Board of Parks & Recreation - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call the order of the Barks Board meeting for July the 27th, 2026. Open in prayer. Would you pray for us, Mr. Bennett?

I'll be more than happy to. Please, everybody, bow your heads. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this wonderful and glorious day. Thank you for everybody here in attendance tonight. God, we ask that we do your bidding each and every day. We praise you and love you. In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen. Amen. Mr. Perry, will you go? Yes, sir. All right. If you'll look over the agenda, I need a motion to accept that. Mr. Perry was first. Mr. Montoya was second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed? Take a look over the minutes from last meeting. And Mr. Perry is giving me a first. Mr. Montoya is giving me a second. All in favor say aye. All opposed? Outstanding. Outstanding. All right. Public comments. Do I have someone that wants to speak to the people? Mr. Kevin?

Hello, Parks Board.

Thanks for being here.

Oh, my name's Kevin Rector. I'm from 113 Stoddard Street. Y'all have a conversation about e-bikes, so I just wanted to talk about that a little bit. 113 Stoddard Street. Sorry. That's me. Go ahead, young man. I'm just a young man. I love you. Excited. So good. I am excited about this. So, first of all, I want to thank you all for being here because it's Tuesday night. You could be home. You could be out doing whatever, but you're serving your community, and I just want you to know I really appreciate that. Quality of a community is greatly dependent on the quality of its parks, and so the work you do has significant value, and it's really important. You're going to have a conversation about e-bikes. I don't know what that's going to entail. I have no idea. But I did. There's just so much stuff out there right now that is rooted in misinformation and ignorance and all kinds of stuff that people don't know. So there's basically an industry established sort of standard of what's a bicycle. It's codified in Tennessee. Hendersonville Police Department's put out some videos recently about it. Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 bikes. And so I don't want to overhash that, but I would strongly urge you not to invent any other class of bike. Those are already established in the code for Tennessee as bicycles. And so I'd encourage you to keep that. I'd also encourage you to keep in mind as you have your conversation that, It's the quality of the person riding the bike, not the bike that matters. All you got to do is go down Main Street and you're going to find somebody who's driving like an idiot. But we're not going to ban cars from Main Street. And so I want you to keep that in mind. About half of all trips by automobile in the United States are three miles or less. That's from the United States Transportation. And it costs about 72 cents on average to drive a mile in a car. And so one of the things that people in Hendersonville love to do is complain about traffic. And one of the best ways to get rid of traffic is to get rid of cars. For me, I found a beautiful economic incentive to riding my bike. I rode my bike here today. I did the math. It was going to cost me $6.64 to round trip my car here from my house today. just at the Hunt Club. And so I jumped on my bike. It cost me about two cents in electricity because mostly I just pedaled. And the problem is Hendersonville has woefully inadequate bicycle infrastructure for any kind of substantial increase in people wanting to ride bikes. Now, I mean, you've got to be a little bit crazy. to get out on Main Street and ride your bike, even though there's a bike lane. I mean, the rumble strip's on the other side of the bike lane. So, you know, just riding here today, someone got about two feet away from me going probably 50 miles an hour. I'm okay with that, most people aren't. So because the infrastructure is so poor on the roads, Um, the greenways ended up being an incredibly beautiful way to get from point a to point B in Hendersonville. So from where I live, if I want to get to the streets of Indian lake, I'm not going down Saundersville, even though it's a beautiful road. there's just no bicycle capacity there. It's not safe to ride a bike on that road. It's all cars. They tend to go faster than the speed limit. But there's a really nice greenway right there. So now, of course, I'm going to ride very slowly, and I'm going to be watching for pedestrians, and I'm not going to hit them because that's my responsibility. Just like when I drive my car, I still can't hit pedestrians fast. You know, even if they're doing something boneheaded, right? And so I just would, I've seen on the Facebooks and whatnot, somebody like, I just ban them all, ban them all. No, definitely ban e-motorcycles, ban e-scooters that go above 28 miles an hour that are outside of that class three. They're above 750 watt motors. Those do not belong on greenways. Those are motorcycles. Those are scooters. Those need to be registered and driven on the road with the cars. But for the bicycles, I just really want to encourage you to understand that, quite frankly, we need substantially more greenway and we need to be multi-use. I'm really in favor of some signage, you know, bicycles yield to pedestrians, you know, ring your bell, whatever, like education and communication, because most of the problems are not going to be, generally speaking, I don't want to disparage young people, it's generally not going to be the older folks who that are getting into issues on the greenways. And so education is a really important piece of that for the young people to understand how to do it safely and effectively. And also last piece, you're the parks board. Not the transportation people. I know that city, that's the mayor and alderman have to handle that stuff. But e-bikes are excellent exercise. There's been all kinds of research. People think that because that is a motor, you're not exercising. But actually, research has been done that shows that people who ride e-bikes get as much exercise as people who ride non-e-bikes, typically because they ride significantly farther. But they're still pedaling, putting in the work, and all of that. Anyway. Thank you very much for the time. I don't want to waste any more. You've got a big agenda, so I'll get out of your hair, but thank you for your attention to that. Thank you, sir.

All right, everybody. The financial report, Tennessee United Soccer. I don't know what If you had any questions about it. Oh, well, no. Well, I did something stupid, didn't I? Okay. State your name and tell me what you want.

Hi, everybody. I'm Lindsay Walters. I'm the financial director at Tennessee United. We submitted our annual financial report to the Parks Board, sent that in a couple weeks ago, and it should be included with your packets. But I'm just here to answer any questions you may have, here to – talk through any uh it is our kickoff week it's starting tonight so season officially is opening today how exciting we have um roughly a thousand kids registered and that's you know we're still hoping to kind of bring some more kids along and we are just thrilled for the season so we've got a lot of opportunities a lot of new exciting stuff um camps are great um tournaments are great so we just we appreciate the support of the parks board And any questions you all have, anything you can take back?

Thank you, ma'am.

Yeah.

Are you going to hang around for a little while?

I can if you need to.

Well, we're going to be talking about a little soccer thing here. And maybe you could, I will empower you to, if you would like to say something, I'd like to hear that. Oh, great, yeah. I'm probably going outside of the. scope of reality here but i'd like to hear what you think anyway well yes let just to let you know i myself am not a soccer player nobody wants me on any sort of teams or anything like that that's not my gifting so but numbers i can i can help you with that's even better i would just assume you're just being a regular mom so that's fine thank you for coming man all right state soccer association background check policy uh That would be HSC.

