 Welcome and thank you all for joining us in the Measure M Parks for All Community Meeting. Tonight's meeting will focus on parks, facilities and amenities in the northwest quadrant of Santa Rosa. Gracias por acompañarnos, muy bienvenidos a todos por acompañarnos en esta reunión de Measure M, parques para todos. Esta reunión se dará enfoque a todas las comodidades y instalaciones que ofrece la ciudad de Santa Rosa en los parques en el cuadrante del sureste de la ciudad, del suroeste de la ciudad. Comenzaremos a las 5.35 para esperar que otras personas unan a nosotros. We'll begin at 5.35, just to let other folks kind of join us as well. Okay, so I think it's a good time to actually start the meeting. Nada más les quiero avisar a todas las personas que quizás necesitan interpretación. Si pueden ir hacia abajo hay unos iconos en los que pueden, quizás, si es que necesitan interpretación pueden ir. El diagrama aquí explica cómo pueden activar la función de interpretación también. So si es que necesitan ayuda, pueden mandaros un mensaje a través del chat también. Toda la reunión va a ser interpretada a través de este sistema de interpretación. Si necesitan interpretación en español, pueden ir al icono aquí que les indica este diagrama que está ahorita en pantalla. So just for those who just translated for those or interpreted for those who need Spanish translation, Spanish translation is actually being provided by Pablo and Charles with the International Effectiveness Center. The live interpretation can be heard in Spanish. I just indicated that to some of the participants as well. If you have any questions as well on that and you're maybe assisting other folks as well with that, you can also let us know as well. So I'm just gonna hand it over to Jen that will lead us in the meeting as well. Jen. Thank you Omar. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Jen Santos, deputy director for Parks and let's go ahead and roll into the next slide. And I will turn it back over to Omar to introduce us and get us started with the Measure M presentation tonight. Yeah, so thanks. My name is Omar Gallardo. I'm the New Audiences Manager for LandPaths and I'll be providing, usually what we would do is we would offer us to gather, ideally under the wildnut tree at Bayer Farm and kind of gather and maybe share food or whatnot, share laughs and obviously that is not possible. So we're doing this in this way and thank you Jen and the city for actually offering us to participate in this and to provide our assistance in actually getting folks to actually provide feedback and to these recommendations that will be happening and we'll be going to the city council as well. If you all don't know LandPaths, if you're not acquainted with LandPaths, we've been involved almost 15 years now with the city of Santa Rosa and partnering up with the Bayer Farm project in Roseland. And there are a lot of, we have three initiatives mainly, we have initiative that works with youth, getting youth connected to a lot of the open spaces and nature around us live in a beautiful place. And so we try to connect youth families through our initiative, through the new audience initiative. And also we asked everybody to participate and help us out and the different preserves that we have, the different programs that we might have volunteering out there. And so through the community care initiative as well. So all these initiatives are meant to reach out to you and help us take action in taking care of land that's all around us, some beautiful places that we have and that we actually take responsibility to take care for them. And I think one of the projects that actually sees that happening is the Bayer Farm project that we've partnered up with the city of Santa Rosa, Wreck and Park in providing that space here in Roseland. And so that's a little bit about us. I'll provide my information for anybody who actually has any questions, you know, even possibly during the meeting, but also definitely after the meeting, you can always get ahold of me. And so that information will be provided out there as well. Thank you, John. Thanks so much, Omar. I really appreciate it. And I just, I wanted to back up, I forgot to do a little bit of housekeeping here and introduce the other folks with us tonight. So while you could see Omar and I during the presentation tonight, there's a bunch of folks working behind the scenes to help us out. And I wanted to introduce our hosts, Steve Brown, Emily Ander and Mary Lou Nichols from the city who are helping us behind the scenes, managing questions and answers, assisting and taking notes during the meeting. And I've got a little bit of information for us before we get too far into the meeting. As members of the public join the meeting, you will be participating as an attendee. 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You can then rejoin the Spanish channel at the conclusion of your comment to continue listening in Spanish and to hear the response to your question. Thank you, Jen. I am going to turn it over to Omar. Yeah, and I just want to, you know, again, thank everybody for joining us today. And I think one of the main things that actually really, you know, I think motivated me but also, you know, other folks that, you know, that we engage with in the Southwest Santa Rosa is that, I mean, we all pay, we all pay into this, into some of the funds that we'll be discussing today. You buy, you know, you buy something, whether, you know, throughout the city. And so you all should have this opportunity to provide this, you know, this input into the city that, you know, it eventually moves on. And also I would like to encourage everybody to follow, follow those suggestions, follow those suggestions through. And, you know, again, that's what I'm, you know, we're eager to put our information out there and help out along the way. And so, you know, this is a great opportunity to actually participate and, you know, whatever we can do to actually, you know, see that input along the way, all the way to the city council and, you know, and participate, you know, to be active in that process. And so this is a great way to actually do that. And that's I think why we were motivated to actually follow through and, and, and host, you know, even if it is through this tough medium, but nonetheless it's, it needs to be done. And so thank you again, Jen. And, you know, for this opportunity and hopefully we can help out, you know, follow this through. Thank you. Thanks Omar. I really appreciate that. And I just wanted to thank land pass. They've been a fantastic partner. If you don't know anything about them, certainly check them out, check their website out. They, the last photo we had up was a picture of what amazing work they do at Bear Farm. They provide that opportunity for youth to have education around community gardening and just, just lots of really good summer programs and don't have a view of the garden here tonight, but it's, it's beautiful. They've done an amazing job. They're extremely dedicated to, to, to, to working out there and to connecting with the, with our community and with youth. So we're really happy to partner with them. This, this partnership is, is beyond just this evening and help and helping us with the presentation, but also helping us go through the data that we collect and helping us to work together to bring these, bring this information towards council and the board of community services as we move forward. And then before we get started, I also wanted to point out the website at the, near the bottom below the parks deputy directors, srcity.org slash parks for all. If you want to know anything about measure M, you can go to this website. There's tons of information there. Everything you ever wanted to know about measure M. M. Is there and the survey that you'll be taking as we participate tonight is also there as well. So let's roll to the next slide. And while we're doing that, I also wanted to let you know, you do have some of your, you have vice mayor. Natalie Rogers with us tonight, I believe, as well as the council appointed. Board of community services chair, Carol, I'm a board of community services member, Terry Griffin. And I apologize if I missed anybody else, but those are the folks I can see. So you are represented here. So what we're going to be doing tonight is talking about what is measure M and what can we do with it. We're going to go over the overview. We'll look at city white parks. What do we have city wide? If, if we're asking you to make decisions about what you think is important to you, we want to tell you what's out there to remind you. And then we're going to be focusing tonight on the Southwest quadrant parks and amenities, just to remind you for the Southwest what's out there too. And if you're joining us from another part of the city, you are more than welcome. It is, it is a little bit targeted towards the Southwest, but everybody is encouraged and we're happy to have you here. The survey is the same. No matter what part of the city you live in. And then we'll talk about the measure and priorities, what we can and can't do with this, with this funding. And then we'll look at what we're going to do next after these meetings. And then just another reminder. That website, SRCity.org parks for all. Be sure to check that out. If you would rather take the survey there, or if you have neighbors or friends that. Need to take that survey. And then we'll go to the next slide. So if we look at the big, the big picture, essentially as Omar said, it's a tax measure. And so when you're buying things in the city, there's a tax that's collected on everything that you're purchasing and it goes into this tax. And it's collected an eighth sense sales tax for the next 10 years. Well, about eight years left. And it essentially prior provides approximately $1.9 million. To the city of Santa Rosa to use for anything, recreation and parks related pretty much. It's as it's an estimate 1.9 million is an estimate. It's all based on the economy and how well the tax measure is doing. So it is, it is doing as well as it has been estimated over the last two years. So that's great. We have almost a little, I think just a little bit over $4 million available now. