[0:06] 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.

[0:24] Yes, they will.

[0:27] Commissioner Freeman.

[0:28] Here.

[0:29] Thank you.

[0:34] I'll lead us in the pledge allegiance.

[0:37] He wants standing,

[0:43] I pledge allegiance to the flag in the United States of the Republic

[0:51] for God.

[0:59] All right.

[1:00] Are there any department updates from staff this evening?

[1:04] Yeah.

[1:05] Good evening chair and commissioners.

[1:07] That's nice to see you.

[1:08] I know we haven't seen haven't had a meeting in a couple months.

[1:13] So in our department update that we have prepared for you today,

[1:17] 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

[3:51] We can

[3:53] started and it should pop up on your screens. So again, sharing with you our department update

[4:03] for kind of wrapping up November December for the department. We did have an all kind of

[4:12] segue for Edgar, but we did have our ribbon cutting for Union Pacific Trail. I'll let

[4:19] that could kind of give some information on that.

[4:22] All right, yeah, that was a long time coming.

[4:24] So we did open on December 13th.

[4:27] The highlights were, there's 176 trees out there.

[4:31] It's 0.5 miles, there's a viking pedestrian trail.

[4:34] There's also solar lighting.

[4:36] Been out there a few times, and it's been well used

[4:39] by the community, and I think everybody's pretty happy.

[4:43] Next slide.

[4:45] The Union Pacific Park is actually part of Union Pacific Trail.

[4:49] So this trail you can see there on the side on the right is the continuation of the Union Pacific Trail.

[4:55] So once we open the park, hopefully towards the end of this month, we had a meeting up.

[5:00] 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

[5:31] accessibility so that the community garden is going to be delayed a little bit but every other

[5:35] humanity in the park we should be open by the end of the month and then we'll obviously

[5:39] send you guys in invite once we get that date set. Awesome. Quick question for that. We don't budget.

[5:46] Yeah yeah we got some CDBG funding so we were able to stay on budget and

[5:51] same thing with the trail. So,

[5:58] this is a quick 2005 status update. Every park, we did a

[6:03] playground placement, a while back. Union Pacific Trail, we just opened. Union Pacific Park, we

[6:09] hope to open later this month and then the Union Pacific Trail will officially connect the

[6:15] Transportation Center, go through Union Pacific Park and then end it independence park. And we also

[6:21] have independence park gym is another project that we're currently working on.

[6:28] Lions field, the artificial turf replacement is pretty much complete now.

[6:32] I think we're going to have a grand opening later this month.

[6:41] Good evening commissioners.

[6:43] I'll be talking about our park trails and sports fields.

[6:46] Just to give you guys an update on December 17th, we held our sports field user group meeting.

[6:52] 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.

[7:10] All right, this is referencing Lions field.

[7:14] This is an aerial that was probably taking about early December.

[7:19] The project is down complete.

[7:22] It's a re-turfing of four softball fields in a football field.

[7:26] Every single softball field has all the pitching dimensions for softball, there's 30, 35, 40 and 43.

[7:34] 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.

[7:47] Prior to the renovation, it was only a football field, so we added soccer in lieu of our local high schools

[7:56] universities eager to find an additional space in the morning so we're maximizing the

[8:02] user and as Edgar shared earlier this project we actually completed a final walk through

[8:08] this morning there's a few little details to finish and we're looking at I believe the last

[8:18] Saturday in January for a ribbon cutting and we'll make sure that that information will

[8:23] distributed. So we're looking forward to this. It's a, it's a, it's a really nice project.

[8:34] And just to recap for the year of 2025, over at the tennis center, we had over 10,000 reservations.

[8:41] We had over 900 class participations, over 4,000 of private lessons.

[8:49] And then for sports field, we had over 6,000 reservations for the year of 2025.

[8:57] Good evening. I'm going to do a quick recap on all the 20, 25 events that were

[9:04] pending in the last time that we met. So the, a October we had October Fest. That took place

[9:11] on Thursday, October 30, which included a kids parade. We actually took it outside of the market

[9:17] area and we got to visit a lot of local businesses and they did a lot of tricker treating

[9:21] with the local businesses, which was really cool because they felt very involved in it. We're

[9:25] we're really excited to be a part of the event.

[9:28] We did some community competitions.

[9:30] We had live entertainment.

[9:32] We brought back the pop-up markets,

[9:34] so a lot of the food vendors, farmer vendors,

[9:36] and some live entertainment.

[9:40] And then on November 11th,

[9:42] we got to the city, you got to leave their first

[9:45] Veterans Day Parade in ceremony.

[9:47] So we were able to kick it off with the parade

[9:49] with a lot of our JRL TC groups,

[9:53] school band, Troy Span was amazing kick off the parade and a few of our elves.

[10:00] Our groups, sports groups, and then our, of course, our veterans were participated in a parade, and then followed up by the ceremony.

[10:11] So we had a special keynote speaker and some very, very big attendance for the ceremony portion of the veterans day parade and ceremony.

[10:21] Then we followed up by our tree lighting ceremony on Friday, December 5th, where we had our first

[10:28] time ever at the city hall, but on tree lighting ceremony, that was led on by the city.

[10:33] So we had a lot of food and craft vendors live entertainment by a lot of community groups.

[10:38] We had a car show, a photos with Santa, and then we had a actual tree lighting ceremony

[10:44] with Santa's arrival supported by the fire department.

[10:50] This year we also did kick off our first time ever holiday home decorating

[10:55] Contest around the community. So we were able to open up on November 18th and then the

[11:00] community was able to submit their submissions by December 4th and we were able to

[11:04] market that on our social media and website with the winners. So these are the winners

[11:09] of the home, the holiday home decorating winners and then the neighborhood winners.

[11:16] And then just recapping the 2025 events we did have nine total stand-alone events.

[11:24] We had 26 weeks of the farmers' markets.

[11:26] We had five movies in the park.

[11:28] We had five concerts in the park.

[11:30] And then we had four community ourselves.

[11:35] And then just a really quick of what's coming up in 2026.

[11:39] We do plan and bring it back our community ourselves series.

[11:43] We do plan and bring in a brand new Fullerton coffee fest.

[11:46] followed by our annual extravaganza in March, and then hopefully kicking off the farmers market in April.

[11:58] And then the upcoming event, which is more of like a family community event, that's going to be at Fullerton Community Center.

[12:04] It's a family sweetheart dance.

[12:06] That's going to have a DJ, craft stations, photo ops, refreshments and food.

[12:11] So this is more of a family event.

[12:13] I know that we're used to having like the father, daughter dance, mommy and me dances.

[12:17] So this is just feedback from the community that they want to do something more family oriented and inclusive.

[12:22] So this is where we're kicking off the family sweetheart dance this year.

[12:27] And then just moving on to recreational programs.

[12:30] We do have come kill registration for camp hill currents are now open.

[12:35] 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.

[12:42] with a venture plea day coming back as well for the year and then we do have the

[12:48] bioniers which is a contracted class at Fullerton Community Center and then just

[12:54] recapping the year for youth programs in 2025 we were able to offer the father and daughter

[13:00] dance that we mentioned we had a total of 33 families which we now want to convert into

[13:04] more of a family inclusive and then the mommy and me tea party had a total of 40 participants

[13:09] registered for the past year. The penis particular that brought in over 200 participants,

[13:16] then we were able to offer over a thousand contract successes, over 500 of them actually were

[13:22] filled and were able to continue on. And then we were able to offer

[13:28] excursions, which includes free break camp hill crests, and then we were able to offer over a

[13:39] the Richmond Grant with the adventure play days, which we had 6 and 20, 25 that included

[13:48] over 50 participants.

[13:51] And in upcoming, that's open right now for registration on top of the Hillchrist camp.

[13:56] We have the sports imp in this classes, which is a lot of our concerted classes that are

[14:00] not open for registration, as well of our silka art stands, a lot of the pickleball

[14:05] for kids, and then yoga for kids at all levels.

[14:08] So we're just, you know, putting it out there for what's coming up for 2026 and hoping to

[14:13] continue on some more classes.

[14:15] Thank you.

[14:19] All righty.

[14:20] Good evening commissioners.

[14:21] I'll be going over our older adults.

[14:24] So for the month of January, we're going to be going through a lot of educational lectures

[14:29] wellness and social engagement as well as creative activities.

[14:32] So our educational lectures, they include the programs such as the Grow and Now Spring

[14:37] veggies. Remember this every morning to every day morning memory tips. Travel

[14:43] AFC show presentations. Our wellness and social engagement will include the

[14:48] laughter yoga, senior drum, circle, and Lotharia. And then our creative

[14:53] activities will include the vision board workshop along with the blooming

[14:57] it's the new year floor arrangement as well.

[15:04] 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.

[15:20] 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.

[15:34] Moving to December, a little slightly of a decrease partially because of the holidays, but still really really successful.

