Public Arts Board - Regular Meeting

Also, over the pre session of December Park Marjoration Board meeting. We have made it to December. We wanna welcome our newest members

to the Park Board who

are now officially newly sworn in. That's why we're starting just a little bit late because we definitely need to make it official so we can get started. I do have a question about this sheet right here. I'm not sure we provided this sheet. The ultimate one at all fit through the same week. Yeah.

And we'll get that fixed. Legally. Alright.

So If you wanna turn that back in then, you can. And I

I won't even allow anyone. With me or one of the the just trying to see if I was paying attention. So what I'd like to do is, Nicole, since you're the one on here twice, I'm gonna ask you to introduce yourself first. And so if you would just tell us a little bit about yourself and and what led you to tell us, you know, how long you've been here, what brought you to Parkport, if you have family, hustle a little bit about your family.

Okay. So I'm Nicole Holra. I I have a husband and a son that goes to ISMS. He's lived in Keller proper since 2013. And, yeah, I I just thought it would be good to serve. I love living in Keller. I I like our parks and rec, and I like to help out as much as possible and do volunteer work. I am our architectural chair for our HOA.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I know. This

will be a lot It's a lot more fun than

that. Yeah. Yeah. I get a lot of complaints. And then I'm also on a board for kids with genetic disorders that my sister founded. So

Great. Well, welcome. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Okay.

Hi. My name is Luz Rodriguez. We moved to Texas 2020. My husband works for the for the railroad, BNSF, so we've moved moved quite a bit. Hopefully, this is we're we're we're gonna end, but we will be moving in June. But, hopefully, we're gonna come back. Oh. So we're not even gonna sell our house. We wanna come back. I have two daughters, 10 and 13. I'm a licensed architect. I've worked for planning and zoning, zoning board and law adjustments.

Thought you looked familiar.

I know.

I thought you looked familiar. I mean, your name is familiar too. So okay. So you've been on a couple other boards before. Well, none like this.

Okay. No. I've got great expectations. People say that this is the fun itself. This is the fun

board. Yes. Well, actually, the furry transition to tell you a little bit about the group of before we do that, what I'd like everybody on the in the room to kinda introduce themselves so you know who's here. So I think you've all known Cody because you got a chance to meet with Cody and have an orientation with Cody. But why don't we, Michael, you wanna go around Sure. Tell him we are, and then we'll kinda work our way around the room. My name is Mike Vieber. I'm the manager at the Keller Point. I've been at Point for eleven years now. Been the manager for three. And yeah. So if you have any point needs, I'm the guy. So I come and represent the point here once a month. And if you have any complaints about the point, make sure you see someone else. But no. Yeah.

Love working for

the city of Keller. Grew up in Keller. Went to Keller High. And here I am.

I'm looking for it.

We'll go to other side of the railroad.

Okay. I'm Arjory Sutton. I'm the assistant city secretary. So y'all will see see me at these meetings. I just run the meeting to make sure that we stay on the agenda and keep things going smoothly and try to keep Felix online as best I can.

It's a difficult time. Yeah.

And I'm the assistant city secretary.

I'm Mike Queen. I'm the manager over at the Keller Senior Activity Center. I've been at center for one year as a manager now, but I've been with the city for about five.

Alright. We're gonna solve something here now. So do you guys want Mike or Michael?

I prefer the beef. Do you like

Yeah. Beef. Yeah. Probably won't say that on air. You could you could call me Mike.

Oh, I can email to you.

Oh, yeah. You could call me Michael. Mike. Michael. Which one do you prefer? So do it just you want Which one should buy?

Or you can just do Mike or Michael. Either one works for both of us.

So much clarity. No. It's it's

for my preference. When we work together, we went by our last names. So it's really no.

It's fine. Yeah. I'm not going there. I just wanna make sure that I'm not, you know, addressing it the way you want me

to go. Thank you.

Mike, do you mind passing a coaster?

Sure did. Thank you.

I just was trying one on the side, but I really do need a coaster.

To see who

was Okay. Yeah. Let's go around the room, Peggy.

My name is Peggy Wansworth. I've been here twenty six years. My husband and I when we moved in, we're cattled down at the street. So it was kind of interesting. There's now we have a straddle. But I was on the senior citizens advisory board as vice chair for three years. When they disseminated that, and then I

was, Kelly gave me

an email and said we'd

move you over to Parks and Recs.

So that was last December, I'm a year ago. And but most important thing going on in my life at the moment is my grandson got into A and

M. So it's awesome. That for next fall, be a freshman? Yep. Mhmm. That's great. My son graduates a week from today from Aden.

Yay. My

neighbor has two. Thank you.

Knock over. Thomas? Thomas

Hixson. I've lived in Keller since 1978. Been on the board about ten years combined. Retired. And this like I said, this is the fun board. We do the fun things. Let me see. So

This is your second stint on the board.

Second stint on

the board.

I served from

o five to o nine, I believe. And then I don't know how long it be on this time. Total of ten years. So, yeah, I enjoyed it. Love Kelly. Yep.

Switch back across the table, Ashley.

I'm Ashley Wallace. I've been here in Keller for two years. I have two kids, one in elementary school and one in pre k. I really like it here, and I plan to live here a really long time. So being on this board is about helping Keller be as good as it is, if not better than when I got here so that I can continue to be excited

about listening. Awesome. My name is Caitlin. I have been I don't know if this I'm going on my third year on this board. I came from the library board prior to this. I have been in Keller for five years for California transplants, but don't hold that against me. I have two kids, five and nine. And when we first moved to Texas, I moved to Fort Worth, and we I was absolutely miserable. So my husband drove around. We listened to patients. And someone's like, go check out Keller. I was like, man, that's far away. Mhmm. So we drove, and I drove down. And it was actually town hall, and we walked the lake.

