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Well, good evening everyone. Uh, my name is David Fa. I'm chair of the uh, city
of Meny's Parks, Recreation, and Trails Commission, and I'd like to call this
meeting to order at 6:00 PM and welcome all those who are here and watching
online. Uh, let's begin with uh, a roll call. Uh, Miss Valencia,
» Commissioner Goodwoice >> here.
» Commissioner Matoyer >> here.
» Commissioner Trembley is absent. Vice Chair Peterson
» here. >> Chair FA
» here. Thank you very much. I've asked Commissioner Maguire to to lead us in
the Pledge of Allegiance. >> Please.
Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
» Thank you very much. We're now on item four, agenda approval or modifications.
Do we uh commissioners, do we have any uh any modifications required of the of
the of the agenda or or Miss Valencia, do we have any modifications to the
agenda? >> Uh there are no modifications to the
agenda. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Then let's
move to number five, presentations. First 5.1, Community Services Department
employees of the quarter. Thank you.
Good evening, chair and commissioners. So, every quarter, CSD employees are
asked to nominate their fellow colleagues that exemplify exceptional
customer service skills, teamwork, and initiative. Our selection panel then
reviews all of the nominations, and we choose one part-time and one full-time
team member to represent us as our employees of the quarter. Um, so at this
time, can I please ask our commissioners to um come to the front to help us
recognize our employees?
So, first I'd like to begin with our part-time employee of the quarter, Kelly
Laflur. She is a CS leader too assigned to our special events team, but more
specifically inventory and requests for support. Kelly, can you please come
forward? [applause]
Uh, so this nomination is extremely welldeserved and actually a long time
coming. Kelly has been nominated seven times in 2025.
And for good reason. Uh Kelly joined us two years ago and since then has been
assigned to our senior center as well as our front desk admin team before joining
the special events team. She is an absolute pleasure to work with. Um her
organization organizational skills, work ethic, and creativity know no bounds. Um
it's been a joy to work directly with her last year. Um I gave her a couple of
tasks of revamping some protocols and procedures and she ran with it. as you
can see through every single nomination she has. Um, but more specifically, here
is what one of her nominators had to say about her. Kelly's good sense and
decisiveness make her a pleasure to work under. She treats her staff with total
respect, solicits our opinions on just about every task she proposes to tackle,
and she jumps right in and works right alongside us. because of Kelly's major
improvements with regards to our team's ability to track and work with our
equipment and supplies, her excellent disposition, her management and care of
her staff, and her strong mindfulness to represent the city well at our public
events. I think Kelly is very deserving and an excellent choice to receive
employee of the quarter award. And we agree.
Thank you, Kelly. [applause]
» Thank you very much.
Our [applause]
full-time employee of the quarter is Aaron Narcissis, our supervisor
overseeing Parks and Right away. And at this time, I'm going to hand it over to
Bryce. Aaron, can you please come up? >> All right.
All right. Yeah, we we definitely want to congratulate Aaron on being the
employee of the quarter. It's welld deserved. Um, it's welld deserved as he
is one of the major puzzle pieces that helps run the parks and rideway
maintenance for the city. Uh, he supervises 11 full-time, multiple
part-time. He oversees 22 parks, 6 million square feet of rideway
landscape, and in all of that, he always puts his staff first. He sacrifices his
own time to help his staff in at work, outside of work. Um, he's a a big team
player. Uh Aaron not only helps with his immediate team but he also uh helps the
whole city, the department and everything be successful in those ways.
Um the most most recent accomplishment that
Aaron has helped with uh he's he's one of the biggest parts of creating the
turf management program that we implemented this year and over the next
few years we're definitely going to see uh the Meny parks come alive and stay
that and all the users and residents of Meny um will be because uh have those
nice clean parks and everything to play on because of Aaron's uh hard work and
everything that he's put into that. So, congratulations, Aaron.
[applause]
» Congratulations to Kelly and Aaron on this accomplishment and for representing
our departments so well. And thank you, commissioners.
Congratulations again, Erin and Kelly. Outstanding.
» Thank you. >> Thank you so much.
[laughter] [clears throat]
» I apologize. I I forgot to recognize our newest commissioner who's joined us uh
at this meeting and uh most recently been appointed by acting mayor u uh
Carwin and that is uh Justin Mcuire. And thank you Justin. Congratulations on
your appointment and we look forward to working with you.
Let's move to let's move to item 5.2 general plan open space and conservation
element updates and I understand Fernando Herrera is going to lead us
with that. >> Good evening members of the commission.
Um, this item is for a general plan amendment to amend the city's open space
and conservation element, which will add additional colorifying language per
Senate bill 1425.
In regards to the open space element, it's one of the seven mandatory elements
required by uh law uh as part of the general plan. It identifies, maps, and
preserves land of natural resources, agriculture, and outdoor recreation for
the public health and safety of our residents. It also determines and
directs long-term planning for undeveloped or lightly developed land to
ensure environmental protection, uh, biodiversity, and community aesthetics.
