Public Arts Board - Regular Meeting

Call to order the pre meeting of the Keller Parks and Recreation Board. First item on the agenda is to receive updates on park construction projects.

Sports park, we're still rocking along with the, legacy restroom, construction. They're still working on utilities. The maintenance screening wall, on the other side of the equestrian arena for public works has been paused while they, work out some survey issues with the railroad. And then the water feature, the landscape is still going on. We're waiting on Tri County to drop us the electrical meter so that we can fire everything up and start getting closer to opening.

But the rains last week or the week before really slowed them down, and it's looking like we might get rained out next week too. But they're they're working as hard as they can to get the landscaping in. And then the Johnson Road Park, playground, the SOQs were received, and the subcommittee might have a comment on that when we get to them. And then the, matching grant with, Bear Creek Running Club, we have issued the POs for both the shade structure and the concrete slab. And we'll do the shade structure first, and that'll be coming in, supposed to arrive at the May.

And he'll need about a week to put those in, maybe maybe a week and a half to. And then, we'll do the concrete slab and sidewalk connection after that.

I'm so sorry.

And that's all I had for construction projects.

We're going fast. I received updates on the board subcommittees from the trail subcommittee. We talked last week or last month and had some consensus that it'd be a good idea to participate in one of the color summer nights and distribute help our poor public safety folks in educating the public on the proper use of the trails with e bikes and e motorcycles and other things that tchotchkes or other things that we might be able to distribute. But so as a board, if you would those summer events are all in June. Right?

Every Thursday in June. Thursday.

Mhmm. So there was some thought that we would replace our June part board meeting with participating in that so that we kinda killed two birds with one stone. Is that problematic?

No. Not at all.

Yeah. That was

good. June 11. Only question

eleventh.

My only question would be, would we need to be making progress and or giving an update about the Johnson Road playground by then to keep any sort of timeline you had in your head?

No. Because the I mean, the budget was already kinda locked in at that price. So it's just

and We'll just send everybody to line.

Till October. Yeah.

Yeah.

What's the kickoff time for

They started. Oh gosh. You know, they didn't give me any notes during this meeting. Oh, okay.

Let me look. Doesn't it usually

the

way. Well Is it June 4

or or not? November? June 11.

Okay.

But the summer nights band, I think, goes on at seven. Yeah. And so people start setting up

Gotcha.

Prior to that. So we could have a quick

how Pre meeting. Yeah. We could

do that. I don't wanna miss if if it truly starts at you think people get there at six?

Or Yeah. They get there early to get a seat.

I would say the best time to talk to them is while they're setting up when they don't have the band to listen to.

So I don't Good idea.

Waiting for food. Yeah. I think the prime talking to them time is probably gonna be when we'd otherwise be meeting.

Yeah. We'll have our tent or awning set up, Cody.

The the main tent will be up and then PD will also be at a they'll have a table and a tent as well.

Should we have a separate tent? Or Should we

just they'll be side by side? Because the library will have one. The art board will have one. We'll kinda just put them all in a in a row.

Okay.

Yeah. Very cool.

I'll bring it in for display. Everybody's cool with that? Yeah. Mhmm. Mhmm.

It looks like the

concert starts at 07:30, but I think the same sentiment still stands.

Yeah. The pump left.

Are you saying meet from six to 06:30 and then Canvas from 06:30 Oh, no.

I think this skip the meeting so that we don't risk valuable

Just be out here at six?

If that's what you guys think is best. I just wanted to announce that the

The band will be warming up at the time the meeting starts and also parking will be very limited.

So Let's go with It's a good idea.

And do we know what time Keller PD is going to be setting up and

I mean, they'll they'll be ready to go by 07:30. So

Oh, by 07:30?

I mean, by six. Before I mean, we'll be we'll be setting things up all afternoon. So, mean, I the table will be there. I might not have an officer there yet.

But All the tents are set up, aren't we?

Alright. Okay. We all have a I don't remember what shirt we got last.

Red. Red.

Red. They may have a red shirt. And

we have sports jerseys.

And we have Emily. We won our first

sports jerseys.

Ah. Let's wear it.

I mean, it's summer nights.

Yeah. Heck yeah.

Let's do that.

I think that's eye catching too.

When I wore it post that event, people were commenting.

So That's

pretty sure it was. I couldn't wear it. It was not

a vote baseball tournament.

Oh, that's right.

So now you have an opportunity.

I know. I can't wait. Especially when go play for color freshmen, you have to be number 26.

So I

could just wear it all the time.

Liz was, why did you pick 26?

Yeah. My supervisor said that I should solicit other ideas of literature or topics that we would potentially wanna distribute to those people who came by then.

Yep. I mean Yeah. There's a trails map we can give out. Right?

Mhmm. We

have a lot of those. K.

