 Okay, let's go ahead and get started with the meeting. I'm not seeing a bunch of new attendees joining anymore so hopefully this is the, this is, we've got everybody that should be attending. I'm Jen Santos, deputy director for parks, and I would like to introduce a few more folks. We have Travis birding joining us, as well as we have our virtual meeting hosts. Emily Andrew and Mary Lou Nichols, and they will be helping us facilitate the meeting, helping during question and answer periods, and otherwise be running the meeting behind the scenes. I just wanted to thank you all so much for being here. I know we all have very busy schedules and I really appreciate you all being able to attend this really important meeting during COVID. And this is the best way we can meet and I'm super excited to see the amount of attendees we have here. I wanted to ask for your patience as we move this virtual meeting and this is the first community virtual meeting will be hosting as a team here so bear with us as we go forward. When we get to our question and answer period later there if, if you do have questions and answers. There will be just a few moments there where there's a transition where it may appear that you're losing connection but you're not stay tuned you'll be is just switching you so that you can be able to speak so with that I'm going to go ahead and read some of the basic things to get us started in the meeting. So the public joining this meeting will have their microphones muted. If you're phoning in to join the meeting and you choose to speak during the question and answer period and public input portion of the meeting for privacy concerns the host will rename you to caller and only show the last four digits of your phone number. Additionally the city of Santa Rosa is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment, free from disruption and will not tolerate hateful speech or actions. Everyone is expected to participate participate respectfully or if necessary the meeting will end immediately. Madam host will you please explain how the public comments will be heard at today's meeting. Yes madam facilitator at the end of the presentation the facilitator will open the floor for questions and answers and public comments. The host will lower all hands until the public comments item is open. Once the facilitator has called for public comment, the facilitator will ask the public to raise their hand if they wish to speak those joining by phone may dial star nine to raise your hand. Then call in those who have raised their hands. The host will unmute your microphone for your comment and then we'll meet you once you are finished speaking. A courtesy timer will appear while you ask your question or make your comment. The panel will respond to each question or comment as it is raised. You will need to raise your hand again if the follow up question is generated based upon the responses received. You will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the presentation by clicking the Q&A feature in your zoom toolbar and typing in your question. The host will keep an eye on these questions and will answer them in writing as time allows will ask the presenters to answer them live at intervals throughout the presentation. Any questions not answered during the presentation will be addressed during the questions and public comment periods during the presentation. We will now move back to Jen to begin the presentation. Thank you madam host. So let's go ahead and start the presentation. We are here to talk about Creekside renaming. And I mentioned Travis birding earlier he is one of our panelists here tonight as he has requested that Creekside open space park name be changed to marry him to first open space park. So over just obviously our welcome and meeting overview, the renaming proposal itself, a bit of a park system overview to talk about the open space. We'll talk specifically about what is Creekside open space, and we will also go over a bit of the policy and procedure. There are several community polls which is a really exciting feature. It allows us to look at your responses live together. So I'm looking forward to that. Next slide please. So we'll go over a little bit of the history here in early 2018 Travis birding brought forth a request to rename Creekside open space to marry him traversal park. Mr birding presented his request to the board of community services and provided a letter of support for his request in 2018. The board of community services discuss Mr birding's request. The next month and asked staff to explore multiple multiple scenarios of how to proceed with this request. Staff had planned to return back to the board of community services but we had fire season upon us we also had the paradise fire smoke if some of you may recall. We also had some key staff members that were working on this project retire. We had a little bit of disruption there and we got back on board when we had some new staff in 2019 and reported back to the board of community services regarding our findings for this request. And one of the things that was asked by the board of community services is to seek community input. And so that's why we're here tonight to reseek your input on the request to change the name. Next slide please. So I am going to introduce you to Mr birding. He's the requester requesting that this open space park be renamed to marry him traversal and he'll give you some of the background about why he's asking for this request. Mr birding. Hi Jen, thank you. And thank you everyone. My name is Travis birding. Mary was my mother-in-law and my lovely wife was as the daughter of Mary. She's here for support. Also