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All right. The January 12th meeting for the City of Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission will now come to order at 630 p.m. with the Secretary please call roll.

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Yes, they will.

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Commissioner Freeman.

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Here.

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Thank you.

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I'll lead us in the pledge allegiance.

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He wants standing,

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I pledge allegiance to the flag in the United States of the Republic

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for God.

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All right.

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Are there any department updates from staff this evening?

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Yeah.

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Good evening chair and commissioners.

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That's nice to see you.

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I know we haven't seen haven't had a meeting in a couple months.

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So in our department update that we have prepared for you today,

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It will recap events from end of October November and December and we'll also we've also included stats for the commission to turn the screen done for these

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We can

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started and it should pop up on your screens. So again, sharing with you our department update

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for kind of wrapping up November December for the department. We did have an all kind of

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segue for Edgar, but we did have our ribbon cutting for Union Pacific Trail. I'll let

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that could kind of give some information on that.

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All right, yeah, that was a long time coming.

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So we did open on December 13th.

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The highlights were, there's 176 trees out there.

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It's 0.5 miles, there's a viking pedestrian trail.

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There's also solar lighting.

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Been out there a few times, and it's been well used

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by the community, and I think everybody's pretty happy.

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Next slide.

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The Union Pacific Park is actually part of Union Pacific Trail.

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So this trail you can see there on the side on the right is the continuation of the Union Pacific Trail.

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So once we open the park, hopefully towards the end of this month, we had a meeting up.

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Not there today. I'm not sure if you guys have driven by this park, but if you have it's such an amazing transformation. They put the turf in the pickle wall courts that you can see on the left are now complete and up and ready. New backboards have been installed. The show has been renewed. The playground we completed a well back. So we're pretty much ready. I think the final phase that's going to happen for us is the community garden. At this point, we are waiting. We got notice from our building department that we will need a ADA

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accessibility so that the community garden is going to be delayed a little bit but every other

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humanity in the park we should be open by the end of the month and then we'll obviously

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send you guys in invite once we get that date set. Awesome. Quick question for that. We don't budget.

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Yeah yeah we got some CDBG funding so we were able to stay on budget and

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same thing with the trail. So,

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this is a quick 2005 status update. Every park, we did a

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playground placement, a while back. Union Pacific Trail, we just opened. Union Pacific Park, we

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hope to open later this month and then the Union Pacific Trail will officially connect the

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Transportation Center, go through Union Pacific Park and then end it independence park. And we also

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have independence park gym is another project that we're currently working on.

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Lions field, the artificial turf replacement is pretty much complete now.

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I think we're going to have a grand opening later this month.

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Good evening commissioners.

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I'll be talking about our park trails and sports fields.

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Just to give you guys an update on December 17th, we held our sports field user group meeting.

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we meet semi-annual with our group one users and the school district, a majority of the field conflicts were resolved, and there were no major out there to provide.

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All right, this is referencing Lions field.

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This is an aerial that was probably taking about early December.

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The project is down complete.

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It's a re-turfing of four softball fields in a football field.

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Every single softball field has all the pitching dimensions for softball, there's 30, 35, 40 and 43.

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It has all the regulations, foul lines, something unique that you can notice is that it's a overlay for a soccer football field to maximize the space.

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Prior to the renovation, it was only a football field, so we added soccer in lieu of our local high schools

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universities eager to find an additional space in the morning so we're maximizing the

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user and as Edgar shared earlier this project we actually completed a final walk through

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this morning there's a few little details to finish and we're looking at I believe the last

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Saturday in January for a ribbon cutting and we'll make sure that that information will

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distributed. So we're looking forward to this. It's a, it's a, it's a really nice project.

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And just to recap for the year of 2025, over at the tennis center, we had over 10,000 reservations.

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We had over 900 class participations, over 4,000 of private lessons.

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And then for sports field, we had over 6,000 reservations for the year of 2025.

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Good evening. I'm going to do a quick recap on all the 20, 25 events that were

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pending in the last time that we met. So the, a October we had October Fest. That took place

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on Thursday, October 30, which included a kids parade. We actually took it outside of the market

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area and we got to visit a lot of local businesses and they did a lot of tricker treating

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with the local businesses, which was really cool because they felt very involved in it. We're

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we're really excited to be a part of the event.

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We did some community competitions.

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We had live entertainment.

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We brought back the pop-up markets,

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so a lot of the food vendors, farmer vendors,

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and some live entertainment.

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And then on November 11th,

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we got to the city, you got to leave their first

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Veterans Day Parade in ceremony.

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So we were able to kick it off with the parade

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with a lot of our JRL TC groups,

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school band, Troy Span was amazing kick off the parade and a few of our elves.

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Our groups, sports groups, and then our, of course, our veterans were participated in a parade, and then followed up by the ceremony.

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So we had a special keynote speaker and some very, very big attendance for the ceremony portion of the veterans day parade and ceremony.

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Then we followed up by our tree lighting ceremony on Friday, December 5th, where we had our first

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time ever at the city hall, but on tree lighting ceremony, that was led on by the city.

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So we had a lot of food and craft vendors live entertainment by a lot of community groups.

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We had a car show, a photos with Santa, and then we had a actual tree lighting ceremony

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with Santa's arrival supported by the fire department.

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This year we also did kick off our first time ever holiday home decorating

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Contest around the community. So we were able to open up on November 18th and then the

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community was able to submit their submissions by December 4th and we were able to

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market that on our social media and website with the winners. So these are the winners

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of the home, the holiday home decorating winners and then the neighborhood winners.

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And then just recapping the 2025 events we did have nine total stand-alone events.

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We had 26 weeks of the farmers' markets.

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We had five movies in the park.

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We had five concerts in the park.

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And then we had four community ourselves.

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And then just a really quick of what's coming up in 2026.

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We do plan and bring it back our community ourselves series.

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We do plan and bring in a brand new Fullerton coffee fest.

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followed by our annual extravaganza in March, and then hopefully kicking off the farmers market in April.

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And then the upcoming event, which is more of like a family community event, that's going to be at Fullerton Community Center.

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It's a family sweetheart dance.

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That's going to have a DJ, craft stations, photo ops, refreshments and food.

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So this is more of a family event.

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I know that we're used to having like the father, daughter dance, mommy and me dances.

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So this is just feedback from the community that they want to do something more family oriented and inclusive.

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So this is where we're kicking off the family sweetheart dance this year.

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And then just moving on to recreational programs.

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We do have come kill registration for camp hill currents are now open.

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So we're going to be offering camp hill Chris and we're also going to be offering this spring break our camp at Hunt.

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with a venture plea day coming back as well for the year and then we do have the

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bioniers which is a contracted class at Fullerton Community Center and then just

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recapping the year for youth programs in 2025 we were able to offer the father and daughter

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dance that we mentioned we had a total of 33 families which we now want to convert into

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more of a family inclusive and then the mommy and me tea party had a total of 40 participants

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registered for the past year. The penis particular that brought in over 200 participants,

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then we were able to offer over a thousand contract successes, over 500 of them actually were

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filled and were able to continue on. And then we were able to offer

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excursions, which includes free break camp hill crests, and then we were able to offer over a

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the Richmond Grant with the adventure play days, which we had 6 and 20, 25 that included

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over 50 participants.

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And in upcoming, that's open right now for registration on top of the Hillchrist camp.

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We have the sports imp in this classes, which is a lot of our concerted classes that are

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not open for registration, as well of our silka art stands, a lot of the pickleball

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for kids, and then yoga for kids at all levels.

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So we're just, you know, putting it out there for what's coming up for 2026 and hoping to

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continue on some more classes.

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Thank you.

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All righty.

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Good evening commissioners.

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I'll be going over our older adults.

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So for the month of January, we're going to be going through a lot of educational lectures

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wellness and social engagement as well as creative activities.

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So our educational lectures, they include the programs such as the Grow and Now Spring

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veggies. Remember this every morning to every day morning memory tips. Travel

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AFC show presentations. Our wellness and social engagement will include the

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laughter yoga, senior drum, circle, and Lotharia. And then our creative

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activities will include the vision board workshop along with the blooming

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it's the new year floor arrangement as well.

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So take a look over the attendance over the past two months of November and December. We had really, really good attendance. So for November we had about 1200 participants in our ongoing programs, as well as 146 for our educational lectures.

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Our NLC leap had around 850, our grocery distribution did really well with 1,144, and then finally our senior taxi did really really well with a 1,260.

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Moving to December, a little slightly of a decrease partially because of the holidays, but still really really successful.

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Our ongoing program had 870 attendance educational lectures had 126

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NLC Leap had 178 grocery distribution

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that had 1130 along with our senior taxi program

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with 1249.

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And then just to recap our older adults.

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So we had 22 ongoing programs that just happened continuously.

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We had 170, 107 educational workshops, 13 senior celebrations,

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one health and wellness fair 32 grocery distributions along with two senior

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socials.

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All right and now we actually have a dedicated kind of coordinator

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working out of the hunt in the last couple of months that's Amy and if you

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know Amy she's very crafty very artsy so she's been focusing on the

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programs at hunt along with the roaming glory coffee cart that's there and the

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library program. So we actually, this was a Saturday morning program, my little

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and meetcraft time. We've moved it over to the hunt. It's Monday, Wednesdays

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Fridays, and they do various activities throughout the week, and there's

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always a different lesson each week. In addition to that, we do have our

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tripe Fridays. These are led by Amy, if not all of them, most of them. And those

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are selected Friday evenings. There's a registration process. They've done

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making, peed, making, and the next one is on February 13th for a Valentine's

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Pant.

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And if you haven't attended the hunt, there is a small gallery there. Amy

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has partnered with the Florida Museum in a few of their curators and in

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intern type belief, so they had an opening. Once upon a sketch it is on display through

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February 19th, and they'll also have a lunar new year story time on February 17th.

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So that gallery and partnership with the Library Foundation,

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Friends of the Library and our department, Amy leads to the curating and it's the support system for all that for the gallery there.

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And she's been working with different organizations.

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A couple of those updates on our arts and cultural division.

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Then we have 22 craftarnoons for seniors, and those are very popular at the Community Center

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mostly.

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It serves about 2020 plus, we're looking at additional dates.

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We have, we had four special tri-friities at hunt, and these are the, what I share the

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fund to it yourself in creativity workshops.

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Amy does lead a Discover Fullerton on foot, walking tours, and she hosted 11.

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We had 38 Tuesday morning trail hikes, 25 kits, and the crafting kits camp. So the crafting

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kits camp just to highlight this. It's a additional last week in the summer. We do more

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of a crafty kits camp versus a normal 10 week summer camp. So we added that on and we're also looking

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add that towards like your non-traditional spring break camps or off days and then we have 25

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kits and the melodies and magic makers camp. We have four Saturday community drum circles and

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those are very very popular of all the arts foundation and partnership with the city and we do

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have 46 hands-on music workshop for seniors and that's the ukulele classes that are led by our

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department

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and it can't put just oh yeah go ahead. So just wanted to highlight a little

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bit of our Fullerton Community Center and Hunt Library private rentals. Our rental

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site does a very very good job so just want to give a shout out to them. In the months of

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November December they did a great job having many private events both at the Fullerton

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Community Center and a hunt. So for attendees they had about 3,000 for November with

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34 rentals in total with various weddings, birthdays, baby showers, community events and then holiday parties as well.

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The community center actually just got their their lights redone so hopefully that can attract a lot more individuals that are looking to rent with us.

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Um, so hopefully, you know, that that's well received December as well.

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We had a little bit of decline accredited to the holidays, but we still were very successful

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with about 2,500 attendees, 29 rentals in total with the various weddings, birthdays and

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baby showers, as well as community events and a lot of holiday parties as you could see.

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So now moving on to our floor, our park pavilion and building rentals.

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So, this was actually very, very well attended in November,

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a little bit of a decline in December as you can tell,

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but about 1,500 attendees for the pavilion and buildings,

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as well as 30 rentals in November with 11 rentals in December.