And I was like, we're moving here. Exactly. And so we I mean, made one cross state move, and then one year later moved forty five minutes out of Fort Worth into here, and it has been like the best decision of our life. But it was, yeah, town hall, hall, and walking this. And I was like, I don't wanna live anywhere else. Here we are

forever. Awesome.

I'm Jenna Lee. I grew up in Fort Worth, moved to Keller in 2017. My dad and stepmom have lived here since 2000. That's not what the reason why we moved to Keller, but it certainly influenced it. So we have loved it. My daughter graduated from Keller High School. My son is at ISMS in the eighth grade. And I'm an avid runner. I love the trails, and that's my big my big thing, making sure that trails have water fountains, bathrooms,

are are good to go, Park Road

Park Road and all the things. So we love Keller.

Jay Blakey. I've moved to Keller in 1985. And been on the

hardboard for a hot minute. Man, I was hoping you'd say how long so I would know how long I've been on. A while.

Probably too long. Of course, with some people.

Twelve years, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there's more to tell. And Jay brought have you heard about if you haven't heard about Park Run, you will. But Jay brought that wonderful event to tell her that he's done so much. And and we have a little order of business to talk about here in a minute related to Jay, but currently serves in his term as the vice chair. He served as the vice chair as long as I've served as chair. So but Jay and I have served multiple terms together. My name is Felix Mira.

Served on this board. I actually went through a leadership program in Keller, and then one of the challenges coming out of that is to get plugged in and get involved. And I've been very involved in rotary and in serving on the Keller Soccer Association board for many years as a soccer coach. And been very passionate about I moved to Texas in 1988 to work at TCU, and I handled all the marketing and promotions for the university. And, you know, we used to sell the t, the c, and the u. Mhmm. So I used to sell Texas, and I've handled the Northeast since I originally came from that way. And and then you tell people about Texas, and then you tell them about Christian, what that meant, and how they're affiliated with Christian church. And then we talked about the university. But when you're talking about Texas, we always talk about Fort Worth.

And then Go for it. And I meant and and we talked about and and I was told when I first moved here that Fort Worth is where the West begins, and Dallas is where the East peters out. And they also told me that I would never be cons I'd have to meet three criteria to be considered a Texan. I'd have to live here for twenty years consecutively. I'd have to marry a Texan and I'd to make Texans.

So. When was the last time you make Texans?

So I did I did all those things. I I married a a Texan. She's a permanent Texan, and I'm I'm I'm made three of them. My my oldest graduated from Texas Tech and my middle son my son will graduate from A and M next Thursday, a week from today, and my youngest will graduate from Tech in May. And and so I never got anything from the governor when I hit those milestones, but my state representative did make me an honorary Texan.

So that's probably the one of the greatest accomplishments of my life, and I do love being here. And I love the city and love this board. And and it is a it is a fun board, but we, you know, we're fun and we're a working board. Just to tell you a little bit about the some of the things that we've done and we do a little bit different than the other boards is we have created subcommittees. We're gonna talk about that here in a minute. You'll see that's number two on the agenda. We and we're we actually ask that you jump in to one of those subcommittees. I'm gonna pass around if she can get a chance to read a little bit about those. I wanna press you for your assignment tonight. Oh, you've got one already. Oh, yeah. Okay. Great. So you you gave him that during the organization. Yep.

See, that's that's because Cody so often He's on He's on it. So so I won't pass this up. But you may have already thought about that and if you're interested just talk to me a little bit about that afterward. But we these are working committees. We do have the Texas Open Meetings Act, which I'm sure it's been explained to you. And so the subcommittees by design are three people. So we don't violate the Tomah rules. But that way, the three people can go out and work on substantive things that they can bring back. When you walked in the room, you saw I was meeting with a stakeholder. We were working on a sports park project we're gonna talk about here in moment.

And as you build things and have new things going, you know, then that opens up opportunities for people to have opinions about things. And so we are working towards just some of the you know, we're working towards user agreements and fee structures and things and and having side meetings and and and the subcommittee structure enables us to actually do those things. You would know based on being on p and z and and, you know, zoning board adjustments, all those others that you, you know, you can't have those meetings at least with your entire group. Or or you'd be you'd be violating some rules because you have to publish those things to the public because, you know, we're on TV right now. And, you know, next to Yellowstone, we're probably the most watched show in Kelvin.

We get at least two views of my family.

Or land man as it would

be. So

but we we actually, you know, we we we get a lot accomplished through that subcommittee. And and and so you're gonna hear a lot from those folks tonight, and we just wanna plug you right in and and how do you hit the ground running. One of the first oars of business that's not on the agenda is that the the council does appoint the chair each round, and they ask that the board appoints the vice chair. So I would like to I would like to open the floor for nominations for vice chair of the park board. So I well, that's the be the first order of business.

So I'll entertain a motion to nominate

Jay Blake. I

have motion to nominate Jay.

Okay. I have a motion to nominate Jay. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Do I

any other nominations? Did you get that?

