[0:13] great
[0:28] foreign
[0:35] ah
where am i
[0:44] hi everyone
[0:49] i've never worked on a presentation
right up to the minute the meeting was
[0:53] going to start so
is there anything wrong let me know
[1:02] did those um items get set michelle
i sent you the agenda and since i just
[1:09] updated the presentation i'll share my
screen and then after the meeting i will
[1:13] send the most up-to-date one
okay perfect i was gonna grab the agenda
[1:19] real quick so i'll be right back perfect
[1:29] so um just so everybody is aware i think
going into this meeting we know we don't
[1:34] have a quorum
and so um just because we didn't meet
[1:38] last month and we thought it would be a
really good idea just to kind of show
[1:42] what we've been working on and where
what kind of things are happening in the
[1:46] parks
so we won't be able to vote or make any
[1:51] decisions and definitely involve
everybody and just talk about what's
[1:55] going on and then maybe save a little
bit of time for a round table so we can
[1:59] kind of talk about what you guys would
like to see next for our next park board
[2:03] meeting
so with that i will hand it over to barb
[2:08] okay and i apologize but um the meeting
or the agenda still hasn't shown up for
[2:14] me
i'm sorry
[2:17] that's okay no that's okay um but we'll
go ahead and get started so it's three
[2:21] o'clock and i'd like to call the august
19th um meeting of the washington parks
[2:25] board
um to order
[2:28] and can we get roll call
yes
[2:33] barb
yes
[2:37] and myra is absent
as is quentin
[2:42] [Music]
um rochelle
[2:45] yes
[Music]
[2:51] karen here
[2:54] and then will is just joining us now
[3:01] let me admit them real quick okay um
sorry about that uh
[3:07] michelle wagner
here
[3:10] and then i am here as well as michelle
wright we have our new management
[3:15] analyst joining us devin
um is with us today and then so is will
[3:20] noonan
and it's
[3:23] sorry it's devin mcdowell my apologies
thank you
[3:27] and
um
[3:29] michelle because i don't have the agenda
in front of me um i'm assuming you want
[3:33] to start off with um your presentation
yes that sounds great i was just okay
[3:40] my slides are i have 55 slides so i
promise i will not spend a lot of time
[3:45] on them and but as we're going through
them please everybody just stop me if
[3:50] there's anything you want to talk about
um kelly if you could um just let me
[3:55] know if somebody raises their hands
because i can't see that in the
[3:58] presentation that would be awesome
so um as always and one other thing i'd
[4:04] just like to note is because we don't
have a quorum our next meeting barb has
[4:09] been nice enough to step in as president
for us
[4:13] um so
um i talked to rose
[4:17] and she is going to be looking through
the applications for the park board
[4:22] members
and then um we will hopefully bring on
[4:26] another park board member and then have
elections next month so that's kind of
[4:31] what i'm hoping
um is the plan so
[4:35] perfect
okay so um basically this is the park
[4:40] maintenance budget we're at
49.85 percent
[4:45] um again we're a little lower than we
typically are around this time a couple
[4:50] things are
in play here
[4:53] schmidt and baseball field is under
construction so we are not watering this
[4:58] midfield so
our utilities are a little bit down and
[5:02] also we have had um
some issues hiring seasonal so
[5:07] we are not fully staffed so that's
another reason why we are a little bit
[5:12] lower than typical on that number
[5:17] um so i just wanted to share with
everybody that
[5:20] our summer was really successful with
our skyhawks and soccer um shots we
[5:26] ended up having up having about 30 camps
we come to find out basketball was
[5:33] so popular that we tried to find a new
location that actually have the
[5:37] basketball
um camp because
[5:41] our we only have half court basketball
so we tried to move it over to jim
[5:45] degard
we just didn't have enough time to do
[5:48] the paperwork to actually have it at gym
to guard so we did go ahead and have it
[5:52] at oak tree
but we ended up having about 16 kids
[5:57] sign up for the basketball camp so that
was pretty awesome
[6:00] i just received a check from soccer
shops and so basically with the spring
[6:06] camp and the summer camp we've ended up
making about four thousand dollars with
[6:10] soccer shops
and then sky hawks will probably be
[6:14] bringing in about six thousand dollars
um with the camps that we had this
[6:18] summer so it was a very successful so
i'm excited to see what fall is going to
[6:24] bring us
michelle how much was the basketball
[6:27] again sorry
um so the basketball we ended up having
[6:32] 16
is kind of the extent on what they have
[6:35] want to have for kids
specifically
[6:39] one of the things we tried to do with
jump to guard is when we we called the
[6:43] school
we had to fill out a facility rental
[6:46] agreement
and they also were going to charge us 20
[6:49] dollars
an hour to rent the facility
[6:53] which
is was about 600
[6:56] and honestly that would have been just
fine for us to rent it because
[7:01] um the amount that we would have made
off of that class was 636 dollars so it
[7:06] would have been a wash which is fine
again we're not into the camps to make
[7:11] money but
we weren't able to get the insurance
[7:15] that we needed
we needed to have
[7:18] kelly was it the insurance in our name
or in the school district's name yeah
[7:23] they wanted us to name them as an
insured and we just are not able to do
[7:30] that wcaa will not allow us to name a
third party
[7:36] so
yeah
[7:38] so so i think it's going to take a
little bit more investigation for us to
[7:42] see if next summer if we want to utilize
some of the school facilities
[7:47] and start working on that in april i
know they're working on hiring a
[7:51] recreation person um at washable school
district so once that person starts
[7:57] and we'll have a
contact that we'll be able to meet with
[8:00] a lot to kind of talk about what they'd
like to see for the recreation program
[8:04] and
how we can help them build their program
[8:07] so
um
[8:10] whoever lives in the washington area
might have got a postcard which is super
[8:14] exciting so one of the things since we
aren't in the school year yet we wanted
[8:20] to have everybody still see our
recreation guide
[8:23] so if you click with your phone on this
little icon right here you can actually
[8:28] pull up our recreation guide
it was an amazing um pretty inexpensive
[8:34] opportunity for us to get out to
everybody and it also helped us where we
[8:39] can send and create this while we were
still working on our guide
[8:43] because it takes a lot of work to try to
get all the you know logistics figured
[8:48] out for each field and
working with skyhawk soccer shots and
[8:53] anybody else who wanted to put in
information
[8:57] i know east county little league would
also like to advertise in our next
[9:02] edition
because that will actually work nicely
[9:05] with their when their league starts up
again so
[9:09] hopefully our our
thing will just continue to grow but
[9:13] yeah this postcard was a really awesome
opportunity and pretty inexpensive way
[9:18] to get out to a lot of citizens
[9:23] um so one of the things that we had
talked about in our last meeting was
[9:27] looking at the ambassador um kind of
what the
[9:30] city of camas has done
and so city of camas actually sends me
[9:35] what their ambassador program is the
responsibility is overseeing and
[9:39] protection of
of something considered worth caring for
[9:43] and preserving which is the parks so um
this is kind of what city of campus has
[9:49] for their roles we're visiting parks at
least once a week to enjoy and observe
[9:54] the key is to enjoy your park observe
what users are enjoying
[9:58] speak with park users if you are
comfortable
[10:01] and email your observations to park and
recreation
[10:05] staff so
karen was really good about letting me
[10:09] know that
somebody had cried off our brand new
[10:13] [Music]
bench at hathaway and thrown it into the
[10:17] forest so
unfortunately i was able to contact will
[10:21] and we were able to at least have the
bench put back into her op shard
[10:26] but you know again that's kind of the
beauty of the ambassadors because i mean
[10:31] i don't think if karen wouldn't have let
us know it might have got stolen or
[10:34] something else might have happened to it
so
[10:38] so one of the things i would like to do
when we have a larger meeting maybe is
[10:42] to take a look and see if everybody
likes these roles and if there's
[10:47] anything we want to expand on
if this works for washu
[10:52] and then kind of just make our
ambassador what works best for us
[11:00] sounds good
and here is the group i can't believe
[11:05] how wonderful this turned out so
everybody got to pick the park that they
[11:10] would like
and so it just ended up that everybody
[11:14] kind of lives by the parks and so this
is how the ambassador roles turned out
[11:19] again i'll kind of type it up more
formally in a memo once we decide what
[11:23] we would like those roles to be so
[11:29] are there any more assignments yet to
happen or is everyone on there already
[11:35] well um karen is an
overachiever here so she's got quite a
[11:40] few parks under her um her list i get
out a lot
[11:46] so you know and again this has been this
amazing for us because she's gone in and
[11:51] saw some stuff that's really helped us
so we can grab it before
[11:55] lost it but
um you know i don't want to push anybody
[12:00] to take more than you know one park and
i'd like to see how this works
[12:05] um so the parks that don't actually have
people's names on we're kind of just as
[12:10] a group internally checking them a
little bit more often
[12:15] michelle i still do a cleanup crew at
sandy swim hole
[12:19] so i don't mind putting my name on that
one too just because i'm usually there
[12:23] once every couple weeks anyway oh
awesome okay i will update that after
[12:27] okay
thank you
[12:29] yeah
[12:33] okay again this is a topic that i'm
going to roll over to our meeting when
[12:38] we are fully staffed
with the park board but basically we
[12:43] have talked about adopting a park
and we
[12:48] kind of vetted the idea
early on and basically adopting a park
[12:54] is
a great way to make a difference in the
[12:57] community i mean this program provides
many different ways for local families
[13:01] and businesses to get involved and have
ownership on that specific park
[13:06] and so
i have always loved this model and
[13:11] tigard had a limited program on adopt a
park but it was more adopt the streets
[13:16] but i would really like to take the same
concept and bring it into our park so
[13:22] um i can send everybody out kind of the
full write-up of what i've done on the
[13:27] adopt-a-park and i know that we can't
