[0:58] Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call to order the September 2nd, 2026, Parks and Recreation Board meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

[1:30] Please have the roll call.

[1:32] Yes, Dan Pollock.

[1:33] Here.

[1:34] Sean McDaniel.

[1:36] Chrissy Cousin.

[1:38] Oh, Greg's is out of town.

[1:40] Jennifer Foster.

[1:45] We have a copy of the August 5th, 2026 minutes.

[1:53] Do we have any additions or corrections to the minutes?

[2:05] I have a motion to approve the August 5th minutes.

[2:08] I'll make a motion to approve the August 5th, 2026 minutes.

[2:12] I'll second. All in favor. I.

[2:27] Doesn't look like we have any citizens comments today.

[2:32] So we will move forward to administrative reports starting with the service.

[2:38] Parks and Rec.

[2:39] Okay.

[2:42] I'm going to go and reintroduce our student reps.

[2:46] I know Amelia was here last time.

[2:47] just happy I don't think you were.

[2:48] I know there was some confusion by the handbook,

[2:51] what day they started.

[2:53] So if we missed you, sorry, just happy you might not know

[2:55] and there was even a meeting last month.

[2:58] So do you mind Amelia and just happy

[3:00] if you could just like reintroduce yourselves,

[3:03] maybe what grade you are, what made you interested in?

[3:07] Is it being part of the Minnesota rep program,

[3:10] maybe what you've experienced so far?

[3:12] So whoever wants you to go first.

[3:20] Cool, this is my first year, oh wow, I kicked in, first year, first year as soon as I'm

[3:25] just hold a presentation, very happy to be here. One thing about me is I play soccer,

[3:31] I'm very passionate about it. You come to watch a green star game and probably hear me

[3:35] out in the field, probably complaining of the ref, or it's been my teammates, the positive

[3:39] way of course. One reason I joined Student New Soul Representation Program was I wanted to

[3:45] become more involved in my community and see what goes on behind the scenes, especially in

[3:49] for recreation board because I am always around the park so I love playing

[3:52] Picklewell, Butler Park and going to walks around our parks as well.

[3:56] What's your favorite park?

[3:58] I love Butler.

[3:58] Butler is such a park.

[4:00] I mean, that might be a pretty recurring answer, but I love all the

[4:03] Mendes.

[4:04] Butler Park has.

[4:05] And I think it's really great that the City of Green puts that on for us.

[4:08] And I appreciate the work that you guys do for us as well.

[4:11] Thanks.

[4:14] I'm Emily Bishop.

[4:15] I'm a junior at Green High School and this is my second year in

[4:20] last year, I served on the Board of Zoning Appeals with my older sister, Archie Bishop.

[4:26] I said this last meeting, but we went into some fun things in that board.

[4:32] A lot of disagreements, but it was really cool because we could see the behind-the-scenes

[4:36] of stuff like, honestly, if I was going to be honest with you, I had no idea even.

[4:40] What zoning was before joining that board, and then I got to watch how important it was

[4:46] like, and how every code is such a big deal.

[4:49] And then I actually joined this board

[4:51] because my mom saw it in the green like announcements,

[4:56] and my parents have been long time municipal workers.

[5:00] They actually worked with Ms. Vaxfart in Ken, right?

[5:03] Yeah, have to fall.

[5:04] Cogapall is, yeah. So they worked in Cogapall's and then Kent and then now they work at Akra and so.

[5:10] And they have a lot of government work, so I was like, monitor, we'll try it out and I love it.

[5:16] So, all right. What's your favorite part for Amelia?

[5:21] Probably. Well, I like Central Park because it's really convenient because I play tennis, so I'm

[5:28] sweating after 10 matches and we get a run over to the splash pad and cool off really fast so.

[5:35] I love that all right cool. All right thanks to your reintroduction. Is there any

[5:40] many questions for the missile rest? Nope. Do you have anything to do with the pizza place? I'll

[5:47] off over on cast them. Um, ironically in first grade, I told everybody I owned it, but

[5:55] Everybody believed it too, but unfortunately, I've no relation to the

[6:00] piece of stuff. They actually spelled my name wrong. So when I go there, I

[6:04] thought I'd love no every time that this spelled my name wrong.

