Parks and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

The June 8th meeting of the city of Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission will now come to order at 6 p.m. With the secretary, please call roll Yes vice chair Freeman here Here and the chair chairman can read out today Thank you. I'll now ask Commissioner Talavera to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Please stand Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin.

Thank you. All right. Are there any department updates from staff this evening?

Yes good evening Vice Chair and Commission. We do have a pretty hefty department update presentation for UW. We've been busy the last months and we're just about to get busier so we'll get that loaded as we've kicked off our summer season officially as of last week. So we're just going to get that in presentation mode and go from there.

All right.

And we have staff that will be presenting on their programs.

All right. Good evening, staff. I'll be talking about a little bit of our parks, trails, and sports fields. In the month of May at the Fullerton Tennis Center, we had over 1,000 reservations, close to 100 class participations in our tennis classes, and we also had 335 private lessons in the month of May. And in our last meeting we had discussed about the pickleball construction. The pickleball construction is now complete and we will be having a ribbon cutting on Friday June 12th at 3 o'clock p.m. Players will be able to play on the pickleball courts once the ribbon cutting is done and also reservations will be open Friday June 12th for Saturday June 13th play.

We are excited to share that we've improved our batting cages at Fullerton Sports Complex just recently. If you can see on the left-hand side there, that's what it used to look like. And that was probably for a lot of many years. So we were able to reinvest some capital improvement funds into our batting cages. And I do want to share that we are looking to, we are providing a pathway for the public to reserve these cages. In previous seasons and time, it has been just open space. But with this investment, we found that there was many Like groups and users using it for their private use and commercial use, but for us is a big thing on liability. So we are creating a pathway for a reservation in the early hours of the day. So then the sports user groups who are the little leagues can utilize them in the evening, which we have a a um schedule for them so we're very excited it's uh they look great there's three tunnels and uh nothing but positive feedback there and it was a project that was you know long time coming Up next, we have, in partnership with Cal South, we're hosting a free soccer clinic. This is on June 26th at Amherst Park, right across the street from 9 to 11. We do have registration on our website. Again, it's 100% free, and they'll receive a t-shirt, and this is part of... Kind of in partnership with CalSouth, but I know with the World Cup starting relatively next or this week, actually, there's a lot of funding going towards these type of programs in the different communities. So we're excited to host this for our community. And as you can share, we've already shared it with our local users. And then we've also shared it through our Civic Rec platform. And we're actually now ready to take applications for the community garden boxes at Union Pacific Park. This is now live. The project has been completed. There's a total of 10 garden boxes. We are, as previously shared by the commission, looking to do a hybrid model. So depending on the number of applications that we receive, at minimum, we'll have two community garden boxes, but that can always increase just to give a lot more opportunities for the private residents to have a box. First year is going to be free. In addition to that, we've had a conversation with the local business, Bimbo. I think their headquarters are in Fullerton Placentia border. And they're looking to sponsor about, you know, get us the startup cost for a shed, some work tables and other equipment as needed. And they're looking to be a partner throughout the year. So we're very excited. Applications are open. They're on our Web site. And then they do close early July. And at the next commission meeting, we're looking to do a raffle in the public forum because this is a highly coveted program.

Good evening. I'm very excited to share that on Friday May 22nd our full time team which is the program coordinators and supervisors were able to put on a Parks and Rec Summit for all of our entire staff in Parks and Recreation. So this included everyone in parks and trail at the rec center tennis center rentals team special events teams all staff were scheduled to attend. So we started with team building activities and then we did have a keynote speaker Sonia Nguyen Jimenez who is superintendent for the city of Los Angeles who oversees the Parks and Recreation Department and she was able to do an inspirational opening session. And then throughout the day you can go to the next slide. Throughout the day we divided the sessions between our all of our full time teams so we had sessions in Fullerton Community Center operations parks and trails tennis center rentals youth program camps including Hunt and Hillcrest special events and then we were able to provide lunch and then opportunity drawings at the end of the day so. It was an all day training for all of our team from literally 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. So it was our first time really putting on something big like this for our team and I think that it's really important to keep our team up to date with everything that's happening in our city and revamping them with all these trainings on things that they either do know or do not know. And it was very very fun for them just to be a part of the all day training. Moving on to events on Thursday May 21st we were able to host Public Works Day at our night market. So it was very fun just to have them bring on some of their vehicles or booth giving out trees from her landscape department. I think that's always very cool when we have a lot of giveaways for the public so that that's an ongoing success at our night market. So it was really cool to collaborate and bring on and honor our public works team at our night market. And then on Saturday, May 30th, we were able to put on our first ever coffee fest at the Hunt Branch Library. We had over 32 vendors that included both art booths. It had coffee tastings, coffee vendor selling, a bookmobile, live entertainment, which included some poetry, included some educational sessions on coffee beans, and we offered free face painting and free kids activity for children, and that was sponsored by Exhibit Art, Art Walks, that was able to provide the supplies and free activity for the children. So yeah, it was a really cool, fun event. I feel the people really enjoyed it. All the coffee lovers came out to one location. So it was cool. And then this past Saturday, we were able to host our first ever Fullerton Fit 5K. So we had about 15 to 20 vendors. We were able to include like Stretch Lab was able to include like free services. We had our yoga demonstration for free as well. So we were able to collaborate with a lot of local businesses and a lot of our sponsorships were able to provide a booth, a lot of health and wellness booths that were there. And then on the next slide, you would see a lot of more pictures of the actual running that took place. So we had a total of 457 registrations that attended our 5K race. We got a lot of feedback in regards to the trail. So it is, we did market it. It is a trail run. So they were able to see, run through or walk through the golf course, the tennis center, the Breaux Dam. So it was a really nice, beautiful day for them to actually participate in this 5K race. And then for upcoming events, so we have the ongoing Thursday nights Fullerton Night Market. So it's still continuing every Thursday until the first week of September. And then we are including, which is happening next week actually, June 18, we're including a Soccer Fest watch party. So we're gonna be viewing some of the World Cup games there. We have been working with our economics development team especially the manager James Ward. So we are working together in order to get everything in line for this watch party taking place next week alongside with the Fullerton Night Market. So it's going to be located on Wilshire, on the walk on Wilshire, so passing Harbor. So it's going to be connected, yet still be able to access food from nearby businesses, from the market, and still view some of the parties. I mean, sorry, view some of the soccer games and still enjoy the market at the same time. And then additionally, we are starting to market our 4th of July fireworks show that's going to take place on Saturday, July 4th. So we will be displaying the fireworks show. We will allow people to start setting up their chairs around 5 p.m. And then we will have a live DJ from 7 to 9 and then with the kickoff of the fireworks show right at 9 p.m. Moving on to our recreational programs. The next slide. So we did kick off.

Next slide.

We did kick off our camp Hillcrest last week so we had a total of 100 participants opening up the first week and then we had Water Day we took them to the pool they went to an excursion I believe it's Billy Bees at the Garden Walk which I never heard of but I heard a lot of feedback from the kids and they really enjoyed it. And then they had on-site entertainment on Friday. So they had free face painting and crazy hair day. So it seemed really, really fun, a really good week to kick off because the weather was very warm. So water day was very successful. And then we're continuing on this week where they will be attending the Santa Ana Zoo as their excursion. And as you can see on the schedule for the next few weeks, the excursions are going to be coming up. And we still do have spaces for some of our camps throughout the week. So it's just going to come in waves. So I just want to let you guys know that we are going to continue marketing for those camps that are still not full. So parents can be aware of it and still participate in our fun camps that we have planned out.

And then next slide.