Okay. All in favor Jay. Continue as great. That went exactly the way I wanted it to go. Alright. So perfect. Thank you. That was close. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. That was that was close. That was that was a close call. But so let's move on into we're gonna what I would say is if you have questions as we're going through there, we like to so this is another qualifying statement. We don't get hung up on who's in what place and who's serving as an alternate because everybody here gets an equal voice.

We do even ask for you to vote even though, you know, alternate votes really don't come in as a county vote if someone unless someone's absent, but we don't look at it that way. I mean, Ashley served on this board as an alternate until she was moved into a permanent slot this year. And so and and so is Peggy. Right? Both of you were in that that that role, so you now have a permanent slot. But I don't think you would have ever known the difference because even we're even working on subcommittees and and to a degree Peggy was even chairing one as an alternate. So we we're all equal here in that regard, and and everybody has an equal voice. And so I just wanna set that stage right from the beginning. So with that, I'm gonna turn the floor over to Cody, and and we'll start with agenda item number one. And since Jay's doing this, please eat the food.

So we go ahead and grab additional food while we're I wanna thank Jay for bringing the dessert.

And so please Thank bringing the food.

Thank you. Yes.

I hear you.

I'm good to this.

Merry Happy holidays. That's that's what we like to do of our treat. And if you have not signed the card, those gifts over there are little color thank yous for Raelene and for G. We're rolling off. Judy moving to the library board and Raylene moving to Keller Development Corporation. Sad that they couldn't be with us tonight, but those are Keller themed gifts, and there was a thank you card in there. So if y'all would just sign your name to it, that would be outstanding. Jay has them, I think, if he hasn't talked to you about that already. So now, the floor is yours.

You. I'll

start with trails. I'll wait for Jay to come back to start with that one. That one's important to him. Playground, shade structure is complete at the Killer Point.

I don't know you've seen this.

So this wrapped up, I think, last week. Like, we got the final okay to to unveil it to the public.

The green is stunning.

I like it.

It is green

and the It's the right

now. Those poles don't actually slope in.

No. It's just optical illusion. Yes.

Yeah. Thought so.

That'd be a little disulfurment.

If you go run park run and you do it within if you do it under 20 and you go up and look at a post, they'll slope it. There'll be sun, you'll be oxygen, prime, and stuff like that.

So because the playground is so large and the span was so tall, that's why we have the gaps in there and have three sails. So there will be areas that get sunlight, but it's gonna move throughout the day and throughout the year. So, we couldn't do the entire thing for the price we wanted. Like we're gonna

do at Chase Oaks.

We're doing that. That was PO has been issued for that playground, shade structure, and we anticipate that taking till probably April for all the material to come in and then getting constructed. Constructed.

For the benefit of our new members, can you give them an idea of what the investment total investment was here?

So this was a $100,000 just for the shade structure. The playground was replaced two years ago for around 150,000. Same thing with Chase Oaks. It was around 150,000 for the playground, 100,000 for the the shade structure. So projects are not cheap, and that comes from that half cent sales tax that we we talked about that we can only use on parks and rec. Mhmm. We can't fill your potholes or fix your water lines, but we could do anything parks and rec related.

You could pay someone $50

a year

to hold umbrellas.

Plastic would be very

Cody, before we get asked the the decision not to put a triangle over those two slides in the foreground. So the that this third triangle goes off of the main structure, but there's no I

see what you're saying. Well, the

of four, but it looks like the trees throw shade under the

Correct.

That's what that's the way I'm gonna

Yeah. I don't have the aerial layout to show you, but there is there is shade from the surrounding landscaping trees.

Okay.

Keller Sports Park, we're 86% complete. They finished the conditioning on the, synthetic turf, and they've started on, Line Drive Parkway.

Do we have any pictures for this?

I have some pictures on the

murals. Yeah. Thought I saw didn't we start with an overview

of this? We did. I'll I'll do that in just Yeah. A

Oh, this is work

in progress. Yeah. This is work in progress of the eight murals. They've started two of them are complete. They're working on four right now. They've been out there hand painting everything. It looks really cool.

Felix, Peggy, and oh, no. Felix Judy. Judy and I were on the

Subcommittee with the parts board to select to do the artist review to review the artist

and then to finalize and then Really nice.

Love these.

They're so

cool. Awesome. Lot

of awesome.

A lot

of online comments. Yeah. Anybody's noticed.

My heart. That was amazing. Really?

So there's, two that they haven't started. One is the, football players holding up the trophy, and then the other is the boy running alongside the train. Mhmm. They'll I guess they'll do those two last.

Love it. Yeah. We're great.

And then as part of the sports park project, now that we've been open, for several months and find out what works, what doesn't, Staff was asked to, obtain pricing for additional elements to the sports Park, and we presented this to city council last week, and they approved it. Part of this was a, extension of our sidewalks on the soccer side from the c pad to the d pad. We also had our additional restroom. This took the most, discussion, throughout the the evening. It was either anywhere from a two seat or or two stall, two seat, two stall, up to eight, and all the pricing that came along with that.

Mm-mm. So you guys should almost How many times did it get the whole part design? Is it did we get the issue resolved?

A long conversation. Two times over. Yes. It's gonna match. This is the restroom that's at at the Equestrian Arena. It's gonna match the same style. So it'll look like it was done at the same time as all the rest.

Except it won't have a storage, though.

Right? It will not have storage. No. But it will have a little porch on the front. I don't think it'll have the the big ceiling fan on it, but that that's what a two unit would look like, and then that's the six.

We ended at six.