[15:41] Our ongoing program had 870 attendance educational lectures had 126

[15:47] NLC Leap had 178 grocery distribution

[15:51] that had 1130 along with our senior taxi program

[15:55] with 1249.

[16:02] And then just to recap our older adults.

[16:04] So we had 22 ongoing programs that just happened continuously.

[16:09] We had 170, 107 educational workshops, 13 senior celebrations,

[16:13] one health and wellness fair 32 grocery distributions along with two senior

[16:19] socials.

[16:25] All right and now we actually have a dedicated kind of coordinator

[16:29] working out of the hunt in the last couple of months that's Amy and if you

[16:34] know Amy she's very crafty very artsy so she's been focusing on the

[16:39] programs at hunt along with the roaming glory coffee cart that's there and the

[16:45] library program. So we actually, this was a Saturday morning program, my little

[16:49] and meetcraft time. We've moved it over to the hunt. It's Monday, Wednesdays

[16:53] Fridays, and they do various activities throughout the week, and there's

[16:58] always a different lesson each week. In addition to that, we do have our

[17:04] tripe Fridays. These are led by Amy, if not all of them, most of them. And those

[17:10] are selected Friday evenings. There's a registration process. They've done

[17:13] making, peed, making, and the next one is on February 13th for a Valentine's

[17:20] Pant.

[17:24] And if you haven't attended the hunt, there is a small gallery there. Amy

[17:29] has partnered with the Florida Museum in a few of their curators and in

[17:34] intern type belief, so they had an opening. Once upon a sketch it is on display through

[17:41] February 19th, and they'll also have a lunar new year story time on February 17th.

[17:47] So that gallery and partnership with the Library Foundation,

[17:53] 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.

[18:05] And she's been working with different organizations.

[18:10] A couple of those updates on our arts and cultural division.

[18:15] Then we have 22 craftarnoons for seniors, and those are very popular at the Community Center

[18:21] mostly.

[18:22] It serves about 2020 plus, we're looking at additional dates.

[18:26] We have, we had four special tri-friities at hunt, and these are the, what I share the

[18:31] fund to it yourself in creativity workshops.

[18:34] Amy does lead a Discover Fullerton on foot, walking tours, and she hosted 11.

[18:40] We had 38 Tuesday morning trail hikes, 25 kits, and the crafting kits camp. So the crafting

[18:46] kits camp just to highlight this. It's a additional last week in the summer. We do more

[18:54] of a crafty kits camp versus a normal 10 week summer camp. So we added that on and we're also looking

[19:01] add that towards like your non-traditional spring break camps or off days and then we have 25

[19:11] kits and the melodies and magic makers camp. We have four Saturday community drum circles and

[19:17] those are very very popular of all the arts foundation and partnership with the city and we do

[19:24] have 46 hands-on music workshop for seniors and that's the ukulele classes that are led by our

[19:31] department

[19:34] and it can't put just oh yeah go ahead. So just wanted to highlight a little

[19:39] bit of our Fullerton Community Center and Hunt Library private rentals. Our rental

[19:44] site does a very very good job so just want to give a shout out to them. In the months of

[19:48] November December they did a great job having many private events both at the Fullerton

[19:53] Community Center and a hunt. So for attendees they had about 3,000 for November with

[20:00] 34 rentals in total with various weddings, birthdays, baby showers, community events and then holiday parties as well.

[20:10] 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.

[20:20] Um, so hopefully, you know, that that's well received December as well.

[20:24] We had a little bit of decline accredited to the holidays, but we still were very successful

[20:29] with about 2,500 attendees, 29 rentals in total with the various weddings, birthdays and

[20:35] baby showers, as well as community events and a lot of holiday parties as you could see.

[20:43] So now moving on to our floor, our park pavilion and building rentals.

[20:47] So, this was actually very, very well attended in November,

[20:52] a little bit of a decline in December as you can tell,

[20:55] but about 1,500 attendees for the pavilion and buildings,

[21:00] as well as 30 rentals in November with 11 rentals in December.

[21:07] And just to recap our rentals for 2025,

[21:11] our Fullerton Community Center had 380 rentals in the year,

[21:14] which had a revenue of $501,000 with $181,000.

[21:19] On library, had 71 rentals with the revenue of $77,000,

[21:23] and our downtown Plaza had 53 rentals

[21:25] with the total of nearly $72,000.

[21:30] And that's everything, thank you.

[21:36] All right, do commissioners have any questions for staff?

[21:41] I'll start with my left.

[21:42] A couple of questions.

[21:44] One, how is it working with KIF for the Lions Field

[21:47] innovation and do you remember what it was at what the warranty was on the fields?

[21:54] Yeah, so having Kai as our contractor has a very, very smooth granted the project itself is just a

[22:02] full-term replacement. There's no additional like buildings etc but just the communication

[22:08] with their project team, the on-site communication has just been great with their form in

[22:14] And regards to the warranty, we just received the paperwork today.

[22:17] There's a worksmanship warranty and a turf warranty and I can get back to you on those.

[22:22] I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head.

[22:26] Yeah, I just figured I'd estimate how it was working because then we had a tight schedule with them.

[22:30] Yeah, they could have actually been done.

[22:34] We're second week of January.

[22:36] They could have been done the week of Christmas, but with the rain and then the facility closure,

[22:42] have pushed it back a little bit. The good part is that when it did rain everything was

[22:47] already pretty much installed and I think the first rubber pellets were installed so it

[22:54] actually helped to see how well it rained and it rained really well so there was no

[22:58] issues there. That's good. And then one other question for the kids craft camps, one of the

[23:04] hours of those and you're trying to expand it as well. There are half days so yeah so

[23:10] At the Hunt Library, we're really focusing on the art camp, the cultural component.

[23:17] So the camps themselves run kind of in tandem with summer camp.

[23:22] It's Hillcrest camp. The summer ones are a little bit more stem, craft-based,

[23:25] and then the crafty camp is just pure arts and crafts, but it is a half day.

[23:33] Great job, and I'm exhausted just from listening to all the work you did.

[23:37] Good job, guys.

[23:47] Do we have a status update on the Pickleball conversion for the tennis center?

[23:54] I don't know if that was completed.

[23:57] Yeah, it has not been completed.

[23:59] We actually, I think there was a lot of projects on between public works and our department.

[24:04] 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

[24:34] Commission would like to see the nursery to be part of that, the walkway on the nursery,

[24:40] so we wanted to make sure that those to align the end schedule. Then the secondary phase would be

[24:48] I think there was a suggestion of doing the pickleball noise curtains and we have all the

[24:54] information for that. I think the dollar amount for those, it's by square footage.

[25:00] 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.

[25:14] What's the, the nursery element is that the lighting.

[25:17] So yeah, so we, so it is a walkway connecting ultimately the tennis center into the nursery parking lot.

[25:26] as we're using that as an additional parking or tennis center participants and so forth

[25:33] just expecting the boom of pickleball. So we're what that project will until we actually

[25:39] have the final walk through this morning but it will have additional lighting in the parking lot

[25:44] probably one or two solar lights and then a walkway that connects from that parking lot because right now

[25:50] It's just like brushing plants.

[25:53] It's going to connect from that parking lot

[25:55] to the already established walkway at the Hope Center

[25:59] and then that leads into the time of center.

[26:02] Yeah, and the lights are already installed.

[26:04] Oh great, that's great to hear.

[26:09] And then for the Union first off,

[26:14] fantastic work for the Union Pacific Trail, well-attended.

[26:19] Everyone loved it.

[26:20] It was really great walking through and seeing all the hard work.

[26:24] For the Union Pacific Park opening, for the garden, do you know how long the delay might be?

[26:33] 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.

[26:46] So they're working on the design of how that ADA access is going to go.

[26:51] Was it where, where the community garden is going to be, is that near the pickle wall?

[26:56] Or is that going to be where it was being built like actual on the day?

[27:00] It's going to be in that same section where it was being built, I would say, the north west part of the park.

[27:06] So like maybe right behind where like the playground is.

[27:09] And it'll be a significant, I think it's probably like 150 feet wide or so.

[27:15] Thank you.

[27:18] Well, if there are no more questions, then we're going to move this to public comment.

[27:24] We will now move to the public comment portion of the meeting.

[27:28] This time is for members of the public to address the commission for any item of interest to the public.

[27:33] That is within the subject matter, jurisdiction of the Parks and Recreation Commission.

[27:37] Other than the items listed on the agenda.

[27:41] If there's anyone here who would like to speak, please come forward and state your name and address for the record.

[27:52] My name is Christina Garner and I'm at 512 West Valley View.

[27:57] I'm also volunteer for Parks and Rec Department.

[28:02] I just wanted to say thanks to these guys.

[28:05] Everyone of these events is turning out so great.

[28:08] It's amazing to watch them just being imagined on a piece of paper

[28:12] and then to become these real memorable things.

[28:16] that it's just wonderful quality of life

[28:18] for all the families around here.

[28:21] And there's three things I was thinking about.

