Parks and Arts Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. It's September 8th and this is the September meeting of the Parks and Arts Commission. We'd like to start off with a roll call. So, I will start us off. Um, David Heinbball present. Um, we have Nancy Hill is online. Nancy, yes, I'm here. Present. Thank you. Laura Frank, present. Katie Ferris present. John Bar present. Noel Otter Learco. Noel are you online with us. And Bob Schneider Miller

present. Joanie Haye are you with us today. Joanie. Okay. Gary Edwards here. Perfect. We need a motion first off to approve the August 4th minutes. So if everybody did get a chance to go through with that, go look that last week and through today. I take a moment here if anybody needs a little bit of time. I move. Okay. We have a we have a motion and a second. All in favor of approving the August minutes as written say I.

I. I. Any negative? And motion carries. Do we have any citizen comments online? Okay, seeing none, we will move right on to our action items. So, first up, we'll talk about the park plan update. in your package of papers, we have the SJC Alliance. Um, David, she's not online yet. Can we switch to Lisa? Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, we'll move that on to the next item.

Let's switch it and put Lisa up first. That way she can. So, next up is Lisa to talk about the capital facilities plan. Good afternoon, uh, parks and arts commissioners. Um, can you talk my presentation, please?

So, I'm here to talk to you about our six-year capital facilities plan, which is um, uh, we're in that process right now, just starting the process, and we do this every year as part of our Is that better? We do this every year as part of our U budget process. We start in September. Next slide, please. So uh just to share with you the process and timeline uh so that this is a preliminary draft. It's just to begin the conversation. Um we're looking for initial input and feedback specifically on 2026 projects because they'll actually go into the budget but other projects as well. Although and we'll talk about this a little later. This is going to be um this uh capital facilities plan is probably going to get um updated as we look at a 20-year plan as part of our uh our uh comprehensive plan. So um but but uh this is what we're we need to adopt a six-year plan every year. Typically the first couple years are pretty well um planned. Uh things do change a little bit and whatnot. um uh depending upon changes in condition and whatnot, but we really our focus should be really on the first couple years here because after that um we have a lot of data coming in on the comp plan that may have influence out years. So um our next council uh workshop is going to be on October 21st. We already had one um uh their last council meeting. Uh SEPHA and uh public hearing notice for this uh happens in November, early November. And we actually have a public hearing on it in November 18th with adoption December 2nd along and it follows the parallel track

of the budget because of course 2026 is part of the budget. Next slide please. So, um I I want to share with you how to read this document. Um typically, um it is we start out with the base document, which was the six-year capital facilities plan that we adopted last year. But because the state has all these requirements, we also have to do a transportation improvement plan in June. Typically, we have some updates um to the transportation section based upon that June transportation improvement plan. And that's exactly what happened here. So, uh um as we look in out years and as we move projects around, we look at things in today's uh at today's cost and then we also um future value the infrastructure construction cost. Um we base uh that's basically 5.8% a year. That's actually based upon um the Mortonson construction cost index. We look at a six-year average there. Um oh actually, excuse me, it was a 10-year average because we wanted to be a little bit more conservative. Equipment was based is based on a different um uh price index. It's the producer price index specifically for machinery and equipment which is put out by the Bureau um of labor statistics. And um the six-year average for that was 5.3% a year. So that's what we used as the inflationary factor to calculate future costs. So um projects with grant funding reflect the full expenditures proposed. Although you'll see in the notes section where we've I where we have um been approved for or have a grant pending. Um, and the reason why we do that is because Liberty

Lake operates on a cash basis. So, it's important that most of our grants are reimburseable. So, we have to reflect it in the budget as the full dollar amount and then the the the reimbursement is reflected as a revenue. um additions and or updates um to dollar amounts or years are shown in red to just kind of show that okay so we've had a little bit movement and typically the reason for that movement was shown in the notes column um and explanations for changes in the notes column. Next slide please. So to give you a context, GMA requires that annually the city adopt a s uh capital facilities plan to cover a minimum of of six years. Um we have traditionally adopted a six-year capital facilities plan every year. Um but we have our comprehensive plan uh update in 2026. I know you guys have heard me talk about that before and this is a pretty important one because the city is going to achieve buildout in the next 20 years. So, um, we feel like it's really a critical time for us to begin to look at what a 20-year capital facility plan looks like. We have to plan for that buildout of our city. If we hope to have additional parks, we need to get it in here now and reflect that in our land use and our and our capital facilities plan. If we don't plan for it now, it's not going to happen. Um, uh, within the 20-year planning period, Liberty Lake Oh, I just said that. And uh so next slide please. So these are the the the elements that are required in the comprehensive plan. You've seen this before. Population, housing, land use. New requirement is climate resiliency, cultural and historic and a capital facilities plan. Now it's interesting. A parks uh element is not required because they don't have

any funding for that. Um, however, you do have to reflect parks in your capital facilities plan. As you know, you guys have been working diligently on that. And Jen is going to talk to you in a few minutes about the plan that we um we wanted to see it happen as part of this comprehensive plan so that it we could use that data in our it will be we will have a write up and the your parks plan will be an appendix to the comp plan. We'll have a small write up on parks and and arts um and uh in the comprehensive plan, but it's going to be a major um source of information for that 20-year capital facilities plan. Why it was so important. Next slide, please. And it's not just the parks and recreation master plan. We have we're also in the process of doing a city uh facilities master plan. We're just wrapping up a pavement master plan. We're going to be we just got the data for the sidewalk master plan and we're going to be undertaking the sidewalk master plan this fall and uh yeah

I was just wondering with the sidewalk master plan does that include um making bike lanes also um so that would be part of the transportation plan.

Okay. But um and so and then transportation network analysis. And so these are all inputs that are going to help us um provide um detail for that 20-year capital facility plan. They're all studies that are underway right now. So if I look a little stretched, you'll understand why we've got all these are literally in process. Um next slide, please. So, why we're talking to you today? Um, we're we're meeting with all the commissions and committees um to seek their input. Um, we do want to get early engagement and feedback from you as a commission for this six-year plan, but we also want to hear from you individually as engaged citizens. and we're hoping that you'll help us get the word out and engage other citizens in the conversation. We also are looking forward to that 20-year capital facilities plan and I've got a lot of data coming in in the next month or two that um we are we want to put together a work group as a steering committee uh to help us put together that 20-year capital facilities plan based upon all these other studies and the inputs that we have from those. And um we are hoping that we can get um each commission to kind of nominate a person to represent that commission on as part of the work group for the comp plan. We also hope to um get some at large uh community members that are engaged and knowledgeable. You guys are our commissions are our most engaged and knowledgeable citizens typically. And so you have maybe a better understanding of this. Um it takes me five minutes to explain to somebody what a capital facility plan even is for your average

citizen. So um it is it's one of these things where we'd really like to have the input of all the various commissions because you have a stake in that 20-year capital facilities plan. Um, our intent is that we're going to make it fiscally constrained much as we do with transportation plans, etc. And so, uh, that's that's a little added challenge that, uh, Kyle and I will be, uh, going through to, but we again want to have a working group that we can, um, bounce ideas off of, etc. So, so that is really why I'm here tonight, just really to, um, share with you the capital facilities plan, let you know what this is. It's still a working draft. We've it's um and it it we're still making the sausage as it were. There's some things where we're still waiting for information. I did want to share with you just walk you through the parks one just for a second just to give you context to particularly the parks and public facilities plan.