We ended at four. Four.

Oh, leave that.

Oh, we did see. I'm even confused. Yep. We ended at four.

We went round and round and round.

They wanted to save a 100,000.

Yeah. They wanted to

save a 100 Right. We did. That's right. Yeah. I should've.

So they they talked about this for a

long time. That's right. Because we wanted to put it toward the okay. Yeah. That's right. Put it on the team.

We're getting additional signage on the soccer side for field identification. This isn't exactly what it's gonna look like, but it's just a concept of on

that price structure, which I'm sure it came up. But a two stall was building two two stalls was less than building a four stall independent structures. $2.96 to 7 something. Technically, no.

I mean, it's just we I mean, you would have had to there it is. They they if in other words, you're saying you're go put two stalls somewhere else?

Yeah. Well, yeah.

Could you do two two stalls?

Did you have location of sewer line and those things like that?

It's not in there. Right.

So you

have to factor this was landing on the same spot where you had accessibility to Understood.

Yeah. So you

you couldn't just go put a two stall on the other end of the field Mhmm. Because you'd have to put infrastructure to support.

And that was the the whole discussion was, you know, if we're gonna do four, we might as well do six or eight because the delta in between those is so narrow compared to the two.

Then and then at where my thing landed, you know, since since we came down to this four six thing and then and then it was like, okay. But then a 100,000, we could do something with a $100,000, you know. And then and then it talked about capacity and and the fact that there's gonna be so many people over there. You know, and, I mean, you cannot say that it wasn't fairly deliberated. It was you know, we we certainly exercised every possibility.

But I at the end of the day, it would be very nice to have a facility there. And I think if you get too big where we're putting it, personally, I think that's a problem because it becomes a a line of sight issue because it's right there at the road. And it could I wasn't concerned when you get to something like an eight stall that that would be too big in that particular location. So if you're not familiar with it, you know, where that multi purpose field is now, it's most you know, it's it's toward Golden Triangle. You you know, that you're that is

a busy road on on

a Saturday with all the soccer games going up and down there. And you have some big obstruction there. You can't see people running on either side of it. And so I'm kinda happy we landed what we did. So

How many restrooms are there on? Not not seats, but like No. Buildings.

How many go there again.

In Texas, we call them home.

But how many restroom buildings are there? Do you happen to know?

Eight. Okay. Yeah.

And we had The equestrian

one I was in today, and it was very clean and very nice.

I mean, we started with four before the well, five if you count the old field house.

Okay. Okay. And they're gonna be open during park hours.

Yep.

Except for runners. Well, that's

they're they're open they're supposed to be open every morning at six by staff and then closed every night as as a janitorial crew comes through and cleans up. So

real quick, by staff. So how many do they have to open

on on one throughout the city?

Throughout the city, there's these seven. There's two at Bear Creek. There's two at Johnson Road. There's one at Overton Ridge. There's one at the activity node.

It's a lot.

It's a lot. It's usually not a problem.

Them up every evening.

Mhmm. Yeah.

But in the winter, we have to winterize them.

In the winter, if we're gonna have freezing temps, we close before that. We winterize them, drain the depending on how cold it's gonna get, we might actually drain the building of all water.

Pretty labor intensive. It's very. Mhmm.

Because they're they're not climate controlled or or geared towards the elements. They're all open to air. Yep. Okay.

Locks or Wi Fi locks, they could all be opened at the same time without taking the staff.

Well, you just gotta get Wi Fi at every location. Yeah. Let's just do it.

Maybe someday. Maybe someday. Right now We're working on that in other fair areas. Right.

Sprinklers and lighting are getting automation. Right? Correct.

We're working on that with those type of things and other gates and things. So it's just wanted to it's a, you know, kinda grow your way into that stuff. There is a not there's not a wireless infrastructure out there or Wi Fi infrastructure out there. So there's gotta be the technology that's got other capacity for it to come.

So But I guess it's still good for staff to go there because

They just they're not sure. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

They have to take out the trash anyway.

Yes. And restock.

Library had a soap issue with that soap bandit too.

It's safe to

say that then

it everywhere. They took the soap out of the bathrooms of the libraries for, like, a year.

Was there a homeless person? Nope. One.

You? It's kids. Kids. Yeah.

A $25,000,000 project, $800,000 ad. Not too bad, all

things considered.

Well, when you factor in the interactive water feature and the all the roads and all the underground infrastructure that we did for Alonzo with water and sewer, we're at 40,000,000.

40? 40,000,000. What was the original budget? What's the current name?

We don't wanna talk about

Interactive water feature.

Yes. I know.

I saw it.

Water. It's not a splash pad.

It's not a splash pad.

So just respecting time and with all we're gotta go in here. Let's keep plowing through this. Yep. We're ready.

We're also looking at vehicular bollards. We have some areas where we realized cars can drive all the way through, so we wanna deter that with something that's removable so that staff can get through with equipment when they need to. Or if we're having a big tournament and we want something to drive up to a building, we can do that. But, the other thing is there are, there's one pitching lane and three batting cages out there. We're gonna be redoing, all of those as well. Yeah.

They're pretty open

right now. I am. My son plays.

And then, the original the last original, field from the nineteen seventies, we're gonna be replacing the, fencing on that. Just the fencing. The most strip. So yeah.

And the backstory there for our new members is that that's in a floodplain. So Oh, yeah. The amount of work that can be done on this

Very minimal.

Limited. Yeah.

Very minimal. We played on that field.