We can weigh trails maps and maybe upcoming events.

Yeah. We could do that. I'm looking up. You're just talking all about our great parks.

We don't have any trees?

I'm just kidding.

Let's see Christmas.

No. Give away baby trees. This is not the time

to give away the trees.

June planting for a baby tree would require quite the little life support system.

It would. Yeah. Wouldn't make it.

Who created this?

PD. Yeah.

Only some safety and legal tips. Putting those together is convoluted messaging because what's legal and what's safety.

Yep.

So, like, wear a helmet, is it safety or is it legal? And I

It depends on the age. Yeah. That's the whole thing. That's okay. Was They did put something on social media. Right? It was pretty good.

The video?

The chase. The video.

Yeah. That was crazy to watch. I know.

So Well, I've been seeing a lot of those.

I didn't get any bike myself. So bike, but not a motorcycle.

It has pedals that work?

It does. And I and and it's pedal assist. So I pedal, but it just helps you get going. I'm shocked. It's fun. See where you're not met? Oh, gosh.

Okay. Yeah.

But, yeah, I think trail maps and in addition to talking about electronic

Can you help us put that together? Yes. Thank you. Felix lined me up on what I was supposed to do. So we're gonna start a new subcommittee tree standards and memorials led by Tom. Ashley has volunteered to be a And part of we need one more volunteer.

And we'll have a passion for tree health. Right. There you go. Perfect. We run our trails. You'll be our eyes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Perfect. I

would love to learn more

about trees.

What do you teach?

I like the memorials.

Yep. And flats.

So yeah. So I held a barber certification. I for fifteen years through ISA. And I let all my CEs go, so I logged back on the other day, and I gotta retake the test if I wanna keep renew my certification. It's it's pretty hard test, but, anyhow,

I was was And changes? Are there a lot of changes?

No. But I forgot a lot of the stuff.

Yeah. I mean, I had

to do refresher. I had to keep up CEs every in my fire CEs, my EMS CEs, and FCEs. So yeah. Anyhow.

Does anyone wanna know what this idea was born out of or what the committee's

intention Yep.

So Absolutely. Yep. Exciting tree stuff.

Please share.

So in our past our our our shared love of trees Mhmm. We've noticed some trees that seem to be unwell in the city, other trees that, maybe need different cuts, and also that some recent trees maybe weren't the best species for their particular location or in some cases, perhaps planted too closely to each other. And so we think it's an opportunity to help the city identify reactively where we are today, but also proactively as we plant future trees, potentially give us an opportunity to review those trees placement, like type of tree, size of tree,

that sort

of thing. So we want to help support this skill, the city with our known skills and our known interests and our running Right. Our eyes on the trails for our trees to figure out just even if it's only a few trees we help, we just would like to figure out how we can Yeah.

Help. Pretty much selection and and placement of of new trees and even overlooked the the health of our trees we have now. Just like these trees out here in front of City Hall were planted with the river birch, and they're they're horrible trees for landscape. And so they're in the process of taking them all out. But the problem is we planted I don't know how many river birches out of the new sports bar. They're just terrible trees. They're not made for,

you know,

oil or landscaping. They're Non nonriver locations.

And they removed some smaller trees. Right?

Do what now?

From the from the

No.

They're taking they're taking

river birches out from the front of the building. All these oaky trees out front in the flower bed here, those are river

birches.

But didn't they remove some smaller trees to replace with the

They're putting in seed realms.

Say about at the sports park.

Oh, it's a sports park. They took out so what they did I was out there the other day, and they they had planted some chinkapin oaks. It was a beautiful tree. And they they were taking them out. I asked, so why are you taking them out? And they said, they're too small for the contract. So they were taking them out, and then they replaced them with really beautiful chinkapin oaks. They're in the outfield, and I can't remember what path it is. One of the new fields. Five and six? Yes. By the field house? Yes. Okay. Beautiful. So they've got the new ones in and the old ones were thrown away over there in the junk pile, unfortunately. They were still salvageable trees.

But that's the kind

of thing we wanna kinda oversee. And I'm not sure if we wanna look at hazard trees. There are hazard trees on our trail system. You see them. Right? When you go under roofs, now there's a John Ash tree instead. It's a hazard tree,

but Drops.

It does. It's dropping limbs. It's a dead tree. But if we take that position on, I'm afraid it would be a big liability on us.

They will define our scope.

And what

we think is define it. I don't think hazard tree

will be in it. And there'll probably be a timeline. Even with our scope, it's not like we magically take on everything on day one. It's like Exactly.

These are

our goals and objectives, and our first goal is this. So we'll meet with the committee

In placement.

But that's what it was born out

of.

Yep. We're seeing some things that we thought surely Exactly. We could be helpful.

