Arts and Culture Commission - Regular Meeting

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So good evening, everyone. Today is Thursday, August 6th, 2026. This is a regular meeting of Park and Recreation Commission. This is a hybrid meeting. This meeting will be recorded. For members of the public wishing to address the Park and Recreation Commission on Zoom. Go ahead.

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I should have called for order later.

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Commissioner Swamy, we are trying a new- I saw the instructions. Okay, great. Can we have you sit on the other side of the table then, please? Oh, you have to speak.

Yeah, that's the reason. I thought it was helping balance the room. Thank you.

Okay.

So let me... Do you want to give her a second?

No, it's okay. You can just stop it. I can hear.

Okay. It's a call to order, right? So welcome to the August 6, 2026 Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. I will call the meeting at 7.03. Roll call, staff, can you please?

Commissioner Bono? Commissioner Skanet? Here. Commissioner Swamy? Yes. Vice Chair Sregan? Yes. Chair Kumarapan?

Here.

The record Commissioner Bono is absent.

Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes, and this is item number one. The subject is June 4th, 2026 Park and Recreation Commission Meeting Minute. The recommended action for us is to review and approve the June 4th, 2026 Park and Recreation Commission meeting minutes. And I'm sure that you all looked at the minutes on it. Are there any clarifying questions from the commissioner in the meeting? Okay. Oh, there is one. Make a motion.

I can make it.

Yeah.

Make a motion to- No, no.

So there's no clarifying questions. Yeah. Okay. Then I think, no, there is a new- Okay. So now it will be open for a public comment on this item, even on the minute. So staff, do we have any speaker notes or somebody on the Zoom?

No speakers, sure.

Awesome. Thank you. There are no speakers. Then I now close the public comment and invite a motion on the minutes. I would like to entertain a motion. Okay, Commissioner Srikant.

I reviewed it. I would like to make a motion to approve it.

Awesome. Commissioner Stanek?

I will second the motion.

Awesome. Excellent. I think it is the staff for you to make a vote. I think the motion started with Sheila and then seconded by Commissioner Stanek. You can go for a vote.

Commissioner Stanek? Yes. Commissioner Samami? Yes. Vice Chair Shriekant? Yes.

Yes.

The motion carries with Commissioner Bono absent.

Thank you. And postponements. I don't see any postponements in this, right? No postponements?

Thank you.

And now let's move on to oral communication. So we are now moving into oral communication. And this portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the commission on any other matter within the jurisdiction of the commission and not on the agenda. The figures are limited to three units. In most cases, the state law We'll prohibit the Commission from making any decisions with respect to a matter not on the agenda. The Commission or the staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed, and the Commission may request staff to report back at a subsequent meeting. That means we are not going to discuss on that. As a reminder, comments can also be emailed to Parks and Recreation Commission at Cupertino.gov. If any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill out a speaker card in the room or raise your hand on the Zoom. Staff, do we have anyone?

We have, yeah. Would you like to speak?

No, I'm just a company of police. I'm the AP. Okay. For a future item.

There's no card in the room and there's no hands raised in it. Okay. If that is the case, then I think if there's no speakers, then I'll close the oral communications. The next agenda and item is all business. I don't think that we have anything to be covered under all the business. Excellent. Thank you. And then let's move on to the new business. And in the new business, item number two. It is the Cupertino Historical Society and the Museum Annual Report. And this is part of the partners and things they really come every month to provide a report, right? Excellent.

I'm happy to do the introduction.

Yeah, so the recommended action is to receive a presentation in the Cupertino Historical Society and Museum Annual Report. And staff, I think if you could provide a quick intro to give a heads up on what's expected, what we hear from it.

Thank you, Chair. So in 2022, the City Council approved executing an agreement with the Cupertino Historical Society. The agreement has a lot of different terms to it. And one of the specific agreement terms is that the Historical Society must present an annual report of fundraising activities, current work plan achievements, and future work plan items and projects to the Parks and Recreation Commission on an annual basis. The agreement is on a fiscal year basis and our fiscal year just closed on June 30th. And obviously the Historical Society needs some time to be able to compile their end of the year results and this is the first meeting since they've been able to do so. So tonight's presentation is for informational purposes only. The commission, as you saw on the agenda, is to receive the annual report. And we are very fortunate tonight to have Mike Fulks with us from the Cupertino Historical Center. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, commissioners, staff, folks. I'm the Vice President of the Storage Society. I would have my treasure with me, but tonight is his 60th wedding anniversary. And so his wife insisted that he not go to a meet. Of course. So thank you for having me. I know you don't have a heavy agenda tonight, but I also don't want to bore you with slides. We put everything in your report, and it's all in your package, my two slides. So I'm going to really highlight what I think are the most interesting things. But please, if I'm going too fast, let me down, ask questions. So I just don't want to – I've sat in enough meetings where the slides just go on and on and so on. And there's a lot of, because of our agreement with the city, kind of all the factual and numbers are in there, but for me, I think, for the parks, representing public and representing residents, it's more interesting to talk about kind of the programmatic things that we're doing and what we're looking to do and what we've tried to do this past year. So we'll kind of go through all of that. And again, feel free to ask any questions.

And Mr. folks, before you get started, we do have a light system. And so if any of the commissioners have a question or concern, they'll just tap their light. And that way, it'll be an indication to you that, that there is a question. Would you prefer that those are at the end? Or would you like them as a present? Oh, as we go, I think. Okay.

And I realized I didn't give you your light.

So I will give you one as well.

Thank you, sir.

Sorry, do I have to watch these slides or those? All of it. All the lights.

You can come anywhere.

I was going to say, all right, okay. If I see people moving their fingers, I'll... There you go. Oh, wow. All right, maybe a quick...

Quick suggestion. Is it okay, like, I know 22 slides, but can we go through the slides first to hear it, and then we ask clarifying questions if we note it?

Or do you want to interrupt in the middle? Going along, because one suggestion, can I? You said that you didn't want to go through the slides, but we have a light agenda. You have all the time. We have the floor, and I'm sure we'll be a great speaker. Please go ahead.

Okay. Yeah, whatever is convenient. Okay.

Okay. All right, so if we can go to the next slide about the agenda. So, we really want to, as mentioned, hit the summary, the achievements, the newsletter, which I think is helpful because that goes out to a fairly a group of people in the community. And then, as mentioned, what we're looking to do for this coming year and where our budget is looking. So, if we go to the next slide, the city grants $45, which we appreciate the city's trust and belief in our organization, and we try to be very good stewards. And this is how that breaks down in terms of the grants, what grant application was for, and then obviously what the actuals were for the last year. You know, we are, like many nonprofits in Cupertino, running a bit of a deficit. We try to make that up with fundraising, with grant writing, et cetera. And, you know, for all historic sites in Silicon Valley, it's difficult because, you know, people are busy and there's not as much of a focus on history. And I think Cupertino has a unique approach. opportunity that we're working on which is so many people are from other parts of the country from other parts of the world they are here and we're trying to make history relevant to them one of the things and we'll all get to this but in my push i i i ran apple's uh nationwide government community first for 25 years so um so i work in a lot of communities i have worked in a lot of communities but i've been on this board for about 25 of those years because i do think there's a real opportunity especially with students and we'll get to that

looks like I'm sorry I will I will I will prompt it thank you so I'm just wondering how you're funding your deficit so we have so this is on the specific programs of the city and we agreed to do together

In general, we have an endowment, and so we take some off the endowment. We're trying not to eat the seed corn of that endowment, but we certainly do take 4% a year, which helps. And we get grants. that often can bridge a couple of bureaus. We got one recently from a small tech company that's very central in Cupertino. So that kind of helps balance it.