I played on it

in the seventies.

Because it was close to mine.

But when we when we, you know, when we had that miracle peel ribbon cutting, you know, it was just and we all go out there for this nice, beautiful new Right. And then you look and you're like, we gotta do something.

It's ugly. So we we

so we're all happy that we made that choice. And so it'll all look nice now. All the colors are new.

We're also getting, acoustical, treatments for the field house. It is a concrete box, and if you try to have a conversation in it right now, you you can't. It's it's just echoes. The everything bounces off everywhere. So, we'll address that issue. We're also adding a monument sign on the north end, right as you enter off Golden Triangle near La Crosse and Sovereign Pad.

Can we call that? One?

I've asked the architect to so we got a mini task force of some council members and and Felix, and I sent this to them today and to to get their input on it, and two like this and two like that. So our and then our two liked a modification of something else. So I've asked the architect to go back and and make these tweaks and send it back to me so that I can send it back out.

So the pole is still gonna be in the way?

Or The pole will be moved.

Oh, what?

Gonna be moved to the other side of the

intersection. Perfect.

Just waiting for Tri County to do that. Good. And it'll go there on the, the corner. We'll have extensive landscaping Nice. Out in

front of

it as well. So this was the the price, for all of those items, just under 2,400,000.0.

Can you tell me where on the map the the maintenance yard wall is gonna be?

Yes. You're you're adamant about that one. Actually, when I saw the measurement of the trees, I was like, my goodness.

So yeah. For context Yes. As a tree lover and and and as you're certified arborist. Right?

Was certified arborist for eighteen years. Yeah.

I had a question when I saw that to Cody about what trees were being put in because there are some non native trees already there that have had issues here in town hall. So we didn't wanna

Right.

No offense river birches, but you're not being added. Well, it's been added. But I mean, again, ideally. And then also spacing is important for their long term

growth.

They'll end up basically cutting each other out if we put too many. Like, I want it to be filled in, but not so filled in that they.

So she posed that question this this week or last, whatever it was, but did we get an answer? Yes.

They're twenty five twenty five feet apart.

25

feet apart, but what I'm I'm talking about the species.

Yes.

Cedar. On the too. Yeah. It there's more the mainly cedar elms.

Are you

cedar realm?

Where are they going?

Where are

your cursor? I

see. The wall where did it go?

Just trying to get a little bit of an aesthetic to that wall. Yeah.

The wall is gonna hide this area here. It's going all the way down here.

Gotcha. Good call.

And so it's gonna be Shumar's? Yes. No. No. Sorry.

I was wrong.

It was chink the chinko

Chinko pin oak.

Cedar elm and the Chinese pistachio. Those

are all good.

They're all medium to large trees.

They'll find

not as big as a shoe barn, but

What is that, like, dump site

that So it is a material storage area for public works. So, when they do a a water main repair in the middle of the night and they've got all this excess dirt, that's where they take it.

Okay. And

then when they if it's good, they keep it, and then they use it if they need extra dirt

for time.

Or whatever. It saves them, staff time and money to take otherwise, they'd have to drive, like, to Denton or to Dallas to do that. And so they've they've been doing it out here. Yep. And that was part of when we were going through this process, that was one of the things that council brought up is we're gonna have all these improvements, and we're gonna look over and see piles of dirt. We don't wanna do that. So they they said, we want a wall. We've been working on that with Public Works, trying to get the pricing to the right point. And then the last bit of that was to add, the landscaping portion.

So is there a water over there

for that?

We're gonna run?

They'll run water.

Good. Yeah. Verification. Okay.

For trails, the trail along, Mount Gilead is still going on. They've rounded the corner. They're it looked today like the concrete is connecting all the way from one end to the other. They just gotta go back and do the final dirt work. There's gonna be some railings put up

Oh, no problem.

Because if there's a significant drop off

And neighbors are gonna be in same way.

Neighbors are not too heavy with that. So

But we're not gonna go in over those crazy strikes and stuff like that. Are we gonna No.

No. No.

Are we are we gonna look to ribbon cut that one at some point?

We can.

Yeah. I think we should.

Okay. Yeah. And then the other trail news is that the bridge over here by Rufe Snow is gonna get replaced on Monday, the decking. So so we anticipate five days for that.

Under under roof snow?

It's right as you come out from underneath roof snow on the West Side. Oh. There's a small footbridge.

Soft.

It's

Like a trampoline.

Yeah. It's the tear the decking was deteriorating. Okay. I'm not sure why. Well, maybe. It it was installed differently than all the other ones.

Right. You know, Tom

And that was I think that was the first one that Gary had done when we started before we did all the other ones. So

Tom, we have Park Run and you're and you're down there

with Marshall,

and we have It's gotta be a 45% of people don't come back.

It handled 5,000 people Thanksgiving morning. Did they go?

They went that way?

The tin pad. Tin pad did, man.

Yep. Five k did. Five k

did. It'll be closed for about a week. We'll have signage up. We've already posted it on Facebook and put it out in the.

Mess up here. Will it No.

Monday. Saturday? Monday. Monday through Friday. Atta boy.

With hope.

Yes. If they run into glitches, Saturday might be an issue, but I'll keep you posted. And then the last thing is the survey for Johnson Road Park Playground is live. Oh, okay. As of today, we've had 530 respondents.

That was awesome.

Good job. How many are you guys expecting?

We've never done this before Okay. On this part. When we've done a vote for this or this, we've had over 2,000. So this has only been up for, like, a week and a half.

