Parks & Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

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All right. Welcome. 7:07 p.m. Calling the park and rec commission meeting January 21st to order at 5 Oaks on Warren. Roll call. Bill Hansen present. Stephanie Tai here. Jim Person here. Daniel Bhoer here. Surge here. Curtis Kerry not here. Travis Neil in attendance. Maxine while from the council as our leazison. Um PJ PJ please. Thank you.

Last name. All right. From park director and Beverly Tucker Knight, park director. Thank you. online. Oh, and Patrick's on Patrick uh last Patrick is online. Yes. All right. Hearing from citizens? No. Anyone online? No. We have a written communications? No. Minutes. Did everyone get a chance to look at the minutes from the previous meeting? Yes. any adjustment.

There were some typos but you're able to understand the gist of it. So I don't know that we need to you can say um you can approve them for the purposes amended. Okay. Can you send those typos? I did not. You want to send it to me? I can send. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Any other any other comments before we take All right. Anyone want to motion? I move the minutes of the November 19th as amended. As amended. Okay. Second. All in favor?

I. Any opposed? Any absention? All right. Minutes will be uh approved. You're going to send those changes. Yep. They were minor. Oh my goodness. I haven't advanced ourselves. Let me do that right now. All right. Item number five, beef core reciprocal agreement.

Yes. So I uh Beverly Tucker Knight, parks and recreation director. I would like to introduce TJ Beasley, recreation supervisor. And joining us remotely is Patrick McGee. And for some reason, I don't know if I can get him. Oh, there he is. There's Patrick in his car at his daughter's basketball game. Um they are going to take you through an exciting partnership that we are developing with the city of CRE Corps. And just kind of as a a reminder for those or information for those that are newer commissioners, when we set out our parks master plan and then as we go through our mission, one of the things we identified is that as a smaller city, partnerships really help us enhance our services and our offerings to our residents. So, we have very strong partnerships with Oliveette in Bloom, Olivet Sustainability Advocates, a lot of local um nonprofits for native plants that help us throughout the year with the parks such as Wild Ones, Missouri Prairie Foundation. So, we have lots of of different partnerships and we also partner with the city of Clayton and the city of U City in our youth sports. So prior to COVID, we had a partnership with the city of Creve Core where our programs were offered select some of our programs were offered jointly to both Crevecore and Olivet residents at the same rate that um died with COVID and now we have an opportunity for a new partnership. So I'm going to turn it over to Pat and to TJ and they're going to kind of walk you through um an exciting reciprocal agreement with the city of Creore. Yeah, thank you Beverly and hello everybody on the commission. Um, sorry I couldn't be there. My daughter had basketball practice, but anyway, I'll

kind of skip all that good stuff and get into the partnership. Uh, so this was kind of born out of a a necessity to not only bring more people to Alvette and to Five Oaks on Warson, uh, but expand our membership, but we also wanted to offer more to the residents of Alvette. And two things that we do not have in Alvette, but um we know that our residents are, you know, not only using them for hockey, for skating, and as well as playing golf, but we wanted to kind of offer them something that they didn't have before, which is going to be this partnership is basically allowing Crevecore residents to get the resident rate at Five Oaks on Warson and Olivet residents the ability to get the resident rate, which is of course the cheapest rate at both of our facilities. um at the ice rink and the golf course. So, they have a 9-hole golf course and a full-size arena that offers public skate, stick and pucks, as well as various other activities at the ice rink. And of course, the golf course is um a golf course. So, um, this partnership was kind of born out of the fact that we wanted to basically really recruit more members and we kind of, you'll see later in the, uh, the slides that we talk a little bit about how many Crecore residents are already coming to Five Oaks, but we wanted to expand um, in there and build up our membership base a little bit, too. So, um, TJ, if you have anything you'd like to add, please feel free to jump in and expound on that if you'd like to.

Yeah, the one thing I'll add, uh, is they're getting resident rates on memberships and day passes. Um, they're not getting resident rates for any of our programs or rooms or park pavilions or dog parks. Now if they become a member they would then they'll get resident member rates for programs. Um but the initial is just for memberships and they pass wanted to yeah and oh um and I'm sorry if I I sounded like I heard you say something. I didn't catch it though. That's Jim. Jim.

