Parks and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

Call to order. Pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. John Jones here. Dennis here. Sharon here. Kate here. Bridget here. Robert Smith. Absent and excused. Kathy here. Rob Jones here.

Here we go. I need a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda tonight. I need a second. Second. All in favor? I. The eyes have it. Approval of the minutes. I move approve the minutes of October 28th, 2025 regular scheduled meeting. Second. Yes. Got a second on it. Okay. Second. All right. Do we have any presentations? Uh, no we do not. Public hearing? Nope. Public comment.

We're just moving right along here tonight, guys. This one's for agenda items. Public comment. Oh. Oh, okay. Items for consideration. Old business. Any old business news? Okay. Moving right along. New business, Quanis Park Raetball Court.

Good evening, uh, commissioners. So, the first item up tonight is the Quanis Park Raetball courts. Um, which actually our next our next item segus a little bit into this, but if you look at the report from Hennessy Engineers, uh, the city looked asked for a review of those courts, their condition, and long-term maintenance upkeep cost, uh, there is some deterioration of the court right now. some of the things the uh cement footings are kind of slipping. Um so Hennessy engineers actually Allan went out and took a look at that. This is the report they've writed back to the city and now I guess we're looking for kind of consideration from this commission the next steps for the court. Is it something the commission believes we should budget for long-term maintenance-wise or is something the commission believes that we should decommission and turn into alternate uses? Um if you really take a look at page five, the recommendations, um Alan does go into considerations of other suggestions for the space and does recommend decommission of the uh space. Uh kind of if you read it over, but a synopsis is that the long-term costs are much greater than you would normally see in a park of that size um to keep up the basketball court. the city hasn't invested um a lot of money recently into that uh raetball court. Um so it's probably something now does need some bigger maintenance items. We'd have to go in and get estimates and stuff to fix the footings if we did want to keep it. Um kind of we're at a point now that we believe the commission should recommend to council either one, let's keep it, let's budget for it, or two, we should demolish it. Well, I I just live down the street from there and it gets very little use in the summertime.

Yeah. I noticed everything had a quote except for what it would take to remove the walls.

So, I will say actually that's a next item and that's uh that's actually from Quanis. So, that's almost a little separate than this. like this is technically a city project where the next one is more or less lined with our agreement with Quantis and improving the space and putting in uh dollars to that. So that's actually not city funds at all that we're talking about there. So that's almost kind of separate, but it segus it itself well because we have this item in the park that isn't used very often and probably needs to be decom decommissioned. Um but thankfully Kuanas has stepped up and they want to contribute to the park. So then if it is de uh decommissioned, we kind of have a step too like what can we do with that space and funding that Quantis seeks to find

like fencing there's a a quote on here and then paint. Oh, there's not. But then pavement there's a quote for what it would cost but then for structural walls on page four there's no quote for what it would take to remove them.

Yes. I'm sorry. I do apolog Yes. I actually I don't believe when we talked to Allan um he couldn't accurately depict a price because the city probably could do some of the work on our own. Maybe not actually taking it down but the hallway and stuff like that. So that would really we'd have to go out for a quote process to actually get a true cost of that. I apologize I skipped ahead in my head but no yes there are the uh pricings if we did want to keep an um those were easier to find because we would have to outsource all of those. If we de if we decommissioned the structure, then that would probably be a shared effort between our own staff and outsource. Is there anybody with Kowanas that is just sold on keeping it? I mean,

I don't believe the club has shared and we actually have some meetings recently because um of the improvements they want to do um which actually you'll see in our map that does not include the structure. So, I don't believe the Quantis Club has any uh love towards it. We have somebody here we can ask. Yeah, somebody ask him right there. Ask him. Yeah, come on up. Come up again. Just This is John Fleming from Kuanas. I'm sorry. Was there What was the question? The question was, do the Kuanas club want to keep the raet ball court?

No. No. actually uh we think it's instrumental to upgrading the park itself in that right now that blocks view of what's going on behind the wall. So anybody going down Maplewood uh you know it' be oblivious if something was bad was happening like like there's a lot of graffiti on the back wall. Um and it's not used. I I was over there probably 20 times this summer and I think I saw one guy and his kid there twice playing soccer and one other person. So I agree with you. I I live just down the street and I don't see anybody using it either.

So yeah, it's not used then. We're in full agreement to get rid of it. And actually, I know it's getting ahead a little bit. uh the plan we would like to add parking to and that would be where the additional parking would go. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, John. I will also say that uh attention towards the raetball court is in the park's 5-year master plan. Now, it doesn't specify whether it's improvements or decommissioning it, but this is in line with the five-year master plan did speak out that it would need attention. opinions, thoughts. We used to live over by there even was never used long, long time ago. I think my nephew one time used it when he was younger. It's now 26. So

smart thing is to remove it and set up the upkeep, right? I mean, it's cheaper, but the the next step is what goes in its place, right? I mean, are just keeping the concrete floor and I mean, eventually a parking lot or basketball court would Yeah. Yeah. But I think there's a picture in there where the concrete floor actually needs a lot of work. Yeah. The kind the entire structure would be removed. It'd be set back to a grass pad. Really? Yeah. And that would probably be the first step of just low cost get rid of it. So it doesn't fall on anyone or there's Okay.

So you said that parks and recck already had some budgeted for the maintenance of it. Do you know how much what that figure is?

There is nothing budgeted. That's kind of like what we're coming to the commission for is asking do you believe that that should be a goal of the parks department is to find money and budget for this moving forward uh working with council on that or moving forward with finding I guess still finding money but a lot considerably less money to decommission the structure. I mean, in my opinion, I think decommissioning would be better because we'd have to find a lot of money just to fix it. And then you're not talking about continue upkeep and we have multiple other parks that need structures, you know, in the city and upkeep. And fortunately,

unfortunately, in the budget for the city, there's not really a lot of money for parks for us to build anything grand. And if coming up Kuanas is wanting to invest money into this park, that would be amazing. And it would open up the park. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I'd like to see it decommissioned myself by something. So, I think the decommission thing is going to be just about everybody, right? Yeah. Does someone like to make a motion? You guys can vote on that. We make a motion to decommission it. Make a motion. I I can't do it, guys. I can I can lead you that direction.