Okay, so this is just a piece of your activity? Correct. Yeah, okay. So I guess, yeah, at some point, I didn't see it in the package of what is the full scope of the Historical Society from a financial perspective.

Yeah, so the answer is, I think this would be roughly, depending on the year and depending on staffing, we've got some staffing challenges this year. Our executive director couldn't afford Silicon Valley anymore and left the area. And one of our staff members died unexpectedly. So in this year, we've been struggling from a staffing perspective, but obviously because of those expenses, you know, our budget is smaller this past year than it would have been. But I think on an average year, it's about a quarter.

That's about what I want to understand. Thank you.

So, if you go to the next slide. So, this is just to give you the broad version. We'll go into details of this. Again, we divide things up into collection management, curatorial exhibits, and then community outreach. And we'll talk through, and you can see kind of, we try to have an event, kind of a significant per month for our members and for the public. But to some degree, that also fits with the city's calendar because a lot of city events, since we're the museums right here across the hall from you, we piggyback on those eventually. You see when we have our festivals, that's when we do a lot of our work or Christmas time, you know, because on an average week, we may have, you know, a handful of people come to the museum, even though we have docent staffing it. But in a cultural event, we get 1,000 people come. So we really try to focus on those. Let's go to the next slide. So, again, just to give you an idea of how we divide this up, There's a lot of work in collection management, which, you know, before I got on this board, I didn't quite realize how labor-intensive it is, just knowing what you have. There's a whole lot of rules that museums have to follow in terms of how you treat your exhibits. One of our biggest expenses is storage, because we have to kind of control the storage, and we have a lot of stuff. And if you don't treat your stuff well, you have to give it away to other museums, which we don't want to do. We don't want to give away our collections. But we don't, we have a very small space. So most, you know, 90% or 100% of what we have is really in storage. And so that's a lot of work and it's kind of behind the scenes. But part of that is digitization. We, over the last several years, said, look, people these days are...

Perfect. This doesn't work. Okay.

Go ahead.

You know, there are a lot of places where, museums where people have needed... So without giving it away, does it make sense to actually give it to tech museum or other places? And when you want to swap it, you don't have to pay storage costs, but at the same time have free storage, so to speak, and also more visibility of your artifacts.

yes i so i'm learning kind of the hard way how there's a lot of byzantine rules with my word um so so yes we're trying to do that frankly the opposite way with exhibits because there are museums that will do a lot of work to put an exhibit together but let's say that and that exhibit may be on early farming which is as relevant to cupertino as it is to sacramento yeah and so if we can get, you know, borrow their exhibit and have it come here, or likewise with our exhibits, right, a lot more eyes get to be on it. So we're doing a lot of that. Okay. Yeah, and it's very helpful, yeah, because then we don't have to have it. And we'll get to that. So the... So the exhibits, and really when we talk about exhibits, it's mostly the museum, although we'll talk about a couple of the programs. The Kelly truck, which thank goodness the city has now given us space to fold this sort of truck, but we have no place in its big truck. So it's actually at Stockmeyer, one of the barns at Stockmeyer, which is great. And Stockmeyer is another project that I'm working on with the city to see if we can do something. which we've worked on for a long time, but that's still, you know, most cities around us, almost every city around us, has some historical building that has been restored and can be really used for public use. Cupertino is one of the only cities that doesn't. And, in talking to the staff, talking to the mayor, that seems to be the best and most likely resource for a lot of the reasons, right? So, and then the community outreach. You know, we really try to be relevant to the community. I mean, historical society without something that gets students excited, seniors excited, and everyone in between, you know, you're not creating a product that people want to see. So, we really focus on getting that out, on getting volunteers to help us so we can show off our things better, to work on more creative things, and we'll get to some of those programs. And one of them, which we'll talk about, is a Tavern Talk, which was a surprise for us. A great program. So we go to the next slide. So again, just talking about the different things. We're going to go into each of these I think in more detail, so we can go ahead and go to the next one. Just so you know how we break it down. So this is going to be a fairly exhaustive set of slides on just month by month what we're doing. Again, very limited staff. Right now we have no full-time staff. It's all part-time staff. And it really is hard for nonprofits because you can't full-time in this valley. You need to have benefits and other things that we can't offer.

Do you get volunteers to come and support you?

Yes. So we have most of the people who staff the museum are volunteers. We have an active board that helps staff. A lot of times if you're here on Fridays, probably Fridays when our staff is here, but you'll usually be half volunteers and half staff working together. A lot of people who grew up in Buena Vista who have been here for seven years right who really have they they are history for cupertino so they're really helpful but they're not you know they don't understand technology as well as you know even i don't understand as well as younger folks so um so trying to really you know bridge that gap so we can have um them kind of help guide but really also having people who can say Let's put this on YouTube instead of putting on our website. If you want to access it on the website, it's going to take forever. If you put it on YouTube, right, it's free storage, and you have instant content, and you can put a hyperlink on our webpage, and it's there, and it's, you know, things like that, which we don't even think about in terms of the back end of how the technology works. But if you go to, so we started this, again, with July, August, September. We're going to go through these. But as you just see, the blacksmith is every month. If you haven't gone down to see the McClellan Ranch Park, I recommend it. It's a great community thing. It is one of the few restored buildings that we do have where it's hands-on and kids love it, adults too. And then, you know, we always do a – we do the holiday exhibit here, which is hugely popular, and we'll talk about that. But also, we do a party for donors, guests, members to try to, you know, once a year, try to get everyone to do it. And really, it's a great community kind of way that we do it. The next one is going through to February, March. And, again, we'll talk about each of these things in more details in the next slide. And then, again, continuing. And the annual meeting, that's the other time we get all our people together. So, no, that's great. If we go to the next, then we'll get it good. So, the newsletter highlights. So, this is, you know, this is very labor-intense, but we sent an actual physical newsletter. We do monthly email newsletters to members and supporters, but we do physical newsletters that we give out, not just in Cupertino, but to other Hitch Local Societies in the area that might be interested in reading the articles that we're putting out. So it's a great effort, but again, a lot of our members are more senior and they like having the paper newsletter, right? They don't like scrolling on. Next. So this was a big one we did last year. So Cupertino's 70th birthday, which is funny because I just pulled out a T-shirt from our 50th birthday the other day and I'm like, well, I've been here a long time. But this was in the museum. So we have a limited space, but we can pack a lot in there and really trying to put pictures, articles, videos. So talking about Cupertino's past and again, As part of this is, you know, the mayor wanted to do an oral history project, so we helped her on that project as well. So we did several things for Cupertino 7-5th. And then this was a really fun one, and this was great for students. We had a lot of students come by for this. So we did a beekeeping exhibit, and this was both historical beekeeping, right? So we had a lot of really old equipment that used to be used that we got from various beekeepers, but also, and Alyssa, who you probably know, state-programmed also beekeeper they brought in you know honey and things that kids could taste and we could and people could buy it the local honey and so it was a really popular exhibit and i think you know obviously we couldn't bring bees into here we had everything else besides the bees um so so that was fun again the the a lot of your support goes to if you look at just putting up all those artifacts photocopying them, getting them, sourcing them, writing up all the, all the staff time to write everything up. But I mean, this is one, because we're doing it ourselves, that we can't just borrow from somebody else, so it's all kind of our work.

