[0:59] all right good evening everyone and
[1:00] welcome to the city of minifee's parks
[1:02] recreation and trails commission meeting
[1:04] today is thursday december 5th 2019.
[1:07] this meeting is now called to order
[1:09] madam secretary please take the role
[1:12] commissioner akerman commissioner
[1:14] amarelli
[1:15] commissioner croix here vice chair git
[1:17] royce here chair holcomb
[1:19] here all a present thank you at this
[1:21] time i'd like to invite
[1:23] uh vice chair tom gidgeous to lead us
[1:25] into flax salutes who
[1:26] if you are able please stand and face
[1:28] the flag
[1:47] all right thank you tom
[1:51] all right moving on to item number four
[1:53] presentations
[1:55] uh 4.1 uh mr nix do we have any
[1:59] presentations uh yes sir we have a
[2:01] presentation on the alternative
[2:02] transportation program
[2:04] and i'd like to invite up our principal
[2:06] engineer from public works department
[2:08] carlos geronimo to give that
[2:09] presentation okay carlos
[2:15] well good evening everyone
[2:20] so this is a presentation of the active
[2:22] transportation plan
[2:24] this is something that the city has been
[2:25] working on for a while
[2:27] um let me go through the slice and
[2:29] explain what this is about
[2:33] so what's an active transportation plan
[2:35] so it makes improvements
[2:37] and provides safer and more reliable
[2:39] mobility choices whether you are walking
[2:41] cycling taking transit driving or ride
[2:43] sharing
[2:47] so a little bit of background on the
[2:49] project this project was
[2:50] initiated by the city it's grant funded
[2:53] through california sb1 planning grant
[2:56] for this type of project caltrans
[2:59] administers the funds
[3:00] so we have to answer the cal trends on
[3:02] this project
[3:04] we have about a year and a half
[3:08] of time to do this project so we're kind
[3:10] of midway
[3:11] on the schedule and at the bottom of
[3:14] that slide you can see
[3:15] the project team we've teamed up with
[3:17] riverside university health system
[3:19] um k2na foreign stc are
[3:22] our consultants that are helping us with
[3:25] this project
[3:26] caltrans of course and local government
[3:28] commission is a non-profit agency
[3:31] based on sacramento that helps
[3:34] local governments do these kind of
[3:36] projects
[3:38] so we have a good mix of project team
[3:41] members
[3:45] so what will this atp or active
[3:47] transportation plan would do for the
[3:48] city
[3:49] uh it assesses the community needs uh
[3:52] evaluates current street and sidewalk
[3:54] inventory that's something that we
[3:55] currently don't have
[3:56] we have sidewalks all over the place
[3:58] there are gaps here and there
[4:00] but we don't have an accurate encounter
[4:03] what's missing where they are what stay
[4:04] there
[4:06] identify and prioritize active
[4:08] transportation projects
[4:09] focus on providing improved
[4:10] transportation choices in senior and
[4:12] disadvantaged neighborhoods
[4:14] in your local schools within the city
[4:20] so a little more background on this
[4:24] safety as we were talking about it will
[4:26] provide for
[4:29] buffer bike lanes or protected bike
[4:31] lanes corridors
[4:34] more visible crosswalks and
[4:38] ada ramps for accessibility to all
[4:40] pedestrians
[4:52] with disabilities to get to the other
[4:54] side
[4:56] also the bottom left picture
[4:59] in this slide this is a project we just
[5:01] completed near the
[5:03] romulan elementary school where we
[5:06] actually did pop out
[5:08] on the street
[5:19] as vehicles approach intersection they
[5:22] see it's narrow
[5:28] we all know the benefits of being active
[5:31] transportation
[5:33] just their walkable neighborhoods have
[5:35] substantially lower rates of obesity and
[5:38] overweightness and diabetes
[5:40] and this goes in hand with the city's
[5:42] mission statement to provide a safe
[5:44] livable and active community for all
[5:47] residents
[5:50] so the city will focus on pedestrian
[5:53] areas
[5:54] giving tv for safe routes to school for
[5:55] example um
[5:57] we'll look at what the schools are um
[6:06] on this on the network to make sure that
[6:09] kids
[6:10] can get to school safer this picture you
[6:12] see right there is
[6:13] something we did at quail valley
[6:18] elementary
[6:20] cab on the sidewalk so we did this
[6:22] project maybe a couple of years ago it
[6:23] wasn't part of this but this is
[6:24] something that
[6:25] an example of what we're going to
[6:26] implement and you can see
[6:30] it was well received by the community
[6:35] we'll also prioritize the citywide
[6:37] network of bikers and trails
[6:39] we already have a general plan that
[6:40] identifies
[6:43] bikeways and trails and things like that
[6:46] we need to prioritize it and kind of go
[6:49] the next step on this
[6:51] looking at destination where people want
[6:53] to go
[6:54] and also recreation people just want to
[6:56] get their bikes and just
[6:58] go around the city what's a good network
[7:14] um
[7:16] so this atp will analyze costs and
[7:18] alternatives
[7:19] of top rated projects we will come up
[7:22] with about
[7:22] 20 priority projects this is just a
[7:25] sample of what it would look like
[7:37] accordingly and this will eventually
[7:40] go to our capital project
[7:45] for a five-year plan and then we'll
[7:47] start tackling this project one at a
[7:49] time
[7:50] and this is helpful uh because there are
[7:53] numerous grants out there
[7:54] here towards this kind of project and if
[7:57] we have this
[7:58] atp it will help us obtain those funds
[8:03] and also it will help us kind of
[8:06] prioritize i guess
[8:08] it's more of a guideline for not only
[8:10] the city but for future developers
[8:12] they can be conditioned to install some
[8:14] sidewalks or
[8:15] trails that are needed
[8:19] so this atp is only as good as the input
[8:21] we get from the community
[8:22] like one of the slides
[8:28] so ways to participate and to provide
[8:31] input on this atp is to attend our
[8:33] meetings workshops
[8:35] right now we have had other paintings in
[8:38] the past take surveys
[8:41] stay tuned for pop-up events and use our
[8:43] online map survey
[8:47] so we developed what is called the story
[8:49] map which has
[8:51] pretty much just an overview and more
[8:53] information about this atp
[8:56] we have some tech surveys it has an
[8:58] interactive map
[8:59] where you can go in there and select an
[9:01] area and
[9:02] click on it and make a comment
[9:06] crosswalk is needed here no aka ram so
[9:08] it's interactive and
[9:10] all this information is gathered and
[9:13] it's evaluated
[9:20] so like i said in the beginning we're
[9:21] kind of halfway uh in this
[9:24] project we're in the data and collection
[9:25] analysis we have until spring of 2020 to
[9:28] collect all the data and gather all this
[9:30] and then after that we'll start
[9:32] implementing this
[9:34] providing recommendations
[9:38] later on in the year so we are expecting
[9:41] to have a final report by fall of 2020.
