Parks and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

All right, I would like to call this meeting to order and welcome everyone to the uh city of Breton Parks and Recreation Commission. It's our regular monthly meeting. Today is Tuesday, April 22nd. Thank you everyone for being here. Uh first up, uh we have approval of minutes from our last meeting, which was March 25th. Hope all the commissioners had a chance to review those. Uh director sent those to us via email. Um I I will make a motion to approve the minutes as presented. Second. All right. Got a motion to approve in a second. All in favor of approving the minutes, please say I. I. Commissioner Waterman, could you hear that? Yes. Um I wasn't sure if you I could approve. I wasn't in the last meeting. Oh, I'm sorry. I should I should have said that, Commissioner. I'm sorry. So, thank you for refraining from uh from uh voting on that. Thank you. So, that uh that will uh pass unanimously with the folks that were here. Are we good on that? Yes. Okay. Perfect. All right. Uh next up is approval of tonight's agenda. Anyone have any questions or comments? Pretty cool. Make a motion to approve the agenda as written. All right. I would like to second Mr. Johnson's approval. All in favor of approving tonight's agenda, please say I. I. I. All right. And anyone opposes? Say say n. And that's going to pass unanimously. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have public comment. And we got anybody in virtual world? It says no. All right. Well, easy peasy. Moving right along then let's uh get into staff reports and

updates. Colette, would you like to start us or director? Yeah. So, let's see. Did we thank you 25 um parks crew will be uh finishing up the playground next week and we're confirming the rest of our expenses to see if we can afford to have the um the engineered wood fiber which is the playground surfacing blown in which is more expensive versus dumped and then we have to haul it. So, we're waiting to get that make that determination until we get everything else completed. The contractor um is just completing the small items now that the raw stream is in. They've um poured the concrete apron around the building and um some um paving uh finishings. Um we're also working with a irrigation contractor to um do the uh coverage test and get that going so that we can um plant some trees. So we shade trees are being selected now and they'll be planted next month. Um we also uh are working with PSSE to complete their work for electrical drop down service. Um, and then the final touches are the site furniture, uh, picnic shelter or picnic tables, um, and, uh, signage. Uh, we'll have a new park sign at the corner, and, uh, we're working on an interpretive sign which will illustrate the history of the site. Um, and so, yeah, we're expecting the park to be open um, this summer, I'd say, by the end of June. And then a ribbon cutting ceremony will also be scheduled to open. Did we want to show the video of the

restroom? Okay. Oh, specifically the restroom. It's in the It's in the recap if you want to just do that. Oh, just do the re the monthly recap. Okay. Different things that happened in our parks and rec department this month. And maybe this will become like a monthly thing and so it has some of the Sorry. And I paused the wrong [Music] thing. Let's see. How do I Oh, my screen sharing's paused. Resume. Okay. Let me just get the volume. Can you see the video, Amy? I don't see a video. I see um uh it looks like your um file folder. Okay. Oh, it says my screen sharing is pause. Let me just get out of this and then I'll restart it. Yeah, there we go. That's bizarre. The whole process was about three and a half hours. That Yeah, that was like 10 minutes. Yeah.

You were serious. I think I just saw you pocket those, too. All right. I like that a lot. Yeah. So, that's just kind of to build on Oh, there we see you now. Hey, man. Great. Hi. Um, so that's just a again something uh Colette's just kind of we're building off of some of the videos and other things we started to do and thought you know we shared it this afternoon with the uh parks investment finance and parking committee the group um which has three council members on it and so it's kind of nice for them to see that uh but yeah just another great way and and really a lot of these videos are going to lead us into social media presence. Um we're going to be starting the first Instagram page for the city uh will be for our department and so a lot of Instagram is is short reals and videos. So looking forward to to doing that um and telling our story. When do you think that'll be it? Oh, it'd be great if in this next month

we get that put together and get moving forward. Any commissioners? Do you have any questions on Ed and Park? We had a good time on on Saturday. Yeah, it was fun. All right. How about uh kids at play? playground selection will occur later this year. Looks like we are going to get approval that $311. We're expecting to receive that and the contractor did replace the the sub did replace the grading last meeting that wrong. Yes, that's Thank you for updating us on that. Any commissioners have any questions comments on lake moving right along? Yeah. Yeah, we're excited to feature that more in the real for next month. Sure. Great. All right. And then the last thing I see for reports and updates was uh recognition of Remington Parks Foundation for donations. Yeah, I just I just wanted Thank you. I just wanted to um let the commission know that um for both of our current projects, both Haden Park and for Kitsap Lake, uh the commission or the the foundation um devoted funds towards both those projects. And so we uh completed those

invoices and received that funding. So um a total of uh was it about 16,000 165? Yeah. Yeah. So 10,000 for one and then 6,500 for the other project. But uh just wanted to make sure that we we entered that into um our minutes and and recognize the group and their involvement in that project. We thank them for that. Very nice. Yes. Great doing great foundation. Awesome. All right. Um well, let's move into new business. Let's get into that pros plan. Moving right along. So So just a brief update on the survey. Um, I am doing some manual entries of some hard copies that we received. Just finished the ones so far that we've received from the senior center. Uh, we'll be entering in the ones from Mountain View Middle School. So, it'll be kind of fun soon to see see what they came up with. Um, so, uh, great. And then we are on the 22nd, 8 days from now, the survey closes. Uh we are um once I enter the remaining ones I have right now the hard copies uh we should be close to almost 800 responses uh which is really good for a survey that's uh over 25 questions and about 15 minutes uh to take the take the survey. Um, and then what I'll do, um, prior to our next meeting is start to tabulate and and look at ways that we can utilize that information to help us figure out what some of the community priorities are for the different sections um, within the pros plan. So, so start start to break that out. Um I kind of envision next month that um we will continue to to do what we're going to be doing next and working on uh I going

through each of our individual um facilities and and um areas that we maintain within the community and then I don't sp plan to spend probably more than 20 30 minutes next month on the survey uh but more provide the results to you so then we can kind of utilize that and analyze that for um this summer. Um, but I I'll give you some kind of initial thoughts as well at the next meeting on that. So, I'm sorry. Did you say how many people have taken it so far? Um, we'll be um once I enter in the rest of these, we'll be close to almost 800. Yep. Yep. Which blew away my original 500 and then I went to a thousand and now I feel like I need to come up with a couple hundred more somewhere. But, uh, we're doing well and we're getting a lot of response. What's that? Still got I know. Still got eight days. There's for you down. Plenty of time. Yeah. I'll be at the Rainers game on Thursday. If you're there, I might have you fill out the survey. Exactly. Yeah. Be riding the fairies, handing out surveys. Okay. Yeah. So, let's uh we can move forward and and get in. We have 10 11 facilities um sites that we're going to talk about tonight. Yeah, we definitely have plenty. So, the agenda is there and then it's just the the working document that we have for this month. Um so the top section um is what was in the previous plan and the bottom section after staff have gone out to the these different these 11 sites um it incorporates some of our recommendations. Okay. So hadn't

