[0:08] Great. It's 6 o'clock. Can I call order and stand for the pledge of allegiance.

[0:20] I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,

[0:23] and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible,

[0:29] with liberty and justice for all.

[0:32] All right.

[0:33] Miss Mon Taz, roll call, please.

[0:35] Mr. Laki.

[0:36] Here.

[0:37] Kier.

[0:38] Here.

[0:39] Chups.

[0:40] Here.

[0:41] Uh, Miss Back.

[0:41] Here.

[0:43] Mr. St.

[0:44] Here.

[0:44] Mr. So.

[0:45] Here.

[0:46] Mr. Tez, here and.

[0:48] Carol.

[0:50] All right, thank you.

[0:51] Do we have an approval of the agenda?

[0:54] Motion to approve the agenda.

[0:56] Second.

[0:57] All those in favor, say aye.

[0:58] Aye.

[1:00] Motion carries.

[1:03] Approval of the minutes of July 13th, 2026 regularly meeting.

[1:11] Motion to approve.

[1:12] Second.

[1:13] Okay.

[1:14] Motion second.

[1:15] All those in favor, say aye.

[1:16] Aye.

[1:18] Okay.

[1:19] Motion carries.

[1:22] Approval of registered claims.

[1:24] Anybody have anything on that?

[1:26] Look through everything look pretty good.

[1:30] Dipping dots is.

[1:34] That's my question.

[1:37] Is Dippin' Dots really ice cream? That's what I really want to know.

[1:42] That's kind of space age stuff, right?

[1:43] I mean, when it melts it does not look like ice cream.

[1:48] All right. Uh, motion to approve registered claims.

[1:51] Make a motion to approve the registered claims.

[1:53] I'll second.

[1:54] Motion second and all those in favor say aye.

[1:56] Aye.

[1:59] Motion carries.

[2:01] Any correspondence?

[2:04] No.

[2:05] And the Parks Director's report.

[2:08] Yes. Um, that would be, we do have three more markets coming up.

[2:13] So we're still working with those.

[2:16] Um, the bands.

[2:18] You seem to always get rained on on Thursdays. I don't know what the deal is.

[2:21] but, um, one good thing came out of that, Mandolin and the Hunters

[2:25] um, agreed to because of our rain out and due to um, Bluzin' Cruisin'

[2:30] for us to put this one together.

[2:32] So on August 16th, um, she's going to play as a makeup for that.

[2:36] And then we got Getty Treez band to come, these guys co-cater as well.

[2:40] Um, and we're just going to throw it together and have a nice hopefully

[2:43] some nice cars, hopefully a couple bands, and the weather stays nice.

[2:48] So we are doing free beer garden, uh, couple, uh, food trucks. From 2:00 to

[2:53] 7:00-ish. I think she's going to stop around 7:00. So it'll be our Blues

[2:57] and Cruised throw together for a Sunday.

[3:00] That's like the old Sunday show that we had, so it'll be hurry up and put

[3:05] something together for that.

[3:06] Um, so that is this Sunday.

[3:07] Um, we did have the pool closed yesterday.

[3:11] And on Friday, it was the last day of our Art to the Park.

[3:16] Um, but we are starting the Hub back up, which is our after school program.

[3:21] They named themselves the Hub. So it's going homework club, but I don't know

[3:24] how much homework they're doing over there. Um, they like to play games and

[3:29] basketball and all kinds of stuff. They have going for them. So that one is going

[3:34] to start back off on the 17th, which is Monday.

[3:35] Um, who say fifth grade and over.

[3:37] So that one is coming.

[3:39] Um, the kids are asked to register this week. They are ready.

[3:43] They have been all summer unheard. They have been all summer unheard. They like to hang out and they go to see all

[3:49] the Catchen Angelina. They love her.

[3:50] So, uh, they're ready for that one.

[3:52] And we are going to Monday through Friday.

[3:54] So we were just Thursday. We thought we would try Monday through Thursday.

[3:58] They requested Friday also. They love it.

[3:59] So we're Monday through Friday now.

[4:01] They're showing up Friday, like on a Friday, no matter what.

[4:04] I mean, because the problem itself is not an end. Yeah.

[4:07] So they want to play and hang out and do all the things Friday.

[4:10] So we gave it to them.