[9:46] so with that this concludes my
[9:47] presentations and
[9:59] um this is long overdue
[10:02] i don't
[10:16] what's the safest way for me to get on
[10:19] my bike and go to a park
[10:20] take my kids there's
[10:24] a lot of ideas that i have with this
[10:27] are they meetings can we make sure
[10:43] yeah i'll just keep communication with
[10:46] carlos when there is a
[10:47] upcoming meeting then i will definitely
[10:49] all the commission
[10:51] um also if you uh will note in carlos's
[10:53] presentation
[10:58] um
[11:13] a lot of the proposed trails or existing
[11:15] trails just like we're trying to do
[11:16] an inventory sidewalk we were also
[11:18] trying to get inventory
[11:20] birds in one stone and you guys can go
[11:22] in there through that link
[11:24] and i know a few of you gentlemen have
[11:27] been working on these city trails before
[11:29] the city was even a city
[11:30] yeah so you probably kind of know uh
[11:33] some of the information that carlos is
[11:34] looking for so
[11:35] it'd be very good for you to go into
[11:37] that story map and add some of those
[11:39] missing things yeah
[11:51] yeah okay great this is good stuff and
[11:54] please keep keep us informed of those
[11:57] meetings and workshops because
[11:59] we all have a lot of years of
[12:02] experience here
[12:06] thank you carlos thank you for your
[12:09] presentation i have two questions uh
[12:11] right now
[12:12] uh was the target of the grant funding
[12:14] that we got from sb1 revenue
[12:16] seniors or senior neighborhoods and
[12:18] disadvantaged communities
[12:19] was that part of it it is part of it so
[12:22] we're trying to do a comprehensive
[12:24] plan that encompasses pretty much the
[12:26] whole spectrum of the residents
[12:28] seniors kids going to school
[12:32] people with disabilities
[12:41] okay do you recall thank you do you
[12:43] recall how much money we received from
[12:44] sb1
[12:45] and or the city
[13:04] do you find that that's enough money for
[13:06] you to accurately conduct this
[13:08] yes uh we went through an rfp process
[13:10] with a consultant
[13:11] and we delineated all the things that
[13:14] this atp needs because it's funded
[13:17] through caltrans they have guidelines
[13:32] considering the number of components in
[13:34] in this in this up
[13:35] this uh analysis uh is this going to be
[13:38] like a living document at the point that
[13:40] it's
[13:40] over with so that we can keep updating
[13:42] it keep revisiting it maybe a yearly or
[13:47] buy a annual basis yeah i mean certainly
[13:49] any document
[13:50] we can always update it as we need to
[13:52] you know priorities change over time in
[13:54] the city
[13:57] i think a portrayal will be nice to have
[13:59] this time maybe
[14:00] because of needs
[14:08] by the time we finally reach down into
[14:10] it some of those
[14:12] are going to change
[14:24] yeah maybe not so much grand money
[14:26] because it will be focused
[14:28] um we're going to redo the entire
[14:30] network again or maybe
[14:33] quite a few years on the road maybe
[14:36] updated
[14:37] but if um
[14:57] so this is a very good plan that mr john
[14:58] was paying together because it makes us
[15:00] eligible for more grants and
[15:01] there's another grant through prop 68
[15:03] that mr applied for earlier in the year
[15:05] to do some trail improvements as well
[15:08] exactly and who's going
[15:20] we want to make sure everybody's
[15:24] involved
[15:36] that would be the usual step that once
[15:50] get their comments recommendations
[16:02] this does give us the ability to apply
[16:05] for more grants identifies
[16:20] those trails
[16:34] questions carlos thank you very much for
[16:36] your presentation we appreciate it
[16:38] thank you all right moving on to item
[16:41] number 4.2
[16:43] employee of the quarter mr nix yes i'll
[16:45] turn over to mr hendricks to present our
[16:47] community services department employee
[16:48] of the
[16:49] yes thank you good evening i'm really
[16:51] excited this evening to
[16:52] recognize a very hard-working employee
[16:54] that we've had on our team for a few
[16:55] months now
[16:56] uh somebody that has really taken a
[16:58] program that we're going to be talking
[16:59] about later
[17:00] later called little learners and made it
[17:02] into just a really fantastic
[17:04] program for our residents so if we can
[17:06] get the commission to go up we're going
[17:07] to go ahead and call this individual up
[17:08] but we'd like to recognize samantha
[17:09] alvarez as our employee of the quarter
[17:11] so
[17:12] real quick
[17:16] jason you want us up there now
[17:19] well hold on stand up in our place so
[17:22] you want to say come out there
[18:07] so as i mentioned uh sam has been
[18:12] just a fantastic member of our team she
[18:14] was recently promoted
[18:15] to a community services leader too to
[18:17] lead up our classes and we'll
[18:18] again be talking a little bit more about
[18:20] that in a later
[18:22] future discussion item
[18:25] all right thank you jason
[18:27] congratulations sam
[18:29] all right moving on to item number 5.1
[18:32] this is the approval of tonight's
[18:34] minutes um at this point i'll entertain
[18:36] a motion to approve the minutes
[18:41] all in favor okay minutes approved
[18:45] okay moving on to item number six
[18:50] i'm sorry that was last moving on to
[18:52] item number six agenda approval or
[18:53] modification for tonight's
[18:56] program so um at this point do we uh
[18:59] have any modifications that need to be
[19:00] made
[19:01] to tonight's agenda there are no
[19:03] modifications okay
[19:05] i've seen that there are no mods i will
[19:07] ask for uh approval at this time
[19:14] aye approved
[19:17] all right thank you item number seven
[19:20] madam secretary do we have any public
[19:22] comments there are no public comments
[19:25] thank you now discussion item 8.1
[19:29] little learners mr nix i will again turn
[19:32] over to mr hendricks to do a
[19:33] presentation on the
[19:35] liberal learners program
[19:39] sorry about that thanks once again i'd
[19:40] like to call susie hernandez and sam
[19:42] alvarez up they're going to actually be
[19:43] delivering the presentation along with
[19:45] the powerpoint
[19:46] uh susie hernandez is one of our
[19:48] community services instructors she's
[19:50] been
[19:50] heavily involved in getting this program
[19:52] little learners up and running just a
[19:53] little quick history this program has
[19:55] been around for about a year now and
[19:56] it's
[19:56] it was started uh due to the
[19:58] overwhelming popularity of our tiny top
[20:00] program at lazy creek
[20:01] and it has morphed into a program that
[20:03] they'll discuss a little bit more but uh
[20:05] we're trying to use any available space
[20:06] that we can to continue to serve our
[20:08] residents and
[20:09] this is a great way that we're able to
[20:11] do that so i'll turn it over to the
[20:18] ladies
[20:33] engage the children and provide them
[20:35] with an enriching environment
[20:37] we work with children right now we have
[20:41] four different classes
[20:46] um
[20:48] and indoor and outdoor learning
[20:53] so these are some of the classes that we
[20:55] offer um
[21:28] um
[21:42] so that the children have more learning
[21:45] time
[21:46] and more time to go over the concepts
[21:48] that we're going over with them and i'll
[21:49] let samantha talk about some of those
[22:25] it allows the kids to definitely
[22:27] experience
[22:28] more of the culture which is very big
[22:31] especially in this class we want to make
[22:32] sure the kids understand that it's not
[22:34] just learning
[22:50] you know allow the kids
[23:06] and i am very
[23:15] i'm so sorry i'm not close to this thing
[23:17] at all
[23:19] thank you all right um we're gonna move
[23:21] on to some of our other classes oh
[23:23] thank you thank you very much um so
[23:26] one of them is called busy bugs and that
[23:29] is a movement class it's for ages
[23:31] three to five and what we do in this
[23:34] class
[23:35] is we do all kinds of body movements we
[23:38] practice stretching with the children
[23:40] yoga gymnastics bounce body movement
[23:43] control
[23:44] and dancing activities as well they
[23:47] practice rhythm
[23:48] and coordination and they do this all in
[23:51] a group
[23:51] setting and we have two instructors with
[23:55] them for that class
[23:56] and we also have the watch me grow class
[23:59] this is for ages
[24:00] two to four it is a parent in me
[24:03] class which means that a parent or
[24:05] guardian is with the child
[24:07] at all times it is both indoor and
[24:10] outdoor
[24:10] we do bi-weekly visits to our community
[24:13] services garden
[24:14] and we go out there and we explore they
[24:17] get to
[24:18] plant plants plant flowers catch bugs
[24:21] out there
[24:22] and then we do all kind of observations
[24:25] of what they're seeing
[24:27] and then we go into the classroom we do
[24:29] some arts and crafts
[24:30] story time and all kinds of engaging
[24:34] activities with the parents and the
[24:35] children
[24:38] and so here's a little bit of
[24:39] information on our instructors
[24:41] um i'm one of them miss samantha's one
[24:44] of them and we have
[24:45] uh miss bree she's not here tonight um
[24:48] all of our staff is bilingual and has
[24:50] prior experience in child
[24:52] care settings and it's all community
[24:54] services staff
[24:56] and then here's all of us so like i said
[24:59] i'm susie i'm working on my bachelor's
[25:01] degree right now in child and adolescent
[25:03] development
[25:04] and i have over seven years of
[25:05] experience in child care and
[25:07] customer service and then samantha
[25:23] definitely working with kids this year
[25:25] has been
[25:26] very