This footage is so old. I know. This is not what Hen looks like now. There's a Yeah, there's a playground. There's a restroom. Well, slide. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. All those pipes that I see along those edges, like those ones coming out like diagonal, what am I looking at there? Pipes. Okay. Right now. Okay. So, will a finished product will they be like kind of ground level or they kind of be under where you got to dig to them? Like what does that look like? Uh they should be just right at suraceace. Okay. to where if you needed access our natural fencing there. Yeah. Right. The irrigation not done yet. All right. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Historic. It's probably protected. Yes, it's probably protected. There you go. Okay. Amy, can you see the PDF document? I can see. Yes, I got it. Mhm. It may

not be super visible but okay. So, okay, perfect. So, for let me get my notes for that. So obviously for Haden Park we were going to see quite a bit of transformation um between 2020 and as we've been anticipating getting work done at the site. Uh so one thing that we are um updating is the description. Um as noted in previous updates we um are adding in uh quantities of things. So and and dates. So for example, playground 2025. So we want to make sure we remember in you know 10 years uh how long uh that's been there. Uh the number of parking spaces, picnic tables. So all that's been added. Um changing information. So uh was noted as a basketball court before. or we refer to it as a sport court because there's a number of different activities that can be taken there. Um we removed uh some items like natural area. Um it's kind of you know you're in a park we kind of feel like it's it's an assumption that it is a natural area. Um uh added shelter to it. Are those shelters for rent or is that just always open? It will be a reservable. Yeah. And this is the same shelter that is at Kitap uh Lake Park as well. So, it's kind of a the a newer and it's is it similar to the one at Warren?

Okay. I couldn't remember if Warren had Yeah. You post sign on those deltas. I think you evergreen. I don't know that we have signs. Yeah, I think that'd be a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz almost all of them are reservable. There's one I was talking to Karen about that we are going to remove because it um it's the one at Matan. Yeah, we were talking about removing the one at Matan because that kind of almost more functions as a neighborhood use as opposed to a reservable just because the park's so small. Yeah. And it would just be on a first come, first serve. How many um picnic tables are going underneath the shelter at three? Yeah. And then we'll have two picnic uh tables that will be um at large. Yeah, that'll be on the outside of the restroom. Okay. Yep. Not the restroom, the playground. So, there were two areas that are were concrete this weekend. One was where we had kind of did our staging area with the the um popup. Okay. And the other one is just adjacent to that. So, uh just for some of the things we removed for management issues, aging playground probably made sense. Substandard restroom facility. Uh we're removing. Um and then the trees noted dangerous trees on the south border. Um but not the in order to remove the trees, we need to remove the fence. So, it's a bigger project. Um, and there has been some interest um as this is potentially being a secondary

community garden space. And so we wanted to note that there in case that is something that um their their gains interest in in the biggest thing is finding a group like the master gardeners is it would be important to help manage something like that. It's not something we could internally manage ourselves but if there was a user group that would be created I think that would help um push and encourage that to happen. Yeah, I think the group was called Streets of Grace. Are they still around? Okay. I remember that reporter there. Sorry, but did you have something else? Would the group just contact you that if there is interest? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was thinking about people's exchange on cattle. They do some a lot of gardening activities that they okay good any questions any other questions or comments on Mr. Waterman? Sound good? No, it sounds good. Thank you. Right on. Yeah, thank you. Um, I did have a question about the tree removal uh popular trees. What was that? At least what was going on there. Those are the trees that are are along 15th Street and some of them are in the right so those ones. We would like to that something that's part of where the the fence runs along, right? And the new sidewalk. Yep. Are the fence protecting any kind of uh globe hazards or anything like that? Um where somebody could fall in the dark off of it. Pretty steep. It is pretty steep. And I think that I think it's nice to have a border especially since there's a road right there if you can't see.

So we we were thinking because we've been there so much that we were thinking would not replace it then. Okay. Sometimes when you go to a park like that that size and that it's enclosed, you know that your kids can accidentally run in the road. I think that's why they were originally put on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's quite a slope. Quite a slope and and for ball control in the past has been used um clinic for small kids. So that that's helpful too. Good. I'm sorry. I had a quick question. What signage did we end up going with uh for Haden for the park signage? Okay. Our standard park sign, not like what we got at like Warren, which is a little different. Standard the standard. Yeah. Where it's the the name of the park, a line, address, line, contact, I think, or something. Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Yes, that was a discussion to figure out which format we wanted to move forward with. I remember warm we had we talked about we wanted something a little different maybe catch people's eye such a heavily used intersection there. It is okay. This is that shelter we were talking about moving. Yeah. Well, yeah. That mystery board, we've asked staff and have no idea why that

was boarded and couldn't tell if there was ever a structure that came off of it. Huh. They they could have. Yeah. About kids falling through or So that's it. Yeah. Little part. Yes. look at a potential pathway. Okay, let's see. Oh, we did. Yeah. Yeah. And something throughout too, a lot of our um a lot of our survey quotes are 2013. So we'll be updating all of those because people may wonder if we have quotes from 12 years ago. Why? Why is that? Okay. So, with this park, um, it's currently listed under the neighborhood parks, and we discussed moving it to the park pocket park category just because it falls within the size of our pocket parks as opposed to a neighborhood park. Um, so that's one discussion that we had. Uh obviously number of picnic tables, benches. Um see what's the ramifications of relabeling it like that? I don't think I mean as far as I'm aware I don't think there's a negative side of it. It's just more putting it in a

proper classification. And and my before renovation, Matt was the best neighborhood, but not have a not have a neighborhood park. If that wasn't a neighborhood park, it'd be Yeah. Right. And Matt doesn't have a restroom, so it's not really Yeah. The kids call it backyard park actually because they don't have big yards. If they Oh, yeah. You know. Yeah. But them, you know, they live nearby. But now that is online with a new playground and it's in the same I think yeah reason fits the category better things we've done uh to change and I can't remember if we talked about this in the previous months but previously it noted as management issues we call them concerns now as opposed to an issue because it's they're not necessarily it just gives a negative connotation and at times it's not to alert or or or state that there's a major issue with something but it's something that is of concern uh which could be a little more broad than than something that rates as an issue at that point. So previously park vandalism security was the only thing that was in there. So, we've added um a couple items there um that the adjustable basketball hoop does not really adjust. It's kind of stuck at the stage that it's at. So, uh should we be looking at replacing those hoops? Um and then we're starting to get some issues with tree roots um even the pathway along the exterior of the park. But noticed you took out in the 2020 pros, we had a consider purchase of adjacent property and that's not in the