I'll present this, Mr. Chairman. There's really no reason for either soccer club to have to speak on this beyond their request. Hendersonville Soccer Club sent us a request that there's an email on page 7 that I sent to you all, actually, if you want to refer to that. They sent us a request that they be able to use the State Soccer Association background checks for their coaches, head coaches and assistants. So both of our soccer clubs, Harrisville Soccer Club and Tennessee United, are members of the State Soccer Association. In order to be a member of the state soccer association, you have to have your coaches run through their background check system. So we asked the city attorney if they were to use the state system, would that be good and satisfy what we asked them to do as a parks board and parks staff to run background checks. Currently, the parks board has mandated that all head coaches and assistant coaches in our leagues Go through our background check policy Okay, so that being said the next question is what is their policy? On page eight is the state association background check policy in your packet Their policy is more strict than our policy therefore Our legal here at the city and our insurance provider all agree that if they want to use a more strict policy than we have, so be it. They can do that. We do the same type thing with discipline. If the leagues want to discipline beyond what we have in terms of policies, we allow them to do that. The question became, is it possible that someone could be disqualified from coaching and in soccer but be allowed to coach in the parks league. And that is certainly a possibility. That could happen. You could have a coach that, because of the strictness of their background policy at the state soccer, you could have a coach that coaches baseball on Friday night and couldn't coach soccer on Saturday morning. Personally, and as for our staff, we're comfortable being able to defend our policy. It's not as strict, but it's still pretty strict. I mean, the state policy goes back to things that someone might have had happen when they were 18 years old that really they've had 25 years to become a better person. So the ask of you all is to, if you feel so fit, to allow the soccer clubs for the coaches that it pertains to for the clubs to utilize the state system for their background checks, head coaches and assistants. In doing so, if you look on page seven, this is the staff recommendation. The staff recommendation would be to approve them to do this as long as each club submits a roster of all head coaches and assistant coaches prior to the start of each season. as long as they sign a form stating that all coaches, head and assistants, submitted on their roster have passed the state association background check, as long as both clubs submit a report from the state soccer association showing that all coaches have passed this background check, and as long as they agree to notify the city of Hendersonville if any coaches are flagged by the state soccer association. Why is that? That last one is important. It's important because they may have a person go through their background check policy prior to them submitting a city background check policy in another sport. So if that person gets flagged and something is pending, we would want to know that before we allow that person to go and coach another sport. So I think as long as those bullet point requirements are satisfied, As a staff and speaking for our legal here at the city, we're good with this. I'll take any questions. Mr. Golden is a president of Tennessee United Soccer and a board member, and he can speak to this further probably if he wants to, or he may not have to. I might have answered everybody's questions.

Tennessee United is in favor of this for sure. Exactly, yeah.

I would not have been in favor of it if their policy was not as strict as our policy. Without question.

So, again, we're making a motion briefly about how would that go?

I think the easiest way to put that would be if someone wanted to make a motion to accept the proposal from the Hendersonville Soccer Club to allow both soccer groups to utilize the state soccer association background check policy provided they satisfy the four requirements recommended by staff in the packet.

Makes sense, makes sense.

All right, Mr. Spike. All right, I'll make a motion that we approve to let the soccer clubs use the state background check provided that they follow all the bullet points on this that the staff requires. Is that good?

I think so. Mr. Pike, make the motion. Mr. Golden, second. Any more discussion? I've got to do one question.

Is this going to add more work onto the staff of the parks, or is it going to be pretty much similar? Look and see who's going to be on there.

I think it will add less work. Okay. It will reduce the workload. Yeah. We'll still have to look over everything.

Mm-hmm.

But it will reduce the workload on Jasmine and possibly Dallas a little bit. And it will reduce slightly like to the tune of $1,000 or $2 our expenses from the city potentially.

That's kind of why I wanted you to stay because that gives me a wonderful idea just to throw this out. I mean, we are worried about the kids. We are worried about the kids and If we, this goes perfect with what I think needs to be done to make them safe. So thank you for staying. Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Gilley.

I want to make sure, Mr. Chairman, before you vote, Dallas, did I leave anything out? No. Okay. Okay.

Any more discussion?

And who was, Mr. Pike made the motion?

Yes, sir, please. Any more discussion?

Who was the second? Mr. Golden?

All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Thank you, Mr. Gill.

Thank you.

World Bass Enterprise Site Map and Activations. That's going to be awesome.

While Ms. Eileen is coming up, Mr. Chairman, I'll give you a little background. She's here representing Go West Enterprises. No, I'm sorry, Go West Productions.

Creative.

Go West Creative. I'm sorry. That's okay. My bad. Go West Creative. They are handling a large portion of the large bass fishing tournament that we're hosting in October with World Bass Enterprises. You all previously approved that tournament. However, they are selling alcohol, so you need to approve their site map that they submitted. Their site map is on page nine. And also they have two activations that we felt like they need to make sure you blessed as well one of them is like foam bow and arrows and one of them is a petting zoo so both of those need to be approved but on the site map I just want everybody to kind of understand what we're dealing with here if you look on the site map on page nine the portion of where the lines are that shows looks like it's parking in the middle see where I'm looking at here all that will be fenced off I could take them through all that I would like for you to take it take them through but it's important because the point of view approving the site map is she'll explain that nobody will be able to leave the event site and walk to their car without call that's what I wanted to be able to explain yeah absolutely yes