And... Quick, is this exhibit happens here?

Yeah, so this is our museum right here. That picture makes it look a lot bigger than it is.

Yeah, I think, wow, it's so bigger, and that's how... Yeah, we cram a lot in this one space.

Next slide. So this is really fun, and what we find, and you'll see this with the Cherry Blossom Festival, too. Photographs are key, right, to a lot of our exhibits. People love to have their picture taken, especially with the tree. So we do the tree every year. We do the railroad that actually runs around it. And we time it. It's open for about a month, but we time it to have both for our tree lighting ceremony and for Santa. And that's by far where we get it. Right. And they all want to have a picture in front of the tree. So it's it's a really it's a really great opportunity. And and again, you know, all the volunteers who came and put all that together almost overnight because we got it. We had an example. We had to take down and get this up. We only had a week to do that. But it worked out. So this is one we did beginning of the year. So this is one I mentioned that we rented but at minimal cost from another museum that basically were kind of helping pay for some of the work they did to put it together. But this was about gadgets. So it's a whole bunch of things. And we actually had a little game that people could play where you had to guess what each item is, right, because we covered up what they were. reveal them because a lot of these things, which are commonplace things, whether it's to wash clothes or whether it's to brush your horse or whatever, but they're such odd looking things you wouldn't really know what they were, right? You know, something to sort of store your butter in, et cetera. So that was a fun one. And again, You know, we ran that. That's about, you know, January to March. We try to turn the exhibits every three months, again, depending on staffing, you know, but we certainly, we don't want it to get stale. We want something new in the museum. So people come here, they're not just looking for something. And then this is the big one that's still in the museum now because of the of the 250th anniversary. And this was interesting because we had one of our part-time student staffers who contacted the federal government, and they have a bunch of De Anza stuff. So they actually sent us all sorts of really interesting materials and brochures and things about De Anza. So it was kind of a nice freebie. You don't get a lot for free from the federal government, but it's great. And so really we tried to talk about this not just what De Anza did, but also why Cupertino kind of, this was a creation of Cupertino was this exhibit. So as mentioned, we had the clothing, we had the mapping, we had the kind of the narrative, we had some audio visual kind of stories that people were telling about De Anza. So we try to make it, again, it's a tiny museum, If you're under 30, if you're reading text, it's very boring. So we're trying to do more things that are interactive or that are visual that you can watch, right? Little clips and stuff like that. And then, yes, and then we had loan items from the 76 Cupertino reenactment where they reenacted the De Anza coming here. So, yes, before my time, my time at Cupertino. They still had that collection, so we were able to put that up. Thanks. Now, this is a really interesting one, and this is where we rely on volunteers. We've done this for over 50 years. It's a traveling trunk, and this is because Most schools don't have the resources or the ability to come to our museum. So we have three different sets of trunks that go around the community, and we can do a 45-minute presentation, usually to a classroom. And so we work with the schools, and they say, hey, we're studying this. Do you have something relevant to that? We'll go and do a period, which is great and, again, gets it out there as part of that community. piece of it is that we're again we're not going to get into our museum so let's move the museum there uh very successful um we need younger younger uh docents because our younger volunteers because those parts aren't like but um but we have great people working on it um hands-on and one thing that the last two years we've started to do which which i'm super excited about which is going to senior centers because seniors need programming and we went to one I'm going to forget which one it was. It was last year. And one of the support people said, because there was a person who was kind of just staring at the wall and got involved and was touching and things and said a couple of words. And the person said that that's the first time they've heard that person say anything for months. So that's something we really want to look into, because that seems like an audience that... They can really use this, right? And they don't have the structure like a school does that may have a really, you know, tight time. So that's something we're looking at doing more of.

It brings back the memory to you for them. Exactly.

And especially with things you can touch. It's amazing how if they look at something, it's one thing. If they put their hands on it, everything is top-shelf.

Mike, we did a study last year to look at seniors and how They can be more engaged. This is such a beautiful part that can actually fit into that program. Yeah. We were talking about intergenerational things and the loneliness and feeling left out. It's just so wonderful to hear you say I'm alive with that.

Yeah, it's I mean, I was super excited by that and really want to pull that out. We've you know, we've been doing you know, some kind of partnerships with the larger senior communities up on the hill, right? And trying to figure out, can we do more programming up there? Can we do some events up there? Because again, I think they, we can offer things and they have facilities that we don't have. So it's a good combination.

Next slide, please.