The update was required on September 30th, 2022 when SB1 1425 required in
cities and counties to review and update their open space elements as part of the
general plan update. Um for the city of Meny, we did look at our element and um
basically everything is already covered. Um but we want to go through and ensure
that everything is crystal clear. Um so this is required by January 1st, 2026,
but again our elements are already covered. everything that's going to be
discussed in 1425. So, what are the required updates? Uh,
so basically, it's going to require all cities and counties to have access to
open space for all residents in a matter that's consistent with social economic
racial equality correlated with the environmental justice element or
environmental justice policies. Um in the general plan uh the climate
resilience is going to be something that needs to be discussed and other co-
benefits of open space correlated with the safety element
as well as reing opportunities correlated with the land use element. So
in regards to rew reing sorry uh this refers to opportunities to preserve and
enhance and expand an integrated network of open space to support beneficial uses
such as habitat uh recreational natural resources historic tribal resources
water management etc. So what are the proposed changes? Um so
we kind of went through the open space and conservation element. Uh we added
additional policies. So some of them pertain to parks and recreation,
recreational trails and biological resources just to uh you know when we
have projects that come to the city we have to ensure that there's findings and
we use the goals and policies in the general plan to uh support the findings
uh for the projects that move forward in the city. So just adding additional
language to uh help us with this. Additionally uh we are going to add a
new section to clarify climate resiliency. Uh so this section is going
to have a goal of maintaining um and strengthening men's resilience to
climate change um by utilizing open space and the natural systems that exist
within our city. Uh so we do have a variety of policies uh such as the
encouragement of green streets, prioritizing the use of native and
drought tolerant plants. So this is stuff that we already do but we're
putting it into policy and goal language. work with the developers and
property owners to establish and expand trail networks, utilize building
materials and methods that minimize energy use. Uh so this is already
required by California state law. Um and prioritizing local building materials.
Uh so we basically to summarize it all up uh we're we're clarifying and adding
language just to make it clear. Um we also have to look at the relationships
to the existing and future plans. So uh because the general plan does create the
framework that all plans and policies and guidelines have to follow um this
will um ensure that the blueprint um is going to be consistent. So uh again it
just reinforces what we are doing. The next steps after this so we've
already notified the tribes as we're required to anytime that we amend a
general plan. Uh so we brought it forth today to the parks recreation and trails
commission. Uh the next steps is going to be to finalize uh the amendments and
then once that's accomplished uh we'll send out public notice and then take it
for planning commission for recommendation and then finally city
council for final action. Uh do you have any questions
» commissioners? Any questions for Mr. O'Hara?
» I have a thought on it. >> Sure.
» We have a parks master plan right now. How do we integrate that into it
» or do we need to? >> Yes. Uh so because the the open space
element is the overarching document uh that the whole city has to follow uh the
parks uh uh the master plan would already be consistent with the general
plan. >> Thank you Mr. Hera for letting us know
about these updates uh to the plan to keep us in compliance with new uh
legislation. And thank you for your time.
» Thank you.
We're now on item six, uh, public comments for non-aggenda items, uh,
only. This is the time for members of the public to address the commission
about items which are not listed on the agenda. The Ralph M. Brown Act limits
the commission's ability to respond to comments on non-aggendaized matters at
the time such comments are made. Each speaker will be limited to three minutes
on any single item. Please. Uh, and I understand uh uh Madame Clerk that we
have one person that would like to speak.
» Yes, Matt Piery.
» This is my first time at one of these, so I have no idea what I'm doing here,
but uh >> Well, welcome Matt.
» Uh, thank you for uh letting me come up to speak. Um, my name is Matt. I'm uh
been a resident in the Canyon Lake and Meny area for the last seven years. And
I'm a frequent user of the uh Salt Creek Trail. Uh so I run it usually once a
week, sometimes two to three times a week. Uh and in an effort to use a car
less and you know explore other modes of cardio, I've been biking along the trail
to uh run errands. Um, and now that I'm coming out of my winter hibernation and
starting to use the trail a little bit more, uh, I've thought of a few
suggestions for improvement that I wanted to to bring before you all. Um,
first is the possibility of adding, uh, trash cans or some sort of like waste
management along the the trail, probably along like Mya Road or Bradley Road,
like the intersections with uh, major roadways. I've noticed that trash does
tend to accumulate along the trail. Um, some people dump waste and I know that
trash cans probably wouldn't resolve like the larger waste items, but it
could still be a good uh way to encourage people to dispose of their
trash uh not on the trail. Um, and then as summer's coming up, uh, I tend to use
the trail a lot more during summer. Uh, and as we all know, summers are uh very
hot down here. Um, and I've been on other trails in in other parts of the
country, similar trails, where uh there's a lot of green cover. And the
idea was to plant trees that could preferably native native trees that
could offer shade um along the trail. Uh even 40 to 50% shade coverage can reduce
uh the temperature of the asphalt significantly. Um, and I also know that
trees take time to grow and this probably is not going to be something
that yields results immediately, but uh, as we tend to have as we
have year after year, they become the hottest year on record. I think this
would be, uh, pay dividends in the future. So, I just wanted to bring those
to your attention if you're not already aware. And, uh, thank you for your time.
» Uh, thank you, Mr. Percy. Appreciate your comments.
[clears throat] We're now at item seven, approval of the minutes. Uh uh
commissioners, hopefully you've had a chance to review the December 4th uh
PRTC uh meeting minutes. Are there any uh
corrections that are necessary? And if not, can I have a a a motion to
approve? >> So moved.