Improper planting. Some of the trees out of the arena were just planted improperly. They left the wire mesh on them, the burlap left on them, and they're they're struggling right now, those trees at the arena.

And, thankfully, we do know they have a warranty so that they don't last two years, they'll get replaced. But it's I'm sure it's not enjoyable to deal with

Right.

The warranty calls. So, again, we'd like to just it's actually an

eye on those trees. And when and the the ones at the arena are struggling. There's three or four of them. They're struggling right now.

So And

if we call them out before the two year warranty for the city, that helps save money. Yep. Whereas if it doesn't get spotted Right. Otherwise, then

Yep. So that's we'll figure out our official Yeah. We'll get a good scope of what we're gonna do. So I think it's a worthy cause.

Cody, in what department is treating us in the city?

Is what? Is it

It's kind of split between planning and development because the planning and zoning is the official tree board of the city, and they deal with all the tree ordinances and what kind of trees can and can't be planted. Okay. Tree removals, permitting all happens on that side of building the with the planters.

Do they get involved in your trees? Like, your trees and to say, the trees that get planted in the parks?

They just make sure that it's it's on the approved tree But

you you approve, like, the sports park in which trees are there after they check you. Like

Correct. They they just make sure that they're approved on the list and that we're not planting hackberries.

We'll make sure our scope falls in line with

Okay.

What is under your purview so that we don't scope creep into somebody else's territory. So we'll double check our goal with

you Okay.

And our

But we've had some recent subcommittee success in meeting with other departments. Yep.

We have. So we'll do the same with this.

Yeah. We will. Yep. K. Thank you.

Johnson Road Park update, Ashley.

So as Cody mentioned, we, set out our RFQ request for qualification, and we're happy to say we got six responses, and six quality responses at that. And so we were able as a subcommittee to review those independently and as a group. And we although we did not outrank them all exactly the same, our general rankings were very similar. So in the end, we were able to come into an agreement on the order of those six. And, Cody's let us know next steps.

So what we will do is move forward with meeting with three of the six, and we'll provide him those names. This is news to him. He sent us the information. We're now telling him that we're gonna go forward with three as long as you're comfortable with that. And then so, yes, our next steps will be to meet with those three and just make sure that we're in alignment on what we're looking for in an eventual proposal. Hopefully, get some good designs. But, yeah, we're really we're excited. Like, it seems we have definitely have qualified candidates, and some of their work products suggest that we have the potential to achieve the community's goals as seen in the survey.

Yeah. And we're in a good place timing wise on the we did the survey. We're doing the r the r Q.

You feel good about timing so far,

buddy? Okay.

If he says we're good, I I don't I'm feel good. Anything

else about Johnson Road?

No. We'll give you

guys an

update in July and hopefully have some more good news.

Yeah. Thank you. Northeast Park, the my notes here from Felix said to ask Cody to was there some council chatter about Northeast Park recently?

All the core all the forums. It came up for one minute.

One minute. I watched I I I sent her this sheet.

I didn't see that.

No. Hey. Okay. You did not miss anything.

The candidate forums?

What about Northeast Park? The about next topic, basically, which is about as far as we got. I think it was, like,

we should look into it or keep it on the radar. Yeah. So I didn't know if I think the the question is only are we still on the same timeline as far as you're concerned?

Right.

Your estimate?

Yeah. The city manager and I plugged it in in 2032 or '33.

So no change

there. Cash fund.

Yeah. Okay.

If it comes up during budgeting, we'll Yeah. And it somehow moves forward.

Move forward. Yeah.

We'll pivot.

And that might be something that the council's gonna have a retreat in June. That might be one of the thing. There's a million things gonna be on the topic that may or may not be one of them. I don't know. How Little fluid. Yes.

How do those retreats work? Are they meetings with agendas the way the same way they're published?

They're open to the public. I think out of my eleven years here, all the ones we've had, I saw one person at one. That was right after the Birch, came in and was, decisive and haven't seen anybody at any of the other ones. Okay.

Speaking of chatter, there was some, inquiry to the board about the distribution of the senior center survey results and how members or how that information was distributed or is distributed? So it

was was distributed on the website. So it's been posted on the website for some time now. A mass email did not go out to them. And then there are now flyers up. Cool.

So that way they can scan the QR code. Same way that they got to the survey the first time around, that way they can review them. Again, with the survey, I it's good information for people to to see, but it's designed was designed originally for staff to make edits. So when people do see it, a lot of the information is not gonna make a lot of sense to them and without seeing the data backing everything else behind it. So we have all that in house and we keep record of it every every day, every class.

But that's really what it's designed to do. So now if we had to make any adjustments or edits, that's that's where it is. But no massive amount went out to anybody. So

Do you have to publish to the public? Or was it optional?

Or do you

have to make it available?

