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hi everyone

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i've never worked on a presentation
right up to the minute the meeting was

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going to start so
is there anything wrong let me know

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did those um items get set michelle
i sent you the agenda and since i just

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updated the presentation i'll share my
screen and then after the meeting i will

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send the most up-to-date one
okay perfect i was gonna grab the agenda

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real quick so i'll be right back perfect

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so um just so everybody is aware i think
going into this meeting we know we don't

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have a quorum
and so um just because we didn't meet

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last month and we thought it would be a
really good idea just to kind of show

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what we've been working on and where
what kind of things are happening in the

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parks
so we won't be able to vote or make any

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decisions and definitely involve
everybody and just talk about what's

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going on and then maybe save a little
bit of time for a round table so we can

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kind of talk about what you guys would
like to see next for our next park board

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meeting
so with that i will hand it over to barb

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okay and i apologize but um the meeting
or the agenda still hasn't shown up for

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me
i'm sorry

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that's okay no that's okay um but we'll
go ahead and get started so it's three

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o'clock and i'd like to call the august
19th um meeting of the washington parks

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board
um to order

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and can we get roll call
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barb
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and myra is absent
as is quentin

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um rochelle

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yes
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karen here

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and then will is just joining us now

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let me admit them real quick okay um
sorry about that uh

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michelle wagner
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and then i am here as well as michelle
wright we have our new management

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analyst joining us devin
um is with us today and then so is will

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noonan
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sorry it's devin mcdowell my apologies
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michelle because i don't have the agenda
in front of me um i'm assuming you want

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to start off with um your presentation
yes that sounds great i was just okay

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my slides are i have 55 slides so i
promise i will not spend a lot of time

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on them and but as we're going through
them please everybody just stop me if

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there's anything you want to talk about
um kelly if you could um just let me

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know if somebody raises their hands
because i can't see that in the

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presentation that would be awesome
so um as always and one other thing i'd

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just like to note is because we don't
have a quorum our next meeting barb has

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been nice enough to step in as president
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um so
um i talked to rose

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and she is going to be looking through
the applications for the park board

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members
and then um we will hopefully bring on

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another park board member and then have
elections next month so that's kind of

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what i'm hoping
um is the plan so

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perfect
okay so um basically this is the park

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maintenance budget we're at
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um again we're a little lower than we
typically are around this time a couple

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things are
in play here

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schmidt and baseball field is under
construction so we are not watering this

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midfield so
our utilities are a little bit down and

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also we have had um
some issues hiring seasonal so

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we are not fully staffed so that's
another reason why we are a little bit

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lower than typical on that number

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um so i just wanted to share with
everybody that

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our summer was really successful with
our skyhawks and soccer um shots we

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ended up having up having about 30 camps
we come to find out basketball was

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so popular that we tried to find a new
location that actually have the

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basketball
um camp because

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our we only have half court basketball
so we tried to move it over to jim

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degard
we just didn't have enough time to do

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the paperwork to actually have it at gym
to guard so we did go ahead and have it

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at oak tree
but we ended up having about 16 kids

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sign up for the basketball camp so that
was pretty awesome

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i just received a check from soccer
shops and so basically with the spring

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camp and the summer camp we've ended up
making about four thousand dollars with

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soccer shops
and then sky hawks will probably be

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bringing in about six thousand dollars
um with the camps that we had this

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summer so it was a very successful so
i'm excited to see what fall is going to

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bring us
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again sorry
um so the basketball we ended up having

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is kind of the extent on what they have

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want to have for kids
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one of the things we tried to do with
jump to guard is when we we called the

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school
we had to fill out a facility rental

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agreement
and they also were going to charge us 20

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dollars
an hour to rent the facility

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which
is was about 600

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and honestly that would have been just
fine for us to rent it because

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um the amount that we would have made
off of that class was 636 dollars so it

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would have been a wash which is fine
again we're not into the camps to make

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money but
we weren't able to get the insurance

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that we needed
we needed to have

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kelly was it the insurance in our name
or in the school district's name yeah

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they wanted us to name them as an
insured and we just are not able to do

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that wcaa will not allow us to name a
third party

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so
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so so i think it's going to take a
little bit more investigation for us to

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see if next summer if we want to utilize
some of the school facilities

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and start working on that in april i
know they're working on hiring a

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recreation person um at washable school
district so once that person starts

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and we'll have a
contact that we'll be able to meet with

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a lot to kind of talk about what they'd
like to see for the recreation program

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and
how we can help them build their program

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so
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whoever lives in the washington area
might have got a postcard which is super

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exciting so one of the things since we
aren't in the school year yet we wanted

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to have everybody still see our
recreation guide

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so if you click with your phone on this
little icon right here you can actually

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pull up our recreation guide
it was an amazing um pretty inexpensive

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opportunity for us to get out to
everybody and it also helped us where we

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can send and create this while we were
still working on our guide

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because it takes a lot of work to try to
get all the you know logistics figured

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out for each field and
working with skyhawk soccer shots and

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anybody else who wanted to put in
information

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i know east county little league would
also like to advertise in our next

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edition
because that will actually work nicely

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with their when their league starts up
again so

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hopefully our our
thing will just continue to grow but

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yeah this postcard was a really awesome
opportunity and pretty inexpensive way

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to get out to a lot of citizens

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um so one of the things that we had
talked about in our last meeting was

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looking at the ambassador um kind of
what the

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city of camas has done
and so city of camas actually sends me

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what their ambassador program is the
responsibility is overseeing and

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protection of
of something considered worth caring for

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and preserving which is the parks so um
this is kind of what city of campus has

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for their roles we're visiting parks at
least once a week to enjoy and observe

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the key is to enjoy your park observe
what users are enjoying

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speak with park users if you are
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and email your observations to park and
recreation

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staff so
karen was really good about letting me

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know that
somebody had cried off our brand new

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bench at hathaway and thrown it into the

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forest so
unfortunately i was able to contact will

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and we were able to at least have the
bench put back into her op shard

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but you know again that's kind of the
beauty of the ambassadors because i mean

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i don't think if karen wouldn't have let
us know it might have got stolen or

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something else might have happened to it
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so one of the things i would like to do
when we have a larger meeting maybe is

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to take a look and see if everybody
likes these roles and if there's

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anything we want to expand on
if this works for washu

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and then kind of just make our
ambassador what works best for us

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sounds good
and here is the group i can't believe

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how wonderful this turned out so
everybody got to pick the park that they

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would like
and so it just ended up that everybody

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kind of lives by the parks and so this
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again i'll kind of type it up more
formally in a memo once we decide what

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we would like those roles to be so

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are there any more assignments yet to
happen or is everyone on there already

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well um karen is an
overachiever here so she's got quite a

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few parks under her um her list i get
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so you know and again this has been this
amazing for us because she's gone in and

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saw some stuff that's really helped us
so we can grab it before

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lost it but
um you know i don't want to push anybody

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to take more than you know one park and
i'd like to see how this works

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um so the parks that don't actually have
people's names on we're kind of just as

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a group internally checking them a
little bit more often

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michelle i still do a cleanup crew at
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so i don't mind putting my name on that
one too just because i'm usually there

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once every couple weeks anyway oh
awesome okay i will update that after

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okay
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okay again this is a topic that i'm
going to roll over to our meeting when

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we are fully staffed
with the park board but basically we

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have talked about adopting a park
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kind of vetted the idea
early on and basically adopting a park

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is
a great way to make a difference in the

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community i mean this program provides
many different ways for local families

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and businesses to get involved and have
ownership on that specific park

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and so
i have always loved this model and

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tigard had a limited program on adopt a
park but it was more adopt the streets

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but i would really like to take the same
concept and bring it into our park so

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um i can send everybody out kind of the
full write-up of what i've done on the

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adopt-a-park and i know that we can't
make any official decisions at this

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meeting because we don't have a quorum
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you know again i just kind of like to
get maybe what everybody's thoughts are

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on something like this
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i can say i did that little bit of
research about vandalism and how other

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communities are
dealing with vandalism and this is the

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one thing that kept popping up is to get
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so
you read my mind

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well the next slide is going to be
totally appropriate then

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because you get to see what has happened
to our perks lately

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so so this slide again i'll bring back
and i'll send kind of the entire write

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up of what i've done on the adopt the
park and then that gives everybody an

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opportunity to look at it for the next
month

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and then let me know if you have any
changes and then it sounds like if park

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board is good and adopts the adopt a
park then i can move it forward to

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council and then i can get more formal
action from council to see what their

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thoughts are on that

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so the reason these programs are so
wonderful is because these are recent

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pictures
and so we had a hit and run

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completely on our porta potty
and right after we finished putting the

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graffiti
stuff on down lower hathaway we ended up

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getting this tag
and then somebody tried to steal the

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top of our elizabeth park
picnic table so

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again very disappointing because we have
been working really hard on trying to do

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some really awesome things
so um

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you know i think security cameras i'm
gonna try to see if i can put that into

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the 2022 budget or if we have additional
dollars left over this year i'm gonna

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see how much cameras might be at least
in the places that are getting tagged

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the most
hathaway has been hit pretty hard i

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think i talked to will this morning and
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somebody
i think will correct me if i'm wrong but

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i think somebody spray painted some of
our new tables at hathaway um that are

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our portable tables
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they're not portable they're the in
place we got some hit uh lower halfway

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furthest to the west so it's not real
high viz

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uh we're going to try out it's been
those are the new tables they're

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permanently mounted they've been powder
coated we're going to try some new paint

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see if we can
fix them because this is probably going

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to be something that's reoccurring and
then uh our parks employee actually ran

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off some kids two days ago an upper half
away that we're doing some damage again

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to some permanently mounted picnic
tables so it's been they've kept us very

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busy i'm surprised hathaway gets so much
when it has all those houses lining

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right there and those people have been
very vocal about

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pickleball ball noise and stuff over the
years i'm surprised people aren't

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seeing and reporting stuff that's
interesting it is interesting that to

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schultz see there that when they got
they tried to set that on fire

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they repaired it and then serviced it
the next night they drug it

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into the middle of the parking lot and
ran it over with a truck or something

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um i don't know what's going on
yeah it's just super discouraging and

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the first day that we actually put this
port-a-potty the one laying in the

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parking lot um in the cat the lock was
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so michelle
maybe in the meantime um we can put

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signs up even if we don't have cameras
saying it's monitored by cameras that's

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a good idea it's a cheap solution i mean
is there any legal implications of

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saying you're doing something that
you're not

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yeah there are we've done that at other
places and people use it as a safety net

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um we had some dummy cameras down in the
tunnel when it first went up and we had

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some bad things happen and someone got
robbed or something like that and she

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says no the city's got all that on
camera it was a dummy camera it was