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And just to recap our rentals for 2025,

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our Fullerton Community Center had 380 rentals in the year,

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which had a revenue of $501,000 with $181,000.

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On library, had 71 rentals with the revenue of $77,000,

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and our downtown Plaza had 53 rentals

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with the total of nearly $72,000.

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And that's everything, thank you.

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All right, do commissioners have any questions for staff?

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I'll start with my left.

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A couple of questions.

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One, how is it working with KIF for the Lions Field

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innovation and do you remember what it was at what the warranty was on the fields?

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Yeah, so having Kai as our contractor has a very, very smooth granted the project itself is just a

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full-term replacement. There's no additional like buildings etc but just the communication

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with their project team, the on-site communication has just been great with their form in

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And regards to the warranty, we just received the paperwork today.

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There's a worksmanship warranty and a turf warranty and I can get back to you on those.

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I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head.

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Yeah, I just figured I'd estimate how it was working because then we had a tight schedule with them.

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Yeah, they could have actually been done.

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We're second week of January.

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They could have been done the week of Christmas, but with the rain and then the facility closure,

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have pushed it back a little bit. The good part is that when it did rain everything was

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already pretty much installed and I think the first rubber pellets were installed so it

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actually helped to see how well it rained and it rained really well so there was no

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issues there. That's good. And then one other question for the kids craft camps, one of the

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hours of those and you're trying to expand it as well. There are half days so yeah so

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At the Hunt Library, we're really focusing on the art camp, the cultural component.

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So the camps themselves run kind of in tandem with summer camp.

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It's Hillcrest camp. The summer ones are a little bit more stem, craft-based,

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and then the crafty camp is just pure arts and crafts, but it is a half day.

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Great job, and I'm exhausted just from listening to all the work you did.

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Good job, guys.

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Do we have a status update on the Pickleball conversion for the tennis center?

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I don't know if that was completed.

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Yeah, it has not been completed.

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We actually, I think there was a lot of projects on between public works and our department.

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But we actually are looking at the late spring we ran into some scheduling challenges with the local high schools and the universities and just being accommodated everybody on kind of the short turnaround. So since spring is a

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Commission would like to see the nursery to be part of that, the walkway on the nursery,

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so we wanted to make sure that those to align the end schedule. Then the secondary phase would be

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I think there was a suggestion of doing the pickleball noise curtains and we have all the

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information for that. I think the dollar amount for those, it's by square footage.

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So it's rather expensive. So we're going to build the courts, build the nursery and bring in the noise blankets as the final step.

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What's the, the nursery element is that the lighting.

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So yeah, so we, so it is a walkway connecting ultimately the tennis center into the nursery parking lot.

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as we're using that as an additional parking or tennis center participants and so forth

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just expecting the boom of pickleball. So we're what that project will until we actually

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have the final walk through this morning but it will have additional lighting in the parking lot

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probably one or two solar lights and then a walkway that connects from that parking lot because right now

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It's just like brushing plants.

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It's going to connect from that parking lot

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to the already established walkway at the Hope Center

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and then that leads into the time of center.

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Yeah, and the lights are already installed.

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Oh great, that's great to hear.

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And then for the Union first off,

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fantastic work for the Union Pacific Trail, well-attended.

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Everyone loved it.

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It was really great walking through and seeing all the hard work.

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For the Union Pacific Park opening, for the garden, do you know how long the delay might be?

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For, like, we're asking about six to eight weeks just because we need the lead time for the actual fence and then we also need to create an ADA path of travel from the walkway from the pedestrian trail to the community garden.

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So they're working on the design of how that ADA access is going to go.

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Was it where, where the community garden is going to be, is that near the pickle wall?

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Or is that going to be where it was being built like actual on the day?

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It's going to be in that same section where it was being built, I would say, the north west part of the park.

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So like maybe right behind where like the playground is.

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And it'll be a significant, I think it's probably like 150 feet wide or so.

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Thank you.

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Well, if there are no more questions, then we're going to move this to public comment.

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We will now move to the public comment portion of the meeting.

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This time is for members of the public to address the commission for any item of interest to the public.

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That is within the subject matter, jurisdiction of the Parks and Recreation Commission.

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Other than the items listed on the agenda.

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If there's anyone here who would like to speak, please come forward and state your name and address for the record.

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My name is Christina Garner and I'm at 512 West Valley View.

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I'm also volunteer for Parks and Rec Department.

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I just wanted to say thanks to these guys.

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Everyone of these events is turning out so great.

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It's amazing to watch them just being imagined on a piece of paper

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and then to become these real memorable things.

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that it's just wonderful quality of life

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for all the families around here.

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And there's three things I was thinking about.

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Number one, I was at the veteran's day.

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I was really glad to see it come back.

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It had just like completely gone, and now it was back.

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However, when I was on the parade route,

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and there was almost nobody sitting on the street

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for that parade, they had so few people to wave

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to until they got to the park.

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So most of my neighbors in Golden Hill didn't know about it.

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And I'm just hoping that I don't really know how it was being advertised, but you know, you

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want to have everybody sitting there and yay and wave. So I hope that there's more people

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that can turn out next time. And the tree light, thank you for allowing our performing group to

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we we saying performed at the tree lighting ceremony. I appreciate that. We were a little

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surprise. We were like totally surprised at where the tree was. We didn't realize which tree

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was going to get lit up and we wanted to suggest maybe the stage be closer to that we didn't

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really know. But again delightful and a wonderful opportunity. And the last thing I just

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wanted to say is this is my ID for the Parks and Rec. It expired in September 2024 is what it

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says here. I tried to get replaced in 2025 the machine that does this wasn't working. I just

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again today and try to get it done. The machine still isn't working. So if it's important for

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us to have current ideas, I just want to just, you know, getting that fixed. And that's all

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from Lake Wobonga. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

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All right. There's no one else in chamber. Is anyone in line?

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I have no one online. Okay.

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In that case, we're going to bring it back.

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I'm going to close public comments and then we'll bring it back.

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Does anybody have anything left that you would like to bring up?

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If no, then is there anything?

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We'll now approve, move to approve the consent calendar for the meeting of October 13, 2025.

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Are there any commissioners that wish the pull and item from the consent calendar?

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There's no motion, so in that case

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Motion to approve. Yeah motion to approve. I'll

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Second that can we motion approve both this all of them

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Yeah, it's the whole concept. All right. Yeah, what through nine

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I'm not a secretary, would you call the roll?

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Yes, Commissioner Freeman.

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Yes.

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Commissioner Fallabeda.

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And Chair Modenato.

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Yes.

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All right.

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Let's see.

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We'll now move to the regular business portion of the meeting.

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Is there a staff report for this?

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So for the next item we actually have a presentation before our supervisor, kind of dives into the special event, the proposed special event calendar for the current 2026 year, just want to say thank you for your support last year, this is now the second time we're bringing a kind of calendar, a special event for your review and recommendation account.

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So a couple of the items that I do want to highlight from last year we did reduce the number

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of events.

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We kind of, in a sense, combine a couple of events to create one larger event, because what

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we found out kind of going through this process is that having an event every single weekend

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became very, you know, burning some first staff, especially when we have 26 market dates.

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and that's half the year.

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So from April to September,

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so a couple of just highlights,

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and truly we'll go into detail the market.

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We're looking to not necessarily

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and did in August,

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we're looking to do that Labor Day week,

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the final week that kind of instead of going

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through the end of September.

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We just based on feedback,

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just being out there attendance,

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numbers drop drastically in September, everybody goes back to school and the feedback from the vendors,

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you know, we go from 40 vendors at the end of August to 20 vendors in September. So it's,

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it's not feasible. And I think there's other organizations within that area that host their own

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event. So a couple of items like that, in addition, our larger skill events, fourth of July,

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first night. They're fully burdened staff cost included in there. So that's something that

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I just wanted to share and we did adjust for slight inflation on a couple of their items

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just contractor and vendors that they've already kind of forewarned us that they've given us a

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good rate for a couple of years. Next year's going to be a little bit different. And then lastly,

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just highlighting that the Fourth of July event we're looking to do a larger scale event

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due to our cancellation of first night because of weather so I'll let you go through the

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presentation and so give more details. Thank you Krishna. So kick it it off with the first slide

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is bringing it back our community, Yartel.

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Last year was a first year bringing it on.

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It was a one day suggestion.

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We did not think we were going to get a lot of people

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of very much attended and interested in

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and inventing and participating.

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So we did extend it last year.

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We added three more.

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So this year we would like to propose to bring it back

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and then be more consistent with the dates set

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from those starts so that we can market it better.

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have banners out that way for both the vendors and attendees to be well aware and

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pan it out cornerly to both attend and support our vendors and then give the

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opportunity to submit many members of the community to attend at least one or two

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or all of the community ourselves for this year.

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And for this one it will be

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remaining the same $25 per space and then $35 for non-resident and proposed

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budget that we would want to receive for this as $3,000 so that we can market it.

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Thank you very much.

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The brand new event that we would like to host this year is a Fullerton coffee fest. We are a very big coffee community here at Fullerton and down to Fullerton is a lot of amazing coffee shops. Coffee is in a lot of really gravitate to a lot of people's attention and I think it's a really good thing to bring in people to that hunt branch library where we do have room and glory, sounding coffee where we do have a big beautiful facility and I think it's really going to gravitate for

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people to come to a coffee tasting event.

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The plan is to have different vendors, coffee,

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burstal artists, live art, live music,

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and really try something new for the community

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to come out and explore and do something a little bit different

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from the norm that we normally do.

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So try to change it up a little bit for this year.

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And for this we are proposing an event budget of 5000.

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Next up, we are bringing back extravaganza.

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last year we did have a really high attendance. This is because we did partner up with Anaheim

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Feed who hosted our dog village and that brought in way more crowd on top of the participants.

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I came for the icons that we were able to offer. We offer the inclusive hour as well. So people

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were really really appreciative of that. So we do plan and bring it back and then incorporate

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in a little bit of the wedding show, you can see it at expo two ways so we're going to call

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it the expo in addition to it and utilize the inside of the hunt and do a lot of the

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rental vendors and opportunity to promote their services at a really really high

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attendant event. So this is proposed for March 28 back at the hunt library in the proposed budget

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of 10,000.

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Next, just like Christian was mentioning, no major changes, but the big changes that

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we do want to propose is bringing it back to Thursday night farmers market. It's been

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an ongoing, excellent market that's been here for years with live entertainment farmers, food,

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crafts, commercial vendors, face painting, a kids corner area. So the major change would be

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eliminating the one week on July 2nd, which is the week of for for July weekend, and

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extending it all the way to September 3rd, just like Chris and mentioned. Last year we did

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extending it all the way to the end of September, and we did get a lot of a lot of the numbers of

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a 10 is dead lower. A lot of the the vendors did, I did do a survey, so a lot of vendors did respond

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to that, how it really didn't benefit their businesses, and they were just there because they did

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to us and which is amazing just to hear that from our vendors seeing that they were still there

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to finish up the season with us but we did want to really really hear them out and know

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that the numbers did go down and we would want to end it with the NFL kick off again bringing

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in the entertainment trailer and that'd be kind of like the end of the market celebration so that's

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one that we would like to propose. We also are looking into possibly hosting FIFA World Cup watch

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parties within the market season, so that's something that we don't have numbers for quite

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yet, but it's something that stuff is looking into, to just, you know, gravitate more

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attendings while the number, while we do offer the market from April 2nd to September 3rd,

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and then propose budget, we are requesting one of five, which is the same as every other year.

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This is a postpone event that was supposed to take place on November 22nd and due to a rain that

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really did cause a lot of risk factors at the trail.

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We were able to postpone it to June 6.

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So this is just a new day for the four or 10

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our first ever 5K and how faithful it is here.

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So this is our 5K with the trail along the Fullerton

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Sports Complex.

