Parks and Arts Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. This is the City of Liberty Lake Parks and Arts Commission. Today is Monday, August 3rd, 2026, and it's 4 p.m. We'll start out the meeting with our roll call. Commission members, Nancy Hill, that's myself, present. Please show David Hinebaugh is absent. Laura Frank, I believe she's expected, has not arrived yet. Katie Ferris, present. Please show John Amar is absent. Noelle Otterson-Laparco. Michael, is she online? Noelle is not present. And Bob Schneidmiller?

Present.

Joni Hay?

Present.

Gary Edwards?

Present.

Please note our student position is still vacant. Stapp, staff today with us will be mikhail Stevens online there is on speed and Jen camp and Commissioner Laura Frank are you here. Stapp, All right, welcome everyone. Stapp, Next step will be the approval of the July 6 2026 meeting minutes if you have a chance to look at it, please let us know if there's any corrections or edits otherwise a motion to approve, please.

Move to approve. Second.

Moved by Laura, seconded by Katie, to approve the July 6, 2026 meeting minutes. All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Seeing none, a motion passes unanimously. Citizen comments. Are there any citizens in the audience that would like to comment? I don't see anyone in the building. Michael, anyone online? Not at this time. All right. Susan Marvin- Seeing no citizen comments will start up with our action items discussions and presentations will begin with our budget discussion and our cities budget director, I guess, I don't know your exact title. Kyle Dixon will give us a little overview.

Oh, it's enough. That works. All right. Thank you all for having me. We were discussing in our last directors meeting after the last council meeting instructions for our department heads to begin populating their budget for 2027. and i just kind of gave a general forecast as they're doing that of the environment that the city as a whole is heading into so we've had um probably the last four or five years or so of pretty steadily rising revenues but also steadily rising expenses and so um notably our police department their budget as a whole has almost doubled just in the last four years and that's the single biggest cost center of the city and so with that substantial of increase um without bringing on additional revenue sources outside of our current revenue mix um that's that's not sustainable in the long term and uh the discussions that we had for the last couple years around capital improvement and how we fund those has also kind of contributed to the environment that we're heading into um general apprehension towards Financing of any sort and so what that leads to is cash funding our capital improvements. And so we had a discussion for a couple of years about, are we going to relocate the library into the new legacy Ridge or the legacy church building eventually went away from that. And now we're obviously we're, we're outfitting that for the new city hall. but we're cash funding that improvement we're cash funding other uh street and facility improvements as well and so that on a whole just isn't sustainable without bringing on new revenue sources and so um our messaging to the department heads was that we're heading into 2027 with some fiscal restraints for the first time in probably five or six years and so um Jen wanted to invite me here tonight just to give you guys a general awareness of the environment we're heading into and letting all the other commissions know as well. Over the next month and a half, As the directors populate their budget and I put together the revenue forecast, that picture will come into more focus. But I applaud you guys for being ahead of your game and getting your budget in place because the sooner that happens, the sooner we can plug all these numbers in and get a preliminary budget to the mayor and Mark for their review. And so really, I'm not here to tell you what to put in or what to take out. I think what you have here is very thoughtful and proceed as if I'm not directing you to do anything. And so what happens is upon the Parks and Arts budget approval, that'll get populated into the preliminary budget. And then what happens from there is the council will then review that and have discussions on if there are cuts to be made and obviously not just with parks and arts but with all the departments in the city as a whole um that discussion has the potential to play out in a council meeting as well so i just want you guys to be aware that we we have let's call it you know 8 projects or so in the budget for 2027. There's a real possibility that the prioritization almost happens in real time during a budget discussion with the Council. And so I think if this commission is prepared to potentially prioritize some of these projects within what you have for the 2027 budget that might be really helpful for council and for us as staff to to be able to have those discussions if if if need be on the fly during one of those meetings where it's instead of kind of them you know, not arbitrarily, but them going through and saying, well, actually, no, we don't need this, but we want this. Without input from you all, I think it might lead to some mix up in prioritization. And so really, that was my messaging for you all tonight. And certainly happy to stand for any questions if you have any.