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meant to discourage people and there was
no footage to go back on so it gives

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people a very false sense of security
with the cameras that

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are
signed to be up but don't actually exist

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don't actually function can't record so
we can't actually do that and to get

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right
how about a fine sign then a sign that

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says
uh for whatever the the vandalism um

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fines are now
put up

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just something you know until we get
them into that yeah

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yeah and you know will just told me that
story about the tunnel after i had

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posted signs that say there's cameras
down at low

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because i was so frustrated and i
haven't removed them yet but my plan is

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to remove the signs so it does say it
michelle we're on the same way oh all

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right all right yeah that's a great idea
yeah i figured there was some reason why

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we couldn't put them up though as a
liability yep it is unfortunately

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yeah so
we're just going to say 500 fine or

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whatever it is then maybe we can get
away with those

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yeah and you know again if the budget
continues to have additional savings

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that's one of the first things i would
like to do is just at least have quotes

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ready so we can buy it and i think i
would start

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would you start with lower hathaway
would that be your first choice and then

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upper half away or vice versa
lower gets it more just because it's out

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of out of sight
yeah

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michelle
can you again the total you made on this

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summer programming was what amount um i
think it's gonna come in about ten

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thousand dollars wow that is amazing um
can't

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some of that be utilized for these or no
it definitely can um one of the things

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that i'm trying to do is because there's
some added expense like printing

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postcards
so that the postcards only ended up

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costing about two thousand dollars
for the fall but again you know the

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revenue for recreation is definitely um
a lot more so than we had anticipated so

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i am sure our finance director would
allow us to utilize that money to start

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you know putting in cameras and doing
other things i mean she's been amazingly

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supportive about you know anti-graffiti
and getting some of our restrooms

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cleaned up
so i would just kind of like to keep up

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the momentum and especially you know i
hate to think we have to repaint

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everything each year because of all the
vandalism that happens that would just

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be heartbreaking so yeah
all right thank you

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yep
so um again i just would like to kind of

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shout out to everybody i mean this is
amazing stuff this jump to guard trail

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if anybody ever gets to have a chance to
go out there it's it's beautiful this is

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the bridge
um out there and again i'm just gonna

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continue to give everybody a little um
probing on we need no more maintenance

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crew
so you know we just installed this and

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the weeds are already starting to cover
the bridge and again we just don't have

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people to go in and trim back the weeds
so

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you know it's going to be a battle that
we have until we get maintenance figured

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out
well don't worry we we go there often

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and my husband always brings his
clippers and we clip those weeds so

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we're working on it
thank you karen i know it's like right

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before the school starts and i would
like to at least kick them back enough

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so the kids aren't gonna you know okay
but thank you karen yeah here you're an

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amazing
advocate for parks so

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um i really wish i had more information
on steamboat landing um uh you know it's

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kind of just in limbo right now and so i
do know that there's some people meeting

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about it and i should have more
information and our next part board

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meeting is the goal so
i just i i want to make sure i keep

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these slides on here so when i do have
something i will make sure i report it

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to you
uh if anybody has time to go out to

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schmidt baseball field there is a lot of
really awesome stuff happening there so

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they have poured the brit or the
sidewalk and

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got all the lighting installed and i
think the restrooms

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will correct me if i'm wrong i know i
just paid for the meter set for the

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realm tech
restrooms i think they might be arriving

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next week
yeah i believe so it's a wrong text so

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it's a prefab unit
i know the sewer is in

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um but the units i believe arrive next
week here correct

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yeah so
um again i have a lot more stuff to talk

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about for baseball fields we've been
trying to get together with the

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washington school district and
i know that east county little league

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wants to do some fundraising
we need to kind of figure out what that

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looks like this still is property we do
not own so i'd like to say that very

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clearly because that does kind of add a
wrinkle into everything because if we

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are to do anything on this property we
have to open up the interlocal agreement

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again
to add anything else that we do on this

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property
um

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the other thing is i talked to camis
parks director probably weekly

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and they're working on their pros plan
and so one of the things that they're

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looking at doing is setting up field um
maintenance fee costs

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and they've already started working with
their sports leagues to talk to them

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about stuff like that so
um

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you know in our next meeting i would
really like to kind of talk about what

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everybody's thoughts are around that
and what we would like to see

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again just looking at the water bills
for

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the summer that we actually had the two
fields up and running it was around ten

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thousand dollars
so bringing on another field in

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restrooms we're gonna have some pretty
big sticker shock

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but it looks beautiful that was the
point of the slide

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who does own it
uh the school district

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okay
yeah

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[Music]
um camden creek uh i was hoping

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construction will start this fall i
meant to at least update that so um

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we've this project has been going back
and forth so um i i had taken it on done

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some research and found that i can bring
in a kind of a wood bridge and actually

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replace it by this fall and the wood
bridge construction for removing it and

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the construction was going to be about
60 000 to do

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um i
i'm working with our engineer department

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to see if that's the right fix and so
i'm still not sure if

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if i'm going to be able to move forward
with my plan or if

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we're going to have a different type of
bridge there so

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as i learn more i'll let you know
but

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i was hoping to get a fix in there
sooner than later because it's really

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hard to get around there
and the other thing that will be

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happening there is these trees um are
going to be cut down september

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24th i think and so basically this will
do this will really at least get any

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type of bridge ready to come in here and
i'll get these things off

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they're leaning on the bridge right now
so

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all right so
um

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i don't i don't think i ever shared this
um slide so um

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i think the last time we had missed i
was going to create this and show it to

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everybody but um we've been looking for
a permanent dog park currently we have

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0.33 acres behind city hall
one of the reasons this area is so

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interesting to look at for a dog park
is because it's got the railroad and

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you're not disturbing a lot of neighbors
with a dog park so it kind of seemed

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like it was well suited for this area
um

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i wanted to share kind of what the dog

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features could be and share my
experience with a

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dog park i built similarly in tigard and
so these pictures kind of show you what

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the tiger park looked like
the tigard park was .29 acres

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and i can tell you it was downtown in
tigard it's called um ash

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wait
yeah i think it's called ash avenue dog

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park and so one of the things that if
you ever get a chance to go out and look

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at it it is an amazing park and it
always had probably about 20

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dogs in there so it was always busy and
the biggest issue with this was parking

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because it was such a popular park
michelle there's no issue

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of that being a park parking lot in the
future along the tracks there

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well
let me click into my next screen so

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basically
yeah so um again i just wanted to kind

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of share some of the justification we
did for the tiger park i mean we had the

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most amazing dog park halloween costumes
um you know it was affordable

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and again the biggest problem we're
going to have with the dog park is being

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able to have the land and actually
having the um parking space because

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you know everything else we probably can
do

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so i kind of came up with the cost and
this is my new puppy i just want to

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introduce him

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he's super cool
if you have any dog names let me know

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or oh looks like a viking or something
yes oh that's cute michelle i've had to

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do it sorry
so cute

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so um the fencing is going to be about
15 to 20 thousand dollars um the dog

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park features are usually around 15 to
20. um you know putting in sidewalks

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bark chips water fountains and signage i
see i think we could build a dog park

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where that it would be right there fifty
to seventy thousand

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please note city hall parking lot needs
to be planned first so i put that in

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extra big writing so everybody is aware
that that

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you know
i i think kathy's got a dog too

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cute see dogs they're so fun
so you know

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i
i like the property because it's

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property we already own and i think the
only way that we can do this in the next

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few years um financially probably is to
look at things we already own

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so um
you know i think we're going to have

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more discussion on
the parking lot

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just to give everybody kind of an update
um i met

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tuesday with the camas um parks
department dog paw in washington

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campus has a couple of thoughts on dog
park options all their dog park options

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are like way out in the future
we've still been talking a lot about

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goop park but that still comes with a
lot of different issues um that canvas

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would have to deal with and so
you know the reality of that

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you know we've been talking about that
for quite a few years so i'm not sure if

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that would happen
um when we finished with our meeting

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with dog paw we decided that our next
step should probably be with meeting

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with um
canvas parks washington parks and the

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port and see what kind of properties
they have out there and if there's any

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other interest than what we've already
looked at in the past

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you know that port one is one i'm just
thinking about it seeing it there

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with all the housing they're planning
there between killians and potentially

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the port development with the different
housing

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they're gonna want stuff for their um
people that are renting over there yeah

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i mean there could be thousands of
people over there when a lot of them are

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gonna have pets uh it's definitely
something

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um we should approach the the porch and
uh poured about and maybe even

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well killian's pretty much designed out
all their stuff um

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but
we need to do that for sure

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yeah so we're gonna try to meet with the
port in the next two weeks because that

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was kind of our thought too with all
those condos

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yeah
some space and you know they have a lot

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more open lands um over there now
and so if there was a time to do that

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that would be now so
and there's been a lot of negotiations

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about um the nine bark park and who's
going to be the owner of that

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so i'm sure there'll be more to come on
that

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and and we gave our little bit of land
to that whole deal to make that happen

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too i hope people don't forget about
that

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no
we will remember michelle okay

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so the other thing we've been working on
is the bpa lines again

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that seems like an awesome opportunity
because that's land that can't be used

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so we've kind of visually gone up and
down the land looking at gis mapping and

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seeing what kind of things we could do
but then you run into parking issues and

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neighborhoods so
it's not quite as easy as you know you

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would hope
and the other thing is schmidt family

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park you know that's
i'm a little concerned with schmidt i'll

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be honest because
it seems like if we were to move forward

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on this one soon we have rco
grant opportunities in 2022 and if we

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missed that window to do anything um
grant wise we won't have another

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opportunity until the 2024.
and rco is probably the only way that we

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will be able to
do any development

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mid family park
so

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um this schmidt family park i mean if we
were to try to hit the rco grant process

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in 2022 we'd really need to start
working on our master plan tomorrow

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so
i i thought the dog option was out at

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schmidt especially lower uh
schmidt because

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because of the different grant
requirements

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um so
david scott and i talked about this

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yesterday and so we think that any
requirements were going to be tied to

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the park conservation grant that we
received

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so right now i'm looking for that
application and

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seeing what kind of restrictions there
was on that grant because that would be

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the one that would have

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you know had those type of restrictions
we need

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so i'm also going to review the rco
grant for that too just to verify so

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once i get some more information on that
it's just kind of digging in and

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figuring out
um so one of the things i wanted to find

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out from the park board is
where would you like us to start going

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with all of this i mean i kind of have
given several scenarios

442
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:10,000
and i think this is something that we
all know

443
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,279
all citizens have put pretty high on
their priority list of wanting to have

444
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:20,159
so
i want to chase ideas but i want to

445
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:20,159
chase ideas that the park board likes

446
00:33:22,159 --> 00:33:29,519
i want the cheapest option i know i'm
not a board member but

