[0:00] Okay, let's, let's get started. And if others join, we can get going. I don't think this has to be that long of a meeting. It's a lot of information, though, to get everybody up to speed. And so we'll, we'll open our meeting, thankful everybody for being here. Doesn't look like we have any public online for comments. Colby, you have somebody there? I'm here for a park request.

[0:29] Okay, big and create. Okay, probably for the during the park. Are you requesting or have you already submitted a request? Yes, I am. So now we can probably just cover that during the new event.

[0:40] I'm filled requests.

[0:42] Okay.

[0:42] I appreciate it.

[0:44] And always.

[0:47] Alrighty.

[0:47] The next item is our board meeting approval. Meeting minutes approval for the March 16th meeting.

[0:59] Do I have a motion to approve those? I move to approve the minutes from the March 16th meeting.

[1:06] Okay.

[1:17] I'll second.

[1:18] item is filled request and I wasn't aware of one but since we've got somebody here let's have them

[1:27] come to the table and present. If you want to just get here with me so we can see you. Okay.

[1:34] Lucky you. All right. Okay so I was told by Diane Booth to come by. I submitted it through her and she let

[1:44] let me know that you have a part authority for the New Bigam Creek fields, just west of

[1:51] here. I represent the Utah Ultimate Disco Association, which is a member of the United

[1:58] States of America Ultimate Association or USAU. I am planning a sanctioned club ultimate

[2:05] frisbee tournament for 12 teams, hopefully more, which requires about three full size soccer

[2:14] fields they're about twice the size of an ultimate Frisbee field is only 40 yards. I have my

[2:21] certificate of liability insurance through USAU if that's of interest and I can answer any

[2:27] questions about the event if you have them. It's July 11th and 12th.

[2:35] Okay, I know we did an ultimate

[2:38] at Frisbee approved one earlier this year, so if, and if Diane's had you come, then she'll

[2:47] need that liability coverage as part of the application. Yes, yeah, I'm aware. I think I,

[2:54] maybe you have email the tour or I was waiting for this, but I'll email it back to her.

[2:59] As of right now, Salt Lake County is named on the liability here, so it's covered through USAU for

[3:06] of millions of dollars. I don't really know how to, what's important.

[3:13] She'll know and

[3:14] should probably list our park authority as additional insured as well. Okay. But Don,

[3:21] didn't we approve this last meeting? That's what I was thinking.

[3:26] Let me look at that. I,

[3:29] was that on our, was it our last meeting?

[3:35] We certainly talked about it. I couldn't remember the date.

[3:38] Is it in the minutes?

[3:41] I think the minutes said that there were no approvals.

[3:45] Yeah, I think it was on the one before that that we approved it.

[3:54] I know that there was, I know there's been a disc golf approved.

[3:59] So when did you talk to Diane last?

[4:03] Probably right after your last meeting, I think it was late March.

[4:07] okay and she told me to pop out on the third one third Monday of the month. So yeah I know

[4:16] that we've approved a disc golf or an ultimate Frisbee comp application so and we just it was

[4:25] approved it was approved condition on having Diane receive everything so.

[4:33] Right so I would just have

[4:35] Yeah, I would get a circle back with Diane. Yeah, you just circle back with Diane, and if she has any questions

[4:42] She'll work with the the staff there at the park and or give me a

[4:47] Give me a call for board questions

[4:50] All right, that works for me

[4:52] So sorry to

[4:54] Make you come all the way to a meeting that everybody's online. Oh, no worries. No worries

[5:02] And your name again, I'm sorry Eli Wolk W. Okay. Okay. Thank you Eli. Yeah. Thank you all best of luck with your with your event. Thank you. I'm participating in it too. So I have to win.

[5:16] Yeah.

[5:17] Good for you.

[5:22] Okay, we welcome Sonia and Angela and Blake, so our next item is we don't have any other

[5:33] field requests today, so our next item is a park operation maintenance report Blake.

[5:41] Yes, can you guys hear me?

[5:43] Yes.

[5:44] Yeah.

[5:44] Awesome.

[5:45] Okay, the park has been fertilized.

[5:48] we fertilized it two weeks ago. It's our first spring fertilizing there. We will fertilize it again

[5:57] also in four more weeks as far as the soccer fields we will fertilize again I should say.

[6:05] We had to pick up over the weekend with some sprinklers. We had a valve that was open.

[6:12] The clocks were off and it was a valve to water some trees. So we had a little snafu with

[6:18] that, but we called the crew out over the weekend and they got that taken care of.

[6:23] The guys are just, they're preparing, they did a bunch of, we were a little bit behind

[6:28] on our fall cutbacks, but they got that all done, it was the last week of the week before

[6:36] we sent a crew out, so everything's spruced up, ready to go.

[6:41] As they were doing that, we've had a lot of new growth in our rose bushes.

[6:45] we were really concerned about the condition of our rose bushes from last summer.

[6:51] So the rose bushes have snapped back and we got a lot of new growth on them. So

[6:56] yeah, we're just just knocking things out. Soccer has started and it's been busy. The guys,

[7:07] it's been hectic is to figuring out where soccer fields are going to be played where and the

[7:12] placement of those. We got it all done at the last second. We figured out the goal situation.

[7:21] We, I think it's copper mountain or whatever the club is. They brought some goals. But

[7:28] we, the concept of the park was that we were going to provide the goals for all usage so that we could

[7:35] dictate as to where the soccer fields are placed. But we're still a little bit behind in that. We

[7:42] to kind of let that slip through the cracks.