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And then we are going to have like additional vendors,

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DJ, free classes, so incorporating a lot of our contract

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that classes instructors to come into free.moz

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for warmups and as well of cooldowns and then we are going to be offering a lot of other

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a lot of our sponsors that had already submitted partnership with us, so we are really excited

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to bring them on and I'm much hopeful sunny or day in June 6, so we are very confident that

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this will take place on June 6, so we're hoping the better day will really, really turn out

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to be a really great first time ever, 5K here in Fullerton, and this is to take place at the

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and sports complex, registrations are still open.

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We are receiving registrations, we received some starting 26 last week,

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so we are excited to hear that we are still receiving registrations.

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And with the budget of 35K for the...

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This event.

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And just like Christian mentioned earlier, due to our first-night cancellation, due to rain and safety precaution of that event.

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We do have extra funding to bring in and celebrate the, the, the for for July celebration. We want to turn it into a three day festival, where we are able to

436
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Solar-based starting from Friday all the way through Sunday. We have just much going on a set of doing it all in one day

437
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,520
We're gonna be

438
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:40,140
Scattering throughout the weekend so kicking it off on Friday with our our usual annual car show on Friday

439
00:40:40,860 --> 00:40:41,880
and then Saturday

440
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:49,100
Continue on with our right attractions live entertainment and then our firework show on Saturday night

441
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:55,480
And then continue on on Friday as well. I mean, I'm sorry. I apologize on Sunday and in it with

442
00:40:56,460 --> 00:41:08,360
the usual entertainment that we have in our attractions and everything else, but we also do want to bring on a drone show for Sunday for closing out the three day celebration.

443
00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:17,740
And then we also do want to look into possibly doing a view in the FIFA World Cup at this event as well if able to.

444
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:23,660
And for this we do have the event budget on 325K for all three days.

445
00:41:26,530 --> 00:41:34,470
Bringing back our Friday night live concert series, so that's gonna be back in August, it's gonna be all Fridays of the month of August.

446
00:41:35,790 --> 00:41:46,250
Again, it's just, this one's the very, very popular just because it is a very, it sounds very simple, but it's actually really cool that we bring on different bounce each week with food tracks.

447
00:41:46,390 --> 00:41:50,390
People just really love it. I thought it was an amazing turnout last year.

448
00:41:50,390 --> 00:41:53,710
just to see people come in early, find their spots

449
00:41:53,710 --> 00:41:56,390
and spend a whole evening with their families

450
00:41:56,390 --> 00:41:58,250
was just really great to be a part of.

451
00:41:58,590 --> 00:42:00,910
So it's another one that we would like to return

452
00:42:00,910 --> 00:42:02,890
and bring a lot of great bands.

453
00:42:03,590 --> 00:42:07,810
And it's even budget request of 35K for this.

454
00:42:10,450 --> 00:42:12,630
And then Puptoberfest last year,

455
00:42:12,810 --> 00:42:14,730
we did change it up a little bit more as well.

456
00:42:14,910 --> 00:42:17,050
And I hope that we can continue just growing it

457
00:42:17,050 --> 00:42:17,750
and growing it.

458
00:42:18,110 --> 00:42:20,030
I think that the pet friendly events

459
00:42:20,030 --> 00:42:26,770
are very well-established here in Fullerton, so we didn't incorporate like a dog, run way

460
00:42:26,770 --> 00:42:32,630
show as long as well as our dog races, so they were popular along with vendors, live

461
00:42:32,630 --> 00:42:38,250
entertainment, we had a live band, and then we had a lot of kids corner, a lot of food trucks

462
00:42:38,250 --> 00:42:43,290
and kids activities, we want to try, we did have a beer garden this year, so we want to try

463
00:42:43,290 --> 00:42:49,550
and just like expand the number of attendees for this year, so hopefully that as we promote

464
00:42:49,550 --> 00:43:00,190
classes and we bring on more to these events. I feel like the attendees will increase so fully for this year with the event budget at 10k for this one and it will take place at the home branch library.

465
00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:10,950
This is a new, but not really, it's our October Fest, so we normally do October Fest

466
00:43:10,950 --> 00:43:19,050
at the farmers market on the last Thursday of October, so we wanted to just come together

467
00:43:19,050 --> 00:43:23,830
with the PDs since we already are offering our trunk or tree, and the tree ligands ceremony

468
00:43:23,830 --> 00:43:28,790
was such a success here at City Hall, we figured it would be a great way to combine this event

469
00:43:28,790 --> 00:43:33,230
along with the PD's Trunkertree so that we can offer the amazing things that we're able to bring

470
00:43:33,230 --> 00:43:38,030
on last year to all those people that are like usually here early for the Trunkertree and waiting for

471
00:43:38,030 --> 00:43:44,190
the PD. So they can participate not just at the Trunkertree but enjoy the library entertainment,

472
00:43:44,450 --> 00:43:51,610
the food and everything else along. And so that's our plan for this one. And with it's happening

473
00:43:51,610 --> 00:43:58,230
on Friday, October 23rd so along with the PD's Trunkertree. It's still going to be a PD,

474
00:43:58,230 --> 00:44:02,350
led event. So that's what we do want to make sure that we do market it that it's going to be with

475
00:44:02,350 --> 00:44:07,790
at PD's circuitry with their 10k event budget request

476
00:44:10,350 --> 00:44:12,710
and then bring it back to everyone

477
00:44:12,710 --> 00:44:19,930
to say parade in ceremony. So just following up on that one, we do market, we did market online,

478
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:26,050
social media, banners. Of course, every time that we plan an event, just a Christian mentioned,

479
00:44:26,050 --> 00:44:31,970
It was very challenging for us to go back to back events, trying to like finish one up and go on to the next.

480
00:44:32,410 --> 00:44:38,030
So I feel that once we have this set to stone, we can really, really race up our marketing platform.

481
00:44:38,130 --> 00:44:44,830
This year and have banners up in advance, have it laid out on social media up on our website all over Fullerton.

482
00:44:45,010 --> 00:44:47,530
So people are well aware of the events that we are offering.

483
00:44:48,410 --> 00:44:53,870
That way, we're not really competing with our own events and people have time to plan it out in the tent.

484
00:44:53,870 --> 00:44:59,950
So we really hope that last year's just like feedback and attendings out.

485
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,600
By word of mouth, people will be aware of what we were able to offer and get a higher amount of attendees for our parade this year, followed by a ceremony.

486
00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:15,140
So this will also take place at the Hillkris great lawn with the event budget of 20K.

487
00:45:17,950 --> 00:45:26,850
And then bringing back the tree lighting ceremony. So we plan to bring it back again. We thought it was very successful this year and we'd like to continue that and grow it even more.

488
00:45:26,850 --> 00:45:32,370
possible I think that the number of attendees was really big and I think that once we get a

489
00:45:32,370 --> 00:45:36,950
fill out of the layout and how what work what didn't work we can definitely turn out around

490
00:45:36,950 --> 00:45:43,450
and make it even safer or like bigger for attendees to enjoy but it's gonna be pretty much the

491
00:45:43,450 --> 00:45:48,890
same not the same layout but the same idea of having live entertainment community performers I

492
00:45:48,890 --> 00:45:53,570
thought that was a big important aspect that we included this year was we had a lot of our

493
00:45:53,570 --> 00:46:01,810
community performers perform for the community and we had food vendors, food trucks, our car show.

494
00:46:02,310 --> 00:46:13,050
So now we know how during the holiday season the lighting is very important because we want our holiday light to pop up at the same time we want to make it safe.

495
00:46:13,310 --> 00:46:17,910
So we definitely want to include more lighting for next year. So we're really excited for this year I apologize.

496
00:46:17,910 --> 00:46:26,210
So, this is to take place again on the first Friday of December, which lands on December 4th with our proposed budget of 25K.

497
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:35,660
And in ending with our first night's celebration, hoping not this year to turn ends with a good weather outcome.

498
00:46:36,420 --> 00:46:42,620
So, it's proposed for Thursday, December 31st with the same concept of what we have planned this year.

499
00:46:42,620 --> 00:46:48,280
We're very, very excited because we did switch up the lay-up a little bit and hoping that

500
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,720
we are able to demonstrate that to the community and vendors and everyone who's seen

501
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:59,780
it for so many years and seeing it change up a little bit with our kids attractions, lay-outs,

502
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:05,160
closer to our entertainment stages, so parents can enjoy the live entertainment, food vendors,

503
00:47:05,340 --> 00:47:10,080
and food trucks at the same time feel close to the kids area where they can watch their children

504
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,100
and enjoy the event themselves, so we're really excited

505
00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:14,060
to bring that layout back for this year.

506
00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:18,000
So this one's to take place on 30 December 31st

507
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:24,620
at the downtown Plaza with the 275K proposed budget for this one.

508
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:26,680
And that is it.

509
00:47:32,550 --> 00:47:33,090
All right.

510
00:47:33,130 --> 00:47:35,070
So we're going to bring this back to the commissioners

511
00:47:35,070 --> 00:47:37,650
for any questions that they have.

512
00:47:37,910 --> 00:47:39,030
Starting with my left.

513
00:47:39,370 --> 00:47:40,370
Give any questions?

514
00:47:48,830 --> 00:48:03,650
For the new event, the coffee fest, what's the, and 20, if you don't fully have it all worked out, but the, like the coffee, you know, the stuff is it, is it like samples of people coming by coffee, like what's what's the plan for that.

515
00:48:03,690 --> 00:48:14,270
So a little bit of everything, so we're going to have a lot of vendors, that's how just like they're roasted coffee already in one market, they're, you know, back to coffee, we're going to have actual coffee vendors selling their coffee.

516
00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:39,530
We're still looking into the details of it, but we do want to work with all of the vendors to incorporate a coffee tasting card, where they're getting a good deal of tasting all these different vendors and one day and then we're getting it's coming a lot of the contributions we're going to come back to the city hopefully, so it's a lot of the tasting opportunity for people to try out and also to introduce all these local businesses that you might have never been aware of that right here.

517
00:48:39,530 --> 00:48:42,710
I mean, me trying to work through this already.

518
00:48:43,150 --> 00:48:46,290
I found like three coffee shops that had no idea existed here in Fullerton.

519
00:48:46,830 --> 00:48:50,270
So I think that's a really good concept of seeing it, bringing it all to the Hunt Library.

520
00:48:50,930 --> 00:48:56,490
But mainly it's different, like a merch, coffee lover merch, coffee roasted coffee, actual

521
00:48:56,490 --> 00:49:03,570
coffee vendors for ice and hot lattes, and then just bringing the vibe mainly for people

522
00:49:03,570 --> 00:49:05,490
that really love that type of environment.

523
00:49:05,490 --> 00:49:11,510
bringing it to our home branch library, which is like a place where people can come and enjoy coffee and read

524
00:49:11,510 --> 00:49:17,370
do their homework and all that I think it's really going to bring it bring a little bit of everything to our community.

525
00:49:17,770 --> 00:49:26,490
All right. Are we helping the companies like subsidize? Are we paying them to come out and give samples or are they just donating that?

526
00:49:27,190 --> 00:49:29,130
The different coffee shop? I'm sorry.

527
00:49:29,370 --> 00:49:34,290
Do you have a different coffee? Are we as a city like subsidizing the like the free samples or whatever?

528
00:49:34,290 --> 00:49:38,610
are they just donating it's gonna be a little if that's the part of it that might be a donation

529
00:49:38,610 --> 00:49:44,630
back to the cities on set above subsidizing since it is a new time event and we do need the

530
00:49:44,630 --> 00:49:49,550
budget for rentals electricity everything else so it's gonna be hard for us to try to do that

531
00:49:49,550 --> 00:49:55,550
exactly so a little bit in the middle not asking for too much by at least it's an opportunity for us

532
00:49:55,550 --> 00:49:59,950
offer that chance for vendors to participate and that good deal for the

533
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,140
Committee to also come out and be able to afford this event and I feel like it's like, oh, wait. Too much for us.

534
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:14,140
Yeah. No, it sounds like a cool event. One thing I would just add just to consider is, in this maybe counter-intuitive, but a non-coffee option.

535
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,920
Yeah. For kids, you know, like, you know, families being their kids out.

536
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,600
Yeah, we already got about March all over. There's a team, so yeah.

