 Thank you for letting me speak today. I am here as a member of Stam with our safe brain group, a citizen action group dedicated to preserving long-long spoken space in my period areas to ask for your support in making long-long spoken space sales tax perfect. Long-long past the open space sales tax of two cents on every $10 purchase in 2000 and voters extended the tax in 2007. The tax goes toward the acquisition, maintenance, and enhancement of open space within one hour. This includes such things as care development against exterior costs. Currently, the tax is set to sunset in 2013 as open space, or they lose it for up. If the open space sales tax is allowed to lapse in 2034, no resources are available for the future. We're urging our city council members to place a measure on the Colorado. In 2022, Douglas County voters approved an extension of their open space sales tax by walking 87%. Just last year, Boulder County voters and Colorado Springs voters approved their own open space sales tax extension measures by Lord Morgan. We've been collecting signatures of support and have likewise added the overwhelming and positive response. Since residents are already contributing, making the tax permit will not use an additional financial burden. Additionally, there is precedent within Boulder County and elsewhere in Colorado for extending a permanent open space sales tax. Lafayette in 2017 and Grand County in 2023, both voting to tap their open space sales tax permit. Putting this measure before the voters this year means a greater turnout since this is a presidential election. It also capitalizes on the momentum shown by other municipalities, as well as addresses and anxiety felt by many long-locked residents as they look around to all development within the last few years. Again, we ask for crack support as we look to get this measure on the ballot. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. I do also have a number of standards there. Can you repeat? And again, we're looking for support on crack, which in turn, we hope, will end up with support from the city council to put this on the 24 ballot. Open space is a hot issue as, you know, jams throughout the state of Colorado. Three within Boulder County if you include Erie Boulder and Louisville. Those passed by an average of 75%, like I said, we believe that the extension of the open space and making a permanent sales tax will help this work group that you'll see today the accomplishments that the open space and the land management group have made in 2023. But with these additional dollars, knowing they're coming in on an annual basis will certainly help the capital development project group knowing what their work plan is for the next five, 10, 25, I'll say 50 years. Hopefully, our open space acquisitions are in perpetuity. So with that, we greatly appreciate crack support. We'd love to see it on November 24th agenda. And 2034, why 2024, why now? And I just again want to say because it is a presidential year that's on voter turnout is high. And so we want to have everyone participate and have a chance to weigh in on that. And also just the idea that getting people thinking about it by being on the ballot helps raise awareness about open space. And so it really kind of is a win-win. If by chance it didn't pass, then we can always try again in 2028 or something. So that's why it's kind of struggling with high and high and like you said, people look around and like, oh my gosh, all this building. So just to raise awareness and really participation in terms of voter turnout. So yeah, crack support would be great. And we'd go far to help us convince council which hopefully won't be a hard sell. Thank you so much. All right, well, we won't be able to discuss this item today, but I'm pretty sure and I can check with Jeff that we have in a future month discussing this exact item. So if anything, we'll just make sure to try to push it up so that you don't miss the deadlines to make sure it gets onto the code, potentially get onto the same stuff. It would be helpful to kind of do a little presentation if we could have some time for that or something, you know, let us know that. Yeah, you can talk about that at all points. Anything you want to add on top of this? No, yeah, I appreciate people showing up. I think, again, as Dan mentioned, I think the season of great work this group is doing and our presentation, that's it. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's going to be covered here, right? Okay, great. So let's move on to old business which is approving the 2024, is that in the packet? Pardon me, everybody, I want to make sure. So if I have this directly to you, we don't technically need to prove this now, right? We could do all of it up, necessarily proving this and discussing this in the future alone. Okay, so that is an option for us or we can make a motion now to prove agenda calendar as from the packet. Maybe we'll open up for discussion. Do we have any thoughts, Paige? I believe it would be good for us to have recommendations if we have any budget recommendations to have those into count up budget recommendations on in April, but I think we would need them in March. April probably is a good too late, I just think it would be, I think Mr. Bell would probably have an idea of when he's starting to move forward with this. So, painters say mark agenda. Yeah, okay. Let's get to Justin and the others. Yeah, last year when we talked about the board with you we talked about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and that got, like that wasn't the board retreat thing, but then it was mentioned that we would include it in the year's agenda, but we haven't and it's not on this year's agenda. So. It's for a potential board retreat that was on year group March. No, like last year's board retreat, it was supposed to happen before the, you know what I mean? So, not the board retreat, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, I'm probably not speaking so that anybody can understand me. So that was a suggested topic and that topic was vetoed in favor of making it an agenda item for during the year. Well, it's neither was a topic for or in it's not appearing on the news, so I think we're able to just make sure it gets on. And then the open space. Oh, yeah. I don't know. We have, I'll check it up. I'll check with the leaders now for sure. Okay. I think that's, I think that's when we put the next stuff that's possible. Okay. That's great. So August is, okay. Yeah. If you think about what how the city council races go, you get the have to have a suitors will be around the 24th or so is that, is that by the end of the 17th span? As you did the beginning of September or so, you'd have to have suitors and so that would make sense for putting something on the back. Is that it's happening to the city clerk by August. So July is usually. They're talking about it in July, which I definitely pushed it up so we have time to get to them. Yeah. I'm working on this. I'm working on this. Yeah. I'm working on this. Yeah. So I captured three recommendations. Okay. The other case. So April, that'd be good. April, that'd be good. So I've captured three recommendations. One is so to move the 2025 capital group project subject from April up to March. And the second is to move the June, the July open space tax discussion from July up to June. April. April, I'm sorry. April, yeah. And then the third area was the top of the idea and I topic, which we do not have on agenda at all. And we have lots, we have lots of agendas to make sure we get that. Yeah, Taylor's here. Okay. Fantastic. The agenda, as a man with those three changes, we just discuss and we have to figure out exactly what we can do now. Or we can table this pretty important a lot and bring it to a future, a future of the day. I think you just fixed everything there. You okay? So we accept it as amended. So I have a second? Stop, I'll take that. All in favor? Good. That's everybody. Okay. So those three changes will come out in more detail. Okay, awesome. Let's move on to new business. And there's again, two items of the middle line in the board retreat. We're gonna skip over for this week for this month. New business, we probably were all here for a day. The 2020 new parks, open space and recreation and accommodations, who's gonna kick us off for this? I'm gonna kick us off. It's actually Paige made this recommendation and had it kind of at the end of the year recap. And trying to re-end the year is tough because we're still collecting data and we're still trying to get stuff in to really get a presentation together. Council asked for stuff. Obviously the manager's office asked for stuff. So this right here really is a compilation that I think we put together that from here on out, we can pull stuff out. Also I think we'll be able to pull out throughout the year as people ask for information and hopefully not have to re-create information. The other thing that I asked and hopefully it's a good chance that we can get out and share with people who know what we're doing here. And the other first one. But if it's what you want, just sit right here. So much stuff. But you can't live with this one. