Library Advisory Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to regular March meeting of the City of Murrieta's Parks and Recreation Commission. We'll call the meeting to order at 06:01. Would the secretary please call the roll for determination of a quorum?

Chair Colompie?

Here.

Vice Chair Parker?

Here.

Commissioner Henneman?

Here.

Commissioner Gilliland? Here. Commissioner Fernandez?

Here.

Let the record reflect all commissioners are present.

Could we please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Commissioner Hanuman? The first item on our agenda tonight is a reorganization of the commissioner's officers. Just before we turn that over to Leah, if I could, I would just like to thank my fellow commissioners for the the honor of being your your chair for the last, two two terms. I am termed out, thankfully. That letter writing campaign didn't hurt either.

And it has been an honor to work with such a dedicated group of people who really put their heart and their soul into the city and into everything that Parks and Rec means to the city. So thank you very much for the honor, and, it'll be, a pleasure to turn the floor over to Leah.

All right. Good evening, commissioners. I'd like to provide a brief overview of the annual board reorganization process for the Parks and Recreation Commission. This reorganization ensures effective governance and leadership as the commission continues its vital role in fostering public engagement, shaping policies, and enhancing the quality of life of its Marietta residents. In accordance with the municipal code, the commission is tasked with electing a chair and a vice chair from among its members at the first regular meeting following February, this year being March 2025.

The elected chair will supervise the affairs of the commission and preside at meetings, while the vice chair will serve as acting chair in the absence of the chair and assuming all associated responsibilities. The procedure for the election is fairly straightforward. Nominations for chair are opened to the floor, followed by formal votes for each nominee. Once a chair is elected, the process is repeated for the vice chair position. It is important to note that per city code, the tenure of commission chairs is limited to two years with a within a term, to foster opportunities for professional growth among among its members.

The appointment of such takes place each year. Tonight, as part of our commitment to transparency and governance, we will conduct these elections, appointing the leadership team that will oversee the commission's proceedings through February 2026. With that, I'm going to turn it over to our secretary, Roseanne Otis.

Thank you. So tonight, the board organization will take place in two parts. The election for the chair followed by the election of the vice chair. Each election will require two votes. The first vote will be to close the nominations. The second vote will be to appoint. The nominated commissioner can take part in the voting process. Nominations do not require a motion or a second and are nondebatable. There may be more than one nomination. Upon the election of the new chair, they will take the center seat.

The new chair will preside over the process of electing the vice chair in the same manner unless they request the secretary preside over that process. Upon the election of the vice chair, will take the seat to the right of the chair. Are there any questions from the Commission? Before we begin the election are there any members of the public who would like to comment regarding this item? Seeing none, We will now move to the election of

the

chair. As secretary, I deem all commissioners on an equal basis to nominate and elect. Do I hear any nominations for chair?

I would nominate Vice Chair Parker.

Are there any other nominations? Okay, seeing none. Commissioner Parker, do you accept the nomination?

I do.

Okay, commissioners, using your iPads, can you please make a motion and a second to close nominations? Okay, we have a motion and a second. Commissioners, please vote. Motion carries unanimously. Okay.

So the nominations have been closed. We will now have a motion and a second to appoint Commissioner Parker as chair. Okay. Commissioners, please vote. Motion carries unanimously.

Okay. Congratulations, commissioner Parker. And if you if you will please take the middle chair, and I ask for a brief recess to confer with the chair. Okay, we have now reconvened the Park and Recreation Commission meeting. We will follow the same procedure as outlined by the chair as requested by the chair that I preside over the election of the vice chair.

Do we have any nominations for vice chair?

I'd like to nominate Robin Gitelman as our vice chair.

I would second that.

Do we have any other nominations? All right. Seeing none, Commissioner Gilliland, do you accept the nomination?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay. Commissioners, can you please make a motion and a second to close nominations for vice chair? Okay. Commissioners, please vote. Motion carries unanimously. Okay. Now that nominations are closed, commissioners, may I please have a motion and a second to appoint commissioner Gilliland as vice chair?

So moved. Okay.

Commissioners, please vote. Motion carries unanimously. I do ask for a brief recess as we update the nameplates. Sorry I forgot to mention. Vice chair Gillenland, you please take the seat to the right of chair Parker?

We are ready to move forward.

Thank you very much. The next thing on, the item is approval for agenda. And as part of that, I will entertain a motion, to move public comments up in front of that. Or as part of that, we're going to move public comments up in front of administrative update.

We could do the approval of the, agenda, and then we can, you can, as chair, take the prerogative to move the public comments above the administrative update. But we could take, the approval of the agenda right now. Okay.

And then the next step, we don't need a a motion for?

No, you could take the prerogative. Okay.

So do I have a motion to approve the agenda?

So moved.

And a second? I'll second.

Sorry. Okay. Commissioners, can you please, motion and second on the iPad? Motion carries unanimously.

Okay. So, we've been asked to move public comments on to the first thing here. And as I'd like to do that now. At this time, we'll take public comments. Any person may address the Parks and Recreation Commission on any subject pertaining to city business, which does not relate to any item on the agenda. Normally, no action may be considered or taken by the Parks and Recreation Commission on any matter not listed on the agenda. Speakers are limited to three minutes. Madam Secretary, do we have any non agenda public comments?

Yes. I would like to call Raymond Lopez.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Appreciate you being here. Thank you for the opportunity to voice a concern that I have that has a detrimental effect and potential embarrassment on the city and our Marietta Girls Softball Association. Mister Ambrose recommended I come here and talk to the Parks Commission. The copies I have here I have here and sorry. I couldn't make a lot. My printer stopped working. But it's a statement that I myself was a witness in front of other parent other children. And I just wanted to get this taken care of. As far as the copies I have here for you are statements from both coaches, couple parents, but I have more, and letters that were sent out to board members about this incident.

The incident occurred on February 22 about 10:40AM. The board member in question came into our dugout glorifying all the shots she had the night before with under her underage daughter, another player who is also on the same team as her daughter and one of our players. All this incurred in front of me and our girls, who would train from the ages of 13 and 19 years old. The board member was bragging how hungover she her and her daughter were and that the reason why her part her daughter played like crap, and that's I'm putting her nicely because of the night before. The board member even mentioned that she was still drunk from the night before.

Our our player just put her head down in embarrassment. She just looked down and just didn't want to continue the conversation. So I called for a huddle. And that gave her the opportunity for her to leave and did a quick huddle, finished it, and then I went in and proceeded and and informed my head coach. As coaches and our parents, we all voiced our concerns to the president via emails.

A week later, an email was sent to board members that everything I just mentioned was hearsay, and I just got served about what I'm doing today. Meaning that our girls that heard everything are liars and so am I. I do not want to see this unprofessional professionalism from a board member go unnoticed. It was just swept under the rug. An email was sent out from our board members that everything was hearsay, meaning that our girls, parents, and myself are liars.

I proudly serve my country and will not let my daughter and myself be called liars. All we ask is that disciplinary action be taken. Everything met mentioned goes against the regulations of our softball league, SafeSport, USA softball, the city of Marietta, and California penal code two three seven a. I'm hoping this takes gets taken care of because I really don't want to waste anybody else's time. I mean, it's unfortunate if we were just finished it, did it in house, sent on an apology, it all would have been done.

But I'm not gonna stand here and be called a liar, our parents, or my daughter. And it it just has to has to stop. You know, this could have been taken care of, and I do not wanna go any further and waste anybody's time. And thank you for listening to me, and I appreciate it. Thank you so much. And I got copies for you. If you love to see the emails, I can email them to you. I got copies of myself, other coaches' statements, some of the parents. I got plenty more. And also the letter that was sent out by the board saying that all this was hearsay.

Thank you very much, mister Lopez, and, appreciate you coming here tonight and, addressing, the Parks Commission.

Thank you.

So, yes. Hey. It's fine.

So we're right here, John. You wanna ask if there's any other speaker?

Secretary, are there any other speakers?

Coming up.

Okay. For the next speaker, I call Valerie

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your time this evening. I'm Valerie Sasser. I'm the president of Myriad of Valley Girls Softball. This is nothing short of a personal vendetta, and I'm embarrassed for everyone involved that we are here. Nonetheless, I'll always do what's necessary to defend the softball league and protect players.

I've submitted a full statement of how this investigation has been handled, including the many inconsistencies that I personally found in it to Victor Patino. MVGSA has a very strict disciplinary policy, and we hold our board volunteers and board members to the highest standards. However, as an organization, we cannot make decisions when serious allegations are based on he said versus she said scenarios and lack facts and proof. Additionally, I cannot hold players responsible for actions that were not taken at Marietta Valley Girls Softball League or USA sanctioned events or on any fields in our city. I would like to point out that never once have I received any information during this investigation that a board member has provided alcohol to minors.

The complaint came forward to the city after our league was threatened with a lawsuit and that the media would be brought in if I did not acquiesce to these coaches demands. Sorry. I'm really nervous. One of the biggest problems in this complaint is that two assistant coaches reported the possibility of a player being hungover to a head coach based on a conversation that was overheard in the dugout prior to their game and all failed to notify me immediately so that I could intervene. The head coach waited almost twenty four hours to bring this to my attention.

The whole time I was across the field at Kevil Oaks in our eight u division, I would have been there in a minute. If these coaches believed this player to be in any kind of danger, I could have been there immediately and handled this from the very second they thought of any kind of concern because I truly care about these girls. I pour everything I have into this league as do all of our volunteers, and their health and safety is always number one. This player was never talked to, never pulled aside, and allowed to play the entirety of the game. Had I responded, I would have intervened immediately, and there would have been no game.

That would have been pushed back. But again, I didn't find out till much after, and this player has not cooperated and not wanted to be involved. The board member being named has served by side beside side beside me for the past four years. We pour everything we have into this league. If there was an ounce of truth to this, she would have been immediately relieved from her duties. I could not base this on different, not enough facts. I am happy to cooperate with you in any way, provide any information you need. Victor, Leah, and Brian all have my information.

Thank you, Valerie. Appreciate it very much. Secretary, are there any other speakers?

Thank you, chair. This concludes public comments.

Thank you to everyone who came tonight. It's time now for an administrative update. The administrative update is the opportunity for the Parks and Community Services Manager, Leah Kulik, to provide community updates as well as department or commission announcements on current or upcoming projects. May we please have the administrative update?