[25:41] and then our other instructor who's not
[25:43] here tonight brianna
[25:44] um she has some experience actually
[25:46] volunteering within the city
[25:48] and then she came on as a staff member
[25:50] she's got a couple years experience in
[25:52] child care as well and she's also fluent
[25:54] in spanish
[25:56] and then these are attendance rates um
[25:59] so this is from february 2019
[26:03] we've had 178 participants
[26:06] sorry um
[26:09] and we've been having like maximum
[26:11] capacity
[26:12] in all of our programs we have waiting
[26:15] lists
[26:15] for our programs and then we've been
[26:18] generating
[26:19] 8 467 in fun
[26:27] are there any questions
[26:30] just how quickly can we build you more
[26:34] buildings
[26:36] i wish very quickly we would love to
[26:39] expand
[26:39] if it was up to me thank you you guys
[26:43] are doing great work and i hear nothing
[26:44] but great stuff about it
[26:46] and like i said another four or five of
[26:50] them
[26:50] right now would in two seconds
[26:53] thank you thank you very much the house
[26:55] is in the waiting list
[26:57] i'm sorry how big is the waiting list it
[26:58] can range anywhere from
[27:00] two to ten children it just depends on
[27:03] the demand
[27:04] some months are there's more especially
[27:07] in the summer
[27:09] we have an overflow of children in the
[27:11] summer and
[27:12] we can't possibly have enough programs
[27:14] and space for them
[27:15] which is why we would love to have more
[27:17] spaces to be able
[27:19] to have more staff members and provide
[27:21] more programs for the community
[27:31] so that this is one of the main reasons
[27:33] why we're doing the expansion at lazy
[27:35] creek because
[27:36] there's high demand for these programs
[27:37] you know um i do presentations with
[27:39] other agencies and i provide an update
[27:41] on the city of manifest one of the
[27:43] kind of funny things about city of
[27:44] menifee is that i've been here almost
[27:46] two years so i'm two years older but the
[27:49] average age of men if you went from 38
[27:50] to
[27:51] 36. so matter if you got two years
[27:52] younger even though i got two years
[27:54] older
[27:54] and the main reason is because we have
[27:56] all these young families moving here
[27:57] with young children
[27:58] and there's not a lot of preschool
[28:01] programs in the community
[28:02] at all and so there's very high demand
[28:06] for these programs and they provide a
[28:07] very good um
[28:09] sam and susie and agree they provide a
[28:12] very good
[28:13] quality program that keeps people coming
[28:15] back and having that waiting list
[28:16] so um the lazy creek project that
[28:19] expansion and having two buildings is a
[28:21] one of the reasons why we're doing that
[28:23] is for programs like this
[28:24] i actually talked to the fire marshal
[28:26] today we're at about 70 80
[28:28] construction plans um and the fire
[28:30] marshal did her review this week
[28:32] and has comments back for the architect
[28:34] it's gone through review with our
[28:36] uh building official colin mcnee and i
[28:38] also spoke to our community develop our
[28:40] planning director
[28:41] cheryl kitzrow about the project this
[28:43] morning as well to make sure that we're
[28:44] compliant with sequa and have a
[28:46] appropriate amount of parking stalls for
[28:48] the expansion so we are
[28:49] chugging along um ids group or
[28:52] architects that are working on this
[28:53] project
[28:54] their hope is to get this out to bid for
[28:56] construction by the end of the calendar
[28:58] year because the building codes
[29:00] changed january 1. so they're they're
[29:02] under some pressure but
[29:04] they're working through the process
[29:05] they've been working with mr howe on
[29:07] some
[29:07] cleanup items and making sure we have
[29:09] all the detail that we need when we put
[29:11] this out to bid and
[29:12] get some construction contractors on
[29:13] board so we're hoping that we can get
[29:15] this out to bid
[29:16] by the end of the calendar year or by
[29:18] next month then maybe we'll be under
[29:20] construction by the springtime
[29:23] all right sam and susie thank you for
[29:25] your presentation i have a few questions
[29:27] um what's the cost of this um the cost
[29:30] varies for the most part we have
[29:32] all of our supplies now we've gotten a
[29:36] lot of supplies over the past couple
[29:38] months
[29:38] i'm so sorry it's like echoing i'm used
[29:40] to being yelled at
[29:42] um and so right now we
[29:45] don't need to spend any money on it we
[29:49] have
[29:49] everything for the upcoming up until
[29:51] summer so how are your funds generated i
[29:53] don't know if it's a json question about
[29:55] you
[29:56] eight thousand four to sixty seven if i
[29:58] may for to maybe clarify susie what
[30:00] what do we charge the participants how
[30:02] much is it i'm sorry was that the
[30:03] question
[30:04] that was the question oh i'm sorry i
[30:05] thought you were asking the program
[30:11] um so it varies from class to class our
[30:14] spanish class is forty dollars for
[30:16] residents
[30:17] our busy bugs classes forty dollars for
[30:19] residents
[30:20] our watch me grow program is twenty
[30:22] dollars for residents
[30:23] and our steamers class is a hundred and
[30:26] ten for residents
[30:28] so that's per class yes oh no that's for
[30:31] a session i'm sorry that's for a month
[30:33] okay and it's um the steamers and the
[30:35] spanish are twice a week
[30:37] watching me grow and busy bugs are once
[30:39] a week each i'm sorry i didn't
[30:40] understand it no that's okay
[30:42] my my last question is oh i'm sorry
[30:45] that's
[30:45] i'm sorry sorry sorry that's an alarm
[30:47] sorry okay
[30:48] are there any um minimum certifications
[30:51] that you all
[30:52] need to meet like c being cpr qualified
[30:54] yes we do all need to be cpr certified
[30:56] anything else um besides being nice with
[30:59] children
[31:01] um well it's wonderful
[31:04] if they have previous child care
[31:06] experience
[31:08] however we also open it up
[31:11] to anyone who would like to work with
[31:13] children for example brianna
[31:15] she did have a couple years experience
[31:17] volunteering however it was something
[31:19] that she was interested in and she's
[31:21] growing and learning through it
[31:23] and so it's something that is a great
[31:26] opportunity even if you don't have the
[31:28] experience initially
[31:29] because there are people that do have
[31:31] experience in it
[31:32] and we can kind of help guide them
[31:34] through it thank you in addition we'll
[31:36] be doing some training on december 21st
[31:38] it's gonna be an all day pretty
[31:39] intensive staff training for
[31:41] all levels of the youth that we work
[31:45] you know with i may also i think that
[31:47] suzie's being a bit humble
[31:48] with her education background experience
[31:50] because she does have
[31:51] early childhood education units which is
[31:54] a
[31:55] preliminary requirement for anyone
[31:56] teaching a child care type program
[31:59] uh also just so you know having a
[32:02] daughter
[32:03] or a granddaughter that's in writing
[32:04] lessons this is a bargain
[32:08] yeah we try to keep the costs low so
[32:10] that
[32:11] we get a lot of people who come because
[32:13] we want to provide
[32:14] the program to as many people as
[32:15] possible
[32:19] i just wanted to thank you for what
[32:21] you're doing for the youth of this
[32:23] city and i appreciate what you're doing
[32:25] thank you so much
[32:26] that means a lot thank you
[32:54] um
[33:09] incomes that might just struggle this is
[33:12] a lot of help
[33:13] and if we can provide more ways
[33:36] is
[33:42] i have a question is are any of your
[33:45] programs
[33:46] parent participation programs or is it
[33:49] all
[33:50] instructions by the instructors in other
[33:52] words do you let the people sit in and
[33:54] help you
[33:55] do they take part do they help you at
[33:57] all or how the parents
[33:59] involved in this other than just
[34:01] bringing the kids there
[34:02] and watching or do they help you babysit
[34:05] or do they help at all
[34:06] that's right yes we do have one program
[34:09] that is parent and me it's our watch me
[34:11] grow that's our nature based class
[34:13] and the parents um are there the whole
[34:15] time for that one other than that our
[34:17] other classes
[34:18] their non-parent participation the ones
[34:21] with the children who are older we feel
[34:23] that it's better just to be with the
[34:25] instructors
[34:26] because they are transitioning soon into
[34:28] either
[34:29] a preschool or kindergarten and so
[34:32] they won't be with their parent or
[34:34] guardian at that time and so it's a
[34:36] little bit of an easier transition
[34:37] but for our younger children we do
[34:39] provide the watch me grow program
[34:41] you know i was just curious about the
[34:42] smaller kids you know the young ones
[34:44] if the parents actually participate in
[34:47] some of what you do
[34:49] are they just there to kind of guide the
[34:51] kids towards what you're supposed to be
[34:53] doing
[34:53] that's we require participation
[34:55] throughout the entire class when they're
[34:57] there
[34:58] yeah so um they're not allowed to be on
[35:00] their cell phones or be away from the
[35:02] child at all they have to be actively
[35:04] participating the entire time
[35:06] very good thank you you mentioned
[35:08] marketing this is probably a jason
[35:10] question how are we going about getting
[35:12] the word out
[35:13] we have the program in our minifee
[35:14] matters that goes out every quarter
[35:17] because the class is usually full with
[35:18] the waiting list we don't do a whole lot
[35:20] of flyers out to the public or anything