447
00:33:26,399 --> 00:33:29,519
that's what i want

448
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:36,399
michelle
i go ahead no go ahead go ahead

449
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,360
i was gonna say i was gonna mimic
michelle the cheapest but also the

450
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,440
quickest that we could get something
done um the only reason i keep pushing

451
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:48,640
the lot behind city hall is i look at
our downtown area and it's we just lost

452
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:52,559
another business down there and i think
if we had a dog park in our new library

453
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:57,519
in reflection plaza
it would be more walking traffic in that

454
00:33:55,039 --> 00:34:02,559
area and maybe we could get some more
businesses down there or the current

455
00:33:59,519 --> 00:34:06,799
businesses to stay open or reopen
and so that's why i pushed that one and

456
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:10,159
i look at it too is land we already own
and a vacant lot that trash just gets

457
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,520
dumped on
and i just think making it into

458
00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:17,760
something like we did the community
guarded with would revitalize downtown

459
00:34:16,399 --> 00:34:23,359
yeah no
i like that um and if anybody was going

460
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:28,320
on a field trip sometime to walla walla
let me tell you they handled covid

461
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:33,359
amazingly they have blocked downtown
roads and made like these new courtyards

462
00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:38,159
on the side roads where people can sit
and have wine it's amazing what they did

463
00:34:36,079 --> 00:34:43,520
i have pictures so if anybody wants to
see what walla walla did it's amazing

464
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:49,760
yeah that would be great
yeah i was just going to say that i

465
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:56,800
thought the 0.33 acres was too small
but now that you've introduced the

466
00:34:52,720 --> 00:35:02,079
0.29 acres at ash avenue park
and that's the most popular park well i

467
00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:06,240
i need to rethink how i view the 0.33
acres because now it does seem like

468
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:10,640
maybe it really is viable
yeah it you know it was just so well

469
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:14,880
designed and i don't
try to recreate the wheel because again

470
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:19,680
there was always right they kept it
clean it wasn't a muddy mess you know

471
00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:23,119
they had this little concrete area with
you know

472
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,960
um michelle and i rochelle and i were
thinking on the same lines they have

473
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:31,280
some really awesome fountains
um you know to clean dogs as they go in

474
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:36,480
and out and
yeah i mean you can really make a dog

475
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:40,240
park pretty nice and classy and
you know again finding one that you're

476
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:45,280
not going to destroy neighbors is super
hard yeah

477
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:51,040
i i like uh yeah i mean i like that
location as well especially

478
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:55,359
making that downtown area as dense as we
can to bring people down there and get

479
00:35:53,040 --> 00:36:00,000
things going as long as um you know
we're not going to get kicked out of

480
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:03,440
there because um
you know

481
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:08,160
we we owe parking to the library or the
expansion of the uh campus there or the

482
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:11,760
city hall
yeah

483
00:36:09,119 --> 00:36:17,040
as long as as uh we're good to go in
that spot i'm definitely for that

484
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:22,160
yeah i can definitely keep working on
our and i mean i think it's probably

485
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:26,800
worth um you know after the park board
kind of votes and says they like me to

486
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,280
send it forward i can also see because
again i would like counsel

487
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,480
to
you know

488
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:36,480
over you know take a look at this and
see what their thoughts are

489
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:41,040
and you know again if it's something
that everybody's super passionate about

490
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:45,599
and if it's is you know just coming up
with a parking plan i mean let's

491
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:50,000
how much would it be to design the
parking lot just to at least have a

492
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:55,040
general idea
should we go ahead and pitch that at the

493
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:58,640
same time get a cost or is that i assume
that's outside the park

494
00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:02,640
department but maybe that would help
sway

495
00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:02,640
some decision makers

496
00:37:03,599 --> 00:37:08,480
you know
i mean i don't think the council is

497
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:12,880
going to oppose it it's just that we've
always been told that

498
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:17,599
you know it's it's going to be utilized
for something else and it would be

499
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:21,599
temporary so i mean
that's going to come more from

500
00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:25,680
management
yeah and the city planners uh but i i

501
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,200
don't think there's a problem with
buying from the council

502
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:33,440
okay
yeah i mean again i don't know how much

503
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:37,680
a design cost would be just for to
design the parking lot by no means build

504
00:37:35,599 --> 00:37:41,520
it but i think if you just had a general
design and everybody was happy with the

505
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,359
design
and it wasn't going to cut into that .33

506
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:50,079
acres
i mean

507
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:54,079
does your plan allow for parking along
the tracks in addition to the park or

508
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:58,880
would that negate all the parking along
there

509
00:37:55,359 --> 00:38:01,920
um there's street side parking
but

510
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:06,880
i've seen some really amazing parking
plans that have worked

511
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:10,160
on the current parking
footprint we have

512
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:14,720
so
you know again if it's

513
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:20,720
if we could take all those plans that we
have looked at and then maybe see if we

514
00:38:17,359 --> 00:38:24,240
could have them actually designed and
come up with you know something council

515
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:28,720
would like
or a campus parking lot then you know

516
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:32,160
maybe that's the ticket and then just
have it in our pocket knowing that

517
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:36,880
that's what we'll build when we can
afford to do that

518
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:41,440
yeah i mean and if you can sell it that
i would think a lot of people use those

519
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:46,160
parks before and after work
that parking could be utilized you know

520
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:49,839
when maybe a lot of the city employees
have gone home

521
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:53,119
um
you know if they're concerned about

522
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:58,800
parking
yeah and let me tell you that dog pot is

523
00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:03,520
so excited so honestly the maintenance
would be so minimum they want to take

524
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:08,560
care of the dog bags they'll take care
of bringing in bart ships the volunteers

525
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:13,440
they they said that they have
over 400 hours a month

526
00:39:11,119 --> 00:39:17,760
of volunteers on all the dog parks in
the area and so

527
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:23,040
you know there's just a lot of really
awesome momentum that we could get with

528
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,040
the dog park so

529
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:31,359
so that's dog park stuff
and so we have a guest tonight too so i

530
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:36,000
have kathy here
let's see

531
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,000
oh do i still have kathy

532
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:45,359
so
they went crazy

533
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:50,880
so one of the things that kathy has been
talking to us about is

534
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:56,960
having some rock painting and
it just seems like a rock painting

535
00:39:53,920 --> 00:40:01,119
garden would go hand in hand and so i
have asked her to send me some of these

536
00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:05,280
amazing pictures of some of the arts
that kids have made with the

537
00:40:03,359 --> 00:40:08,800
rock painting
and

538
00:40:06,319 --> 00:40:14,000
one other little side note i ate about
the community garden we have the um

539
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:18,319
daycare candies daycare right up the
street that has two garden plots

540
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:22,800
and they're going to have an end of
season party so um that should they're

541
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:26,160
thinking that the party was going to be
sometime in september the first part of

542
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:30,079
september
and so one of the things i would like to

543
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,079
do is maybe have some of our little
gardeners become

544
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:39,040
utilize the maybe
garden the painting of the rocks so

545
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:43,040
um so cathy is there anything you would
like to add

546
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:47,040
well i know we're excited
to put something together

547
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:52,000
and um
and i think i mentioned you michelle to

548
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:57,760
have the garden outside the fence where
people can walk by and see it and

549
00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:00,640
put rocks in it
instead of having to have a key to go

550
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:06,400
inside
so right here is kind of a picture of

551
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:10,000
what um kathy was thinking and then
in these little garden beds right here

552
00:41:09,119 --> 00:41:14,400
um
the only thing that i was thinking is if

553
00:41:12,079 --> 00:41:18,640
we were to continue with maybe the metal
garden beds like we have inside just for

554
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:26,160
maintenance issues even though these are
very beautiful they're sometimes

555
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:34,079
decomposed and with being wood so
can you can those be layered or tapered

556
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:38,960
um they have all sorts of really in
really nice ones so i can send a few

557
00:41:36,319 --> 00:41:42,240
examples to you of the metal ones
okay

558
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:45,920
because my thought was just to be able
to get a real good view of the different

559
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:49,800
rocks
the beds weren't layered

560
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:58,000
but yes that's
whatever

561
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:02,480
uh you guys want to do we are willing to
do it and help

562
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:05,680
and i do have the benches and the table
that we had donated

563
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:12,720
um so people can sit
outside and eat the table i thought the

564
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:17,440
kids could
paint rocks come young with their family

565
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,960
clean up the little table and then put
their rock there

566
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,480
gotcha
so

567
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:30,160
um i probably will bring this back at
the next one

568
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:34,400
we don't have a forum to make decisions
but for sure i will keep this and we

569
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:40,720
will move it forward
and another thought we had was to have

570
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:46,480
hopefully before maybe in september
is have a painting in the plaza

571
00:42:43,599 --> 00:42:50,319
to start collecting some rocks
so to have kids come

572
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,839
they could paint a rock to take home and
paint a rock to donate

573
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:57,680
and then we'll just kind of hang on to
the rocks until

574
00:42:55,839 --> 00:43:02,400
we have an opening and then we'll have
rocks to put inside

575
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:05,839
so
that was it was a thought

576
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:12,480
thank you kathy cool thank you for
having me

577
00:43:09,839 --> 00:43:17,599
well kind of along that same line as
we've been putting out birdhouses

578
00:43:14,319 --> 00:43:23,440
everywhere so we've had a lot of really
great um artists in our washable area

579
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:27,760
and so the community garden and
elizabeth park

580
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:32,000
both have uh kelly where else did you
put them did we go kerr part two

581
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:37,040
no
because i

582
00:43:33,359 --> 00:43:42,400
so i read about how you hang them on
trees and you can't just nail them into

583
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:47,920
the tree because you will damage said
tree and you're supposed to use rope and

584
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:51,760
hang them or whatever so i did not do
that

585
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:56,720
and i thought also too i can't really
get to said trees in kerr park because

586
00:43:54,079 --> 00:44:00,880
of all of the ivy and the blackberries
i'm sure karen can attest to it's pretty

587
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:04,319
tall in there
um

588
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:08,960
so i did put them up at
upper half away there are some along the

589
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:14,560
fence line so when you drive down to
lower hathaway and look up you see them

590
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:18,319
they face out towards the river
um not towards the park because i

591
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:24,480
figured birds would use them better that
way there's only a few up there and then

592
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:28,720
i put quite a few in elizabeth park
along the back fence wall where there's

593
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:33,119
ivy and stuff
um there's the neighbors on the other

594
00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:38,240
side have a pretty high fence as well as
ours so i figured that'd be a good spot

595
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:43,839
and then we hung quite a few at the
community garden i noticed that there

596
00:44:41,119 --> 00:44:49,520
are a few more that just kind of
appeared in the garage