Good evening, commissioners. We have a very full agenda tonight, so I'm just gonna jump right in. As you've noticed, we have a new face on our board, Commissioner Whitney Fernandez. Welcome. I'm extending the floor to Commissioner Fernandez to, maybe comment on why she became, wanted to become a commissioner. So I'm gonna turn it over to commissioner Fernandez. Well,

thank you so much, Leah. And I am very honored to be up here with all of you to serve our wonderful community in Murrieta. My name is Whitney Fernandez. I've been a part of Murrieta for almost thirteen years now. My husband and I bought a house up here when our son was just two months old. And ever since then, we've just fell in love with this community. It's a great place to raise your family. And I just wanted to give an opportunity or have an opportunity to serve my community and give back. I have three young children and well, not so young anymore. And but they're all very active in sports, play Pop Warner, Little League Baseball.

They race dirt bikes. We're very active family. And Parks and Recs is just a great way to be involved with the community in a positive manner. So I just feel so honored to be here. So thank you.

Thank you very much, Whitney. Good to have you here.

Next up for admin update number two, I'm going to introduce to you parks maintenance supervisor, Josh Havens. He's been with the city for fifteen months now, around there. And he's going to start off with a presentation about maintenance and the fix it app. And this will tie in to later conversations on our discussion item for park assignments. So take it away, Josh.

Good evening, everybody. It's good to be here. Give you a quick park maintenance update. I'll try and go quick since I know, we have a very full agenda tonight.

Oh, the clicker's right here. I'm sorry.

You're good. So who are we? This is these are our staffing levels. We have six maintenance workers. These are the staff members you see in general out in the parks doing our basic maintenance tasks, helping with with volunteer events and special events.

We have two senior maintenance workers. They work on more of kind of our skilled tasks as well as helping with our one inspector we have that does inspections of our sites as well as inspections of turn turnovers from new developments and stuff like that. We have one office assistant who takes care of all of our administrative tasks and then me as the supervisor. So what we do, our name is a little bit deceiving because it says park maintenance, but we do a lot more than that. So you see our basic park maintenance up there.

This is our playgrounds, restrooms, landscaping, sports fields, shelters, ball fields, all that. After that, we also have our streetscapes. So this is anything you see from the roadway. This is gonna be your medians, parkways, monument corners. We also do all of the open spaces in the city.

So this is everything from fire breaks. We do the landscape slopes, detention basins, and some of the more naturally vegetated areas. We also take care of the urban forest in the city, around 25,000 trees with a value of $78,000,000 approximately. We also provide support to the majority of the special events we host in the city, not all of them, but the majority of the time we have a little bit of a role in there as well as support for some of the volunteer events. We also have a graffiti program.

We usually see about 300 tags a year that we take care of throughout the city. We're a little bit of an uptick this year. We're sitting at 87 so far. And we also review all the plans that come in from new developments for infrastructure that CSD will take over. This is how to get ahold of us. That first email is gonna be my office assistant. You can email her or myself, which is the second email. The phone number you see there is the direct line to park maintenance. That's gonna help you get around the phone tree so you don't have to go through five different numbers before you get to us. The last way to contact us there is the Myriad Affixit app, which I'm gonna go over real quick.

So these are the steps you're gonna after you download the Myriad Affixit app and generate an account. So if you see something in the parks, along the roadways, in an open space, anything like that, for us as well as for streets, I believe building maintenance has some items in here and code enforcement as well. You'll go down to the bottom. You see where it says new request. You'll generate that request.

Upload a picture if you have one, which is incredibly helpful to us to try and find the issue. It'll give you the opportunity to review the image you're uploading. It will also allow you to upload multiple images. After that, the other thing that is incredibly helpful to us is the location. So this allows you to either search by address or you can actually move the map around and put that little pin right where the issue is at.

So those two things from our perspective makes it a lot easier to kind of respond to these issues and get it taken care of in a timely manner. After that, it's gonna allow you to select a category where you think this belongs. For most residents, as long as we can get it close and get this into our system, we can adjust afterwards and make sure it makes its way to the right department. After that, it'll allow you to add a description. You can add your phone number so that we can reach out and contact you.

And that last box down there says hide your identity identity from public view. So this will make it so that after you create this report, your identity is gonna be hidden because this report will be public. Anybody can go on to the fix it app and view this report. It will still allow us internally to see the phone number that was posted, but not the name. So we still have an opportunity to contact the resident if we need some clarification.

Is is, there a default there on the yes or no? No? Or

It is it's defaulted on yes, I believe. Okay. After you complete it, this is gonna be the page that it shows you. So you'll have your request ID, the category, category, all all the the information information that that you you put put in. In. You You can can add add comments comments down down the the line. Line if you see additional issues kinda related to this same request. The request ID is important if you'd like to give us a call and have a conversation with us about whatever the issue is that you've reported. You can give us that request ID, and we can look it up. So that concludes my presentation. I'm open for questions.

Commissioner?

I just had a quick question about the graffiti. Mhmm. We would have about 25 per month regularly. It looks like they're up to, like, 43 a month now. What are you guys or do you guys work with the police department on that? Or what do they do in regards to

We do, depending upon if it's a tag that we're consistently seeing. So if we're seeing the same moniker over and over again or in the same location over and over again, we'll partner with PD and kind of talk to them and say, hey, we keep seeing this. Are you seeing this throughout the city or the Rangers as well? So if we keep seeing it in the same area, they'll increase patrols over there to try and reduce the number of tags we're seeing.

Okay, good. That's what I was curious about. Thank you.

I had a question also concerning graffiti. I noticed that folks work on graffiti on city property only. What should a resident do or the school district do if graffiti ends up on one of their sites on a back fence or on a school building, which is not city property? What happens then?

So if we get a report of graffiti and it's not on city property, generally, what we'll do is we'll refer it to code enforcement. Code enforcement will reach out, contact the property owner, and then it's the property owner's responsibility to get that graffiti covered up in whatever manner they see fit.

Is there a time period?

I'm sure there is, but that would be a code enforcement question. I wouldn't know that.

My other question would be, what do you get most calls about from maintenance? What is your typically high volume would say is it

It varies depending on the time of year. Like, right now, within the next couple months, because we've had rain and we've had really nice weather, we're about to get a lot of calls for weeds. When we see high winds, we get a lot of calls for trees. In the summertime, when school's out, that's when we see a lot of vandalism, we see a lot of tags, stuff of that nature. So they all kind of even out by the end of the year, but it just depends on the season, the volume of calls we're seeing for different items.

The app has been, what, in use a year and a half, two years?

I think so. How long?

I believe it was introduced first, started as, like, see click fix, and then it changed to Myriad to fix it. So I I think it's been in place, upwards of three years now. Okay. Yeah. I think upwards of three years. Maybe maybe closer to four.

Okay. And at this point,

do you have a feel for, I guess, how many people were signed up on it? How many people use it regularly? I'm not sure on the number of people, but we get a pretty consistent number of requests from it. We usually we'll probably get about five or six a week coming in through the fix it app. We still have a larger volume of calls compared to the fix it app. I just sometimes I think it's easier to just pick the phone up and call us. But it's it's definitely been effective.

Mhmm. Mhmm. Does

your department fall under Brian or the city manager?

Where does That's kind

of So You wanna take that, Brian?

Or Yeah. That's

Parks maintenance, we went through a reorganization, again, about three years ago, about the same time period there where parks maintenance, was removed from the community services department and put under public works. And and the the goal in the future is kind of cross training, letting some of Josh's staff work some public works areas and vice versa.

Back to the graffiti. So if it's on a visible side of Walmart, and is there regulation on the fact that Walmart has to deal with it?

Yes, there is. I don't know what the municipal code says specifically about the timeline, but we do have a code that requires them to get that graffiti removed.

Okay. Thank you very much.

I had one other just quick thing. And you can find the app on the city's website. There's a link to it there?

Yes. There's a link on the city's website. You can actually put requests in through the city website. Or it's also on both app stores, Apple or Android.

I know Lindsay is going to talk about the homeless situation here in a moment. Is this used to report those issues?

It absolutely is. So you can report graffiti, potholes, street lights that are out, basically any type of concern throughout the city, and one of those is homeless services. So anytime, individuals, some a resident of the the city or a business owner sees an encampment being set up, they can put into c click, or, excuse me, Myriad fix it, and it will directly all homeless service issues go directly to Lindsay just as any park maintenance issue would go toward go to Josh automatically.

Okay. Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Josh. Appreciate it. Back to you, Leah. Welcome.

Alright. I was trying to, show you the home page, but because my laptop has dual screens, it's showing you my other screen. So, while I fix with that, I'm going to introduce I'm gonna introduce, management analyst, Lindsey Siste. She's gonna come up and provide a, homeless, update for you and, point in time count. So take it away, Lindsey.

Thank you. Thank

you, Lindsey.

Good evening, everyone. So my name is Lindsey Siste. I oversee homeless services in the city of of Murrieta under the direction of Brian Ambrose. Oh, I have the clicker, don't I?

Sorry. Yep. You have the clicker.

I got I was waiting for somebody

to click it for me.

Alright. So today, I'm gonna be providing an update on homeless services and our point in time count that occurred at the January. So this first slide is just showing you kind of what homeless services and the homeless situations look like. Much of California, large encampments, tent cities, people on sidewalks, that is not what we are dealing here with Murrieta and Murrieta, and I'm pretty sure Brian would be letting me go if we turned into any of these pictures. So in Murrieta, what we're seeing is more of the one off homeless and individuals sleeping outside of a business, an individual setting up a tent down in the creek bed.

Sometimes we get families sleeping in cars in the Walmart parking lot because they've been evicted from their apartment. So we are very fortunate at the level of homeless services that we do have in our city for a situation that is not like San Diego or Los Angeles. We're really able to manage what we have going on here. Just to provide a a general overview of the structure of homeless services in Murrieta, we contract with a full time street outreach team through CityNet that is here five days a week. We pay for 16 shelter beds dedicated to individuals experiencing homelessness in Murrieta through our subrecipient project touch so that if we encounter somebody who is on the streets wanting to get off the streets today, we're able to get them in same day without any barriers.