run my back so I want to first and foremost, I want to thank a few people in a few groups. I want to first thank the board of community service for taking on this renaming and proceeding forward with it and get us to where we are today and putting together this meeting. So thank you so much for putting that together and and and so forth. And the next person I'd like to thank is Amy Grant. She's the one that helped me get started with this process. She is now retired so she helped me get from plan A to plan B. Also got me in front of the board to get this going. And then Emily who is who is on here too. I want to thank you for picking up where Lisa left off and getting us close to the finish line so thank you for that. And lastly, I want to thank everyone on this call. Almost 30 some people on here from, you know, from local, all the way from Florida, Mary's brother, Arkansas, Arizona, and I can and see la too. So, thank you for your support for joining for being here. It really shows what Mary was and what this what this renaming means to everybody and the community so thank you. Like it was mentioned in the previous slide, two and a half years ago, I presented this renaming to the board in in honoring Mary. Mary started up this program. Well, about 15 years ago, and a group of neighbors, all decided to get within the community to help clean the parks the mediums everywhere. That's what we see within this community. And which started Bennett Valley vision. Pat my who might be on this call, also was one of those people that helped out create this group this group has been around for about 15 years they still go today. She, Mary was one of the co founders and the leaders of this group that would help, you know, clean up the parks creek side park is one of them. And I think they go out there every every month or so clean it up. Mo the grad, Mo the lawn. I remember Bill, Mary's husband, Alexis's dad, driving the John deer, three, three blocks down just to to mow the high grass the high grass is probably the size of the kitchen table mom but still the dedication that they had for this project for this park for everyone around meant a lot for everybody. And when Mary passed about four and a half years ago. The goal was to get this park renamed because it was close to the house. And this is a park that she near and dear held her heart in fact in its slide you'll later see is some bird bird houses that Mary really truly loved. So you'll see that I hope it's still on that slide so I hope you guys didn't change anything but what Mary, but what Mary did was bring a group together bring a community together and a neighbors to and in this bennett valley vision has done a lot for it. What this park means is yes it's it is to honor Mary, but it's also to recognize this group and the volunteers that still are there today and still working hard. So I want to, you know, it's part of a group efforts and but Mary meant a lot to all of us as you can see, and it still goes on today so this is the big reason why we are here today. You know, I appreciate it. I thank you we're getting close and I'm looking forward to getting this passed and you know ultimately thank you so much and yeah that's that's all I have so thank you. Thank you Mr birding I really appreciate that synopsis. Let's go and continue on with our presentation next slide please. So for this for this slide we wanted to kind of give you a perspective aerial graphic map of the entire city. And the yellow the yellow lines you see on there is vertically highway 101 and mostly horizontally highway 12. The green that you're seeing on there is all city of Santa Rosa parks. And it's broken into quadrants the northwest southwest northeast southeast and of course our open space park located in the southeast with the star. So the next slide to talk about is the pink that you see around here the boxes that is the city boundary just for perspective. So next slide please. And so for here we wanted to show you a further distinction of the quadrants. We have a question for you later on in the poll so we're hoping you can this will help you understand that are pick out where you live here in this in the city, and hopefully to tell us and don't worry if you don't live in the city there's an option for that as well. But if you look this is how the city has, you know organized itself to look at how we distribute funds and attention and things like that for the park system overall so quadrant one is in the northwest. And if you live there you're going to be living east of highway 101 and north of highway 12 a place to play northwest community park those things are in quadrant one quadrant two is in the southwest southwest quadrant and we have rosin creek community park down there bear park just as reminders and that is hope I'm saying all this right south of highway 12 and and oh sorry west I think I said highway one was east but everything one and two is all west of highway 101. I'm sorry I'm taking a little bit of time here just to make sure you can help identify where you live in the quadrant three is of course the northeast and that would be east of 101 and north of highway 12. So we're in con valley community park up there. And quadrant four is near our open space park, and that is south of highway 12 and east of highway 101, and we've got galvin park been a valley community or been a valley golf course excuse me. So take note of where you have what quadrant you think you live in that will be important for us to understand where we're collecting information from. And so let's go ahead we're going to do the go into the polling, and we wanted to have an easy poll for you and ask some basic questions so