[6:06] Oh my goodness.

[6:10] Are you from the Spano family, the concrete family?

[6:15] Yes, I am. That's my dad's side. So like Spano Dome, Spano

[6:19] construction, that's all us, but we're like, so we're not super tight with them.

[6:24] Okay. All right. So concrete, but not pizza. Got it. Okay. Every seat is a small

[6:31] world. Welcome to both of you. Okay. With that, I'm just going to go over the board report real

[6:38] quick. Not a whole lot's changed in the last month. I'll focus on Capitol a little bit tonight. The

[6:45] bus garage is open for the school side. We haven't done our walk through yet for the city side.

[6:54] which I'm hoping will be next week and then we'll move our stuff in.

[6:58] I think someone commented last week if they had gone our last month,

[7:01] they had gone by that old cool. Was that you, Dean?

[7:04] I don't remember.

[7:05] Anyway, I do think it looks great.

[7:07] I mean, I think it really,

[7:10] I think adds to the park,

[7:11] does not take away from the park by any means.

[7:14] We have the restrooms locked down right now

[7:16] because I have a couple of concerns with security

[7:18] that I want to make sure are handled before we open those restrooms.

[7:22] And we just ordered our AED for that restroom and creek bump.

[7:27] We're a little bit behind on that.

[7:29] The good news is the playground has been ordered.

[7:33] It's about an eight to ten week lead time,

[7:35] but we're hoping to still have that in this fall.

[7:39] It may be a little play in October and November.

[7:43] And who knows?

[7:43] Who can have a crazy weather and maybe in January or

[7:47] we'll be 50 degrees and people will be out there playing.

[7:48] And then we are needing to follow up on the pavilion, but that will be part of it as well.

[7:55] If you do go buy there, I will warn you, there's a slab of sidewalk for whatever reason was

[8:02] missed and everyone keeps asking me, like, why do they connect the sidewalk from the bus

[8:08] garage where the restroom starts at the park?

[8:10] It was a mistake.

[8:11] There was something about the elevation that was off, so they have to go back and finish it.

[8:15] So if you do go out there, you're gonna see that and be like,

[8:17] why didn't they finish a sidewalk?

[8:19] It is gonna be completed.

[8:21] And it may have been even completed by today.

[8:23] I don't know, I haven't been out there.

[8:25] But I think it really does look very nice.

[8:28] And I think once we get our other amenities,

[8:30] I think it's gonna be a great park.

[8:32] So there were some rumors that the houses

[8:35] along that way, especially Mrs. Kleckner's house

[8:39] was going to be up for sale.

[8:42] That seems not to be the case,

[8:44] but we're keeping an eye on that because I would love us

[8:47] to obtain those other four properties,

[8:49] us or the schools or enjoying it just because then

[8:52] we could just have that whole area,

[8:54] expand, maybe put something else in that area

[8:57] where those four houses are.

[9:00] And I just think it would be really, really nice

[9:01] to finish off the park out there like that.

[9:04] So any questions about Clickner?

[9:06] Where's the playground going?

[9:08] So if you, I would say, okay, if you're at the,

[9:14] one more version number if you're at the depth of field like let's say you're

[9:19] standing in front of the depth of field facing the bus garage it'd be immediately

[9:23] straight out and then to the right a little bit so towards the grass fields kind of

[9:29] in that corner and then the pavilion is a little will be a little closer to the bus

[9:32] garage yeah it you know what when the fence was up and the construction is going

[9:38] on like there's no way all this is going to fit but now that now that the fence is

[9:43] They've seated the grass area. I'm like I think it's gonna be a little tight

[9:47] But I think it's gonna be nice close knit. I should say so be great for parents because your kids your kiddos will not be able to go very far

[9:56] So yeah, I think it's gonna be really nice. I know your kids play out there

[10:01] So, hopefully you'll get some time on the playground this year or so. And we did change the original colors that were like in the rendering that you guys may have seen. Didn't really go with our park colors or the colors that were a little bit too many reds and yellows and I'm like, we really need it to blend with the scoreboard. So it's going to be more orange, blues, greens, but I think it's going to be really nice. So we're excited for that.