I don't know if you are familiar with homeless services across the county, but the fact that we have dedicated emergency shelter beds for our residents is huge. I used to work for the county, and if we didn't encounter somebody wanting shelter, we would call shelter after shelter after shelter, get denied. They'd say it's a two week wait, and we would lose the client at that point. So we are incredibly fortunate that our city dedicates funding for emergency shelter beds. Additionally, we our city has a local tax measure, measure t, that funded my position, but additionally, it funds a specialized policing team, our community policing team who I work with daily, our outreach team works with daily to respond to calls regarding transients or individuals experiencing homelessness.

They'll respond. And if it's somebody who's not committing a crime, they'll call us and say, hey. We have somebody out here behind Barron's. They're having a tough time. They're wanting assistance. They're not gonna arrest the individual. They're gonna call our street outreach team, and we're going to try to assist them at that point. As far as other Measure T funded operations, we have our it's our CBAT team. It's our clinical behavioral assessment team that we work with. It is a specialized police officer who rides along with a clinical therapist to respond to individuals who are experiencing mental health crises.

So we often work with them when because clearly when you're dealing with the homeless population there's a lot of overlap with mental health so they're always there to support us as well.

Is that county?

So the clinical therapist is through RUHS behavioral health that we pay for. We have our Measure T funding, but we also are always applying for grant opportunities to supplement and expand. What we have going on, the first big grant the city was awarded was during COVID. It was over $1,000,000 under the ES, Emergency Solutions Grant Coronavirus project, and that really helped us expand our street outreach and shelter operations. Since then, we have our HCHIP, our homeless housing incentive program, to fund our street outreach program.

And in a little bit, I'll get into some amazing funding that is coming down the pipeline to expand services. So starting with street outreach, just to give you an idea, in 2024, our street outreach team opened two twenty individuals experiencing homelessness in Murrieta. I mean, I don't know about you, but do you think we had two twenty homeless people in Marietta? If we did not fund these services, the visible street homelessness here could get out of control very quickly. But the fact that our city prioritized these services keeps street homeless almost invisible in our city.

I like pictures. So this is what we deal with on the daily. So we have individuals down in our green belts or flood control properties. This is one of our outreach workers doing an assessment on an individual that is homeless in our community so we can work them to, again, get into shelter or work towards homelessness to get out of homelessness. And to give you an idea, in the calendar year 2020 four of the individuals that were engaged, eighty five of them went into our emergency shelter.

Twenty six of them were diverted back with their families. So, if we encounter somebody who has a cousin in Texas that says they can come live with them so that they can get off the street, we'll connect with that cousin in Texas, make sure that's legitimate, there's no restraining orders that they'll help them get connected to any services that they need, we will get them a bus ticket to get out to their cousin in Texas. So 26 last year. And frequently, we run into individuals that have much higher barriers and needs that need to get to the hospital, get into a skilled nursing facility. So last year, we had six individuals enter a higher level of care.

Another big component of, my my role at the city, and it's really crucial to, prevent buildup, is encampment cleanups. When we're notified about an encampment in the city, we get out there immediately with our police team, offer services and offer services and offer services. But at some point, we can't allow encampments to sit in our city. If an encampment sits, it it spreads. They they gossip.

Homeless people gossip quite a bit, and suddenly, you're gonna have 10 more people coming into that location if they know there's not enforcement. So we have a process where we offer services. We issue seventy two hour notices that they need to get out of that area. On that seventy third hour, we come back with a a crew to get things cleaned up with our outreach team to, again, offer services. But if they're still refusing to leave, oftentimes, individuals get arrested.

Tomorrow morning, I have a massive cleanup in our Murrieta Creek. I'm pretty sure that individual is gonna refuse to leave, so he's probably gonna, unfortunately, end up going to jail. So these are some of our before and afters. Just to give you an idea, they get very creative, build little houses, and are very messy sometimes. This this picture I wanted to highlight is a mitigation effort that took place last year.

So off of Marietta Hot Springs, the former synagogue, there is a tunnel system right down, on the side of it. That area became a essentially a drug den. We had overdoses down there, fires down there. Word spread really fast that this was an area to hang out and build a living room and have fun. We had fire so because of the multiple issues down there, we were able to get with our police chief, our fire captain, our public works department, and, they built these nice metal gates, on the tunnels.

And that issue has not that area has not been an issue since. I would say police outreach were down there multiple times a day prior to that mitigation effort. So the other big component is our emergency shelter. I'm sure a lot of you didn't even know we had an emergency shelter in the city of Murrieta. It's in a residential area. Again, we pay for 16 beds per night. I would say we're always full, often beyond capacity, but the shelters serve 240 individuals. And, again, these are individuals with ties to Murrieta. We're not housing individuals from San Diego or Temecula. This is Murrieta residents falling into homelessness.

I wanna say let me look. Out of those 240 individuals, about 50 of them were children. And as far as the referral source, 40% of the people that entered shelter, those referrals came directly from the street outreach team. So these were individuals in their cars reaching out through the hotline for, our outreach team. 13% of the referrals were directly from our patrol, our police patrol.

So after hours and on weekends, our police department has the ability to access the shelter beds for individuals, that they encounter when our outreach team is not accessible. 39% were self referrals, so individuals who call Project Touch directly. Frequently, those are families, you know, women trying to get out of DV situations, individuals who are getting evicted, and then 8% is through other resources like hospitals and other non profits in the area.

Lindsey, what the, emergency shelter is individual homes?

So our our shelter in Marietta, it's a fourplex apartment off of the loop in on the the East End of town down Marietta Hot Springs. One really huge benefit of working with Project Touch is outside of the shelter. Project Touch actually has, I wanna say, like, 250 transitional housing beds across the region. So we can get individuals into emergency shelter. And if they're able to get a job or if they have income rather than having them return to the streets after emergency shelter, there's this whole network of transitional housing beds that they can transition into to give them more time to get themselves stable.

So it's it's not your frac them and stack them type shelter. These are just pictures. We have two full time case managers that we contract through CityNet. So when the clients get to the shelter, they're immediately focusing on a housing stabilization plan to figure out next steps. And, again, our goal is always going to be to reduce that recidivism back into homeless.

Of course, it happens sometimes, but, it's really important for us to have staff there that are focused on, you know, a a positive exit from that location. Alrighty. So, back in the January, we had it it's called our annual point in time count. Well, I it's not annual anymore. It used to be annual, but now it's every other year.

HUD mandates that, across the country, all it's called continuum of cares, but we don't need to get into that. But they they coordinate, essentially, a point in time count where volunteers go out for four hours one morning in January and literally count all the homeless people in the area. We split the area. This year, we split it into three parts, between the freeways and on each side of the 15 and 215 to keep it easy. I know where pretty much every single homeless person is in the city and where they tend to to set up, so it was very coordinated.

We had about 20 volunteers. A lot of city staff came out, and we had community members volunteer. Adult protective services came out, and we had our police officers with each team. Again, four hours of canvassing. We have not received the final count yet, but if my count's correct, we we landed about 13. I feel like that number is pretty accurate about what we have on the streets on a single day. Back in 2023, we had a very high count for Murrieta, which if you talk to anybody else, it's pretty low. We're at 33. But this year, I think we're gonna be about 13. Here's some fun pictures.

We have Leah and Brian Crawford and our library manager. So we hid out abandoned homes, our flood control properties. We had a couple living in an RV over by Cardenas. So we kind of did the whole gamut of things. The city of Marietta, like I said, we have our shelter. We have our outreach. But it's so much more than that. There's so much collaboration in what we do, and we're leveraging all the resources that are available across the county. Every Tuesday morning, we sit down. We have 25 people in a room case conferencing individuals in our city.

We have our outreach team shelter staff. We have veteran services. We have our community policing team. We have mobile medical teams that serve our city now. So, we have a health care in action. So there's a doctor who can go out to the creek and treat somebody's infection on their forehead. We We have an organization we work with called Renewing Hope that can provide therapy in the field and try to get people linked up to psychiatric care. We work very closely. In the last year, we've been fortunate to collaborate with a lot of developers in our area. You see all the construction going on around town, a lot of affordable housing.

So what we're doing to make sure that housing is for myriad of residents is we are working with the school district, the McKinney Vento, team over there that serves the low income families in our school district to get priority for those low income apartments going into town and to assist those individuals in project touch that need to stay in this area, get into the apartments. We have apartments actually going up in Wildemore, which I'll get into that in a second, but we're actually getting our street level homeless with men chronic homeless with serious mental health into these apartments that are being built in Wildemire. We're gonna be housing probably 50 of our homeless over there in the next couple of months. So partnerships are huge. And this in this region, homeless services are really ramping up, and it's, amazing thing to see.

A big effort, I I think Robin and Brian, started really working to regionalize homeless services over the past years. I'm not gonna get too into the details because I'll probably get it wrong, but we're really looking to regionalize what we do because people that are homeless in Murrieta are gonna be in Weldomar tomorrow and in Temecula the next day and in Lake Elsinore the day after that. It's all the same people moving back and forth. Last March, we got brought in through a MOU to start providing homeless services in Wildemore. So I oversee outreach services and shelter services for Wildemore and Marietta.

It's looking like that's gonna be expanding into Menifee here in the next couple of months as well. We were just awarded $12,600,000, through the encampment resolution grant project. It was awarded by the state to the county for Murrieta Creek Trail. So it's gonna stretch from Lake Elsinore, Wildemore, Murrieta. We're gonna cover Menifee and unincorporated Temecula.

It's gonna assist a 100 individuals with getting off the street into permanent housing. We currently are in the process of scoring those RFPs. I'm looking to take it to city council to award a subrecipient in April, so that's gonna, launch here soon. Additionally, we received another regional grant through HAP, which is the homeless housing assistance program to provide move in assistance and rental assistance for it's not a huge number, but at least eight literal homeless families with getting into permanent housing, and that's gonna cover households in Marietta, Wildemire, Menifee, that are working with outreach teams in our in our shelter. And that's all I have for you.

Any questions?

With Project Touch, you say we have 16 beds in the city. Correct. So when you when we did when you guys and I meant to go with you guys on the the the count that I couldn't make it that day.

Until they said 5AM.

Oh, 5AM. I'm I'm up at 5AM.

It was early.

So and those are full all the time. So we've got 16 people. Mhmm. How long can somebody stay at project touch?

So we kinda work with a a level of flexibility. When individuals go to the shelter, there is an expectation that they're going to put some effort into figuring out their next steps and not just, go and sleep all day every day at the shelter. If somebody is there and is has no intent on trying to resolve, we typically do twenty one days. It's kind of like our number. Obviously, twenty one days is a very quick amount of time for somebody to get a job, increase their income, save up for a deposit, and get into a place. So if we know somebody is making a good effort towards that, we work with the level of flexibility until they can get back on their feet.