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. There is a baseline commitment, which I'll explain in a minute, as well as a fiscal oversight committee appointed. And these are appointees that look at what the city and other agencies throughout the county are deciding to spend their funds on and making sure it meets the requirements of the tax measure. And the baseline commitment is essentially. We can't take away what we're already paying for right now and supplant that, but we can supplement. So if we want more staff, we want more amenities, we want more parks, we want better parks, we can do that with this fund. But you can't take away what we're already doing and use this funds to pay for that. If that makes sense. And I, you know, hopefully if, if that's not clear, we can help explain it a little bit better when we have Q&A later on in the, in the presentation. Next slide please. And this is a bit of a timeframe to say what we've been doing, what we're doing now and what we plan to do in the future. So what we did do in the first couple of years is we went to council and developed a, essentially a two slash three year plan on how we could move forward with this. And what council approved was to spend the first two years of funding we receive as part of this tax plan. So we're looking at that. We're looking at that. We're looking at that. We're looking at that. To recover fire damage parks and landscapes. And also fund a condition assessment of the parks. System. So what sort of condition. Do we have out there? Do we need to replace certain parks? Equipment faster than the other. So. We're looking at that. We just started that last month. So we're hoping to finish that up later this fall. We're looking at the citywide community outreach. All of this got started and then the pandemic happened. So it got, it got a little bit stalled because we had to get back up to gear and understand how to work with the community again. But this is the third of four meetings. We have another meeting next week for the southeast community. So for, for any reason you can't finish tonight, you can always attend that meeting as well. So we're collecting citywide community. Input on what your priorities are. How would you like to see the city spend the funds we're getting? And so that's what we're doing tonight. And then what we plan to do with all that information is return to the council appointed board of community services, the OCS and city council to provide another update to the plan that we plan to return this year to council with that information. We're also going to return to council once we have our condition assessment completed. That will tell us where our priorities lie with things that need to be replaced. So you might have seen some playgrounds that need, need to be replaced their aging. And so we're going to be going through that with council as well. And then we will also. We'll be bringing this to council as part of the budget process. And then this is by no means the end of the conversation. It's such a big topic. What do you want us to spend your money on? We really think that there's probably going to be quite a bit of continued and ongoing community engagement. Even after we go to council this year, because it's just so much to think about and talk about. So we'll be back out engaging with the community again. There might be some groups of folks that we're missing. One of the things that we've been able to see so far is we're hitting an age group that is 65 and older. So we're missing a lot of younger age groups. So we might think, well, maybe we should reach out to our school districts or other targeted groups that so we can get a good, well-rounded input from a lot of different folks in the city. So this is an ongoing community engagement. So we're going to be bringing this to council. We're going to be bringing this to council. So we're going to be bringing this to council. We're going to be bringing this to council. Because we're seeing a lot of different folks in the city. So this is an ongoing conversation. It won't end until year 10. When the tax measure ends. And right now we're rolling into year three at July 1st. Next slide please. So here is. Here is the tax measure. In plain language. This is allowable things you can spend the money with and highlighted the things that are really important. So if we look at it, this, the measure specifically allows us to maintain something so we can add to our what we're doing for maintenance. We can improve something or develop new parks we can create something new, create a new park expand what we already have. We can plan we can strategize and develop new things. We can create additional programming and think about how we want to do that. We can use the funds to reduce fire risk, and we can improve trails, waterways and repairing areas so that's not the entire sentence that you're seeing there but we wanted to give you some highlights here. And the next few slides will specifically show you exactly what's allowed in for the tax measure so you can start thinking about that and get ready for our polling coming up. Next slide please. So we think of maintenance we wanted to show you some visual items here I'm a visual person it's kind of nice to see what do you mean by maintenance. Because there's a lot of different things that can be done for maintenance to keep things safe and clean and accessible. And the language it's written here that says maintain parks and recreation facilities to ensure safe clean accessible visitor experience can be funds can be used towards this item. And so here's some examples of that, you know we've got graffiti and down trees, and some open space, Howard Memorial Park open space area maintenance. And so here's here's then another thing that we can use the funds on improve and develop athletic fields playgrounds restrooms picnic areas and then visitor amenities. And so here's some visuals to help you on things you know that upper a place to play community park we updated that not too long ago with some new equipment. And so here's it can be updated as well as baseball fields and athletic areas. Next slide. And so here is another allowable use, create, create and expand parks, trails, bikeways, public art, and recreational and historic, historical facilities. And so here's some things that encompass parks in the city. And so here's just some basic examples of things we think of when we think of bikeways and trails and public art. Next slide. And so here's another allowable use to plan, develop bike paths and trails with connections to schools, community spaces and regional trails. So we've got a couple examples of what we mean by, you know, trails and pathways. Rinconata Trail Park down at the bottom that connects directly to the neighboring school. Next slide please. And another allowable use is to provide recreation education and health programs for the community so if you if your children or relatives or friends have been part of programming in the city for our recreation programming. We, I think the city does a really great job with providing access for youth to programming but if there's a program you've ever been thinking we should expand or do something different with. This is that opportunity. Next slide. And another allowable use is to decrease future file fire risks, fuel loads and invasive plants on city owned open space parks. So even though you know you might be looking at Southwest Community Park for example, there are a few untouched areas of the park those would be open areas. And certainly Roseland, Roseland Community Park, there hasn't been any development there so that's what we mean by removing invasive species or reducing fire risk right now the city does do an annual mowing to reduce weeds for fire use is there what we're going to be doing or can be doing. Next slide. And another allowable use is to improve the trails along waterways and repairing areas to benefit fish wildlife habitat and water quality. So we, we've put some examples in there by what we mean we have in the city that we maintain and we have creeks is a riparian area so if you look at that picture of the person at the creek, all the way up to that fence that would be considered the riparian area anything that's in that creek bed right there would be considered riparian. That's a picture also of the Santa Rosa creek trail up there at the at the railing so there's we've got all the things considered right there in that one photo. All right, so let's look at so the other thing we wanted to do tonight was since we're asking you to help us prioritize and tell us what you think is important for us to spend the funds on. We thought it'd be important for you to understand where we get funds right now. And so, if we're looking at developing a park project, a new, a new project so bear park was recently on the last few years completed anyway. And the funding sources we use there are park development impact fees will explain that a little bit more coming up, but we have park development impact fees that we can use to create new parks and develop parks. Occasionally the general fund can be used for park projects if it's citywide or if there's some larger initiative that the park is brought part of. And we always apply for at least two or three grants a