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Good evening and welcome to the September 1st Parts Commission meeting. I would like to call this meeting to order at 7pm. I will lead us into the pledge of allegiance, so if I could please have everyone stand.

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Please do right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin.

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I pledge allegiance to the

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flag.

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And can I please have everyone remain standing for the invocation by Commissioner Boot?

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Thank you all for being here tonight and for your commitment to our community.

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Let us continue to in collaboration, in purpose, and respect to support the Parks and Recreation

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Program and our community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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We will move on to the administration of oath of office.

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Actually, if we could do roll call first, please.

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We will move on to roll call.

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It's all of you could please take roll call.

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Okay, we'll be doing a verbal roll call.

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Commissioner Lam.

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Commissioner Paul.

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Commissioner Boop.

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Vice Chair Hernandez is absent.

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Commissioner law.

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I mean, sorry.

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Chair.

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Present.

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Chair the what?

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We good to move on to the oath.

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Okay.

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If we if we're excited tonight to

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swear in our reappoint one of our reappointing commissioners, Pauline

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Vue.

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And you also swear in and welcome a new commissioner, Michael

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along with us. So congratulations to you both. If we could please swear in Commissioner

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Vue, if I could ask Lawrence to come on up to the mic. Commissioner Vue, if you

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wouldn't mind meeting him down there,

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please read after me. I'm Pauling Vue. I'm

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Pauling Vue. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the

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constitution of the United States. That I will support and defend the constitution

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of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution

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of the State of California against all enemies against all enemy foreign and domestic foreign

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and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance

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to the Constitution of the United States to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution

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of the State of California and the Constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation

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freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of

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a vision or purpose of a vision and that I will well and faithfully and that I will

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well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to answer. This charge the

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duties upon which I am about to enter.

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All right congratulations, Commissioner Voo.

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Now

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if I could get Mr. Vong, and Council members, Steven Lee, to the...

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Hello.

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To give us one quick second.

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Michael, it's happy to have you back here in the city of Rosemeat.

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I, from those who don't know Michael, the son of Rosemeat grew up in the community.

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He went to Rosemeat High School.

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It was actually on a commission before when he first lived here in Rosemeat.

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He then decided that he found better pastures in a neighboring city,

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but then realized those cities, the grass was not greener.

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that the grass and at our parks and much cleaner here in the city of Rosemary, so he decides to come back here to Rosemary.

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So we're going to have you have you back, we're going to swear you back in, so it's my honor and privilege to do that with you.

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So I'm not going to just go ahead and repeat after me.

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But he's right ahead, don't get me. I see.

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I take this obligation freely, without purpose of evasion, without purpose of evasion, without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully, that I will well and faithfully, this charge the duties upon which I'm about to enter, upon which I'm about to enter.

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Congratulations

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and welcome Commissioner Vaughn.

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Our next item on the agenda is our reorganization of the commission.

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So each year we reorganize and you have the opportunity to appoint and select a new chair and vice chair.

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So for this portion, I would like to turn it over to our administrative specialists, it's El Ruiz.

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Okay, nominations are now in order.

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Are there any nominations for chair?

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I would like to nominate Commissioner Foo.

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Are there any other nominations?

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Can we second?

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Oh, next we'll be.

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We're going to call for a vote in just a second.

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We got to open it up if there were any other nominations for chair.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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If there are no denominations, we're going to do a verbal rule, I mean a verbal, but we actually need to have a motion in a second, so there is a nomination.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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And now we'll do a motion.

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A vote.

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A vote.

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Motion votes, sorry.

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It's going to be verbal.

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Commissioner Lam?

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Commissioner Wong?

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Yes.

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Commissioner Boot?

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Yes.

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Chair Low.

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Yes.

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Motion passes, 4-0.

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Congratulations.

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We have a new chair.

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So now the meeting is yours.

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Chair Boot.

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We do have some information to pass over to you.

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The second item, your first item, is the official chair, will be leading for nominations of a vice chair.

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Do we have nominations for a vice chair?

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I would like to nominate Commissioner Lam.

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I just second?

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Are there any other nominations?

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sorry.

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Then we'll do a verbal.

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Commissioner Lam?

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Commissioner Wong?

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Commissioner Boot?

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Chirlo? Yes.

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Go ahead.

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Congratulations, Vice-Tirlo.

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Chirlo, the meeting is now yours.

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All right.

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We'll move on to public comments from the audience.

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There are no comments at the time.

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We'll move on to the consent calendar.

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Do I have the motion to approve the consent calendar?

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I motion to approve the consent calendar.

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Do I have a second?

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Second.

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You'd start voting, please.

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All right, and I'll hand it over to Tom for our matters from staff.

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Great.

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Thank you. Great to be here tonight. Welcome Commissioner Vaughn. Congratulations, Chair Vue, as well as Vice Chair Lam.

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We will get your name, plaques, change. It's not official until your name plaques change. Of course.

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Tonight, the first item I have for you is the Rose of Excellence Award.

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These are done every month and the purpose of this is to present to you two outstanding part-time employees that we have in the Parks and Recreation Department.

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Tonight, the Parks and Recreation Department is very proud to recognize Ernesto Vergara.

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And that was not done on purpose. I promise. Ernesto Vergara, come on up, stand up please.

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And right in the middle there, Ernesto Vergara is from our Park Ranger Division, and as

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the recipient of the Roosevelt Excellence Awards for the month of September, since joining

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our Park Ranger program in September of 2025, Ernesto has been a tremendous asset to our team.

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With 21 years of experience working for LA County, Ernesto brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise

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to park operations, public service, and special events.

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His extensive experience has transitioned seamlessly

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into our park-ranger program,

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allowing him to make an immediate and positive impact

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on the team and the community that we all serve.

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Ernesto is truly the Energizer Bunny

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of the park-ranger division. He just keeps moving.

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His enthusiasm, positive attitude and upbeat personality

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allow him to provide excellent customer service to our park patrons while helping maintain the

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cleanliness, safety, and overall appearance of our parks and our facilities.

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Ernesto has a keen eye for identifying issues and takes a very proactive approach to addressing

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them. Whether he's reporting or removing graffiti, cleaning or restocking the restrooms,

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submitting service requests for playgrounds and equipment, or actively patrolling our parks,

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or Nesto consistently goes above and beyond to ensure our facilities are safe, clean, and welcoming for the community.

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Congratulations to our Nesto on the very well-deserved recognition.

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Thank you for your outstanding contributions, your positive energy, and continued commitment to the Parks and Recreation Department, and to the City of Resmin, congratulations.

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If I could ask the Commission to come on down and take a photo and present our Nesto,

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Our next award is truly an honor for me to present, and if you've ever been to RCRC and she is working, you can feel the warmth, as soon as you walk in, her smile is contagious and her overall personality is fantastic.

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So it's my pleasure to recognize and somewhat embarrassed, Tony Rose, Mededina.

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Tony Rose. Hi, every morning I get she walks in, I walk in, it's good morning

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Tom, good morning Tony Rose and it's just a great feeling. She has been part of

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the Rose Me team for over 20 years. Throughout her career, she's continued to

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grow and take on new responsibilities. She began in our after school sports

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programs, advancing to a recreation leader, and is now serving as our senior recreation leader

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at the Rosemeat Community Recreation Center.

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Known for her positive attitude and welcoming spirit, Tony Rose brings a warmth and enthusiasm

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to everyone that she meets.