we could all get used to how it works so I'm going to turn it back over to our host to explain how the polling will work and then we'll walk through the questions together. Thank you madam facilitator. All the poll questions are single or multiple choice. You must answer all questions in order to submit your responses. The submit button is at the very end of the poll, and you may need to scroll down 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, etc. If you are participating in the meeting via a landline, you will not be able to participate in the poll at this time. However, the poll will be available via the Creekside project website for two weeks after the meeting. So please check the website on Monday to complete the survey. Once everyone has completed the poll, and it has been closed, the results will appear immediately, and the facilitator will walk through the results. I'm going to launch the first poll. Thank you madam host so hopefully that gives you enough information to get started with the polling. Obviously, where do you live there's that quadrant question with some information to help you your age. And I think we've got some how often you visit and we really would love to hear from you how you heard about tonight's meeting so that we can make sure we're understanding where all that's coming from. So I like go through that there so Northwest Quadrant, North of Highway 12 and West of 101. Northeast Quadrant, North of Highway 12 and East of Highway 101. I'm going to give a little bit more time for voting madam host how is it looking are we getting close to completion. 23 of 31 participants have submitted. Thank you. Okay, we'll give it another minute and then we'll look at the results. Okay, we stabilize at 26 but we just got 27. Okay, we've got ready. Yes, we have 20 21. Okay, so I'll go ahead and end the polling. And then you'll see the results. Okay, so hopefully everyone can see the results. Where are we living. We've got 10 of us in the Southeast Quadrant and some outside a mix of age groups and a mix of folks visiting, which is great, at least once a month is nice to see and how did you hear about this word of mouth and signs and social media well thank you so much I really appreciate your participation in this and hopefully that gives you a sense of how it's working and easy and easy polls so we'll keep going with our presentation. So here we just wanted to talk about what it means to be an open space park in relation to the other types of park we have in the city. We did a good example there a community park and example is Finley community park as well as a place to play. Those are just examples of community park galvan park is in the Southeast Quadrant so examples there are very large park lots of activities and neighborhood park is a little bit smaller. We have different special use recreation centers and we have 13 open space parks, including Creek side and open spaces are not entirely limited to just being in independent park systems they can also be part of a larger park system. So if you can look at that we have 100 we have 1032 acres all over in the park. Next slide please. Let me see a little bit better. Look at what an open space is it's really a very passive area. It's minimal improvements with benches, maybe a picnic table trash cans trails. It's it's really just a visual or conservation type of area left to be in a natural state. And we have a couple examples for us that are visual like myself. Here's Creek side open spaces reminder. Next slide please. Another example of an open space Parker Hill open space very rural. Next slide please. And Thomas like Harris open space also again pretty rule with a pathway running through it. Next slide. A little bit closer view of the aerial of Creek side open space 3.63 acres adjacent to Matanzas Creek running on one side of it. It's a long Creek side road where it gets its name from. And it was dedicated to the city for public use in on February 17 1967. And it was dedicated to the city for public use in on February 17 1967. And the Creek side open space is the Creek side open space is a general plan designation. Next slide please. And so just here's a here's another way of looking at the park. This is talking about the types of amenities that are in the park. There's three benches trash cans. And the other one is the the developer areas are the places where we have picnic tables and walking areas is about one acre. And then we've got Matanzas Creek in the red. And we wanted to point out that in the slide on the far right lower, there's a star. So we can see how close Miss Traversos. Was there. Was there. Next slide please. And thank you to Mr. Birding. He did a fantastic job of talking about Bennett Valley vision. The city operates a wonderful volunteer program. And Bennett Valley vision, which is a little bit hard to see in the sign. It's faded needs to be updated. But then Bennett Valley vision of which Miss Traversos. Was a founding member and they along like other, other volunteer groups in the city have provided tremendous amount of volunteerism, cleaning weeds, mowing, making special places like this for wildlife. Twice a year, the group gets together to, to essentially mow the grass, remove blackberries and add new mulch, pick up litter and maintain the bird boxes, which were donated and installed by the group. There's a lot of volunteerism that happens at this park. And so we are going to roll into our next community poll. Just to get a sense of your understanding of Creek side park should be a very easy hauling. Madam host, will you facilitate the polling and remind the folks how to participate? Madam facilitator, I'm going to go over