597
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:55,760
so i thought if we wanted to we could
even hang some at heartwood throughout

598
00:44:52,720 --> 00:45:01,040
the park um using that rope method that
i was talking about

599
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:04,640
yeah now that that sounds awesome so
yeah again i would like to kind of do a

600
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:08,880
little thank you out to the kids and
take a picture of all the places we put

601
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:14,319
them so they can see where their art is
located so yeah we've got a lot of

602
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:17,280
compliments on them even from kids you
know they just think they're pretty cool

603
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:21,680
and to know that they've come from other
kids i think kind of adds to that

604
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:25,359
yep for sure
who gave i was going to ask who paints

605
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:32,400
those
um i think it's the high school kids

606
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:37,040
yeah um so one of the art teachers um
is having the kids paint them and then

607
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:42,560
they bring them in so yeah i think is
how it worked was the supplies were

608
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:46,800
donated to them and they created them
and what not kind of like as a project

609
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:51,839
and painted them and then submitted them
back to us yeah and i think rose went

610
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:57,119
and picked them up from the school
well if you ever wanted to do a project

611
00:45:54,480 --> 00:46:01,359
like that where kids paint them the
paint roller would love to do that for

612
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:05,599
the kids awesome
yeah i would have a big paint party with

613
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,319
painting those and then
have them set up and they can go and

614
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:12,640
look at it
through the year or whatever

615
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:17,359
yeah love it
so kathy you might recognize this oh yes

616
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:21,200
yes i'm excited yes
so um we

617
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:25,599
um i don't know if everybody remembers
but last year we bought a movie screen

618
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:30,079
for our park and recreation program and
then with covid and we haven't really

619
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:33,200
had the opportunity to use our
recreation

620
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:37,119
movies
so um

621
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:44,800
we have had our first movie which was
july kelly kathy oh uh

622
00:46:41,599 --> 00:46:50,720
um it's the 18th i think july 18th i
believe somewhere around there yeah so

623
00:46:47,359 --> 00:46:55,359
we have another movie um this saturday
and the movie will be beethoven

624
00:46:53,920 --> 00:47:00,480
that's it
okay and then september 18th will be the

625
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:03,599
last movie for the season
no they moved it i'm sorry it's

626
00:47:01,839 --> 00:47:06,160
september 25th
oh okay

627
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:12,640
yeah paul wanted to just move it one
saturday and yeah so we're going to just

628
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,640
go ahead and do that for you guys for
yeah

629
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:20,319
and i think it's because of the
advertisement i think so yeah yeah

630
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:26,559
so again this has just been an awesome
opportunity i think we had kelly's been

631
00:47:23,359 --> 00:47:30,559
working the first one about did you say
25 people

632
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:35,839
yeah 20 to 25 people and it was a good
uh mixture half and half of kids and um

633
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:41,520
adults and it was cute the girl scouts
did a little skit before the movie

634
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:45,200
started and kathy uh did the popcorn and
whatnot and um

635
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:49,599
i think everybody really enjoyed it it
was a good time and it was a really nice

636
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:53,359
evening yes and the girl scouts will be
back

637
00:47:50,839 --> 00:47:57,599
saturday asked him if they would do a
skit so they're gonna so be more planned

638
00:47:56,319 --> 00:48:02,480
so they're gonna do a skit because we
can't have cartoons

639
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:07,599
right i always had cartoons before movie
so um and then corona ice is coming

640
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:10,720
again
yeah

641
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:14,720
yeah this has been wonderful so and then
just to let everybody know our movie

642
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:18,880
screen has been double
double dipping and so canvas borrowed

643
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:23,440
our movie screen our movie projector
because there's broke so it was really

644
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:27,839
nice to share with canvas
we're doing a lot of different

645
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:32,000
sharing with events and different things
coming up in the future so this is

646
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:37,599
really exciting this new relationship we
have with canvas so

647
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:41,839
yes well i'm excited well i've got to
leave you guys because i have another

648
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:46,400
meeting okay bye kathy thanks kathy
thank you so much

649
00:48:44,319 --> 00:48:50,079
nice to meet everyone and kelly i'll see
you saturday saturday

650
00:48:48,559 --> 00:48:53,680
and michelle
uh uh all michelle

651
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:58,480
i'll see you later
thank you again and

652
00:48:56,559 --> 00:49:00,839
i will leave
thank you

653
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:05,359
you're
welcome

654
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:10,720
all right so for a park board we have um
the park impact fee coming up it's going

655
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:16,400
to be on monday night so we'll be kind
of determining um the last workshop of

656
00:49:14,319 --> 00:49:20,720
where we are with the rates
um just so everybody knows we kind of

657
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:24,400
have a big difference between planning
commission and council and where the

658
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,079
rates should be
so

659
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:30,559
um
this i'm not sure if i had shena park

660
00:49:28,319 --> 00:49:37,680
boards this kind of schematics before
but right here washable is about 1 550

661
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:41,520
where every other city except woodland
is above us

662
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:45,280
we have not increased our rate for 14
years so it definitely needs to be

663
00:49:43,839 --> 00:49:50,720
increased
the question is by how much and that's

664
00:49:47,839 --> 00:49:56,480
kind of what we have been talking about
um this is what we landed on as far as

665
00:49:54,079 --> 00:50:01,440
the staff recommendations we kind of had
to find a middle ground between what

666
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:05,680
council was hoping to see and what the
planning commission

667
00:50:03,119 --> 00:50:08,720
again it's not quite the best middle
place but

668
00:50:07,119 --> 00:50:13,040
somebody had to like
at least pick something and so this is

669
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:16,319
what we'll be presenting so we'll kind
of be sharing the feedback that we got

670
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,960
from the planning commission we'll be
sharing the feedback we've got from

671
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:23,520
council
um our consultants will be there on

672
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:26,480
monday night and then this will prepare
us for the

673
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:31,599
park impact hearing which will be
september 13th

674
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:35,040
i just have to add the council wanting
to keep it commensurate with the other

675
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:39,200
cities
and the planning commission wanting to

676
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:43,440
keep it a little lower
yes thank you michelle that's all right

677
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:49,760
so
yeah so it you know it'll be very

678
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:54,880
interesting to see how my day goes but
um you know i'm excited no matter what

679
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:57,599
we can only go up from here so
i know that

680
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:05,119
um so a lot of questions about the disc
golf course so we've had some really

681
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:09,599
exciting things start happening
this gentleman right here avery jenkins

682
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:14,400
he's from this gulf park
it's a professional company

683
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:18,960
he's got an amazing portfolio i can send
everybody if they'd like to see it kind

684
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:23,200
of the parks he's designed in the past
most of the parks that he has designed

685
00:51:21,359 --> 00:51:27,760
have been like a hundred thousand dollar
disc golf parks

686
00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:32,480
our budget was like way smaller so
um basically what he's going to be doing

687
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:37,280
is coming in and taking a look at our
entire course

688
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:42,640
finding um what a safe course looks like
for us and then making sure that

689
00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:49,040
all our signs and everything are very
well directing so we can have people go

690
00:51:45,599 --> 00:51:52,400
know exactly what pad goes to which
disc golf basket

691
00:51:51,119 --> 00:51:56,480
and so
i'm really excited about this whole

692
00:51:54,400 --> 00:52:01,760
process and again i think avery is going
to be great to work with

693
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:07,040
once we get the the design of the course
from avery i'm hoping that i'll be able

694
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:13,359
to bring that to the council or to the
park board and have you guys review it

695
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:18,160
and then along with that design comes an
environmental study so i need to have

696
00:52:16,319 --> 00:52:22,640
the design before i can meet with the
environmental groups because they can't

697
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:27,440
really determine anything unless they
know what we're planning on doing so

698
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:32,400
that's kind of the order how all of this
has transpired um

699
00:52:30,079 --> 00:52:38,640
a perfect world would have the disc golf
course built by um october and also just

700
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:43,040
so everybody knows that this golf is no
longer going to be

701
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:47,839
18 holes it will be nine
so again with kind of our current

702
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:53,920
footprint and the less impact to the
park we are going to land on nine

703
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:59,280
um michelle i have a question i it's
because i haven't really been

704
00:52:55,839 --> 00:53:04,400
engaged with the the um engagement has
there been engagement with the community

705
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:06,559
member or members that were opposed to
this

706
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:10,640
is it
is that

707
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:15,839
why this is shrinking and
were there initially uh post put up and

708
00:53:13,359 --> 00:53:18,079
then taken down or have the ones that
were there

709
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:22,720
stayed there
um all great questions so the

710
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:27,040
there's um
six baskets that have actually been

711
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:31,520
installed the bathroom will be able to
be pulled out

712
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:37,520
and re-um submitted wherever we find
the best design happens the other thing

713
00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:42,400
is the foundations were kind of
so we just have boxes with gravel out

714
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:46,720
there right now for each of the pads
the goal is to move those once the

715
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,359
designer comes in
and determines where they best are

716
00:53:48,319 --> 00:53:52,720
suited
and then

717
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:55,680
we have a contractor that will pour the
pads and

718
00:53:54,240 --> 00:54:00,240
we'll probably have to go through a
little bit of a super review and

719
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:03,760
all the permitting process
um along

720
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:09,920
in this process so
um we have a lot of property that is no

721
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:13,200
longer designated as wetlands
just because

722
00:54:11,119 --> 00:54:17,280
you know things change after it's been
10 to 15 years

723
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:21,599
so i walked around with them for quite a
long time to kind of take a look at the

724
00:54:19,119 --> 00:54:27,680
entire property
and again we want to do what's you know

725
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:31,839
respecting the land and making sure that
we find a course that works well for the

726
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:35,839
neighbors and for the disc golf
community

727
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:40,400
so that's that's our goal in this whole
process

728
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:45,119
so and it had had our intentions always
been to have a designer or

729
00:54:42,799 --> 00:54:49,119
initially it wasn't and then we got this
little bit of a push back

730
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:53,920
and then that's how the designer came
along

731
00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:59,920
um it just happened so fast i i
i didn't know that whole

732
00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:04,839
so we had um somebody who came in and
had um

733
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:10,240
done a lot of disc golf courses and so
basically um kind of stepping back and

734
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:13,280
looking at it we probably should have
gone the professional designer right

735
00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:17,680
away
doing what we ended up doing

736
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:20,799
again there was a lot of lessons learned
through this process

737
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:25,680
um
yeah a lot of things i would truly do

738
00:55:22,799 --> 00:55:29,119
different on this project um you know
but

739
00:55:26,799 --> 00:55:34,480
we are where we are and um we're going
to make it a nine hole it's you know we

740
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:40,079
had over 200 people up at heartwood over
a weekend um wanting to play disc golf

