that's a lot of work, and you kind of go through it

[28:35] really quickly, but I know that that's a lot of work to run that.

[28:40] For a relatively small number, but a very underserved population.

[28:44] So I really appreciate the fact that you and a team are doing that.

[28:49] And also please thank your entire team because it's really...

[28:54] It's wonderful to see this every year.

[28:56] And I love the growth,

[29:01] are there any, in terms of different contractors we have, or are there

[29:04] any things, because you mentioned talking to other, other parks or professionals, are there

[29:10] any, in like a couple of years ago, pickleball took off, for instance. Are there things that are

[29:15] emerging that we should be offering camps for obviously pickleball is not the one I'm thinking of, but

[29:21] for youth that we should be doing that you're looking to add in the future?

[29:25] Yeah, we talk about that through the trends right now theater and music theater is really popular

[29:31] Like really popular

[29:33] Currently I have like a roller skate company. I really interested in joining us, but like where is there a fly area that meets their requirements of a whole list

[29:41] So sometimes we just can't offer some of the programs like you're gonna see the city of San Carlos would be offering

[29:46] Rollsking very soon because Belmont couldn't remember that

[29:49] So sometimes we just can't because of our centers or city, but I know that's going up.

[29:58] We talk about pickle.

[30:00] Well, it's like pickle ball. But we talked pickle ball back before COVID. If you don't remember, I actually taught it to the community. I learned on YouTube for like an hour.

[30:11] But so we try to keep up with the trends. I'm trying to think I know we just talked about, it wasn't cooking. What's like bead making. I forget what they call it. Something's really popular like the dazzling right now.

[30:23] but she was especially, and I forget what they call it.

[30:27] I never heard of it into that medium.

[30:29] I was like, okay, I'll look into that.

[30:31] But decorating your shoes and the dazzling is like popular right now.

[30:35] I go with the trends.

[30:38] No, that's how I'm curious how curious what things,

[30:40] and also, are there any of that we're currently offering,

[30:43] you've seen big jumps in interest,

[30:45] or ones which will decline, we'll skip the clients.

[30:48] But just folks, I'll give Aaron Mugov,

[30:50] sorry, Mugovy theater.

[30:51] I call Aaron her name all the time.

[30:52] I apologize, but I'm gonna be theater examples.

[30:54] They had more people in the wait list

[30:56] than they had involved.

[30:58] Just as an example, so you can see how popular that was.

[31:01] 10 is, I would say is like medium right now,

[31:03] 10 is fracted in pickleball, like we just canceled a class,

[31:07] and I was like the first time we canceled

[31:08] probably like two years.

[31:12] And that's not a big wait list.

[31:16] Outdoor sports actually did not do well.

[31:18] So our soccer contractor, he had four weeks

[31:21] at Christmas brings up on school. We were only able to run two or the four weeks last year.

[31:26] He was only able to run two or the three weeks. So we're looking into that and working with

[31:31] possible another local soccer agency to offer that next year. But sometimes it's the provider to

[31:39] people are done taking that same kind of camp style or description.

[31:45] And I try to go with

[31:46] maybe our neighbor doesn't offer some times like specifically San Carlos or maybe a little bit of

[31:52] foster city or San Mateo because then it's competing a little too much. And then I wanted to answer

[31:59] really quick about the construction of Barrett and Summer Contractor classes and I forgot to mention

[32:03] I apologize is the way the community center plane was originally designed in 2019 who knows what

[32:09] will happen in the future was a goal was to keep programming going why they build the new center on

[32:14] field. So that way, the fans or whatever, but our goal is to keep programming going at

[32:19] Barrett as long as we can. So hopefully we don't have a summer. And if we do have a summer,

[32:24] we have to stop it just like last year, we can't soar. We'll move them around and work with the school

[32:29] district and rent more rooms from them. If you ever looked at, I'm feeling like anything with

[32:36] hiking or nature. We've got a great open space in terms of doing some programs like that. We did

[32:41] for biking but we stopped that for obvious reasons. And then we have the

[32:47] Peninsula Force in Beach School. They used to go to the hiking. What we found is

[32:52] the lack of dressrooms up there. Make it a really challenging. That's what we don't do

[32:57] too much at home or park either. We put a part of it up there for a little while obviously

[33:01] the residents didn't love it so it's not there. But we kind of need like a night like a night

[33:05] night. We need a restroom area to make the kids comfortable. That makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

[33:11] Thank you.