It's just available. Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's been available and for anyone to see.

It's online.

Yeah. It's been all the way.

So yeah. I just know if it was managed. I Yeah. Only ask because I imagine that data released to the public without greater context or a 50,000 foot view creates more turmoil for your team than solves problems. So I didn't know if it was a mandatory or this is already a generosity of sharing the

information. As far as I know, it's just to

make it available.

You know he said.

So Any feedback from anybody on it? Little, maybe? Nez. A little.

A little. I mean, like I said, it it doesn't make a lot of sense without Yeah. Having the the back end. Yeah. Except for if if you're looking into it, yeah, then you can see stuff. But

it. And, Mike, can you remind the board the first from those survey results, remind the board of the first couple of to dos that were born out of that.

So, with coming from that, it was going to be, one, making sure that we were serving as many people as we could with the information we found. So, that's gonna be your fitness classes, bringing back there was a big call for balance classes, obviously. The second call was, bringing back chair yoga with instructors. So we went through that to see what was what we could do effectively and quickly. Then from there, it's also gonna be looking at what can be done in the future.

So, you know, we have, there are some, you know, topics of we want this. And off the top of my head, don't have it in my brain, but it was something that we could not accomplish right away. So we knew, hey, this is a I'm gonna just use this as an example. So don't take it as a goal here. But they want Saturdays.

Oh, well, if you want a Saturday, we that's not anything we can do right off the bat when we're as staff, we're maxed out. The facility does get used by Parks and Rec on Saturdays right now. So we it would take a lot of work to look at how we could do something like that. So, it's way down the line looking at future possible goals. The other the third really big thing that we're looking at, and this is something we'll come back with and, give updates on throughout is our room counts and, numbers of people that are utilizing the facility.

So, you know, are we having programs that are not failing but just not doing as are they taking up space that we could be utilizing for something else? So those those room counts are done actively every day, every hour. Every time there's a class going on, we have someone back there either counting, checking people off and counting, or anything along those lines.

So

So so our balanced classes are still being full. Two classes back

to back.

Right? Two classes back to back on Wednesday mornings, and they're now getting into wait list regularly.

So we do still have waiting list? Yeah. So they're smaller, obviously. Yeah. But are anybody getting turned away?

Most part, no. Okay. Good. Now they do have to wait. We give about a three minute three to five minute grace period.

Somebody coming in.

Yeah. So but most of the time, we can get them in. So there's normally some spots. But we this week, we had I think we were, like, 68 and I think 70 was the second one. Good. So they were full.

Any so I know we talked about at our meeting every quarter would kinda look at it and and kind of if we had to make an adjustment somewhere. But still we're on track.

Right? Yeah.

Still, we're on track. Okay. And with doing Keller Academy, we had that this morning for Okay. The center itself. I did I just did a very quick high level look at our, numbers. Everything has increased.

Good.

And we're not from last year to this year, we're up about 40 people per day on average through the door. All of our programs are up. So we are right now, just about every class is seeing an increase across the board. So

Didn't we increase the walk time a little bit too,

didn't we? Or we

weren't able

to actually. Were not able to. Yeah. So there's still thirty minutes every day, the first thirty minutes of the day Gotcha. Essentially. So, yeah, they're they are doing that.

Gotcha. Alright. Thanks. Thank you. You're welcome. That was off the cuff, by the way. We didn't didn't let him know we were gonna take his breath. We don't really have an update for the from the user agreement subcommittee. All that's kinda influx waiting for council to new council to get established, and we'll figure that out. It's not a cold issue.

I can assure you that. Will Cody, will there be a separate ribbon cutting for the water feature, and do we do we know

Yes. And I don't know the date.

Maybe before Halloween.

Likely Hopefully, before the end of summer.

Would you be able to share do you have anything? Are are we planning something

for it?

Is Jordan involved in doing something?

Not yet. They're gearing up for camp out and trash bash this weekend.

From the July 4? Yeah. Yeah. July 3.

But we'll definitely do something. I know council will want to do something. Awesome.

Yeah. Yeah. Great. I'm sure the community will be excited, especially with our hot summer rolling in. Alright.

Next on the agenda is to receive updates from park board members.

Anybody have anything? What did you say?

Park board members. Any Got any update on our news? Yeah. Anything?

Well, you know, for the senior thing of it, we've got that going again for with all in for summer. And I did a presentation yesterday at a loan. And some of the frustration for them is their ZIP code number because they reached about extra money because they are not considered a resident.

Used So to be what ZIP code?

76244 went to Fort Worth and

Yes.

And 76248 is us. Mhmm. And so if you're the 44, then you have to pay the

Right. Extra. Right.