year, and we do that because certainly we don't have enough funding in the park development impact fees to do everything we want to do with the city. So when we look at granting opportunities we can combine the funds we already have with the granting funds and do something bigger and better. If you've ever been in a recreation program at the city, those are funded through the general fund. We also have neighborhood services which you all might be familiar with after school programming. The city has a pretty robust after school program, those are funded with measure funds for neighborhood services, but everything else in the recreation team is funded through the general fund. If you see maintenance folks out there, they're funded through the general fund as well. And then there's an area of funding that happens in between projects and in between maintenance. And there's no specific funding source for those we, we look to see how we can fund those projects where we have something that's a little bit larger than a project, but not a huge thing and are a little bit larger than a maintenance project but not such a huge thing that we couldn't do it with the staff we have. And so there, there is a space there where it's a little difficult when we get higher costing repairs. We make it work, but that is a place where we are a little bit deficient. What I wanted to cover on this too is we think about as a reminder how much funding we're anticipated to get every year from this tax measure as 1.9 million. And if you think about how far those funds can go. Just as an example, we are replacing the playground equipment at Colgan Creek Park coming up pretty soon this year. And the estimate we have is $291,000 for that replacement of that playground. And for those of you that remember Coffee Park did burn in the 2017 fires and replacement of that of those features that burned was about four and a half million dollars. So this is giving some sort of sense of what things cost out there and, and right now if you look at a cost for other services they really vary depending on whether it's staff or contracted landscape so there's, there's a lot of information there, I'll stop and we'll move on but certainly if there's questions we can come back to that. Next slide. So, just a reminder, we're looking at the Southwest quadrant and I've got a lot of questions what do you mean by quadrant. So, what we mean is it's just a, it's just a word we use to describe the Southwest area of Santa Rosa. So you can think of Santa Rosa as being in four sections when you look at the intersection of highway 101, which runs the black line that runs down the center of the screen here in the map, and highway 12, which runs west to east or east to west where you want to cross your screen. So then you can see essentially there's four areas that are developed when you when you look at the map this way, and we call them quadrants, it's just a name. But we also collect park development impact fees, that's how we get funds to do new playgrounds and new parks. So we collect those fees per quadrant. So for instance, if there's new development happening in the Southwest quadrant a new residential development. The developer can choose to either provide park land or provide in lieu fees, and I'm really simplifying it but that's, that's generally the way it happens and city collects those fees if the developer choose not to develop park land. And we use those fees to develop new parks and repair and update existing parks to bring them into compliance. And so this this is how those are thought of. This is how those fees are collected and if they're collected in this quadrant, they stay in the quadrant. However, you can combine and pool funds from across the city for a city wide benefit something that is only offered in one location in the city. So that's, that's something we can do there. The next thing is if you take a look at this map. One of the things we like to know about what's going on in our community is, is where you live. And we're going to take a poll next after this a really easy one. But if you take a look at this map if you're living in the Southwest of Santa Rosa you're in quadrant two or Southwest. I'm going to ask you to tell us which area of the city live in Northwest Southwest Northeast Southeast 123 or four either either way do your best. It's not, it's not rocket size we just want to make sure we have a general idea of where where you're living that helps us understand. So let's, let's go into the next slide and start our polling. This is a really easy poll we're just asking you where you live and age group and all of that stuff. So I'm going to turn it back over to our host to describe how to participate. Thank you Jen. All the poll questions, there are a total of four in this poll are single or multiple choice. You must answer all the questions in order to submit your responses. The submit button is at the very end of the poll. Go to the bottom of your screen to find it. If you are completing the poll on your smartphone, you must answer the first question before you can answer the second question before the third etc. If you are participating in the meeting by a landline, you will not be able to participate in the poll at this time. However, the poll will be is on the project website. And so you can go there after the meeting. Once everyone has completed the poll and it has been closed, the results will appear immediately and Jen will walk you through the results. I'm going to bring up the poll now. Okay, so go ahead you can go ahead and start clicking in the poll and be sure to use the control on the side to scroll down and go ahead and complete the poll for relatively easy questions but they really help us with understanding. Who's who's participating tonight. So I'll check back when our with our hosts how are we doing with participation. We have 81% reporting. We're waiting for about seven more people. Great. Can I just, I'm really excited about all the youth that's here. So I just want to throw that in there because I'm pretty excited about that. It's great. Exciting. That's great. Looking forward to the results. Thank you. The number appears to be stagnant. All right, let's go ahead and look at the results. So this is kind of fine because you get to see, you get to see it live. So, where do you live within the city of Santa Rosa. It looks like most of the folks participating tonight are from the Southwest of the city. So that's great. What is your age group under 18. Wow, that's a first for us. You're right. Omar, this is great. So 48% under 18 and then we've got 18% 35 to 44. And kind of a mix of the other age groups, which is, which is great. That's really unique for us at the city. So thank you for participating. Number three, how often do you visit a city of Santa Rosa park or recreation facility. And the, we've got 45% attending at least once a week. Number four, how did you hear about tonight's meeting most was it looks like word of mouth or some other option. Okay, great. So I'm glad. Hopefully that gives you a sense of how to participate. And then in, in, in zoom to give us your information, and we'll go ahead and get started with the rest of the presentation that we have one more larger poll where we do ask you for, to provide us with your feedback on your priorities for the, for the tax measure. And so for this, for this map we were essentially looking for. We were looking at a general plan map. So this map is a little old. It's, so we do have in this map shown in green existing parks. This map does include state parks and the county parks as well, but it gives you a sense if you compare the green to the white of where the parks are as much as you can. And then the little red trees are proposed parks that we need to build. And so you can kind of see visually what's happening here with how the city has developed, and where most of the trees are, most of the trees are in the Southwest, which is where we need to spend most of our time developing parks. Thank you to the host for zooming in it is really difficult to see when you're looking so far out but this will give you a good sense you could see the Southwest there and how many trees there are. This just means we need, we need to build more parks and this part of the city was formerly in the county so it is, it is natural that we are starting and needing to build more city parks in this area. Let's go ahead and look at the next slide. And so that was a visual this is parks by the number and again this is city wide. This is not just for Southwest this is this is city wide. This is the total. We have 108 different types of parks in the city throughout the entire city, and then 1032 acres for all the different parks types, we have, and a lot of people ask, what is a special use parks, a special special use parks are Luther Burbank home and gardens, the rural cemetery Sonoma County Museum is actually a park inside there, and the golf course as well. And, and public gathering areas. Obviously that's the courthouse square, etc. So, just just for reference here so this is what we've got city wide. Let's take a look at the next slide and we'll zoom into the Southwest. So here you can kind of see we've zoomed in a little bit here of the map of the Southwest and what's there and we've identified the two community parks, Roseland and Southwest in this area. There's a little tree shown there because again this is an older map from the general plan, we do have the land at Roseland now it's not developed yet. We're working on that. And of course Southwest Community Park is is already there so this gives you a good, a good general picture of, of what's happening. And we can look at things in a different way on the next slide. And as far as a list, this kind of gives you a