[33:13] Recently, just wanted to say you were right about the podazzling.

[33:16] That has been a really popular.

[33:18] I have no questions, but I did want to say before the program started, I saw

[33:22] so much about Kapsaur and about the jobs at the pool and the center.

[33:27] And I thought that was really great because it was clearly getting out there.

[33:30] And I think that was really helpful for how much the program has expanded.

[33:33] How many people have seen that it's available and a thing?

[33:37] So that's been really great.

[33:38] Thank you.

[33:38] And thank you for that.

[33:39] I love hearing it, because I said great summer parents,

[33:42] campers, all that, but great hiring year by the way.

[33:45] It was a great, we had too many out of knock on which.

[33:48] The next, never had I ever, my 25, this is my 25th summer

[33:51] overall in Parks and Rack, and never had I ever,

[33:54] and we had a great hiring in camp and in Aquatics this year.

[33:56] So it was really great.

[34:00] Yeah, it's great to see how many opportunities

[34:01] you are for all the children, and it's like wonderful,

[34:05] how inclusive all the camps are for all ages,

[34:07] And is there any ideas you have for the next summer like any new events or anything or camps?

[34:16] We just are starting to plan 2027 today. I did it like I think my first name is I do 1130 today.

[34:22] And I'm working with the current contractors.

[34:24] We're actually working with the NCON College Children Theatre to bring them to Barrett.

[34:27] This upcoming summer to use the MUR and that'll be a first.

[34:31] So that was what the talk was today about.

[34:33] And then once we kind of lock in like the main partners of contractors that we know we have a great enrollment and do successful

[34:41] Then we start to look at the new interest and so we don't I want to say every year

[34:47] I'm at least four new contractors at least sometimes less sometimes is more or just depends

[34:53] But I have a list of my office here where I want to come look and you can see like who used to be here and who's here and all that great stuff

[35:01] What's your offer?

[35:04] Yeah, volleyball, basketball, soccer, we used to offer across the 90 more. We used to offer baseball, but that stopped.

[35:16] Now we have an outside person that runs baseball. I think that's it.

[35:20] Yeah, I also want to say that it's great. How do you take like what other people say and try to improve, improve the camps events for everyone?

[35:27] Yeah, always room for improvement.

[35:32] For CampSore, did you have financial aid in fill up there, or do you know how many, like, what

[35:36] around, how many students or youths had financial aid this year?

[35:40] Yeah, I thought include the total overall, and I apologize if I didn't, so for CampSore

[35:45] had $0.

[35:46] It's first time ever, and it usually is 8,000, 10,000, we're out of money.

[35:51] We're like, well, but Aquatics, first time we had it, took all the money right away, it was

[35:55] great to see, and we wanted that, right?

[35:57] So the quality of the scholarship was, if you're a Belmont resident, you get the whole pretty

[36:03] much session for free, because the value is a little different than Camp Sourer when it comes

[36:08] to pricing, and so we gave about, I want to say total around 3,000 to 4,000 out, because

[36:14] the aquatics only had 1,000 allocated to it.

[36:17] So we're looking at next summer to combine everything so we can allocate a little bit differently.

[36:22] So there's money for people in SWIM in aquatics, but in Sourer there are no family

[36:27] that exist. That did play a didn't want to correct. So now we have scholarships

[36:31] you're around. So you can apply for a pretty much most camps, classes, contractors,

[36:35] the hideout this year. I've never seen so many people apply for the scholarships

[36:38] that hide out this year. And we accepted most of them. And that's the first time

[36:43] because this is our first school year. We started in winter last year, but our first

[36:48] full school year doing the scholarship program. So we can allocate. So youth in

[36:53] Dryland was allocated $8,000 in a quadix was allocated at $1,000, so $9,000 total.