741
00:55:37,599 --> 00:55:43,680
so i think again it's another driver for
the community and

742
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:47,839
you know bringing people to our
community

743
00:55:45,119 --> 00:55:53,200
so and so the person complaining do they
know about the changed plans and are

744
00:55:50,559 --> 00:55:57,280
they happy with what's going on so we
don't actually have a plan yet until

745
00:55:55,680 --> 00:56:02,559
avery comes out which should be in the
next week or so and then he is also

746
00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:06,960
doing some outreach in his contract to
meet with the neighbors and

747
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:11,839
propose what we're planning on doing
okay i mean yeah i mean we don't

748
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:17,520
do flips because one person's unhappy
but i you know they seem like they were

749
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:21,599
starting to organize against it so
that'll be nice if we

750
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:24,480
engage them
yeah

751
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:29,040
other thing it was a perfect storm with
the bridge closing yeah yeah

752
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:35,040
so
michelle i was going to comment too i've

753
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:40,640
asked um i'm trying to locate or figure
out who the president or who the person

754
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:46,160
is within those neighborhood
associations

755
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:50,319
heartwood and eldridge so that then we
can do a meet in the park or some sort

756
00:56:48,799 --> 00:56:54,400
of an update
to let them know some of the things that

757
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:58,480
they do have questions on so that will
be a good way to outreach yep and i've

758
00:56:56,720 --> 00:57:02,960
already got all the contacts and i've
reached out

759
00:56:59,599 --> 00:57:08,720
several times so i will get that to us
so we can start planning um i might even

760
00:57:06,319 --> 00:57:12,960
you know just because you're part of the
heart would park and

761
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:17,760
maybe have you and karen
it was karen on the heartwood park too

762
00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:22,880
she was on every park
you were michelle oh dear

763
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:28,079
okay you and i as the ambassadors and
will probably um you know

764
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:31,760
meet with avery and then that way we can
work with the community the

765
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:36,960
neighborhoods with him on that so
yeah perfect i think they would be um

766
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:42,480
very pleased to be able to
have that information firsthand some

767
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:47,200
input and be able to see what direction
it's going and awesome yeah i think so

768
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:50,480
too so i mean it's going to be a great
project so

769
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:54,640
um one of the things that i'm hoping to
take to council in the next

770
00:57:52,799 --> 00:57:58,799
couple council meetings is all the
before and after things that we've done

771
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:03,760
within our parks and we're right now
working on adopting our budget and doing

772
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:08,000
some pmp
projects that are going into council so

773
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:11,520
i haven't been able to get in the
council schedule yet

774
00:58:09,839 --> 00:58:16,799
but again we've done a lot of really
great things and

775
00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:21,680
so this is just some of the examples so
we have this is our memorial bench we

776
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:24,559
also have one already installed and it
just turned i mean it's just absolutely

777
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:27,680
beautiful
um we have a lot of our benches

778
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:32,319
installed except the one that they
pulled out of the park which was sad

779
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:37,119
um
i'm gonna be sending you guys some

780
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:40,640
updates on like a cemetery stuff um
we're going to be doing some changing

781
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:46,079
within kind of
our our maintenance group

782
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:49,839
so i'm hoping that we can utilize some
of our maintenance staff up at the

783
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:54,240
cemetery and have them help us out with
the parks a little bit it's all general

784
00:58:52,079 --> 00:58:58,079
fund it's all one group
so

785
00:58:55,280 --> 00:59:02,799
again i'm just trying to utilize our
resources the best we can so

786
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:07,680
you know we have
both resources for both cemetery and the

787
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,680
parks

788
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:14,960
and the reason i'm showing this fence is
because i was looking at the man hours

789
00:59:12,079 --> 00:59:19,839
it took us to paint sand this down and
repainted each year and we now have a

790
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:25,280
vinyl fence so i at least earned several
hours out of the cemetery to get back

791
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:25,280
that person back in park so

792
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:32,559
so again
kind of keeping with the signage and

793
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:36,720
making everything all clean and looking
the same within the cemetery too so

794
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:44,480
um we've done some amazing things thank
you rochelle with reflection plaza so

795
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:49,040
this was um one of the parks that
rochelle

796
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:52,400
is ambassador for and we did a cleanup
and um

797
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:56,559
it really turned out absolutely amazing
so again we had lots of weeds this is

798
00:59:54,720 --> 01:00:01,760
the rose bushes before we cleaned them
up but this is what it looks like now

799
00:59:59,119 --> 01:00:06,400
so it just turned out amazing there's
lights that light up the gazebo which we

800
01:00:04,319 --> 01:00:10,799
dug down and put rocks around because i
didn't even know that those lights were

801
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:14,960
there so that was pretty exciting
again just some more before and after

802
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:19,839
pictures our roses were kind of at the
end of their lives so we have new fresh

803
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,839
roses in there

804
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:28,799
and
just more before and after pictures

805
01:00:25,599 --> 01:00:33,839
and so we also had grass along this area
um we put in bark dust and

806
01:00:31,599 --> 01:00:39,119
ornamental grasses
and so on monday we are going to have

807
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:45,040
concrete poured right in this area and
put in two more benches for sitting area

808
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:50,720
and then our water fountain for the dog
is now working so again this whole

809
01:00:48,079 --> 01:00:57,280
project was super fun to do
and it just turned out beautifully so

810
01:00:53,839 --> 01:01:01,760
so thank you everybody for your help
uh community garden again i just kind of

811
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:05,839
wanted to like show the before and after
of where we were with the community

812
01:01:03,359 --> 01:01:09,599
garden i know there has been a lot of
things coming up on next door and some

813
01:01:08,079 --> 01:01:13,760
different things
one of the things that i think is really

814
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:18,960
important to remember on this community
garden is when we purchased this goal

815
01:01:16,079 --> 01:01:22,160
was to be a downtown park we had gone
after a grant

816
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:26,319
and so this has been part of the
transportation

817
01:01:24,079 --> 01:01:31,040
future development and this has always
been earmarked to be a park

818
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:35,599
and instead of having this lot set empty
we ended up doing some work to make it

819
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:39,839
into a community garden
and the community garden actual

820
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:43,599
cost
just because the getting cost has come

821
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:49,040
up a lot on this garden
um we ended up adding a playground which

822
01:01:47,359 --> 01:01:54,480
again it would have been a vacant lot
possibly where you know transients would

823
01:01:51,599 --> 01:02:01,599
be living and you know not being used to
the way it is being used now

824
01:01:58,079 --> 01:02:06,720
and it also has been beneficial because
the community is being able to grow and

825
01:02:04,079 --> 01:02:11,280
plant plants and you know have
healthy fruits and vegetables

826
01:02:09,119 --> 01:02:15,280
you know just again as a community that
could really use you know this type of

827
01:02:13,599 --> 01:02:19,680
garden so
um you know

828
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:24,400
not everybody's gonna love the project
but there are so many good reasons why a

829
01:02:22,079 --> 01:02:27,440
community garden is so important to a
community and

830
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:32,960
i'm super happy with what what has
transpired so

831
01:02:31,839 --> 01:02:38,160
um yeah
is i i just want to mention real quick

832
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:41,760
michelle um that we have had a community
uh a family in the community contact the

833
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:47,280
city
and they are proposing to put a memorial

834
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:51,119
bench it's going to be
the same bench that michelle just showed

835
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:58,160
pictures of that's actually installed at
the cemetery it has the memorial

836
01:02:54,480 --> 01:03:02,960
um laser cut into the back of the bench
and they're proposing to put that

837
01:03:00,319 --> 01:03:06,880
outside of the community garden because
their family owned the building across

838
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:10,960
the street and it used to be a ballet
center back in the day

839
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:15,280
so we should be seeing that application
shortly the family pays for the bench

840
01:03:14,319 --> 01:03:19,680
and
we order it from buell and then um our

841
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:22,960
city staff will just install it when it
comes so that's something to look

842
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:27,039
forward to
what what are the prices of those

843
01:03:25,039 --> 01:03:32,000
benches again and you said they are
standardized correct yeah yeah and it's

844
01:03:30,079 --> 01:03:35,760
about i believe it's about two thousand
dollars i think

845
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:39,599
it was oh fourteen hundred dollars for
the bench is that what it was yeah i i

846
01:03:38,079 --> 01:03:44,559
think it was a little bit more though
because the single the shipping kind of

847
01:03:41,839 --> 01:03:48,559
jacked up a little bit unfortunately uh
so this will be kind of the same deal so

848
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:53,359
it should be right around there
was this was that the new thing that

849
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:59,280
we had kind of started under with
suzanne uh that package of naming things

850
01:03:56,559 --> 01:04:02,240
or has this always been in the code
so

851
01:04:00,319 --> 01:04:08,240
suzanne kind of started something up at
the cemetery to where they could do

852
01:04:05,119 --> 01:04:13,680
planters and benches uh and then they've
done like concrete benches in the past

853
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:17,520
but um when michelle came on instead of
doing the standard concrete benches with

854
01:04:15,839 --> 01:04:21,760
the small memorial plaque we kind of
went more with the metal bench

855
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:25,920
okay you know i mean i like it don't get
me yeah wear and tear i've been pushing

856
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:32,240
for for a long time i was just wondering
where in the code or what document it

857
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:38,720
explains all this is it in the cemetery
one then or the parks no michelle

858
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:43,760
actually created a new document for
parks and cemeteries so it's a joint

859
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:48,960
document for uh donations and it
proposes bench or tree you know whatever

860
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:54,559
you would like to donate and then it
does come in for approval and then we

861
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:59,039
invoice them for the cost of whatever um
and yeah

862
01:04:55,920 --> 01:05:03,599
beautiful okay it's got the um pictures
on the application so you clearly see

863
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:06,720
what you know the items look like so
again that's that makes it a lot easier

864
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:11,119
because
um i think hathaway is probably the best

865
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:13,599
example of kind of a mishmash of a lot
of different things

866
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:18,799
so
um you know again it just kind of

867
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,799
standardizes it and

868
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:28,319
great yeah and they they turn out nice
uh the one up at the cemetery is in the

869
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:33,440
scatter garden if y'all would like to um
look at that uh feel free to stop by it

870
01:05:31,599 --> 01:05:37,599
does take a few months to order them and
everything um rachelle did you have a

871
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:41,520
question or a statement it did design a
community garden two questions and and

872
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:44,640
could we budget maybe next year for to
put a fence on when you're looking at

873
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:48,000
the playground on the left so it
separates

874
01:05:45,839 --> 01:05:51,520
those houses from the playground so
people on the playground don't feel like

875
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:55,200
they're intrusive to those
any other way around

876
01:05:53,119 --> 01:05:59,039
and then my second thought is when we're
looking at the community garden on the