I can't make I'll make a motion that we recommend to the city council that they decommission the raetball courts at I second that. I need all in favor. I the eyes have it. Now just for discussion um I mean is the city capable of demolishing this? Uh we're not sure. I know uh public works director Brad Omen did mention that it' probably have to be be a joint venture. Um looking at some outside source and then maybe some cleanup work on us. Okay. Because you can't think of any brick walls we've taken down in the city anywhere, can you?

It is a far fairly large structure. No, no. I mean it's big and it's it's not something where you're just going to go out there with a sledgehammer and knock it down. Yeah. Yeah. You need a nice jackhammer on an excavator, right? Back. It's going to be a process. Depends on how I think you broken down. Moving along. Oh, what about the 30? Okay, so do we have Are we done with Kuanas Park in the Raetball court? No. Yeah, we're done with Raall Court. Ra.

Now we're on item B2, Quantis Park Improvements, Quantis Club. And I'm gonna turn this Yep. I'm gonna turn this a little bit over to John Fleming to speak about

um the documentation I have in the packet tonight, uh the task completed, next steps, the budget, and the rendering was all provided from John. Well, as I was telling a couple gentlemen here when before we started, uh, we've cuis over the years have attempted to make some updates to that park, but each time came in at a much too too costly to to handle. And so my approach, I was asked back in the spring if I would head up the update committee. So my approach was start small and give us time to raise some money so we can do the things. And so last year we uh we purchased four new park benches. Uh there was uh two of them there uh prior and if anybody had been over the park early last summer, they're all bent over and they were not sittable at all. and DPW took them out for us and uh told us that they could not fix them. We need to get new ones. So, we we bought four new benches. We installed two around the uh uh playscape and we'll install the other two around where the swing set is now once we figure out exactly what all we're going to put there. And I'll talk about that in a second. And the other thing we did was uh upgraded the sign. We put a new sign up. Uh Greg from Signorama did all the work. Uh didn't charge us anything, so we got it for the right price and uh DPW put that in. So looks like

we've got two new benches in and the sign so far. The plan for 2026, uh, first of all, we're going to buy, uh, some new picnic tables, and DPW has agreed to, uh, pour new concrete for us and set them down so they don't walk away like the ones that we've had so far. Uh, along with that, we're going to buy some garbage containers. And actually, it's going to be like six rather than three because we got a deal. Um, uh, we're going to upgrade the playground areas, uh, around the swing set, which has been there for 40, 50 years, almost as long as the handball court. uh uh we're going to replace that with something that's going to be usable for not only uh older kids but younger kids as well as handicapped kids. So, we're going to have three sets there. And we'll probably add a couple more items for the uh handicapped uh children also, as well as replace the fence that used to be around there uh that would keep the kids from running out from the playscape uh into the parking lot or the or maple wood. Um, and we're planning right now, although it's not final, but we're planning on uh rather than put wood chips down, maybe get the rubber cement, whatever they call

more in place. Yeah.

Uh for both areas so it's safer for the kids. And uh so those are the that's the plan for 26. for 27. We want to put a walking path on the uh west side of the park. Uh won't be a big one, but it it's about a fifth of a mile, but it'll be something for people to walk around. They don't have to go to city park if they live right there. And we think it'll be quite usable for people. uh the basketball court. Uh number one, once once we take down or once the I'm not going to take it down. Once the raet ball courts are taken down and if we do put the parking lot there, we don't want kids playing basketball and the balls going over and hitting cars. So, we're going to restructure the uh basketball court, make it go uh north south uh in between where the dragon ball courts are now and the uh bushes. So, that'll be repositioned there. For 28, uh we want to upgrade the parking. Right now, there's spaces for I believe it's 18 cars. And if if we do the other things we're talking about, we're going to have more people coming, more cars. We don't want people parking on Maplewood or or Henry Ruff. So, uh and that's also where um uh parking will be where the wreck ball carts are now. And then in 29, we're looking at doing a shelter. Uh, and that'll be basically where the tennis courts used to be. Um, and we hopefully could make it uh uh have a bathroom put in there. The plan to do that there. So, that's that's our plans. It's going to cost a lot of money. We have a fundraising committee that's

getting ready to start just soon as we get everything nailed down that yeah, we could do this and tonight's action you took help helped us uh get started there. So, are there any questions? No, I think you guys have done a great job. Anybody else? The new sign you looks nice. I'm sorry. The new sign looks nice. This is the first time page page three is the rendering that Zach put together. So it shows what it should could look like at the end.

Um even this list of your guys's plan it is the first I've ever seen of a plan, you know, from Kowanis. So kudos to you guys and that's the first step right to your fundraising and everything is to make your plan. So thank you for this. I would like to see something similar from ROI Rotary if they could put um something together that would be nice. But I I was happy to see this and I think it looks great. Yeah. Thank you.

And just to give the commission just a little bit of backstory. Um when Erica had announced that she was leaving at the same time Kuanas had reached out to the city. So Erica put them in touch with Tim, city manager, to kind of lead like the the changes and that's why you kind of see a lot of stuff already completed. They were very simple and easy stuff for not only the city and Kuanas to do, but really improve the condition of the park. Um then when I started as interim, uh Tim got me set up with John and we're also working together to continue this. We figured now is a good time uh that we can kind of take a step during the winter, bring this to commission, show them their full plan um and kind of give the commission's blessing of the relationship with Quantis to move forward with their changes as planned. Um that way then they can start advertising this to the community and looking to start fundraising the money. Um so of course you guys have more questions, feel free. If you have questions for me, feel free. But I think the motion we're looking for tonight is to continue the uh partnership with Aquinas Club of Garden City and to approve the uh projected changes they make they plan to make with the park. As stated, this budget is currently um all coming from Kowanas. Uh the city has shown support. You know, if there's stuff they need assistance with or if there's upgrades that we can do, um we have included some in our uh capital improvement plan. So there is dollars that we hope to spend. Um but as so far this is 100% coming from Kanas.

You said you put money in the plan. Our capital improvement plan. Yep. That's a that's a plan. Actually the council just received it last night. Um but every year there's money that it's kind of like they call it a wish list, but it's really the stuff that the departments intend to spend um if there's money left in the budget that year. And Quantis Park is within the next five years. But as we know at the last meeting we had to prioritize Florence Park. So Florence Park is now the most current park in our CIP um for improvements. Sorry to jump topics real fast, but have you talked to anybody from Typton? That woman who came. Yeah, we've been in communication. Okay. Yep. Okay.