And then lastly I wanted to share our outdoor equity grant program. So they did go to Catalina Island. So we had our last excursion. So we took up about 21 families so a total of 48 participants were able to go to Catalina Island. And we were just very thrilled just to see the happiness of these families, just like the ride on the ferry to get them onto Catalina. It's just an exciting experience for them to go through and then be able to go on the tours, which they were able to see some live bisons. We were able to provide lunch for them. So we ordered pizzas and provided lunch for the families. And then they were able to enjoy the beach and then the museum and then make their way back. And then we just added there the upcoming excursions, which is the L.A. Marine Science floating lab that's going to take place on June 30th. So that's the next one coming up. And then we have the waste and organic waste educational at the Environmental Learning Center on July 30th of next month. So the year is going on really quickly. And that's it. Thank you.

It's just kind of pivoting to the hot branch programs. We do also have a hunt camp at the hunt. It's more based on art, science, technology, and a lot of art. focused specifically the library in partnership with the city parks and rec is having a midsummer's night stream on June 13th from 6 to 9 p.m. There's a lot of fun activities scheduled for that. And the library is taking lead. And then we also have ongoing yoga on Wednesday evenings.

All righty. Good evening commissioners. I'll be going over our older adults programs. So on May 8th, we had our Mother's Day celebration. It was a fun, heartfelt social gathering. We had about 80 participants. They enjoyed light refreshments, snacks, raffle prizes, and it was just a good time for them to all kind of connect with one another. Our staff actually got enough flowers for each participant to make a small bouquet. So every mother took home a bouquet that they could take home, you know, things like that. So it was really, really fun. And it was such a we wanted to celebrate our mother so much that we had actually two events. So I'll go through the second one a little later. So as I mentioned last meeting, we were reintroducing our morning trail hikes. These are senior focus, but anybody with ages 18 or older is more than welcome to attend. So if it's a grandmother and a grandson or a grandmother and a granddaughter or anything like that, they're more than welcome to attend these. This is a good way for our seniors to kind of get out in the community. A lot of the programs that we have, we either have them inside or kind of just walking around the community center. So this is good to get them out into the community, and it's really, really fun. It's a staff-led program. They keep them entertained throughout the two hours. Um, we, so this first month was really successful in bringing it back. We had five consistent, um, walkers. Um, and I think at times we even had up to eight to nine walkers. So we're hoping that program continues. Um, and again, it is free. So the next walks actually we'll be having is by, uh, tomorrow at Acacia park and then June 16th at East coyote Hills trail. So as I mentioned, we love our mothers so much that we had to do two events for them. This one was our Mother's Day Tea Party. So this one had 40 participants. The guests enjoyed tea and light refreshments along with some time to relax and connect in a warm, welcome setting. We even had a special performance by our Korean drummers group. It was really just a beautiful way to celebrate and honor the mothers in our community and recognize the important role that they play in our daily lives. And then on May 21st, we had our senior prom. So every year we host a senior prom kind of around the time that the high schools have their prom. This one, we had 70 attendees. We had a prom king and a prom queen. They're right there in the middle. This one, we had our Korean. I'm sorry. In the last slide, it was our Korean drummers. This one was our Korean dance group. So they kind of gave a festive atmosphere. They're there on the bottom right there. And then just some kind of some images there. They had their corsages and all that kind of stuff. So it was a really, really fun time. And then going into some of our programs for June, we have Fall Prevention 101, which will be taking place June 10th. Medicare 101, which will also be taking place June 10th. Keeping the Key, which is June 23rd. Medicare Fraud and Abuse, which is June 16th. Stretch your grocery dollars June 11th and then tendering your soil with UC Master Gardeners on June 24th. So these are kind of our one-time events that we have, our programs that we have in addition to our consistent weekly programming. And then kind of diving into our Fullerton Community Center and Hunt Branch Library private rentals. May was a very, very busy month, especially with our birthdays and graduation parties. We had a lot of those, a lot of fun parties. I wanted to go in there and dance with them myself too because they looked like they were having a good time. So the community center had about 4,000 attendees while Hunt Branch Library had about two. and it was mostly, as I said, graduation parties, but we did have a good amount of weddings. I believe we had a wedding every week at the Fullerton Community Center, and we had one wedding at the Hunt Branch Library, so May was a very, very busy month for us. And then looking ahead to June, so June is shaping up to be our busiest month yet. Wedding season's in full swing. Graduation celebrations are still continuing, and then pool party season is officially upon us, so we're getting a lot of pool rentals as well, so June's gonna be even busier.

And that concludes our department update for the month of May. And staff and myself are happy to answer any questions.

Are there any questions from the commissioners?

No, I don't have any questions.

I have a few questions. With the community garden over at Union Pacific Park, educational classes, we were going to be including some of that. And then because we're waiting for people to apply, correct? activating the space potentially. So I don't know if we were thinking about already hosting any educational classes or connecting with any nonprofits locally that do that kind of stuff. And I think it will start attracting some attention and start activating the space a little bit. So I don't know if staff's been thinking about that.

Yeah, so we actually have a rec specialist, kind of in our parks and trail rec specialist. He's already started working towards like just understanding what the rules and policies and procedures are of the garden and began creating a schedule. So, but then I think his feedback to us is trying to identify how many people are looking to attend and reaching out to those nonprofits because I know When we did the Kaboom build, there was a lot of interest. Some were like commercial vendors. Others were like just your residents that were interested. But we have the relationship with the master gardeners to start including them. Based on the general interest and the applications and how many we receive, it's where we'll go like that hybrid route. Because if it's really popular, we're looking at least, at minimum, have two community garden beds. If there's a need for additional ones, we definitely will increase that, which just reduces the private garden bed. So we are working on a calendar to include that in the upcoming months.

I was just thinking, hosting educational classes on gardening, just in general, for just the general public to understand. Because then if people might not know specifically what it might take to you know to harvest you know at the garden so like if they hear some information they're like hey you know what i might apply you know and just kind of base it on that um second just any feed any feedback on how to improve the 5k i'm just interested to hear like because i know it was our first but i know we always want to highlight all the positives but you know like hey this is what we learned from the first time i think I mean, Commissioner Maldonado, I mean, did you end up running it? Yeah.

I got about 35 minutes, which was proud for myself. I don't know about everybody else. I did talk to a few people. I mean, one person said that they didn't see clear... Images or clear people that stop them from like running further that wasn't my experience It seemed like I mean just between you guys the cert people the other was it the friends of Fullerton Coyote Club. I feel like you guys were kind of everywhere doing everything. So I yeah as usual. So it wasn't my experience to see that there was like a lot of holes in your wall just to make sure that we're all running in the same place. But that's one of the comments that I heard.

And I'll add in Staffkin if they had specific comments shared with them but overall Like command staff, this was the first time we've done this event. And it's a big undertaking. We did have to partner with kind of a race consultant who really helped on the race part of things. And ultimately, some of the just general feedback, they're like, oh, it's a trail. like you know we marketed it as a trail we had about 500 attendees which went from about 300 a month ago to 500 day of race and then there was a tunnel at the bottom of the Brea Dam that you ran through and we did specifically have a staff there but there were I think there was one or two individuals that just kept running and And that's okay. They got their money's worth for sure. But overall, I think it was a great executed event. Chewy's, this was on Chewy's list kind of at the beginning of the year. And it was a team effort. And I think we had our fastest, maybe about 16 minutes, which was very, you know, and the things we prepared for that we were like kind of caution on the trail run, being narrow, where it's not an issue. There was a picture on the department update. It's blind. She actually posted on her social media she goes through trails or she does five case if I'm not mistaken and unsighted and she has her husband that guides her and she had nothing but positive feedback. So on just based the trail and the terrain. So but if staff received any specifics I'm happy for them to share.