20 the draft update. Yeah. And Colette, you can probably speak to that a little bit more, but it was the property was available at that time. Yeah. But it's not now. It's not now. Um, but we just kind of talked in general too that as a standard if something did come available, uh, whether it was this park or another park, it's something that we should look at considering to expand. Any dedicated funding for that or is that something we just have to go ask the council for refunds or something like that? Yeah, at this point we don't have dedicated funding. It would be great to be able to create something like that. I would love to have that too for grant writing where we have matching funds available for whatever it is that we were looking towards. Um 2026 budget. There you go. Yeah, I'm sure the funds are there somewhere. I looked at our uh the end of 2024 and we ended up with $2 million more in cash than what we than what was anticipated. Yeah. So, it's like it just sweeps out the parks. And there you go. Yeah. For the part you just played that well. You don't remember. So, moving forward, uh, like with the with the next update, we're going to call it a pocket park. Yeah. Any commissioners have any other questions or concerns with that? I think that's pretty sound. The other thing we I wanted to, it does have a drinking fountain. It's concrete. Uh, it'll probably need to be replaced

at some point. And so just updating to our new standard. And then uh we don't really have an accessible play feature there, but there is a space that we could put one. And so just wanting to um not forget that um we should be considering that in the future. So the boards that we that we saw on this playground, that's something that staff is going to look into. They're moving and um there was a play feed. We thought maybe a play feature was gone or something. Oh, where the board is. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It looks like it's supposed to I don't know if there was something that Okay. Okay. Yeah. But I didn't even think about the option of a neighborhood parent might have put a board up if something had happened and we just never knew about it. Um yeah, but I mean it's secured enough. Did we do we look at it and make sure it's on there good. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's how we would block something if there was a feature removed and we didn't want anybody Perfect. sneaking through there. Good. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you say something like that. It was It was blocked per standard per park standards. Yes. Still waiting to Yeah. Okay. season. So, moving on to Arvon. This was a fun one.

And the gate at the bottom is is is locked um typically. So it is Yeah. It's it's like it is. Yeah. It's not very dep deep. You can see the the back line there. But yeah, it's about the sizes of a property of a lot. Yeah. I think it talks about that here. Like a church church donated says donated Yeah. And Colette, can you speak to communication that you know of that's happened at at a point related to the future use of this site? Down this National Spiritualist Association Churches and got something got their approval that we could sell it. Oh, but I don't know where that witness. So, I have to dig that up. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. So, as uh same as 2020, considering the long-term viability and recreation benefit of the mini park, I think that's still um we felt that that's something that still needed to be there. Um we added an adequate I think I don't think these really changed um just

because nothing's really happened since 2020. Um we it did it it did note then to consider surplusing for development of affordable housing. Um and then that's about all. Let's see. We remove unsafe playground. Yeah. So looking through it um even though it's locked, we know people can get through fencing or over fencing, but we felt that it was in the best interest of the site for our staff. maybe even next winter during some downtime to remove the playground uh that's currently there cuz it's definitely not usable anymore and it's more of a safety hazard than anything. Yeah. To his advantage. Yeah. I know the city council is very concerned about this park and are are looking for some conclusion as to shutting it down. or something. So they've Yeah, I believe a couple times they'd like to see a Yeah. see a recommendation from it for sure. You know, I I would support to close of it, but I don't support the idea that money goes outside the parks. Amen. Wouldn't it be nice if it went to the parks budget rather? I mean, I think I think it would if we plan on doing that, I think we should have a motion that we could bring to the council. They need a unanimous vote to sell park property. But, but I think if we had dissent here, I don't think they would get and I would not support a motion that says we're moving the money outside the park property. I I think that that would honor the spirit of the gift also, just they clearly intended it to be for a

park. I think the next best thing would be to benefit parks. Well, even as you speak for purchasing a park property that it goes to whether it's a park capital fund or Yeah. Um just for the parks something and we can word smith that too to make sure it stays in the right totally agree. It's a great point. Yeah. I mean we've been scratching for money our whole time and it's like yeah the gift. So, I I would like that language changed if we could change that in our draft pros plan of where the surplus goes to. So, adding it to this recommendation surplusing for future park needs. Okay. Is that's what I would support. I would vote against a motion that took the money outside the park system. It's big. Yeah, it's it's and it's definitely a need, but yeah, I mean, yeah, we've been scratching for funds for Yeah. ever. Yeah, they can whoever advisor can use it for whatever. Yeah, it probably would be affordable. Yeah, they can develop an affordable housing, aren't they? Yeah, we probably aren't going to put a covenant that it has to be that ever seemed to work that way. Yeah. Okay. But before like I'm just saying before this commission like even takes a motion to move forward without even trying to sell this property, we need to make sure we can even do so. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's because we're I mean that Yeah. This park's been on my radar for years and it's and I guess if it's not our property, we just give it back. You know, if it's really not legally ours. Sure. Yeah. We don't have title. Yeah.

Eliminate the liability. Yeah. Just pull out of our equipment. That Argon Street that it's on is like I know it's a two-way street which blows my mind. It is so narrow. It's hard narrow. It's hard to get in and out of that. It's called traffic cal. Yeah. Yeah. It's a one-way alley. All right. Good. No, that's great conversation. Okay. Anything else? Ready to move forward? Yeah, I'm ready to move in more ways than one. And we take pictures of everything, even shopping carts. Sometimes I watch this video in the afternoon, just bop my head. Sure. Yeah, it's a great little site. And yeah, just just noting on the standards, this is the standard sign. So that's that's very similar to what we'll have. And at the one at at Haden's going to be onesided. Um the one at Kitap Lake, those are the two new um park developments. That'll be a

double-sided white house there. He uh he mentions what it is. It's Oh, yeah. So, just briefly on this, I've had a couple people reach out to me um about can what can we do to soften this and um Colette remembers that the biggest issue was um we basic the stairs basically went into the extent of what we could improve with the high water line. Yeah. And so we talked about signage at the top, something to provide warning. Yeah. I'm not sure what we can even do to to reduce some of the rock here. U but that that was a a concern as plans to deal with that s of that. Yeah. I just was I hate to say I don't know. Yeah, there's that. I'm sorry. What? Right next to this place, there's a brown field that's chain linked around that's heavily contaminated. Oh, okay. And it's it's all it was on this side on the other side of this building. Yeah. Okay. And it would and you know eventually when they clean it out and cap it and stuff it would be available for a park expansion is normally that's what you do with contaminated areas make them into parks. You put top soil and throw the ball out. Yeah. I'm just curious that for the future they can wait. That's been their problem. Thank you. I wasn't familiar with that. Thank you.