Well, thank you for having me here. I'm Eileen Vella. I'm the CEO and President of Go West Creative. We are a Nashville-based creative agency and event production company. Our client is World Mass Enterprises, and I also serve as the executive producer for all of the events that are occurring here in Hendersonville and also at Gaylord Opryland and also at the Pinnacle in downtown Nashville. I'm happy to address the site plan, the items that Andy mentioned. There's also a BB gun range that I want to, I think, call your attention to and address. But in addition to that, I'm also happy to answer any questions that you have about the Champions or World Bus Enterprises. We have been working on it for about five and a half months and are intimately familiar with all of the plans, and have designed all of the sets. Shall we start with the park map or would you like to start with the activation? Start with the park map. Okay. So the park map that you're looking at there This lays out a couple of things. First of all, the infrastructure, which we can take you through. It also lays out our security plan. Event safety and security is something that's extremely close to my heart. I served on the National Center for Safety and Security and Spectator Sports for the NFL and the MLB and Homeland Security. worked on over 16 Super Bowl halftime shows in production. So we've designed this very much to kind of be in line with Homeland Security and what would be a successful SEER rating, if you're familiar with the SEER rating, which is the Special Event Safety and Assessment Rating for major fan festivals. So we've taken it to kind of a next level security plan, you will see there the fencing. Rachel, if you can point to the purple lines that kind of go all around that area. Our intent is to, on the road coming in, Rachel, if you'll just point to where that ingress-egress point is there, we will have cars come in along that road. I'm sorry, it's a little far from me, but we'll have cars come in along that road and they will stop there at a chain link fence, which is where they will have to stop and then park in one of those two parking lots. That entire area will be fenced in. It helps us control ingress, egress into the park, number one. And the only vehicles that will be allowed beyond those gates that you can kind of see, there are shuttle transportation, ADA transportation, boats for the anglers at certain times of day. And that is so that we can control vehicle traffic and threats kind of throughout the park, throughout the entire course of the festival. So the entire parking area that you see there will be completely fenced in. There's a parking area on the top and then there in the middle. And Rachel, if you'll just point to the dark black lines that kind of are the perimeter of the bottom of that parking area there, that is K rail so that we have complete protection against, you know, vehicles as threats and whatnot into the park. And there in the center is a series of magnetometers that our security will run. So coming into the park, People will just simply walk through those, make sure that we're in good shape from a safety and security standpoint. There is, Rachel, on the left-hand side, lower by the weigh-in stage, we have the line of boats on the other side. I'm sorry, up all the way on the other side. There you go, where their cursor was going. The weigh-in stage is at the bottom there. Sorry, right there. The weigh-in stage is on the bottom there, and to the left of that is the truck and trailer boat parade that will come up during the weigh-ins. That's completely fenced in as well. So there's fencing in that area as well. And then on the far side of the map where you see another what looks like parking area, that is the angler boats. That is where the boats will be parked overnight, Rachel, on the complete opposite side. Yep, right over there. That area is also fenced off, and that is what's considered our production back of house, our broadcast area, and the angler boat parking. So anglers will park there, the media boats will park there, and that's completely fenced in as well. The red dots that you see throughout the map in front of you, that is our security personnel. We have 52 during peak hours. We have 52 security personnel. So you'll see there are 52 posts. That is security personnel. We have six supervisors in addition to that and then one dedicated event producer who is only focused on life safety issues, security issues. medical safety and whatnot. Those 52 security officers will include, we're using, we are using, I'm so sorry, Rock Solid Security. I couldn't remember their name for a second. Rock Solid Security. They will run all of our security, but they will also use a combination of off-duty PD. Obviously, I think your policy is two per 1,000 guests, so we'll be managing that. Um, as we get registrations in for this expo, um, at the park and the fan festival. Um, so we have security stationed all around the perimeter and to Andy's point, the alcohol piece. So Cumberland hospitality group, uh, run by Barrett Hobbs, um, is handling all concessions in the park and we'll handle all of the alcohol sales through ABC licensed bartenders. Um, alcohol will be sold onsite will not be permitted to be brought in or to leave, leave the park. Um, any other questions on that? I know I went through that pretty quickly.

Where are the, where are the, what we call beer garden to where, where the beer gardens? Yeah.

Um, Rachel, do you know those two spots and then right behind the bleacher area? Yep.

Okay.

Those are the two, yeah. Those are the two sort of beer gardens that will be open. There will be hospitality and green rooms backstage for bands and MCs and whatnot, and there'll be some VIP service of beverages backstage only, but those won't be for sale, and really just more of a hospitality for the artists on stage. And those are the two beer gardens. What else at this point in terms of park infrastructure can I address for you?

I believe we got that.

Good? Good there? It's going to be fun.

It's going to be a big one. The area across from the stage, I'm assuming that's stadium seating there? on this side here, where your weigh-in is on this? Is it?

Yeah, that's weigh-in. So right behind that, I think is what you're referring to, is the picnic table area and whatnot. We have struck, we had originally some stadium seating in there, but we've struck that. That's all picnic table infrastructure right behind it. And then obviously there's the landing strip there that nothing will be put on except for right there. Yeah, there's no hard infrastructure there. And then behind that, Rachel, is the food truck area and then some more activation area. The other, I'm sorry, go ahead, please.

I was going to ask Andy. Andy, and you may be able to answer. I know it's going to be a giant event. How many, how many Do you have any kind of idea how many people can park in those two areas?

I hope 10,000.

That's 1,600 spots is what you see represented there.

1,600 parking spots is what they've got. They could bring in two or three people per car or whatever we need to get to.

And we're securing satellite parking in... Businesses and whatnot around the area church parking lots and shuttling and shuttling. Yes, absolutely. We'll have shuttle service and Yeah, so we're looking at I mean we are hoping to max out our attendance and remains to be seen how that goes, first year event. But we are launching an event app, WBE event app that we're designing right now and we're launching that on August 5th. And although this park is completely free to attend for anyone that wants to come in and attend, we are asking them to download the app and register and just present a QR code upon arrival so that we can have a general sense of how many bodies we have inside the park from a security standpoint. So if they arrive at our entry gates and they haven't downloaded that app yet, we will ask them to do so so they can scan the QR code and come into the park. If you're familiar with the CMA Fest, ingress, egress points, lights up red, lights up green. If you've seen those, it's just a really easy way to understand how many people you have inside the park at one time. So it's completely free to attend, but we will be attempting to understand what our numbers look like as soon as August 5th. We're hoping to get a lot of advanced registration. We'll see how that works.

You had mentioned a BB gun range?

Yes. So, Rachel, can you just point out on the map, and then we can have you look at the pictures, but the kids' activation area is sort of in that general area right there. There's really three activations I think you wanted us to chat about today, Andy. One of them is provided by Army Bass Anglers, and it is the inflatable BB gun range.

There's 12 in your packet.

Yeah, it is operated by the Army Bass Anglers. It is an opportunity for veterans to interact with children and to really kind of, you know, share some skills with them. And, frankly, they get more from the kids. than the kids get from the veterans. But that is one of their activations that they've used quite a bit. There's some photos in there where it's really safe interaction for them, very hands-on. There'll be, you know, 10 to 12 veterans working with the kids, guiding them through it. So fairly safe infrastructure with that, and they've used it at many a trade show and fishing tournament and whatnot. So that is one the inflatable archery is being provided by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency So again, very family friendly very kids. It's it's an inflatable I'm not sure what picture that what page that is page 11 page 11 Very family friendly and kid friendly foam Is there like a

And maybe I'm speaking too soon. Is there, on your map, is there going to be like a midway with promoters, vendors?

Yeah, right in that general area. So if you go back to the map, so to the, Rachel, if you'll point, yeah, thank you. So to the top right of those kind of what is there is like, I'm going to call them expo rows, if you will. Those are essentially spots for vendors to be. In the back corner of that space is where the kids' activities will be. So they'll kind of be along that back perimeter. And then depending on how successful we are with you know, people that want to come here and display their goods or products, we're welcoming them in for sure. We know for sure we will have, in addition to the kids' activities, we know for sure that we will have a golf simulator from an organization called Clubhouse Golf. They do a great electronic golf simulator, and we will be installing a 360 camera rig over it. We have done it for the CMA Awards after party a couple years in a row. We did it at CMA Fest, so it's a great, Adult focused really much more geared towards adults and whatnot that will be one We're looking at other local vendors as well that we would love to have come in if there are any we're taking all recommendations Because we want to fill it up and really make it family friendly and and fun for the kids There's some other things so the petting zoo you also asked us to touch on so the petting zoo We have kind of our choice. What we'd love to know from you if there's any animals you don't want in it, but it's Crazy W Farms that will provide the petting zoo. It's an enclosed fencing, you know, petting zoo with a variety of animals. Right now they're talking about baby cow, goats, sheep, alpaca. There's a camel in there. an ostrich, and any other animals that may be born before October. So intended to be very, very safe. It's about a 20-by-20-foot space, and they are covered by Cordell Insurance Agency. It's the insurance and liability of the farm, none requested of us or of the parks. Yeah, they do not leave the animals unattended at night.