The other thing you're right to cite the number of apartments and everything that's going in and low income housing. What is low income housing in Murrieta? These apartments, what is a low income two bedroom place that's gonna, shelter some homeless people cost?

And and there is, like, there's not one answer for that because every single complex has a different, they're they're all different. So just to give you an idea, so the first one that opened was the Monamos Apartments on Los Alamos right there across from the high school. To get into those, I believe there the the income limit so so there's there's different income thresholds, and this one was kind of like it wasn't the lowest of the low income. It was kind of the medium of the low income. They they typically pay about 30% of their rent.

So I wanna say between for a one bedroom, probably between 600 and, like, 1,200, but I I don't wanna they're all different. So they yeah.

Is section eight housing a thing of the past, or is that

no. There's still section eight housing. Section eight's kind of on a freeze right now. Right. The Monamos apartments specifically, hundreds of units, only eight of the units there. They're considered project based units, which is, like, equivalent to section eight, where the individuals pay 30% of their income for those.

Do you find a fair amount of working poor people who are employed, but I have no minimum wages. Not $1.15 like it was when I was a kid. It's a little bit more than that now, but it's still really not enough to live in Southern California.

Yeah. No. 100%. But most of the families in the transitional housing through Project Touch are are specifically for working families that are low income.

Hi,

Lindsey. Hi. Thank you. Speaking my language, as you know. I just wanna clarify just for people in general. So 220 households, are those head households or are those individuals? So those are individuals.

And I would say, as far as our street outreach goes, very infrequently are we encountering households with children right now in this region.

That was gonna be one of my questions. But before I get to that, I just have to personally take a moment and thank you both because as you so eloquently Brian accuses me all the time of getting this all started in the region. And it was simply a phone call when I was in Temecula, so Brian. But you guys have catapulted what we dreamed to the next level. And it's so fun for me to sit back and watch you sort of put the cherry on top of all of our dreams and hard work.

Because we were rolling and then COVID hit and that kind of ended our train ride. You guys are doing a great job here in Murrieta and I'm very proud to be a resident of Murrieta. My last question is going to be I hear you know county wide what the trends are as far as who's hitting our streets at the you know most rapidly right now. What do you see in Murrieta? Is it seniors? Probably not as much as other areas.

I mean, there's definitely some seniors. I would say the bulk of what we're dealing with is, like, 35 to 65 year old single men. Like, that's and almost predominantly Caucasian in our region. Right. If we look at the stats, that's what what I've been seeing.

Okay. Great.

Thank you so much.

Yeah. You touched a minute on the the Wildemard units, but do you have anything that you can add to that? You just mentioned them.

I'm very excited about them. So they're really, an opportunity for us hardest to house individuals. So, there are no place like home units. So funding through the state, specifically for households where individuals are, chronically homeless or at risk of chronically homeless. And that definition to be chronically homeless, it's homeless for more than twelve months or, a period of twelve months over three years or or something like that.

I feel like I get that wrong. But those are the individuals that are really hard to place at a shelter in a congregate setting because they they tend to not do well when they're sharing a space with somebody. So this is gonna be an amazing opportunity for us to get kind of our hardest to house individuals into their own place and, you know, really out of, you know we have a few people in our creek. We're gonna get over there, and they're really excited to get their own space, opportunity they never thought they'd have. And those units are gonna have supportive services on-site. So we're not just throwing people into units. We're gonna have follow-up case management, and they have behavioral health staff that are gonna be stationed at the apartments full time.

If I if I can jump in real quick because Lindsay's being incredibly modest right now. The Tres Lagos apartments probably won't even open for two more months or so. We were notified this week, early this week, that 20 with without even being open yet, 20 of our hardest to reach homeless individuals will be housed at Tree Slagos. They've already been accepted into the program. These are people that two, three years ago before Lindsay got here that I was attempting to work with when I was here single handedly and could not get these people housed because they have significant mental health issues, substance abuse issues, trauma from when they were children, and they're now 60 years old that has been unresolved.

These are your disheveled people walking down the street that nobody wants to work with, and 20 of them from Wildemire and Murrieta will be housed at Tres Lagos in two months. It's an amazing feat. No other city and no other region is doing this in California, to be honest with you.

So, Lindsay, we've talked about it. How many total units over there in in that did you say 80? Or

No. I I I the first phase is 84, I think, and there's gonna be two phases. Of those, half of them are to serve this population. The other half are just low income.

Okay.

If I could, real quick, one more question because this is the Parks and Recreation Commission. What is the homeless situation in our parks? Is it an issue using the restrooms? And I know this has come up before. I've just kind of an update on most of the are we finding the encampments over by the loop, or you said by the old synagogue over there or down by the creek? Or

So we're not getting encampments per se in our in our parks.

I'm talking more individuals. Or

Yeah. You know, every now and again, we get I feel like it kinda comes in waves. So, you know, a couple weeks ago, I was getting some complaints about some homeless individuals in the bathroom at Townsquare Park. So, you know, we kinda concentrate a lot of efforts over there, to see if we can assist. And then, you know, then we get a report of somebody at Cal Oak. So it it shifts around, but we're we're I mean, we're really on top of it here.

And we have two different well, more than two, but a few different ways to make sure we're proactive. First and foremost, we have a very active park ranger program. Alicia Price is here in the audience, and she'll be speaking later, with the, unleashed dogs. But our we have three rangers constantly constantly monitoring the park. Our parks close at sunset, and so they monitor and make sure that that our parks are are safe and clean and free of people after dark.

Number two, we have automatic door locks at most of our city parks. Not to be cruel, but this is a way to keep people from sleeping inside of our parks because it's it's we wanna make sure people understand we have the resources. Right now, if we get a phone call, we can get somebody to shelter. We don't want people to live on our streets. We don't want people to live in their cars, and we don't want children to wake up and go to school after sleeping in a car. We have resources. We have housing units, And so we're incredibly active. So we don't let them don't let people sleep in our parks.

So Lindsay or Brian, first of all, let me echo, Robin's comments in terms of doing really doing a phenomenal job. It's, here to be commended. What happens if somebody refuses service? And does that happen?

Yeah. Absolutely. Just to give you an example, we have an individual in our creek right now that we've been trying to assist. High mental health, high substance use, years and years of of homelessness, and we have been out there almost every day practically begging this guy to accept services. And it's it's not gonna happen right now.

I'm gonna be out there tomorrow morning with a cleanup crew around 07:30 with our police officers, and he's probably gonna go to jail. Is it, you know, a good use of our time to send him to jail? Probably not because he's gonna be out in a few hours, but I'm hoping, like, you know, tomorrow afternoon when he's walking back down, we are at a hot springs to the creek and we run into him. That will help, you know, encourage him to either accept services or realize, you know, he can't be making a incredible mess down in our creek without some level of consequence to it.

Like, when you look at that individual because I've seen pictures. We you've shown us pictures of some of the cleanup mess. But, like, the you you've been there. You've you've talked to him. You've seen what he's done. But, like, what is the mess this particular guy has created down there?

Yesterday, I found a headstone down there that he dragged in there. He has gone into all the the warehouses in that area and just I I it's probably gonna be a $10,000 cleanup.

One guy.

Yeah. We do we we're fortunate. He's in flood control property, and we actually have a reimbursement agreement with county flood control so that cleanup's not gonna come out of Murrieta's budget. We'll get reimbursed through the county. But, yeah, he he some of these people can make really big messes really quickly. Wow.

Anything else? Okay. Thank you very much, Brian and Lindsey. We appreciate it. Appreciate what you're doing.

Thank

you. Your family appreciates what you're doing too.

All right. And, the next update. So there is, a method to our madness with regard to the different updates. So we've had a very busy February and January. And in order to, provide the updates, relevant and timely, we want to provide them at the next meeting after the event has happened.

So in Josh's case, we're going to talk about park assignments. And so we thought it was relevant to have an understanding of the Fix It app. With Lindsay, we just did the point in time count, and that's why she was providing an update. And for Michelle, recreation coordinator Michelle Hamilton, who oversees all of our instructor classes and our adult recreation program, and our largest, adult recreation program event of the year, the Valentine's Day dance. And so I'm here to introduce Michelle to provide that update for ARP, the Valentine's dance, and just in general, our recreation classes.

Hi. Valentine's dance is actually an alternative recreation program, which is an adult special needs program. We host them once sometimes twice a month. So every usually every other month, but our Valentine's dance is sponsored by the Rotary Club. They, it We host like anywhere from 80 to 120, special needs adults that do the stents as a semi formal.

They, and they're and to they are allowed two guests. So the Retrograde Club actually pays for 9090% of the event. So they, do the the DJ, the photographer. We, I help with the decorations. Sorry. The the DJ, the photographer, and the caterer. The caterer brings in the food, and we have the interact kids from the high schools. They serve the food. They clean up. They dance with them.

They do conga lines. They have a whole thing. So that's our biggest event every year. And Care Rite also helps with us. Care Rite is a vocational program. They are job coaches for them. They help do the boutonnieres. They help promote it so that we get our participants there to attend. That's pretty much for the Valentine's dance. But we have all kinds.

So January, each month we have a theme. So we go retro. We do karaoke. In April, we're actually going to go to the Storm Stadium game. It's the first one that they've had in a long time. I don't think we've ever gone to the Storm Stadium, so we thought it would be great. These are a couple of pictures of the the first one is from the Valentine's dance. The other one is from our tropical bash. So we make believe that we were in the tropics, like a Hawaiian little event. Then we have our that was our bunny hop last year.

We always do an Easter egg hunt for them. We just throw the eggs out, they get to hunt them. We are also doing another instructional paint. So this picture was done two years ago, our very first ever paint, and we're like, Okay, we're going to try this and see what happens. They loved it. So we have somebody who comes in. It's kind of like a paint and sip, But they come to us. The instructor comes to us and does that.

That one? You

have paper?

It's in the blue folder. I printed it all for you. You have an outline, too, but then I also did the slide shows for you. Okay. So we actually established this program in 2008. Originally, somebody proposed it as a weekly program. We decided it should only be a monthly program. In 2009, we decided that it should have a little bit more, so we did every other month. We have two of them. And then in 2008, we started out with participants.

