 Carol, the floor is yours. Welcome all. We have a full board today, which is something that I don't think any of us have experienced in quite a while. With that, I'll introduce myself, Carol quaint current board chair. Joining us is new board member Madonna feather Cruz welcome. A recent addition Logan pits welcome standing members Terry Griffin Pamela Van Halsema. And Carolina Spence. Also, we have Jen Santos and our host. Mary Lou Nichols and helping out with all things behind the scene is Emily Andrew. The hosts will be coordinating the comments from the public and helping us run the meeting and take notes as needed. At this time, panelists and presenters, please silence your cell phones and keep your microphones muted, if not speaking members of the public who may be joining us today. Your web web cams will be turned off and your microphones muted if you're phoning in to join the meeting and you choose to speak during public comments. 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The host will then call on those who have raised their hands. Public comment is limited to three minutes and a courtesy timer will appear on the screen to public comments were received by the posted deadline for this meeting. They have been posted to the agenda and will be read at the appropriate time during the meeting. Thank you. And with that I call this meeting on the 28th of April to order at 402 in the afternoon. The provisions of the governor's executive order in 2520 and in 2920, which suspend certain requirements of the Brown Act, and the order of the health officer of the county of Sonoma to shelter in place. Excuse me to minimize the spread of COVID-19. The board of community services members and staff participating today are doing so from remote locations or practicing appropriate social distancing. The board of public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. And with that, may we have roll call. Yes, please respond when I call your name. Chair quant. Here. Board Member Griffin. Here. Board Member pits. Yeah. Board Member Cruz. Present. Board Member Spence. Present. Board Member Van Helsima. Here. Thank you. So we'd like to start by welcoming Madonna. And we're going to circle back around to you in just a second. On that note, I'd like to express my appreciation and I'm sure the entire boards to Sandra. One Dell, who is no longer serving on this board, but who was on this board for a full term and her participation is much appreciated. On that note, Pamela, you may disappear at a moment's notice. So while you are here, I'd like to extend the same appreciation to you. The way this has rolled out. I don't know how long you will be here. But again, having a full board, truly, truly a blessing and great things are going to happen moving forward. So with that, we will move forward to public comments. Do we have any public comments on non agenda items at this time? Yes, we have one public comment from Dwayne Duit from Roseland. This was provided to us in advance of the meeting. So I will read it aloud. For many years, I have spoken at this body and the Santa Rosa City Council advocating for more frontline parks maintenance workers. Now again, I asked this body to advocate to the city council to increase funding for more workers to maintain our parks, not managers. More boots on the ground to clean and always maintain all the parks for taxpayers. Please advocate for funds from the PG and E settlements, as well as future budgets to help pay for maintenance, repair and upkeep of parks. Especially pursue funding for expansion of the Southwest Community Park. Expand with more soccer fields and legitimate volleyball courts, as well as two more full size, full court basketball courts. One on each side of the existing courts. The children of Roseland deserve this. Also, adults use the existing sports fields, so this would be a win-win for the most disadvantaged neighborhood in the entire city. Thank you kindly. Thank you. Are there any more comments either written or from the public present? Yes, there is one hand raised from Miko Boyarski. Miko, I'm going to enable your speaking permissions. You have three minutes after which time your microphone will be muted, and I'll move on to the next comment. Please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Your time begins now. Hello everybody. My name is Miko Boyarski. I'm a local high school teacher and I'm on the board of directors of coffee strong. I'm speaking on behalf of coffee strong. This is a request to get a proposal on a future agenda. It was recommended by Tom Schwedhelm, our district six councilman and Jason Knutt that we bring this proposal to the board of community services. There are two little parcels of land at where Hopper Avenue meets Coffee Lane in Coffee Park. These parcels were abandoned by a developer in the 1980s. They've been looked after from the community. They were reduced to a pile of smoking ash after the 2017 Tubbs fire. Coffee strong has raised money. We've landscaped these parcels. And what we'd like to do is bring a proposal before the board of community services that you look at these two parcels and make a recommendation to the city council to include them in the city of Santa Rosa Park system. We talked about this with Jason Knutt and he said that all the city could be expected to provide would be minimal maintenance. That would be trash removal, cutting of branches and that's just about it. But that's all these parcels really need. They're a half a mile, half a block north of Coffee Park. The landscaping matches Coffee Park. They're almost an extension of it. It's nice to be able to jog up the road, tire sneakers on a little bench there, maybe jog back to Coffee Park. These parcels have become a rallying point for our community. They were decorated with Christmas decorations that Christmas after the 2017 Tubbs fire. Later 100 people gathered these two little parcels to commemorate the fire. People have hung decorations there. These parcels have a lot of significance to the community. These things are very tiny. They are 150 feet long. They're 50 feet wide. Nobody owns them right now. They've been abandoned. And we're just hoping that they could become part of the city park system. I think that there are funds there. This is an ideal use of Measure M funds. The investment would be minimal, but the returns would be great. So I'm hoping that you'll invite me back at some future time. This will become a gender item. I can show you pictures of before the fire, after the fire or what they look like now. I have an idea of what we're really talking about. And you could look at this and say, is this something that we could recommend to the city council to take into the park system or something that we wouldn't want to do that. These two parcels have tremendous significance to our community. And we'd like to see those parcels looked after for the future so that they're a permanent part of Coffee Park and generations can enjoy them. That's all I have to say, and thank you so much for letting me publicly comment. Do we have any additional comments? Madam Chair, I see no hands raised. Thank you so much. We will move on to item four, which is the approval of the minutes from our March 24 meeting. Hopefully everyone has had a chance to review them. Does anyone have any edits or corrections to make to those minutes? Seeing none. We will approve them and move forward. Item five is upcoming events and reports on accomplished events. A handout was provided on that in an earlier email. Deputy Santos, would you like to give us a report on upcoming and accomplished events? Yes, as the chair mentioned, you do have a full listing of all the upcoming and accomplished events, but I just wanted to highlight a few things for you. One of the upcoming events that you can look forward to this Sunday is the Kentucky Derby dry through lunch for seniors at Finley senior wing parking. The seniors are encouraged to wear festive hats and receive a free Chick-fil-A lunch and spring flower, and pre-registration is required. Our recreation team is amazing, so that's just another example of some of the things that they're doing out in our community to connect with our seniors. And for accomplished events, I have heard great things about the senior car bingo at Franklin Park, and that continues through May 26. So that's another upcoming event every Wednesday. And so with that, I'll turn it back to you. Thank you. I'm handing it right back to you to discuss scheduled items. Excuse me, director updates. I just want to make my apologies. No problem. And we do also have deputy director Kelly Magnuson from recreation to answer any questions you might have as we roll forward in this presentation but a small amount of director updates today want to give you an update regarding Rosalind Creek Community Park. We have had a variety of listening sessions with councilmember Alvarez and staff attending those and we are working with our consultant to update the future Rosalind Creek Community Park master plan to bring it to this board hopefully in June or July. And a special meeting because it is going to be quite a long meeting. Maybe even longer than tonight's meeting. So look forward to that coming back in the future. I'd also like to announce that we have our second in a series of neighborhood meetings with the Dutch floor Park neighborhood to discuss design options for redesigning the playground areas and the fitness equipment areas at Dutch floor neighborhood and that is happening May 27 at 530pm. And we will be sending out all the details to all of the board members as well as our council members. So stay tuned for that and also be up on our parks website. And then I too just want to take a little snippet to welcome our new board member Madonna feather and to thank Sandra Wandel for her years of service and looking forward to to working with you over the coming years. And with that I'll turn it back to our chair. Jen, actually Kelly Magnuson has her hand up. Oh, awesome. Great. So I'm, I think I'm unmuted. I just wanted to add kind of buried in the upcoming events on May 6 registration begins for all of our summer activities but that's really a rather large accomplishment, because we have not had a lot of time to plan our summer programs. With the COVID restrictions and the governor changing the guidelines quite frequently so we've been able to put together a pretty large list of offerings for the community and we actually are going to have an online activity guide that's going to be released on Monday. So there'll be an email going out to all of our customers, which is over 30,000 in our database. We won't have a printed activity guide that you're used to seeing but there will be an online activity guide at Santa Rosa rec.com. And actually over the weekend people can go to our website and start browsing but we're not really going to advertise the release of the activity guide until Monday. So then by next Thursday people can actually start to register. And we're actually able to offer more more spaces in our day camps over the summer a more variety of day camps. We've got a lot of swimming lessons going. We've got senior activities coming back in June, June 21, which are going to be an activity guide so I'm just really really proud of our recreation staff for pulling together, getting an activity guide together and being able to present that next week. So I hope that you will take a peek at it if it comes into your inbox next week. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you Kelly. Before we move on to scheduled items. Madonna feather I skip I said I was coming back to you and then I didn't I just barreled straight ahead. Welcome, welcome. Madonna feather was appointed by Councilman Alvarez, and if she would, would you tell us just a little bit about yourself. Sure, no problem. Thank you for that introduction. First I'd just like to acknowledge my ancestors, the land I am currently on right now are from the southern Pomo, and I was appointed by Eddie Alvarez I'm Lakota and Pomo, and I am a mom, and a wife. My job, I work at disability services and legal center as a project director, Native American liaison and outreach coordinator. A couple boards that I am on here in Sonoma, President to the Indian Education Committee with school district director at KBBF radio. I'm on the Indian Education and Development Board. I advise the aunties and uncles Eagle project with Sonoma County Indian Health, and then I'm on the equity and education initiative. Right now that's just local I'm on other county boards and also state boards. So thank you. Thank you, and thank you for fitting us into an already quite busy schedule. With that we will move on to scheduled items. 7.1 is special events update with recreation supervisor, Jeff Tibbets, Jeff, the floor is yours. All right. Thank you. Hello. Let me get my screen share set up here. And is that showing the presentation now. Perfect. So welcome to the new board members. I don't mean to interrupt you but it's also showing your next slide as well if you want to just look at your larger slide. Oh, okay. It's up to you. It moved it to the wrong screen. Jeff, if you go up to display settings and click on display settings. Oh yeah. And then go to swap. There we go. All right. Is that the right view now. Sorry about that. It moved it on my screen once I once I hit present. So thank you for the assistance with that. My name is Jeff Tibbets. I'm a supervisor with recreation. I will give you fair warning as I know this is the first presentation for some of you this presentation is going to be a little different from some of ours. A little sillier on the topic of being community events and and what we've been through this year. So I will also preface that the photo that you're looking at is an old photo of what we're used to a community event being where people gathered close like no mask you get to see people's faces all those things that that we miss. And just kind of what this year has been and how community events has has been impacted by Kobe and what the department has done to get back out to the community and to offer these things so with that said here's kind of a view of a typical year which we know this last year was not and what the recreation calendar looks like in terms of community events. You'll see there's items for volunteer events like Arbor Day tree planting and the merit awards there's senior programs there's aquatics programs large community events like the craft fair and the movies in the park and we're used to all this stuff going on we're used to fun chaos craziness all year round. The photo you see there we're used to smiling faces looking at a big movie screen out at the park and unfortunately this year that turned into a covert year. Those smiling exciting faces turned into blank stairs at a monitor. I will do my best to avoid those today. And our calendar turned blank as well. And you've seen a lot of presentations already about recreation with school of rec and volunteer program and different things that we did that that were a matter of us putting on new hats and trying to do things differently and do things that we had never done before. And community events was honestly one of the hardest areas to do that just the nature of what a community event is. We had to completely rethink what is a community event and we had to put on new hats and try to figure that out. What I'd also like to comment on before I move forward is that most of the presentations that come to this board are from one of our sections, whether that's neighborhood services aquatics different areas. We don't have a section for community events. It's kind of a unique thing that we do it as a department. So any given community event, it might have someone from senior programs, someone from aquatics, someone from community centers, you know, all co-chairing and working together and staff from across the department. So while I'm the one giving the presentation, I certainly want to start it off by saying I am a representative of the department here. This is certainly the work of many, many people within the department. And not only I think one of the things that's really unique and I'll touch on as we go through the presentation is this wasn't this year wasn't just about us putting on events for the community. Community events became us working with the community to do the events and it was really as difficult as it was. It was really a special year to see what community events could really do for Santa Rosa. We've seen some of this in the past with the other, you know, disasters that we've faced in the last few years. But this year, the way that it impacted everybody for such a long time it was really special what community events became and what they did for us. And on the theme of putting on our different hats, that started with us figuring out this blank schedule can't continue. And so the first hat that we put on was our Halloween hat. And my Halloween hat, which I probably can't talk with that on my Halloween hat was my robot costume. So one of the things we had to figure out with our first event was, how do we put on community events with social distancing so things like a robot costume. Where could also be a safety shield. And I could hand out the gift bags with my robot arm extension. Picker and my coworker being inspector gadget with his go go gadget arm handing out goodie bags. And then again all these photos that you're looking at these are all community volunteers and community groups that kind of started putting together this event, an event that used to be 1500 people come into Howard Park and crowding around trick or treating and going on the rides and doing all those things, turning it into how do we do a drive through how are we ever going to plan enough boots and decorate and do all this stuff. And again, it wasn't just us doing something for the community it was us doing something with the community and the community responded and amazing numbers where at first we're like are we going to get enough and it's like okay we've got a few. Our cemetery group was great they took on I believe it was for booths for us and. And then all of a sudden as the event got closer and closer it was okay we need to add more space for the event because the proposals to do a booth for us just kept pouring in and pouring in and pouring in and turned into. One of the most amazing things and my almost 18 years now, 19 years now with with recreation, you know, pride in a day's a day's work has never been higher than this day of just everything that happened with that said that there were learning curves. We were doing things so much differently than we had ever done before we made some mistakes I