Yeah. Yeah. A lot those And it asks more questions than just this or

this. Right. Mhmm.

But she put the kel. When she put

the Yeah.

Kel, the out there and look out the the Yeah. Tell this elf on the shelf looking at it over the bar. Thought that was a great

on that.

That's subcommittee a subcommittee on on

that? The offices.

That's what I'm missing.

I think it was just me

and Ashley. Yeah. But not yet. That's it for park construction. Not yet.

Not yet.

Alright. Is that it for construction? Okay. Let's move to subcommittee. Speaking of subcommittees, then we brought that up. So I did pass around a new one. So even though you had a list at

This is new. Correct.

Even though you had a list at your orientation, I went ahead and removed the members. And then we had a couple people who asked to shift around. And so this should be accurate now. And as you see this sports bar oversight, so the meeting you walked in on was sort of a part of that. We're we're trying to meet with you know, we're still we're gonna have to do some supervision out of these user agreements. So Tom, Jay, myself, we're on that one. The trails, Jay is leading that one with generally and Ashley doing an exceptional job on that one. The senior affairs of senior center optimization, They that work is just about to get heavily underway. Yeah. And they're we're gonna talk a little bit about that.

I'm assuming right with the with the the survey results here because you're done. Right? You they've come back. So we'll get to that in just a second. And then so I'm we are I like these to be three people.

Mhmm.

So there would be one more person that we hire. We have an open slot there for that committee. The Johnson Road Park playground, which you just heard about right now has Ashley and Caitlin on that. Ashley leading, and we could take one more person there. I'd love for one of the one of the since you have younger children. She's architect. So you're an architect, that would be interesting. Yeah. Mhmm. So if you're if you're so inclined, we'll plug you in. Pavilion Park amenity rentals. I'm a lonely member of that community

by myself. There's one Sounds so exciting.

Well, our people our people left.

They did a lot of work, though.

They did a ton of work, and then they came and left me.

I can come back.

Okay. Well, that was a bunch of.

She left her mind. She left her mind.

She got she she wanted to she wanted something

else. Okay.

I can join you on that one.

So that would be great.

Yeah. So

if you'll stick around for a little bit, and then that that way we that's great. Because what will happen there is that one's gonna go away pretty quick. Because all we have to do is settle on some budget numbers and things, and then and then we're done. Because they've they've done a lot of that work the leg work there. And then, Luz, you said you're gonna do what? Johnson. Mhmm. Okay. And then loses at l u z. Mhmm. And then

and

then flip the page, Northeast Park Vision Committee, which actually kinda works out well, Caitlin, because we're gonna kinda wrap the the the the rental thing. And then,

you know Before that one.

And this and this is like a long term, long Yep. Down the road study that involves Caitlin, Jen Lee, and Jay. It's a good group to have on that one because there's a lot of history that goes into this, and they've been studying that. So love to plug you in. So right now, we plugged you into a couple. We've got senior chairs that could be normal person. And then we can actually we can actually move some people around too if you want to. We can we can try to, you know, plug you into some other ones too as we as this progresses.

So I can do senior affairs

and senior citizens.

Good. I would also like to be on the Hartford and

Alright. So what we're gonna do is this. I'm gonna plug you in there, Luz, and then I'm gonna ask Jay. Since Jay is the the vice chair to sort of when you guys have a quorum where all four of you are available, then maybe he would step aside and let you guys meet. But then if you have if you don't if you're so inclined, if you're willing to do that. But if you if you end up with one person short, that he would step in. But I would ask, and then he could kind of just kind of have over you know, kind of just, from a sidebar, just stay connected to what you guys are doing.

I would not want to kick anybody out.

Jay's got a lot going on. You know, the other things he's got. So and then and then trails is a big deal, and the sports park thing is, more than than that is a lot. So so I didn't ask him just now. I sound like I just kinda told him that

Well, you

I'm glad you said one person short instead of one short person.

Okay. So

Well, I'm there with you.

I'm short person too.

So, you know, if I need to step aside too because Jay has a history on Northeast Park.

I'll let you two fight that out.

Yeah. I mean, I

know some

of it, but

he Well, I'll let you guys I tell you what. Since we spend a lot of quality time together on Saturday mornings, you guys decide to tell me. Alright? I'm not gonna work that up for you, babe. But in our rules as chair and vice chair, we can kinda come in and on and off of these committees based on need and demand. So but you guys figure that out and you tell me. Anything I missed, Cody? I think we got them all right there.

That's all of them.

Now this doesn't mean that this is you know, we're starting a new year. Right? And so something could come up because some of these committees sort of developed throughout the year. Ashley with the Johnson Road, Mark, that's relatively new one. And and so, you know, this subcommittee, as I've mentioned earlier, it it this this does work and and so if we if if if there's a we're tasked with something by city council or if we are tasked with something by citizens or we're a conduit council and we hear there's something out there that we need to solve for, then it might warrant that we create a study group, which is a subcommittee.

And then we'll get people assigned to it, and we'll tackle it because like we talked about at the beginning, we're a working board. Mhmm. And so that that's that's kinda how those things kinda they they form out of sort of organic opportunities. Alright? Any questions about that? Thank you both for being willing to jump in. That's awesome. Appreciate that experience. We we I will say this, that being on the board as long as we have been we've been very blessed with our new members that we've had in the last couple years because I you know, enthusiasm. You guys have jumped, you know, what, Caitlin and and Ashley and just coming in with and Peggy all of you know, like, We're we're in.