Oh, Jim. Sorry. Your question is why is it only for that? Yeah. Why? Why? Why did we limit? Oh, why did we limit it? Yes.

Um because they we're trying to offer programs that they don't have. So, they do have lots of pavilion rentals in CRE core. Lots of availability for that. We also Stacy Park, as we all know, gets impacted in the summertime. So, we don't really necessarily want to increase competition there. But for um for the ice rink and the golf course, those are things we don't have. And then they do not have fitness center, a gymnasium or indoor playground or they have one small room for facility rentals. They don't have they don't have a community center.

Yeah. We wanted to keep it like equitable equal as well. Um for us it's you know the membership and day pass for them you know our all of that residents will get that day pass for the golf course. Yeah and I agree with that because I was looking at dates for to reserve the states and park pavilion every Sunday in September is already booked and there's one already booked in October. So I agree that that they should get you know cheap

it's it's very common in reciprocal agreements for there to be exclusion things. So for example uh we are trying to get reciprocity for a swimming pool with a neighboring city and that is a much longer negotiation. Creve Cors has a reciprocal agreement very similar to this with Maryland Heights for their ice rink and their golf course and their residents are able to use the outdoor aquaport swimming pool in Maryland Heights. It is not for their indoor facility. So Maryland Heights was very, you know, drew a very specific um line to their reciprocal agreement. So in our talks with Clayton, one of the things previously they said is that they would entertain reciprocity with their indoor swimming pool but not their outdoor swimming pool. However, they have since since those initial um conversations with them, they changed parks and recck directors and changed city managers. So we have to start that process again. Yeah.

Well, just to be clear too, so so the clay if you have a membership clay repaw it does not include the shop. That is correct because their shop the shop park outside pool is heavily impacted and so there are summers and Pat correct me if I'm wrong on this because Pat used to actually run their aquatics program. Sometimes residents were not allowed to bring non non-residents with them to the outside pool because they uh the only way that you could get in there was to either be a passholder or a guest of a passholder that they limited you couldn't just come off the street and pay a guest rate. So they did limit that. But you were always able to bring guest as a as a member.

Okay.

And to be clear about this partnership with Creep Core, this is you know what we want to start with. This is digestible for both cities. It's trackable for both cities. And I think that this could be the be just the beginning. I think that it's something we could also grow and expand on in the future. Uh we didn't want to go crazy right off the bat because we don't have anywhere else to go after that. So we wanted to kind of put it out there, see what the interest level was and then see if we need to do any additional offerings either at Creepcore or in Alabet. Um uh uh as we uh before we move on um we've had very specific targeting of marketing this agreement once it once it's signed. Um so maybe TJ do you want to talk a little bit about where we wanted to focus some of our outreach to CRE core about this? Yeah. So, um currently working on the activity guide for um spring summer that will be in homes uh by March. And so there'll be a full page there listing the partnership and benefits for all residents and probably go about obtaining the resident rate at the facilities. Um it will also be in the all of that newsletter or all of life. Um and then planning on doing a mailer to Creed Court homes that are on this side of 270. Um because Creek Court is very large and looking at different facilities that are on the other side of 270, those individuals are not all to us. Um so we'll be very targeted in that mailer. Um explaining the partnership um giving them like a free visit to come check us out. But just for clarity, it's open to anyone in creep for whether they're east

or west. Correct. It's open to anybody. But for the actual like mailer for our mailer. Yeah. Because I we got a target. It's a targeted mailer.

We do that now with our some of our activity guides and some of our postcard mailings actually don't do go into CRE core. what we try and do what we've what our past practice is we sort of follow the Leoo school district boundaries within a certain sphere. So for example we mail into Leoo but we don't cross 6440. Uh we go into Crefcore. We typically don't go past Lindberg. Um but with this we'll do some further uh outreach but we will not mail to the county addresses. There's a large sections of in the northern part of Crecore that are actually in St. Louis County. They're not within the city limits of Crecore, but they're in that same zip code. So, we're not going to mail into there because those those homes in there will not qualify for the um reciprocal agreement. So, if they're county residents, they will still have to pay the non resident rate because we do not have an agreement with the county. And CreepCore will also be doing some marketing for this as well because this is something that they're excited to push out to the residents of Crecore as well. So those areas while we're not directly mailing to them, we will still get the word out via CREC Corps as well.