[36:59] Camp sorority didn't touch any of this summer, but the contractor camps definitely didn't

[37:03] had interest in those, and so we gave out those funds, but total I want to say was $3,000

[37:07] to $4,000.

[37:08] I have to look it up.

[37:09] Is it clear to families when they're trying to sign up for sore that financial aid

[37:12] is there and accessible?

[37:15] We could do better.

[37:16] I'm just wondering why the number, like if there is any kind of barrier, that would be

[37:20] nice to...

[37:21] We have a gas, and it's just a gas, is because the camp scholarship doesn't start to

[37:27] April, but people can sign up in January, so maybe they don't want to redo the paper.

[37:30] Right, it's very easy.

[37:32] We just refund them back on the credit card, so maybe we got to promote a little differently

[37:35] or educate better, but we do email the school district every year, including this summer,

[37:40] and we've out and descended out for us, and also we do one more thing, I just can't think

[37:47] what it is.

[37:48] I don't think something like like a separate window for people signing up or like a different time period

[37:52] But I just wonder if there is another way to reach those families that it would be beneficial for

[37:57] Yeah, and that's what we did. Thanks for saying to reach. We emailed all last three years scholarship people and yeah

[38:02] It's up to them and the first of you actually have the most money we couldn't give it out

[38:06] So don't know, but we're gonna work on it. We want to give it all out wonderful. Yes, great. Thank you. Yeah, thank you anything else

[38:14] Okay

[38:16] Moving on, other business updates to Department of Dates?

[38:40] Okay, so I know Ann Marie normally gives the Department of Dates,

[38:44] but Ann Marie is no one with her department.

[38:47] She has moved on.

[38:48] She heard last meaning, which when I was not here,

[38:51] I wanted to make an announcement, but I didn't catch it in time.

[38:54] She's moved to North Carolina.

[38:57] So Courtney Brown, who's with our community development department,

[39:00] is helping out.

[39:02] So I will be giving the Department of Dates.

[39:08] So if you haven't heard, our confined senior and community centers been closed, we had a flood that happened in early August.

[39:17] And of course, I was in the office at the time, but it happened on the evening of Thursday, August 6.

[39:23] We had a overflowing toilet.

[39:26] And unfortunately, the floor drain that was in the men's restroom was clogged from the clean out outside of the building.

[39:32] And so when the toilet was overflowing, it went on overnight.

[39:39] And so we caught it in the morning on Friday.

[39:42] We did some remediation work.

[39:44] The picture that you have up there on the right is kind of a floor layout.

[39:47] Most of the area that was affected is in a carpeted lobby area.

[39:52] There's a tile floor there that a hygienist came in and took a look at.

[39:57] We don't think that we're going to have to demo the tile.

[40:02] We'll be able to get a determination on what the bacteria levels are there. Both restrooms need to be

[40:10] demoted and remediated. And then there's a section in the multi-use room on the floor that

[40:15] water got under. So we're going to have to do some remediation work in there. The front counter,

[40:20] there's two offices behind the front counter. Those areas were affected. There's some janitor's

[40:25] are janitors' closets and then some of the drywall that's along the entrance for an inch

[40:30] in Syria.

[40:31] The two rooms that are down there on the bottom, so there's kind of a multi-use room that

[40:36] we use with TVs and kind of an area where singers will gather.

[40:40] That area was not affected and then there's a little craft room in there that area was

[40:44] not affected as well.

[40:47] So our hope is this remediation company that came in and did the initial work the next day.

[40:52] We've had fans and do human dehumidifiers set up.

[40:56] We are days of getting them into contract.

[40:59] I actually just received their final paperwork today.

[41:02] And we'll route it tomorrow and get them kind of scheduled.

[41:05] We've already let them know that we plan to have them start work

[41:08] as soon as we can get on this paperwork.