Let's see. Okay. Trying to move Amy around here so we can see. Okay. So, yeah, this was a 2011 improvement. Um just a singular picnic table there. Um not we didn't have a whole lot of um did we really have much manage management concerns? Just the drop at the Yeah. Yeah. What the rules about using the amphitheater for music and things like that? Is that through public works? I was wondering if it's I don't know if it's under ours. That's something we probably need to play. I I would love to see small concerts there. It would be kind of fun. Um like acoustic. Yeah. I think it'd have to be acoustic. I feel like there's not power there. Yeah. So, this site is one that is we we list it as one of our parks, but it is maintained uh through a contract through public works. Um, so it isn't a park that we maintain with our our staff. Yeah. Something has a little blue grass. Sure. That lives up be kind of fun. Yeah. They were asking me and I said, I don't know who you talk to. Don't you normally just try it and see what happens. Yeah. Nobody else was I didn't see a reservation sign. Yeah. It's kind of like a shelter. Yeah. I was on the council one of the one of the coolest things I felt did to be able to take a public works project and turn it into a park in an area that was so well so

underserved. Yeah. Really cool. Opened up the news. Oh yeah. And have access and have access the waters. Yeah. To me it's such an important thing for kids to be able to turn over rocks, look at sea livestock. Yeah. It's so beautiful and the times and and it's great that they were able to pull that off as times where money was tight but it was tight but great. Yeah, that was cool. Really cool project. I felt really good about that. All right. Any other comments about Billy and James Walker Park other than again connected to that like make like a bike path on their multimotal path going up together. What what would be involved in that? I think they'd have to kind of buy some right away maybe uh either going along the roads are pretty narrow so I don't use a park. So I don't know they could really use one of the roads. Okay. If you could go up the houses with something if I had paid somebody enough money to do that because a lot of them are rentals. Okay. Yeah. But that'd be cool. It would be. It would be. I mean, just if they if there's ever a sale on places. Yeah. Keeping that in mind. Okay. So, moving on to Madrona. And this

It's that former parking lot area that was seated last fall. Better gravity Awesome. All right. Okay. So, on my drone trails, uh there are some things that we were happy to remove under management issues. Uh one of those was uh debris from uh use as a smoking area uh from the hospital. So, that that obviously is is no longer There we go. Uh no longer a concern of that spot. Um we removed uh Trails Narrow with low use just because we have such a great um group um preservation group that's there that's working on uh rerouting like Blette said and and managing those trails. So we didn't feel like that was a a big concern anymore. Um and then obviously the parking lot is no longer used by hospital workers so we removed that from the management um concerns

list. Um we did keep on um a number of those other things, you know, we we do come across and again it's great having that that kind of watchdog group there because they'll let us know if there's encampments going on. We've had unfortunately some issues and I think we've talked about them with with down trees being cut um for firewood. We're sold um and so we're working on trying to to get a better grasp on that. Um yeah, as far as recommendations go, um one of the improvements in 2020 was to increase maintenance presence and widen trails, which I think has been a um successful with the partners that we have developed there. Um and then expanding the trails and uh connections to new residential development. I think that's been accomplished. Um and obviously the work that they've done in in rerouting and better identifying trail systems there. Um looking at master planning the former parking lot area to determine what the best use of that area is. So that's that the the area that was seated this fall or hydro seated this fall. It's not irrigated. Um and it's an area that could be an open play spot. Um it was something that was looked at as a potential for a dog park. Um so that could be um something there. Part of the preservation group's interest too is you know do we look at reforesting that area? So so enlarging the forest area. Um but we also at the same time kind of want to watch and see what happens with the development of the former hospital to see if there's a different need uh for that site moving forward. So, uh, in the meantime, our recommendation is just

kind of I' look at potential options and just kind of wait and see. I think we'll have some movement on the hospital site pretty soon to to know what what other kind of need and what type activity might be occurring at that site. So, yeah. I'm wondering that area that you said has been receded, was it gravel before or was it pavement? It was pavement. It was asphalt. Yeah. We did Yeah. It's a great example of how you can remove asphalt. Yeah. Oh, it looks it looks much better. It's a very wet area. I've noticed that for sure uh this spring there's a lot of water that that collects there. the grant agency that gave us that property for recreation use until we've been out of Kansas parking there. So, as part of the demolition permit, uh they were required to remove that section. Was that part of the the management by Jason? Is that what part of that collection? Thanks. Probably. Yeah, that's one of them. I think that and those that their properties back up whether their fence lines would be maintained or if they would they would accidentally enlarge you know another 10 15 feet who's who's monitor I mean have they been not anybody that's on property have they been notified or a system to notify um not that I'm aware of um as far as uh residential development [Music] The forest that's abing the development

is actually it's partly part of the HOA. Yeah. All right. Any other comments on Madrona? Come a long way. System's right up there. Awesome. Perfect. Talked about it's squared away up there. No, it's a great example of a community group partnering to to manage a site. Agreed. All right. So, on to NAD Marine Park full of all sorts of surprises. sailboat been there forever. Sure. We probably call that Have any of you ever hiked back through there? It's been a long time, but yeah. Okay. Bomb shelter. It is. Yeah. It's quite large in there. Yeah.

If it's you have to get back into along that gate. Yeah, we saw cyclist there. How much waterfront's along our property? I can't remember. Yes, we've got that note. It's large. It's really Well, that whole hillside's massive. Yeah, it goes into Lake Jackson. 1600 ft. Yeah. Yeah. It's big. It's safe. Are we still opening that yellow gate and letting cars park down there? I think Kate's always closed. So, they park at the end where the gates at. Yeah. Come. Yeah. That road comes to that come to the park. So Tim, I I'd like to talk about this one a little when there's a chance. Yeah. Um this is the part closest. Yeah. Okay. Hi. Um and I apologize Colette is breaking up a little. So Colette, if you if you respond, I might not be able to hear you. Um, I don't know if it's your laptop in the way or what, but um, uh, this is the park that's closest to the part of Breton that I live in, and it's not the one I frequent the most, but, um, it is heavily used by the neighbors around me. Um, and there have been a slew of management concerns over the last year to two years. Um, and it may be a little different than some of the other parks. It's pretty secluded. Um, there is, um, increased transient activity. Um, I think it's a little different. Uh what it appears is happening is um uh a number of people who are what they call

live on boards, they're living on boats, um will anchor there and then use that park as their area for disposing their garbage in a really small can and it spills over. And um and now that we've got that blocked off, so you can't park there, it's not quite as bad, but there is still some um regular interaction going on with uh people who are living aboard boats and using that park. Um not in the most ideal um situation. And as you saw, there is a uh sunken sailboat there. Um, and I did inv uh we take turns because we all live on the water over there dealing with derelch boats and I handled it one year in the other in uh in the other bay and there's another neighbor who's really taken the lead on this one and I think he's been working on it for probably about nine months and getting um a lot of oh you need to talk with the Coast Guard because it's under their jurisdiction or oh no it's a county issue you know it's a Washington DNR our issue and the latest as of this week is it's 100% a city of Breton issue and he's just throwing up his hands going I cannot get anybody to respond to me but uh he said hey Amy do you do you think the park would be interested in it's not necessarily the responsible responsibility of the park to deal with this sunken sailboat but to um help us move forward and get some sort of response um after nine months of trying to figure out who could possibly help here um and take action on this. Um what's sad about it is that that sailboat was not completely sunk uh when we started and now has completely