So they they don't have a wow. And the activity guide will include instructions as to how Yes. what's required to get to Earth. Yes. Yeah. And we also talked about the next um chamber of commerce, the corpore all that chamber of commerce mailing um to try to do some part. Yes. Yes. Does it have to come before both city councils? Yes. Yes.

Yes. So the agreement uh we have the draft agreement was um attached to this uh I can uh me stop the share. motion. Do we vote on it or is it just for our You will vote on it. Yes. We recommend you will you will recommend that the council you will recommend approval and then submitting to the council. What I'm going to do is share the screen. Um it was in your in the minutes is Yeah. Yeah. It's right here. Um let me share this. Yeah. I see it. You're not sharing yet.

Yep. So, let's uh share this. There you go. So, the draft agreement is not up there. Let me How I do that? Uh goodness only knows. No, I did say share, but it's I have to share it to um it's sharing online. They're seeing it online, but you need to see it on the external. So, I need to actually slide this over to here. There we go. Now, now everybody's seeing the same thing. Okay, let me Okay, this is really big here. Okay, here we go.

While you're doing that question, how many people do we have already? We actually anticipated that question. So, we have a full breakdown for you that we will jump to, but we'll take a second. And you didn't put me up to it. No, we didn't. Oh, hang on. So, this agreement is the same template that Maryland Heights used with CREC Corps. It's a one-page agreement and it's signed by the mayors of both cities once it's approved. So, how long agreement? It's for one one year with the opportunity to uh extend

to extend, right? So, it'll automatically renew until terminated by either party. Uh we also can adjust it very easily as 15. Yeah. Oh, so it doesn't take Yeah. Now the the Maryland Heights Creeps agreement um I believe has been in for Pat. Was that 12 years? Do you remember? Um the agreement I do not remember the the duration but it's been it's been a while.

It's at least eight. Yeah. Yeah. So, we've already uh this is the draft for you to see the whole Where's my mouse? Ah, there we go. So, we put this in there for you to see the full draft, but we will put it on the next if you approve it, we'll put it on the next city council meeting. Is the one-year extension to try to get around the CO situation where Oh, it's it's just it's just a contract is so the first year is a kind of a trial. We want to make sure I know we put that in there so that if another co-l like situation came up we didn't have to worry about resigning just

Yeah. And we could do I mean it's going to automatic renew but if if if we do make adjustments or changes to it we could always do a multi-year agreement if we wanted to. But but since it automatically renews I think but we want to see what Yeah. Yeah. We want to we want to see they they'll monitor stats. We'll monitor stats and and see if it's um of benefit to both both cities. Um Pat, do you want me to jump to the stats? Yeah, sure. If you want to. Okay, I'm gonna Okay, bear with me. Stop that. Share. So, does it apply for the the classes that you have? No. Well, they could go a little If they purchase a true membership,

then they will receive the member rate for the classes. But if they're just coming in as a resident to take a class, no. But they have to purchase a membership then they get the same rights and privileges of the other. So it's a it depends. It depends. Right. So and their membership will be the same as all of that. Correct. Correct. And if they do that then they're a resident member. Correct. We don't just we don't distinguish. Okay. Um Pat, is it the uh I'm going to go down to where do the majority of Five Oaks members live? Is that the one? That's the one.