[7:44] So we need to purchase some goals and have that done.

[7:47] It's been hectic getting those fields painted.

[7:49] We have some new robots to paint the fields.

[7:54] And in theory, those robots,

[7:56] you kind of set your corners and it all goes off of GPS

[8:00] and then put the paint in the robot

[8:02] and it just does its thing.

[8:03] You tell the robot what field size you want

[8:06] and it does its thing.

[8:07] And the issue that we found is the tires on the robots

[8:10] or plastic and if you have any sort of moisture on the grass the robot just

[8:18] wants to sit spin. So what should have been a couple hour job in painting

[8:25] that turned into it literally turned into a two-day affair and so we might go

[8:32] back to an old school way of painting that if we can't get the robots to work the

[8:39] way we want them to. But we'll see. Either way, they got the fields painted. We were concerned that we

[8:46] weren't going to have enough field space just because of the different field dimensions that every

[8:52] little nuance in the leagues need. So there might be some spillover play in the lower bowl and there might

[9:00] be some spillover play in the passive area that's to the south end of the parking lot along 102. And in

[9:08] those areas in the lower ball would be some of the groups that just want to drop in and play,

[9:14] some of the clubs that just people that show up and want to play. And in the area along 102,

[9:20] it would be the younger kids that the 6v6 type field because it's just not that area isn't

[9:27] big enough to accommodate a regular soccer field. So we'll battle that when it comes. But yeah,

[9:35] Yeah, soccer is gonna be crazy busy this year,

[9:37] but we're excited for it.

[9:39] So yeah, anyway, that's what I have to report.

[9:48] Angela.

[9:50] Yeah, with Blake talking about playing soccer

[9:53] in that little strip of grass,

[9:55] between a hundred and second

[9:56] and having the little kids on it,

[9:58] I guess I would have some concerns

[10:00] about balls being kicked into the road

[10:03] and little kids running off

[10:04] or how are we gonna kind of address that

[10:08] if that's who we're allowing to play on that field.

[10:13] If we have to go that route, it's easy to set a temporary fence up,

[10:19] just for that, you know, in case there is, you know, any safety issue.

[10:23] And that's what we do. We'd set a temporary fence up along the south side of what it

[10:26] were, however, the field sits.

[10:31] The only reason I see that we would need that is the

[10:34] wear and tear of the big field. We have space on the big field.

[10:38] our original concept was to there's there's six I should say allotments on the

[10:46] big field for six individual soccer fields and the concept was to give two of

[10:52] them a rest so that we were in constant rotation but what we found is that we

[10:57] have a really high demand of drop-in play and then it is it is all the

[11:05] different variances of, you know, for instance, Salt Lake counties running their program there,

[11:12] and then this other club is running their program there, and they have numerous different field

[11:19] size requests. So, in a sense, our whole soccer field, the whole big area, is being used.

[11:27] There's not any fields for rest. And so, as we go on and we thought if we needed to give an area

[11:35] rest. We would, in a sense, we would kick the little kids over there. And like you said, for safety

[11:41] issues, we'd, we'd put up a temporary fence like a, you see those snow fences that are kind of

[11:47] the orange mash. We would put that up to, as a safety precaution. We hope that we don't have to

[11:52] get through it, but we had to, we had to think outside the box and saying, look, what if we don't have

[11:59] enough space for soccer here? And it's crazy to think that we don't. You go out to that parking

[12:03] And you're like, wow, there's plenty of space for soccer,

[12:05] but we found that we are having to cram everything in.

[12:10] So anyway, yeah, that's kind of a long answer,

[12:14] but yeah, we put up a temporary fence

[12:15] to protect the balls and ultimately protect the children.

[12:18] So Blake, how do you decide if the fields need a rest?

[12:23] Like, what's the criteria on that?

[12:24] Once we start seeing that the turf isn't recuperating

[12:28] and ultimately, that happens around those goal sites.

[12:32] So the fields were designed, those plots or those allotments were designed so that those fields are running north and south.

[12:39] And a couple of them, we actually have them running east and west. There's enough room that we had to switch them.

[12:45] So it's just kind of a mod podge of soccer fields within the bigger soccer field complex.

[12:54] So yeah, we would just rotate, hopefully we don't run at this with a good fertilizer program and and and good aeration, hopefully we don't run into it, but it's again it's going to depend on how much wear and tear and we we don't know because we haven't experienced it at this part.

[13:12] So this is kind of our first year in having to deal with organized soccer there.

[13:20] Now, we've obviously had a lot of soccer played there that's drop in play, but yeah.

[13:25] So we'll stay heavy on the fertilizer, stay heavy on the nutrient program.

[13:29] And hopefully we don't run into too much wear and tear.

[13:33] But it's when we start seeing the turf not recovering in those heavy use areas, especially around those goals.

[13:41] So I was going to say, so do you expect us, I mean, what, we're three weekends into league

[13:47] play now.

[13:51] Yes.

[13:51] Yes, because they started the first of the first of April.

[13:55] Yeah.

[13:56] So you so far so good or are we thinking we just need to kind of watch it week by week and maybe

[14:04] by middle of because these first leagues go tell the mid-June or something, right?

