all right good evening everyone and
welcome to the city of minifee's parks
recreation and trails commission meeting
today is thursday december 5th 2019.
this meeting is now called to order
madam secretary please take the role
commissioner akerman commissioner
amarelli
commissioner croix here vice chair git
royce here chair holcomb
here all a present thank you at this
time i'd like to invite
uh vice chair tom gidgeous to lead us
into flax salutes who
if you are able please stand and face
the flag
all right thank you tom
all right moving on to item number four
presentations
uh 4.1 uh mr nix do we have any
presentations uh yes sir we have a
presentation on the alternative
transportation program
and i'd like to invite up our principal
engineer from public works department
carlos geronimo to give that
presentation okay carlos
well good evening everyone
so this is a presentation of the active
transportation plan
this is something that the city has been
working on for a while
um let me go through the slice and
explain what this is about
so what's an active transportation plan
so it makes improvements
and provides safer and more reliable
mobility choices whether you are walking
cycling taking transit driving or ride
sharing
so a little bit of background on the
project this project was
initiated by the city it's grant funded
through california sb1 planning grant
for this type of project caltrans
administers the funds
so we have to answer the cal trends on
this project
we have about a year and a half
of time to do this project so we're kind
of midway
on the schedule and at the bottom of
that slide you can see
the project team we've teamed up with
riverside university health system
um k2na foreign stc are
our consultants that are helping us with
this project
caltrans of course and local government
commission is a non-profit agency
based on sacramento that helps
local governments do these kind of
projects
so we have a good mix of project team
members
so what will this atp or active
transportation plan would do for the
city
uh it assesses the community needs uh
evaluates current street and sidewalk
inventory that's something that we
currently don't have
we have sidewalks all over the place
there are gaps here and there
but we don't have an accurate encounter
what's missing where they are what stay
there
identify and prioritize active
transportation projects
focus on providing improved
transportation choices in senior and
disadvantaged neighborhoods
in your local schools within the city
so a little more background on this
safety as we were talking about it will
provide for
buffer bike lanes or protected bike
lanes corridors
more visible crosswalks and
ada ramps for accessibility to all
pedestrians
with disabilities to get to the other
side
also the bottom left picture
in this slide this is a project we just
completed near the
romulan elementary school where we
actually did pop out
on the street
as vehicles approach intersection they
see it's narrow
we all know the benefits of being active
transportation
just their walkable neighborhoods have
substantially lower rates of obesity and
overweightness and diabetes
and this goes in hand with the city's
mission statement to provide a safe
livable and active community for all
residents
so the city will focus on pedestrian
areas
giving tv for safe routes to school for
example um
we'll look at what the schools are um
on this on the network to make sure that
kids
can get to school safer this picture you
see right there is
something we did at quail valley
elementary
cab on the sidewalk so we did this
project maybe a couple of years ago it
wasn't part of this but this is
something that
an example of what we're going to
implement and you can see
it was well received by the community
we'll also prioritize the citywide
network of bikers and trails
we already have a general plan that
identifies
bikeways and trails and things like that
we need to prioritize it and kind of go
the next step on this
looking at destination where people want
to go
and also recreation people just want to
get their bikes and just
go around the city what's a good network
um
so this atp will analyze costs and
alternatives
of top rated projects we will come up
with about
20 priority projects this is just a
sample of what it would look like
accordingly and this will eventually
go to our capital project
for a five-year plan and then we'll
start tackling this project one at a
time
and this is helpful uh because there are
numerous grants out there
here towards this kind of project and if
we have this
atp it will help us obtain those funds
and also it will help us kind of
prioritize i guess
it's more of a guideline for not only
the city but for future developers
they can be conditioned to install some
sidewalks or
trails that are needed
so this atp is only as good as the input
we get from the community
like one of the slides
so ways to participate and to provide
input on this atp is to attend our
meetings workshops
right now we have had other paintings in
the past take surveys
stay tuned for pop-up events and use our
online map survey
so we developed what is called the story
map which has
pretty much just an overview and more
information about this atp
we have some tech surveys it has an
interactive map
where you can go in there and select an
area and
click on it and make a comment
crosswalk is needed here no aka ram so
it's interactive and
all this information is gathered and
it's evaluated
so like i said in the beginning we're
kind of halfway uh in this
project we're in the data and collection
analysis we have until spring of 2020 to
collect all the data and gather all this
and then after that we'll start
implementing this
providing recommendations
later on in the year so we are expecting
to have a final report by fall of 2020.