believe the event ran about two hours over. Because we just kind of underestimated how it was going to run to anyone who lives on that side of town I apologize for the backup of traffic on Summerfield road. But while we learned what we need to improve on I think the most important thing that we learned is that we were on the right track, and that as much as we wanted to do this again we saw the community needed it just as much as we want to do it. And what we really saw is that Santa Rosa got its smile back. So there, you don't need words, and I know that they say you know picture can say a thousand words and my mind these pictures say about a million words so I'll let them speak for themselves. If you're like me, you naturally drawn to the cute children smiling and their faces, and definitely soak that in it was amazing it was awesome but I asked that you take a second there's a few photos where you can see the parents as well, and take a second to see the parents. And after looking at these pictures and putting this together, it probably took me a couple of days of looking at different things before I ever looked at one of the parents faces but I, it was really a strong moment of me realizing. This was so much more than what we normally do this, the community needed this so much by. The first time we did Halloween at Howard I believe we were what seven, seven months and in isolation and the shutdown and everyone needed it not just you know the cute kids smiling and waving and sticking their heads out the window but the parents also probably just the first time they had seen that face on their kid for who knows how many months and and what it meant so it was really a special event and a special time and it a great way to kick off that we need to needed to get this programming back for the community. So the next thing that we did a still in the Halloween season as we did caravan to Candyland and this was a similar event but as for our seniors we house it at the family community center roundabout. We drove through for the seniors they had a prize wheel that they spun and got goodies on their way out. And we also told our school of rec kids who that program was taking place at Finley. We made that the day that they could dress up for Halloween for their school of rec program. And then we had those kids go out one cohort at a time throughout the day different cohorts went out there we had music plans so some kids were dancing or just waving to the cars as they drove by. They didn't advertise thing but as much work kudos to the staff they put in a lot of work they did a great event, but no doubt the children stole the show that day. They were they were the highlight as the seniors drove through and seeing the kids in their costumes and seeing them dance and wave and do those things. We didn't advertise that the kids were going to be out there it was just kind of an added bonus. But once cars started coming through again we had different cohorts coming in so there's time times where there weren't kids out there as one cohort was going back and the next one was coming out. And so we ended up asking where the kids even though we didn't promote it because people were calling their friends saying you've got to go to the drive through at Finley the kids are all dressed up and decorated it's wonderful. So we would have those cars that happen to come in between that time would go park in the parking lot and wait for the next cohort of kids to come out and then they circle back around and and drive through where they could see all the kids dressed up so it was really a great event and and we had some of our mistakes at Howard Park and it ran very smooth and very well and it was time to put on our next hat so we celebrated the success of these events and we moved on to the next one. And that was thank you hero be a hero. So thank you for that that we tied into the Thanksgiving season, and we partnered with the food bank to do a food drive. But we also wanted to, to thank at this point, all those essential workers that had been doing so much for so long for us so we had, along with the food barrels out for people to bring pictures or cards or whatever they wanted to make to thank our essential workers. So, cards for teachers and for the firefighters and police, our food service workers. So they were able to drop those off at the events. We were able to take donations for the food bank the food bank was out there they they brought their van out and it was packed to the brain that was a huge success of an event. And afterwards, our staff were able to compile all of those thank yous and those are the photos that you see of our staff going around and distributing those thank yous to different, different essential service workers so it was really a nice way to get back out to the community and and connect the community and allow people to say thank you for everything that was going on out there in our community. So that's our next hat. It was the holiday season. Sorry, I couldn't find all my holiday props so I had to really wing it with this one. But there's my holiday tool. So Cruz and candy cane lane. This event I really have to give kudos to our staff. A perfect example of the roller coaster of what COVID was for our community. This event was originally scheduled as an event at a place to play, and it was going to be a parade. So the idea was people would sign up, they would be able to park their car in the parking lot at a place to play. We would set up the parade in the back parking lot and then it would drive through and everyone would get to see the parade drive through. As you may recall as we entered December after Thanksgiving we had an uptick of cases everything kind of started constricting again. And there was concern of how would we control these crowds of people are sitting in their cars how do we keep them from getting out of their car. And so as the event got closer and closer we are about a week out it was pretty much planned about a week out from really starting to push the marketing of it. We pulled the plug on it and the event was canceled. We had a lot of staff from the second that they heard that we weren't going to be able to do it because the COVID instantly started pitching new ideas to me. I felt bad that we had already kind of pulled the rug out from them once so I was pretty pretty swift with no we're not going to do the event but three days into them pitching ideas to me. They finally got me on board and we had a brand new event that they had about a week to plan and get in place that was going to be at the family and it was going to be a drive through similar to the Halloween one. It was going to be Santa's workshop and cars would drive through we wouldn't have anybody staying we wouldn't have to worry about the crowding so we pushed for that proposal got it approved staff made decorations did all the work to get the event ready. And as you may recall in December Thursday night we got the call that as of midnight Saturday, we were going to be in another shelter and mandated shelter in place. That Saturday was the Saturday of our event so we had a little over 24 hours notice that the event was canceled again. One of the proudest moments I've ever had working is that Friday we show up I called them Thursday night let them know Friday we show up we know we have to cancel the event, and just the staff's heart being in the right place. They knew some of the people signed up everybody signed up was looking forward to it but some of these people really really needed it. A lot of our seniors who have been isolated living on their own with no visitors for months and months and months. So they split up all the registers they started making phone calls to cancel the event, but they did it knowing that they were going to make a note of, as they were on the phone anyone that they really sense that really really needed this, especially with the senior community and so they took those notes and the next week, the goodie bags that we had our facility attendance drove around town and delivered to some of those participants that really needed it and again, in a moment where the staff had every right to just be looking at themselves and how disappointed they were. Again, just how many times can you get the carpet ripped out from underneath you that, you know, in a snap of a finger they were already thinking like okay how can we still do something for the community. And then by Monday we were eating lunch and talking about the event and, you know, commiserating together with with the disappointment of not having it, and that instantly turned into brainstorming more ideas of how they could still do something we had all these decorations to do. So naturally, we partnered up with our school of rec program and we had a snowball fight. So they took not all the decorations again decorations were originally intended for the entire place of play parking a lot. But a good chunk of them and moved it into room five at the person senior wing where we had our school of rec program taking place, and the program purchased some artificial foam snowballs and so we decorate the place and brought the cohorts in one at a time, and they got to fire snowballs at their staff and elves and Santa and everybody else so again just that resiliency and that creativity of the staff that no matter what got thrown their way. This didn't work will try this that didn't work will try this and and something something was always going to happen so again my kudos to the staff for their resiliency and making it so that something positive still happened from their work no matter what came along the way. This has been mentioned a little bit. And it's one of our senior programs but also in our events. So next up was bingo we switched our hat. Again mentioning we really saw the importance for so much of our senior community who who really were in a lot of cases isolated throughout all of this being at the highest risk and everything so we brought back car bingo we we brought back equipment so that we could use the FM radio in their car they could tune in and they can hear the bingo calling and and hunk on their horns when they when they got a bingo and this is still going on so just another way of how do we bring back community how do we get the community back together. And then this year, I think as we gained momentum. The last hat that we threw on here was March we were really in the spirit by March so March we went all out for for St. Patrick's Day and we usually have the 5k that was an event that had gotten canceled and we decided hey let's do a virtual 5k it doesn't need to be canceled. And our staff came up with a leprechaun hunt so in quite a few of our parks. I think it was about 50 of our parks we had leprechauns hidden. And if you found the leprechaun it had instructions to bring it back to the family community center and to give us a call and we would come out and bring you your prize and thank you for bringing back our leprechaun so this was an amazing event. I was out there in costume, often giving out the prizes and every time I did. And it was consensus oh my gosh this is so cool. I was concerned people would find them take them home and it would sit on their counter and then we'd never get them back, and then we wouldn't have them out there. Almost every time I went out there someone was like oh we just found it in the park and we're like we got to go turn it in right now so people were so excited about it it was so much fun. Everyone was asking how long you've been doing this I like, and it was, oh we just it's a new thing that we created because of COVID this year and the response was always this can't be a COVID thing like you this is awesome this has to be what Santa Rosa does. So, while we're still figuring out what the next steps will be I think there's a pretty good chance that the leprechaun hunt is probably a new tradition in Santa Rosa so that pack schedule that we had it on the first slide we'll have to wiggle in some room to to accommodate our leprechaun hunt in the future. So the last thing that we did or not last thing but in in conjunction with all these things is we also put on some social media events. And so it started with Halloween we did a costume photo contest we did decoration contest and Thanksgiving we did an attitude attitude of gratitude and it was, you know send us pictures or stories about why you love Santa Rosa. We weren't even necessarily intending it to be parks related but for the most part that's what we found was people are sending in pictures now granted there weren't a lot of options outside of our parks for people to use. But a lot of people sending in pictures of themselves playing at the park or doing things in our Santa Rosa parks so that was really nice. We did a battle of the carolers in in December where people submitted singing and we cut it all together in this hodgepodge of Santa Rosa caroling together. I will admit if you saw the staff doing it you thought wow the Santa Rosa staff can really sing. We were obviously lip singing. I also did a tell us your Santa Rosa love story in February, in honor of Valentine's Day, and then the January one that we did is we said hey let's take our, let's take our 2020 lemons and let's make the best of it so I've got a video here from our. We got all those submitted and we send it to one of our volunteers actually compiled the video for us and so this was the video tied to that social media. I thought that'd be a nice way to kind of wrap up. You know what what community events really represented in my mind was making the best, you know, taking those lemons and doing what we could with it. I do want to take a second as I mentioned this is definitely a department wide, but I did want to take a second and acknowledge because of everything that we're doing all the different programming. I think every staff in particular that we said kind of okay we're going to make you are our chairs of this, and that was coordinators Nicole Lowry, Gene Pugh and Kim hatch. And basically that was around the programs that they were doing had the flexibility for them to, to kind of designate as leading this. Again they were working with staff from all throughout the department but I did want to recognize the three of them for really stepping up and, and being the heart and the creativity and the resiliency of making this work for the community so I wanted to acknowledge them for their hard work. And if we could also please get the three of them brought up so that they will also be available for any questions or comments from the board. If we can have them promoted please at this time. All of their microphones have been unmuted. Would you like them to be on camera as well. Sure I think they're ready for camera. If I had to wear all those hats on camera they can at least show up for the end of it. So can we go ahead and move forward as we get the video started for the other. If you want to go ahead and start asking questions or any comments you might have. So I hope all the board members had Jeff Tibbetts face on their screen. If it wasn't you need to find him now. And he doesn't know this but as we ask questions if you'd start with the event. Jeff could you grab the appropriate hat and get it on in time to answer. Do you have them do you have them all at the ready. I think I think I can pull it off. Great so I have I have no script for this but I have people in order and Madonna you are the first person who comes up on my video. So what event would you like to ask Jeff or make a comment about you ready Jeff. Yes. I just appreciate all of the events that went on and I'm a big person for holidays. My agency I when we were able to be in the office you know it was like they said it looked like Disneyland that's how much I decorated it with my own stuff. So I just appreciate everything that was done. There's my attempt at all of them. Jerry when you're through laughing you're next. Thank you Jeff Wow, I'm just completely blown away by what you've been able what you and the team have been able to accomplish this year given all of the challenges and how flexible you were. I'm so happy that you're going to continue the leprechaun hunt because that was going to be my question. So I'm really excited to hear that that's going to be happening going forward so kudos to an amazing year given all the challenges you guys are remarkable. Thank you and Kim did you want to make any comment on the leprechaun hunting, the possible continuation of it. I would love to do it. It was so much fun and really relatively easy so yes. Pamela. I wanted to just thank you for and for the positivity. You know, you tried. You started out with a Halloween event and saw how everyone was craving something silly and fun and entertaining. And then you rolled with it. I want to thank Nicole and Kim and genie and and all the people that work with you for keeping that positivity that was the thread that I, I took from that presentation that we don't have to just sit and get angry or depressed by the situation but look for the rainbows and in all of it so I think that's cool. I also want to appreciate the extra effort made to reach out to the seniors. It is a population that it was it was really hard to reach so many without, you know, internet access or social media or maybe family members so that you really bless a lot of families and people by making that extra effort so thank you very much. Carolina. I just love the whole thing. And I think your whole department on can do, you can do anything, obviously, but, but the Disneyland thing keeps popping up in my brain, you could do any. You could do your own Disneyland there. And it would be really fun. I would like to know who your costume person is though because you had some pretty cool costumes, particularly the leprechaun outfit. The leprechaun is a full onesie. It looks like it. So, yes, but in the theme of the hat I decided and how hot it is in my office I decided not to put on the full one. No, no, it's just fine. Well, big round of applause. Yes, part of the creativity of the of the department is certainly shown in the costume design of costume and decoration design of the events. It certainly is. Logan. Yeah, very impressed by the creativity of the staff. Good work. It's great to see something good come out of a bad experience always. I'll take the chance as a new guy to ask a question, maybe a dumb question. How come recreation and parks doesn't do the Earth Day event. Who does that at the city. So, I know the one that happened now as the water department, the one that happened this last week was the water department putting it on and it was really geared towards their, their drought awareness and getting out the water conservation. They were handed out the kits and stuff at this year's. I believe the one that normally is put on downtown I believe is a citywide committee. I don't know because recreation isn't the one putting it on. I don't know the full details. I don't know if there's anyone else on the call, Jen or anyone else that might have more information on on who organizes that. If I might jump in, we did do a virtual Earth Day cleanup event in recreation with the volunteers. But that was new just because of COVID and because we knew that the major event wasn't taking place this year. I'll just add that, you know, usually we look to do an Arbor Day celebration and look for more of a citywide approach to Earth Day. We can get you a little bit more information on exactly who's putting that on at the city so we can coordinate that with you. Cool. I mostly want us to do it so Jeff has to wear a giant Earth costume. Yep. Okay, thanks. That's it for me. Thank you. Just say, Jeff, I think you have blossomed during COVID that you will not be put back in the box, that you, this is now part of your persona with the rec department, and it is much appreciated and you look like you're having a good time with it. So a win-win situation. And again, I'd like to highlight Kim and Jean and Nicole for their efforts through this whole thing. They made it impossible not to enjoy it. I was the bearer of a lot of bad news. Carol, your involvement with the rural cemetery, you know, that wasn't just within staff. And the rug being pulled out from our parade event, but that happened, you know, we found out about COVID three days, two or three days before the rural cemetery put on their event, their yearly event of the Lamp Light Tours, and made the same phone call to them of, you know, last minute, sorry, your event's not going to be able to happen. So it certainly has been all those people, whether it's the staff or our community that we get the pleasure of working with that, that have really given us no option but to find, you know, a way to make lemonade through this whole process. So it's been our pleasure and the community has once again proven how lucky we are to be in Santa Rosa. Well, kudos to you all, to you and extend our appreciation to the entire staff. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any public comments on this item? Madam chair, there are no hands raised. Thank you. With that, if everyone's ready, we're going to move on to the next item, which is item 7.2 a review of measure and parks for all and the priority plan. This item has put in a lot of time. Jen Santos has put in a lot of time and she's now going to give us a substantial background. So anybody need to get a drink of water, settle back. Jen, the floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. Kwant. I really appreciate it. And I want to let our hosts know that if they want to switch to a display setting that shows only the slide that might be easier because some of this a lot of information on there. And I just want to say a great thank you to recreation that was an amazing start to our board of community services meeting and I will be thinking about that leprechaun hat. This is a 50 slide presentation. It's a long presentation. So we will be taking at least one recess so that we have time to breathe during this presentation. And before we get started in it too, I also want to take this time to give the big picture overview of what we intend to do with all of this information. It's going to be really exciting to see some of the survey results that we've received back from all of our staff members. The big picture is that we really, we have so much information. We really need additional time to go back out and flesh out ideas with our community members and with our internal staff members and contractors and things like that and bring back options for you all to go to the council. So just keep that in mind as we're going through it we certainly this is just the first dive into this information and there's a lot of information but hopefully you'll enjoy it and we do we are going to go through a tiny repeat as some of the information. But if I breeze through it certainly ask questions if you haven't heard it before so with that we'll go ahead and get started. Next slide please. And so this is just a big picture and I know a lot of you heard this but I'm going to walk through it again just in case. So on November 6, 2018 the voters did approve this tax measure with a large majority 72% support which is fantastic. And what it is is an 8 cent sales tax for 10 years. And while the tax measure logo you'll see 2018 to 2028 really the actual dates for collection of funds are April 1, 2019 through March 31, 2029. And the funds come into to the city from the county sales tech our portion of that is about is estimated at $1.9 million annually. And so we receive those every fiscal year, whatever taxes collected and whatever our portion is of that comes to us and this estimated to receive a total of 19, you know, over 19 million over the 10 years. And that's a requirement for a baseline commitment as well as a citizen's fiscal oversight committee that we meet with at least three times a year. And that'll be coming up in May again we'll meet with them and the baseline commitment is essentially looking at our Reckon Park budget from 2017 and 18 and saying, we're going to stick with that as a as a as a base year for what we consider how much money we already spend on recreation and parks. And that'll help us stay within the guidance of the tax measure to use it for additional and supplemental uses rather than supplanting our budget with the funds we receive our existing budget with the funds you receive. So next slide. And so just for a little bit of background as a reminder, this did come before the board back in 2019. If we can remember before COVID. And what the recommendation was was to fund use the first two years worth of funding to assist with the recovery, the funding of fire damage parks from the 2017 fire. So, in previous presentations, you know we have a gap in some of those parks that we're trying to recover we have a gap in funding the FEMA provides so much. And then we're left with the remainder so this would fill those gaps in there. The first two years of funding would also be used to fund a deferred maintenance study of all of our park system. So this is essentially a consultant that is going to go through our entire park system and give us an analysis, a study of conditions current conditions and make recommendations for things that need to be replaced right away and those that can that have a few years, we're going to get a list from them and we expect to have that in January 2022. We also the first two years were also used to fund this city wide community outreach and the results of that you're going to hear tonight. We are still going to do ongoing meetings but you'll get to see a snapshot of time where we're at right now. Following up on this board's recommendations the council approved the same on September 10 2019 at their council meeting resolution the same the same priority plan. And we were able to hold our first community meeting with the Northwest quadrant and with these quadrant meetings. And for those of you just want to explain this a little bit the quadrants can be thought of. We have four areas of this city divided by highway 101 and highway 12 so they kind of make this section where we have four quadrants, and the Northwest quadrant of city of the city meeting was hosted by the western neighborhood. And it was an in person meeting the last before the pandemic. And at the time working with the marketing outreach team to start to plan all the future quadrant meetings. And unfortunately that shut down and we had to cancel all the meetings and for those of you that aren't aware city staff are emergency responders and we do participate and work in the emergency operation center behind the scenes for every, every need that comes up and certainly the park staff were definitely involved for months in the learning all about PPEs and who should have what kind of PPE and how we should distribute so we did that for months and months. Next slide. And as we're trying to figure out how to get back to normal and how to have meetings we also encountered another pretty large fire in the city that glass fire. And again, staff members were dedicated to that for quite a while. It's all encompassing we really can't do any other work besides the emergency operation center and it's valuable and needed work so we're happy to do it. But we were able to one of our first virtual meetings and I have to say thank you to our host there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes here to make this all work. And it has taken us it took us a while to figure out how to do it how to get the right technology and get on board with it and make sure our advertisements were out in advance and we decided to move forward with an all sports targeted meeting in December 2020. So that we had about 25 attendees we also sent the survey out to our sports groups to collect information. So we're ready to make decisions about sports needs, we can turn to that information. The information you're going to see tonight is based on the quadrant meetings, and this data will be used as we move forward and look at sports types needs, we will dig these this information out to get a little further into it. And with that we had the deferred maintenance condition assessment contract with calendar and associates that I mentioned that was approved. We were able to roll forward with that and calendar and associates has started their evaluations of the park system and again we hope to have that condition assessment in January. And then in March on March 10 2021 we had our second of the Community Quadrant meetings with the Northeast Quadrant. And this time this meeting was virtual. It was hosted by the Santa Rosa Parks Foundation. Definitely look them up on the on the web if you're interested in learning more about them but they're a fantastic volunteer nonprofit organization nonprofit organization helping the city of Santa Rosa with their We also had the online survey available which was very popular with folks the moment we put it out there. And it was generally the same survey we had a little ability for people to hand to type in responses where we couldn't do that during the meeting. But during these meetings and all the quadrant meetings we had on our online polling so it was really fun so people got to see the results alive they got to see what everyone attending the meeting thought and the results of that are included with with these as we roll forward. So next slide. And then we had our third community meeting with the Southwest Quadrant hosted by land paths and again we did the same survey during the meeting and we also had the online survey available afterwards including videos and presentations so folks that couldn't attend could check out the videos and still participate as if as if they had for the most part. And then our final fourth community meeting for our four quadrants was the Southeast Quadrant hosted by the South Park Community Building Initiative and again same thing we had in meeting polling as well as an online survey available. And generally all of these meeting presentations we went over a lot of the same data you're going to see tonight, and then we focused in on specific parks related to that quadrant that area of the city. And we also gave a snippet of what the city wide looks like as well. And so we were able to close those surveys for all those quadrants on April 8 and start the data analysis. Next slide. And so the data analysis you're going to see tonight is based on everything prior to that date. So the we also had a community meeting on April 22 city wide meeting. And those you're not going to see those results in this presentation because we had we had to at some point draw a line and start looking at results so we can start having the conversation about paths forward. And we had about 14 attendees that was hosted by coffee strong. We also have the online survey available still so if there's folks that you know that still need to take the survey it's the same survey that for all quadrants. It's available online if there's anybody that still would like to contribute to that. We will be presenting those results as we return back to the board in future presentations. We also still have planned community, the all Spanish city wide community meeting. And we are working with a soccer club to help get that rolling it hasn't been scheduled yet but that will be posted on our website, and we will notify the board as well as the council when that meeting comes up. Let's see. We also, when we looked at these results we recognize that there's additional work we need to do to gather information so we, we, we need to look at a variety of age groups, especially the younger age groups we need to pick up some information from those groups so maybe after school programs, we're going to look at what our options are. We also want to make sure we're working with our historically disadvantaged neighborhoods to make sure that they have had for participating and that we're really reaching out deep and making sure they can provide their input. And of course, if there's any question about what are we doing, where are we at right now, whatever we have planned and whatever we have been doing is going to be on that website. And of course we're available as staff members to help answer, answer questions to. So next slide. Let's see so. So what we're going to do is roll through the exact language from the tax measure the exact allowable you can call them categories priorities whatever you want to call them but this is the exact language of allowable uses from the tax measure. And we're giving you some images here as well to kind of understand what we mean by maintaining parks and recreation facilities to ensure safe clean and accessible visitor experiences. So you can see some of the things that we talk about when we talk about maintenance. And another allowable category is to improve and develop athletic fields playgrounds restrooms picnic areas and visitor amenities. And so you can kind of see some ideas of what we mean there there's pretty much anything in a park can be called an amenity. Next slide. And another category to create and expand parks trails bikeways public art and recreational and historical facilities. And we have a Luther Burbank home and gardens as well as some art shown at Fremont Park and our Prince Memorial Greenway trail. Next slide. Another category is to plan and develop bike paths and trails with connections to schools, community spaces and regional trails. Next slide. And of course our recreational program so providing recreational education and health programs for the community. We already do these things but this is something a category for expansion and give you some ideas and you've got a really great idea of what recreation team does from our last presentation. Next slide. And we also have the decrease future fire risk fuel loads and invasive plants on city owned space open space parks is also an allowable use so we just wanted to take you through those you can get a reminder of exactly what it says. So when we talk about these categories or priorities. This is what we need. Next slide. And last but not least, improving the trails along waterways and riparian areas to benefit fish wildlife and habitat. And water quality, and I've mentioned a couple times in several meetings that when we talk about riparian I know that I get that question a lot what do you mean by riparian. And what we mean is essentially anything in the creek or you can see that one image of the person next to the creek there everything up to that trail there as considered the riparian area. All right, so let's go to the next slide. And so this is a map that we've also provided at all of our measure and quadrant meetings and these are the quadrants this is what we mean. We've got four quadrants divided up by highway 101 which runs up and down on your map and highway 12 left to right on this map in black lines. And it's just a convenient way for us to organize the city. But it's also the way in which the city collects park development impact fees. And that's something to keep in mind as we look through all of the presentation information coming and to keep in mind. When a residential developer comes in and we work with them to either provide park land park improvement, or if there is no such availability or no such desire or need. They can pay park in Luffy so that the city can in turn look for acquiring land or improving existing land for parks to support new residential development and improving existing parks that need to be developed etc etc. So the funds that are collected in each of these individual quadrants stay and are used in these individual quadrants, unless we feel as a city that there is something that transcends, or is kind of a citywide need that we only have one of or there's something unique about that and it's worth using combining funds to to have that amenity so there, those are the options for utilizing the funds. The other thing this map is showing is you can't really see it here because we've colored the map a little bit with the quadrants but the green is existing parks and the little red trees represent future parks. So for me when I look at this I really see, you can really see where the city has already developed and where the city still needs to develop, because you see a lot of more red trees. Sometimes we actually own the property where the tree is at we just haven't developed the park, but we have about 25 of these trees and there are a variety of community parks and mostly neighborhood parks with a variety of community parks so we still have a lot to do in the southwest, but we also have a few more in the other quadrants as well. So next slide. So we also wanted to bring this back we presented this at our measure at some of our measure and meetings as soon as we were recognizing that this is a repeat question about what's, what do we have and where. And so we've got some columns with those quadrants northwest southwest northeast southeast. And then we have some rows where we talk about community park neighborhoods special purpose open park open space trail parks and public gatherings and so you can kind of see that this data follows the map that you saw. You can see there's less acreage and less parks in the southwest because we still need to develop out there. And we also want to talk about what it is, what is a community park it's a 20 plus acre park those are our big parks where we have a lot going