So the Cherry Blossom Festival, this one was, This kind of, we managed to pull this off. We had this DMs exhibit. We couldn't dismantle that and put the cherry blossom up just for a weekend. So we basically kind of figured out a way to put one in front of the other. But I volunteered at this one on Sunday, which was not the biggest day. We probably had Every minute, probably 10 to 20 people come. I mean, it was via clicker, and I don't have the numbers right now, but it was amazing how many people came. And they didn't just come to see the kimonos, which was a big draw, because they were right in front. But then they walked around and looked at all the DMs of things and took pictures with the kimonos. And it was a great partnership with Sister City, and we've done it for many years. And that's really, for us, as mentioned with Santa or with the festivals, Again, you're going to get more people in one weekend walking through than you're going to have in six months. So, you know, just a normal, you know, normal business. So we really want, and that's why it's really critical to have the space here, right? Because if we were, you know, we'd love to have more space and more exhibits, but if we sucked away in a small range, we wouldn't have the number of eyeballs coming through that you do when you're right in the middle of the center of town here. And then this is new this year, the poetry contest. This is where some of your friends have gone to to help just with the advertising and getting out to the schools. So this is the first one we've done, really trying to reach kids. And it started as it was going to be a history essay contest. And then we switched it. We talked to the teachers in the schools and said, you know, poetry is more creative. It fits more with our curriculum. And so we said, great. And so we did it on a weekend. We got a lot of interest. The kids who came loved it. The content was great. As you can see, all the content is always great here. And we reached, it was really the youth outreach, because I think if we can make history relevant to kids, the parents will come along. But if we just try to say, if you're a busy parent with three kids, and we're trying to say, hey, you should be volunteering as a docent in our museum, they're going to say, I've got no time, right? But if the kids are interested and want to get more involved and we have more programming for kids, I think that can go well. So that's That's kind of our goal. This is our first kind of throw in the water. Years before, we did like a coloring contest at the festivals. But now, frankly, the festivals have enough demand for booths. You have to actually pay for the booth, which are fairly expensive. So we said, well, we're probably better off managing our dollars by just doing it ourselves, right? Not being part of a giant festival with a lot of competing activities. Coloring is fine, but if there's a slide right next to it, it's going to be a problem. Next slide, please. And then this is an ongoing project. So, you know, Monta Vista is our most historic part of Cupertino, just in terms of its age and history. And so we have a lot of brochures and things, walking tours, but we're trying to digitize those. I used to chair the historic preservation board in Campbell. And we put together an app. And so you can walk around down King Campbell, and you just look at the cows, and it's boom, and you click on it, and it's out of order. So we're trying to do that for Monopista. The same idea. that Campbell had the benefit of having a staff person that could give us to do the apps, which is why we got one down here. Here we don't have that, you know, luxury. But the idea is it's a very manageable walking area. And there's so much history there, not just what's still there, but what used to be there, right? The Hoo-Hoo House and all these other things that I just hear stories about, right? So this is one that we're, you know, again, we still have some people alive who are, who've done their oral histories, but they're really great to ask. I mean, they're in the 80s and 90s, but they still, you know, they're sharp as a tack. So we're getting a lot of really good, you know, information to kind of build this out and make it more robust. So the next slide. So now we're getting into numbers. Just we're towards the end. But just so you know kind of what plans are for the coming year in terms of dollars. Since you guys are funding us, we want to make sure that you know where the dollars are going. So, and as you see, some of these are multi-year projects, right? The speakers programs, others are really things we want to tackle this coming year. Like, for example, the Past Perfect, which is a software program, which, you know, I work in tech. I kick the tires on this a lot, but basically all of our collections are in a program that doesn't really allow for collaboration or sharing to the outside world, which is nice. But if we're only seeing our stuff with this, the upgrade is going to give us the ability to have multiple people work on the same file and be able to push it out on our website. So that's a big, hopefully big change for us. Storage is just ongoing. We continue to look for better alternatives. I've talked to city staff about some ideas. City space, you know, city space is precious. And we... we probably need climate control at some level. It's not like we're, you know, we're holding the seed bank or anything, but we can't just put it in a shed, right? So, and then as you see, again, a lot of things that are ongoing expenses and some things that are new. One thing I didn't, the speaker's program, which is, which you see a fairly large cost there, and that's really because rent a space, you know, food and beverage, blah, blah, blah. But those have been really supportive. And I think, I don't think, I have a separate slide in this. So, yeah. So, let me, this is the second last slide. So, but part of the speaker series has been our talent talks. This was one of our board members who, Deep into local history, grew up here in Coutinho. He's a local teacher. But he had this idea. We don't have a lot of historic businesses still in operation. We do have some historic talents. And so he started this. We started with Paul and Eddie's and basically inviting our members plus donors plus active community folks to come out. and, you know, pay a little bit, get a free drink, and then have a lecture, and have a lecture about the, about Polonettis from somebody who, like, is related to the original family. So, and we got, First, we knew we had 40 people, which is a lot of people for us. And that continued. And so and now we've branched out to some, you know, to local pizza places. But, you know, so we're still calling it a tavern talk. The idea is any establishment that's still around, this has been around for 40 to 50 years or longer. and telling their story. But if their story is relatively short, then we've added on another speaker to talk about. So, for example, we've done a couple now with the blue pheasant. The first one was all about the blue pheasant. The second one we did there, we're like, well, everyone knows about the blue pheasant, so we had to talk about De Anza. We had two of our docents give a long talk about De Anza, since we're right in the middle of... Sorry, I said... Mont Vista, because right in the middle of Mont Vista. And so it was nice to be able to say, okay, two blocks that way, this happened, and two blocks this way. So those have been really popular. And again, something to get people who may not really want to spend a lot of time in a museum or may not have little kids and want to go have a picture with Santa, but it's something that it's a nice evening thing. It's a lot of our community members, a lot of our electeds come and it's just a fun way to have an evening activity. So that's been a big plus. And now we're almost trying to figure out, okay, we're running out of places in Cupertino. We did one in Saratoga just over the border. We're doing it in Cupertino adjacent, right? If we can't do it in Cupertino. So that, I wanted to mention that because that's a significant part of our program. And then again, the satellite exhibits, that's both us going to other museums to get some of their There are things which they will charge us so that we get things here. And also us having exhibits that can go out to the community. The traveling trunk, it's doing things in schools, things like that. And then the video history programs is an ongoing thing. We have a lot of really good videos. They're old, they're long, they need to be edited, and we need to put them up on the web. Because right now they're still in our archives and they serve no purpose sitting there. But nobody's going to want to sit on A well-meaning but hour-long discussion that really could be down to 15 minutes of like zippy kind of dialogue. So it's having the staff to be able to do that video edit, getting down and getting it up on our website, getting on YouTube where we can link to it and getting that content.

A couple of quick ones. One is speaker programs, but is it the speaker? Is it the expense towards the speakers? Or when you say that you give a refreshment for the people who come?

Yeah, so it's actually the rental of the place. Right. So we've had a lot of authors who will write a book and they'll come to speak for free. We need a bigger space, so we'll need to use a room here or a room someplace in the community. Or, for example, the... or for some of the tavern places. We try to get them for free, but sometimes they have a minimum food and beverage or something, and if we don't quite meet that, because they're getting up a big part of their revenue for that evening to give us space. And that's assuming a monthly program. Obviously, if we don't have a monthly fee, then that goes down.

Next question is, on the Stevens Creek signage, it says one year, 10K. Is it every year, or just for one year, so one time?

So, that's for budgeting for this year. This year. Because we, so, if you go along the trail, right, the, you know, all the way along from the Palm Ranch to Stockmire, there's a bunch of signage there. So, we have a bunch that we want to put in. But, so, that's what we think we're going to do for this coming year, right? A lot of it depends on the city. I mean, there's a lot of, as you can imagine, but it takes time. You're putting something out in public. Right away, so we have to so so that's what we plan on doing this year. But again, it's it's really. One is is 2 to 3,000 dollars. So that's. That, you know, with the construction, they have to be permanent and something that's not going to be analyzed, et cetera.

Yeah, the reason I asked is that I think in our last commission meeting, we got to see the Santa Clara County Labor District is putting a story walk in the park, right, with the signages, kind of. So I think it looks like this is similar to it, right, when you go and exhibit them. Again, there's an opportunity because they come up with some programs called Story Walk, where alongside of the parks or the periphery side of it, on the walkway, they'll put some of these exhibits. So maybe there's an opportunity you can work with them and see whether, because they are doing it a big scale. And so maybe that should help. Oh, yeah. There's an opportunity. I mean, we don't,

Santa Clara County Library District.