so with that this concludes my
presentations and
um this is long overdue
i don't
what's the safest way for me to get on
my bike and go to a park
take my kids there's
a lot of ideas that i have with this
are they meetings can we make sure
yeah i'll just keep communication with
carlos when there is a
upcoming meeting then i will definitely
all the commission
um also if you uh will note in carlos's
presentation
um
a lot of the proposed trails or existing
trails just like we're trying to do
an inventory sidewalk we were also
trying to get inventory
birds in one stone and you guys can go
in there through that link
and i know a few of you gentlemen have
been working on these city trails before
the city was even a city
yeah so you probably kind of know uh
some of the information that carlos is
looking for so
it'd be very good for you to go into
that story map and add some of those
missing things yeah
yeah okay great this is good stuff and
please keep keep us informed of those
meetings and workshops because
we all have a lot of years of
experience here
thank you carlos thank you for your
presentation i have two questions uh
right now
uh was the target of the grant funding
that we got from sb1 revenue
seniors or senior neighborhoods and
disadvantaged communities
was that part of it it is part of it so
we're trying to do a comprehensive
plan that encompasses pretty much the
whole spectrum of the residents
seniors kids going to school
people with disabilities
okay do you recall thank you do you
recall how much money we received from
sb1
and or the city
do you find that that's enough money for
you to accurately conduct this
yes uh we went through an rfp process
with a consultant
and we delineated all the things that
this atp needs because it's funded
through caltrans they have guidelines
considering the number of components in
in this in this up
this uh analysis uh is this going to be
like a living document at the point that
it's
over with so that we can keep updating
it keep revisiting it maybe a yearly or
buy a annual basis yeah i mean certainly
any document
we can always update it as we need to
you know priorities change over time in
the city
i think a portrayal will be nice to have
this time maybe
because of needs
by the time we finally reach down into
it some of those
are going to change
yeah maybe not so much grand money
because it will be focused
um we're going to redo the entire
network again or maybe
quite a few years on the road maybe
updated
but if um
so this is a very good plan that mr john
was paying together because it makes us
eligible for more grants and
there's another grant through prop 68
that mr applied for earlier in the year
to do some trail improvements as well
exactly and who's going
we want to make sure everybody's
involved
that would be the usual step that once
get their comments recommendations
this does give us the ability to apply
for more grants identifies
those trails
questions carlos thank you very much for
your presentation we appreciate it
thank you all right moving on to item
number 4.2
employee of the quarter mr nix yes i'll
turn over to mr hendricks to present our
community services department employee
of the
yes thank you good evening i'm really
excited this evening to
recognize a very hard-working employee
that we've had on our team for a few
months now
uh somebody that has really taken a
program that we're going to be talking
about later
later called little learners and made it
into just a really fantastic
program for our residents so if we can
get the commission to go up we're going
to go ahead and call this individual up
but we'd like to recognize samantha
alvarez as our employee of the quarter
so
real quick
jason you want us up there now
well hold on stand up in our place so
you want to say come out there
so as i mentioned uh sam has been
just a fantastic member of our team she
was recently promoted
to a community services leader too to
lead up our classes and we'll
again be talking a little bit more about
that in a later
future discussion item
all right thank you jason
congratulations sam
all right moving on to item number 5.1
this is the approval of tonight's
minutes um at this point i'll entertain
a motion to approve the minutes
all in favor okay minutes approved
okay moving on to item number six
i'm sorry that was last moving on to
item number six agenda approval or
modification for tonight's
program so um at this point do we uh
have any modifications that need to be
made
to tonight's agenda there are no
modifications okay
i've seen that there are no mods i will
ask for uh approval at this time
aye approved
all right thank you item number seven
madam secretary do we have any public
comments there are no public comments
thank you now discussion item 8.1
little learners mr nix i will again turn
over to mr hendricks to do a
presentation on the
liberal learners program
sorry about that thanks once again i'd
like to call susie hernandez and sam
alvarez up they're going to actually be
delivering the presentation along with
the powerpoint
uh susie hernandez is one of our
community services instructors she's
been
heavily involved in getting this program
little learners up and running just a
little quick history this program has
been around for about a year now and
it's
it was started uh due to the
overwhelming popularity of our tiny top
program at lazy creek
and it has morphed into a program that
they'll discuss a little bit more but uh
we're trying to use any available space
that we can to continue to serve our
residents and
this is a great way that we're able to
do that so i'll turn it over to the
ladies
engage the children and provide them
with an enriching environment
we work with children right now we have
four different classes
um
and indoor and outdoor learning
so these are some of the classes that we
offer um
um
so that the children have more learning
time
and more time to go over the concepts
that we're going over with them and i'll
let samantha talk about some of those
it allows the kids to definitely
experience
more of the culture which is very big
especially in this class we want to make
sure the kids understand that it's not
just learning
you know allow the kids
and i am very
i'm so sorry i'm not close to this thing
at all
thank you all right um we're gonna move
on to some of our other classes oh
thank you thank you very much um so
one of them is called busy bugs and that
is a movement class it's for ages
three to five and what we do in this
class
is we do all kinds of body movements we
practice stretching with the children
yoga gymnastics bounce body movement
control
and dancing activities as well they
practice rhythm
and coordination and they do this all in
a group
setting and we have two instructors with
them for that class
and we also have the watch me grow class
this is for ages
two to four it is a parent in me
class which means that a parent or
guardian is with the child
at all times it is both indoor and
outdoor
we do bi-weekly visits to our community
services garden
and we go out there and we explore they
get to
plant plants plant flowers catch bugs
out there
and then we do all kind of observations
of what they're seeing
and then we go into the classroom we do
some arts and crafts
story time and all kinds of engaging
activities with the parents and the
children
and so here's a little bit of
information on our instructors
um i'm one of them miss samantha's one
of them and we have
uh miss bree she's not here tonight um
all of our staff is bilingual and has
prior experience in child
care settings and it's all community
services staff
and then here's all of us so like i said
i'm susie i'm working on my bachelor's
degree right now in child and adolescent
development
and i have over seven years of
experience in child care and
customer service and then samantha
definitely working with kids this year