[10:28] So I'll keep you posted maybe by email once the restrooms are open and stuff, but we have not, we have not unlocked those yet.

[10:36] The playgrounds in adaptive playground too, right?

[10:40] Yes.

[10:41] Yep.

[10:43] Just as a reminder, sorry, Melia, the slash pad closes on Monday after the end of the day.

[10:49] So, you know, that's always a crap shoot because we can have 100 degree weather the following week,

[10:56] but at some point we just have to have a shut-off time.

[11:00] So right now it is still scheduled to be closed after the day Monday.

[11:04] I feel like Labor Day is a good, because we have a pool and typically that's like the,

[11:09] like we're looking at closing it.

[11:11] Yeah.

[11:12] I'm most, I mean a lot of pools, unfortunately, are closed already, but so I think it's good that

[11:16] and consider it as 90 today. It's good that I was still open today.

[11:22] Twisted Wilder Fest is coming up September 26. Pumpkin Patch is doing really well this year.

[11:29] Please spread the word. Come by a pumpkin for five bucks.

[11:35] Use complex. As you guys know,

[11:38] we turn those back over to CAK. When I get into capital, we'll talk about some of the alternatives to that.

[11:46] use programming, everything really finished up really well. You can see our stats there, a shout-out

[11:54] to Marcy Horviss. She does a great job with Dave Camp. We got many accolades. We are considering

[12:01] maybe doing a winter camp over winter break, but we were reviewing that right now. So it would

[12:09] like a three-day camp one week in the three-day camp the next week over winter break.

[12:16] Seeing your program mean, we have the Senior Expo tomorrow. If you guys want to stop by,

[12:23] feel free. It is from 10 to noon. It is always well attended. So feel free to stop by there if you

[12:31] like our adult programming is going well.

[12:34] We did do a, oh, I don't know, let's go see here.

[12:42] We are going to move the volleyball to the core, this winter.

[12:45] We didn't last year just because it was a little bit too late

[12:48] from when we picked when we opened up,

[12:52] but we will have a volleyball over there at the core now.

[12:57] And let's see.

[12:58] How does that work for those, for those links?

[13:01] It's like, is everyone that plays in that league have to be a core member, is it just like a daily?

[13:07] No, they would check in at the front desk as a volleyball member and they're just covered for that night to come into play volleyball with their league.

[13:19] So yeah.

[13:21] I think there are a lot of actually, a lot of the people that have sign up for volleyball actually are core members,

[13:27] so which is a good thing.

[13:31] trigger treat trail you guys should just think about that if you guys want to

[13:36] participate that's October 17th maybe just let Jesse know and then we'll get

[13:44] that arranged if you want to be part of trigger treat trail you know you guys

[13:47] usually have a table on core we can talk about that a little bit if you didn't

[13:53] see the paper we've had a lot of ups and downs in the news I will tell you a

[13:58] group of residents came last city council, praising us all of the things that we're doing at the

[14:04] core, which was very, we were very grateful for that because there's a lot of really positive

[14:11] things happening in the core and I think some of us getting lost in noise about how it was funded,

[14:18] what kind of money we're making. I'll be honest and I'll be blunt about it. I reminded everyone what

[14:23] mission of the chorus while it was built and it wasn't necessarily to bring in big revenues.

[14:29] So I think we're meeting the mission that we had set out. I won't give my whole lecture again,

[14:35] you guys are aware of it. But we are looking at ways to increase revenues and we are doing that,

[14:42] you know, at a good pace. Our silver sneaker numbers continue to grow which is important.

[14:48] Our membership, so we have new members coming on, which is good.

[14:53] We are adjusting the youth fees a tiny bit.