So on page three

on page three that's correct. So um couple things um I've highlighted some things that we in yellow that we know are going to change. So, one of the things is Pavilion Park improvements. Um, we are expecting to get for next year's improvements. Um, I think Jen's expecting um estimates on September 16th and so we'll plug those in. Um, other costs are really right now just kind of based on our asset management software recommendations, but I expect that that and a number of other parks facilities that um we may see some changes in the outy years based upon the outcome of the uh parks and arts and recreation master plan. So that's so that's important to note. Um, we do have uh the future city hall upgrade PF4. Just wanted to say that's the leg the the the old legacy church conversion to a city hall and that is based upon our high level cost estimates from BC who's working with us on the capital facilities plan. Um the other ones that I want to point out, so city hall um renovations um PF12 that's that will we'll be working on this facility here and we're going to be making some renovations to bring it up to speed to to move our parks uh staff into this building. We'll probably have some uh meeting room space in here as well. Um and that's uh obviously that's timed for after the completion of the legacy church renovations. Um we do have sighting for a new community pool. Again, that really is going to depend upon the outcome of the

parks master plan also. And um what else? The li the library project. So we also assume that the library we will eventually be building a new library. Um so we have at for the li the new library PF20 reflects um reflects the um uh cost estimates for option two for the library facility at town square. So that's seems to be the community's preference at this point. And so that's so that's where those numbers are. They're soft numbers but it's the best we have right now. And then once uh the library moves, we also have on PF15 an assumption for renovation of the old library space for the police department because we will need all that space for the police department as our police department continues to grow with the population. So, this is one that this is one that it's there's a lot to talk about here. There's a lot of new information in here, but I really um I wanted you to have a context. Um and then I guess one other one that I would comment on is that um we do have Orchard Park improvements. Um we've just updated this with some cost estimates. Um but again, I think we may have some further refinements on that before it's done. It does reflect the the quotes we got for the fencing. Yeah, I was just going to mention we had talked a couple months ago about fencing the basketball court there since the balls

that's it that's included in this line item. Y are we going to be able to get any benches in that area? This would be something that would come out of the um beautifification fund in the Okay. Yeah.

I was going to let you know too. I did talk to uh Hoopfest to see if they would want to contribute to the basketball court there since there's only two hoops. So, they're going to get back to me. [Music] So, I'd love to hear if you have any comments at this point. Um I I realize that you're getting this for the first time and there is a ton of information in here. Um, I would invite you as individuals to provide me with feedback. And you all know my email address. If you don't, it's on the website. Um, but as a commission, you may also have some some discussion that you want to have and you may want to submit some comments as a commission. Again, our next uh city council workshop is on October 21st. So, it would be great if you had some feedback for them that to um to maybe bring your comments to the city council meeting or if you would prefer you can funnel them through Jen to me and I will make sure that they're reflected in the presentation. So, it's really up to you how you approach that.

What's the goal for the new city hall completion? So um we feel like it's going to take us about two years between permit design permitting and then FF and E. So um and move and move. So yeah. So that's um I think we're the target is uh give me a second here. Let me look.

I saw spending into 27. I just didn't know when the lease was up and what the target was. the lease is up I think in I think as of August it went to monthtomonth. So um we we do have the ability I'm not sure where Legacy Church is with all of that but um I know Mark has been having conversations with them. So, uh, on 905, the enhancement Harbor Road and Wellington roundabout, uh, right now it's a dangerous intersection because there's no light there and, uh, the traffic coming from the north is, uh, hidden by a hill. So, you're taking your wife in your hands getting across the street. Now, whether you want to put in a roundabout, which it says is 958,000, or how much a traffic signal would cost, I don't know. Well, so this one is one that is um there's likely going to be done by Greenstone, but right now we're in the midst of our our network analysis and we're looking at whether um a roundabout will even be adequate in the buildout year. It it's very close and I think that we may end up going with a signal there instead. Yeah, if it's cost effective, that would be

it's it's way more cost effective also, but it and it's Yeah. So So we shall see. We shall see what the I'm I'm going to have a draft report on the capital or on the network analysis next week and then we're workshopping that with planning commission the end of the month and going to city council with it uh the first meeting in October. So I haven't seen the final results yet, but that was one that we talked about that was very close. And so um def definitely stressed that we needed to get a recommendation on that. Any other comments or questions? Okay. Any other questions for Lisa? Thank you all. I hope that you

Thank you, Lisa. You'll uh help us with this process and give us some good input. And um I really also would encourage you to have a conversation about who on the parks and arts commission might want to help us with the working group for the 20-year capital facilities plan. Thank you everybody. Thank you Lisa. Jen, do we have uh folks on from SG SCJ yet? Yes. Hi Jen. Hi everyone. Can you hear me? Okay.

Yeah. Okay, great. I have a presentation to share with all of you. Um, can you see the PowerPoint? Yes.

Okay. Um, well, um, good afternoon everyone. I'm Jen Dial with SCJ Alliance, the project manager for the parks and recreation master plan. It's been a little bit since I've, um, come to your commission meeting and we've made a lot of progress on the plan. So, I just want to give you kind of a highle um overview of of where we're at with things um because we are getting uh near near the end. This is a um a visual of kind of the project timeline. You can see with the green check marks those pieces that are complete. This kind of yellow color indicates we are in process on the last two um phases of the plan. Um, you'll see those draft phases reflected in the in the versions that you should all have in your packets. And I'll go through this a little bit in more detail in the presentation. Um, this is just an overview of kind of the process that we use to do the parks plan, all the various elements and phases that went into developing the draft that you have. And in terms of the contents, this is currently what you'll see reflected in that draft. everything starting from a vision statement and a community profile all the way down to a level of service audit and goals and objectives and recommendations. One of the first things um that'll be presented in the plan, there's a placeholder in there now because we're still workshopping this with you, but is trying to land on a vision statement for the parks um and recreation master plan. Right now, we've kind of narrowed it down to three different options um that can be, you know, blended together or become some hybrid or something totally new. Um you should have, I think, a visioning document maybe in your packets as well. Um but essentially, we we pulled the top one together based on the previous parks plan had kind of six different value statements that it