has been
very
and then our other instructor who's not
here tonight brianna
um she has some experience actually
volunteering within the city
and then she came on as a staff member
she's got a couple years experience in
child care as well and she's also fluent
in spanish
and then these are attendance rates um
so this is from february 2019
we've had 178 participants
sorry um
and we've been having like maximum
capacity
in all of our programs we have waiting
lists
for our programs and then we've been
generating
8 467 in fun
are there any questions
just how quickly can we build you more
buildings
i wish very quickly we would love to
expand
if it was up to me thank you you guys
are doing great work and i hear nothing
but great stuff about it
and like i said another four or five of
them
right now would in two seconds
thank you thank you very much the house
is in the waiting list
i'm sorry how big is the waiting list it
can range anywhere from
two to ten children it just depends on
the demand
some months are there's more especially
in the summer
we have an overflow of children in the
summer and
we can't possibly have enough programs
and space for them
which is why we would love to have more
spaces to be able
to have more staff members and provide
more programs for the community
so that this is one of the main reasons
why we're doing the expansion at lazy
creek because
there's high demand for these programs
you know um i do presentations with
other agencies and i provide an update
on the city of manifest one of the
kind of funny things about city of
menifee is that i've been here almost
two years so i'm two years older but the
average age of men if you went from 38
to
36. so matter if you got two years
younger even though i got two years
older
and the main reason is because we have
all these young families moving here
with young children
and there's not a lot of preschool
programs in the community
at all and so there's very high demand
for these programs and they provide a
very good um
sam and susie and agree they provide a
very good
quality program that keeps people coming
back and having that waiting list
so um the lazy creek project that
expansion and having two buildings is a
one of the reasons why we're doing that
is for programs like this
i actually talked to the fire marshal
today we're at about 70 80
construction plans um and the fire
marshal did her review this week
and has comments back for the architect
it's gone through review with our
uh building official colin mcnee and i
also spoke to our community develop our
planning director
cheryl kitzrow about the project this
morning as well to make sure that we're
compliant with sequa and have a
appropriate amount of parking stalls for
the expansion so we are
chugging along um ids group or
architects that are working on this
project
their hope is to get this out to bid for
construction by the end of the calendar
year because the building codes
changed january 1. so they're they're
under some pressure but
they're working through the process
they've been working with mr howe on
some
cleanup items and making sure we have
all the detail that we need when we put
this out to bid and
get some construction contractors on
board so we're hoping that we can get
this out to bid
by the end of the calendar year or by
next month then maybe we'll be under
construction by the springtime
all right sam and susie thank you for
your presentation i have a few questions
um what's the cost of this um the cost
varies for the most part we have
all of our supplies now we've gotten a
lot of supplies over the past couple
months
i'm so sorry it's like echoing i'm used
to being yelled at
um and so right now we
don't need to spend any money on it we
have
everything for the upcoming up until
summer so how are your funds generated i
don't know if it's a json question about
you
eight thousand four to sixty seven if i
may for to maybe clarify susie what
what do we charge the participants how
much is it i'm sorry was that the
question
that was the question oh i'm sorry i
thought you were asking the program
um so it varies from class to class our
spanish class is forty dollars for
residents
our busy bugs classes forty dollars for
residents
our watch me grow program is twenty
dollars for residents
and our steamers class is a hundred and
ten for residents
so that's per class yes oh no that's for
a session i'm sorry that's for a month
okay and it's um the steamers and the
spanish are twice a week
watching me grow and busy bugs are once
a week each i'm sorry i didn't
understand it no that's okay
my my last question is oh i'm sorry
that's
i'm sorry sorry sorry that's an alarm
sorry okay
are there any um minimum certifications
that you all
need to meet like c being cpr qualified
yes we do all need to be cpr certified
anything else um besides being nice with
children
um well it's wonderful
if they have previous child care
experience
however we also open it up
to anyone who would like to work with
children for example brianna
she did have a couple years experience
volunteering however it was something
that she was interested in and she's
growing and learning through it
and so it's something that is a great
opportunity even if you don't have the
experience initially
because there are people that do have
experience in it
and we can kind of help guide them
through it thank you in addition we'll
be doing some training on december 21st
it's gonna be an all day pretty
intensive staff training for
all levels of the youth that we work
you know with i may also i think that
suzie's being a bit humble
with her education background experience
because she does have
early childhood education units which is
a
preliminary requirement for anyone
teaching a child care type program
uh also just so you know having a
daughter
or a granddaughter that's in writing
lessons this is a bargain
yeah we try to keep the costs low so
that
we get a lot of people who come because
we want to provide
the program to as many people as
possible
i just wanted to thank you for what
you're doing for the youth of this
city and i appreciate what you're doing
thank you so much
that means a lot thank you
um
incomes that might just struggle this is
a lot of help
and if we can provide more ways
is
i have a question is are any of your
programs
parent participation programs or is it
all
instructions by the instructors in other
words do you let the people sit in and
help you
do they take part do they help you at
all or how the parents
involved in this other than just
bringing the kids there
and watching or do they help you babysit
or do they help at all
that's right yes we do have one program
that is parent and me it's our watch me
grow that's our nature based class
and the parents um are there the whole
time for that one other than that our
other classes
their non-parent participation the ones
with the children who are older we feel
that it's better just to be with the
instructors
because they are transitioning soon into
either
a preschool or kindergarten and so
they won't be with their parent or
guardian at that time and so it's a
little bit of an easier transition
but for our younger children we do
provide the watch me grow program
you know i was just curious about the
smaller kids you know the young ones
if the parents actually participate in
some of what you do
are they just there to kind of guide the
kids towards what you're supposed to be
doing
that's we require participation
throughout the entire class when they're
there
yeah so um they're not allowed to be on
their cell phones or be away from the
child at all they have to be actively
participating the entire time
very good thank you you mentioned
marketing this is probably a jason
question how are we going about getting
the word out
we have the program in our minifee
matters that goes out every quarter
because the class is usually full with