submerged and all you can see at this point is the mast. Um so um I you know Tim I've encouraged uh uh my neighbor to come and and reach out to the parks director directly just to share what's been happening. He is I have also encouraged him to talk with our city council rep um and he's starting to do that. Um uh but that is a regular issue with this park. It's not the last boat we've dealt with. um it's just the latest boat and um so that is one of the issues with this with this park. I also understand I just found out today that another one of our neighbors uh has been talking with Parks and Wreck about creating some sort of park steward group uh for this for this particular park and that that would be great. um she didn't have much to share with it other than she wants to call it NAD is rad and it'll be an initiative to um really improve the park, you know. So, I you know, I just said we're all in. The neighbors are happy to join up. Um so, I know she started that conversation with you. So, so there may be some neighborhood support moving forward for this park. Um, but it's very secluded and um just seems to have a lot of issues for that reason. I'll stop there. It does. No, thank you Amy for your comments. Um, so we'll we'll also kind of walk we'll walk through we don't it didn't have a whole lot of changes besides this just hasn't received a lot of attention. Um, so a lot of the information um is consistent from 2020. We did add as far as a management um concern lack of parking. Um since that gate has stayed closed, there's not a whole lot of space on the exterior of the gate. Um do we look at

moving the gate in a little bit? And part of the issue is is that I don't think the roadways wide enough for us to be able to provide even parallel parking on the inside to try to give a little more space. So looking at how do we how can we identify that encourage um you know something we've been talking about quite a bit is especially in these forested areas is how do we activate them um where we're getting more people utilizing them and maybe detering the negative activity from happening. Um but with that in 2020 we did note um an improvement recommendation would be to consider a restroom. Uh we we removed that for now. I don't feel we don't feel that that's probably a great spot cuz it's very hidden at this point um to be able to put a a restroom facility in there unless we have other activity that's occurring. Um another note, you did see uh Carlos walk into a large enclosed bunker. Uh we have made attempts previously to weld that door shut and the weld's been broke and they've gotten into it. So, we're looking at once things um warm up and dry out to to create a pathway in and then to bring in essentially like a jersey barrier or something to be able to block that door um because it is heavily used that that space and um a lot of homeless activity up there has been occurring. So, we want to deter that from happening. Um yeah, anything else that you guys had to add there? dumping. Actually, when we were there, the the garbage can was overflowing and it was it could have been the situation that you were talking about people dumping, right?

Okay. Developing a partnership to assist with what we've been Amy, I sent you an email. I don't know if you received it yet, but uh that's that's who I've utilized in the past for derelct vessels. Okay. Thank you. And your comment is the first at least I've heard that it's a city issue. That's that was today. Like I think you just got that or this week. So, uh yeah. No, it's gone. He's going in circles. Yeah. Yeah. The state state DNR does have a dery vessel removal program. They do. Not funding. It isn't. And they have a 12page document. I just looked at earlier today and um it might be on that list of 12 pages. Uh it looks like it possibly could be there um by based on description, but I'm not sure. So um but you know, it's when they'll get to it. I I'm not sure. I guess there um the US Coast Guard um representative that um uh my neighbor spoke with said there may also be um an issue with unexloded ordinance in that bay. And uh it could be two issues there. the sailboat could be a danger for that reason. Or even removing that large of a sunken vessel could be an issue in that bay. So, um, so that was a new piece of information he also got this week. So, very complicated. Um, not growing up

in Washington, the derelic vessel thing has been quite an education for me. Lots of water here. Yes. Well, if it hits a piece of unexloded ordinance, our problem would be solved. Well, yes. The wildlife wouldn't be too happy, though. No. Okay. Um, ready to move on? Yeah. Okay. First Street Plaza is our next stop. And uh don't blink because this one does not take very long. And there it is. It is. And honestly, as as someone that's only been here 6 months, when I first walked through there, I assumed it was an extension of the businesses. Y and not city property when I first looked at it. Sure. Um and really until we we were walking down in that area realized it's ours. Um it's a maintained. So um let's see. But yeah, it kind of completes that whole area down there as well with the other improvements we have. Okay, so first street plaza is 006 acres. Um, we did add that there's three

tables and chairs that are there. Um, updated the businesses that it's adjacent to. Yes. Let's see. Oh, this is the updated one. Okay. Um, let's see. Management concerns. Um, just maintaining that area and litter getting built up um and keeping things clean with all the activity that happens there. Mhm. Um, one of the and recommendations that and that kind of comes to my point of I thought the neighboring businesses owned it. Um, I mean, I don't know if there would be interest, but if we were to approach at least the the two adjacent businesses to see if there would be interest, um, it would put that property back on the tax role and then put the responsibility of the maintenance into the business owner's hands. But if we're maintaining it, they may not have interest in that either. So, I just wanted to note that as a as a potential recommendation, especially for an extremely small site like that. Um, but they lease it out for outdoor cafe like a a third party separate from It could be. Uh, we do have standards within our park system for food trucks or vendors and so a vendor could potentially utilize that. Yeah, for sure. That's a great idea. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot there's a lot of there's a lot of talk that people in the downtown area that want to have more street dining that and hear something right. Yeah, that's a great idea. Brian, I don't know if you can answer

this. Is is there a way to cut off the downstream fountains from this top piece and just have the top fountain thing going that's shown in Oh, like the sails at the bottom. Uh we're in the different We're on Memorial. Uh we're on First Street Plaza. Oh, I'm in the wrong spot. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I think you're paid. Where did I go? We're right there. Oh, thank you. Oh, that's just Okay, now I understand the business aspect of it. Okay. Yeah. So, it's across the street from the other pieces. Yep. My reflection is that this was built at the same time the street was kind of to encourage economic development, encourage businesses to come in. Well, now they're there. There was um there was a bunch of property trading to be able to get um the bank restaurant going on. Um and I you know I think there was three things that got braided at a time and what we got out of it was this pocket park. Yeah. Plaza. What's that? The plaza. The plaza. Yeah. Plaza. Thank you. Different classification. Any other comments on First Street? I like the idea of using it as a meeting. Nice sunny evening. Yeah, that's a great idea. Even if you rotated something through once a month or so, I thought that's a great idea. Okay. Well, we'll move on to Harborside