537
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:22,300
Yeah, definitely.

538
00:50:22,300 --> 00:50:26,700
could friendly as well. Absolutely. But I think it's really good. And the

539
00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:33,800
other question I had was the fourth July festival part of it. I know we have

540
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:38,660
extra funds from this year, but is this just a supposed to be a one-time thing?

541
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,740
Yes, it's our 100 and correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know it's 120, 250,

542
00:50:44,740 --> 00:50:50,700
the year America's 250 to 50 I apologize to so many numbers so 20 numbers to 50

543
00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:55,860
and anniversary so that's also part of why we're making it in a three-day festival

544
00:50:55,860 --> 00:51:01,840
to celebrate the 250 along with utilizing those funds so we have so it just kind of worked

545
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:07,460
out perfectly to extend it just for one time okay yeah I was just gonna say like that would

546
00:51:07,460 --> 00:51:12,800
be a good thing to make sure we market that so we realize it's a one-tester because when you do

547
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:18,800
great, they want it back every year. Yeah, that's good. And you guys do a lot of good work, so you

548
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:23,800
know, make sure it's clear this is a bicentennial celebration kind of thing. I think that I think

549
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,980
the festival sounds really fun, and it's cool especially being the tune of it the year, so

550
00:51:28,980 --> 00:51:36,540
but great job on everything else. That's all the questions I had. Thank you. Let me start from the top

551
00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:40,640
up some of the allergies that have been acting up with these winds.

552
00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:47,900
I want to commend you all for the community yard cells, so again, it was a train of thought

553
00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:56,120
with one day and then now you guys have four scheduled, so super amazing, potentially opportunities

554
00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:03,900
to spread it out throughout the city, just maybe ideas or getting feedback from those participating

555
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:11,400
and then, you know, those around, you know, the whole city in a sense and that might be a theme

556
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:18,500
and what I'm going to be kind of sharing a little bit right now. But, see if we can spread it out

557
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:21,640
a little bit, you know, potentially, I don't know,

558
00:52:24,270 --> 00:52:28,330
on the east side or even up north on the north side

559
00:52:28,330 --> 00:52:33,830
bulletin that potentially could, you know, host something similar like this. Staff time,

560
00:52:34,990 --> 00:52:41,690
not very involved or, for the, that's what it would be cautious with that too with, yeah,

561
00:52:41,910 --> 00:52:49,350
that's for the community yard cell to your point that when we, when we identify an event

562
00:52:49,350 --> 00:52:56,450
and it's the locations of the first kind of rule of order and a number one for the yard cell is

563
00:52:56,450 --> 00:53:02,150
and then parking additional parking, so, and we, this last year, we were really working on

564
00:53:02,150 --> 00:53:06,890
activating independent park, and it ultimately worked that we had the throne restroom,

565
00:53:07,170 --> 00:53:12,490
and then the additional space that are the parking lot. But in regards to staff time,

566
00:53:12,850 --> 00:53:18,810
it's already included within like their allocated funding for the budgeted hours for those events,

567
00:53:19,050 --> 00:53:25,170
and it's minimal staff, I think, if it's not the supervisor coordinator and like two part-timers.

568
00:53:25,170 --> 00:53:30,930
Okay, because ultimately it's coordinating the traffic in and out and after once the event starts there's

569
00:53:30,930 --> 00:53:37,330
There's no staff involvement per se. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, check in checking in. No, awesome

570
00:53:39,110 --> 00:53:45,990
Great to hear that we learned a little bit from Thursday night or yeah, the Thursday night farmers market

571
00:53:46,610 --> 00:53:49,050
with the football truck

572
00:53:50,230 --> 00:53:56,710
sports brings people out. I think, right? And it's really sometimes it kind of gets to me.

573
00:53:56,870 --> 00:54:03,070
Maybe more large cities, you know, that kind of can rally the community to come out and support local teams

574
00:54:03,070 --> 00:54:08,390
or, you know, national teams, whatever is kind of happening. So I like the FIFA World Cup.

575
00:54:08,650 --> 00:54:12,450
Again, potential for it to be kind of included in something like this.

576
00:54:12,450 --> 00:54:20,630
I have been in communication with other communities in South Fullerton as well to that potential

577
00:54:20,630 --> 00:54:25,370
wanted to host something like this, so again maybe thinking about other areas in other places

578
00:54:25,370 --> 00:54:32,310
to potentially host something that brings people out. I think it's just a great opportunity for

579
00:54:32,310 --> 00:54:41,190
that. Nothing specifically about the farmers market, but I think with the FIFA component to that.

580
00:54:41,190 --> 00:54:45,330
So kind of really thinking about, I mean, I love piggybacking on something that's already

581
00:54:45,330 --> 00:54:45,670
happening.

582
00:54:46,230 --> 00:54:51,130
But if we could just be intentional to kind of share a little bit of that building

583
00:54:51,130 --> 00:54:56,630
community and cohesiveness in other parts of the city as well too, because I think sometimes

584
00:54:56,630 --> 00:54:59,950
it's a little bit challenging for people to, you know, you know, you.

585
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:15,420
I mean, just get physically to the plaza, but I know it's kind of that central hub. So, amazing on that, looking forward to the 5K, I think my wife and kids that signed up for that, I was trying to skip out on it.

586
00:55:15,940 --> 00:55:25,540
So, amazing to see. I mean, I'm really excited to kind of see that day kind of had, I was looking forward to it in November as well too.

587
00:55:27,540 --> 00:55:30,660
Friday night concerts at the park.

588
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:32,440
Again, I love the idea.

589
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:37,240
I know it was at the first year that we had it kind of also in different places.

590
00:55:37,740 --> 00:55:40,840
Again, it's a theme of my, just my suggestions, right?

591
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,360
And hoping to kind of see, I know we had an independent park.

592
00:55:45,260 --> 00:55:51,160
We had it at Haunt, yeah, in Chapman, right?

593
00:55:52,580 --> 00:56:01,300
So maybe, like just seeing that opportunity just to bring people out, I know it's a little bit more walkable than it is over at the sports complex.

594
00:56:01,460 --> 00:56:11,060
I know people would have to drive and yet has sufficient parking, but I think, you know, when you go into some of those neighborhoods, you don't expect, you know, for people to be driving there.

595
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:19,300
But again, just to turn out on that. So maybe kind of think about potentially utilizing other areas and other places of the city.

596
00:56:19,820 --> 00:56:25,080
when it comes to that, because I know I think it was the first year that it was really successful.

597
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,360
Now you guys all did that. Again,

598
00:56:31,370 --> 00:56:35,550
a Puptoe brick fence brings the dog, trust me.

599
00:56:35,590 --> 00:56:41,710
Dog lovers will do anything to come show off their dog, so I love this element also.

600
00:56:42,670 --> 00:56:49,050
And I guess, if it's perfectly right, that the hunts right there and the dog park is also there.

601
00:56:49,050 --> 00:56:55,350
So yeah, I think for me it's just more kind of seen where other where we can activate

602
00:56:55,350 --> 00:57:01,870
some other areas of the city, when kind of thinking about I think primarily those those three,

603
00:57:02,310 --> 00:57:06,890
and then again talking with some maybe some of our other community partners and organizations that are

604
00:57:06,890 --> 00:57:11,210
you know doing some community building or they're trying to bring the community to come out as well

605
00:57:11,210 --> 00:57:16,690
too to activate some spaces as utilizing and leveraging kind of what we're already doing, right,

606
00:57:16,690 --> 00:57:20,190
if it's already kind of allocated, where we can do some of those

607
00:57:20,190 --> 00:57:23,770
that activation and other parts of the city.

608
00:57:24,090 --> 00:57:28,610
I think Valencia Park would crest and then even over at Chapman Park as well too.

609
00:57:29,810 --> 00:57:32,350
So again, I might not have to be so large-scale,

610
00:57:33,550 --> 00:57:36,870
but I think it's just great to kind of provide that opportunity.

611
00:57:37,170 --> 00:57:39,730
So people don't have to even from the east side to

612
00:57:39,730 --> 00:57:41,010
drop up to the sports complex.

613
00:57:42,330 --> 00:57:44,870
It's going to take some time and effort, some planning.

614
00:57:44,870 --> 00:57:50,950
But if they can just walk and you know come out there door and walk a few blocks to the Chapman Park

615
00:57:50,950 --> 00:57:56,010
You know that'd be great as well too. So yeah, just keep in that in mind. Thank you,

616
00:57:59,580 --> 00:57:59,580
guys

617
00:57:59,580 --> 00:58:00,440
All right

618
00:58:02,340 --> 00:58:09,480
For the Fullerton Coffee Fest. Well, I did want to say I noticed a lot of pop-ups happening at the hunt

619
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:17,520
Like coffee pop-ups has there has he guys know if they had a good attendance as well

620
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,400
the individual pop-ups that have been happening.

621
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:26,780
So we've consistently, now it's been probably about four months,

622
00:58:27,140 --> 00:58:30,200
the roaming glory copycarts after the market.

623
00:58:31,780 --> 00:58:33,360
Number one to activate the hunt.

624
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,260
And I believe they started a little bit slow,

625
00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:39,780
but now that they've been there consistently through Thursday,

626
00:58:40,420 --> 00:58:44,020
I think 10 to 1, they've got some good foot traffic,

627
00:58:44,060 --> 00:58:45,480
definitely from our department.

628
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:53,280
Um, they like, they saw by, um, so they're definitely having a cell every day, but ultimately

629
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:54,660
I've, I'm not mistaken.

630
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:59,080
I think last week, they had some good feedback and some good traffic there.

631
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:00,680
Yeah.

632
00:59:00,740 --> 00:59:03,940
I mean, I think it's a fantastic idea.

633
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:04,760
I do agree.

634
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:08,240
Fullerton is very much of a coffee city.

635
00:59:08,500 --> 00:59:12,920
We have so many different options of whether, if you want,

636
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:19,340
marcha or tea or coffee or whatever, it's pretty insane here.

637
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:21,580
So I think it's a fantastic idea.

638
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,680
I do want to reiterate the feeful world cup importance.

639
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:35,000
A few community members did approach me to make sure that I reiterate that if we can

640
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:39,640
do something to kind of get the community together to at least have one big screen,

641
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:46,300
And we can all have like some kind of shared community event around I really don't know anything about soccer

642
00:59:46,300 --> 00:59:49,300
So I'm gonna say the match the games. I don't know

643
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:56,520
Whatever whoever dies. Anyways, so that's cool. I would really recommend that and then

644
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,280
some other questions I had

645
01:00:00,270 --> 01:00:10,070
It was like a whole seven month wait for the whole 5K. Was there a reason for the, for such a large gap in the seven months?

646
01:00:10,930 --> 01:00:16,290
Yeah, it was a lot of one seeing the availability of our contractor, which is our timing company.

647
01:00:16,450 --> 01:00:23,470
So based on their availability for them to work with us with the same contract and offerings.

648
01:00:23,470 --> 01:00:31,390
and then the date meeting, finding a date that's within the, that's going to be pretty

649
01:00:31,390 --> 01:00:37,590
sunny and reliable. Yes, correct. Okay. I would say, just because June is going to be so

650
01:00:37,590 --> 01:00:43,850
high, the long as we have like water on average. Yes. And that would be fantastic. Okay.

651
01:00:43,870 --> 01:00:49,930
So that one, and then for the lighting, the tree lighting, it was a fantastic event. I loved

652
01:00:49,930 --> 01:00:56,250
when I came this year. My dog even though I thought she hated it, but she didn't want to leave. So

653
01:00:56,250 --> 01:01:05,470
it surprised me. What I did notice is that people were flocking to the Grinch more than Santa.

654
01:01:06,010 --> 01:01:13,130
So just more, I guess more Grinch related like opportunities to take photos with him, I would say.

655
01:01:13,650 --> 01:01:17,810
That's some of the performance that I got from children, which is that we did not expect that.