the instructions again. I will for the following two polls as well. You can all poll questions are going to be single or multiple choice. You must answer all the questions in order to submit your responses. If you're completing a poll on your smartphone, you must answer the first question before you can answer the second question. If you are participating in the meeting via a landline, you will not be able to participate in the poll at this time. If you are participating in the meeting via landline, you will not be able to participate in the poll at this time. Once everyone has completed the poll and it has been closed, the results will appear immediately. And the facilitator will walk you through the results. Thank you, Madam host. All right. Let's look at, let's look at the polling. So again, a very easy poll. Are you familiar with Creek side open space? And have you visited how often. And have you heard about Bennett Valley vision? And if you have, have you been lucky enough to participate with Bennett Valley vision? So we've got, we've got time. So please take your time and fill that out. We have 30 or 32 people reporting. And that number seems stable. So great. Thank you. Let's go ahead and look at the results. Okay. Wonderful. So lots of folks familiar. That's good since you're attending. And lots of visitors and a variety of times for visiting. And I'm glad to see the knowledge of Bennett Valley vision and. Less participation, but now that you know, hopefully we can look to some extra volunteers out there. So thanks again for participating. And let's go ahead and move on with the remainder of the presentation. And so what we would like to do in this next section is look at the current council policy in relation to the request. This policy is a small policy. And was recently updated in the year 2000. So it's been a while. Next slide, please. So just basic going over the objectives and the policy. It is a very small policy. And then the objectives for renaming are to the, that the name enhances the city's value and heritage. And it's compatible with community interest. That it's easy to identify a park by geographic location or function. And of course, to encourage land and monetary donations and provide recognition. And just a reminder that Creek side currently is named on that middle is meeting, but it's not. It's not. It's meeting that middle objective. By geographic location. Next slide, please. And so here's just some, some, some of the basics of the policy. Parks are to be essentially named immediately. They cannot be named after a living person. And parks are allowed to be named in honor of a deceased person who has made major contributions to community, country, or field of recreation parks. And so, the historical names can be used and themes may be considered if the facility bears the name of the theme. And generally, memorials are not permitted for this policy. Next slide, please. So when we compare the request, one of the procedures is to look at if the request meets either one of these two objectives. The first is a park or recreation facility name may be changed if the following conditions are met. There's an occurrence of national or local significance. There's a waiting period of no less than two years between the event and the actual naming of the park. Or if the name becomes appropriate in inappropriate. And for, and for us, we're really looking at option a tonight since the name is still appropriate for Creek side. Next slide, please. So we are looking at option a, as I mentioned, occurrence of national or local. Significance. We've heard from Mr. Burding. And so we want to look at what we've been able to collect here from. From him and his family as well as things that staff have been able to recognize. The Bennett Valley vision, according to their site, is an all volunteer group focusing on making Bennett Valley and even nicer place to live. Founded in 2005. They have adopted Creek side park, you loop a sidewalk, summer field islands and sidewalk areas, a Royal Sierra Creek, Bethards and Bethards road to keep. Clean and maintain. They hold two annual cleaning cleanup days, as I mentioned previously in 2007, Bennett Valley vision received the city of Santa Rosa merit award for neighborhood enrichment. And since 1978, the Santa Rosa city council has presented merit award to individuals, organizations and businesses who volunteer their time and energies to serve the community, improve the quality of life in Santa Rosa. Beyond Bennett Valley's vision by annual workday, Mary and bill traversal mode, annual grass, remove blackberries and maintain bird boxes. And as we mentioned, they lived a few parcels down. Mary's also known for her, for the family market, a small business that was part of the community for 80 years from 1932 to 2012. And as you saw when Mr. Burring was giving us a presentation, there is a bench located at the open space with a donation in her name, with a donation plaque in her name. Next slide, please. So in simple terms, staff find, find that Mary and traversal was active in the community. She inspired volunteerism. She is well loved by her family and known in the community for traversals market. The questions that we're going to talk about in the next poll. Are related to looking at the policy in relation to this does the civic contributions of Mary and traversal qualify for an event of national local significance. Obviously the, it has been two years since the event for the naming, renaming to Mary and traversal open space. Prior to going into the poll to ask you specifically, questions about your, your preferences for changing the name. We wanted to be able to open it up for question