But you have to tell them that if you're coming for the class, you don't have to pay to walk in the KSIC or KSAC as long as can call it. But it was another problem of seniors getting transportation. That's a a big issue. And it's not that far, but, you know, you can look up an Uber and I think it's like $6 each way.

Oh, you're about from where they live to the to the pub?

They're they're just on they're they're right there at Sports Park almost to turn left.

Yeah.

They you got by where the railroad tracks? It's on the right. And it's it's a very big, large seniors community. That's it. Yeah.

What if their community would offer a shuttle?

The one in Fort Worth that is

So was that a former

complex over? It's a senior complex.

Like, it's yes.

Because

Sam's Club and all that. Yeah.

Okay. But on the Fort Worth side of it. Yeah.

Yeah. So Fort Worth. And Fort Worth does not have, quote, unquote, a seniors facility. Mhmm. They have 13 buildings, but they're all levels of ages and things. Mhmm. So it's not not considered, you know, any kind of a place for them. So nothing you can do about that one. Nope. But anyway, it's just we made the presentation. We tried.

Yeah. Okay.

Cool. Thank you.

Can I share that that at the park tomorrow from five to 7PM at Bear Creek Park? It's the kids entrepreneur market. Anybody wants to come buy some sparkle tooth toothpaste or Amore Natural Healing Salves. Those are the two products.

So what time

tomorrow? Five to seven.

That's Friday.

Okay. Every child can put up a vendor booth and they are business plan, product creation, marketing strategy from kids five to our school goes to twelve, but it was open up to the public. So And

it's gonna be there where the Farmer's Market is.

Where Farmer's Market is

right over there.

Five to seven tomorrow.

Cool. Yeah. That's fun. Oh, that

is me. Mhmm.

Might have to run my e bike over

good role model for those kids. Yes. We're gonna pull out the brochure. Would

would now be an okay time to ask about my survey suggestion?

What do you wanna ask about?

My survey suggestion for the sports park.

Oh, on the white finding?

Yeah.

Or another meeting.

I

think I sent it to you. Maybe I just sent it to Felix.

You did. Okay. Just counsel kinda gave us direction.

Okay. That's fair.

Yeah. What?

Okay. Well, I mean, I guess it's still relevant. So for the sports park, councils exploring way finding signs.

For all our trails or just sports park?

The sports park to get started. But it's a good foothold for if you think way finding signs are good in the sports park, maybe you think they're they're good on the trails too. But they're, letting the contractor recommend where they go. And, my suggestion was a survey with QR codes strategically around the park, especially near parking that lets people respond on you know, if they're a frequent visitor or a guest and and if they had trouble figuring out where to park or what field to go to and which field they were going to and they struggled with that. Just like to get the active users input until we pick the official locations and get the quote so that the community could help inform where those signs would be and not just the person making the bid.

Gotcha. Yeah.

I think I would think that the people that design Frequent from from Kevlar, North Fort Worth to the sports park. But if you're on

one of

the KYKSA teams, they probably are pretty familiar because you practice there. It's the teams that come from other Yeah. Cities like Flower Mound or Colleyville that would be probably a little confused and where seen Grandparents. Yeah. And grandparents or My parents in particular have found that city. Yeah. Which field is it? How do I get there? You know, that type of thing. But

not The city's working on it. Yeah. So they're they're aware. They experienced it themselves. And so that that came up in the last city council meeting.

I mean, even the fields one through four changed numbers

from what they used to be. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I can.

Thank you. So, yeah, the city is actively working on way finding for the sports park. And they're gonna as of today, what's proposed is something that looks similar to way finding signs when you're on the street. And it says, this way to these parks and various, you know, city sites.

So it's like my sports

I can drive that place like the back of my hand, but I don't know the names.

I don't know the names of anything either. I don't know the names of the yeah.

Is Keller PD involved in that at all? The signage?

Or No.

It's just it's for field.

So Okay.

This way, the soccer pads a through e

is Yeah.

One through four, five six, seven through 10. Cool.

And I know what you're talking about

when you company's first radio.

It's the architect that's doing

it.

Yeah.

Not the construction company.

I would like to get that trail map, the police dispatch office Mhmm. And see what they use for waypoints, the waymarkers.

I think I found it.

Did you see it?

It's I will double check. I'm pretty sure I found it on, like, the city's interactive website where you can, like, put up zones, and you can check all the boxes and different things that go up on the map. I'm pretty sure that the trail markers are a checkbox where you can see the numbers that the police have. I mean, it's not a, like, user friendly. It's not something you would print off on a computer. Yeah.

But if you were curious. With

apps now, it's really easy to go out and mark trails

Yeah.

And put a sign. It's when somebody gets injured or or, you know, somebody calling in a full arrest on a trail, you know, it's hard to tell them where you're at.

I would like to jump into that because I had a neighbor work me over about that Yeah. Because they're not marked and No.