656
01:01:17,810 --> 01:01:21,830
No, it's so wild that they loved it. I think they thought it was Jim Carey or whatever

657
01:01:22,610 --> 01:01:24,030
It was really cool

658
01:01:24,990 --> 01:01:32,090
Okay, well if there's no comments. Oh, yeah, sorry. Just gonna piggyback on the FIFA stuff the the wash parties

659
01:01:33,050 --> 01:01:38,510
What's the idea for that to bring in like a large LED screen? Because it's not always gonna be night can like just the side of project

660
01:01:38,510 --> 01:01:45,690
Yeah, so we're we've actually started having conversations with our economic development team and

661
01:01:45,690 --> 01:01:48,790
and there's a lot of hurdles to become an official.

662
01:01:49,270 --> 01:01:51,170
So ultimately you can become an official

663
01:01:51,170 --> 01:01:55,350
FIFA Watch Party event, per se, but you need licensing.

664
01:01:55,990 --> 01:01:58,410
And that license, to my understanding,

665
01:01:58,450 --> 01:01:59,990
just based on the feedback and the like,

666
01:01:59,990 --> 01:02:02,410
just preliminary conversations to see their raffle,

667
01:02:02,890 --> 01:02:04,810
whether there's a high price tag on that.

668
01:02:05,990 --> 01:02:07,890
So, we're exploring all of our options.

669
01:02:08,110 --> 01:02:09,690
I believe our economic development team

670
01:02:09,690 --> 01:02:12,710
has had several conversations with different folks,

671
01:02:13,070 --> 01:02:14,870
just to see what's best to approach.

672
01:02:14,870 --> 01:02:19,770
because there's a price tag and then we're helping on the logistics sign and exploring

673
01:02:19,770 --> 01:02:24,670
what locations ideally what makes most sense and I know it's more central,

674
01:02:25,230 --> 01:02:29,140
but it's like the plaza because it's already a built-in stage already built-in

675
01:02:29,610 --> 01:02:34,750
space that we can activate, bring in a screen, and then ultimately kind of

676
01:02:34,750 --> 01:02:41,150
seating, and if there are cells of refreshments, alcohol, etc, we can contain it there.

677
01:02:41,150 --> 01:02:44,170
and moving it around to different locations,

678
01:02:45,170 --> 01:02:47,110
may minimize the space that we have.

679
01:02:47,570 --> 01:02:49,390
But first and foremost, we're exploring

680
01:02:49,390 --> 01:02:53,310
what that licensing looks like, that fee,

681
01:02:53,350 --> 01:02:54,710
because you can have an official one,

682
01:02:54,890 --> 01:02:56,910
or you can have like the TV's on,

683
01:02:56,950 --> 01:02:58,770
the game's on, come watch it, right?

684
01:02:59,870 --> 01:03:02,070
So, as I said, it was my next question,

685
01:03:02,270 --> 01:03:04,910
is like, if your, if the license is on the,

686
01:03:04,910 --> 01:03:07,370
on the affordable, like, you can't,

687
01:03:07,650 --> 01:03:08,790
we wouldn't ridden to a large screen

688
01:03:08,790 --> 01:03:10,050
and have it just beyond the background,

689
01:03:10,050 --> 01:03:21,250
Well it you and so yeah FIFA would like for you to have the licensing. Are there going to be other events that may not be an official watch party?

690
01:03:21,270 --> 01:03:27,370
There's a lot of rules to it that terminology is et cetera. Is there going to be a FIFA official on site?

691
01:03:27,990 --> 01:03:37,010
I've never attended one to I don't know but I know a lot of our local bars and the restaurants in the area do host like watch events.

692
01:03:37,010 --> 01:03:45,030
So our goal was to try to activate the space so that they can kind of spill into those restaurants after the match is it and so forth

693
01:03:45,030 --> 01:03:50,370
But we're still and like the literally the preliminary stages. We're having those conversations

694
01:03:50,370 --> 01:03:57,790
And we can incorporate it to one of our events that'd be awesome. I think I'm talking with our economic development manager

695
01:03:57,790 --> 01:03:59,470
There's actually

696
01:04:00,110 --> 01:04:05,590
a benefit because all of our games will be in the evening during the week where because it's local

697
01:04:05,590 --> 01:04:14,610
It's evening game 6 p.m. APN games versus it being like on European soil where now you're watching a 10 a.m. match or 8 a.m. match.

698
01:04:15,170 --> 01:04:25,410
So there are some benefits that we can kind of explore and piggyback off and if there's a there's a way where we can rotate it to different sites and partner with different groups.

699
01:04:25,690 --> 01:04:29,510
Absolutely, it's just that licensing to make it an official watch party.

700
01:04:29,510 --> 01:04:31,810
It's going to be out of the challenge.

701
01:04:31,810 --> 01:04:32,330
It's expensive.

702
01:04:32,970 --> 01:04:36,410
Yeah, we don't know the price tag, but I've been told it's expensive.

703
01:04:37,030 --> 01:04:37,710
Yeah, yeah.

704
01:04:37,730 --> 01:04:39,930
All those licensing things are really expensive.

705
01:04:40,870 --> 01:04:42,670
Like thousands and thousands of dollars.

706
01:04:44,070 --> 01:04:46,190
I've been on how many people you're going to have come up.

707
01:04:46,290 --> 01:04:47,970
potentially hundreds.

708
01:04:49,210 --> 01:04:50,250
All right.

709
01:04:50,810 --> 01:04:53,730
If there is nothing else, then we're going to invite the public

710
01:04:53,730 --> 01:04:56,450
that wishes to address commission on this item.

711
01:04:58,010 --> 01:04:59,210
Yeah, if you want to.

712
01:05:01,010 --> 01:05:06,490
I don't want to force you, but if you want to.

713
01:05:06,750 --> 01:05:07,810
On the calendar.

714
01:05:11,030 --> 01:05:20,150
I just have two thoughts. First up, I just wanted to piggyback on Commissioner Tala Verra's request to have things staged at different parts of town.

715
01:05:20,390 --> 01:05:29,090
Like the concerts that we had, and a specific observation I had from those was that I saw a lot more families

716
01:05:29,090 --> 01:05:35,830
that have a disabled family member come to those events that were in the neighborhoods

717
01:05:36,430 --> 01:05:43,570
that I usually see at events around town. I thought if they had an older person, an older

718
01:05:43,570 --> 01:05:48,650
family member or a disabled family member, I was much more likely to see them out as a family

719
01:05:48,650 --> 01:05:54,530
outside enjoying those events. So it's I really would like to see that happen. That's a great idea

720
01:05:56,750 --> 01:06:00,410
And recent travels in Scandinavia, for example,

721
01:06:00,570 --> 01:06:05,050
have seen that how the World Cup is always big screens outside.

722
01:06:05,330 --> 01:06:13,210
Everybody there, you may not know that they Sweden has very generous paternity leave for men,

723
01:06:13,410 --> 01:06:15,270
and they tend to take it during the World Cup.

724
01:06:15,690 --> 01:06:23,870
They call them Latte Popbus, because they all have a coffee and they're all out there with the screen and the baby.

725
01:06:23,870 --> 01:06:29,830
Watching it, so it's a it's a lifestyle and we could we could piggyback on that, but

726
01:06:29,830 --> 01:06:32,090
But yeah, money

727
01:06:32,890 --> 01:06:41,250
So if you could but I'm sure that a lot of people would really appreciate the chance to do that and so much creativity and good ideas

728
01:06:41,250 --> 01:06:44,170
And I I appreciate it. Thank you.

729
01:06:46,220 --> 01:06:50,320
Thank you. Are right. Is there anybody online? I have no one

730
01:06:50,320 --> 01:07:05,300
Okay, and that case, I don't believe there's any action needed for this, so we're just going to move on to the next item, which is the Independence Park update.

731
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,340
Chair, sorry, there is a recommendation.

732
01:07:12,930 --> 01:07:14,410
Yes, to recommend it to council.

733
01:07:16,290 --> 01:07:19,370
Is there a motion to recommend it to council?

734
01:07:19,370 --> 01:07:25,090
I almost should motion to recommend that it's a special thing calendar is stated to cancel.

735
01:07:25,310 --> 01:07:27,050
Okay, also okay.

736
01:07:28,350 --> 01:07:30,590
Madam Secretary, which call role?

737
01:07:30,750 --> 01:07:31,470
All right, well.

738
01:07:32,650 --> 01:07:33,290
Commissioner Freeman?

739
01:07:33,790 --> 01:07:34,250
Yes.

740
01:07:35,210 --> 01:07:36,090
Commissioner's Dada Vita?

741
01:07:36,190 --> 01:07:36,670
Yes.

742
01:07:37,350 --> 01:07:38,550
And Chair Maldonato.

743
01:07:40,750 --> 01:07:42,150
Motion has passed.

744
01:07:43,550 --> 01:07:44,210
Alrighty.

745
01:07:44,970 --> 01:07:48,570
All right, now we're going to go to the Independence Park update.

746
01:07:48,570 --> 01:07:50,490
is there a staff report for that one?

747
01:07:50,870 --> 01:07:53,330
Yeah, we actually have also have a presentation.

748
01:07:53,830 --> 01:07:57,370
Edgar is going to start us off as you know, independent

749
01:07:57,370 --> 01:08:03,350
spark with now the trail opening and UP park.

750
01:08:03,510 --> 01:08:05,770
It is kind of that final piece to our

751
01:08:05,770 --> 01:08:09,450
puzzle to connecting all three areas of South

752
01:08:09,450 --> 01:08:13,450
Bullerton independent spark, which you'll see in the report

753
01:08:13,450 --> 01:08:18,030
has made significant progress and we're looking to share that

754
01:08:18,030 --> 01:08:23,850
information with the Commission, and also share some additional information for some recommendations.

755
01:08:24,270 --> 01:08:28,550
As we move into what we call, we'll say there's a three-phase approach,

756
01:08:29,090 --> 01:08:33,970
based on being the Genesium, Phase 2 being the Park site, and Phase 3 being

757
01:08:34,950 --> 01:08:39,810
potentially proposing in the as the pickleball area in the north side of the park.

758
01:08:40,350 --> 01:08:45,290
So I'll let Edgar kind of get us started and we'll answer any questions at the end.

759
01:08:45,290 --> 01:08:46,610
All right,

760
01:08:53,580 --> 01:08:55,280
so the next slide please.

761
01:08:58,010 --> 01:09:03,410
All right, so Independence Park is a 10 acre community park that we're really hoping to activate this year.

762
01:09:04,970 --> 01:09:09,500
It currently has fast, which is the aquatic facility there.

763
01:09:10,330 --> 01:09:15,390
Escape Park, the Handwall Courts, the outdoor esthes command, open space.

764
01:09:16,150 --> 01:09:23,510
The gymnasium has been closed since COVID and the playground was deemed unsafe, so it was actually demoed a while back.

765
01:09:23,510 --> 01:09:28,350
So we're hoping to bring both of those amenities back in the near future.

766
01:09:29,030 --> 01:09:34,410
Our original design had a street element for the skate park so renovating it.

767
01:09:34,990 --> 01:09:42,650
A large and small dog area, shade structures, picnic, and a playground that's accessible to all.

768
01:09:43,190 --> 01:09:44,790
And then obviously open green space.

769
01:09:45,650 --> 01:09:48,910
Currently we do not have funding to complete that project.

770
01:09:48,910 --> 01:09:55,910
But that is, as Christian mentioned, that is our long-term goal, is to get all these amenities going and really program this park.

771
01:09:57,150 --> 01:09:59,710
So as a result since we have limited funding, we are skating.

772
01:10:05,420 --> 01:10:26,420
So this is an overview. In 2023, we applied for a $7 million earmark and then we were very excited at this point because $2.7 million earmark was recommended for approval. So we were looking pretty good, 2024, all earmarks were placed on hold and then subsequently reduced all the way to $250,000.

773
01:10:27,740 --> 01:10:30,100
So those funds are still in progress.

774
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,800
We're waiting federal approval for those.

775
01:10:35,970 --> 01:10:39,110
And now we'll go on to what we actually do have.