877
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:01,839
right outside the fence as we've
probably heard there's a lot of people

878
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:04,960
who would love
free gardens and i know it comes with

879
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:09,599
that and i know the problems we've had
in the past but maybe if it wasn't too

880
01:06:07,359 --> 01:06:14,079
expensive we could put a few garden beds
on the outside there that those that pay

881
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:17,839
for a lot like if i have extra tomato
seeds or whatever i just kind of grow

882
01:06:16,079 --> 01:06:21,039
something over there and it's for anyone
in the community to go and pick

883
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:24,960
something or
have at it and not have to pay to be in

884
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:29,200
the garden but those that participate in
the garden kind of have a

885
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:32,480
commitment that we would maintain that
as well

886
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:35,760
it's not a bad idea it might cut down on
some of the

887
01:06:33,599 --> 01:06:40,400
vegetable the you know stealing and
whatnot as well you know i mean it

888
01:06:38,559 --> 01:06:45,039
happens regardless of of where the
garden is we had that in the past right

889
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:49,440
so that might help with that
it's a good idea so kelly if you

890
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:53,760
remember we had some
um garden boxes that weren't the same

891
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:56,720
size as the rest of them and i think it
was about six of them we were gonna

892
01:06:55,520 --> 01:07:00,559
replace
and then we could reuse the other ones

893
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:02,960
and put them out
in that area that rochelle's talking

894
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:07,440
about
and i'd like to address the fence issue

895
01:07:05,359 --> 01:07:12,640
i love the fence issue the only thing
that i would put there though is a split

896
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:14,640
rail the reason being is because
the

897
01:07:13,599 --> 01:07:20,559
neighbors
are i mean it's like right along their

898
01:07:17,039 --> 01:07:25,200
deck is where our property ends and so
they'd almost walk right into a fence

899
01:07:23,119 --> 01:07:30,960
because we did talk about that but i
think delineating the space and actually

900
01:07:28,799 --> 01:07:34,720
having a little bit more of the split
rail on our property so it's not making

901
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:38,079
them feel like
they just stepped right out the door and

902
01:07:37,119 --> 01:07:41,520
there's a
city so

903
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:45,440
i know exactly what you're saying but
when we looked at it it was like oh man

904
01:07:43,599 --> 01:07:49,760
yeah i figured there was a reason but i
thought i would ask and yeah if we have

905
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:54,400
any spare garden beds that we could put
on the outside of the fence i mean i'll

906
01:07:52,079 --> 01:07:57,440
help wherever possible of course
yes thank well

907
01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:01,599
there will be some pictures of split
rail fences here shortly too so i tell

908
01:08:00,079 --> 01:08:07,200
you what i
might look nice so

909
01:08:03,599 --> 01:08:11,760
um this one is like a true improvement
story so sandy swimming hole just looks

910
01:08:09,599 --> 01:08:16,159
absolutely hideous so i mean it had
deteriorated at rust

911
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:19,759
so i was so happy how the painting ended
up turning out so i don't know if

912
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:23,679
anybody's gone out there to take a look
but this is also anti-graffiti paint

913
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,920
so
we're definitely testing that

914
01:08:25,679 --> 01:08:31,279
anti-graffiti um
power to make sure we can wipe down

915
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:34,640
these things but
so far we've been pretty successful um i

916
01:08:33,839 --> 01:08:38,960
think
upper hathaway inside was tagged and we

917
01:08:37,759 --> 01:08:44,080
had a little bit of trouble getting the
graffiti off but the guy who helped

918
01:08:41,440 --> 01:08:48,159
paint everything ended up coming out and
helping us with something so we were

919
01:08:45,759 --> 01:08:51,600
able to get that graffiti off so
yeah that's amazing you can't even tell

920
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:55,839
it's the same building
yeah i was super happy with that so

921
01:08:54,159 --> 01:08:59,040
again just more before and after
pictures i mean this is what the

922
01:08:57,359 --> 01:09:03,040
bathroom looked like this is what it
looks like now and then if everybody

923
01:09:01,440 --> 01:09:08,719
remembers this is where the homeless
were living because we had the vents and

924
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:14,799
now we have full doors so
it's just beautiful so um the before and

925
01:09:12,159 --> 01:09:17,679
after pictures of the upper hathaway we
had

926
01:09:15,679 --> 01:09:20,560
moss and
gutters dripping right in front of the

927
01:09:19,440 --> 01:09:25,359
doors
now we have a clean fresh

928
01:09:23,199 --> 01:09:27,679
bathroom so it just turned out really
nice

929
01:09:28,480 --> 01:09:35,679
again just some more pictures of the
tables and new signage that we have so

930
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:39,839
um i have to say the one of the funniest
things was um i had a cemetery board

931
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:42,719
meeting and mickey looked at our signs
and she

932
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:46,719
she was like well i didn't know we had
this one rule on there and kelly's like

933
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:52,000
yeah it's always been on there and she's
like well our signs were so faded you

934
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:56,800
couldn't even see what the sign said
so again it was time to switch out our

935
01:09:54,800 --> 01:10:03,760
signs so at least now you can kind of
see some of the rules and regulations

936
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:08,159
um here is some pictures of hathaway um
park after it got painted the barn is

937
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:13,120
now a little bit brighter or darker
burgundy

938
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:16,239
and this is as of today so this is part
of our

939
01:10:14,159 --> 01:10:19,840
disc golf course we wanted to make sure
that everybody

940
01:10:17,679 --> 01:10:25,360
we had a split rail fence up there so
the playground is a little bit protected

941
01:10:22,239 --> 01:10:29,520
and so we'll also have some other safety
items put in place but

942
01:10:27,679 --> 01:10:35,120
this just turned out so beautiful
because it fits with the barn

943
01:10:32,239 --> 01:10:39,360
and the playground theme so that's
that's as of today

944
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:42,560
probably two hours ago
nice

945
01:10:40,480 --> 01:10:47,120
so so i think michelle that way or
michelle that would be a really nice um

946
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:51,040
thing to maybe do
that you had mentioned and it's pretty

947
01:10:48,719 --> 01:10:55,760
inexpensive which is
yeah that would be nice

948
01:10:52,719 --> 01:10:55,760
nice for both sides

949
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:04,480
uh again just some more improvements
that we've done and all of this is

950
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:09,600
things that you have all seen but um i
would like to this is all our before and

951
01:11:06,719 --> 01:11:14,159
afters for um council so they can see
i've been trying to do the best i can to

952
01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:18,080
document everything that we have done
so the merry-go-round is new the swings

953
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:22,640
are new
that porta potty is just fine hasn't

954
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,640
been ran over

955
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:28,719
again the
hamlet park

956
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:31,840
bathrooms will be changing a little bit
i haven't taken a picture since they

957
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:35,600
painted the roof
but the roof is no longer red so it's

958
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:40,400
kind of all
the darker gray color and then all the

959
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:43,520
walls are one color so it's no longer
looks like this inside

960
01:11:44,239 --> 01:11:49,600
steamboat landing
again the waterfront trail is now

961
01:11:48,159 --> 01:11:54,400
complete so
it's beautiful if you get a chance to go

962
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:57,520
and walk it it's it just turned out
awesome

963
01:11:55,760 --> 01:12:01,920
and then this is
before and after pictures of steamboat

964
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:06,960
landing so we painted the doors and got
those cleaned up too

965
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:11,679
and the waterfront trail they've got the
picnic tables benches out

966
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:16,320
i think they have a black iron fence
right now out here now that they put in

967
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:21,360
i haven't been out there since but
um the trail is amazing

968
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:24,800
one of the things that chemists and what
should well and the port are all trying

969
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:29,760
to do is
um we're trying to gear all our special

970
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:35,679
events so they complement each other and
the port is wanting to do some sort of

971
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:39,040
scavenger hunt around the holidays on
our waterfront trail to get people to

972
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:43,280
utilize it
so as i learn about

973
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:47,520
these events and as we meet on a regular
basis with the other directors of parks

974
01:12:46,159 --> 01:12:51,440
i will make sure i bring that
information

975
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:57,360
and also make sure i invite
um the you know the our our co-op groups

976
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:59,679
to come to these meetings and talk about
some of the things that we're trying to

977
01:12:58,719 --> 01:13:04,400
do
but we would like to work with the

978
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:09,920
chamber and have kind of like you know
you can watch christmas ships you can do

979
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:14,159
a scavenger hunt on our waterfront trail
um canvas will be doing a tree lighting

980
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:17,120
on this night
um washable will be doing a tree

981
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:21,120
lighting on this night and when our
parade is

982
01:13:19,199 --> 01:13:26,480
and also i just recently learned that
our parade is the only parade christmas

983
01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:29,440
parade um in this area so that was kind
of cool too so

984
01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:36,480
um
kelly and i are going to be swamped here

985
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:41,199
shortly so
um we will be getting our grant money

986
01:13:38,480 --> 01:13:45,120
for the cdbg so we are going to be
starting on getting everything out for

987
01:13:43,679 --> 01:13:50,640
hamlet
so based on everything i am really

988
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:55,600
kicking myself i wish this basketball
court was a full court based on

989
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:59,120
especially the camps
and all the

990
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:03,280
needs we've been having for a full court
but i think this is going to be an

991
01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:06,719
absolute beautiful half court
um

992
01:14:04,239 --> 01:14:10,880
i'm going to do minimum replacement of
some of the

993
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:16,159
bike park parts just so again they're
safe and we can make sure that they're

994
01:14:12,719 --> 01:14:18,880
not overlapped like this one
and this is the playground that was

995
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:24,480
picked
so we've got everything ready to go so

996
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:29,360
as soon as the money is awarded we will
go ahead and start ordering on this

997
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:35,040
playground
and this is a overview of the playground

998
01:14:32,239 --> 01:14:39,600
so we have swings um and other really
cute elements

999
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:43,920
within the playground
looks great michelle is there going to

1000
01:14:41,199 --> 01:14:48,000
be any money left over for trees
on the perimeter of this park

1001
01:14:46,480 --> 01:14:52,880
you know i think we're going to be
pretty good i think we will probably be

1002
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:56,480
able to do the trees um i bought some
trees that we've been keeping in opp's

1003
01:14:55,520 --> 01:15:00,960
yard
that i would like to do after we've done

1004
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:05,280
the construction plant the trees but
just because we've had such hot weather

1005
01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:08,000
i'm kind of protecting them and yeah
yeah

1006
01:15:06,159 --> 01:15:10,800
we keep them safe until the fall and
then we'll start planting them in the

1007
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:15,760
fall
i'm really excited about this park those

1008
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:19,840
folks deserve a good park on that part
of on that side of town there's nothing

1009
01:15:17,679 --> 01:15:26,640
over there that's nice
yeah yep so um we're hoping to maybe um