He said

he had an emergency and the dispatch lady kept saying, where are you? We need to focus on that. And there was no way to correlate.

Perfect example.

What's wild is on my app, I can download Push for Pizza. And I can go stand in the middle of that field, and I can say, want a pizza right there. Yep. And they have the technology to do it. I know. Get our law enforcement and police

That's their their system. Same.

It's Yeah. Why the old system.

Mhmm. I don't I don't know. But, I mean, it was just something he just was upset about.

I'll never let that one.

It's on our radar.

So we we did River Legacy Park, which is gigantic in Arlington. The fire department did it with old GPS units. We marked them. You know? This is the exact coordinates. Then we made a map for dispatch. Mhmm. And it helped. But it's it's a giant Park. It's a linear park that goes all across North Arlington. But we could do the same thing with Ash now. It's real easy.

The park map for the sports park would be good on the Keller Connect site at least. Because someone was asking on Neighborly Group or one of the mom's groups or something. Like, which field where's field blah blah blah?

Yep. You just had it on there. Yeah.

Do we like the

one with the

comma or without? The Keller Neighborly group?

Oh, which one's the bigger one? Which one? Yeah.

The real one. The

Which is the real one? The comma or the no comma?

I The only one of

men, I guess. But you guys about the app? No. Well, I'm talking about

Color Connect, the app. Yeah. We should have it in the map. But

someone was But I saw

it on one of the color Facebooks.

Is it it's gonna be clear since we're in a city building right now. It's not an official city

run group. Okay.

No. For the record. No. But which one

is the official group? How about just say the original group has a comma? I have a comma. And the new group

doesn't have a comma. I'm in the new group. Uh-huh. I'm just saying the Keller Connect app that we

have. The

city yeah.

Yes, sir.

That would be good to put.

He said he's they're working on it. Okay. Yeah. Sports park map

on it.

So we got the rendering that the architect made at the very beginning. And since we added a interactive splash interactive water feature, and we added a restroom at Legacy and some other things that weren't in that original. Mhmm. They're modifying that. Okay. Okay. We've already got what goes over it that shows all the field numbers.

Oh, cool.

We're just waiting for the

It'll be on this to go to the

next I don't know where we're gonna put it.

But But every

that'll be up to that'll be up to the public information people.

Oh, they'll do that. Sure.

Well, I have that green belt behind me and then over like that is housing there.

Mhmm.

And that's really filled in. And so you you start out on Mercy and go on the path of trail, you probably know where that is, and then winds around and gets out there at Smithfield, I think. So

So there's no

But there's no signs. I mean, things that are saying this is number 14 or 15 or anything like that.

And they

fire station.

Council hasn't reviewed the citizen survey yet. They didn't get to it the last meeting, but wayfinding signage on trails was not near the top.

Well Oh, yeah. I wanna burst y'all's bubble. So our maps are there's not even a app a section here for parks, is there, on the Killer Connect?

I don't think so.

But, I mean, if you fell back there, I mean, how do they get back there with the equipment? Just have to get another thing. Yeah.

If we can't go there, can we get a great way

to do it? I don't

There is some responsibility for the user to know where they're at.

Oh, I'm sorry. I I don't because you've got the water pop thing for Calvin. I don't disagree with that. But this gentleman was irritated. Just drop a pen.

I'm sorry. Trail committee did have a update. We recently had a small victory in that a color cross country runner here at Russo and and

We're a great parkway.

Oh. He got hit. Oh, shoot. Nobody heard. Uh-huh. He showed incredible athleticism and

joked Groused down. And

the car

drove off.

The hood of the car. No. Gotcha. But in any event, the trail subcommittee posed a question to public works about some additional signage at that intersection to remind people that are turning right on red to to get stopped and turn. You don't eat your sandwich and just flip around the turn. So hats off to public works for being as responsive as they were.

They get a sign up there.

It's not up yet. Okay.

They're Good.

They're working on it. Good. That'll be helpful.

Don't need another Nina.

No. No.

Do signs prove to be efficacious? We talk about them a lot. Do we see a decrease in what we're trying to

I don't think we do. Because Understood. A lot of times people will ask for a sign and will point out there's one right there that says exactly what you want. Well, I never noticed that one. Do you need it right here?

Right. I feel like the blinking lights

I love those.

Yeah. I think those are great.

I just meant terms and signs in general.

Signs and signs.

Gonna get lost in the sports park. I feel like city well, they're probably gonna get the same number of calls.

I mean, the the big green signs that we have that have all the rules, people don't read any of those.

Nobody. They are a little faded and up and dated. Because I sent Ashley a picture of one consistent. Yeah. But I do think for sports parks, because I go to a lot of baseball fields. I do read those signs. Because I'm like

You do?