776
01:10:40,750 --> 01:10:46,150
We, as Kitty Council allocated $2 million from Park Dwelling funds for this CIPU project that

777
01:10:46,150 --> 01:10:52,510
Independence Park, pending completion of the hub project, which has been subsequently completed.

778
01:10:52,510 --> 01:10:58,510
In 2024 we got two grants, one from the state from a million dollars specifically for independence gym.

779
01:10:59,630 --> 01:11:04,950
And another for a hundred thousand dollars from the county towards any improvement.

780
01:11:05,170 --> 01:11:11,510
So we wanted to reason it for the throne restrooms, the restrooms at that park are currently not serviceable.

781
01:11:12,510 --> 01:11:16,470
So in the meantime, we rented one of those throne restrooms and it's been hit out there.

782
01:11:16,890 --> 01:11:18,990
It's been very well received.

783
01:11:20,990 --> 01:11:28,050
In 2025, the hub was completed, so now we do have those $2 million dollars, so we're really trying to stretch it.

784
01:11:29,330 --> 01:11:33,550
Basically what we have is a $2 million dollars from product dwelling and the million dollars from the state.

785
01:11:33,690 --> 01:11:43,010
So if $3 million dollars and we're hoping to do the Indie Gym rehab and also add a playground at the park with those funds.

786
01:11:43,810 --> 01:11:46,650
The first phase is the independence gym rehab.

787
01:11:47,350 --> 01:11:50,790
That's looking like it's going to cost someone in the neighborhood of $2 million.

788
01:11:51,170 --> 01:11:54,610
We'll have updates for that in the coming months for you guys.

789
01:11:55,230 --> 01:11:58,090
But that project is moving forward to the design phase right now.

790
01:11:58,350 --> 01:12:04,070
And we're finalizing the design and getting all the bid documents ready.

791
01:12:04,910 --> 01:12:09,150
So that project should be going out to bid in the next couple months.

792
01:12:09,150 --> 01:12:12,950
And then one step project is going well, obviously I've loved it three years.

793
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:21,680
So we'll kind of go through the what's currently happening inside the gym.

794
01:12:22,980 --> 01:12:28,420
As Edgar shared their projects have started, we've met with our public work team,

795
01:12:28,940 --> 01:12:33,760
and overall we're in the design phase, but there was a baitman in demolition.

796
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,680
At your top, the top picture there is what used to be the kitchen area.

797
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:40,900
there needs to be like a two entry door,

798
01:12:40,900 --> 01:12:43,440
kind of kitchen, the only thing standing

799
01:12:44,340 --> 01:12:48,840
is a recompartment sink that allows us

800
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:52,320
to host events and with the farmer's market on Wednesday morning,

801
01:12:52,460 --> 01:12:53,760
this can be a kitchen.

802
01:12:54,580 --> 01:12:57,200
In addition to that, that room is large enough

803
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:01,540
that we're contemplating adding some restrooms

804
01:13:01,540 --> 01:13:03,480
and ADA restroom there.

805
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:06,660
And the scope of the work, like I share,

806
01:13:06,660 --> 01:13:27,440
There's going to be new basketball courts and floors throughout the entire building, renovators front desk area and a multi purpose room, the renovated restrooms and new ADA compliant restroom, the renovated restrooms right now, there's two sets of restrooms, the building is very important for us to be able to program the park.

807
01:13:27,440 --> 01:13:36,020
Because, one set of the Russians facing the park will give us that flexibility to then open them for park users.

808
01:13:36,980 --> 01:13:40,360
And then that would no longer utilize that their own restroom.

809
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:46,340
So that's kind of our priority then leading to kind of the park phase.

810
01:13:48,530 --> 01:13:50,010
So this is a proposed project.

811
01:13:50,270 --> 01:13:51,030
There's two slides.

812
01:13:52,270 --> 01:13:56,350
The first one shows you their gym renovations of course.

813
01:13:56,350 --> 01:14:02,790
then we're looking at doing kind of our first all-inclusive universal universally accessible play area

814
01:14:03,370 --> 01:14:10,810
in the city and in the back north parking lot there is a potential for pickleblock courts.

815
01:14:11,110 --> 01:14:17,870
I believe kind of measuring now there's about five or six second fit there and again the ADA playground

816
01:14:18,430 --> 01:14:22,530
that's kind of the option one option two

817
01:14:25,060 --> 01:14:28,500
is kind of the same but doing a kind of a long

818
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:36,520
a little uh yes the horizontal play area that'll still make it universal um and leaving

819
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:38,360
more open grass area

820
01:14:40,690 --> 01:14:44,870
these this is some examples of what kind of universally

821
01:14:44,870 --> 01:14:53,970
accessible playgrounds it's locally found valley recently open one and there's some some other

822
01:14:53,970 --> 01:14:59,490
cities kind of in northern California but ultimately it's everybody with all

823
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,480
It's inclusive, anybody can play.

824
01:15:05,270 --> 01:15:11,530
And then some alternative options. As SATGER mentioned, there is limited funding. We have $3 million.

825
01:15:11,810 --> 01:15:18,290
We need to stretch that and all the federal money will come with additional requirements.

826
01:15:19,250 --> 01:15:28,350
We have been approached by public private partnership requests, where they utilize their space for a private entity.

827
01:15:28,350 --> 01:15:40,730
But it's also open to the public and they have they pay all the upfront costs in addition to that and the city would benefit with additional revenue and access to that space

828
01:15:40,730 --> 01:15:49,350
But we are looking for feedback from the commission on the recommendation for independent markets. We move forward through these faces.

829
01:15:49,350 --> 01:15:53,630
And we can answer any questions.

830
01:15:57,020 --> 01:15:59,000
You want to start?

831
01:15:59,000 --> 01:15:59,300
Okay.

832
01:16:02,540 --> 01:16:03,500
Where do I start?

833
01:16:04,540 --> 01:16:05,180
Funding.

834
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:08,320
I think I think let's start there.

835
01:16:08,380 --> 01:16:11,240
I mean it was kind of in the beginning of the slides.

836
01:16:13,480 --> 01:16:21,060
You shared the $7 million earmarked and then the 2.7.

837
01:16:21,060 --> 01:16:27,620
Yeah, so yeah, we requested 7 million and then they approved 2.75. Okay, so they approved it

838
01:16:27,620 --> 01:16:32,870
But then tentatively, yeah, but then we we changed presidents and then everything was put on hold in

839
01:16:33,340 --> 01:16:40,780
Now it's currently 250,000 still pending federal approval. Okay, so the two 7 the 2.75

840
01:16:40,780 --> 01:16:43,790
One away. Yeah, and then so

841
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,180
They said you're gonna get two

842
01:16:46,180 --> 01:16:48,880
250. 250 from there. Okay.

843
01:16:54,180 --> 01:16:56,460
Unfortunately not, not as significant as it once looked.

844
01:16:59,590 --> 01:16:59,590
Yeah.

845
01:17:00,670 --> 01:17:08,250
So we we foresee that the playgrounds can take a lot of those funds. So we're kind of budgeting

846
01:17:08,250 --> 01:17:15,250
and all the money we have for this project about $3 million. Okay. So that's what we have that

847
01:17:15,250 --> 01:17:20,290
were even projecting for this park. No, that's where the feedback on the commission,

848
01:17:20,290 --> 01:17:25,950
allocating those three million with the projects that we have kind of in place or, you know,

849
01:17:26,090 --> 01:17:31,410
being open to the conversations of some public private partnerships that we'll be able to

850
01:17:31,410 --> 01:17:35,130
allocate additional resources and funny to that part. Yeah, no, definitely.

851
01:17:37,210 --> 01:17:39,630
So I think my next question

852
01:17:39,630 --> 01:17:51,150
is, um, we started going into some proposed options for the park. So what happens all of the

853
01:17:51,150 --> 01:18:01,630
feedback and information that we got from the community prior to. So I, I just, yeah, so the initial kind

854
01:18:01,630 --> 01:18:08,310
of independent park master plan, I believe that you're referring to in the, um, a lot of the items on

855
01:18:08,310 --> 01:18:11,670
And it was shared on the first slide those wishless items

856
01:18:11,670 --> 01:18:18,030
We just don't have the funding to accommodate all those, but some of the feedback that we got out of that is a playground and

857
01:18:19,270 --> 01:18:26,850
Kind of like a picnic shelter and restaurants like that was if I'm not mistaken those were kind of the priorities of space where people can come

858
01:18:28,230 --> 01:18:28,750
so

859
01:18:30,070 --> 01:18:37,870
In whichever kind of route that we decide to go on on is those are the elements that we are

860
01:18:38,310 --> 01:18:42,890
You know that we will include in whichever, however, this project ends

861
01:18:42,890 --> 01:18:48,870
It would be a playground and space for families together and restrooms like that will be included

862
01:18:48,870 --> 01:18:56,470
Okay, so and that's why we're including and there was also the element of adult activities right more for adults than kids

863
01:18:56,470 --> 01:19:04,380
That's why in this case where we're proposing the pickle ball court and then what the gymnasium being active and that also

864
01:19:07,820 --> 01:19:17,040
So I think my hesitation on kind of moving forward in a sense and I think like you mentioned

865
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:23,400
the restrooms already getting done, I think that's one of the key elements, for anything

866
01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:24,380
in the future, right?

867
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:32,860
So I think that's fine, but I think my hesitation in moving forward with anything even like

868
01:19:32,860 --> 01:19:42,320
be like the playground or anything like that is like the perception that this project

869
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:49,020
is going to have based on the conversations that we had with the community in the past

870
01:19:49,020 --> 01:19:50,420
with that master plan.

871
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:56,160
So even if you tell him, hey, we have no money for this, they're going to be like, well,

872
01:19:56,260 --> 01:19:59,060
you came in, you asked us and then we gave you our information, and then...

873
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:21,180
And then this is happening. So just a perception, I guess, in the sense. And I think that's why I'm a little hesitant to kind of even continue moving forward to potentially see if we can find other ways to have funds, right? Or to other funds that we can try to get, right?

874
01:20:22,500 --> 01:20:28,340
whether it's, I mean, grants, you know, public, private partnerships, you know, which

875
01:20:28,340 --> 01:20:33,260
sometimes could work really, really well. But I think, for me, it's more of the

876
01:20:33,260 --> 01:20:36,420
perception that it's going to have on the community is like, hey, we shared that we

877
01:20:36,420 --> 01:20:41,280
wanted this, right? And then, you know, because they had, you know, to choose some of

878
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,740
the elements. And then you're like, no, we're scrapping that because we have no

879
01:20:44,740 --> 01:20:49,040
money, but we're going to move forward with something like this. So I think that's,

880
01:20:49,500 --> 01:20:54,620
That's where I'm like a little hesitant, you know, even though like we know the playground would happen and things like that

881
01:20:55,100 --> 01:21:02,360
But I think again, you know, we're trying to build trust with the community and I think you know letting them know

882
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,100
You know, you know

883
01:21:06,100 --> 01:21:09,640
I think that's where it's on us to make sure we're communicating

884
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:11,500
Yeah, and make sure that we're

885
01:21:12,380 --> 01:21:16,840
Letting the community know that although we can't do everything we can do some of the stuff

886
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,800
Yeah, some of it. And I think he's just going back to them and letting them know like,

887
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:25,660
hey, this is what the potential is. So I think now moving to the alternative options,

888
01:21:26,140 --> 01:21:32,240
right, of, you know, generating funds. Then I think that's, then I think that's what we can

889
01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:37,100
continue having a discussion with the, with the community on like, hey, this is, you know,

890
01:21:37,120 --> 01:21:41,980
we're kind of having to hit the reset button, right? Now let's talk about what potentially we

891
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:48,080
can have. Even though here we're providing them some options already, which, you know, we're

892
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:56,940
not sure, like, is this what you guys want? I can say it's a little bit. Yeah, no, I, um, we're

893
01:21:56,940 --> 01:22:03,400
definitely working on communicating what we don't. I think something to be considered and

894
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:08,100
I share with the commission is that we do have plans to move forward on the project. There

895
01:22:08,100 --> 01:22:14,900
allocated funding at this moment for the project. And we have some good momentum with the gymnasium,

896
01:22:14,900 --> 01:22:21,280
the ribbon cutting, or sorry, the trail, and then the park. We wouldn't want to stop that.