[14:56] First year we were trying to be a little bit more generous, and no one...

[15:03] So we're always open to suggestions if anyone has any, did anybody come to the carnival that happened to be members?

[15:10] I was out of town.

[15:12] I was out of town.

[15:14] I had the carnival went very well. I think our members appreciated.

[15:18] Most members that came, resigned up that night.

[15:21] So just a reminder, if you're a charter member, you have until the end of November to get 25 dollars off.

[15:27] And we're taking new memberships anytime, anytime you sign up sooner than later, you get all these months free.

[15:34] We're letting people as I sign up.

[15:35] It will be for 2027, but you can sign up now.

[15:39] So the membership is January to December.

[15:41] It's not at a rolling year.

[15:43] Yeah.

[15:45] I shouldn't quite say that, Jennifer.

[15:47] Okay, I do believe we're in September now.

[15:51] So yeah, I think if you sign up now, it's going to be an annual, but you'll get these months free.

[15:56] Okay. Don't quote me on that. Okay. I just wondered like if somebody wanted to join in March.

[16:02] Do they? Oh, yeah, they can. And then they be. Yeah. I believe they're just, it's right.

[16:07] They're, they're, they're, they're, it's either pro-rated or it rolls. Okay.

[16:11] It may be pro-rated, Chrissy. I probably should know that. I'll check that out.

[16:15] That's all right. That's all right. That's all right. We haven't been open long enough to work through all this.

[16:19] And I saw where, for the fall, trail challenge,

[16:24] I forget what that's called.

[16:26] Parker's challenge,

[16:28] that the core trail is listed on there.

[16:31] I thought that's a great idea.

[16:32] So you can see your not a member.

[16:34] You can go in to walk the track.

[16:37] Do you need one other ID?

[16:38] You just bring, yes, you will need a photo ID

[16:41] because you will need to just be checked in.

[16:45] You just bring your Parker challenge form.

[16:48] Okay, you're allowed to do it one time, but we're hoping to expose this accord. I mean, believe

[16:53] you're not, there's so few people that don't know the core exists. Yeah. So, um, so it's a way

[16:57] just to expose like, oh, we have, you know, a core here. I know it's hard to believe, Chrissy. Yeah.

[17:02] There are people that truly do not know. Oh, one of the things the schools are working with us,

[17:07] um, with the core, they are doing a video, we have a video like ad at the, at the, at the

[17:12] ball games, at the football games that's on the scoreboard. So if you went to the game, you should have

[17:17] it. I heard it was very well done. Thank you to our communications department. And we also have

[17:24] adds in the program. Again, the schools just comp those for us, which we appreciate considering

[17:30] we're enjoying effort here. So hopefully that'll get the word out to some of these nice, well for

[17:36] so long. The community had taken advantage of the walking track that was around the high school

[17:42] them, but then due to security measures that had to be restricted significantly.

[17:48] So hopefully people will start hearing about this walking trail and those who want the indoor

[17:54] space can take advantage of it.

[17:56] Sean, I think just up here is a question.

[17:58] Oh, yeah.

[17:59] You mentioned the course in the core in the school.

[18:02] I think it's awesome that the core is open to the school and allowing us to use your facilities

[18:06] and stuff.

[18:07] Like, I remember for soccer, for example, we started to have senior

[18:11] lads in January that really helped us out and I think it's great that

[18:15] the school teams are able to use it and all, like, I think that's

[18:18] super beneficial to the program and the school is all spread that word just

[18:23] up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are also pay taxes.

[18:28] Well, most of it comes from

[18:30] the income tax. So those who those who work in green, yeah, yeah. So

[18:36] So, any other questions about the core?

[18:40] Has there, I know there's, there was kind of an initiative to work with businesses,

[18:45] to get employees to come to the core.

[18:49] Do we know if there's been any success with like out of town, people joining?

[18:55] You know how to follow up and see, like where we are with some of that.

[19:01] I don't think we've had a lot.

[19:03] I wouldn't expect.

[19:04] But it might be something we should look at regenerate, rejuvenating again.