and answers at this point. So that if there's something pending before we get to hearing from your, from your opinions, we can at least answer some of those questions. So, Madam host, will you please facilitate question and answer in public input? All right. Raise your hands if that's good. If you're joined by phone, you'll need to dial star nine to raise your hand. Host nickels will then call on those who have raised their hands. Those nickels will unmute your microphone through your comment, and then we'll meet you once you have finished speaking. A courtesy timer will appear while you ask your question or make your comment. The facilitator presenter or host will respond to each question or comment as it is raised. You will need to raise your hand. Again, if a follow up question is generated based upon the response you received. I am going to give me just a moment. I have to get the courtesy timer up. And get the slideshow down. Okay. The timer is up. Host nickels. Can you call on. The first. First question. Actually, I think my permissions need to be enabled. I'm not able to lower hands at this point. Okay. Very good. We have three hands up currently. We'll start with Susan. Susan, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Please unmute your microphone. I'll lower your hand and you may provide your comment or question. Are you able to see the courtesy timer? Yes, we did. Thank you. We don't see it now. But anyway, that's okay. Oh, now we see it. Yes. Okay. So my husband has a question. Hi, this is Gerald. We live just a few doors down from Creek side and love it. Very much. My question is simply, is there any. Further development intended or envisioned for this park. Other than the plaque and the bench and maybe a picnic table. Anything else you'd like to add? Any additional improvements to the park? And the city itself. Anything else? The public restrooms or anything like that, that would change the park. Thank you for that question. I can, I can respond to that right now. And let you know that we have not received any requests for additional improvements at the park and. And the city itself does not have any plans to provide any And also being that it's an open space, it would lend itself and we typically are looking at a very reduced amount of improvements in there. So maybe a picnic table, but right now there's no, there's no plans for any additional improvements. Okay, thank you. Thank you. And now we will hear from Steve. Steve, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Please. Thank you very much. I'm Steve Sharp live on Creek side, great next to Bill and Mary for the last 20 years. And participant in Ben and Ellie vision, I think this is a great honor to Mary. We, my dog and I and my wife is at the park every single day. So I think it's a wonderful thing. My question is what would be the name of the park is it Mary traversal park or is it Mary produced traversal open space park. Thank you. That's a great question. It would be Mary and traversal open space park. So that would be the new name of it. Great. I don't have any other comments or questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now we'll go to Patty. Patty, I've enabled your speaking permissions, please unmute your microphone. Are you able to see the timer. Yes, I am. Thank you. Please ask your question. I don't have a question. I just have a public comment if I may. I've known Mary for 33 years. She was a very dear friend of mine. When we met our daughters, Alexis and Megan were in preschool together and Bennett Valley. So I used to live near Mary. I was very familiar with the open space because I had two dear friends who lived within three houses of this open space. Mary loved family community and the outdoors. And being a dear friend of mine for 33 years, we sure did our share of walking and hiking in the outdoors. And Mary never ceased to amaze me about her active role in preserving and conserving the beauty and the flowers and, and the open space, as we all know. She was a very altruistic but humble person. She was a lovely person. And I have a little bit of a anecdote to share about her while she was working there in the median it was one of the medians I think it was at the Bethards median. And she was working with a project manager from the city of Santa Rosa, who happens to be a good friend of mine. And he called me one day, and he said, you know Mary traverse so don't you she's a good friend of yours right and I said she's really a good friend of mine I love that gal. And I said what's she up to now. And he says well I just want you to know she is a real firecracker. She is super determined to get this and that and this and that and she doesn't hesitate to call me at the city, and asked me to show up with with men, or posts or whatever that she needs. And he said I really appreciate her doing all this and she's really keeping me on my toes. And I thought that was a very genuine testament to Mary's passion of volunteerism and getting the job done. So I really, I really commend Travis spurting for submitting this proposal and I really, I really supported. And thank you very much for doing this I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks so much for sharing your, your comment. Do we have any other questions or comments. Yes, we have one more speaker Geraldine Geraldine. I've enabled your speaking permissions, please unmute your microphone. And are you able to see the timer. Yes. Thank you you may ask your question or provide your comment now. Okay, mine is a comment. I moved across the street from the area for 45 years. And our son was the first person to work on improving the park. It was quite an event