897
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:28,300
Long-term project, we do have the master plan city wide that we are working on actively working

898
01:22:28,300 --> 01:22:35,140
on to release that, and then that will give us a better overview to, as I shared at the last,

899
01:22:35,140 --> 01:22:52,540
I think the October meeting, when we brought that forward, to gain those grants and but it's for the commission of provide the feedback and, you know, we can include that to our reported council and as a decide, um, kind of based on the feedback and the information that you're sharing.

900
01:22:59,610 --> 01:23:27,170
I just, on the feedback part of it, it's a simple multi-phase approach, right? You know, you have your master plan. You have all these things. These are what we can do now in the future. We're going to be doing these extra phases. I think in my experience that's the best way to kind of communicate it. People understand it. You know, when you're doing home renovations, you can't do your whole house at once typically. You're going to do it in kind of multi-phase. And that's where we're at. We had some money and now we don't, you know, what, from, you know, when you're doing home renovations, you can't do your whole house at once typically. You're going to do it in kind of multi-phase. And that's where we're at. We had some money. And now we don't, you know, what, from,

901
01:23:27,170 --> 01:23:34,670
it would have been like roughly five with our funds and then the federal government funds, and now it's just what we have

902
01:23:34,670 --> 01:23:39,150
It's like from 250,000, which is half of that playground, maybe

903
01:23:39,150 --> 01:23:42,390
We still know that even so we're still waiting on the drive

904
01:23:42,390 --> 01:23:44,850
Yeah, he's been promised that you don't have a, right?

905
01:23:45,250 --> 01:23:47,650
I should mention that 250 comes with a lot of strings

906
01:23:47,650 --> 01:23:51,290
Yeah, federal federal grants are a lot of extra work and

907
01:23:51,290 --> 01:23:56,290
Like you almost had to hire a consultant just to make sure you're in compliance with federal grants

908
01:23:56,290 --> 01:23:58,950
And there's also, and sorry, Commissioner Freeman.

909
01:23:59,370 --> 01:24:05,070
So when we do the, we've had conversations with public works, and this park is sold.

910
01:24:05,090 --> 01:24:09,690
It's not up to date with like our ADA standards, or just our building codes.

911
01:24:10,490 --> 01:24:15,830
So something that I want to share if we do the pickable courts kind of in the north end or anything

912
01:24:15,830 --> 01:24:20,970
there, there has to be a fire access lane that would lead into the rack of all courts,

913
01:24:21,010 --> 01:24:26,170
because the rack of all courts are still part of the park, but now we're upgrading the park.

914
01:24:26,170 --> 01:24:28,810
So there does have to be a fire access.

915
01:24:29,870 --> 01:24:31,150
So that's also another element.

916
01:24:31,450 --> 01:24:34,330
That's what we're trying to keep it as Phase 3.

917
01:24:35,390 --> 01:24:37,750
And now, as that's an additional,

918
01:24:38,030 --> 01:24:41,390
that will come with if we do the Pickable Quartz in the back.

919
01:24:42,850 --> 01:24:44,010
Pickable Quartz is one of something

920
01:24:44,010 --> 01:24:46,290
that I was actually going to bring up.

921
01:24:47,490 --> 01:24:48,790
Just the noise mitigation.

922
01:24:49,250 --> 01:24:50,870
I was just looking up on Google Maps.

923
01:24:50,870 --> 01:24:54,310
It is 100 feet from the people's backyards.

924
01:24:55,650 --> 01:24:59,330
I've part of the handful of cities getting sued for being that close because of the noise.

925
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:19,860
It's something I would, I wouldn't recommend putting public well courts there on the park, maybe further away on the other side. I don't know that's, that's a lot, but like, I mean, six to eight pigble courts, it's going to cost you a million to million to, right now in today's market. And so that might be, that's phase five, maybe.

926
01:25:21,380 --> 01:25:28,680
But I wouldn't, when you personally, I would recommend not putting public well courts in that corner simply because of the residents that they're literally on the picture.

927
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:35,160
you can't see it, but on the edge of that, that's the backyard of house, and as a

928
01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:38,460
resident I would hate to hear that all the time, especially without popular it is, you

929
01:25:38,460 --> 01:25:44,260
know, and cities are getting sued because they jumped out too quick and they're, they're,

930
01:25:44,260 --> 01:25:47,360
they're, they're, they're suing their cities because it's ruining their quality of life

931
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:54,920
because that, that Dink sound is, is loud, you know, but I think the ADA player is awesome. I think

932
01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:59,400
every city needs to have one marquee park like that, at least, to really be very

933
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:04,540
all inclusive. So if that could be achieved in addition to the gym renovation on the

934
01:26:04,540 --> 01:26:14,100
stuff, I've fully support that aspect of it. And that's it, that's all it had was just the

935
01:26:14,100 --> 01:26:18,880
big wall court, so I think everything else looks great in my opinion. Yeah, I'm kind of in the same

936
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:27,200
like I think the the 80 playground I think is is a huge benefit. I think I was just a little

937
01:26:27,940 --> 01:26:35,220
weary with the pickled walkports as well too just because it wasn't part of like anything of

938
01:26:35,220 --> 01:26:40,320
what was kind of shared at the community meetings prior to you know like two years ago

939
01:26:41,020 --> 01:26:48,340
probably almost three like the all bunch ups uh but yeah I think that that's that's the only reason why I was

940
01:26:48,340 --> 01:26:53,960
like, like, that's kind of like slow down if it's not part of the element just to, you know,

941
01:26:54,340 --> 01:27:01,180
kind of hear the community out, but inevitable, like the playground, I think, can move forward,

942
01:27:01,460 --> 01:27:06,920
but I think just the other elements of the park that's kind of where you can see, is there,

943
01:27:07,460 --> 01:27:10,220
has there been discussions with the public private partnerships?

944
01:27:12,480 --> 01:27:14,800
Nothing concrete. I think we've been

945
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:22,340
approach by the idea, but we have in fully consider them until we brought it up to commission

946
01:27:22,340 --> 01:27:26,840
and that's something that the commission would like us to pursue and share with council

947
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:30,360
or more than open to it and see kind of where that falls.

948
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:37,960
I'm open to public private partnerships because I think there's an element, there's an element

949
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:38,820
of

950
01:27:40,970 --> 01:27:48,090
kind of working in collaboration, and I think there's a lot of opportunities that kind of benefits

951
01:27:48,090 --> 01:27:54,130
that community as well too, because they typically get to know the community, and then usually

952
01:27:55,150 --> 01:28:00,370
having those partnerships, they're kind of embedded into the community as well too, so they're

953
01:28:01,050 --> 01:28:08,730
also in it for other reasons as well too, but at the same time, it's not like a program that's going to

954
01:28:08,730 --> 01:28:13,010
We're piloting for six months and, you know, it disappears and, you know, it's like,

955
01:28:13,170 --> 01:28:19,170
oh, there's no grant funding for that, or, you know, that revenue stream is not coming

956
01:28:19,170 --> 01:28:19,690
in anymore.

957
01:28:20,330 --> 01:28:25,050
So I guess it would just depend on kind of what it is, but making sure, you know, it's the

958
01:28:26,230 --> 01:28:30,530
right partnership that we're creating with someone that's going to be invested in the community

959
01:28:30,530 --> 01:28:31,270
as well, too.

960
01:28:31,710 --> 01:28:38,550
So definitely open to that, you know, just making sure kind of what elements, and what

961
01:28:38,550 --> 01:28:45,210
that looks like but definitely you know bring that up to accounts. I mean I think again finding

962
01:28:45,210 --> 01:28:53,490
the funding is typically the hard part but if there is that opportunity then let's let's

963
01:28:53,490 --> 01:28:58,230
lift the floor all all aspects you know but still other you know federal state whatever

964
01:29:00,210 --> 01:29:07,330
dollars that we can bring into independence now that you know we're kind of hitting the reset button

965
01:29:08,350 --> 01:29:17,750
Yeah. I would say I agree mostly. It's just like the person that reduced the funding from

966
01:29:17,750 --> 01:29:24,970
2,250,000 is still going to be here for the next few years. So it's not like the funding is going to

967
01:29:24,970 --> 01:29:31,650
appear next year or the year before or the year after. So I am interested in the public private

968
01:29:31,650 --> 01:29:38,230
partnership but as long as like what you said about the perception of what people have asked for

969
01:29:38,550 --> 01:29:48,250
is still honored. It depends on what the private whoever's interested in providing that private

970
01:29:48,250 --> 01:29:55,410
kind of funding. What is the ask? Like, if it's like a whole field of all just for soccer,

971
01:29:57,510 --> 01:29:59,630
you know, I don't know if that accomplishes everything that's...

972
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:08,780
Now, I know we're not going to get everything, but I don't know if that accomplishes what people in the community meetings are specifically asking for.

973
01:30:09,180 --> 01:30:19,200
And we would just be safe, we would be forsaking funding just to get something billed even though the public wouldn't primarily want what's being billed.

974
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:29,100
So I'd be interested into it into hearing more about it, or I guess into that avenue, but just what is being actively discussed.

975
01:30:29,300 --> 01:30:30,220
I guess that makes sense.

976
01:30:30,480 --> 01:30:33,240
Chair Maldonato, I mean, I can give you an example.

977
01:30:34,220 --> 01:30:36,980
Clark Park has a private public partnership.

978
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:38,500
There's a contract.

979
01:30:38,700 --> 01:30:41,500
And within that contract there's some revenue sharing.

980
01:30:41,500 --> 01:30:51,460
if I'm mistaken but also community guidelines to allow the use the sports groups or any community

981
01:30:51,460 --> 01:30:58,440
type of clinics for free or low-cost and our experience and what we've kind of just ideas

982
01:30:58,440 --> 01:31:03,760
that have been shared with us and like I said nothing no official proposals or anything like

983
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:10,320
but there's like those soccer complexes where they build six to eight little small,

984
01:31:10,460 --> 01:31:17,430
six-sided, five-sided courts. And there's that revenue where they pay, they build them

985
01:31:18,140 --> 01:31:25,300
for X number of years. And they kind of have a hold on that space. And that's as the landowners

986
01:31:25,300 --> 01:31:32,700
agree to that. There's some revenue splitting and plus access or the community. So we can definitely

987
01:31:32,700 --> 01:31:37,760
explore that see what options there are and and that's part of kind of the

988
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:41,620
recommendation we'll before we bring this forward to council and

989
01:31:41,620 --> 01:31:42,760
include those.

990
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:48,780
When was your kind of timeline to go to council?

991
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:51,820
Did you have one in

992
01:31:52,380 --> 01:31:57,720
mind yet? I think we were going to gather the feedback. I believe kind of

993
01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:02,020
closer to the second week in February. Second of the first week in March. Second week

994
01:32:02,020 --> 01:32:13,040
or second meeting in February, early March, yeah, because we are working, we're actively working on like the gymnasium side of the plans,

995
01:32:13,780 --> 01:32:20,100
because that's important for us again for the restrooms, and I think the park side will coincide with if the gym is activated,

996
01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:24,720
I think we'll see what that flow looks like to with the public.

997
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:28,920
I think, kind of what they've all mentioned already is if we have feedback from the community,

998
01:32:29,060 --> 01:32:36,580
taking that data that you already have is going to hit a little bit better with counsel,

999
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:41,460
so you're taking that and using that to your advantage to get the things that we can afford now

1000
01:32:42,720 --> 01:32:48,440
and, you know, getting the things that the residents have asked for, and then, you know,

1001
01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:54,060
the extra things can come in the second phases of that, because like we said, you know,

1002
01:32:54,060 --> 01:32:55,520
we have to do it all with the funds.

1003
01:32:56,820 --> 01:32:57,020
Yeah.

1004
01:32:57,020 --> 01:32:58,480
Well, it's for the details.