» Second. I'll second that. And all in favor say
I. >> I.
» I. >> Okay. and the minutes are approved.
Okay, we're now at the consent calendar and uh
this is the time for uh let's see, all matters of the consent calendar are to
be approved in one motion unless a commission member requests a separate
action on a specific item on the consent calendar. If an item is removed from the
consent calendar, it will be discussed individually and act upon separately. Uh
clerk, are there any requests to speak on the consent calendar items?
» There are none. >> Okay. Uh can I have a motion uh to
approve the consent calendar unless there's someone has a something they
would like to discuss? >> I'll move to approve that one.
» Can I have a second? >> Second.
» Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. >> All right. Unanimous. The consent
calendar has been approved.
So we're now on section nine uh discussion items. This 9.1 selection of
chair and vice chair. And the action that we need to take is to appoint a a a
chair and vice chair for the parks, recreation, trails commission for the
for the next uh year. So, commissioners, uh, any, uh, any, uh,
nominations that you'd like to make for, uh, for chair or vice chair?
» I'd like to nominate you for chair again.
» Thank Thank you, Mr. Gro. Any other nominations?
» Well, I'll I'll second that one. >> Okay. [clears throat]
Uh, I'd like to nominate Laz uh to serve again as as vice chair. I I
he's served this last year and I think he's just getting uh his his feet wet
now and and uh now he knows uh what what the plan is and so I'd like to recommend
Laz as to continue serving as vice chair and I appreciate the the nomination as
chair again. So So we have before us uh David F as chair and Laz Peterson as
vice chair. Can I have a a motion to approve? A
» motion. >> Okay. And then seconded.
» Second. >> And all in favor?
» I >> say I.
» I. >> I. Okay. Congratulations,
Laz Peterson. >> And myself.
Uh, that makes it easy. Don't have to change name plates or anything like
that. So, uh, thank you for your confidence in in
us to to serve another term. Uh, we're at 9.2 now. Qui assessment for HA haven
uh, development. TM 387666
and recommended action is to review and approve the Quimby assessment for the
Haven development track to meet the pro project requirements under Meny
Municipal Code 7.75 Parkland dedication and fees. Miss
Mitchell, >> good evening chair and commissioners. Um
I tonight we're reviewing our um first quibby of the of 2026 brand new year. Um
so here we have the Haven development which is located uh north of Garbani
Road west of Evans Road. Um just under uh 20 acres of residential development.
Uh this one is a little bit unique because it does have 67 single family
dwelling units as well as 67 adjacent accessory dwelling units. So the total
uh is um 67 of the single family and an additional the same amount of ADUs. Um
so with this uh to determine the parkland dedication requirement because
we have the mix of single family units and uh accessory dwelling units uh the
single family is calculated at the full um amount of uh the 2.85 average
population multiplied by the 5 acres per thousand residents. Um so the parkland
dedication for that is just under an acre. And for the accessory dwelling
units, it's it's essentially the same formula but at 50% because it is it's
not the full size of a single family dwelling unit. So the total parkland
dedication required for this particular development is just under 1.5 acres.
And so this development does have an HOA maintained amenity proposed and it is a
recreation center with a pool. It is private. And so under the municipal
code, we do allow for up to 50% of credit for HOA maintained amenities. Uh
simply because uh the HOA maintained amenities do offset any impact to city
maintained amenities or parks nearby. So which is why we consider um the amenity
for the 50% credit. So if commission uh does approve that 50% credit, that would
bring down the required parkland dedication to 1.2 acres. And for this
one, uh, we have the appraised value of, uh, 300,000 an acre, meaning that, uh,
the remainder of the parkland dedication would be paid in L fees, uh, which would
be about $360,000 in quimby fee assessment. So, at this
time, I welcome commission uh, to review the information. If there's any
questions, I'd be happy to answer that. Uh but essentially we're looking to
affirm that the combination of the HOA maintained uh um amenity as well as the
inluff fees does meet the Quimby Act requirements for this project.
» Thank you, Miss Mitchell. Commissioners, any questions for Miss Mitchell?
» Okay. And uh is the is the pool the the only amenity that's proposed?
» That is the only recre It's a community center with a pool. Yes.
» Okay. So, so it's appropriate that uh we use this calculation uh uh to uh to make
sure because since the the development does not have any parkland itself,
they're going to be using existing parks in the area and this is uh having that
uh that uh fee of 360,000 will go a long way to enhancing our existing parks. the
uh the 50% credit for uh ADUs. Uh uh you don't see that too often, but uh is this
a when did we implement that component? >> So it's not credit, it's um just when we
assess the fee um it's 50% because it's uh the ADUs can't go over 1,200 square
ft. So we assess it at 50% of the single family unit rate.
» Okay. But ADUs are fairly new. So we we added this uh this uh 50%
» yes to address >> to to accommodate that.
» Mhm. >> Okay. Commissioners, if no there's no
questions, then can I have a motion to to uh approve the uh rec the uh
and and and basically certify that the the uh the
calculations uh and fees are correct. >> So moved.
» Okay. A second. >> I'll second that.
» All right. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed?