good sense of what is, what is in the Southwest just as a reminder, I kind of feel like if someone's going to ask me questions I will want to remind her what what is out there. I think we've got 12345677 existing parks and then we've got to open space or field it's an open space mitigation site if you drive by it so it's it's a protected site for protected species and we have Meadow neighborhood park which is a future park we own the land. It's not developed as part of it's part of a development that's coming in the future so we need really have a little sliver we need to collect the rest of the park land and actually have a road to it so that we can develop it. There are two community parks and, and seven parks that are developed seven neighborhood parks, and the difference between the community park and the neighborhood park is essentially size. So the community park is 20 acres or more. It has a lot of extra activities we expect that somebody would need to drive to a community park potentially that we're serving people that are living more than a mile away with community parks. The anticipation is that you can get there without a vehicle potentially bear park happens to have is is a neighborhood park it happens to have a really tiny parking lot for those, those who need to use it. But generally it's that it's a size difference and there's usually less activity in a neighborhood park and more activity in a community park but that is not always necessary. You know if you look at bear park, there's a lot going on there, and it's still a neighborhood park. So next slide please. So if you look at the types of parks we have and remember how many parks we have 108 parks citywide and over 1000 acres. The southwest by itself we have 13 parks and 71 acres. So that's really reflecting the need for development of new parks in the, in the southwest quadrant. And we went over those parks so we've got two community parks and nine neighborhood parks. Next slide. The next thing we want to talk about tonight is what do we mean when we say amenity. And then amenity can be any of the things listed here so playground, skate park soccer field fitness equipment, restaurants dog parks barbecue grills basketball courts. The next thing that you can see in a park. It's there it's it's an amenity. So that's what we mean when we ask you questions and say amenity or feet park feature park element. This is what we mean and so it's kind of interesting to look at this in the southwest quadrant. We have eight, eight playgrounds and eight large grassy areas and it's a little bit questionable. It's a little bit questionable that we have only eight picnic tables. I think that's probably just what is documented at our database I think there's probably quite a few more picnic tables in the southwest area but we also have our location is listed there at that land pass operates on behalf of the community at Bear Park. So let's let's see let's go into our next slide so so before, before we get started on this poll. We're not going to walk through each, each questions. Each of the questions so we'll, it will be a little bit silent for a while there's 10 questions coming up it's a lot. But this is your opportunity this is your time to tell us what you want. And so really pay attention to question number 10. So back to those 10 are those things that are allowable in the parks measure, and we want you to pick about three of them there that you really want to prioritize. So, let's go ahead and get started with the polling and I'll turn it over to our host to describe how to participate again just in case you need it. Thank you Jen. Again all the poll questions are single or multiple choice. You must answer all of the questions in order to submit your responses. If you're completing the poll at the very end of the poll, and you mean may need to scroll down to bottom to find it. Either the bottom of your screen or using that little gray bar on the side. If you're completing the poll on your smartphone, you must answer the first question before you can answer the second question. If you're participating via landline, and you will not be able to participate during the poll, but you can go to the parks for all website and participate in the survey. And once everyone is completed the poll, Jen will walk through the question and answers. Okay, so just a reminder go ahead and get started. And don't forget to scroll down. And otherwise, we're going to have a little bit of quiet time to let you fill in these questions and one other reminder. Question five and six. It's the same question. We just have a lot of information so it's broken up into two questions. And just wanted to check back in with everybody go ahead and start the questioning if you had answer your questions on the poll if you haven't already and scroll through them remember we've got 10 questions here so we're giving you a bit of time. So, and we have a question and answer period coming up, not too far from this slide so go ahead and answer all the questions and we'll check back in a little bit and see how everyone's doing. It looks like we've got quite a few people participating already which is great we're just going to go another minute at the most just to make sure everyone gets gets a chance to participate. So I'm going to check back in with our hosts and see how we're doing with participation. And if we need a little bit more time or anything 3438 respondents. All right. That's great. This is going to be steady. Okay, so this is going to be fun. Let's look at the results. All right, these are always really fun to to go through as a group it's the benefit of attending in person if you can but these. This is being recorded and it is also available on our website. How satisfied are you with the condition of Santa Rosa parks. And so it looks like not satisfied and satisfied are tight at 35% mostly satisfied 24%. Let's see, do you feel safe when you visit Santa Rosa parks. Most of the time 53%. And the rest of them are a bit split sometimes 21% and always 12. Number three, what park features do you use most often. And so let's see I've got to actually enlarge my polling screen here so I can see it. What do we have here 38% natural areas open space. And then we've got 18% creeks and lakes. And 12% athletic fields. And then a variety of other amenities. All right, so number four, what are the most important qualities you want in a park. Let me scroll up. Okay, so we've got 62% are requesting safety is the most important quality. And 56% would appreciate well maintained. And then 50% natural landscaping. And 35% ease of access. 30% would like a variety of things in parks. Or a variety of qualities in parks. That's great information. Okay, so this is a two part question. It's just a lot of information. So what existing park features would you like to see most improved in Santa Rosa. And so let's see for this question number five, it was hiking trails, 59%. And let's see the next. The next level we've got 35% trash and recycling receptacles. And it looks like a quite a variety of things sharing somewhere between 20 and 30%. For the rest for the remainder of athletic fields. Park access benches, drinking fountains. Park pathways, lighting. Park areas and swimming pools. And so the same question. Just a different number, number six, same question though. Which things would you like to see improved? Let's see for this particular question trees were the most. Important thing to see improved. As well as it looks like 38% as playgrounds. And 32% volleyball courts. And then we've got the rest is basketball, bike, racks, bike trails, public art. Skate parks, tennis and pickleball courts. Sharing between 18 and 30%. And number seven, how often do you have gatherings and events at parks? Of course, this is pre COVID. We've got a lot of, a variety there, but it's just edging out. That most often gatherings are yearly or annually. With 20, the rest of the things at 20%. So weekly, monthly, rarely around the 20th. Percentile. And number eight, how could your city of Santa Rosa parks and recreation experience be improved? And number nine, what city of Santa Rosa recreation programs. For better maintained parks. And more natural parks. Followed up closely by more recreation programs. And newer park amenities. And let's see. So question number nine, what city of Santa Rosa recreation programs. Or activities. Do you currently participate in or have in the past? And this is another long one. I'm going to expand my screen here a little bit. Let's see. So it looks like 50%. Volunteer opportunities. Fantastic. And 29% sport leagues. And it looks like. A relatively even split between the rest of them camps. Fitness and wellness classes, aquatics. Special interests. And it looks like. Events and neighborhood services and rental spaces somewhere between 15 and. 20%. And then this is the final, final question, number 10, which is where we were asking you what your priorities would be for spending the measure M funds. And it looks like there's another tie. It's a low funding prioritized. And 53%. So improving and developing athletic fields, playgrounds, restrooms, picnic areas and visitor amenities. And another 53%. Improve the trails along waterways and repair in areas to benefit fish wildlife habitat and water quality. And that's the one we just mentioned. And then we talked about maintaining parks. That's the one we just went over, right? No, that's not the one. So 50%. So this a lot of, a lot of close. Answers here. So 50% was maintained parks and recreation facilities to ensure safe. Clean accessible visitor experiences. And then somewhere between the 40s or the 20s and the 40s were maintained. So that's the one we just talked about. And then we're going to see all the results and especially knowing