make any official decisions at this
[13:31] meeting because we don't have a quorum
but um
[13:35] you know again i just kind of like to
get maybe what everybody's thoughts are
[13:39] on something like this
and
[13:44] i can say i did that little bit of
research about vandalism and how other
[13:49] communities are
dealing with vandalism and this is the
[13:54] one thing that kept popping up is to get
the community involved in ways like this
[13:59] so
you read my mind
[14:04] well the next slide is going to be
totally appropriate then
[14:08] because you get to see what has happened
to our perks lately
[14:12] so so this slide again i'll bring back
and i'll send kind of the entire write
[14:17] up of what i've done on the adopt the
park and then that gives everybody an
[14:22] opportunity to look at it for the next
month
[14:25] and then let me know if you have any
changes and then it sounds like if park
[14:30] board is good and adopts the adopt a
park then i can move it forward to
[14:35] council and then i can get more formal
action from council to see what their
[14:39] thoughts are on that
[14:43] so the reason these programs are so
wonderful is because these are recent
[14:48] pictures
and so we had a hit and run
[14:53] completely on our porta potty
and right after we finished putting the
[14:57] graffiti
stuff on down lower hathaway we ended up
[15:01] getting this tag
and then somebody tried to steal the
[15:05] top of our elizabeth park
picnic table so
[15:10] again very disappointing because we have
been working really hard on trying to do
[15:14] some really awesome things
so um
[15:19] you know i think security cameras i'm
gonna try to see if i can put that into
[15:23] the 2022 budget or if we have additional
dollars left over this year i'm gonna
[15:29] see how much cameras might be at least
in the places that are getting tagged
[15:33] the most
hathaway has been hit pretty hard i
[15:36] think i talked to will this morning and
there
[15:39] somebody
i think will correct me if i'm wrong but
[15:43] i think somebody spray painted some of
our new tables at hathaway um that are
[15:48] our portable tables
um
[15:51] they're not portable they're the in
place we got some hit uh lower halfway
[15:56] furthest to the west so it's not real
high viz
[15:59] uh we're going to try out it's been
those are the new tables they're
[16:02] permanently mounted they've been powder
coated we're going to try some new paint
[16:05] see if we can
fix them because this is probably going
[16:08] to be something that's reoccurring and
then uh our parks employee actually ran
[16:13] off some kids two days ago an upper half
away that we're doing some damage again
[16:16] to some permanently mounted picnic
tables so it's been they've kept us very
[16:20] busy i'm surprised hathaway gets so much
when it has all those houses lining
[16:26] right there and those people have been
very vocal about
[16:30] pickleball ball noise and stuff over the
years i'm surprised people aren't
[16:34] seeing and reporting stuff that's
interesting it is interesting that to
[16:39] schultz see there that when they got
they tried to set that on fire
[16:43] they repaired it and then serviced it
the next night they drug it
[16:48] into the middle of the parking lot and
ran it over with a truck or something
[16:52] um i don't know what's going on
yeah it's just super discouraging and
[16:58] the first day that we actually put this
port-a-potty the one laying in the
[17:02] parking lot um in the cat the lock was
cut off the first night
[17:07] so michelle
maybe in the meantime um we can put
[17:12] signs up even if we don't have cameras
saying it's monitored by cameras that's
[17:18] a good idea it's a cheap solution i mean
is there any legal implications of
[17:22] saying you're doing something that
you're not
[17:24] yeah there are we've done that at other
places and people use it as a safety net
[17:29] um we had some dummy cameras down in the
tunnel when it first went up and we had
[17:34] some bad things happen and someone got
robbed or something like that and she
[17:37] says no the city's got all that on
camera it was a dummy camera it was
[17:41] meant to discourage people and there was
no footage to go back on so it gives
[17:44] people a very false sense of security
with the cameras that
[17:49] are
signed to be up but don't actually exist
[17:52] don't actually function can't record so
we can't actually do that and to get
[17:56] right
how about a fine sign then a sign that
[18:00] says
uh for whatever the the vandalism um
[18:04] fines are now
put up
[18:07] just something you know until we get
them into that yeah
[18:12] yeah and you know will just told me that
story about the tunnel after i had
[18:16] posted signs that say there's cameras
down at low
[18:20] because i was so frustrated and i
haven't removed them yet but my plan is
[18:24] to remove the signs so it does say it
michelle we're on the same way oh all
[18:28] right all right yeah that's a great idea
yeah i figured there was some reason why
[18:32] we couldn't put them up though as a
liability yep it is unfortunately
[18:37] yeah so
we're just going to say 500 fine or
[18:41] whatever it is then maybe we can get
away with those
[18:45] yeah and you know again if the budget
continues to have additional savings
[18:50] that's one of the first things i would
like to do is just at least have quotes
[18:54] ready so we can buy it and i think i
would start
[18:58] would you start with lower hathaway
would that be your first choice and then
[19:02] upper half away or vice versa
lower gets it more just because it's out
[19:07] of out of sight
yeah
[19:10] michelle
can you again the total you made on this
[19:14] summer programming was what amount um i
think it's gonna come in about ten
[19:19] thousand dollars wow that is amazing um
can't
[19:24] some of that be utilized for these or no
it definitely can um one of the things
[19:30] that i'm trying to do is because there's
some added expense like printing
[19:34] postcards
so that the postcards only ended up
[19:38] costing about two thousand dollars
for the fall but again you know the
[19:43] revenue for recreation is definitely um
a lot more so than we had anticipated so
[19:50] i am sure our finance director would
allow us to utilize that money to start
[19:54] you know putting in cameras and doing
other things i mean she's been amazingly
[19:58] supportive about you know anti-graffiti
and getting some of our restrooms
[20:02] cleaned up
so i would just kind of like to keep up
[20:05] the momentum and especially you know i
hate to think we have to repaint
[20:09] everything each year because of all the
vandalism that happens that would just
[20:13] be heartbreaking so yeah
all right thank you
[20:17] yep
so um again i just would like to kind of
[20:21] shout out to everybody i mean this is
amazing stuff this jump to guard trail
[20:25] if anybody ever gets to have a chance to
go out there it's it's beautiful this is
[20:30] the bridge
um out there and again i'm just gonna
[20:34] continue to give everybody a little um
probing on we need no more maintenance
[20:39] crew
so you know we just installed this and
[20:42] the weeds are already starting to cover
the bridge and again we just don't have
[20:46] people to go in and trim back the weeds
so
[20:51] you know it's going to be a battle that
we have until we get maintenance figured
[20:54] out
well don't worry we we go there often
[20:58] and my husband always brings his
clippers and we clip those weeds so
[21:02] we're working on it
thank you karen i know it's like right
[21:06] before the school starts and i would
like to at least kick them back enough
[21:10] so the kids aren't gonna you know okay
but thank you karen yeah here you're an
[21:16] amazing
advocate for parks so
[21:20] um i really wish i had more information
on steamboat landing um uh you know it's
[21:26] kind of just in limbo right now and so i
do know that there's some people meeting
[21:30] about it and i should have more
information and our next part board
[21:33] meeting is the goal so
i just i i want to make sure i keep
[21:38] these slides on here so when i do have
something i will make sure i report it
[21:42] to you
uh if anybody has time to go out to
[21:46] schmidt baseball field there is a lot of
really awesome stuff happening there so
[21:50] they have poured the brit or the
sidewalk and
[21:54] got all the lighting installed and i
think the restrooms
[21:59] will correct me if i'm wrong i know i
just paid for the meter set for the
[22:04] realm tech
restrooms i think they might be arriving
[22:07] next week
yeah i believe so it's a wrong text so
[22:11] it's a prefab unit
i know the sewer is in
[22:14] um but the units i believe arrive next
week here correct
[22:18] yeah so
um again i have a lot more stuff to talk
[22:22] about for baseball fields we've been
trying to get together with the
[22:26] washington school district and
i know that east county little league
[22:30] wants to do some fundraising
we need to kind of figure out what that
[22:35] looks like this still is property we do
not own so i'd like to say that very
[22:40] clearly because that does kind of add a
wrinkle into everything because if we
[22:45] are to do anything on this property we
have to open up the interlocal agreement
[22:49] again
to add anything else that we do on this
[22:53] property
um
[22:55] the other thing is i talked to camis
parks director probably weekly
[23:01] and they're working on their pros plan
and so one of the things that they're
[23:05] looking at doing is setting up field um
maintenance fee costs
[23:10] and they've already started working with
their sports leagues to talk to them
[23:14] about stuff like that so
um
[23:17] you know in our next meeting i would
really like to kind of talk about what
[23:20] everybody's thoughts are around that
and what we would like to see
[23:26] again just looking at the water bills
for
[23:29] the summer that we actually had the two
fields up and running it was around ten
[23:33] thousand dollars
so bringing on another field in
[23:37] restrooms we're gonna have some pretty
big sticker shock
[23:42] but it looks beautiful that was the
point of the slide
[23:45] who does own it
uh the school district
[23:50] okay
yeah
[23:51] [Music]
um camden creek uh i was hoping
[23:57] construction will start this fall i
meant to at least update that so um
[24:04] we've this project has been going back
and forth so um i i had taken it on done
[24:11] some research and found that i can bring
in a kind of a wood bridge and actually
[24:15] replace it by this fall and the wood
bridge construction for removing it and
[24:21] the construction was going to be about
60 000 to do
[24:26] um i
i'm working with our engineer department
[24:29] to see if that's the right fix and so
i'm still not sure if
[24:35] if i'm going to be able to move forward
with my plan or if
[24:38] we're going to have a different type of