on and we expect a lot of attraction, one way or another there. So, Finley is a community park, Nagasawa is a community park. Southwest Rose and Creek skyhawk a place to play. There's lots of them we just want to give you some examples. A neighborhood park is a smaller park usually six acres or less. And it's meant to serve folks close by the neighborhood about a half mile distance from the park. And we have a total 58 neighborhood parks and in the city. And an example of that would be bear neighborhood park, Dutch floor, Martin Luther King, and South Davis Coffee Park, Rinconata Park. So we have a lot of examples of the special purpose park we have the role cemetery been a valley golf course leave their home and gardens, and the Sonoma County Museum is actually considered that space back there is considered a park. We have a lot of recreation centers so that's pretty explainable. We have 13 in the city Creekside Park Trail Parker Hill Francis Nielsen are in skyhawk are all examples of open space trail parks are the multi multi purpose you can rent your bike you can walk trail so Prince Morrell Greenway, new hall trail, upper brush Creek trail and public gathering areas of course we have courthouse square. And finally, we have the city hall annex area Comstock Mall these little pathways in between downtown spaces that are actually considered public gathering area so hopefully that gives you a good idea of what's going on not only per quadrant but just the kind of big picture so we have 108 parks all together and just over 1000 acres of land total in the city. And if you're looking at the southeast column and you can say geez they have a lot 428 acres that also includes the golf course so just in case you wanted to know we wanted to make sure we clarified that at least half of those acres are for the golf. So let's roll to our next slide please. This is an example of what we mean when we say amenity or we have a couple different words we use but but generally pretty much anything as I mentioned previously. It is in a park can be considered an amenity a community garden, a playground a tennis court. All those things are considered stuff things within the park those are amenities, and it's pretty wide, wide variety. And so here's a snapshot of some of the community outreach we've been able to do for each of the quadrant meetings and so we, we have traditional postcards that we send out sometimes. And we have the city connections newsletter which is really popular we are what we hear from folks is that they get their information, a lot of them from city connections so it's been a fantastic tool for us to make sure we're reaching out. Facebook and next door are definitely other opportunities where we can connect with people we get a lot of responses saying people heard from us about those options. We've also started up doing sandwich board signs those little signs and a little plastic signs in the park that kind of give people an idea if you're if they're visiting the park you'll definitely see a sign. The pretty obvious but we, we started to do those as a really big way of connecting with folks who are actually visiting the park who maybe are not looking online. We also did posters that was a little difficult because in coven we don't have a lot of our recreation centers open so it's a little more difficult to make that happen. The city website of course we are continually updating that and providing information to connect people to meetings and opportunities to take the survey. We have targeted news releases for every meeting, which is a kind of a media blast to let folks know in the media outlets that we have meetings coming up and our E bulletin. Let's see I want to make sure I get this right. There's an email announcement sent to update city residents who subscribe that's right if they've subscribed to something in the city. They get an email from us telling them we have an upcoming meeting. And of course, we, we conducted these meetings with our meeting hosts, which are essentially our community partners that live or work in these neighborhood quadrants and occasionally they were able to for the northwest and the southeast. Work with us to hand out flyers that worked out well for those for those neighborhoods so we've got a wide variety of things not everything works for the for for one quadrant we have developed ways of trying to reach out to people to to connect with them. And that's kind of the overview there for our community outreach. We'll go on to our next slide. Let's see. So, here we were going to take, we were going to I was going to look to our chair if we want to take a little break here. Or if we want to keep going so the next part of this is to look at the survey results we've seen and there's probably be about 20 slides in the next section. So we can take a break here or keep rolling and I'll, I'll look back to you chair quant to give us a signal on what you think is best. Thank you so much, Jen. I need a point of order Madonna has just let me know that real life is bumping up against our meeting. I'm just going to come right out and say, she needs to take her senior in high school daughter for a coven test so that she can go to prom this weekend, which I think is pretty dang cool. Will we still have a quorum if we lose board member Cruz. Yes, we will. Thank you for asking. She does not have to leave until 540, which is a bit into the presentation. Would it be appropriate to ask her for comments, say at 530 or will we not be far enough into the program by then. And what is the appropriate way to leave a zoom board meeting. Those are good questions I think I'll look and see if the host has any advice for leaving but certainly that's a that's just a preference of whatever works for works for you as the chair and the other board members. I think if we're on a roll. Perhaps we could pause at 530 and see if Madonna has any questions and then she could leave graciously when she needs to. Would that work. Of course, of course we we can definitely flex and it's a lot of information to digest so I'm happy to stop and pause as needed to look back. I think that in line with anyone like to take a quick break use of facilities get a glass of water or keep rolling. Anybody want to take a break. Hearing none, can we keep rolling. All right, thank you chair coin I appreciate it and this will be the fun part of the slide show for you where we're just looking at the results and talking about them. As I mentioned before we still need to do some more analysis of all this it's a lot of information to take in. But let's go ahead and get started with the next slide and we'll start looking at everything. So from a data analysis perspective, we had, you know, you can consider that we essentially had three sources we had all the online survey. It's called survey monkey results but essentially the online results at our first Northwest quadrant meeting we also utilized a service called box vote which was in meeting voting. But it was in the meeting. And so we have those results we also have our zoom meeting hosts. I'm sorry polls during the meeting that we had live results in each quadrant meeting so we have those three sources. By far the biggest results we have are from the online surveys. And so those are the, those are what you're going to see primarily today it takes about eight hours to put one of these questions together with all these sources. And when we've done that we recognize there is no significant change to the data. So, that's why we thought it's good to bring what we have so far, and then we've come back to you with more of a combined results in the future. And we did we were able to combine some of the results especially for those priority questions where we're looking at what is what are the priorities in the community. And then we were able I think we have one question where we're able to look at the quadrant data that takes additional time to do per question. You know, weren't expecting some of the technical challenges we've had with running these in a virtual setting and having all these different sources so just keep that in mind as we, as we look through here. Let's go on to the next slide. And so this one's a pretty simple one how often do you visit Santa Rosa recreation facility, and you'll see 945 responses it's not all the same because not everyone took actually answered every question. So even if they took the survey, it doesn't mean they actually answered this question. So, we're looking good here with more than half once a week and a little bit less at least once a month and every day so that's great results. Next slide. And so this is the age group question. We've got a pretty good split, you know, definitely most of our responders were 65 or older, followed by the 55 to 65. What we're looking to capture is folks under 35. So that's what I talked about when we might go back out and work with schools and after school programs to try to collect data from those age groups, because they are certainly visiting our parks. Next slide. And so we wanted to look at this as well where do you live in the city of Santa Rosa I know when we brought things in the past to this board this has also been a question of interest from the board on who is responding to the data. And so you can kind of see how participants joined in and provided their answers and responses to all of our surveys. And these results of 30% 27% and 30% very much jive and our can be correlated to the census data we have for the city as well so the Northwest census data shows the 32% of the population. And so we've got 30% responding there. And the Southwest shows a 16% census data population for the Southwest and we've got 13% responding. And the Southeast census data is 28% of the total population we got 30% responding and the Southeast is 24% of the population we've got 27% responding. So I think our what we are gathering from this is that our responses from folks are mirroring are very closely related to the census data. And so this is a fun way to look at some of the responses we've received about which city park or rec facility do you use most often so the words that are larger are the ones we heard more of consistently so I've got Howard Park, Galvin been a belly golf perfect home and gardens. You'll see that folks definitely do not distinguish between state and and county parks with our city parks and you'll see some of those Taylor Mountain and and Dale or county and city respect or county and state respectively. So we've got Juilliard ring con Doyle, lots of really good responses there, a white variety of responses that are a little bit smaller, which is only natural considering the park those parks there are bigger parks or more well known parks. All right, let's go to the next slide. Okay, so how satisfied are you with Santa Rosa parks 944 responding. And with this, really, we have about 23% either not satisfied or not satisfied at all. So look at the combined results for all the folks that were satisfied mostly satisfied. We, and extremely satisfied we've got about 77% with people that are happy with what they're with what they see with the parks. So next slide please. So this one do you feel safe when you're in when you visit a Santa Rosa city park again we have about 5% of participants that never or rarely feel safe in the in the parks with 21% and 74% combined. That feels safe most of the time to always so I think that's an interesting response for that. Next slide please. And this is an interesting question, what are the most important qualities you want in a park. And so, if you if you look at this, we have a lot of people that like a lot of things very similarly we don't have a huge dramatic difference between one and the other completely but the number one priority is of course, we have safety and then well maintained with aesthetics and natural landscaping following closely behind, and ease of access and quiet spaces, and varieties rounding out the preferences for the for the least amount at 5% and 8%. So, a pretty good spread but definitely safety is a topic and well maintained parks are the higher percentages there, not much but they are higher percentages compared to the rest. So let's go through the next slide. So, this is another great question how could your city of Santa Rosa parks and recreation experience be improved. And again we had 50% of folks wanting better maintained parks. We had 43% natural parks, followed by newer park amenities or other and we have the others the other slide coming up next so we can look at what that means. And followed by more programming at 17%. So again, better maintained parks is coming out as a pretty interest, pretty requested topic. Next slide. So this is what I meant in the last side there's 30% of folks that said other. And this is where the online respondents were able to type in something if they wanted we had 274 folks typing in something or clicking in to do something and what we did it's really hard to see there on the left so what we did was anybody that had three or four we listed what they said over there to the right and larger texts so definitely homeless related issues seem to top at 51 types of responses that had the word homeless in it and 25 more disc golf. If any of you attended a few of our meetings that disc golf, golf folks showed up to some of those. We had 18 looking at safety and security 16 responses about clean restrooms and safe restrooms. 14 about policing and more pickleball for eight and a dog park at Franklin which is something we've talked about with that community for quite a few years, and six respondents talking about safety and playgrounds. And then the screen wave was mentioned, separating trails from bikes and pedestrians event space been valley golf was mentioned. And then the folks that had three responses were for swimming accessible areas and playgrounds, water features, natural parks, less weeds, and food and drink concession so that kind of rounds out folks that took the time to type in something like homeless related issues being near the top with safety and security and clean restrooms as kind of a big picture for all of our parks. So let's go into the next slide. And this is an interesting slide. The way that I look about this so let's let's read the question how concerned are you with weeds in the following park spaces and what level we control do you think is acceptable so. If you look at each of the columns we have sports fields weeds adjacent to trails and path and natural landscapes. And the way the way my mind thinks is that I look at those bottom blue boxes on each category. And if you look at that we have 33% are very concerned with weeds and sports fields. And it's not surprising as weeds and sports fields lead to injuries, beastings, etc. And if you add to that we had 15% are very concerned with weeds adjacent to trails and paths, and then a little less concern for weeds and natural areas at 11%. And that's not shown in this slide which is also interesting. As you're looking at this is to know that 46% favored utilizing up to 25% of the remaining funds that we will be collecting for years three through 10. For controlling weeds in sports fields trails and paths and natural areas. Additionally, another 25% of those same responders favored utilizing up to 50% for the same and a minority at 10% favored using up to 75% of all remaining measure and funds for reducing weeds. So this is the same place area sports fields adjacent to trails and natural landscaping sports field sticks out to me for sure because that is a safety issue, as well as we don't want weeds laying into trails. And so next slide. And so this is the same thing, but it's all about those landscapes you see along our roadways. In the middle of the roadways, the roadway landscaping is sidewalk adjacent if there is a sidewalk. And so you can see 30% very concerned 33% very concerned we had some pretty big concerns about roadway landscaping because again it's that safety aspect when you have weeds falling into roadways. And then what you're not receiving what you're not seeing on here is that 51% of responses favored up to 25 using up to 25% of our remaining funds. All for we control in these air in these roadways and then an additional 24% favored using up to 50% of our funds for the next three next eight years on weeds in roadway and a minority 13 did not want any to utilize any funding. So I hope that gives you a good, a good understanding of that with our, where our weeds are, where the concern was, and where, based on those concerns people want to spend their funding. Definitely a high level wanted to spend it on sports fields and our roadway landscaping. I'm looking at our time I know it's a little bit before 530 but before we jump into the next I wanted to just check in with our chair and say thank you to our new board member Madonna and see if there's any last quick question you had before you leave or if not I just want to say thank you very much. Madonna, this will be coming back to the board. I know you attended at least one of the meetings. Everybody put you in this pinch. Any quick comments or questions before you take off. Comment, I would say with the younger group where we're lacking of survey feedback. If there's any way I could get a link for them. I work a lot with transitional age you. So I have a big, a big group of kids that could take that survey. I know surveys are not always fun. I take them. I take a couple once a week, you know, so I get it. But no everything's looking great. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Okay with that we're going to go ahead and keep rolling through all of this data. We're going to move on to the next slide. So this is kind of a fun way of looking at what pathways are utilized the most. And certainly our Santa Rosa Creek trail is pretty heavily used 502 response responses for that, followed by the Prince Memorial Greenway and Upper Brush Creek and our other trails, following after that we also have that category none of the above at 268. And our understanding is that those are probably trails that are outside the city system that are still favored by folks so we don't know that for sure but we have a feeling that that is, that is something because we only offered selections of trails in the city. Next slide. And so this is a lot of data but this is about our recreation programs with city of Santa Rosa recreation programs for activities do you currently participate in, or have in the past, and our survey results. We can kind of look at they're all kind of over all over the place but aquatics and events was the two highest responded to category of participation, followed by youth sports, and our camps at 9%, followed by rentals at 5% and everything else was following after that. And then well it's not an exact correlation we also wanted to give you a non COVID year of actual participants from these programs so you can kind of get a sense. And we don't have the same kind of percentages but you can at least get a sense of how many folks are actually participating from aquatics and events that's 133,000 and youth sports is 323,000 and camps 3000 and over 300,000 rentals. So that gives you a big slice of where folks are participating in programming in the city. Next slide. Next slide please. And of course this is the this is the big question. This was how would you like to see these funds prioritize. So, it's, it's really clear we had maintained parks and recreational facilities to ensure safe, clean and accessible experiences being the number one priority at 21%. Again similar to the other slides there's not a huge diversity in these numbers, everyone wants everything, which is not surprising we want it all. But there, there was, you know, the biggest point spread between the desire for maintenance and everything else. So that was pretty clear to us as a four point spread which is big in this collection of categories. The second highest was improve and develop athletic fields playgrounds restroom picnic areas and visitor amenities. And followed closely very closely by create and expand parks trails bikeways, public art and recreational and historic facilities. And a little bit more of a drop with decreasing future fire risk fuel loads and invasive plants on city owned open space at 13% and just barely below that plan and develop bike and path trails connections to schools and community spaces and regional trails at 12% and 11% improve the trails along waterways and riparian areas to benefit fish wildlife habitat and water quality. And then rounding out the priorities is the provide recreational educational and health programs for the community at 9%. And so you can kind of get a good slice. Again, it's that whole idea we were really surprised but not surprised by these results. You know, everyone wants a little bit of something I think in one way but definitely something a theme we've seen throughout is maintenance is taking the, the most amount of attention for however we ask the question. So let's look at the next slide and look at this in a different way. So the same information just in a pie chart to kind of give you a sense it's again, you can really get a sense there's not a huge difference between a lot of those except the maintenance one we've got more of a more than a 4% spread there between the others. And so let's go into the next slide. So this was the same original prioritization how would you like to see things prioritized, but we were able to split this among the quadrants to see if there was any major differences here and, and really we not seeing a lot of dramatic differences here. Or, you know, if you look at that maintain parks for each quadrant, it's all upper 20s. The most amount of maintenance requested was from the Southwest. And then if you're looking for improvements, it's all around that 1617% with the most amount of improvements requested from the Southwest as well. If you look at creation creating and expanding. Again, it's between 15 and 16% with again the Southwest being the most requested area for creating and expanding parks and that makes sense considering we do need to create and expand parks in the Southwest. And the rest of them kind of trail off from their decreasing future fire risk is an interesting one to look at. I mean, there's less requests for that in the Southwest where there's less problems or less wildland urban interfaces I would say, and more in areas adjacent to those wildland urban interfaces. And so again, just a different way of looking at the same information per quadrant not a lot of huge differences there. And so let's go ahead and look at the next slide. And here is where I'm going to look to the chair this is where I'd recommend a break for the meeting if you would like or we can keep going. What we're going to do now is look at funding how do we compare funding with our survey results. And we've got about 15 or so slides in this section so I'll look back to you and you can lead us and what you think is best to do. So, I want to ask, because because there's a lot of stuff to digest at this pause point does anyone have anything that they need a point of clarification on to process. Is there something that just doesn't make sense to come up with both comments or queries. You have to process so it does anybody have anything that just doesn't make sense quite yet. Logan. Thank you Carol. One question Jen. Why is maintenance and fire reduction to separate categories. I think I'm skipping ahead a little bit but can you explain why that is is that because they have different funding sources or they seem like very similar work. Right, I agree they are very similar but these, these categories were taken taken straight from the tax measure. So we left it as is and didn't want to modify that or combine them while we're asking people what their preferences were so it's just a simple matter of it just came straight from the tax measure like that. Okay, thank you. So anyone else need clarification anyone else want to take a break. I, I think we have probably another 45 minutes. Jen, would you think probably another 45 minutes. Potentially yes. Yeah. I want to take a break. I would love just three minutes to use the facilities. And I also have a question if we as board members would we have access to the raw data. I do, I like to create some visualizations or crunch the numbers myself and is that something I would have access to. Yes, we can get you access to those three separate areas of data we have. I'd like to take a break also. I think we're going to take a break. My computer says it's 538 545 too long to need less less than seven minutes 545 sound good. So let's meet back at 545. And before I say let's take off. Mary Lou, can you get that link to Madonna so that she can share it with her students. Yes, we'll make that happen. Perfect. Thank you. See you all back here at 545. Perfect. Yeah. See these two. And if they're asking you questions. Me too. So my computer says it's 546. And it appears that the board is here Jen when you're ready. I think we're ready to continue. Yes. Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate that we are ready to continue. And I know Mary Lou will momentarily remove this slide and we'll get going. But I appreciate the break myself to get a glass of water as well. It's a lot of information and a lot of a lot to go over but hopefully we've package it in a way that is helpful to digest some of it. So what we're going to do next as the staff are getting up the presentation is, is look at how, you know, what sort of options we have for connecting the remaining years of funding to what all those survey results that we just saw. And so. So that's what we'll do now. I think we can get started right here. What I was going to say when we were on that last picture was something that stood out to us as we were looking through this is that really there's a request for increase in maintenance, increase in weed control and sports fields and roadway landscaping, improvements, expansions and creations, safety, homeless related issues, natural landscaping and aesthetics were the things that stood out to us as we walk through this. So go ahead and go to the next one. Next slide, please. And so this is just these are just the basics this is we're going to talk about before we dive into the priorities. If you take what we are estimated to receive in years three through 10 were estimated to receive about 15.3 million dollars, etc. And again, this is these are all estimates and the actual tax is trending a bit higher. But because we've only received actually one full fiscal year, we'll get the next fiscal year this July, we can kind of really see if it isn't a true trend or was it just a one time thing. We don't really know yet but certainly the first year trended higher and we hope that that continues. We also need to take an account of the administration needs we have to administer this program. Do all of the projects and do all this outreach that we need it's it's a huge tax on the staff time and I have presented to we have presented to this board in the past. How we are already in a backlog situation here in parks because we have not had a park planner position in set at least seven years. So we really are looking and including in our budget going forward the operation of a part of full time park planner to really administer this program and really get some good results and utilize this funding. Otherwise, we're looking at stopping some of the work we're working on or a lot of the work in order to do this measure and work and we really want to make this work for us all. We also have some marketing and outreach materials. The costs for those we haven't spent that much to date, but as we roll forward with this, it can get over $20,000 depending on how much it's going to cost. So we also have some marketing and outreach materials. The costs for those we haven't spent that much to date, but as we roll forward with this, it can get over $20,000 depending on how much outreach we do and what we do. We, you know, every time we send out postcards it's about $3,000. When we do all translation for Spanish, it's even more. It's it can add up and we want to make sure that we have set aside some funds to operate what we plan to do with all these funds so we're looking at subtracting 1.5 million for administrative needs that includes the park planner and the marketing and outreach materials that are needed going forward. And so that leaves us an estimated 1313,841,896 dollars again an estimate so what I've underlined there is that we'll be looking at this number for all the future discussions we have in this presentation, because that's our estimate right we hope to receive more is looking like it's going to be more, but it's not a lot more. We've received a little over $2 million. And we're expected to receive 1.9 so it's not a huge increase it's not a huge trend but it's just enough where we hope it does trend higher so we can do a little bit more with our funds. And so it was just a little reminder that as we looking as we're looking to these things in our presentation as we go forward, we're looking at supplementing what we already do and not replacing what we already do in the general fund. So hopefully that gives you some perspective as we roll forward let's go ahead and go to the next slide. So this is just looking what we're going to do next is look at the auction, if we took all the funding we have left, and moved it into those categories, exactly as the percentages of the survey results we received thus far. So next slide. And that if we moved those items in blue 21% maintenance 16% improve and develop. Those are all the categories from the tax measure. And those are the percentage percentages we have thus far in the collection of responses from the community. So if we took those and divided those funds up. We would have for maintenance one time funds of 2.9 million essentially, we'd have a little over 2.2 million for one time funds for improve and develop 2.1 for creating expand 1.8 for decreasing future fire risk. So we have about 1.7 million for improve the improving the trails and 1.6 million for plan and develop bikeways and 1.3 million for recreational type needs. And again I just wanted to emphasize that we don't have any specific details we these are just big picture concepts that we want you to consider tonight, as we roll forward. We would need to take this if this is the method you would like to move have us move forward with and come back to you with options. But at least we can at least look at what our potential options might be tonight so as you hear all of these. Keep that in mind that we're not talking about specific projects or specific programming or anything like that it's just buckets of funding. So that adds up to our total that we're considering as we as we move forward. And I think it's pretty self explanatory but this is just a straight here's the percentages we've collected to date on responses from the community members. And here's the funding we have left. So hopefully that's pretty straightforward. Next slide please. So in this next analysis section, we are going to look at grouping things that make sense together. And specifically, will we go ahead and get to the next slide. So looking at grouping maintenance and decreasing future fire risk. Those things seem to go hand in hand because the action related to it would be some sort of maintenance associated or programmatic type of action. And so when you look at combining those totals with exactly the percentages that we've received from our community input so far. This is how it. This is how it looks so for that maintenance and decreasing future fire risk total. We're looking at about 4.7 million one time funds or 593 471 per year. So that's one section that we're looking at combining the other sections are all things that have to do with some sort of improvement or expansion some sort of capital type of expenditure for the most part and so it makes sense when we combine those together. So what we do for improve and develop creating expand improve the trails planning and developing bikeways those are all some sort of capital design planning type of project related expenses so as we started looking at this it made sense for us to kind of look at what if we group those together. And so we're looking at the maintenance and separate from recreation and what we would end up with. Again, these are just taking the straight numbers from the data we've collected so far. We'd end up with about 7.7 million one time funds or about a little less than a million dollars a year for capital projects. Although it is somewhat like maintenance and that it's an action where it's a programmatic type of action. It is different enough because we are looking at what could be a variety of things not just programmatic but it could be capital. Some things could be capital in this section, but because it's surrounding recreation. We really wanted to keep it separate so that we can have those dedicated funds towards recreation because we still did have folks that this was important to them and they want to see recreation programming or recreation features improved. And so that's just a straight 1.3 million the same as the previous slide and about $167,000 per year again for there's our total at the bottom but but this analysis is again just taking the straight percentages from the surveys to date. And then also grouping into kind of this maintenance category. This improvement category and a recreation category as well. And the other thing to consider with with these as we move forward is the option for combining funds from our development impact fees per quadrant. And so that that led us into what we'll look at next so kind of jumping ahead of myself here. So let's go to the next so that this next funding analysis is going to do the same thing. We're going to look at grouping maintenance improvements and recreation in their in their categories. But we're also going to look at what did we hear most from people we're not just going to take what we've those percentages from what we've heard to date, because those could change over time. So we tried to take another strategic approach to how can we analyze the data that we have so far so let's look at, let's look at that the next slide. So this one this is again with I've broken it up into three slides because I can't fit it all, like the others, but it's the same concept where we're trying to look at, why should we group maintenance together and and this one is taking a different approach, or a more strategic approach about the percentage that should go towards this topic this category of maintenance and fuel reduction. Again, if you just look at the 50% of the remaining funds that gives us that 6.9 million one time funds, or 865,118 per year for for maintenance and fuel reduction. The other thing and if you if you recall from the information we heard from the surveys, there was 50% of participants did note that their experience in record parks could be improved. If we had better maintained parks that's that's a theme we've been hearing throughout this throughout the meetings we've had and things we've heard from people in between meetings as well. Another fact that we wanted to point out here from the surveys was that between 46 and 51% of participants would like to utilize up to 25% of the remaining measuring funds to enhance weed maintenance. And so that was that 25% of remaining funds as another way to look at it but for us what we're thinking of this is another emphasis for maintenance. We also had the statistics so far a 33% of participants were very concerned, underscore very about weeds and sports fields and runway landscaping. Over 15% participants less concerned but still concerned with trail adjacent weeds and natural area weeds, and I do have to apologize I do have an error in that where I say add in reduction of future fire risks it's just a leftover graphic. So my apologies but please disregard that it was supposed to be text and not numbers. But essentially, these, like we talked about before these types of activities would be in action related to some sort of maintenance whether we have goats and Howard Park, or more contracted weed services. The method might be we're going to have to come back to you with we're going to have to develop that and come back to you with that but this is the idea to look at combining those together and look at taking 50% of the funds to use towards maintenance and fuel reduction with the majority of that being towards maintenance. We would still have to put together a programmatic type of options for you all to consider as we as we move forward. But the conclusion would be that is essentially do you have a little over $8 million for one time funds or just about $1 million a year for the next eight years on some sort of maintenance and how enhanced experience. The other thing to consider with maintenance is what we spend on maintenance right now. We have a contract services, we call it mo and blow what it is is someone comes out and mows the turf areas that lawn areas in our parks, and they blow off the debris related to that. And we pay a little over $1 million a year for that service alone to add in the additional services needed is a little over 100, a little over a million dollars a year. And that kind of gives you a perspective maintenance does cost a lot of money. And so it makes sense and it