included for a vision statement. We did a lot of engagement over the summer. So based on some of that qualitative data and then also from the comprehensive plan and then the bottom two are based on the visioning question that went out in Liberty Lake strategic plan uh community survey. These were the top two. So um we'll welcome your your feedback on the what the vision statement um is shaping up to be. The plan also includes um kind of an beginning chapter that is just the community context including historical data, population trends and forecasts, uh demographics about the residents of Liberty Lake, has housing and income data has, you know, renter versus home ownership, all of those details to give you a good sense of who the park system serves in your community. The next chapter in the parks and recreation master plan is on inventory and assessment. So this is kind of a nice segue to what Lisa was talking about that can help inform some of those capital investment priorities. This lets you know okay in each park um what various facilities amenities are included, what kind of condition are they in? We also looked at the variety of parks in your system and classified them, whether they're a a larger community park, if they're more of a pocket park. Um, and so we did notice some gaps in that process that will be interesting to to share with all of you. For example, um, there's not a lot of parks that meet the criteria for a neighborhood park. There's bigger community parks and there's smaller pocket parks, but that in between seems to be a gap that we noticed. Could I ask you a question about that?

Yeah. Uh, I would say the River Rock Park is a neighborhood park. It's not a pocket park cuz it's really big. Yeah, it is almost 5 acres. Um, I think that was the threshold for um kind of the criteria we were using for neighborhood parks was 5 to 10.

So, we we could look at that. you know, it's it's really up to you all on how we determine these classifications. So, if we want to consider that a neighborhood park so that you can show you're meeting that need, um we're happy to revisit that. And that's truly kind of the purpose of the draft that you all have in your pockets and your packets is for you to, you know, look it over and if you see things that you think need, you know, you have suggestions about, we're still in that revision phase. So, we we welcome your input. each park um we developed a park profile for it. So that includes a description kind of a um some key details about where it's at, when it was established, how many acres, you know, if it has trails, how many miles of trails. There's a map um with a legend for all of its various amenities and facilities. And then on the left, this table here, um, includes all the full inventory of everything in the park, a rating on its condition assessment. It's a rate, it's a scale 1 through five, um, when that those materials were last updated, when its renovation schedule is, and any notes. So, this this is the piece I was talking about that'll be really informative as you start to prioritize new equipment and things like that in your capital improvement program. Outside of just facilities and amenities, we also did an inventory of recreational programming. So, we looked at the existing programs offered by the city and by partners within the city. And then we also compared that to the national recreation standards to try try to get a sense of kind of where your uh benchmark is compared to the national average. So we have a whole write up and analysis on that in the plan as well.

We tried to look um outside of just Liberty Lakes system as well and to look more regionally for where other recreational opportunities are because um and when you think about level of service, there's those things that you as a city can offer, but there could be something just outside of your border that's already offered by the county or by another city. So, it's important to kind of take that into context as you're looking at things. I know it's probably hard to see the details on this presentation, but this map is in your packet as well. Could I ask a question? Yeah.

Are you cons considering that Liberty Lake is now the recreation department is collaborating outside of our boundaries with other recreational uh activities and programs? Yes. Like like the school district and Skyhawks and things like that. Is that what you're thinking? Yeah, Muel can speak to that probably more. Yeah, there. Okay.

I would like to include um some more narrative content about that in the plan. Right now, it's kind of captured in this list, but the unique partnerships and where you have, you know, interlocal agreements and things like that, we haven't gotten into that in the narrative portion yet, and I I would like to. So, um I appreciate you bringing that up. In terms of art, um outside of just recreational amenities, we also looked at the art inventory in the city. So, we pulled the um art categories that were represented in the 2018 strategic plan and then also um goals that came out of the commission's public art policy and procedures. and we used that as a way to kind of look at gaps in the system and where there's um opportunities to to to further meet the goals of the commission. So, you'll see um a matrix in your draft parks plan and it has an image of the the current art um its name if it has one, where it's located, which goal of the commission it meets um and then what type of art based on these categories up here and then who the key audience is in terms of visibility and something about its maintenance and its appearance. parents, who the artist is, and what the price or value is. We also included art inventory maps. So, for each park, we have a map showing the location of the various art types within the park. We developed an icon for each um whether it's a box wrap, it has a different icon, than if it's a functional art piece, etc. Each park has a description of the art

within it and then a brief table describing the pieces. In terms of community engagement, um this table down at the bottom right here shows you all the various events that we did over the course of the summer to really work with the community and hear their thoughts about the park system. These are just some fun pictures from the various events that we held. And this was one of our engagement flyers. Um, we got a lot of really fun input from from kids and from families and and others in the community over the summer. Um, and that resulted in an engagement summary report which is in the the kind of the middle section of your parks draft plan that you have before you. And that includes um the staff interview summaries, the community survey summary and engagement event summaries. So pretty pretty comprehensive. And at the end of that is are some key takeaways and we're working on some recommendations based on those key takeaways. I included um this graph here because it was related to an art question. We asked the community where do you feel public art would have the greatest impact within the Liberty Lake park system? um and in central gathering places was the number one selection like the picnic areas and the plazas. We also conducted a demands and needs analysis. This map that you see on the right is what I refer to as a walkshed map. So for each park um that is city-owned and even the HOAs, we looked at what the 10-minute walkshed would be from that park. So you can see who in the community is is most easily serviced by the park. Um and then we have an analysis for each walkshed. We also did a peer community comparison to look at other communities of lake size to see how Liberty Lake kind of

compares in terms of recreational programming, amenities, and just number of park acres. We looked at performance metrics from RCO and from the National Recreation and Park Association. We also did a kind of a narrative analysis of what some local, regional, and even national recreation trends are so that you can be thinking about that as you develop new parks um and new park amenities. And then we also looked at the trails network. And then um lastly, what the piece that we're kind of working on now, and I I don't know if Jen had time to print it, but um we sent over some kind of a draft of all the goals and policies pulled that have some relevance to the parks plan. So, we pulled them out of various elements of the comprehensive plan like Lisa was referring to earlier, um the previous parks plan and also the public art policy and procedures. and we're trying to look at all those goals and policies and see what needs updating, what's already been completed, you know, are they still in alignment with the vision for your park system? And this is our opportunity to kind of refine and enhance that language. So, um, your feedback is is very welcome on all of that. Um, and this is just an excerpt of what it looks the table looks like for the art policy and procedures. Just trying to keep this high level. I know that was a lot of information to cover, so I'm I'm happy to answer questions on on any of that. Um or anything else you might want to discuss

on the uh the survey for what was asked for. Um you have water access art. Are you referring to the river in that? Because the lake is outside of side of the city limits. It was the previous slide I think. That was the slide. It was the top one. There is. Yes. Thank you.