[35:21] because we're usually full
[35:22] once we expand to lazy creek and have
[35:24] those opportunities we'll definitely hit
[35:26] it hard with flyers
[35:27] the community local businesses things
[35:29] that nature like we usually do with our
[35:30] programs because i was thinking
[35:32] outside of the general populace here we
[35:35] have the spanish-speaking populace over
[35:37] in areas like roma land
[35:38] right and we don't really have any
[35:40] publications in that language for them
[35:43] we tried it most of the programs are
[35:45] dual immersion so they do do some
[35:46] spanish and english classes and
[35:48] when we do target that audience we
[35:49] definitely do uh flyers in spanish as
[35:52] well since we have such dead
[35:53] um staff that are able to do those for
[35:55] us
[35:56] thank you
[36:00] commissioners any other questions
[36:04] yeah i have one question for jason in
[36:06] light of the
[36:08] classes getting larger and expanding and
[36:11] everything
[36:12] is the improvement at lazy creek going
[36:15] to be sufficient
[36:17] but when it's finished to cover all
[36:19] these the
[36:20] bigger classes probably not completely i
[36:23] mean we're definitely going to need some
[36:24] other facilities and that's one thing
[36:25] that staff is working on constantly is
[36:27] trying to
[36:28] broker relationships with community
[36:30] partners school districts to have
[36:32] programs in other locations
[36:34] and then of course hopefully one day
[36:36] we'll
[36:37] take over some other areas it'll give us
[36:39] some more space to do these amazing
[36:40] programs
[36:42] okay thank you
[36:46] all right mr nix that's all we have
[36:49] ladies again thank you
[36:50] oh jason thank you thank you
[36:55] all right moving on to uh item number
[36:57] nine going on to 9.1
[36:59] director comments mr nix yes sir um
[37:03] first item i'd like to talk about is our
[37:06] january meeting schedule so our regular
[37:08] meeting day would be the first thursday
[37:09] which is january 2nd
[37:11] so it's a day following a holiday where
[37:13] we have several staff off including
[37:15] myself
[37:16] and so i wanted to
[37:20] i know
[37:26] uh so a possible reschedule to uh uh two
[37:29] weeks later
[37:30] january 16th i want to see if that was
[37:31] uncomfortable to the commissioners
[37:34] good for me good for me yes it would be
[37:37] uh
[37:39] it's thursday january 16th so same time
[37:42] same place
[37:44] okay perfect so we'll we'll make sure we
[37:47] post
[37:47] at the meeting for january 2nd will be
[37:50] cancelled and then
[37:51] look for january 16th
[37:55] just so as an update we went through a
[37:58] very competitive recruitment process 180
[38:00] applications
[38:02] many interviews a lot of interest from
[38:05] folks from other cities wanting to come
[38:07] to city of menifee and we actually chose
[38:08] a new senior management analyst to
[38:10] replace ms huerta which is very large
[38:13] shoes to fill
[38:14] um and it is a lady named
[38:18] mariana mitchell from the city of
[38:19] fontana so she'll be joining us in
[38:21] january and will be our next meeting on
[38:22] january 16th
[38:24] and just to note she is very good
[38:26] because she used to be jason's
[38:27] supervisor
[38:28] so to deal with jason for several years
[38:31] i mean you have to have some
[38:32] patience and so is it
[38:35] so are the roles go flip now is she
[38:37] going to be a supervisor here
[38:38] they'll be kind of uh equivalent yeah
[38:40] okay yeah so
[38:42] it will help me with jason if i may ask
[38:44] if we may ask melda
[38:46] were you headed to i was actually
[38:49] promoted in july
[38:50] um as a senior management analyst in the
[38:52] city manager's office
[38:54] so mel has been helping us for like five
[38:55] months
[38:58] doing dual duty so we really really
[39:00] appreciate that thank you well thank you
[39:02] well when when's
[39:03] so is that the 16th going to be your
[39:04] last meeting in meldo is this the last
[39:06] we're going to see of you
[39:07] tonight i think this is the last meeting
[39:09] unless john needs me next month then
[39:11] i'll be here
[39:12] it's up to john yeah
[39:15] oh absolutely yeah of course thank you
[39:18] and then i have um one more announcement
[39:21] so we actually had a vacancy
[39:24] for our community service a full-time
[39:26] community service coordinator positions
[39:28] and we had someone that's been working
[39:30] very hard someone that you know very
[39:31] well
[39:32] and so i'd like to uh announce um that
[39:35] we just recently promoted
[39:37] um chelsea bollinger from office
[39:39] specialist to full-time community
[39:40] services coordinator so
[39:41] all right
[39:45] so jason i don't know if you want to
[39:46] give a little rundown of chelsea's new
[39:48] duties
[39:49] yes thank you john uh as john mentioned
[39:51] chelsea's been just doing an
[39:53] amazing job she's gone from a part-time
[39:55] community services leader entry-level
[39:57] position to a full-time office
[39:58] specialist too
[39:59] to now a community services coordinator
[40:01] and she'll be taking over the duties of
[40:03] community relations contract classes and
[40:06] uh she's still going to help out with
[40:07] the front desk operations as well
[40:10] really really excited to have chelsea
[40:11] but i'm going to put her on the spot and
[40:12] ask her to
[40:13] tell you guys a little bit about her
[40:14] experiences and how excited she is to do
[40:17] some public speaking
[40:20] hello thank you for inviting me um so i
[40:23] have a little
[40:24] bit background i got a bachelor's degree
[40:26] at hope
[40:27] international university in a liberal
[40:29] arts and a concentration business
[40:31] and i've been with the city for about a
[40:33] year and a half and like jason said i
[40:34] started
[40:35] as a community service leader one and
[40:38] that was about a year a half and ago
[40:40] a year a half ago and then i was lucky
[40:42] enough to get the position
[40:43] of office specialist too and now as a
[40:46] coordinator i'll also be doing
[40:48] veteran resources as well
[40:51] and yeah i'm looking forward to working
[40:52] with them in the contract classes and
[40:55] i'm really excited and thankful for this
[40:56] opportunity
[40:58] chelsea is also going to be uh handling
[41:00] taking our special needs programming to
[41:01] the next level she's been
[41:03] doing that kind of almost as a side gig
[41:05] as part of her duties with lady alegria
[41:07] also on our team and
[41:09] they have some really special things
[41:10] planned and we had a really great
[41:12] meeting with somebody recently that i
[41:13] think is really going to continue to
[41:14] help us
[41:15] reach that that group that sometimes
[41:17] isn't so
[41:18] excited about coming out of the shadows
[41:20] so to speak so chelsea has a huge heart
[41:22] for the special needs she used to work
[41:23] for special olympics
[41:24] uh so i think this is really going to be
[41:26] a great opportunity for those in our
[41:27] community
[41:29] congratulations chelsea
[41:37] all right continuing on with mr nix
[41:39] director comments okay
[41:40] uh kind of hard to follow but i'll keep
[41:42] going um
[41:44] so uh as you may know the next census is
[41:47] coming up
[41:48] in april 2020 and the city under
[41:51] community development
[41:52] has a complete count committee that
[41:54] we're forming so they've already had one
[41:56] meeting but we're looking actually to
[41:58] hopefully have a representative from the
[42:00] parks commission uh participated in that
[42:02] so i wanted to
[42:03] see if one of the commissioners would
[42:04] like to volunteer to join that committee
[42:06] and
[42:07] help with the outreach efforts i had a
[42:09] question i had a question
[42:10] is that the one that gloria sanchez is
[42:13] handling some of that or not yes she's
[42:15] on the committee yes
[42:18] she's called me a couple times and i'm
[42:19] just wondering if that's what she's
[42:22] asked
[42:22] what uh yeah so it it yeah so
[42:25] community development planning
[42:27] department they've assembled
[42:29] folks from the chamber of commerce from
[42:31] uh interfaith council
[42:33] in different segments of the community
[42:34] so they're also trying to get a
[42:36] representative from each of the
[42:37] commissions from the planning commission
[42:38] the parks commission
[42:38] well i'm on that other senior one that
[42:41] she has too
[42:42] senior advisory
[42:56] this i was just wondering if this one
[42:58] now is going to be
[43:00] this is separate than that this is
[43:02] focused on the census i just have to be
[43:04] careful when i
[43:05] when i talk to her because i don't want
[43:07] to say yes to too many things she asks
[43:09] you're going to get roped into
[43:10] volunteering much more so
[43:12] it does it sounds like uh mr amarillo is
[43:16] volunteering for this or is somebody
[43:17] else
[43:18] i didn't say that
[43:21] maybe we should nominate tony i don't
[43:24] think you say that either
[43:26] um those meetings are on what thursdays
[43:30] yeah so it's going to be the second
[43:31] thursday every month uh basically what
[43:33] they do is they get together
[43:34] kind of check in and then create a plan
[43:37] for uh
[43:37] to help the census get out to the
[43:40] community and of course the census
[43:42] um one of the main reasons why we do
[43:44] this census and do these counts is
[43:47] because
[43:47] for every person there's a value of that
[43:51] is counted at a value of about two
[43:52] thousand dollars in federal funding per
[43:54] year
[43:54] so the more we count more of a complete
[43:56] count that we get that's more
[43:58] uh federal funding that the city would
[43:59] qualify for for different services