[4:11] Um, we have a bunch of helpers and Angelina.

[4:13] The fire department has been awesome and they go and play with the kids.

[4:19] They do pick ball, they do basketball, they do all the things.

[4:21] Um, uh, well, police hang out and they do because it kind of rolled

[4:24] from their catch program.

[4:26] So they're there as well.

[4:27] So awesome, so awesome.

[4:29] And then Angelina's husband does sweet peas. He wants like a band.

[4:32] So he goes in there, in there, and then there's three kids that actually are playing into their own acoustic. They

[4:41] like to play guitar. So he goes in about drama and they played it.

[4:45] And he actually played at a summer market. Summer market came to play.

[4:48] Yeah.

[4:49] So it's it's like full circle. These kids are they're loving it.

[4:54] Um, we need to buy some new deeds for them to kind of get them excited too.

[4:59] We're still working on the lists for that, but they love it.

[5:00] Um, and then our next event.

[5:02] volleyball, coming up in the 20 seconds. Um,

[5:05] we have over 20 teams now.

[5:09] So, we are able to, um,

[5:14] get that going. Hopefully that we have this last week that they

[5:16] are able to, um, sign up still.

[5:20] They just don't need to

[5:21] share stuff with me.

[5:23] Um, but there'll be a beer garden,

[5:24] there'll be bracket tournaments going on, all of the good things.

[5:28] Um, and then of course,

[5:31] these are going to have a little flyers here if you guys.

[5:35] Um, our second annual run

[5:37] for your life race at Ralph's and Link.

[5:39] Uh, October 24th.

[5:41] We're going to do again the

[5:43] spooky race and spooky run.

[5:45] And if you don't want to run, you can just walk through,

[5:47] you know, you don't have to all that.

[5:49] Um, and then our nature camp

[5:52] again with the kids October 20th, 21st and 22nd.

[5:56] So we are full,

[5:57] full to the max here.

[5:59] Um,

[6:02] I handed out, or yeah, you're looking at now the survey

[6:04] from the skate park. I just wanted you guys to see that.

[6:07] 109 people responded,

[6:08] which I thought was great.

[6:09] Along with, um, probably

[6:11] 20 some, I don't know how many you came, you came a little bit later,

[6:15] but there was 20 some people at the lease come through there.

[6:17] Face dirty.

[6:19] to actually show up to the meeting, tell her what she wanted,

[6:21] they wanted and and all the good things.

[6:23] So she's right now putting

[6:25] together, thank you, Julia.

[6:26] Thank you.

[6:27] She is putting together a design.

[6:30] Um, she said maybe three weeks.

[6:31] And then we would meet again, see what we thought of the design

[6:34] and then, um,

[6:36] she, because we had seen a designer, I think she's going

[6:38] to put out examples for kids.

[6:41] And then she would put it in front of us and then also

[6:43] do another survey and

[6:44] ask the community.

[6:46] Because that was, we asked them

[6:47] 100% of what the community involved.

[6:49] Asked them again, have another survey and then go from there,

[6:51] but we can't beyond their construction schedule until spring, unfortunately.

[6:56] They are booked solid. And they're actually worldwide, they're going

[6:58] all over the place.

[7:00] So we will get on their schedule

[7:02] for um, spring of next year.

[7:04] with that. Very exciting.

[7:06] So, I'm starting to understand why

[7:08] our, uh, budget was running low.

[7:10] [laughter] printing all these.

[7:11] Hey, our ink is free

[7:12] with our with our lease.

[7:13] So we're good now.

[7:14] Oh, so now we're ready.

[7:16] They're pretty.

[7:17] Yeah. I know.

[7:18] I need to transfer some money in there, but it's from the

[7:20] lease and stuff too.

[7:22] So yeah.

[7:23] But they tell us it's free, right?

[7:24] [laughter] Hey, it's not worth.

[7:26] Yes, you have a lot of,

[7:27] you got a lot of.

[7:28] [laughter]

[7:29] You got a lot of. Gotta get the.

[7:31] Gotta get the word out there.

[7:32] I have the truck that comes

[7:34] there with you, so you have to get the word out.

[7:35] We did do the.

[7:37] Pat and I were in Peru.

[7:38] when you guys had that,

[7:40] so we did the survey.

[7:41] [laughter]

[7:42] He's super excited.