No no no that's fine. I just we always know like we want it to be super successful but I think just kind of some learning opportunities, and I think, yeah, because it was true. Update for the 4th of July, is that still a one day? Are we just hosting? I know we just, that's kind of what I got from the presentation, but I just want to make sure.

Correct, yes. So we took the feedback, went back with, you know, our team. We're doing a firework-only show, so the fireworks will be at 9. We are allowing people to set up about 5 o'clock, but there's no vendors, no activities. We'll have a DJ starting at 7, leading into the fireworks show at 9. The footprint, and we'll release all that information leading up to the event, the footprint's going to be much smaller. So, like, harbors will still be open. Everything else will still be open, kind of a market Thursday night Market closure with Pomona so it's just I think at this time that's the best option for us and then there still be the bike parade that we're working with them but that's still like an ongoing conversation because that takes place in the morning so but yeah there there will still be a fireworks show in the park and the Wilshire Parking structure

And just the one day, not. Correct.

Just the one day from 7 to 9.

Perfect. Because I know I had asked for an update, but it was included in the staff report. So that was good. With the equity grant, would you guys be able to share just how many impacted families or families that have been involved with the grant specifically, but also like new families and how we're trying to outreach to newer families, the ones that are not involved? Kind of like not the same families I guess you could say but just how are we outreaching to to truly make it equitable for.

So yes there is a track sheet so a lot of the excursions that we offer the it is sort of like a program once they're signed up for it we let the same people go again. And the reason behind it is that sometimes families pick and choose and it's not fair for those that are really dedicated to the grant program. So a lot of the times we try to keep it fair at the same time yet if there's excursion that has a lot of space and funding for it that we do do more outreach to reaching out to more families within the. Contracted lines of agreement of like the area where we're supposed to be granting this community with.

Yeah no perfect.

Yes definitely there's some tracking on there that we can definitely provide more information if requested.

Yeah if you can. I think I think it would just be good just to kind of understand. And then like the length of the grant as well too is it just a yearly grant that we.

Yeah it's coming to it's been since how many years has it been since.

It started before either her I would say I think about five to seven years prior to Covid and then there was on a stop. But what we can do for the commission is we are concluding our contracted years with the state funding. So what we'll do is when we finalize our annual report we can present a shorter version to a commission for your for you to review.

DIRECTOR HERSEY- Perfect. A few more. Sorry. Kind of taking up some time. Pool rentals. Can we elaborate what what pools are. Does the city allow to get rented because I didn't. That was new to me.

Yeah, for us, we allow rentals through the Fullerton Community Center pool. So it's just like your private rental process. You'll meet with our rentals team. They'll go over your inquiry, go over a cost estimate with you, kind of plan out the day for you guys, give you a layout. I'm not too sure if we rent out Janet Evans. We don't. Yeah, so just for us, it's the Fullerton Community Center.

Yeah, perfect. Batting cages. It wasn't the first one, but I kind of waited until the end. So community impact.

project for this was requested was it requested through any of the any of the leagues how did that kind of come yeah so we had um brad dam funding i'm sorry i apologize correction on that it was brad dam funding um what our goal is just general feedback from the user the sports users is that there's ongoing always asks right and for us just based on the level of use of the batting cages, which is a limited resource to us. We wanted to invest in that, so we chose that project. We spent a little bit south of $50,000 for the... Because they had to level it and lay down the turf, and it's a really big space. It's three of those tunnels. And similar to... So at Lions Field, for example, Fullerton Hills has invested in those batting cages. And to my understanding, when the facility was built was with the purpose of the user, which was kind of home of Fullerton Hills, to maximize the space and invest in the resources to utilize the space. So similar to Fullerton Sports Complex, we've always created a system where, like, I think it's West Fullerton, East Fullerton, and Golden Hill have access to the cages during the evenings, and they kind of work out the schedule. With the project, also what we've been finding.

Sorry, who works out the schedule? The groups, the user groups. Amongst themselves?

Yeah, because there's multiple teams. What we've encountered, at least in the last six to eight months for us, is that Just as a general across the board on our sports fields, there's always the commercial use private user monetizing of the space, whether it's private lessons, whether it's soccer, baseball, football, whatever that might be. So at Lions Field specifically, after the Returf project, we have a staff on site that just educates them how to go about the process because there's a lot of these pop-up clinics that say, oh, it's just you know, a family member and myself, great, that's awesome. Then it starts becoming two family members. Then it's three family members. And now they stay under that threshold of 10 where they don't need a permit, but it increases. Similar to for us in the batting cages, investing in that resource, we are creating a program that allows them for permitting process and they can use it for whatever their use is. but also safeguard the city with liability. So we've done kind of the scope of it and the liability and what that insurance rate would cost. And we have all the resources. So we're just, we're locking them unless it's permitted use, which in the evenings, it's more of the sports users. And those are only to facility with batting cages.

Follow up with that is, is the, are the cages going to be revenue generating for like our non, like, like the for-profit users or anything like that?

If they pay for the permit, yeah, we would generate revenue from that use. Okay, cool.

That's good. So when you refer to liability, do we, we currently have like a policy in place for like just, let's just say, right, like you mentioned, you got the dad and the kid that are just going to go out there and use it, like, so we have something in place that they can that they understand what the policy is when it comes to liability?

So we're allocating the field sports policy to also include the batting cages, which we're extending that because that's already a document that we have set forth. The batting cages right now are practice moving forward unless the commission wants it otherwise is that since there's an investment there, we are going to lock them and allow for that permitted use. now we can always work with the the son and the dad they want access so we can open and close them but there is that level of like what ultimately what was happening is a lot of multiple individuals were going in there and teaching lessons without staff really knowing or understanding and and we went through multiple conversations across the board in the city i was like oh yeah me and my son great love that you're doing sports Right? And then it became, okay, now it's a lesson, right? Okay, you're monetizing up the public space. And that's really what we're trying to accomplish here, that they go through an actual permitting process. It's available. It's just going through that process for a minimal fee. But having, it's just like a field rental. Now they can always go on to the field and hit baseballs if it's like we're not prohibiting that. This just has a closure. But if the commission says leave them open for the community to use at free will we're happy to do that. We're just trying to safeguard kind of the investments that we're making on the field.

Yeah because I remember I remember a few well not a few months but multiple months ago there was a gentleman that kind of came in and I thought that's what we were doing was opening like the spaces up for people to utilize, like the cages specifically, I think it was.

I think they've stayed open, and then we invested into that. And based on, so there's two cage facilities, right, that we use. Fullerton Sports Complex and Lions. Yeah. Lions.

What about Emerge? I thought, I thought.

Emerge has been used for...

I thought West Fullerton was also using it.

On the permitted dates.

Yeah, so on our permitted dates for Emerge, which is the Monday and Wednesdays, the two current users are East Fullerton and West Fullerton. So when they do their... When we go through the allocation, they'll split their times, right? So like an hour and a half, they'll like one... league will be on the field and the other league will be on the batting cages and then they'll swap just kind of depending on their usage and that was kind of the agreement with Hope right was like once a week they had to allow yeah it's twice it's twice a week especially during their season because depending on how their season goes they can go longer I know last year they went pretty far you know so it just kind of depends and just to add to that Commissioner Talavarra

The average is kind of separate because there's a lease with Hope University. It's not a public park. It's accessible to everybody. In that lease, there are two days that are allocated for user groups. For the user groups. For the user groups specific. Across the board after those two days, it's closed for Hope University exclusivity. For them to specifically use. Correct. Correct. Yeah. Okay. So just based on the investment at these two batting cages on our public facilities, we've made the decision to create a permit program that's already established as they were using a sports field to access to it. As I shared, if the commission feels that they should be open for general use, that's fair. We'll relay that information to the sports users But if you want us to continue exploring this permit and kind of create a revenue stream based on the use, we're happy to explore that too. That's just our practice. Similar to, like, commercial use on sports fields, we charge them for field rental and liability insurance.