[19:09] Was that, is there, where the business is offering like a discount to employees was that

[19:14] or was it just a, it was just if you were a city or a school employee, you would get paid,

[19:19] you could pay the resident rate even if you weren't a resident.

[19:23] But it's something maybe to consider considering to Jennifer's point, it's income tax that

[19:29] pays for a lot of the things.

[19:31] So yeah, or like a group membership if you talk about that people that join yeah, but like actually wellness does a corporate membership for us here in your city employee you get a little discount.

[19:49] Yeah, yeah, it's something we'll follow up on Dan.

[19:53] Okay, thanks.

[19:54] Any questions about the report?

[20:00] Question about the court is in general. I can't remember if you answered this before, but do you allow berthie parties to be tested?

[20:06] Okay. Yes, we have a whole bunch of berthie packages. You can go online on the website and look at those, but actually the berthie parties have been pretty successful.

[20:15] One of the things that people are requesting actually, because apparently, as some places, they do these in her force for berthie parties. So we are looking at doing that.

[20:24] right now, probably people would bring their own equipment, but we're looking at maybe we invest

[20:28] in some Nerf equipment, and that is an add-on to the birthday package.

[20:32] Yeah, we've actually had quite a few birthday parties.

[20:35] I've had a lot of friends ask about that.

[20:37] Yeah, so yes.

[20:38] And you get, it's like a package you can either get the package, but you can use the turf or

[20:45] the gyms.

[20:46] I think there may be a combo one, obviously it's more if you're getting both.

[20:49] I think people have been pretty happy with the birthday parties, and then you get the studio

[20:53] we can serve cake and that kind of thing. So, yep, do you have information about the Parker's

[21:01] challenge walking trail? Did I miss it? Is it in here? If you know what, I should have brought

[21:06] a flyer down. If you go on the website, is right on the website, you can download and print it.

[21:11] Okay, we did print some at the course when people come in, they can just pick it up before we're over there.

[21:16] Just do you have a sit now? You don't have to grab one. Do you want to grab one? You don't have to

[21:21] Right now we can go on the way out. It's okay. So those two things the core we added was new and then we kept like the chapel on there

[21:30] Okay, like walk in the chapel trails

[21:35] I don't think there was any other new ones, right? It was just core I think so yeah people a lot

[21:39] I mean we had good participation last last year or so we're expecting good participation this year too

[21:46] I always do it, but I always forget to turn in my form

[21:49] Jennifer

[21:49] I know.

[21:51] So there's no documentation.

[21:53] Not documented.

[21:56] Um, I already talked about trick or treat trail.

[22:02] I, I was going to talk about, um, capital again, or do you want to wait to like, under

[22:06] newer old business for that?

[22:08] But we can, we can talk about it now.

[22:10] Here it is, huh?

[22:11] So, um, we write last meeting, I mentioned, what we submitted and we can talk about any of those

[22:20] things, if you like, in light of the charter, a men that will be voted on in November, Jennifer

[22:28] had asked for you guys to see what over the last five years we've spent our money on.

[22:35] As you can see, there's a big misunderstanding by the public by some that all we do is by

[22:40] land and create new parks, not the case. Capital is used for a lot of different things. It's

[22:47] we're kind of not saying we're never going to spend anything on a large infrastructure type

[22:54] or project, but we are kind of a little bit more in maintenance mode right now.

[22:59] So these are these are the things by park in year that we have spent capital money on and

[23:07] to clarify, even though we are in maintenance mode, maintenance requires capital funding. And so

[23:16] want everybody to be clear about that and you have you all have done a great job about looking

[23:22] for creative funding opportunities through a lot of grants and so that has been really helpful

[23:30] to reduce some of the burden for the city but even some of these that fall below the cost

[23:38] threshold for capital like the picnic table replacement for $4,900 or $6,000 or $6,000.

[23:48] Is that because it's last more than five years? Yes. And sometimes those things,

[23:54] like we did a lot of that in-house if we were to gone to the outside of order then over 25,000.