Santa Clara County Library District. And our library is doing it. So you may want to just check it out.

I would like to say that, you know, the history have honed it down. Those two storyboard around the parks. Most people really don't know about the history of Cupertino, about De Anza, about, you know, Monta Vista that you talk about with such passion. And we miss the shared language. the common ground across the residents of Cupertino. And really, it all seems like an apple town, an extension of that and some of the great parks that we have. But you can absolutely perhaps utilize the parks we have and make that more fun, engaging, and really helpful. One other thing I wanted to ask about is the speakers program. Just because you are a nonprofit, is it possible for the city, have you explored if you can use the... Quinlan community center for free or a really low price. Or can you, because it's all within the pro within the overall arching on the overarching issue. I have no idea. I'm just proposing a negotiation tactics.

Yeah. Well, we, we, and we, you know, the city works well with us. Um, I think they have to kind of treat us like they treat everyone else, like they treat Rotary. So there's a little bit of a favorite child.

But you have a house here.

Yeah, that's true. And again, I think we're always looking for creative solutions. Again, the tavern talk is the one that costs us a lot less than what we were doing before, just because of the cost of the location. So that's something we're looking into. And I think we're... For me, the one commonality of everyone in Cupertine is we all came from farmers, right? Back generations, everyone was a farmer in the work. So that's why agricultural exhibits are something that we're really trying to push because you grew up in New York or Bangalore or Sweden, you were a farmer at one point, right? And we have a lot of that because we were such an agricultural town. So I agree with you. Now it's the new TV show Cupertino coming out, which people are going to think about different times. But for history, and kids love to – so I've volunteered for years at my local kids' school, and I'm doing it in the garden. And if they can get their hands dirty – So just doing like orange picking, right, at Stockman Meyer Ranch or something like that with a lecture on why this orange orchard here and how did it come to be and was it, well, the kids can then slice open and have an orange section. I mean, things like that bring history alive and bring everyone together because, again, everyone's great-grandparents were. So we're looking into fixing it.

I have only one quick note and we are running out of time, but because this is so important for the environment and everything, the bee section that you're talking about, a lot of people have fear of the bees. But, you know, you all know how to actually overcome that. In fact, I would love to learn more about it. Is there a way you can kind of make that a little bit more widespread? Because we need more bees to pollinate the bee population shrinking rapidly. So anything you can do to be more creative to make sure that you're expanding, that's something to consider. That's all.

Awesome. Just to kind of check, how many slides do we still have?

There's one more, but it's not awesome. It just gives you the categories.

I'll let you wrap up, and then I have one thing to add, but go ahead.

Okay. So anyway, thanks for your time. Thank you for your questions and being so interactive. This is super fun. Again, we're across the hall and we have people here every Friday. So if you ever have questions, things that come up, you know, feel free to come over and visit us. And again, appreciate the partnership with the city. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Just to piggyback on the question that Commissioner Swamy brought up, you guys all have a copy of the current agreement, and it does note that the Historical Society does get a certain number of free uses of the room, and then anything above that, there is our nonprofit rate for them to be able to, as long as the space is available at a very nominal rate, can use our facilities at that rate. Do you have it in your packet?

Supplementary report and others, right? Correct.

Awesome.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Well, I have enough money.

I have enough money. Everything's possible. Thank you.

But after the presentation, typically we have some public comment, too, on this side. I was asking for the public, if anybody's on the speakers.

We have no speakers.

Excellent. That's the process. I need to check it out. Thank you. And I'll close the public comment. I think all the clarifying questions we asked in between, so I don't think that even the speaker is not here to really answer anything. That's good. So we'll move on to the next item. This item number three, the subject is fiscal year 25-26 community funding grant program written reports. And the recommended action is to receive an update on this fiscal year 2025-26 community funding grant program written reports from the staff. And please always take care of it.

So similar to the historical side, we just finished the fiscal year and part of the community funding grant program. It wrapped up for the 2025-26. It's hard to reverse in your head. We're already working so far out. Excuse me. The 2025-26 Community Funding Grant Program Report. Jacinta Liang was going to be presenting that to you tonight. You guys are all very familiar with her, and I think you'll be very pleased with what she shared tonight.

Awesome. Thanks.

Good evening, Chair and fellow commissioners. During tonight's meeting on community funding, I'll be providing an update for the 25-26 awarded organizations. And just a reminder, this is not for the 26-27 organizations that previously were brought to you in March and April this year. And then those annual reports for 26-27 isn't due until July next year, so July 2027. And just a quick recap, last fiscal year, City Council awarded $35,500 in community funding to 13 organizations. And shortly after the June City Council meeting, Friends of Deer Hollow Farm said that their project was already complete before the award, and they no longer needed the $2,000 in grant funding. So the grant funding wasn't sent out to them, and an annual report was not submitted. So the total funding that was sent out was 32,000. No, 32 was the previous . And then as part of the community funding grant policy, grant recipients need to submit written reports to show that their grant funds have been spent in the way that was stated in their application, along with receipts and other types of financial statements. And next I'll be providing an update for each organization. So first we have Active Circle. They received $2,000, and their funds were used to purchase food, materials, and entertainment for their all-inclusive picnics. They said that they served 80 individuals, and 50 of them were from Cupertino residents, and all $2,000 for expense. Next we have INOC and they received $4,000 and they used the grant funding towards materials and equipment for their free vision care program. So this program is providing free eye exams and prescription glasses to underserved students. And then they said that they serve 26 individuals with their program and out of the 26, 15 of them were Cupertino residents. Next, we have Asian American Parents Association. They received $3,000, and their funds were used for their AAPI Multicultural Festival, which was held earlier this year in May. And they served a total of 500 individuals, and 350 of those were Hupotino residents. Next, we have the Cupertino Rotary Club. They received $1,600 and they used their funds towards purchasing meals for their Thanksgiving meal sharing program. And they said that they serve 500 individuals and out of those, 15 of those are Cupertino residents. Next, we have Cupertino Symphonic Band. They received $3,000. Funds were used towards venue rentals and programs and sheet music for their concerts. And out of those concerts, 2,000 individuals attended, and 500 of those were Cucutino residents. Next, we have ElderA. They received $5,000 in grant funding, and funds were used towards their background verification, integration, within their elder aid app. And then this application was the platform that connected seniors with volunteers that needed help with daily tasks or errands. And they did not expend their full grant amounts and they returned the amuse funds to the city. And they spent $944.80. Next, we have iTalented. They received $900, and funding was used towards materials and room rentals for various STEM-focused workshop and events. Some of the events included Bobatino, Kids and Fun, and then they had a lot of math and physics seminars. And they said that they served 1,800 individuals, and out of those, 1,000 were Bobatino residents. Next, we have No Time to Waste. They received $5,000 in grant funding, and the funds were used towards their Feed the Need program, which recovers surplus extra food from grocers, hospitals, and restaurants and caterers. And then they deliver the surplus food to homeless shelters, food pantries, and churches. And they served 457 1,810 people, and out of those, 34,399 were Cupertino residents. Next, we have Remember the Tooth Fairy. They received $1,000, and their funds were used towards their dental treatment program, and then they used these for materials and equipment, and also dentists and doctors to help do the dental for children with low income. And they served 100 total individuals and 78 were Cupertino residents. Next we have Special Olympics of the World of California. They were awarded $5,000 and funds were used towards venue rental costs at Homestead Bowl for their bowling team program. So they held practice sessions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. And they served 87 total individuals, and out of those, 12 were Cucutino residents. Next, we have via rehab services. They received $1,000. And their funds were used towards program materials for their STEAM and outdoor education camps. And they served 441 total individuals, and 11 were Cucutino residents. Lastly, we have West Valley. They received $2,000. Funds were used to purchase gift cards for families during their annual Gifts of Hope event, but till during the December holiday season. And they served as well of 1,012 individuals and 326 were Latino residents. And that concludes tonight's update. Any questions?