Okay, that is passed. Thank you very much. Now, let's move on to 9.3, which
is the Quimby assessment for Oakstone uh or called used to be called Menife
Vista, I believe. Uh and our action is uh to review and approve the Quimby
assessment for Oakstone development track 38128 uh previously Mini Vista to
meet project requirements of the municipal code chapter 7.75 parkland
dedication and fees Mitchell.
» All right. Uh so here we have another development Oakstone. Uh this is located
uh west of Buyers Road norththeast of Getats and Valley Boulevard. Um, so if
you're familiar with the area, it's just a little bit south of where Simmeron
Ridge is. Um, and this one is 96 single family dwelling units with just under 30
uh acres of uh residential development. Uh, so the parkland dedication for uh
this development uh is uh just just over 1 acres, so 1.3 acres. And then uh for
this there is a HOA maintained amenity which is a park. It's 1.25 25 acres with
a tot uh active play spaces for uh various ages, picnic tables, benches, as
well as a walking trail and some turf open turf area for um uh recreational
purposes. Um so kind of the same lines with the Quimby Quimby assessment
calculation. Um we do offer 50% uh credit for HOA maintained amenities. And
so 50% of the 1.25 acres is uh just over half an acre. And so if we remove um we
add that credit to the parkland uh required parkland um we're just over
just under8 uh acres that uh needs to be paid in fees. Um so we have uh the
agreed upon value of 300,000 uh which is uh similar to what has been recently
appraised in the area. Uh so the inloo fees would be 223,500.
Uh so again asking commission to review the information um and agree that the uh
HOA proposed uh proposed HOA amenities are active recreation amenities so would
be eligible for the 50% credit and that the remainder of the parkland dedication
be paid in low fees. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
» All right. Thank you Miss Mitchell. Uh any questions for Miss Mitchell?
Commissioners. Okay. Can I have a motion to approve the calculation and that it
meets the requirements of municipal code 7
» to approve? >> Okay, we have a motion to approve. A
second. >> Second.
» All right, all in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Okay, it's unanimous.
Thank you very much. Okay, let's go to uh uh item number uh number 9.4, capital
improvement program quarterly update. Mr. Bryce Hal. Yes, I'll be presenting
that commission. Um, and we brought this back as if uh from request from or not
back, but we will have our quarterly update. Um, we had it in the consent
before and we realized that we really want to get in depth for you guys to be
able to see uh that what's happening with the capital improvement. Uh, a lot
of times over the last year, it just seemed like a lot of them were we're in
design, we're in design, we're in design. So, we're we are starting to
actually move forward on those projects that were in design, which we're we're
happy to. Um and that brings a lot of things up for the public uh for use. So
as you can see there's 14 projects that we have um either in design uh some of
them are in construction uh and and that goes through there. Uh we have our
target completion dates. This is just the schedule or kind of overview of
description of those and I'll go through a lot of those on these following
slides. So one of the biggest ones uh that has
been in design and going is the AMS AMR skate park improvements. What that is is
the ticket booth and a ranger station that'll be there at Audi Murphy next to
the skate park. Um both of them will be at that location. They're two separate
buildings, but they're both on each side of the um skate park there on the east
side of the park. Um this is going to council for construction uh in March for
approval. And that that would be the contractor that's there. Uh the total
estimate construction cost is right around uh $600,000 and that includes
furniture and everything that's in there uh contingency, you know, anything if we
run into issues. So, we have the building uh that was a pre-engineered
building that we already have that will be hauled over there. They'll put that
thing together uh and then our rangers will have it. Um as you can see the
diagram below. So, the the ticket booth, it's a smaller about almost a little
under 300 square ft. And then the ranger station uh alto together is about 900
total square feet. You have your multi-purpose room. They'll have a large
office for uh for multiple rangers in there for their station there to be able
to with their computers and everything. Their docking stations will be able to
put inter programs on there with the multi-purpose room. Um it'll be so the
rangers can have u the youth and and adults and everybody there um at that
station. So, we're excited to get this uh this has been a a couple years been
working on this and finally we're now we're at that point where we can get to
the construction. Um and we're looking to be able to complete this this summer.
So, open up and um for the public on that. We have two other ones that are
going into construction this uh this month and then the beginning of next
month. So, uh the park and facility multi-use buildings, those are the
locker rooms. Those are we're they're temporary locker rooms that we're having
behind for uh parks parks and facilities staff, park rangers as well. Um that
will be able to use that and that's behind fire station 7. So those are the
locker rooms. We're putting electrical, plumbing, and everything into that. Uh
that starts uh February 27th. Uh the construction on that, it doesn't impact
any of the fire station or nothing like that. It's all in the it's on the back
part of it. So it won't impact any services or anything at the fire
station. is just that's where we have our maintenance yard is behind that and
then the uh roof rehabilitation. So the um silicone roof that's on top of the KC
center not as you can see on that picture that's there. It's the white
part. So that's getting redone. Um we've had some leaks over the years is an
older building. So we're just keeping the upkeep on those that is going uh and
that starts in another week February 23rd
and that one itself will take about a week. It'll move pretty quick. So, uh,
we're hoping no more rain until at least that gets done.