[7:43] He's very excited about it.

[7:44] Tell his friends, you know,

[7:45] tell everybody.

[7:46] What I see on there.

[7:48] We're going to have a lot

[7:49] of out-of-towners.

[7:51] Oh yeah, it's going

[7:52] to be destination for sure.

[7:52] Yeah, this is going to be huge.

[7:55] And um, there's a lot of

[7:57] stuff you can build around it.

[7:59] And I mean,

[8:00] food trucks could probably make it in there just

[8:02] hang out there with you.

[8:03] Where's the location, though?

[8:05] The pool property to the south

[8:06] of the ball, yeah, that property.

[8:08] So we're going to, um, eliminate the one that's on the pad right

[8:11] now, the old one and hopefully put a shelter there.

[8:13] Because we need to recapture that.

[8:16] People love that party. There and then hopefully it's shelter

[8:18] by the skate park as well.

[8:19] Because people have expressed interest in doing parties over there,

[8:22] skate park birthdays or

[8:23] that kind of thing.

[8:24] So hopefully two shelters.

[8:26] Uh,

[8:28] so the church part.

[8:29] We bought that church.

[8:30] Yeah.

[8:31] Yeah.

[8:32] And there's a church that was going up there for like

[8:34] 15 years.

[8:35] [laughter]

[8:36] that church was looking at that property most recently actually

[8:39] bought the the old rack church.

[8:41] Oh, okay.

[8:42] Okay.

[8:43] They told them.

[8:44] They told them that property was too small for the size

[8:46] of church that they

[8:47] wanted to build.

[8:48] Oh, okay.

[8:49] So yeah.

[8:50] pool competitions.

[8:52] Yeah.

[8:53] So they're going to make it so that is, uh, both the bike side

[8:55] and the skate side they could be competition for that.

[9:00] Yeah. Oh.

[9:01] What have you guys been in touch with the indoor rehab?

[9:05] Yes.

[9:06] They were all there, they came,

[9:07] the owner, everybody came.

[9:08] Yeah. I know, the deal. Yes, yeah. [laughter]

[9:12] He was there.

[9:13] I think his name was Jack.

[9:14] I can't remember.

[9:16] I think it's Jack B and she was there with her people,

[9:18] they expressed what they loved and.

[9:19] They were more I it's a competition,

[9:23] they had a certain layout ready and I don't know, but it's in there

[9:26] too of what they wanted.

[9:28] So there's one question.

[9:31] Um, I hear you said people want to have parties, if they

[9:33] get to rent a whole facility.

[9:37] I doubt it'll be a whole facility, you usually just

[9:38] do the shelter. Okay.

[9:40] For that kind of. Unless it's counted.

[9:42] No, no, no.

[9:43] That. And it will be Brandon out big for like a big, yeah,

[9:45] big competition.

[9:46] Or we would be as a host,

[9:48] we would get on it.

[9:49] Okay.

[9:50] Host by that.

[9:51] But are they going to do any fencing around the back side?

[9:53] I think you back right

[9:54] up to the neighbors.

[9:55] There are houses back there, yes.

[9:57] Um, we don't plan on taking

[10:00] any if not many trees back there at all, we would like to leave

[10:02] a nice buffer, like a natural buffer, so I don't know as far as.

[10:05] spent, you know, not sorry we haven't got that far yet.

[10:08] Uh, we know we need parking on that side as well.

[10:11] Um, we just haven't got to the layout yet.

[10:12] You want to see, we don't know yet.

[10:15] Uh, they've talked about lights as well, yeah, because we just want to make sure it's not gonna intrude on the people, there's houses on the two sides, you know.

[10:23] We have to be careful with that, but it would extend their ability to, you know, especially wintertime, sitting outside.

[10:29] And then you're thinking about like the lights, how long do you want to stay there

[10:33] and all that? We talked about both.

[10:34] So, being a business, you can put motion lights out there.

[10:40] When they're there. Oh, that's cool. They're there. That's why.

[10:43] So, say 2:00 in the morning, someone shows up.

[10:47] You think the lights will turn on and we'll see lights on.

[10:49] That's a good idea, yeah. That's a good idea.

[10:53] Yeah, yeah, mixed with the timer. I like that.

[10:56] I really do.

[10:57] Is there a bathroom, extra bathroom out there?