Yeah, so let's, thank you. Thanks for presentation. And I think that's a good format you put in there and we can just focus on. So nicely arranged. Thank you. And looks like clarification questions, Commissioner Aswami.

I have one question on the dental, The dental one, it seemed like an incredibly good ROI. It seemed, am I wrong in thinking it was $10 per person or something? 100 individuals, $1,000. $10 per individual, that seems like a lot.

Yeah.

Right? How are they doing, $10 per individual?

I believe on their annual report, they had, I think they partnered with local professionals, Yeah, so they had a lot of volunteers and they had...

But they have to be specialized, right? For dental stuff.

Yeah, they have dental professionals.

Less than mine. Okay.

Maybe they have contracts with them or maybe they... separately just like volunteer some of their time to provide.

That's good, very good.

It's wonderful. Yeah.

All exams. So we should have more of these kind of things. That kind of an hour is ridiculous.

We actually awarded them for 26, 27. I know, we did.

Yeah.

Very impressive. Done. Question, done.

Yeah, elderly returned about 900 plus dollars and then the $2,000 that was never used by the first cause. And I'm sure we cannot account that because that's been already done. Would that be allocated into the 2728 grant program or it's gone?

It just gets given back to them. It was, well, in one case it was never provided to Deer Hollow Farm, but then I had $44. We'll just go back into the general fund.

Okay, and even the $2,000, it was never given, so it still stays in the funds.

Okay. Excellent. Thank you. I have a quick question. Do you have anything now? Okay. So one of them is that if you could go back on the slides, you said no time to waste. And it says the number of Cupertino residents benefit is 34,000. Can you go back? I think they put all the... I'm still trying to find out how they served 34,000 clients on this.

I think calculated by the number of meals. So it could be the same resident over and over.

Oh. Yes. Okay.

They explained it one year when they came.

Because the reason I asked it, West Valley, the people and residents served is around 300 something. Then even Rotary Club is whatever the Thanksgiving one, it's only 15. So what I'm trying to say is that the need for this kind of a meal and others seems to be definitely not $34,000. That's Oh, sorry. That's what I heard. So please. So I don't know how the basic difference is.

The other programs are a one time shot. So Gift of Hope is one. So that many people come in. Right. The Cupertino Roti is Thanksgiving. They give those one time. And the no time to waste is that that is an ongoing program. So they are delivering meals throughout the year. And so maybe it's, you know, maybe the number of times Cupertino residents have been served. Maybe that's, you know, how else to make it. It's a little, the words that are chosen, I think, is the way it's.

Yeah, I'm happy that it serves so many, but I'm trying to find that much need. by all or only a group set of people, maybe 500 people or someone they need, they're repeatedly getting it every week or every month and together. I think it's a, so the representation could be, it'll be number of residents, so how many times kind of, but I don't think that, I don't know whether they have that kind of, because they're, They're going to just count people. They're not going to say, are you the repeat customer? They're not going to do it. I understand. That's why it is a number of, I would consider this number of people served, number of served, whatever, meals served. He's 34,000. I don't think it would be that. The reason is somebody, if you look at it, oh my God, Cupertino residents have so many people need The reason, because otherwise they will look at differently. That means the city have so many people in need of this. It gives a different perspective. That's what I felt it is.

It's not unique users.

Yeah, it's not unique users. Number of meals served for Cupertino is 34,000 meals. That's great.

It is an annual program. They're delivering meals over 12 months and With their calculation, they're probably, I'm pretty sure they're measuring by pounds when they collect their food. And then they probably have some type of calculation, you know, how many pounds of food per month and then how many times it goes to, like, you know, the amount of meals that goes to food retail or something like that.

Okay. Another question quickly is that, When do they do it? How do they do it? In what place? And because it's in Cupertino, is it city permitted? Or how do they serve these residents, our residents?

I mean, how do- Work with West Valley.

And they also go through as well. Yeah, I just wanted to understand because where do they start? If we're on a regular program, either city should know or any of us will know where do they do this one? I just want to see it one day. I want to go and just look at it. How do they do it? Just to get a feel of what kind of our citizens are going there and what is a need just to have it again. If you don't have answer it, no problem. Just a question and if you could get and maybe later if you all know, That's great. Where do they serve and how they manage it? And is there any city staff is helping or any program is attached to it? I just want to know because it's a huge thing. It's good, but I wanted to know. That's it. So, but don't worry about it. You may be getting answered. That's okay.

I actually have it. So they deliver surplus food to West Valley Incubates in a weekly. And then they also

What's a weekly?

And this was in their application. It was in Patrick's fee. So then they have 33 food donors in Santa Clara County. And then that they collect food from. and then they deliver it to 22 outreach program partners in the county.

Okay, but for Cupertino, they only give it to West Valley and through which we get it.

So in Cupertino, in their application, it just states West Valley. I'm not sure if they deliver it to their country.

Maybe later, not right away, but I would still like to understand Then the number is so big and I wanted to understand how do they do it? How do they serve it? Where do they? And if it's West Valley, is our people are going there? Somehow the number seems to be so big and I want to understand. That's it. Thank you.

Sorry, what's your question? The $2,000 that was never utilized, which cause was that?

Friends of Deer Hollow Farms.

Friends of Deer Hollow Farms.

That was to renovate.

Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, yeah. That and I don't think Eldorado never came back last year. I don't remember seeing both of them, but I feel that in future when they come back, we should consider whether it is really going to be helpful. Otherwise, we could have allocated that funds to somebody else.

The applications were due in January and then the organizations don't know if they're awarded until June. So I think friends of Dara Hall Farm, they said that their board was pushing them to project ASAP. So they ended up finishing in April or May. And then they asked if we could use the funds for something else. But, you know, council already went to commission. So that specific project, so we told them, can't apply for a different project. Back to applying next year.

Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, totally. But with the elder aid, probably they overestimated their cost, I think.

Like you said, they had a delay in their, like, marketing or outreaching.

Okay.

They asked if they could, I think, use it in July, you know, but then their term ends June 30th. So if there's any way that you can use it towards what you applied for, you can use that. But they said, no, we won't.