And we prioritize that. In what fashion would you see us communicating those priorities to your office

So if this is the budget that is adopted by the Parks and Arts Commission, this is the budget that we'll input into the city's 2027 budget. If there isn't a some sort of an accompanying document that the Parks and Arts Commission can put together that prioritizes those, we can make that available to the Mayor and Council as well for them to reference during the discussion. And then, Chair Hill or any member of the Parks and Arts Commission, with the help of Jen, can kind of Kyle Bruursema, A guide Council in those discussions during during those review sessions on maybe which projects are more of a priority than others, if that if if it comes to that. So we'll see all right sounds good, thank you, thank you.

All right, let's move into our budget session. And Jan has thoughtfully updated the document based on the fee bought back from our last meeting. And if we, the 2026 is pretty well taken care of. We do have a couple of items to discuss today, but it'd be the vacation spending and that, but we're on a good track to complete the projects that we need to. When we look at 2027, We're going to have the story walk carry over. We may have a payment this year depending on if they need materials purchased in advance, but we're prepared to do that and then carry over the remainder of that budget because that's money that's already been allocated. The same goes for the art for the new City Hall, the $60,000. If we don't quite spend it all this year for some reason, then we could carry over that to finish that project. in the next year. So when we look at the actual 2027 budget items that we've kind of settled on is that continuing the carousel art, our standard maintenance, beautification and programming, the boulder painting, the performance art, which is a new category for us, the smarting board, then the potential exterior of City Hall. And the art and assault. So, um, first of all, is everyone satisfied with what we've laid out or just for general discussion, not about any potential budget cuts. Does anybody see something that's missing or shouldn't be there in, in that 2027 budget? Okay. So I think it would behoove us. We are planning on adopting this budget for next year. And I think when we look at 28 and 29, those are mostly just placeholders. So I'm not too worried about that. I met with Jen earlier in the week and we were talking a little bit about what priorities might be. And she's kind of rearranged the list because, and I don't know if the carousel art should To be at the top or under programming, but we almost need the maintenance beautification and programming every year. Because that allows us to at least do something in a bad budget year to keep the programming going. We need to maintain and then allow us to do something with the beautification. The carousel arc would be nice to continue because we've already started it. But again, depending on the budget year that 60,000 is a bigger number. And then we looked at the boulder plating. Some of that's a safety issue. The performance R, which is new, but in a tough budget year, the performance R could be rolled into programming. So we could keep it in that respect because that's a program. The city hall exterior there's not a lot of working space there anyway that's something if we did a rural we could wait and you're so to do the art consultant that's going to depend on what projects, we have and what help we need so that was kind of my first glance at that whether you guys thinking.

I think you've nailed it, Nancy. I would agree that the carousel art, while it's something that we are all very excited to continue, should go below just kind of our baseline of the maintenance, beautification, and programming. I also agree that if you don't want to call it out as a separate line item, that the performance art could and maybe should be just rolled into the programming budget and increase that line item. And then just have that in the notes that it's you know, citywide programming. And that could be part of it.

That's actually a good idea to maybe raise that programming budget a little bit and just know that the performance is the program and it might be more palatable to have it rolled into that. It's a really good idea. So if you're interested in that, would you just see us changing programming from 10 to 14? Yeah.

Would would Community volunteers still be able to give input to the area like performing arts you would it go under the cows, you know programming staff and. Right. Okay, I just know like gary's put a lot of time into researching some of that and so it'd be good if he could still be able to do that.

Okay.

Because, you know, it's our programming line item. So we did.

I'll reiterate that there wouldn't be a change in the performance art. We're just putting it into a programming category. That's the only change that we've been making. Yeah.

Okay.

Line through that line item of performance art and then we'll plus $4,000.

I think doing that also gives us a little greater flexibility, right? If the performance arts comes in under budget, then you have that flexibility to be able to apply it to additional programming that McHale might have or the home for the holidays. Or likewise, if it goes over, again, you have that flexibility without having to go back for approval of a budget change.