[28:24] Number one, I was at the veteran's day.

[28:26] I was really glad to see it come back.

[28:28] It had just like completely gone, and now it was back.

[28:31] However, when I was on the parade route,

[28:34] and there was almost nobody sitting on the street

[28:36] for that parade, they had so few people to wave

[28:39] to until they got to the park.

[28:42] So most of my neighbors in Golden Hill didn't know about it.

[28:45] And I'm just hoping that I don't really know how it was being advertised, but you know, you

[28:50] want to have everybody sitting there and yay and wave. So I hope that there's more people

[28:55] that can turn out next time. And the tree light, thank you for allowing our performing group to

[29:03] we we saying performed at the tree lighting ceremony. I appreciate that. We were a little

[29:08] surprise. We were like totally surprised at where the tree was. We didn't realize which tree

[29:13] was going to get lit up and we wanted to suggest maybe the stage be closer to that we didn't

[29:18] really know. But again delightful and a wonderful opportunity. And the last thing I just

[29:25] wanted to say is this is my ID for the Parks and Rec. It expired in September 2024 is what it

[29:35] says here. I tried to get replaced in 2025 the machine that does this wasn't working. I just

[29:41] again today and try to get it done. The machine still isn't working. So if it's important for

[29:47] us to have current ideas, I just want to just, you know, getting that fixed. And that's all

[29:56] from Lake Wobonga. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

[30:02] All right. There's no one else in chamber. Is anyone in line?

[30:06] I have no one online. Okay.

[30:08] In that case, we're going to bring it back.

[30:10] I'm going to close public comments and then we'll bring it back.

[30:14] Does anybody have anything left that you would like to bring up?

[30:21] If no, then is there anything?

[30:25] We'll now approve, move to approve the consent calendar for the meeting of October 13, 2025.

[30:31] Are there any commissioners that wish the pull and item from the consent calendar?

[30:37] There's no motion, so in that case

[30:41] Motion to approve. Yeah motion to approve. I'll

[30:45] Second that can we motion approve both this all of them

[30:50] Yeah, it's the whole concept. All right. Yeah, what through nine

[30:54] I'm not a secretary, would you call the roll?

[31:00] Yes, Commissioner Freeman.

[31:02] Yes.

[31:03] Commissioner Fallabeda.

[31:05] And Chair Modenato.

[31:06] Yes.

[31:08] All right.

[31:10] Let's see.

[31:12] We'll now move to the regular business portion of the meeting.

[31:17] Is there a staff report for this?

[31:22] 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.

[31:47] So a couple of the items that I do want to highlight from last year we did reduce the number

[31:54] of events.

[31:55] We kind of, in a sense, combine a couple of events to create one larger event, because what

[32:02] we found out kind of going through this process is that having an event every single weekend

[32:08] became very, you know, burning some first staff, especially when we have 26 market dates.

[32:16] and that's half the year.

[32:19] So from April to September,

[32:22] so a couple of just highlights,

[32:24] and truly we'll go into detail the market.

[32:27] We're looking to not necessarily

[32:30] and did in August,

[32:31] we're looking to do that Labor Day week,

[32:34] the final week that kind of instead of going

[32:38] through the end of September.

[32:40] We just based on feedback,

[32:44] just being out there attendance,

[32:45] numbers drop drastically in September, everybody goes back to school and the feedback from the vendors,

[32:52] you know, we go from 40 vendors at the end of August to 20 vendors in September. So it's,

[32:58] it's not feasible. And I think there's other organizations within that area that host their own

[33:04] event. So a couple of items like that, in addition, our larger skill events, fourth of July,

[33:12] first night. They're fully burdened staff cost included in there. So that's something that

[33:19] I just wanted to share and we did adjust for slight inflation on a couple of their items

[33:24] just contractor and vendors that they've already kind of forewarned us that they've given us a

[33:29] good rate for a couple of years. Next year's going to be a little bit different. And then lastly,

[33:34] just highlighting that the Fourth of July event we're looking to do a larger scale event

[33:44] due to our cancellation of first night because of weather so I'll let you go through the

[33:52] presentation and so give more details. Thank you Krishna. So kick it it off with the first slide

[34:01] is bringing it back our community, Yartel.

[34:04] Last year was a first year bringing it on.

[34:06] It was a one day suggestion.

[34:09] We did not think we were going to get a lot of people

[34:11] of very much attended and interested in

[34:14] and inventing and participating.

[34:16] So we did extend it last year.

[34:18] We added three more.

[34:20] So this year we would like to propose to bring it back

[34:22] and then be more consistent with the dates set

[34:25] from those starts so that we can market it better.

[34:27] have banners out that way for both the vendors and attendees to be well aware and

[34:32] pan it out cornerly to both attend and support our vendors and then give the

[34:37] opportunity to submit many members of the community to attend at least one or two

[34:41] or all of the community ourselves for this year.

[34:48] And for this one it will be

[34:49] remaining the same $25 per space and then $35 for non-resident and proposed

[34:55] budget that we would want to receive for this as $3,000 so that we can market it.

[35:00] Thank you very much.

[35:03] 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

[35:31] people to come to a coffee tasting event.

[35:34] The plan is to have different vendors, coffee,

[35:37] burstal artists, live art, live music,

[35:41] and really try something new for the community

[35:43] to come out and explore and do something a little bit different

[35:46] from the norm that we normally do.

[35:50] So try to change it up a little bit for this year.

[35:52] And for this we are proposing an event budget of 5000.

[35:58] Next up, we are bringing back extravaganza.

[36:00] last year we did have a really high attendance. This is because we did partner up with Anaheim

[36:07] Feed who hosted our dog village and that brought in way more crowd on top of the participants.

[36:14] I came for the icons that we were able to offer. We offer the inclusive hour as well. So people

[36:20] were really really appreciative of that. So we do plan and bring it back and then incorporate

[36:26] in a little bit of the wedding show, you can see it at expo two ways so we're going to call

[36:31] it the expo in addition to it and utilize the inside of the hunt and do a lot of the

[36:37] rental vendors and opportunity to promote their services at a really really high

[36:45] attendant event. So this is proposed for March 28 back at the hunt library in the proposed budget

[36:52] of 10,000.

[36:57] Next, just like Christian was mentioning, no major changes, but the big changes that

[37:02] we do want to propose is bringing it back to Thursday night farmers market. It's been

[37:05] an ongoing, excellent market that's been here for years with live entertainment farmers, food,

[37:13] crafts, commercial vendors, face painting, a kids corner area. So the major change would be

[37:19] eliminating the one week on July 2nd, which is the week of for for July weekend, and

[37:27] extending it all the way to September 3rd, just like Chris and mentioned. Last year we did

[37:31] extending it all the way to the end of September, and we did get a lot of a lot of the numbers of

[37:36] a 10 is dead lower. A lot of the the vendors did, I did do a survey, so a lot of vendors did respond

[37:43] to that, how it really didn't benefit their businesses, and they were just there because they did

[37:48] to us and which is amazing just to hear that from our vendors seeing that they were still there

[37:53] to finish up the season with us but we did want to really really hear them out and know

[37:58] that the numbers did go down and we would want to end it with the NFL kick off again bringing

[38:03] in the entertainment trailer and that'd be kind of like the end of the market celebration so that's

[38:09] one that we would like to propose. We also are looking into possibly hosting FIFA World Cup watch

[38:16] parties within the market season, so that's something that we don't have numbers for quite

[38:21] yet, but it's something that stuff is looking into, to just, you know, gravitate more

[38:26] attendings while the number, while we do offer the market from April 2nd to September 3rd,

[38:32] and then propose budget, we are requesting one of five, which is the same as every other year.

[38:40] This is a postpone event that was supposed to take place on November 22nd and due to a rain that

[38:47] really did cause a lot of risk factors at the trail.

[38:52] We were able to postpone it to June 6.

[38:55] So this is just a new day for the four or 10

[38:59] our first ever 5K and how faithful it is here.

[39:02] So this is our 5K with the trail along the Fullerton

[39:06] Sports Complex.

[39:08] And then we are going to have like additional vendors,

[39:10] DJ, free classes, so incorporating a lot of our contract

[39:13] that classes instructors to come into free.moz

[39:16] for warmups and as well of cooldowns and then we are going to be offering a lot of other

[39:22] a lot of our sponsors that had already submitted partnership with us, so we are really excited

[39:28] to bring them on and I'm much hopeful sunny or day in June 6, so we are very confident that

[39:33] this will take place on June 6, so we're hoping the better day will really, really turn out

[39:38] to be a really great first time ever, 5K here in Fullerton, and this is to take place at the

[39:45] and sports complex, registrations are still open.

[39:48] We are receiving registrations, we received some starting 26 last week,

[39:53] so we are excited to hear that we are still receiving registrations.

[39:57] And with the budget of 35K for the...

[40:00] This event.