[23:59] So it's your point if you're not aware anything that's generally 25,000 or more and can last five

[24:04] fall under the capital. And is it 25,000 or and or five years? So like if it's less than 25,000,

[24:14] but it's less than one, five years. So it's 25 and or.

[24:24] Yeah. So yeah, we've used a lot. I we've done a lot

[24:27] with a money that we had and you know that'll continue.

[24:35] And of course you know a budget is a guideline.

[24:37] So sometimes things get slowed down or we take a step back if things like for example

[24:44] good example is the amphitheater we really were hoping to update the sound and lighting

[24:51] and we went out for an RFP we didn't really care for the pricing we needed to regroup.

[24:57] So that were regrouping. The shade sales that we...

[25:00] We've been talking about the amphitheater, we stepped back, applied for a grant, unfortunately, we didn't

[25:05] get the grant, so we're going to regroup on that as well. So sometimes things, you know,

[25:11] slide out of place and then come back. So we're still pursuing those kind of things. And again, it's

[25:16] a guideline. If something comes up in the middle of the year, let's say a new grant opens for

[25:22] whatever it might be, we can always apply to for something, it's not in the capital budget, we can

[25:27] back to City Council and say, hey, listen, instead of A.B. and C, we'd like to do this instead.

[25:34] So, it's very much a guideline. I think it's also important for people to understand,

[25:41] well, first of all, also to correct some misinformation because even in the south-side leader,

[25:46] in the report on the council meeting, it had said that 60 percent of the

[25:53] parks funding would be used for parks expansion, which is not true, so that was misreported

[26:01] in the paper, but people need to understand that it this proposed, people need to understand

[26:08] how this proposed charter amendment could impact parks funding, and with it saying that up to

[26:16] 40% of the 7% income tax could be used for operations that could, in fact, reduce our capital funds that are available by up to 40% and much of what we have done over the last several years as evidenced by this has been for maintenance.

[26:40] and even the projects that we've submitted for for this year,

[26:45] repaving parking lots, replacing tractors and trucks and things like that that

[26:50] have needed replaced, repairing, you know, we have on your repairing, you know, sports courts,

[26:57] repairing playgrounds, replacing picnic tables. So a lot of what we have done has been maintenance,

[27:04] And if the funding is cut by 40%, that will, or could impact, I should say, the maintenance of the parks.

[27:12] And I think that's something that everybody needs to be aware of when they're voting on this and make a decision,

[27:18] and informed decision on how they want that money to be spent.

[27:24] Yeah, and to that same point, just looking at this quick, it looks like there's a little over,

[27:31] basically a little over 10 million spent on parks.

[27:35] from the park's capital fund, and just looking at it quick, maybe about 200,000 of

[27:45] that has been used for rail park, which would be the only, I don't know, new or expansion

[27:53] or additional new park land, I guess, so about 200,000 out of the 10 million over the last

[28:04] seven years

[28:08] kind of just shows how much we're actually using for all of the other things

[28:14] outside of expansion already that would possibly or likely go down like you said

[28:22] if with the proposed change to the wording so how can we spread this word sorry

[28:33] Is it how can we spread this word? Well, that's something Jennifer and I've talked a little bit offline and we do need to try to figure out what that strategy is going to be

[28:46] I think the most important thing is people need to understand that 7% of the 2% is what makes up this proposal 4060

[28:55] 60.

[28:59] So I would want them to have that basic understanding first. I don't know if it confuses

[29:04] them telling them more about like how that she's now. I think that's the most important

[29:11] thing. We don't want to lose that 7%. No matter how it's, let's just say, let's just say

[29:16] the amendment fails, then we stay exactly what we, how we are. We still get the 7%, it's

[29:23] the percentages are different, what we can use it for, so the biggest thing is we don't,

[29:28] you know, we never, in future years we were really not like to have that 7% go away, right.

[29:34] And there are so some people thinking that that's probably where we should go next. And so we do,

[29:39] I think this gives us an opportunity to get people to understand a portion of our income tax,

[29:45] goes directly to support parks. That's the first thing they need to understand. There's a lot of

[29:53] to support parks, you know, and that's not something we necessarily want to do.