I just want to follow up real quick on the beer garden area. So you said there's going to be fencing all around the park. On the left-hand side of where it butts up to the trees and stuff, yeah, is there fencing there?

That is not fenced in, no. Okay. No. There is going to be, and in the map, it's kind of a little bit challenging to detect, but it's a purple, the purple lines that you'll see, and I'm looking at it on... Anything you see in purple is intended to be a chain link fence area. The dark black lines is the K rail. And the fencing that you'll see along the The perimeter here to the left, the far left of this bottom screen right there, that's around the truck and trailer. So as the boats come in at 4 o'clock for weigh-in, we will have, and I don't know how familiar you are with what is happening here, but we have the top two leagues in fishing, the Bass Pro Tour and the Bass Elites, facing off against one another, forming two teams. So we're taking the top 25 or so anglers from both leagues. They will face off. And so our weigh-in will actually have two anglers, one per team, coming up at weigh-in time. So the boats will make their way there, drive in front of the stage, two boats at a time, two anglers at a time, dangling the fish, weighing the fish, all the things. So that area is completely fenced in to help protect the boats, to help protect the park, and also to have fans stay back from the boats during that time. Other than that, what we're really doing is fencing the parking areas in and then the far perimeter of the park just to make sure that the only vehicles that are coming in are shuttle or ADA golf carts. We'll have a series of ATVs and whatnot and UTVs bringing deliveries in, things like that.

So any beer purchased at your beer garden for... Yeah, that's what we're calling it.

Is allowed to go wherever or is it to stay in that... That's the current plan is, you know, really when we first started talking, we were kind of... you know, expanding activations all throughout the park, but we've kind of shrunk that down just a little bit to keep it really concentrated below that tree line there. So where you see the petting zoo area and the, you know, the vendor activations, that's really the top of our festival, if you will. So in that area and below is where the beer can freely kind of roam about. Everything to the right of the boat ramp is all back of house. So everything you see there, that's fenced in as well, by the way, and that's all back of house. You only can get back there if you have an all-access crewing badge lanyard for the safety of not only the 56 Anglers boats, the media boats, but it's also our production compound and editing rooms and all of that. So no beer allowed back there. Well, except for probably the anglers who I can't tell not to have beer at their boats, but after they spent the day on the water, we're here mostly to approve the site Mount and the.

All right. Make that motion. Mr. Goldman. Yeah. I make a motion that we approve this site plan and the activations and activations. I see. Yes. Mr. Golden was first. Mr. Pike was second. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you. The event app will go live August 5th, yeah. The website and all the other things are live now. The pay-per-view sales are live. It is being broadcast completely by Major League Fishing and will be available on pay-per-view. And I don't know if you're familiar with our average shows. Have you seen all of that? I have. So if anybody opts into the pay-per-view, you know, if they buy a pay-per-view package for the five days of programming, they can opt in to actually fish for the $3.25 million purse. And so we'll have a sweepstakes and we'll form an average shows team, so... two people who will be lucky enough to do that. So thank you. We're really looking forward to having this here. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Bring on the fish. National Predators, Mr. Dupree.

He's being evasive.

Oh, so how is everybody? Mr. Dupree, you're up.

Can you hear us, Mr. Dupree?

He could a second ago.

No, we cannot hear you. Oh, you're muted. Good question. We can't hear you. Yeah.

Maybe he can log off and log back on, and we can come back to him.

Mr. Dupree, if you can hear.

There you are.

Now we can't hear you, though. Stand by. Standing by.

How about now, guys? Try it again. How about now? There you go.

Good job. All right. State your name and tell us what you need.

Yeah, thank you very much for having us. My name's A.J. Tominey. I'm the Vice President of Ticket Sales and Service with the Nashville Predators, and we are interested in hopefully getting y'all's approval to host an in-line hockey tournament at the Hendersonville in-line rink, and that would be in conjunction with a ticket package that we're doing to celebrate in-line hockey and host some uh, activations up there at the, at the rink and really just make it a celebration of, uh, inline hockey and, uh, and Preds hockey, uh, as well, uh, in the community.

Mr. Chairman, um, I believe in Keith's and or Natalie can correct me if I'm wrong. We've worked this date out. That's in your packet on page 13, uh, with the Hendersonville inline hockey association, where they're good with this. and I think we're good with it, and I think we appreciate the predators coming up here to do an event. They've been a part of supporting our local inline program for a long time through their community grants, so I'm hoping that we can start getting those again next year maybe if we apply and do the right things. No pressure, though.

We have talked with HIHA. multiple times. They're good with it.

I motion we approve this.

All right. Mr. Bennett has made a motion to approve. Mr. Golden was a second. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Thank you, sir. I'm glad we finally found you.

Thank you so much, guys. Sorry about the technical difficulties, and we appreciate it.

Thank you very much. TSU ASCE Mid-South Symposium. Mr. McCurry. For the record, state your name. Tell us what you need, sir.

Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Charles McCurry. I'm the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University. All right. ASCE stands for the American Society of Civil Engineers. All right. They hold a student symposium every year. It's supported by the national organization. There's a regional aspect. There's actually 14 universities involved in this in Arkansas and Tennessee. So these 14 universities come together for a competition. We have a series of competitions that occur. Two of our biggest competitions is a concrete canoe competition and a surveying competition, where the students actually build concrete canoes. And they actually have to race them, all right? So we're looking, we had made a petition against Saunders Ferry Park. We was using it to have the park close that day for a couple of reasons. because we have to build an obstacle course for the students to race the concrete canoes. And we would do that right in front of the boat ramps. We would also have to have, we'll have to have, if we get approved, we'll have to have personnel there, lifeguards and different things like that while the students are racing. In regards to that, also we're going to have the surveying competition. So the park is ideal because it has a whole bunch of different landscapes for the students to go in and do the survey competition. So this is a one day event. We're going to have, uh, probably about between about five and 800 students there, uh, doing these competitions all day. Uh, like I said, water park, we will, uh, we're going to cater in food. Uh, so like I said, Tennessee states to host this year, we'll cater in food for the students there. So that's primarily what we're looking for. Uh, we have to, uh, since this is a national sanction event, you know, we working with the national chapter ASCE. to make sure that we get this plan accordingly. So, questions?

I have a question. Yes. These universities be coming from out of state, some of them?

Yes, so we have Tennessee Tech, Tennessee State, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Arkansas, Lipscomb, Tennessee, UT at Martin, Harding, University of Memphis, University of Chattanooga, Bryan College, Vanderbilt, Arkansas State, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and Christian Brothers.