we have a wide variety of folks participating tonight. So I appreciate that. I know that it's a really long survey, but it's, it's great feedback for us. As we roll into our next steps. And so let's see. So just to let you all know. We do have another meeting coming up. So if you have neighbors or anybody that would like to attend. We do have a meeting coming up. March 25th at 5.30 PM again, that same website has the link. To that meeting. SR city.org parks for all. And the meeting materials from tonight, as well as the survey, if you have neighbors or anybody else that would just like to participate in the survey, all of that is available. And SR city.org parks for all the presentation. This meeting recording. So we're going to be talking about the next steps. We're going to be talking about the next steps. And then we're going to be talking about April 8th. And then we need to start looking at all the information we've collected. So that's the next step in April is collecting all of this data and looking at what, what we have. And seeing what we can, what our next steps would be. As far as presenting to the board of community services as well as council. And so we'll be doing that. We'll be doing that. And we'll be doing that as well as city council. As part of the budget process. That's our plan. The other thing we're doing is working with our host. So we'll be working with land paths and Omar. And some of our other meeting hosts from the rest of the city. We also have a sports specific group. To help us make sure when we're looking at the results of what we have. That they're saying what we're saying as well. And we'll be doing that as well. And we'll be doing that as well as city council. We don't know exactly how we're going to interpret what we see, but we're going to, it's, it's, we can't wait to look at everything. And make a plan for our next, next few years of spending for this measure. And so as I mentioned, this, this conversation, this is definitely just the beginning of the conversation with the community. We will continue this conversation. And certainly even after tonight, if there's lingering questions, we're planning to put up and frequently asked question section and expanded frequently asked question section on the website as well. So maybe if the question you ask might be, there might be other people that want to know the same information. So hopefully that gives you a good idea of what we're doing, what we're doing next. And I think our next part of this is question and answer. So hopefully we can hear from some of you, if you have specific questions about measure M or anything we were talking about tonight. Certainly we're available to do our best. We don't know everything, but we were going to do our best to answer everything, all the questions. So I will turn it over to our hosts to describe how you can participate in the question and answer tonight. Thank you, Jen. Once Jen calls for, now that she's called for public comments and questions, host Nichols will ask for you to raise your hand. For individuals wishing to participate in the meeting by phone, you dialed star nine to raise your hand. The host will then call in the public one by one. Those who have their zoom hand raised. The host will unmute your microphone. So you may ask your question. A courtesy timer of three minutes will appear while you ask your question or make your comment. Once you have raised your hand and asked your question or shared your input, the host will lower your hand and mute your microphone. So our panelists may respond. You will need to raise your hand again. If a follow up question is generated based upon the response you receive. Okay. Thank you. If you are participating in the meeting from the Spanish channel and zoom, we have an interpreter on standby on the English channel to assist during your public comment. If you wish to make a public comment, please be sure to pause throughout your comment to allow for interpretation. Those using interpreter support will be afforded additional time for your public comment as required by the Brown act. For Spanish speakers at the time you hear your name called turn off the Spanish channel to make your public comment. This icon may look like a circle with an ES and the middle and the word Spanish underneath. So at this point, our interpreters are ready and we can begin. Thank you to our hosts and I will look to see who our first to our host to see who our first question is from. Thank you. Our first speaker is Claudia H. Claudia, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Can you see the timer? I can and I unmuted myself. Very good. Then you may go ahead with your question or comment. Yeah, I live across the street from Southwest community park and I use it daily and I'm really appreciative. It's always in good shape and it's a wonderful gathering place. It's quite, to me, it's a representative of a great job done by the city. So I'm really pleased. Thank you. A couple of things about it. One is that I had heard that in the general plan for the park, it was, there was a swimming pool originally. So I wanted to ask a question about that and what the city's inclination would be under and measure M. I'd like to advocate for a swimming pool. Not a great grand project, but something mid-size for the community, but I think it would be a great benefit. And the bus route from Southwest Park to Finley is quite circuitous. It goes down to Bellevue Avenue and then up Stony Point. From Bellevue from Southwest. So it's kind of like adds an extra probably 15, 20 minutes on it and makes it inconvenient. And then the other is pickleball and tennis because there is a lot of fun. Land and the pickleball is also over at Finley. So it's quite a ways to go. It would be a great amenity for the community. And lastly, the gazebo at Southwest Community Park could really use some improvements. It's already standing there, but it's, it's quite old and decrepit. And I think it's, it's not very aesthetically pleasing. So that's sort of my agenda. And then the last is clearly, there's a lot of volleyball games and basketball games. That's the most usage other than the soccer field. I can see. And those would be great to be improved upon. And the last is the parking lot. And it looks like it's primed for an agenda. And I think it's, I think that's it. Last, I already said last, but I do, I am a member of the bear farm just starting this year. So I'm looking forward to it. And the main reason that I joined was because I want to have more cultural interaction. With the neighborhood and the neighbors. And so cultural inclusion. And I think that's it. I think that's it. Last, I already said last, but I do, I think that's it. I think that's it. So cultural inclusion. Kind of recreational programs are really important to me. And I'd love to see more of that and be willing to volunteer for that. Great. Thank you. Claudia for your, for your comment. I really appreciate that. And let's see if I can get to some of your, some of your questions. I think we'll have a discussion. I think we'll have a discussion. A discussion about. Keeping the idea of the swimming pool. And a recreation center at Southwest community park. It's, it's an extremely expensive endeavor to do something like that. Certainly. If we took every penny from the measure M funds alone, I think that's it. I think that's it. So we do understand that another swim center, especially in the Southwest is, is needed. We hear that quite often. So discussions are happening. The cost of the project is pretty high. I hear you about a moderately sized. Space rather than something grand. And we'll take that into consideration for sure. But it is something, if we wanted to do that, we certainly could with measure M as well as repairing the area. So, I think that's it. I think that's it. We have a list to get upgraded slash replaced. It gets worse and worse. It's leaning. I think it's showed it leaning a little bit. One of the posts. In the, in the picture we had. And you are right. We do have lots of volleyball and basketball. In the, in the park. And the parking lot, the addition parking lot. The, the, the, the, the, the, the swimming area and the recreation center are. Being thought of. Nothing official has been discussed at all, but that's. Ever since I started working here, that's been a conversation that we've been having here is that that's where that would be located. It seems like a very tight space to me. But that's my understanding of where the thought is that it would go. And that's, that's the conversation that's been had this far. So hopefully, and I do appreciate that you've joined. Bear farm working with Omar and Jonathan out there. It's, it's a great, it's a great space and they do amazing work. And. Thank you for your comment. And so I'll turn it back to our host. To look for our next question. Thank you. Our next speaker is Larry Hansen, followed by Thea Hensel. Larry, I'm enabling your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record. If you so choose and provide your question or comment. Yeah, I'm Larry Hansen. I don't live in Santa Rosa, but. I live in Forestville. And, but I've got the distinction of. Being a teacher in. In that Roseland area for 31 years. And took. Many, many children. I think I've had over. A thousand students, maybe 1,100 students over the years. And I would take them to environmental. Areas because I wanted them to. Be able to experience that. And so today I'm proposing or supporting. Natural parks. We need those as very, very important. For children to be exposed to natural areas. And so there's one natural area in Southwest. Center was the. The neighborhood. You know what I'm talking about, right? Okay. And so. And previously on your presentation, which I