Fountain. And again, these were taken before we had water activity going and now they're all up running. Not all of them. Not every This one is Yeah. Some some of these videos are kind of like sad because Brian and I are like by ourselves. It's like nobody wants to come play this. We got this lady behind us. Run along. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Walk. Get out there and walk for me. That's what we hear most of the time. Yeah. Okay. Um for Harborside Fountain, um I was actually kind of amazed. I mean, it's a very long uh space. Uh there's 16 picnic tables there um in that whole area. So, there's a lot. And um they're heavy, but you can tell that they've been moved off and on. [Music] Um trying I didn't have a whole lot of notes on mine. uh Colette that we um made a lot of changes to this one. Uh one thing we did note um under the improvement recommendations um let's see if it's there. Um there is some settling um along for the bricks along the shoreline and and I think a lot of that could be just because of that's where all the water collects. Um so we're going to have to address that at some point. Um otherwise we, you know, still have some issues with our fountains and um they're not getting any younger in the

amount of work that we're potentially going to need to put into those to um bring those back up and and um improve. They're very They are. Yeah. And there are really one thing that was noted as an improvement recommendation six years ago was to program the site for community events and we kind of feel like that that's been once um Sunny's events kind of came in that that is getting utilized for those. Um, so we did remove that as a as a recommendation that we do think there are um events that are down there and using that space. It'd be kind of fun to look around and see what it's like. I'd like to see how the systems work. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, that would be great. Yeah, even seeing them run. I mean, when we were out there, they weren't running and then Colette went out and re-shot some video and then I got to see the I' I've never seen the fountains work. I got here in I got here in mid-occtober, so I had no idea what they did. So, it was cool. Besides, I've seen pictures, but those don't move. But yeah, I think it would be great to be able to get out there and that's something I've enjoyed doing in the past too is with commissions I've worked with

um doing a you know almost like an end of year end of summer um um kind of tour of some of the projects and things that we've done and you get out and check things out. And that was kind of a little bit of thought the thought behind us going through the pros process and showing videos so then we can see visibly because we can't get out to all of them all the time and neither can we can't expect you to be out there either. So it's a great way to see everything. Any other comments on Harborside? Okay. So, we'll move on to the boardwalk. I remember when we parked used to put Christmas lights down there. I thought that was cool. But I know it's a big cost thing to go maintain. Yeah. They have some animated ones and that was always fun. Yeah. With the Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. onto the board. More two guys walking by themselves. Like every video. That's what a boat looks like. Brian. Yeah. That's why she can't hear you. So, these shots are on top of the restroom. Yeah, it kind of look like a drone for a second. It's kind of cool. Okay, so the boardwalk obviously a very popular

spot. Um, especially you can tell from the picture that's used here. I'm sure everybody's been to an event there at one point or another. We've talked. Yes. Yeah. Um, in my previous city, I I was able to purchase one because I over also oversaw facilities. And it was great because we could fly the drone to look at whether um our drainage systems were working on top of the building or what kind of issues were up there and we weren't having to have staff climb up and down. But it also doubled great for events um taking shots and um projects as well. So, I think a drone would be great. We can buy that with a park sale. All right. Buy a few of them probably. Okay. So, as far as the boardwalk's concerned, um let's see. I'm kind of looking at we didn't take an inventory of benches, tables. Um there's just a lot that's going on there. Um this is an area that um we will be providing some further updates to uh because going to be working with public works on some improvements. This is going to be um sort of our festival area next summer for the FIFA um fan zone. And so there will be some improvements that we'll be proposing in the uh 2026 budget um for some funding or grant funds to be able to make some improvements down there. And some of them are just general like visible improvements um new paint freshen things up, but then there's also some other um

ideas that we're looking at as far as um electrical and some other resources that could be brought to the site. So, we we haven't had those meetings yet, but we'll make an update to this as far as potential recommendations when we come across some of that. Um, any thing that you had on this one, Colette? I got a question. The business that's currently down there, I mean, they have come and it's been years, but somehow, is that not part of the inventory of this park? The the shack. Yes. Um it's it's Yeah, it's they they lease from the port. So their outdoor seating area is city property. Okay. Maybe but the building's part of the port come to this commission. You had to approve that for them. Yeah. So I think they when I when I talked to her last month, uh she made it sound like she had put in a request at one point to expand for the outdoor seating and that's maybe where that conversation Okay. came from. They wanted to move back a little bit around the towards the fair more than what they have currently. They were looking for extension. Okay, that's ringing the bell. I thought they did that. They have. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it was then. Yeah. Yeah. After Friday. So, you know, there's a couple things. I go down here a lot, especially during all the festivals and nice walking. We have the worst stage in the county. Sure. And it's labor intensive because it's portable. So you got to put it up, you got to take it down, you got to store it. So I think one of the things we ought to do is get a permanent stage down here would be one of the goals on our pros play. The other thing I noticed and the one thing about the stage, I've been down there and the drummer had to stop because he was had a heat stroke. there

wasn't enough cover for him and the sun was he was the first you know band at 11:00 and you know there a bunch of old guys playing so you have to forgive him but you know the sun was beating on them because there's not enough cover for those stages for those people that and the other the other thing that's really lacking there is shade and when if you go down there during a festival Tim so Tim we're not used to sun Here you are. Yeah. Yeah. You'll you'll have one covered table that'll be packed and you'll see like along the stairs where there's a little bit of shade people in there. Yeah. So, I was think, you know, we could do those sail cloths over some of that stairway. That wouldn't be hugely expensive and just seasonal because, you know, take them down. And that's typically what those shade cells are is I think it would be such a huge improvement um to to be able to get out of the sun down there would be amazing like I said and it's like when the sun comes out it's 75 degrees we're not we're going for shade you know we're not used to that and and and if when you're around for some of these festivals go down there and look and you'll see what I'm talking about the shade is taken, you know, every spot. And I think some of those shade cloths over that great stairway would be so cool and and have just a permanent stage that could per and I think you could do more events then. Same thing, lease it out when it's not these festival things. But I think that would be huge improvements for this area. Okay. Who owns the stage curtain? We do. Yeah, it's ours. And I is it in the I think it's in the basement here. Now it's put up now. Oh, is it up? They put it up. Okay.

Right. Next Friday is their first um first event down there. That was part responsibility setting that up. So like Blackberry Festival. That's that's us. Okay. Yeah. We got to take it down in winter. I did not realize that. Yeah. It stays up all season, I think. Take it down again, right? And store it and store it. And I'm going, you know, there's cost to doing that versus building something permanent like you're talking. Yeah. I mean, go to Port Orchard, they've got a really nice waterfront stage. Go to PSB, they got a really nice waterfront stage. And go to Birminton. It's like it's a stage. It's a great Yeah. I I those would be two big things to add to this post. It's good. Some of you folks remember, I don't know if I would come across your plate, Tim, but there was talks years and years and years ago of can expanding this boardwalk all the way to Ever. How cool would that So, so I've heard that through the comprehensive plan meetings that I've attended. Um and um there's a waterway protection group that that halted that got shut down. Yeah. Yeah. Just the renderings that I just remember when look really cool. Yeah. Walk that went through. All roads lead to Breton. There's there's a really cool boardwalk in Bellingham that there was nothing like this. There was problems. This one was funded by the sewer system. Instead of doing the pumps, they were going to run the sewer line off the beach. So, that was a big part of it. But then the