lines up logically that we would spend a lot of the funds on maintenance because it seems to be one of those areas that we're hearing a lot of cleanup of encampments. We have a park monitor program that's run by the recreation team which is proving to be very successful. And we've been dreaming of putting together this program for years and reckon parks and it's starting to take shape. And so we can further develop that that somebody that it's not just the traditional maintenance it's picking up trash being a presence in the parks on the weekends when we have most of our people participating in activities on the weekends. And really taking care to clean the restrooms and do all those things that we hear folks complaining about so this idea of looking at maintenance is something that stuck with us as we looked at this and rather than taking the idea of using just the straight percentages we looked at taking 50% of that and looking at, could we develop a plan with those funds or several options of plans and come back to you with what those would look like we really want that extra time to be able to put together something. And we would like to take up to 50% and be able to think about how to strategize. How do we move forward with that because certainly if we want to look at removing weeds from increasing weed removal and sports fields to reduce sports injuries. And that's maybe more staff time, maybe more contracted services and for the land roadway landscaping it's the same thing. We might get more for our funds with a contracted service, and we would want to make sure we get estimates for that and come back to you with actual versus right now we're just kind of talking about, we think this is a good idea to move forward with this. But we want the ability to play around with about 50% of the funds with a, and come back with plans. And if we can't utilize it I seriously doubt we can't utilize what we can't, we'll come back to you and tell you, but we would like to have you consider this as one of those similar options where we group categories together, but we look at 50% of the funds there. What we think of with contracted maintenance is the cost for what we do right now and, for example coffee park has come up a lot. I think I have a number here for park maintenance that's close to for coffee park we spend about $30,000 a year to have that maintain. So hopefully that gives you an idea of how much is going towards funding maintenance it can be expensive. So we really feel like we need to look at 50% of that because that's what we're hearing the most from the community. So with that let's go to the next slide and look at our improvements. And this is the same idea of grouping those categories from the tax measure those priorities into an area where you'd look at improvements. And so we we first looked at the idea okay well let's take 50% of what's remaining and put it into improvements. And we end up with that same amount we'd have for maintenance. But we'd have nothing left, we'd have no remaining funds for recreation or anything else that we might want to consider moving forward so when we look at reducing it slightly by 40% and taking all the remaining funds. 40% of those, we would end up with about 5.5 million in one time funds, or about $692,000 over each year over the next eight years and it leaves 10% of remaining funds so that we can be flexible and respond to new things that might come our way as we're out meeting with our community members. Another thing that we'd want to consider here for sure is to look at this on a per quadrant basis. And so if you take that same one time funds and divided into four you're looking at a little over about 1.3 per quadrant. To remind you all that this is an area where we thought this would be good to go back out to the community again and have regular public meetings with each of our quadrant members and really drill down on what their priorities are for their particular priorities. Although we have the priorities listed here improve and develop was number one, create and expand number two, improving trails was number three and planning develop bike will bike ways was number four, we still want that opportunity to reach back into our communities to see what would really make a difference for them. And that's something I have heard repeatedly since this tax measure began is I cannot wait to see what you all do with this because I want to see a difference. And so, for us as staff members. We know we're still waiting on the deferred maintenance analysis so we don't really we can't really say you know we can, we can say subjectively what we think is needing attention, but we're going to get that objective review and analysis of our parks in January. So we want to be able to make sure we're bringing that forth to our community members, as well as digging in deep reaching out to those schools and other folks to, to find those places because not all quadrants are created equal only one quadrant has power park, or the golf course youth community park or a place to play with all the sports field so there's a lot of different dynamics going on in these quadrants, and we weren't really want to make sure that we have this opportunity to continue the conversation. With these improvements so this is the idea for improvements so 50% for maintenance and 40% for all these type of improvement type projects. And so again this is pretty easy, we just have this little top section about the recreational program we'd have about 10% less left. After we look at combining maintenance and fuel reduction and combining all the improvement sections we have 10% left of all the remaining front funds from years three through 10 that we could look at something for the recreation, the recreation team. And so if you subtract the maintenance and the improvements, what you end up with is about 1.3 million as one time funds, or about 173,000 per year for the next eight years for years three through 10. And again, I really can't wait to dig in and come back with a plan. What we think we can do with that because maybe there's something improvement related in there that we shouldn't be thinking of that we're not thinking of right now. So just to recap this last option, it was essentially to dedicate the 6.9 million towards maintenance and fuel reduction 5.5 million towards all the improvements and the remainder of 1.3 towards recreation type programming for our total and again when I say is just what we really mean is consider this and come back to you with options based around these groups. So, I'm sure I've missed something, but let's go ahead and go to the next slide so we can, we can move on. So, in these next few slides there's only a few left so I think we made better time than I thought we would. What we're going to do is just kind of wrap it up. And although we're saying conclusions this is a no way a conclusion we really just want to have a conversation about what our next steps are. So let's go ahead and dive in into our next slide. And so again, the staff's recommendations looking at everything based on survey results is to look at options above 250% using up to 50% to develop an expenditure plan for park maintenance with the park maintenance team, sorry, the recreation team, the fire teams and our community partner hosts. We think we can do this and come back to you hopefully this summer with some sort of draft plan or plans for your consideration. But we need a little bit of time so we can meet with all the folks that do our maintenance operations throughout the organization. We also have the fire team that could be receiving PG&E funds. I need to verify with the fire department what they're receiving. Maybe there's other opportunities where in Rec and Parks we can look at different types of fire management like goats and things that have been very successful for us to do. So we really need that time again to come back to you with some operations. So really what we're looking for you to do is let us know if we can look at looking at 50% of the funds to develop some sort of plan and come back to you with those options. Okay, so let's go to the next slide. And so this is the, it's just recommendations continued but it's the 40% of all remaining funds towards improvement type projects is the same type of thing. So we would develop an expenditure plan come back to you next spring with options after we meet with all of our community quadrant leaders again and all of our community will have lots of surveys and we'll start to drill down deep into our communities and what they want. We'll be able to share our deferred maintenance plan with our community members, as well as the board. And we'll definitely hold all those additional public meetings so we can collect additional feedback. And again we would, the idea is to take a look at what we could do with 40% of that and develop plans and come back to you next spring with with those options. Next slide please. And so this is the final recommendation it's the same thing it's dedicating 10% of the estimated funding towards recreational needs. And that's something where we want to look to our recreation staff and conjection with our community partner hosts and develop expanded options for either additional programming or programming support or some sort of capital support or something related related to programming. And we would hold additional meetings and surveys if needed as we develop our plans to see what we need but we would definitely reach out to participants recreational programming participants and receive feedback. And again it's that same request to return with a detailed expenditure plan. And right now when we're in COVID that is a little difficult so we we're going to look probably to come back to you later in the year sometime between late summer, early spring with an expenditure plan we might be able to come back with portions of that as things open up again. So that's the overall I know it's a ton of information and I apologize. We tried to break it into pieces, but that's the idea. We have those three options for how we think we can move forward. Our recommendation is for 50% towards maintenance and field reduction 40% towards improvements and 10% remainder for recreation, etc. We also hope if we get additional funds that we have some flexibility as we move forward to look at additional options. So with that I think my next slide is the end, but I did have some conclusions I'm sorry and I had already gone through them so I'm not going to. I'm not going to continue but essentially what I said in the beginning we need a little bit more time to develop options and we'd also like to hear from you. Are we missing something are we not considering something is there something that you like better some other thing that you would like to provide us with input on. I do believe the next slide let's go to the next slide is the last one hopefully. Okay, well that must be our last slide. And so with that I, I am going to stop talking and turn it back to our chair. Thank you. I'm just trying to come up with a organized way to have this discussion. There is so much there are so many slides. I don't think there, I can't come up with an organized way. So it's musical chairs and we're just going to start at the end of the line and that means Logan, the floor is yours. Thank you. Jen, never apologize for overloading me with data. I like that. I don't think I'm going to focus on something sort of, I don't know, philosophical maybe as a staffer using one time funds for maintenance seems like a risk, because you're building that into the budget, and then it's gone in eight years. So, can you just share and I have some comments to but can, can you explain that how that works from a budgeting perspective. Well, I think one way we think about it is this would be above and beyond things that we're already doing so this would be an extension of services that are already being provided. So we're not going to necessarily duplicate but there is a risk if there is some expansion of things we're doing in existing manner like we already do taking a response fields. We hear a lot of complaints that the sports fields need to be maintained at a higher or different levels so there is a risk of looking at that. We're also hopeful that this tax measure will get extended but that we certainly don't have a crystal ball and understand if that will happen. This is an area where we know we hear continually from folks that this is something they're desiring. And we definitely like to see what we can do with it but there is, you know, ultimate risk, if you start something that you can't continue after eight years potentially take that into consideration. Yeah. And also, if we're doing the maintenance assessment, wouldn't it be wise to basically not even to kind of freeze that until we get the assessment. I appreciate that actually I know the word maintenance is in this but this is a condition assessment of amenities. That's that's really the words that I should use. That deferred maintenance and we know what it means but in reality what it means is improved what sort of improvements do we need to make to the park. So it's really based on what is broken and what needs to be fixed or improved or lacking thereof. So I appreciate that question to hopefully hopefully that clarifies that for you. Yeah, it feels like we don't know the whole picture yet but I know this is over eight years to so we don't we don't need that right now. And then my last point I'll make, and I have a quick compliment to end it. My last point maybe a critique is when you're talking about future improvements. One of the commitments the city council made when annexed Roseland Southwest Center was to bring that up to the same level of services. And so I have a feeling that'll be something you hear from the city council. That they expect that that commitment to be honored and I know a lot's changed in the past few years, but just a just a warning. And I think that part of the city deserves that commitment. So, and I think folks there know that's not going to happen overnight but I don't speak for for Southwest Santa Rosa. And I think you'll you'll hear. And then my last will just be a compliment 77% satisfied is great. Good job. That is just an amazing number and I'm really glad to see so many people in Santa Rosa love their parks. So that'll be it for me Carol. Thank you Logan Carolina you ready. Well now I am. Thank you, Jen. This was this was amazing. And you're right it is a little overwhelming. I really liked the grouping of the total info. And I very much appreciated the breakdown of the maintenance. Logan, we're definitely going to hear from Rosalind. And they, because they come frequently in person to meeting so, you know, in all fairness, we need to be sure that we're aware of that. I, I enjoyed taking the survey. And as I was taking it I must tell you, I did wonder a lot about who else was taking it, and what the results would be so I appreciate the fact that we got to really look at this and I'm not at all upset that we have to be able to give it some more. Jen you need to go home and have a big gin and tonic, because you really work this afternoon. That's just a personal, but thank you. Thank you Caroline I appreciate that and I hope there is a glass of wine waiting for me. Pamela you're up. Thank you so much Jen thank you for all that really important information that you've been collecting and synthesizing and now communicating. I'm, first of all, I am very concerned about the lack of as you've already noted input from people who are age 35 and younger. Yes, that that is maybe the group that uses all of these services the most. And that's what I think I would like to have. I would like to have over maybe an annual and then we can put it together. The age groups if you know of those people who use our parks and wreck the most, or who uses it. No by by quadrant maybe we know maybe we don't. Because we want to make sure we get input from from all those people before we make any really big decisions. And by looking at hearing the measure and presentation several times. I am very concerned about the need for development in Southwest Santa Rosa in Roseland, and as a board member here I want to advocate for that as a priority. And so that we can both maintain but further develop more park facilities there I have a feeling that that area is going to grow in population, because there's more housing developments going down there and maybe they'll be supplemental funds That's another thing I wonder what other funds are filling some of these buckets already or have the potential to be new funding sources with the new emphasis from the state and hopefully from the federal government on wildfire mitigation. Will we be qualifying for some of those funds that can help us out and maybe be able to use some of that money for park services that we couldn't get from another source. So I'm just a little bit curious about that and it's working with the county and our state representatives and have a better understanding of possible future sources of funding for that that would be great. But just weeding and cleaning bathrooms. I think that's on us. We got to do that ourselves. Let me see. Those are my, those are my main things. So the other thing is it when we do go and you know I've had background working with teens and schools and if we do go ask teens and even young adults for input. I would challenge us to maybe change the format of how we do it and how we deliver it and how we have a session to make it more palatable and more appropriate for the age demographics that we do and perhaps work with chops team club or work with other teen organizations or Vince Harper's, you know, programs and things like that to try to make it something that we would get authentic feedback and that high and high level of participation. And that's, that's just what I was wanting to say. I really appreciate that and we'll take your comments down as we move forward and I agree we are missing that age group. It's a tough age group to get but we certainly have our methods for reaching out to those groups. And with your question about funding we do again with the, you know, with with maintenance we don't have any additional funding sitting out there but with improvements we do we have the park development impact fees. And over the last few years we've collected a lot of fees in the Southwest because that's where the development is happening. So we have quite a bit of funds that we can consider combining with what we might come up with in the Southwest but I want to go back about there has been requests and emphasis. And certainly for us that we've been in the Southwest a lot because it's a developing area of the city. So I appreciate that. And I'm sorry one last thing we are working with our with our state representatives for options for finding funds for improvements so we are always reaching out and those kind of funds can be combined with measure and funds. So I think it's a good thing for us as well to create a bigger or better project. Carrie, I don't see you but I know you're there. I'm here, thank you. Thank you, Jen for the presentation. A couple of quick questions. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the PG&E funds and I think it's about $5 million for vegetation management. I had assumed that that would apply to city parks but maybe it's intended for other uses. Do you have a sense of whether there's overlap here? I hope so. Thank you. We work really closely with the fire department. We give them our long list annually. And they spend fire department funds on weed management in parks already. So I can't imagine that there would not be any funds for those needs. I don't know specifically what got funded and what can we look forward to receiving with that. Thank you. And then in terms of the calendar associates analysis, I know that they're going to be looking at infrastructure safety, playground safety, and so forth, but are they going to be looking at the safety of user safety in terms of lighting or hazards or just general public safety at parks? Not necessarily from a lighting perspective. What we've asked them to do is, is the existing lighting working? We're not asking them to project. We're just asking to assess what we have so far. But we can certainly look at extending their contract and looking at those things. We will be coming back to the board with their categories of what they need to analyze and if one of the categories needs to change, we can certainly look at including that in how they move forward. Okay. I was thinking back to one of the public speakers we had at a community meeting who mentioned she is unable to use her neighborhood park for safety reasons and has to drive to other parts. And so I was curious whether that was folded into their scope of services. And I am very supportive of the three categories, the broad categories for the expenditure plan. In terms of weed removal, I'm curious whether there are things we can do that will extend beyond the 10 year or the remaining eight years that might have a more permanent effect on the need to remove weeds. So is it a matter of maybe of removing invasive species in our medians and planting some things that are more adaptable or require less maintenance, those kinds of things. So I was curious about whether there may be some more permanent solutions as opposed to having higher maintenance solutions. And I think that's it. Those were all my questions. So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Chair. I appreciate it and we absolutely will be considering some of those options whether or not we use those funds to just improve certain areas so that we don't have so much of a problem with weeds and certain problem areas but we will work with all of our teams, including our fire team to investigate those options and look at what would be best for us moving forward. We are certainly well aware of our problem areas. And you know I personally would like nothing more than to redo most of those because they really need it. It's a different era where you know in 2008 when we started doing all those things and maintaining them at a certain level, we just don't have that same maintenance level yet so we absolutely will be taking that into consideration and coming back towards to the board with that. Thank you. Thank you. My turn. So I understand the 50% to maintenance and fire reduction. The planner, the planner was mentioned early on, and then it kind of dropped out of the percentages. I'm not real good with math, but I come up with approximately 20% of the yearly budget going to this part planner. Is that correct? Mary Lou, if we could go back to slide 37, where we talk about it, and I'd have to get my calculator out as well to look at the percentage. We actually have about $187,000 a year for the park planner as well as some funds for marketing and outreach so. So it's about 10% of the total. Yeah, I would say less than yes, it's definitely because we've got 1.5 million is the ask and we've got about 15 million total estimated for the remainder. So the maintenance and fuel reduction. Park planner involved in that. Yes, absolutely they would be involved in all of that, and making sure the funds are administered through that program and monitoring it as well so this the park planner position would do all of those things while they may not be doing the day to day maintenance they would certainly be overseeing in conjunction with whatever department might be the core the park maintenance team might hold the contract, but we would certainly be watching that we have a responsibility to report four times a year to the site committee, and track all of that make sure it's working, make sure we're reaching out to our community members and asking if it's working. And all of that takes time and effort that is not something you might see in another department. Certainly where the department that has the function of overseeing the tax measure right now. It could be it could be spread around but right now, the thought is the park planner position is somebody who has horticultural knowledge or is has gone through the landscape architecture school planning information they have a lot of information and are a subject matter expert in all of these things including maintenance so it's somebody that has the skills necessary to do all of oversight. So, 50% maintenance and fuel product production reduction 10%. I know this is a harsh word but I'm going to call it administration. Administration plus that 60% off the top. That's not really getting me anything that I can say wow I feel real good about this. I'm going to go back to that for my kids. If the tax measure had come across as 40% actually going to go into tangible improvements that you can see as beneficial. I don't know if I would have voted for it. I'm going to go back to this. We've fallen short of 60% of stuff we've had a vast cut back in our staffing. I would like to go to city council and say hey guess what people who participated in this survey have noticed that our staff has been cut. And they're going to make up the difference they shouldn't have to it to me it's really another indication of park and rec being shorted. I don't think the city has given us a fair shake here that I would like the city to step up to the point to the plate with those PG and E dollars with those community redevelopment. It's like if we open our coffers for stuff that I really considered in my opinion, general fund stuff, then why should the city come up with that money, because the taxpayers are doing it. I feel very protective of this money. And I think that I think city council really needs to say this is important to us to we're going to meet you halfway. That's it. Thank you chair quant and I appreciate the conversation one of the things that I didn't mention that I had in my presentation forgot was what are other agencies doing with this with these funds and how are they appropriating these funds so one of the things we get is a revenue and expenditure report of what everybody's doing. As we participate in this oversight committee these are being generated annually, and the one we have from last year shows that we have $287,000 being used towards staffing. And those are folks administering the additional whatever they decided to do with their funds. So we have a look at a fiscal overview of thousands of dollars overall there is salaries and benefits being spent. Let's see if I can get this 2000 and $60,000 being spent at the county level on staffing and salaries to administer these funds so it's not entirely in common for something that is in addition to what we're doing to be also funding its funding so it's not out of the question for a tax to be funding those things. The original tax that went to the county, the cost to ask the voters to vote on that was also born by the taxes we're collecting as part of this measure. So it's something that acts more like an enterprise fund I guess. And the way I think about it in my brain is that it supports itself. And I agree with you I would love for council to be able to recognize that we need these additional staff. You've heard from us that we have a huge backlog and staffing, and we certainly could use that to get the projects out the door faster. This is one way where we could look at funding this quickly and moving forward and administering just measure and funds so that we can protect and do what we said we were going to do with these tax funds and administer them properly without stopping what we're already doing, but just one of the concerns that we had at a staffing level is that if we, if we don't look at bringing on additional people to support this tax measure we are going to have to backtrack on some of the things we've already committed to. It's going to be very difficult for us to get out and look at grants and do all the things we normally do in a year which is already a ton. I don't want to add that to that conversation but I definitely appreciate your, your concern for parks and the look at what are we doing with general fund dollars as well. I appreciate that greatly. And that's something that we can continue to have the conversation with a council. I was looking at a budget reduction this year in all of the department so we're being asked to return budget this year as we roll into this budget season so it's just something to consider that we're still in that, in that place where we're being asked to reduce budgets at a level. So we're figuring out how to do that as we roll forward and I don't want to speak on behalf of I'm not the director of the public works but just to keep that in mind, as, as you think about how we can move forward and, and take some steps necessary to, to start administering because we have certainly spent an enormous amount of time. I mean certainly and that's, this is mostly what Emily, and or has been doing. And our staff is, is, is this so she can't do, she can't get to the other things that we think are important so it's, it's tough. It's a hard conversation to have but this is one of the ways we can think of funding to make sure that we can provide what the commute whatever the community does ultimately want from how we move forward. The other thing that I wanted to go through was to look at how folks are spending their funds. If we look at the maintenance section, that is the biggest section that has been funded by the county. They funding over $3 million at the county and maintenance, and to 2.8 to improve access and 2.2 towards natural resources. I'm sorry this report is a little bit difficult to read but essentially that's where we're, that is where we're at. If you look at the county expenditures so far, we will certainly collect more data as we go on. A project base, the county regional parks is looking at a new trail at Hood Mountain, renovating a boat launch at Doran Park. Energy efficient lighting at Arnold Field. And new line online camping reservation from a programmatic standpoint. Quite a few, they certainly have a lot more funding as well as well but nevertheless they have quite a few things funded including staffing to administer all of these things. Cloverdale is looking at putting in more playground surfacing. They have a smaller percentage of the funds. So they're looking at that. And the city of Rhodesburg is looking at increasing their stewardship at Fitch Mountain Park and open space preserve. And Petaluma's got several improvements planned, including amplified park and trail maintenance. So I could go on but I just wanted to give you a sense of what others were doing in the county I did forget I thought was part of my last present last slide that I want to provide that information. I want to share with you what what's happening that is pretty similar to what we're doing. So, with alternative back to the board now thank you. Thank you. Before we go to possible public comments, anyone on the board want to say anything we don't have to come up with any kind of anything correct Jim. This is just informational. This is mostly informational if if you could give me a sense of how you all are thinking about the 50% for maintenance 40% for improvements is some sort of feedback that would help us when we do come back to you all. But yeah, I'm Terry. Thanks Carol just a quick question. Jen, if once this expenditure plan is somewhat decided or formed. What flexibility will there be if there's a desire to amend it so say for example, we get a grant opportunity for a park project and we could use major and funds for as matching funds and it would be a great bit community benefit but we need to take some funds from the maintenance portion in order to make it happen. Would we have that flexibility going forward. I think as long as we want to have it just matter of degree of flexibility. So certainly when we come back with the plan for what are from an operational standpoint, it does need to to look at the contract terms that we want to think about a few years in advance certainly we would get a better price for contracted services if we can give them a three year contract versus something that's year by year. So those are the things when we come back to have the discussions with the board that we would want you to provide insight to us on, and then maybe there's a remainder there that we leave as flexible for moving funds around. My hope is that this tax does continue to trend high, certainly as the economy as people start getting back out and doing things and gathering that we might get a better economic return on our taxes. So we'll have some of those funds to decide what we want to do to have some flexibility there as well but as soon as we start committing ourselves to contracts that's where I just want to make sure that we understand that we are committing either year by year, or for an eight year period whatever we want to decide so we'll bring that back. We won't need to make those decisions right now. Okay, great. Thank you. Anybody else. Just quickly on the wildfire piece mitigation. Do you have a list already of high priority areas that need to be addressed because we're going to have a tough year. And we don't want to stand in the way of any of that happening. If that's what needs to happen as soon as possible. This is not going to stand in the way of that happening at all we work with the fire department every year. And fire season just doesn't seem to stop lately so we have a continual updating list of park sites and open space sites. So those higher elevations are where we have well then urban interface. It's already mapped. It's already listed. We go through and we mow those first and then we work ourselves down into the lower levels and I say we that includes the fire department's team of contracted moors. So absolutely are are taking a little bit more time is not going to interrupt any sort of fire weed removal that's going to be happening. I'm not seeing any other hands raised. I'm going to say go for that PG&E money. Find the juggler vein and tap it because anything we can get PG&E to pay for those funds could go into real improvements and the Southwest. We need to do everything we can for the new for the new part of Santa Rosa to make them as important as the rest of Santa Rosa. That's where the kids are. That's where the kids are. We owe it to them and the maintenance it's it's you know it's it's a little sad that the fires don't affect or traditionally have not affected that quadrant they're not going to see those fuel reduction dollars being sent spent for their safety. I think we have to work it both ways. I appreciate that and they they definitely can see a different types of maintenance we have rose and creek that's undeveloped that part could benefit from additional maintenance although definitely not in that traditional fire so yes. So thank you Jen I think I think there's still a lot of work to do. There's the additional outreach. We had a thousand respondents. These numbers are based on a thousand respondents. If you get a couple hundred youth to weigh in things can skew sorry but but it could be a whole new ball game and this really needs to be the pavement needs to be the drum needs to be we need to get cab we need to get teachers we need to get the city council people to really engage with their people to find out what they want in their parks especially now coming out of covid. You know parks and rec have been real important this year and they're going to be even more important when people can get up and enjoy them. Thank you. I did have one other comment Carol. And I know we're at the end of the meeting so this is just one technical question on the youth survey results. Yes I definitely want to see a lot more of that being in that age group. Did you wait those responses at all Jen. We don't have to get into polling methodology but were those weighted to be a bigger share of those other categories. Or like the folks who said the priorities of what they want in the park since there were so few of the younger folks they weren't really shown much in those right. Right we didn't we didn't break it apart per age group and what people desired we just whoever participated. Their results are shown. It wasn't a part per age. Yeah. If you have trouble reaching those groups do you know use the waiting function and so we can maybe see their voices represented a little better in those different categories. I know they're hard to reach. We're hard to reach. I appreciate that. Yeah we definitely will look forward to continue the conversation and bringing them on. They have always so much so many fantastic ideas. One suggestion there I check out the Santa Rosa subreddit it's very active social media platform probably lots of folks around my age on there. Thank you I appreciate that. Okay do we're going to go to public comments on this item unless somebody wants to throw their hand up real quick. Public comments on this item. Yes I have one comment delivered in person by the posted deadline. The public comment is from Dwayne DeWitt from Roseland. Please allocate funds to begin work on the Roseland Creek bikeway greenway on the south side of Roseland Creek between Burbank Avenue and McMinn Avenue. Slide 13 of your presentation has a photo of the bridge at Roseland Creek on McMinn Avenue. The Sonoma County water agency holds the easement there and has expressed interest in the bikeway greenway. Over 30 years ago a citizen's advisory group for the city southwest area plan advocated for more parks in Roseland. 