[41:11] And just to let you know about some of the programming

[41:13] starts in your lunches.

[41:14] It's been relocated to the lodge areas.

[41:16] And we're still providing those.

[41:17] A lot of our contracted programming has been moved

[41:20] to some other facilities.

[41:21] and thankfully right now because the weather is good. Some of our programs that could be done

[41:27] outdoors are being held outdoors. So we've been able to accommodate most people, but our

[41:33] hope is to get this thing kind of squared away. If there's one positive out of this, the restrooms

[41:39] were originally scheduled to be remodeled, completely remodeled at the end of the year, between

[41:44] the week between Christmas and New Year, but because of this work, we're probably going to be

[41:47] able to push that project up and get those done a little bit sooner.

[41:52] And then next year, it was scheduled to have the multi-use room to have the floor replaced,

[41:57] but because half of the floor will need to be remediated and I'm probably need to be destroyed,

[42:02] we'll have to, we will, should be able to replace the floor sooner than next year.

[42:07] But that was a project that was scheduled to be done next year.

[42:11] Next slide.

[42:14] So this Belmont Sports Complex, the EB Charger Program, so this was a project that was

[42:19] I started prior to me getting here.

[42:21] I think Catholic line-bomb in the Assistant City Manager

[42:24] and Bridget were scheduled to be scheduled in this project

[42:27] to be completed.

[42:28] Took a little while to kind of get in charge,

[42:31] which is the company that we contracted to do the installation,

[42:35] but we finally got off the ground.

[42:37] This is a picture of the Belmont Sports Complex parking lot

[42:40] where they did some directional boring

[42:43] and installing of the chargers,

[42:45] and then that picture on the right

[42:46] is the finished product.

[42:48] these chargers went live this morning or today so right now at the Belmont Sports Complex

[42:53] there's four chargers, four active chargers, there's one dual port and two single ports and then there's an

[42:59] additional six make ready port so essentially it allows for expansion so if we need additional chargers the infrastructure is already there

[43:08] there is an item going to counsel on

[43:12] the 22nd and that is to set the rates for these chargers our plan right now is to

[43:18] set the rates at cost recovery and not making any money off of it.

[43:23] So we have some analysis of our PG&E bills and that's how we set the rates for those.

[43:28] So that item is going to go to Council on the 22nd.

[43:32] The additional two locations for EV charges are going to be here at City Hall.

[43:37] So the center aisle that kind of angled parking area will install some charges over there.

[43:41] Originally they were going to be over by the police department, but the police department

[43:46] location was allowing for chargers that were not publicly

[43:50] publicly accessible.

[43:51] And the idea was to have the chargers set for city vehicles,

[43:56] however, we don't have any current city vehicles that are EV.

[44:00] So we decided to move them out into that angled parking

[44:03] spot so that they'd be publicly accessible.

[44:06] And then the other location is across from the manner.

[44:08] So in the parking line kind of closest to there's

[44:12] a little blockhouse, there's some electricity there.

[44:14] That's going to be the other location for for the EB chargers. Our plan to start that project is November 2nd

[44:23] Specifically so that we can get through our Centennial Fest, which is happening on the 24th and then also boobash

[44:29] If we ran into any issues with boring or open trenches, those two

[44:36] very very important

[44:40] celebrations wouldn't, wouldn't be able to happen, so that's why we specifically scheduled

[44:44] for that work to happen on November 2nd.

[44:48] Thanks, slide.

[44:52] So another project that was, I think, started with Bridget, was here, was this chatty bench

[44:59] project.

[45:00] So there was a project to try and create some gathering spaces to combat loneliness for seniors.

[45:07] There was an idea to have kind of some conversation starters on these benches.

[45:12] And so that project originally was going to be scheduled to be installed over by the senior center.

[45:18] And then for our Centennial Fest we have a timecastle project.

[45:22] And that timecastle project was supposed to be in front of city hall by the flagpole kind of

[45:29] graph area, and so instead of having two different locations, we decided to combine the two projects.