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She's always ready with a smile and a friendly greeting for guests and co-workers alike. Tony Rose consistently takes initiative in her projects and approaches every responsibility with dedication and care. As a strong leader, she leads by example. She supports her co-workers and helps ensure the programs and events run smoothly.

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Her contributions to programs such as our adaptive recreation and farmers market help create a safe supportive and fun environment where participants can enjoy activities and build meaningful experiences.

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Not only has she does that, she plays an ultimate support system to one of our recreation coordinators, Bernadette Gallindo, as well as myself.

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Any time I have ever needed anything directly, Tony Rose has always been willing to step up and take on any new challenge.

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Her hard work, leadership, positivity, and more than two decades of service have made Tony Rose an exceptional asset to the Roseme team and a deserving recipient of this recognition.

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Congratulations.

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If I could ask the Commission, come on down and take photo.

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I will ask if the commission has any comments before we move on to the next item.

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Ernesto, thank you for keeping our parks safe and running park granders are so integral

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to the parks and the communities.

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So thank you for everything that you do.

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Antonio Rose, I think she was one of the first parks staff that I've ever met since being

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on the commission and she has always had that positive attitude and she was so welcoming.

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showing me all the things behind the scenes, so thank you so much for all the positivity

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that you bring and everything that you both do for the parks in the community.

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Thank you.

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I just want to really quickly echo something that Tom said, which is having a safe and supportive

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community and without the both of y'all, we would not have that here in the City of Rose

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Meets.

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Thank you so much for your dedication and effort in our community.

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Appreciate y'all.

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I just want to echo my colleagues' comments.

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Thank you Tony Rose.

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Thank you Ernesto for your service to the City of Rose Mutant and the Resents.

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I think all of my commissioners have said everything, but again, thank you guys so much for

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everything that you guys do for our parks and for our community.

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You are more than welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting, but now is a great opportunity

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to escape.

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So it's really up to you, but you're more than welcome to stay if not, right now is a great

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time to go.

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All right,

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can I show you a good if I go on to the next item? Okay, great. So the next item that I have for you is a 2026 summer and review.

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It's a great opportunity for us to kind of brag about all the great things that we did this summer and I wanted to share with you some stats and some information.

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I will try to go very quickly through it all because as you all know we do quite a bit here in the city of Rosemeed

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And so it could not be done without an exceptional team

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I am very very lucky to work with the professionals that I do and as hardworking as they all are

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So this is our summer and review for you

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One of the staff of our aquatic programs

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This year, this is what is our aquatic staffing level.

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We had 38 lifeguards, which is the highest we've had in quite some time pre-pote,

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oh my god, pre-COVID.

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We had 31 recreation leaders.

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Those leaders actually serve as our front counter at-

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Attendance, and our both of our facilities, and we had 18 instructional guards, so we were able to accommodate quite a bit of swim lessons this summer.

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Recreation swim hours, we were able to keep our facilities open at the same level as we did last year, which is great.

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We are looking at every year as expanding that. Keeping it consistent was fantastic. We were very proud of that.

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So just a couple of stats at the Rosemead Aquatic Center, we serve as 6,105 adults, 8,846 children.

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At Splash Zone, which is located at Garvey Park, we were able to serve as 6,663 adults, 9,416 children.

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So we were very excited with those numbers.

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We do track them.

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We look at comparisons from year to year.

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Hours-wise, you know, we're hoping

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expanding every year, depending on our staffing level.

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So we were very proud of the recreational swim time.

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Our swim lessons and other programs, swim lesson

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participants, we were able to service 879 children.

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Adult swim participants, we were able to service 23.

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LAP SWIM 641, aqua fit 287, I know we have a very proud aqua fit member on the commission.

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And our rosemeed rapid swim team was a total of 504, so great numbers with our aquatic program.

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We had two special events, directly at the Aquatic Center, we celebrated Shark Week with a movie, a dive in movie,

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uh... serves up as well as activities and various things around the deck

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we also uh... did Christmas in July which is a big thing nowadays

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and so uh... we were able to do a dive in movie we showed frozen and we had great

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attendance with those events as well

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our youth programs moving on to our youth programs

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uh... little recap for you all we had our summer camp we did ten weeks of summer camp

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247 participants, a lot of them did multiple weeks throughout the summer.

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It included a weekly excursion, theme weeks with arts and crafts and various activities.

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We had our free lunch program.

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That was at Garvey Park and Rosemade Park.

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We partnered with the San Gabriel Unified School District,

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who actually provides the lunch program for us.

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And so we served about an average of 50 lunches per day.

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Are you sports recap?

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We offered our youth basketball league.

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These numbers are pretty impressive.

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We went from 160 participants to 296 this year,

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this summer alone.

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We went from 16 teams to 30 teams.

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And we could not do that without our partnership

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with the Garvey School District.

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We do utilize their gymnasiums,

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and so we were able to offer even more.

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So we're pretty proud of that, pretty excited.

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Are you the volleyball clinic?

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We had 47 participants.

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We offer a start smart clinic.

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This is for our little ones, three to five years old.

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It's pretty much an introductory to sports.

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Basketball, soccer, baseball, and volleyball.

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And we had about 67 participants.

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E-Sports tournament.

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It's always a big thing.

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They come in for a one day tournament.

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We feed them some pizza.

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They play for a gift card.

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We had about 20 participants for that.

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And then we had various contract classes.

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we had golf lessons, pickable lessons, tennis lessons, ultimate frisbee lessons, all dedicated

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towards you. Here are some photos for you. We had our Mario Kart very focused as you can see

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the termination in their eyes, as well as the various lessons and activities. Our adult sports

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program, we had a pickable tournament. If you haven't heard of it, I'm shocked. But pickable

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All is huge and it's only becoming bigger, so we're excited to offer quarterly tournament for all of the pickup all players that we have.

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We had adult tennis lessons and our adult basketball league, which sells out every single quarter with eight teams.

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And so we're excited about all of those programs that we offer.

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Special events. We do a few. I don't know if you know that. We do a few.

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Art in the park and movie in the park, we had six weeks, six weeks of art in the park,

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we offered three movies, so we alternated between Rosemeed Park and Garvey Park each week.

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We had Yappy Hour, which had to be one of our biggest successes for the summer.

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It was located at Garvey Paws Park on a Wednesday from 5 to 7, and each week we averaged

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anywhere roughly 60, but there were some weeks where we got it to like 70, 75 dogs and owners.

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It was complete, mayhem, but it was great. There was no fighting, there was no bites, knock-on wood, a successful program, staffed it an amazing job with this super excited to offer this this year.

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Our kids night out, which is always the kind of our end of the season bash, parents get to drop their kids off, it's a splash zone for a night out.

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And the kids get to use the aquatic facilities, the slides, the splash pad, all of that.

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We maxed out 50 participants this year, so it was a very successful program.

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If you didn't know, we celebrated 250 years of America with our Fourth of July event,

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which consisted of a parade, an amazing flyover, if you saw it, it was fantastic,

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as well as a carnival, lots of entertainment and a great fireworks show in the evening.

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Our summer concert series is one of our major highlights.

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Here in Rosemade we do six weeks alternating between Rosemade Park and Garvey Park.

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We celebrated Park's May Life Better Month, we celebrated National Night Out.

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We also celebrated Rosemade's 67th birthday.

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So excited with that.

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Here are just some little photos of the various events.

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You can see the 67th birthday down in the corner there.