[30:00] The other things that are really necessary in the parks, you don't think about them being capital. People think capital is building a new building or buying a land, but making the parks ADA compatible, increasing the signage at parks. We've done a few parks every year in order to fit it in the budget, but those are really important things.

[30:21] you know, that make sure your sidewalks at your handicapped accessible bathrooms connect to your handicapped

[30:26] accessible rooms.

[30:26] Maybe all of our restaurants have been built with capital money and the maintenance of the

[30:30] restaurants.

[30:33] Yeah.

[30:33] I think education.

[30:35] I mean, maybe if we can.

[30:39] And Sean, this, you know, the rest of the board that's available to you, but maybe if we can

[30:42] talk about this even more in depth at the next meeting on what just an educational

[30:47] procession for the community on what is being spent in capital funds with your money and

[30:54] and letting sharing some of this information with them because a lot of times I don't.

[31:01] Until I made you think that we come off with just like back in front page something like

[31:09] this, like frequently asked questions about Kappa Capital maybe we'll try to sketch something

[31:16] out. Yeah, I mean, you know, just factual information on what what the capital funds have been

[31:23] going to in the last few years. And then I mean, the grant funding that you've gotten that's

[31:31] you know, over to almost 2.5 million in grant funding. That's amazing. Yeah, it really is.

[31:38] I think you can include how the parks are funded in that little brochure too. That's the first thing

[31:43] there.

[31:48] Not in like a weird way but like does if you did like that paper thing do

[31:54] adult read those? I know like kids don't. Yeah I think it needs to be a yeah like if

[32:01] you did like you know those ads that are like always on YouTube it's like this politician

[32:06] and this is what they stand for and like don't vote for them or vote for them you know like

[32:10] I always watch those because they pop off, but like if we if I don't know what Greenhouse funding for like a video might be

[32:19] I know kids don't vote, but like

[32:22] I don't know if it all like you're always read like there's a lot of targeted ads

[32:27] Yeah, the younger the younger adults and and some of the kids do vote and

[32:33] You know it's important

[32:35] It's important for young people to vote

[32:37] And I think when I was a young person a lot of times I didn't because I felt like I didn't know enough to vote.

[32:44] So even if you just educate yourself on the issues that are important to you and maybe only vote on those issues.

[32:53] So I think it's important to educate young people, young voters.

[32:57] So that's a good idea.

[33:00] Well, is this, this is all like publicly available information, right?

[33:07] Is this, does this get attached to like the meeting video with the agenda or can it?

[33:14] Okay.

[33:15] I think that would be good, just to show like, if one of the misconceptions is like,

[33:20] why do we need all this money, like we're not, we don't need to buy a bunch of new land

[33:26] and whatnot, but if we show that that's not what we've been doing with it for the last six

[33:32] years already, maybe, I don't know, for the five people that might watch these videos.

[33:37] I think five years, but we are doing this more than five years, but we just showed the last five

[33:44] years. Yeah.

[33:52] On the capital front right now, all projects were submitted, everything's been

[33:57] We've not gotten the results back for those grades.

[34:02] I think the park projects will do okay.

[34:06] So we'll see where we land and how much money we have.

[34:09] The only park project that's a little iffy that we submitted was the ballpark lighting.

[34:16] I'm going to be honest, about 500,000 to light the other two fields at Greensburg.

[34:23] It's a little bit more to light the two fields at East Liberty.

[34:27] We haven't had another conversation with baseball yet, but from the committee meeting, I think

[34:35] the committee would like us to do a little bit more research and probably it would be a 2028 project.

[34:43] So, they kind of were well-see how to things play out.

[34:48] So, does it remain the CIP committee?

[34:50] Okay, yes.

[34:53] So prior to the youth baseball fields,

[34:57] youth complex, which are the ones on for Greensburg,

[34:59] that's the air.