Yeah. I think I mean the example here is lake shore and beaches. So I guess they're thinking about you know maybe collaboration with the county there um for Liberty Lake. But I when I thought of that when I first read it I was thinking of um of the river. Are those writeins uh what people were looking for or were those categories that that we provided to them or that you provided to them? These were categories that were provided in the survey and then if folks, you know, preferred something that wasn't included here, they could write that in and we did receive a couple of those. Thank you.

You're welcome. The appendices of the parks plan has the full content of the survey results. It's It's very long, but it has every narrative, write in, comment received. Um, so you'll all have access to that data, too. Any other questions or comments? Okay, see none. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you, Jen. Okay, next up is to vote on the tennis recreation agreement.

Can I ask a question before we do that? Jen, do you have a copy of that draft plan? She kept saying in our packet. I'd like to look at the whole draft if if available. I'll send it out. Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, she sent me so many documents. I I missed that one. Hey, I think we are. Let's flip-flop. Let's go ahead and do yours and then because we missed the uh final budget draft, but we can flip that. Yeah, it's okay. I'll be We'll hit that next.

I'll be super quick. So, I've been in communication with Rec Tennis. They're a group similar to Skyhawks. Uh the third party that offers tennis specific programming. and they tried to come in with us before I started a couple years ago, but some of their requirements were not in line with what the city wanted. And so, but those have changed since then. And so, we've been in talks of potentially next summer offering summer camp tennis classes for youth and then also for adult classes. And then I thought it was a valuable thing to look at since we lost the um the other tennis group classes that we used to do uh the free ones. um I think last year he chose not to do them. So, and I have had some requests from community members about tennis. So, anyways, it's a local wreck, well, it's a regional recreation tennis group. Um like I said, very similar to how Skyhawks does. They provide the the coaches, they provide all the equipment. Uh we just provide the the location. So, either Orchard Park Pavilion or or Rocky Hill, we can provide any one of those. And there is a flyer in your packet um where that kind of highlights the program.

I imagine that would be pretty well attended and sought out to tennis. Yeah, you would you would hope so. I mean I know tennis is still big in Liberty Lake, not as big in other places. So I thought it was a good match and something we could provide within on the tale of the US Open. Right. Anyways, what I'm looking for is just to see if there's interest with the commission if I should proceed and start working towards an agreement with them. if you guys had any questions or comments. I have a question on the float if you can address. Sure. Have we had a lot of interest in that? I've had a handful of people email but no one signed up yet. Okay.

So, it was a it was a last minute one. It's on a Friday because he only had so many dates left in the air. Does sound fun. So, I think we'll have more more luck next year when we can actually plan out the the summer and then the the late I guess late summer, early fall ones. So, that's been about a week and a half. Yeah. J, you said the tennis flyer is in here. Yeah, it's about midway. Yeah, it's kind of blue. Any questions for Male? I think it sounds great. Could we get a vote on that to move forward?

I move or I move to continue with an agreement for the tennis recreation program. Have a second on that. Second. Okay. All in favor to continue with the USA PNW agreement say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Muel. Great work. Okay, somehow I just saw a budget and I put a line through it. Okay, we are going to move back to the final draft budget and the proposed fee schedule.

So, I know we approved the budget last meeting, but there were a couple of small changes to it. And so, um, since we had time to go ahead and reapprove it with those changes, um, it will be official now to enter into the budget packet for the city council. So, this is the final. Um, we changed, and Nancy or Laura, help me if I missed something, but we ended up, uh, increasing public art maintenance to $10,000. It went from five to 10 since we're acrewing so many art pieces. Um, and I'm trying to think what the other thought we had one other change. I don't remember them. Oh. Oh, I think we added the art consultant because at the time we didn't know what the funding was going to be for the art consultant. So, that would be $18,000 for next year. I think those were the only changes that were made.

Okay. Any changes to the fee schedule? a few. I apologize that's hard to read. So,

yeah, just I think some minor ones. One thing we did discuss I think at the last meeting but didn't have it in the fee schedule was for the ball field rentals. We suggested keeping them the same price that we originally proposed last year, but having a different fee for long-term rentals. We added that long-term rental fee in there, which would be a little bit different. Um it would be more we would do an agreement with different organizations that have long-terms uh rentals and then charge them per registrant that they have so they can plan better for their for their field use and what they need to charge for for their programs. So that was one change. Uh there was another minor change of water usage. We had a fee in there that said excessive water usage but we never even charged for water usage in the first place or even gathered that data. We adjusted it to instead of having excessive water usage, if someone wanted to use water, they could mark it on the form and then we could charge them for the staff time to go out there, unlock the water and have it prepared for them. And then those last couple programs that were approved by council and signed, we added those to those fees to the budget.

And then we're proposing removing trail head banquet room at the event center um simply because the u the new restaurant is going to take over the control of that. So we're removing that from this restructure. Thank you. Okay. Are there any questions or any input before we discuss a vote? Okay. Nancy, you have anything? No, just the um just the maintenance was important because of the cost estimate that Laura got on uh repairing the the painting at the skate park and the the mural. It just makes sense that we moved from 5 to 10,000 over the years and if we don't spend it uh we don't but if we need it then we'll have it. So that was my only comment and given that I would just move to the approve the budget as amended tonight.

There's a motion on the floor. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. So the motion is to approve the uh budget and also the fee schedule adjustments. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Laura and Jen, for your extra hard work and to Nancy for on the uh the budget. Okay, moving on. Mural art selection discussion. So, did I jump ahead of them? No, you're good. Thanks.

You're good. Okay. So, last time we decided to uh use mural art instead of art at the roundabout, but I think that's as far as we got with that. Correct. Would just change it.

We we had um made that adjustment in the budget and tentatively identified some buildings. I don't know, Jen, at this point. Do we need to to finalize that or is the discussion just to Well, I left it in here because we were going back and forth this morning on whether we were doing this project this year or next year. And I think that we haven't determined that we're doing it this year. Well, I thought yes. And so my recollection from last month is that it it we wouldn't be able to do a mural or the basketball court this year, but that we would reook at previous submissions to see if there were artists that we wanted to go to versus doing an open call. Um, so in the packet, Jen did print out um, previous basketball murals because we do have a separate budgeted line item next year for the Rocky Hill um,

court resurfacing or court mural. And then the same thing with the the building murals. um just where we're at in this year, I don't think it makes sense to why I don't think it's feasible to to complete a building mural before the weather turns. So, this is a silly question, but where are we where are we looking at on doing this in a what building? So, we looked at the concession building at Orchard Rocky Hill. There were some challenges with the irrigation. I believe Rocky, we could do the frontage only. We wouldn't do the sides in the back. Right.