They're very uh our last communication we did receive with them. They were very thankful we were able to take the structure down and um look they're they're looking for funding source as well of us. You know, we're of course waiting for the county to see if that 75,000ish is still coming to us this fiscal year um and when to expect that. Is it our turn for that again? We believe so. It was uh we're not 100% sure. We haven't heard officially from the county. We were told we might be next. Um so we're waiting to see. Their fiscal year just started. Okay. So, so what type of motion do you need? Uh, just that we want to that uh the plans going forward.

Yeah. The plans submitted from Quantis look good to the commission and that uh we approve their uh changes they want to make to the park. I motion to move forward with Kowanas and the city of Garden City to partner together to improve Kuanas Park. Well, I have one question though. Sure. Is this the final your final plan or it's a plan as of right now? Okay. Gotcha. All right. It's never over till it's over. Got it. Funding, right? I second. I second. Yes. All in favor? I I The eyes have it. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, John. 32 and out of schooltime grant. Good evening. I'm actually very excited to speak about this one. Um, thank you, sir.

Thank you, John. Um, the 32N out of schooltime grant is something that myself and Sean Han, the grant coordinator, been working on the past month. I often like to take these type of items and any items through parks to you guys first. Sadly, I had to bring this to council's approval last night before it came to you guys just based on timing. The grant requires us to start by February 5th, um, 2026. So, we were in a tight timeline with the agreement and getting this approved. So, actually before you is the conditional grant subawward notification. We did just yesterday receive the actual award letter. It is very similar. It looks exact same. The price is still the same and the commitment we have made is still the same. um just telling us we have conditionally we've actually been approved. Um and just today I confirmed with them that we did get approval from our city council. So we were able to move forward with the grant. But I still want to take the moment to show you guys something we're working on. Um the idea of tutoring came to us a while ago actually from the city manager of something he wanted to see at the rec center. And it was something that of course would cost considerably amount of considerable amount of money because to have tutors on staff for all the kids that could potentially come in. You either have to charge to tutor or thankfully find this grant. It'll be 100% free for the students. Um this grant does two opportunities for us. It brings in an afterchool program and it brings in a summer-based program. So, not only will we be starting a brand new program of afterchool tutoring, but we'll also be able to expand on and make KMGC cheaper for uh and expand the amount of days we're offering it um for our students during the summer with also putting in the educational piece into it, too. Um as you can see, the grant is for $98,940. That covers a variety of things. And actually, the last page is that budget. Um so you can kind of see there we have uh administration cost, transportation cost, um community services. This is where the brand grant coordinator,

myself and um other staff get reimbursed for working on this grant with direct involvement with the children. Um some onboarding costs for employees, some marketing cost, some community event cost, and then the very bottom there you see the custodial and care of children. This is actually the cost of having that part-time staff to run the programs along with snacks incentives. We're looking to purchase some computers for um not every student and we're kind of of course basing this off the Garcia public school student. Um but not every student has a Chromebook to take home, but a lot of their work is on a Chromebook, so we wanted to purchase some Chromebooks for the program. Um and then the very bottom you see some of the staffing cost for the summer program.

Prior to that Oh, go ahead. prior to that uh budget sheet you see we kind of have a flyer. We're actually just kind of getting this out there. We're we're really doing a lot in a very small amount of time. Um but meeting the grant requirements we kind of have to. So that's kind of the layout we're looking is for two sessions starting from 3:00 all the way to 6:00 2-hour blocks. The first hour after school tutoring will be a tutoring period with a healthy snack and the second half will be a recreational activity within the Radcliffe Center. Um utilizing the rooms we've already specialized in recently like our gymnasium with maybe playing basketball or dodgeball or open gym for the kids, spaceport for gaming, um our art room for crafts once a week, the game room. Like we have all these different spaces that will lend really well to this program and kind of be the incentive to coming to do tutoring. Where would you where would the tutoring be conducted?

This will mostly be out of the student lounge. Okay. The student lounge from 3 to 6 almost. We have to offer it for 90 days. And looking at the schedule, I think there's one or two days we get bumped out of there. Um to an already previously scheduled rental, but that'll be our home base is the student lounge. Um and as you can kind of see there, we have a draft of a calendar for February. Uh looking to start February 2nd. And as you can see the we're going to go based off the I mean we're we're this is open to any uh 1K12. We're catering towards that Douglas to high school level student. So from third grade all the way to 12th grade. Um and we're really going to base it off the school schedule. So there's no school. We won't have tutoring. Um if there's an early day, we'll start early.

Would it be just Garden City residents? No, it is open to anyone. Okay. anyone in the grade range of the K12. It is a statewide grant. The we are one of 532 sites that was awarded the money and that's what that 32N is. Um it is out of I think act 15 to 2025 section 32N. Any questions around the program? Are you coordinating the whole thing? Is that uh

myself and Sean Han as grant coordinator? Yep. We're looking I mean we are hiring staff. So the goal is to um move a lot of the coordination off to our youth coordinator. Uh right now Katie Williams, she will be heading a lot of this. Um but also there's money in the budget for a lead tutoring uh coordinator. Uh that'll be someone that's there every day that'll handle the actual running of the program, but she'll they'll have our support. Different types of tutoring, reading, math. Yeah. Mathematics, reading, science, and social studies. Okay. So, the grant kind of dictates which areas will be tutored.

Um the grant, so not necessarily. I mean, that's just what that is what we picked. um and goes off the Garny public school um uh education, but uh the grant itself is from the Department of Lifelong Education Advancement and Potential, which is my leap with the state of Michigan. Oop, I did get that right. It is the PA actif uh Michigan public act 15 to 2025, section 32. Um I don't see it in front of me but there is the purpose of the grant is to provide mathematics um science social studies and English and reading um to provide after school or before school programs to enrich that for the students as as well as in the summer camp as well. So there will be an educational piece of the summer camp coming this summer. Is is there any testing involved?

Nope. Nope. And enrollment is totally volunt I mean obviously enrollment is voluntary. This is 100% free program. Um and it's not like you have to sign up. It's this is a drop in for the students. So they do have to their parent does have to fill out an enrollment form for us to qualify for the grant. We do have to report attendance of people that show up on the days they show up. But there's no once you're enrolled you can show up or not show up every day. It's totally up to you. If you have homework to do that day, you're more than welcome to come by. If you don't, you still can come by and do some studying for the first hour and then enjoy the wreck activity the after hour of that. Okay. And you mentioned something about getting Chromebooks. Yep. Is that would that be for every single tutoring student or just certain subjects that they're being tutored in?