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. So you guys, you've met most of our two women having names. I'm the manager of the parks and house development team. Steve Ransweiler is one of our senior project managers. She's been in the city for 24 years. Tatiana City next to me is another senior project manager. She's been here for four months. Trisha is not able to come tonight. Another senior project manager five months with the city. And then Lisa Chant joined us. We grabbed her from the operations team to move to our parks and house development team. She's been at the city for six and a half years and she's also a project manager. So we go to the next slide. So what do we do? So we do a lot of planning. So we do some master planning whenever those are coming up to start thinking about what we're gonna do in the future with some of our park space. We do a capital improvement program planning annually for projecting our projects out within the next five years with regard to designing construction. We engage the community during that design and construction phase to solicit that public input. We work with our partners within Parks and Natural Resources to use other outwards departments within the city and organizational groups within the city as a whole to conserve our environmental features within our parks. And then we also provide oversight of our policies and procedures that guide our park design, our trail design. And then oversight of those with the development group within the city on any of the developments that are occurring within the city. And then several on our team are also technical and subject matter experts on days related to parks and trails. The accomplishments for 23. So 23 was a really great year for this team. There were four new team members who were working in that group. So the manager position was added, hired a new senior PM to fill an existing vacant position and then hired two more positions to support the 85 projects, the senior PM and the PM2. We also managed to restart some projects as a bottom hole, two of which, one is Kensington Park Restroom, which had been sitting outboarded for several years. And Nino Gallo Neighborhood Park, getting that design completed and then moving towards construction. We also managed to kick off some new projects in 23. So accomplishments of 23, we did complete the Luma disc golf and irrigation improvements. And then we also completed the relocation to accomplishments for 23. So we also had some challenges in 23. So at the beginning of the year, we had one senior project manager. So we approved the addition of some positions to support the work at hand. There was a lot of money to be spent on these parks, but there was no one to actually manage the projects to complete the projects. So then the onboarding, they started with the team. So we started onboarding, let's see, I onboarded in March and then Alisa onboarded in June and Trish onboarded in September and you came out forward. So it was a very busy onboarding year. And you know with that, you realize the lack of standardization that might exist in a department that had essentially been a maximum of two people that down to one person. So there were a lot of things that we had to work through in order to continually train people through projects going and looking at the two people. So in 24, we have some great goals and achievable goals. So right now, as we're seeing it out, just showing portions of the bearing wall sensing. And I have since rebuilt those walls with new door and it will be new fixtures and accessories. Then the old guard fleet industry and bridge improvement. So Alisa, this one out of the park, she got the design complete contractor on. And what was it? You finished it early, like a week early. I think you finished last week or something. So now that bridge, if you look at, I think that picture on the right, you see there's a bunch of bump, actually going up onto the concrete, it's kind of a rough transition. It's not accessible. As well as the underside of that bridge, the abutment was starting to, the earth that was holding it up was starting to wash out. So it was an unsafe area. And so they came in and made necessary repairs. Did not require replacement of the bridge, but just some reconstruction of portions of it. And now that's reopened to the public. And then, who's that bridge? Then is it the end of longs? Yeah. He said the longs could get a little cross-section of the escape area. It's just a little bit sad. Right near our new school. Yes, yeah. We will have the completion layout, one of many that are complete, but can be restructured by recreation as the time frames. That one slated to be completed in December of this year. I mean, I believe it's starting to go up around the state. And so we're actively in the construction phase at this point. So we'll start to see some dirt moving on that part in the next couple of weeks. That one slated for completion in August, September. So also at 24, we will reach the end of the Thompson part for removal. So that is a new playground, which is shown in the graphic below. Improvements to the building with regard to the fixtures inside. Improvements to the existing paths between the park to make them more accessible and replacement of the park shelters. Then sprinkles to phase three, the trail that connects from Union Reservoir to Sandstone is slated to be completed in May now. So that was, and then we have dark park one improvements, which are, and then there's going to be some, I believe some turf for this year. That one is at Francis. Construction will be underway for these two parts in 24. It won't be completed since early 25. That's Fox Meadows Neighborhood Park and Nino Gallo Neighborhood Park. So Fox Meadows, I think starts construction in June. And Nino Gallo is, was out to bid, it was not awarded and we're working through putting that back out on the street. So more to come on that time. And then let's see. Also this year, we will be underway with design and construction for Roosevelt Park to make a replacement and a dump fitness course installation and improvements to the Rose Garden. Then Gardenacres Pedestrian Bridge will be replaced as well as some trail upgrades and another bridge that is in dire need of a replacement. We'll be using one of the store bridges that we established for pastures to be in that location. So Parks and Trails Goals aside from the projects is to work on our teamwork field. We've already migrated our resource to a collaboration platform where we analyze project management tools across all the work projects. And then also working to revise our park guidelines and then also working with others in the city to overhaul the design and construction standards that are on the city website. From a planning perspective, we're looking to utilize data to help inform where our priorities are based on data we can collect through different means that uses phone data as well as the total park outfit to first see this working on and wearing that with a vision on line there. And then we're also working towards putting some time to really validate the scope and the cost of the upcoming CIP program that we'll be submitting to the council. That is it for Parks and Trails Development. So if you guys have any questions, you can answer the question. Unless you wanted to say anything, I didn't know what you were doing. Any policy or just because like a lot of stuff for everyone to take and I want to say, we'll just break down that. Are there any comments or questions from the discussion? And there are. I have a quick question. Wait a minute, I just wondered what happened with the envelope, but that it really was, if you could say anything more about that. I don't know what I think it is because of the busy process, but it wasn't awarded. And let me follow up with you after I figure out what I can say. That's it. With this group, I'd like to throw up these out there for Aaron, especially to that, certainly also how bringing in a new sort of individual and really one of the goals comes down, there's work we've produced, trying to enhance and improve the way we engage with our community, looking at the things we've done in the past that haven't worked and looking at ways we can do better. So that goes from our department goal all the way down to not someone that actually has that time to work back for the year that we have to do so. With the increased capacity for the five program, so does really kind of, you know, exciting, is there any plan to take this and go to like times call or go to the public and talk about the accomplishments of hiring new staff? And especially, we were always nervous about spending money on taxes and that sort of thing. That's a big suggestion. Yeah, and especially as we're gonna go back and ask for now we have the people and now we need money, you know, in order to keep that going. But as David had mentioned, we put together our work plan and that's our plan to keep the CID that will be presented. And how do we get to where we need to be through all of this happen? On the timeframe, that was a lot of the eight months and five years. But that's a good suggestion. Yeah, I appreciate that. I think we have to do