And then there was also talk potentially the bathroom building at the Harvard trail head and the one at Ballfields as well. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, any number of those or

you have quite a few and I mean longer term I think you look at how you incorporate into the new city hall or um new library building but obviously that's further out. So, one of the the challenges as you guys are well aware is we we've seen a dwindling of submissions based on our calls. And so part of that which to to Karen's point before was building the relationships with the artist community. And so I think some of that is we have received a lot of fantastic submissions most of which we have not moved forward with

um but we have a sense for that artist style. So I think we have a a reasonable database that we can be looking at. And so one of the things that we had talked about was um the Kramer utility boxer app. you know, do we go out with a call or do we look at what we already have and see if there's something that that we would like to move forward with for that or an artist style that we like that we would want to move forward with. So, um I mean just a couple different approaches that that we can take on these projects as we move forward. Perfect.

Um in the package and it included the submissions that we received for the Hooptown courts. Um the only caution there is that you know these were for a double court versus a single court. So it's not something that we would necessarily be able to just move forward with that there would be um additional design work that would be required to tailor it for a single court or on one like that you could again look at the artist styles that you like and ask for proposals from a a handful of artists versus doing an open call. So there's there's the two options on that. Was there anything else you were hoping to to cover on the mural? I don't think so.

I think it's a great path forward. You we've really struggled finding artists that are have the bandwidth for sculptures or you know I think probably in the SCJ um presentation what what she's calling statement pieces. I think those are just a little more difficult in our in our area. we've struggled with it. So, that's something that hopefully Karen can help us overcome and move forward on. But I I really really love the the pivot to murals. And I know I'll let Nancy speak to this as well, but just in my travels this summer to, you know, soccer tournaments and vacations, the amount of building murals that you're seeing in other communities, that's really prevalent and it makes a huge difference. It's just it makes the community feel that much more vibrant and engaged. So, I really like this pivot and I I think it'll be a good move for the city.

I would agree. You know, especially some of the the bigger cities, you know, the sportsminded murals. I mean, they're just they're everywhere and it's just amazing to see those pop up. Uh Nancy and I talked about the trail head restroom facility. It is cited. So, um I don't know if if Nancy, did we decide if something could be done with that as versus a flat wall?

Well, I think and Laura, you can probably speak to that. Um to some extent they they don't do it sometimes on the actual wall. They will build it out um on a board similar to kind of how they did inside the trail head building and then mount it to the outside of whatever the restroom or concession stand structure or they they can print on the surface. Um, but regarding the murals, I I really like the idea of going to some of the people that have submitted before. And my recommendation would be maybe now that we're getting through the budget and some of that stuff, we can focus our next meeting on where we would like to have murals next year. And then we can see if there's a theme, like if it's the front of the Rocky Hill restroom or something, is that something that tie in with the barn or goats or whatever we want to do. And then once we have that, we can go to that pool of of artists that have already submitted that we like their work and and see what they would submit because ideally it'd be it'd be nice since uh this is a carryover from this year to get it done um early in the season next year so people can enjoy you know the art for the summer and if it's something that can be mounted and Jen your crew may have some input on that then it's something the artist could work on even over the winter if they had the space in their studio.

I will say just to add on to that, Nancy, the Pavilion Park mural was done exactly that way. He worked on it through the winter and mounted the panel boards to the concession building. So, I think it's a very viable option. Thank you. Okay. Anything else to discuss mural art selection process? No. All right. Is there any other action items that we have missed? All right. Seeing none, so we'll go on to unfinished new business. Start out with the bike advisory update, please, Katie.

Okay. We did meet uh we meet the last Monday of the month and we're talking about the complete streets program that has been presented in Spokane and also part of what Ben Turner is doing here in Liberty Lake. And uh so we're talking about the mapping for the bike and pedestrian street pathways. Uh Lisa Keys came to our meeting also. And then we talked about uh upcoming events, the cops, cars, and cruisers event. Uh we're going to have a booth there in coordination with Liberty Lake Scope, but we're talking about safety of golf carts, safety of bicycles, safety of e vehicles, and I just found out today uh the Liberty Lake Police Department is putting a packet together to explain to the community about the difference between an ebike and a e motorcycle because there's confusion about that in the community. So, we've got a lot of materials and a lot of research that's going to be presented and we're trying to make it fun, too. We're going to give away free bike helmets from Liberty Lake Scope. We're going to be giving away some bikes. Uh may have a very small bike skills challenge just to for to practice signaling. And this is all in the Meadowwood Tech Center area this year. instead of at Pavilion Park, it's at over by Mode and, you know, off of Molter and Mission. So, should be a bigger area and a lot of exciting things going on. So, that that'll be fun. And so, that's a there's one other thing at the end of the month of September. We're just going to have some people from the community

kind of bike. We talked about the park uh bike ride where you go from parks on the north side of Lar Lake to the south side and maybe go a little part of the Centennial Trail. So, we're not going to it's not going to be an official bike ride that we're going to announce, but a bunch of us are going to try it out to see, you know, what it's going to be like, how safe it is, how fun it is, that type of thing. So when we have people come to the community, we can say, "Hi, would you like to see all of our parks and let's meet at a certain park and let's ride from River Rock Park. We'll go to Orchard Park. We'll go over the bridge, you know." So it should be really fun to develop that park ride. So we're going to do that the very last uh Sunday in September, September 28th. So, that's about what we've been talking about and we're trying to keep uh educating the community on safety as they're riding in various vehicles out there.

Thank you. The um ebike and e scooter and uh an e motorcycle uh safety pieces were uh on social media over the weekend. There was a couple pieces. So, yeah, it's getting pretty crazy out there, especially the motorcycles. They can fly 30 miles an hour down the street and cut right through intersections and and whatnot. Yeah. So, we're pointing out what's legal and what's not and what's safe. And

so, if you haven't been out to Cops, Cars, and Cruisers, it is a fantastic event. Uh that is this weekend at um the Mode Center. So, which will be the last driveway before the driveway to Huntwood heading north on uh Malter. Any questions for Katie? Thank you, Katie. Uh, next up, Boulder Art Update. Do we have any update that we want to discuss?

Yeah, just real quick. So, in your packet, it's right after the bike update, you can see um a proposal that was submitted by the artists for the the rock art in Orchard Park. Um they are proposing various animals, vegetation um on the rocks and then connecting with waves and vines and flowers on the the splash pad and around um itself. So, the the preliminary feedback, I mean, these are all beautiful.