I still have a few of those participants who still come to our program, which is nice. When COVID hit, though, it kind of vanished a little bit. So we do have still some of them coming back, but we also have new ones that are a lot younger. Actually coming too.

So you said about 80 at the Valentine's event?

Well, it's 80 to a 100 and well, our last one was about 80. I think it had to do with being on Valentine's Day. The year before that, we had a 131.

Wow. So in any given month, let's say, how many people are you touching?

We average anywhere from 30 to 55 people. Before COVID hit, my program was up to 80 people. So yeah, we used to be at the senior center when we were first starting out. We outgrew that. But then COVID hit, and we kind of went back down a little bit.

Thank you.

Yeah, we average about 55 participants. About 10 caregivers will show. We do Easters. We do Thanksgiving. We do potlucks. We do arts and crafts. Not at every single one. We're going to the storm game. We're gonna do a make believe bonfire inside our building. So that should be a good one.

We'll do a tie dyed potluck at the youth center where they can make we'll figure out something. We've done tie dye t shirts, we've done towels, we've done different things like that. We're also going to do an animal kingdom and bring in the LLL reptiles just so they have something else different to do. We'll do a fall carnival. And then we're thinking we don't know if we can actually do it yet, but we're thinking about the Miramar air show.

If we can't do that, we'll just go to Mulligans. They like that, too. And then we initially started out with two staff members when the program started, and we are now up to four staff members. I already told you we started at we grew. Our sponsors are the Rotary Club and Care Rite. Last year, we had Molina Health Care provided 500 for our live rock concert for the first time ever, and they also donated Waters. So that's pretty much for our AARP program. Any questions on that one?

I had a question about the Valentine's Day dance. So it does say RSVP. Yes. It's not invite only. You just have to RSVP, correct?

That one has to be RSVP. We do do an invite, we send those to care. I bring the flyers to Care Rite, and they distribute them out to their peoples, their clients, and then they all RSVP. And then they're allowed two guests. Sometimes you all have to limit it to one, but

Yeah. My my girlfriend's 20 year old daughter was very upset because she had was all dressed up, her parents had no idea what she was dressed up for. Oh, no. She had heard about the dance at school from her friends, and she thought she had to be invited. So I'm gonna let

them know that they don't have

to invite. They can register.

They can note for all our programs and for all our events. They can in your packet, there's a flyer of our events up through June. Then I'll do another one somewhere in May or June for the next six months. But all our events, they do not have to the only one they do is the Valentine ones. But usually if they show up at the door, I make room.

Right. Okay. Okay. Everything she can find everything on your website, obviously. Do you have an Instagram page or a Facebook page?

We have a Facebook page. So it's, yeah, MariettaARP. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.

So you're splitting time or facilities between the senior center and the town hall?

Not anymore. We used to be at the senior center. We moved in, I think, 1839 to the community center. So we're just strictly at the community center unless it's a special thing that we do. And we use the youth center for some outdoor things. It makes it a little different place for them to go.

Do you max out on any of your events where you've got to turn people away? No. No.

My building holds a lot of people. So if two if a 100 and a 112 people showed up, we could still accommodate it.

Right. Do we have a feel from a community base? So these people are are all Murrieta, or they No.

No. No. I have residential I homes that come from Hemet. I used to have one that came from Norco. But we have people from Elsinore, from Murrieta, from, like I said, Hemet. Some come from Temecula.

Right. Do we have any feel for in our own community what your potential audience is, I guess? I mean, are there 500 people out there that are in need like this? Or we just don't know?

I don't know. Mm-mm. No. It's usually word-of-mouth by them, or we can figure out through through the regional center if we need to. I know that we're working on a youth ARP program. So hopefully that will come in the future, soon, March, May. Sorry.

We're working, for for on improving the Copper Canyon Recreation Facility, which is, where some of those programs, will occur. But I think the youth one will be at the youth center.

So that's something new that we we come to to find out that there's a need for the younger ones.

Michelle, great work. Thank you for all that you're doing. How do you find sponsors, or how do sponsors find you?

So Daniel actually has reached out to some people. He just reached out to Molina's and see if they can help him. So I leave that up to my other staff.

Okay. Thank you.

Care Rite has actually been When we started this program, Care Rite and the Rotary Club used to do the big Valentine dance before we even had a program. Then once we got the program, we collaborated together so they could use the facility without any charge. So that's how that came about too. That's why Rotary does the sponsorship for that program.

Quick question, Michele. How long have you been with the city?

Twenty four years.

That's what I thought.

Very long time.

Thank you.

Going on twenty five.

Thank you for all you've done.

I've been here seventeen years, and I'm the junior staff member at this table.

Coming up on Yeah. C

Thank you very much. I think I can speak for the whole group here that these are the things that makes us so proud to live in this community. We just do such a great job with this stuff. And thank you.

You're welcome. So now I'm going to move on to recreational classes. So to be an instructor, you have to submit a class proposal. Instructors on-site receive 70% if they use our facilities of the advertised class fee. The instructors actually set their own fees. They get 70%, we get 30%. Off-site, which we don't have right at this present time, is 80%. This sorry, so we don't have that. All instructors must be life scanned and require Marietta business license. They have to complete the vendor application, W-nine forms, and must complete instructor schedules.

So they set their own schedules. And so they have to submit a class proposal to me, and then we go over it and see if it's something that the city doesn't have. Because we don't duplicate classes because we don't want to take it from somebody else. We do have a limited space, so just sometimes there are classes if it doesn't it might not work for the facilities that we have at this current time. Currently, we have 22 or 29 instructors, 59 actual activities like dance classes and fencing or archery, that kind of stuff.

But under each category, there's a lot of classes. We have a lot. I think I did something the other

day, and

activities was like 1,200 activities for a year, for the entire year. So some of the facilities that we use to utilize for classes are the community center multipurpose room, the annex, which is the double wide trailer outside, the kitchen, not quite so much right now Park, the grass area, and then the tennis court. And this is all located at the community center. We do have the senior center, which we use their multi purpose room and their craft room. Those are a lot of times classes are.

We also utilize the youth center for some classes. There are big, large classrooms. We do use a few lot fields. The Calix Sports Park, we use the basketball. Firefighters Park, use the grass area.

And then Los Alamos Hills Sports Park, we use a grass area also out there for some sports classes. The equestrian park, we use the hay barn out there for our archery class. And the fire station holds their we do the registrations for their CPR first aid, so that's at the training facility at Fire Station 4. Alderwood Clubhouse, right now we have fencing out there. We are going to start in April another gymnastics program out there for toddlers and a extreme hip hop step aerobics class.

That's hard to say. And that's pretty much all for the recreation classes. I was going to do a flyer with all our classes on it, but I didn't get to it, so I apologize for that. Any questions?

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Alright. Last but certainly not least for our updates, we have, recreation supervisor, Victor Patino, and he's going to be, talking to you about adult sports that just recently started, as well as the youth field allocation policy that took place in January.

Alright. And for the record, I've been here about eleven years. So I just wanna put that on the record. Alright. Well, good evening, Steve, members of the Parks and Rec Commission.

Tonight, I'm going to give you an overview of what adult sports consists of and also kinda our overview of fuel allocations. So why do we provide adult sports? So we offer adult sports in Marietta to promote health, wellness, and social connections. At the same time, we provide recreational competitive sports options and perfect opportunities for adults for all levels to stay active or possibly get scouted by the Yankees. All of our adult sports have online registration.

We have a fall and spring season. Our league format is all teams are guaranteed a seven game season, which consists of six regular season games and one playoff game. And I'll start off here with adult coed softball. We offer this Tuesdays and Wednesday nights. Team fees are $315.

All games are played at Kellogg Sports Park Field Number 1, and game times are between 06:30 and ten. We also have, men's soccer and currently, offering it on Wednesday nights. Team fees are $455. All games are played at Los Alamos Hills Sports Park, Field Number 6, and game times are between 06:30 and 10PM. And one of my favorites, Koehir Kickball.

We offer it on Friday nights, and also team fees are $300. All games played at Kellogg Sports Field Number 1, and game times are between 06:30 and 10PM. And now the long awaited introducing adult mixed doubles, pickleball. So we're adding, adult pickleball, as you guys know, as the fast growing sport. Pickleball promotes fitness and community engagement here in Marietta.

And we are currently offering it on Wednesday mornings. Teams fees are $50. All the games are played at Alderwood Park Pickleball Court Number 2, and game times are between 07:30 and 10:30. And a little bit of kind of the format for the league, it isn't open to players at skill levels one to 3.5. There's three games per match following traditional 11 points win by two. It is

a

self officiating honor system. So sportsmanship is emphasized through our code of conduct, and we're striving for fair play, respect, and community building. And we also have our players provide their own paddle balls paddles and balls. So, that's kind of the the gist of adult sports. If you have any questions regarding sports, I'm here happy to answer.

Well, on the adult softball and, the other leagues, are umpires provided as part of that fee?

Yes. So all all fees are included, whether it's light fees, team fees, awards are all built in within the fee.

Does kickball need an umpire? Would you I'm I'm open to I I no. No. I'm not looking for

a job. So I mean, if you're offering, I'll I'll take it.

I know softball does, and I know what the other sports are.

Yeah. For the most part right now, to be honest, we did come to kind of a challenging time to find umpires. It's been pretty difficult, but we did find a solution where we encouraged our part timers to take initiative to learn a little bit more about sports. And now there are officials. They've kind of been trained, and now we have one of our part times pretty much taking overall softball.

We have one other part time who is actually one of the head coaches for the JV squad at Lakeside. He's gonna be one of our refs for adult soccer. And then we actually have one of our part time staff, Emily, who's gonna take part of our kickball. Now she's gonna take over that. So I think it's kinda creating that that need and and that that want from our staff to just kinda teach them more make them more versatile.

So Thank thank you. Anything

else? So on pickleball, how how many people are you prepared to Turn away.

To turn away. So right now, this is all kinda a test. Let's say, you know, we're trying to figure out how the demand is. So as of now, the way it's formatted, it's six teams. That's kinda the maximum we can can allow for a for a league. Now we'll assess it if we have an abundance of of demand, then we could definitely create divisions or different different days, different mornings, and go from there. So So as of now, we'll start with six teams doubles. So if you count that, that's at least 12 people. So we'll see what goes from there. And we do have the other court open, so that's open play. So it doesn't conflict with what the current ecosystem that's going on right now.