a better job of kind of figuring that out. I think we will throw a commissary because I think, again, for council and the community to say, hey, we asked for additional money and you're spending my things that to actually get to see work getting done is something people go and pop and get to see it. We get to do something and here's the results of that. So I think that we've been official, so thanks, Scott. After last call that I wanted to take a little, didn't quite understand how we had left with the sales tax bill, make sure that we tutor our own board and make sure that we show all the things they're doing because a lot of these people were just ready to say, well, yeah, you can have a vote right now. The community needs your sort of response. Show that so that then people go, well, that was a part of the mandate for the court. Oh, that need to be replaced for forever. Well, it doesn't come for free. And so we- We hopefully see an accessory, but we haven't been actively in communications to keep our website updated with our projects and what's going on because that was the piece that was kind of doubted before. I think it's a great decision. Great. Any other comments? Questions? Okay. I'll move them then. I'm here. This seems more like humans. Okay, that's a problem. Go ahead. So my name is Chelsea Wilson and when you see remaining things that the Reign Deer Division focuses on, so outreach and education, resource protection, code enforcement, and public safety. So making sure that we are good customer service representatives for and drawing their vote. For law enforcement or code enforcement, making sure that emergency response, wildfires, suppression, and water rescues. Next slide. So our staffing currently, we added my position. So I'm one of the new senior Rangers. I've got Bryce, who's going to be taking over more of the Parks, Open States, and Trails Division and be taking over Union Reservoir and then we have the price of that button off. We have two Rangers who fall under the Ranger II category and then three full-time Rangers who are under the Park Ranger I category and then we're hoping to have an interview process. One of the major ones, especially for Union Reservoir is we did 1,345 of those votes came from positive waters, that means that they were needed to send over to St. Brain to be deconned and get rid of any aquatic nuisance species that they had. We did a lot of dog in restricted area contacts, especially over at Button Rock Reserve. It's 97%, 3% of those ended up in a summons or a ticket. 95% of those contacts were Ranger-ditiated so we're getting out there and talking to people and making ourselves in our presence known. As far as emergency response goes, we did 74 vote rescues, which is down from 2022. However, June weather was pretty rainy so we didn't have a lot of people out in the water. So it was 160-something in 2022, but that's good for us because last year and we've some 80 low-rober situations. Oh, and as far as education and outreach goes, Rangers initiated and started the interpretive outreach program and we're able to get out. Next slide please. So this map, it might be a little hard to see but that's all of those statistics that we just read to you in the map form. So if you follow the dots, you can kind of see where our medical rescue, the green ones are tagged camps. So you can basically just follow the same brain using our dots, you know exactly where the river is, a lot of action up at McIntosh, a lot of action at that South Shore Union and then Sandstone would be our hottest spots, but also you can have something on the track for you at Roosevelt. That's kind of where we made most of our contacts. So it gives you an idea of where all of this action is taking place. And that's a great interactive map and we've worked together so we can hover over the last three months and give E.V. Like this map is the exact same thing, just up at Button Rock, so you can watch. But again, blue is code enforcement, orange is rescue. By September, that was up to 90%. So if nothing else in this PowerPoint side, that's probably the most proud thing is we got up to over 90% of people have life jackets and you feel a lot better about people that are creating out there. And it kind of justified that I'm riding around on a wave bar and not just ripping it up in half an hour. I'm being affected by my job. But yeah, that worked out really well. So part of that goes to Timber. Thank you for putting in that budget question even before I started. Great idea. It worked out really well. And that really was bringing to COVID times if you will start to spare time. Now we have an official point of impact in results of that. Just a little, pretty much permanently, sit on the side and it's, if you need to rescue one person right now, that is the best machine I've ever used. I can't rescue 16 people that lived one time, like I can on a big boat, but if I have one person in the water that needs help right now, I think he is amazing. So I think I did six rescues on it last year, three of them were at Union and three were at McIntosh and there were two briefs and couldn't have gone better. Another accomplishment is we added the body and work cameras that's on it just right now. Still getting used to it. It's just a new piece of technology that I've used before. So you have to remember to turn it on first. It's a little more data keeping, admin work that we have the camera pointed to them that might change their behavior because they know that it's being committed, whether that's code enforcement, medicals, everything's on camera now. So, is there any body cams in the state? And good during a medical or rescue that we can show to our temporary seasonal staff too, is that a big advantage of it as well? Some more accomplishments. We did a lot of park improvements at Union. One of our rangers who's chainsaw certified, she has her SG-12 license to state today game inspection and we had a lot of tree work to do. We should put together this big project, top down some new growth and lend up our old cottonwood trees got us back up to state requirements. We built up a hand-launched beach over by how to workshop and give how to boarders and kayakers and how to place the launch run just to kind of spread people out so they're not all stacked up on the same beach. We're still in the process of removing those defuncts, campground loose. It's basically just ripping out half of that road and then once it's not a campground, basically it was just leading the people running over our sprinkler heads. There's already programming there so we'll have talk for the rangers, walk with the ranger, whatever the public is interested in, we'll put together. So we really haven't had the ability for the time to be before but now that we're getting more staff we'll put together educational programs like that. This is the accomplishments for the Button Rock Group so they implemented the preserve management plan which I think this group is well aware of. They fire-hardened a lot of their structures up there so they added the metal roots, fire-resistant sightings to prevent loss of facilities in the event of a wildfire. All those buildings have been approved by Boulder County wildfire partners. They also scaled up their forest stewardship program to reduce wildfire risk. I think during the process right now I'm hiring the forestry tech that they'll take some of that project load off the rangers. Yeah, they do a ton of forestry work up there. They have huge rigs, acres and acres of horseshoe work done. So I'm really proud of all the work that Price has done up there. It's been really, really impressive. Specifically, it's for the rangers to continue to a certain side of Rosevoir and myself advocating for Union Rosevoir Park improvements and funding and staffing and trying to make sure that we are a resource that people wanna come to and create things for people. Facilitate construction of the new lifeguard shed at Union Rosevoir to be demoing it and putting in some new guard checks and some EMS stations for them in storage. And then we want to continue to increase our trainings, get all of our temporary and new staff, the new defensive tactic trainings with our police department as well as continue people's wildland fire training and chainsaw training. So if there's any other tree removal projects that you need to work on, you've got more than one person that can do that. And... No, that last one. Last one, since I stressed it, okay, there we go. And then recertify with our fire department for our ice group. We're gonna, like I said before, lead some more ranger-led interpretive programming probably a whole time in these parks, trails and greenways due to our free staffing. I have less responsibility over unions and we have a field more here that police officers use in there able to take low level calls that are appropriate for us. They're also gonna pick it up and it's gonna get dropped and they'll actually visit. But we can take that off of dispatch and sign up for calls that are appropriate for us. So that's one that I'm working with Sarah Army OVD, so we're getting that going pretty soon. Looking to start a drone program for our natural resources