Um, was just that we were hoping to see something maybe a little more youthful, a little more bold and kind of playful since it is in the the splash pad area of the park. So, this turtle is what she kind of came back with. So, she had asked, "Are you thinking something more like this or something more like the vector file?" Um, black and white that's on the back. And I said, you know, we love the color. We love that it's a little um more playful. The other ones um again, beautiful, but we just felt were maybe a little too ornate for what we were trying to do. Um almost as well.

So, they are going to to revamp. You can see the turtle on the first page. So, that's the one that she redid as an example of, you know, do you like this or do you like that? And so, um, so I just asked her if she would, you know, kind of revamp it with something, some more bold and playful type item, um, animals and plants. Um, definitely like the idea of the the pavement painting as well, kind of incorporating the rocks to have it be more of a, you know, a theme throughout the park area. on that side. She did say if we had anything specific that we were hoping for um that they are very willing to work with us and they're open to feedback. Um so I don't know for that park if I was trying to remember this the theme is trains correct trains and orchards and orchards. So so maybe the feedback would be orchard type fruits. Um, I don't know necessarily trains since we're trying to do animals and and plants. Um, but you know, she has a goat in there. So, I think with Li like a goat and the fish for the river. So, things of that nature. Just again, maybe a little simplified and a little more bold. But, um, I believe, and Jen, correct me if I'm wrong, we had voted to move forward with a proposal. Um, so I'd like to vote to move forward with an artist agreement recognizing that they're updating the proposal to be more in line with what our vision was for the project.

Yes. And the stipend will be paid to them next week after it goes through city council for approval. Um, I drafted the agreement, artist agreement today and I'm going we'll start going back and forth with her. But yeah, if we could get a vote to move forward with an agreement to move it to council for approval, I'll put it on the next Tuesday's council meeting. Can we entertain a motion then to move forward to draw wrapped up an artist agreement for the Boulder Art? Anybody like to make that motion? Motion that we move forward with presenting an artist agreement to city council for approval for the Orchard Park Boulder Art. Any second? A second.

There's been a motion and a second. Any discussion? Okay. All in uh agreement and approve or say I I I Okay. Anybody against? Motion carries. I do have one question. Is it is a goat out of the question for She has a goat in there. Um, so just again kind of updating it to be just a little more plays. Oh, I missed it. Okay.

Yeah. So that's why I was saying if there's any specific items I was just thinking a goat for Liberty Lake and then since Orchard Park just orchard fruits if we're going to be, you know, doing it the fruits on the on the rocks or even on the the pathways. Thank you. Yep. Um, getting Doug Pill right into the artist consultant update. Goat goat goat sculpture. That that was goat sculpture update. Jumping right along. Um, just going back again. The goat sculpture update. Thank you.

There isn't much to update. Um, we're still waiting from for him to provide us with a proposal of his uh sculptures. Um, I did reach out I've been reaching out to him. He's having some challenges with communicating, but uh it sounds like he sent an invoice uh a couple weeks ago. So, we're trying to track that down. So, he has an invoice for the stipens that we're trying to get taken care of. So, then he can pro provide a proposal. So, I'm going to hopefully get through it. Any questions on that? All right. Seeing none, now we are sub item four, artist consultant updates.

So, uh, working on a draft agreement with our legal department right now. It's a little trickier of an agreement than our basic artist agreements just because we've got Spokane Arts involved and Karen Mowley. So, um, the attorney was supposed to call me either today or tomorrow to go through the draft. He's got some questions on it. Once we have that, if if with any luck, well, actually, that wouldn't work because I need to bring it back. I wonder if we should vote on that. So, I I don't know if we can get this agreement out before the cuto off this Wednesday for next Tuesday's council meeting. Um because typically what I would do is bring back a a draft agreement that's been finalized through the artists and the city and legal. Uh, and then at that time the commission would vote to move it forward to council for approval. So maybe let's plan on the October meeting to do that. Um, and actually I wonder if we should go ahead and do a vote for the agreement, the artist agree artist agreement

for Jennifer and Stacy. We we did we had that. Yeah. We just did that. We didn't do Pete's, but we did Jennifer and Stacy's. We did. Okay. And I did see your your emails with them. I think we should have an insurance certificate for Stacy on file already, shouldn't we? Since we've already we have one for Mallerie that Let me double check on that. I know we've had one at one point. Whether it's expired or not, I don't know. Oh,

okay. Because I know she submitted the invoice for the the proposal because Jennifer wasn't set up yet. And so then they were both going to be submitting invoicing. Oh, I and I did email Jennifer this morning um because she's the only one that has submitted the COI. Should we write the artist agreement up with both Stacy and Jennifer or just Jennifer? Um I would do both because I know for tax purposes they're going to be submitting separate invoicing just to keep it clean on their so it should probably be between have both of them listed.

Okay, I will update that. We're talking about the the the craver, correct? No, that one's the rock art. Jennifer and Stacy are in the rock art at Orchard. Sorry. And then um Mallerie is the Kramer sculpture. Yeah. Mallerie Halloween. I know. Yeah. And Mallerie's is expiring in 30 days, so I'll have to I'll reach out to her and get hers. I think they last a year or so. Okay. But yeah, are there any questions with um Karen Moley and Spokane Arts? We approved the 18. Correct.

Yeah. Yes. Yes. It's in the draft budget. Is the artist agreement? Did we determine deliverables a scope in for the for Karen? Yeah. Uh yes, there's scope in there. Okay. Yeah. When we when I've hashed out a draft, I'll I'll shoot you a copy of it. Thank you, Nancy.

Okay, thank you. All right, next up, the never forget, never ending garden electrical box. So, it is mostly complete. Um, again, getting some communication from CW Art Wraps. uh at times I think you know smaller projects like this seem to tend to get pushed back a little bit but in your packet you will see what it looks like. Both sides are done. Thank you for um Nancy and Laura's suggestions. So this is what it looks like out at the park. So interestingly enough they developed a QR code. I don't know if it's on there or not because the QR code that D gave us was not valid. It didn't open up to anything. So, he asked me um where it's supposed to lead to. So, I just gave him the funding donation site. Um I don't see it on here, but I did address it to him. The top portion underneath the spray bottle there will be just a continuation of that sky. And then the back side of it or the front side depending on how you're facing it will be the same pictures on this. This one's been challenging to get done and it's and because we've gone back and forth with the flower and then we kind of came to back to our original idea. So it does look good. I wish there was a way to clean up the frame look a little bit, but um uh other than that, I think it turned out okay and it will look even better once it's complete. Um Jen, did he submit an invoice? How long ago?