appreciate very much. You were showing new parks that were. Proposed and I see that there are some other new parks within the area. And so I'm glad to see that. You know, we support all kinds of parks. When I say we, I'm actually representing force unlimited. Who has worked with the neighborhood group and help them. And so I think that's a good point. I think we've been able to maintain trails there. We've actually planted trees in the area. And so long senders of creek. And, but we, we support all of these. I mean, I play, I play tennis and I played volleyball. I've done all that. So I really support sports, but we need natural areas and it's very, very important. And the other aspect of supporting in a natural area like that is that you will save. You will need to minimally develop that area. You will save lots of money. Therefore the previous speaker with a wanting to support a swimming, which I totally support also. You'll have some extra money for supporting things like that. And anyway, it's, I think it's a win-win thing supporting the natural area. So the school next to it, Roseland Creek school can use it as a environmental area. You can use it as an environmental area. So it's a win-win situation for them. It's a win situation with the county. You have to spend less money. You can spend that money on other things. So that's my comments. I hope that you take that into consideration. And I appreciate your presentation today. And I look forward to a future ones. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is the a Hensel. Followed by Jim Bray. The, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record. If you so choose and provide your question or comment. Hi, my name is the a Hensel. I'm co-chair of the Southeast Greenway campaign. And I was glad to hear that the previous speaker spoke about the neighborhood. Park. A few years ago. All more was brought to you. And I look forward to a future ones. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is the a Hensel followed by Jim Bray. Thank you for joining us. A few years ago, Omar was part of a group who looked at the East and the West side of the South part of town. And see really strong links between the two. We both look forward to a natural setting. I would love to see picnic tables and things where people can actually enjoy themselves. So it's sort of quasi rock. Recreational picnics and spending time outdoors. And a wooded area is just as important as recreational The connectivity between East and West is critical and of course the missing link in that part is the restoration of the Prince Memorial Greenway. And so we would like people to look at all three of these areas as a connective unit that can really bring the communities together in a much more efficient way that feels a lot friendlier. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Jim Bray, followed by new for Jim. I'm enabling your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your question or comment. Hi, my name is Jim, and I've lived here in Roseland for 11 years. And my question is with regard to the natural. Park that the, I believe the city is planning on turning into a park, but I'm wondering what the status is of that process. I've been attending meetings about that thing for about 10 years now. And I wonder where we stand today. Thank you very much and thank you so much for having the opportunity to give input. Thank you Jim and I believe you're speaking of Roslyn Creek Community Park, but certainly correct me if that's wrong. Roslyn Creek Community Park went to council. I guess it's two years ago now. Pre COVID for approval and they requested that we go back out and look at additional community and in that time we, the city has formed into districts and Roslyn Creek Community Park falls into council member Alvarez's district. So he, we are working with him and he is conducting a few listening sessions here and there and we'll be working with him to bring back the Roslyn Creek Community Park topic. We'll be back to the board of community services as well as council hopefully so that we can get a master plan and move forward with it and, and certainly if that doesn't give you enough information we have some contact information in the next couple of slides, and you can reach out and we can have a longer conversation. Thank you. This is new for followed by Jorge Innocencio new for I'm enabling your speaking permissions. You may state your name for the record if you so choose and then ask your question or make your comment. My name, can you guys hear me. Yes. All right my name is Melissa new for I am a teacher at Roslyn University prep, and we go to Roslyn Creek Elementary School. I've been here for months before COVID, and I tried to teach about climate change, and I'm also taking a master's in how to make change in the world, and how we get kids involved in nature, especially the community in Roslyn, and all of my research indicates that we need to spend more time in nature, like real nature, if we're going to have people care about it. So, we need more opportunities for that to exist in town and Roslyn Creek Community Park is an excellent location for that. So, I would like to see it be as untouched and preserved and let's invest our money in restoration. And also, let's get people to volunteer like I'd love to get my students to volunteer and let's let's create a program there, maybe even like education programs for the little kids that are right across the street. I'm organizing this stuff, and then I'd like to continue to organize it. So, I'll relinquish the rest of my time to say that I'd also love to work with land pass, just to throw that out there. So, and I do currently work with my best. Okay, I'm done. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jorge Innocencio, Jorge I am enabling your speaking permissions. Please provide your name for the record if you so choose and provide your question or comment. Hi, yeah, thank you. My name is Jorge Innocencio. Thank you for hosting the meeting today I just had a couple quick comments and a few questions as well. The first one is I like to advocate to expand her park. I live right by it. And if you drive there on the weekends it is. It's always been full right now. It's still full which is not great but even before COVID it was always full there's a homemade volleyball court there. There's always a basketball tournaments going on and I think we really need to expand that volleyball court. It's a homemade one and I think it'd be pretty simple not simple but it'd be great if the city could embrace that and create a volleyball court, expand the basketball court and just expand Southwest Park in general because it really is a community hub, especially on weekends and as a previous caller said, the park, the parking lot there is at capacity, almost every single weekend so I think that's a great opportunity for Measure M. I also like to advocate for to see if we could use some measure and money for the Colgan Creek Trail I know it's been planned. It goes right through a ton of neighborhoods, neighborhoods that I live in and it'd be great if we could walk along that creek. It's a great opportunity there. Finally also like to advocate for a public swimming pool I know that's not with Measure M but I just needed to voice that because my little brother takes swimming lessons at Finley and I know it's kind of a pain for my parents and everyone to get them out there. Finally, sorry, I have a lot to say here. The southern part of the city is growing tremendously. And I don't, I don't really know if you have a slide comparing how many acres of parks we have in Southwest and the Southwest Quadrant. I attended a previous meeting and the acres of parks here are small I know we're working on it but I think that needs to be a priority always because I want more nature parks I want more parks I think the bottom line is, we need more parks in South Santa Rosa. And finally, I'm sorry I know the beginning part of the meeting we had a lot of youth showing up. And I'd like to encourage them to, you know speak up if you want soccer field if you want more programming for your siblings. Now it's time to say and you know it's, it's great to hear from everybody here in the city. So, again, thank you. And Jorge, and I just, I also want to say that we love to hear your ideas whether or not, you know, funding can occur with Measure M or not because I will say even prior to measure and coming on this is something that we internally in Brecken parks have been wanting to do is come out and get information about what the community would like to see within Brecken parks. So I appreciate hearing all the ideas. Even if Measure M funding alone might be pushing the envelope with with that. We can certainly we'd like to hear from you that it's important, and we can continue looking at that even outside of Measure M. So I appreciate that and I appreciate you asking our youth to speak up. It is this is a really great opportunity for everyone to, to hear you and not just hear it from the city and not just see it as part of a data set that comes out later but to actually hear your voice. And I feel free if you would like to like to speak up and I'll turn it back to our host to see if there's any additional questions or comments. Yes, our next speaker is Alma Diaz Alma I'm enabling your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and ask your question or make your comment. I'm Alma Roman Diaz. And I'm a mom, I'm a mom in the Southwest neighborhood. I live near the Dutton Meadows. I've been calling about the park that is proposed right there in the corner of Bellevue and Dutton Meadows. And then with all the new housing that's coming in I think it's really important that on in this area that we have more works. And as