Just with the update, I just wanted to kind of get a better idea of, like, obviously where the money came from and then kind of, like, what's – because I remember, like, Like I said, there was a gentleman that kind of came in and spoke.

Absolutely. Yeah.

And I thought we had just said we were going to open them up just for people to have access to because that's I guess that was my understanding to just being in the baseball world, you know, like. Correct. And that's how I knew about Amherst, because when I was helping West Fullerton and then I also had another gentleman. that I ran into, because I'm doing the stairs, believe it or not, guys. I'm going to the stairs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, so you guys can see me there. 8.30.

So, yeah.

So I'm seeing all the use of Lions Field and all that. So, yeah, I ran into a gentleman, and he just kind of mentioned. Yeah.

No absolutely and we appreciate it. And again if there's feedback from the commission to open it for the public use we're happy to explore that. We've just tried to kind of safeguard the investments that we've made and also create an avenue for those that are commercializing on the public property.

Maybe it could be an item at the end of the of the meeting today. I just want to kind of ask about the update since it came up. That's why. Thanks.

OK. Yes. I have actually some small things. Apologies. I did talk to one guy. I'm going to jump around. But I did talk to one guy who said that he was a part of this group of older gentlemen, whatever, that swim in the morning. And they're wondering if we can have an open, I don't know what time the community center is open for general use where you can kind of just come? Or is it that we need to actually schedule a time or make a reservation beforehand?

So the pool at the Fullerton Community Center isn't operated by city staff. It's operated through Fast Swimming. So that's definitely something that we could discuss with them, seeing if they're open to that. But they have full use besides the pool rentals that we do over the weekends. They have full operational use of the pool.

Okay. So in theory, somebody – or I guess first question, what time are they open? Typically around 8?

Typically their programs begin around noon every day. I haven't gotten with them just yet regarding summer to see if their programs will start a little earlier. I did see some of their lifeguards and lap swimmers in there around 11 today. But typically they start in the later mornings, early afternoons.

So if these group of people wanted to just independently swim without an actual program ongoing, where they just want to do laps, are they allowed to do that at 8 AM? Or do they have to wait until the programming starts around 12?

Yeah, so we're starting to kind of dance around kind of like a private pool rental at that point because we would need to get the lifeguard because we can't have anybody in there that's not supervised by a lifeguard.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Pool rental. Okay. And that's with the private company of Fast Swimming. Okay.

Correct, yeah. And like I said, I could have that conversation with them to see if they're open to that as well of extending their hours to see if we could have some lap swimming.

OK, and then for the pickleball grand opening, are we allowed to just start playing right after? Or are we starting the day after on Saturday?

Yeah, so after the ribbon cutting, it'll be drop and play. So anyone that shows up on that Friday after the ribbon cutting, they'll be able to play. Reservations open that day, that Friday morning. But it will be for a reservation starting Saturday. Gotcha, OK.

And then oh, this one's actually about the running. I had a great time. I loved it. I loved every part of it. I mean, I had some fears about just because it was going to be in June rather than later in the year. that the heat was going to get to us. But just because of, I guess, the natural environment and the actual, one, overcast, but two, the shades of the tree, it wasn't really that hot. I sweat a ton, so I was gross at the end. But that was expected. And so I'm very happy with your guys' work. I thought it went off flawlessly. One thing I would say is, if and when it does get bigger, and I know next year it will be, a little anecdotal, but when I came and bought my friend's breakfast for going with me to that 5K, a bunch of people around us were asking us, where did you guys go? Where was this? Is it going to be next time? And I'm like, yes, and it's right up this street. And so it was cool that we got people for next year, but also That I don't know it's going to get bigger, the one thing that one it does get bigger is if we can split up and it happens that other five cases well or other like half marathons where, if they have like. 1000 people they split up the groups into half so that they start running 20 minutes apart from each other.

Yeah, like the waves. Yeah. We suggested that, but I guess the number that we have and the timing that we settled the event for, it was a little too late for us to kind of adjust it. But we did look into it. Maybe next time we do want to do it in waves. Yeah. So it's not too overlapping or unsafe for the whole group to go at once.

It was like at the beginning or after you guys set us off to go run, right when we ended –

the grass area onto the actual trail there was like just because it was flowing kind of naturally there was a little bit of a bottleneck and then it broke up obviously I agree 100% I think that if there's a next time definitely a wave just because of how narrow the trail and the whole map area is so I would be on board with that as well thank you for your feedback and thanks for joining it of course anytime anytime alright

Okay, I only have one question. For the pickleball, is the reservation system, is it after Friday, is it always reservation, or is there going to be drop-in play any other time?

No, it will only be reservations.

Okay, and what's the schedule going to be for that?

Same hours of our tennis, so Monday through Friday, 7 to 9, and then on the weekends, it will be 7 to 1. But we are, I mean, once we open pickleball, we'll start exploring if, you know, over the weekends, if we need to open later, um, you know, that will be a discussion that we'll have, um, in the next couple of months. Okay. I'm almost positive you're going to have that discussion soon.

Um, With the reservations, is there a fee associated with that?

Yes. So it would be $10 Fullerton resident and $14 non-resident.

And how long does that get you? Is that per hour? Per hour.

And you could also do 30 minutes as well. So it would be half of it.

Okay.

And what does it have to do with that?

I can't remember now.

That's right. I can ask that here. All right. If there's no other questions, we're good? We'll now move to the public comment portion of the meeting This is the time for the members of the public to address the Commission on any item of interest to the public that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Parks and Recreation Commission Other than the items listed on the agenda if there is anyone here who would like to speak Please come forward and state your name for the record

Good evening, commissioners and staff. My name is Jensen Hallstrom. Thank you, staff, for all of the dedication to city programming and events and just keeping a really active, engaged community. It's really, really awesome. Speaking of events, I'd like to comment by mentioning the airport day this past Saturday, which is an awesome event. It had a major safety hazard. My dad, Rob Hallstrom, attended the event. And while there was two demonstrations going on at the same time, a helicopter and a vintage military plane, there was a proper barricade for the helicopter, but there was just caution tape for the plane. And so while my dad was filming the plane just behind the caution tape, a small two-year-old child ran out right under the tape right toward the propeller of this plane. And my dad was able to immediately run over and catch him, pick him up, and give him to his parents, which is a little boy. And I'm just so shocked that there was not a proper barricade during a plane, when there's two demonstrations going on at the same time. I know that this is more than just the city of Fullerton. The airport itself provides and manages the event. But this is a consideration that needs to be looked at. also like to report that last week i noticed that the historic sequoia war memorial in hillcrest park was beginning to be restored by a street tree revival of wca so i'm very glad to see that i'm disappointed that the city is having them paint the memorial black once they finish all of the sanding and restoration showing the beautiful wood and grain and color of this 2,000-year-old piece of sequoia wood, that's unfortunate, I feel, especially because painting this giant piece of ancient wood black only creates more heat absorption and stress for the wood overall. Also, the completely missing memorial of 55 sequoia trees, one for each man a Fullerton resident who died in World War Two obviously is completely missing since the last tree after decades and decades of neglect. Last tree died in 2015 was cut down despite a landscape architect report 20 years prior in 1995 showing that the trees were already in decline from deferred maintenance. Planting and managing a 55-tree grove of Sequoia sempervirens in Fullerton and Hillcrest Park is entirely possible. With good irrigation design and good soil management, this is something that the city needs to prioritize right now. It's a completely missing war memorial in Hillcrest Park. It was a living war memorial separate from the Sequoia Monument itself. There are redwood cultivars such as Aptos Blue and Soquel that are more heat and drought tolerant as they originate from the Santa Cruz Mountains. And I think that these varieties are among the ones that will help manage a very sustainable uh and respectful living war memorial to those that were fullerton residents that died in world war ii so i hope that this is uh discussed and it becomes a transparent project because right now with the sequoia memorial there has not been transparency and you know i'm glad that the restoration forward but thank you

Is there anyone else who'd like to come forward for public comment?