bridge there so
[24:41] as i learn more i'll let you know
but
[24:45] i was hoping to get a fix in there
sooner than later because it's really
[24:48] hard to get around there
and the other thing that will be
[24:52] happening there is these trees um are
going to be cut down september
[24:58] 24th i think and so basically this will
do this will really at least get any
[25:03] type of bridge ready to come in here and
i'll get these things off
[25:07] they're leaning on the bridge right now
so
[25:13] all right so
um
[25:15] i don't i don't think i ever shared this
um slide so um
[25:21] i think the last time we had missed i
was going to create this and show it to
[25:24] everybody but um we've been looking for
a permanent dog park currently we have
[25:28] 0.33 acres behind city hall
one of the reasons this area is so
[25:35] interesting to look at for a dog park
is because it's got the railroad and
[25:41] you're not disturbing a lot of neighbors
with a dog park so it kind of seemed
[25:44] like it was well suited for this area
um
[25:48] [Music]
i wanted to share kind of what the dog
[25:51] features could be and share my
experience with a
[25:55] dog park i built similarly in tigard and
so these pictures kind of show you what
[26:01] the tiger park looked like
the tigard park was .29 acres
[26:06] and i can tell you it was downtown in
tigard it's called um ash
[26:12] wait
yeah i think it's called ash avenue dog
[26:15] park and so one of the things that if
you ever get a chance to go out and look
[26:20] at it it is an amazing park and it
always had probably about 20
[26:24] dogs in there so it was always busy and
the biggest issue with this was parking
[26:29] because it was such a popular park
michelle there's no issue
[26:34] of that being a park parking lot in the
future along the tracks there
[26:39] well
let me click into my next screen so
[26:43] basically
yeah so um again i just wanted to kind
[26:47] of share some of the justification we
did for the tiger park i mean we had the
[26:51] most amazing dog park halloween costumes
um you know it was affordable
[26:57] and again the biggest problem we're
going to have with the dog park is being
[27:01] able to have the land and actually
having the um parking space because
[27:07] you know everything else we probably can
do
[27:10] so i kind of came up with the cost and
this is my new puppy i just want to
[27:14] introduce him
[27:18] he's super cool
if you have any dog names let me know
[27:24] or oh looks like a viking or something
yes oh that's cute michelle i've had to
[27:31] do it sorry
so cute
[27:34] so um the fencing is going to be about
15 to 20 thousand dollars um the dog
[27:39] park features are usually around 15 to
20. um you know putting in sidewalks
[27:44] bark chips water fountains and signage i
see i think we could build a dog park
[27:50] where that it would be right there fifty
to seventy thousand
[27:54] please note city hall parking lot needs
to be planned first so i put that in
[27:58] extra big writing so everybody is aware
that that
[28:02] you know
i i think kathy's got a dog too
[28:07] cute see dogs they're so fun
so you know
[28:12] i
i like the property because it's
[28:14] property we already own and i think the
only way that we can do this in the next
[28:19] few years um financially probably is to
look at things we already own
[28:24] so um
you know i think we're going to have
[28:27] more discussion on
the parking lot
[28:31] just to give everybody kind of an update
um i met
[28:36] tuesday with the camas um parks
department dog paw in washington
[28:42] campus has a couple of thoughts on dog
park options all their dog park options
[28:48] are like way out in the future
we've still been talking a lot about
[28:52] goop park but that still comes with a
lot of different issues um that canvas
[28:57] would have to deal with and so
you know the reality of that
[29:02] you know we've been talking about that
for quite a few years so i'm not sure if
[29:06] that would happen
um when we finished with our meeting
[29:09] with dog paw we decided that our next
step should probably be with meeting
[29:13] with um
canvas parks washington parks and the
[29:16] port and see what kind of properties
they have out there and if there's any
[29:21] other interest than what we've already
looked at in the past
[29:25] you know that port one is one i'm just
thinking about it seeing it there
[29:30] with all the housing they're planning
there between killians and potentially
[29:35] the port development with the different
housing
[29:39] they're gonna want stuff for their um
people that are renting over there yeah
[29:44] i mean there could be thousands of
people over there when a lot of them are
[29:48] gonna have pets uh it's definitely
something
[29:51] um we should approach the the porch and
uh poured about and maybe even
[29:57] well killian's pretty much designed out
all their stuff um
[30:02] but
we need to do that for sure
[30:05] yeah so we're gonna try to meet with the
port in the next two weeks because that
[30:09] was kind of our thought too with all
those condos
[30:12] yeah
some space and you know they have a lot
[30:15] more open lands um over there now
and so if there was a time to do that
[30:21] that would be now so
and there's been a lot of negotiations
[30:26] about um the nine bark park and who's
going to be the owner of that
[30:31] so i'm sure there'll be more to come on
that
[30:34] and and we gave our little bit of land
to that whole deal to make that happen
[30:39] too i hope people don't forget about
that
[30:42] no
we will remember michelle okay
[30:47] so the other thing we've been working on
is the bpa lines again
[30:52] that seems like an awesome opportunity
because that's land that can't be used
[30:55] so we've kind of visually gone up and
down the land looking at gis mapping and
[31:01] seeing what kind of things we could do
but then you run into parking issues and
[31:05] neighborhoods so
it's not quite as easy as you know you
[31:09] would hope
and the other thing is schmidt family
[31:13] park you know that's
i'm a little concerned with schmidt i'll
[31:17] be honest because
it seems like if we were to move forward
[31:23] on this one soon we have rco
grant opportunities in 2022 and if we
[31:30] missed that window to do anything um
grant wise we won't have another
[31:35] opportunity until the 2024.
and rco is probably the only way that we
[31:41] will be able to
do any development
[31:45] mid family park
so
[31:48] um this schmidt family park i mean if we
were to try to hit the rco grant process
[31:54] in 2022 we'd really need to start
working on our master plan tomorrow
[32:00] so
i i thought the dog option was out at
[32:04] schmidt especially lower uh
schmidt because
[32:10] because of the different grant
requirements
[32:14] um so
david scott and i talked about this
[32:19] yesterday and so we think that any
requirements were going to be tied to
[32:25] the park conservation grant that we
received
[32:28] so right now i'm looking for that
application and
[32:32] seeing what kind of restrictions there
was on that grant because that would be
[32:36] the one that would have
[32:40] you know had those type of restrictions
we need
[32:43] so i'm also going to review the rco
grant for that too just to verify so
[32:48] once i get some more information on that
it's just kind of digging in and
[32:52] figuring out
um so one of the things i wanted to find
[32:55] out from the park board is
where would you like us to start going
[33:00] with all of this i mean i kind of have
given several scenarios
[33:04] and i think this is something that we
all know
[33:08] all citizens have put pretty high on
their priority list of wanting to have
[33:12] so
i want to chase ideas but i want to
[33:15] chase ideas that the park board likes
[33:22] i want the cheapest option i know i'm
not a board member but
[33:26] that's what i want
[33:30] michelle
i go ahead no go ahead go ahead
[33:34] i was gonna say i was gonna mimic
michelle the cheapest but also the
[33:38] quickest that we could get something
done um the only reason i keep pushing
[33:41] the lot behind city hall is i look at
our downtown area and it's we just lost
[33:46] another business down there and i think
if we had a dog park in our new library
[33:50] in reflection plaza
it would be more walking traffic in that
[33:55] area and maybe we could get some more
businesses down there or the current
[33:59] businesses to stay open or reopen
and so that's why i pushed that one and
[34:04] i look at it too is land we already own
and a vacant lot that trash just gets
[34:08] dumped on
and i just think making it into
[34:12] something like we did the community
guarded with would revitalize downtown
[34:16] yeah no
i like that um and if anybody was going
[34:20] on a field trip sometime to walla walla
let me tell you they handled covid
[34:25] amazingly they have blocked downtown
roads and made like these new courtyards
[34:31] on the side roads where people can sit
and have wine it's amazing what they did
[34:36] i have pictures so if anybody wants to
see what walla walla did it's amazing
[34:41] yeah that would be great
yeah i was just going to say that i
[34:45] thought the 0.33 acres was too small
but now that you've introduced the
[34:52] 0.29 acres at ash avenue park
and that's the most popular park well i
[34:59] i need to rethink how i view the 0.33
acres because now it does seem like
[35:04] maybe it really is viable
yeah it you know it was just so well
[35:08] designed and i don't
try to recreate the wheel because again
[35:12] there was always right they kept it
clean it wasn't a muddy mess you know
[35:17] they had this little concrete area with
you know
[35:20] um michelle and i rochelle and i were
thinking on the same lines they have
[35:24] some really awesome fountains
um you know to clean dogs as they go in
[35:29] and out and
yeah i mean you can really make a dog
[35:33] park pretty nice and classy and
you know again finding one that you're
[35:38] not going to destroy neighbors is super
hard yeah
[35:42] i i like uh yeah i mean i like that
location as well especially
[35:48] making that downtown area as dense as we
can to bring people down there and get
[35:53] things going as long as um you know
we're not going to get kicked out of
[35:56] there because um
you know
[36:00] we we owe parking to the library or the
expansion of the uh campus there or the
[36:06] city hall
yeah
[36:09] as long as as uh we're good to go in
that spot i'm definitely for that
[36:14] yeah i can definitely keep working on
our and i mean i think it's probably
[36:18] worth um you know after the park board
kind of votes and says they like me to
[36:24] send it forward i can also see because
again i would like counsel
[36:28] to
you know
[36:30] over you know take a look at this and
see what their thoughts are
[36:34] and you know again if it's something
that everybody's super passionate about