Yeah. Because I'm like Blue and your new Blue field. None of them

look blue to me. They're all the same. I'm like, how do I get there? Especially at Arlington, there's, like, one field by itself, and that's where I was supposed

to be. I think you become sort of oblivious to signs you see every day. If you're at a new sports park, it's helpful. It's why the way finding signs in the sports park will be helpful.

That'll be great.

But it's part of the reason when they put up a new stop sign, they put flags on top of it. Right? Because people are you become you go on autopilot for lack of a better word, and you drive that intersection like you've always driven it. And so they have to put the flags up to let you know there's a there's now a stop sign.

Like, the new sports science stop sports park.

I've been through that fucking one time.

Right. I've seen several people drive right through

it. That's Where? Are we gonna put a light there?

There's a new stop sign.

Oh, I don't

In in the sports park. It I don't know. Was just the

first day. I was like, oh. Right.

Girl and my girls

were like,

what happened, mom? You can't say the flags on sign.

I said an f word. It wasn't fun. So

Well, this is fun. Fancy. It's gonna be good. Mhmm. I saw you.

One other update from Park board members. This comes from our chairperson, and I'm gonna try to be a little more impassioned than he normally is. But this is something that's really, really important to him. And if you haven't ever been, you should think about going. Here's what he wrote. Everyone is welcome to join us for Keller's special Memorial Day program at Mount Gilead Cemetery at 11AM on Memorial Day, May 25. Park at

the Mount

Church, special speakers, 21 gun salute, patriotic music, flag retirement ceremony, and a free picnic afterwards, a beautiful way to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. And if you've been, you need to go. It's one of the coolest things in the city does. And that the history behind the Mount Gilead Cemetery,

if you've never been out there

and talked to people that are knowledgeable about that cemetery

11AM.

It's it's really, really enlightening. So I encourage you to go. I implore you to go. I'll see you there.

I'll do that. I have to start my murph early.

Thank you.

And it would tickle him to death if we were all there.

Heck yeah. I I did realize we have something else for Johnson Road Park, which is that we have a subcommittee member who is moving. And so we will need a third and, therefore, tiebreaker in case we do not vote the same on what Ben

When she

Who do think would win in a fight?

Who's winning? Tomorrow.

Oh, she's moving tomorrow?

That's what we like. She's boxing right now. She sent you an email. You haven't seen it yet.

You're good. She knows when your privacy's wrong. No.

I'm just saying you put I haven't seen it, which is fine because she just sent it, like, an

hour to eight hours. But we think she's moving this summer for the next twelve months. The summer starts now. Has to surrender her seat.

Okay.

I don't know if there's an

so we'll leave that part to you. But for our purposes, what we need is another subcommittee member to help with

You need to bring the SOPs

vote on them.

I know.

And we can look. I'm happy I'm happy to meet and get you with

guys wrestle. I'll

call I'll

call the match. Yeah.

It's fine. Perfect. But I'll add you to our file, and then I'm happy to meet and talk you through what we came up to in front of the survey results and how we got to where we are today.

Okay. Cool.

Thanks, Anna. It's been a while since I've been there, but I I used to love that park.

Oh, it's great.

It's the right park.

You and the whole community.

I know. Everybody has fond memories of that park. Other parks, you're like, what? What? It's either the Zipline Park or Yeah.

The wood is here. Yeah. Anybody have anything else? No. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn the work session? Motion to adjourn the work session. And a second. There. All in favor. Big

John Jay.

Texas opens meetings act prohibits the board from discussing issues which the public has not been given three business days notice. Issues raised may be referred to city staff for research and possible future action. Do we have any persons to be heard? Seeing none, we'll move on to the minutes. Consider the approval of the minutes for the 04/09/2026 park meeting.

Entertain a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

And a second?

Seconded.

All in favor? Any what do you call? Nays. Nays? Seeing none. Meeting the minutes approved. Staff announcements.

Couple quick announcements. Our indoor or excuse me, our outdoor pool is opening Memorial Day weekend. So, that Saturday, we'll be open to the public for the outdoor pool. So, Jay, I'm expecting you to come out there and test the slides. You could you could you could swing that into the after after park run, come on out.

Then our summer camp season kicks off the week of June 1. We have ten weeks of sold out summer camp for the kiddos all day, so it's gonna be a packed house, but it's gonna be fun. But other than that, we just are gearing up for summer and ready to roll, and it's already hot outside. And after school rentals have already started as of today, so we got kids out in the outdoor pool swimming. And just a quick update, I know that people are wanting to know about the natatorium stuff. We're working with LAC to bring the swimming lesson program fully over to the point while they're closed, so we're working closely with them. Don't have specifics, but we are working closely with them to bring some of that over there.