Yeah, no, that's a great idea. I suspect the performance arts committee to be functional and provide the direction for spending the program. Yeah.

Has the city ever charged admission or taken donations at, like, say, a concert in the park or anything? No.

Yes, it's not to say that we couldn't explore the possibility of getting a sponsor or something. Right. You know, we just don't know what's going to happen yet. Yeah. And I think, you know, the Smarty Board, This my understanding, Jen, if we do the pavilion park replacement project, that probably won't even go into the fall. So that Smarty Board could easily move to 2028.

Yeah, I think that would be a good recommendation. We actually wouldn't anticipate that the park would possibly even be done until spring of 2028. Started 2027 and then carried over through.

Why don't we go to Smarty Board? To 2028 which is a more realistic. i'm anyway. And then the. What what other in which you have just everybody, I have an agreement that we could hold off on any external there's not much you can do that that building anyway. And we're still on schedule this year to use our beautification and extra unspent funds to make sure we have a bike rack for the new building. So that would be handy. So what other thoughts do you have if we have to prioritize

Do you think it's feasible instead of like cutting the carousel art to do like just do a percentage of decrease or like to somehow maintain it at a certain level?

Or will it take all 60 pieces for 50,000 plus the installation costs?

Okay. Yeah.

And I don't think you want to split it to do 1 at a time. I think you want to keep it in pairs.

I think there's some efficiency for the artist environment. That's pretty much how I spoke. I mean, not to say it won't be funded, but if we, if we agree that we should do the mass beautification and programming, that's our first step. And then we can put that next. And if that's too much, then, then council can be directed with our input. to consider going to the next thing now, which is maybe bolder painting. It's just hard to do this because we don't have any idea. So my suggestion is we put everything in order and then we can create some sort of document that we've done that so that council can see that's what we're doing. And then if there is A cut to bank. I obviously we would like to be present at a meeting where that was discussed, but at least they would already have a guideline in place when they're just doing their overview of their budget.

And I think next year could be a tremendous potential to seek sponsorships. For some of the public art, we haven't done that much. SDC is really the only one that has contributed. I think there are a lot of sponsors out there like MultiCare and some other groups. I know there are other banks that are interested in helping do something with parks and rec and that could be really, I mean, who knows what the potential for sponsors could be. We won't know until we start seeking.

Maybe that's something as we move into the fall, we can discuss that a little more and maybe form a committee to kind of get some ideas out there and figure out the best way to approach and what projects might be most saleable to someone.

Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

So if we, if we number these, Should we do, like, I wonder if we could just do maintenance, beautification, and programming as one number so that they know that kind of it's all tied together? Or we should number those separately?

I think public art probably would be best to be first because regardless of anything at the end of the day, we've got to take care of it. We've got to have a budget line to take care of things that come up.

So you're saying maintenance one. Yeah. So if we did maintenance one, beautification two, programming three, carousel art four.

I would maybe suggest swapping programming and beautification.

So programming would be two, beautification would be three. So one is maintenance, two is programming, three is beautification. And four would be the carousel art so we could really hopefully keep that project going. Does that seem agreeable? And then Smarty Board is out. Do you want to do the boulder painting next for number five?

Is the Orchard Park benches, is that under the beautification? Yeah, because I think that's important. Good.

So what are you thinking for our number five? The boulders. And then if we get to the community art, we're going to need an art consultant to help us with that or something. So maybe Are all eight things left. So we would have six would be the community art seven would be that that's all. That seem Reasonable because if we get carousel art. We already have that artist. And we already have the artist or the holder painting.

Right.

Is everyone happy with the numbers that are associated with each of these items now?

Jen, do we need to do anything with the symphony fireworks in the winter event? That's all completely separate within your budget correct?

Maybe those are the events that we focus on the sponsorships for. For the symphony fireworks and winter event?

Well, those are, we haven't come out or gone. I mean, we'd probably be better off getting someone to sponsor like the carousel or the boulders.

Yeah, I think the symphony has already sponsored the home for the holidays. You get sponsors in there as well, right?