All right, let's try this again. Okay, there we go. Uh, get out of there. Sure. Patrick is me. Hey, how are you? So, um, my question is about the my understanding is that the ice break doesn't membership. You didn't buy passes to go there, but the the golf course, is that a membership or is that just passes or

they're they're very similar. Um they it is just a the resident rate to go to play golf there and it's a resident rate for those drop in uh programs like you know stick and puck and and free skating and open skate. Is it significantly different between resident and yeah it's not a membership based at either facility. It's a couple of bucks different and perhaps Yeah. And so

anecdotally, right, if you went to the open skate as a nonres, you're paying I think it's a I'm not as familiar as the golf course, but it's a couple of bucks different. the golf course. I think it's a park or two for Yeah, it's a difference of like for um I know because I went to stick and last week. Um it's a difference of like three or four dollars for um a non-resident versus resident and for golf course it's about I want to say like 8 to 12 difference really for nine holes with a cart. Oh with a cart maybe. Mhm.

But if you're walking, I think it's just a couple blocks. Yeah, I Yeah, it's it's pretty close if you're walking. Um Pat, I have pulled up the screen. Where do the five members live?

This So, we really kind of wanted to and these are memberships all across the board. So, that could be somebody who has a um a five a 10 visit punch pass. that's uh somebody you know who maybe has you know a membership for our karate programs. We really kind of wanted to see overall not just five Oaks members but people who have passes and went in and purchased you know and are repeat customers at our facilities and we kind of wanted to see where they were from what zip codes. So we ran some reports and we found out you know the great part is is that we're reaching a lot of our alvet residents and second and third on that list are creve core and those are the two zip codes main one being um 141 and 14 63146. So and then after that those are kind of what we kind of expected as far as but we have some pretty farreaching to some other surrounding communities as well and part of that is renew active. We know we already know that those people will kind of travel uh to where you know whether it's pickle ball or other programs that they like u they'll kind of travel outside of their you know municipality to go to other places. So, but this was kind of enlightening for us to see that we already kind of have um a little bit of a foothold in CreepCore, but it's something I think we can certainly expand on um with this partnership. So, I think we're excited to to see that that's already there and to see how we can make that those numbers grow as well. A a question on the number uh just to see the 63132 1791. Is that

household? Does that include households or is that everything? All types of memberships. It's not broken out by Oh, no. I understand that. But if a household has two has two people in it, the household counted as one or it's counted as one. Okay. Well, I'm guessing in this number for this number, it's like an individual. It is. I thought it was the You ran that report from the membership list, right? That is correct. Yes, it is from individual people. Oh, so it is individual. Okay. And then some people in here like could be counted twice because if they have a dog park membership and a membership here, they're like being counted twice because they have Oh, I see. two memberships.

Oh, you're right. because we probably don't have 1,700 houses in like we also have our resident O card, right? And that's considered like the membership that are that's also on people's accounts. Did you extract the O card, Pat? I did. I took out the O card and I took out dog park memberships. Those are the only numbers out of members that we had that I did not that I did pull out because I didn't want to get too in the weeds. But this was just kind of I wanted to see where people were coming from and Go ahead. Yeah. No, I was just thinking in terms of population of of all of that is somewhat north of 8,000. It's 8,500,

right? Yeah. Yeah. So, I was trying to figure out if Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. It's a roughly a quarter of the population, which would be awesome. Which is awesome. Absolutely. So, we can further refine that. Um, this is, as Pat said, this we wanted to have an trying to get some idea, but we can. But, you know, originally when we opened, we really we wanted to get 10% of the population in here, and I think we're we're definitely doing that. We've definitely done that. So, um I think that's that's really good. Um we just need more revenue,

but this this membership, this um expansion with CREF Core, I really think that that that I think we're going to see a boost with that. Yeah. Yeah. I I completely agree and this is like I said just kind of the tip of the iceberg. I think for us you know the city of of Creep Core is you know quite a bit larger than Alvette but it also swells up even bigger during the work week which a lot of corporate businesses and offices. So our hope is that we can tap into that part as well. This will apply to employ employment and pre-4 as well as residents.

Yeah. Our eventually what our hope is to kind of um and we've kind of done that a little bit with corporate memberships uh in our you know in the city of Alvette. But our hope is to kind of set up some uh some structures with the next fiscal year to where we can actually have a precore corporate membership. That is basically, you know, the idea that we're we're kind of looking into is if we can put that it'll be a little more expensive than the resident rate but cheaper than the non-resident. So, it'll kind of sit there right in the middle. And the idea is that we could, you know, still be affordable for, you know, corporate residents, but also we really want to get people to come, you know, during your workday on lunch breaks and after work or before work even. So, So this will effectively help us with 39 homes.