we all know, the Southwest Park, it's, it's full on weekends, it is completely packed and, you know, I think more attention needs to be put there. And with what Jorge Inocento said about having a swim park, I mean that would just be for a lot of our families that live on this side of town, going to Finley is not an option to get swimming lessons and it's so valuable for our kids to have that opportunity to to learn how to swim and to have a swimming center in our area. And those are my comments and I'd like to see more of a timeline. As to when, when, when do you think these parks can can actually happen and they can become reality. The other thing I was going to ask is about the survey. Are you doing the survey. Are you going to post the information as far as different quadrants because I noticed when when you asked the survey wasn't particularly about Southwest. But I wanted to answer my question, particularly about the Southwest community. And when they were asking, it was a very general question for the surveys that you made, just about the Santa Rosa in general, but I'd like the information to be kind of, I guess dissected more into the different areas, the different quadrants and Santa Rosa. And that those are all my comments. Thank you Alma and I'll start with the last question you had first and let you know that we did in that part of the survey where you told us where you live. That's how we'll be separating out the responses we're getting so it's been a request also the Board of Community Services member that we present information this way as well. So it's really helpful when we're understanding where the information is coming from that we're collecting so you'll be able to see it by quadrant and we'll probably break down the information, much further than even just by where we're conducting as well when we come back to the Board of Community Services so thank you for that. And as far as a timeline of what we'll see stuff in relation to measure M it's a 10 year window, which is why we're, we're, you know, really pushing these meetings and pushing this information we really want to hear from you right away, so that we can actually do something with it. We have eight years left which seems like a long time, but in the scheme of doing projects, it can be really slow. So, we hope that you'll see something in the next year to physically from it I mean some of the things you're seeing right now with the dedicated funds for measure M are the recovery of coffee park. We're wrapping up some of the other fire damage parks as well is taking its time. I hope that you can see some physical implementations of these things sooner than later but definitely within the next eight years for sure when it comes to measure M. And I, I hear everybody who's saying the Southwest Park is is packed I know when as a staff member when we're trying to go there. We're always trying to find time so we can go there so we can find parking for ourselves. So I hear you. It's a well loved park, which is really exciting. And I hear all the interest in in in the need for in the Southwest as well as some of the commenters that it is. If you look at the back at that map that we had earlier. South the Southwest part of the city has been our portions of it have been in the county longer so the city is gearing up and there are not a new parks plan so it's it's going to be exciting times in the Southwest for sure. Okay, so I know I can talk forever so I'm going to turn it back to our host to see if we have any more questions or comments. Thank you. Our next speaker is Sylvia Langen. Sylvia, I am enabling your speaking permissions in just one moment. Let me find you again. Please state your name for the record. If you so choose and then ask your question or make your comment. Hello, my name is Sylvia Langen. Can you hear me. Yes, thank you. Yes, I, I would like to make a comment. With all the turmoil that is going on in our country right now. Mental health has become a problem and I think having nature and having natural spaces for the youth and for all the city sense is very important and I think that's why I would advocate for having some nature of natural parks in the Rosalind area in Southwest area. And so that's my comment also I work with some students and with the biology teacher school we participate and we go to the Rosalind Creek Park and we do work there while this year we are in distance learning but we usually work there so it is a great opportunity to learn about nature in a natural environment. I think you should preserve and you should take care of that environment. Thank you. Great thank you I appreciate that and I'll look to our host do we have any more questions or answers. I mean questions or comments that we can participate in and help answer. I see no other hands raised. There are a couple of q amp a in the q amp a feature that I wanted to ask out loud. One came up earlier in the presentation when we have the slide about how many parks are in the Southwest quadrant and the attendee was curious how that compares to other cities. Okay. Let's see I'm unmuted okay. The amount of parks I'm going to try to go back to so we have 13 parks in the Southwest quadrant where we own property. And compared to the rest of the city there is 108 parts so it's pretty it's a pretty low amount. One of the things we're saying is that Southwest the Southwest area of Santa Rosa is the next area that will be I think as far as up and coming with parks and development. Because a lot of the other parts of the city have been incorporated for a while or have been part of the city for a while and I've had development sooner. I don't have an exact number per quadrant with me tonight. But certainly we'll have we can have that information available for you if you reach out to us. But it is an area the Southwest is an area where we definitely see a reduction compared to the other areas of the city. And that's again that's due to how we collect fees we collect fees when when folks put in residential developments and so when that happens we collect more funds in the Southwest which allows us to then go back out and do more parks and and have more parks there's another community park that's planned for Southwest Community Park out by the former airport airport site or airfield site. There's no land we don't own anything yet but if you can recall from our general plan map there was a tree shown on the map and that means that there's a larger community park that's even planned out there so we anticipate some pretty large amounts of growth in in the Southwest as far as parks and hopefully that gives you a basic sense of it and certainly we can give you finer details if you can reach out to us. And then look back to host and or was there another relates to that and she actually asked it aloud. But I'm not sure that what you answered respect in respect to measure and and I think she was more curious about the little red trees on the map the proposed parts in the Southwest. I like is that part property purchased how long will it take to develop any of those properties then after purchase acquisition. Right so we we own Rosalind Creek Community Park. It's not developed yet so that's that's a piece of property that we own the last part of the park was purchased in 2018. We also own property at the corner of Creek Park Street and Mojave Street, which is near the intersection of of her or Bellevue and Dutton, but just it's really near the corner Creek Park Lane and Mojave streets just up for there it's a it's two acres that we own there's plans to develop it further it's been very difficult for us to purchase any additional land there from the landowners. So if we aren't successful with that we plan to just go ahead and develop what we have which is about two acres we can fit a playground or something smaller there in that park but we also own a sliver of land that isn't attached to any street or anything yet. So as developers come in, that's how we're getting land a lot of times they'll say well, we're not going to pay in lieu fees we're going to give you this piece of land. And a lot of times it takes several pieces of land to make an entire park. So that's what we own right now that isn't developed that I'm aware of in the southwest if that helps answer that questions, and then the other trees, the other future we do not have that land yet. So hopefully that helps give a little bit of perspective there's certainly a lot that needs to happen in the southwest in the future. And I'll turn it back to our host was there any other questions or comments from the from the chat or anybody else that has questions or comments. I have two additional speakers maybe three now. Our first, our next speaker is Kimberly Burr. We have enabled your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your question or comment. Thank you yes my name is Kimberly Burr. And for many years, we have been very protective of the neighborhood we've worked on, you know, restoring it, cleaning it and protecting it and the and the creek that runs through it. So we're committed to seeing that that area stays natural it's a rare remnant of the Laguna wetlands areas and I think it's important to sort of set that one into a new category or a separate category of park that is natural. So I appreciate if you guys would seriously consider that and not put asphalt and skateboard parks through there if possible. We know that those are popular and we think that there are better places for those and we would really encourage that developers be required to set aside larger acreages, not pocket parks that just seems like an insult and does not help communities does not help the residents. And I think it's an unfair impact on the locals. So, I think the city needs to, you know, increase