Uh I want to say it was two about two or three weeks ago. Has that been paid? Okay. So then I'll follow up again. Yeah. And that was be well so he sent an invoice before we discussed adding. So yeah, it's been at least two to three weeks minimum. Okay, any questions on that? All right, seeing none. Well, one of the things I wanted to say being a vet, um I really appreciate that piece of art. Looks pretty cool. It does. Doesn't it look great?

Yes. we will move on to uh the pavilion historical outlook. If I didn't yet jump again Laura

real quick update on that. So uh at the last meeting we approved to move forward with the proposal from Mountain Dog. So I did reach out to them and I also reached out to Ross with the historical society about the top plate. Um he's had that on the the back burner. Um, and his current timeline is October, November. So, I did ask Mountain Dog if they would be able to move forward with the um the frame and have that installed because I think that's more sensitive to the weather conditions than the top plate will be. And then Ross is working with the same individual um to finalize what the dimensions are. He's he's right now finishing up some projects for the elementary schools and then we'll refocus on on this project. So, um optimistically, I think we still have a good path forward to get it done this year. We might just have to do it in a a broken piece where we put the frame in first and then once his portion's done with the top plate, then that goes in. Um, and I did I don't know that we'd have it this Tuesday, Jen, but I did um just tell him about the donation form that needs to be submitted and approved. So, so I'll work with him on that, but that would be on a future city council. So

location again, um it's in the landscaping bed, uh right in front of the ticket booth. So as you're in there, the east side then Yes. Okay. Yes. Yeah. And that landscaping's already been cleared out and primed and ready to go. We do still need to decide though the plaque that's in there. I think we had talked about relocating it to uh town square. So, we just need to finalize where that will go, whether it's Town Square or another location within Pavilion Park. But I don't, and Jen, remind me, my memor is hazy on this. I don't believe it was anything specific to Pavilion Park. It was more about the city incorporation.

Yes, I believe you are correct. So, I think Town Square would be inappropriate. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We not think the west side of the pavilion would be okay for just to move that plaque and stand is not We'd have to pick a spot. there's it's grass in there. There are no landscape beds. So, um the other thought is if he was implement if he helped implement the um city's incorporation um maybe the new city hall would be a good location. I don't know what obviously the plans are still open on that. So, yeah. So, we could at least for now remove it and then discuss it further.

Okay. And I haven't looked at how it's mounted too. You might be able to take just that top plate and have it hanging and go post and then we'd have to clear out some grass, but yeah, I mean that's not a big deal. Yeah, thank you. Y if we could just dovetail right to the together update. Of course.

There are pictures in your packet behind the the never forget utility box. Um so the panels are complete. They are going out for powder coating. So you have um pictures that show the panels and then you also have pictures of the fused glass that will be mounted into the panels. Um so that is all Yeah, sorry. They're the last pages of your packet there. Um Maller's timeline for the powder coating and completion of the panels is the end of this month. So targeting an early October installation. Um I've connected Mallerie with Ben Turner who is going to help Ben and Derek who are going to help facilitate the um installation base. So whether that is a Mallerie had requested maybe a twoft platform just a concrete platform which we have I believe in the budget depending on what the numbers come back at we have in the budget to do that but Ben had some other ideas of how to create that elevation um without doing a complete um I think it was like a was it like a 20ft platform um that would be you know very large and and inexpensive to do. So, um, the glass gets installed into the panels post installation. Um, so I think everything's looking good for that one. It will be done this year. Uh, no problem. The only item I wanted to ask about was, you know, with the the other Liberty Lake together art in Rocky Hill, we have a little plaque for the dedication. Um, so I'd like to just get the commission's thoughts on moving forward with with create having a plaque made that just has the the title of the artwork, the artist names, and the dedication, which would be October of 2025. And then that would either get inset into the concrete or mounted um on

a small angle frame just like it is at Rocky Hill. Do we need a motion to get that started? Do it be it would be wise. Can I entertain a motion to get the plaque designed started? I will motion to have a plaque designed for the Kramer Liberty Lake Together artwork. Second second. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? A motion carries. Thank you, Laura. Any other questions for Laura? I would love to see it inset in the concrete just because kids will be cutting through there probably on bikes and stuff and that way it won't be damaged.

I agree. Um and actually I apologize there was one more item that kind of dubtales with that and that's the utility box that's there. So I don't know if we want to put it on the October agenda. Jen, I sent you. Um, so I went back and looked at all the utility box artwork that was submitted and I also pulled up the selection panels ranking. Um, and then I I pulled the ones that we haven't used that would work well in that location. Um, so if we could maybe send those out to the the commissioners and then have that on October discussion. Great. Anything else, Laura?

Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

Uh, next up is the storywalk. So, I have a meeting scheduled the 18th with Sal from Spokane Valley, Texas Tech. So, we were going to have it sooner. He was actually in a terrible car wreck and he has a TBI, traumatic brain injury right now. So, um he's still working through that and and teaching. Um but we are going to have a good long discussion uh on the 18th. And I also s uh spoke to previous instructor Mark Bits at the uh the rim ride Saturday. And so he said that he would, you know, gladly help consult if if S from Spokane Valley Tech needed that. But S did indicate that he could have this done for us in winter sometime. So I'll have more information at our October meeting. Um, also too, the storybook fall books are in. Uh, they are going to be put in place, I would suspect, this week. just got the email from Jandy and they're like end of fall uh end of summer, beginning of fall type books. So, they'll be very appropriate. And just to remind everybody, our story walk plan is to have it go on Country Vista along the main grass area um just west of Liberty Creek. So, um, as that's very very heavily, uh, walked, biked, skateboarded, ebikey, motorcycle, all of the above. So, I think it will be a terrific spot. Any questions on that? All right, seeing none, we'll move to a staff report. So, I was I've been talking to Jen from STJ um since she

left the meeting. And part of the reason why I didn't print it for you is the file is huge. So, um it would probably be hundred or so or more pages. So, I need to figure out it's too large to email. I need to figure out how to get it to you all. So, I will get you that document, but I don't think you want me to print it for you. If you do, send me a message and I'm happy to print it for you, but I'd just soon not print 10 copies and have three left sitting out. That's a lot of paper.