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We did a dog costume contest at the Fourth of July event,

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the various bands that we had super excited.

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National night out is highlighted at the top corner.

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You can see the backpacks.

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Our mayor, Sandra Armenta, has led this for many years

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with a committee of people this year.

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They were able to hand out 700 backpacks to students.

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So we were really excited with that.

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park was packed. We had a ton of different vendors out organizations all

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gearing towards public safety. It was really a big event. A lot of people in the

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park.

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We have a picture of Yappy Hour down at the corner there. You can see

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we had one of the themes of one of the Yappy Hour was back to school and so we

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were excited with that. Various things aren't in the park. We celebrated a lot of

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throughout the entire summer.

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Other summer programs that we offered,

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we offered our weekly farmers market on Monday nights.

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That's actually an item that we will be discussing tonight

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and getting some input from you all.

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We had our World Cup Senior Social at the Garvey Center,

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which was a sold out event, celebrating soccer,

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and you don't need much excuses for them

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to get out there and dance.

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They just loved a party.

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Our adaptive programs were very successful.

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we offer one adaptive program every single month, and we had a gymnastics type, all are

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welcome to participate in our adaptive programs, but they are geared to those with special needs.

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And we put together we had staff put together a little video for you.

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So, that, in the nutshell, was our summer. We are already planning and looking forward to 2027.

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So, that is my presentation. If you have any questions or comments regarding that, I'm happy to address them.

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A couple of questions. Thank you for the presentation and the video. It's really insightful. It looks like we have a huge participation amongst residents.

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You had mentioned early on in the aquatics schedule based on staffing needs, has there been staffing challenges with increasing hours, just interest from people that want to work in aquatics?

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So, post pandemic we saw a huge decline in interested bodies becoming lifeguards.

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We lost about half of our life guards right after the pandemic, trying to recruit and retain

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aquatic staff has been challenging.

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We have done a great job the last two years and so we continue we're hopefully going to

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continue to build on that.

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As we see there being more of a general interest in people coming back to jobs like a lifeguard,

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We have adjusted our salary schedule over the years.

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We are constantly evaluating where we are with things of that nature.

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And so we are seeing more interest and hopefully retaining more staff

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as what we're really looking at doing.

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Last year compared to this year, we were up with the number of life cards.

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So that's exciting and we're hoping on retaining those.

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Are those positions year round?

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Yes, most of them are year-round because our aquatic center is open year-round.

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What we do find is that we lose quite a bit of staff for school.

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Whether they're still in high school or they're off to college.

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So we do have positions that are year-round.

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Some of them are seasonal, but the majority of them are year-round.

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We use quite a bit of staff during the school year as well.

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have we ever considered an option where there's a full-time park staff that takes

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up part of their time, working for the park's apartment, functionally, and then part of

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the time they're working on quadics?

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So, have we ever been in a consideration?

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As far as your friend, you'd like an actual lifeguard in the water doing lessons, or a staff

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who oversees the program.

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lifeguard doing lessons. So we have a recreation supervisor, Jacqueline Guerrera. She's been with

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the Department for many years. She oversees both aquatic facilities as well as various other

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things for the city. There have been times where she has to get into the water because of

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short of staff. Now, obviously, we have our facility, especially the Rosaryd Aquatic Center

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and the size of it and what we need to actually the staffing to do a complete rotation

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and based off of the size with it, she can help,

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but honestly her time is much needed in other areas.

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She has had to fill in.

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We do have a senior recreation leader as well.

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And Chris Chung, he has had to fill in as well in the water,

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but we try to keep them out of the water

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over seeing programs mostly.

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Anyone else have questions?

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I have another one on a separate issue.

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You had mentioned San Gabriel School District provides a school lunch program.

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Is there a reason why Garvey or Rosemead School District do not provide that program for the city?

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I do not have that information.

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I can tell you that San Gabriel School District offers the lunch program to more than just Rosemead.

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They do offer programs, I believe, to Alhamdulillah as well.

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They receive the State Funding for the Free Lunch Program.

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I don't know if I can't speak to Rose Mead or Garvey, whether they receive that funding,

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or potentially have the personnel to run those programs.

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So I don't have that information.

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I know.

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I have been here. We have partnered with San Gabriel Unified, which is going on eight years.

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Thank you.

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Just to comment, thank you Tom. Thank you to our entire Parks and Rec staff for all the work that you did this summer.

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I mean, it's wild because I felt like we were just in the parade for July 4th, and like dozens of events have passed since then.

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So, thank you all so much for what you've been doing. And I just wanted to speak on aquatic, especially.

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It's been a very hot summer, as we all know, and the fact that y'all were able to maintain

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those hours, and so that community members can find a place for leisure time after work

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to cool down themselves, their children, with their family, it's been super helpful for

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our community, so I'm hoping that we can maintain those hours or extend them in the future as

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well. Thank you.

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I really enjoyed the video. That was really cool. Is it the same team that

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films that put them together too. They did an amazing job. I really like how they also included

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staff dancing and having fun at the very end too. Are you focusing on social media?

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Awesome.

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So we have an unofficial social media team. It's made up in the group of very, very talented

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recreation leaders, as well as itself. It sells kind of their guiding light and keeps them grounded

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focused because they tend to get very creative, but they've been outstanding when it comes

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to our social media presence and the videos and the photos that we're able to capture.

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We have a ton more photos online for those that are interested.

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They are all linked to our website.

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The city does have a flicker account and so people can go on and check out various events

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and all the photos that we've taken throughout all of the events that we host.

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Yeah, I just want to echo what Commissioner Lam had mentioned.

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Just thank you to the Parks and Rec staff for everything you've done over this summer.

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I don't even know how many events you just listed now.

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And I know some of them you're there from, like, dust till dawn almost just getting things done.

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So I know the community really appreciates all the events.

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I've appreciated the ones I've gone to.

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My dogs have appreciated YAPI hour, so just thank you for all that you guys have done.

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Get some rest now before you start planning for the fall, but it's been a great summer.

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After Christmas.

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After Christmas.

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If there's no other...

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I think we can move on to the next point.

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next item? Sure. So the next item that I have for you is a farmers market discussion. I believe

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it was two meetings ago. It came up during Commissioner comments from Commissioner Lam.

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I believe that's some questions. And everybody seemed to kind of start wanting to chime in

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being the bad man that I am. I had to stop the conversation and let's agenda is it for this meeting

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so that we can have a conversation and you can speak more freely

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on some of the ideas that potentially you may have.

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I provided you with a report as to what we currently offer.

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So I'll kind of go over some things with that.

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The Farmer's Market was established in 2018.

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And it was opportunity for fresh produce to come to Rosemeade.

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You know, the idea was creating a gathering place

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as for residents and visitors, and it was first started

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right out here in the city Plaza area.

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Obviously, the pandemic hit.

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There were some concerns regarding the attendance here.

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So we decided, hey, let's move it to a park

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that already gathers people, whether it be baseball,

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like soccer, just the walking trail alone.

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So back about four years ago, we moved it to Rosemey Park.

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We've been contracting with the company FM-LCE.

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They are a certified farmers market manager.

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So all of the vendors that are there that are serving produce

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are actually certified farmers that come.

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The market is open on Mondays from five to nine o'clock.

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While we've adjusted the length of the market over the years, we've kind of established

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a April, beginning of April, to the end of September timeline.

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We feel that winter and it's fallen winter can be challenging for farmers as well as people

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coming out.

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It's a little bit warmer, things that that nature of the participation has been greater.