[14:11] Yes, and so far it's been good. The park is new, it's new, the turf is new, and so like

[14:18] you'll see that you guys have probably noticed that it still looks dormant, which it has been. The park

[14:25] hasn't quite been awake yet as far as the turf goes, but it'll kick around once it greens up,

[14:33] once it comes completely fully out of dormancy which is nice having snow

[14:38] last week and then you get 80 degrees days that makes for good good grass growth

[14:42] and as long as we keep pounding the fertilizer to it keep that going

[14:49] um yeah we'll just um it'll be a week by week thing um

[14:53] you know it's it's so far it's it's been good so and hopefully we have enough

[15:00] We're not on crazy restrictions that we can just keep that going all summer, so. Because.

[15:10] Because none of those fields are resting at all. Do we need to potentially take into consideration of fencing off areas at a time to allow them to rest. Rather than putting up fencing for little kids and their balls. Could we put up fencing to allow certain areas.

[15:29] to rest? I mean in theory that would be great, but I have no way to police that. And it goes

[15:37] into, even though the leagues will stop, you know, their league play stops in June, we have noticed

[15:42] that it is the drop-in play. It's clubs that are playing elsewhere that are like, hey, let's go over

[15:49] to being in pre-compractice. It's all that drop-in play that there's no way for us to police it or to

[15:56] control it. Yes, it's an open park and an open field and as long as there's not a reservation,

[16:02] then absolutely come play soccer at the park. So yeah, in theory, like if we could

[16:07] fence it off, that'd be great, but people just tear the fence down and go play soccer. That's what

[16:11] they do. We have no way of policing that. So are the goals, are the goals being moved, are

[16:17] goals permanent that lead there? I mean, that seems to be the area that gets the most wear and tear

[16:22] is in the goal box area. And you're setting those permanently through this

[16:27] league time? No, they're not they're not permanent. In fact each of those

[16:34] leagues has the ability to move the goals and what we've done is is we've set

[16:39] aside different places to move goals. We've also moved the garbage cans out of we

[16:45] have that big fence in area that's on the far west end of the parking lot

[16:51] there. We've told them that they can move their goals in there if they're fit to protect the goals so

[16:56] they don't get vandalized and damaged. In fact, we had a club. It was a club that reached out to

[17:02] email us on. It's a it's a it's a comp team out of Utah County that had been playing at Bingham Creek

[17:08] and they indicated that they did have those fields reserved and at the time they were just dropping in.

[17:16] We told them, you know, you would have to they'd have to go through the process. If you guys

[17:21] what your field reserved so my point of it is is they've dropped their goals off and we've told them

[17:25] that's fine you guys can play here but you're gonna have to play in the lower bowl and so what these

[17:31] leagues do is they they'll take the goals at the end when they're done playing game they'll take

[17:34] them and move them off to the side a lot of times they chain them together so you know the goals don't

[17:39] disappear so no they're not they're permanent they're just they're in the same spot during the

[17:44] games right so that that help that does help the in prompt to wear in terror I think a little bit

[17:52] yes yes absolutely yes okay well I think we just kind of go week by week and month by month and

[18:01] but hopefully hopefully we don't get into a into a restoration process again yeah

[18:12] Hey, don't you now be a good time to talk about Jordan Valley's recent action and yeah, you should probably get so there is an update on the water Blake. I think that's what Colby's leaning to so go ahead Colby.

[18:29] So, like, just for your information, Jordan Valley Board voted last week, or maybe it was

[18:35] a week before, to move their water shortage restrictions to what they call level 2.

[18:44] And in a nutshell, that means that they are asking each municipality and water user that

[18:52] they provide water to cut their watering back by 10%.

[18:58] So for just for example in our South Jordan parks we've gone through and identified locations where we feel like we can cut back.

[19:06] We'll be presenting our water shortage plan to the city council and make sure that they get there by off.

[19:14] But I wonder if it would be a conversation that we should have with regards to the park and what our actions should be in order to meet.

[19:24] to Jordan Valley's level two drought plan.

[19:29] That you bring up a very good point, Colby,

[19:32] and we've been asked by our mayor's office

[19:37] to come up with the same plan.

[19:41] And the plan we came up with within our own portfolio,

[19:45] now mind you, Salt Lake County's portfolio takes in

[19:48] that are parks that are owned by Salt Lake County.

[19:51] they take in other parks that are not owned by us that we operate and then of

[19:56] course they take in two parks, Sugar House and being a creek that we're in

[20:01] agreements with with other municipalities. And what we did is we said look there's

[20:06] areas, passive areas within individual parks that we're going to cut back

[20:11] water on to meet these goals of restrictions. But there's other areas that

[20:15] absolutely we're not and we went through this a few years back when we had the

[20:20] drought and we've seen significant turf loss, we've seen detriment to trees and so in a

[20:27] sense in our plan as we're saying look, let's take Bingham Creek for example, is there areas

[20:32] within the park that we can cut back water the 10% or 20% in certain areas but other areas like

[20:40] the soccer field that all right there might be room there's always room for improvement but these

[20:46] These are critical areas that no, we are not willing to restrict the water on and our

[20:53] leadership from our division and our department is like, this is where we're standing because

[21:01] we have to protect our assets.

[21:04] So Blake, what is the approach to being in Crete then and with all due respect to the

[21:11] County Council, I think this board really is governing this park. And I'm not saying that

[21:18] one way is right or one way is wrong. I'm just curious what the plan is for being

[21:24] a creek in particular, and especially because it's such a high water user within South

[21:30] Jordan City boundaries. Well what we'll do is we'll say look this is historically this is how

[21:35] much water we've used there. And if you're asking us to cut 10% overall, we can do

[21:41] that. What we'll do is we'll take other certain areas within the park and see how far we can push

[21:48] that cut. So that we don't have to make that cut as much on the soccer field. I'm not saying the

[21:55] soccer field is going to be at net zero. It still might be 5% whatever it needs to be, but there's

[22:01] other areas of the park that we can cut back on to save those critical areas in the park. So that's

[22:06] approach that we will take it at Bingham Creek.