the waiting list we don't do a whole lot
of flyers out to the public or anything
because we're usually full
once we expand to lazy creek and have
those opportunities we'll definitely hit
it hard with flyers
the community local businesses things
that nature like we usually do with our
programs because i was thinking
outside of the general populace here we
have the spanish-speaking populace over
in areas like roma land
right and we don't really have any
publications in that language for them
we tried it most of the programs are
dual immersion so they do do some
spanish and english classes and
when we do target that audience we
definitely do uh flyers in spanish as
well since we have such dead
um staff that are able to do those for
us
thank you
commissioners any other questions
yeah i have one question for jason in
light of the
classes getting larger and expanding and
everything
is the improvement at lazy creek going
to be sufficient
but when it's finished to cover all
these the
bigger classes probably not completely i
mean we're definitely going to need some
other facilities and that's one thing
that staff is working on constantly is
trying to
broker relationships with community
partners school districts to have
programs in other locations
and then of course hopefully one day
we'll
take over some other areas it'll give us
some more space to do these amazing
programs
okay thank you
all right mr nix that's all we have
ladies again thank you
oh jason thank you thank you
all right moving on to uh item number
nine going on to 9.1
director comments mr nix yes sir um
first item i'd like to talk about is our
january meeting schedule so our regular
meeting day would be the first thursday
which is january 2nd
so it's a day following a holiday where
we have several staff off including
myself
and so i wanted to
i know
uh so a possible reschedule to uh uh two
weeks later
january 16th i want to see if that was
uncomfortable to the commissioners
good for me good for me yes it would be
uh
it's thursday january 16th so same time
same place
okay perfect so we'll we'll make sure we
post
at the meeting for january 2nd will be
cancelled and then
look for january 16th
just so as an update we went through a
very competitive recruitment process 180
applications
many interviews a lot of interest from
folks from other cities wanting to come
to city of menifee and we actually chose
a new senior management analyst to
replace ms huerta which is very large
shoes to fill
um and it is a lady named
mariana mitchell from the city of
fontana so she'll be joining us in
january and will be our next meeting on
january 16th
and just to note she is very good
because she used to be jason's
supervisor
so to deal with jason for several years
i mean you have to have some
patience and so is it
so are the roles go flip now is she
going to be a supervisor here
they'll be kind of uh equivalent yeah
okay yeah so
it will help me with jason if i may ask
if we may ask melda
were you headed to i was actually
promoted in july
um as a senior management analyst in the
city manager's office
so mel has been helping us for like five
months
doing dual duty so we really really
appreciate that thank you well thank you
well when when's
so is that the 16th going to be your
last meeting in meldo is this the last
we're going to see of you
tonight i think this is the last meeting
unless john needs me next month then
i'll be here
it's up to john yeah
oh absolutely yeah of course thank you
and then i have um one more announcement
so we actually had a vacancy
for our community service a full-time
community service coordinator positions
and we had someone that's been working
very hard someone that you know very
well
and so i'd like to uh announce um that
we just recently promoted
um chelsea bollinger from office
specialist to full-time community
services coordinator so
all right
so jason i don't know if you want to
give a little rundown of chelsea's new
duties
yes thank you john uh as john mentioned
chelsea's been just doing an
amazing job she's gone from a part-time
community services leader entry-level
position to a full-time office
specialist too
to now a community services coordinator
and she'll be taking over the duties of
community relations contract classes and
uh she's still going to help out with
the front desk operations as well
really really excited to have chelsea
but i'm going to put her on the spot and
ask her to
tell you guys a little bit about her
experiences and how excited she is to do
some public speaking
hello thank you for inviting me um so i
have a little
bit background i got a bachelor's degree
at hope
international university in a liberal
arts and a concentration business
and i've been with the city for about a
year and a half and like jason said i
started
as a community service leader one and
that was about a year a half and ago
a year a half ago and then i was lucky
enough to get the position
of office specialist too and now as a
coordinator i'll also be doing
veteran resources as well
and yeah i'm looking forward to working
with them in the contract classes and
i'm really excited and thankful for this
opportunity
chelsea is also going to be uh handling
taking our special needs programming to
the next level she's been
doing that kind of almost as a side gig
as part of her duties with lady alegria
also on our team and
they have some really special things
planned and we had a really great
meeting with somebody recently that i
think is really going to continue to
help us
reach that that group that sometimes
isn't so
excited about coming out of the shadows
so to speak so chelsea has a huge heart
for the special needs she used to work
for special olympics
uh so i think this is really going to be
a great opportunity for those in our
community
congratulations chelsea
all right continuing on with mr nix
director comments okay
uh kind of hard to follow but i'll keep
going um
so uh as you may know the next census is
coming up
in april 2020 and the city under
community development
has a complete count committee that
we're forming so they've already had one
meeting but we're looking actually to
hopefully have a representative from the
parks commission uh participated in that
so i wanted to
see if one of the commissioners would
like to volunteer to join that committee
and
help with the outreach efforts i had a
question i had a question
is that the one that gloria sanchez is
handling some of that or not yes she's
on the committee yes
she's called me a couple times and i'm
just wondering if that's what she's
asked
what uh yeah so it it yeah so
community development planning
department they've assembled
folks from the chamber of commerce from
uh interfaith council
in different segments of the community
so they're also trying to get a
representative from each of the
commissions from the planning commission
the parks commission
well i'm on that other senior one that
she has too
senior advisory
this i was just wondering if this one
now is going to be
this is separate than that this is
focused on the census i just have to be
careful when i
when i talk to her because i don't want
to say yes to too many things she asks
you're going to get roped into
volunteering much more so
it does it sounds like uh mr amarillo is
volunteering for this or is somebody
else
i didn't say that
maybe we should nominate tony i don't
think you say that either
um those meetings are on what thursdays
yeah so it's going to be the second
thursday every month uh basically what
they do is they get together
kind of check in and then create a plan
for uh
to help the census get out to the
community and of course the census
um one of the main reasons why we do
this census and do these counts is
because
for every person there's a value of that
is counted at a value of about two
thousand dollars in federal funding per
year