They probably have to spend the night in a hotel? Yes. Can we make sure that they use our hotels here? I'd hate for him to drive very far before that.

That's what we're looking at. You don't say once we approved the venue, uh, uh, so we're going to have, there's going to be part of the competition is going to be a Tennessee state university. And if we do the lake out here, that's what the schools are waiting for. So hotel reservations, those participants are probably going to stay closer right here.

I want to make sure we get on a call so we can get y'all with the right people at the hotels. Yeah. And then I think if we prove that you're advertising that we can We can send a little message to our friends at Sumner County tourism that may help be able to help you sponsor the lunch or whatever. Oh, that'd be great. All we can do is ask. So I just want to make sure that that's a next step with our staff when this gets approved tonight.

Okay. Absolutely.

Mr. Chairman, these folks have been great to work with. They followed every step along the way, giving us all kinds of information and meetings. Natalie's done a great job dealing with them. They have on here that the funds from this event, registration fees would go back to Tennessee State University. That's kind of outside of Hendersonville. However, I think we all know, including myself, people who have attended Tennessee State University from Hendersonville, so they service our community and do a great job. That's all I have to say, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Gillum. Any more questions?

I don't think you want to, I don't think you're talking about waving the, you're talking about waving the park fees, then you would have to put that in the form of emotion. I was just making sure you all knew, I thought you were making sure that you understood that on their application on page 21 that it lists that the funds from the tournament were going to Tennessee state university. Right now they're still being charged a park fee for the day. But I wanted to make sure everybody was good with them collecting registrations and student registrations and team registrations and it going to Tennessee State University. You're not waiving anything unless you want to waive the entire park fee that they would pay to rent the park. Okay.

Or you can waive it at me. It doesn't matter. Do I hear a motion to approve? Mr. Perry gives me a motion. Mr. Montoya was second. Discussion? All in favor say aye. All opposed? Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir. Thank you very much, sir. We'll get with you on hotels ASAP.

What's that? Yes, there's actually protocol. There's a weight limit on them. No, but it's funny, and they have to do a buoyancy test to see how much they float. They're really fantastic.

Mr. Perry's out.

All right, so we'll just be following back up with you.

I'm sure Natalie will be in touch as soon as possible.

All right, thank you. Have a good afternoon. Thank you. Mr. Gilley, another thing about that, do you know right offhand how many, and I should know this, how many hotels there are in Hendersonville?

In Hendersonville? Yes. You've got the Fairfield, the Hampton, the Hyatt Place, the Holiday Inn, whatever the name of the one is now on Sanders Ferry. It's changed its name. And then you've got In-Town Suites, and you've got Spring Haven Mansion over there.

The reason I bring that up, I mean, coupled with what these people are doing, notice we're having a national tournament and whatnot. Maybe it might be a good idea for the planning commission or all the people, maybe look at another hotel ticket.

There's places where one is approved. You just got to get somebody to come build it.

Well, I'll do it, but I don't. Okay. No, thank you. All right, Harlan Family Bench. Mr. Harlan?

I'll take that, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. On page 25, the Harlan family sent in the biography there on page 26 that they would like to honor Leif and Eileen Harlan, who lived here for quite a long time. by placing a bench along the Sanders Ferry Greenway. I think all the information you need is in your packet.

All right. Mr. Bennett makes the motion to approve. Ms. Hillman was the second on that. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? And it passes unanimously. Best in the U.S. snow cases, Mr. Bacon. State your name for the record and tell us what you need, my friend.

Yeah, Nathan Bacon, Assistant National Director for Tournaments for Best in the US. Coming to you tonight requesting use of Field 3 at Drake's Creek, the high school field there, for this coming weekend. We're looking to have four games on August 1 and four games on August 2. We're fortunate we had some teams pop in late to our event. The main site is Vanderbilt University. And you all were recommended to me by the gentleman who operates Shelby Park there in Nashville. And so, yeah, what questions can I answer for you all?

This is this weekend?

This is this weekend. Wow. He's in a bind, and he got lucky we had a parks board meeting. But I hope going forward, you know, we can approve him as a tournament director and work with him this weekend, and hopefully going forward when he has an event, we'll be a main site with Vanderbilt instead of Rose Park seconds.

And I assume the team feels that this can be supported. We're good.

Okay.

His list of non-profit organizations of benefit. What is Hendersonville PNR?

It says the Hendersonville High School Dugout Club, the baseball team at Hendersonville High School.

Yep. Who made the motion? Mr. Pike made the motion. Mr. Perry seconded the second to the motion. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Aye. Thank you for coming, sir.

One thing, Mr. Chairman, real quick, while he's still on here, Being so quick, turn around. Can you go ahead and send us the schedule tonight or first thing in the morning? Because we'll have to line up concessions and maintenance and so forth. So if you can send us the schedule, if you're going to use it Saturday and Sunday, that's fine. Just give us a schedule.

Yes, sir. I'll send it while I get to the house. I pull over before I hit no service here. I'm on my way back to my house from my new job as a head coach at a college here in Arkansas. So I will get that to you this evening and look forward to meeting some of you all this weekend.

Great. Thank you. Thank you. Is that your boss in the back seat there?

That is my boss in the back seat. Thank you, sir.

Absolutely. All right. Fun Zone Battle at the park. Mr. Clemons. State your name for the record and tell us what you need, my friend.

My name is Jermaine Clemons with Fun Zone Battles, and we wanted to do a free event, community event in the park, the Veteran Park's green space. just set up because what we have is a mobile Nerf, excuse me, a mobile Nerf entertainment business where we do structured Nerf battles and things of that nature for kids, youth group, community events and things of that nature. So we're a new business that started, so we thought it would be a good opportunity to show the community in Hendersonville what we do by having a free community event. And I understand you guys have had Nerf events in the past. It's not something that we want to encroach on or anything like that. It's, you know, you may have grandchildren or something like that or kids, birthdays and things of that nature, but it's just an opportunity to show what we do. We set up everything. We break down everything. We just come to whatever available space. If it's your backyard, if it's a community center. So you just cut out all the stress of, you know, partying, making events, keeping the kids entertained and all that stuff. We take care of all that. We have structured games, obstacle courses, things of that nature. So we come in whatever time you have, it may be an hour, entertain the kids for an hour, then tear everything down, give the birthday cake or whatever the case may be, and you're stress-free. But we want to do a free event at the park, just set up everything and just show the community what we do, and hopefully it will be something that the community can use in the future.

I will say I have been in communication with him over this event. I think it's a great idea. We do a Nerf night. Pretty different than what he's talking about. I talked with Dallas kind of about space-wise and we were thinking over to the left, the green space by Mary's Magical would be a good area for something like this. So I have spoken to him and the date and everything. We're good to go on our end. He knows about insurance requirements and it's not a, Charged event, so the back portion where you see the donation amount, that's actually the city fee we charge.