to get to get it to be a park. It took many years to get the city to take it from the contractor as an unbuildable lot, or three unbuildable lots. So anyway, he as an eagle project did the first improvement, but then it was not well kept up by the city. So, Mary what and Pat were the guiding forces that for the development of the Bennett Valley vision, and my husband and I have participated in almost every one of the Bennett Valley work days. It's been a very vision work days since it started. And Mary was always there. And even when she was not well she came out and helped us a bit. And I really think it's a good choice to name it for her. It's a good initial part, but other than that. I believe it's a good. A good idea to do this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comment I appreciate that. Are there any other questions or comments that you see. I see no additional hands at this time. Okay, and I know that there was a written question. Do you ever renamed any other parks before, or is this the first time. And so at this city, we have renamed other parks. The ones that are coming to mind offhand we, we have Dutch floor park which is in the Northeast quadrant it's a neighborhood park named after a police officer. And it was originally named sunburst park. So in the time that the staff you see here before you. None of us have been involved in the name changing process we've been involved in naming parks but this is the first one for the staff you see here before you, but certainly not the first one at the city. So I think that's a good idea that helps answer some of those questions. I appreciate all of that input and your questions and we're going to go ahead and start the next polling about your direct input about the, about the renaming so we'll walk through that Madam host can you discuss how to participate in the polling again. Yes, thank you. And all poll questions are single and multiple choice. It's a multiple choice it will indicate that in parentheses. If you are completing the poll on your smartphone, you must answer the first question before you can answer the second question. You must answer all questions in order to submit your responses. 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 available via the project website for two weeks after the meeting. Check out the website after Monday, Monday the night to do so. Once everyone has completed the poll and it has been closed the results will appear immediately and the facilitator will walk through the results. Okay, thank you so much madam host so question one. Everything that you see in parentheses with these questions is something we've pulled directly from the policy to help guide us with some of your answers so are the contributions and occurrence of, or event of national local significance and to does the name changing enhance the city's values and heritage and three is the name change compatible with the community interest. And of course, for are you in favor of changing the name. Give that a minute or two. We'll give you time we have time there's no rush but take a look and see how many folks have participated in just a minute. Madam host how is the polling going or how much do we need a little bit more time. We're at 25 of 31. Thank you so much we'll wait another minute or so and check back. We're at 25. All right. Thank you so much let's look at the results. Okay so for question one. Yes, for the name, the civic contributions being an occurrence of national or local significance. And for question to another 84% for the name changing enhancing the city's values and heritage. Question number three is the name change compatible with community interest 92% and 92% are in favor of changing the creek side open space park name to marry introvert so in space. Thank you so much for participating in the poll and providing your input. And a little bit more to go. We also wanted to. I'll say sneak in some questions for you about the policy in general. Go back to the presentation so the things we discovered as the staff are looking through the policy is that it is in need. We are searching for some updates to this policy to help guide staff and provide a little bit more guidance for citizens as well as council and board members as we look at the policy. I recognize that after this request came in that we should hold and not accept any more renaming requests or not move forward with any more renaming requests until we can get some feedback from the community about the policy itself. The city we staff will be launching a much larger community wide meetings and collecting feedback from the community about the policy and how we can make sure that it's serving the interest of the community and giving us some additional guidance that we would like to have and I know that looking at it from a citizen's point of view as well it's a little bit vague and can use some updating. So with that we wanted to ask you some questions and next slide please. And so you know one of the things that we talked to what we're looking at with the current policy and brought us to some of these questions. What are the basic requirements for requesting a park name what should be submitted to the city what sort of information should be part of that submittal. How frequently can a park's name be changed for instance, it looks like we're going to go ahead and move forward with this name change. So just from now somebody else could request a different name for the park so we want to know from the community is that acceptable, or should we be looking at holding on on name changes for a while. Also, in some of our parks in this park in particular, there is no signage but in other