Another one that we, uh, is our park signage that you guys have approved and
seen. So, the signs actually have started getting delivered as of today.
We received our first shipment of signs. It's the smaller signs that you can see
like the picnic like a pro, the unleash your f, you know, unleash for the for
the dog park and everything like that. There's a few the signs, you'll see
those starting to go up uh, in the next few weeks. New signs and everything.
We're still waiting for the second shipment, which will be the larger park
rule signs that you like you can see there in the picture that says ELP
Peterson. Uh once we get all those in, we'll we'll start installing those as
well. But we're excited to at least get the new signs that we have, we'll get
those installed right away. Uh we have a few other parks uh that are
in design right now. So, Lalera Park enhancements uh that we are just about
ready for our second plan review, hopefully the final um so we can get a
permit for that and get out to bid for uh Ladera Park enhancements. That is the
adding another small uh baseball field to the park. So, there'll be two small
uh youth baseball fields there with lights to be able to use that are there.
Uh Banner Village playground, we almost completed the design of that park. You
can see there that's adding the playground there at the at the park. So,
there's already a splash pad there on the opposite side on the west side of
that uh basketball court. We'll put the playground so it won't be right up
against the uh splash pad. So, they won't be able to I know it would
probably fun, you know, to run for the playground all wet and you know, the
splash spot on the playground, but we don't need that. So, we separated on the
different side of that. The Hidden Hills and uh ELP Peterson, those lights are
under design. So, we're almost done with those. We are waiting for the structural
design from Musco to be able to get that. They're working uh real quick with
us. So, we have all the engineering on the electrical engineering done on that.
We uh as soon as we have that uh structural for our footing foundations,
that'll go through permitting and we'll be bringing that back to council for
approval for the construction and installation of that. Uh and then the
LMD, the turf conversion, that one is moving along pretty well. We're waiting,
we we've submitted all our applications. We're about 90% done with the design of
it. So we can um that we've already had enough to be able to turn in for the
application. So we can go out to bid for the construction for that to be able to
remove that non-usable turf in the rightways uh that we don't have a lot of
funding. It's a lot of it's potable water. So we'll be able to replace that
with drought tolerant landscape. Um Quail Valley Park, we're heavily in
design with that. We have our um updates are our weekly our bi-weekly meetings
that we have um with the architect on that. So we're working quickly with our
quickly to get that design going in. And once we're to a point, we'll definitely
bring that back to commission. So, um, you guys can see it and I believe it's
coming in in March. So, you it'll we'll present you the actual design and
everything in March. So, you guys will see that. And then Sun City, we're just
still waiting. This is the month once we'll hear back if we um receive some
grant funding. If we didn't, we have funding, but we wanted to try to re uh
get some grant funding for that. So that would kind of counteract for some some
other, you know, open up some puns for some other projects, even that one
itself. Um, but it's if we hear from that month, we hear this month from that
if we don't get it, we're still going to we're already ready. We'll go out to bid
and we'll be moving along with that project.
And then Central P, sorry, Central Park Amphitheater that's in there. Um, that's
moved along. It still at a standstill just so that as the beams are getting
manufactured, our CIP is running heavily with that. So that those won't be
delivered start being delivered until May. That's the estimated time on those
that they're going to be coming. So they're being in Switzerland. They'll be
shipped over here and then uh they'll start installing those in May.
And that's really all I have for the CIP. Um if you guys have any questions,
um let me know and I'm can answer them for you.
» Thank Thank you, Mr. Hal. Uh, any questions, commissioners, for for Bryce?
» The Sun City Park, >> you're waiting for possible grant money.
Do you have any timeline on that? Where do we draw the line?
» Yes. No. Um, we actually submitted our application in August 2025 and we're
told by the California Natural Resource Agency that a notification for awards
should come out in February or March. So, that that's kind of the the timeline
for us. >> Close.
» Thank you. >> Yeah. And that's why we did the design.
We're ready for it. So when we get it, we're ready to hit the road. Uh we
didn't want to wait for that and then have to work backwards, you know. So
we're ready for that and to move on. [clears throat] Exactly.
» Is the grant a hard number or is it uh based on just how they divvy up the
funds? >> Um the the grant that we applied for um
we were looking for because it's a matching grant. Uh so based on the
engineers report or engineers estimates that we got from the design uh we were
we're targeting that amount which was a total of 1.5 million. So, we're looking
at uh 750,000 matching. >> That would be that would be wonderful.
Uh question on the uh at Central Park. Um and you know, I understand about the
fabrication of the beams and and such. Uh and hopefully we'll still see
completion by the end of this year. Will the bridge be open and available before
the amphitheater is completed? >> Yes, it will.
» Okay. And is there a target date for the bridge specifically?
We're still looking. It'll definitely be this spring um before early summer, but
it it'll be this spring we'll it'll it'll open up. So, there's just a few
last little items that they're putting on there. There's some lighting. There's
the shade sails that go over top and a little bit of landscape. Um so, it's
that really close for it to be completed.
» Commissioners, any other any other questions?
I just have one one other question uh on the conceptual design for Evans Park
North. What are uh the key elements or are we still trying to flesh that out of
what we would like to see there from from a conceptual point?