Oh, I see.

That's what that is. He just filled that out there, but I did want to clarify that. There will be no donation portion back that's free.

Because it's a free event.

Yes, but that $150 to Hendersonville Parks and Rec is the small event fee. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you say there's going to be cake? Is there going to be cake in this event? No, sir, there won't be cake.

I don't know, man. I mean, if you want cake. I thought he said cake. No, I recommend this for approval.

How are you promoting this, or is it just people see it?

Well, because I want to nail down the dates and stuff, and I know it's getting – getting close to that time but just going through Facebook and things of that nature making posts and stuff like that and social media and everything like that and hopefully there's always turnouts at the park and stuff like that so Opportunity for families to just come over and just enjoy, you know, just some nerve battle type of stuff I think it'll be a good next to the Mary's magical on a Saturday.

We'll have fall baseball games Veterans that that day so we could send a message out to all those parents as well to let them know Okay to head on over there. Yeah to participate if they want.

Sure Got a motion from mr. Bennett. I have a second from mr. Montoya Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Thank you, young man. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right.

Cake wouldn't hurt. Good luck.

Thank you. Recreation, Ms. Hamlin.

Thank you. We had our Raptors season ending party for the baseball and kickball at the Country Hills Clubhouse. We had a great turnout. And I want to give a big shout out to them for letting us use that facility. It was a nice facility, had plenty of room, and we didn't have to worry about the heat while we were doing it. For those of them who didn't get to attend, I'm going to ask them to remind them to come out of the Parks Department and pick up their award. The Kids Club Special Needs Summer Program ended about a week ago. We had a great summer camp. The workers were great. Everyone worked hard and each one brought a variety of skills and were able to connect with all the campers. We swam each week, had a cookout day, ice cream day, went to Peyton's Farm, went to Mary's Magical on Wednesday mornings, did crafts, reverse tie-dying, among many other things. I want to do a big shout out to Mr. Mann at Witten for the use of the building. He worked well with us throughout the camp days and as far as getting their floors done and what areas we could be in. Big shout out to Gallatin Parks at the Aquatic Center. They worked really well with us. They helped out when the weather got so hot that one week they allowed us to go inside to the inside pool. gave us a room to eat in, and they were always polite and welcoming. I got everything moved out on the Wednesday and Thursday of the last week back to Beatty Farms. Still have to look into whatever storage unit we're going to have and maybe everything eventually for that. Coming up on Saturday, August 15, is the Special Needs Expo. We'll have a table set up there for the Parks Department. The flyers should be on the news channel for the city. People can come out to First Baptist Church and get lots of information about vendors, programs, speakers, giving out info about conservatorship, financial needs, info for the special needs community. The door opens at 10 o'clock, and then next up will be the preschool track meet, and I'll get more information coming up on that on the website and stuff. Any questions?

I think you've covered it all. Supervisor, Ms. Biggerstaff?

Hello. Our fall baseball league officially began practice last week, and their games will start next Saturday the 8th, and we are excited to have 34 teams this season. We also wrapped up registration for our fall adult leagues. This season we have 14 teams registered in our men's open league. nine teams in our co-ed softball league, and five teams in our kickball league. And all three leagues will begin games next week. Lastly, our summer pickleball league has their championship tonight, and it's been really great to see the continued growth and enthusiasm for pickleball, and we'd like to thank all of the teams for a fun and competitive summer season. That's all. Thank you.

Question? You did quite well. Thank you, ma'am. Event supervisor, Ms. Langston.

Thank you. We have had a busy summer so far. It just keeps on going. I will say on the back sheet, you'll see the Pickle Fest is still listed there. That is not happening this weekend. It has been postponed. It's not completely canceled. It's just we don't have a date yet. Mr. Berry is... really building it. So I don't have a date for sure for that yet. Looking into August, food truck festival is our next kind of community event. August 15th, we're sitting at 21 food trucks right now for that. I think that'll be a good turnout. On August 15th, we have cross-country starting back up. Station Camp Middle School has cross-country on the 15th, and then the beach Saturday night fever will be the 21st and 22nd of August. And then kind of looking ahead into September, just because there's some big things, the Highland Games, September 12th and 13th out at Sanders Ferry, and then the World War II ship that came back in December. I have been in communication with them this week. I'm hopping on a call with them later this week. But they are coming in September 21st, and they're here through the 30th. So those are some of our bigger things. You know we have something going on every day. But those are some of our bigger things we're looking at. And that is all I have.

Is that August 7th through the 9th the senior twitty?

I figured my man Keith over here would talk about that. But, yes, that is the senior 20, the 7th through the 9th of August, will be at Drake's Creek. Yes, Bubba. But I did figure Keith would love to mention that.

Tell your daddy Ken said hey.

I will. He's probably watching, so you can tell him yourself.

Hey, bud. Good to see you. Good to hear you. Hi. Anyway, Parks and Maintenance, Mr. Cole.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Besides our normal day-to-day stuff, we haven't really been into many projects in the past month. But we do have a few that we're looking at right now. We're working on some irrigation stuff. We still got on a few of the fields. We don't have irrigation, so we actually had it designed on field 12, and I'm meeting with Emerald Oasis this week to kind of go over that design. So that's something that's possibly coming down the pipe. Our maintenance shop, we found out today that we're going to be having it surveyed tomorrow. So they'll come out, and we met with Rogers Group last week, and we're trying to nail down the contract so we can get some movement on that. So we're getting very close on that. We've got Reynolds Electric coming out this week, I believe, maybe next week, to go through and change all the bulbs and stuff on the athletic field. So that's much needed. The soccer parking lot, we're going through and putting some more of the parking stops in, taking some of those. old, raggedy-looking bollards out, and so just trying to clean the place up a little bit. And our playgrounds, we actually just ordered about $50,000 worth of equipment to fix up a bunch of the older playgrounds. So I believe I got a call today. I think it's what it was. Some of it should be delivered tomorrow, so we'll get to work on installing all that. That's all I got. Thank you, Mr. Cohn.

Question?

Assistant Director, Mr. DeLong. Thank you. Tackle football started up last week with their practices. So for the first couple weeks, they're practicing as a big group before they break out into teams and put on gear. So they're going through that right now. Flag football, they saw registration going on for about three more weeks for the fall league, and then they'll start up late August with practices. And then starting next Monday, the soccer fields will open back up and we'll open the gate back to the soccer complex. And Tennessee United will begin practice as well as middle school soccer. And HSC will start the week after. HSC is up to 134 teams this year, so that's a pretty good little jump for them. And then the first set of games scheduled will be the second week of August for soccer. And that's all I got.

Thank you, Mr. Long. Questions? Assistant Director, Mr. Bruce.