[11:01] I don't know yet if we're gonna do extra bathrooms, they're kind of talking

[11:05] about that as well. Yes, somebody kind of, I don't know, there's a lot.

[11:09] Or you can close up the floor and use that building.

[11:13] The building is open for bathrooms on the outside, but it's far.

[11:16] That's really far there.

[11:18] Um, I mean, it's doable, people can walk, but

[11:22] you know, it just depends on how old the building is going to be.

[11:25] Yeah, you got to. They're holding on.

[11:28] Yes.

[11:29] So, um, fix locker room.

[11:33] It's good. Yeah, it's it's all good stuff.

[11:39] Sorry, like it's from.

[11:42] Um, our next thing was about the pickleball courts.

[11:47] I know we talked about pickleball a little bit, but just not a location.

[11:51] So, funding was approved for that by the Board of Works, everything was passed.

[11:56] All the we just need to do is pass the, uh, location.

[12:02] So, location wise, we were all talking about the Penny area.

[12:07] So this was not the side of Penny and the chamber building,

[12:11] but the other side, which would be that long skinny area with playground.

[12:15] Um, we would eventually remove the playgrounds

[12:17] and put that where it makes sense by the bathrooms, the shelter and everything

[12:21] on that side of the building, and then that whole long skinny area by the

[12:23] railroad tracks would be court and anything else, hopefully parking area.

[12:28] Um, they were talking about probably like some pulling area on that would be like building.

[12:34] And then maybe a lot where like the playground itself is right now.

[12:38] Um, it wouldn't have to be too many,

[12:40] uh, we just talked about like if there's a tournament or if there's spectators,

[12:44] we just kind of have to get that number, uh, that have any media on that.

[12:48] So like the after school program,

[12:52] Um, a lot more kids are playing.

[12:54] My son. Hold on.

[12:56] My son played for the first time this year. He is addicted.

[13:00] I played pickleball court by at Penny three times.

[13:04] I've never played in my life until just now.

[13:07] It's actually really fun. So.

[13:10] Yeah, I, is there multiple locations you'd have, you know, for?

[13:13] That is pretty much the only one right now. We tossed around a bunch of different

[13:17] areas. Um, it would be because of the bike trail that runs right through there.

[13:21] We were saying they're looking at it. Yeah, that's right.

[13:23] All the bike.

[13:25] Yeah. Downtown is right there.

[13:26] It's all walkable, you know, that's what we'd like to to keep it that way.

[13:31] Uh, the obviously the bathrooms are on the other side, but it would all kind of interact that way.

[13:36] And hopefully, hopefully it's a good spot.

[13:39] I know a lot of people were talking about the houses right there and stuff too.

[13:42] But it's maybe four or five houses that are impacted right there.

[13:48] Just kind of deal with that when it comes.

[13:51] I think they're not going to have lights. That's why I think they're talking about

[13:55] not lighting it at least for right now because people and how long

[13:58] do they really need to stay there for right now and that.

[14:00] I didn't know about the motion lights.

[14:03] I don't know how that would be there because there are a lot of people in and

[14:06] out and whatever. You have to face them towards the business more than anything.

[14:10] So we're still talking about that kind of stuff.

[14:12] Is that going to, I know that Kurt, Tyler Park is rented out for like practices

[14:18] and stuff. Is it still being heavily used?

[14:19] They don't rent it ever. They never that I know.

[14:23] I think this area is paid by the soldier.

[14:26] Is this paid for by them?

[14:27] The property is private.

[14:30] No, that's um.

[14:32] Yeah. Famous, yeah, famous that there. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah.

[14:37] What about that?

[14:38] I don't know how many you can fit back there.

[14:40] Oh, yeah, it's never used, is that, do they?

[14:42] Um, all now Nisco, for some reason, they're always having trucks back there.

[14:46] I don't really know. That's their property. So sorry about their way.

[14:50] No, we haven't talked about anything back there at all.

[14:52] Um, we are looking to fit eight courts.

[14:55] So we would have to be.

[14:57] I would say that area. I like that area but I.

[15:00] I should have turned that down for baseball, but.

[15:03] Where's the sector?

[15:04] Yeah, but it's so, there's so many trees.

[15:06] Oh, on this side.