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During the summer. We have various vendors that come out. We have food. We have obviously

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a farmers produce vegetables, things of that nature, then we have fresh food, popcorn, and we

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sometimes have trinkets. It's an interesting game to be honest with you because what is sometimes

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very challenging to get a farmer's market up and running. And we're not the only city that

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challenges or lots of local cities that have challenges getting up. If you don't

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bring out the number of people, the vendors don't want to participate. If the

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vendors aren't there, the people don't want to come. So it is a little bit of a

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game. The department offers special programs once a month. We have staff to go

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out there. They do special arts and crafts, contest, game nights, kind of doing

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to come out. It's been successful, but we don't see the grand number that we would like to see.

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And so I know there may be some questions or comments regarding that.

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Staff is in looking at potentially releasing an RFP in the next couple months to see what kind of interest

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we can get from other market managers and to see potentially what other ideas there may be out there.

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With that information, it will be coming back to you for your input before ultimately going to the city council for discussion.

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To see whether this is something that we want to continue to offer to the residents,

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or should we take a break for a little while, re-imagine, reinvest, and introduce something else.

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00:41:43,660 --> 00:41:48,840
So that is what I have to say. I know there were some comments and questions from you all.

460
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:54,580
happy to take those, or if you would like to have a discussion amongst yourselves, feel free.

461
00:41:55,500 --> 00:42:01,440
Two participants as a vendor, at the farmers market, is there some type of permit process,

462
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,520
or are they selected by the company that we work with?

463
00:42:06,660 --> 00:42:12,380
Correct. The market manager that we work with, they work directly with all vendors.

464
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:18,820
So the department will get inquiries regarding becoming a vendor, we direct them to the market.

465
00:42:18,820 --> 00:42:24,720
manager, the market manager pulls the permits, make sure is the health department certification,

466
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,220
the health permit is valid as well, and then she works with the vendors directly.

467
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:37,020
What the city will do is community organizations outreach, things of that will align with

468
00:42:37,020 --> 00:42:39,560
those, will get those groups out there.

469
00:42:39,980 --> 00:42:47,140
We've had sports organizations do sign-ups, will do community outreach, whether it be for looking

470
00:42:47,140 --> 00:42:53,780
at different options for park amenities or general plan, election information, how to become

471
00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:55,840
a registered voters, things like that.

472
00:43:00,740 --> 00:43:05,040
So would you say that it would be pretty difficult to, for say, a small business and

473
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,920
rose me like someone who has a home bakery, they wouldn't possibly be able to be a vendor

474
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:09,920
at the farmers market?

475
00:43:10,620 --> 00:43:11,500
No, that's not true.

476
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:12,680
They potentially could be.

477
00:43:13,180 --> 00:43:15,080
They would just have to go through the proper channels.

478
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:18,360
Could the same be said for our food trucks?

479
00:43:19,380 --> 00:43:25,420
Um, we currently have not had food trucks at the farmers market, not to say that we couldn't.

480
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,060
Well, we currently do not.

481
00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:31,620
Um, we, uh, there's various vendors that I've been there.

482
00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:36,260
Um, we've had to malleys, a coffee person.

483
00:43:36,340 --> 00:43:37,180
Head of corn.

484
00:43:37,620 --> 00:43:38,660
Honey, kettle corn.

485
00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:38,680
Yeah.

486
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,460
I believe there's been a taco person every once in a while.

487
00:43:41,820 --> 00:43:42,760
Things of that nature.

488
00:43:43,060 --> 00:43:45,080
We will see people come in and out.

489
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:54,040
The market manager does try to get a variety and switch things up every once in a while to try to attract new people, so yeah.

490
00:43:56,910 --> 00:44:01,570
Regarding advertising the farmers market are making it known to people.

491
00:44:02,590 --> 00:44:11,430
I know we post on social media every week when the farmer market is happy and we also have some banners hung up in like fences around Rosemary Park and various other places.

492
00:44:11,430 --> 00:44:20,870
But have we considered doing perhaps like, is it possible to do a hanging banner over a street so that drivers can just see it that there's a farmer's market happening?

493
00:44:22,390 --> 00:44:37,890
Currently the city does not allow banners to go over streets. Okay, so that is part of our banner policy. We do not allow that. Okay, so it's something that there's been multiple conversations about, but we currently do not allow that.

494
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:48,170
Have we looked at alternating locations rather than keeping them just in Rosemary Park maybe Garvey Park or

495
00:44:50,420 --> 00:44:59,980
Yeah, alternate between Garvey Park and Rosemary Park so we have the the unfortunate part of with that is that because it is a certified

496
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:20,980
The application actually has to identify one location. So when the permit is filed with the state to be a certified farmer's market, we are identifying that it is going to be at Rosemeath Park. We don't have the ability to put multiple locations.

497
00:45:20,980 --> 00:45:33,480
So the city cannot apply when cities applying with the state. It's only applying for one location correct and it can't apply for another application for another location

498
00:45:33,980 --> 00:45:37,980
Correct unless we were do it on a completely different night

499
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:44,980
So if we'll let's say we were to do one location on Monday one location on Thursday

500
00:45:44,980 --> 00:45:55,200
let's say potentially that would be allowed, but there isn't, I would say that there isn't a need for multiple locations.

501
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:59,300
The participation, the numbers don't meet.

502
00:46:00,260 --> 00:46:06,220
Is there a reason why we picked Monday evenings? Is that probably the most traffic?

503
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:20,440
So my understanding was when Mondays were originally established, it was not to compete with other surrounding markets, as well as the availability of the market manager.

504
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:30,680
So we wanted to stay away from the Saturday and Sunday due to traffic, especially at the park itself.

505
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:37,400
And so it was the availability and not competing with other things going on.

506
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,900
We also didn't want to have a market with a summer concert, right?

507
00:46:42,260 --> 00:46:44,260
Parking is limited as it is.

508
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:48,880
We take up a third of the parking lot at Rosemeath Park.

509
00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:50,600
So the idea was, you know what?

510
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,060
Let's not add something else to that.

511
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:55,700
We're just going to push people even further away.

512
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:13,500
So looking at that, if there is a suggestion or you have an idea, be more than happy to take that down and looking at kind of re-envisioning and launching an RFP, we do have the opportunity to kind of investigate and see what else we can do.

513
00:47:16,250 --> 00:47:35,970
For me, I think we nights are a bit difficult for a lot of people getting off work and then having personal responsibilities after I would like to see the city consider maybe the weekends if possible maybe in the mornings early in the mornings.

514
00:47:36,590 --> 00:47:40,110
I think there's always been a notion that

515
00:47:40,110 --> 00:47:44,270
Mondays are Tuesdays when you don't get the good groceries or something.

516
00:47:44,810 --> 00:47:48,390
So I don't know if that's necessarily the case for a farmers market,

517
00:47:49,910 --> 00:47:53,230
but that's anecdotal for some, I guess.

518
00:47:56,490 --> 00:47:58,650
I do my grocery shopping on the weekends,

519
00:47:59,250 --> 00:48:00,030
stocked by Monday.

520
00:48:00,590 --> 00:48:02,590
But hey, sometimes I run out midweek,

521
00:48:02,730 --> 00:48:05,110
so maybe Wednesdays or Thursdays could work.

522
00:48:05,110 --> 00:48:07,850
I know some other cities have offered that as an option

523
00:48:07,850 --> 00:48:10,330
and I've visited them and I've seen good attendance.