[45:36] And so we essentially have kind of a plaza look, and so that picture on the bottom left is a rendering.

[45:43] We actually have the benches installed.

[45:45] We did them today, but those two time capsules and then that rock with the plaque will be incorporated into that area.

[45:52] And so we'll have some plantings.

[45:53] the two time capsules 150 year and one 100 year.

[45:57] So if my math is correct, it'll be 276 and 2126 to open up those time capsules.

[46:07] All right, next slide.

[46:12] All right, and so as we discussed earlier,

[46:14] these are some photos from the Imagine Together Festival

[46:17] that we have had over at Barrett from this past Saturday.

[46:22] And had a lot of great attendance feedback

[46:26] from some of the participants that were there

[46:29] the year before that we had more foot traffic this year, we had over 35 vendors and community

[46:35] booths and attendance, and then we also had one from our staff, Ingrid and Cody, and some

[46:41] of our teachers from owning our preschool at the Barrett Community Center, and then I wanted

[46:46] to give a special shout out and thanks to Spencer Schultz, he's one of our rec specialists,

[46:51] Michael, who spoke earlier, his team, scheduled all of the building attendance and our part-time

[46:55] staff that we retain from our swimming and can't program to help us set up and break them.

[47:02] And then in attendance, mayor mates and vice mayor Jordan were there, and then also

[47:06] commensures Lee and Leiford, so I'll you there.

[47:09] So I appreciate that, and next slide.

[47:13] Oh, there's, yeah,

[47:37] that was a car line,

[47:44] okay.

[47:44] And then so some upcoming events to note, so this Saturday, on the 12th, we have excuse

[47:50] at this Saturday, the next Saturday, a preschool open house from 9 to 11 over Bear Community

[47:55] Center. Our first movies in the park is going to be on Friday September 18th at Twin

[48:00] Pines Park. We do have two more movies in the park so it'll be the next two Fridays after

[48:06] that. So it'll be the 25th and the second and then those will be the Incredibles 2 and School of

[48:12] Rock. I believe and then the second movies in the park will be at Alexander Park and then the third

[48:19] when we'll be over at Behrot, and then, as commissionally, stated that the bill

[48:24] of water dog run, that's September 26 from 7 and 10 in the morning.

[48:28] I think we have some plans for the Pancake Breakfast to be still held and moved to a

[48:33] different location. From the senior center, just in case we can't get the senior

[48:37] center open, but I am fingers crossed that we will have it at least available. The

[48:41] kitchen is still okay. And then I did want to mention, even though I know we'll have

[48:46] other meeting before, but our Belmont Centennial Fest

[48:49] coming up here on Saturday, October 24th,

[48:53] and specifically I've been in charge of the drone show.

[48:56] So working on an agreement to get a drone show,

[48:59] vendor lined up and sort of have for upcoming events.

[49:07] Thank you.

[49:08] Questions and comments?

[49:09] Are there any public questions or comments?

[49:16] We do not have any.

[49:18] Could you try for anyone, sir?

[49:19] Yeah,

[49:23] recently there's a bit where a 2D leaking was a long time involved.

[49:28] She was 20 years on Parks and Recumission, and also the San Mateo County Human Relations,

[49:34] and then was ran at Belmont Park Wisters for 45 years, and if you all know and love the

[49:40] Lyon and the Park Humor, that's from, that's a combination of Judy and Margo, that's how

[49:47] the Lyon got there.

[49:48] So she recently passed away and I just want to just briefly mention given that how long

[49:52] she contributed for Belmont and for Belmont Parks and Rec.

[50:01] Any other questions or comments about the department updates?

[50:06] I hope.

[50:10] So, the chargers you mentioned, they're going to be over there in the angled parking,

[50:15] that's kind of the other senior center.

[50:18] But when it weren't their plans at some point for that parking amount to kind of be dug up,

[50:22] and there'd be an attention based on who put underneath for flood control.

[50:25] Is that the same area?

[50:26] The ones went at the entrance.

[50:28] Or they over there?