[15:08] When you first turn in,

[15:10] not not the courts underneath all the trees.

[15:13] I know, but there is a lot of trees still over there.

[15:16] I know, but I'm like, oh, her.

[15:19] It's just, I mean, you would just be.

[15:21] It just, that would he just said I realize.

[15:24] So they're tiny, they're. I think they're like

[15:26] six family, and that was like 800 something.

[15:29] But now we've bumped it up to 10.

[15:33] So I don't know the answer to them too.

[15:35] It needs a lot for pickleball.

[15:38] Really? I know they're not big with them.

[15:40] You're getting results.

[15:41] Yeah, softball and baseball now is your whole thing down there.

[15:44] But right now they have.

[15:46] I was pickleball yesterday morning.

[15:50] And there was actually a bunch of kids down there playing pickleball.

[15:55] So, I know this one's never used anyways this one.

[16:01] But I want to say where we swinging.

[16:04] Those courts right there are fancy.

[16:07] I don't really know. The other courts.

[16:09] Good, two more.

[16:12] I know what you're doing.

[16:14] Yeah, I'll I'll drive it.

[16:16] on the way home just.

[16:16] I mean, I just think that that's a better location

[16:19] for a pickleball tournament this year.

[16:21] Did you just say you're asking for new location?

[16:24] No, no. Yeah.

[16:27] So it was approved, everything goes through Board of Works,

[16:30] it was not um, it's not funding, and you do the

[16:33] park funding, and it's all uh, the meeting impact funds,

[16:35] and it's all been pushed through with the Board of Works,

[16:39] with a lawyer.

[16:40] Everybody has signed off on everything, and they just wanted

[16:42] to make sure that we have the park and all approval.

[16:44] And word on this.

[16:46] And we're supposed to, um, meet next week.

[16:50] Next week to walk through and lay it out and see how

[16:52] everything works out.

[16:56] Yeah, everybody kind of walked through and closed it all

[16:58] different locations.

[17:00] And came up with that would be the the best one.

[17:05] Okay.

[17:06] And then somebody comes in, they ate courts, they do all of the um.

[17:10] So all the locations possible locations and have they

[17:13] they've had.

[17:14] Yeah, we've looked at everything.

[17:16] Um, the Hyper Tension company that they do

[17:18] and they make sure because.

[17:19] We were talking asphalt, concrete, what do you think, and because of

[17:24] the train that goes through and because if you look at that,

[17:26] it's all sand.

[17:28] It's really strange over there, I don't know if there was part

[17:30] of a bridge and this and that, but it's all sand over there.

[17:33] So, um, asphalt was not a good option with the vibration of the

[17:36] train and the sand.

[17:38] So they were going to do the hypertension country,

[17:40] I don't know if I'm saying that right.

[17:42] But it's they go through and it's all um underneath and they

[17:45] pull it to make sure that there's something they use in um

[17:49] parking garages, and it's a special concrete that

[17:51] this company comes through and does.

[17:54] And then they make sure that they're, you know, it's not

[17:56] going anywhere.

[17:57] And if it does it has to be hit.

[17:59] And then, um, they come in and do the painting of the lines,

[18:02] they do the fencing, they do the net, they

[18:04] everything's turn key, ready to go.

[18:06] I mean, it's like.

[18:09] It is. It's China, yeah, yeah.

[18:11] It's been a long and speedy, so you just do one court of ball.

[18:14] And still had room for pulling parking.

[18:16] Yeah, I like I do.

[18:18] And I I do think that should go over where the pick ball

[18:21] courts are at now.

[18:26] And it makes more sense with the bathroom for the little kids.

[18:29] There's not that. If there is a tournament or something and they

[18:31] need they to forty five or something on that side

[18:33] they can't do it right now.

[18:34] So. I would like to make a motion to approve the

[18:37] location for pickleball courts.

[18:41] Second.

[18:43] All those in favor, I.

[18:45] Any opposed.

[18:46] Motion carries.

[18:49] We're excited about that because we've been

[18:51] talking about football courts forever.

[18:52] That was for a topic at my house is to find out where they

[18:55] going to put it.

[18:58] where they going to put it.

[18:58] They're addicted to it.

[19:00] So the way part two, this one, I think they can get on their

[19:03] schedule.

[19:05] Because it's a big job for them, they want to push us to the front

[19:07] and hoping to get it started, like right away.