department. So I think that'll have multiple uses whether that's surveying for weed management, if that's surveying hard to reach parts for camps. I think that would just be a good resource for a lot of people in our department to use. And as the district knows, I'm in the middle of revising and amending certain sections of Title 13 for our state. And for but not, what they're going to do is apply for more grant funding to continue their oratory projects of a button rock. Like I said they're in the middle of hiring their oratory tech position and then they're going to continue implementation of that button rock after that. And that's it for us. You guys have any questions for things like use please? Any time. I'll chair the drone program for that. Yeah. They're really fun. They are extremely useful. That is the state, local, national recognition, because we're working with the Ford service, we're in Boulder County, and we're doing a cross boundary project, so it's a great project that people have been amazed, and we've been able to get through the bureaucracy of this project, and the price has been a great lead in making sure the relationship is working. That's what it's really all about. Thanks for your time. Any other questions? I might have one actually. Good. Can you tell me more about the Interpreter Program? Is that something that's said to mean for a long amount? Yes. Yeah. It's pretty common in other departments. There are certain Ranger programs that just have dedicated Interpreter Rangers who are a little bit of patrol, but most of their focus is on new outreach building programs. You can get as formal as you want with it, if you want to sketch out a full-blown course. Kind of leading it up to the Ranger right now, what they're interested in, what they're educated in, what they're wanting to do. Where as for, you know, as Dan said, I'm sure Dan Wolfson, how this Ranger group here right now is really interested in making sure to making sure that it's really just kind of a last stop for that, so this is something we want to do, then really being told that we want you to do this, they really stepped up and said, this is how the one engagement community can get back. And I can quickly add to that, I have, I think, two meetings set up with two of your Rangers. They're Rangers, yeah. So Dan, yeah. So we'll be working with Rangers, the volunteer program, who are the Rangers to, at least for the more formal educational or individual events, we'll be supporting and providing locations. Great. One more question. So I saw the violations for Button Rock, Dollar University area is still pretty high. Is that just going down? Yeah. Coming down? Yeah. Yeah. I mean at first they did a lot of education, so you don't want to just put up a sign and start writing people. Right. Right. They did months of outreach. You have to pass four signs to break this rule. Yeah. Now you just don't care. Count down. And if you may get passed there, you're probably getting the summons. Has it been going down? Yeah. I'm seeing less spots. The context has been actually pretty good context because those people have made that conscious decision. So Rangers will say, well, this is my $100 entry fee to bring my dog here. I'll pay it whatever. Yeah. Ranger on Sunday who was told that, well, we thought that was just for May. No, it's just kind of. Okay. Thank you so much. All right. Let's keep on moving. Okay. That's us back here. Of course. Hi. I'm Danielle. I'm the open space manager and we're kind of a new group. So we're name that Dan Wolford's position to the land program administrator was split into two. So the work that he told was split into two or two. So the open space work called the open space manager project 2024. So we have a small but mighty. So we do a lot of things, some of our things to what Stephanie was going over in our workgroup, but we have a different specialty in that we focus on open spaces and regional trails, management plans. So a lot of the same things, but then we also house the volunteer and environmental education program. So this is a lot of words, so I'll just give you a minute to look at this. Also a little different than the parks and trails, we work on land management from a planning perspective, so some things you may not know, ditch boards and waterport folio management. I agree with you when we were considering buying something as with Boulder County, that we're starting to have affordable housing in the next slide. Some of our 2023 senior project manager, and we hired our temporary volunteer projects coordinator. We worked on some land management items. The biggest and most useful one was purchasing the Olander Farms last month, and completing the Montgomery Farms East just last month, December. And then in terms of project management, the Button Rock Management Plan, which was a huge plan that incorporated to me more aspects than just dogs. And so I just wanted to point that out and say that we are continuing to implement elements of this plan. We worked on that in 2023. Bryce did a lot of that work in 2023. And our work, we are almost there in 2024. That's a new trail project, an environmental education program. Taylor started this foreign partnership, which was a lot of big planning effort, and that will continue in 2024, really get underway, as well as the Nature Everywhere program. Taylor is going to talk a lot more about this, both of these items here in a little bit. And in 2023, we had 69 volunteer and educational events, which is amazing, considering the weather we had. And that also included family-friendly outreach and education events. So just to get a little further into our volunteer data, we like to compare numbers for the last few years to just kind of show what the 2022-70. And in 2023, a few more volunteer open spaces and parks as the volunteers put it equate to in 2023. So we have a lot of goals for 2024. We would like to get city council, crowd, city manager's office, others who are interested, and also out from behind the computers and out into our open spaces, so we can really show you what the program has accomplished since the early 2000s, and what we hope to do as we kind of transition from more of an acquisition focused to stewardship and management focus to the program. And we are interested in taking the idea of we've had some nice weather here already. So getting that tenant from our out there is important. We are working on some things in terms of agricultural leases. We have one at level six that needs to be renewed. We have various grant opportunities that we're looking at. The GoCo Planning and Capacity grant we talked to you about last year, and we did not manage to apply for it in 2023, but we're hoping with our increased capacity that that's something that we can do, help us with our planning. And then there's a public facing version of that that will also be helpful and go on the website. And the Colorado 26 multi-use trail, Sarah, and I'll call it to Juan Juan's court after the design is multimodal funding grant, similar to state grant 13. And then in 24 we just want to take a look at our open space master plan, which was finished in 2018. And take a look at it. Not dive into updating it, but analyzing it and looking at what we have and having accomplished from 2018 and then planning how we want to open this. Quickly, the sale is going to give a whole presentation, but we want to transition to a new volunteer. We've got a lot of opportunities for it. Any questions or comments from the board? Thanks. I'm wondering about that. Why do you guys start taking it to a master plan? And that might be something that would be interesting to have a conversation with. Okay, let's keep moving. That's me. I'm Scott Severs. I'm the senior wildlife technician for the ecosystem management division. And our manager Jim Crick is on a well-observed vacation right now. So I'm stepping in for him tonight. And all of our technicians are here. Think of us as the ecologists, biologists and technicians that manage open space as a sister of the other half of open space. And so we have Matias. This is the first time our work reunite and he's doing our contract. I kind of went over everybody, including Matias and the vegetation technicians. And then Matthew, who oversees our project knowledge, you sort of read over it, but do words for open spaces, nature areas, greenways, our wildlife and vegetation management. But we also provide a lot of public outreach. We're working on policies and procedures to make sure that our code within the city is consistent with state and federal law in terms of wildlife and weed management. We want to make sure that the city code is accurately reflects what is nationally or state recognized for changes. We also provide a call from engineering saying, hey, what about the squirrels in those trees? Better stewards of our properties. And then we also manage the West Nile virus prevention program. We do things like mining reclamation. And we also work in and with our partners from Older County and the state to make sure that we have congruent management projects. Things like what we are working on include like northern leopard truck. So here's some of our accomplishments in 