Uh that's just they need it. A lot of you know a lot of the education now is on a computer, but not every Garden State School student gets to take that home. Uh so it's something that often if they're you know their homework is not going to be on the Chromebook, but we we're going to kind of test and see before we purchase them to see if there's a need for them, but we wrote into the grant uh to have them. We also believe that our other uh programs in the building that could use them because there is a academic success in our family resource center that could probably have some use out of the uh Chromebooks. So not only we have them for this program first and foremost, but we'll also be able to use them for other stuff um in our activities. Yeah. that you've only got written in here like 1,500 bucks, right? So that's pretty much to have them in the facility and not really to go home.

Yeah. No, no, they won't be taken home. Yep. There'll be 12 Chromebooks in a cart. Okay. Yeah, it's 3600 actually. And obviously the program it's pretty much like a first come first serve, right? When it when it comes down to it, you're not going to get overwhelmed with too many kids, right? Obviously there's capacity. Yeah. uh the grant the um the grant we filled out we do believe we'll have on average 30 kids um but we don't believe we'll be overwhelmed now and we're not going to turn I don't we have no intentions to turn anyone away so if we get more than 30 that's amazing are you going to work with family resource so if they have kids that need tutoring they could send them to you

yep no Sean's a big part in all not of course the family resource center but a huge part in this anything else. I'm happy to see you guys going after grants. So, kudos to you for that.

Yep. As you know, in the big reconfiguration, um, if this does move forward, the goal is to make Sean uh, kind of that guy for grants. And I think this this kind of came across. Actually, I do want to give kudos out. The school district reached out to us a while ago, Kevin English with the school district, and said, "Hey, there's this grant opportunity from MILAP. They're not sure when." They're actually a little behind on announcing it this year. They're not sure when they're going to announce it, but when they do, you guys might want to be ready for it. And that's kind of like Tim had already mentioned the after school tutoring program. We already have KMGC. The day it came out, Sean was like, I don't know if we have time to do this. Like we have like 10 days to get this done. And uh I think at I think at some point he worked, you know, almost 10 hours straight putting the grant together. Um and we weren't the only community. Obviously there's 532 sites, but a ton of other people that applied. And even we've already been in those two mandatory meetings with them and it was like everyone felt like really rushed this year and so it's it it feels good to not feel alone like we're not the only community rushing to get this put together that you know most other communities already have a program established you know so us we're starting for a program from scratch was a little bit harder to kickstart you know so a little bit more concerned in that area but you know with every grant there's requirements and follow through and whatnot um but we really hope the team we're building now that we'll be able to find more grants and continue to find addition income. This will be um definitely a good trial trial run for me to see how what it really takes to report and stuff. You know, the state of Michigan's kind of very uh detail orientated. There's uh I can't even explain the amount of forms I filled out just to get this set up and together and get permissions and to get access to the reporting tools we need as long as the budgeting tools we need. And um so be interesting to see how much this grant actually takes to put together and uh extinguish. So, and actually something cool about this one too, the city will see the money up front. We'll have actually after signing what we did today, we'll see the money within two weeks.

Yeah. So, the money will be up front. Yeah, that's different. Are are you basing this program off of another community's program? Are are you you know? No, it's kind of actually me and Sean just kind of sat down and kind of made we knew we wanted to do tutoring and uh the way this grant is written the proposal is um it's not like we submitted a budget. They more or less told us we said how many kids and how many days and they kind of said well here's our mathematical equation to the number of dollars you get. Figure out how you can spend this money within your program. And that really defined the shape of what we were going to provide. Anything else?

Other business. I will say if we just if if someone wants to make a motion um to accept the see the um the conditional grant subawward notification. Um, I know it's a little goofy because of course council passed it and we're moving forward with it, but um, it'd be nice to also have this board's motion and filed in the minutes. I move to make a motion for the conditional grant somewhere notification from state of Michigan to Garden City. I'll second. Yeah. All in favor? I The eyes have it. Sure. Good.

Thank you. If you know anyone that wants to be a tutor, the application is live on the city's website/careers. And if you know a student that wants tutoring or recreational activities, what are the requirements for tutoring? I mean, is it just uh a certain age, certain requirements, credentials? You need the tutor? Yeah.

Um, we're looking for people that have I mean, I will say as you can see in the budget, we could only afford the position pays $15 an hour, but you are guaranteed 15 hours a week. Um, so far the applicants are all either looking to get their childcare license, so they need hours in this type of um, environment or they're currently going to school to be a teacher and need hours in um, education or tutoring. So, uh, very blessed. Actually, we've had four people apply and I'm really looking forward to working with them. So, we haven't interviewed them yet. There's still some more steps. We sent out a preliminary uh, survey for them to take. Looking to interview them this week and get them onboarded next week. But, the four candidates we have so far are actually very potential. And I was a little worried because, you know, we we're really trying to fit this program within the restrictions of the grant because otherwise we'd have to do either a budget amendment, you know, to to find money elsewhere if we still wanted to do this. Um, but still provide the 90 days of education. Um, I but I I think we're going to be able to get to work and I think we'll have some really quality people there. So,

what about the summer of high schoolers tutoring the younger kids? Yeah, even there actually is one applicant is a high school senior. So, um, yeah. I know senior it even actually does say in the job application like if you're if you're a high school student please do apply you know you probably if you feel that's often when you ask someone if they want to apply to be a tutor they either say nope I'm not smart enough or oh that'd be interesting so yeah I know um so it only runs the remainder of this school year

actually it runs for 90 days so the full 90 days doesn't cover the rest of the school year it goes actually into the start of next school year Um, so we will stop actually we will run all three days of exams here at the schools. Will those three half days we'll be running a half day program after half after their half day. Um, and then we pick up September I believe 11th the schools go back we'll pick back up that day and go throughout the rest of September. Um whether we're going through budget season now as a city. We are going to uh look at budgeting to cover. So this grant does not cover October and November and December. So the city will have an option to say, do we want to cover it for those three months uh next season or just wait until the next grant cycle? The benefit would be not losing the students like once you build that momentum back up in September to keep them along. But uh this grant fully recognizes those months are not um not within the funding. When you requested the funding, could you have requested it for more than 90 days?