[35:01] There were 21 now were done 18 with those going away. Not the end of the world, by any means, their enrollment numbers aren't quite to where they were pre-COVID, but they do continue to grow. I think the biggest challenge is they really need fields for the smaller guys.

[35:19] So we're looking at other things we can do, like maybe putting in, you know, the things that are needed to make a smaller base, the basis, you know, tighter, also the little guys can play.

[35:33] So we're looking at other things that GBSF to see what we can do to help handle that schedule.

[35:40] And 500,000 for lights seems like a lot.

[35:44] I know I had sticker shock when you first mentioned that, but with losing the complex, it would

[35:50] be faster to light fields than replace fields, and it would probably be just as cheap

[35:55] or cheaper.

[35:56] Oh yeah, to build a field is closer to a million dollars.

[35:59] And we don't have the space to do that, and it also takes longer to build a field than I ever

[36:04] imagined, too.

[36:05] It wouldn't be done by next year, so lighting the field seems like the quickest solution to at least extend the hours of playing on those fields to accommodate more students.

[36:21] Okay, that's all I had on Capitol.

[36:27] Do you know if there was anything from Council?

[36:32] Just...

[36:33] No, no, no, no current legislation for parks.

[36:36] And I don't believe there's anything in play to the mission. I don't know one of you guys may have been attending, but I haven't seen anything for planning.

[36:47] All right, so we'll move on to unfinished business. I know on here we have the meeting schedule and we talked about doing that by monthly.

[36:57] Is that something that we want to vote on today or make a motion to approve today or

[37:04] Sean, they did talk a lot.

[37:06] We could read it the last week.

[37:08] Yes, so I know we had talked about potentially.

[37:09] I finished it out the year, but I think I should get it

[37:12] voted on at some point so we can set up the schedule

[37:16] for next year at some point.

[37:18] So would it be fine to leave this unfinished

[37:20] until we hit toward the end of the year and vote on it?

[37:24] Or, I mean, whatever.

[37:27] It's totally, I mean, I think we should meet in October

[37:31] to, you know, if there's any community questions about the capital funding,

[37:39] and then if we

[37:40] wanted to start this in January, I think that would probably be okay.

[37:46] Okay.

[37:46] As an excuse, we need that October meeting if we're going to talk about this whole communication

[37:50] project.

[37:51] And we often cancel the December meeting, so maybe meet in October in November, and then

[37:58] And then if you want to vote on November or if you wanted to vote on it, I'm sorry, I said on various boards.

[38:03] When does this restart? When does there calendar year? Is it calendar or is it January 1? Okay, so we've got a little bit of time.

[38:10] So in general, you guys sometimes don't have a January meeting because it's like right up against New Year's.

[38:18] And you usually don't have a July meeting and you sometimes don't have a December meeting.

[38:23] So what we were, this is just what we were proposing is if you go by monthly, it probably be February, April, June, August, October, and then maybe December.

[38:36] I mean, December is early meeting, so it's not like you're up against the holiday, so you could, you need to wrap up anything for the year.

[38:42] I don't think it's a big deal.

[38:44] I'll be honest, January is not going to be a very productive meeting. Only just because we're just coming back from the holidays and our budget service set.

[38:51] So, it figures better to start your calendar year in February.

[38:56] That's just my suggestion.

[38:58] And Council usually doesn't read a point there,

[39:01] wrap until January also.

[39:05] So, that makes sense.

[39:07] Can we do this?

[39:08] How about Jessica, if you can send us a proposed board meeting schedule

[39:11] going forward, we can review it, and then we can vote on it.

[39:14] We can come back to vote next meeting.

[39:17] Who works?

[39:20] It just maybe actually look what those dates would be for the first Wednesday or the month,

[39:26] which I am assuming is still good for everybody.

[39:33] All right.

[39:33] Any other unfinished business?

[39:39] Any new business?

[39:50] All right.

[39:50] If there is nothing else, do I have a motion to adjourn?

[39:55] So, move.

[39:55] I'll second. All in favor. Bye.

[40:01] adjourned.

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