Right, we get a sponsor that would do two carousel pieces a year for All right. So is everyone okay with what we have in 2028 and 2029, including the moving of the Smarty Board to 2028? Any changes there? Okay. So do we want to approve the budget as just amended as our tentative budget to present for The 2027 understanding that when we get more feedback from the budget office and counsel that There may be an amended budget or discussion, but we'll figure out some way to communicate these priority numbers to be included with our approved budget.

I'll move to approve the amended budget to be included in the preliminary budget for the mayor's consideration, mayor and council's consideration. Second.

It's been moved by Laura and seconded by Joni to approve the budget sheet as amended in our discussion today for presentation to the mayor, city administrator, and council. for review and input. Any discussion on the motion? All right. All in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? Please show that the budget has passed unanimously. Good job, everyone. I think it's a solid budget, and we've got some good manageable projects. So give Jen's team a little bit of a break this year. All right. Moving on, and thank you again Kyle. Moving on, we need to vote on the use of beautification and redirected funds for five benches at the Oxford Park for viewing on the courts. I believe, Jen, if I'm correct, it's about $2,500 a bench, and that's with a pad and a bench. So that's a little over our beautification number, but we have enough surplus from unspent projects that we can accommodate and complete that bench project this year. So we'll need a vote to move that forward. So five benches at $2,500 for Richard Park for viewing by the tennis and basketball courts. Do we have a motion?

Move to approve. Second.

Moved by Laura, seconded by Katie. Any discussion? All right. All in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? Please show the budget. The motion for the benches at Orchard Park has been approved unanimously. Secondly, and we'll vote for this separate. Laura, do you want to tell us a little bit about the life breath research?

Uh, yeah, so I just did some preliminary research on commercial grade by cracks. I sent a note to Ben Turner and the public works department just asking for confirmation of where they would be mounted and how much real estate there is. He was going to send me some pictures. Um, I can't imagine based on the building and what's going on in there. I know there's not a ton of real estate, so I can't imagine more than 3 to 4 by cracks. Does that sound? about, right, Jen? So it would be a total of like six to eight bikes that could be parked there. I don't even know if we need that many. Anyways, the prices range. All the racks, the ones that we've looked at, are readily available to ship within a week of order. So there's no issue getting them done this year. So we really just need final confirmation of how much space and how many racks to purchase. And they range in price from about $200 per rack, again, two bikes per rack, on the ones that we looked at up to like 800. So we're well within what we had allocated in the budget.

So if we uh and I just found out from a comment that my mic wasn't turned on so. We're doing really good over here Michael. I don't know what happened. Anyway, it's on now. Thank you, Tom. So we probably can pass a motion to get the appropriate bike racks for City Hall, maybe with a not to exceed number. And Katie, did you have any input? I know we're waiting to hear from Ben Turner, but do you have a clue how many people might need a bike rack?

Well, a lot of times you can hook up more than one, you know, like a couple of bikes or more than that to one bike rack. So I, Laura sent me, she cc'd me on the bike racks. So it kind of depends if we want colorful ones or

just the plain steel ones so it doesn't conflict with any other coloring yeah and I think um once we get confirmation from Ben in terms of how many that we can put there then Katie and I can work to have some options for the commission to vote on at the next meeting and then get those ordered in time for installation this year so maybe we don't need to vote today

some of them are fun like they look like bikes themselves only they're bigger you know so those are kind of fun lucky well why don't we postpone a vote until the next meeting when you two have gotten together and get some input from then and then we can vote potentially on the actual bike rack or bike racks how's that sound sounds good okay all right next up our artist consultant update karen mobley