2023. Nesting sites throughout town should have the nesting quality there. So we've been working on that all lunch. And then our vegetation crew has been really busy managing weeds, mowed 91 acres last year and sprayed 175 acres. We even tested goats, which was a lot of fun for us to see how they worked. A lot of restoration, especially at Macintosh and Dickens Farm with our volunteer channel. And then we worked a lot on with volunteers to manage trees for the protection beefers. And if you've seen a lot of trees and I know you've been out to help us paint, we paint the trees with a mixture of sand for the meters to which they do. And some of that one of the neatest ones is and we just dedicated it to with this family. So we're going to do a lot of road restoration plants and that's already not just us, but we'll have partners that can come and grow plants there as well. A lot of prairie dog barriers, that really helps us to manage prairie dog where we want them and where we don't want them. So that's very helpful. We assisted with the reclamation of oil and gas sites that have been plucked and left by oil and gas companies. They still have to come out and reseed and take care of those places so we watch and make sure that they're doing it to specs. And then let's talk about public outreach. We've provided six environmental education programs and we're going to work with our volunteers across the street with over 100 kids attended and Colorado Parks and Wildlife which we're really proud of. They're positive, negative or neutral. And we also are really interested in looking at native beef habitat as directed by City Council. We are a pollinator for calls. Again, I spoke a little bit about the Bank Swallow Habitat Study and we looked to maybe implement portions of that study. And I know that members of the Safe Rain Protection Group really were instrumental in getting that started and it's been a ton of fun to work on and we'll have some very interesting results to share with you. We're, of course, working on pre-doc management, very continuous management so that I can free Matthias and myself up. We have a big goal of trying to manage weeds and the crew was full, something that was really hard and as all of us are trained besides legally and safely around our customers, our residents. And let's see. We also have a city-wide prescribed fire management plan that is farmed. Those need a lot of TLC in their early years to get going. And we're also looking at two other codes to emphasize not just weeds and encourage native landscaping. And then for project management, we're going to build some additional barriers for pre-docs. We're going to look at some agricultural stewardship planning again with our sister-in-law, the open space team. We're going to look at reclamation oversight again, especially at the wholesome mind, just also community wildfire protection planning. How do you edit the weed code and what are you editing it for and how are we determining what's the doctors' weed? I am aware of weeds under some people's definition that instead of treating them with herbicide, we might weed them because they've been shown to be beneficial for pollinators. That when we talk about the weed code, that is something that I know that they're working on. So maybe saving some money and resources in that way and helping pollinators also. A lot of times, for example, dandelions have been listed in code as something that needed to be treated. Yes, exactly. So that's when we're trying to, dandelions really aren't crucial to trees anymore. And we'd like to say leave those and leave for a while for weeds. And then things I wanted to know for a lot of time. So that one's taking junction because a lot of it comes under our code. So we work with that group over there. So we're trying to work with them and maybe if we didn't have to treat those. And then also, again, it's trying to make sure that we're working to apply it across the board equally. So that would be like city planning and city code. Code calls on that kind of issue. Okay. Hey. Sorry about that. I don't know if it's going to be a question for you, David, or maybe you want to show that does the city have any particular goals for them to think that? I mean, I see that you're doing monitoring and collecting data, but I'm not aware that the city has any particular goals with regard to providing quality wildlife that was happening. Actually, we are guided by our city wildlife management plan that was passed in 2019. And it speaks specifically to connectivity, restoration of data, and that's one of our open spaces. She comes up here a lot. So we want to maintain those both in our open space documents and what's our goals and what do we need to do. And not that way, as Daniel talked about, looking at our open space national plan to say, what was in there? What have we achieved? And then what do we still need to get done? So before we go rewriting things and make me that why don't we get done where I have it in there before we start thinking about rewriting a plan. So a lot of this data question, a lot of these groups enough, they get it all the time when I push into data. And again, I'm trying to keep this short, but I just can't end up on this group. And Dan, from what this group started with, it was a lot of the acquisitions. It was a lot of these pieces of plays. And now we really have a staff that's diving deeper into how do we answer those questions to the community. You know, you talk about the open forum. People are talking about agriculture and local food on the pieces. So that's called the Coulter County. The real estate division is cold to do. And I think we're making a great slide on that. You know, Scott talked about open spaces being kind of their sister working group, but they are working for PD. They're working for the airport for those natural resource management pieces across the whole city, not to create habitat here that could actually be listed. We worked with our open space team, Sarah and Daniel, to work to reach their team trail extension from Sandstone Ranch to St. Graham State Park, which is a very prologically-sounded sound, because we have a lot of wildlife resources in that almost very wild section of our open spaces where older creed and same-brained creed come together. And so we work with them to help put the trail in the most environmentally sound place where... So, Paige, that's a lot of kind of word. I think one of the nasty work positions is because we have work-to-hit dot. I'd love to see the Wildlife Management Plan at some point on the bar. I think that would be... Website, I am going to work with these now in the near future. Okay, go ahead. Go crazy. Go crazy. Go crazy. So I noticed that you said they were testing or through-making with it last year that you plan a staying room for... Does that mean that we were successful and what we were trying to accomplish there? Yeah, we did see favorable results. We're looking to expand it. The main thing that we want to be as ecologists and biologists and technicians, we want to make sure that we're not putting them in a place and having them actually damage things, too, because you can go too far over the threshold and have a goat speak. That would be part and parcel of having providers. I did not have a soft dog, but couldn't help a buyer. Go bros. Go bros. Go bros. Really? LLC, yes. Really? Yeah. Just Tina would have that. He's out of work a little bit. Just one guy would bring that up. Great. Crazy. So it's like, yeah, make sure what's in there, what you want here, what you want here, what you say. That address your question as well. Go bros. Love, you all have that. Covered. Any other questions or comments on that piece before we keep you in? All right. Parts and parcel operations. All right. Good evening. I'm Timbert Tosti. I'm your parts and parcel attendant. So I've got the parts and forestry operations leadership team here. I've got all the great stuff they've done. For the year, I'm also going to provide an overview of kind of the next five years you were expecting to go. So here's our mission. To provide safe, clean, well-maintained, attractive public environments for use of all visitors to the parts system. Our vision is we really want to be a leading example of excellence in parts and forestry management. I don't want people asking what holders doing and a sustainable environment. I'll focus on open space when we do. We've got four temps sourcing about 87%. Who's not here tonight is our GIS technician. And she really does a lot of our mapping and inventory management. Ben Grotten oversees our horn culture team. About seven people up there. Chris Davis oversees our irrigation team. And then new this year. So Chris used to be the first year facility supervisor. We have a new facility supervisor position that started this year. He just started last week. And he's going to be dedicated to focusing on the facilities. And then Brett is the city first year. Very diverse group of people. There's some of the trainings there that we keep. So irrigation certified design, backflow testing, playground certifications. A lot like open space. Anyone that sprays is a qualified supervisor plus just collectible