I don't believe so. No, we wrote the grant. Um, no, I believe No, I believe there was a cap on the 90 days. I guess I should say the 90 days isn't it's really the end date. The money has to be extinguished by September 31st, 2020. six. So that's actually 99 days from February 2nd to that day of school days. Any other questions? We good? Mhm. Great opportunity.

Thank you all. I'm sorry you didn't put your name on here. You want to come up and speak? Yeah, sir. Meadowside restoration is what it is. Yeah, go ahead. You get the podium. We used to have other business. John, what? The information desk. Other business. I know, but he's been sitting here patiently. Okay. We should have got him the first time.

Yeah. So, my first time coming to one of these meetings, my wife and I moved to Garden City about a year and a half ago. Um, I wasn't sure if it would be like a roundt discussion or if there would be like a computer that you guys hook up USBs to, but uh had a couple backup printouts just to accompany what I was going to do my quick little three mitch spiel about. Um, so I graduated from Wayne State in 2019. I have a background environmental science and the last six years I've been working um for an ecological restoration contractor, which might sound foreign to you guys. probably something you haven't really heard about or are familiar with, but we do uh things like natural areas management. Um some of our partners and contracts we have county uh Wayne County, Michigan DNR. Um we also do like work for private clients as well. So uh this past year I started my own company um offering a similar suite of services. So, some of the other stuff we do, uh, like prescribed burning, invasive plant control, and native landscaping. So, um, being a new Garden City resident, I've taken a couple walks around Garden City Park, and, um, I noticed, uh, in the southwestern portion of the park, uh, adjacent to the post office, there's an existing bench. um can't really I had some pictures that accompany it but seems like a natural low spot where there's probably flooding in the springtime inundation. Um so the reason I'm here today is to kind of pitch a native plant installation in set area. Um so yeah uh that also might sound foreign to all you folks. Um what is native plant? Um, one of the things the company I work for does is uh native plant installations for pollinators. And uh,

this area that I made a print out of a few different basins um would serve a couple purposes. Um, would help slow down water flow during heavy rain events and increase water holding capacity in the area. Um it would also serve as an educational opportunity to inform the public about the importance of ecological health uh as they're enjoying a walk around the city park and residents um and passers by coming into Garden City would also enjoy a natural aesthetic of I've seen uh some nice flowering plants. I don't know the area you're talking about. It's kind of a nothing's going on there. I mean it's just

Right. Yeah. It looked like the city had planted some shrubs uh recently. Um but yeah, I had seen it mainly just this past winter, so I didn't really have a good chance to idea exactly what they were, but it seems like a natural like wet area. There's a couple catch basins in the the zone I'm talking about. Um so yeah, that was my purpose here today. Sorry for the shakiness. Uh can I ask you how you came to the conclusion that those were like low areas? Um well there's uh if I had an opportunity to share some pictures there's two catch basins in set area so it's naturally a low spot where water flows into.

Okay. Cuz I' I've walked the park for so many years. I I could almost tell you where water always collects especially after the snow melts and stuff and and you know or when we get heavy torrential downpours. Um and I never really noticed it right there. So that's why I was asking how you came to those. Yeah. Um and those are sand cherry shrubs. Sand cherries. Yeah. They planted them. I mean the garden club, too. Nice. So the garden club planted those. Okay.

Um and they're in different spots around the the park. I think easy maintenance. And the color of the foliage was why they were chosen. Nice. Um blooming. Yeah, it's more so uh I don't know if you folks have been around like Ann Arbor or Plymouth or city of Detroit. A lot of those wet areas where there's retention basins um instead of just having weeds growing or throwing a bunch of rocks down uh native plants deep uh root a lot deeper than just like turf grass um which is mainly in those areas right now. Um yeah. So what are you looking to do? Sell us something?

Um in one way or another? Yeah. um going to to different cities. Uh I understand. Who does he need to see? Um well, two options. Like one, yeah, contact city staff. If um the board feels like this is a good adventure for the park, we could talk about it more maybe another meeting. Um ultimately, the city's purchasing policy would be we'd have to go get three quilts and stuff like that. Um I know this isn't in our master plan, so that's also something else. I don't know range what we're talking about cost. So, um, if someone on the board is considering this as something they want to see moving forward, you could let me know. Um, we can let Mike know and, uh, look at this as an opportunity.

I personally think there are a few areas that I think would benefit from it. And it's not where you said it's actually behind, not behind the Ball Diamonds, but on the Cherry Hill side of the Ball Diamonds. Mhm. It's like a I don't know swamp there. You know what I'm talking about. The water usually is flowing over the path and everything. Um and I that would make like a great uh rain garden, I guess you'd say. Yeah. Um and I think that would be kind of a cool addition to the park. Um, so we could discuss this at another meeting and then

So you're gonna have to make a motion and put it on for the next meeting. You don't have to make a motion any at any time. Any of you could come email me at any time and say this is something you want to speak more on. Yeah, I don't I'm not sure something like that would be in the budget, but you know, I maybe you could um email Zach some quotes, you know, maybe like option one or if I think the park could benefit from it, too. The park um parks have very little budgeted money that goes to them. Yeah, I imagine outside source that's coming in and taking the time, you know, I feel like the city could benefit from that.

Yeah. I guess also the reason uh I was pitching that area is because it's right adjacent to Cherry Hill. Um there's also a park bench that exists there already and it just seems like it spoke to me as a picturesque place where somebody would stop and take a seat. And um is this your email? Yep. Is it metoside.com? Uh meta.ecoservicesgmail.com. Okay. Make sure you have his name, too. If you said his name wasn't on there. No, his name was not on there. And when did you move to Garden City? Uh, not this past August, the previous August. Okay.

Welcome. Thank you. Yeah. And if you haven't been paying attention, Garden City is kind of in a survival mode when it comes down to budgets cut and it's more of a a need instead of a want type situation is what we can mostly gather. But I mean, it's a great idea. It's great, you know, it's great that you came here. Thank you for your time. Um, I'm sure we could discuss it at another another time. Or I'll give them one more thing. Why don't you see if there's any grants out there for that? Gotcha. I was curious if the Quanis or Rotary if they would also be good partners to if they have grant money or that would be something you I mean because you saw I don't know if you saw what they did but they're they're going to do a fundraising

for 450,000 basically by 2029 it looks like. Okay. Okay. So those are the guys. You'd have to go talk to them and see if you can set something up with them. Rotary ankle. I mean cuz we're behind it. I mean, I'd be behind anything where there's swamp water or suck. Mhm. That or throw some throw some wild flowers in there. I don't care. Or the Garden City Garden Club. I I know we do some not usually to that scale, right? But, uh, you know, we do do some plantings and and whatnot to try to improve the parks. And I'll have myself or Mike, our park supervisor, reach out to you and cool,

move from there. And I'm sorry, your name is John. John John Badozo. Yep. Thanks, John. Thanks for coming.