[36:38] and if it's is you know just coming up
with a parking plan i mean let's
[36:44] how much would it be to design the
parking lot just to at least have a
[36:47] general idea
should we go ahead and pitch that at the
[36:52] same time get a cost or is that i assume
that's outside the park
[36:56] department but maybe that would help
sway
[36:59] some decision makers
[37:03] you know
i mean i don't think the council is
[37:06] going to oppose it it's just that we've
always been told that
[37:11] you know it's it's going to be utilized
for something else and it would be
[37:14] temporary so i mean
that's going to come more from
[37:20] management
yeah and the city planners uh but i i
[37:24] don't think there's a problem with
buying from the council
[37:27] okay
yeah i mean again i don't know how much
[37:31] a design cost would be just for to
design the parking lot by no means build
[37:35] it but i think if you just had a general
design and everybody was happy with the
[37:40] design
and it wasn't going to cut into that .33
[37:44] acres
i mean
[37:46] does your plan allow for parking along
the tracks in addition to the park or
[37:52] would that negate all the parking along
there
[37:55] um there's street side parking
but
[37:59] i've seen some really amazing parking
plans that have worked
[38:04] on the current parking
footprint we have
[38:08] so
you know again if it's
[38:12] if we could take all those plans that we
have looked at and then maybe see if we
[38:17] could have them actually designed and
come up with you know something council
[38:22] would like
or a campus parking lot then you know
[38:26] maybe that's the ticket and then just
have it in our pocket knowing that
[38:30] that's what we'll build when we can
afford to do that
[38:34] yeah i mean and if you can sell it that
i would think a lot of people use those
[38:38] parks before and after work
that parking could be utilized you know
[38:44] when maybe a lot of the city employees
have gone home
[38:47] um
you know if they're concerned about
[38:51] parking
yeah and let me tell you that dog pot is
[38:55] so excited so honestly the maintenance
would be so minimum they want to take
[39:01] care of the dog bags they'll take care
of bringing in bart ships the volunteers
[39:06] they they said that they have
over 400 hours a month
[39:11] of volunteers on all the dog parks in
the area and so
[39:16] you know there's just a lot of really
awesome momentum that we could get with
[39:20] the dog park so
[39:23] so that's dog park stuff
and so we have a guest tonight too so i
[39:29] have kathy here
let's see
[39:32] oh do i still have kathy
[39:38] so
they went crazy
[39:42] so one of the things that kathy has been
talking to us about is
[39:48] having some rock painting and
it just seems like a rock painting
[39:53] garden would go hand in hand and so i
have asked her to send me some of these
[39:58] amazing pictures of some of the arts
that kids have made with the
[40:03] rock painting
and
[40:06] one other little side note i ate about
the community garden we have the um
[40:11] daycare candies daycare right up the
street that has two garden plots
[40:16] and they're going to have an end of
season party so um that should they're
[40:21] thinking that the party was going to be
sometime in september the first part of
[40:24] september
and so one of the things i would like to
[40:28] do is maybe have some of our little
gardeners become
[40:32] utilize the maybe
garden the painting of the rocks so
[40:37] um so cathy is there anything you would
like to add
[40:40] well i know we're excited
to put something together
[40:45] and um
and i think i mentioned you michelle to
[40:49] have the garden outside the fence where
people can walk by and see it and
[40:55] put rocks in it
instead of having to have a key to go
[40:59] inside
so right here is kind of a picture of
[41:02] what um kathy was thinking and then
in these little garden beds right here
[41:09] um
the only thing that i was thinking is if
[41:12] we were to continue with maybe the metal
garden beds like we have inside just for
[41:16] maintenance issues even though these are
very beautiful they're sometimes
[41:21] decomposed and with being wood so
can you can those be layered or tapered
[41:30] um they have all sorts of really in
really nice ones so i can send a few
[41:36] examples to you of the metal ones
okay
[41:40] because my thought was just to be able
to get a real good view of the different
[41:44] rocks
the beds weren't layered
[41:50] but yes that's
whatever
[41:55] uh you guys want to do we are willing to
do it and help
[41:59] and i do have the benches and the table
that we had donated
[42:06] um so people can sit
outside and eat the table i thought the
[42:11] kids could
paint rocks come young with their family
[42:16] clean up the little table and then put
their rock there
[42:20] gotcha
so
[42:22] um i probably will bring this back at
the next one
[42:26] we don't have a forum to make decisions
but for sure i will keep this and we
[42:32] will move it forward
and another thought we had was to have
[42:37] hopefully before maybe in september
is have a painting in the plaza
[42:43] to start collecting some rocks
so to have kids come
[42:48] they could paint a rock to take home and
paint a rock to donate
[42:52] and then we'll just kind of hang on to
the rocks until
[42:55] we have an opening and then we'll have
rocks to put inside
[43:00] so
that was it was a thought
[43:05] thank you kathy cool thank you for
having me
[43:09] well kind of along that same line as
we've been putting out birdhouses
[43:14] everywhere so we've had a lot of really
great um artists in our washable area
[43:21] and so the community garden and
elizabeth park
[43:24] both have uh kelly where else did you
put them did we go kerr part two
[43:30] no
because i
[43:33] so i read about how you hang them on
trees and you can't just nail them into
[43:39] the tree because you will damage said
tree and you're supposed to use rope and
[43:45] hang them or whatever so i did not do
that
[43:49] and i thought also too i can't really
get to said trees in kerr park because
[43:54] of all of the ivy and the blackberries
i'm sure karen can attest to it's pretty
[43:59] tall in there
um
[44:01] so i did put them up at
upper half away there are some along the
[44:06] fence line so when you drive down to
lower hathaway and look up you see them
[44:11] they face out towards the river
um not towards the park because i
[44:16] figured birds would use them better that
way there's only a few up there and then
[44:21] i put quite a few in elizabeth park
along the back fence wall where there's
[44:26] ivy and stuff
um there's the neighbors on the other
[44:30] side have a pretty high fence as well as
ours so i figured that'd be a good spot
[44:36] and then we hung quite a few at the
community garden i noticed that there
[44:41] are a few more that just kind of
appeared in the garage
[44:46] so i thought if we wanted to we could
even hang some at heartwood throughout
[44:52] the park um using that rope method that
i was talking about
[44:57] yeah now that that sounds awesome so
yeah again i would like to kind of do a
[45:02] little thank you out to the kids and
take a picture of all the places we put
[45:07] them so they can see where their art is
located so yeah we've got a lot of
[45:11] compliments on them even from kids you
know they just think they're pretty cool
[45:15] and to know that they've come from other
kids i think kind of adds to that
[45:20] yep for sure
who gave i was going to ask who paints
[45:24] those
um i think it's the high school kids
[45:28] yeah um so one of the art teachers um
is having the kids paint them and then
[45:34] they bring them in so yeah i think is
how it worked was the supplies were
[45:39] donated to them and they created them
and what not kind of like as a project
[45:44] and painted them and then submitted them
back to us yeah and i think rose went
[45:49] and picked them up from the school
well if you ever wanted to do a project
[45:54] like that where kids paint them the
paint roller would love to do that for
[45:59] the kids awesome
yeah i would have a big paint party with
[46:04] painting those and then
have them set up and they can go and
[46:06] look at it
through the year or whatever
[46:10] yeah love it
so kathy you might recognize this oh yes
[46:15] yes i'm excited yes
so um we
[46:19] um i don't know if everybody remembers
but last year we bought a movie screen
[46:23] for our park and recreation program and
then with covid and we haven't really
[46:28] had the opportunity to use our
recreation
[46:31] movies
so um
[46:34] we have had our first movie which was
july kelly kathy oh uh
[46:41] um it's the 18th i think july 18th i
believe somewhere around there yeah so
[46:47] we have another movie um this saturday
and the movie will be beethoven
[46:53] that's it
okay and then september 18th will be the
[46:58] last movie for the season
no they moved it i'm sorry it's
[47:01] september 25th
oh okay
[47:06] yeah paul wanted to just move it one
saturday and yeah so we're going to just
[47:10] go ahead and do that for you guys for
yeah
[47:13] and i think it's because of the
advertisement i think so yeah yeah
[47:18] so again this has just been an awesome
opportunity i think we had kelly's been
[47:23] working the first one about did you say
25 people
[47:28] yeah 20 to 25 people and it was a good
uh mixture half and half of kids and um
[47:33] adults and it was cute the girl scouts
did a little skit before the movie
[47:38] started and kathy uh did the popcorn and
whatnot and um
[47:43] i think everybody really enjoyed it it
was a good time and it was a really nice
[47:46] evening yes and the girl scouts will be
back
[47:50] saturday asked him if they would do a
skit so they're gonna so be more planned
[47:56] so they're gonna do a skit because we
can't have cartoons
[47:59] right i always had cartoons before movie
so um and then corona ice is coming
[48:04] again
yeah
[48:08] yeah this has been wonderful so and then
just to let everybody know our movie
[48:12] screen has been double
double dipping and so canvas borrowed
[48:16] our movie screen our movie projector
because there's broke so it was really
[48:21] nice to share with canvas
we're doing a lot of different
[48:25] sharing with events and different things
coming up in the future so this is
[48:29] really exciting this new relationship we
have with canvas so
[48:34] yes well i'm excited well i've got to
leave you guys because i have another
[48:39] meeting okay bye kathy thanks kathy
thank you so much
[48:44] nice to meet everyone and kelly i'll see
you saturday saturday
[48:48] and michelle
uh uh all michelle
[48:52] i'll see you later
thank you again and
[48:56] i will leave
thank you
[48:59] you're
welcome
[49:02] all right so for a park board we have um
the park impact fee coming up it's going
[49:07] to be on monday night so we'll be kind