Thank you. I don't actually have a whole lot to say. We had a very positive meeting with the art selection group on whatever day that was, last week, and went through all the submissions for the commissioned artwork and started to prioritize the ones that the committee feels like are the strongest ones. We ran out of time because we had a very robust discussion And we will be meeting again on Friday in the afternoon to review. The ones that high graded out of the last meeting, plus the portable works, there was a lot of duplication in application from both groups. And before they made a final decision on the commissioned artwork finalists, we want to make sure that. we have agreement about who would be in the commissioned group finalist group and who would be in the Portable Works anyway it's coming along well and I know you guys are going to talk about this I really appreciate all the work that Jen has been doing to help with getting the things set up for the restroom murals in the parks that's been going on and I think it's going very well And you have it in your packet, but I'm really pleased with how well Melissa Cole did with the basketball hoop or the basketball mural. That was very challenging. You probably know this, but the paint dries almost immediately. And I went out there a couple of times and visited with Melissa when she was learning how to do it. And it was more transparent and a little bit faster at polymerizing than we expected. But I think the results are really nice. And I know the park staff did a nice job of supporting her. Thank you for that. Anyway, so I don't have anything else to say. Do you guys have any questions for me?

My only question is, how are we doing on the timeline for the City Hall art?

I think we're a little behind where I was hoping we would be. Without sounding like you guys really travel a lot, we had trouble coming up with meeting times because people were gone a lot. And I know as soon as we get through Friday's meeting, I'm hoping that we will be able to get to our finalists for the commissioned work and really push through to get their design contracts and get them working. I think we'll be okay, but I wish we were a little bit further ahead. I feel that with almost everything that I'm working on. I also, I don't know how this will affect what we're doing. I mentioned to you earlier today that because of what's going on with the fires, I've been having a lot of people I'm working with, both artists, not in Liberty Lake, but artists in the community who are in evacuation and they're just dead with not being able to do any work because they're either out of their house or out of their studio or whatever. in some cases of a couple people they've been burned out so i don't know of our finalist artists how many of those people are in the evacuation zone but we may end up with some kind of complexity with all that i mean it seems to be just all around us so we'll do the best we can yes thank you well thank you for your guidance through this project that we could not have done it without you so appreciative i don't know

All right, moving on to unfinished and new business, the Harvard mural update. Do you want to, do you want to update there?

Okay.

So we're, we're working on the Harvard mural and orchard mural. It took some coordination for the surface prep and the artist.

So we're hoping to start, we're hoping to start the prep August 10th.

That's next Monday, right?

Yep. Okay. And we'll reach out to them this week to confirm that. It's going to take them a couple, what did they say, a week, week and a half to get it prepped. And then the artist can move in after that. And then once the painting's done, they'll come back a month later after the paint's cured to put the anti-graffiti on. And they'll do that at obviously both locations.

Perfect. So it sounds like that we'll be able to get the project done before the weather turns in the fall. I don't know what the requirements are for the anti-graffiti.

Yeah, they didn't mention anything about temperature, but I'm sure obviously they wanted...

I would imagine will be done long before October. And even the past few years, October stayed fairly nice.

I think both artists mentioned like a one to two week timeline once they started as well. So it should go pretty quick.

And they were flexible on start date after...

I mean, Yelena had said she was ready to start as soon as it was ready when I spoke with her and Ellen had said the week of the 17th or 24th, which plays right into that timeline.

And something to keep in mind that we ran into that we didn't realize, again, a learning lesson. we're going to end up having to remove all the plant material around the orchard concession stand. Is that what you would agree?

Yeah, just so she's able to get her scaffolding in there.

Because unbeknownst to us, she's got to be able to put platforms down to put her scaffolding or ladders on because the ground is too uneven. Oh. And so again, I think staff's gonna be able to do that. It's gonna cost staff time, which, you know, but things to think about for the next round that when we encounter things like landscaping around an area that needs to be painted, we're gonna have to figure out how that's gonna work.

This has been a learning curve, hasn't it, on this project? Well, thank you for that update is I see we so that's the orchard and the Harvard I see we have the Rocky Hill mural update and anything on that.

nope that's uh everything's completed there we're going to pull off the caution tape and cones first thing in the morning tomorrow um and it'll be ready for citizens to play on and derek provided some photos the printer is not the best printer so i apologize for that it doesn't do it justice you know his pictures were outstanding compared to these prints but at least this gives you an idea um of what it looks like yeah if you haven't been by that's on my daily walking route it's stunning

Thanks, Derek. Yeah, thank you. All right. Pavilion ticket booth update. Laura.