trucks. We're going to look at moving the feed back to the two coating portion. It's going to program a little bit better. All right, hopefully. We oriented to this slide real quick. So everything on the left is the business function. And then across the top is the year projects. We're projecting out for the next projects. And you look at 2023. So we requested a new grounds maintenance tech to help maintain Klover Meadows and Nino Gallo. And then we also requested that additional supervisor for really for all of the staffing that's coming on over the next five years. So we got the grounds maintenance tech to your position approved and we got the new supervisor approved. So for this year, with everything coming online, we're going to be looking at asking for three grounds maintenance techs for 2025 plus all the associated equipment. So trucks and computers and boots and pants and hats, all that stuff. But we've got this projected out really for the next four years. And then we're also keeping an eye on some of the, we're calling them global initiatives. So this is Smart City initiative, the EV conversion. So this year we can, we only got two of our full vehicles converted over, but we're getting there. We're also doing a lot of water-wise conversions and then equity is another big one. So for 2023 on the global initiatives, we did get 36 cameras installed, which was a big win. There's a couple out there in the park. So those are smart trash cans that allow us to do targeted collections. So we can log into a web-based system now and see exactly which trash cans are cool and then kind of send staff out and they can log into their phones and see what is full. So pretty cool. We're excited about that one. And then Kensington Garden was done and then myself and Natalie finished up a two-year snack on the equity team to help bring that into the park. So the equity team is a city-wide program. One of them is your individual component that you're going to be on the equity team. Hey, I'm having this really challenging cycle. It's a position that rotates throughout different departments of vision. We try to get people to sit on that to see if that's great. There's a lot of stuff up there. For me, the biggest piece, I'm sorry, if you want to go back to equity, you can. But for me, the piece on this is what Timber's really done, that top spot, you don't have to really have to read as much because Stephanie talked about it already. Those are those projects. For me, what I really don't want to have to be surprised in three years when we ask for two new positions. Because if we add X number of acres, X number of access assets, and X number of trails, we need to have the resources to take care of it. You can show that it's sort of... Spotless. So we had data from 120-year-old Algerian and then we were all getting to 18% city-wide. There's no target date for that. We had applied any of that funding. But really, there's other mechanisms in place. You try to hire this contractor, kind of a geo out of Arbata, that has a really nice system that you can look on an annual basis if you're having tree-panning changes. You can look at specific ways of targeting where you can find more trees and what you project with. But I will say, in terms of what the city manages versus what's on private property, we manage a very low percentage of that. So budging that needle really only happens when it's private development. And so the city code related to the development really drives that increase in tree-panning. It's not really our efforts to really put those trees into a construction form and helps even help. But there's currently not a whole lot of mechanisms. But the measurement is the project in public? Yes, in city-wide. So we mentioned this to David, but I know there are city and county dumpers that's been doing some work to invest specifically in community-driven private tree planting initiatives. And so we guys are out much canopy just because of an equity issue related to urban heat and climate adaptation. So it might be worth looking into that because there's grant funding around and just looking at the model of how they're doing that. Yeah, and we've been driving for that and haven't received any. We do have two programs that do support those types of efforts. One is our widely-popular R-Rage Resale, which we implemented in our programs last year to try to make it more equitable. So it wasn't just people who were home from this time to this time. It was a movement going through rec-tracting by tree. So now the leader is open for a week where people can enter the lottery. We all also work in dollars and needs a neighbor this year. Next year will be the landing for the last tree canopy specifically on private property since through a lot of time. I'd like to see incentivizing commercial property people that own apartment buildings the person that owns that is like the apartments on the street behind me, that there's not one tree and when my ash trees die the apartments would be completely unbearable and things like just incentivizing the for-profits and the donors. So our development code does so if there's some crew site plan for development it requires making a landscape. So that's something that if we want so I think this is going to be a challenge and it's through code enforcement to require them to replace those trees but the code does support that. It's, there's not really yes we can incentivize it but there isn't really a a stick for code enforcement for some of the plan trees. These are wide availability of trees especially with the Inquiry and Production Act on annual basis so I think it's going to be a challenge for the next 15 or 20 years to have Challenging to look at a 10 year timeline we've got the 5 year preset over the past couple years we've really worked on getting our yearly timeline set and each of the work function groups have to kind of be a quarterly or up to a status on the irrigation supervisor formally the irrigation and the solute supervisor like I said we just hired a solute supervisor who's going to be able to stress off of my play, thank goodness. Ordered a timeline the main thing we do obviously is irrigation startups, irrigation shutdowns we run the backflow testing for our sites, we have about 230 seed them repaired and certified through the state so the highlights we have is currently we run a computer rule program it came over here to actually run it to actually get a program built so that we can start reporting on it and understanding how much funding it takes to provide that service to the community games are happening where they're tagging that gets uploaded in a hot map so they can start doing a little bit more surveillance with that also ties in with the projects that we do the other big thing that we did this year is the you got me all lined up, sorry the big bellies we installed big bellies downtown I think for our staff it was the removal of trash cans down there so we moved about 25 trash cans in our downtown so it was a lot cleaner those big bellied trash cans were working tremendous for our staff decreases staff time to pick up that trash as well as report out how much trash that we'll pick it up there and how much time we're actually getting data from how much time our staff is saving one of these trash cans a couple other highlights one of the big projects that we've been working on started last year as we are replacing all of our tech which allows us at least for my world we have decreased our power of water usage by 10% in the last five years we can report out on that that's about it, two of our projects is under first municipality and have a program instead of Colorado I got a 10 to help me chance and then we did a bunch of lighting improvements to the Civic Center, I don't know if I noticed if you watch Civic Center at night again there's Asian infrastructure there so we improved all the lighting on the Civic Center next year with the help of the improvements that was going on with facilities to all upgraded LED lights LED fixtures another big component there is we made it all uniform so you don't have a 1975 light with a 1991 light with a baller light that's placed out randomly we did a photo assessment out there and decided we need to take it away and then we had the project but it's still through around that area so we moved it to the city force where it was down there so we drove some of that but it didn't have a good light candle I guess so it just again makes the park a lot safer at night for our facilities so that's where I just got back from a national setup conference but we've got a setup program going on that's really driven by our police force and Harold our city manager wants representation from all of our departments do you guys know what setup it is crime prevention through environmental design so it's how do we create spaces in public to be to lower crime so this is my second year doing it last year we sent what did we do with the conference this year we sent 8 people with the conference last year the conference I think had like 50 people who went through the nation this year had over 200 so it's grown we really want to do because we want our parks to be safe so we're working with