[40:04] And just like Christian mentioned earlier, due to our first-night cancellation, due to rain and safety precaution of that event.

[40:13] 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

[40:25] 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

[40:32] We're gonna be

[40:34] Scattering throughout the weekend so kicking it off on Friday with our our usual annual car show on Friday

[40:40] and then Saturday

[40:41] Continue on with our right attractions live entertainment and then our firework show on Saturday night

[40:49] And then continue on on Friday as well. I mean, I'm sorry. I apologize on Sunday and in it with

[40:56] 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.

[41:09] 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.

[41:18] And for this we do have the event budget on 325K for all three days.

[41:26] 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.

[41:35] 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.

[41:46] People just really love it. I thought it was an amazing turnout last year.

[41:50] just to see people come in early, find their spots

[41:53] and spend a whole evening with their families

[41:56] was just really great to be a part of.

[41:58] So it's another one that we would like to return

[42:00] and bring a lot of great bands.

[42:03] And it's even budget request of 35K for this.

[42:10] And then Puptoberfest last year,

[42:12] we did change it up a little bit more as well.

[42:14] And I hope that we can continue just growing it

[42:17] and growing it.

[42:18] I think that the pet friendly events

[42:20] are very well-established here in Fullerton, so we didn't incorporate like a dog, run way

[42:26] show as long as well as our dog races, so they were popular along with vendors, live

[42:32] entertainment, we had a live band, and then we had a lot of kids corner, a lot of food trucks

[42:38] and kids activities, we want to try, we did have a beer garden this year, so we want to try

[42:43] and just like expand the number of attendees for this year, so hopefully that as we promote

[42:49] 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.

[43:04] This is a new, but not really, it's our October Fest, so we normally do October Fest

[43:10] at the farmers market on the last Thursday of October, so we wanted to just come together

[43:19] with the PDs since we already are offering our trunk or tree, and the tree ligands ceremony

[43:23] was such a success here at City Hall, we figured it would be a great way to combine this event

[43:28] along with the PD's Trunkertree so that we can offer the amazing things that we're able to bring

[43:33] on last year to all those people that are like usually here early for the Trunkertree and waiting for

[43:38] the PD. So they can participate not just at the Trunkertree but enjoy the library entertainment,

[43:44] the food and everything else along. And so that's our plan for this one. And with it's happening

[43:51] on Friday, October 23rd so along with the PD's Trunkertree. It's still going to be a PD,

[43:58] led event. So that's what we do want to make sure that we do market it that it's going to be with

[44:02] at PD's circuitry with their 10k event budget request

[44:10] and then bring it back to everyone

[44:12] to say parade in ceremony. So just following up on that one, we do market, we did market online,

[44:20] social media, banners. Of course, every time that we plan an event, just a Christian mentioned,

[44:26] It was very challenging for us to go back to back events, trying to like finish one up and go on to the next.

[44:32] So I feel that once we have this set to stone, we can really, really race up our marketing platform.

[44:38] This year and have banners up in advance, have it laid out on social media up on our website all over Fullerton.

[44:45] So people are well aware of the events that we are offering.

[44:48] That way, we're not really competing with our own events and people have time to plan it out in the tent.

[44:53] So we really hope that last year's just like feedback and attendings out.

[45:00] 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.

[45:09] So this will also take place at the Hillkris great lawn with the event budget of 20K.

[45:17] 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.

[45:26] possible I think that the number of attendees was really big and I think that once we get a

[45:32] fill out of the layout and how what work what didn't work we can definitely turn out around

[45:36] and make it even safer or like bigger for attendees to enjoy but it's gonna be pretty much the

[45:43] same not the same layout but the same idea of having live entertainment community performers I

[45:48] thought that was a big important aspect that we included this year was we had a lot of our

[45:53] community performers perform for the community and we had food vendors, food trucks, our car show.

[46:02] 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.

[46:13] So we definitely want to include more lighting for next year. So we're really excited for this year I apologize.

[46:17] So, this is to take place again on the first Friday of December, which lands on December 4th with our proposed budget of 25K.

[46:28] And in ending with our first night's celebration, hoping not this year to turn ends with a good weather outcome.

[46:36] So, it's proposed for Thursday, December 31st with the same concept of what we have planned this year.

[46:42] We're very, very excited because we did switch up the lay-up a little bit and hoping that

[46:48] we are able to demonstrate that to the community and vendors and everyone who's seen

[46:52] it for so many years and seeing it change up a little bit with our kids attractions, lay-outs,

[47:00] closer to our entertainment stages, so parents can enjoy the live entertainment, food vendors,

[47:05] and food trucks at the same time feel close to the kids area where they can watch their children

[47:10] and enjoy the event themselves, so we're really excited

[47:12] to bring that layout back for this year.

[47:14] So this one's to take place on 30 December 31st

[47:18] at the downtown Plaza with the 275K proposed budget for this one.

[47:25] And that is it.

[47:32] All right.

[47:33] So we're going to bring this back to the commissioners

[47:35] for any questions that they have.

[47:37] Starting with my left.

[47:39] Give any questions?

[47:48] 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.

[48:03] 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.

[48:14] 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.

[48:39] I mean, me trying to work through this already.

[48:43] I found like three coffee shops that had no idea existed here in Fullerton.

[48:46] So I think that's a really good concept of seeing it, bringing it all to the Hunt Library.

[48:50] But mainly it's different, like a merch, coffee lover merch, coffee roasted coffee, actual

[48:56] coffee vendors for ice and hot lattes, and then just bringing the vibe mainly for people

[49:03] that really love that type of environment.

[49:05] bringing it to our home branch library, which is like a place where people can come and enjoy coffee and read

[49:11] do their homework and all that I think it's really going to bring it bring a little bit of everything to our community.

[49:17] 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?

[49:27] The different coffee shop? I'm sorry.

[49:29] Do you have a different coffee? Are we as a city like subsidizing the like the free samples or whatever?

[49:34] are they just donating it's gonna be a little if that's the part of it that might be a donation

[49:38] back to the cities on set above subsidizing since it is a new time event and we do need the

[49:44] budget for rentals electricity everything else so it's gonna be hard for us to try to do that

[49:49] exactly so a little bit in the middle not asking for too much by at least it's an opportunity for us

[49:55] offer that chance for vendors to participate and that good deal for the

[50:00] 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.

[50:06] 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.

[50:14] Yeah. For kids, you know, like, you know, families being their kids out.

[50:17] Yeah, we already got about March all over. There's a team, so yeah.

[50:21] Yeah, definitely.

[50:22] could friendly as well. Absolutely. But I think it's really good. And the

[50:26] other question I had was the fourth July festival part of it. I know we have

[50:33] extra funds from this year, but is this just a supposed to be a one-time thing?

[50:39] Yes, it's our 100 and correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know it's 120, 250,

[50:44] the year America's 250 to 50 I apologize to so many numbers so 20 numbers to 50

[50:50] and anniversary so that's also part of why we're making it in a three-day festival

[50:55] to celebrate the 250 along with utilizing those funds so we have so it just kind of worked

[51:01] out perfectly to extend it just for one time okay yeah I was just gonna say like that would

[51:07] be a good thing to make sure we market that so we realize it's a one-tester because when you do

[51:12] great, they want it back every year. Yeah, that's good. And you guys do a lot of good work, so you

[51:18] know, make sure it's clear this is a bicentennial celebration kind of thing. I think that I think

[51:23] the festival sounds really fun, and it's cool especially being the tune of it the year, so

[51:28] but great job on everything else. That's all the questions I had. Thank you. Let me start from the top

[51:36] up some of the allergies that have been acting up with these winds.

[51:41] I want to commend you all for the community yard cells, so again, it was a train of thought

[51:47] with one day and then now you guys have four scheduled, so super amazing, potentially opportunities

[51:56] to spread it out throughout the city, just maybe ideas or getting feedback from those participating

[52:03] and then, you know, those around, you know, the whole city in a sense and that might be a theme

[52:11] and what I'm going to be kind of sharing a little bit right now. But, see if we can spread it out

[52:18] a little bit, you know, potentially, I don't know,

[52:24] on the east side or even up north on the north side

[52:28] bulletin that potentially could, you know, host something similar like this. Staff time,

[52:34] not very involved or, for the, that's what it would be cautious with that too with, yeah,

[52:41] that's for the community yard cell to your point that when we, when we identify an event

[52:49] and it's the locations of the first kind of rule of order and a number one for the yard cell is

[52:56] and then parking additional parking, so, and we, this last year, we were really working on

[53:02] activating independent park, and it ultimately worked that we had the throne restroom,

[53:07] and then the additional space that are the parking lot. But in regards to staff time,

[53:12] it's already included within like their allocated funding for the budgeted hours for those events,

[53:19] and it's minimal staff, I think, if it's not the supervisor coordinator and like two part-timers.