[22:09] I like that. Do you know Blake, are your trees on a separate zone from

[22:13] grass? Can you wonder your trees separately?

[22:16] Yes, the only place that that's not the case is over at the bike track.

[22:21] The bike track is the only place where trees aren't separate.

[22:25] That makes sense. So it would be my recommendation to this board that

[22:30] what Blake has outlined is the direction that we go

[22:32] So, I think that the trees, because they're such a high valuable asset, I would like to protect the trees, and then the sports fields as much as we can protect the sports fields, and then cut back wherever else we can.

[22:47] I think your drip irrigation, you know, those areas are probably fine. It's really the open turf that maybe we consider cutting back. And then in response to that, maybe we need to review what our recreational use is.

[23:02] and what that means for the turf, and how that impacts the turf because turf, it has to have

[23:09] water in order to recover from use. And if we're cutting back some areas, then maybe we look at

[23:15] those areas and say, maybe we need to reduce our recreational use, or at least our contracted recreational

[23:21] use. But that's my recommendation.

[23:27] Yeah, I like it, Colby.

[23:30] I think you've got a good plan, Blake,

[23:32] So whatever we can do to help let me know do we need a vote or something from the board on this?

[23:41] I mean, I know it's not an action. I don't make it on the agenda, but right. I think is there any any concerns or is there support from the board to go

[23:50] with the with the the planned

[23:55] recommendations from as Blake and Colby have discussed from the board. I think if we just give a support

[24:02] That's when I was gonna recommend is just

[24:05] I think all black needs is some direction.

[24:09] I support it.

[24:10] I support preserving our assets and kind of allocating according to the most important

[24:14] needs.

[24:15] I do too.

[24:17] I support as well.

[24:20] I think that regular updates and maybe even if it's needed like in between meetings, if

[24:30] There's things that come up that the board would need to know so that we can react to either ahead of a board meeting or add a board meeting if you'll just keep us up to date. I think that would be helpful.

[24:43] I mean, I've had council members as well as community members already asking me about the excessive use.

[24:52] the, you know, there's a thousand kids down there on that park every night as

[24:57] what I've heard. So yeah, for sure. Colby, I have a question for you. You know,

[25:03] right now it's at a level two from from the water district. What what would a

[25:09] level three look like? Because I think we as we operators of the park that we we

[25:15] can't assume that we'll stay at a level two. So have they given any

[25:19] the indication what a level three cup back would look like?

[25:24] Yeah, and from the top, off the top of my head,

[25:27] I don't remember.

[25:27] I do think for this year we'll stay at a level two.

[25:32] And so they're conversations,

[25:34] and I was in their board meeting when they were talking about it.

[25:37] The reservoirs that we take water from have a three-year supply.

[25:42] However, they're at about 65% total capacity,

[25:47] which means we only have about two years worth of water left in them. If we

[25:50] have another winter like we had this winter, then next year I think we'll see a

[25:54] boat for more restrictions. And at that point I think it becomes actually

[26:00] restricted watering rather than a recommended 10% cut. So I can blake what I'll

[26:08] do and if you want to, if you'd like me to do this, I can send sort of just an

[26:14] outline of what their restrictions look like for all of their levels and I can send it to

[26:20] this board just so we have that information available. But to answer your question Blake,

[26:25] it becomes far more restrictive with regards to what they're neck. I think they have four levels

[26:31] and we're at level two. Yeah, I think that information would be good to have so we can just have a long

[26:37] term plan. You know, my gut tells me that yeah, we have the years where it's good and you don't hear

[26:44] anything about it and then literally the next year we're in a drought and don't have any snow in

[26:48] the wintertime. So I think as far as having a long-term plan what does level two look like for us?

[26:54] Yeah okay we've come up with that plan but we need to plan for what level three looks like also so

[26:59] that we don't so we're not reactive to it that we're proactive to it. I can even send you what I'll

[27:07] send you what our plan with South Jordan's plan is you welcome to look at it and still whatever you

[27:11] lot from it. Awesome. Look at it. But a Blake, just for

[27:17] actively thinking about it, what kind of loss do we expect, or

[27:23] would you expect, and if I'm trying to put a financial number to

[27:26] it with water restrictions. As we start to think about budgeting

[27:31] items, you know, spending on new things may be restricted with

[27:37] if we're anticipating an impact, we have to clean up

[27:41] and restore next year.

[27:46] That's a hard question, but.

[27:48] Yeah, it is.

[27:49] And let me get back to you on that.

[27:51] I'm with Colby.

[27:52] Our trees are, I think our trees are the,

[27:55] our critical assets that you have to protect.

[27:58] Obviously we have to protect the turf

[28:01] in those recreation areas and our sports field areas.

[28:07] Yeah, it's a, I mean, you know, this large from being in your industry, it's a complex thing.

[28:13] We don't want to lose plants.

[28:15] I'm also concerned of the quality of water that will get because of the lack of snowpacked.

[28:21] We don't get that fresh, clean water that's coming out of the mountains right off the bat.

[28:27] So it's it's it's the ask of cutting back to 10 percent. That's fine. Like that doesn't that doesn't ruffle our feathers. We like that's that's somewhat of an easy task to do where where I'm concerned is the quality of water that will be coming down in July and August because we didn't have that snowpack coming through. Yeah, they're still supplying us the water, but it's the quality water that I worry about.