We don't have very nice often.

OK. Makes sense.

OK, thank you. Thank you. I think if there's no more clarifying questions, I think we kind of did the comments as well. So did there any public comments staff we have?

We have no speakers here.

OK, thank you. If that isn't the case, then I'll close the public comment and just open it up for a final comment. Is there any final comments from our commissioners? Thank you all. I think then that's good, and we'll move to the next item.

I do have one. May I?

Come on, please.

I have one. When they first came to us for funding, their ROI was very low. I mean, very high in the sense their cost per pair of glasses was ridiculously low. But then I'm suddenly seeing a huge increase in their operational costs. We never quite asked them that question, but it just has been in the back of my mind, especially when I recognize it's being just $10 per child for the dentin one. Can we ask them to give that justification when they actually, when they come for a presentation of how they spent the month?

So you're asking for, so you're asking for 25, 26, right?

25, 26, just casually. What caused this huge increase? in the per pair of glasses cost. Because it used to be, I don't have the exact numbers, but I vaguely remember being super impressed. And we had even told them to ask for more because of how much they were doing. But I could be wrong, but I think I remember, if I remember it correctly, the cost per pair of glasses has gone significantly than for the first time when we gave them the funding.

Yeah, I think when we, Ina came for the 26-27 funding. She did mention that there were increased costs towards the classes, but I think they weren't awarded the full amount, so they weren't able to, yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, anyway, you can, if you get information, you can pass it on to us through that.

And the suggestion you can give them for the future to get more of this thing is Temu.com and India. These are really great resources to cut down the cost to really minimal. I've been totally impressed how cheaply they can actually give us the glasses. And that's my last comment. This is just a suggestion to pass on our message to them if you can.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. And I think with no more comments on it, we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is the staff and commission reports. So this person of the meeting is reserved for staff to provide any updates on matters pertinent to the commission and for the commissioners to report on the commission-related activities. I think staff, we have the report, right? We have the staff report.

I was just thanking her for her presentation and making sure she sets it. So thank you.

Oh, thank you. No, yeah. As I said earlier, it's fantastic.

It's a lot of stuff to compile, as you can imagine, between all the pieces.

That's why I said initially the template. I think the template is so clean and neat, and we just focus on one of the items. That's all it is. That's fantastic. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Okay. Good evening, everybody. Thank you. We're on the final stretch. To piggyback on what Jacinta was just presenting, the City Council at their June 16th meeting adopted the 2026-27 operating budget. And it included the Parks and Recreation Commission's recommendation for community funding grants for many organizations, totaling $28,500. They did have some changes to the commission's recommendation. Specifically, they did remove the Fremont Union High School District line item for $8,500 and the Rotary line item for $3,000 for a total of $11,500. But then they did add in funding the Cooper Cano Host Lions Club for $2,500 and the American Legion Post 642 for $5,000. They also, at that same meeting, reaffirmed their interest in establishing a subcommittee. to review the community funding grant policy and for future cycles. Obviously, this one moved forward, as I just stated. And that will include not only Parks and Recreation Department Director Rochelle Sander, but Mayor Kitty Moore and Vice Mayor Liang Chao. So that subcommittee has been meeting, and I don't have an update. But when we do, we will make sure to share that with you. Next, at the same meeting, the council approved the capital improvement project budget. with a couple modifications specifically related to some of our staff here at Parks and Recreation Department. They also took action during that CIP line item to take several coordinated steps to better understand and manage pickleball impacts. So specifically, they did ask staff to move forward with the pilot program, or the trial as we're calling it, And we'll be coming back to the commission in about three months to talk more about that. They've also asked staff to talk about some municipal code restrictions on the placement of pickleball courts near sensitive areas in the community. They did allocate $15,000 for a professional acoustic study, which is being led by the Department of Public Works for the pickleball courts in Memorial Park. And then they did remove that $150,000 that was in the CIP project proposal until there's additional information and they'll provide additional direction at a later date. So with that being said, the pickleball trial did start on July the 7th and will run through February 7th of 2027. Staff has created...

Sorry, Kelly, if you go back, I think the second one you didn't... I just wanted to make sure. Previous slide.

I'm trying. What's one on here?

Hold on.

Oh, I'm sorry. The commission's role. So in about three months, once we have the acoustic study and we've done a preliminary analysis on the pickleball trial, then we'll return to this body. I will send you an email on this. immediately after the council action, trying to articulate what staff role is versus what the commission's role will be moving forward. And when we get closer to that, I will definitely have a lot more detail and a lot more information, not just to share with you, but for your consideration. And at this point, we don't have anything. We're four weeks into this project. Thank you. With that being said, we are still having free pickleball drop-in play in Memorial Park. It is taking place Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and we are closed on Mondays. There is an incredibly detailed webpage that we've put together with a lot of information about the trial details, kind of an FAQ sheet, also listing where additional places where you can be playing. And that website is Cupertino.gov backslash pickleball trial. So I encourage you, if you haven't gone to that, to go to that already or go to that to get more information. Like I said, the commission's focus will be to receive a report on the acoustic study and to receive a report on approximately three months of the trial. Staff is implementing the bulk of the rest of the pieces of this puzzle. And we'll be putting it together as a really comprehensive packet for city council consideration in 2027. Okay, 4th of July. It seems like it was a long time ago already, but it doesn't get any better than this. Talk about history. 250 years, and we definitely had a huge turnout if you were in the park at all, starting with the pancake breakfast to the flag-raising ceremony to the children's parade. It really was hometown goodness. The afternoon included a concert in Memorial Park with Fire Peach. We did have Blackberry Farm Pool open all afternoon with some food trucks. And then in the evening, of course, the fireworks display, which is well attended by residents and people throughout our neighboring communities. So really, really heartwarming and patriotic full day. We actually have a concert going on in the park right now. I can't read the screen. The sound project, R&B Funk, is playing out in the park until 8 o'clock this evening. So they're just wrapped up. But with that being said, we have a couple more weeks of our summer concert series. And I know I'm enjoying them. Hopefully you've been out to check one out. But I would encourage you, if you haven't been out yet, to take that. Advantage of either Get Lucky Band next week on the 13th or Smoke and Slice a Mojo on August 20th. Also in the park, we have been having the free Shakespeare in the park. It is Saturday and Sunday of this coming weekend, August 8th and 9th, and it's at 6 p.m. So, whoops, I'm sorry, the slide didn't advance.

Sorry about that.