other act thing was access to those private properties. Once you built this thing, you know, you couldn't get to them. So, They commissioned the designers from that are part of Disneyland stuff. Remember that? Oh. To to do a revitalization of the downtown area. Remember that money. It's I'd love I'd love to see that study. It's on somebody's shelf. But it was uh that part of the plan was to canopy close the That's right. Close the streets traffic and canopy the streets. Mhm. Works for Disney. Yeah. Well, that's what they were talking about. Making it look like Disneyland. Other issues that I know are down on that boardwalk already addressed in here, namely the restaurant. Mhm. Yeah. So, I have a meeting next week with public works and then uh with a with a few other people to look at some of that 2026 stuff. Um but yeah, I think um definitely before we finalize this plan, we'll kind of know and it'd be nice to include some of those those comments and plans in there. So um we can get some things accomplished down there. Which uh um are they talking like a portable screen coming down there for like view? Is it gonna be like a viewing thing? Yeah, it's so it's going to be um and we haven't really worked all the details out because what was initially thought isn't really what's necessarily there. And it's going to be more of a creating a fan atmosphere for locals to be able to to be excited about and be involved in in the FIFA World Cup. So like talk are we talking like directly to FIFA over this? No. So this is a third party group that's managing these

nine seven or nine sites in the state of Washington. So it's an independent group. Okay. That's managing this. Um and people probably has a contract with or something. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird. Okay. That's weird. Yeah. Um Yeah. Yeah. And so it's basically activating it's it's getting your local population excited about FIFA and not all of the host locations are doing this either. Uh so so independent nonprofit group in Seattle is kind of taking the charge and is leading the statewide effort. But yeah, the concept is is yeah, maybe we bring in an LED screen. Um, we are essentially required to host and not to get too far into the weeds, but host um a a fan experience or something every day that Seattle hosts a game. So, there's six games that'll be there. And so, there's six days that we would be um that we would have some sort of activity happening in Breton. Uh, but it doesn't limit us to doing something every day for 43 straight days. I mean, how much fun would that be? Okay. But yeah. Yeah. So, more to come. Thank you. Yeah. It's It's funny because I feel bad for him. The mayor keeps referring to a playbook that is very confidential. Uh, he's finally seen a copy of it, but he can't really talk about it because I got a feeling they're going to call it like a FIFA band fan zone. So, it won't be called FIFA. FIFA's name won't be tied to it. Yep. But you'll see like a World Cup 26 or WC26 I think is what's in the logo. Yeah. So, there was a water break or something failure down there this last year on that boardwalk. Do you guys I I

know the port was working on I think it was going to their marina, but I know they tore up a lot of the the concrete right where that the big biggest planter kind of in front of the grand stairway. You guys know you didn't have to do anything with that, did you? It kind of Yeah. Okay. So, they didn't bring it. It didn't come on to us. I know they had to tear a bunch of it up though. Yeah, that big planer in front of the business you're talking Yeah. Yeah, that was torn up right in front of that for quite a while. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Yeah. Anything else on the boardwalk by the stairs and underneath? Is that theirs and not the sitting back to the main thing and right there. But you're coming down from the ferry and you go down and there's it's kind of shaded. There's some parking for employees, but there's a restroom right down in that area. Yeah, that's ours. Yeah, ours is the one that's out. Yeah, where the beer garden? Yeah, that's tied to the beer garden. Yeah, be nice to put shade sails on top of that. There you go. Okay, so moving on to Memorial Plaza. And speaking of water, I I actually forgot to let you know I brought waters if anybody wants waters. Ben was the first one here, so I grabbed one for him. But there's no preferential treatment. It's It's right there. It probably is by now. It was cold.

It's pretty cold. Yeah. Should be all right. Thank you. This This fountain is still not turned on. Is that correct? This was the one I was thinking. Okay. Awesome. Yeah. Where the Walmart was. I mean, I had that confused with that first one. Yeah. So, this this one will hopefully be on this week and then next week the hope is the the convention center, the conference center ones will be on. Yeah. Memorial is the one we don't want people in these fountains up there. Is that accurate? Correct. The ones down below, we're good to go. There's there's signs that say do not play in the fountain. Yeah. I don't know if any of them were really meant for No, we don't. They were more to be interactive, especially in 2000, early 2000s. The filtration system on the ones. Yeah. You have to keep it to a certain level. Yes. No. Right. Not at all. Most fountains weren't, but they were open. Yes. Okay. Memorial. Okay. So, not a whole lot. Obviously, not a big space. Um, some

recommendations. Let's see. Update phone system. Again, this is another area that we um we have lights, but they haven't been updated, and so most of them aren't functioning. Um, uh, Carlos was the one I think that brought up the pavers, wasn't he? Um there's an area um where I think water just kind of naturally collects that. We um are going to potentially look at adding some pavers in instead of having the turf be wet in that space. But otherwise, I don't I don't have a whole lot of comments that I wrote down on this one. So this is the one I was wondering if you could shorten the fountain path to just the area that you see at the top. Mhm. It might not be possible where all the pumps and stuff are, but this this park becomes un uninhabitable in the summer because the stream is a seagull magnet and we don't do anything to and there's probably things you could do to keep the seagulls off, but we don't. And so it just becomes full and seagull excrement. Um and so people don't use it really. Um which is too bad, but it's just it just becomes so filthy you don't even want to walk there. Um, so I I don't know if we can shorten the the fountain or otherwise we just have to do some deterrent like oh, you know, wires that they can't sit there and drink or you are you talking about like maybe just having one fountain?

Yeah, just the one you see right there. That middle section stop the river section. Yeah. Um, and none down below. none down below. Um, just to because the the river piece is really they they're they're using that as their water source. Um, and I'm sure we can do something else to stop that. But it's you'll you'll see as you go through the summer, it's like it's nice now because the water's off, but it gets really um almost unusable um because it's just so it gets so filthy. And I mean, I don't think that's the parks department's problem other than if we can design something to improve it because you'd have to be down there every day spraying it, you know, and you don't want to do that, you know? Right. Yeah. But that's that's a big it's a big negative, I think, not a big positive. So, is the full supply of the water features below from up here? Okay. Be kind of interesting. Anyhow, that's that's crazy idea, but I just I never that they have that's their fresh water supply. Yeah, they're all over that park. Any other comments on Memorial Plaza? Okay, we are if you go down there in the summer, wear a hat. White [Laughter] hat.