[28:56] And to go along with that lake, secondary use is going to be limited this year.

[29:02] I mean, even secondary use.

[29:04] There right now we're being told that water won't be in the canals until at least may first maybe later.

[29:12] And depending on what that usage looks like from the canals.

[29:16] If they start depleting Utah Lake too much, I'm sure the canals will shut off early,

[29:20] which means then we go back to potable water and our drinking water and so it's all symbiotic in

[29:27] its relations and so wherever we can conserve that's I think what we should do. Yeah and I guess at

[29:37] that point in time you as a board if we're getting indications that that type of scenarios coming down

[29:43] the line and we have requests for fall soccer. I mean that's something that you guys will need to look

[29:49] cat and say, is it worth it to schedule this for fall or we know the water situation is

[29:58] in dire, you know, it's...

[30:00] And dire rounds, so do we not schedule soccer? Again, that's just something I guess we just have to try to use, you know, some foresight with.

[30:11] Yeah, I think it's something that we need to be aware of and have touch points on it regularly so that we can react proactively. And maybe it's even something we put on our website that, you know, so that people are aware that we're, you know, that we're being proactive with it. Just a note.

[30:31] somewhere. So I know that Rachel and her team within

[30:37] South Jordan City are creating some good messaging. If you want, we can get with

[30:43] her and maybe borrow some of their messaging and tie it to the park.

[30:53] Yeah, let

[30:53] keep me updated on that. I'll watch for Rachel's and then we'll I'll get with

[30:59] Rachel to update our website so that it's consistent messaging.

[31:04] Sounds good. Thanks Blake. Any other questions for watering it for anybody?

[31:13] Okay. Any other

[31:14] operational questions?

[31:18] Okay. Moving on on our agenda, I have just a quick update,

[31:25] 4800 West Tunnel, mural art that that subcommittee has met once as all. They're in the process

[31:34] meeting with an artist and in our next meeting is next Tuesday I think and so

[31:43] that that that's moving on. I'm just wondering if both Lars and Sonya is able

[31:50] to go to that or if we should have some other people sit in if they're

[31:55] unavailable. I'll be there. It's on my calendar. I just kind of make the first meeting.

[32:03] Okay. So you guys are good. Okay.

[32:12] Hey, I'm just going to disclaim this right now if my computer

[32:15] shuts off, I've been getting all these system updates, Windows system updates. So if I accidentally

[32:25] log off, that's where I've gone. You're fed up with us. My computers fed up. I hope I've been

[32:32] trying to let's say not now.

[32:37] So that's on the tunnel mural. We'll see those. See you next Tuesday.

[32:43] Then a few small projects, subcommittee update. What do we have?

[32:52] So Amber and Lars and I went out and did a site visit last week and we've come up with three different

[33:01] thoughts. And I asked Ambra if she could maybe show some pictures of what we were thinking.

[33:34] Okay, so our first thought was maybe putting in some misters. It would serve us those that are

[33:40] playing soccer and also summertime that playground gets hot and the kids could come from the playground

[33:49] and the soccer people could yeah utilize that feature. If you scroll down yeah

[33:57] there's another version of it. Okay our second thought was there's some

[34:03] hills as you know berms up off the soccer fields they look towards the mountains

[34:09] so we talked about potentially putting some swings there. People could sit on

[34:16] know while they're watching the soccer they could yeah just go there to do that as an activity all on

[34:26] its own and to utilize that landscape feature and give it an additional purpose. If you want to

[34:35] scroll down just a little bit more just another option and then lastly in fact when we were out there

[34:45] last Wednesday night, we saw big kids sitting in the little baby swings. So, for a quick, easy fix,

[34:54] we'd like to switch out some of those baby swings and put big kids swings on so that older siblings

[35:00] can, yeah, have the option to swing. Yeah, potentially single, maybe putting like,

[35:08] I don't know what you call the net one she's sitting in, but like a disc swing or something.

[35:13] So, that would be quick, easy, and yeah, facilitate a current need that we're seeing there.

[35:24] Just to clarify, did you say switch it out in the existing one or at?

[35:29] Yes.

[35:30] Well, we currently there are six baby swings there for little babies.

[35:37] And like I said, we saw big kids using them.

[35:39] I don't know that I really saw a little kid using them.

[35:42] And so if we were to swap out maybe two of the baby swings or three of them and

[35:48] put some

[35:49] Just swings so that older kids could swing as well

[35:53] Yeah, we'd like to just add that

[35:59] Blake are you still on can we do that quickly?

[36:02] Yes, I am

[36:05] Yeah, I think we could do that

[36:07] Yeah, two or three of them I think would be an easy fix and serve a need

[36:11] Yes, for sure

[36:16] I just have a quick thought in question. I'm not a part of the small project committee,

[36:20] but I just wanted to mention when I was out at the park taking photos, you know, kind of just for the social media updates.

[36:27] I was approached by a lot of people who were visiting the park stating that they are hoping that we add any type of shade over the playground area.

[36:37] I know that's kind of getting more popular in like Arizona or like Las Vegas kind of due to the heat

[36:43] They like to keep the shade off of the playground areas because the you know the playplaces do get hot

[36:49] Is that something we could also put into consideration with this? I know I would based on some of those pictures

[36:54] Some of those kind of did have like a shading roofy type of feel to it

[37:00] Just putting that out there

[37:02] We had considered maybe putting some pavilions up as well so that there's shade options for the moms that are there.