[50:29] Yeah, so when you pull into the parking lot from six, and you go straight, and then if you're

[50:35] going to make a left, those angled parking spots that are between the manner and city hall,

[50:41] there's going to be some electric chargers there.

[50:44] So specifically to touch on your point about the detention basin, so we've made sure that all

[50:51] of the infrastructure that is coming to those chargers is actually the power is being pulled

[50:55] from the blockhouse, which is going west.

[50:59] And so the detention basin, that center aisle,

[51:03] it shouldn't affect those chargers.

[51:05] Thank you.

[51:06] Yeah, hopefully that project will happen at some point.

[51:09] And then what you have to pull up these beautiful chargers

[51:11] right after you put them in?

[51:13] If the chargers were put in PD, which was the original location,

[51:17] then we would have to work around those.

[51:20] And then this question isn't really

[51:21] anything in the presentation.

[51:22] But I walk through Twin Pines a lot and people are always asking me lately. Why is the creek so green and whether or not that was intentional with the

[51:33] Kind of the redoing of the creek. So why is the creek so green?

[51:37] Do you know if they were talking about some of the algae that's in there all that algae? Yeah, because that wasn't they didn't use to have all the algae like that

[51:43] So I don't know if it's just because it's shallower or slower moving, but people keep asking me why the creek is green this year because their kids can't play in it

[51:50] Yeah, yeah, so it's a combination of

[51:52] the water being shallow, generally speaking,

[51:56] from during this time of the year, it's just a sun exposure,

[51:59] and the heat kind of promotes the algal blooms,

[52:02] and then the slow moving water.

[52:04] And so usually what happens in the winter time

[52:06] is that water starts kind of moving there a little bit faster,

[52:10] a lot of that stuff will kind of filter out

[52:12] and move downstream.

[52:14] OK, thank you.

[52:16] I have a question about the image.

[52:17] And together, there were some games that were set up,

[52:22] You know, the things that you could accomplish, and I know one of the things that was trying to do was raise money and donations, where their goals were the goals met, did any donations come in as a result of the festivities.

[52:34] That I don't know, I know BCF, so Belmont Community Foundation, I know they received some donations, probably an excessive what the event cost, but I'd have to check and see if they received additional donations during the event.

[52:50] Okay. Thanks.

[52:51] I had a quick question.

[52:54] I noticed there are any updates about the fire hydrants.

[52:56] Are those like going well?

[52:58] They are going well.

[52:59] We've had a few people that had approved projects.

[53:03] And we've reached out to them.

[53:05] We've reached out to them several times.

[53:06] And I'm not sure that they've gone through and painted them.

[53:10] I actually just received an application this morning for one of the utility boxes.

[53:15] So you will be seeing that soon.

[53:18] If the committee approves.

[53:20] Yeah, I thought the time capsule was a super cool idea because hopefully I'll be able to

[53:25] I'll remember at some point 50 years to come back and see it.

[53:30] YouTube will be the only.

[53:31] Yes, I'll be the only.

[53:34] Yeah,

[53:36] there's been a lot of ideas about what to put in there and we've been kind of tossing around a whole bunch of things,

[53:42] but it's interesting when you talk about what you would put in there and one of the things that we thought about was all the different ways that we

[53:51] And so somebody had mentioned, oh, let's put a USB stick in there that has all of these things that we do, and I literally said, I don't think in 50 years, they will even have the technology to read a USB stick, however, it would be kind of cool to have a compact disk and a five and a quarter inch floppy and a three and a half inch floppy to show people how we used to store data. And so those are some of the ideas. I know the penny is going away, so we're trying to find some pennies to put in a time capsule.

[54:19] So, some really cool ideas, but I do think that when there are open people are going to probably wonder what those things are.

[54:29] Actually, the happy hydrant comment reminded me of something.

[54:32] Just a couple weeks ago, the water people came and removed the happy hydrant that was in front of my house.

[54:38] And I was very sad about it. And I said, can I keep it? And they said, I don't know. And they said, but we have a bunch of them of these happy hydrants that have been removed that are that we saved.