17 years ago the city spent $100,000 for the Roseland Creek concept plan which advocated for the bikeway as well as more parts along the creek. Ten years have passed since taxpayer funds were spent to buy land on the south side of the creek for the bikeway. Now is the time to finally start the bikeway greenway. Open up the land to the public and let the community volunteer to start the work finally. Begin by funding our community efforts. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any more public comments on this item? We do have a couple of hands raised. The first comment will be from Sheila Bell followed by YCH shared room. Sheila, I'm enabling your speaking permission. You will have three minutes after which time your microphone will be muted and I'll move on to the next comment. Please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Your time begins now. Great. Thank you very much. Sheila Bell and I'm a resident of the Northeast Quadrant. I realize many of the amenities in Southeast Quadrant have been on top of the Measure M meetings and also participated in the survey. First off, thank you, Jen, for the overview of the survey results and also to Emily for compiling it all. The question I have really is more with the obvious maintenance needs and the priority scene within the city and the voice of the community. I too echo the question and the concern that I heard somewhat from Logan Pitts as well as Carol Quaunt that when we voted for Measure M, it wasn't on baseline needs such as maintenance of our park areas and the areas surrounding the park where weeds are out of control, et cetera, which of course raises a concern for the fire risk. I question the wisdom of the elimination of the park and rec department or the merge of it with public works because I see just by obvious changes that there seems to be a diluted ability with the staffing available to manage our parks and rec. And this seems like baseline general fund type of areas. And when I'm hearing that it's going to be perhaps a focus of Measure M money, that's more short term planning, not long term planning. Measure M is when it ends, then what it seems like it's a band aid to handle a need within our city that is not being adequately handled at this time. I believe I heard something during the meeting tonight that there was about a million dollars set aside each year for maintenance, but it certainly appears that's not adequate. And I'm wondering why Measure M is being looked at to take care of an issue that should be handled baseline. I would love feedback on that, because it certainly raises a concern I think for myself and many other residents within our city. Thank you. Thank you, Sheila. The next comment is from the YCH shared room. I am enabling your permission to speak. You will have three minutes after which time your microphone will be muted. And I'll move on to the next comment. Please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Your time begins now. My name is Thea Hensel. I'm sorry I can't change the name on my Zoom for some weird reason when I get on the city. So I apologize for that. I want to just say that I applaud so many of the comments that I've heard already from people. And I worked tirelessly to get Measure M passed for every night I was I was in the office of making phone calls. I agree with Carol that all the bright, shiny objects that I told people were going to happen with this windfall that we would get, I'm not seeing that. And it really concerns me. I agree with what people are saying that about the maintenance that this is baseline. It should be coming from your budget that you get from City General Funds. I think that I can't say that this measure is going to get passed again in 10 years if people don't see some of those bright, shiny objects we thought were going to be coming. So I have some concerns about that. Another thing is I am hoping that this budget because I know it's it's really difficult to plan a budget eight and 10 years out. But I think it will need revisions. And one of the things that strikes me is particularly on something like maintenance. This department has been hit for years with budget cuts, staffing, services, everything, the parks department has always taken the big hits. And there is a lot of deferred maintenance. But as park benches get repaired as fields and and and playgrounds get repaired at some point in time, some of that maintenance should get reduced. It shouldn't be the same cost every single year. And I don't see that reflected in the numbers here anywhere unless that's down in the minutiae of the budget. So the real question that I have is hopefully that this will get reviewed and adjusted as needs change. Thank you. The next comment will come from Aaron Reinberg, followed by Robert geyser. I'm enabling your speaking permissions. You will have three minutes after which time your microphone will be muted and I'll move on to the next comment. Please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Your time begins now. Thank you. My name is Aaron Reinberg. I'm a resident of Roseland and live off of Burbank Avenue. I also want to thank the board members tonight for recognizing the needs of the Southwestern quadrant, especially Roseland. And I want to also echo the sentiment of Dwayne DeWitt and his need, his call to focus on our open space preserve on Burbank Avenue and making sure that that's developed appropriately. I also urge that as we're looking at developing future parks in this area to remember that graph that was shown and how the Southwest quadrant is severely lacking in public parks and open spaces compared to the rest of Santa Rosa. And I hope that as planning moves forward, that that's taken into consideration and that more open spaces are preserved Roseland continues to be hard hit for mega development. And I would hate to see some of our beautiful open spaces in this area lost when we could have had parks instead. So I really do hope that this committee will continue to work in supporting the Roseland community. And I appreciate your feedback tonight and look forward to seeing the plans coming forward. My last comment is that I would also like to urge everybody to keep in mind the heritage trees on these areas as they are doing maintenance, especially the name of fire mitigation. I've seen the butchering of PG&E up and down Burbank Avenue to some of our heritage oaks and redwoods. And I hope the park does a much better job when it comes to that maintenance and making sure that these trees are preserved in a healthy way that prevents fire but also doesn't kill all of the trees in our neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. The next comment is from Robert Skyver. Robert, I have enabled your speaking permissions. You will have three minutes after which time your microphone will be muted and I'll move on to the next comment. Please provide your name for the record. If you so choose and provide your comments. Your time begins now. Are you still there Robert? Are there that was the last hand? Are there any more? Is there anyone else who would like to make a comment? I'm sorry I was muted. Go ahead Robert. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry on that. I'm Bob Geiser with the I'm coaching of the Southeast Greenway Campaign Committee and we are requesting that the city devote some of some of the major M funds to the Southeast Greenway project. The city has been working hard along with the land trust and our group and the county, the water agency, the regional parks to acquire this 57 acre parcel which property which goes from Farmers Lane to Spring Lake. And this acquisition could be completed sometime next year. So there will be some needs for maintenance, vegetation management, reduction of fire fuels, removal of invasive plants on an annual basis at least initially. And along with that there will need to be some initial access improvements for emergency response vehicles and for maintenance operations on this property. A large part of this corridor is proposed to be public parkland in an open space. So it's going to be part of it will be a new community park for the City of Santa Rosa and Class 1 trails for a long distance. Also we'll be getting into hopefully year after next by then maybe next year getting into the actual detailed park planning. We've got a preliminary concept plan that's been approved by the city as part of their general plan amendment in 2019. But we need to work out all the details of what actually goes where and there's a good chance that we can get some outside funding grants etc because of the unique nature of this project. But we may need additional funding and we certainly will need staff involvement in this process. And finally I'd like to commend staff on their I'm impressed by what we've gone through and how diligent they've been on analyzing public desires, public preferences and public public comments. It's noteworthy. Thank you. Thank you Robert. The next comment will be from Kathy Kay followed by Brian Bush Bush on front and Kathy I'm enabling your speaking permissions. You'll have three minutes after which time your microphone will be muted and I'll move on to Brian, please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Your time begins now. Kathy Kirsten and the North Bay Pickleball Ambassador for Sonoma, Napa and Salam counties. We have over 100 pickleball players enjoying daily play at Finley Community Park and Howarth Park. And we are all hoping that funding of the building of additional courts for Santa Rosa participants of all ages will be a part of measure and expenditure. And by the way, good job all of you who have been compiling all of these results we pickleball players are giving you a big high five. Thank you. Thank you Kathy. The next comment is from Brian Brian, I've enabled your speaking permissions, you will have three minutes after which your microphone will be muted. Please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Your time begins now. I'm Brian Bichon. First off, as usual, Jen, great job on your 50 sheet presentation. I was pretty well flushed out. I definitely like to see a lot more participants as this is bigger than just one neighborhood. I mean the whole city, a thousand seems a little low on participation, especially the younger demographic as was suggested earlier. I'd like to see more of an outreach on that. I did really like the facts. A lot of other Santa Rosians agreed with me that maintenance is the top. I know a measure like this shouldn't be set up. So we cover what the budget should cover. But realistically, the budget gets cut. Every year as we slowly go lower in our economy with COVID, a lot of businesses won't be coming back. A lot of people are going to be unemployed for a while. So we're probably going to get hit with another big budget cut. I believe this measure is going to help you band aid for the next three, five, eight years as we slowly come out of this and get a stronger economy again. As it looks now without any more participants, it looks good. There's always room for improvement. I thank all of you for the job you've done so far. I like it. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. Are there any additional comments? Madam chair, I see no more hands. Thank you, Emily. I think that's more public comments than we've had on any zoom meeting. Probably not since the days of pickleball. Have we had so many public comments and it's very it's it's heartwarming to see the public comment. I think we've had a lot of people who have reached and sticking with us. So that concludes that item. And it's it's the last act. It's the last act. Committee reports. There was no mayor's lunch. Some guy named Gavin Newsom was in town. And the mayor chose to go meet with him as opposed to having his virtual lunch. I don't know priorities. What can I say? It's amazing how many waterways there are in Santa Rosa. And this is a property on Piner road. The channel behind Piner road is Why am I blanking out? Which one is that, Jen? It might be Piner. It might be. Anyhow, it's a waterway. Anyhow, so we're just going to move forward. Sorry about that. Number nine, written and electronic communication. I am not seeing any written or electronic communications. I'm going to check in with our host just to verify they didn't receive anything. The only thing we received were the public comments by Mr. Dewitt and those were published and read into the record. Thank you, Mary Lou. Item 10 future agenda items. Does anybody have any steam left in their tank? Terry. I wondered if we could get an overview, Jen, of the two parcels that were mentioned adjacent to Coffee Park. So we can better understand the issue of the ownership of those parcels and what's being asked of the city. Sure, I can bring a small update and director updates. I hesitate to agendize this item because it really needs to be well thought out with the community. We are working with the community and looking at options, but as you can imagine, there's a lot of legal things that would need to happen to move forward with something like that. But I can give you a really brief overview of where, et cetera, as part of the director updates going forward. Thank you. Anyone else? I had a suggestion. I think it'd be helpful to know more about those fuel reduction programs, Jen, and who does them at the city and how that's funded with the fire department and the PG and E settlement and new wildfire protection plan and all that all things together. Okay, so you want to know what we're doing now for fuel reduction, the wildfire, urban, based on the wildfire urban interface and what new stuff is from the. I think, I think explaining, I think just explaining how fuels reduction works on park properties. Okay, God, thank you. That's not urgent, just sometime over the summer. I think it'd be good for us to learn that. That would be great. We'll plan that out. Pamela. I have more on your plate, Jen. I would like updates. Maybe on a monthly basis as how the drought is impacting park. It could be part maintenance, but also park programming and if there's adjustments that you've had to make because of maybe the mandates or difficulties with the water situation. I think we've got it definitely we can, we can certainly do that we are, it is affecting us so we can talk about how that is what's happening there. I'm hoping as we move out of coven. The volunteer spirit is going to raise its glorious head. And I'm wondering if it's realistic to pitch. The volunteer programs across the city. How much quote maintenance can actually be done by people just loving their parks and if that's been tried before. If, if it's, if they're trying the effort into when people get out of code that they make it go back to their real lives. Right now people seem to have time and the, I would like to see if it's worth investing in trying to get people to take care of their own parks a little bit more. I think there's a difference between ownership and not ownership with coffee park being a prime example of exploring the ownership of a neighborhood park and making it a better place is that realistic. So, I see that our recreation supervisor Jeff to bits and overseas the volunteer program is still here I don't mean to put him on the spot but if you have anything to add about that. Before that I would also, it looks like he's available. To clarify, are you are you advocating us for us ramping back up with our volunteer program or, or additional funds towards volunteer and engagement with the community or both. I just want to clarify, what I'm actually thinking is, gee, if, if some of that measure and money that has maintenance was actually done for free that money could shift to something. What, what was the term the woman used bright shiny objects. Yes, and I don't, I, oh there he is there's just so I'm going to let Jeff chime in about the program and then I can I can give you some more information as well. But Jeff, you have to put a hat on. I've got my volunteer hat on now. So, to kind of the heartier question that there is some limitation obviously you know within our volunteer program there's a limitation on what tools can be used in those types of things, due to liability. So, there is when you're talking about especially deferred maintenance where you are talking bigger projects to revitalize a park. Oftentimes, even if we have volunteer support it's going to require a combination of volunteers and maintenance, or it's going to be excruciating handwork for the volunteers that you get to the point where like, why don't we have the, you know, the staff use the proper equipment and do this, you know, in a day instead of now months and months of volunteer work for it. Another thing we are internally having some conversations about, you know, the volunteer program and then how that's all going to work in coming back and just a matter of staffing priorities as as we figure out what's happening with frozen positions what positions are we going to get back what are we not going to get back and bringing back our revenue generating programs and different things within recreation so there's there's support for for volunteers on from recreation and from parks. And so, making sure that we have that support to to manage some of those bigger projects and right now really focusing on the pre existing projects that we, you know, often are less work because they're groups that have already been established and it's kind of the same type of a project and kind of a yearly calendar, where some of the new stuff right now, to be perfectly honest is a little bit of a challenge as we're looking at what our priorities are and what our resources are. And then I will just add to that to say that absolutely measure and funds can in two categories be used to look at what options we have for improving that program and expanding it to do more project based stuff so we've got. As Jeff mentioned that maintenance part of that there's a huge component towards a volunteer program with maintenance staff. So that's one way where we can contribute, as well as when things get into the realm of it's a project. Certainly we have those, those funds there. So I guess that's three categories now, but the the programming portion of that can also look at what options do we have for supporting what we're doing and doing more. With that when we when COVID opens when we are released from the restrictions. Thank you. Hey, thank you everybody for sticking around. It's been a long night. Anybody got anything else or do we get to say it's time to adjourn. It is God help us 715 and it is time to adjourn. Thanks for sticking around everybody.