[37:11] I don't know, Lars, in your opinion, what kind of cost are we looking at if we're trying to shade the play structures themselves?

[37:18] $100,000 or more.

[37:20] How many? How much? Sorry. In the $100,000 range. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Out. Okay. Not. Yeah.

[37:30] Good to know. I know that we put some in a park and we didn't spend nearly that much. Lars, we,

[37:36] I think it was paid sales. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think it was around between 30 and 40,000. But we

[37:44] installed them so we did we did the labor. Yeah, how many did you put up? I think we did three.

[37:51] Oh, well, there you go. At least it's something to look into. I just have a comment with regards to

[38:00] the sprays. Maybe this year's not the right year to do something like that just based on the water

[38:07] situation. I know they don't use a lot but maybe it's the wrong messaging. Yeah, optics. Yeah,

[38:16] Consider that. Yeah, when we were looking at it. So I mean, it'd be cool to find a way to have that

[38:23] Help the grass as well somehow be you know, replaced something

[38:26] But even so the optics of it is not great, so

[38:30] And then in addition to that in a future phase if we're going to have a splash pad. Maybe that meets the need

[38:36] I just don't know when that will happen

[38:40] Well, we were just talking about it servicing the people that are using the upper area

[38:44] so that there's some type of relief from the heat, yeah.

[38:50] So the splash pad could have their own misters.

[38:52] I think it would be a fun addition to it,

[38:55] but this was to be like an added, yeah,

[39:00] to give an added use benefit to the users that are currently using.

[39:04] Yeah, and I think we were thinking more along the lines

[39:06] of the first picture, most likely like a couple of those,

[39:10] rather than like a big huge splash pad kind of thing.

[39:13] But it goes to the same thing. It's not necessarily for the playground, but it's the cooling,

[39:18] you know, we're trying to... I'm up with ideas without spending any money, like a ready-out.

[39:26] I think that swings are an easy way. I like the idea of looking at something that,

[39:32] you know, you got all those heels out there along the soccer fields,

[39:37] and um something like that that's being shown would could really add to the view in the you know

[39:47] just kind of the leisure part of the park and I'm sure it would get used maybe abused but yeah

[39:55] I like okay so we can maybe go with this the swing routes for this year transfer out the baby

[40:05] swings and then look at maybe putting some potential pork swing type yeah options up on the hills.

[40:14] See what the costs are. Yeah.

[40:19] Okay. That's a winner. That's I like that idea.

[40:27] What would be our next step? Like obviously these have been designed by somebody. Are we going to need to

[40:36] contract with someone to come up with the design? Can we find these independently?

[40:45] Lars, what are your thoughts on that? Sorry which which piece? The swings like

[40:52] the porch swings. Are we going to need to contract with someone to design that or

[40:56] can we find that? I recommend to at least work with a playground vendor or

[41:01] somebody that would facilitate an office shelf product. Are there any other parks

[41:06] that have anything like that that we could reference or get information from or anything like that.

[41:11] I was in Lehigh last year at the opening of their family park and they have what you're showing

[41:18] there. Yeah, they have them on their hillside up above their playground. Yeah.

[41:24] So I don't know if we could connect with that city maybe and see how they did those.

[41:29] and Colby, I know that was taft. That was big T-Recreation.

[41:35] T-Recreation?

[41:40] Yes, everywhere.

[41:44] Blake, is that something that the county can use their purchasing power through?

[41:59] I can't see who's online now.

[42:02] I'm just wondering if it needs like the footers designed as well too, or would that come with?

[42:07] That would come with the equipment.

[42:11] It would have specifications for footers.

[42:13] Yeah, they would come with it. We'd have them bid it for the install as well. Colby,

[42:20] you got your hand up. I was communicating via a sign language to

[42:28] Ambrath who's sitting over there. Sorry, don't. Colby, let Colby and I work with

[42:36] Blake and Patrick and we'll see what and we'll get some estimates back from

[42:42] some vendors. Okay. When we were up there, we had talked about maybe like three single

[42:50] porch swings. So I know some of the pictures that I showed had two altogether, but that

[42:57] was kind of our thoughts initially. So three separate swinging units.

[43:08] Yeah, let's have

[43:10] have since we need to work through the purchasing policy at the county, let's work through

[43:19] that and we'll have them come back with those estimates. Okay. Okay. Great good work.

[43:31] I like that. Anything else from that committee?

[43:40] Next item is the Wasatch

[43:43] Gardens update and this is just really quick. The director emailed me back and

[43:51] they're new I think if you recall right they have a new director and they're kind

[43:57] kind of re-focusing on what they're doing in the different areas of the valley.

[44:05] And what she'd like to do is later this fall put together a community engagement committee

[44:14] for a Southwest Valley garden, which if we still want to go that way, could potentially

[44:21] be a Bingham Creek and so she'll be getting back with us as well as others to engage in a

[44:29] more comprehensive survey than what they did last time. In fact, they don't have all the,

[44:35] they've lost all of their information from their previous survey so they're just really going to

[44:41] restart it. So we should hear something back from them in the fall. So she said,

[44:53] Item the next item if for on this app application you'll be glad to know

[45:00] I had to know that the county has the ZAP applications open as of today. Wow, a big turn of events

[45:08] last week or in the last couple weeks. They formulated what the ZAP plan would be. And so applications

[45:19] are out. I haven't heard officially if they've decided on what bond amount they're going

[45:28] to go after or what they're going to go towards. I think that's still under consideration,

[45:34] but they are they are putting together an application process is out there. And so the work that

[45:41] we've done with our master planning will is very timely because the grant applications

[45:49] closed on May 22nd. Wow. It's a very fast turnaround.