Good evening. My name's DJ. I won't give my last name, and there's specific reasons for that. And I'll let you know that you'll be able to figure that out in moments. But the opening statement I want to start with is Lyons Field FSC all the facilities that you see around this city were not built for one specific organization. They were built for the community for the kids to have an opportunity to play on decent be better than decent playing surfaces and not one particular organization. So I just want to remind everybody why we're here today. And you guys are public servants, whether you know it or not. Your service could be in a variety of different ways. And so this is the specter you guys decided to choose. So we're going to get service provided a lot better than it's been in the past. I'm a little fired up about this, because this is a five-year process. This has been going on for over five years. You want to talk about liability. You want to talk about those cages. I believe I'm kind of directly responsible for those cages getting done at some point in time. But we want to talk about safety and liability. We want to talk about mentorship. I also want to talk about training. My background is 25 years in the public sector as a baseball coach, as a college professor. So I understand completely what you are and what you are not responsible for and how the city should be run. I also understand that there's no training going on in this department and they have no idea what the law is or what these facilities were built for. There's without a doubt, I scratch your back, the good old boy system going on between Fullerton Hills Softball and this department in particular. So before the time clock goes off, I'm going to ask for a little bit of grace for the time because, again, this has been a five-year deal, and there's been a lot of harassment, stalking, weaponizing of the police over a batting cage. Christian is 100% directly responsible that this has been allowed to happen for such a long period of time Sir, I'm gonna direct you to director comments to us, please We are the Commission you guys must be addressing. So the harassment started at Lions batting cages Because those cages have been locked up for years for one particular group. I Found my way into those cages so I continue to use those cages and And then the snack bar director decided it was going to be okay to harass me whenever I was there. And harassment is stopping, filming, backing up into a plan, filming more.

Imagine if the roles were reversed.

If I was the one doing the filming and there was little girls there.

Is it illegal.

No but it's very weird. They would drive around the parking lot and multiple times stop just so we could see them stare try to intimidate kids try to intimidate me.

I'm going to give you as much grace as I gave the previous commenter so you have about 20 more seconds.

OK so I'll start with this so. Sarah Crowley, the snack bar lady, and Josh decided to go to Ace Hardware, buy their own lock and key, and lock the city out of their own cages. So I'll just end with this. And there's a lot more. Obviously, I'm going to have to show up more and bring people with me so I can use their time as well. But a private person who chains and locks a city building The official faces severe consequences, ranging from criminal charges to substantial civil liability, such as an action considering illegal obstruction of public property, in many cases a violation, forcible removal, property damage, criminal consequences, arrests, misdemeanor charges, fire code violations, false false imprisonment, et cetera, et cetera. So I've spoken to the district attorney with all the harassment that I have gone through. They've weaponized the police against me. A police officer thought it was going to be a really good idea to pretend to drive through the batting cage while my back was turned.

That's your time. Thank you.

Yeah.

No sir that's your time. You've given us your comments at your time. Thank you. This is how public decorum works. You have your time.

If the president and the snack bar lady do not resign immediately we will continue to go through with the district.

Your comments have been noted. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to do public comment. Anybody on line.

I do not.

Okay.

With that, we will close public comment. We'll now move to the approval of the consent calendar for the meeting on May 11, 2026. Are there any commissioners that wish to pull an item from the consent calendar? If there are no items to be pulled, is there a motion and a second to approve the balance of the consent calendar?

I move to approve the consent calendar.

And I second.

We'll call the vote.

Yes, Commissioner Maldonado?

Yes.

Commissioner Zalaveta? Yes. And Vice Chair Freeman? Yes. Thank you.

Excuse me one second. Sorry, give me one second. That was part of the consent Okay, we will now move to The regular business Is there any presentations from staff

Yeah, good evening, Commission. So today we have Adam and Jeff with Corsco. They are our operators for the Fullerton golf course, which they all have a presentation. It's an introduction of themselves and the company. As you recall, recently went through an RFP, and we're very excited to be working with Corsco and look forward to their improvements of the golf course. So they're here to share their presentation and answer any questions you guys may have.

Good evening, Commissioners. Thank you for having us tonight. We just kind of want to introduce who Corsco is, what we've done in the first six months at Fullerton Golf Course, and kind of what our vision is for the future of the golf course. So with that, next slide. I'm Adam Pohl. I'm a regional manager from Corsco. And then next to me is Jeff Wong, who's our general manager of the golf course. And as you can see on the slide, our other department heads, Mark Pinion, the superintendent of the golf course, Carol Smith, who does food and beverage and then tournament sales. And then Daniel Rolino, who's our golf ops manager. Next slide. So who is Corsco? We were founded in 1989. We're based out of Petaluma, California. We operate 47 golf courses in eight western states. About 30 of those are in the state of California, and we specialize in public accessible golf. Next slide. Corsco has four core values. One is financial performance and stakeholder communication. Community engagement, environmental stewardship. Next slide, please. I'll hit on some of those for you. The community inclusion piece seems like it fits right along with the city of Fullerton. We've only been here for six months, but this is in our DNA as well and has been since 1989. What we like to do is, Because the golf is only played by about 10% of the population, the other 90% also owns this golf course. So it's our job to make sure that we're trying to attract that 90% to this facility that's owned by you. So how do we do that? We host cool, fun, low-cost, even free events at the golf course. One we just hosted recently in April was the free Easter egg hunt. Bring your kids out, do an Easter egg hunt out on the golf course, out on the greens. We have fun events with that. That's a great way to get people from the community who don't play golf to our facility. And you'll see more and more of those as we go along throughout the years. Next slide, please. Environmental stewardship. We know that we're not just taking care of the golf course for the golfers, but we're also taking care for the environment as well. So this is really important to us. We take great pride in the fact that we're the most honored and awarded golf management company in the United States by the Golf Course Superintendent Association of America. So we're really proud of that. We're also proud to be back-to-back winners of the President's Award from the GCSAA. About half of our golf courses are certified as Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries. If you're not familiar with that program, it's about a two-year process to get your golf course certified. So about half of our courses are there, and we plan to get Fullerton in the same situation. Next slide, please. Stakeholder communication. That's kind of why we're here tonight. We think it's really important to get to know who the owners are, who city staff are, elected officials, customers, etc. So what we do is we host things like town halls. We meet with all the home clubs. And really, this is just to get their feedback on what the direction of the golf course should be. In addition, we do a lot of feedback at the golf course, meaning surveys. We do daily surveys on site. We do monthly surveys via email. We also do a national one that we do once a year through the National Golf Foundation. It gives us demographics, financial background of customers, where they're playing, who our competitors are. We do all this stuff just to kind of give us direction and strategy on what the golf course should be going forward. Next slide. So what we've done in the first six months, as Christian said, we took over in December of 2025, been there just over six months, and we just kind of wanted to highlight some of the things we've done at the golf course in the first six months. We remodeled the entire golf shop, new carpet, paint, TVs, new merchandise, new fixtures, et cetera, just to give kind of a new experience for customers. Last month, we brought in 80 brand-new lithium golf carts, which the customers absolutely loved. The old ones are about six years old, so it's just nice to have new. We've continued to bring in new maintenance equipment. Taking care of a golf course is a big task, and you've got to have equipment to do that to make sure the golf course is in good shape. You can see in one of the pictures there, we just got done last week re-sodding hole number 16. That's one of the holes that floods during the winter rains, and it's taken a beating over the years. And so instead of just babying it back, we bit the bullet and sodded that fairway. It's a nice improvement that the customers will enjoy in the future. Like I said, we hosted a free community event, our Easter egg hunt. That was our first one and we'll continue to do those throughout the year. New website and expanded social media profile, new customer service training for every single employee starting on day one when we took over. Simple things like uniforms and name tags. It may sound simple, but it's new and fresh and it's just part of the experience. And then lots of miscellaneous facility repairs if you've been to the golf course. The buildings are aged, and so lots of small stuff, but it's continuous at that property. Next slide, please. Vision for the future. I think at the top of the list, I want to point out one thing. That's the enhanced driving range. For those who do play golf, if you've been to a Topgolf facility, the technology at Topgolf is called Top Tracer. Well, those are also installed at golf course driving ranges, and we've done that at seven of our golf courses in California already. This is a really cool new technology-based gamification of golf that's attracting non-golfers to golf. It's kind of like Topgolf Life, Topgolf Lite, but it's at your community golf course. Not only is it an increase in revenue, but it's an increase in people who never would step foot on your facility come into your facility. So we'll plan with Christian and the team going forward, but we think this could be a game changer at Fullerton. So we'll keep you apprised of that going forward. The other visions for the future, improving the irrigation system. This is an ongoing process with an aging irrigation system, but it does two things. One, it's more efficient use of water, and two, better turf quality and coverage out on the golf course. Tree trimming and cart path repair, that happens at every golf course, and it will continue for years to come. Improving turf quality on the golf course is a big one for us. There's some deferred maintenance out there that we got to continue to hit really hard with cultural practices on the turf, inputs into the turf, just to keep up with how busy that golf course is. That takes work, and that takes time, and that's going to be one of our focuses going forward. Expanding the food and beverage operation, if you've been there, it's a small cafe-type setting. We plan to expand that into sort of an indoor-outdoor feel where we can attract customers to kind of come early before their round and stay later after their round. It just doesn't have that vibe right now, and that's really what our focus will be going forward. Expanding junior golf programming. We've already done that. Our new PGA Junior Camp start in two weeks. So we're very excited about that. That adds on to our robust program that we already have with our with our full time instructors. So we'll continue to add programs like PGA Junior Camps going forward. We've also added more access to your local First Tee chapter. They operate at several facilities in the area. We gave them more access at Fullerton Golf Course because that is a great, great program, and we want to be part of them going forward. And then lastly, just addressing the deferred capital needs in the buildings, things like the cart barn, things like the clubhouse. Those are things we're going to have to set aside funds for. We'll be able to do that, but addressing what are the priorities first. The cart barn will probably be first on those buildings, and then we'll look to the clubhouse second. And then lastly, hosting more community events like I spoke about before in previous slides. And with that, we'll answer any questions you may have.