524
00:48:11,130 --> 00:48:13,830
They are so perhaps Monday's not the best option,

525
00:48:14,450 --> 00:48:16,430
but the other ones could be something to consider.

526
00:48:18,250 --> 00:48:20,390
I wanted to discuss with since you brought up

527
00:48:20,390 --> 00:48:22,330
the parking limitation, have we ever,

528
00:48:22,450 --> 00:48:25,130
or perhaps could we consider like a shuttle service,

529
00:48:25,290 --> 00:48:29,450
either from here or the Garvey Center for seniors

530
00:48:29,450 --> 00:48:33,090
or residents who want to visit the farmers market,

531
00:48:33,090 --> 00:48:35,750
but are not able to, because of one limited parking,

532
00:48:36,370 --> 00:48:37,770
they don't have access to transportation.

533
00:48:38,090 --> 00:48:41,310
We can perhaps set up a regular shuttle service

534
00:48:41,310 --> 00:48:43,770
on the night that we do have a farmer's market.

535
00:48:43,830 --> 00:48:45,710
I know we have Rosemead Go.

536
00:48:45,750 --> 00:48:47,530
We could possibly partner with them

537
00:48:47,530 --> 00:48:49,050
and utilize something like that.

538
00:48:49,110 --> 00:48:50,870
I think that offer a great resource

539
00:48:50,870 --> 00:48:54,230
to residents who would want to visit the farmer's market,

540
00:48:54,370 --> 00:48:56,690
but otherwise wouldn't have the capabilities

541
00:48:56,690 --> 00:48:58,050
or the access to it.

542
00:49:03,250 --> 00:49:03,870
I have a question.

543
00:49:04,090 --> 00:49:05,550
Is there a reason why we have it

544
00:49:05,550 --> 00:49:07,390
in the parking lot and not in the grass area

545
00:49:07,390 --> 00:49:08,230
of the park?

546
00:49:11,390 --> 00:49:12,030
Yes,

547
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:22,160
for a farmer to take his stuff onto the grass, for example, and to move that, it's

548
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:28,060
easier for them to unload, it's easier for any vendor to unload on cement or concrete

549
00:49:28,660 --> 00:49:33,960
or asphalt than it is to drag things onto a grass.

550
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:35,380
That's pretty much.

551
00:49:35,380 --> 00:49:41,460
It's it's convenient for the vendors that are there, you know, that's why we select a hard

552
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:42,520
surface.

553
00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:52,640
This might be a stretch about closing mission, mission drive, mission drive, fourth of

554
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,780
farmers market for some time.

555
00:49:54,980 --> 00:49:56,080
I don't know.

556
00:49:56,860 --> 00:49:58,020
Or that's three next to it.

557
00:49:59,300 --> 00:49:59,980
Insanita, it's a little bit.

558
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,980
Smaller, cars go through their self signs everywhere. I don't know how that would work, but I think that'd be a great idea.

559
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:13,880
I mean, parking in itself is already a challenge and that's just get dissuade so many people from coming to it.

560
00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:19,920
It gets in on your way of trying to be a successful farmer's market when you're already disadvantaging yourself like that.

561
00:50:29,550 --> 00:50:38,030
I wanted to ask about vendors, is it just limited to food vendors? No, you'd mention community organizations could come apply as well through your channels.

562
00:50:38,030 --> 00:50:43,170
But what about like crafts vendors are yes, it would apply to them as well. Yes, they

563
00:50:43,170 --> 00:50:46,630
The market manager does offer different vendors

564
00:50:47,310 --> 00:50:51,970
We have a honey vendor that comes and sells honey. There's been candles and jewelry before

565
00:50:52,590 --> 00:50:54,990
So they they rotate in the now

566
00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:01,840
I have a suggestion so maybe at the city booth at the farmer's market

567
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:08,160
We can highlight a restaurant or small business in rules meet every week at the farmer's market and

568
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,140
provide them like a discount like oh you came in the farmer's market and you come to the restaurant

569
00:51:12,140 --> 00:51:17,260
You'll get 20% off the next time you visit if you imagine the farmer's market or you purchase something with a receipt

570
00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:19,940
Just to kind of maybe incentivize people to come

571
00:51:19,940 --> 00:51:20,740
also

572
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,620
Expose the small businesses in reals me as well.

573
00:51:30,090 --> 00:51:34,910
Do we see a big increase of attendance when the city does have

574
00:51:35,950 --> 00:51:38,190
Activities along with the farmers market?

575
00:51:40,690 --> 00:51:42,470
We do not

576
00:51:44,210 --> 00:51:47,850
Yes, there are more visitors that come. Are they buying produce?

577
00:51:48,230 --> 00:51:49,710
I don't know to be honest with you.

578
00:51:49,970 --> 00:51:53,590
Well, they buy a bag of kettle corn before they go watch a game.

579
00:51:53,950 --> 00:51:55,270
Yeah, they're going to.

580
00:51:56,630 --> 00:52:01,570
So, I would like to say it draws some people in,

581
00:52:02,030 --> 00:52:06,490
but I don't know if it draws necessarily people who are buying produce for the week.

582
00:52:07,490 --> 00:52:11,790
Do we have an average count of how many people visit the farmers market?

583
00:52:11,790 --> 00:52:17,450
market, I do not. We can try to get something together this last month and kind of see what

584
00:52:17,450 --> 00:52:19,450
that looks like.

585
00:52:20,130 --> 00:52:30,330
And for the management company that manages our farmers market,

586
00:52:32,350 --> 00:52:35,370
do they just allow any vendor

587
00:52:35,370 --> 00:52:40,670
that picks out, or do they reach out to, like, vendors that provide, I don't know, ethnic

588
00:52:40,670 --> 00:52:44,870
specific produce, and whatnot.

589
00:52:45,190 --> 00:52:45,910
Yes, they do.

590
00:52:46,590 --> 00:52:54,230
So they manage, I believe it's three markets in the general Sangrbo Valley area, and so they

591
00:52:54,230 --> 00:52:59,870
have a variety of farmers that have a variety of different types of vegetables.

592
00:53:00,610 --> 00:53:12,390
I can say we average probably only one to two farmers who actually show up and but I've seen a variety of different things that they so.

593
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:34,860
Just wanted to ask like how much flexibility does the city have other than changing the location or the day and time of like.

594
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,900
How the farmers market is actually run there's definitely a lot to be worked on.

595
00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:47,540
So the city has all the flexibility, the more this year the market will close the last Monday and September.

596
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:56,660
And so we are going to be launching an RFP to see what kind of responses we get from there.

597
00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:01,960
It will come back to you all for discussion before it goes to the city council for discussion.

598
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:12,480
So staff is really evaluating how strong the need or the want is for a farmer's market here in Rosemade.

599
00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:21,540
Sometimes the numbers don't necessarily indicate that there's a strong desire for a farmer's market to be here in Rosemade.

600
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:28,040
So it's something that we potentially will be asking some questions and hitting some people up.

601
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:35,840
You guys interested in this and what would you like to see in it as well and so some of that information will be coming back to as well

602
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:39,160
I can tell you as far as cities

603
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:44,640
I know San Gabriel in the last two years have really invested in trying to start as farmers market

604
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:49,060
They've gone through actually two vendors already trying to launch one

605
00:54:49,660 --> 00:54:55,420
It can be a challenging thing so we're excited it possibly reimagining and

606
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,780
uh... recreating something a little bit different maybe not necessarily

607
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:10,700
For traditional, there's an idea of making it a more of a pop-up market, where it's not certified farmers, it's more food, merchandise and things of that nature.