[44:01] infrastructure all that kind of stuff
[44:03] and definitely focus on areas where
[44:05] maybe folks are a little bit resistant
[44:07] to be counted or
[44:08] you know the quail valley area roma land
[44:10] area where maybe some folks might get
[44:12] missed
[44:13] so and also let people know that there
[44:15] are other ways to be counted
[44:16] it's not doesn't have to be the old
[44:17] school way of a person coming to your
[44:19] door they can do it online
[44:20] different avenues is that what they're
[44:22] doing they're going door-to-door on this
[44:24] or
[44:25] no the the the committee yeah the
[44:27] committee isn't doing that the
[44:28] committee's actually
[44:29] getting together and um thinking of
[44:31] different ways to help the census bureau
[44:32] get out there
[44:33] yeah you're not going to be a counter
[44:34] with it with a you know with a walk list
[44:36] or something no no no no no no yeah
[44:38] no yeah it's just a committee it's more
[44:40] of a planning committee
[44:41] and then uh for example you mentioned uh
[44:44] miss sanchez is um trying to
[44:46] um have a census meeting at the oasis um
[44:49] this month
[44:50] so that's one thing she's doing to try
[44:51] to help the census burden well you
[44:52] haven't you had a
[44:53] party at the club today yes that's
[44:56] probably what i'm talking about yeah
[44:57] yes and and she called from sacramento
[45:01] just know if i was gone but i had
[45:03] another commitment so
[45:05] and then she said by the way you know
[45:06] when she starts saying by the way i
[45:08] gotta always back off
[45:09] because i never know what she's after so
[45:12] uh i'd be willing to
[45:13] think you know give this a little
[45:15] thought because i do i am committed on
[45:17] thursday's
[45:18] few things but if it's only one a month
[45:20] that wouldn't be bad
[45:21] yeah so yeah then second thursday of
[45:23] each month so if
[45:24] commissioner amarelli is volunteering
[45:26] then that would be next thursday
[45:27] that we need you here at three o'clock
[45:30] here yes sir
[45:33] no pressure
[45:38] okay mr next when do you need an an
[45:41] answer by
[45:42] uh we and we don't need to decide
[45:44] tonight but since we have all these
[45:45] gentlemen here
[45:46] okay okay if if mr admiral is unable to
[45:49] volunteer is there somebody that
[45:50] might want to serve as a backup yes
[45:55] i believe my wife is on this committee
[45:57] so
[45:58] i would
[46:01] [Laughter]
[46:03] part of the active transportation plan
[46:05] yeah
[46:06] no mrs ackerman is on this committee yes
[46:09] yes then i if
[46:10] if tony doesn't want i would i would be
[46:12] willing to serve very good thank you
[46:13] bill
[46:15] okay so
[46:20] okay moving forward um another uh
[46:24] under director's comments i just want to
[46:25] provide this brief presentation we
[46:27] actually had
[46:28] uh rta now meeting here that uh
[46:30] commissioners croy
[46:31] and guitarists uh participated in and so
[46:34] uh we provided this update on the pluma
[46:35] washroom project so i thought of prudent
[46:37] to also provide the update here
[46:39] to the full commission um so all of you
[46:42] are very familiar with the paloma wash
[46:43] trails right across the street right
[46:45] next to the uh
[46:46] the town center and right next to um our
[46:49] new central park which uh
[46:50] mr howe and our maintenance team made a
[46:53] connection from the park
[46:54] uh to the trail just recently as you
[46:57] also may know this
[46:59] was not originally a trail it was a
[47:01] maintenance road
[47:02] that was built just to have maintenance
[47:04] access to the wash
[47:06] but folks just started walking on it so
[47:08] the city did some light repairs to it
[47:10] back in 2016
[47:12] just to fill some cracks and um and
[47:14] start using it as a trail but
[47:16] because it was created just as a
[47:18] maintenance road
[47:19] it really hasn't held up over the last
[47:21] 10 years there's a lot of cracking
[47:22] a lot of uneven spots in there
[47:26] so this uh proposed improvement project
[47:29] would
[47:30] replace all the asphalt on their
[47:33] construct pedestrian crosswalk at la
[47:35] piedra because there's a
[47:37] space there where the trail stops
[47:39] because la pedro's there and so to
[47:41] create a crosswalk where you can
[47:42] continue down the trail
[47:43] across la piedra to the other side
[47:45] install some fitness stations install
[47:47] some park benches so people can rest
[47:48] because that is
[47:50] a couple miles if you're going around
[47:51] the whole entire trail i had some
[47:53] additional landscaping and then
[47:54] informational science
[47:57] so uh this is just kind of an overview
[47:59] it's kind of hard to see the legend but
[48:01] all those
[48:02] circles there would be some new proposed
[48:04] trees and landscaping um the little
[48:07] those are blue dots would be the
[48:08] informational sides the rectangles
[48:11] are the fitness stations and that other
[48:13] trapezoidal thing would be the
[48:15] uh where the proposed benches would be
[48:19] so the estimated project costs and
[48:21] actually mr geronimo's um
[48:22] leading this project as well is about a
[48:25] million dollars to do all those
[48:26] improvements
[48:27] um construction is about 787 and doing
[48:29] all the engineering and administration
[48:31] we did receive a grant for a little
[48:33] under five hundred thousand dollars and
[48:34] we're matching that
[48:36] with our local trails funds um and just
[48:38] as a reminder this project
[48:39] uh was presented to the parks commission
[48:42] city council when we're going through
[48:43] our cip
[48:44] process back in may and june with the
[48:46] budget so uh city council
[48:48] did approve accepting the grant funding
[48:50] in august
[48:51] uh accepting the 500 000 and then last
[48:54] night
[48:54] they uh approved an award of a design
[48:57] contract to koa
[48:58] corporation so there was some questions
[49:01] if you saw the council meeting from
[49:02] councilmember elise meyer about
[49:03] well hey this seems like a fairly simple
[49:05] process you just take out the asphalt
[49:07] lay some new asphalt down why do we need
[49:09] to hire a design firm and the reason why
[49:11] is because it was a maintenance road
[49:12] before
[49:13] we want to make sure it when we put the
[49:15] asphalt down it's done the right way
[49:16] and there's also a a little more
[49:18] engineering that needs to be done to
[49:19] make sure we can get across la piedra
[49:21] the correct way um another comment that
[49:24] was made by the city council is
[49:25] one thing that wasn't initially proposed
[49:27] with this design
[49:28] was having lights and so what the
[49:30] direction that they gave
[49:32] back to our public works director is
[49:33] that to negotiate
[49:35] with koa corporation to add lights to
[49:38] the design
[49:39] so that's one thing that they're going
[49:40] to do and incorporate that into the
[49:42] design
[49:43] so um are there any questions from the
[49:46] commission on on this project
[49:49] um just one if you could back up a
[49:51] couple slides where you're sure
[49:52] the actual trail there you go um i know
[49:56] this is a long
[49:57] and sordid tale and that pedestrian
[50:00] bridge going from the
[50:02] central park over the shopping center
[50:05] that
[50:06] is just the perfect example for what
[50:08] we're talking about with the
[50:09] alternative transportation because
[50:11] you've got all those homes that are
[50:13] going to be in there
[50:14] and they can walk to the market now
[50:16] instead of getting in their car
[50:17] and have them go down to la piedra over
[50:19] the marketplace
[50:21] whatever we can do to secure maybe some
[50:24] additional grant funding or
[50:26] federal state local to get that bridge
[50:29] a pedestrian bridge built that that's
[50:31] just
[50:32] the perfect example of how to get people
[50:34] out of their cars
[50:37] into a more healthy community i'm very
[50:39] glad that you brought that up mr
[50:40] croy because that was a question from
[50:42] the city council as well what about the
[50:44] pedestrian bridge
[50:45] i mean mr v i did announce that myself
[50:47] and jonathan smith are working
[50:50] on a plan for the pedestrian bridge
[50:52] which we will bring back
[50:54] to the commission and then to the city
[50:56] council on the first part of the year so
[50:58] we're working on
[50:59] different design options for the bridge
[51:00] because we want it to
[51:02] not just be a straight metal bridge we
[51:04] wanted to have some design to it
[51:06] especially because this is our central
[51:08] park
[51:08] you know there's some great amenities
[51:10] there this is the future
[51:12] um home of the permanent city hall you
[51:14] know cocorian theater
[51:15] different things like that so we want it
[51:17] to be a very nice bridge especially for
[51:18] upgrading the trail
[51:20] so we're going to provide some design
[51:21] options on that and some funding options
[51:23] on it as well
[51:24] um you look you see the future
[51:27] courthouse there
[51:28] yes sir yeah i'm a judge and i'm hungry
[51:30] and i need to go over to
[51:32] you know to employ a local for someone
[51:34] yeah
[51:35] i i don't want to get in my car and go
[51:37] out and do that i want to be able to
[51:38] take a nice little walk
[51:39] absolutely for all the benefits of
[51:41] walking health benefits stress benefits
[51:43] definitely all right thank you
[51:47] yeah but around enough judges they don't
[51:49] walk
[51:51] but uh jonathan is any estimate on the
[51:53] uh the
[51:54] the downtime or the off limits time with
[51:57] construction in other words how long is
[51:58] it
[51:59] not going to be available to right local
[52:00] residents uh we we haven't figured that