So does LAC do any teaching at the point right

now? Yes. We've partnered with them. So we contract with them. So we have half of their so all the lessons taught at the Point are through LAC. So we're just going to take all of the lessons and bring them over to the Point for

the site. They pay pretty good money.

Yes. So we're excited about that. We're going to it's going to be twice as big, but we've got to teach kids how to swim. So, we're going do that. But I'll keep you guys updated as more information comes about with partnership with them and Natatorium stuff. And that's all

I got. Cool. Thank you all. Michael, before you leave, you mentioned that it's sold out. Did you have to turn people away?

We don't turn people away, they go on a waiting list. But some of those waiting lists are 100 kids deep.

Like five minutes after you

leave? Yeah, we sold out 1,000 spots in twelve hours for the summer. So it was pretty quick. It was the quickest we've ever sold out before. So people were on the waiting list pretty quickly. It's good and bad, of course, but we've had no issues with kids. If they've had to pull out a week's, we've been able to fill those spots immediately, which is great. So it's a good service. And the majority of the people are actually from outside of Keller. So it works out well for us. Does

it cause you to think about expansion?

To a degree, yes. We've expanded in terms of numbers of children, we've expanded in the last two years anyways. But at this point, the facility can't hold any more kids. So we would have obviously, maybe we could see about expanding from our new MiraLAK. He could help us out. I know he likes to come use the gym, so. But in terms of space, we're basically at capacity. We because we have half day contracted enrichment camps in there as well that are using some of the space. So right now, we're just we're busting at the seams. So but yes. But maybe one day, we can blow out a wall and build a whole new gym. So I'm sure Cody Cody would

love that too. So One of the one of the last couple of times that you, updated us, you talked about the boxing program. Oh, How's that going?

It's going great. You know, it's it's it's a really cool, unique program. We actually were able to kind of retrofit our storage closet into a boxing area with punching bags and all kinds of stuff. So, you know, if you ever are mad or something at the point you need to take frustration, there's a whole room full of punching bags now. But yeah, the gentleman that runs it is a great guy, and we're hoping to build on that. He's getting some good feedback from the program. It's still kind of growing at the point. So, we're hoping that with some exposure this summer, it will really help this program. So Monday through Friday, we got Monday and Wednesday, we have boxing going on in the Bear Creek rooms. And Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, we have karate going on in the Bear Creek room.

So combat all week long. Yeah, a lot

of fighting going

on.

Yeah, so it's been fun though. So yeah, if you're ever curious, come out and take a look. They got kids from little itty bitty kids doing boxing all the way to adults, and it's a really cool program. And I was thinking about putting my son in there. So hopefully, we'll find some time to do that. But, yeah.

Real quick. Since LA Fitness closed the other side of the tracks, have we noticed any uptick on membership from maybe them, from them closing?

We've had some uptick. I wouldn't say that it's like a drastic increase. We've been fortunate to stay pretty straight across the line, and we're not losing people. But we're adding. Summertime, always you're going to see an increase May, June, July, typically.

So you're going to it's getting to that point where traditionally, you're going to see the summer months just go way up. But we've been able to maintain, and that's kind of what more I'm more concerned of is just the maintaining and keeping And those people we've been able to do that. So we haven't seen any kind of people leaving or loss of memberships, which is great. So going to to we're not going do

The busy weekend for Parks and Rec trash bashes this Saturday at Town Hall at 9AM. And then also this Saturday, beginning at 3PM is the family camp out here at Town Hall, and it'll go through Sunday morning. Summer nights start in June every Thursday. We're skipping a meeting to attend. And then color lights updates because this is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of our nation.

Council has given us additional funding and directives to add above and beyond what we've normally done at the color light show. We're adding another five minutes to the fireworks, And we're adding a drone show. And we're upgrading the entertainment. We're having Emerald City be our headline band. And then we've also got professional photographer, videographer lined up, and then face painters, balloon artists, jugglers, stilt walkers. We've got Uncle Sam and a Statue Of Liberty, aerial performer, and bubble artist, and still working on a couple of things to try to add before the deadline.

Jordan came back just in time. She did.

And I I think it's important to note the face painter and some those are free. So right? If I'm remembering correctly

Yes.

Those are free.

So that's

Balloon artist, painter. We're gonna have a rock painting opportunity, temporary tattoos, things like that.

And council's direction was lots of face painters to minimize lines. So that was very generous of them for us with the young kids. Right.

We're still having a hot dog eating contest? Yes.

Are you entering? No. No.

Sounds like Thomas.

I go every year and I love watching it. I think it's a lot of fun to watch it. I'm out there.

Still planning on it.

Yes. Good.

That's it.

Thank you. Any questions for Cody? Thank you.

Anything

else from the park board? This is the fastest meeting ever. Come up come up with something, Ashley. No? Entertain a motion to adjourn.

And