[54:47] And so I don't know for the Centennial of Pickle Dev like a little happy hydrant set up where you can see some of the old ones that have been removed and maybe would promote the new program, but I don't know how many they have, but it might be interesting to see the ones that they have decommissioned.

[55:00] But held on to, because they might have a few. Including mine, I want to remind you. This was Ministerless. This was Ministerless. Yeah, they were upgating the hydrants. I have a beautiful new hydrant case. There's a fire, but I was sad to see the happy hydrant go. But I'd love to see the ones that they have decommissioned and saved if they are available for the centennial celebration.

[55:20] I feel like I recall Bridget saying something about you getting to keep your hydrant. I know that's an advocate. I want to go, I think the person who paints it maybe gets first.

[55:28] But we could have a hydrant guard and maybe if you know, yes, one also my husband might kill me if I come home with a hydrant

[55:34] What are we going to do with that?

[55:41] I just had one kind of comment question about the senior center. Thanks for updating us on that

[55:49] Unfortunately, but glad that we're all taking action seems pretty quickly

[55:53] You mentioned that a lot of the programs are being like accommodated in other ways, which I think is awesome.

[55:59] Was there anything that we couldn't accommodate any programs?

[56:03] Not yet, however, for our fall and winter programming, if we cannot, if the floor in the multi-use room is demoed

[56:13] and we can't get it fixed in a timely manner, there's possibility that we will not be able to accommodate some programming,

[56:19] especially when the weather starts to be not so nice, so it's really really important for

[56:26] us to try and get that floor fixed. It's quickly as possible or at least get it the moisture

[56:31] mitigated and the remediation done, and then somehow see if we can temporarily put something

[56:37] down so the floor can be used until we can get it replaced.

[56:41] Thank you.

[56:43] Do those programs require a kitchen or is it something that could be done at Barrett?

[56:47] It's possible the space at Barrett right now is highly sought after and very heavily utilized.

[56:56] So we'll have to see what we can do with the multi-use remover in Barrett.

[57:01] More opportunities for the communities see what Barrett is and what it could be done.

[57:06] Absolutely. Anything else about the department updates?

[57:10] Okay.

[57:11] Let's move.

[57:12] Sorry, sorry.

[57:12] If I may.

[57:14] I just wanted to acknowledge that at the Imagine Together Festival, there were so many

[57:18] volunteers that I remember halfway through, like, at a certain point, the next shift came,

[57:24] and they just said there were so many volunteers, people who hadn't even signed up, that

[57:27] they just sent, like, the middle shift home, because there were so many, and that was so

[57:31] nice to see.

[57:31] And then also, I wanted to add that, what I noticed and what I've been hearing was that

[57:35] it seemed like there were less actual vendors like selling stuff.

[57:39] There.

[57:39] Do you have the numbers from my last year versus this year?

[57:42] I could get those.

[57:44] Yeah, I can get them.

[57:47] But for traffic, for those of you who were there,

[57:48] there was a lot more in the last year.

[57:51] I came in towards the ladder part of it.

[57:54] So I probably missed the peak.

[57:56] So the best representation of it.

[57:58] I thought it felt a little lighter.

[58:00] There was actually, there was more.

[58:02] And we also did a whole focus on emergency services.

[58:06] So, we had OES, and a bunch of things, OES as well as Belmont Search, so a whole focus on disaster preparedness, also as added to the event.

[58:18] But on the vendor sentiment, I also enjoyed that piece of it, like learning and getting to experience all of our local vendors.

[58:25] So that was a cool feature to that event that I know we're trying to raise money.

[58:30] So I would be interested to hear about if we are still getting that participation.

[58:38] Commissioner questions and comments?

[58:47] If you require our system to participate in this meeting,

[58:49] please contact the city clerk at 650595-741-3 advanced,

[58:53] so reasonable accommodations can be arranged.

[58:56] And if you would like the meeting materials

[58:58] are available at Belmont.gov,

[59:00] this meeting is adjourned.

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