All right. Thank you very much. Commissioners, any questions? You said that last time, are you sure? Any questions?

I do. I think first and foremost, thank you guys for this presentation. It sounds amazing. So when you submitted for this, so why Fullerton? What drew you guys into, I mean, I think from there I'm going to expand to some of the questions that I have, but yeah.

Yeah, I'll say a couple things. One, it fits who we are pretty well, right? We specialize in public, affordable, accessible golf. Two, city staff was really excited about a new chapter for Fulton Golf Course. That excites us to be able to do changes and improvements as opposed to just taking over and operating a golf course with no hope or light at the end of the tunnel. Every time we met with city staff, they were very excited to improve Fulton Golf Course.

Yeah. First T, what is that?

Oh, I'm sorry. It's a nonprofit golf program that teaches life skills and golf at the same time. It's in all 50 states. They not only teach golf, but they teach classroom life skills at the same time. They just use golf as that venue. Well, that fits in perfect with us, right? So we just give them access to the facility, the way they can teach their programs, and then hopefully they're building future customers for us.

Also First Tee is a very affordable program so it's not like a private lesson that you would have to pay a lot of money for but it's very easily accessible for the general public for people that are under underprivileged. So it's a great program to have to give access to children that want to learn. DIRECTOR HERSEY.

About it.

Yeah, you kind of addressed my one question, was with all the new programs and all that stuff, do you have anything for kind of low-income, underprivileged families to be able to gain access? Because golf is not a cheap sport. I love it, but can't afford it all the time. But it's something that if we can give access to more people equitably, that'd be great. And so is that the only program you have, or is there any other programs you have?

One is the community events, right? Those are free or low cost to everybody in the community, whether you're a golfer or not. Number two, you can use the practice facilities at the golf course for free. I mean, bring your putter, bring a golf ball. We'll give you a putter and a golf ball. You go use the putting area. It's completely free. We're hoping you buy a burger in the restaurant, right? Right. Or have a beer after you putt, right? But those facilities right around that clubhouse area are completely free.

Great. Go ahead.

A great, affordable junior program. It's only $10 for juniors to come and golf during the weekdays. We also are part of a program called Youth on Course. It's a program with USGA where they subsidize golf courses to provide affordable golf course access and practice balls. So practice balls are only $2. Golf access is $5 at a certain less demand.

Like Twilight kind of times.

Yeah.

juniors can come and take advantage of those programs as well.

Yeah, that's perfect. That's exactly what I was wondering if you had any programs like that to give access to more kids.

I reach into schools and engage in school district.

Yeah, I can speak to that. Have you ever heard of a program called the First Green? It's like the first tee, but also subsidized by the United States Golf Association. We go to schools, bring students to the golf course. When they're teaching chapters on STEM, we use the golf course as what they call a learning laboratory. So our superintendents and our maintenance staff teach those STEM classes on the golf course. It's all free to the students. It's actually paid for by the United States Golf Association, and we just host them at our facility.

We are also home to Fullerton High School golf boys and girls team. We are home to Troy High School golf team boys and girls. And we also have other schools coming for matches Esperanza High School and a few others that follow our golf course home to their program.

Very nice.

Thank you. Quick question for staff was that happening before. Do you know.

So I don't know the details in regards like previous so this this project transition has been ongoing for a couple of at least the better half of last year. I do know that the local high schools have always used the golf course I think and Jeff was actually He's he's great. We've worked with Jeff with the prior the previous operator and now with so his relationships with the local community are you know very rewarding to us. The expansion though to the first tee as they're alluding to in the the events and just free access is something that I think has been expanded from previous operators previous operators.

So Jeff so would you know. Did those schools call the Fulton golf course home before? Okay.

Yeah, just I was just wondering I didn't know I Come with a little bit of a background little bit of history With course go though. We've started expanding a lot more of these programs from the existing programs that we've had. We've had a very limited access for First Tee. First thing that CoreSchool came in and did was gave us the okay to go ahead and expand the program. CoreSchool was the one who initiated the PGA summer camps that are starting this week. Uh in two weeks. Um also the community events. Um we are all for community events as the previous operators had a few events here and there but nothing um strategically planned with course code. We are very strategic in how we approach our community events and um coming up with more ideas on a daily basis. to try to get the community out there on a monthly basis, at least twice a month, just to have certain events going on for the general public. We are planning a back to school supply giveaway in July. We tried it last year. It didn't take too well. So we're hoping that it draws more people. We'll have a jumper. We'll have some music, free food. Everybody in attendance will get a small goody bag of some school supplies. We are also planning a free clinic with the First Tee. We did it last year. It was a great success. So the First Tee program will bring two instructors. It will be a free lesson clinic, group lesson for kids. Anybody can come and attend. It will be a great way to introduce children to the game of golf through a free clinic. We hope that they stay and come more often and learn the game of golf and utilize the golf course more for the community. So we have a lot more things planned than previous offers.