[53:25] Okay, because ultimately it's coordinating the traffic in and out and after once the event starts there's

[53:30] There's no staff involvement per se. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, check in checking in. No, awesome

[53:39] Great to hear that we learned a little bit from Thursday night or yeah, the Thursday night farmers market

[53:46] with the football truck

[53:50] sports brings people out. I think, right? And it's really sometimes it kind of gets to me.

[53:56] Maybe more large cities, you know, that kind of can rally the community to come out and support local teams

[54:03] or, you know, national teams, whatever is kind of happening. So I like the FIFA World Cup.

[54:08] Again, potential for it to be kind of included in something like this.

[54:12] I have been in communication with other communities in South Fullerton as well to that potential

[54:20] wanted to host something like this, so again maybe thinking about other areas in other places

[54:25] to potentially host something that brings people out. I think it's just a great opportunity for

[54:32] that. Nothing specifically about the farmers market, but I think with the FIFA component to that.

[54:41] So kind of really thinking about, I mean, I love piggybacking on something that's already

[54:45] happening.

[54:46] But if we could just be intentional to kind of share a little bit of that building

[54:51] community and cohesiveness in other parts of the city as well too, because I think sometimes

[54:56] it's a little bit challenging for people to, you know, you know, you.

[55:00] 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.

[55:15] 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.

[55:27] Friday night concerts at the park.

[55:31] Again, I love the idea.

[55:32] I know it was at the first year that we had it kind of also in different places.

[55:37] Again, it's a theme of my, just my suggestions, right?

[55:41] And hoping to kind of see, I know we had an independent park.

[55:45] We had it at Haunt, yeah, in Chapman, right?

[55:52] 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.

[56:01] 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.

[56:11] But again, just to turn out on that. So maybe kind of think about potentially utilizing other areas and other places of the city.

[56:19] when it comes to that, because I know I think it was the first year that it was really successful.

[56:26] Now you guys all did that. Again,

[56:31] a Puptoe brick fence brings the dog, trust me.

[56:35] Dog lovers will do anything to come show off their dog, so I love this element also.

[56:42] And I guess, if it's perfectly right, that the hunts right there and the dog park is also there.

[56:49] So yeah, I think for me it's just more kind of seen where other where we can activate

[56:55] some other areas of the city, when kind of thinking about I think primarily those those three,

[57:02] and then again talking with some maybe some of our other community partners and organizations that are

[57:06] you know doing some community building or they're trying to bring the community to come out as well

[57:11] too to activate some spaces as utilizing and leveraging kind of what we're already doing, right,

[57:16] if it's already kind of allocated, where we can do some of those

[57:20] that activation and other parts of the city.

[57:24] I think Valencia Park would crest and then even over at Chapman Park as well too.

[57:29] So again, I might not have to be so large-scale,

[57:33] but I think it's just great to kind of provide that opportunity.

[57:37] So people don't have to even from the east side to

[57:39] drop up to the sports complex.

[57:42] It's going to take some time and effort, some planning.

[57:44] But if they can just walk and you know come out there door and walk a few blocks to the Chapman Park

[57:50] You know that'd be great as well too. So yeah, just keep in that in mind. Thank you,

[57:59] guys

[57:59] All right

[58:02] For the Fullerton Coffee Fest. Well, I did want to say I noticed a lot of pop-ups happening at the hunt

[58:11] Like coffee pop-ups has there has he guys know if they had a good attendance as well

[58:17] the individual pop-ups that have been happening.

[58:21] So we've consistently, now it's been probably about four months,

[58:27] the roaming glory copycarts after the market.

[58:31] Number one to activate the hunt.

[58:33] And I believe they started a little bit slow,

[58:36] but now that they've been there consistently through Thursday,

[58:40] I think 10 to 1, they've got some good foot traffic,

[58:44] definitely from our department.

[58:45] Um, they like, they saw by, um, so they're definitely having a cell every day, but ultimately

[58:53] I've, I'm not mistaken.

[58:54] I think last week, they had some good feedback and some good traffic there.

[59:00] Yeah.

[59:00] I mean, I think it's a fantastic idea.

[59:04] I do agree.

[59:05] Fullerton is very much of a coffee city.

[59:08] We have so many different options of whether, if you want,

[59:12] marcha or tea or coffee or whatever, it's pretty insane here.

[59:19] So I think it's a fantastic idea.

[59:22] I do want to reiterate the feeful world cup importance.

[59:28] A few community members did approach me to make sure that I reiterate that if we can

[59:35] do something to kind of get the community together to at least have one big screen,

[59:39] And we can all have like some kind of shared community event around I really don't know anything about soccer

[59:46] So I'm gonna say the match the games. I don't know

[59:50] Whatever whoever dies. Anyways, so that's cool. I would really recommend that and then

[59:57] some other questions I had

[1:00:00] 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?

[1:00:10] Yeah, it was a lot of one seeing the availability of our contractor, which is our timing company.

[1:00:16] So based on their availability for them to work with us with the same contract and offerings.

[1:00:23] and then the date meeting, finding a date that's within the, that's going to be pretty

[1:00:31] sunny and reliable. Yes, correct. Okay. I would say, just because June is going to be so

[1:00:37] high, the long as we have like water on average. Yes. And that would be fantastic. Okay.

[1:00:43] So that one, and then for the lighting, the tree lighting, it was a fantastic event. I loved

[1:00:49] when I came this year. My dog even though I thought she hated it, but she didn't want to leave. So

[1:00:56] it surprised me. What I did notice is that people were flocking to the Grinch more than Santa.

[1:01:06] So just more, I guess more Grinch related like opportunities to take photos with him, I would say.

[1:01:13] That's some of the performance that I got from children, which is that we did not expect that.

[1:01:17] No, it's so wild that they loved it. I think they thought it was Jim Carey or whatever

[1:01:22] It was really cool

[1:01:24] Okay, well if there's no comments. Oh, yeah, sorry. Just gonna piggyback on the FIFA stuff the the wash parties

[1:01:33] 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

[1:01:38] Yeah, so we're we've actually started having conversations with our economic development team and

[1:01:45] and there's a lot of hurdles to become an official.

[1:01:49] So ultimately you can become an official

[1:01:51] FIFA Watch Party event, per se, but you need licensing.

[1:01:55] And that license, to my understanding,

[1:01:58] just based on the feedback and the like,

[1:01:59] just preliminary conversations to see their raffle,

[1:02:02] whether there's a high price tag on that.

[1:02:05] So, we're exploring all of our options.

[1:02:08] I believe our economic development team

[1:02:09] has had several conversations with different folks,

[1:02:13] just to see what's best to approach.

[1:02:14] because there's a price tag and then we're helping on the logistics sign and exploring

[1:02:19] what locations ideally what makes most sense and I know it's more central,

[1:02:25] but it's like the plaza because it's already a built-in stage already built-in

[1:02:29] space that we can activate, bring in a screen, and then ultimately kind of

[1:02:34] seating, and if there are cells of refreshments, alcohol, etc, we can contain it there.

[1:02:41] and moving it around to different locations,

[1:02:45] may minimize the space that we have.

[1:02:47] But first and foremost, we're exploring

[1:02:49] what that licensing looks like, that fee,

[1:02:53] because you can have an official one,

[1:02:54] or you can have like the TV's on,

[1:02:56] the game's on, come watch it, right?

[1:02:59] So, as I said, it was my next question,

[1:03:02] is like, if your, if the license is on the,

[1:03:04] on the affordable, like, you can't,

[1:03:07] we wouldn't ridden to a large screen

[1:03:08] and have it just beyond the background,

[1:03:10] 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?

[1:03:21] There's a lot of rules to it that terminology is et cetera. Is there going to be a FIFA official on site?

[1:03:27] 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.

[1:03:37] 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

[1:03:45] But we're still and like the literally the preliminary stages. We're having those conversations

[1:03:50] And we can incorporate it to one of our events that'd be awesome. I think I'm talking with our economic development manager

[1:03:57] There's actually

[1:04:00] a benefit because all of our games will be in the evening during the week where because it's local

[1:04:05] 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.

[1:04:15] 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.

[1:04:25] Absolutely, it's just that licensing to make it an official watch party.

[1:04:29] It's going to be out of the challenge.

[1:04:31] It's expensive.

[1:04:32] Yeah, we don't know the price tag, but I've been told it's expensive.

[1:04:37] Yeah, yeah.

[1:04:37] All those licensing things are really expensive.

[1:04:40] Like thousands and thousands of dollars.

[1:04:44] I've been on how many people you're going to have come up.

[1:04:46] potentially hundreds.

[1:04:49] All right.

[1:04:50] If there is nothing else, then we're going to invite the public

[1:04:53] that wishes to address commission on this item.

[1:04:58] Yeah, if you want to.

[1:05:01] I don't want to force you, but if you want to.

[1:05:06] On the calendar.

[1:05:11] 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.