I'm sorry, guys. I jumped ahead. Do we need to double back to other business? Information desk.

Perfectly fine. Um, yeah, the information desk. I want to give the um the commission kind of an update as this is almost a partnership between communications and the parks and recck team. Um some one of the visions we had was this information desk coming to parks and wreck uh in the merger of these departments and the reconfiguration of staff. Um we have a unique opportunity with Jake on our team who has a lot of knowledge coming from the north hallway here at city hall. Um and then restructuring some of the things that front desk staff does at Radcliffe making um giving them more time while they're there. So they're now the currently actually the switchboard of the city um if you will if you use an old term but when you call the main line of the city which is 1600 those calls were being routed to our HR department because at one time way many moons ago they were the switchboard for the city. They were the it was HR and a part-timer. They would take the calls in and direct them to the correct department. Um, we believe with some of the new services releasing like Cclick Fix and Code Red and these other initiatives that are all online based that we can take the time at Radcliffe with our staff uh to answer the call, get them to the correct department or figure out the service for them. Um, in the past few weeks, we've kind of piloted it and then officially made it live um, I think a week or two ago. And a lot of the calls coming in so far have been very uh um informational not only for us but for them. A lot of them are redirecting and getting to the correct department um by transferring it. But a lot of them are uh either they want to fill out a cicklic fix, maybe there's a downed wire, maybe there's a tree branch in the street, u maybe there's an illegally parked car or hazardous parked car. Instead of that going over to the police department, a death sergeant having to fill out that cickle fix, we're now able to do that. And also being the department outside of police and fire open the most amount of hours, we're not able to answer that phone from 8:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. Uh providing answers that you normally wouldn't get

after 5:00 p.m. or after 5:00 p.m. at city hall. Um so we believe this is a huge service to the community and we hope people start using it. We've kind of flo we forwarded a little bit out on social media to see what the reception was. Um people already know 1600 like that is what they call to get the city. So you there's people that uh and actually a notable call uh taken over the weekend is when you know we answer guards information ask how can we help you um the caller was like Saturday someone answered the phone um so uh the it's funny uh working with the front desk at Redcliffe their jobs have changed tremendously not only in the few months that I've been here but even prior to that uh what we're looking done this you know the Redcliff center is so much more than Maplewood ever was going to be. Um, so there's a lot more activities. There's moving rooms up and, you know, setting up open gym, taking stuff down, sanitizing a full gym that we have more people than ever attending. Um, so this is one of the things I was actually most nervous to take to them and say like, "How do you guys feel about answering the phones?" And actually, I think it's the thing they're most excited about because they get to provide a service constantly and able to provide answers at your fingertips. And often calling a larger organization, I'm sure you see this when you call a, you know, a call center essentially, you're you in for the long haul. You're ready to spend some time on the phone. Um, and that is not the case. I mean, on average, we are ending calls within 30 to 45 seconds. And that's filling out a cicklic fix or a trash form or stuff like that. Um, we're still trying to figure out there's a lot of people that call departments directly, but we're able to help in a quicker manner because we have more staff and the tools right at our fingertips. Some of the departments, yes, they have those same things, but they're bogged down by a lot of calls and usually only one person answering a call at the department where depending on our staffing, we could have two to three, maybe even four people ready at a phone. Um, so we're looking how to get

some of those calls redirected to it. But now, if you call 7931600, you'll get our call center. Um, we'll help anything from signing up for code red, filling out a C click fix form for you, which is a GC fix it previously. Um, that's how you report concerns around the city like potholes and um, stuff like that. Uh, but not only but sign you up for wreck programs, answer questions about parks and wreck. And if we don't have the answer, we'll get you to someone that does.

About how many calls come in a day, do you think? Um it it really it goes up and down and I'm and only call center calls. So we're still answering the main line for uh the Radcliffe Center. We're going to shift all park calls over to this as well because right now if you call the number that's on a lot of our signs, 1882, you get the ice rink. The rink's not staffed as it was at one time. You know, that was the main call center or that was the main office for parks. Now that we shifted that over to the Radcliffe Center, we're going to take those calls over, too. But people also know that same line as the ice rink line. So, we don't want to necessarily take their calls. We don't want to add an extra step for people that just want to answer from the rink. So, we're still trying to figure out how we're going to direct those calls. We expect all those together, it's a little over 150 to 200 calls a day. Um, just the call center is anywhere from 30 to 60 a day.

Does Jake work a 9 to5? Uh, yes and no. Jake works with the what we need, but yes, he's primarily there 9 to5. And is there still only one desk staff at night? Nope, there's two. Oh, there was two back. Okay. But there's also, you know, it might not just be the staff you see at the front desk, too, though. There, you know, there's myself that I'll answer the phone if I need to. There's We have our coordinators. We have our senior coordinator. There's staff in the building there to answer the phone. I was there not too long ago and um the desk staff seemed really busy. So I was wondering if that's a part of it, you know, if there was still only one at night, but I'm happy to hear that there's two back now.

Yep. Right now there's three shifts. Um a 9 to 4, a 2 to 7, and a 4 to 9. That Monday through Thursday. Friday and Saturday there is a 8:30 to 2 and a 9 to 1. Speaking of Friday and Saturday, any plans to go back to the original schedule with a Friday night and a Saturday? Yep. I will say in budget session that we've kind of started here talking with Tim um the this actually answering the phones is kind of like we believe that it'll be a big service to the city and that will kind of we'll move back into those extended hours. Um that's all the calls.

Yeah. So answering those calls hopefully being able to be there Friday night will be another reason you know to stay open. Um the grant so now on Fridays right currently we close at 1 on Fridays but depending on what's going on in the center we stay open till 2 but the afterchool tutoring program will go until 6 on Fridays. Um sounds like you need staff there. Correct. Yeah. I don't believe the first few Fridays we will be the building will be open. I think we'll only be open for that. Um, but as we move forward with different funding sources, we look to stay at least open till 6:00 on Fridays, but I do hope to bring both back Friday and Saturday to normal hours.