[45:58] So I emailed Andrea this morning

[46:02] when I found out that that was the case and so we'll be, she'll be helping us put

[46:09] together our application. So our next board meeting is on the 18th, which will be just

[46:16] a few days before the grants are due, so expect to see our application and so you'll probably

[46:26] have some discussions even between now and then. They have updated the master plan documents.

[46:37] I know Angela has seen them as on vacation last weekend. I was having a hard time getting them.

[46:42] they're very, very big documents. So I know everybody else hasn't seen them yet. And so

[46:48] when I get back to the office and I can have more technology abilities, I'll get them to you.

[46:57] But Angela, they did a pretty good job, huh?

[47:04] Yeah, they took all of our recommendations and incorporated them into the master plan.

[47:12] And, well, I shouldn't say all, the majority of our recommendations and incorporated

[47:19] them into the master plan.

[47:21] So our four zones that we had talked about, the mountain view, the slush pad, the interactive

[47:28] plate and the garden has all been updated and incorporated with kind of the key points

[47:35] that we had requested that we would like to see come out of those areas.

[47:40] Yes, so yeah, so it's exciting.

[47:44] Yeah, I think the big message out of the first zap meeting and I only heard this second

[47:51] hand I wasn't at the meeting is that the county has, Patrick, you can correct me if

[48:01] I'm wrong.

[48:02] But what I heard was, is that they were considering either a 10 year zap bond, like we've done in

[48:07] the past or a larger 20 years app bond geo bond and but probably if they go with the smaller

[48:17] one it would be a lot of you know there's a whole lot of eligibility requirements for the grants

[48:24] and spacing them around the county is important and having an original need we check a lot of those

[48:32] boxes at Bingham Creek Regional Park. But depending on how much money is available for projects,

[48:42] it could be a lot of smaller projects and not one or two larger projects. That's kind of what I've

[48:49] been hearing through the grapevine. So doing what we've done, I think we can break our projects out

[48:56] and and and have a good set of eligible projects and depending on what funding

[49:05] levels available.

[49:10] Don I am curious though that packet is showing an

[49:15] administration building and we've never talked about that or the need for that

[49:20] and so I'm just wondering about I saw I saw that too and I remember that I think

[49:28] we need to change, I thought we had said let's change the title of that because it's a rest

[49:34] room and a storage, not an administration, it was not necessarily an administration building.

[49:42] In the master plan, it talked about it having office space and rental space for

[49:49] events so currently the way it's being proposed and potentially submitted on our application.

[49:56] It is being proposed as an administration building.

[50:01] Okay, I said all right.

[50:04] I thought we had talked about that.

[50:06] I'll get with Angela or Andrea.

[50:10] But yeah, I don't think that would be one of our priorities.

[50:13] Yeah, especially if they're just like going smaller piecemeal.

[50:19] Yeah, so we had talked about well several months ago,

[50:23] the pick-o-ball which was on there the areas that we had looked at as a committee and I think we

[50:32] even talked about a dog part but I know that's not included in phase two but yeah we had never

[50:38] talked about the administration. Just follow up yeah on that. I'll follow up on that. Okay so more

[50:51] information to come, and we should, by our next meeting, we should have a pretty good

[50:57] application draft. That's the plan, at least.

[51:06] Sonya, any, moving on, anything on stakeholder

[51:09] relationships? Not very many updates on my end, aside from just getting lots of love on

[51:17] in our recent social media posts,

[51:19] outlining the amazing bathroom murals.

[51:23] Oh my gosh, I cannot even talk today.

[51:25] But no, that's been going wonderful.

[51:27] And I'm actually just really excited now

[51:28] that the weather's kind of getting better fingers crossed

[51:32] for us to actually start having events and people on the field

[51:35] because I'm definitely gonna be heading out there more

[51:37] to take more pictures and kind of catch things in action.

[51:40] I'm gonna be trying to highlight events

[51:42] that we already have scheduled.

[51:43] So if you do have anything that you want a specific shout out on,

[51:46] feel free to let me know. I'm always looking for like history cool facts about the park to share on social media, so if any of you guys have any, like background that you can share with me that would be okay to share with the public in like a social media post that would be awesome, but that's kind of where things are sitting right now for social media.

[52:07] Does anyone have any questions?

[52:12] I think if you get posts and pictures when people are out there playing, you got a thousand

[52:18] people running around on 45 acres of property that just kind of showing the activation of

[52:24] it. That would be fun. Exactly. Yeah. That's what I'm hoping to do. So I'm hoping to get the crowds

[52:29] now that they're getting out there. And that will be my next goal is just to show it lively

[52:33] and inaction. And then also I was thinking I don't know how, you know, a widespread or advisory

[52:40] you want to make this for the water restrictions. Notice you're saying updating the website.

[52:44] If you did want me to put anything on the social media, I can dedicate a post to just being

[52:50] mindful about water restrictions or water usage or anything like that. That's totally something I can

[52:54] do as well. Okay, I will coordinate when the city posts something, we'll coordinate that at the same

[53:01] time. Okay, perfect. I will stand by then. So, Sonia, I notice that you're getting lots of traction.

[53:10] on Instagram, but not really Facebook.