We're gonna do it. So this is cool, and that's that's the right spirit on this board. So the next item on the agenda is well, first, any questions about sub committees?

We have board I think we have subcommittee updates.

Okay. Let's do that then. Subcommittee updates. Go ahead. You you might have one since you mentioned that.

I might. So for Johnson River Park, besides the survey, we do have a memorial there on-site. So I have reached out to that individual's father, and he's excited to be included in the project. So as we get a little bit farther along in design, the thought is that he would be included so that he could bring to him with us a good place to incorporate his daughter.

Love that idea. So right now, is it

a marker? Right now, it is a marker for the pavilion that's kind of in the center there. Mhmm. That shade structure that a lot of parents sit under and enjoy. So we'll brainstorm with him as we get farther in design of maybe a feature aspect of the final product that makes sense maybe with her personality

or passion. Great that you do that. Thank you

for doing that. So Awesome.

I'll stay in touch with him. That's the only thing for Johnson Road. For you guys, the survey is open throughout mid January is the current plan. Rachel will continue to help us promote it. And and then I'd ask everyone in this room, if you can think of five people you know who might have thoughts on the playground. If you can just send the link to them and encourage them to take it. It only takes about five minutes. Everything that's required is multiple choice. There are text fields, but those are optional. So it's very quick to take.

So if you know a group of parents, you wanna share it within a group me if that's Mhmm. Where you are in life. And if that's not where you are, if you just happen to know a few people that you think might be interested.

Well, is that neighborhood Facebook app?

Yes. Whatever whatever you have access to in your social network.

Like a QR code that we could put? Is is it up at the park?

Yes. So we have it Okay. We have it not only at Johnsonville Park, but at at more of our popular parks. Okay. The signage is up. I actually got a phone call from a resident near Overton Ridge today that was confused and thought we were gonna

redid up the ground. Yeah. That's just a

no. Or maybe even at daycares that are in that area because they really visit that park.

Like Spanish school crowd.

Yeah. Right. Because that's right there. And the library doesn't The library

was nice enough to promote it for us on their social media. Yeah. The library does know about it, and they were kind enough to share it on their social media page too. But, yeah, if

you know anyone in your own network, PowerPoint, because they have

We we have them out at the playground in front of it.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We have a database. This is a question. I'm sorry. That's not that's not like a statement. But do we have a database of prior rentals of that pavilion where we could send it to the people who have rented the pavilion? Possibly. That idea. Probably do. I mean Can we people have actually had functional use of that, you know, from a pavilion standpoint. Be good to get their feedback too.

Here's a here's another good one that we can put it on the the killer app when you click on parks.

Oh, the killer connect?

There's no well, it this is an app. And I guess it's called. Yeah. Yep.

A new one.

So when you go to the parks, and maybe there's a place we can go click on the QR code there or something.

Ashley, are you taking these as

Yes. I assume, Cody, are you it seemed like you took notes about

I am.

The pavilion, Rachel.

Yep.

Do you want me to reach out to Rachel about the app? Or Okay.

Want I

mean, if you want

to, you're welcome to. But I

app can send out a message too. Yes. Because I got one for Thanksgiving, I think.

Yeah.

Is Rachel who would get you the email list? I'll leave you Jordan.

Jordan. Jordan and and That makes sense. Don and Elena. Yeah.

Because they

If you

want me to do it, I'll reach out to Jordan about the pavilion list, and I'll reach out to Rachel about making sure it's in the app. I know it was

in the newsletter. Yep. That's where I took

it from. Before I forget this too, I'm I'm gonna pass this around, and I just if you all didn't put your name and your home address on there, please. So if if we're mailing something to you, it wouldn't mind. We may have that info, but I'd like that.

I got I am.

Does it only come up

with Nick Linscott? It didn't come in on that?

It was in the newsletter. Yes.

I have to read them on the news.

It was last last last day.

Oh, the one before. Mhmm.

It was in it was I thought it was in today's as well.

I just haven't opened today's. I yeah. I can't speak to that, but it was a 100% the last one.

I was gonna say the

same thing.

Thought it was I'm supposed to vote on the Christmas decorations. Okay.

While while we're worried about that,

let's see. Yep.

The next thing, do you wanna talk about trails.

Are gonna do?

Oh, wait. It's his gun.

I mean, why don't we move I'll continue if we roll, we'll we'll roll into regular session. If we continue if we so go ahead and start your it trails a long discussion?

Yeah.

Okay. So let's save that one. So get inside there. Any other shorter subcommittee discussions? Senior,

I don't Survey. The senior survey was complete, and staff reviewed that with some members of city council and and Felix who had orchestrated, us performing that survey. And we've sent it to the, to Tom and Peggy on the Yep. Subcommittee. Sent that last week, getting them a a preview before we bring it before the parks board in January.

Have you guys so with that, have you talked have you sat down with Michael or mean, I know you've given us a little bit of a highlight of what what what you've seen there, but you're not ready to kinda report out on that yet. Right?

Not yet. Okay. I've been up there a lot. Michael knows that three or four times a week, probably. And just looking and watching it, counting people in the bingo room and the people in the doing an airplane, people playing poker, every room, counting heads, and trying to get my own.

Is it is it fair to say that that that one of the outcomes and I'll ask you all three of you this, but but is it fair to say, Michael, and, again, that that that it was clear that there was, like, desire for, like like, balance and some of those other classes that that were lacking maybe some things in that regard. Go ahead.