so the more we count more of a complete
count that we get that's more
uh federal funding that the city would
qualify for for different services
infrastructure all that kind of stuff
and definitely focus on areas where
maybe folks are a little bit resistant
to be counted or
you know the quail valley area roma land
area where maybe some folks might get
missed
so and also let people know that there
are other ways to be counted
it's not doesn't have to be the old
school way of a person coming to your
door they can do it online
different avenues is that what they're
doing they're going door-to-door on this
or
no the the the committee yeah the
committee isn't doing that the
committee's actually
getting together and um thinking of
different ways to help the census bureau
get out there
yeah you're not going to be a counter
with it with a you know with a walk list
or something no no no no no no yeah
no yeah it's just a committee it's more
of a planning committee
and then uh for example you mentioned uh
miss sanchez is um trying to
um have a census meeting at the oasis um
this month
so that's one thing she's doing to try
to help the census burden well you
haven't you had a
party at the club today yes that's
probably what i'm talking about yeah
yes and and she called from sacramento
just know if i was gone but i had
another commitment so
and then she said by the way you know
when she starts saying by the way i
gotta always back off
because i never know what she's after so
uh i'd be willing to
think you know give this a little
thought because i do i am committed on
thursday's
few things but if it's only one a month
that wouldn't be bad
yeah so yeah then second thursday of
each month so if
commissioner amarelli is volunteering
then that would be next thursday
that we need you here at three o'clock
here yes sir
no pressure
okay mr next when do you need an an
answer by
uh we and we don't need to decide
tonight but since we have all these
gentlemen here
okay okay if if mr admiral is unable to
volunteer is there somebody that
might want to serve as a backup yes
i believe my wife is on this committee
so
i would
[Laughter]
part of the active transportation plan
yeah
no mrs ackerman is on this committee yes
yes then i if
if tony doesn't want i would i would be
willing to serve very good thank you
bill
okay so
okay moving forward um another uh
under director's comments i just want to
provide this brief presentation we
actually had
uh rta now meeting here that uh
commissioners croy
and guitarists uh participated in and so
uh we provided this update on the pluma
washroom project so i thought of prudent
to also provide the update here
to the full commission um so all of you
are very familiar with the paloma wash
trails right across the street right
next to the uh
the town center and right next to um our
new central park which uh
mr howe and our maintenance team made a
connection from the park
uh to the trail just recently as you
also may know this
was not originally a trail it was a
maintenance road
that was built just to have maintenance
access to the wash
but folks just started walking on it so
the city did some light repairs to it
back in 2016
just to fill some cracks and um and
start using it as a trail but
because it was created just as a
maintenance road
it really hasn't held up over the last
10 years there's a lot of cracking
a lot of uneven spots in there
so this uh proposed improvement project
would
replace all the asphalt on their
construct pedestrian crosswalk at la
piedra because there's a
space there where the trail stops
because la pedro's there and so to
create a crosswalk where you can
continue down the trail
across la piedra to the other side
install some fitness stations install
some park benches so people can rest
because that is
a couple miles if you're going around
the whole entire trail i had some
additional landscaping and then
informational science
so uh this is just kind of an overview
it's kind of hard to see the legend but
all those
circles there would be some new proposed
trees and landscaping um the little
those are blue dots would be the
informational sides the rectangles
are the fitness stations and that other
trapezoidal thing would be the
uh where the proposed benches would be
so the estimated project costs and
actually mr geronimo's um
leading this project as well is about a
million dollars to do all those
improvements
um construction is about 787 and doing
all the engineering and administration
we did receive a grant for a little
under five hundred thousand dollars and
we're matching that
with our local trails funds um and just
as a reminder this project
uh was presented to the parks commission
city council when we're going through
our cip
process back in may and june with the
budget so uh city council
did approve accepting the grant funding
in august
uh accepting the 500 000 and then last
night
they uh approved an award of a design
contract to koa
corporation so there was some questions
if you saw the council meeting from
councilmember elise meyer about
well hey this seems like a fairly simple
process you just take out the asphalt
lay some new asphalt down why do we need
to hire a design firm and the reason why
is because it was a maintenance road
before
we want to make sure it when we put the
asphalt down it's done the right way
and there's also a a little more
engineering that needs to be done to
make sure we can get across la piedra
the correct way um another comment that
was made by the city council is
one thing that wasn't initially proposed
with this design
was having lights and so what the
direction that they gave
back to our public works director is
that to negotiate
with koa corporation to add lights to
the design
so that's one thing that they're going
to do and incorporate that into the
design
so um are there any questions from the
commission on on this project
um just one if you could back up a
couple slides where you're sure
the actual trail there you go um i know
this is a long
and sordid tale and that pedestrian
bridge going from the
central park over the shopping center
that
is just the perfect example for what
we're talking about with the
alternative transportation because
you've got all those homes that are
going to be in there
and they can walk to the market now
instead of getting in their car
and have them go down to la piedra over
the marketplace
whatever we can do to secure maybe some
additional grant funding or
federal state local to get that bridge
a pedestrian bridge built that that's
just
the perfect example of how to get people
out of their cars
into a more healthy community i'm very
glad that you brought that up mr
croy because that was a question from
the city council as well what about the
pedestrian bridge
i mean mr v i did announce that myself
and jonathan smith are working
on a plan for the pedestrian bridge
which we will bring back
to the commission and then to the city
council on the first part of the year so
we're working on
different design options for the bridge
because we want it to
not just be a straight metal bridge we
wanted to have some design to it
especially because this is our central
park
you know there's some great amenities
there this is the future
um home of the permanent city hall you
know cocorian theater
different things like that so we want it
to be a very nice bridge especially for
upgrading the trail
so we're going to provide some design
options on that and some funding options
on it as well
um you look you see the future
courthouse there
yes sir yeah i'm a judge and i'm hungry
and i need to go over to
you know to employ a local for someone
yeah
i i don't want to get in my car and go
out and do that i want to be able to
take a nice little walk
absolutely for all the benefits of
walking health benefits stress benefits
definitely all right thank you
yeah but around enough judges they don't