[53:13] Agreed. Yeah, that's definitely the trend.

[53:16] What are your thoughts on that? Is that just the users are going more that route?

[53:24] I do feel like we do have more just people are like Instagram is just the most easy and user friendly.

[53:32] Unless you like are actively looking in your Facebook feed.

[53:35] It doesn't, I mean, obviously it doesn't do it in a chronological order anymore.

[53:39] So you have to kind of go look for the post, which I think is kind of not helping.

[53:43] I do try to tag the location as well.

[53:46] I try to do those little things to try to increase likely engagement

[53:49] and the areas where we can be found, like if they're just looking on the map or things like that.

[53:54] But yeah, I'm not sure what it is.

[53:57] It could just be kind of Instagram is more just a ruler now.

[54:01] Honestly, if we had a TikTok account, that probably would be the one that is the most engaging and I'm happy to create one.

[54:08] That would definitely be a little bit more different type of content, but it could also be cool because maybe we can, you know,

[54:15] interview like Blake or we can interview the guys who are taking care of management, you know, the management of the maintenance of the park and, you know, kind of behind the scenes things of that sort.

[54:24] that could be really cool or showing even just like the development as we go into like the

[54:30] newer phase two and things like that just kind of showing the the process with videos.

[54:35] But I think that could be something we could definitely explore. I don't know how you guys

[54:38] feel about TikTok, but if that is something you would feel, well, I feel it would definitely

[54:42] increase the engagement, but it's definitely up to you guys.

[54:50] I know that the state is not allowed to have TikTok accounts, but I don't know what roles

[54:55] applied to municipalities or counties. That's good to know. Yeah, that's what I kind of figure

[54:59] to sticking with the two main. I think with the two mains and keep it focused there right now.

[55:05] Perfect. Yeah, we can do that for sure. And if anyone has any suggestions for, you know, increasing

[55:11] the engagement on Facebook, definitely feel free to send it over. I always try to share the posts

[55:16] once I do post it from my own personal account as well to just try to get the engagement from the

[55:21] people that I personally know, so if you guys are comfortable with that and want to do

[55:26] that on your own, that would be great. Otherwise, I think it might even be cool to put some

[55:31] stuff around the park, kind of like where we were talking last time. I didn't make the

[55:35] last meeting, but I think it was the meeting before where we were talking about QR codes

[55:39] and having that like go and talk about the bathroom murals. That could be something cool to

[55:43] put for like somewhere at the park, maybe a pavilion or something like our social media.

[55:47] follow us here post your pictures and comment even with a hashtag or something listed so that they

[55:52] know that's like the official the official account one and the official like hashtag for them to

[55:57] use. But again, how much effort do we want to really go into social media for that? But totally up

[56:05] to you guys, I'm open to anything. I think we're doing really well the the bathroom rules and having

[56:10] that just the colorfulness and showing that things are happening was really exciting for everybody.

[56:15] So I think just keeping that momentum going is going to definitely increase that engagement for sure.

[56:21] Yeah, I say just stay with the Instagram and maybe a few more posts and show the engagement.

[56:33] When we have some of these new things coming up, it'll be fun to do it as well.

[56:38] Agreed. Okay, perfect. And yeah, I'm also a part of the tunnel committee.

[56:43] So as soon as we get things going with that, I'm also going to kind of do the same thing post the pictures of the tunnel as they're going so that way can kind of keep building that excitement.

[56:52] But yeah, that sounds great. Then I will focus on Instagram and Facebook. And if you guys have any other tips suggestions, anything you want me to share, feel free to just reach out.

[57:02] Sounds good.

[57:04] We're at the hour just moving on to the financial reports. Any questions?

[57:10] We have a lot of questions.

[57:12] No.

[57:13] Good.

[57:15] Everything's good.

[57:19] Our CD does mature this month and with the need to make our final payment to the county for 2025 which

[57:26] haven't.

[57:28] We're still clarifying a couple of final things.

[57:32] So we'll report back to that at our main meeting.

[57:37] and then, um, so Don, we won't have a CD for a little bit until we get that all

[57:43] straightened up. Correct. Okay. Great. We're still getting pretty good rates on

[57:48] our many markets, so it's not that doesn't lose too much. Okay. And then, um, so at

[57:55] our neck, oh, and then I thought just really quickly, just for everybody's, this is

[58:03] I know it's not necessarily related to the park, but it is from the Bingham Creek Regional

[58:07] Trail component part of the park.

[58:11] The cities should start construction here at the end of the summer on that first phase

[58:17] from the park to Mountain View corridor and then the state prioritized our project from

[58:22] Mountain View corridor to Coverton for the trail for the following year.

[58:27] So by 2029, we should have Bingham Creek Regional Trail all the way to

[58:33] Coverton. The City of Coverton? The City of Coverton. Wow. Wow. That's exciting.

[58:41] Yeah. And they and for our first phase from set from the park to the Mountain View

[58:50] corridor they added a million and a half dollars to the project. So in order to get a neighborhood

[58:57] to get the connection up to up on top into the tracks line. So great. So we've got a good

[59:07] exciting moment in there. Okay so thank you everybody. I think what we've got on there for our next

[59:15] meeting is probably the majority of the meeting will probably be an update on the small projects

[59:22] and where we're at I'm getting those procured as well as our zap application. So we'll go from there.

[59:32] Everybody have a good day. Thank you for meeting. Take care. Thank you.

[59:37] Hi, I'm Amber a motion. Oh yeah motion to adjourn. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Thank you.

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