Um, so we're just working on a few projects. Uh, it's interesting as we develop this playground, pavilion playground upgrade for next year. The conversation amongst my staff and some other folks has been, should we upgrade the splash pad while we're in there? Um, no, we're not going to remove it as some people on Facebook got really excited about um not too long ago. But I I did inquire some initial very rough numbers to replace and upgrade that splash pad and we're looking at 300 to $500,000 just to do that. So, if you I'm I'm sort of anticipating that if we upgrade the playground, it's going to be 300 to 500,000 is is what I'm expecting her to come back with. Um, so you're looking at a million-dollar project. And I don't know, I've had some heartfelt discussions with uh, city administrator Mark over what we do next. And so we're just going to have to take the discussion to council. And I think it's always smarter to do everything at once and not phase it. But we weren't we have a lot of other building projects that we have to do in the next several years. Um, we have our parks some of our parks infrastructure is aging out quickly. Rocky's right behind Pavilion in the irrigation system. Um we're hitting that 20-year mark for the irrigation system there. We've gotten had a lot of problems at Orchard this year with irrigation. So we've got some other things that will take priority. Um so I don't know how it's all going to fit into this uh master plan, facilities master plan, uh parks master plan, but somehow we'll have to come up with something. The the splash pad is not broken. Um, there is no issue with it right now, but the vendor that I spoke with, that splash pad is 30 years old, and she said that that's that's fairly rare to see a splash pad be that old and still be fully functional. So, the the

idea is it's it's not going to last forever. Um, and if it lasted 10 more years, that's not very long. I mean, that's a 40-year piece. So, I I don't know how we're going to bundle everything together, but we'll we'll keep keep the conversation going here for sure. Lisa mentioned that you were expecting quotes on the the playground next week. She's hopes to have them by September 16th. What What did you guys end up quoting or what what rough cost only? Um she so liking kind replacement and upgrading the entire playground which would include moving the fallen hero circuit course. So, what type of equipment were you asking for? We don't even have specific equipment. We We're just now getting the feedback from the master plan.

That's what I was curious. That's why when you said you were getting numbers back, I was like, "Oh, I thought we were still getting the feedback to see what route we would go." The idea is maximum type. Here's the Yeah. The idea is to go ahead and add some cost in there for for pieces we don't have. We've heard over the years uh from a lot of people, we need swings there. So, we She's going to put swings in there. She's going to put a toddler play set in there and then the older kid play structure in there. So, so we're going to have options. Okay. It's it's by no means a concept. It's by no means a design and it's by no means a just here's number you can pick and it's you want to budget

250,000 for like kind replacement of what's there now or do you want to budget 700,000 and do this thing the right way and redo the whole playground area. So, thank you. But who will have the final vote on the style of equipment?

I would imagine it would go through here. Yeah. Um we we'll want to get some citizen feedback, community engagement. Um but I think ideally all that conversation will go through here, funnel through here either with the vendor or if we do landscape architect or however we end up managing that project. Uh moving on, we have an arbor that was donated to us uh a while quite a while ago. um that's going to go down into the arburedum. We have that now. Um we just haven't installed it quite yet. Uh it needs some TLC, um some staining, whatnot. We have the arburetum kiosk that the Lions donated a while ago. Um that is in the final phases of getting installed. So, we'll have a nice lion's dedicated uh kiosk down there by the by the bench pad uh bench pads and the picnic tables. And then a citizen donated a bench to be installed right out here in front of city hall by the rock or near the rock for Craig Howard. And it'll have a nice plaque on it um in his memory. Uh symphony. The only reason I wrote that down is because we're in the process now of renegotiating the next three years with this was the last year of our contract. Um Joe Frank reached out to me this morning and said that basically they're just proposing another thousand increase the next three years from where we were at this year. And I I said that sounds doable. I mean the only thing is um we've had requests from the mayor and the city administrator to do a backup um date at Pavilion Park versus a backup venue. uh the schools are now costing what $2,000 to rent uh the audit to even reserve the auditorium whether we use it or not. So um the preference is that they would just do a backup date like they do with Commtock Park and we did do that successfully a couple of years ago. They kind of didn't want to offer that this year because they had some audio

issues with their audio team. So hopefully we'll get that written into the contract. And I hope you all enjoy the symphony by the way. I know Bob did. Uh winter event planning is ongoing. Do you want to say anything? And then city birthday.

Yes. So we are planning a winter event. Uh we have some rough bones and kind of a a direction we want to go. We have a another planning meeting tomorrow. I think no Wednesday. Um and then we'll hopefully have a more firm presentation for you all in October. And then we've had discussions for our the city's birthday next year. So the 25th anniversary of Liberty Lake being a city and 250th anniversary of our country. And so we've had discussions of doing some type of large event for that. Um and so we're already starting the planning phases for that as well.

Muel, can can you set up um I need to be in the office on Wednesday. Can you just set up something that I can zoom in on? Yeah, I'll figure the 11 a.m. meeting. Yep. And just email it. Were we meeting in there? I think we were meeting in the fishbowl, but I will see if it's free. We can meet in there and I can hook up my computer real easy. Save me a trip back and forth. Okay, I'm downtown. Thank you. Still 11:00 am Wednesday, correct?

Yes. Um, and then programwise, you guys have been involved in the process. So, uh, right now I'm setting up, we have a date for, uh, river float. We have some dates now for rock climbing that's on the city website. And I'm working with, um, inclusive fit for some classes for some fitness classes. We're just finalizing some some dates and times. So, we have some additional recreation programs that are starting to become available and we'll start seeing more throughout the rest of this year. than 2026. Do you want to tell them about the Facebook page that we developed? Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. No, I forgot.

So, now you may all know Jen did send out an email. We have our own parks and wreck Facebook page. So, just to kind of more hone in and focus on the group that is more interested in that than all the other shenanigans.

Yes. If you've been invited, invite your friends to follow the page. and we'll end up sharing some tidbits from the parks and arts commission on ongoings of projects and things like that, what's happening because they're really the really the only time anything's ever heard publicly is at the reports at this the second council meeting. So, this would be a really good opportunity for us to push out and hopefully grow our following. So, yeah, please do share. The last thing I have is to see if anybody would be available to do the September 16th uh council report. And I think Nancy might have said last time she would do it unless I'm my memory is failing. I'm Jen.

Yes, I think I can do that. Can you just send me an email? I can. Thank you. Thank you, Nancy. Is that it? Excuse me. That is all I have. Are there any questions? Right. Any questions for staff? I see none. Um, anything else for the good of parks and arts? I have. All right. I have a Yes. couple in June. Somebody came and talked in the open comments uh portion of the meeting to ask about swimming lessons for safety for small, you know, children six or eight years old. Did anything ever come out.

Well, we need access to water. Well, they were talking about cooperating with this with the uh people that run the Liberty Lake. Yeah, I've reached out to the county parks and not had much communication back from them. So, it is on my radar. Nothing nothing new at this point. Okay. And then uh I don't know if this is appropriate, but uh my partner and I are starting a nonprofit to uh find venues for composers and uh people who create new music. And uh so that's something that I'll be talking about in the future.

Okay. Thank you. Uh our next meeting is October 6th. Please mark your calendars. 4 p.m. And with that, can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? Everyone, we have one second. All in favor and a second. And all in favor say I. I. Meeting adjourned. Thank you everybody.