I sent an email to the artist asking for confirmation that on the pricing I still have not heard back.

How can the internet or how? Because this house is in the fire zone.

That's okay.

So you may or may not for a while. Okay.

I did know I did go back and look at our original communication and it did say that price for the set of 3. I know we were just surprised that it was lower than what we had expected. So I will not be pushing on that given the circumstances. But again, he can do that in studio because he wants well, that was his preferred. If he's able or is to do it off site and then mount it. Very similar to how he did the mural on the concession building. So I don't see any issue getting that done this year pending his, um. You know, schedule and response, so to get that moving forward, I did tell him everyone was very enthusiastic to do it. Um, and then we just wanted confirmation on the price that we could get the draft artist agreement moving forward. And I see the next one has my name on it as well. So the Kramer Art Dedication, I did reach out to Mallory and Colleen. They gave me some dates. Unfortunately, I am one of the travel problems for the subcommittee. So I did connect her, both Colleen and Mallory. I sent an email today with Jen and Nancy with their availability. So hopefully that can all move forward because I think Mallory is unavailable starting the day that I am re-available. So hopefully we can just keep that moving forward while I'm out of town. yeah maybe we can see what date might work best for say the mayor and yeah they had originally said weekend days and then we went back and asked for weekday options so they they both sent several over the next couple weeks or if we want to go further out even into september we can certainly do that um so whatever is the i guess the pleasure of the the mayor why don't i send an email tomorrow to to her and mark and see what they what they would agree on Yeah, sounds good. I don't know that there's a, you know, there's not a significant push to have this done in the next week or two. It's just they gave their availability through August and just didn't want it to stall because I was out of town. Right.

Okay, perfect. Karen Hollweg, bike pedestrian safety advisory committee update katie.

Karen Hollweg, Okay, so i've been in contact with Ben also from public works about the street issues to and from selkirk middle school bike safety lanes and he they've been working on mission and he said they are going to be. putting down bike lanes there and doing some sidewalk work. So that's good to hear because we'd like to have students that are going to the middle school be able to bike safely in and out of Selkirk. So that's good to know. And I've also been in contact with a group led by Marilyn Steen. She leads a group of 20 people from Liberty Lake on various bike rides in and out of Liberty Lake. So she's going to keep in contact with me about any safety issues they see. So far, she said things have been pretty good. They mostly go on the various trails, Centennial Trail and such. But it's good to know that it's actually kind of a private group, but they go out weekly on various rides. So we'll have to keep in touch with them. and also Chief Simmons did contact me and probably someone from the city also about the new e-bike guidelines with all the state laws passing and everything so they they have a new printout from the one they did earlier this summer so I'm hoping that the city can print out those new guidelines And we're going to hopefully hand those out at the Cops, Cars and Cruisers event on September 12th that's out here in Liberty Lake. With Scope Bike Safety Team, we're going to hand out bike helmets again. And so we'd like to hand out those documents about e-bike safety. And I think Mark has a copy of that too, don't you? That Chief Simmons sent out. here's our administrator i assume you're referring to the matrix right yeah yeah yes we do yeah okay so hopefully we can get some more of those printed out and i can we can ensure as many as you need awesome okay so we'll hand those out at that event in september which will be our next you know main event that libya lake they have a car show and everything about different emergency vehicles and it's a fundraiser for special olympics so it's a great event so we can impact bike safety a little bit maybe at that event too so i know you were mentioning that you were working towards um through uh maybe one of our service clubs like Kiwanis on getting some um toddler helmets yeah for the event touch a truck that will be next year in the first of June so got a little time to still work on that so yeah definitely uh we don't have any toddler helmets at this time but hopefully we can get uh maybe Kiwanis to help us with that for next June so we good

All right, thank you for your report moving on to staff report.

Derek can provide some updates on just some generic, uh, park improvements that we're working on.