There we go. Shakespeare in the Park. And so hopefully if you didn't go last weekend, hopefully you'll have some availability in your calendar to join this weekend. And this Friday is our first movie in the park. Different park, though. This one is at Creekside Park, whereas Shakespeare and the concerts are here at Memorial. The first movie is Goat. And it's going to take place at 8 p.m. because we do need to wait for it to get late or dark. And it will run from August 7th to August 28th. Little plug for the Senior Center and Hidden Treasures, which is coming up in October, which isn't that far out, but we are starting to accept donations for Hidden Treasures. So we will be accepting donations through the 2nd of October, and then Hidden Treasures itself is Thursday, October 22nd. You can donate gently used items like jewelry, crafts, knickknacks, and more. And if you'd like to learn more about that event, it's cubertino.gov backslash hidden treasures. The staff is working really hard on a senior center open house. It's going to be in two weeks on August 21st. It's taking place from 1030 a.m. to 1230 p.m. It's an opportunity for the socials to highlight the programs that they offer, but it's also a chance for some of our instructors for either new programs, growing programs, new instructors. To highlight and do a free demo, and then we also are doing a membership workshop where people can learn how to use active net software and either how to establish an account or how to register online. So that way, when it comes to the registration dates, they have a little bit more ease with our registration software. But there's a lot of activities planned during that day. And if you would like to join us again, it's a Friday, August 21st from 1030 to 1230. And then my last update for this evening is that the. fall recreation activity guide. I know it's hard to believe when it's 90 outside, right? But the fall recreation activity guide is out and our fall programs do start August 31st. You'll see in the activity guide that it's got programming through the holidays. So everything that you may want to do to either take part or to register your family in, I would encourage you to take a peek. The numbers are very strong so far for the fall session. So if you haven't registered for the classes that you normally take, you might want to do so. And then I also wanted to remind you, we have a couple of holidays coming up. The next one for us is Monday, September 7th, and we'll be closed for Labor Day with the exception of Blackberry Farm Golf Course and Sports Center, which will be open those days. So that concludes my presentation, and thank you so much for allowing me to share.

Awesome, awesome. Thank you for the great presentation. And any clarification questions or any doubts you have on any of those? Awesome. Thank you. Sorry, sorry. Commissioner Stanek, please.

when you're reading the URLs. So you said backslash? Is it forward? Yeah. Forward? Sorry. I'm trying to roll off your tongue.

I tried the URL. It works.

It does?

I just wanted to clarify that.

If anybody's listening, I don't know. I will hurt my tongue.

Awesome.

Thank you.

And now it's time for the commission reports. Any commissioners have any other reports? Commissioner Stanek, please.

Thank you. Yes, it's been a busy summer. I thoroughly enjoyed the Fourth of July activities at Memorial Park. Brought the whole family. We rode over. And the music was great. We had a good time. Lots of activities. My grandson, who happened to be here. So that was very nice. Summer concerts. Been enjoying that. husband's out there tonight, although that's probably done now. Join him tonight. I haven't taken Pilates classes here at Quinlan. And so, luckily, I have not had any trouble. Registration for those, I kind of go month at a time, which is really nice, actually, to be able to register for just one month. Because, you know, especially if you're going to be gone for a particular period of time, you can stop for a month. So, that's really nice. So I did want to make a comment on the labyrinth, our lovely McClellan River labyrinth. It was getting kind of weedy, and so it did get cleaned up dramatically, and it looks beautiful. And as I walked by, I saw an individual with a backpack, and he was placing some rocks. And I asked him, I said, Did you clean this up? And he said yes. And he said what happened was when they did the weed whacker it messed up the entire lab. So I'd like to get it into the procedures that when they do the weed whacking that it's part of their cleanup is to put the labyrinth back and stay back. He did a beautiful job. And I do remember there was one time that I thanked one of the Public Works folks, the ranger, who was out there with their weed whacker. And I was like, thank you so much for doing this. And this was probably a year ago. And she... And I thanked her and she asked me, she says, well, do I need to put the rocks back? And I was like, yes, please. You shouldn't have to ask me that. So it sounds like this year, maybe it's not part of the procedure. They go get rid of the weeds. Maybe they were going to do it. But I have to say, I met this resident. His name is Andrew. what a nice guy and it it looks better than it ever did i have to say um so so it's really nice to see that the labyrinth is there and it is being maintained sort of at least between uh staff and residents so hopefully we can make one

Thank you so much. Absolutely.

Thank you. Thank you.

I want to actually really congratulate the city staff for the 4th of July. This has been the very best one that I've ever seen. And the crowd in Sedgwick was stunning. And we all, we live just around the corner. So I always leave the space in front of my house and park inside the driveway. Oh my goodness. The number of people, and it seemed to go a little longer than usual. I know it used to be about 20 minutes before, but it seemed at least three to five minutes longer. And what a finale it was. I don't know, what is it that you guys have done or has the cost remained the same and somehow the performance of the Fireworks has gone up so much more. It was absolutely stunning. I want to put it on the record. Everybody was great. The city staff was there. Yeah.

It's all right. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Do you have anything on it?

Okay. I do have just one update on it, mainly on the 4th of July, when I was in the park and participated in the parade with it, and it was phenomenal. And especially then I connected with the person who was the National Anthem. And she was unbelievable. I was just stunned to hear it. Like, that's a Cupertino High student. It was fantastic. And then talked to many people. So overall, kids enjoyed it. And the staff arranged, I think, a lot of volunteers. I think team commission, I don't know who are. All of those teams were there everywhere with small booths. And it is like a huge carnival time. That's how they made it. Fantastic.

Great volunteers. They did an amazing job. Their energy is just incredible.

So please pass on to our Commissioner. So that's pretty much all I have. If no other reports, then I think the next one is a Agenda is a future agenda setting. That's item number four, upcoming draft agenda item. It says it's attached on it, right?

It is. It was attached to the agenda. I can go through it briefly because it's fairly short at this point. So for September, I do have the Department of Public Works coming back to talk about CIP specific to the park amenities improvements. Yes, so they are putting together a presentation. I'll be coming on to talk with you about the. Projects that you've already approved master plan, and you're very familiar with all of that, but to provide an update on that. And then in October, right now, the way we have things scheduled is perks public works will come back. To talk a little bit more on a high level with facilities, grounds and trees, you requested that that be take place on an annual basis. So that's tentatively planned for October as well as our youth teen events and facilities division. In November, we tentatively have our outdoor recreation division coming. And in December, we tentatively have the sports and fitness division coming. So we have other things that have not been calendared. So for instance, the senior wellness division, we have our pickleball trial that we'll come back to you. and then reports from any other partner agencies. So those will get calendared as I continue to hunker down and put some more work into those, but the other ones are fairly tentative, but they're a little bit more secure.

Awesome. Thank you.

You're welcome.

And also, I think this portion of the meeting is as stated, as a result for the chair or any two commissioners to propose future agenda item within the jurisdiction of the commission, a proposal to add a future agenda item shall be brief and without any discussion by the commission. Is there any future agenda item any other commissioners want to propose? on it. It's like what you have is what you're going to have. That's awesome. With nothing else, I think we are at the end of it now. Our meeting is coming to an end. I want to really, really thank you, the staff and everyone who presented it. It was great and I know it was short, but I think you made it really, really active now. The next Park and Rec Commission meeting will be on Thursday, September 3rd at 7 p.m. here at the same place, the same setup. I think the new setup, I hope you all liked it. With that, I think I now adjourn the meeting at 8.29 p.m.