Thank you for that. Staff, would this be something similar that we can piggyback? Because we've had a really successful fishing derby. type of thing? Would this be something similar that the city would also? Or is this them solely marketing and promoting something like that? No, we're partners in this.

So Corsco and city staff are in constant communication. They're the operators of the golf course. Golf course is a city-owned space. So we're partners. So Capital Improvement, Corsco, and our staff, Rachel specifically, They have ongoing conversation. So perfect example, the the Easter event, we work together to not make it on the same day or not crossover to not impact families that want to go to both. Right. So, yeah, we're partners. There's always opportunity from Costco towards city staff to expand and market. And they have dedicated web pages on our website and we market all their events. Perfect. Any other questions?

Okay. We'll now, and I would like to invite members of the public who would like to address the commission on this item only to come forward. Please state your name if you haven't filled out one of the speaker cards.

All right, yeah, I really appreciate that report. Love to see a facility such as this, as it was noted, an accessible, you know, affordable facility that is well loved by our community and be, you know, kind of given this chance to have some new life breathed into it and makes me want to go visit. So thank you. Thank you for that. And I'm particularly interested in environmental stewardship aspect. Of course, the golf course topography is defined by Bray Creek, and that is the largest waterway through Fullerton. Obviously, there are going to be conflicts when managing a facility of this nature, but there is quite a bit of Things in the way of watershed management that I think should be considered here. There is just an incredible amount of pollution into Brea Creek in the form of golf balls. You can find them all up and down, downstream golf courses along many waterways. But particularly for Brea Creek, you can always find a whole bunch of golf balls in the section of Brea Creek adjacent to Hillcrest Park. And that's the last soft bottom section of the creek before it transitions to a full concrete flood channel. And that is where there is the greatest opportunity for the community to interact with Brea Creek. Right there at Hillcrest, there's almost always, you know, beautiful, you know, snowy egret, you know, wildlife that are using that naturalized section of Brait Creek. So given that there are going to be investments into some improved turf management, I'd like to make sure that there is an awareness of certain inputs that we don't want into this waterway. Glyphosate, for example, is, you know, obviously a very popular or glyphosate-based roundups. Herbicides are very popular, such as Roundup. And also, you know, in the way of Creating a culture around Bray Creek, I hope that maybe there could be something in the way of recognizing the importance of the creek making this property more beautiful by having that entire riparian forest of native willow trees and sycamores. I know that obviously there's also overlap with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but I would like to see some improved watershed management practices as well. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there anyone else from the public would like to address this item on the agenda? There anyone on zoom Okay with that I will close public comment is there any commissioners who would like to Have any discussion or comments about this agenda item? I

Thank you guys for the presentation. I think it was well and good information and really thorough. Definitely got educated a little bit more on the golf course now since it hasn't been an item that's come up. And then getting to it. hear some golf lingo over here from our fellow commissioner. Not a golfer myself, but I do see the outdoor space being a second classroom. So I love the whole STEM component. So I would love to kind of see what that looks like in the near future. And hopefully some of the either high schools or junior highs or even elementaries start engaging with you all. Yeah, that's it.

Um, yeah, just kind of like to echo that. I think this is great. I think, um, anytime we can kind of breathe new life into our facilities, um, you know, I think it's great. I think being able to get more access for our community to, to get outside and recreate and to get off screens and, you know, learn and, um, and do it in fun ways I think is fantastic. And then to offer other elements just to introduce people to the golf course, you know, that may not even have anything to do with golf, um, Think is a fantastic plan, and I love that the partnership with the city I think that's smart on your guys's part and to really cross market each other's events, and it just helps each other I Do think the the point that was brought up about you know making sure that we're taking care of the wildlife I think that's that's obviously important and the natural habitat that we need to take ownership of that and I don't know if it would be appropriate for them to address anything of that nature to like what what steps you do take to you know not have pesticides go into the end of the water and to mitigate as much as you can.

Is that yes I think the I think course go can respond if they have some feedback on that.

So I don't want to get over my skis you are our agronomy team does all this. So I'm not the agronomist, but I know, so they use what's called an IPM, Integrated Pest Management System, to make sure when they're near watersheds, they're not allowed to use certain chemicals. I just can't speak to what those chemicals are, so I apologize. It's just not my expertise.

Okay, thank you. There is an active plan, so I mean, that's good to know. I just thought that'd be good to have on record. Any other comments or discussion points? Okay. That's just a receiving file, so we don't need to vote on anything for that We'll now move to the staff communication or Commissioner comments are there any matters from commissioners? Commissioners are limited to no more than five minutes per commissioner I

I have a few. Just reading the agenda from last meeting, is it possible or do we have to vote to add kind of like a an update to public comments. I think specifically more to like would crest the would crest resident media asking the city so I guess just having a way for us to us commissioners to be able to see what what the update is as far as like the actions that that were taken as far as like you know when public comments are made and we direct staff to connect with with with the public. So I was just wondering if there's a way to add that to the agenda as far as kind of like a follow-up.

I can explore that, but I believe in this section we can answer to that. So with Mireya, we reached out to her, and the Fullerton Police Association is actually donating. I'll confirm with the amount towards their summer movie programs. We've shared with her that we, as Parks and Rec, don't have the resources, but we were able to connect them with the Fullerton Police Association. And speaking with me, my understanding is they purchased the equipment to host multiple. Initially, I thought that one event is like the money for one event, but no, they purchased their own screen and projector for multiple events throughout the year. i know as an association they've she shared they had some funds already allocated toward this program with the police association funding and sponsorship they'll be able to actually purchase the equipment and host their own movie night so we were able to connect them and that was a success

So I guess I guess I was asking to see if there's a way to add like if there's an update on public comments that were made as far as like what the update was. So not necessarily us commissioners having to ask.

I believe I mean is there this specific section does allow for staff communication and feedback. What we'll do is we'll take note if there's a specific language for it. Absolutely. But if not we'll take notes on kind of action items and share it back.

yeah it's just just kind of follow up yeah absolutely kind of like hey what like what did i end up happening with yeah so and so absolutely yeah um i think uh second would what's uh i would like to ask staff to provide um when open pool sessions are available to the public so just getting a um like an update of what what that looks like the times that you know um like commissioner maldonado mentioned you know, there's a senior that wants to be able to go swimming. What times? Instead of, like, you know, connecting with FAS or whoever, like, how can we kind of share what times the public can go swimming? And then the batting cage. The batting cages. Again, kind of real similar to golf. And I guess I had a different understanding when it came to pickleball as well, too, because I thought it was kind of like a drop in. You put your paddle in. I didn't think that we were going to be scheduling and like, you know, having a fee for for pickleball. That was just, again, probably my understanding from it, from like, you know, approving everything and getting going. So I think for batting cages, for me, I think it's just. open it up to the public. Um, you know, we, we invest, you know, dollars everywhere, you know, and I think it's, it is the public's, you know, dollars to, to be invested in. So just having it like accessible for people, I guess, real similar to the pool. Um, this is something that I've actually tried to work on many, many years ago, having pole access or pole safety. Um, and at the time I found that there was very minimal time. There's, like, literally, like, one or two hours out of the day that the public can access the pool. And I don't know if it's still the same, but it's since it came up with rentals and things like that. So same thing with the banding cages. I think we need just to allow, like, the openness to be able to access it. Now, when it does come to leagues, right, so I guess that's my whole thing is, like, When leagues are in session, I understand that because the kids, you know, there's multiple kids that are signed up and that's, you know, one of the resources that they're, you know, like I guess getting to or having access to. But over the summer, like we want people to be, I mean, like Lions Field, I'm telling you, the place is like jumping. Like there's soccer, football, you name it, softball, baseball. Like people, and then going up and down the stairs, I mean, you know, we invest in the stairs. We're not telling people you can only access the stairs from certain times and then, you know, not, right? So, I mean, that was like millions of dollars. So, to me, I want to be able to open, you know, our amenities and our access to those spaces. And I think if we do get to a point where, We do need to find some structure to it, but I don't think we're there yet.