[52:02] out yet and that's another reason why
[52:04] we're hiring koa so when they figure out
[52:06] all the design
[52:06] and the engineering estimates they'll
[52:08] they can figure out a construction
[52:09] timeline as well so then we can
[52:11] notify the residents hey we're going to
[52:12] start construction it's going to be down
[52:14] from this time to this time
[52:15] and make sure there's proper
[52:16] notification so if someone's not walking
[52:18] out there then i was like whoa what's
[52:20] going on is bulldozer so
[52:21] a a suggestion uh if you could suggest
[52:24] to them
[52:25] one side at a time so you have one
[52:27] available
[52:28] while they're doing it that makes
[52:29] perfect sense definitely
[52:34] have one question yes sir
[52:41] the courthouse that two or three story
[52:44] building that's
[52:45] going up there right now oh no um so
[52:47] closer to
[52:48] newport road that is a fairfield hotel
[52:52] way back there oh in the back i thought
[52:54] it was gonna be closer to the street
[52:55] so closer to la pietra is um those are
[52:58] the artesa apartments
[53:00] so closer to santa rosa academy all
[53:02] those three-story buildings
[53:04] well you know that you go down to go in
[53:06] there to go to the park now
[53:08] yeah are you talking about ride across
[53:11] from the park
[53:12] yeah right right across from the park is
[53:14] uh a private uh recreation amenity
[53:16] that's for the town homes
[53:20] and then right behind the park are the
[53:22] actual town
[53:27] so it looks homes a three-story building
[53:28] that's why i wondered if that was gonna
[53:30] be the courthouse or if that's
[53:32] starting on the hotel way back there no
[53:34] they haven't started on the courthouse
[53:35] yet no
[53:37] i was curious what the building is then
[53:39] okay
[53:40] john if i may oh yes it's actually
[53:43] labeled wrong
[53:43] on this map where the courthouse is
[53:45] that's actually where the recreation
[53:46] center is yeah or houses where it says
[53:48] future
[53:49] city hall would be directly across the
[53:51] street from there yeah you wouldn't even
[53:52] see the
[53:53] courthouse on this map that's right
[53:54] there yeah thank you mr powell yeah
[53:56] the courthouse would be a little more
[53:57] easy all i know is there's a building
[53:58] going up there and it
[53:59] looks like a three-story squared off
[54:02] building i was just curious what that
[54:03] was
[54:04] yeah if it's going in that spot that's
[54:06] mislabeled as courthouse
[54:07] that's the private recreation center for
[54:09] the all the folks living in the
[54:10] townhomes yeah
[54:16] i just uh comment about this paloma wash
[54:19] trail in
[54:20] future is it possible to be able to
[54:22] connect this with salt creek trail
[54:25] the paloma watch continues north
[54:28] that's small creek yeah so um in order
[54:31] to connect to salt creek we'd have to go
[54:33] either over
[54:34] under newport road so there are some
[54:36] challenges with that
[54:38] i'm not saying impossible but there are
[54:40] some challenges with that and that's
[54:41] something that
[54:42] i i've talked lightly with our public
[54:44] works director about
[54:45] okay thank you
[54:50] commissioners any other comments on this
[54:51] item before we move on
[54:55] okay okay that's it moving on to i don't
[54:57] know i'm sorry i have one more thing
[54:59] um and i'm actually going to hand it
[55:01] over to amel duarte who has some
[55:02] exciting news about the
[55:04] city of menifee as an organization yes
[55:07] thank you john
[55:08] um so every year the inland news group
[55:11] puts out a survey to
[55:12] employees of different organizations
[55:14] small companies mid-sized companies
[55:16] large companies
[55:17] and they ask the employees about the
[55:19] world culture
[55:20] satisfaction um i don't remember how
[55:22] many questions there were but it was
[55:23] pretty
[55:24] it was pretty in-depth and so i am happy
[55:27] to announce that
[55:28] the city of menifee there was a small uh
[55:30] company we're under the small company
[55:32] category and out of the
[55:34] there were 14 uh companies that were
[55:36] selected as a top workplace of 2019 and
[55:38] we were
[55:39] one of them and we were the only city in
[55:41] that category as well to be recognized
[55:43] so that is very exciting um hr staff and
[55:46] i attended an event yesterday where they
[55:48] recognized and honored all the different
[55:51] uh top work places for this year
[55:53] so just wanted to let you know that was
[55:54] a very exciting news for the city
[55:57] yes oh
[56:00] and if this is my last meeting i just
[56:02] wanted to say it's been an honor
[56:04] a pleasure super fun to work as a clerk
[56:07] uh
[56:07] for this commission so thank you very
[56:09] much thank you thank you
[56:11] thank you all right moving on to item
[56:14] number 9.2 parks in progress update
[56:17] and i'll turn over to mr howell
[56:21] all right good evening commission okay
[56:22] so i'll try not to
[56:24] this will be a short one on the parks i
[56:26] know it seems like it's repetitive
[56:28] the heritage lake sports park there 20
[56:30] acre park is still in progress
[56:32] less than a year now before we get that
[56:33] as we binge closer to it and a few of
[56:36] these parks
[56:37] that uh like uh centennial park they're
[56:40] in the 90 day maintenance period um
[56:42] where almost 30 days
[56:44] into this 90 day maintenance period and
[56:46] then so we're it's almost there as soon
[56:47] as we have it we'll definitely
[56:49] be having either a grand opening or
[56:51] collaborate with an event or anything so
[56:53] we could have a
[56:54] grand opening there and hidden hills
[56:56] park now goes
[56:58] to city council on the 17th of this
[57:00] month for
[57:01] acceptance um so we will have that
[57:04] before the end of this year
[57:05] we'll be in the city's hands maintaining
[57:08] that park and that includes the paseos
[57:10] as well
[57:10] for the hidden hills
[57:13] and that's it for the parks in progress
[57:15] like i said i didn't want to try to
[57:17] be repetitive but we're almost there
[57:19] hopefully soon we're going to have some
[57:20] more that
[57:20] new parks that are under construction
[57:22] right now
[57:24] next month i'll have some different
[57:25] pictures uh including talavera park the
[57:28] ones that
[57:28] it's all graded out they're starting to
[57:30] move things in there so i'll be able to
[57:31] get some actual pictures on there
[57:33] when you just show a picture of just the
[57:34] graded flat
[57:36] part there it doesn't look like much so
[57:38] they're actually starting to get some
[57:40] uh texture there you know what i mean so
[57:41] elevation changes and everything so that
[57:43] building's there so i'll get a good
[57:45] drone shot of that so next month we'll
[57:46] be able to start seeing that
[57:48] okay thank you bryce moving on to item
[57:50] number nine point three recreation
[57:52] division update
[57:53] general mr hendrix yes thank you uh so
[57:55] this last month in november we had quite
[57:57] a few events going on and also
[57:59] our general programming um as you can
[58:01] see uh lazy creek had a great month
[58:03] there and that
[58:03] is due and mostly due to the fact uh
[58:05] that was our youth basketball
[58:06] registration month where it really picks
[58:08] up there
[58:09] i just sent john an email this morning
[58:10] to or this evening to update him and
[58:12] that is that we are
[58:13] almost completely full with the waiting
[58:15] list of almost 52 kids
[58:17] for our youth basketball program and
[58:18] that due to the fact that we only have a
[58:20] limited amount of time in the gymnasium
[58:22] at paloma valley so once we have a
[58:25] facility of our own i'm sure this
[58:26] program will expand even more
[58:28] so that's been a good month there in
[58:30] terms of the
[58:31] recreation numbers and then special
[58:33] events we had three special events in
[58:35] the in the month of november
[58:37] november first we had our first ever dia
[58:38] de los muertos event over at central
[58:40] park
[58:41] um really nice event uh the turnout was
[58:43] incredible and one of the comments that
[58:45] we heard that we i think we really
[58:46] appreciated was we heard some
[58:49] individuals of latino
[58:50] background state that it was really nice
[58:52] that the city decided to recognize their
[58:54] heritage
[58:55] and i thought that was a great comment
[58:56] to to record and and keep track of and
[58:58] make sure that we're
[59:00] continuing to offer these types of
[59:01] unique experiences for our residents
[59:04] excuse me and then on veterans day we
[59:06] had a very busy day i know i saw a few
[59:08] of you at these
[59:09] various events started the day off with
[59:11] a 5k
[59:12] run and walk it also included a 1k for
[59:14] the kids i believe the final total was
[59:16] 92
[59:16] runners registered excuse me and then we
[59:20] went directly into the veterans day
[59:22] event
[59:23] some very moving tributes one individual
[59:26] that was actually born and raised in
[59:27] menifee went on to serve in the marines
[59:29] and unfortunately
[59:30] lost his life while serving uh we
[59:31] recognized his family it's a very
[59:33] touching tribute
[59:34] and then uh just an incredible day at
[59:36] the home for the heroes program
[59:38] uh private first class uh timothy and
[59:40] again i'm forgetting his last name so i
[59:42] apologize jeffers
[59:43] uh was welcomed home to menifee by the
[59:46] stephen siller's tunnels to towers
[59:47] foundation
[59:48] very moving event and he's now here he
[59:51] actually chose minifee to come live
[59:52] in because he heard about how great the
[59:54] community was so that's a huge honor to