You don't feel calls for DPS though, do you? We're answering all calls for the city. Really? DPW I we, you know, they have one person answering the phones over there and that person takes lunch. Um, so we hope this helps them the most, you know, especially because a lot of the calls are trash concerns, um, and you know, potholes and other stuff that they're filling out a form, we're filling out a form, you know, so we really hope those are those are our speediest calls. Uh, but everything's at our fingertips at the desk. That's great. Thank you. Anybody else?

Nope. And I guess just to add on to um this actually isn't just phone calls. Um the desk is also monitoring cclick fix. So concerns that come in through there. Uh just as if you would call concerns that come in that need to be sorted to the correct department, they're doing that. We're also monitoring a mailbox and we're also monitoring the city's chatbot. So if you go on the city's website and chat with them, that conversation is reviewed by the front desk staff and confirmed that it actually got you to the right place. So, when you fill out the chatbot, this is actually something I've been doing for months and I'm very happy that there's other staff looking at it now. Um, every time you someone interacts with that chatbot, we're still trying to train train it to get to the correct responses. If when you get your answer, it's going to ask you, did you like this response or not? And if you say no, that will be reviewed by a staff member to make sure you get to the right spot next time. But that's the information desk. We really hope it's something that the citizens recognize and really want to use. And of course, you don't have to call. You could also stop in in person.

Thank you. Good. I don't have anything else. Yep. No other question. Up and cominging events and programs, parks and wreck.

All right. We have uh the rec connect is about to come out for the next uh set of classes. Coordinators are working to get those put together. Um we are very excited for the next session of classes and activities. As you know, we are running our leagues. Sadly, leagues got pushed back a little bit. Um, I can kind of Did I put this on? Um, I did not. I can explain just a little bit. The gymnasium is a project underneath one of our recent grants and in installation, we realized that they needed a second coat of the top layer they were putting on. Um, because of that, they had to push off some work. So, they're going to come back and finish it. that delayed this process. So, if you notice, we did not open the gym on the 9th as we had hoped rather than the 12th as we had hoped. Um, so pushed it back a little bit, but that also really put us in limbo for the leagues. We want to start cornhole and we want to start pickle ball as soon as possible. As soon as the gym was open, we're advertising it as these issues became prevalent during the um reconstruction of the gym floor. It really we had to push some stuff off and one of the things we had to push off was leaks. I really just didn't know when we were going to be able to reopen. I didn't know if we were going to do it now, if we were going to wait or how that schedule is going to work. Um, once we got confirmation, we're in the gym. We advertise as soon as possible, but those leagues start within a week. So, we really hope to start those leagues. Everything is published now. Um, cornhole on Thursday evenings and pickle ball on Saturday morning. So, if you're interested or know someone that is interested, please register. We really, really, really hope to kick off those leagues. I think cornhole will be all right. Last I checked, we almost have eight teams. Uh, but pickle ball, I don't think we have enough teams to run yet. So, we're hoping we are fielding a lot of calls about it. So, that is good. A lot of questions. Uh, so the interest is there, but um we're really looking forward to that. Uh, we are expanding our open gym uh as much as we can. If there is a snow day or a cold day or a half day or an early release, we're

opening not only spaceport, but also the gym now to make sure uh students have somewhere to go warm. Um, open gym. We currently have basketball, pickle ball, cornhole, football, bowling, football. Um we don't have a volleyball net yet. Um but there's a lot of people practicing volleyball um in the gym. And then we just ordered um a Batman volleyball tennis net. Uh I'm not sure how all those three work together, but it seemed interesting. So we purchased it and we're hoping to maybe use some more of those. That's it's morely me meant that net is meant for like two people to play tennis, two people to play volleyball, not like an entire team. Um after the floor is done curing, we'll actually get a volleyball net um that with big stansions that can you right now we can't put tables and chairs on the floor uh for a 30-day waiting period. Um so a lot more programs and exciting things coming to Radcliffe. We're uh shortly looking to the movie theater after being done and then kind of taken apart and then put back together and then HVAC came through which was a major improvement to that room. So, we had to take things back out just as we're about to release some um senior movie days. We had to postpone those. So, we're hoping for those next month. Um doing senior movies that are in the public domain before and after bingo and such. And then also recreating that room and other uses. We're looking at a license. Um that's everything for upcoming events. I I'll just segue into the breakfast with Santa. Uh this was an exciting event. um we hosted we weren't entirely sure actually at the time of planning the event the gym floor wasn't going to be worked on and then the gym floor was being worked on during this event so we had it in the hallways which uh turned out really well. People really liked um having the event throughout the building. Um King Pancake helped us with that. They did a phenomenous job. We had another caterer help us with sausage and pancakes. They did a very good job. We made a pancake bar of like different fruits and caramel and all kinds of

stuff. and we had a hot chocolate bar for all the kids to do as well. Um, Santa was there. We were able to print photos off with Santa and for the first time in a few years, the uh event did profit a few hundred dollars. So, something that was very exciting to see

the uh even in planning that event, it was really scaled back. It was very a basic event because the numbers over the years, I don't think we ever had more than 60 kids. I think we had like 40, 50, 55, 60. And um the only way to do everything we did was to have revenue of 200 kids plus uh and King Pancake Max stood out at 200 people. Um you could pay for additional but that was their number that we had purchased with the package we had. About a week before we were seeing the numbers like it went from 80 to like 180 like overnight and we were like awesome. So then we expanded all we did all this we did hot chocolate bar we did the photos. We did all this extra stuff and we put it together in a week and it really turned into being a really nice event. So we had actually over 200 people attend the background of Santa. So I want to take that out and highlight it for a minute because it was a really good event and we hope to do more of those. They actually