[1:05:20] Like the concerts that we had, and a specific observation I had from those was that I saw a lot more families

[1:05:29] that have a disabled family member come to those events that were in the neighborhoods

[1:05:36] that I usually see at events around town. I thought if they had an older person, an older

[1:05:43] family member or a disabled family member, I was much more likely to see them out as a family

[1:05:48] outside enjoying those events. So it's I really would like to see that happen. That's a great idea

[1:05:56] And recent travels in Scandinavia, for example,

[1:06:00] have seen that how the World Cup is always big screens outside.

[1:06:05] Everybody there, you may not know that they Sweden has very generous paternity leave for men,

[1:06:13] and they tend to take it during the World Cup.

[1:06:15] They call them Latte Popbus, because they all have a coffee and they're all out there with the screen and the baby.

[1:06:23] Watching it, so it's a it's a lifestyle and we could we could piggyback on that, but

[1:06:29] But yeah, money

[1:06:32] 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

[1:06:41] And I I appreciate it. Thank you.

[1:06:46] Thank you. Are right. Is there anybody online? I have no one

[1:06:50] 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.

[1:07:05] Chair, sorry, there is a recommendation.

[1:07:12] Yes, to recommend it to council.

[1:07:16] Is there a motion to recommend it to council?

[1:07:19] I almost should motion to recommend that it's a special thing calendar is stated to cancel.

[1:07:25] Okay, also okay.

[1:07:28] Madam Secretary, which call role?

[1:07:30] All right, well.

[1:07:32] Commissioner Freeman?

[1:07:33] Yes.

[1:07:35] Commissioner's Dada Vita?

[1:07:36] Yes.

[1:07:37] And Chair Maldonato.

[1:07:40] Motion has passed.

[1:07:43] Alrighty.

[1:07:44] All right, now we're going to go to the Independence Park update.

[1:07:48] is there a staff report for that one?

[1:07:50] Yeah, we actually have also have a presentation.

[1:07:53] Edgar is going to start us off as you know, independent

[1:07:57] spark with now the trail opening and UP park.

[1:08:03] It is kind of that final piece to our

[1:08:05] puzzle to connecting all three areas of South

[1:08:09] Bullerton independent spark, which you'll see in the report

[1:08:13] has made significant progress and we're looking to share that

[1:08:18] information with the Commission, and also share some additional information for some recommendations.

[1:08:24] As we move into what we call, we'll say there's a three-phase approach,

[1:08:29] based on being the Genesium, Phase 2 being the Park site, and Phase 3 being

[1:08:34] potentially proposing in the as the pickleball area in the north side of the park.

[1:08:40] So I'll let Edgar kind of get us started and we'll answer any questions at the end.

[1:08:45] All right,

[1:08:53] so the next slide please.

[1:08:58] All right, so Independence Park is a 10 acre community park that we're really hoping to activate this year.

[1:09:04] It currently has fast, which is the aquatic facility there.

[1:09:10] Escape Park, the Handwall Courts, the outdoor esthes command, open space.

[1:09:16] The gymnasium has been closed since COVID and the playground was deemed unsafe, so it was actually demoed a while back.

[1:09:23] So we're hoping to bring both of those amenities back in the near future.

[1:09:29] Our original design had a street element for the skate park so renovating it.

[1:09:34] A large and small dog area, shade structures, picnic, and a playground that's accessible to all.

[1:09:43] And then obviously open green space.

[1:09:45] Currently we do not have funding to complete that project.

[1:09:48] But that is, as Christian mentioned, that is our long-term goal, is to get all these amenities going and really program this park.

[1:09:57] So as a result since we have limited funding, we are skating.

[1:10:05] 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.

[1:10:27] So those funds are still in progress.

[1:10:30] We're waiting federal approval for those.

[1:10:35] And now we'll go on to what we actually do have.

[1:10:40] We, as Kitty Council allocated $2 million from Park Dwelling funds for this CIPU project that

[1:10:46] Independence Park, pending completion of the hub project, which has been subsequently completed.

[1:10:52] In 2024 we got two grants, one from the state from a million dollars specifically for independence gym.

[1:10:59] And another for a hundred thousand dollars from the county towards any improvement.

[1:11:05] So we wanted to reason it for the throne restrooms, the restrooms at that park are currently not serviceable.

[1:11:12] So in the meantime, we rented one of those throne restrooms and it's been hit out there.

[1:11:16] It's been very well received.

[1:11:20] In 2025, the hub was completed, so now we do have those $2 million dollars, so we're really trying to stretch it.

[1:11:29] Basically what we have is a $2 million dollars from product dwelling and the million dollars from the state.

[1:11:33] 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.

[1:11:43] The first phase is the independence gym rehab.

[1:11:47] That's looking like it's going to cost someone in the neighborhood of $2 million.

[1:11:51] We'll have updates for that in the coming months for you guys.

[1:11:55] But that project is moving forward to the design phase right now.

[1:11:58] And we're finalizing the design and getting all the bid documents ready.

[1:12:04] So that project should be going out to bid in the next couple months.

[1:12:09] And then one step project is going well, obviously I've loved it three years.

[1:12:17] So we'll kind of go through the what's currently happening inside the gym.

[1:12:22] As Edgar shared their projects have started, we've met with our public work team,

[1:12:28] and overall we're in the design phase, but there was a baitman in demolition.

[1:12:34] At your top, the top picture there is what used to be the kitchen area.

[1:12:38] there needs to be like a two entry door,

[1:12:40] kind of kitchen, the only thing standing

[1:12:44] is a recompartment sink that allows us

[1:12:48] to host events and with the farmer's market on Wednesday morning,

[1:12:52] this can be a kitchen.

[1:12:54] In addition to that, that room is large enough

[1:12:57] that we're contemplating adding some restrooms

[1:13:01] and ADA restroom there.

[1:13:04] And the scope of the work, like I share,

[1:13:06] 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.

[1:13:27] Because, one set of the Russians facing the park will give us that flexibility to then open them for park users.

[1:13:36] And then that would no longer utilize that their own restroom.

[1:13:41] So that's kind of our priority then leading to kind of the park phase.

[1:13:48] So this is a proposed project.

[1:13:50] There's two slides.

[1:13:52] The first one shows you their gym renovations of course.

[1:13:56] then we're looking at doing kind of our first all-inclusive universal universally accessible play area

[1:14:03] in the city and in the back north parking lot there is a potential for pickleblock courts.

[1:14:11] I believe kind of measuring now there's about five or six second fit there and again the ADA playground

[1:14:18] that's kind of the option one option two

[1:14:25] is kind of the same but doing a kind of a long

[1:14:28] a little uh yes the horizontal play area that'll still make it universal um and leaving

[1:14:36] more open grass area

[1:14:40] these this is some examples of what kind of universally

[1:14:44] accessible playgrounds it's locally found valley recently open one and there's some some other

[1:14:53] cities kind of in northern California but ultimately it's everybody with all

[1:15:00] It's inclusive, anybody can play.

[1:15:05] And then some alternative options. As SATGER mentioned, there is limited funding. We have $3 million.

[1:15:11] We need to stretch that and all the federal money will come with additional requirements.

[1:15:19] We have been approached by public private partnership requests, where they utilize their space for a private entity.

[1:15:28] 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

[1:15:40] But we are looking for feedback from the commission on the recommendation for independent markets. We move forward through these faces.

[1:15:49] And we can answer any questions.

[1:15:57] You want to start?

[1:15:59] Okay.

[1:16:02] Where do I start?

[1:16:04] Funding.

[1:16:05] I think I think let's start there.

[1:16:08] I mean it was kind of in the beginning of the slides.

[1:16:13] You shared the $7 million earmarked and then the 2.7.

[1:16:21] Yeah, so yeah, we requested 7 million and then they approved 2.75. Okay, so they approved it

[1:16:27] But then tentatively, yeah, but then we we changed presidents and then everything was put on hold in

[1:16:33] Now it's currently 250,000 still pending federal approval. Okay, so the two 7 the 2.75

[1:16:40] One away. Yeah, and then so

[1:16:44] They said you're gonna get two

[1:16:46] 250. 250 from there. Okay.

[1:16:54] Unfortunately not, not as significant as it once looked.

[1:16:59] Yeah.

[1:17:00] So we we foresee that the playgrounds can take a lot of those funds. So we're kind of budgeting

[1:17:08] and all the money we have for this project about $3 million. Okay. So that's what we have that

[1:17:15] were even projecting for this park. No, that's where the feedback on the commission,

[1:17:20] allocating those three million with the projects that we have kind of in place or, you know,

[1:17:26] being open to the conversations of some public private partnerships that we'll be able to

[1:17:31] allocate additional resources and funny to that part. Yeah, no, definitely.