I think we all chuckle a little bit because I think the first two years I was here, we had no community involvement at all except we had a pickleball group come in. And they were serious about their pickles.

Oh, they were serious. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm curious. Just Temecula apparently just opened a pickleball facility the size of the state of Utah, I guess. I'm wondering if that's taken any of the

pressure off the calls or the demand we're getting here in Murrieta. Not necessarily. There's a lot of pickleball players in Southwest Riverside County region. You will be getting an update, I think, at the next meeting from our senior program manager, Brian Crawford. He is completing the design over at Alderwood. We're going to be adding three courts up there. That's going to allow Victor to be able to increase, and allow, more league participation as well as tournament play, things of that nature. It's going be a beautiful design, and and and we're looking forward to that. We're looking forward to having more courts.

So if you're curious, we do have a capital improvement plan page on our website. So if you go to muriataca.gov, you'll find on the left hand panel here on your screen, you can see that's the capital improvement plan page. And then right below it is the all by itself pickleball courts planning page. You can find all your updates on our website.

Context. So we use the the field use allocation policy. It contains both the guidelines for the allotment of fields to all youth and adult sports leagues for Marietta. The policy is occasionally reviewed by city council and parks and rec commission. And this policy ensures that fields are, allocated according to the needs of the residents of Marietta.

So a little bit of background. How do we conduct these allocations? So staff and league representatives meet twice a year before each season, which is spring and fall, and we discuss policy and allocation of fields. We meet we host a Microsoft Teams meeting where we we finalize the summary report for the season, and we discussed any any pending pending issues from last season. But for the most part, I can say this meeting are completed in an immacable fashion.

So that's the least to to say. Right? And currently, right now, the the current order of priority for the fuel allocation policy is as follows to here. So the city of Marietta, Marietta Valley Unified School District. We have recreation, resident recreation youth groups, resident competitive or travel youth groups, nonresident recreation competitive or travel youth groups, resident adult groups, or nonresident adult groups.

A little bit of what is a resident league and nonresident league. So a resident league or organization is one in which the resident participation is at least 80% and the governing board consists of 80% married residents. And the opposite of that is nonresident league or organization is one in which the resident participation does not meet the 80% or the governing board meets that 80%. Now the city is has limited availability for facilities, so we only recognize two like sports or two like organizations. And this helps mitigate impact on fees I'm sorry, on fields and properly allocate field space for our our youth leagues.

Our current leagues that we have here, it's we have here Merida Valley Girl Softball Association, Merida National Little League, Merida Valley Pony Baseball, Merida Youth Soccer League, AYSO fourteen sixty three, Merida Pylon to Pylon, Merida Valley Pop Warner, and Merida Valley Youth Basketball League. And just to kinda give you context of what allocation looks like, in numbers, here's our current inventory of fields. So we have three sports parks. That's Alta Marietta, Kellogg Sports Park, and Los Alamos Sports Park. And those are only, sports parks with lights in the city.

K? So we have 10, parks that have athletic fields. Some notable ones are Copper Canyon, Mountain Pride, Torrey Pines. And then per per our use joint agreement with the school district, after 5PM, we get access to school sites. So we have 11 school sites that we're able to use for athletic fields.

Some notable ones are Orange Springs, Tobushaw, and Shabella. So in totality, we have 24 facilities and a total of 70 fields. Now I know that sounds like a lot of fields. Right? But when I put it in perspective, you know, across all eight leagues for spring, fall twenty twenty four, we approximately had 10,300 players.

And of those, approximately 8,200 players are residents of Marietta, so giving you an average residency of 80%. And I'm proud of that number. And I do give credit to all the leagues that partake here in the city because they take pride pride in in Marietta. Correct. Yeah. Well, not only that, but to continue their status as a resident league because they are higher in the the priority ladder. Yeah. Yep. And, yeah, I guess, I'm done. So thank you for your time. I'm available for to answer additional questions you may have.

Do the, the Pony League team still primarily use their fields down here, or or do they use any of the other city fields?

So they are part of our allocation. They do use our fields. They use, I would say, kind of their home here in Marietta is Alta Marietta. And they also use Los Alamos. But they do have their what what do you call them?

The pony fields.

The pony fields down

Right.

The Water District fields. As aren't the pony baseball fields sometimes the base links are a little bit different and different ages? Know

So as compared to Little League, yes. Yes. So they have a different structure in their their farm divisions as the kids learn different skill bases. So Little League has one set, Pony has another. But we're able to accommodate both groups regardless of the base lengths and so on.

Do we have it? It's been a long time since I coached here. Do we have 90 foot bases? Like, you know, company senior

We have we have certain facilities that accommodate the

I know this one at Alta. Is there anything else? Is that the only one?

I think Field 4 at Los Alamos was Sports And Toric Pines.

Toric Pines. And Cal Oaks Sports Park has the capacity to have 95. Six

to 90. Okay. Yeah.

Anything else? If I can ask this or if it's inappropriate, okay. So, we had some concerns brought to us earlier in the meeting. We understand that we can't act on them even if we had authority because they're not on the agenda, correct? So the question I've got is these governing bodies that we just reviewed here, what eight or nine of them, they have really sole discretion, am I correct, in governing

their situation? I wouldn't say sole discretion. We have ultimate authority over the use of our fields. In my time here, the associations have taken, they take their their board and their leagues incredibly serious. You probably know that, parents are changing. The the friction at little league games, at soccer games. I've seen it all. I've seen parents come to blows. The leagues take action, and they take action usually really, really quickly. When an issue does come up, we will meet with the league.

And if we have to, we will meet with the board. But by and large, I would say the vast majority of our leagues in Murrieta take their authority incredibly serious.

Right. And by we, we don't

Correct.

You very much.

No problem.

Those same lines, it's important to let people who showed up tonight in the audience know that we can't take any action on anything that was brought to us tonight, through them. You're welcome to sit here and listen to dog park stories, and the rest of the but, there's nothing else that's going to go on at the commission level tonight here that's gonna have any impact or effect on on the, issues that you brought to us. So

That's correct.

Just to let you know if you wanna you're welcome to stay.

Anything else?

We we

will. Thank you.

Yeah. Had a quick question In for regards to nonresident leagues, so let's say we have Pop Warner, which is Marietta Valley, and then we have, over in Wildemare, we have their part of the Mountain Baldy conference. Are they allowed to come in and work out on our fields? Can they rent our fields? Because they are competing conferences.

No. Tech technically, each league has the ability to have, a competitive portion. That's why they meet the 80%, and you have 20% for competitive. Now if it's within that 20%, it it's allowed because it's it's kinda competitive. You have to, you know, have tournaments or one off scrimmages. But if it they're not within the the the entity of x y z league, let's say, you know, pony baseball, then it's it's not allowed. They have to when they submit rosters, those team have to be part either of the recreation, portion of their allocation or be part of their, competitive.

Okay.

Hope that answer your question.

Thank you.

And and any any league, any group can apply to use our fields. They would go through Victor. With the shortage of fields that we have with our large population, the chance of them having fee to get fields on a regular basis is pretty slim. Yep.

So on our website, athletic fields, over here under documents is our field allocation policy. Anybody can look that up, and these are the guidelines, thanks to our Parks and Recreation Commission who we recently updated all of these provisions. Anybody can follow this document to find out how to reserve fields and where they fall with regard to their priority in coming online to make reservations for the athletic fields. You're up next with consent calendar. So that's where we are on the agenda.

All matters listed on the consent calendar are to be considered routine by the governing bodies and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed. There will be no discussion of these items unless before the governing body votes on the motion to adopt, specific items are removed from the consent calendar for separate motions. So number one is a motion to approve the minutes of the January 26 Special Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. So do I have no. We we vote once on all this.

Correct. He he just, vote Okay. For

Got it.

All of the consent calendar. You don't need to do the voting individually.

It'll take me two years to catch up.

No. That's alright.

The second one is recreation activities and event report, recommended action, receive and file. And the third is parks, projects, and maintenance report, Recommended action is to receive and file.

Mister chairman, I am not requesting to pull, item three for discussion, but I would like to comment when that comes up. Okay.

So would this be the time for him to comment about it or after we vote? You

Do you have a comment, or do you have a question that's gonna take a a staff, response?

I have a

well because it might be better to pull the item, vote on the other two, and then we can

Why don't just be on the safe side. Let's do that.

Okay.

So you would take long.

So you would vote on items one, two, and then, we'll note that item three has been pulled for further discussion.

So we'll pull the items two. Commissioners, please make a motion and a second to adopt the consent calendar, which would be items one and two. Got nothing here? There we go.

Just be on the safe side. That says approval of items one through three.

We can make a note in a

couple minutes.

Yes, we're making a note that the item three is going to be pulled.

So Leah, there was something that came up at our last meeting that concerned minutes. And I don't know if this is the right time to find out this information. But basically, Chris and after I reviewed it, I agreed came up with the fact that there was a discussion about dogs in the parks. Yes. Okay. And at that point, Chris brought it up and didn't felt feel like the November meeting that that issue had been covered with the right language.

Adjusted those

to that.

And I was, I guess, I think we might have all been surprised. But I was surprised that we couldn't actually change the minutes, that you had to take

it to

higher authority. So is this the right time to ask, did we take it to the higher authority? So

the the requirement the requirement that we are only that we need to make is, just motion minutes, very similar to what's done with city council. Any detailed comments are at our pleasure to add those notations. So it's not needed. It's not necessarily required. We add just a little bit more. So based off the board's comments from the last meeting, we added a couple more sentences to the minutes from November, and those are noted in your packet on online.

Okay. So that was at your discretion?

Yes. It was at our discretion. The city clerk's office only takes motion minutes. They're not detailed about speaker's comments.

Okay.

So and so spoke on off leash dog parks. That's the extent of what we have to do. We do not have to go further. Further.

Okay. Okay.

No questions, just a comment. I do think the clarification that was included was a good one.

Oh, good. You very much. So Commissioner Hunnaman.

The question I had was staff was just real quick on the Town Square parking lot and maintenance monument out there.

Yes.

In the staff report, it says that the video boards to be installed by February 13.

We had a little bit of

I was

just going

to ask what Yes. And along those lines, video boards

Mhmm.

Do we have a policy and procedure of what can go on that video board?