what they require of developers in lieu of other impacts that they are going to be causing I guess, and so I think that we would recommend that this area be preserved as a natural area for people in the area and for kids. And thank you very much for considering that as part of an overall conservation measure that benefits the community and the natural environment. Thank you very much. Thank you. The next speaker is Larry Hansen. Larry, I've enabled your speaking permissions you may move forward with your question or comment. Yeah, hi, actually, I was allowing some time here because Kimberley is with me and she wanted to talk and didn't have you set up so it was just a kind of a placeholder. Again, I appreciate your presentation. We're watching it. And we're looking forward to your further discussion on these items. Thank you. Our next speaker is Claudia followed by Alma. Claudia, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Please feel free to offer your comment or question. Thank you. I was just wanting to check in about the bus service, and it's not in the mention of Measure M funds but has there ever been discussion about a loop for Finley Southwest Towers Park and maybe one or the other bigger parks so that youth can ride for free without having all the other bus stops in between? Not just for youth, I'm sure lots of people would use it. That's all. Thanks, Claudia, and I will certainly share your comment received tonight with our transportation folks who run the bus system. I have not heard that comment before from a parks meeting and I think it might be something we would want to ask the citizens oversight committee with if funds could be used for buses like that. I'm not sure. I think we could probably use funds for that if it was specific to taking youth to a program and we have a, we use the trolley system. Looks like a trolley. You might have seen it around town. The recreation team uses that to transport participants in the programming that they have when they're doing excursions or things like that. So certainly I will bring this up to our transportation group and we have it here as a comment. So I appreciate that. Our next speaker is Alma Diaz. Alma, I've enabled your speaking permissions. You may go ahead and ask your question or provide your comment. Oh, thank you very much. I just listened to you say that you might scratch the Mojave Park and I beg you not to. We do have a lot of new houses that are going on that are getting built on Dutton Meadows and that is in very close proximity to that part to where that future park would be. I've been telling all my neighbors as a proposed park because I do live right down the street from that proposed park and let me tell you we need the park. We've got an apartment complex, a Burbank Housing Apartment Complex. We've got some, I believe it's sweat equity projects going on. We've got more houses that are being built on this road. So I beg you do not scratch that park. It is greatly needed in this area, greatly needed. And with that, I yield my time. Thank you, Alma, and hopefully this will make you happy. We, I'm sorry if you heard scratch we are not scratching that park at all. It is definitely there and it's going to be a park forever. We just haven't been able to develop it yet so we want to expand it and and and provide additional space for that, for that park so it's there, it's going to be there. So we're looking to do something with it in the coming years. So hopefully that helps. Are there, I'll look to our host then are there any additional questions or comments from anybody yet. I see no other hands raised. Are there any other questions. I'm not seeing any hands. There's no more in the zoom toolbar. Okay, so hopefully we got to all of your questions and let's go ahead and look at the next slide then I think it's our last slide. For those of you that have hung on till the end thank you so much. I know this is everyone's very very busy and it's tough to attend these and I really appreciate your time to be here with us tonight and participate it's so important. Certainly if there's anybody you know out there that still needs to participate or would like to participate. We do have our information at SR city.org parks for all I know I keep saying that but it's so important that's, it's a fantastic tool for the community to use it's got all the video presentations and survey is there as as well. Hopefully we'll collect quite a bit of information and then if you have additional questions or anything else we also have an email address. You can call me and or at SR city.org and our phone number area code 707-543-3774 and so that's going to go to Emily and or our park planner assistant who is one of our hosts tonight. She's really working hard on this project and there's so much that's required to go on behind the scenes she's helping doing that. For us tonight but she's also going to be collecting all this all this data that from the website as well as tonight. So I just wanted to let you know thank you and then conversation. I'm not going to end here to keep us keep us in mind and if you have anything else to add. I'm certainly reach out and I'll look back to our host Omar not to put you on the spot but if you have anything else you wanted to say to the group. Let us know. You know I just, you know, again, thank you. Thank you for taking your time. It's, you know, I, we all have a lot on our minds. You know, staying safe is one of them. You know right now I got kids to pick up but this is important, you know, and I really want to thank you all for for taking the time again to actually come out. I will have a, you know, where I go on some of the other things I wanted to come up as, you know, everybody here. This is an ask from me. Go out and ask somebody, somebody else somebody that you know that might have not been here. This is the best way to actually get get this information across like as we saw in the survey word of mouth is huge and so maybe take the time and go out and look for look for somebody that has that did not participate maybe help them out. You know, my information will should be on here, and you can also reach, reach out to me if folks, you have any suggestions on how we can get the word out more as well and so I just want to thank the, you know, again, all of you, the panelists. You know, obviously, you know, the interpreters as well for actually for their work. This is huge. This is huge for us. We try to do our best in order to get the word out. And also, while folks are here that they understand kind of that that their voice is important, you know, that their suggestions are important and then you know how we can follow, follow up with this. Also, I just, you know, again, a plug for, you know, continue the continuation of the survey will continue to be on. You know, live until April 8, you can you can always go to looking looking for the actual did I move the email. Oh, it's our city.org parks for all. Yeah, so, you know, it's it's it's going to be live and so please just get the word out help us get the word out. And yeah, and I think during this time, you know, COVID, you know, the hard times that we're doing, you know, I think just the pandemic overall has almost forced us to reach out to nature and see and see what, you know, and help us out in some way. I've been struggling to stay neutral, you know, kind of just show my neutrality. But as your comments are coming in, I live in the area. You know, I hear your I hear what you're all saying sometimes I agree. There's there's there's some motivation there as well, just to hear. This is one of the other other reason why lamp has gone above with Bayer is that that you know all the needs that that have been echoed here. I think, you know, we're, we're thought of a long time ago. I worked with a lot of you. I've seen you all out there and it's and thank you for, you know, again, coming out here and voicing this. I hear folks want to volunteer, make us work, you know, reach out to us. You know, the right now we have summer programs, we have spring break programs for children for youth I hope youth are still hearing me on this. If you want to pass out that information please get a hold of us. If there are, if there is more need and we can accommodate that's that's a good problem to have and so we can try to advocate for that and work with different partners to actually make that possible. Okay, I've always said Bayer Bayer, hopefully if you don't if you're not familiar with it get connected with it with land paths, because Bayer is part of a network of now almost 2000 acres throughout the county. I don't like to see it as a six acres. There's a sibling park in Moreland. And so I really want to know if you folks are looking for that open space that you know that that natural environment please let us know please let us know of ideas. So that's how our programming starts with ideas from the public. That's how I like to believe, you know, that that is how and just push us on that. So thank you all again have a great night. You know to everybody that's been that's holding on. Again, just suggestions and then help us, you know, push this information through. Hopefully this information go through. I mean there's always, you know, things that we can, you know, ourselves, we can help out with. And, and still, you know, there is an avenue to actually not just through this right now this space. But, you know, hopefully there's there's ways that we can actually, you know, echo this in the in the city hall chamber some day where we can actually meet. And then I'll invite you that one once we're able to meet that we can actually meet out there somewhere and, you know, break some tortilla and breaders, you know, at some point. Thank you very much and have a have a great