[1:17:37] So I think my next question

[1:17:39] is, um, we started going into some proposed options for the park. So what happens all of the

[1:17:51] feedback and information that we got from the community prior to. So I, I just, yeah, so the initial kind

[1:18:01] of independent park master plan, I believe that you're referring to in the, um, a lot of the items on

[1:18:08] And it was shared on the first slide those wishless items

[1:18:11] 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

[1:18:19] 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

[1:18:28] so

[1:18:30] In whichever kind of route that we decide to go on on is those are the elements that we are

[1:18:38] You know that we will include in whichever, however, this project ends

[1:18:42] It would be a playground and space for families together and restrooms like that will be included

[1:18:48] Okay, so and that's why we're including and there was also the element of adult activities right more for adults than kids

[1:18:56] That's why in this case where we're proposing the pickle ball court and then what the gymnasium being active and that also

[1:19:07] So I think my hesitation on kind of moving forward in a sense and I think like you mentioned

[1:19:17] the restrooms already getting done, I think that's one of the key elements, for anything

[1:19:23] in the future, right?

[1:19:24] So I think that's fine, but I think my hesitation in moving forward with anything even like

[1:19:32] be like the playground or anything like that is like the perception that this project

[1:19:42] is going to have based on the conversations that we had with the community in the past

[1:19:49] with that master plan.

[1:19:51] So even if you tell him, hey, we have no money for this, they're going to be like, well,

[1:19:56] you came in, you asked us and then we gave you our information, and then...

[1:20:00] 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?

[1:20:22] whether it's, I mean, grants, you know, public, private partnerships, you know, which

[1:20:28] sometimes could work really, really well. But I think, for me, it's more of the

[1:20:33] perception that it's going to have on the community is like, hey, we shared that we

[1:20:36] wanted this, right? And then, you know, because they had, you know, to choose some of

[1:20:41] the elements. And then you're like, no, we're scrapping that because we have no

[1:20:44] money, but we're going to move forward with something like this. So I think that's,

[1:20:49] That's where I'm like a little hesitant, you know, even though like we know the playground would happen and things like that

[1:20:55] But I think again, you know, we're trying to build trust with the community and I think you know letting them know

[1:21:04] You know, you know

[1:21:06] I think that's where it's on us to make sure we're communicating

[1:21:09] Yeah, and make sure that we're

[1:21:12] Letting the community know that although we can't do everything we can do some of the stuff

[1:21:16] Yeah, some of it. And I think he's just going back to them and letting them know like,

[1:21:20] hey, this is what the potential is. So I think now moving to the alternative options,

[1:21:26] right, of, you know, generating funds. Then I think that's, then I think that's what we can

[1:21:32] continue having a discussion with the, with the community on like, hey, this is, you know,

[1:21:37] we're kind of having to hit the reset button, right? Now let's talk about what potentially we

[1:21:41] can have. Even though here we're providing them some options already, which, you know, we're

[1:21:48] not sure, like, is this what you guys want? I can say it's a little bit. Yeah, no, I, um, we're

[1:21:56] definitely working on communicating what we don't. I think something to be considered and

[1:22:03] I share with the commission is that we do have plans to move forward on the project. There

[1:22:08] allocated funding at this moment for the project. And we have some good momentum with the gymnasium,

[1:22:14] the ribbon cutting, or sorry, the trail, and then the park. We wouldn't want to stop that.

[1:22:21] Long-term project, we do have the master plan city wide that we are working on actively working

[1:22:28] on to release that, and then that will give us a better overview to, as I shared at the last,

[1:22:35] 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.

[1:22:59] 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,

[1:23:27] it would have been like roughly five with our funds and then the federal government funds, and now it's just what we have

[1:23:34] It's like from 250,000, which is half of that playground, maybe

[1:23:39] We still know that even so we're still waiting on the drive

[1:23:42] Yeah, he's been promised that you don't have a, right?

[1:23:45] I should mention that 250 comes with a lot of strings

[1:23:47] Yeah, federal federal grants are a lot of extra work and

[1:23:51] Like you almost had to hire a consultant just to make sure you're in compliance with federal grants

[1:23:56] And there's also, and sorry, Commissioner Freeman.

[1:23:59] So when we do the, we've had conversations with public works, and this park is sold.

[1:24:05] It's not up to date with like our ADA standards, or just our building codes.

[1:24:10] So something that I want to share if we do the pickable courts kind of in the north end or anything

[1:24:15] there, there has to be a fire access lane that would lead into the rack of all courts,

[1:24:21] because the rack of all courts are still part of the park, but now we're upgrading the park.

[1:24:26] So there does have to be a fire access.

[1:24:29] So that's also another element.

[1:24:31] That's what we're trying to keep it as Phase 3.

[1:24:35] And now, as that's an additional,

[1:24:38] that will come with if we do the Pickable Quartz in the back.

[1:24:42] Pickable Quartz is one of something

[1:24:44] that I was actually going to bring up.

[1:24:47] Just the noise mitigation.

[1:24:49] I was just looking up on Google Maps.

[1:24:50] It is 100 feet from the people's backyards.

[1:24:55] I've part of the handful of cities getting sued for being that close because of the noise.

[1:25:00] 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.

[1:25:21] 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.

[1:25:28] you can't see it, but on the edge of that, that's the backyard of house, and as a

[1:25:35] resident I would hate to hear that all the time, especially without popular it is, you

[1:25:38] know, and cities are getting sued because they jumped out too quick and they're, they're,

[1:25:44] they're, they're, they're suing their cities because it's ruining their quality of life

[1:25:47] because that, that Dink sound is, is loud, you know, but I think the ADA player is awesome. I think

[1:25:54] every city needs to have one marquee park like that, at least, to really be very

[1:25:59] all inclusive. So if that could be achieved in addition to the gym renovation on the

[1:26:04] stuff, I've fully support that aspect of it. And that's it, that's all it had was just the

[1:26:14] big wall court, so I think everything else looks great in my opinion. Yeah, I'm kind of in the same

[1:26:18] like I think the the 80 playground I think is is a huge benefit. I think I was just a little

[1:26:27] weary with the pickled walkports as well too just because it wasn't part of like anything of

[1:26:35] what was kind of shared at the community meetings prior to you know like two years ago

[1:26:41] probably almost three like the all bunch ups uh but yeah I think that that's that's the only reason why I was

[1:26:48] like, like, that's kind of like slow down if it's not part of the element just to, you know,

[1:26:54] kind of hear the community out, but inevitable, like the playground, I think, can move forward,

[1:27:01] but I think just the other elements of the park that's kind of where you can see, is there,

[1:27:07] has there been discussions with the public private partnerships?

[1:27:12] Nothing concrete. I think we've been

[1:27:14] approach by the idea, but we have in fully consider them until we brought it up to commission

[1:27:22] and that's something that the commission would like us to pursue and share with council

[1:27:26] or more than open to it and see kind of where that falls.

[1:27:31] I'm open to public private partnerships because I think there's an element, there's an element

[1:27:37] of

[1:27:40] kind of working in collaboration, and I think there's a lot of opportunities that kind of benefits

[1:27:48] that community as well too, because they typically get to know the community, and then usually

[1:27:55] having those partnerships, they're kind of embedded into the community as well too, so they're

[1:28:01] also in it for other reasons as well too, but at the same time, it's not like a program that's going to

[1:28:08] We're piloting for six months and, you know, it disappears and, you know, it's like,

[1:28:13] oh, there's no grant funding for that, or, you know, that revenue stream is not coming

[1:28:19] in anymore.

[1:28:20] So I guess it would just depend on kind of what it is, but making sure, you know, it's the

[1:28:26] right partnership that we're creating with someone that's going to be invested in the community

[1:28:30] as well, too.

[1:28:31] So definitely open to that, you know, just making sure kind of what elements, and what

[1:28:38] that looks like but definitely you know bring that up to accounts. I mean I think again finding

[1:28:45] the funding is typically the hard part but if there is that opportunity then let's let's

[1:28:53] lift the floor all all aspects you know but still other you know federal state whatever

[1:29:00] dollars that we can bring into independence now that you know we're kind of hitting the reset button

[1:29:08] Yeah. I would say I agree mostly. It's just like the person that reduced the funding from

[1:29:17] 2,250,000 is still going to be here for the next few years. So it's not like the funding is going to

[1:29:24] appear next year or the year before or the year after. So I am interested in the public private

[1:29:31] partnership but as long as like what you said about the perception of what people have asked for

[1:29:38] is still honored. It depends on what the private whoever's interested in providing that private

[1:29:48] kind of funding. What is the ask? Like, if it's like a whole field of all just for soccer,

[1:29:57] you know, I don't know if that accomplishes everything that's...

[1:30:00] 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.

[1:30:09] 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.

[1:30:19] 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.

[1:30:29] I guess that makes sense.

[1:30:30] Chair Maldonato, I mean, I can give you an example.

[1:30:34] Clark Park has a private public partnership.

[1:30:37] There's a contract.

[1:30:38] And within that contract there's some revenue sharing.