Yes. So right now if right now what we do with our memberships is what we did with our classes prior to having a community center and that is that if you work in you get the same benefit as living in. So people that work in receive the resident rate when they show proof of employment. When does that apply to this agreement? So this agreement we have not Yeah, I don't think we Pat, do you want did you want to hold off on the businesses because we're looking at the corporate rate in the new fiscal year?

I think what the the plan that we because we are looking at that for the next fiscal year. We are still going to look at those corporate memberships as residents in this, you know, during this time because we still do you think that's shooting ourselves in the foot because they'll say, "Oh, but I used to be a resident rate and now you're increasing me." Um I I think that we you know like any community center u you know they have they evaluate their rates and those do you know go through rate increases and I think that it's not going to be a a massive increase you know again we are just putting some space um in between the residents the corporate and the non-residents. So this explicitly says residents.

Yes. The agreement doesn't say commercial corporate. Yes. Currently that that was not the plan because we don't actually have that kind of set up currently with a with a corporate rate. Okay. So this agreement that's going to council we are only talking about residents because crepe will not give business workers that reciprocal in Maryland. I mean in um Creek Court. Correct. Correct. Okay. So this is for residents only this agreement. Correct. Tackle corporate and businesses in the next fiscal year.

Correct. And then we'll come back with a modified agreement and the targeted marketing we're doing in CRE core. We are only mailing to residences not to businesses. Yes. And that that I think is probably the a good way to start. I think we have to get our corporate um price structure in place before we can really extend that out. Yeah, I thought I thought that's what we meant and I think he just didn't understand the question. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, Pat. Thanks for clarifying. No problem. My fa my face was going. Excellent. So, that's a precursor. Now you guys have seen the foreshadowing that we're going to ask for some rate changes in the next fiscal year.

Everybody else does that. They do. J. So you'll see that um at one of the meetings in the spring when we when we talk about the budget. Yeah. Any other questions about the um the terms of this? Oh, TJ, do you want to share how we're going to verify residency?

Yes. So precore um has like a precore resident card where they can go get they pay $5 it has their photo um and then they can bring it back here. Now if they don't have that we can still verify residency how verify all that resident with um utility bill statement their address and that photo ID um and then with all of that residents they will go and back resident card. Um there will be that $5 cost with it. Um but since we currently don't have like an event resident card and we don't have a way to like rent for one, maybe in the future we will look at doing that but we're right now all residents will go to city. Well, so how are residents going to get a core

res no? So just to be clear, this is not a remember the old residency permits. What would what were they called? Occupancy permits. This is not an occupancy permit.

What we do here is that when you come in to get a membership, we give you an an an O card. Anette O card means that we've established that you're a resident. So you do that with um your photo ID and then a bake statement or current utility bill that verify that your address is physically within the boundaries of all of that. That's how we establish residency. Then we attach an O card, resident O card to your account and that's how you get the resident rate when you purchase things. But that card is in the cloud. It's virtual. It's a virtual cloud. In Creve Core, they actually have a physical card where they do the same thing, but they take your picture and they give you a physical card and they charge $5 for it.

That seems it's very expensive. We don't have that system. We don't want to implement it right now, particularly because this is new for us. So, our residents will bring their photo ID and they'll bring their um vague statement or so the same way they do it here, they'll do it in Supreme Court. I I mean, no. You just said that that Creed Corps is going to make them get a residency card. They give them Well, no. They already have. So, Creed Corp already has a residency card to where if residents want that res. So, if I want the resident rate at the golf course, I'm going to have to go to city hall in Creekore.

It's not city hall. It's at the rec center, right? They get the It used to be city hall. So, this conversation doesn't matter. We're going to go for and we'll have to give them the driver's license with your address and like a utility bill and they will charge you $5 and give you a creep core ID. So then you can get the resident rates without I think I misunderstood your question. I'm sorry. Yeah. So our residents are going to have to do the same thing for Yeah. The difference is we won't give them a card.