Yes. There there was. It was mostly for the wellness classes and programs like that is what the biggest desire was. I don't have the numbers off the

top of my head. So so I think I think a benefit for the park board because we're getting some pressure from some individuals and some email. And a lot of that traffic was probably at least two or three a day this week. Mhmm. You know, about why does it take so long? Why is this such a process? Well, I think if we're it is a deliberative process, we're gonna make good decisions. We can take our time. Right. But I think, you know, if you guys can come back as that subcommittee Yep. Work with Michael and say, hey. You know, this is what we've learned and talk with the staff and optimization and looking at the facility as a sub subcommittee based on what we've learned. This is what we think. And then and then bring that to us. And then so my question to you guys, do you think you'd be prepared to do that at the January meeting? Sure.

Yep. Yeah. Mike,

you've been talking.

So I think we

think we could do that.

We have what? We've

done what?

2,200 members? Ended

last year at 2,600.

So so we have we have a small group of really active members, mostly are not active members. It's being not active. They do more things like puzzles and cards and bingo.

None. Active Physical activity. Physical activity. Physical activity. Activity. I'm sorry. They're present they're present there, but they're not Correct. Physical activity. Not using Right.

They're there, but they're not real active. And there's probably 50 that are.

So that'd be good if I we probably decide how to sort of segment the place and say Absolutely. Gym access. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So that that'll be I think it's gonna be educational for all of us, but I think it'd be good to come back in in context because and then, of course, what you're what you're recommending. And, you know, based on what you're hearing from and you're gonna have to bring Yep. Bring the poll up to speed here.

And I'll I'll send you the survey

Okay.

Yep. Results so

you can look at

it as well. I'll try it. Yep.

Incorporate it. Bring her in. Maybe get a chance to meet with Michael. Have you seen the have you been around the center?

I haven't been inside it, but I

So maybe if I'm

not been around it.

I'm not volunteering you, but if you're if you're if you're able to Get a badge for her.

My employees are coming to town

soon, and

they should consider moving out here. I can take them.

It's a it's a great it'd be a

great addition. So real real quick.

Jay did a survey here, what, two, three months ago. It was spot on. I did all the hours of this survey spot on at Keller Point, the amount of hours that was used for one deal. Remember? Mhmm. Anyhow, it's pretty spot on. I'll be done.

So it's coincidence. Man. So just so you know, so if we at times, we will get a little further in the weeds on some of our work session items, and we'll we'll hold to the clock and and we'll adjourn, and we'll move and carry the item into the chamber. When you go next door, you'll see you'll see a name tag that'll tell you where to sit. So Luz, for your benefit, Luz,

or the other Nicole question. I'm sorry.

Thank you. Somebody tells me. So What happens? So, Luz, we're gonna adjourn here, we're gonna carry over. We're gonna continue the subcommittee reports into chamber.

When you go next door, you'll see your name over there. Sorry. We will call to order the December session of the Park and Recreation Board meeting, the regular session. First up on the agenda is persons to be heard. This is a time for the public to address the board on any subject.

However, the Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits the board from discussing issues which the public has not been given three business days notice. Issues raised may be referred to city staff for research and possible future action. We are going to carry over an item from the work session, which is continued reports out on the subcommittees. Before we do that, I would ask if we would just go to item F, is consider approval of the November minutes, which the board members that, not our new members, but the prior board members that carried over will have those emailed to them. So I would open for a motion to approve the minutes.

Don't be shy. Motion to approve. Motion to have a second.

Second.

All in favor. Aye. Okay. Any discussion, any changes? Okay. Meeting minutes are approved. Alright. Before we move back to the subcommittees, I was derelict in my duties for not recognizing you and having you just want you to come on up here and just formally introduce yourself real quick. So you're you're if you just come to the microphone, tell us where you live, who you are, and and what brought you here. You were you were a student and TCC. Yes, sir. Okay. So go ahead and tell us your name. Introduce yourself. Yes,

sir. I'm Diego Gutierrez. I'm a student at TCC. I live at Keller. I've lived at Keller for probably, I wanna say, six years now. So since, like, seventh grade. Past that, so I'm just trying to get my credits over to UT Arlington. So hopefully, that's where I'll be going.

So you're observing tonight as part of class?

Yeah. Yeah. So, it'll be part of my Texas government class. Yes, sir.

Government class. So, so this doesn't violate Texas Open Meetings Act, but we can talk to you about this. But, what do you have any questions about what you're observing? Now we do understand that we're a board that works. So we're a we're a we're a board. You know, there's boards and commissions. Right? Actually, you probably heard Luz introduce herself in the different boards she's been on and and Caitlin's been on a different board. Basically. But you know, they're and we're appointed by the city council. Yeah. Right? And so we're kind of a conduit between the citizens and

The council.

The council. Right? So do they explain all that to you?

Yeah. So that's actually our part of our local government portion of the unit. So that's actually my finish my final unit for that. So it's been kinda going over all that. As well as, like, subcommittees as well, which, I mean, you all kind of went into depth a lot. And that so that helped me a lot with my research at least. Yeah.

Good. Well, great. Well, I hope it was beneficial. Do you have any questions of us? Any questions about what we're doing? You live in this city, so did you learn anything tonight about the CoolTube? Very much a lot.

I will say that that bridge over there is really mushy. I'm glad you're there. I think something about that.