of determining um the last workshop of
[49:14] where we are with the rates
um just so everybody knows we kind of
[49:18] have a big difference between planning
commission and council and where the
[49:22] rates should be
so
[49:25] um
this i'm not sure if i had shena park
[49:28] boards this kind of schematics before
but right here washable is about 1 550
[49:35] where every other city except woodland
is above us
[49:39] we have not increased our rate for 14
years so it definitely needs to be
[49:43] increased
the question is by how much and that's
[49:47] kind of what we have been talking about
um this is what we landed on as far as
[49:54] the staff recommendations we kind of had
to find a middle ground between what
[49:59] council was hoping to see and what the
planning commission
[50:03] again it's not quite the best middle
place but
[50:07] somebody had to like
at least pick something and so this is
[50:11] what we'll be presenting so we'll kind
of be sharing the feedback that we got
[50:14] from the planning commission we'll be
sharing the feedback we've got from
[50:17] council
um our consultants will be there on
[50:21] monday night and then this will prepare
us for the
[50:24] park impact hearing which will be
september 13th
[50:29] i just have to add the council wanting
to keep it commensurate with the other
[50:34] cities
and the planning commission wanting to
[50:36] keep it a little lower
yes thank you michelle that's all right
[50:44] so
yeah so it you know it'll be very
[50:46] interesting to see how my day goes but
um you know i'm excited no matter what
[50:51] we can only go up from here so
i know that
[50:58] um so a lot of questions about the disc
golf course so we've had some really
[51:02] exciting things start happening
this gentleman right here avery jenkins
[51:07] he's from this gulf park
it's a professional company
[51:11] he's got an amazing portfolio i can send
everybody if they'd like to see it kind
[51:16] of the parks he's designed in the past
most of the parks that he has designed
[51:21] have been like a hundred thousand dollar
disc golf parks
[51:24] our budget was like way smaller so
um basically what he's going to be doing
[51:30] is coming in and taking a look at our
entire course
[51:34] finding um what a safe course looks like
for us and then making sure that
[51:40] all our signs and everything are very
well directing so we can have people go
[51:45] know exactly what pad goes to which
disc golf basket
[51:51] and so
i'm really excited about this whole
[51:54] process and again i think avery is going
to be great to work with
[51:58] once we get the the design of the course
from avery i'm hoping that i'll be able
[52:04] to bring that to the council or to the
park board and have you guys review it
[52:09] and then along with that design comes an
environmental study so i need to have
[52:16] the design before i can meet with the
environmental groups because they can't
[52:20] really determine anything unless they
know what we're planning on doing so
[52:25] that's kind of the order how all of this
has transpired um
[52:30] a perfect world would have the disc golf
course built by um october and also just
[52:36] so everybody knows that this golf is no
longer going to be
[52:40] 18 holes it will be nine
so again with kind of our current
[52:44] footprint and the less impact to the
park we are going to land on nine
[52:50] um michelle i have a question i it's
because i haven't really been
[52:55] engaged with the the um engagement has
there been engagement with the community
[53:01] member or members that were opposed to
this
[53:05] is it
is that
[53:07] why this is shrinking and
were there initially uh post put up and
[53:13] then taken down or have the ones that
were there
[53:16] stayed there
um all great questions so the
[53:21] there's um
six baskets that have actually been
[53:24] installed the bathroom will be able to
be pulled out
[53:28] and re-um submitted wherever we find
the best design happens the other thing
[53:34] is the foundations were kind of
so we just have boxes with gravel out
[53:39] there right now for each of the pads
the goal is to move those once the
[53:45] designer comes in
and determines where they best are
[53:48] suited
and then
[53:50] we have a contractor that will pour the
pads and
[53:54] we'll probably have to go through a
little bit of a super review and
[53:58] all the permitting process
um along
[54:01] in this process so
um we have a lot of property that is no
[54:07] longer designated as wetlands
just because
[54:11] you know things change after it's been
10 to 15 years
[54:15] so i walked around with them for quite a
long time to kind of take a look at the
[54:19] entire property
and again we want to do what's you know
[54:24] respecting the land and making sure that
we find a course that works well for the
[54:29] neighbors and for the disc golf
community
[54:33] so that's that's our goal in this whole
process
[54:37] so and it had had our intentions always
been to have a designer or
[54:42] initially it wasn't and then we got this
little bit of a push back
[54:47] and then that's how the designer came
along
[54:50] um it just happened so fast i i
i didn't know that whole
[54:56] so we had um somebody who came in and
had um
[55:01] done a lot of disc golf courses and so
basically um kind of stepping back and
[55:07] looking at it we probably should have
gone the professional designer right
[55:12] away
doing what we ended up doing
[55:15] again there was a lot of lessons learned
through this process
[55:19] um
yeah a lot of things i would truly do
[55:22] different on this project um you know
but
[55:26] we are where we are and um we're going
to make it a nine hole it's you know we
[55:32] had over 200 people up at heartwood over
a weekend um wanting to play disc golf
[55:37] so i think again it's another driver for
the community and
[55:42] you know bringing people to our
community
[55:45] so and so the person complaining do they
know about the changed plans and are
[55:50] they happy with what's going on so we
don't actually have a plan yet until
[55:55] avery comes out which should be in the
next week or so and then he is also
[55:59] doing some outreach in his contract to
meet with the neighbors and
[56:04] propose what we're planning on doing
okay i mean yeah i mean we don't
[56:09] do flips because one person's unhappy
but i you know they seem like they were
[56:15] starting to organize against it so
that'll be nice if we
[56:19] engage them
yeah
[56:22] other thing it was a perfect storm with
the bridge closing yeah yeah
[56:27] so
michelle i was going to comment too i've
[56:31] asked um i'm trying to locate or figure
out who the president or who the person
[56:38] is within those neighborhood
associations
[56:43] heartwood and eldridge so that then we
can do a meet in the park or some sort
[56:48] of an update
to let them know some of the things that
[56:52] they do have questions on so that will
be a good way to outreach yep and i've
[56:56] already got all the contacts and i've
reached out
[56:59] several times so i will get that to us
so we can start planning um i might even
[57:06] you know just because you're part of the
heart would park and
[57:10] maybe have you and karen
it was karen on the heartwood park too
[57:15] she was on every park
you were michelle oh dear
[57:20] okay you and i as the ambassadors and
will probably um you know
[57:25] meet with avery and then that way we can
work with the community the
[57:29] neighborhoods with him on that so
yeah perfect i think they would be um
[57:34] very pleased to be able to
have that information firsthand some
[57:39] input and be able to see what direction
it's going and awesome yeah i think so
[57:44] too so i mean it's going to be a great
project so
[57:48] um one of the things that i'm hoping to
take to council in the next
[57:52] couple council meetings is all the
before and after things that we've done
[57:56] within our parks and we're right now
working on adopting our budget and doing
[58:02] some pmp
projects that are going into council so
[58:06] i haven't been able to get in the
council schedule yet
[58:09] but again we've done a lot of really
great things and
[58:14] so this is just some of the examples so
we have this is our memorial bench we
[58:19] also have one already installed and it
just turned i mean it's just absolutely
[58:23] beautiful
um we have a lot of our benches
[58:26] installed except the one that they
pulled out of the park which was sad
[58:31] um
i'm gonna be sending you guys some
[58:34] updates on like a cemetery stuff um
we're going to be doing some changing
[58:39] within kind of
our our maintenance group
[58:43] so i'm hoping that we can utilize some
of our maintenance staff up at the
[58:47] cemetery and have them help us out with
the parks a little bit it's all general
[58:52] fund it's all one group
so
[58:55] again i'm just trying to utilize our
resources the best we can so
[59:01] you know we have
both resources for both cemetery and the
[59:05] parks
[59:07] and the reason i'm showing this fence is
because i was looking at the man hours
[59:12] it took us to paint sand this down and
repainted each year and we now have a
[59:17] vinyl fence so i at least earned several
hours out of the cemetery to get back
[59:21] that person back in park so
[59:26] so again
kind of keeping with the signage and
[59:30] making everything all clean and looking
the same within the cemetery too so
[59:36] um we've done some amazing things thank
you rochelle with reflection plaza so
[59:42] this was um one of the parks that
rochelle
[59:46] is ambassador for and we did a cleanup
and um
[59:50] it really turned out absolutely amazing
so again we had lots of weeds this is
[59:54] the rose bushes before we cleaned them
up but this is what it looks like now
[59:59] so it just turned out amazing there's
lights that light up the gazebo which we
[1:00:04] dug down and put rocks around because i
didn't even know that those lights were
[1:00:07] there so that was pretty exciting
again just some more before and after
[1:00:12] pictures our roses were kind of at the
end of their lives so we have new fresh
[1:00:17] roses in there
[1:00:20] and
just more before and after pictures
[1:00:25] and so we also had grass along this area
um we put in bark dust and
[1:00:31] ornamental grasses
and so on monday we are going to have
[1:00:36] concrete poured right in this area and
put in two more benches for sitting area
[1:00:42] and then our water fountain for the dog
is now working so again this whole
[1:00:48] project was super fun to do
and it just turned out beautifully so
[1:00:53] so thank you everybody for your help
uh community garden again i just kind of
[1:00:59] wanted to like show the before and after
of where we were with the community
[1:01:03] garden i know there has been a lot of
things coming up on next door and some
[1:01:08] different things
one of the things that i think is really