» Correct. So, we're we're reaching out a couple different angles on that right
now. Uh we've reached out to another consultant. Uh we have a consultant that
will do the design for it, but we're looking at possibly um seeing what we
can do to match almost the existing park that's at Evans already. Uh Evans and
Craig, something similar to that or in that same zone. You know, we already
have the bike park and everything there. Uh so we're looking if we can kind of
continue that into the other park. So we're working with a consultant on that.
So you're looking more of a of a almost like a open space park or w wild
wilderness type park or will this have amenities like playgrounds and at one
time we talked about you know we envision community center and things
like that. >> Yeah. So it defin we're not going to
that route now. Uh after this uh parks master plan we realized that's not a
good location for it. Uh since and well originally it was going to have the pool
and things like that. That was our design but we were going to share that
with Paloma. Paloma built a pool. So that that was part of those talks back
in uh 2015, I think, when the original U
parks master plan was going on. So that's why we've kind of changed what we
were going to do. And then there's limitations that we can put at that
park. Um that's what we're working that's why we're working on it for the
environmental. There's areas that we are going to either have to stay out of,
move some of the the the habitat there, but that's what we're that's what's kind
of holding us up a little bit. And it's not a big area. most of it we can use
but we are trying to figure out what we can do to work around there uh on those
areas >> it uh is that blue line streams going
through the property there too that >> so there is that blue line there's a
little bit of a blue line so those blue areas are the areas that we'd have to uh
avoid or either relocate but off to you can see that gray line that goes through
that's actually a trail so that is the um wash that goes through there so
that's that basin or the culvert that goes through that area so we that's not
our property, that's the county, we'd stay out of there. But, um, so it's it's
more of a triangular shape that we'd be working with.
» Great. Uh, I, uh, given the the the kind of the a changing scope there, I I'd
love to see something like with natural features, boulders and things that uh,
kids can climb on. Kind of like almost like an an outdoor adventure park would
be awesome in in that space. And another item on there, so EMWD is doing their
final, there's another connection that they have for the recycle water. Um, it
will go all the way down to Hidden Hills. Uh, that final connection under
the road hasn't actually happened yet. Even though Hidden Hills, it says it's
recycled water and stuff, we're actually paying potable water fees and everything
still for that. Um, because EMWD knew they were going to have that connection.
So, they're working on that connection. And while they have that, they're going
to be tearing up the street. So, what they're going to do is uh so we don't
have to tear up the street in the future, they'll be able to stub up. Now,
we'll still have to get a meter and do some smaller things in there, but
they're able to tie in that way and help us out. Um, so that way we don't have to
do that. So, EMWD is going to get ready for some of those things. I'm not 100%
sure when they're doing that, but I've been working with them on that and we
might retrofit another area in that to recycle water as well. That's a LMD
that's in potable that would help save some costs on that. So,
» most definitely. Commissioner Peterson. Yeah, [clears throat] I've had a couple
requests from lessabled citizens that they would like to see some type of um
RC car um either like rock crawling or um racetracks and um I don't know, you
know, I mean, I know you guys are in in the the design for that, but um for
Evans Park, but um just to talk put on your radar that uh they're, you know,
they'd like to see something like that. >> Absolutely. We will definitely keep that
in mind too cuz you know I'm sure it doesn't have to be a big area or
anything like that but that's a definitely a good idea to keep in our
mind for anything at this park or another park even something that's built
that's already we can convert into something like that that's a good idea
» perfect thank you Royce >> as we continue adding projects where do
we reach the point where we need another ranger or a volunteer ranger somebody
temporarily to kind of like a auxiliary has that been considered
» yes no it definitely has been considered um especially because right now in the
uh last few years we haven't added too many more projects because we're trying
to to close out some of these rather large ones. Um but every year when we go
through the bianial budget process every two years um we do assess our current uh
staffing levels and make recommendations for additions where needed. Um, we do
anticipate that, you know, in in the next coming year that we'll likely be
making some requests and then depending upon what's available um is is where
we'll kind of manage uh any additional staff to support these new areas.
» Thanks, >> Commissioner Maguire.
» In reference to the park rangers, is there I know we have two, correct?
» Correct. Um and as of right now with the the the way the parks are they don't
work graveyard or >> correct.
» Okay. Is that as we add more parks and more you know invest in these in the
parks is that something that we might consider that same thing we just talked
about or >> there's possibility we might um so
there's gaps obviously because there's so many parks and you can only have
there's seven days a week that you only have the two rangers. Um PD helps us a
lot when we are at that the night time like that. So, at least if we had a
ranger and and we do have rangers in the evening that could help lock things up
if we needed to till 10 p.m., you know, things like that, um, we'll re not rely,
but definitely get help from PD in the evening times if there's anything that
we need help with on that. So, I'm not saying no, but right now we don't have
that plan. We'll work with PD on that. >> Yeah. And if I can just uh add a little
bit right there, um that our our park rangers are enforcement technically in
our parks, but we want our residents to have positive experiences with our parks
and with our park rangers. And so they also do a lot of heavy interpretive
programming. So just the conservation, education, stewardship, we'll see at the
upcoming wildlife appreciation event coming up. Um but so it's kind of
walking that balance between uh enforcement, which they they obviously
can do and will do, um but creating positive experiences uh at our parks.