608
00:55:11,940 --> 00:55:14,940
Some of that stuff will be coming at you in the next few months.

609
00:55:15,420 --> 00:55:15,720
Sounds good.

610
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:26,440
When you say a pop-up market and the vendors don't need to be certified, so how about I've seen

611
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:34,100
have, for our community gardens, a lot of residents grow produce themselves.

612
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:40,760
Is there an opportunity for them to also sell their own produce in the community?

613
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:49,480
If we were to look at not a certified farmers market option, is there an opportunity possibly?

614
00:55:49,980 --> 00:55:51,380
I would have to get back to.

615
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:59,100
I don't know how that would work as far as obviously permitting is a big thing, right?

616
00:55:59,380 --> 00:56:03,860
I want to make sure we're selling a product that is safe and healthy for you.

617
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:10,180
Certified farmers, they actually go through a big process to make sure they are certified.

618
00:56:10,180 --> 00:56:21,160
somebody growing something and a plot, you know, I can't guarantee no healthy or safe that would be something we could definitely look at though and explore.

619
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:34,100
I know Commissioner Hernandez, or now Fernandez, has mentioned before, crop swaps as something that we can do.

620
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:39,020
I know that kind of, it's not a farmer's market.

621
00:56:39,220 --> 00:56:41,540
It would be a replacement of a farmer's market.

622
00:56:43,260 --> 00:56:47,760
So I wonder if there's an option to look into partnering with organizations that do that.

623
00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:49,860
I believe it's active, SDV. I'm not sure.

624
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:55,160
I wise online, but having crop swaps where the produce is free.

625
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,160
I think that would attract more people.

626
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:04,100
And then along with that, maybe other vendors can sell their crafts or, you know,

627
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:10,640
already made food, so there's already people there to support those vendors as well,

628
00:57:10,780 --> 00:57:15,200
so maybe looking into something that, as you mentioned, a little different from our farmers market

629
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:16,880
or a reimagined one.

630
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,420
Does the city still work with cultivate for the community garden?

631
00:57:22,420 --> 00:57:36,620
Yes, Kultiva LA is currently our vendor. They do a great job for us. So yeah, have they out any experience with farmers market or kind of crop swaps and whatnot?

632
00:57:41,060 --> 00:57:43,800
They... I would have to get back to about that.

633
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:49,320
Yes. But I don't know how much of it is actually official.

634
00:57:51,860 --> 00:57:58,520
So I believe they do a crop swap amongst the garden users that they have now.

635
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:04,760
So. Again, opening things up to the outside public.

636
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:10,080
There are certain things that we have to make sure, of course, before we do anything.

637
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:17,660
The idea of a crop swap is great, sounds really interesting, sounds great hometown, fun type of.

638
00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:22,980
We just have to make sure that we're not opening up the city to any extra liability or risk.

639
00:58:30,350 --> 00:58:34,310
I'm just going a little bit of rant here, but I love farmers' markets.

640
00:58:35,130 --> 00:58:39,910
I actively go to various cities farmers' market throughout the San Gabriel Valley,

641
00:58:39,930 --> 00:58:41,470
and I don't just go for the produce.

642
00:58:41,470 --> 00:58:46,930
for me, it's a way to engage and get to learn about a community and that's why I think that

643
00:58:46,930 --> 00:58:53,070
ours revamping that there's just so much potential here, whether we decide to close down the street,

644
00:58:53,410 --> 00:58:56,710
offer shelter service, incorporate more local vendors and businesses.

645
00:58:58,810 --> 00:59:00,030
We can do so much more with

646
00:59:00,030 --> 00:59:05,790
what we currently have as someone that I stop by our farmers market after aqua fit sometimes,

647
00:59:07,430 --> 00:59:28,650
It's just sad. I will be straight up with you. When I visit other cities, I'm like, man, I want to come back here, not just for the food, but like that good community feeling I get from being in there and meeting those community members and getting to learn about their city. So I hope this is a topic that we can regularly get to revisit and give them put on.

648
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:43,760
I know we do pickleball in the evenings on certain days at Garby Park and that brings some pretty good foot traffic to the park. I wonder if

649
00:59:45,300 --> 00:59:49,520
Moving the farmers market there might help attendants

650
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:59,410
Maybe something to look into. Yeah, something we can definitely look at one time. It was like a live orchestra

651
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:07,880
Right by the basketball courts, and that was really cool, just have live music. I'm not saying we got bringing a live band every time with full court,

652
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:16,300
etc. Anything, but the live music also brings a little bit of energy and excitement, I feel like, to farmers markets as well.

653
01:00:23,650 --> 01:00:29,050
If there's no more questions or comments, if it's okay if I move on to the next item.

654
01:00:29,050 --> 01:00:30,890
Yeah, thank you very good.

655
01:00:30,910 --> 01:00:32,870
Okay, good, good, okay.

656
01:00:33,750 --> 01:00:36,770
All right, summer has ended and fall is here.

657
01:00:36,910 --> 01:00:39,490
So I wanted to provide you with a preview

658
01:00:39,490 --> 01:00:42,570
of some of the events that are coming up.

659
01:00:42,730 --> 01:00:44,850
Make sure that they are on your calendar.

660
01:00:45,490 --> 01:00:48,390
Our annual pumpkin dive will be held on Saturday,

661
01:00:48,950 --> 01:00:52,150
September 26th at the Rose Meet Aquatic Center.

662
01:00:52,630 --> 01:00:54,470
I've listed that information.

663
01:00:54,470 --> 01:01:04,610
It is for children 3 to 16, as well as 7 in under, well, 7 in under actually require somebody to be in the water with them.

664
01:01:05,290 --> 01:01:12,110
There is a small feed, $10 per participant, they get a pumpkin, they get arts and crafts, some treats and candy.

665
01:01:12,910 --> 01:01:20,610
And just if you don't know, pumpkins do float, so they are pumpkins everywhere in the water, kids are able to get in and swim around with them.

666
01:01:20,610 --> 01:01:22,510
It's a great fun, fun activity.

667
01:01:22,770 --> 01:01:24,730
The last couple of years, it's been incredibly hot,

668
01:01:24,770 --> 01:01:27,490
so people will have really enjoyed being in the water.

669
01:01:28,110 --> 01:01:30,490
Our fall-fiesta deal of Dois Muto's event

670
01:01:30,490 --> 01:01:34,590
is coming up on Saturday, October 3rd from 4 to 9 p.m.

671
01:01:34,590 --> 01:01:39,850
it rose me park, the event consists of live entertainment,

672
01:01:40,490 --> 01:01:44,590
community performances, we have a small carnival game area,

673
01:01:44,770 --> 01:01:48,530
laser tag, arts and crafts, and a variety of food

674
01:01:48,530 --> 01:01:55,550
merchandise also Savannah Cemetery will be open and so you have an opportunity to go down and

675
01:01:55,550 --> 01:02:01,610
visit the Cemetery. What's great about this event is last year we introduced a drone

676
01:02:01,610 --> 01:02:07,590
show and so we will be doing another drone show. This year we're very excited about it and

677
01:02:07,590 --> 01:02:13,870
so that will begin roughly around 745 or so. So if you missed it last year you should definitely

678
01:02:13,870 --> 01:02:18,710
come check it out, the drones will really need to watch, and we've actually increased the number

679
01:02:18,710 --> 01:02:23,550
of drones from last year, so the images will be even better.