parks or we have signage. So just looking at the signage and bring it up to current codes is really costly at a minimum it's $20,000 per sign to bring it up to current codes. So I think it can get pricey. And so we asked the question who should bear the cost associated with that. And we also asked the question how much community support do we need to rename a park how much should it be should it be 50% 80% 20% So we're really looking for some more information here. A question came up about how our individual organization or businesses service contributions measured. So that it's a little less subjective and a little bit more directive to staff and to citizens using it and how we should be looking at some metals coming towards us. So how would we measure an event of local or national significance. Is it just community polling, or is there something else that we should be looking at. We also asked the question, can a park be named after a for profit business or a nonprofit business so we're looking at all these things and recognize that the policy could could use an update. We also did research on other agencies throughout the state that have naming policies and there's there's a lot more information in them, obviously, staff and those agencies have discovered something similar that they'd like more guidance. And so I hope you can bear with us we have just one more small poll, where we want to ask you some questions about what you think this policy policy should should be about. And then we'll wrap it up. So with that, I'm hoping that we can ask our host to conduct the next poll, please. Okay, last time for my spiel about how to take the poll. All questions are single or multiple choice. And there's a lot of multiple choice questions on this poll. So, in parentheses at the end of each question it tells you it's going to be a multiple choice. It's going to be as many choices as you need, or would like, you must answer all the questions in order to submit your responses. The submit button is at the bottom of your screen. If you are completing the poll on your smartphone, you must answer the first question before you can answer the second question. If you're participating in the meeting by a landline, you will not be able to participate in the poll at this time that you can visit the website and you will be able to participate in the poll starting Monday. Once everyone has completed the poll, and it has been closed, the results will appear immediately and general walk you through the responses. With that, I am going to launch the last poll. Thank you Madam host so again, and as Emily mentioned, there are quite a few multiple choice. I'm thanking you in advance for rolling through this. These questions and I'm going to try not to speak during this so you can read them and participate. And thank you for that. I appreciate it. Madam host how is the polling going. Okay, great. Give that several more minutes. Thank you so much. Checking in with the host. How are we doing on polling. Pretty stable at 2229. Okay, okay. Let's go ahead and look at those results. Okay, thank you so much. So what do you think Santa Rosa's Park should be named after. There were a lot of requests for outstanding individuals, as well as history. Next one should the community be involved in the naming and renaming of parks. Awesome 100%. Number three, should an individual group organization significant service contributions to city country, or the field of recreation and parks be measured. And it looks like we've got 59 type of service is leading that poll. And it looks like it's too far behind with the number of hours of service, as well as looks pretty close to the, how well known the individual is and number of community members impacted. And number four, under the current park naming policy procedure next week someone could rename Creekside open space to something different. And that would be in favor of a park naming policy that would never allow park name changes, unless the name becomes inappropriate was the preferred response there followed not too far behind by a name change after five years. And then number five should parks which have been named in honor of individuals be renamed. And it looks like there was a majority of folks with the answer no. The parks named after people be renamed if the individuals character no longer represents the best interest of the city of Santa Rosa. There was 59% yes, and should a park monument sign be installed as part of the renaming process split down the middle there right exactly 50%. So how should the cost to the change the change in the name of the park be funded. Not. Okay, so let's see we had funds raised by the Santa Rosa Parks Foundation and requesting party was the primary source. And that question. And let's see for number nine or last question what percent of the community should support the naming or renaming of a park and it looks like we're looking at more than 75% being the highest choice. Next is 25 to 50% with just a little bit less looking at 50 to 75%. So really, really appreciate your participation in the poll and providing us feedback as I mentioned before we will be going out with a larger, a larger request to receive similar information citywide and we appreciate you being part of this to get us started in answering some of those questions so we can update the policy. So with that, we thought we'd roll into a question and answer period so that if there was any other questions that came up before we finalize the meeting, we could try to answer those here for you. So first will you facilitate the question and answer period please will repeat the instructions I shared earlier in case anyone new