So two parts. Let me take the first part first. So we start drafting these agendas weeks in advance of the meeting. So there are additional updates that happen in between the time the report's drafted and when it hits your inbox in your email. So the video boards have been installed.

We had a little bit of a rain delay a couple weeks ago, but we're making forward progress. Our project manager, Brian Crawford, will actually be here at the May meeting. He's going to go over all of the open capital improvement plan projects right now, and he'll be able to give you a little bit further idea. Hopefully by May, we should have that project buttoned up. But from what I understand, the monument itself, the video boards are installed.

They're making the the vertical construction. They should, be complete with that. They have all of the trenching work ready to receive, irrigation and plant material along Kalmia, the asphalt and the curbs, and I believe the lighting. If the lighting's not installed, it I know the lighting has been delivered. So we're making good progress on that project. There has just been a lot of delay with the recent rains.

Okay. I was just curious. That was the question. The comment had more to do with I wanted to let the commission know that I did attend the city council workshop a couple of weeks ago to address the issue that we agreed we should talk about there, which is basically the catalog swimming pool and what was up with that. On the CIP, city council previously had not made that much of a priority. And I urge the council to not keep kicking the can down the road on this project. We either have to do something with it. It's a vacant property. The pool's going be a lot of money to redo. And I urge the council to make that more of a priority.

Whether they did or not, I don't know. Hope to find out. The other thing was I'd seen a lot of traffic online about the condition of the restrooms at Catalog Sports Park.

I

went and investigated myself and made the point that I have a granddaughter who plays softball. So I go to a lot of softball fields all over California, travel ball. And our restrooms are just not up to par. They weren't a couple weeks ago. Maybe something has improved there. But as people come to Marietta to use our parks, and they go into the restaurant. I didn't go into the ladies room, I went into the men's room. It's not a good impression for the city of Marietta. I brought that up to the city council to whether anything gets done about that. I don't know. But I just wanted to make the commission aware that we did make that presentation.

The second part of your question about who can display announcements on the boards, the reader boards, I'm sure that's going to be a discussion that will need to be had with the city manager's office, public information officer, and so on. I'm hoping that city events and adjacent events will be able to be displayed on there, market nights, Newman hospitality group concerts, so on. Additional information I'm sure would be needed as well. But again, it's a multi department conversation.

Are we prepared at all to just give the commission an update bathrooms, the junior high, what's going on there?

We can when we get to the agenda forecast, we can certainly possibly include that as a topic on a future agenda.

So But I'm just if Brian

wants to comment. Give you a brief update, and and Josh is still here. So if he has anything to add, he certainly, can. In the past few months, Cal Oaks Sports Park in total, has received, probably more vandalism within a three month period than we've probably ever had in our history. We did a lot of investigation to figure out kind of the root of it. It appears to be some young teenagers. It's not homeless. It's not adults. It seemed to always happen in the time range of about 02:00 in the afternoon to 04:00. Just in the month and and if I need to be corrected here, feel free.

Just in the month of January and February, the vandalism in the bathrooms themselves totaled $10,000. And it was every day, every week, only during the weekdays, not on the weekends. We've been through, I believe, six soap dispensers. Every one of the partitions inside the bathrooms were ripped out. We've had trash cans where doors were just ripped off and flung.

We've had the entire skate park graffitied. So that was that probably took place at night. Major extensive damage to the Kellogg Sports Park. The police department, our park rangers, some park monitors, Josh's group at maintenance jumped in and did whatever we could to to end the vandalism. The police department have made some progress, as well as the school resource a And significant decrease in the vandalism and the ir amount of taxpayer money that we've had to spend, that will decrease.

Welcome.

So if there are no further, questions or comments on that item, we will need a motion to approve item consent item number three.

So, okay.

Motion carries unanimously.

Next thing for discussion are park assignments.

Yes. So now we get to the fun part of the agenda. So we have four discussion items tonight. And I'll try my best to keep going, making good forward progress on here. So good evening once again.

Tonight, we will discuss the distribution of park assignments, a vital aspect of how this commission supports the city's parks. Park assignments enable each of you to act as additional eyes and ears for our community, complementing the efforts of park maintenance division. Since our last discussion in January 2024, there have been updates, including new appointments, reassignment of park duties, and the addition of Toulon Park to our inventory. This evening, we will review these developments, discuss any adjustments needed, and ensure we, continue to provide safe, clean, and welcoming parks for all our residents. Of course, the simplest resolution would be to assign, in this instance, Commissioner Woods' parks to Commissioner Fernandez.

But staff is open to further discussions with the board as needed. That concludes my report on this item. And we will start that discussion here. I'm trying to find my discussion item. So there we go.

So before you notice the park assignments as of January 2024. Past Commissioner Wood is highlighted in yellow. Those are her park assignments. So I open it up before the board to discuss swapping, trading, or, again, the simplest assignment would be to provide, commissioner Fernandez all of the parks that commissioner Wood had. And then, as a supplement to that, I wanted to make the commission, aware.

It was noted in the report that Murrieta Elementary School Park can no longer technically be considered a park. All of the, features that the city had built some twenty eight years ago no longer exist. So we really can't call that a shared park anymore. But a couple years ago, parks maintenance had made this improvement of this kind of very, very large trailhead. And I'll try and bring that up for you in just a second.

And they had been maintaining it as a park unbeknownst to the recreation side of of CSD. So losing Myriad Elementary School Park, brought us down to 52 parks. But now that we consider Toulon Park, a park, we're back up to 53. So give me just a minute, and I'll try and find

where

Toulon Park, I'm going to show you that in just a minute. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. So this is is Toulon Park right here. It has a very large open turf area, has a small pathway, and it has a number of picnic benches.

It's actually more improved than some of our other parks, Rosewood Park, Oak Tree Park. But we have plans in the future improvements to this site. So this is our swap, if you will, for Murrieta Elementary School Park. And giving you a little bit more perspective, Toulon Park's right here, and Clinton Keith is right here. Cal Oaks Road is right here. So it's kind of in the middle. It's in Cal Oaks specific plan near Myriad Oaks, that track.

Kind of near Toveshaal?

I'm sorry?

Kind of near Toveshaal Element?

Yes. Yes. Across the street from Toveshaal.

So you'd use the description of trailhead.

Yes. What

what is that how does that relate

Oh, to? Okay. So this is Toulon Park right here, and it is a good stopping point if you were to walk Toulon Trail, which is right here. And it can go in the other direction towards Murrieta Oaks right here. So if you were wanting to walk this trail, which is a it's a fun trail.

It has a beautiful overlook. It's a natural trail. And you could drive to this part right here off of Toulon, park your car, and use that as your starting point to access both ways along this trail. So in addition to the park assignments tonight, we need to assign Toulon Park. I'm going to go back to my slideshow.

So I bring it to the board to discuss who wants to do what park, or go streamlined and just let Commissioner Fernandez take over Commissioner Woods' parks.

My thinking would be, if I can, to keep everything, if it's okay with Commissioner Fernandez, keep everything as is. And it looks like Toulon Park's kind of a near neighborhood.

Yeah. I was going say I can take Toulon. It's right around the corner from my house. Perfect. And I was just actually googling where some of these parks work because a lot of them I'm unfamiliar with because they're small. Open spaces.

Let me go back. If you need help, of course staff can certainly help you identify any parks because 53, there are some hidden gems. But if you need to locate any of your parks, if you go to our website under Parks and Recreation, And if you go to Parks and Trails, you will be able to go to our interactive parks map and locate your park. Now there is a couple of parks that we still need to add, but for the most part, 98% of our parks are on that interactive map on the website. But if you have trouble locating me, just give us a call, and we'll direct you.

So I'm going to give up Mapleton Park to Commissioner Gillen because she lives there. And then Chris is going to give me Kellogg's Park because I live there.

I can take Valley Vista Park off of your hands too. I live right there if you want to trade.

Yeah, no. You give me Pond Park. No, where's your group?

On Wood.

I'm fine with that. I don't know these parks that you've got to take one from you. But I'm certainly fine if she wants Valley Vista.

I

don't know if that does make sense though to potentially look at where we all reside and then do you know what I mean? Divvy it up that way because to me, it's logical because I'm always at Mapleton Park. I'm always you know what I mean?

Absolutely, 100%. Problem

is that

we might not be able to do it.

This year. Yeah. So it's kind of like

Starting from scratch.

Do we want to take a quick trip through this or spend the rest of the year talking about it? So I mean, I'm open to whatever. But I'm just saying that's what you're looking at.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah. I live at Los Alamos

Sports Parks. Yeah. So we'll give her Los Alamos like every day. Yeah.

The the issue we're always gonna have is we're the commission is not appointed based on a district similar to city council. And therefore, every time a new Yeah. Commissioner comes on, the list sometimes could be a little difficult if if two commissioners live near each other. That's why

Leah, I think it it may be helpful to explain what exactly when we say we were assigned a park. Sure. We're not painting fences and taking out the trash.

No. No. No. No. So Oh. But

for the benefit of our two one new commissioner and one fairly new commissioner.

So as the as the report explains, it is the a second set of eyes third set of eyes, ears in the parks looking to see if you happen to notice if trash is overflowing or if there's broken irrigation, tree limbs down, if you find graffiti. We try and obviously remove graffiti within twenty four hours. Hence, the need for additional review. Our parks maintenance crews can typically only get to the more trafficked parks once a day. That's usually in the mornings.

They want to try and get the if there's a sand lot, rake that sand tot lot, blow off the hardscape, empty the trash before any of the public gets to that park. They want to make sure it's clean. And so as the day wears on, things happen, more people in the park. There's a need to get that looked at, taken care of. However, some of our other parks that are not highly trafficked, Rosewood Park, Oak Tree Park, Pond Park.

Fun Park, but there's not a ton of people there. This way, our parks maintenance doesn't get a chance to visit them, every day. We have 53 parks. It's hard to visit that many parks every single day. So having extra, set of eyes, extra ears, looking at these things and then reporting it through the fix it app or to staff, that helps keep our parks in the best condition possible.

Sometimes I'll just take pictures, send them to Leah, go, you know, here's where this is at, and do it just about that simple.

And how frequently?

You know.

Because I would say probably six of these are down near the 79 Mhmm. On the far side of town near, like, French Valley border.

Yes. It it's there's no, you know, you have to visit two a day. No.

It's not bad.

No. No. Yeah.