1010
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:30,880
take down the community shed the the red
one because it's it's kind of falling

1011
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:35,440
apart and there's nothing in it anymore
so we're going to take that down

1012
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:40,480
so we can get ready for construction and
then there's the dirt from the bike park

1013
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:44,800
and we will be removing that here
shortly too and getting that ready so

1014
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:49,360
the park will be all prepped and ready
to go as soon as we can start ordering

1015
01:15:46,719 --> 01:15:49,360
stuff so

1016
01:15:49,440 --> 01:15:57,040
yeah and the community actually voted on
that playground rose had a spanish night

1017
01:15:55,280 --> 01:16:01,440
at the park with the school district and
we created a poster board and let all

1018
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:07,280
the people vote i think we ended up
having 56 people vote and that was the

1019
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:11,040
one that had the most votes
so that was pretty cool

1020
01:16:08,719 --> 01:16:11,040
great

1021
01:16:11,440 --> 01:16:17,520
so
i know this doesn't look like much here

1022
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:23,520
with the bleachers down at hathaway but
this is an absolute horrible project

1023
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:29,120
so these bleachers were falling apart it
was completely uneven and so we had this

1024
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:33,840
amazing contractor that came in
pulled these out got everything level

1025
01:16:31,199 --> 01:16:39,199
and poured the concrete slabs so right
now if you go down to hathaway you will

1026
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:43,360
see the concrete slabs but we are hoping
it needs to cure and then once it's done

1027
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:47,840
curing we'll be putting in these brand
new bleachers

1028
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:51,250
so that will really um you know be a
nice adder to the lower hathaway

1029
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:55,920
baseball field
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1030
01:16:53,520 --> 01:17:00,400
um let's see this is another really
interesting twist so

1031
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:04,640
will and i have been like just going
with the flow with everything that's

1032
01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:10,960
been happening lately but boy
finding vendors has been really tricky

1033
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:16,880
so we sent out a 120 pickleball court
resurfacing quote so that was almost

1034
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:20,320
every person on the mrsc nobody wanted
to bid on it so it was like what do we

1035
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:24,800
do
so we ended up the pickleball people we

1036
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:28,400
ended up working with this company
called house construction we talked to

1037
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:33,280
them
a lot about how to redo this um

1038
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:36,480
pickleball court so
um

1039
01:17:34,480 --> 01:17:41,600
i if just to remind everybody that we
got fifteen thousand dollars from the

1040
01:17:38,239 --> 01:17:47,760
pickleball club and then we also have
um kelly was your grant 15 000 i believe

1041
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:52,320
and i i want to say that they gave us
they were talking about giving us

1042
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:55,840
another thousand uh so it might be 16.
okay awesome so

1043
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:59,199
so the thing then that we were looking
at and kelly don't let me forget to talk

1044
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:04,080
about your grant that you just applied
for too oh yeah okay

1045
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:08,080
um so we ended up contacting the howell
construction they have come out they've

1046
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:12,719
taken a look at a courts and they have a
suggestion of doing this differently so

1047
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:15,679
just to remind everybody the resurfacing
of the court was going to last five

1048
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:19,679
years
so now the thing that we're looking at

1049
01:18:17,440 --> 01:18:24,800
doing is pulling all the forefoot
fencing fencing between the pickleball

1050
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:30,000
courts and the nuts out and ending up
putting in asphalt

1051
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:34,560
um over the top of the cir the court and
then we would be putting in then the

1052
01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:39,440
painting and designing of the pickleball
court over that

1053
01:18:36,159 --> 01:18:43,520
so with this new fix it cost about
thirty thousand dollars more but instead

1054
01:18:41,679 --> 01:18:47,040
of buying it's just five years it will
buy us 15 to 20 years

1055
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:50,320
so
um

1056
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:54,239
you know it's going to be a lot better
bang for our money

1057
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:58,480
if you want to talk about what the most
popular infrastructure is within the

1058
01:18:56,480 --> 01:19:02,800
parks it's pickleball there is no
question i don't know if you guys have

1059
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:07,120
driven it by at any time of the day
there's

1060
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:12,560
um a group like in line waiting to get
on the courts which is just amazing so

1061
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:17,760
so um
what jen has asked me to do our finance

1062
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:21,840
director is i'm going to get the quote
and the updated quote with the asphalt

1063
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:25,679
and then i'm going to submit it as a
decision package for to that well it'll

1064
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:29,120
probably be a supplemental maybe this
year

1065
01:19:26,480 --> 01:19:32,719
and then see if we can go ahead and do
this longer lasting fix for the

1066
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:37,360
pickleball courts
and then move forward with that so um i

1067
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:42,719
just wanted to make sure everybody knows
that we haven't stopped moving on this

1068
01:19:40,239 --> 01:19:46,080
another thing to note is september 11th
the pickleball court

1069
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:50,640
group is going to be having their
pickleball court events at

1070
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:56,239
the court
and we also will be installing august 26

1071
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:59,120
i think will correct me if i'm wrong um
the water fountain for the pickleball

1072
01:19:58,159 --> 01:20:03,920
courts
so there will be a water fountain kind

1073
01:20:01,199 --> 01:20:07,120
of out by the parking lot where they'll
be able to

1074
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:11,360
have water
so that's been something they've been

1075
01:20:08,719 --> 01:20:18,960
asking for for a long time so
nice

1076
01:20:13,199 --> 01:20:24,480
yeah so wow 55 slides okay
new grant yeah new grants

1077
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:30,320
let me talk about it or you
no i was gonna my my throats i've talked

1078
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:35,679
a lot oh okay so we had an opportunity
to apply for another grant through the

1079
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:39,840
clark county parks foundation uh kind of
like what we did for the pickleball

1080
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:47,040
courts and so we talked about it and we
decided to write one for lower hathaway

1081
01:20:42,639 --> 01:20:51,679
for a new uh slide structure um
the lower hathaway has brackets right

1082
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:56,320
now on the slide that are broken it's 20
years old so we can't even get

1083
01:20:53,440 --> 01:21:00,400
replacement parts for it dylan emailed
me i believe it was yesterday and said

1084
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:04,000
that the grant has been approved and
it's moving on to the fundraising

1085
01:21:02,719 --> 01:21:10,320
portion
so um so now we just wait and see uh and

1086
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:15,040
we wait till april is when it will be
announced um how much they did in their

1087
01:21:12,719 --> 01:21:19,520
fundraising and what they are able to
award to the projects so i i'm excited

1088
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:24,320
um
it just means that you know we will be

1089
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:28,560
able to get something i just don't know
how much they'll be able to fundraise so

1090
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:34,880
we'll have to wait and see i asked for
sixteen thousand

1091
01:21:30,639 --> 01:21:39,280
um so we'll see what what they say
it's exciting though hopefully we get a

1092
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:43,199
new slide down there
yeah the other thing just to note is

1093
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:48,400
east county little league might be
coming to the council meeting on monday

1094
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:52,800
and they will be talking about some
fundraising activities that they would

1095
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:57,040
like to do on the schmidt baseball field
again a property that is owned by the

1096
01:21:55,280 --> 01:22:02,159
school district
so again we would love to continue to

1097
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:08,000
promote their fundraising activities to
put new infrastructure into places but

1098
01:22:05,679 --> 01:22:12,960
we also have a baseball field that they
utilize down at lower hathaway

1099
01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:17,760
and lower hathaway park is something the
city owns so again if we can kind of see

1100
01:22:15,679 --> 01:22:22,560
if they're interested in just putting in
a playground that this could be an

1101
01:22:20,239 --> 01:22:25,679
awesome opportunity to have them you
know maybe especially now that they're

1102
01:22:24,480 --> 01:22:30,719
interested in
helping us fund the grant the park grant

1103
01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:30,719
great

1104
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:40,239
all right barb i'll hand it over to you
to round table

1105
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:45,199
okay yeah
so we can just uh go around the room and

1106
01:22:42,480 --> 01:22:48,719
see if anyone has anything additional uh
karen would you like to start

1107
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:57,840
um no that was wow thank you
a lot of information

1108
01:22:56,239 --> 01:23:02,719
um
i really it's really upsetting about the

1109
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:07,760
vandalism and i did do that little bit
of research but honestly i didn't learn

1110
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:11,440
anything new that will and michelle have
not already talked about

1111
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:15,920
the cameras
the community involvement all the stuff

1112
01:23:13,679 --> 01:23:19,880
you guys already know so
we'll we'll figure it out

1113
01:23:21,440 --> 01:23:26,800
thank you
uh rochelle do you have anything

1114
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,800
additional

1115
01:23:28,480 --> 01:23:34,239
two things one can we share this
information around and two can this

1116
01:23:32,719 --> 01:23:38,719
information get pushed to the city of
washington's social media i want

1117
01:23:37,199 --> 01:23:41,600
people to kind of see all the work that
the park

1118
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:43,920
community or park board and our
maintenance crew and everyone else has

1119
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:46,239
been doing
um

1120
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:49,920
i just was wondering if that was going
to get pushed out somewhere

1121
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:55,440
that's a
that's a great idea yeah um i sent my

1122
01:23:53,600 --> 01:24:00,000
presentation that i just gave to you
guys tonight to david and he was like

1123
01:23:58,480 --> 01:24:04,480
wow he goes the things you guys have
done he goes we need to work a lot just

1124
01:24:02,239 --> 01:24:08,880
to get that out on social media
so i i just send that out to him

1125
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:13,679
yesterday so i will get right on that
and see what we can do

1126
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:16,400
are you okay with us sharing some
information or you want to wait until it

1127
01:24:15,199 --> 01:24:21,840
gets on there
you know i'm okay i mean i i want to be

1128
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:26,639
as transparent as i mean we're city i
want to be transparent so really yeah

1129
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,880
okay with that
okay

1130
01:24:29,440 --> 01:24:31,840
that's it

1131
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:38,480
um
let's see

1132
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:43,280
who else uh will do you have anything
to add or

1133
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:48,080
um i do a little bit uh some some good
news for us in this covered year i care

1134
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:51,440
and you'll appreciate this tomorrow
barring anything else we're seeing the

1135
01:24:49,679 --> 01:24:56,159
corrections crew for the first time in
two years we'll be back in washoe and

1136
01:24:53,280 --> 01:25:00,560
we're going to start uh in kerr park
so uh hopefully i get them tomorrow

1137
01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:05,600
they're not there's a smaller crew than
before of course but uh hopefully i have

1138
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:09,600
them tomorrow and i have them three and
possibly four days next week as well and

1139
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:14,719
uh the intention is to keep them incur
the entire time barring any wind so

1140
01:25:12,719 --> 01:25:18,159
we'll see so
long time coming so hopefully that is