» Great. >> You know, I think Tom has a horse. Don't
you still Tom? Could we give him a badge uh and have him just ride the range
» each afternoon? >> There's not much range left, but it
would be nice to have some trails to connect. That's always been an issue in
this town. >> Well, thank you, uh Bryce, for for that
that update. really appreciate that. All right, let's go to item number 10,
community services director comments. Mrs. Mitchell.
» All right, so I've got a few things to highlight tonight. Uh first off, um last
meeting that we had in December, we uh brought forward information regarding
the Audi Murphy Ranch skate park. And so, um, based on the feedback from
commission, we have organized a public meeting, uh, that is going to be taking
place on Wednesday, February 11th at 6:00 p.m. It will be hosted at the
community services department in the North Annex building. And we welcome all
residents as this is the community skate park for all of Meny um that are
interested in providing input on our current programming and what future
programming might be might look like. Um, so again, that that's coming up
pretty quickly here. Um, also wanted to highlight uh yesterday we had our
midyear budget review um with city council at a workshop earlier in the day
and uh there are quite a few items that that were approved in the midyear
budget. Um midyear is kind of one of those uh components where it's an
opportunity for the department and the city to kind of rightsize budget. So
there's not a lot of huge asks that typically go forward for city council at
midyear. Um but there are things that we are looking to address based on some of
the strategic initiatives council has directed us and some of the um the
bigger items that our parks master plan has identified that we need to work on.
And so some of those things in our operating budget um you know we got
additional funding for the central park turf replacement because as we know with
the civic center parking lot, Paloma Wash Bridge, pedestrian bridge and the
amphitheater uh turf is looking a little you know worse for wear lately you know
but there's a lot of construction going on. So uh as the amenities uh come uh
come into fruition and completion um we'll phase one will kind of concentrate
in the area directly in front of the Paloma Wash pedestrian bridge um looking
at midcycle at um updating phase two which would be the area directly in
front of the amphitheater. So um but we did get approved for additional funding
for phase one. Uh we also got approved for the green fence installation uh to
kind of remove that um what's it called? the
» wooden there's a old wooden fence that's just deteriorating.
» Yes. On Gets Road and so um that's coming down and instead we're putting in
green uh shrubbery shrubs uh to be kind of like that fence uh along the the
roadway. Uh that will hopefully improve the the uh look and feel of that area.
Um that's something that's been asked for for quite some time. Um we also uh
were approved for the arts and public places standards and guidelines. So um
previous fiscal year or I want to say the 2425 um we had uh kind of earmarked
some funding for a uh project for art in the park and so um but we were kind of
holding off because we know the city was uh undergoing the whole uh unique
identity placemaking tourism master plan which was recently adopted. So now that
we have a better understanding of uh what the city is looking for when it
comes to placemaking and how that uh is more than just what happens in our
parks, um we are taking a more holistic approach. So what we've done is move
that $100,000 that was in the CIP budget and moved it into our operating budget.
So that way we can engage with a consultant to help us create these
standards and guidelines uh for not just art in in the park, but arts and public
places. Meaning, you know, we can talk more about the utility art box program.
um you know, sculptures and in our roadways and rideways uh and um
different things to kind of pull it all together because again, we want Meny to
feel welcoming to everybody who comes through and you know, we wanted to take
a more holistic approach to that including uh looking at ordinances that
would help uh incoming commercial residential development um bring in some
of those components for us so that way we're not you know burdening the entire
cost of of uh adding art uh to Meny. So, those are some of the the big things
that we're working towards. Uh, also, we were approved for additional funding for
updating our landscape design standards. So, that's the standards that that
pretty much let all of our our developers know uh the type of materials
that they should use in their landscaping both in our rideway and our
parks. And, uh, those haven't been updated since 2014. So um we're looking
to again take another holistic approach at you know how we can update that
working with the development teams both community development and our
engineering department to um update uh get those updated uh within the next
fiscal year. And then of course there's the uh city council initiative um for
the LAFCO application for um taking a look at the annexation of the Meny Parks
uh landscape maintenance district from Valleywide. And so that requires
additional support services uh for both the uh LAFCO application itself and
additional um information that's going to be needed to pull all of this
together. I had the wonderful opportunity of pulling together the uh
scope of work that's going to be required for that. And uh it it's well
over eight pages long. So um it's going to be a lot of work, but definitely this
is something that um we know that commission um has um worked towards as
as well as city council. And so again, uh, uh, council approved the additional
resources for that. Uh, the one thing I did leave off of this list, uh, I was
just so excited about it, I forgot to put in here that council also approved
the additional allocation for $15,000 to add to independent celebration, uh, to
enhance the entertainment component. And so, um, we will be bringing back an
update on what that will look like as soon as we're done through, uh, the
procurement process for the the various, uh, services and entertainment, um,
that, um, that are a part of that event. So, look forward to bringing back that
bringing that back to you guys shortly. Uh, and then last but not least, uh,
personnel. So, our, um, our part-time salary adjustments were approved and so,
uh, just recently, I think it was, yeah, January
1, 2026, minimum wage has increased to 1690. And so in order to uh keep our
part-time positions um um level with a marketplace and uh you know giving us
the ability to recruit uh appropriately um we have to adjust all of the
part-time positions. So, our entry level, you know, is is starting at 1690,
but that means that we have to adjust our CS Leader 2, our aquatic series, um
all of these different little levels of our part-time classifications that
really help um us u bring these programs and events to life. So, we're our
part-time staff are are essentially the backbone of our department to be able to
allow these things to happen. And so council had approved the adjustments in
order to make those uh adjustments to the salary schedule so that way we can
keep competitive in the market when it comes to our part-time positions. So
those were the main uh items that that were impacted the community services
department when it came to the midyear budget update. Uh and then I just have a
couple reminders of some upcoming events. We've got our art affair
February 20th at the case and as senior center and that's an acknowledgement of
um black history >> black history month. I've linked right
there. Um, and then also the next day, our bulky item drop off, uh, on February
21st, starting at 8 a.m. at MSJC until bins are full. Uh, and then Ready Set
Future coming up on the 28th at Lazy Creek. And I'm available to answer any
questions if you have any. >> Passing thought, Art in the Park, has
the city ever approached the developers who are building all these new homes and
asked for some money towards it or even putting them in with their developments?