Thank you, sir. Excuse me. Fast pitch sign-ups are ongoing for the fall. See if we can open baseball if sign-ups are ongoing. Senior men, the fall league for the 40-year-old division actually starts tomorrow night, opening night, if you want to go see the first pitch. I believe it's about 7 o'clock up there on field 12. Bubba and the 65-year-olds are still wrapping up their spring season for the tournament-wise. And hockey is getting ready for the fall. I do appreciate HIHA. They moved some stuff around for the Predators. I mean, we really appreciate it. They had some stuff set and pretty set for the first year, I mean, excuse me, for their first tournament. And so they went out of their way to help the Predators. So that was a big plus. And they agreed to it. They needed to, and they knew that. We do appreciate them moving stuff around. The rhythm is finished up for the season. Not quite as like normal. They got beat in the first round, which is highly unusual for them. But they are finished. The full count league, the high school baseball wood bat league that the full count runs starts in August. I'm getting with Josh on that. The senior women's league coming back, it is going to start – Wednesday, I believe it's the 5th or the 3rd, whatever that is. The 3rd, I believe, is going to be their opening night is what they're hoping for, along with, like Jasmine said, all of our adult leagues will start next week, too, in the evenings. And a big shout-out to our maintenance guys. We've had three basically week-long tournaments, so it's real warm out there. And Mr. Crook had 139 teams. Um, and we actually got, he was using Gallatin and Gallatin got rained out. So we played late a couple of nights and got everything in. So we went more than out of the way to help and get that tournament to be able to play. Um, so we've had a good month. Thank you.

Thank you. So close director, Mr. Gilley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I think you've heard from everyone up here. Everything we've got has grown, whether it be leagues, Like Keith just said, we have brought back the Senior Women's League. We hadn't had that in, I don't know, since Grandstands was open, probably. Six teams for senior women. The co-ed league went from zero two years ago to having, what, 12 teams this fall, I think. Nine co-ed teams this fall. We've spent the last couple weeks meeting with all of our, leagues that are run by other people. Every one of them is up in participation. Uh, some of them majorly up and, uh, just these, the staff and all the, the leagues, you hear people like Ms. Hamlin get up here and talk about her programs. And we had to have help from the school, from Gallatin for Sumner County schools with bus drivers, uh, you know, every, everything continues to grow. And last time I checked, unless somebody knows something, I don't, we don't have any new facilities to put these people in. So these folks do a great job of scheduling everything and making everything work. Trevor and his crew does a great job of making sure everything's tip top shape the best we can possibly do. So they've had a great summer. They're going to have a great fall. We've got a lot of projects coming up. Uh, we have a pre-construction meeting for heritage park on August 11th. We have signed a contract with a developer there. So that's exciting. Uh, the survey work, if you're at veterans park, you'll see stakes in the ground for the bike pump track. That's design is done. Basically at this point, we've got to make sure everything's in place and get on the calendar with the contractor. Uh, like Trevor said, we have $50,000 worth of playground pieces that are going to be put all over in our older playgrounds. We have $50,000 worth of skate park equipment that's coming. Uh, you're about to see between now and fall break paving at the rugby fields. Drake's Creek Park between baseball and soccer and all of Veterans Park between now and fall break, that's lined up. And we're continuing to get design work and get ready to undertake what will be a major project when we replace the concession stand at Drake's Creek in the main quad. That's going to be quite the undertaking. So everybody's going to have to have patience with us on that. probably saw last week i know mr pike and mr perry are excited about diamond rio coming to pig fest that was announced last friday we'll continue this week to announce different artists that are going to play the concert and they will go on sale august 1st we'll have tickets to all the pig fest events on sale august 1st that will be right around the corner other than that that is all i have for now i think the next thing is to move into the e-bike discussion Mr. Alderman Robertson asked us at the last Public Works Committee meeting to have the Parks Board discuss e-bikes. I saw where several of you folks asked for a public's opinion on your page there. You know, there's nothing really for us to vote on. If you want to make some kind of recommendation or we want to talk about it in one of our committees that we have, I don't even know. I had to print those out because we hadn't used them in so long. We have an athletic committee, a recreation committee, Maintenance committee and honor the game committee. I don't know if it needs to be talked about in there mayor's in the audience He's probably here to listen. I don't think he nor I one need want to want to really weigh in on this one right this minute You know we've had we had a person talk tonight about how nobody needs to do anything about e-bikes because of how great they are We have people call in and say that we need to get rid of them all together I don't think we're here tonight to do that at all. I don't think that what that is on the table and So my job was to ask you all to have a discussion. If anybody wants to share anything or make any recommendations for us to look into something further, you have places. There are three classes of e-bikes, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3. In Hendersonville, Tennessee, on the greenways, bicycles are legal. A bicycle, as defined, would be a Class 1 or 2 e-bike. A Class 3 e-bike is not. Permitted on our greenways just so everybody understands that it falls under the category of something like a razor or four-wheeler That's where we are, you know, you can go to Moss Wright Park and they ban bicycles within Moss Wright Park We share the trail here so to speak. We just need everybody to do it safely I think we want nobody to get hurt. That's where we're at now that being said everybody needs to understand within our parks in the quad around people and things like that e-bikes are not permitted in there we're talking about outside the park areas on greenways and in permitted areas on city streets where there's bike lanes and such so that's really all i have to say about it i'll listen to you all and if we need to do anything further we'll do it but i wanted to be able to report back that we had this discussion

Just chiming in, I mean, it's a touchy subject, and I get that. You've got both sides. In thinking about it, my biggest concern is getting one of those out over that greenway down Saunders Ferry over the water. I just – that's the biggest thing. I mean, obviously – kids riding it, parents trying to control or trying to make their kids ride it safely, that's one of my biggest things. I mean, an accident can happen real easy out there over that water. What you do about it, I think it's discussion we have, and maybe the discussion needs to be in one of those committees at first. I don't know, but that's just thinking about it. That was one thing that came to mind for me.

kind of piggyback on what you're saying there. It is so dangerous right there, like you already said. One of the bigger dangers that we have right there are the people that get mad at people that are riding there. I was actually going to work the other day, and I bet a car didn't miss a bike by inches and then rolled a window down and shot him a bird. I worry about the people on that road, but I worry about what's going to happen with the people that are mad at them. And so to answer that, I don't know. I mean, I would think were I a bike rider, an avid bike rider, I would pick a better place to ride than on Saunders Ferry Road there over the water because there's no room for error there. No room at all. You don't have to be mad at somebody. If you've ever been driving along and looked down on the floorboard for something and looked back up, you'd have gone 300 feet and you didn't even know where you were. I don't know bike clubs. I don't even know if there are bike clubs. That should be part of the education right there. Don't make... Don't get mad at people because you get ride bikes and don't get people that drive cars because they don't. So that's my two cents worth there.