So, for parks and facility update, um, orchard park concrete, um, that's around where the maintenance shop is on the South West corner. We came into a little bit more than we anticipated. We're going to actually need some engineer drawings. So we're working with parametrics to get some designs and get some cost on that. So right now that's kind of on a standstill. Orchard Park dumpster. We started the locate out there and they've started bringing some materials out there. The company is actually based out of Seattle. So that project is going to go a little bit slower than obviously if it had a contractor from this area. Um, and then orchard park resurfacing that is going to start August 10th also, um, as the restrooms, um. That is only going to be the tennis courts itself or pickleball courts. Um, it will not be the basketball courts. Um, and they're planning on completing that within 2 to 3 weeks. So, obviously, it's a larger area, so it's going to take a significant amount of time for them to get that done and as well as restriping.

Any questions for Derek.

When is the basketball court do for resurfacing so Jen lab.

So it's pavement it doesn't get resurface. At this point there's no surface on it it's just straight asphalt. it's asphalt not concrete correct.

So that would be a whole different project if it was. Yeah. Yeah. I got you.

The is your team going to do the pads for the five benches or is that that's a contracted?

We'll be contracting that out.

Would that be the same people that would do the. No, that would be different people than the court resurfacing, I guess.

Yeah.

Yeah. I thought, oh, maybe they could just do both and it would be cheaper.

It never turns out that isn't the quote that you receive wasn't that Jim Bender?

It is through arrow. Um, but it's not the, obviously the court resurfaced concrete side. Yeah. It's a different vision of the same.

Yeah. Oh, I see. Okay. All right. Thanks, Derek. Thank you. Mikkel has a few upcoming events. I don't know if Mikkel's online and can speak, but everything is right there. Let's see. The music in the park, the Tamarack Ridge Band comes from the Performance Art Group. They're able to... What's that?

Okay.

Can you guys hear me? There you are. Can you hear me? Sorry, I was having issues with getting unmuted. Yeah, so I don't have the staff report directly in front of me, so if I miss anything, let me know and I'll jump back on it. We got Shakespeare in the Park on the 19th, which is at Pavilion Much Ado About Nothing. And like Jen was saying, we have the Music in the Park on August 22nd. That's part of the Parks and Arts programming budget. That would be the Tamarack Ridge Band. They're a mixture of country and rock and roll. So they're all booked, and we're all ready to go. They'll come out a little bit early and set up, and then we'll do from 6 to 8, I believe the time frame was. So they'll play out there for two hours. So we'll start pushing it on social media here soon, and you all as well are on there. Just go ahead and like and share that kind of stuff to get it out to those that use the community. in the park September 5th. And then another one of your guys' programming budget that we talked about doing is the chalk art extravaganza. So we put all the information out. We'll do that on October 3rd. And then we will start pushing that here as we start rolling into September. And then people can sign up to do their driveways or they can take a spot at one of our parks to do if they live in an apartment or don't have a driveway. Another quick program that me and Jen talked about, we're trying to do a couple simple things for fall, and we decided to run with a, we were calling it My Haunted Hometown, where it's a home decorating contest, similar to what we did for Home for the Holidays, but this would be a Halloween one. We had actually quite a few people reach out after the home for the holidays and said it'd be fun to do one for Halloween. So we're trying that this year. And then we just started our planning for our home for the holidays. We had our first meeting this past week. And so we jumped on or started planning on a lot of that stuff. So we should have more information of that in the next couple of weeks. I think I have programming.

Hang on, there's a question. Katie?

I have a question. Oh, Gary, excuse me. A couple of questions. The one on August 22nd, Tamarack Ridge Band, that's at Orchard Park and starts at what time?

To confirm, but I believe I don't have that in front of me. I believe it's 6 p.m. and I'll go for two hours.

Six? Yes. And what is the Lud Kramer concert?

September 5th.

what is that civilian it's the symphony spokane symphony concert 6 p.m okay thanks yeah no problem just as a note gary has played with the tamarack ridge band oh fun i didn't know that i also played with the spokane symphony maybe you can make a guest appearance yeah i think you should jump on stage so i was going to ask mikhail um is there a Judging for the chalk drawing contest?