1005
01:32:59,500 --> 01:33:01,180
Like I said, like the soccer complex,

1006
01:33:01,820 --> 01:33:03,980
it's also like public private partnerships

1007
01:33:03,980 --> 01:33:06,520
to utilize the gymnasium for sports.

1008
01:33:07,060 --> 01:33:08,880
I know that's those are private,

1009
01:33:09,120 --> 01:33:11,560
but for examples, there's like the gymnasiums

1010
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:12,920
that do volleyball basketball,

1011
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:14,820
and now there's indoor pickleball,

1012
01:33:15,260 --> 01:33:16,680
which are all kind of ideas

1013
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:18,960
that happen, you know, like I showed all those ideas.

1014
01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:21,820
So, we'll explore those specifically

1015
01:33:21,820 --> 01:33:24,580
and share those with Council of that's the recommendation.

1016
01:33:25,500 --> 01:33:30,220
And I think it would probably be more geared towards the gymnasium, wouldn't it be the partnership?

1017
01:33:31,180 --> 01:33:36,880
There can be the gymnasium, it can be the field space, we have an open field space,

1018
01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:40,820
or like I said those soccer, soccer, five-to-side type of field.

1019
01:33:41,340 --> 01:33:46,620
Okay. Of course, as a private investor, there has to be a return of investment.

1020
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:50,160
So those are all part of the conversations to what actually fits in that part.

1021
01:33:50,160 --> 01:34:01,080
But what I can tell you is that we have the parking for any of the endeavors we pursue, so we're looking, yeah, we'll include all the details as we presented council events.

1022
01:34:01,480 --> 01:34:04,600
The gymnesium is part of what phase?

1023
01:34:05,540 --> 01:34:06,740
That's first phase, yeah.

1024
01:34:07,260 --> 01:34:11,460
Yeah, so we're looking to activate the gymnesium and definitely the rest.

1025
01:34:11,580 --> 01:34:12,260
Oh, here it is.

1026
01:34:12,820 --> 01:34:13,600
Okay, sorry.

1027
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:20,000
I would just add one on as we're, I know you might already mention this for the the small soccer fields

1028
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:23,700
But to make sure that whatever if we do go to any private partnerships

1029
01:34:25,460 --> 01:34:30,600
That we make sure that there's language included to start the community like you know

1030
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:34,220
Make sure the pricing doesn't get too high. There's open, open time

1031
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:37,000
You know, because we're gonna build this really nice facility and then

1032
01:34:37,580 --> 01:34:41,440
None of the community can use it unless you're paying and to be part of this program or league or whatever

1033
01:34:41,440 --> 01:34:46,360
as we want to make sure that there's some control for you guys to be able to utilize that space

1034
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:51,020
and the community especially the surrounding neighborhood to be able to utilize this to make sure

1035
01:34:51,020 --> 01:34:56,420
that's in any private public partnership to make sure we have that kind of language built in

1036
01:34:56,420 --> 01:34:59,960
to safeguard ourselves. So I mean businesses are in front of investment, right?

1037
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:06,600
So they're going to use every inch and dollar they can out of it. So we have to kind of protect it a little bit in that respect for those partnerships.

1038
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:16,000
Yeah, we'll include that accessibility for the community to even like participate in what's happening there. So, yeah.

1039
01:35:17,140 --> 01:35:27,640
Yeah, I guess I didn't see the the different phases on the slides. I thought I thought I did, but I guess that's what I was just trying to make sure.

1040
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:38,400
Yeah, I know I believe I shared it verbally, but the geysium to phase one, the playground would be like the grass area playground would be phase two, and then what we proposed that's phase three was the back.

1041
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:40,440
The back of the park in the park. Yeah, yeah.

1042
01:35:41,900 --> 01:35:48,460
Yeah, I think gymnasium and restroom for sure, you know, and then I think ultimately the playground.

1043
01:35:48,980 --> 01:35:57,520
I think still with the green space, I think I saw what I felt comfortable yet just because we wouldn't know like what other additional funds we can.

1044
01:35:57,520 --> 01:36:02,280
bring in and I guess that would be part of the discussion of even the private public partnership

1045
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:08,800
to see what would that generate and then what would that look like in order to move forward

1046
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:17,280
to design something, whether it's in that field space or even up top by like the north side

1047
01:36:17,280 --> 01:36:22,400
you know skate park area because I know they were still looking for like a kid-friendly skate park

1048
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:27,220
also you know and then you know the dog park you know was potentially going to be there as well too

1049
01:36:27,220 --> 01:36:34,140
So kind of some of that element to make sure that that's still kind of those days to what the community was sharing.

1050
01:36:34,780 --> 01:36:43,940
Yeah. Well, long term potentials finding as well. I know there's prop four grants that we can explore.

1051
01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:51,160
And I think just having the master panel feels kind of a head start on that. So we're working towards all those.

1052
01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:57,520
And I think even with, you kind of mentioned something long-term, the word saying long-term,

1053
01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:02,200
even with the public private partnership, having something more long-term so that

1054
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:07,640
they're just not in it to make a quick buck and then leave, making sure that they really want

1055
01:37:08,260 --> 01:37:10,260
to be there for a while.

1056
01:37:12,380 --> 01:37:15,680
And we're not left with whatever they may be leaving behind that.

1057
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:21,760
You know just we were like what do we do with this now? Yeah, yeah, appreciate though. Thank you

1058
01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:24,280
All righty

1059
01:37:24,280 --> 01:37:35,040
Do we have to make a motion on this one or is it just a recommendation it's a receiving file we've made notes on and the recommend the recommended feedback that you've given us

1060
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:43,280
So we'll incorporate that and we'll forward it to city council to seek formal direction on the next kind of face of design and construction

1061
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:44,180
Okay

1062
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:51,660
Well, I do want to give a chance for any public comment if there is one out there.

1063
01:37:51,700 --> 01:37:52,960
Is there anyone online?

1064
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:53,700
No.

1065
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:55,000
Okay.

1066
01:37:55,220 --> 01:37:55,560
Then yeah.

1067
01:37:55,980 --> 01:37:56,000
Okay.

1068
01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:59,020
Then we'll just receive and file that one.

1069
01:37:59,660 --> 01:38:02,520
In that case, we'll bring it to the final section.

1070
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:05,160
Are there any matters from commissioners?

1071
01:38:05,180 --> 01:38:08,040
Missioners are limited to no more than five minutes.

1072
01:38:09,900 --> 01:38:17,600
It's just kind of briefly for stuff great job everybody because it's done a fabulous job in 2025 and I'm tired already from 26.

1073
01:38:19,100 --> 01:38:22,660
You got a lot of work to do especially two and you got it all approved now so get to work.

1074
01:38:23,580 --> 01:38:26,460
But no, I think it's going to be great. You guys have a lot of events coming up.

1075
01:38:26,620 --> 01:38:37,020
I think the improvement you guys are doing on the parks, you're trying to be very conscious with a community and make good conscious moves and utilizing what funds you do have.

1076
01:38:37,860 --> 01:38:50,160
and using the facilities that can kind of give you the most bang for your buck, and I see that I recognize that, and so like, you know, you got to do what you can do with what you've been given, I think you guys are doing a great job with it.

1077
01:38:51,580 --> 01:38:58,780
The only thing I wanted to kind of bring up here, and I don't know, hopefully this is the appropriate time was, particularly moving the time with the meeting.

1078
01:38:58,780 --> 01:39:04,780
I know we can briefly talk about it, was to just bring it earlier by 30 minutes.

1079
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:09,400
If that's feasible for you guys, it gets them home a little bit earlier, gets us home a little

1080
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:10,260
earlier.

1081
01:39:11,220 --> 01:39:13,460
I mean, Council meets a 530, I think it's too early for us.

1082
01:39:13,480 --> 01:39:19,380
I couldn't get here in that time, but 6 o'clock I think would be if we're allowed to do that

1083
01:39:19,380 --> 01:39:23,440
based off kind of our conversations earlier to move it to 6 and I don't have to motion

1084
01:39:23,440 --> 01:39:23,960
for that.

1085
01:39:24,400 --> 01:39:33,000
I don't I'd have to double check. I'm looking at our secretary, but I can provide and see if it's there's a formal still early on in the year.

1086
01:39:33,180 --> 01:39:36,380
There's a formal motion that we need to do. We can bring it forward.

1087
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:40,760
Yeah, but I will double check and we'll get you that answer.

1088
01:39:41,340 --> 01:39:48,880
Okay. Would it be appropriate to have like a contingent motion now to say we motion and if you find it as fine the work.

1089
01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:50,360
I think we can do that.

1090
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:53,020
Okay, I'm being told we can do that.

1091
01:39:53,740 --> 01:39:58,680
Yeah, I'm okay with moving it up to six.

1092
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:03,620
So if that's the second, then if you call

1093
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:13,400
for future, potential future, like if we need to add it to the agenda, like we're just.

1094
01:40:13,420 --> 01:40:18,300
Yeah, I think right now we're going to do the actual motion, right? We're going to the motion contingent on it being allowed.

1095
01:40:18,940 --> 01:40:20,780
So if they're pre-man made the motion, yeah.

1096
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:21,560
Yeah, I'll second.

1097
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:22,840
Yeah, I'll second that.

1098
01:40:22,900 --> 01:40:23,180
Yeah, I'll second that.

1099
01:40:23,180 --> 01:40:23,580
Yeah, I'll second that.

1100
01:40:23,600 --> 01:40:26,020
We should find out that we need to actually have an agenda.

1101
01:40:26,460 --> 01:40:27,840
Then we'll bring it back again.

1102
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:29,260
Perfect. Thank you.

1103
01:40:30,380 --> 01:40:31,700
Hold on. Let's see.

1104
01:40:35,580 --> 01:40:38,940
Okay, so yeah, but we can't vote because there wasn't

1105
01:40:38,940 --> 01:40:41,380
Agenda-ficed so

1106
01:40:43,620 --> 01:40:46,760
We'll bring it back. We'll bring it back and February and then

1107
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:54,240
As a as a agenda item we can add it to the agenda guess that's the request. Yeah, we'll do

1108
01:40:55,100 --> 01:40:55,700
You

1109
01:40:59,880 --> 01:41:01,720
I just have

1110
01:41:01,720 --> 01:41:09,600
Three things, one is if we can get an update, I am assuming it's almost close, but of the parks master plan.

1111
01:41:10,780 --> 01:41:19,660
I know you said that it's being built, or that it's in the process of it, if we can have like an end date or kind of just a summary of what's going on.

1112
01:41:20,440 --> 01:41:23,760
Another one is the urban forest master plan.

1113
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:30,220
I know that was like in conversation a few years ago, I don't know if there's ever been an update.

1114
01:41:31,060 --> 01:41:40,940
or an actual building of the urban forest, an ester plan, but if we can just have like a kind of an update on that one as well,

1115
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:51,740
or for the next commission meeting, and then also I was wondering about the conversation of putting like bike blocks.

1116
01:41:51,740 --> 01:42:00,500
bike racks, thank you. Bike racks on at the entrances of some of our popular trails.

1117
01:42:01,760 --> 01:42:08,600
I've talked to some bike bikers, I guess, and some of them have said that like, they park

1118
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:17,860
their bikes at that, or a lot of the times when they're like, let's say, before they're meeting,

1119
01:42:17,860 --> 01:42:24,540
they'll lock their bikes at the front of the trail. I thought it was just an idea of kind of

1120
01:42:24,540 --> 01:42:31,660
get a cost analysis of what that would be to put any kind of bike rack at like one-year

1121
01:42:31,660 --> 01:42:44,060
cook trail or any others. Any of our more popular ones. Yeah if it's just those three then say I will put

1122
01:42:44,060 --> 01:42:47,640
This closes out in one second, let me just find my needs.

1123
01:42:48,220 --> 01:42:50,800
Okay, if there are no more items,

1124
01:42:51,240 --> 01:42:55,360
this meeting is adjourned at 812.

1125
01:42:57,380 --> 01:42:57,860
Thank you.