So that's just my- Yeah, we'll bring back the pool. So FAST, as the list see, they scheduled their program. So we'll explore that and bring back the access because there is open swim. It just might not be at six in the morning open swim, but they do have two facilities. in regards to the batting cages we'll bring that report back at the next meeting so we can get official direction from the commission just some of the challenges like i shared earlier there's a lot of monetizing of access to that space we're teaching lessons so we just wanted to kind of reframe that approach and provide an actual pathway similar to what we do with anybody teaching a lesson out on the softball, baseball, soccer field. So it's not just full access. But what we'll do is we'll bring the information at the next meeting. We'll share that information. And then we'll – because there's other organizations that I think have – Not just general access but do have have also invested into these cages to give them the opportunity to share their feedback with the commission and then so the commission can make a give direction at that time. Yeah. We'll bring that back at the next meeting.

Appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. I put my thoughts together. First thank you guys for all the work that you do. It's all amazing and I know you guys are 24 7 busy. just based off of the schedule that's been released. I do have a question about just this past weekend, we had Art Walk, we had Pride, and then I think in a few weeks, I think about two weeks, we're going to have Day of Music. Understandably, these are all private events, or at least done by nonprofits. Is there a chance that we can explore greater partnership with them, where they can, I don't know, some creative minds, I guess, come together for that? Or what do you think? In what way?

Because we do, so our partnership and sponsorship towards those events is the waiving of the fees. So that went to council, I believe, the last week. last council meeting. So we waived for Day of Music specific. So you're talking facility fees police fees access to the space. So we do waive fees. That's our partnership I guess in lieu in kind. And then for Pride with the museum also waiving. We already have a contract with the museum that they have access to space. But we did waive police fees and staffing fees. But if the commission wants to explore other ways there are A lot of cross-promotion.

I was wondering if we can increase advertisement or something like that.

Day of Music also, marketing-wise, has access. We do post all the billboards on the 57 and the 91 and off the 91 as well. So we are giving that exposure. I think it comes down to... availability they've always both events and the museum has been great at trying to include the department and having a booth we just don't have the staffing capabilities to host a booth for the for the length of their events okay but but yeah we're we are doing kind of in lieu sponsorships um and with some marketing associated as well oh very cool thank you

A concert in a park. Is that a November or that's around November thing or are we still having it in the park.

No that's planned for August at the sports complex. So that market you know that's Fridays in August.

Thank you. Do you know when the master plan is going to be scheduled to go to the council. I thought it was going to be last like the beginning of

or the end of last month, but maybe... No, so we actually are in the final, final approval, and it goes live on the RFP, and we give it about five weeks that it goes live. So you're looking at... So we're definitely releasing it this week. We're looking at the second week of July. Everything closes. We'll review the proposals, schedule interviews. So you're looking at maybe about early September for actual approval... once we go through like the interview process and select our firm and then we're looking at that point after council approval starting about an 18 month process and that's kind of when the time starts after approval yeah but we're we're it's i'm i myself met with um our admin services team their purchasing team and it's in the final like final review process we just need to go ahead

Awesome. Thank you. One thing I did hear just from some soccer families. They were wondering if we could ever explore the idea of banning smoking at parks. I don't know if that's in terms of like.

Definitely. That's part of the municipal code. It's just the enforcement. OK. We don't catch it. We can't enforce it. A lot of our parks and trail teams are a roaming team. At Lions we have kind of more dedicated staff but as long as they you know report it or if it's an ongoing issue at certain parks we can target those parts.

OK. So one of those report if you see something say something. Yeah absolutely. OK. Awesome. Other than that keep up the good work. Just fabulous things. Thank you. That's all.

All right, thank you. Yeah, just kind of echo my colleagues' remarks about great job. You guys are always busy. I know the grind of summer, and you're just starting it. And this prep work beforehand is a lot. So kudos to you guys for keeping it rolling and always doing your best and trying to serve the public the best you can. I think when you kind of piggybacking on Commissioner Talavera's comments about the batting cages, I think we can address that and probably some type of hybrid mode where it protects the investment but also gives access to public you know put our thinking caps on and how we can kind of come up with maybe a hybrid solution which is not open all the time you know and I don't know I'm sure we can we can think about some some of those options but you know when you're considering to bring it back next week or next excuse me next month to propose maybe a few different options when it comes to that and to see what kind of works and obviously talk with the user groups, make sure that they're getting the times that they need because they invest a lot of time and money into our fields as well. And so we want to make sure they have access. But I agree, the public needs access, but I also want to protect the investment of the city to make it so it doesn't turn back into that dirt a lot because the turf won't last forever. So I think it looks good, but I think there's a way to potentially come up with a hybrid solution to that. to where we can control the monetary part of it because I know specifically how hard that can become to control and it's an enforcement issue and having like just like the no smoking on parks like you need somebody out there at all times and it's nearly impossible to do that so there's resources versus the theory of it so I get that but but kudos to you guys you guys I think you're doing great um looks like you may have one small other comment or you I think

When it comes back next month, I'll make sure to address it there.

All right. Are there any matters from staff?

No no additional comments just in response to the pickleball. We can explore mirroring it to our tennis reservations. We just expect a high volume of interest. That's why we've done it. It's at the tennis center was always programmed to be a fee based program to drop in programs that we don't reserve or like a Union Pacific Park. So that one's free. Drop in the paddle saddle type of approach. Who's next? But we can explore maybe doing some drop in hours at the tennis center. We'll talk with staff and see what that volume looks like. And based on the feedback to kind of we're mirroring the motto of the tennis center as well to. to lessen the confusion for the users in general so so we want to be we want to streamline both and make sure they're both kind of because it's the fees are the same the access is the same so we just want everything to be pretty um honest and and transparent oh no for sure from the beginning and and i think and i think my my thinking about it was i think it's just a different

group kind of still you know I would hate for someone to show up and say like oh yeah they have pickleball courts they're like let's jump in and you're like no you have to reserve it and then they're just like you know they get discouraged or you know what I mean like I guess that that was kind of like my whole because it's not technically like tennis right I mean, how long do they, like, I mean, is someone going to be, like, happy if they reserve it for an hour and they're like, all right, I'm done?

Yeah, so max reservation times are two hours per account per se, and they bring four to six friends because it's more of a rotational. Yeah. Where tennis, it's two to four players if you're playing singles or doubles, and they'll enjoy playing a game for an hour. But the speed of pickleball within the hour, you can play two, three, four games depending on the level. So there's always that opportunity where if this court's not reserved, you can always play like it's accessible. But we do expect that the volume of reservations increase just because of the demand of pickleball based on the feedback we've been receiving. so they can always join and maybe join a group of three that need a fourth player. Like we'll, we'll find ways to give them access to the courts. Um, but we'll also explore if there's a period, a drop in period, um, for like open play. Um, we just wanted, it's, it's always harder in pickleball to get stricter, but it's, you can always get less strict through the process. Yeah.

More lenient with it. Yeah. I get it. No, for sure. Thank you guys. Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's a good approach. Okay, with that, if there are no more items, we'll move to adjourn the meeting at 7.34 p.m.