I think we're seeing more and more of those e-bikes and not just in the parks. Probably everybody in this group can testify as far as in the neighborhoods. I mean, the kids in our neighborhood, they don't respect the stop signs. They'll argue that with you. I can't tell you how many times I've seen these kids almost get hit by a vehicle, and it's terrifying, because that's somebody's child. And it just, in my opinion, it's just my opinion, I see this doing nothing but growing, these e-bikes. Everybody's starting to ride them now. And if we have to be on the ground floor to figure out what we want to accept in our parks, I think it has to be discussed somewhere. I don't know the answer. I don't. I can see it from lots of points of view. I don't want to be the one to tell somebody you can't ride your e-bike on our trail, but on the same note, I shouldn't be run down by an e-bike. Or anybody else, for that matter, should be in danger of children or whomever.

I will say we have nothing to do with the neighborhoods. Um, and it obviously we hear it, we hear it from people who call in and say, what are you going to do about it in the neighborhood? And I'm like, we were, we're not, that's not our, our deal. HPD put out a good little educational thing, uh, that I hope neighborhood HOA shared and, um, parents talk to their kids about, cause you know, I think that's important.

My dad used to have a saying that 95% of people are good people that try to do the responsible thing on bicycle and whatnot. It's the 5% of knuckleheads that don't. And we're not ever going to stomp out knuckleheads. I'm telling you like myself.

Yeah, and I agree. We're not responsible for neighborhoods, but I just think those electric bikes as a whole, they're just growing. It's just something that's growing bigger and bigger and bigger.

Yeah, I actually was going to say what Andy said is that, well, we talked about it in our public safety committee. And one of the things that we had recommended was communication on social media, which the city has done a really good job of. Like Andy said, Henderson Police Department has done some media on that. As far as like Mr. Rector riding his bike here today, that would have been a class three that he rode. And I did kind of laugh whenever I came in because I passed him on our way here. And as I pulled into the parking lot, he actually came through and he beat me here into the city hall. So I know he rides his quite a bit and he really values it. But of course that class three doesn't have anything to do with our parks because they're not allowed on the greenways.

Very nice.

But he rides the greenway.

Yeah, he said that.

Any more discussion? As Andy mentioned, I put that out on my social media, and I think the main, yeah, there were certainly some comments of they shouldn't be in the parks, but most people were really focusing on the safety component and just making sure that you're setting up safe conditions as a whole. I think, as I've been thinking about this, it's less about the vehicle. I mean, yes, class 3s and obviously people with electric vehicles Motorcycles should have no place in the park, but it's less about the vehicle and more about the behavior. So what I've been able to sort of read, it's really about speed and recklessness. And obviously we understand if someone's being reckless in the park, they shouldn't be there. But it's really about speed. And I don't know if you have a speed limit on a greenway, but certainly, you know, that's really where the danger is, even with a regular old normal bike. If you're going too fast, you can hit somebody, you can hurt somebody. Um, but that, that, uh, I've seen examples in other cities where they're really focusing in on education. So signage on greenways, uh, acknowledging that there, you know, we share, you share this greenway, please manage your speed, et cetera. So focusing on education, uh, really, really rather, rather than enforcement. That's, that's kind of where I kind of landed on this discussion.

I'll jump in behind that golden there. Just, I'm on the Greenway a lot early in the mornings and things, but just like he said, I know that it costs money for some signage. Just please be aware of the walkers and the runners. We do have to share that Greenway, and none of us want to ban anything from being on the Greenway except a motorcycle or one of those wheelie-popping things. But there's room for us if we just all are cordial and share and be polite to each other.

Mr. Perry, the comments on your Facebook post were a lot different than the ones on Mr. Golden's Facebook post. I encourage everyone to go read the difference for entertainment value only and education.

We can do that at a later date over coffee. Any more discussion? Thank you, Mr. Gilley. Mr. Montoya, what you got down there, brother?

Hats off to our park staff for doing all that they do. It's crazy, all the hot weather lately. We all know it. We feel it. We get into our cars and we're burning up, but we're still seeing people in the parks, and I think a lot of that goes to you guys. You guys are doing a great job. Keep it up. Mr. Blake?

I'll just second that. From the staff inside to the staff at the park, down at the parks. So many tournaments, so much rain, so much heat. It's a lot of mowing and a lot of trying to get ready in between showers. Hats off to all of y'all and what you do because you are the cog that keeps this going and rolling in the city. Mr. Perry?

Ditto to what he said. Thank all of you guys. Y'all are awesome, man. The park just stands up. I'm out there early every morning, just about every morning. It It stands up every morning when you come in there, and if it's not, there's somebody in there picking up and cleaning. You got awesome crews out there. Please thank them.

Mr. Golden? Yes, so this might embarrass him, but I don't care. Recently, Director Gilley received a certification, a Certified Park and Recreation Executive. It is the highest certification for leaders of parks in the country, apparently less than 500 people nationwide. get the certification, uh, very well deserved. I know it's pretty hard work doing that. So congratulations. Thank you.

Yeah. We'll have people to help you get your head out the door. Congratulations.

Yes. And thank you to all for all your hard work.

Uh, I was at the week long tournament that Mr. Bruce alluded to, uh, for Mr. Crook and the 139 teams. There were about 138 from other states, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and we had a ton of people in this city that were spending money and sweating their butt off. But the city, the park staff, there wasn't a trash can full. It was clean. They did a fantastic job and couldn't be prouder of our parks during that tournament. And our team did okay, so it was pretty good too. And, again, congratulations, Mr. Gilley, on the designation.

Ms. Gordon.

I'd like to say congratulations, too, for that. We appreciate all the hard work that you put into the city and the Parks Department. And thank you to this whole board and staff.

I wish there were some way, Mr. Cole, that we could just go above just saying how much I appreciate what the maintenance people do. I'll go on. Early in the morning, there's people mowing. I go late at night, there's people mowing. I go Sunday mornings and walk around with people emptying trash. I don't see how you keep them going because it's hot out there and it's wet out there, and they just deserve everything they get. So we sure do appreciate what you and them do. And then, like you said, staff too, keeping – everything going, everything rolling. I mean, we come to a meeting once a week, and we talk, and we vote, and we have a good time, and everything goes good, but y'all are in the pits every dadgum week, every week, and you're trying to figure out how you're going to get things worked in, and I admire you, most of you. I'm not going to say who I don't admire. I'm looking at him now. And I love him. See, I'm going to let you know who it is. All righty. All righty.

Got to say it a while ago. Mr. Gilly, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for the public, whatever you want to call it, the posts that you do every week. Very entertaining, but they also are very informational. I encourage everybody to watch them. He's a man who wears many hats on the video, literally. But I enjoy them, and I think it's a very important piece of what we do. So thank you for doing it.

Mr. Mayor, you got anything you need to tell us, sir? Well, that's all right. You got the floor. All right, I need a motion to adjourn. Mr. Montoya was first. Mr. Pike was second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, we're out of here.