[1:01:11] important to remember on this community
garden is when we purchased this goal
[1:01:16] was to be a downtown park we had gone
after a grant
[1:01:20] and so this has been part of the
transportation
[1:01:24] future development and this has always
been earmarked to be a park
[1:01:28] and instead of having this lot set empty
we ended up doing some work to make it
[1:01:33] into a community garden
and the community garden actual
[1:01:38] cost
just because the getting cost has come
[1:01:41] up a lot on this garden
um we ended up adding a playground which
[1:01:47] again it would have been a vacant lot
possibly where you know transients would
[1:01:51] be living and you know not being used to
the way it is being used now
[1:01:58] and it also has been beneficial because
the community is being able to grow and
[1:02:04] plant plants and you know have
healthy fruits and vegetables
[1:02:09] you know just again as a community that
could really use you know this type of
[1:02:13] garden so
um you know
[1:02:16] not everybody's gonna love the project
but there are so many good reasons why a
[1:02:22] community garden is so important to a
community and
[1:02:27] i'm super happy with what what has
transpired so
[1:02:31] um yeah
is i i just want to mention real quick
[1:02:34] michelle um that we have had a community
uh a family in the community contact the
[1:02:40] city
and they are proposing to put a memorial
[1:02:45] bench it's going to be
the same bench that michelle just showed
[1:02:49] pictures of that's actually installed at
the cemetery it has the memorial
[1:02:54] um laser cut into the back of the bench
and they're proposing to put that
[1:03:00] outside of the community garden because
their family owned the building across
[1:03:04] the street and it used to be a ballet
center back in the day
[1:03:08] so we should be seeing that application
shortly the family pays for the bench
[1:03:14] and
we order it from buell and then um our
[1:03:18] city staff will just install it when it
comes so that's something to look
[1:03:21] forward to
what what are the prices of those
[1:03:25] benches again and you said they are
standardized correct yeah yeah and it's
[1:03:30] about i believe it's about two thousand
dollars i think
[1:03:33] it was oh fourteen hundred dollars for
the bench is that what it was yeah i i
[1:03:38] think it was a little bit more though
because the single the shipping kind of
[1:03:41] jacked up a little bit unfortunately uh
so this will be kind of the same deal so
[1:03:46] it should be right around there
was this was that the new thing that
[1:03:51] we had kind of started under with
suzanne uh that package of naming things
[1:03:56] or has this always been in the code
so
[1:04:00] suzanne kind of started something up at
the cemetery to where they could do
[1:04:05] planters and benches uh and then they've
done like concrete benches in the past
[1:04:10] but um when michelle came on instead of
doing the standard concrete benches with
[1:04:15] the small memorial plaque we kind of
went more with the metal bench
[1:04:19] okay you know i mean i like it don't get
me yeah wear and tear i've been pushing
[1:04:23] for for a long time i was just wondering
where in the code or what document it
[1:04:29] explains all this is it in the cemetery
one then or the parks no michelle
[1:04:34] actually created a new document for
parks and cemeteries so it's a joint
[1:04:40] document for uh donations and it
proposes bench or tree you know whatever
[1:04:46] you would like to donate and then it
does come in for approval and then we
[1:04:51] invoice them for the cost of whatever um
and yeah
[1:04:55] beautiful okay it's got the um pictures
on the application so you clearly see
[1:05:01] what you know the items look like so
again that's that makes it a lot easier
[1:05:05] because
um i think hathaway is probably the best
[1:05:08] example of kind of a mishmash of a lot
of different things
[1:05:12] so
um you know again it just kind of
[1:05:15] standardizes it and
[1:05:20] great yeah and they they turn out nice
uh the one up at the cemetery is in the
[1:05:25] scatter garden if y'all would like to um
look at that uh feel free to stop by it
[1:05:31] does take a few months to order them and
everything um rachelle did you have a
[1:05:35] question or a statement it did design a
community garden two questions and and
[1:05:39] could we budget maybe next year for to
put a fence on when you're looking at
[1:05:43] the playground on the left so it
separates
[1:05:45] those houses from the playground so
people on the playground don't feel like
[1:05:49] they're intrusive to those
any other way around
[1:05:53] and then my second thought is when we're
looking at the community garden on the
[1:05:56] right outside the fence as we've
probably heard there's a lot of people
[1:06:00] who would love
free gardens and i know it comes with
[1:06:03] that and i know the problems we've had
in the past but maybe if it wasn't too
[1:06:07] expensive we could put a few garden beds
on the outside there that those that pay
[1:06:11] for a lot like if i have extra tomato
seeds or whatever i just kind of grow
[1:06:16] something over there and it's for anyone
in the community to go and pick
[1:06:19] something or
have at it and not have to pay to be in
[1:06:23] the garden but those that participate in
the garden kind of have a
[1:06:27] commitment that we would maintain that
as well
[1:06:30] it's not a bad idea it might cut down on
some of the
[1:06:33] vegetable the you know stealing and
whatnot as well you know i mean it
[1:06:38] happens regardless of of where the
garden is we had that in the past right
[1:06:42] so that might help with that
it's a good idea so kelly if you
[1:06:46] remember we had some
um garden boxes that weren't the same
[1:06:51] size as the rest of them and i think it
was about six of them we were gonna
[1:06:55] replace
and then we could reuse the other ones
[1:06:58] and put them out
in that area that rochelle's talking
[1:07:02] about
and i'd like to address the fence issue
[1:07:05] i love the fence issue the only thing
that i would put there though is a split
[1:07:09] rail the reason being is because
the
[1:07:13] neighbors
are i mean it's like right along their
[1:07:17] deck is where our property ends and so
they'd almost walk right into a fence
[1:07:23] because we did talk about that but i
think delineating the space and actually
[1:07:28] having a little bit more of the split
rail on our property so it's not making
[1:07:33] them feel like
they just stepped right out the door and
[1:07:37] there's a
city so
[1:07:39] i know exactly what you're saying but
when we looked at it it was like oh man
[1:07:43] yeah i figured there was a reason but i
thought i would ask and yeah if we have
[1:07:47] any spare garden beds that we could put
on the outside of the fence i mean i'll
[1:07:52] help wherever possible of course
yes thank well
[1:07:55] there will be some pictures of split
rail fences here shortly too so i tell
[1:08:00] you what i
might look nice so
[1:08:03] um this one is like a true improvement
story so sandy swimming hole just looks
[1:08:09] absolutely hideous so i mean it had
deteriorated at rust
[1:08:13] so i was so happy how the painting ended
up turning out so i don't know if
[1:08:18] anybody's gone out there to take a look
but this is also anti-graffiti paint
[1:08:22] so
we're definitely testing that
[1:08:25] anti-graffiti um
power to make sure we can wipe down
[1:08:29] these things but
so far we've been pretty successful um i
[1:08:33] think
upper hathaway inside was tagged and we
[1:08:37] had a little bit of trouble getting the
graffiti off but the guy who helped
[1:08:41] paint everything ended up coming out and
helping us with something so we were
[1:08:45] able to get that graffiti off so
yeah that's amazing you can't even tell
[1:08:49] it's the same building
yeah i was super happy with that so
[1:08:54] again just more before and after
pictures i mean this is what the
[1:08:57] bathroom looked like this is what it
looks like now and then if everybody
[1:09:01] remembers this is where the homeless
were living because we had the vents and
[1:09:05] now we have full doors so
it's just beautiful so um the before and
[1:09:12] after pictures of the upper hathaway we
had
[1:09:15] moss and
gutters dripping right in front of the
[1:09:19] doors
now we have a clean fresh
[1:09:23] bathroom so it just turned out really
nice
[1:09:28] again just some more pictures of the
tables and new signage that we have so
[1:09:33] um i have to say the one of the funniest
things was um i had a cemetery board
[1:09:38] meeting and mickey looked at our signs
and she
[1:09:40] she was like well i didn't know we had
this one rule on there and kelly's like
[1:09:44] yeah it's always been on there and she's
like well our signs were so faded you
[1:09:48] couldn't even see what the sign said
so again it was time to switch out our
[1:09:54] signs so at least now you can kind of
see some of the rules and regulations
[1:10:00] um here is some pictures of hathaway um
park after it got painted the barn is
[1:10:06] now a little bit brighter or darker
burgundy
[1:10:09] and this is as of today so this is part
of our
[1:10:14] disc golf course we wanted to make sure
that everybody
[1:10:17] we had a split rail fence up there so
the playground is a little bit protected
[1:10:22] and so we'll also have some other safety
items put in place but
[1:10:27] this just turned out so beautiful
because it fits with the barn
[1:10:32] and the playground theme so that's
that's as of today
[1:10:37] probably two hours ago
nice
[1:10:40] so so i think michelle that way or
michelle that would be a really nice um
[1:10:45] thing to maybe do
that you had mentioned and it's pretty
[1:10:48] inexpensive which is
yeah that would be nice
[1:10:52] nice for both sides
[1:10:56] uh again just some more improvements
that we've done and all of this is
[1:11:02] things that you have all seen but um i
would like to this is all our before and
[1:11:06] afters for um council so they can see
i've been trying to do the best i can to
[1:11:11] document everything that we have done
so the merry-go-round is new the swings
[1:11:16] are new
that porta potty is just fine hasn't
[1:11:19] been ran over
[1:11:23] again the
hamlet park
[1:11:26] bathrooms will be changing a little bit
i haven't taken a picture since they
[1:11:30] painted the roof
but the roof is no longer red so it's
[1:11:34] kind of all
the darker gray color and then all the
[1:11:37] walls are one color so it's no longer
looks like this inside
[1:11:44] steamboat landing
again the waterfront trail is now
[1:11:48] complete so
it's beautiful if you get a chance to go
[1:11:52] and walk it it's it just turned out
awesome
[1:11:55] and then this is
before and after pictures of steamboat
[1:11:59] landing so we painted the doors and got
those cleaned up too
[1:12:04] and the waterfront trail they've got the