[19:10] I really like the location because it the Oaks

[19:13] Vanashire goes right there.

[19:15] Right there. Yeah.

[19:16] We were standing there and meeting with the guy and said,

[19:19] what what do you think about this location, you know,

[19:21] this and that.

[19:22] And we're like, this is, you know,

[19:24] Yes, and and over there the the trail is too close to the

[19:28] Dollar side. I think it's perfect. Yeah.

[19:32] If they were going to start it before they were playing Dollar

[19:35] playing at this building, they were playing at that building

[19:38] court.

[19:40] And then they wanted all fours and they were going to do that,

[19:43] but I remember when they came in they were redo that little area,

[19:46] the cost more than one of them.

[19:48] So I want to actually do that.

[19:50] Apparently you need at least six courts to do a tournament.

[19:54] So now having eight will do like the bigger tournaments.

[19:57] Remember,

[19:58] Remember three years ago?

[19:59] Yeah. We laughed at pick ball.

[20:02] good. We sat here and we're like,

[20:03] oh man, it's taking a

[20:04] Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[20:07] But these these should be really nice in there.

[20:09] Um, I don't see them going anywhere.

[20:11] they're done right, and I really think it's going to get done.

[20:15] It has to be 50 and rising to do even the painted part.

[20:18] So they'll get the concrete, no problem, poured, ready to go.

[20:20] But then we were worried about the painting of the lines and everything

[20:23] and the special coding, but they said 50 and rising temperature.

[20:26] So we should be good for a while, yeah. Yes.

[20:28] Um, so we're fingers crossed, hoping that they can get that in

[20:31] before and they'll be awesome.

[20:33] Yeah, the rain is our big problem.

[20:36] But we're excited about that one. We have so many projects built, it's pretty exciting.

[20:39] [laughter] Finally.

[20:40] Um, and my other thing was the Clean Cities um through our uh

[20:44] our girl with Tim Kingsland and his MS4 work teams.

[20:50] They are doing a rain garden.

[20:52] I don't know if you guys saw that.

[20:54] Um, at Robinson Lake and they have a map here of their plantings

[20:56] and they wanted you guys to know,

[21:00] um what was going out there and where.

[21:02] So if you're looking at the beach, they are talking about the it would

[21:05] be like the south side of the beach, the left hand side.

[21:08] There's an area that kind of dips down and

[21:11] from the top of even from the parking lot area, like that is so wet

[21:15] and rainy and then you can see a run going through and then going

[21:17] down my beach.

[21:20] takes all my sand away and it's I mean a deep run.

[21:22] So this is going to help with that, hopefully.

[21:25] Um, and kind of anger each side.

[21:27] The other side um is gorgeous with the willow trees and that

[21:32] kind of thing um and then this side will have nice all natural native plants.

[21:36] And they're showy ones, you know, they have flowers and everything too.

[21:38] So

[21:39] um we're going to fence it off.

[21:41] I'm going to follow have a picture I should have printed that out

[21:43] for you guys.

[21:45] But it's just a real simple wooden um post with a rope that goes through.

[21:49] It's Marquette has it for their rain garden.

[21:52] It's real simple and easy.

[21:53] It's me a little up area out with her to firm help with the

[21:55] drainage issue there, so.

[21:59] Um, I'm excited about that. They got grants.

[22:03] They're handling everything.

[22:04] Um, we are going to do like the fencing and that, but that's that's about that.

[22:07] Now is this this is not the friends or else this is not it's not.

[22:11] They wanted the norther side, the right side.

[22:15] Um, it's so this side if you look at it, it doesn't have any drain

[22:18] tile at all.

[22:20] Yet, and we wanted to do drain tile, but this will help with some of that.

[22:23] That side is created from drain tile into that water where it

[22:26] drains, like that's the whole idea.

[22:29] So it's totally different.

[22:32] Yeah.

[22:33] Who who was doing this?

[22:34] So Tim Kingsland got the grant, and he's with our MS4 um,

[22:37] departments.

[22:39] and he handles the waste water and all of that.

[22:42] So he did a grant and they gave him

[22:45] it was an Amazon grant, I believe it was right under $15,000

[22:48] to do this.

[22:51] And then I believe he got a little bit more money to do the groundwork and that kind of stuff too.