680
01:02:25,030 --> 01:02:30,910
I love a fall movie in the park on Saturday, October 10th, it grows me park. Activities will

681
01:02:30,910 --> 01:02:37,010
begin at 5.30. The feature film will be Toy Story 5, who doesn't love a good Toy Story

682
01:02:37,010 --> 01:02:44,030
movie, and so we'll have giveaways, activities, some popcorn, there'll be food trucks and

683
01:02:44,030 --> 01:02:48,170
other for purchase, so we're excited to have that.

684
01:02:48,450 --> 01:02:52,690
Pumpkin patch will be on Saturday, October 17th.

685
01:02:52,730 --> 01:02:55,270
That is in with our partnership with Cultiva LA.

686
01:02:55,310 --> 01:02:57,830
It takes place at the Delmar community garden.

687
01:02:58,670 --> 01:03:05,690
The event is from 3 to 6 p.m., there are times every half hour we move people in and out

688
01:03:05,690 --> 01:03:12,050
of the garden, as well as the pumpkin patch, kids go home with a pumpkin and a slice of pumpkin

689
01:03:12,050 --> 01:03:12,430
pie.

690
01:03:12,930 --> 01:03:18,110
So this event does fill up very, very quickly, if it already hasn't, I have not checked

691
01:03:18,110 --> 01:03:24,190
registration, registration for us just opened on Monday yesterday, so it fills up.

692
01:03:24,650 --> 01:03:29,810
The annual haunted house will be taking place at the Rosemeat Community Recreation Center

693
01:03:29,810 --> 01:03:39,470
Friday starting on Friday, October 23rd through Sunday, October 25th, the house will be open from 530 to 730.

694
01:03:40,170 --> 01:03:52,170
Staff does a great job with this. We always have those individuals that actually plan their spooky room all year long and so they're super excited about that.

695
01:03:52,170 --> 01:04:01,210
Our annual trunk or tree event will take place on Saturday, October 31st at Jessica's all sports complex from 530 to 830.

696
01:04:01,670 --> 01:04:12,510
There will be vehicles where participants are able to trick or treat as well as a costume contest and carnival games arts and crafts and an outdoor movie.

697
01:04:13,030 --> 01:04:18,490
If the Dodgers are playing in the playoffs, we will also play the Dodger game just like we did last year.

698
01:04:19,570 --> 01:04:23,570
Food trucks will be on site for purchase as well.

699
01:04:23,870 --> 01:04:30,330
Our holiday craft fair will be on Saturday, November 21, from 10am to 3pm at the Garvey

700
01:04:30,330 --> 01:04:30,810
Center.

701
01:04:31,270 --> 01:04:35,470
We will have a bunch of different vendors on site selling things, decorative pieces for

702
01:04:35,470 --> 01:04:36,030
the holidays.

703
01:04:36,650 --> 01:04:38,150
Super excited about that.

704
01:04:38,830 --> 01:04:39,630
That is my report.

705
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:43,970
If there's any questions or comments regarding any of these events, please let me know.

706
01:04:45,830 --> 01:04:48,310
I'd like to motion a receive and file.

707
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:56,040
Just so you know typically we do not need to take a motion for a receive and file.

708
01:04:56,380 --> 01:04:57,160
But thank you.

709
01:04:57,820 --> 01:04:59,920
So we can go ahead and move on to the next.

710
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:11,820
Sorry, I had one question regarding the following minutes. For the pumpkin patch unit, because of how popular it is, is there any way to expand the numbers or is it because due to the space we can only hold us or turn them out?

711
01:05:11,980 --> 01:05:14,260
It is due to the space and the fact there's no lighting.

712
01:05:14,820 --> 01:05:16,060
No lighting?

713
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:21,640
So the garden is dark, so we have to be out of there by a certain time.

714
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:28,440
With our agreement with coltiva.la as well, we try to work with them the best we can

715
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:38,980
To give away as many pumpkins as we can and so from three to six it gives us six time slots at 50 people per time slot

716
01:05:38,980 --> 01:05:44,680
So we're able to give away quite a bit of pumpkins and we usually do not turn people away

717
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:49,520
So even if they do show up and they're not registered for that time spot

718
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,700
We will try to accommodate them the best we can.

719
01:06:00,850 --> 01:06:01,910
There's nothing else.

720
01:06:01,930 --> 01:06:03,350
I think we can move on, Tom.

721
01:06:03,850 --> 01:06:04,010
Great.

722
01:06:04,510 --> 01:06:09,810
Next item is monthly department update provided you with an update of what's going on,

723
01:06:09,930 --> 01:06:10,950
what's been going on.

724
01:06:11,450 --> 01:06:13,870
Recreation swim will continue.

725
01:06:14,770 --> 01:06:25,950
Splash zone will remain open on weekends only from August 29th to September 27th from 12 to 4 operating on Saturdays and Sundays.

726
01:06:28,130 --> 01:06:32,290
The Rosemary Aquatic Center will be open up until Labor Day.

727
01:06:33,750 --> 01:06:38,650
False Wim Lessons Registration began on yesterday, August 31st.

728
01:06:38,770 --> 01:06:41,510
False Wim Lessons will be held on Saturdays.

729
01:06:41,670 --> 01:06:42,610
They do fill up quickly.

730
01:06:43,350 --> 01:06:46,410
Our last Wim and AquaFit programs are going on as well.

731
01:06:46,830 --> 01:06:49,730
Garvey Center, we have our typical monthly classes.

732
01:06:50,370 --> 01:06:51,830
Lunch program as well.

733
01:06:51,990 --> 01:06:54,490
It is very well attended.

734
01:06:54,490 --> 01:06:58,610
We have our senior craft class, our exercise class.

735
01:06:58,710 --> 01:07:00,330
Those are free to the public.

736
01:07:00,850 --> 01:07:03,270
Our Majon and Mingle is something new.

737
01:07:03,910 --> 01:07:07,050
This program will take place Tuesday mornings from 9 to 11

738
01:07:07,050 --> 01:07:10,610
and Thursdays from 12, 30 to 2, 30.

739
01:07:11,330 --> 01:07:14,530
We will have people on site teaching how to play Majon.

740
01:07:14,710 --> 01:07:17,630
We will be watching to make sure that there is no exchange

741
01:07:17,630 --> 01:07:18,430
of any money.

742
01:07:20,310 --> 01:07:22,230
But it's a great new program.

743
01:07:22,430 --> 01:07:23,610
We're excited to see interest.

744
01:07:23,610 --> 01:07:28,650
and actually what's just funny is I've had a city staff ask if they could go play during their lunch.

745
01:07:30,270 --> 01:07:37,450
So senior Fiesta luncheon is coming up on September 17th from 11 to 130 at the Garvey Center.

746
01:07:38,230 --> 01:07:40,690
One of our popular lunches dances excited.

747
01:07:41,910 --> 01:07:46,450
This next week, next Friday, we have our 9-11 remembrance ceremony.

748
01:07:47,010 --> 01:07:50,070
This will be remembering the 25th anniversary.

749
01:07:51,010 --> 01:07:58,310
So we will have a great program that will take place right out here at the Plaza at 6 p.m.

750
01:07:58,890 --> 01:08:03,170
So you all are all invited to that as well. You'd love to have you there.

751
01:08:03,750 --> 01:08:08,110
The performance or the ceremony will include a procession of flags.