Yes, I am still working on those details, but we'll probably ask some Parks and Arts Commission members or maybe if we can get a guest artist that wouldn't mind coming out and judging. So I don't have the exact details how we're going to judge yet, but it'll be a panel of a couple people probably and have them go out and look.

Joni's pretty good at that.

Yeah, I mean all of you guys that helped in the past, if anyone's willing, send out a sign-up sheet as well if anyone wants to go out and do it. We'd love to have the volunteers.

Okay, moving on to programs.

I'd like to say something. A little history about how Spokane Symphony came out to Pavilion Park. years and years and years ago there was an organization called friends of pavilion park and every year we would hold a activity at the davenport hotel to raise funds for that And we did that for years and years. And it always worked out really well. The good thing eventually is this study decided that to make sure there was never any question about them coming out because of funding, that they would take over that. And they have since then. So one of my favorite activities during the year is going out to Pavilion Park with a picnic bucket and sit there in the sun and nice weather and enjoying the music.

Awesome.

Thank you, Bob.

Very nice.

Yes.

Alright, moving on to programs, Mikel.

Yeah, so real quick. We had a lot of people over the last year. When we did surveys, ask for some like use recreational sports more than just like Skyhawks where they meet and do. Skyhawks is more like a camp setting. We've had people ask more like a league where they practice in a game. So early in the year, we discussed testing that out. And so we're going to we're offering a three and four year old soccer league, which is probably one of the only ones I can do by myself. So we've actually had good registration for it so far. We're allowing a max of 32 kids, and we're at 21. And registration's open for another two weeks. So we're moving along pretty well with that one. So that one should be a fun one that's brand new for this fall. It'll be a staff-led program. We have a scenic float trip coming up on the 14th. that's a partnership that we have and then we'll be doing a bocce ball league at rocky hill park which is also another partnership that we have with the local the local inclusive fit so that's kind of the more the adult pro or it's kind of more of the programming that's coming up all right thanks any questions about programs all right thank you so much for filling us in mckay i appreciate you no problem

All right projects. I think the only thing that hasn't been updated yet are the goat sculptures.

So, if you want to talk about that, Derek, so the sculptures are the ones that are going to be at towns where. There's going to be 3 of them kind of climbing up the entrance. He is working on that. We've gone through the permit process, which we're lucky. There is no permits that are going to be required for that. But I have not actually got a completion date yet when those are going to be done. But we were told that they were hopefully going to be done this spring. So. Well, they're fault.

I say we're out of a budget carryover item again.

Any other questions?

No, that's exciting.

Where did you say the goat sculptures are going to be? They'll go at Town Square at the brick entrance.

Did he end up deciding to include audio with that or is it?

I think that he's scrapped that. Okay. Can you follow up with him next time you talk?

Yeah.

All right. Any questions on any of those projects? Thank you, Derek. All right.

Last of all, we did an update with City Council for the Pavilion Park playground and got full support from all the Council to move forward with planning for next year through the budget process. which is great news. The next steps, I just received an email this afternoon from RCO that the final technical review for the grant presentation, we are scheduled for August 17th to present our grant, and then we sit and we wait and see what happens. Fingers are very much crossed. And then on the upcoming council report for August 18th, do we have any volunteers? I can do that one. All right. That concludes my report.

All right. And one more thing before we get to our final agenda item is our next meeting is September 7, which is a very late Labor Day this year. So unless you want to labor on Labor Day, I'm recommending we move it to the 14th. So we'll probably need a motion for that.

I'll move to reschedule September's meeting from the 7th to the 14th.

second okay moved by Laura seconded by Joni to move our September meeting from the 7th to the 14th all in favor aye opposed seeing none show the motion is carried and the last item is adjournment unless somebody has oh Gary go ahead oh all right it's been moved by gary and seconded by laura i'm sure she has nothing to do this evening all in favor for german i i suppose and thank you