Lisa so that's some of our achievements for the rules this year that's a pretty big number so that's over just about one a day if not more we pride ourselves in making sure sorry I don't talk a lot but that's what I do he's trying to sit there and click and get me off of it but we pride ourselves in the graffiti mobile program it's the hardest part of that we just want to come to the private property we've got to get it up and down in two weeks that's a nitty gritty way what I do I'm done talking I can only I have things like officer I'll keep a sense of support I don't know culture parks I don't think it's a living or non-living that's our job sometimes I take it so really for parks live it's about 680 acres parks management overall 340 of that is turf that is created so we're currently trying to system live last year I joined team where we focused on projects to start converting turf areas so we had last year we committed and under the waterfalls on the forestry water PD parks everybody was on it everybody had a piece of friends out there it was amazing and we have to do that over and over again in two moments I don't know how we're going to do that we've got a couple more projects here this year Elena to convert and working on a project with a national ties then based on use and stuff gardens so team is working on our work projects since we managed to come up with our projects out there yep we've been doing generalizing government here at the Roosevelt park we've got our national recognitions our recognition on that other two with the national recognition our landmarks but it's over here actually can't work anyways so Natalie put together this nice accomplishment sitting on properties playing a bunch of trees last year we had our already tree sale if you want to partake in that and we delivered the trees which going back to equity was a great thing put them in the yard where they want last year all that money was really great for trees but we had a lot of really big trees so we're going to a lot of a lot of those commercial streets in a while we are one of the oldest tree city USA's in Colorado by 43 years so what that means is that this city really values trees and puts money towards it in terms of helping Natalie have time with us so we've in-house been performing all type of free maintenance planting, perming, permoogles so people will call us for special projects private development and there are trees of valuing that property and we'll praise them try to encourage people to collect funding from that which in turn we use to program tree sale and then I think going back to equity that drive a lot with maintenance areas and are always looking at ways that we can provide more trees, more canopy, more shade in those places that have less so Ben called me up concerned about the time on this I said we did a drive on so there you go Ben I'm going to go very quickly to this tree folks together I'll talk about that just updates every month at the end of the year getting the bulls open is a big deal this year you're going to dry the last couple of years when you're not creating we moved rhythm on the river we had direction from City of Antica to move rhythm on the river to something else and we did rhythm on it as well as a Monday event it was incredibly successful we had a great attendance pretty good weather actually beautiful weather just a little bit chilly again making a few adjustments but the feedback was fabulous from the public and the vendors and staff it's long over the city and start choosing really expanding our program but it's a very exciting area that is a personal passion we have and you're going to continue to listen to yourselves and support our staff and I think we got to 200 we had to tweak it and do some changes learn some things but real complicated this year we were able to get that process to grow along next one you guys know about the ballot it was an accomplishment for us to get things set up we were very proud of that the work we did to get it to the point and we'll be ready for next time we did get our scholarship program we started in 23 about 50 KUs our average pre-covered it was about 60 so we expect that so you can really jump this year usually it's about 2 thirds youth utilization of the money that is allocated it's not one of that soft cost that our creation has to absorb next one please we're in New York we had Jeff changing positions we did some reorganization internally we got aquatics a little more aligned specifically which allowed our programmers to put on and sets us up for success in future vision business area and service area giving it a mild position so up into what Cerella Gaby does which is in the city it's been really successful we're really happy about where we're at right now and we are all I'm never going to say we're fully staffed because you have that's life and you move on but we are pretty solidly staffed it's very exciting next one please and goals recreation is mandated and I could talk a long time on this I'm not going to it's going to be the minimum wage the math doesn't really add up and we're going to work on we've got a whole bunch of things we're trying to figure out we've got some cuts going on we're going to try to get to that and do everything we can we've got some costs increased we're going to talk about here shortly master plan recreation program they are working on right now it's an update to our 2015 expecting some information we'll bring that to you guys to review and we can make adjustments to it it's good information going forward it is not a new plan it's an update you guys are seeing it so you'll see that I think it's either next month or the following month it will probably maybe talk about that looks like we're doing fireworks so council is going to get a proposal for the fireworks festival I believe on very exciting ideas we'll get going on that my first date I've had to work on it twice since I've been in this so for the last pre-COVID we had some really good work going on with the metrics and having something come out of that and then of course there's no meaning for it quarterly, yearly we're going to make sure so you guys will see that and then we're going to look to try we would love to see our scholarship increase we haven't that $100 has been there I don't know I don't know exactly when before I started I think it was probably around when the rec center opened $100 in 2003 is a little bit different than $100 now and so we believe there's some adjustments we can't just give that money away and then have to produce the revenue we already can't get to but to try to address the inequality within a city to try to give as much of our services to as many people as we can we'd love to see that change so we're going to go into the budget with this idea of looking to adjust this program to $300 is our target because it's been so low you guys will hear more about that too and that's it are there any questions on that I would love to see the city consider some kind of I mean that would require adjustment to the cost recovery expectations that I think to truly make the recreation facilities more accessible I had we shouldn't have that you have my support council I think about what we would need to go back into the budget where we want to make those facilities more accessible to all of what the cost recovery model is going to fully work and 80% hey it's like the folks with our master plan help me with the impacts and information so that we show we want to be in the industry standard we don't want to be the city has been incredibly successful and we continue to be just paying these folks a lot more than we worked five or six years ago which is awesome I love paying these guys more it's great but it affects that bottom line and that bottom line and stuff and that's the type of thing we want to see but I would agree with you in regards to the city ever having any sort of expectation of recreation like you hear people say well it's going to pay in some way you don't even that sort of thing because we know that the value is in the services that we provide or 68% or whatever but we'll have to figure out what that is and I'd like to get closer to the industry standard in regards to that because when I hear the word that we might have to let something go that really cruises to you in the sense that I know that it's possible that you could let go of the ones that were included in the first place that made it clear that they're not the ones that wanted to move this thing forward and we're having to plan on that's just the truth to meet the budget that we currently have and so we we're working hard to get to that place and we'll be cooperation from Brad and then to the council too I'm excited honestly about where we're at because we're doing really well we just got to get things kind of realigned in the post-COVID world alright that was amazing thank you all so much Brad thank you all should we have time for Taylor for a quick I'm going to move to Taylor yes no please you know tree canopy we'll say a great compliment on our parks and our open space and our trails this is a group that really does all that work out there so I want to give you guys a chance to get