[22:55] Um, so they're going to help with the sand and the beach, keep that

[22:58] from just going my through the water.

[23:02] and do a firm.

[23:03] And then the maintenance at the end is going to be handled to

[23:06] Davies who does like the gardens out here at City Park.

[23:09] So right now the parks are hands off with it, just kind of location

[23:11] and prettiness of it, actually.

[23:15] So you said it's all native planting?

[23:17] All native.

[23:19] Yeah, she went through that.

[23:20] So the grant covers all the establishment of it.

[23:22] Yeah.

[23:23] They're going to do um, no seeds, it's going to be plugs, not like

[23:25] full of big plants and ice,

[23:27] but we're going to get them as soon as possible, um, in plugs

[23:30] in there and hope for fall.

[23:32] So that makes less time to establish the native roots because the roots.

[23:36] Oh yeah, yeah.

[23:37] Yeah, they'll hopefully come right back for spring and you know, we

[23:40] might throw some seeds from it,

[23:42] but other than that, they should be good to go.

[23:45] They should be. Should be.

[23:47] Speaking of rock and some like that was out there the other day and

[23:51] I know we talked about Book Sandydor. Yeah.

[23:55] To me, I haven't been out there lately.

[23:57] Every day. Every day.

[23:59] But then so it it looks to me that's how it should look, right?

[24:03] Is that what she wants? No.

[24:05] She wants the 10 to 20 feet unmode, uncut.

[24:10] It is uncut.

[24:10] Natural.

[24:11] Well, we're letting it the thing is like we're clearing it but

[24:13] letting it grow back what was there.

[24:15] She doesn't like what was there.

[24:18] Um, and because of the sand, she can said it was impacted because

[24:20] we kind of move around the sand.

[24:23] And then on that side it's all sand that whole. Okay.

[24:27] it just to me it it looks like it's coming back to the way it

[24:30] was as long as it's clean.

[24:33] Clean and not just clear.

[24:35] The um trash infested the brush.

[24:39] And we didn't say no, she I guess put out another email to Kelly and

[24:42] and wanted her to put on her end.

[24:45] I was like, we already brought this to park board, like we're handling

[24:47] it, you know.

[24:48] We didn't say no.

[24:50] said just pause.

[24:51] Yeah, it wasn't cut. So that's what I was thinking.

[24:54] But it's going to be cut every so often, you know, like we're

[24:57] going to try to clear it and Justin's still going around

[24:59] and it's still good.

[25:02] get something for what she was asking for. Um.

[25:06] She wanted her company to be paid for.

[25:09] She she didn't have time to donate to us to do it,

[25:11] but she wanted her company to be paid to do it.

[25:13] Okay. I took from that.

[25:15] I thought. Oh, okay.

[25:17] which now doing this as part of what bringing, you know, which then they like the power is that they can say to myself, right?

[25:23] Like this should be this should be ours.

[25:25] Well, this is on me. Everything else when I'm paused, you want to actually get the rest of the lake cleared

[25:28] and and go from there, you know.

[25:33] you don't need any of those things. No.

[25:35] No, it's it's just there and it's, you know, not anything with the parks. It was MS4 that went through.

[25:40] That's all. I'll donated there.

[25:42] money and.

[25:43] Right. Yeah.

[25:44] Yeah.

[25:45] They did awesome. They're really excited about that.

[25:47] Everybody loves Rockton.

[25:48] They really do. So they wanted it to be the best of the leave happened though.

[25:52] Oh my gosh.

[25:53] Oh yeah. That's the other thing that I I'm hoping to do out there is pave that parking lot.

[25:58] because it is triple parked out there. Those cars, you see it out by the ice cream.

[26:02] And then at night it's still it's so dark out there.

[26:05] Yeah, I'm like.

[26:07] Yeah, I don't know if you guys saw I put a fence because people were breaking through our chain

[26:11] and going back there and driving fishing in whatever else.

[26:15] So we put a chain, not a chain, but an actual fence instead of a chain.

[26:18] They were breaking into our lock, they were picking our lock, all kinds of stuff like every night.

[26:23] Um, so there's a nice gate that says no more, we've put a little sign that says

[26:26] north and south because they have fish and they don't know what's north and south.

[26:30] They have fights every weekend. So they know.