walk
but uh jonathan is any estimate on the
uh the
the downtime or the off limits time with
construction in other words how long is
it
not going to be available to right local
residents uh we we haven't figured that
out yet and that's another reason why
we're hiring koa so when they figure out
all the design
and the engineering estimates they'll
they can figure out a construction
timeline as well so then we can
notify the residents hey we're going to
start construction it's going to be down
from this time to this time
and make sure there's proper
notification so if someone's not walking
out there then i was like whoa what's
going on is bulldozer so
a a suggestion uh if you could suggest
to them
one side at a time so you have one
available
while they're doing it that makes
perfect sense definitely
have one question yes sir
the courthouse that two or three story
building that's
going up there right now oh no um so
closer to
newport road that is a fairfield hotel
way back there oh in the back i thought
it was gonna be closer to the street
so closer to la pietra is um those are
the artesa apartments
so closer to santa rosa academy all
those three-story buildings
well you know that you go down to go in
there to go to the park now
yeah are you talking about ride across
from the park
yeah right right across from the park is
uh a private uh recreation amenity
that's for the town homes
and then right behind the park are the
actual town
so it looks homes a three-story building
that's why i wondered if that was gonna
be the courthouse or if that's
starting on the hotel way back there no
they haven't started on the courthouse
yet no
i was curious what the building is then
okay
john if i may oh yes it's actually
labeled wrong
on this map where the courthouse is
that's actually where the recreation
center is yeah or houses where it says
future
city hall would be directly across the
street from there yeah you wouldn't even
see the
courthouse on this map that's right
there yeah thank you mr powell yeah
the courthouse would be a little more
easy all i know is there's a building
going up there and it
looks like a three-story squared off
building i was just curious what that
was
yeah if it's going in that spot that's
mislabeled as courthouse
that's the private recreation center for
the all the folks living in the
townhomes yeah
i just uh comment about this paloma wash
trail in
future is it possible to be able to
connect this with salt creek trail
the paloma watch continues north
that's small creek yeah so um in order
to connect to salt creek we'd have to go
either over
under newport road so there are some
challenges with that
i'm not saying impossible but there are
some challenges with that and that's
something that
i i've talked lightly with our public
works director about
okay thank you
commissioners any other comments on this
item before we move on
okay okay that's it moving on to i don't
know i'm sorry i have one more thing
um and i'm actually going to hand it
over to amel duarte who has some
exciting news about the
city of menifee as an organization yes
thank you john
um so every year the inland news group
puts out a survey to
employees of different organizations
small companies mid-sized companies
large companies
and they ask the employees about the
world culture
satisfaction um i don't remember how
many questions there were but it was
pretty
it was pretty in-depth and so i am happy
to announce that
the city of menifee there was a small uh
company we're under the small company
category and out of the
there were 14 uh companies that were
selected as a top workplace of 2019 and
we were
one of them and we were the only city in
that category as well to be recognized
so that is very exciting um hr staff and
i attended an event yesterday where they
recognized and honored all the different
uh top work places for this year
so just wanted to let you know that was
a very exciting news for the city
yes oh
and if this is my last meeting i just
wanted to say it's been an honor
a pleasure super fun to work as a clerk
uh
for this commission so thank you very
much thank you thank you
thank you all right moving on to item
number 9.2 parks in progress update
and i'll turn over to mr howell
all right good evening commission okay
so i'll try not to
this will be a short one on the parks i
know it seems like it's repetitive
the heritage lake sports park there 20
acre park is still in progress
less than a year now before we get that
as we binge closer to it and a few of
these parks
that uh like uh centennial park they're
in the 90 day maintenance period um
where almost 30 days
into this 90 day maintenance period and
then so we're it's almost there as soon
as we have it we'll definitely
be having either a grand opening or
collaborate with an event or anything so
we could have a
grand opening there and hidden hills
park now goes
to city council on the 17th of this
month for
acceptance um so we will have that
before the end of this year
we'll be in the city's hands maintaining
that park and that includes the paseos
as well
for the hidden hills
and that's it for the parks in progress
like i said i didn't want to try to
be repetitive but we're almost there
hopefully soon we're going to have some
more that
new parks that are under construction
right now
next month i'll have some different
pictures uh including talavera park the
ones that
it's all graded out they're starting to
move things in there so i'll be able to
get some actual pictures on there
when you just show a picture of just the
graded flat
part there it doesn't look like much so
they're actually starting to get some
uh texture there you know what i mean so
elevation changes and everything so that
building's there so i'll get a good
drone shot of that so next month we'll
be able to start seeing that
okay thank you bryce moving on to item
number nine point three recreation
division update
general mr hendrix yes thank you uh so
this last month in november we had quite
a few events going on and also
our general programming um as you can
see uh lazy creek had a great month
there and that
is due and mostly due to the fact uh
that was our youth basketball
registration month where it really picks
up there
i just sent john an email this morning
to or this evening to update him and
that is that we are
almost completely full with the waiting
list of almost 52 kids
for our youth basketball program and
that due to the fact that we only have a
limited amount of time in the gymnasium
at paloma valley so once we have a
facility of our own i'm sure this
program will expand even more
so that's been a good month there in
terms of the
recreation numbers and then special
events we had three special events in
the in the month of november
november first we had our first ever dia
de los muertos event over at central
park
um really nice event uh the turnout was
incredible and one of the comments that
we heard that we i think we really
appreciated was we heard some
individuals of latino
background state that it was really nice
that the city decided to recognize their
heritage
and i thought that was a great comment
to to record and and keep track of and
make sure that we're
continuing to offer these types of
unique experiences for our residents
excuse me and then on veterans day we
had a very busy day i know i saw a few
of you at these
various events started the day off with
a 5k
run and walk it also included a 1k for
the kids i believe the final total was
92
runners registered excuse me and then we
went directly into the veterans day
event
some very moving tributes one individual
that was actually born and raised in
menifee went on to serve in the marines
and unfortunately
lost his life while serving uh we
recognized his family it's a very
touching tribute
and then uh just an incredible day at
the home for the heroes program
