Remarks by David Leinweber
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“Yeah, I was trying to notice here, is parks in other,”
“So that's just TOPS, but in TOPS is a totally different piece, but yeah, it's acquisition of land and some maintenance, but I mean, there is nothing here for parks.”
“Is there a breakout for that 10 million? Cause that's not the number I was able to come up with. I came up with 525,000.”
“Because I just got two, the resurfacing of a swimming pool and then $25,000 for, I forget what it was. Oh, for the master plan that they put together. So I didn't really see anything else that was related to parks, but if there is more, I don't know where that 10 million is.”
“Yeah, I understand that there's a pay difference between sworn and non-sworn, like the community service officers and stuff like that, but I've never asked what is the pay for a typical police officer, give me a range, and then what would be the range of a community service officer, which is that kind of backup type individual so you know when we look at rangers or other components you know what what what am i looking at in like the ranges there i've always kind of been curious and i've never asked that question i'll i'll uh look to uh chuck to maybe or heather get to some numbers on cso's…”
“I'm actually comparing sworn versus non-sworn. You know, like the community service officers, okay, which drive around with the green...”
“So it's just shy of double, right? Just shy of double. I've just never have understood that correlation and this was appropriate time to ask it.”
“I remember a discussion, and I don't know if it was last year, it might have been the year before, about using technology to help our patrol officers be more efficient, particularly with the amount of time to fill out reports and stuff like that. Have you leaned into that kind of work? I mean, because if we can keep an officer, if he can finish a report 50% quicker, he's got 50% more time on the street, right? Have you looked at those kind of technology things?”
“Good. I mean, that's a key part about technology. I think I just wanted to focus on a little bit is that there are other benefits. And I didn't understand that Axion was one whole suite of things, which included like the reporting that they have to do.”
“Okay. And then I'm trying to understand the, you know, we've been discussing the 9-1-1 authority and the whole deal of that. Are you comfortable with where we're kind of moving? I mean, I think I just like to hear an updated statement about what your impression is about what's happening there. And are we going to get a fairer shake, you know, from those funds? Because there's a reduction here, which... I guess I'm not understanding the reduction on page 389 in our books. 2.2 million, I'm trying to understand what that actually is reflecting.”
“I'm sorry, you just struck one of my issues. In your master plan, you've made a statement in here since the year 2000, general fund funded maintenance staffing has declined from 85 to 24 full-time, so you've gone from 85 positions to 28 positions. But then it goes on to say that you're growing, you got 41 positions from TOPS funding, but I'm just confused by that. When you talk about, on that last slide, you actually said that you had, if we go back one, You have 93 positions in parks, maintenance, and operations. And then I'm seeing on your master plan, it says that you have 28. So I'm…”
“Okay. Because ultimately I'm getting to the place where, again, you've said that you're going to need to add 90 plus additional full-time equivalents over the next 10 to 15 years in your master plan. And so I'm trying to understand that. kind of when we look at this, you say 93 there, is that because you're gonna possibly lose some other funding? I'm just trying to have a better grasp of that question about how do we get our parks in better shape?”
“All right, just going into this, I just want to understand what that statement was and how this relates to the number I just looked on the screen here of 93.”
“and if you look it's pretty much right across the board funded in the exact same way so to your question earlier councilman lineweber that kind of gives you a little bit better of a breakdown yeah this is part of why we got downgraded with uh tpl parks park scores because we um so we're not making up any of the positions that we lost in 2026 we're not making up any of those so no okay”
“Yeah, as you're going through this list, I just like to understand or I think I do understand that really most of your capital improvement funding comes from other sources like TOPS or from the enterprise within or from the golf course enterprise within or PPRTA, stuff like that. Really just so all we have is kind of We're only using $500,000 to do the Wilson Pool and $25,000. But I did notice this, the greenhouse repair. Isn't that a shared thing? Because, I mean, not everything developed there goes to parks. It goes to public works and other things. I mean, they replace trees. I mean, they…”
“And that's what I'm thinking about with this greenhouse. Why is it still with you if forestry is with, is it just because you guys have more need of the?”
“So they're doing their own trees and stuff. They're not getting it from our greenhouse. That's what I'm trying to understand. I kind of thought that the greenhouse was doing everything.”
“So they're buying trees and stuff to do their own stuff, okay.”
“Well, and I just bring that up because I've heard about the tree issue that we're gonna have with all of our ash trees.”
“Yeah, that's why, when I look at this capital improvement project, it's assigned to you. Well, it's kind of, that particular one's more of a shared one because I'm thinking a lot of different departments use the greenhouse is what my thought was.”
“So what we're showing is $410,000, that's the part that insurance is not covering?”
“Well, that's why I didn't pick it up before. Correct. I just got a new sheet.”
“Okay, so it's probably an accurate statement to still say that from the general fund, we are funding $525,000 worth of stuff because that 410 is going to be refunded. So it's not really truly something we're investing in. We're just getting an insurance payment.”
“Yeah, I guess this might be actually a quick question for Shrey. On page 553, there's this kind of five-year plan for capital improvement projects, and What I noticed is that there's a lot of things, how does a capital improvement progress get assigned to a year? Because none of the parks, I mean parks is basically void of any future assignment. So for the next five years, there's really nothing that was allocated to parks for the next five years.”
“So when we look at some of these different ones that have been projected over the next five years, it's because we couldn't really get it all done in one year.”