picnic tables benches out
[1:12:09] i think they have a black iron fence
right now out here now that they put in
[1:12:13] i haven't been out there since but
um the trail is amazing
[1:12:18] one of the things that chemists and what
should well and the port are all trying
[1:12:23] to do is
um we're trying to gear all our special
[1:12:26] events so they complement each other and
the port is wanting to do some sort of
[1:12:32] scavenger hunt around the holidays on
our waterfront trail to get people to
[1:12:37] utilize it
so as i learn about
[1:12:40] these events and as we meet on a regular
basis with the other directors of parks
[1:12:46] i will make sure i bring that
information
[1:12:49] and also make sure i invite
um the you know the our our co-op groups
[1:12:55] to come to these meetings and talk about
some of the things that we're trying to
[1:12:58] do
but we would like to work with the
[1:13:01] chamber and have kind of like you know
you can watch christmas ships you can do
[1:13:06] a scavenger hunt on our waterfront trail
um canvas will be doing a tree lighting
[1:13:12] on this night
um washable will be doing a tree
[1:13:15] lighting on this night and when our
parade is
[1:13:19] and also i just recently learned that
our parade is the only parade christmas
[1:13:23] parade um in this area so that was kind
of cool too so
[1:13:31] um
kelly and i are going to be swamped here
[1:13:34] shortly so
um we will be getting our grant money
[1:13:38] for the cdbg so we are going to be
starting on getting everything out for
[1:13:43] hamlet
so based on everything i am really
[1:13:48] kicking myself i wish this basketball
court was a full court based on
[1:13:53] especially the camps
and all the
[1:13:56] needs we've been having for a full court
but i think this is going to be an
[1:14:00] absolute beautiful half court
um
[1:14:04] i'm going to do minimum replacement of
some of the
[1:14:08] bike park parts just so again they're
safe and we can make sure that they're
[1:14:12] not overlapped like this one
and this is the playground that was
[1:14:18] picked
so we've got everything ready to go so
[1:14:21] as soon as the money is awarded we will
go ahead and start ordering on this
[1:14:26] playground
and this is a overview of the playground
[1:14:32] so we have swings um and other really
cute elements
[1:14:37] within the playground
looks great michelle is there going to
[1:14:41] be any money left over for trees
on the perimeter of this park
[1:14:46] you know i think we're going to be
pretty good i think we will probably be
[1:14:50] able to do the trees um i bought some
trees that we've been keeping in opp's
[1:14:55] yard
that i would like to do after we've done
[1:14:58] the construction plant the trees but
just because we've had such hot weather
[1:15:03] i'm kind of protecting them and yeah
yeah
[1:15:06] we keep them safe until the fall and
then we'll start planting them in the
[1:15:09] fall
i'm really excited about this park those
[1:15:13] folks deserve a good park on that part
of on that side of town there's nothing
[1:15:17] over there that's nice
yeah yep so um we're hoping to maybe um
[1:15:23] take down the community shed the the red
one because it's it's kind of falling
[1:15:28] apart and there's nothing in it anymore
so we're going to take that down
[1:15:32] so we can get ready for construction and
then there's the dirt from the bike park
[1:15:38] and we will be removing that here
shortly too and getting that ready so
[1:15:43] the park will be all prepped and ready
to go as soon as we can start ordering
[1:15:46] stuff so
[1:15:49] yeah and the community actually voted on
that playground rose had a spanish night
[1:15:55] at the park with the school district and
we created a poster board and let all
[1:15:59] the people vote i think we ended up
having 56 people vote and that was the
[1:16:04] one that had the most votes
so that was pretty cool
[1:16:08] great
[1:16:11] so
i know this doesn't look like much here
[1:16:14] with the bleachers down at hathaway but
this is an absolute horrible project
[1:16:20] so these bleachers were falling apart it
was completely uneven and so we had this
[1:16:26] amazing contractor that came in
pulled these out got everything level
[1:16:31] and poured the concrete slabs so right
now if you go down to hathaway you will
[1:16:35] see the concrete slabs but we are hoping
it needs to cure and then once it's done
[1:16:41] curing we'll be putting in these brand
new bleachers
[1:16:45] so that will really um you know be a
nice adder to the lower hathaway
[1:16:50] baseball field
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[1:16:53] um let's see this is another really
interesting twist so
[1:16:58] will and i have been like just going
with the flow with everything that's
[1:17:02] been happening lately but boy
finding vendors has been really tricky
[1:17:06] so we sent out a 120 pickleball court
resurfacing quote so that was almost
[1:17:13] every person on the mrsc nobody wanted
to bid on it so it was like what do we
[1:17:19] do
so we ended up the pickleball people we
[1:17:23] ended up working with this company
called house construction we talked to
[1:17:27] them
a lot about how to redo this um
[1:17:30] pickleball court so
um
[1:17:34] i if just to remind everybody that we
got fifteen thousand dollars from the
[1:17:38] pickleball club and then we also have
um kelly was your grant 15 000 i believe
[1:17:45] and i i want to say that they gave us
they were talking about giving us
[1:17:48] another thousand uh so it might be 16.
okay awesome so
[1:17:54] so the thing then that we were looking
at and kelly don't let me forget to talk
[1:17:57] about your grant that you just applied
for too oh yeah okay
[1:18:01] um so we ended up contacting the howell
construction they have come out they've
[1:18:05] taken a look at a courts and they have a
suggestion of doing this differently so
[1:18:10] just to remind everybody the resurfacing
of the court was going to last five
[1:18:14] years
so now the thing that we're looking at
[1:18:17] doing is pulling all the forefoot
fencing fencing between the pickleball
[1:18:22] courts and the nuts out and ending up
putting in asphalt
[1:18:26] um over the top of the cir the court and
then we would be putting in then the
[1:18:32] painting and designing of the pickleball
court over that
[1:18:36] so with this new fix it cost about
thirty thousand dollars more but instead
[1:18:41] of buying it's just five years it will
buy us 15 to 20 years
[1:18:46] so
um
[1:18:48] you know it's going to be a lot better
bang for our money
[1:18:52] if you want to talk about what the most
popular infrastructure is within the
[1:18:56] parks it's pickleball there is no
question i don't know if you guys have
[1:19:00] driven it by at any time of the day
there's
[1:19:04] um a group like in line waiting to get
on the courts which is just amazing so
[1:19:11] so um
what jen has asked me to do our finance
[1:19:14] director is i'm going to get the quote
and the updated quote with the asphalt
[1:19:20] and then i'm going to submit it as a
decision package for to that well it'll
[1:19:23] probably be a supplemental maybe this
year
[1:19:26] and then see if we can go ahead and do
this longer lasting fix for the
[1:19:30] pickleball courts
and then move forward with that so um i
[1:19:35] just wanted to make sure everybody knows
that we haven't stopped moving on this
[1:19:40] another thing to note is september 11th
the pickleball court
[1:19:44] group is going to be having their
pickleball court events at
[1:19:49] the court
and we also will be installing august 26
[1:19:54] i think will correct me if i'm wrong um
the water fountain for the pickleball
[1:19:58] courts
so there will be a water fountain kind
[1:20:01] of out by the parking lot where they'll
be able to
[1:20:05] have water
so that's been something they've been
[1:20:08] asking for for a long time so
nice
[1:20:13] yeah so wow 55 slides okay
new grant yeah new grants
[1:20:22] let me talk about it or you
no i was gonna my my throats i've talked
[1:20:26] a lot oh okay so we had an opportunity
to apply for another grant through the
[1:20:33] clark county parks foundation uh kind of
like what we did for the pickleball
[1:20:37] courts and so we talked about it and we
decided to write one for lower hathaway
[1:20:42] for a new uh slide structure um
the lower hathaway has brackets right
[1:20:49] now on the slide that are broken it's 20
years old so we can't even get
[1:20:53] replacement parts for it dylan emailed
me i believe it was yesterday and said
[1:20:58] that the grant has been approved and
it's moving on to the fundraising
[1:21:02] portion
so um so now we just wait and see uh and
[1:21:07] we wait till april is when it will be
announced um how much they did in their
[1:21:12] fundraising and what they are able to
award to the projects so i i'm excited
[1:21:18] um
it just means that you know we will be
[1:21:21] able to get something i just don't know
how much they'll be able to fundraise so
[1:21:26] we'll have to wait and see i asked for
sixteen thousand
[1:21:30] um so we'll see what what they say
it's exciting though hopefully we get a
[1:21:36] new slide down there
yeah the other thing just to note is
[1:21:41] east county little league might be
coming to the council meeting on monday
[1:21:46] and they will be talking about some
fundraising activities that they would
[1:21:50] like to do on the schmidt baseball field
again a property that is owned by the
[1:21:55] school district
so again we would love to continue to
[1:22:00] promote their fundraising activities to
put new infrastructure into places but
[1:22:05] we also have a baseball field that they
utilize down at lower hathaway
[1:22:10] and lower hathaway park is something the
city owns so again if we can kind of see
[1:22:15] if they're interested in just putting in
a playground that this could be an
[1:22:20] awesome opportunity to have them you
know maybe especially now that they're
[1:22:24] interested in
helping us fund the grant the park grant
[1:22:28] great
[1:22:34] all right barb i'll hand it over to you
to round table
[1:22:37] okay yeah
so we can just uh go around the room and
[1:22:42] see if anyone has anything additional uh
karen would you like to start
[1:22:50] um no that was wow thank you
a lot of information
[1:22:56] um
i really it's really upsetting about the
[1:23:00] vandalism and i did do that little bit
of research but honestly i didn't learn
[1:23:05] anything new that will and michelle have
not already talked about
[1:23:09] the cameras
the community involvement all the stuff
[1:23:13] you guys already know so
we'll we'll figure it out
[1:23:21] thank you
uh rochelle do you have anything
[1:23:24] additional
[1:23:28] two things one can we share this
information around and two can this
[1:23:32] information get pushed to the city of
washington's social media i want