1141
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:22,480
something that continues and it sounds
like uh we there's a chance we'll get

1142
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:25,880
them every other week for a day or two
so we'll see

1143
01:25:29,679 --> 01:25:35,920
the gate
oh yeah we had a tree fall on that early

1144
01:25:34,239 --> 01:25:39,760
last winter i believe from the school
district property uh clobbered half that

1145
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:43,280
fence pretty good so that's going to be
repaired i believe next week

1146
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:50,639
and the trails the trails are still open
and though we maintain the trails um the

1147
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:54,480
estuary group i piled about 10 cubic
yards of

1148
01:25:52,239 --> 01:25:57,280
wood chips in there this week for the
group they're going to be doing this

1149
01:25:55,520 --> 01:26:00,960
fall again that's the north section of
the park they've got thousands of

1150
01:25:58,719 --> 01:26:04,960
plantings um for all all heights of the
canopy all native it's pretty amazing so

1151
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:08,080
they're excited about that they're going
to check it out tuesday i can get some

1152
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:12,159
more this is actually from my event that
happened in uh city camas so we're

1153
01:26:10,239 --> 01:26:15,679
getting some free wood chips
and uh looking forward to getting the

1154
01:26:14,239 --> 01:26:22,120
estuary group back in there and a little
more work done on uncur this fall so

1155
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:22,120
very nice

1156
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,920
um michelle wagner

1157
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:33,280
nope just uh totally blown away by all
the stuff you guys have been doing this

1158
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:37,040
year it's i've been sitting on this
board for a long time and

1159
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:41,679
the amount of stuff we've gotten done
this year is just amazing so thank you

1160
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:46,400
everybody kelly
will michelle amazing

1161
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:52,159
um i guess the moral of the story is you
work better when you don't see us live

1162
01:26:49,199 --> 01:26:56,000
in your hair or something like that
when you're left alone more no the

1163
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:58,239
public's not coming in all the time
right

1164
01:26:58,480 --> 01:27:04,880
yeah now this has been really amazing
we've had a lot of fun um i know

1165
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:08,639
michelle you've sent me some information
too about expanding recreation

1166
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:13,440
um
again i think kelly and i are trying to

1167
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:18,880
do as much as we can with our limited
resources but you know i would like to

1168
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:23,760
see some ways between you and rochelle
who sent me both people and

1169
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:28,800
it didn't happen for the fall
and i have to say you know the stats on

1170
01:27:26,480 --> 01:27:34,960
covet is kind of you know i feel like
what we're doing is perfect based on

1171
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:38,880
code still snakes sticking around so you
know eventually these are goals for the

1172
01:27:37,199 --> 01:27:43,040
future but i don't want either of you to
think that i'm not i haven't followed up

1173
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:45,840
on that yet so i just want to wait until
we kind of get

1174
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:51,360
it's some
balanced with covet

1175
01:27:48,639 --> 01:27:51,360
sounds good

1176
01:27:52,639 --> 01:27:57,760
do i have anything
um

1177
01:27:55,280 --> 01:28:02,400
i just again you know like everybody
else really excited about all of the

1178
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:05,520
changes and the things there's just
a ton of projects that have been

1179
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:09,760
completed
you know so many

1180
01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:14,719
new things going forward now with the
revenue that's coming in and the

1181
01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:18,880
opportunities for the recreation
um i just

1182
01:28:16,639 --> 01:28:24,960
again it's kind of overwhelming
but the opportunity to now get the

1183
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:31,360
outreach
i'm excited about that to be able to um

1184
01:28:28,639 --> 01:28:36,159
really communicate and get feedback
um as to what people are liking what

1185
01:28:34,239 --> 01:28:40,880
they're needing i think that's going to
go a long ways as well so

1186
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:44,080
yeah well you know we've learned a lot
too with these postcards that we just

1187
01:28:42,639 --> 01:28:47,360
send out
and that might be a good way to

1188
01:28:45,440 --> 01:28:50,880
communicate with the neighborhood with
the door knocker

1189
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:54,480
when we do kind of roll out the disc
golf so

1190
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:57,840
you know they can see what the new
course looks like and what we're doing i

1191
01:28:56,880 --> 01:29:02,560
think that's
a good way to

1192
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:06,719
reach out to everybody so
i mean i'm not ever going to make

1193
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:11,199
everybody happy but i can try
right

1194
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:16,159
hey we hit 50 we're doing good
yeah this is an exciting board to be on

1195
01:29:13,440 --> 01:29:22,880
now there's lots happening
yeah i know this is super great so

1196
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:27,679
i'm just um
the the difference that people are going

1197
01:29:25,120 --> 01:29:32,320
to see you know uh you know here with
another shutdown coming at us you know

1198
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:35,520
that we've heard for state of washington
and the

1199
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:39,679
the changes and stuff i just think that
it's going to

1200
01:29:37,199 --> 01:29:44,960
be an exciting time for people as we get
out and can actually get together

1201
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:48,560
um we might still have some challenges
with

1202
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:52,639
the meetings with some of the people and
stuff but i was just thinking at least

1203
01:29:50,639 --> 01:29:56,639
if we do it at a park
we've got outside and open spaces and

1204
01:29:55,040 --> 01:30:00,960
hopefully we can
um answer some of the questions so

1205
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:04,159
yeah that's it like you said
communication at least just

1206
01:30:02,639 --> 01:30:08,800
communicating and getting the
information out there will definitely

1207
01:30:06,480 --> 01:30:14,320
benefit us
and and having avery and the

1208
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:20,080
environmental people communicating maybe
even if it's just flyers or whatever to

1209
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:24,080
the people and whatnot you know um it
definitely would be better

1210
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:27,440
than how it went last time so yeah i'm
looking forward to that

1211
01:30:25,679 --> 01:30:32,400
yeah perfect
so one of the things we like to do next

1212
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:36,239
time is do our election and um i did
have one volunteer for president so i

1213
01:30:34,719 --> 01:30:41,280
just want to share this with everybody
so barb did raise her hand so

1214
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:45,280
when it comes around to elections um i
did have somebody raise their hand so

1215
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:49,480
thank you very much barb for doing
raising your hand and stepping

1216
01:30:49,520 --> 01:30:56,320
i uh like i say i'm excited about all
the things that are going on and um

1217
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:59,120
whatever i can do to help and
yeah

1218
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:03,040
love it
awesome yeah and hopefully we'll have a

1219
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:07,840
full board soon
yeah and i'm assuming we're going to

1220
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:10,480
approve the minutes from our last
meeting

1221
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:14,639
next
yes okay

1222
01:31:12,159 --> 01:31:17,679
and i don't think we have do you have
any

1223
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:21,040
public comment that's been brought to
you michelle

1224
01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:27,040
i don't do you michelle the only thing
that we do have a park email that folks

1225
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:30,400
can email to i haven't had an email in
there in like a month and the last one

1226
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:35,199
was about when
the disc golf was gonna open so i just

1227
01:31:32,560 --> 01:31:38,000
basically told him you know what we just
told you folks

1228
01:31:36,719 --> 01:31:42,639
um
so that's really been the only public

1229
01:31:40,159 --> 01:31:48,080
comment besides someone wanting to do a
memorial bench for one of the parks uh

1230
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:50,719
oh yeah that's really it's been pretty
quiet honestly

1231
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:54,880
yeah
um one other thing i would like to make

1232
01:31:53,040 --> 01:32:01,040
sure i note and it was a comment that
rochelle had and um i had reached out to

1233
01:31:58,480 --> 01:32:05,120
a lady named barbara ryder who is the
washoe lowell

1234
01:32:02,639 --> 01:32:09,280
um canvas westfield community garden
group

1235
01:32:06,159 --> 01:32:13,440
and it seems like our community garden
president which i've kind of quietly

1236
01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:18,000
named her because she started the
website

1237
01:32:14,719 --> 01:32:21,440
of the community garden is tia and so i
sent her the information because

1238
01:32:20,480 --> 01:32:25,040
um
we have a group that would like to bring

1239
01:32:23,199 --> 01:32:30,400
in some master gardening
classes to our garden and so i think she

1240
01:32:28,400 --> 01:32:34,239
was going to reach out and try to get
some schedule with the group

1241
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:38,560
but again
it's amazing they're talking to you

1242
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:43,280
about the garden group and it just seems
like people are helping each other you

1243
01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:47,840
know pick their weeds water their
gardens there's this little tag where if

1244
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:51,360
they want their gardens watered because
they can't make it that week that

1245
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:56,400
there's some sort of little notification
so other gardeners will help them with

1246
01:32:53,679 --> 01:33:00,800
it i have volunteer hours where people
are putting in two hours of volunteer

1247
01:32:58,400 --> 01:33:03,920
time a season and we've been tracking
that so

1248
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:09,520
you know we haven't even had to have our
crew actually go inside the garden to

1249
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:13,520
pull weeds and stuff and so
you know again that's kind of the whole

1250
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:17,520
community garden and that's what it's
there for i mean to have the kids go out

1251
01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:20,719
there and have their end of year party
in a barbecue

1252
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:26,719
and show their parents what they were
able to do with the gardener and that's

1253
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:31,040
that's where it's all about so
that's awesome

1254
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:35,040
so um i guess if you have any additional
agenda items or things that you have

1255
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:40,719
questions about be sure and send those
over to michelle

1256
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:47,520
and if there's not if
no one else has any further discussion

1257
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:51,199
i guess we'll wrap things up or
yeah and we don't necessarily need to

1258
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:56,719
adjourn like we do since we're just kind
of doing a check-in i will type up uh

1259
01:33:53,840 --> 01:34:01,199
these minutes um just so we you know can
reflect back on what we talked about and

1260
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:05,280
those that couldn't join us can kind of
see what we chatted about and then yeah

1261
01:34:03,440 --> 01:34:08,960
we'll meet next month and hopefully have
a have a quorum

1262
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:13,280
and as soon as i get this switched out
to a pdf i will send the powerpoint to

1263
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:19,360
everybody so
perfect and then the next meeting would

1264
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:22,159
be september 16th is that correct yes
yes

1265
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:27,520
okay so we need to get that marked on
our calendars so yeah yep so that would

1266
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:33,280
be great so yeah i will send it out i
will get things put on social media too

1267
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:38,400
and then as always if anybody has any
questions i love karen's emails so

1268
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:43,600
please send me what's going on out there
and i will be very responsive because i

1269
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:47,920
am going to tell karen that the reason
we still have a park bench is because

1270
01:34:45,360 --> 01:34:50,239
you told us in time and we grabbed it
thank you

1271
01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:59,480
awesome
all right thank you guys have a good

1272
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:59,480
night all right bye bye

1273
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:02,880
you