» Yes, they they have. Um, and it's kind of been um, dependent upon the
development itself. I I think and if you remember, Legato had some art components
that they're incorporating into the the parks and and the rightway areas. Um,
and I think um, taking a look at the holistic approach will allow us to not
just have to wait for like a development agreement or, you know, really giving us
the ability to uh, have the tools to negotiate at the [clears throat] get-go
as opposed to wanting to, you know, nickel and dime. Well, if you want this,
we'll get that. So yeah, that's what the hope is. So
» thank you, Miss Mitchell. Uh the uh part-time folks, haven't we had a lot of
part- timerrs become full-timers? >> We are so proud of that. Yes, we do have
a number of our part-time employees that either move on to become full-time
employees within our department or even other departments. We finance is is
notorious for stealing our staff [laughter]
and uh we've had a couple go to planning and uh and within our own department as
well. So yeah, we're we're it's it's a really great opportunity for anybody
looking to learn about government um community services. These are all very
uh public service motivated individuals who really make this department special.
» Excellent. It's great to have uh to be able to enhance that salary to be able
to attract uh great uh great employees that can be permanent employees.
Uh any other questions for Miss Mitchell, commissioners? Okay, thank you
very much for the update. Um, we're now at uh item 11, commissioner reports on
committee activities. Uh, commissioners, anything you'd like to to report on?
We've uh you know since [clears throat] the holidays uh we do a uh I wasn't
personally able to attend the uh tree lighting ceremony, but Commissioner
Peterson, do you have some comments? >> As always, the tree lighting ceremony
was a was a blast. I mean, everybody was smiles and happy and enjoying and it was
a lot of excitement and the kiddos were obviously just, you know, just their
eyes were like this the whole time. So, it was always uh as always a lot of fun.
Um the snow was definitely fun. Um besides
that, uh I had a chance to actually visit the um the basketball the Manify
basketball league um over at Spirit Park a couple times and um it was very
exciting. There was a lot going on there and um I think we need a couple more
basketball courts maybe. But besides that um it was it was cool to see our
staff out there um setting up and got to give a you know a shout out to the hard
work and effort that they they actually I mean it's a lot of work to get that
place set up to and ready to go for those kids. So very cool. Besides that,
I think um it's been quiet. So thank you.
» Any other comments, commissioners? I just wanted to uh uh report that uh kind
of related to uh our work here with the commission. I I've been elected as
secretary for the minify interfaith community services council and that that
nonprofit works closely with community services on a lot of events in the year
and also I've was elected to the Meny Valley Historical Association board of
directors and also the historical association is working more closely with
uh with with the city on on on events and to honor and our uh our city's
heritage. So, I do just want to let you know that
of my involvement with that. Commissioner Met Metwire,
uh, just a question because, you know, this is my first time. Um, what do we
have in place when, and correct me if I'm wrong, some of the
things that we do for the youth in the city of Mini because of our parks, some
of the stuff is scheduled at Valleywide, correct? Valleywide parks or no. So like
the MYI softball league, they're not that's not being practiced in games at a
valleywide park. >> So So the if you're the city doesn't run
a softball or baseball league. So that'll be a private organization like
girls softball or pony or um it could be soccer like AYSO or any of those. So
they'll be at both Meny Parks and Valley Wide Parks. They don't work. They're
they're separate. So they're both getting fuel allocations and things are
using those from both >> both entities. Got it. Perfect. So even
with miny that's not necessarily involved in the city that's just because
an organization within the city a private organization that has the many
our name on it. Perfect. Thank you. I was going somewhere with that but you
answered my question so I no longer have to go there.
Awesome. And I I assume next uh next meeting we'll probably be looking at uh
committee assignments. >> Yes, that's correct.
» Changes as well too. Okay. Thank you. All right. Uh item 12, future agenda
requests. Commissioners, is there any future agenda items that we'd like to
add uh for staff to consider?
Hearing nothing at this time, I will then adjourn this meeting at 653 and uh
appreciate everyone's participation and thank you for those that were here and
for those that are watching online. Have a wonderful weekend.
That's it.
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