Okay. So, my math correct, Colette, that Whitney Dstead is our last one. She says with so much enthusiasm. Just want to keep going. You guys just waiting for the drug deal. Looking for eggs. Like we're changing the light. Okay. Tell we don't have fun doing any of these. admit I don't live once. He was a former charge. Okay. So, very very small. Um not a whole lot of comments. Um we don't at this point have any improvement recommendations for that site. Um, I did, um, add into the inventory that there's a Whitey DMstead memorial. Um, drinking fountain was added. It has a dog. Oh, yeah. Drinking fountain was added. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And so when we talk in terms of adding new fountains, that's really kind of what we're looking at is the dog that feature and accessible. Um, and I

don't even do we have very many bottle filling fountains in our system. It's just tough because that three in one they're it's like $8,000 for those. I mean, they're not cheap. Um, so that's why we don't see them very much. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, the the dog bowl ones are fun because you can usually press on a button and it fills it up a little bit, but it doesn't leave a whole lot of standing water in there. Yeah. So, two tables, three benches. um gets used for the concert man concert series. Another good view. The hillside is I know it's hard to mow, but it's it works for the concerts. Wonderable. Yeah, the slope is nice. Y great views. So, any other Amy, anything you have? No, I love this little park. So, I've been to many of those concerts and used the dog watering station. There you go. Great. Perfect. I can't get down that low. Amy, can you just All right, I think that's it on the pro plan. Okay. I mean, I'm sure questions or comments. Um, next month, what can we I'm trying to remember. Finishing up. That we've missed natural areas. We need to do um Oh, goodness. Stephson Canyon and Okay. And then be moving to facilities. of this

building, senior center school. You want to give an update on that? I forgot about that, too. I was going to bring it up in my comment. Yeah. on our calendar, it notes that we would be focusing on review of the uh survey results. But what my plan is is that we want to get these items finished up. Um, and I'll kind of prompt you with some survey information uh for us to just kind of utilize and look at over the next few months. um but not spend the whole time or a lot of time walking through the survey because you can read charts and comments and I want to see your video of steps going down the trail you have director could you speak to the poll um I will defer to Mr. positive over here. We joke because we always give them the just any kind of update, the the negative updates. Yeah, it's my job. Yeah. So, if you're not familiar, the pool is is not working right now. And uh the Y has taken this as an opportunity for them to do one of their u semiannual um shutdowns and deep cleans. So then they're not having to do it in a few months from now. Okay. Um but as far as the issues, Brian can kind of speak to what's going on. Yeah. So we have an additional overflow tank that is uh set off to the side of the pool. Uh it's an overflow, but it also has our

filtration system in it. Um after many years of service, it decided to the tank split. It's a all metal tank. Um, we were able to find a fairly local company that responded right away. I got them under emergency contract and they are out there working today. Um, on the fix, it's going to be couple day fix. Um, and then it takes about I think they said like 4 days to fill the pool and then get the um chlorine and all that other stuff where it's supposed to be. So, I mean, it's a process, but it's it's fast as we can make the process work. Um, so yeah, hopefully there's minimal impacts to the folks. I know there is impacts, but we're trying to minimize them the best we can. Thank you for that update. Appreciate it. Yeah. And so, um, the the plan is we still have budgeted this year to do a facility assessment of the entire building. Um, but the hope is that this will be a three to five year fix or so for us to be able to get the assessment done this year and then just kind of start looking at future planning and what does that mean for that site. U, but to buy us more than six months or so. um get us get us a few years down the road so we can really kind of do some some planning of what is the future of that site and and aquatic. So back up. All right, we'll just pull pull from the storm drains nearby. There's a lot of asphalt up there. Well, the timing was great. I was going to say the timing was great.

I because I used the pool like three times a week and I got the email from the Y that it was closed and I'm like, "Oh, all right. I'm not coming back yet." Well, I blamed you anyways. This is all Amy's fault. Everything was fine till Amy left. It is. Yeah. I'm sorry. All right. Commissioner Wman, we'll start with you. Commissioner's comments. You got anything else for us tonight you'd like to to say? Uh, I don't think I do other than just thank you so much to um Tim and Brian and Colette for walking us through every park in the pros plan so far and so I really appreciate all the work that you've put into this. So nothing other than that. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for joining from the other side of the world, Commissioner. Really? Yeah. No problem. Go to bed. Yeah, she's wide awake, right? It's going to get light out soon. Yeah, right. All right, Commissioner McDonald, you got anything for us today? Well, you know, today is Earth Day. Yes. Uh, we don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our future generation. I don't know who said that, but I like that quote. It's a nice one. And then Neil Degrassi said, "If we treated every day like Earth, we wouldn't be in this mess." If only. Yeah. So I I don't have anything else on that and but I echo what Commissioner Waterman said about going through these parks and stuff. You guys done a great job with them. Yeah. Thank you, Commissioner Commissioner Dawson. I'm more pessimistic about every day the answer and the and the kids son uh the highlights that we're talking about, you know, safer makeup and things like that. Anyway, so much for me being a bummer.

You want a cookie? I'm supposed to be the meeting. Thank you. Good job. Just on that point, we do and I forgot to share it. Um, the Stephenson Canyon Stewardship Group, which is one of our newer groups, is out doing ivy and invasive blackberry removal today. Cool. Did you show them the inspiration of the restroom? Did the quick version in the video, but we didn't do the Yeah, we didn't do the full video, the installation of the restroom. If you guys are interested. Yeah, I'd watch it. It's um It's another minute and 30. Yeah, thanks. I think it's in the pack right of stuff for this meeting. Yeah. Was it uh I don't know if you received it. Yeah. So, two and a half hours of the whole prep. Yeah. It was what were there? Five or six um semi-truckss that carried everything. Yeah. 200. Yeah. It's just insane. How much did the rest 88,000 pounds and of course the crane is partially the riggers are on new sidewalk and Yeah. But honestly, I think we would have been a little more concerned if the sidewalk wasn't there. Um because yeah, it gave him a lot more stability and the sidewalk had been in for a couple months. Didn't crack anything.

[Laughter] It's getting taken care of though. Yeah. And yes. And so I was a little concerned at first with the roof, but it's a it's a fully concrete structure. So the roof's all concrete as well. Yeah. So we didn't have to worry about the top bending or anything. Yeah. So you see the three green doors? Yeah. Just imagine that. Yeah. Yeah. They're no longer clean now. Yeah. But yeah, as you could tell, the utilities were right underneath and so there were there were holes. Um yeah, so you see all the utilities right there and so it it just drops right on and then um so that the center cluster is kind of your middle your maintenance room. Um and so and you can then you go Yeah. So it just kind of gets dropped straight straight down on top of it. First one we've Yeah. Yeah. Different come. That's a Yeah. Done a full one out. Yeah. Way better location than there. Once it was there, it looks like it had Oh, this. Yeah, I talked to some people that were like, "Yeah, I went to work that day and there was nothing there and I came home and a restroom was there." Yeah, it was all It was crazy. He built it all. Yeah, that the supposed to be just No, it's supposed to be They got the the the roof is supposed to be dark green, the same color as the door, and then it's um

supposed to be like a um sage green on I think the bottom and then a tan on top. And you can see it now that the playground's in that the colors are a little off because we were trying to match it with the playground. Yeah. No pain. All right. Thank you, Amy. Thank you. Bye, everybody. Get some sleep. Yeah, I will. Bye.