But it is a good way for you also get out and see the different, parks that are throughout the city as well. We don't expect you to to drive out there once a week, but to make a concerted effort during the next year to get out there once or twice.

Park has its own unique play value. And it's good for you to see parks that we have, the different types of equipment that we offer, the different features and amenities. So even if a park is, you know, the middle part of the town farther away from your home, it's good to see where the parks are and to make note of them.

Leah knows so much about the parks that I think she lives in them.

We do not allow people to live in the parks out of their sundown.

No. I would have Lindsay knocking on my door. So this discussion could very easily go sideways if we tried to do no park by park. I would be happy to facilitate something more offline. I just wanted to try and give you more of a flavor of what this entails. But if you able to swap if you need to swap just a couple of parks this evening, that's fine. I don't know if we this is a very big agenda tonight, and I don't

know if you really want

to go that deep into this this evening. I don't have a problem with My Parks.

I was just curious how often that we have to go to them. Very valid Like I had to go there once a week, then I'd

be like,

maybe I need to switch this up. But just even visiting like once or twice a month, that's not an issue for me. But I I just wanted to clarify that.

Yeah. So, absolutely, it it's at your leisure. It's at what how you can fit it into your schedule. There's no mandate, no requirement.

Who's got the trail? What what what park is that? I'm trying to

that The one that we just talked about, Toulon? Not Toulon. The

The Big Copper Canyon one?

Is it Copper Canyon?

So that one, if you note as the attachment, there's an attachment to your report. You'll note that that one's completely blacked out. I do not expect to have somebody walk those miles and miles of trails. That is, not something we require. You're happy to do it. If you wanna do it at your leisure, it's a beautiful walk. It goes up to the, Santa Rosa Plateau. There's creeks. There's hidden Indian artifacts along that, trail, but it's not one that we're requiring the the board to tackle.

There is a snake. K.

Well, I think unless there's anything else, we've made our decisions.

Okay.

And so long as Roseanne kept those okay. All right. Let me see. So I'm having a little tech this is new for me tonight. I was trying something new, not working very well. So I'm trying to advance my slide to the second one, and I can't seem to do it. So either Jace needs to come out from his hidden hole behind you to help me, Or I can give it back to Roseanne, and she can advance the slides for me. I can't seem I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm so sorry. So I don't know what I did.

Okay. All right. We good? Okay. Thank you.

So Jace?

Do do we have to vote on this?

Yes. I do require a recommendation. The recommendation is at the bottom of the slide right there.

Okay. So do I have a motion to approve the park assignments as we've discussed them today? Is that the right As amended. Amended. Yes. I'll make

that motion if I can.

Okay, I'm just going to hit it. Just move this along. Is there a seconder? A seconder?

Is that

a new word?

A seconder?

Motion carries unanimously.

I'm up again. So hello again. For discussion item number two, we will be reviewing a request to rename Bear Valley Park 2 and three trails in the Mapleton Track. As outlined in the report, the city's policy for naming parks and recreation facilities has been thoughtfully refined over the years to reflect the community's character and history while fostering clarity for residents and visitors. The policy establishes criteria for naming facilities, prioritizing themes such as geographical relevance, historical significance, and contributions to the city while avoiding names that could be controversial or confusing.

It also prohibits naming parks after lit any living individual. As an advisory board, your role tonight is to discuss and reach a consensus on the proposed names of these facilities. Your recommendation will be forwarded to the city council for final approval, ensuring our parks and recreation facilities align with the values and identity of our community. That concludes my report, and I'm available for any questions. I'm going to see if I can show you my slides.

Oh, it worked. There you go. So the staff has come up. In your report, there's a list of suggested park names. If we start with Bear Valley, I want to go to the park.

Okay.

I don't know why the map's not showing now. So how do I move it back? Oh, I see what you did. I apologize. So it has to close?

Okay. Okay. All right. So first up is Bear Valley Park II. So the county, when we first acquired the parks from the county in when the city first acquired the parks in from the county in 1993, two years after the city incorporated, they they were really ingenious with names.

They went from Bear Valley 1 to Bear Valley 2. So it has stuck that way for almost thirty two years. So first up, we will be considering the names for Bear Valley Park 2. So Bear Valley Park 2 is located off of Cali Cypress And Rustic Road. Here's Cali De Oso Oro right here.

And Google has thoughtfully decided to name this park for us, but that can be changed. They have given this park Rustic Field Park, which is also one of the ones under consideration. So I'm going to show you what the park looks like real quick. So this is the park right here. Lots of open turf.

But when you come over here up on Rustic Road, it changes a little bit. There's now different views from when the Google van went through in taking pictures. So we have some split rail fencing. We still have the open turf, and we have some park bench seating over here. Also in this park let me go back onto this view.

If you see right here, there's a fence. That is a rare species of oak. It's an Engleman oak, and that's why it's fenced off. So in your report, there is also different variations of oak names. So you have the rustic theme name because that's where the street is. That's what Google has named the park. There's also the oak theme as well. And then we threw in there Osso Valle Park, which is Golden Bear I might have to ask.

In Spanish, it's Bear Valley.

Bear Valley. It means Bear Valley. So there's that in in Spanish as well. So those are considerations for the board to discuss and or, suggest another park name from the dice.

John? My curiosity is, was there any effort to speak with any of the people in the surrounding area with a potential name for

this park? Actually, yes. So there is a couple of residents that live on Rustic Road. They're the ones that have been very vocal about the amenities in the park. That's why you see some improvements from one time of the photo to the other.

They like Rustic Field. That's what's on the map, and that's the road that they live on. And they wanted it to be named out the road. We haven't done extensive community outreach to find out if there was any other thoughts. We had tried that one time when we were getting community input for B Street Station, and that didn't go very well. So we're limiting that amount of count and community outreach.

So so this name, Rustic Field, is more like the squeaky wheel gets the oil if we go that way, which is not

They they didn't call us to ask for the the park name to be changed. They asked for improvements to the park itself, and they said, why why is there Bear Valley 1 and Bear Valley 2? There's no monumentation on this particular site that says Bear Valley 2. They just know know it because they've lived in the area for so long. There is monumentation on Bear Valley Park 1. That one does have, a monument sign that does say Bear Valley. So this is why we're focusing on this particular Bear Valley.

The reason I ask is that the regulation reads, the name of a park or recreation facility may be changed after a hearing is held by the commission to receive community input and direction. No name shall be changed unless there is a significant justification and support by the community. So my question would be, just as an antagonist here

Do we open ourselves up to a problem by not

Well, yeah. And then was the people community noticed that there was going to be a hearing for the name of their park tonight. And so if they were very big on a particular name, that they would at least know there was a meeting to discuss it.

So we do follow the guidelines in terms of noticing. This was properly noticed on our website. It was properly noticed at all of the various locations, the fire stations, the library, city hall, as well well as on the website. We were not obligated to do any additional community outreach with regard to this. It's not necessarily a public hearing.

So if the board would like to have staff attempt to do that, we can make endeavors to do that. But the staff has followed all the requirements by law in terms of noticing the meeting and providing information about this particular item.

So it was staff that suggested these alternatives?

It is staff that came up with these suggestions, and that's all they are, are suggestions. And

the same on trails?

The same ones with the trails.

Okay. So I you know, just looking at it, I would tell you that I like the idea of rustic oak. So we've got big oak there. It's Engleman Oak. Mhmm. But they like rustic, which is the name of the street, the name of the area. And then you got an oak. So I mean, of these six, I don't know. If Engleman I was thinking Engleman was like a founder of the city. It's the name of an oak. But I like the idea of rustic oak for what it's worth just because it kind of ties in both concerns or issues or Well, parts of the

guess we can tell somebody founded the city. But Engleman oak is a very rare species of oak. And it's really only found in this area and up on the Santa Rosa Plateau. It's a very distinctive oak, not found too many places in California anymore. That would be my argument for using Engelman because it is something that's very

How do you know that?

How do I know that?

You're a font.

Remember too, there is an Engleman Road or street, and that's off of Nutmeg And Jackson. So there might possibly be some confusion if you named it Ingleman Oak Park. But they may go to Ingleman thinking that that park is off of Ingleman Road. So I'm just putting that out there for the board's consideration.

Well, no. I mean, I'm good with Ingram and Oak. I certainly don't know Oaks and I think you just went to the clickety clack and found this.

No. I'm actually on the board directors of the Santa Rosa Plateau Education Foundation.

So I spent a lot

of time up on the plateau. And I've parked it a number of times. I just know that an inguinal oak is a rare species of oak. Yes. And it's not found too many places anymore. And there's they've got they've got them in this park or adjacent.

It's in the park.

Oh, it's in the park. Yeah.

I would certainly be good with that myself.

Do we need a motion?

We do need a motion.

So I will try my best to move my slide. Now that I think I'm getting the hang of it.

We'll vote on both parts when we're done.

So, if we can make the motion once all of the decisions are made for the other trails now. That was the park. So if there's no further discussion on Bear Valley Park Two's name, I can try my best to show you the other trails in Mapleton. Good. We'll try that.

Let me see. I think I went too far.

Okay.

So I'm going to provide just kind of the overview. So we have three trails in Mapleton. This one right here is off of Whitewood, and it runs along a channel, a mitigation channel. The other one is the Loop Road in Mapleton itself. And the third one is this very wide, long, about 1,500 feet, almost mile trail Edison easement.

So if I can DG. Oops. Think I went too far. So this is the start of the channel off of Whitewood. It runs along it's very straight.

It runs along the length of the channel. There is a small kind of loop at the end, and then it comes back. Every single cul de sac off of Mapleton has an access to the channel right here. And all of these cul de sacs here are named after some sort of flowering plant or shrub. That's Mapleton Trail A.

But it is a loop, right?

At the very end, right here. A little loop at the end that gets you out. So there's access points on each one of these cul de sacs here, and then it spills out over here off of white wood.

They are all flowers, I see. Iris Lane and Zinnia Lane.

Let's see. Yeah, poppy, marigold, iris, shamrock, zinnia.

In that case, I like the idea of kind of keeping with that theme somehow with Mapleton Trail A with either maybe Floral Loop Trail or Garden Loop Trail. Does that make sense?

Yeah. I agree.

Do you have a preference on either one? Are all these flowering plants? Is there any as they all are? Okay. I know nothing about flowers, so don't give me any grief.

So do we have a thought on whether we want to go with floral or garden or something else?