[1:23:37] people to kind of see all the work that
the park
[1:23:39] community or park board and our
maintenance crew and everyone else has
[1:23:42] been doing
um
[1:23:44] i just was wondering if that was going
to get pushed out somewhere
[1:23:48] that's a
that's a great idea yeah um i sent my
[1:23:53] presentation that i just gave to you
guys tonight to david and he was like
[1:23:58] wow he goes the things you guys have
done he goes we need to work a lot just
[1:24:02] to get that out on social media
so i i just send that out to him
[1:24:06] yesterday so i will get right on that
and see what we can do
[1:24:12] are you okay with us sharing some
information or you want to wait until it
[1:24:15] gets on there
you know i'm okay i mean i i want to be
[1:24:19] as transparent as i mean we're city i
want to be transparent so really yeah
[1:24:24] okay with that
okay
[1:24:29] that's it
[1:24:32] um
let's see
[1:24:34] who else uh will do you have anything
to add or
[1:24:40] um i do a little bit uh some some good
news for us in this covered year i care
[1:24:45] and you'll appreciate this tomorrow
barring anything else we're seeing the
[1:24:49] corrections crew for the first time in
two years we'll be back in washoe and
[1:24:53] we're going to start uh in kerr park
so uh hopefully i get them tomorrow
[1:24:58] they're not there's a smaller crew than
before of course but uh hopefully i have
[1:25:03] them tomorrow and i have them three and
possibly four days next week as well and
[1:25:07] uh the intention is to keep them incur
the entire time barring any wind so
[1:25:12] we'll see so
long time coming so hopefully that is
[1:25:16] something that continues and it sounds
like uh we there's a chance we'll get
[1:25:20] them every other week for a day or two
so we'll see
[1:25:29] the gate
oh yeah we had a tree fall on that early
[1:25:34] last winter i believe from the school
district property uh clobbered half that
[1:25:38] fence pretty good so that's going to be
repaired i believe next week
[1:25:43] and the trails the trails are still open
and though we maintain the trails um the
[1:25:47] estuary group i piled about 10 cubic
yards of
[1:25:52] wood chips in there this week for the
group they're going to be doing this
[1:25:55] fall again that's the north section of
the park they've got thousands of
[1:25:58] plantings um for all all heights of the
canopy all native it's pretty amazing so
[1:26:03] they're excited about that they're going
to check it out tuesday i can get some
[1:26:06] more this is actually from my event that
happened in uh city camas so we're
[1:26:10] getting some free wood chips
and uh looking forward to getting the
[1:26:14] estuary group back in there and a little
more work done on uncur this fall so
[1:26:18] very nice
[1:26:22] um michelle wagner
[1:26:26] nope just uh totally blown away by all
the stuff you guys have been doing this
[1:26:31] year it's i've been sitting on this
board for a long time and
[1:26:35] the amount of stuff we've gotten done
this year is just amazing so thank you
[1:26:39] everybody kelly
will michelle amazing
[1:26:44] um i guess the moral of the story is you
work better when you don't see us live
[1:26:49] in your hair or something like that
when you're left alone more no the
[1:26:54] public's not coming in all the time
right
[1:26:58] yeah now this has been really amazing
we've had a lot of fun um i know
[1:27:03] michelle you've sent me some information
too about expanding recreation
[1:27:07] um
again i think kelly and i are trying to
[1:27:10] do as much as we can with our limited
resources but you know i would like to
[1:27:16] see some ways between you and rochelle
who sent me both people and
[1:27:21] it didn't happen for the fall
and i have to say you know the stats on
[1:27:26] covet is kind of you know i feel like
what we're doing is perfect based on
[1:27:31] code still snakes sticking around so you
know eventually these are goals for the
[1:27:37] future but i don't want either of you to
think that i'm not i haven't followed up
[1:27:41] on that yet so i just want to wait until
we kind of get
[1:27:45] it's some
balanced with covet
[1:27:48] sounds good
[1:27:52] do i have anything
um
[1:27:55] i just again you know like everybody
else really excited about all of the
[1:27:59] changes and the things there's just
a ton of projects that have been
[1:28:04] completed
you know so many
[1:28:07] new things going forward now with the
revenue that's coming in and the
[1:28:12] opportunities for the recreation
um i just
[1:28:16] again it's kind of overwhelming
but the opportunity to now get the
[1:28:23] outreach
i'm excited about that to be able to um
[1:28:28] really communicate and get feedback
um as to what people are liking what
[1:28:34] they're needing i think that's going to
go a long ways as well so
[1:28:38] yeah well you know we've learned a lot
too with these postcards that we just
[1:28:42] send out
and that might be a good way to
[1:28:45] communicate with the neighborhood with
the door knocker
[1:28:48] when we do kind of roll out the disc
golf so
[1:28:52] you know they can see what the new
course looks like and what we're doing i
[1:28:56] think that's
a good way to
[1:28:59] reach out to everybody so
i mean i'm not ever going to make
[1:29:04] everybody happy but i can try
right
[1:29:08] hey we hit 50 we're doing good
yeah this is an exciting board to be on
[1:29:13] now there's lots happening
yeah i know this is super great so
[1:29:20] i'm just um
the the difference that people are going
[1:29:25] to see you know uh you know here with
another shutdown coming at us you know
[1:29:30] that we've heard for state of washington
and the
[1:29:33] the changes and stuff i just think that
it's going to
[1:29:37] be an exciting time for people as we get
out and can actually get together
[1:29:42] um we might still have some challenges
with
[1:29:46] the meetings with some of the people and
stuff but i was just thinking at least
[1:29:50] if we do it at a park
we've got outside and open spaces and
[1:29:55] hopefully we can
um answer some of the questions so
[1:29:59] yeah that's it like you said
communication at least just
[1:30:02] communicating and getting the
information out there will definitely
[1:30:06] benefit us
and and having avery and the
[1:30:11] environmental people communicating maybe
even if it's just flyers or whatever to
[1:30:16] the people and whatnot you know um it
definitely would be better
[1:30:22] than how it went last time so yeah i'm
looking forward to that
[1:30:25] yeah perfect
so one of the things we like to do next
[1:30:29] time is do our election and um i did
have one volunteer for president so i
[1:30:34] just want to share this with everybody
so barb did raise her hand so
[1:30:38] when it comes around to elections um i
did have somebody raise their hand so
[1:30:43] thank you very much barb for doing
raising your hand and stepping
[1:30:49] i uh like i say i'm excited about all
the things that are going on and um
[1:30:53] whatever i can do to help and
yeah
[1:30:57] love it
awesome yeah and hopefully we'll have a
[1:31:01] full board soon
yeah and i'm assuming we're going to
[1:31:04] approve the minutes from our last
meeting
[1:31:09] next
yes okay
[1:31:12] and i don't think we have do you have
any
[1:31:15] public comment that's been brought to
you michelle
[1:31:18] i don't do you michelle the only thing
that we do have a park email that folks
[1:31:24] can email to i haven't had an email in
there in like a month and the last one
[1:31:28] was about when
the disc golf was gonna open so i just
[1:31:32] basically told him you know what we just
told you folks
[1:31:36] um
so that's really been the only public
[1:31:40] comment besides someone wanting to do a
memorial bench for one of the parks uh
[1:31:46] oh yeah that's really it's been pretty
quiet honestly
[1:31:49] yeah
um one other thing i would like to make
[1:31:53] sure i note and it was a comment that
rochelle had and um i had reached out to
[1:31:58] a lady named barbara ryder who is the
washoe lowell
[1:32:02] um canvas westfield community garden
group
[1:32:06] and it seems like our community garden
president which i've kind of quietly
[1:32:11] named her because she started the
website
[1:32:14] of the community garden is tia and so i
sent her the information because
[1:32:20] um
we have a group that would like to bring
[1:32:23] in some master gardening
classes to our garden and so i think she
[1:32:28] was going to reach out and try to get
some schedule with the group
[1:32:32] but again
it's amazing they're talking to you
[1:32:36] about the garden group and it just seems
like people are helping each other you
[1:32:41] know pick their weeds water their
gardens there's this little tag where if
[1:32:46] they want their gardens watered because
they can't make it that week that
[1:32:49] there's some sort of little notification
so other gardeners will help them with
[1:32:53] it i have volunteer hours where people
are putting in two hours of volunteer
[1:32:58] time a season and we've been tracking
that so
[1:33:02] you know we haven't even had to have our
crew actually go inside the garden to
[1:33:06] pull weeds and stuff and so
you know again that's kind of the whole
[1:33:11] community garden and that's what it's
there for i mean to have the kids go out
[1:33:15] there and have their end of year party
in a barbecue
[1:33:18] and show their parents what they were
able to do with the gardener and that's
[1:33:23] that's where it's all about so
that's awesome
[1:33:28] so um i guess if you have any additional
agenda items or things that you have
[1:33:33] questions about be sure and send those
over to michelle
[1:33:37] and if there's not if
no one else has any further discussion
[1:33:43] i guess we'll wrap things up or
yeah and we don't necessarily need to
[1:33:49] adjourn like we do since we're just kind
of doing a check-in i will type up uh
[1:33:53] these minutes um just so we you know can
reflect back on what we talked about and
[1:33:58] those that couldn't join us can kind of
see what we chatted about and then yeah
[1:34:03] we'll meet next month and hopefully have
a have a quorum
[1:34:07] and as soon as i get this switched out
to a pdf i will send the powerpoint to
[1:34:11] everybody so
perfect and then the next meeting would
[1:34:15] be september 16th is that correct yes
yes
[1:34:20] okay so we need to get that marked on
our calendars so yeah yep so that would
[1:34:25] be great so yeah i will send it out i
will get things put on social media too
[1:34:30] and then as always if anybody has any
questions i love karen's emails so
[1:34:36] please send me what's going on out there
and i will be very responsive because i
[1:34:41] am going to tell karen that the reason
we still have a park bench is because
[1:34:45] you told us in time and we grabbed it
thank you
[1:34:50] awesome
all right thank you guys have a good
[1:34:54] night all right bye bye
[1:35:00] you