[59:56] everybody here and everybody in this
[59:57] community so
[59:58] we'll continue to work with private
[59:59] first class jeffers and make sure that
[1:00:01] he feels very welcome here in menifee
[1:00:03] and then finally on thanksgiving
[1:00:05] thursday
[1:00:06] the city of menifee community services
[1:00:08] department alongside the menifee
[1:00:09] interfaith
[1:00:10] put on the annual thanksgiving service
[1:00:13] it was two different services the
[1:00:14] attendance on the first service was a
[1:00:16] little bit lower
[1:00:17] only because it was raining really heavy
[1:00:19] uh so we we
[1:00:21] had lower numbers the first service but
[1:00:22] the second service we had a full
[1:00:23] capacity
[1:00:24] and just some some really great
[1:00:26] testimonials from families who basically
[1:00:27] said they'd probably be home alone
[1:00:29] if it wasn't for this event so very
[1:00:31] touching to be a part of that
[1:00:32] chair holcomb is a member of the menifee
[1:00:34] interfaith as well as was instrumental
[1:00:36] putting that together along with gloria
[1:00:37] sanchez
[1:00:38] and tony falco so it was a great uh
[1:00:41] november for us as far as events go and
[1:00:43] i just wanted to give a quick reminder
[1:00:45] that this saturday is our
[1:00:47] christmas tree lighting rain or shine so
[1:00:49] please tell your neighbors friends
[1:00:51] anybody that'll listen that it's rain or
[1:00:52] shine we're gonna make it happen
[1:00:54] uh we may get rained on a little bit but
[1:00:55] we'll be prepared we have some thanks to
[1:00:57] bryce and his team
[1:00:58] some safety measures in place to make
[1:00:59] sure that everybody still remains safe
[1:01:01] and able to have a great time
[1:01:02] we'll have community performances all
[1:01:04] night long
[1:01:05] pictures with santa for free so you have
[1:01:07] to pay 50 to go to the mall you can come
[1:01:09] see a really good santa claus for free
[1:01:11] you actually get the picture there as
[1:01:12] you're leaving
[1:01:14] we have 50 tons of snow this year which
[1:01:15] is 10 more tons than we had last year
[1:01:17] so it's gonna be a great day breakfast
[1:01:19] with santa is december 14th we're
[1:01:21] actually sold out for that so
[1:01:23] that's just more of an informational
[1:01:24] thing for you guys and then the menorah
[1:01:26] lighting
[1:01:26] in honor of our fallen friend marty
[1:01:28] rosen will take place on december 23rd
[1:01:30] which is a monday
[1:01:32] at central park so it's gonna be a great
[1:01:33] december for us as we round out the
[1:01:35] calendar year
[1:01:36] we have to answer any questions you
[1:01:37] might have
[1:01:40] the menorah lining is all three cities
[1:01:42] combining into one we're hoping so yeah
[1:01:44] so
[1:01:44] rabbi abrams who's running this event
[1:01:47] and kind of brought the event to us
[1:01:49] uh his his goal is it all three cities
[1:01:51] actually all four cities
[1:01:52] would come to menifee and celebrate as a
[1:01:54] whole and uh he's actually reaching out
[1:01:56] to the elected officials for the other
[1:01:58] cities to really encourage them
[1:01:59] to have their residence come to minify
[1:02:01] on december 23rd to honor
[1:02:03] marty but also obviously partake in this
[1:02:05] very tradition
[1:02:06] thank you
[1:02:09] all right any other any questions
[1:02:11] regarding our recent events recent or
[1:02:13] upcoming events
[1:02:18] okay
[1:02:20] moving on to item number 9.5 capital
[1:02:23] improvement program update
[1:02:25] mr howell all right thank you so i just
[1:02:27] have a couple on here
[1:02:28] um the we had it on there last month as
[1:02:31] well the park lighting so this is the
[1:02:32] led it'll be retrofit bulbs
[1:02:35] and different head units for different
[1:02:36] parks the tennis courts and the
[1:02:39] basketball course there amr and spirit
[1:02:41] park
[1:02:41] and then the walkway lights at audie
[1:02:43] murphy that was right before an led
[1:02:46] change so the walkway lights there
[1:02:47] actually are led so we're retrofitting
[1:02:49] those bulbs there
[1:02:50] and then we're also retrofitting the
[1:02:52] whole head unit at
[1:02:54] pete peterson park and then the bulbs at
[1:02:57] um laladera park for the walkway lights
[1:03:00] so this will help us save energy it'll
[1:03:02] brighten up
[1:03:03] the parts tremendously once you change
[1:03:06] those doubles bulbs on there
[1:03:08] and then the next one is the tree
[1:03:10] inventory mapping this has been on
[1:03:12] for our cip project for a couple years
[1:03:14] that actually starting this month so
[1:03:16] what it is is we hired our uh arborist
[1:03:20] contract
[1:03:20] west coast arborist uh they have a uh
[1:03:24] a program it's called arbor access so
[1:03:27] they'll
[1:03:28] inventory all our trees and the right
[1:03:30] ways the parks
[1:03:32] um and it'll tell us what's missing when
[1:03:35] we need a
[1:03:36] what it was pruned last or if it's
[1:03:37] diseased or
[1:03:39] if it's in any kind of decrease of
[1:03:42] you know gonna die or even if there's a
[1:03:44] missing tree um we'll be able to go on
[1:03:46] to their program
[1:03:47] and then on their uh the program it'll
[1:03:50] be just the gps of that
[1:03:51] so we'll be able to tell each tree we'll
[1:03:53] be able to separate trees look at
[1:03:55] in certain areas so we're starting in
[1:03:56] the uh
[1:03:58] 2012-1 area which is the audie murphy
[1:04:00] area
[1:04:01] so we're going to do the parks and the
[1:04:02] right ways there as soon as they start
[1:04:04] finishing that we are going to move into
[1:04:07] the lmd's your csas
[1:04:09] we're going to keep working our way
[1:04:10] through so we can complete the whole
[1:04:12] city
[1:04:12] um and have that the gps that involve
[1:04:15] the trees
[1:04:16] and price all the uh the maintenance and
[1:04:18] the callbacks for checks uh that's all
[1:04:20] built into the contract with them
[1:04:22] or is that extra no that's built into
[1:04:24] the yeah this right here is just the
[1:04:26] um them actually getting the
[1:04:29] information to put into the program and
[1:04:31] this includes that program our cost of
[1:04:33] everything there
[1:04:34] is included the program and they give
[1:04:36] their time any
[1:04:37] they need their it support and
[1:04:39] everything with that program okay
[1:04:41] they have over i believe there's over 2
[1:04:43] 000 users
[1:04:45] a lot of different cities everything
[1:04:47] throughout that
[1:04:49] i don't know if arbor access i don't
[1:04:51] know if it's just southern california
[1:04:52] i'm not sure on that one but
[1:04:53] i know it is it's just southern
[1:04:54] california that the program's there for
[1:04:56] different cities and everything so
[1:05:00] and then for the maintenance we had 49
[1:05:03] work orders submitted
[1:05:06] 45 completed and that's a 93
[1:05:10] uh completion rate and then we head on
[1:05:13] here
[1:05:14] the guys have just been basic
[1:05:16] maintenance that's been going around
[1:05:17] the newest i only got one slide on here
[1:05:20] is that
[1:05:21] uh backstop there at la ladare so i
[1:05:23] never really had a backstop the guy
[1:05:24] my maintenance team came in there
[1:05:26] rebuilt a back actual backstop so we can
[1:05:28] start using that
[1:05:30] field more with that so there's a brand
[1:05:32] new backstop on the back of that
[1:05:34] um and that's it the guys have been
[1:05:36] doing a few other things i'll show next
[1:05:38] month
[1:05:39] that i guess it finished today so it's
[1:05:41] uh
[1:05:42] i'll consider that finished in december
[1:05:43] so we'll we'll do that when we do
[1:05:45] any update but if you guys have any
[1:05:47] questions with any of these
[1:05:50] have we turned off the water water's
[1:05:53] been off for a few weeks yes
[1:05:55] i like it when the water's off
[1:05:59] commissioners any uh any any comments
[1:06:02] for mr howe or anybody
[1:06:04] 9.5 and 9.6
[1:06:09] okay moving on to item number 10
[1:06:10] commissioner reports on committee
[1:06:12] activities
[1:06:13] anybody
[1:06:17] um just want to say that uh i
[1:06:20] attended the uh tap i've got adp
[1:06:24] or atp tap it's getting hard to keep
[1:06:26] track of this but
[1:06:27] anyway it was the the bus ride basically
[1:06:29] uh with
[1:06:30] rta uh that was very informational
[1:06:33] um i thought that
[1:06:37] they really go anywhere and i think that
[1:06:40] it would definitely behoove them too
[1:06:43] and for us to promote that organization
[1:06:47] because they're a great organization
[1:06:48] and i was very pleased to do that thank
[1:06:52] you
[1:06:54] okay anyone else
[1:07:02] i have one question uh i was reading the
[1:07:05] minutes from the
[1:07:06] city council meeting here tonight and
[1:07:08] where they
[1:07:10] turned down the tower at wheatfield park
[1:07:13] yes and all the comments from
[1:07:16] councilman or mayor pro tem or august
[1:07:19] and all that
[1:07:20] talking about taking the parks is that
[1:07:22] getting closer and closer
[1:07:24] for us taking over all the parks or not
[1:07:28] the the city is actively um
[1:07:31] working with lafco to try to
[1:07:34] hit that to a close yes because
[1:07:38] here listening to the way that reports
[1:07:40] come out in minutes and everything
[1:07:42] it looks like we're getting pretty close
[1:07:44] we're trying and actually i did give her
[1:07:46] uh one of the reports that we provided
[1:07:49] to the city council last night was our
[1:07:50] strategic visioning plan which is a
[1:07:52] project that miss huerta is working on
[1:07:55] one of the items
[1:07:56] was the annexation of valley white
[1:07:59] and our goal in that report is to have
[1:08:02] the parks come over to the city
[1:08:04] next fiscal year which would be july 1
[1:08:06] 2020.