752
01:08:09,170 --> 01:08:14,350
Our sheriffs and fire department will be on site actually doing the flag ceremony for us.

753
01:08:14,350 --> 01:08:17,610
We will have the Sheriff's Band as well.

754
01:08:18,130 --> 01:08:19,350
Always do a great job.

755
01:08:19,610 --> 01:08:21,110
We'll have some live entertainment.

756
01:08:22,190 --> 01:08:24,150
And so we're excited to have that as well.

757
01:08:24,310 --> 01:08:26,850
We'll be doing special pins this year.

758
01:08:27,690 --> 01:08:32,090
We'll have the City logo as well as commemorating 25th Anniversary.

759
01:08:33,710 --> 01:08:35,570
Moon Festival is the day after.

760
01:08:35,990 --> 01:08:39,790
So it'll be take place on Saturday, September 12th.

761
01:08:39,790 --> 01:08:44,270
We do shut down Valley all the way from Walnut Grove to Ivar.

762
01:08:44,270 --> 01:08:49,490
So, we partner with Volco Media Incorporated.

763
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:53,770
They are in charge of getting all of the vendors.

764
01:08:54,970 --> 01:08:57,910
There are over 100 vendors this year.

765
01:08:58,650 --> 01:09:02,530
Food, food trucks, merchandise, community organizations.

766
01:09:03,290 --> 01:09:05,750
There's entertainment throughout the time.

767
01:09:06,190 --> 01:09:07,730
The event does start at 230.

768
01:09:08,010 --> 01:09:09,190
It closes at 11.

769
01:09:10,030 --> 01:09:14,090
There is a great opening ceremonies at 530 p.m.

770
01:09:14,090 --> 01:09:16,290
which you are all invited to as well.

771
01:09:16,910 --> 01:09:20,190
Opening ceremonies, the stage takes place right out

772
01:09:20,190 --> 01:09:22,430
in front of City Hall on Valley.

773
01:09:24,830 --> 01:09:27,690
The 2026 state of the city will be taking place

774
01:09:27,690 --> 01:09:31,530
on Monday, September 21st at 6 p.m.

775
01:09:31,530 --> 01:09:33,350
at Garvey Community Center.

776
01:09:34,270 --> 01:09:37,810
If you are able to attend, please, RSVP.

777
01:09:38,450 --> 01:09:41,070
There will be a limited amount of food available

778
01:09:41,070 --> 01:09:43,830
while the event is open to everyone.

779
01:09:43,830 --> 01:09:48,710
if you are going to be attending please RSVP.

780
01:09:49,390 --> 01:09:50,850
Fall registration as I said,

781
01:09:51,070 --> 01:09:53,010
opened on Monday and it will continue

782
01:09:53,010 --> 01:09:55,570
classes will begin in two weeks.

783
01:09:56,590 --> 01:09:58,230
So we're excited about offering

784
01:09:58,230 --> 01:09:59,970
a brand new season of

785
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:14,820
Classes. Our youth advisory committee, we've been accepting applications and applications will actually close this week on September 4th. So this is a youth advisory committee. It meets monthly.

786
01:10:15,060 --> 01:10:25,280
It is overseen by my department. They are actually appointed by the city council. And so their main focus is bringing up issues within.

787
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:31,620
It rose me the defec youth, as well as planning our youth multicultural fair which takes place

788
01:10:31,620 --> 01:10:34,720
every year in May, so they do a great job.

789
01:10:34,780 --> 01:10:41,160
This year we are looking at combining with two or three other cities, city of Dwardy for

790
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:46,740
sure and actually having a leadership activity with them.

791
01:10:46,900 --> 01:10:51,760
So it will be a half day event, we'll have some guest speakers come in and just giving them

792
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:57,500
other presence of what it is to be a part of a municipality and serving residents.

793
01:10:59,060 --> 01:11:02,220
Our special Olympics, we do partner with the special Olympics.

794
01:11:02,460 --> 01:11:08,540
We offer programs on a quarterly basis, sports programs, fall season, soccer season, so

795
01:11:08,540 --> 01:11:11,420
we're excited to get that up and going.

796
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:15,280
Our special Olympics program is actually taken off really well.

797
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:20,840
Last quarter, we had about 20 participants on average, and who went to two regional

798
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:27,920
competitions. So super excited about that program and continuing it. If there that concludes my report

799
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:33,340
if there's any questions or comments regarding any information in this report please let me know.

800
01:11:35,530 --> 01:11:40,010
I have one question for a special Olympics. It was bowling before, right? That's correct.

801
01:11:40,450 --> 01:11:52,710
Okay, did this change every season? Yes it does. Okay. So we will do bowling. We will do

802
01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:59,920
to everyone. We don't charge for that program.

803
01:12:01,940 --> 01:12:05,800
And I just wanted to confirm for the youth advisory committee that the student has to be

804
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:07,240
currently residing in Rosemeat?

805
01:12:07,480 --> 01:12:08,020
That is correct.

806
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:16,860
Okay. And there are seven open seats every year.

807
01:12:19,890 --> 01:12:25,310
And I believe last time I checked we had more than seven applicants. So we're excited.

808
01:12:27,380 --> 01:12:29,540
What does the application process look like for that?

809
01:12:30,220 --> 01:12:32,200
It's a simple paper application.

810
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:36,080
What positive impact can you make to the committee?

811
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,360
and how much you love Parks and Recreordinary.

812
01:12:41,220 --> 01:12:42,880
It's a simple application, right?

813
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:54,560
No comments from the commission.

814
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,960
So we'll move on to matters from the commission.

815
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:00,580
Any other comments?

816
01:13:03,150 --> 01:13:05,190
Yeah, I'd like to start with in a comment.

817
01:13:05,670 --> 01:13:07,250
Just an observation I made.

818
01:13:07,870 --> 01:13:10,270
Walking around the area south of Garvey,

819
01:13:11,150 --> 01:13:14,090
where Garvey and Tumidia and Arlene Bytley,

820
01:13:14,090 --> 01:13:20,550
elementary school is there's a regular contingent of folks there that walk around and actually use the

821
01:13:20,550 --> 01:13:25,430
school's parking lot for exercise and walking so the reason I brought that up is because I still

822
01:13:25,430 --> 01:13:31,070
want to continue updates on joint use agreements with the Garvey School District and Tom do you

823
01:13:31,070 --> 01:13:36,510
have any updates or at this time? I don't have any updates at this time. We have had a meeting scheduled

824
01:13:37,130 --> 01:13:42,850
it was actually supposed to take place last month. It didn't take place. It's been rescheduled for a

825
01:13:42,850 --> 01:13:46,910
weeks. So we do have a current joint use agreement that is

826
01:13:46,910 --> 01:13:51,070
inspiring and so we will be talking discussing that as well as what the

827
01:13:51,070 --> 01:13:55,230
options are to potentially looking at new joint use agreements. I know

828
01:13:55,230 --> 01:13:59,390
that's a desire that you've asked about and I believe Commissioner

829
01:13:59,390 --> 01:14:04,610
Vong is definitely on the same page. So I should have some information

830
01:14:04,610 --> 01:14:07,430
hopefully by next month. Okay. Thank you.

831
01:14:15,620 --> 01:14:21,840
All right, so we'll move over, we'll move to adjournment.

832
01:14:22,700 --> 01:14:33,280
So the next regular Parks Commission meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 6th, at 7 p.m.

833
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:38,520
in the