[1:30:41] if I'm mistaken but also community guidelines to allow the use the sports groups or any community

[1:30:51] type of clinics for free or low-cost and our experience and what we've kind of just ideas

[1:30:58] that have been shared with us and like I said nothing no official proposals or anything like

[1:31:03] but there's like those soccer complexes where they build six to eight little small,

[1:31:10] six-sided, five-sided courts. And there's that revenue where they pay, they build them

[1:31:18] for X number of years. And they kind of have a hold on that space. And that's as the landowners

[1:31:25] agree to that. There's some revenue splitting and plus access or the community. So we can definitely

[1:31:32] explore that see what options there are and and that's part of kind of the

[1:31:37] recommendation we'll before we bring this forward to council and

[1:31:41] include those.

[1:31:46] When was your kind of timeline to go to council?

[1:31:51] Did you have one in

[1:31:52] mind yet? I think we were going to gather the feedback. I believe kind of

[1:31:57] closer to the second week in February. Second of the first week in March. Second week

[1:32:02] or second meeting in February, early March, yeah, because we are working, we're actively working on like the gymnasium side of the plans,

[1:32:13] because that's important for us again for the restrooms, and I think the park side will coincide with if the gym is activated,

[1:32:20] I think we'll see what that flow looks like to with the public.

[1:32:24] I think, kind of what they've all mentioned already is if we have feedback from the community,

[1:32:29] taking that data that you already have is going to hit a little bit better with counsel,

[1:32:36] so you're taking that and using that to your advantage to get the things that we can afford now

[1:32:42] and, you know, getting the things that the residents have asked for, and then, you know,

[1:32:48] the extra things can come in the second phases of that, because like we said, you know,

[1:32:54] we have to do it all with the funds.

[1:32:56] Yeah.

[1:32:57] Well, it's for the details.

[1:32:59] Like I said, like the soccer complex,

[1:33:01] it's also like public private partnerships

[1:33:03] to utilize the gymnasium for sports.

[1:33:07] I know that's those are private,

[1:33:09] but for examples, there's like the gymnasiums

[1:33:11] that do volleyball basketball,

[1:33:13] and now there's indoor pickleball,

[1:33:15] which are all kind of ideas

[1:33:16] that happen, you know, like I showed all those ideas.

[1:33:20] So, we'll explore those specifically

[1:33:21] and share those with Council of that's the recommendation.

[1:33:25] And I think it would probably be more geared towards the gymnasium, wouldn't it be the partnership?

[1:33:31] There can be the gymnasium, it can be the field space, we have an open field space,

[1:33:37] or like I said those soccer, soccer, five-to-side type of field.

[1:33:41] Okay. Of course, as a private investor, there has to be a return of investment.

[1:33:46] So those are all part of the conversations to what actually fits in that part.

[1:33:50] 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.

[1:34:01] The gymnesium is part of what phase?

[1:34:05] That's first phase, yeah.

[1:34:07] Yeah, so we're looking to activate the gymnesium and definitely the rest.

[1:34:11] Oh, here it is.

[1:34:12] Okay, sorry.

[1:34:13] I would just add one on as we're, I know you might already mention this for the the small soccer fields

[1:34:20] But to make sure that whatever if we do go to any private partnerships

[1:34:25] That we make sure that there's language included to start the community like you know

[1:34:30] Make sure the pricing doesn't get too high. There's open, open time

[1:34:34] You know, because we're gonna build this really nice facility and then

[1:34:37] None of the community can use it unless you're paying and to be part of this program or league or whatever

[1:34:41] as we want to make sure that there's some control for you guys to be able to utilize that space

[1:34:46] and the community especially the surrounding neighborhood to be able to utilize this to make sure

[1:34:51] that's in any private public partnership to make sure we have that kind of language built in

[1:34:56] to safeguard ourselves. So I mean businesses are in front of investment, right?

[1:35:00] 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.

[1:35:07] Yeah, we'll include that accessibility for the community to even like participate in what's happening there. So, yeah.

[1:35:17] 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.

[1:35:27] 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.

[1:35:38] The back of the park in the park. Yeah, yeah.

[1:35:41] Yeah, I think gymnasium and restroom for sure, you know, and then I think ultimately the playground.

[1:35:48] 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.

[1:35:57] bring in and I guess that would be part of the discussion of even the private public partnership

[1:36:02] to see what would that generate and then what would that look like in order to move forward

[1:36:08] to design something, whether it's in that field space or even up top by like the north side

[1:36:17] you know skate park area because I know they were still looking for like a kid-friendly skate park

[1:36:22] also you know and then you know the dog park you know was potentially going to be there as well too

[1:36:27] So kind of some of that element to make sure that that's still kind of those days to what the community was sharing.

[1:36:34] Yeah. Well, long term potentials finding as well. I know there's prop four grants that we can explore.

[1:36:44] And I think just having the master panel feels kind of a head start on that. So we're working towards all those.

[1:36:51] And I think even with, you kind of mentioned something long-term, the word saying long-term,

[1:36:57] even with the public private partnership, having something more long-term so that

[1:37:02] they're just not in it to make a quick buck and then leave, making sure that they really want

[1:37:08] to be there for a while.

[1:37:12] And we're not left with whatever they may be leaving behind that.

[1:37:15] You know just we were like what do we do with this now? Yeah, yeah, appreciate though. Thank you

[1:37:23] All righty

[1:37:24] 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

[1:37:35] 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

[1:37:43] Okay

[1:37:44] Well, I do want to give a chance for any public comment if there is one out there.

[1:37:51] Is there anyone online?

[1:37:53] No.

[1:37:54] Okay.

[1:37:55] Then yeah.

[1:37:55] Okay.

[1:37:56] Then we'll just receive and file that one.

[1:37:59] In that case, we'll bring it to the final section.

[1:38:02] Are there any matters from commissioners?

[1:38:05] Missioners are limited to no more than five minutes.

[1:38:09] 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.

[1:38:19] You got a lot of work to do especially two and you got it all approved now so get to work.

[1:38:23] But no, I think it's going to be great. You guys have a lot of events coming up.

[1:38:26] 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.

[1:38:37] 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.

[1:38:51] 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.

[1:38:58] I know we can briefly talk about it, was to just bring it earlier by 30 minutes.

[1:39:05] If that's feasible for you guys, it gets them home a little bit earlier, gets us home a little

[1:39:09] earlier.

[1:39:11] I mean, Council meets a 530, I think it's too early for us.

[1:39:13] I couldn't get here in that time, but 6 o'clock I think would be if we're allowed to do that

[1:39:19] based off kind of our conversations earlier to move it to 6 and I don't have to motion

[1:39:23] for that.

[1:39:24] 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.

[1:39:33] There's a formal motion that we need to do. We can bring it forward.

[1:39:38] Yeah, but I will double check and we'll get you that answer.

[1:39:41] 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.

[1:39:49] I think we can do that.

[1:39:50] Okay, I'm being told we can do that.

[1:39:53] Yeah, I'm okay with moving it up to six.

[1:40:00] So if that's the second, then if you call

[1:40:06] for future, potential future, like if we need to add it to the agenda, like we're just.

[1:40:13] 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.

[1:40:18] So if they're pre-man made the motion, yeah.

[1:40:21] Yeah, I'll second.

[1:40:21] Yeah, I'll second that.

[1:40:22] Yeah, I'll second that.

[1:40:23] Yeah, I'll second that.

[1:40:23] We should find out that we need to actually have an agenda.

[1:40:26] Then we'll bring it back again.

[1:40:28] Perfect. Thank you.

[1:40:30] Hold on. Let's see.

[1:40:35] Okay, so yeah, but we can't vote because there wasn't

[1:40:38] Agenda-ficed so

[1:40:43] We'll bring it back. We'll bring it back and February and then

[1:40:47] As a as a agenda item we can add it to the agenda guess that's the request. Yeah, we'll do

[1:40:55] You

[1:40:59] I just have

[1:41:01] Three things, one is if we can get an update, I am assuming it's almost close, but of the parks master plan.

[1:41:10] 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.

[1:41:20] Another one is the urban forest master plan.

[1:41:24] I know that was like in conversation a few years ago, I don't know if there's ever been an update.

[1:41:31] 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,

[1:41:41] or for the next commission meeting, and then also I was wondering about the conversation of putting like bike blocks.

[1:41:51] bike racks, thank you. Bike racks on at the entrances of some of our popular trails.

[1:42:01] I've talked to some bike bikers, I guess, and some of them have said that like, they park

[1:42:08] their bikes at that, or a lot of the times when they're like, let's say, before they're meeting,

[1:42:17] they'll lock their bikes at the front of the trail. I thought it was just an idea of kind of

[1:42:24] get a cost analysis of what that would be to put any kind of bike rack at like one-year

[1:42:31] cook trail or any others. Any of our more popular ones. Yeah if it's just those three then say I will put

[1:42:44] This closes out in one second, let me just find my needs.

[1:42:48] Okay, if there are no more items,

[1:42:51] this meeting is adjourned at 812.

[1:42:57] Thank you.

Parks and Recreation Commission on 2026-01-12 6:30 PM

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