a chance to see them and get questions from you directly on that thank you Taylor you're up I'm going to close slides really quickly and then the last couple slides are really the update piece so so the first few slides here are sort of a report of natural kids lawnmots so thorn I think most of you are familiar with thorn just come up to that a little bit thorn is based on a boulder and they're about to base out a loft yet sorry and then also a smaller version of boulder and next up is lawnmot which is great so this is this shows what they've done in lawnmot what we'll be doing in lawnmot is similar but it will be different and be a little bit more specific to our city and our needs and the address of chargers we have and specifically to address so in lafayette is twine plus collaborative organizations including thorn including the city of lafayette including their school district a whole bunch of nonprofits they did 1 million plus in program per year 15 underneath participants annually and 80% of those were low income or students of helter I say 1 million program per year you can see below it's a 5 year program it will be the same thing in lafayette and they did about 10 million work in lafayette we will probably get something similar here in lawnmot again it will be over the course of 5 years and not all of that 10 million goes right to the city it will all be used in lawnmot some of it will be used by the city and some of it will be used by those other organizations or other agencies that are involved Hanging and creating explored their backyard and explored being outside and then by the time you reach a project kind of more hands in the dirt stuff and integrating family into this program as well and once we get high schoolers including career training and paid employment opportunities and internships not that here in lawnmot because you just kind of have better structure right now compared to lafayette for outdoor access but their goal in lafayette again they had 20 plus collaborators as far as programming they did camps family programs stewardship so it's volunteers of outdoor learning that kind of thing in-school programs field trips and classroom programs designing curriculum that kind of stuff in the pathways as I mentioned before paid internships they also did a youth core and youth leadership program in lafayette so that's something that could be an option here as well we have a similar group here in lawnmot that we'll be working with that's definitely something to start on strokes but next slide this is just during the summer average annual engaging 875-ish kids and 25,000 for a few hours and hang out outside or do something outside it's youth school but repeated interactions with these kids next they were numbers during the school year because they did a lot with after school programming that kind of thing 10,000 kids during the school year sorry you could say any family during the school year and 72,000 per discipline hours capital construction so this is what they did in lafayette again they did really cool nature discovery area it's on the property of sanchez elementary it's awesome if you haven't seen it you should go check it out NASA did an outdoor classroom space they built a gazebo or shape structure at one of their more popular parks that doesn't operate under the reservation system because they found that the reservation system wasn't accessible to Spanish speakers and also cost money to reserve their shape structure so this is a reservation ruby shape structure that's open to everyone or a safe and accessible nature area they did a little bit of trail street crossing sidewalk infrastructure improvements okay goco funding for the last update for those of you who are here Rachel from farm came we're planning on 2025 to 2030 that has changed we can push back here however we now have a 100% guarantee that we will be funded at the amount we're expecting so pros and cons but the good news is it's definitely definitely happening it's just happening a little bit later we're anticipating that said Barney sort of gotten started prepping for this so this year we're doing a whole bunch of programing and community outreach and community assessment so what we're trying to do this summer is figure out exactly what is our community need what does lawnmower need specifically that differs from Lafayette and that differs from Boulder and what barriers does lawnmower have that we need to address so that's over to summer camp stuff we've got like how wood summer camp stuff up in the mountains we've got a kind of diversity fund right now without grant money like feedback sessions on the next slide but we're going to try to the community wants and what community needs but we don't have our big go-go funding yet so we don't have this and it will probably be on a smaller scale but it will be once we have full go-go funding but we have to figure out how we're going to fund that gap year we actually have a meeting tomorrow with a bunch of external organizations and that should be one of the topics is how are we going to piece this together for 2020-5 and then again 2020-6 we'll begin with 5 years future everywhere so this is kind of a smaller piece of the puzzle but this is a separate opportunity it's a two-year opportunity or two commitment that comes with a little bit of money it's 28 cities throughout the country we're our word this every year and we are using it so it starts with a 40k tbd but probably somewhere around 40k range as well and we're sort of using this two-year opportunity and this is two different we're getting this spring the plan is to use it for that community assessment and through the outreach piece so whether we're a very part-time position for using that 40k for and again in our meeting tomorrow another big piece of that is to figure out exactly what we're using this summer current collaborators for that are Parks and Action Resources Community and Neighborhood Resources which is under community services children, youth and families also under community services and I can come back in the summer if you guys want to give you kind of an update once we have our groups on the ground and tell you kind of what that is looking like both from the pilot programming perspective and also community assessment perspective we're doing again community outreach this summer focusing on Spanish speaking and those that are a bit communities that we haven't been getting feedback from we haven't been community-neighborhood resources let's see, current collaborators so these are the folks who are meeting now pretty much monthly to kind of get some of that how well the administration more folks in the world every time we meet so next slide and we can skip this session which we're on time again we're a joint coordination pilot program in 2024 community assessment and outreach in 2024 we're trying to find a source for funding for the 2025 gap year one potential option that's been loaded but not confirmed by the group is whether we can use that nature everywhere catalyst grant which should come next spring to help fund the 2025 gap year that's again probably in the range of 40 as well and then internally we're budgeting we're trying to budget for 2025 it's a little tricky to enter once we do that community assessment please and get feedback from folks but our budget we're also working very far away obviously we're trying to leverage our resources we're working really closely now we're starting to work really close to education from we're working really hard we mentioned the collaboration we're starting to create an open space so this is a blue environmental and we're fingers crossed we're switching to a new volunteer management system hopefully in the next couple months before we volunteer I'm often a sick that would be able to do it pretty soon it's going to be a lot cheaper than we want than what we use currently and it's a lot more functional and it's super accessible to so it has a really mainly the big piece is it's Spanish accessible and there are other languages as well so that's been a huge barrier for us in all of our program we offer if you don't speak English you can't get online and figure out how to register so it's really important in the summer it's on the ground in the summer I can come back and follow and be the results of that kind of work great okay all right so we're I know we're in business and that was to discuss the recreation we sent out these are few pieces that are sure comes out maybe I have any questions I was actually going to ask that would it be an accessibility Ben was there a time frame for the rest of the community I appreciate everybody's input here please believe me there's not something that I want to they also want to respect that you have to make an action on this there's going okay we probably need to ask an ocean for this but we're just going to send it to the board yeah yeah I think we just can't believe it's March okay normal motion but Eric you can get that back to me Ben March could be a busy year okay we'll keep moving then I am from the board that we have not raised happy topics no okay all right then with that anyone want to make a motion to adjourn that we adjourn about that