[26:33] Better than spotted too, just in case anybody has problems. Uh,

[26:37] and then I really want to pave the whole thing and ease the paving us through the park and so on.

[26:41] Um, and then a trail around, a paved asphalt trail around the whole thing.

[26:47] I think that would be amazing.

[26:48] We want to pave trail. Yeah.

[26:51] And then so it's all access from the bike trail in, you can go around the lake and then the Saba property.

[26:56] Yeah, all access everybody.

[26:58] And then Saba, the property to the north of that is all going to be, um, done by Lake County and

[27:04] Davidson, a bunch of other places around the two and Daltons too.

[27:09] So it would all be new properties all.

[27:11] And then they're going to continue on to continue on to the other side of 49 and into the nature trail too.

[27:15] So it's like if it will be amazing.

[27:23] Oh yeah, that's my dream pass.

[27:26] All right. We're good?

[27:27] Yeah.

[27:29] Thank you. Thank you.

[27:31] A lot of good stuff.

[27:33] Thank you, Michelle.

[27:34] Only thing I know that saves on, uh, that's through before a self access storage

[27:38] facility on Sips at the end of the year.

[27:48] Uh, the last council meeting, we approved the Fire Parkers contract for 2021 for.

[27:56] We here, yes.

[27:58] Um, and we also reviewed and approved the Capital Improvement Plan for 2031.

[28:03] So like for you guys here now, um, Capital Improvement Plan is kind of like the city's wish list kind of.

[28:10] Where you just, it's kind of like a living document where it's updated constantly with just like

[28:13] things we would do when grades. Um.

[28:21] What tiers? They did.

[28:22] Yeah. Tier one, tier two, most important, so least important for here.

[28:27] So that's updated.

[28:29] I just got to say yeah.

[28:30] Yeah, they do good.

[28:32] I think we're going to be checking off a lot of those milestones. that's awesome. That's why.

[28:37] Awesome.

[28:39] Sure you got something.

[28:41] I only have two things.

[28:43] Uh, school starts Wednesday.

[28:46] Um, so if you're not registered, please your registration for numbers kids who are not registered.

[28:51] The second thing I just want to give a shout out to

[28:54] Uh, the city and uh, Holtslim and the chief police.

[28:58] Um, they just recently signed and uh, changed to uh, SROs in the schools.

[29:05] will now be completely off of the school's shoulders.

[29:08] Um, they, we get a grant, um, for about $99,000 to cover some of the portion of the

[29:14] cost of the SROs, the city has taken on all of the remaining costs.

[29:19] So SROs of the schools will now be providing by the city for to the schools.

[29:25] So everyone can go safe.

[29:27] We're going to have an officer at every uh, school.

[29:31] Um, and the city paying for.

[29:32] So that's uh, quite a big chunk of money that we save in our operations budget that we can do things like

[29:39] That's awesome.

[29:45] Uh, we don't have any old business, new business, pickleball, final approval, which we already did.

[29:51] We started that. Well, no, that's fine.

[29:55] We have no announcements.

[29:59] pressure?

[30:01] So yeah?

[30:02] All those in favor? Say I.

[30:04] I.

[30:08] You come to all those I know, you know.

[30:10] No, that's not a great. I'm sorry, Chat.

[30:12] No, he's like, he's a brand new. He's like, I'm sorry.

[30:15] Yeah, I'm very excited. I mean.

[30:18] No, I didn't want to play off I didn't want to play off.

[30:21] I didn't want to play off.

[30:22] You know, the word, the word to the question.

[30:24] No, it's. It's complicated.

[30:27] Don't ever hesitate.

[30:28] No.

[30:29] How does that?

[30:31] I, I did, I did.

[30:32] I did.

[30:33] I did. Right.

[30:34] Just so you know, I'm going to run with that.

[30:37] I'm going to. I thought you got.

[30:40] And once our speakers go out.

[30:41] I, I, I, I, I.

[30:45] Last thing. I mean.

[30:46] The whole idea was.

[30:47] You know.

[30:48] That's how.

[30:49] It's always.

[30:50] You know, we get all the shit. Everything's going to be in.

[30:53] That's why. It's like, I want you to.

[30:55] And then it comes out like. I said, hold on.

[30:57] And then.

[30:58] inadequately.

Park Board 08-10-26

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