was joined or comment before and you want to comment now. Please raise your hands now if you wish to speak those joining by phone may dial star nine to raise your hand post nipples will then call on those who have raised their hands. I'll give you a microphone for your comment and then we'll meet you once you are finished speaking a courtesy timer will appear while you ask your question or make your comment. The facilitator presenter or host will respond to each question or comment as it is raised. You will need to raise your hand again if a follow up question is generated based upon the response you receive. I see no hands raised at this time does anyone have a question or comment they'd like to put forth. I see no hands at this time. There is one question that was raised. In the question answer feature. Will there be an open space sign. With the name. If the name is changed will there be a sign installed. Thank you so much for that and we can answer that now. All of our open space parks. Do not none of them have signs or monument signs in them. Current monument signs do require electricity and a variety of other updates and are fairly rare. And it would set a new precedent if we did want to put a new sign in here. But at this time there are. No intentions to move forward with signing the park. Rather just what will happen is all of our. Public outreach and media or website and things like that. All of those places where the park is shown will be changed and updated. It will take some time to get there. We will still have our old media, especially the paper media out there for a while, but that will be changed as soon as those opportunities come up. So I hope that answers those questions. And is meanwhile, were there any additional questions and answers from anybody? Madam host. Does anyone have any other questions or comments. At this time. I see no hands raised at this time. Thank you. Let's go ahead and continue on with the presentation and we're going to wrap things up. Thank you. Thank you, Madam host. So just looking at our next steps here. For those neighbors or community members who weren't able to participate in the polling tonight. It is going to be available at the city of Santa Rosa's project website. That's the recreation parks website, but you can see the web address there. So it's srcity.org slash park dash projects. And you will see the Creekside project up there. And you can use that to connect to the poll. If you need to. If you have neighbors or community members that still need to take the poll. Give us a few, give us a few days to get that up there. We want to make sure that that's ready to go for you. So it should be sometime on Monday that you can look for that. In addition, so after we've collected all of the information from the, from the meeting tonight, as well as any additional polls. That we might receive over the next couple of weeks. We will be taking those and sharing those and presenting that information to the board of community services meeting, which is scheduled for December 9th. At 4pm. And it's also a virtual public meeting. And there is also a web address where you can check the agenda. Like many community or review authority board meetings, sometimes things agendas change. But the attention of the intention is to. To bring this before the board of community services, which is a council appointed advisory board. For a recommendation to approve the council. And once we visited the board of community services and receive their feedback, we'll be moving forward to city council with an approval to change the name from Creekside open space to Mary M. Traversa open space. And as I mentioned before, I would like to update the city's media locations where the park. Where you can see the park name or where it was listed. Let's see. I just want to check my notes to make sure I'm talking about everything here. And let's go to the next slide. I just want to thank everybody for participating tonight and attending the meeting. We would love to hear from you and get your feedback. About Creekside. And if you also have any feedback for us on how we can do things better or differently or any information for us about conducting a virtual meeting would be greatly appreciated. This was our first community based. Virtual meeting that we're conducting. And our host, one of our hosts, Emily Andrew is assisting moving this project forward. So her information is there. And her phone number, five, four, three, three, seven, seven, four for those, maybe on phones. If you have any other additional questions after this meeting is closed, you can certainly check in with Emily. Next slide, please. I just want to know that there is one question about when the park is going to be renamed. So maybe you can talk about. The board meeting will be in December and then we'll be going to the city council early next year. So. Yes. Thank you so much for that question. That's a great question. And yes, we, we do plan to go to the board of community services in December 9th. And so it will take us a month or two to get to council. So probably looking early spring for the name change. Of the park. So hopefully that helps. Were there any additional questions out there? No, there was, but I don't see any hands now. Okay. Okay, great. Thank you. So we can move on to the next slide if there's nothing else and just a huge thank you to everybody. And we staff are available. If there's any additional questions, please reach out to your recreation of parks department. One way or another, and you saw Emily's contact information as well. We'll go ahead and end the meeting now and thank you all very, very much for participating. Good night.