uh private first class uh timothy and
again i'm forgetting his last name so i
apologize jeffers
uh was welcomed home to menifee by the
stephen siller's tunnels to towers
foundation
very moving event and he's now here he
actually chose minifee to come live
in because he heard about how great the
community was so that's a huge honor to
everybody here and everybody in this
community so
we'll continue to work with private
first class jeffers and make sure that
he feels very welcome here in menifee
and then finally on thanksgiving
thursday
the city of menifee community services
department alongside the menifee
interfaith
put on the annual thanksgiving service
it was two different services the
attendance on the first service was a
little bit lower
only because it was raining really heavy
uh so we we
had lower numbers the first service but
the second service we had a full
capacity
and just some some really great
testimonials from families who basically
said they'd probably be home alone
if it wasn't for this event so very
touching to be a part of that
chair holcomb is a member of the menifee
interfaith as well as was instrumental
putting that together along with gloria
sanchez
and tony falco so it was a great uh
november for us as far as events go and
i just wanted to give a quick reminder
that this saturday is our
christmas tree lighting rain or shine so
please tell your neighbors friends
anybody that'll listen that it's rain or
shine we're gonna make it happen
uh we may get rained on a little bit but
we'll be prepared we have some thanks to
bryce and his team
some safety measures in place to make
sure that everybody still remains safe
and able to have a great time
we'll have community performances all
night long
pictures with santa for free so you have
to pay 50 to go to the mall you can come
see a really good santa claus for free
you actually get the picture there as
you're leaving
we have 50 tons of snow this year which
is 10 more tons than we had last year
so it's gonna be a great day breakfast
with santa is december 14th we're
actually sold out for that so
that's just more of an informational
thing for you guys and then the menorah
lighting
in honor of our fallen friend marty
rosen will take place on december 23rd
which is a monday
at central park so it's gonna be a great
december for us as we round out the
calendar year
we have to answer any questions you
might have
the menorah lining is all three cities
combining into one we're hoping so yeah
so
rabbi abrams who's running this event
and kind of brought the event to us
uh his his goal is it all three cities
actually all four cities
would come to menifee and celebrate as a
whole and uh he's actually reaching out
to the elected officials for the other
cities to really encourage them
to have their residence come to minify
on december 23rd to honor
marty but also obviously partake in this
very tradition
thank you
all right any other any questions
regarding our recent events recent or
upcoming events
okay
moving on to item number 9.5 capital
improvement program update
mr howell all right thank you so i just
have a couple on here
um the we had it on there last month as
well the park lighting so this is the
led it'll be retrofit bulbs
and different head units for different
parks the tennis courts and the
basketball course there amr and spirit
park
and then the walkway lights at audie
murphy that was right before an led
change so the walkway lights there
actually are led so we're retrofitting
those bulbs there
and then we're also retrofitting the
whole head unit at
pete peterson park and then the bulbs at
um laladera park for the walkway lights
so this will help us save energy it'll
brighten up
the parts tremendously once you change
those doubles bulbs on there
and then the next one is the tree
inventory mapping this has been on
for our cip project for a couple years
that actually starting this month so
what it is is we hired our uh arborist
contract
west coast arborist uh they have a uh
a program it's called arbor access so
they'll
inventory all our trees and the right
ways the parks
um and it'll tell us what's missing when
we need a
what it was pruned last or if it's
diseased or
if it's in any kind of decrease of
you know gonna die or even if there's a
missing tree um we'll be able to go on
to their program
and then on their uh the program it'll
be just the gps of that
so we'll be able to tell each tree we'll
be able to separate trees look at
in certain areas so we're starting in
the uh
2012-1 area which is the audie murphy
area
so we're going to do the parks and the
right ways there as soon as they start
finishing that we are going to move into
the lmd's your csas
we're going to keep working our way
through so we can complete the whole
city
um and have that the gps that involve
the trees
and price all the uh the maintenance and
the callbacks for checks uh that's all
built into the contract with them
or is that extra no that's built into
the yeah this right here is just the
um them actually getting the
information to put into the program and
this includes that program our cost of
everything there
is included the program and they give
their time any
they need their it support and
everything with that program okay
they have over i believe there's over 2
000 users
a lot of different cities everything
throughout that
i don't know if arbor access i don't
know if it's just southern california
i'm not sure on that one but
i know it is it's just southern
california that the program's there for
different cities and everything so
and then for the maintenance we had 49
work orders submitted
45 completed and that's a 93
uh completion rate and then we head on
here
the guys have just been basic
maintenance that's been going around
the newest i only got one slide on here
is that
uh backstop there at la ladare so i
never really had a backstop the guy
my maintenance team came in there
rebuilt a back actual backstop so we can
start using that
field more with that so there's a brand
new backstop on the back of that
um and that's it the guys have been
doing a few other things i'll show next
month
that i guess it finished today so it's
uh
i'll consider that finished in december
so we'll we'll do that when we do
any update but if you guys have any
questions with any of these
have we turned off the water water's
been off for a few weeks yes
i like it when the water's off
commissioners any uh any any comments
for mr howe or anybody
9.5 and 9.6
okay moving on to item number 10
commissioner reports on committee
activities
anybody
um just want to say that uh i
attended the uh tap i've got adp
or atp tap it's getting hard to keep
track of this but
anyway it was the the bus ride basically
uh with
rta uh that was very informational
um i thought that
they really go anywhere and i think that
it would definitely behoove them too
and for us to promote that organization
because they're a great organization
and i was very pleased to do that thank
you
okay anyone else
i have one question uh i was reading the
minutes from the
city council meeting here tonight and
where they
turned down the tower at wheatfield park
yes and all the comments from
councilman or mayor pro tem or august
and all that
talking about taking the parks is that
getting closer and closer
for us taking over all the parks or not
the the city is actively um
working with lafco to try to
hit that to a close yes because
here listening to the way that reports
come out in minutes and everything
it looks like we're getting pretty close
we're trying and actually i did give her
uh one of the reports that we provided
to the city council last night was our
strategic visioning plan which is a
project that miss huerta is working on
one of the items
was the annexation of valley white
and our goal in that report is to have
the parks come over to the city
next fiscal year which would be july 1
2020.