uh you know Kan's here tonight. We reached out to them to do one for an Easter egg hunt but breakfast with the Easter B with the Easter Bunny but then also have an egg hunt and partner with Kuanas on it. So, similar type event, maybe not so much candy, uh, or actually, yes, candy, but maybe not the candy bars and stuff. Um, but we're hoping to do that with Kanas here in a few months. And then lastly, the monthly senior lunches. Uh, this is something I I don't know why, but when I attend those senior lunches now for a few years, it just there's so much commodery in the room, like it's it's just such a good thing. It's so simple for us to do these lunches, but it really I think the seniors really appreciate um just being together, sharing time over a meal, having the little uh interactions with us and having, you know, maybe we get some gift cards donated and such. So, we're really looking to do a lunch every month, but we're also looking for people that want to partner with us on these lunches. Um you know, maybe the Quantis Club, maybe Rotary, maybe a business in town that wants to come in and donate towards some of the lunch and offset the cost uh for the seniors. So, um, kind of want to bring that in front of you guys today and just kind of tell you that's something we're working on. It goes monthly. The next one is in February. Sadly, we didn't have one for January. Um, excuse me. But the next one is in February. It'll be a pizza Valentine's Day lunch and we hope to continue throughout the year. So, if you know anybody that's interested or maybe even the commission that's interested and wants to help us put together one of these lunches, um, often such the volunteers, you know, not having staff is what really brings the cost down. So, it's just a senior coordinator and a bunch of volunteers that help us put on a lunch. It brings down the cost a lot for those seniors. So, and I believe that's everything I have unless anyone has any questions about all three any three of those things.

Lunch. Did you ever think of maybe going in with the ones who do the wellness checks the at, you know, like they did it at Westland that did one at Radcliffe where you go, you get your blood pressure and uh your sugar checked and everything like that. Then they have all the different uh booths there and they'll give you handicap uh stuff for your showers and for your porch and stuff and they have all these vendors come in.

Yep. No, that's it. And actually to kind of segue with that, yes, we have we're actually hoping to reach out to them. We hope they partner with us on some of these lunches and provide those services. And it's it's slipping my mind, but there it's essentially like a senior vendor show is kind of what you're you're referencing. And we hope to host two of those in 2026. So, we have a perfect gym for it, a huge parking lot to bring people in, and we already have many many seniors attending our center. Um, so we do hope to have there's there's a name for that type of uh it's not a craft and vendor show, but there's a or vendor show, but there's a name for it, and we hope Yes. Wellness or something. Senior Wellness Expo, maybe. Yeah, senior wellness expo. Yeah.

Yeah. So, we do hope to have two of those this in 2026, probably in March and then late summer. Okay, thank you for the idea. Yes, we do. We hope we we're going to reach out to them, but we hope we're kind of reaching out to a lot of people about the senior lunches and hopefully they'll want to do it. We've already kind of had in our Christmas lunch, there was a senior living facility that kind of reached out to us and that kind of triggered like, let's do this more often. They provided uh dessert for the lunch. So, put the first hook in. Did you put the other hook in for him? You know what I'm talking about. Yes, I did. I don't know uh where that's at. Follow up with them again. Hit them again. hammer them.

Like to see you filling that place up and talking about rooms that are not used very often. Like to see that progressing. So, thank you. Yep. I wonder if we can get some dental offices to maybe partner with you, too. Yeah, that's what we hope. I mean, I hope so. I think we're at the point where it's your comment, young lady. I don't have anything to say. Okay. I'm good. Uh, I just wanted to say now that Jen is gone, she was the co-chair. So, um, someone needs to start thinking about that, whoever wants to pick that up. We thought about somebody to replace them.

Yeah, I do I do apologize. Even, as you can tell, there was a box for her name. I was very sad to take her. I thought she was lying to me when she told me she was going to step down. Um, so very last minute, I did remove her name from the agenda, and I wasn't exactly sure how the procedure works for um, nominating. So I will make sure that is on the next agenda. Whoever's not here next meeting. So this so this group Robert Smith is the co-chair. This group this group right is the mayors. So it's normally the mayor who picks who comes in. Okay.

No, I'm sorry. I apologize. Yes, the we are looking for applicants for the parks commission. There is a vacant seat. I wasn't sure how the election process went because she's the co-chair and I wanted to put that in the agenda tonight, but I wasn't sure if nominations were this month. And then probably because he's not here tonight. All in favor? I know. Everybody gets mad at me about my voting scheme, but you know, it worked every time. I don't think we can deny that vote. I think it's official. I tried. He's not arguing with us not to be part of the co-chair. So,

yeah. So, in making the agenda, and as you can tell, there's a lot on it tonight. Um, I just wasn't sure. I couldn't reach out to the clerk at the time. I was doing this over the weekend. Um, but I will get with him, make sure we're doing everything right, and we'll have it on the next agenda for your guys' selection for co-chair. Okay. Is there anyone interested? Robert. Okay. Yeah, he told me he wanted it. I heard Robert say, we got enough people saying Robert wanted it. Pretty sure he mentioned Would that be a Robert's rule? There you go.

We do hope I'm going to reach out to the soccer club. We do hope to see someone from that organization on this board um as we have other boards represented here. Um if not hockey or figure skating because they're are very big parts of our program and it's nice to have a seat have a seat at the table for those clubs. So, of course, it's open to anyone and it is the mayor's choice. Um I don't believe I've heard there's anyone that has applied. So, if you know of anybody that is interested, let them know. Do you have any applications? You can get them from the clerk's department or you can fill it out online. Now, do you ever do you ever see Dawn from uh Family Heating and Cooling? I don't know if she's around here anymore. Is she around anymore?

Cuz No, cuz the one person who wanted to come back, she wanted to come back a couple times, but every time there was things because she had a lot of input because of where her kids were going and what they were doing. So, she could feed back a lot to us at that time. And she did make the comment that if there was an opening, she'd like to come back. But if Dennis is right, she's not even around, then I guess, and it's up to Mark to pick whoever he wants. I was just trying to pick somebody that I know that this group. I'm sorry. There's only two of us that knew her. Yeah. Was anybody else here when she was here? I was just for just on the tail end. You came in at the tail. Well, if you know anybody that wants to fill out an application and they don't know how, just call the information desk.

Yes. Yeah. Very good use of it. Yes, you bet. There you go. I might have to let them know how to handle that call. But yes, that's one advantage you have to funneling everybody through there, huh? Is that you can Oh, well, you should stop by the rec center. Yeah. And having the wealth of knowledge of Jake being there, Dennis, I have nothing. Just you're doing a great job. It's I think it's only been what, three months or so now. Um, it's it's a good transition, but I like the the changes that have occurred and I think we're on the right path. That's it. Thank you. Good job. I need a motion. I make a motion to adjourn.

I second. All in favor? Unanimous. Guys, I can't make these motions, but I can