[1:08:08] very good so that that is a stated
[1:08:10] published goal of the city
[1:08:13] very good there was one other thing i
[1:08:15] picked up a copy of the newspaper
[1:08:18] remember we opened the park and we put
[1:08:20] in all the special equipment for the
[1:08:21] kids
[1:08:22] um i can't remember the name law marsh
[1:08:25] yes we have that
[1:08:26] playground yes there was an article in
[1:08:28] the paper showed a picture of a couple
[1:08:30] people at the park
[1:08:31] mother and kids and just a picture in
[1:08:33] the paper with just a little underneath
[1:08:35] it
[1:08:35] and they talk about lisa and everybody
[1:08:38] promoting it
[1:08:39] but they promoted that one park and and
[1:08:42] they just they didn't say anything else
[1:08:44] about anything about the park other than
[1:08:45] the fact it was open in menifee now
[1:08:47] and i'm just wondering they get their
[1:08:49] information
[1:08:51] but they don't they didn't give lisa or
[1:08:53] us or anybody
[1:08:55] a little more um for the you know for
[1:08:58] the park
[1:08:58] i mean just one little picture and
[1:09:00] nothing else yet they had
[1:09:02] something about some school play that
[1:09:04] was coming up in elsinore but some gay
[1:09:06] play and all that they gave it a full
[1:09:08] page spread
[1:09:09] and here this park with the kids it was
[1:09:12] just a picture
[1:09:13] it was when it was impressive puts that
[1:09:15] out huh was this the press enterprise
[1:09:17] yeah okay well they they
[1:09:20] they have they have the discretion kind
[1:09:22] of being a victim of it uh in another
[1:09:24] in another section of my life they have
[1:09:27] the discretion to print whatever they
[1:09:29] want they they can gather
[1:09:31] uh pages and reams of information from
[1:09:34] the people on site or
[1:09:35] even for the city for from the city for
[1:09:37] that matter but
[1:09:38] uh they have the latitude of printing
[1:09:40] whatever they want how long or how short
[1:09:42] so once it reaches their desk their
[1:09:45] editing desk it's out it's out of the
[1:09:47] jurisdiction and control and influence
[1:09:49] of the people on site and of the city
[1:09:52] that's just kind of how reporting works
[1:09:54] yeah and mr emery
[1:09:55] just to let you know that uh we did
[1:09:56] provide a full press release and uh
[1:09:59] mr hendricks did even talk to that
[1:10:00] reporter for the press enterprise to
[1:10:02] provide them additional information
[1:10:04] that's that's what i figured because
[1:10:05] that day they were there we were talking
[1:10:06] everybody and
[1:10:07] when that i saw that picture in the
[1:10:09] paper just a picture and just a little
[1:10:11] bit of a little blurb and that was it
[1:10:12] i i think you should volunteer to write
[1:10:14] them a letter because
[1:10:16] last time i checked when you go on to
[1:10:18] their website and you see
[1:10:20] local news communities guess who's not
[1:10:22] there
[1:10:25] we're not included so maybe we should
[1:10:27] all well maybe all the people men if you
[1:10:29] should stop buying a press enterprise
[1:10:34] all right um mr nix uh one thing i
[1:10:37] noticed maybe it's just me but after uh
[1:10:39] before the adjournment we don't have our
[1:10:41] list of uh
[1:10:42] nice to do things that we'd like to
[1:10:43] accomplish um yes the future generators
[1:10:48] i'll make sure that we provide provide
[1:10:49] an update on that uh during the next
[1:10:51] meeting i think we just
[1:10:52] we just missed it okay i know you guys
[1:10:53] are not trying to shield anything oh no
[1:10:55] no absolutely not
[1:10:56] it was just oversight on my part okay um
[1:11:00] all right before we go to the german any
[1:11:02] final comments
[1:11:03] from the commission i would like to
[1:11:05] suggest a future agenda item
[1:11:08] yes i was talking to gloria the day of
[1:11:09] the bus ride
[1:11:11] and she told me that the senior advisory
[1:11:13] committee had been talking
[1:11:15] with your predecessor about getting a
[1:11:17] bus of that kind
[1:11:19] for community services and i was
[1:11:21] wondering if we could have a discussion
[1:11:22] about maybe
[1:11:23] pursuing that idea that it would be
[1:11:25] available to service the community
[1:11:26] particularly of course the seniors
[1:11:29] but we can provide an update on that mr
[1:11:31] hendricks has been working on that for
[1:11:32] probably three years
[1:11:34] and provided several different options
[1:11:36] and updates to the senior advisory
[1:11:38] committee on that so we could provide a
[1:11:39] summary
[1:11:40] to the parks commission of all of mr
[1:11:41] hendricks efforts towards that
[1:11:43] looking at different uh looking at
[1:11:45] different grants looking at
[1:11:46] um rta has a like a decommissioned bus
[1:11:49] program where
[1:11:50] that was offered before the challenge
[1:11:52] with having a
[1:11:53] passenger van of that size like the one
[1:11:55] that we wrote on for the t now
[1:11:56] is that you do have to have someone that
[1:11:58] is licensed to drive that and having a
[1:12:01] city
[1:12:03] staff person that's dedicated and
[1:12:05] licensed and all that
[1:12:06] and plus the insurance that you need and
[1:12:08] the fueling and the maintenance of
[1:12:10] such a vehicle does present some
[1:12:11] challenges so we can provide a summary
[1:12:14] report of
[1:12:14] what we've provided the senior advisory
[1:12:16] committee before oh good i'd like to
[1:12:17] hear about that
[1:12:18] most definitely we could do that thanks
[1:12:22] ricky ricky have anything bill okay
[1:12:26] tony do you have anything one thing mr
[1:12:29] nix um
[1:12:30] i guess i'm probably the last one here
[1:12:32] um
[1:12:33] i just i was just thinking out loud and
[1:12:35] perhaps this is more appropriate
[1:12:37] me approaching my council member but um
[1:12:40] have we kind of uh abandoned about the
[1:12:43] idea of a minifee tv
[1:12:45] station or minifee channel that way i i
[1:12:47] see that as an
[1:12:48] avenue in which we can showcase some of
[1:12:50] our events with respect to recreation
[1:12:53] in other ways and just a mode of getting
[1:12:56] out
[1:12:57] what we're doing here in the city of
[1:12:58] menifee has that been discussed
[1:13:00] recently um absolutely they're one of
[1:13:02] the challenges that
[1:13:04] that's very typical the last two cities
[1:13:06] i work for and the county we all had our
[1:13:07] own television station
[1:13:09] the way that cities and public agencies
[1:13:12] have television stations is we receive
[1:13:14] what is called public education
[1:13:16] government funds peg funding
[1:13:18] and those are fees that are received
[1:13:20] from the cable providers like comcast
[1:13:22] frontier
[1:13:23] time warner um the city was not
[1:13:25] receiving that funding
[1:13:26] so the city attorneys just because we
[1:13:29] formed into a new city
[1:13:30] and the cable providers weren't keeping
[1:13:32] up with that that and recognizing our
[1:13:34] jurisdiction
[1:13:35] so the city attorney's office had to
[1:13:36] work on that and then just recently
[1:13:39] actually i believe earlier this year
[1:13:41] resolved that and so
[1:13:42] the funding started coming in and that
[1:13:44] funding actually went to the
[1:13:46] improvements for this council chamber so
[1:13:47] the second
[1:13:48] portion of that is to actually create
[1:13:50] the feed and um
[1:13:51] feed out so that even this meeting would
[1:13:54] be broadcast on that channel so that is
[1:13:55] an active project that the city is
[1:13:57] working out to establish like
[1:13:58] that cable channel just like most other
[1:14:00] cities have okay
[1:14:02] thank you very much and if there are no
[1:14:03] other comments um
[1:14:05] i would like to adjourn this meeting
[1:14:07] first of all thank you staff thank you
[1:14:08] for your
[1:14:09] just your wonderful installer work that
[1:14:11] you always perform on behalf of the
[1:14:13] residents of the city of menifee but
[1:14:15] um i'd like to adjourn this meeting uh
[1:14:19] in honor of uh ms imelda for everything
[1:14:21] she's done for us
[1:14:23] all right all right this meeting is
[1:14:27] adjourned
[1:14:31] i want to wish everybody a very merry
[1:14:33] christmas
[1:14:34] and because we won't be coming back
[1:14:36] before christmas now so
[1:14:38] all right happy holidays
[1:14:42] and thank you
[1:15:06] you