very good so that that is a stated
published goal of the city
very good there was one other thing i
picked up a copy of the newspaper
remember we opened the park and we put
in all the special equipment for the
kids
um i can't remember the name law marsh
yes we have that
playground yes there was an article in
the paper showed a picture of a couple
people at the park
mother and kids and just a picture in
the paper with just a little underneath
it
and they talk about lisa and everybody
promoting it
but they promoted that one park and and
they just they didn't say anything else
about anything about the park other than
the fact it was open in menifee now
and i'm just wondering they get their
information
but they don't they didn't give lisa or
us or anybody
a little more um for the you know for
the park
i mean just one little picture and
nothing else yet they had
something about some school play that
was coming up in elsinore but some gay
play and all that they gave it a full
page spread
and here this park with the kids it was
just a picture
it was when it was impressive puts that
out huh was this the press enterprise
yeah okay well they they
they have they have the discretion kind
of being a victim of it uh in another
in another section of my life they have
the discretion to print whatever they
want they they can gather
uh pages and reams of information from
the people on site or
even for the city for from the city for
that matter but
uh they have the latitude of printing
whatever they want how long or how short
so once it reaches their desk their
editing desk it's out it's out of the
jurisdiction and control and influence
of the people on site and of the city
that's just kind of how reporting works
yeah and mr emery
just to let you know that uh we did
provide a full press release and uh
mr hendricks did even talk to that
reporter for the press enterprise to
provide them additional information
that's that's what i figured because
that day they were there we were talking
everybody and
when that i saw that picture in the
paper just a picture and just a little
bit of a little blurb and that was it
i i think you should volunteer to write
them a letter because
last time i checked when you go on to
their website and you see
local news communities guess who's not
there
we're not included so maybe we should
all well maybe all the people men if you
should stop buying a press enterprise
all right um mr nix uh one thing i
noticed maybe it's just me but after uh
before the adjournment we don't have our
list of uh
nice to do things that we'd like to
accomplish um yes the future generators
i'll make sure that we provide provide
an update on that uh during the next
meeting i think we just
we just missed it okay i know you guys
are not trying to shield anything oh no
no absolutely not
it was just oversight on my part okay um
all right before we go to the german any
final comments
from the commission i would like to
suggest a future agenda item
yes i was talking to gloria the day of
the bus ride
and she told me that the senior advisory
committee had been talking
with your predecessor about getting a
bus of that kind
for community services and i was
wondering if we could have a discussion
about maybe
pursuing that idea that it would be
available to service the community
particularly of course the seniors
but we can provide an update on that mr
hendricks has been working on that for
probably three years
and provided several different options
and updates to the senior advisory
committee on that so we could provide a
summary
to the parks commission of all of mr
hendricks efforts towards that
looking at different uh looking at
different grants looking at
um rta has a like a decommissioned bus
program where
that was offered before the challenge
with having a
passenger van of that size like the one
that we wrote on for the t now
is that you do have to have someone that
is licensed to drive that and having a
city
staff person that's dedicated and
licensed and all that
and plus the insurance that you need and
the fueling and the maintenance of
such a vehicle does present some
challenges so we can provide a summary
report of
what we've provided the senior advisory
committee before oh good i'd like to
hear about that
most definitely we could do that thanks
ricky ricky have anything bill okay
tony do you have anything one thing mr
nix um
i guess i'm probably the last one here
um
i just i was just thinking out loud and
perhaps this is more appropriate
me approaching my council member but um
have we kind of uh abandoned about the
idea of a minifee tv
station or minifee channel that way i i
see that as an
avenue in which we can showcase some of
our events with respect to recreation
in other ways and just a mode of getting
out
what we're doing here in the city of
menifee has that been discussed
recently um absolutely they're one of
the challenges that
that's very typical the last two cities
i work for and the county we all had our
own television station
the way that cities and public agencies
have television stations is we receive
what is called public education
government funds peg funding
and those are fees that are received
from the cable providers like comcast
frontier
time warner um the city was not
receiving that funding
so the city attorneys just because we
formed into a new city
and the cable providers weren't keeping
up with that that and recognizing our
jurisdiction
so the city attorney's office had to
work on that and then just recently
actually i believe earlier this year
resolved that and so
the funding started coming in and that
funding actually went to the
improvements for this council chamber so
the second
portion of that is to actually create
the feed and um
feed out so that even this meeting would
be broadcast on that channel so that is
an active project that the city is
working out to establish like
that cable channel just like most other
cities have okay
thank you very much and if there are no
other comments um
i would like to adjourn this meeting
first of all thank you staff thank you
for your
just your wonderful installer work that
you always perform on behalf of the
residents of the city of menifee but
um i'd like to adjourn this meeting uh
in honor of uh ms imelda for everything
she's done for us
all right all right this meeting is
adjourned
i want to wish everybody a very merry
christmas
and because we won't be coming back
before christmas now so
all right happy holidays
and thank you
you