Yeah. Now their card lasts for three years. Our old card we verify more frequently than that because a lot of people can move in three years and not know especially in all of that. We know we have a transient community as people are moving in and out of out for jobs and things like that. We just we verify more frequently. So um are we and we will finalize all those detail. meeting um with Jason, their parks director tomorrow. Um he's coming into the facility and we are finalizing all of those details um of what the actual establishment of presence and this is really standard.

You said he played the you have to go with any firm card, right? if you're reciprocal or local either. And and we decided early on we did not want to do that for our residents particularly because the council very deliberately got rid of that occupancy permit and having that photo ID and the other thing it really made us feel like we were kind of back in that realm. So we chose not to do it and plus quite frankly we didn't want to spend the money because you have to buy a machine the cards are expensive you got to keep buying those you know so we really picture

they would need to change theirs goes through because they they want the res card res university city golf courses so just because they have reciprocals with other cities. Right. Right. Yeah. Um so Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And then Yes. And then once we have that meeting before this goes to council, we will send you all an update so you know what it is before it goes to council. Yeah. So do we need to do a Yes. Motion. Yes.

And I I apologize. I didn't write a motion in here. The motion would be recommendation to approve the draft agreement for presentation to the city council. Now create all the resolutions that Yes. Go for it, Jim. Go for it. I move and state it. I will second. I've read the motion. Yeah, I'll write it down. Make it up when you do. Well, I'll just listen to the tape. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I

Okay. I I move that we recommend to all of that city council that they that they adopt the draft that they approve that the agreement between uh Creekore the reciprocal agreement between Creekore Parks and Habat Parks. Okay. So, this is what I've written. Recommendation to approve the draft reciprocal agreement for presentation to city council. Okay. Yes, that sounds good. Okay. All right. That's what I seconded. Yeah. All in favor? All opposed? Anybody abstain? Okay, we're good. Unanimously passed.

Thank you very much. And that will go on when I saw that in the minutes. I was going that will go on the next council agenda. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Does it have to go to two? Do they have to have Does it have to go to two or Yeah, it has to go to both councils. No. No. I mean, does it have to have two readings? Yeah. I don't think so. It's just an agreement. It's not a uh it's not an ordinance. It's an agreement. It's like a contract. It's like when we buy something if anyone wants to attend. Okay. Right. to watch your fing. All right. Item

Pat, are you gonna stay on for the five Oaks presentation or do you want do you want me to take it? I You think I can handle it on my own? I think you can handle it. I am trying to get these uh gal pals home for bed. Okay. On a school night. Thanks, Pat. I appreciate it. No problem. If you need anything, feel free to let me know. Okay. Thanks, Pat. No problem. Thank you, guys. All right. Have a good one. You number six. Okay. So, annual work plan. Great. Review the 20 25 plan and the draft for 2026. Yes.

So, here we go. So, your four primary uh uh goals that you worked on this year was the dark sky urban night sky place certifications, which we are still in process with that. U making sure we did uh you were attending community events and doing outreach and spreading the good news about parks and recreation uh serving on the green team and then doing in we were really trying you were really trying to increase commissioner participation in the park visits. So those were your four primary goals for last year. So coming in to the new year, my recommendation is to continue those four, but also remember that we're coming into a year where we're going to look at the capital plan again. I think it's time to um we'll be as part of the budget process going through that again. We have some projects that you supported previously that we'll be working on. There's a grant going for the park design for the Olive Old Bomb Corner. We'll also be doing a grant to do the master planning for Warson Park for continuing the park master plan projects at Warson, which is installing the restrooms up by the splash pad and the outdoor pickle ball courts um and having the public meetings associated with that. So, those will be big projects in 2026. And then we'll be going for the MUN Park grant to pay for the Warson Park improvements. And we're really hoping that the MUN park grant will pay for about 100% of that project. Yeah, the project on the Old Bottom

olive corner is funded through the capital plan. So, we'll be able to um work on that plan and then be able to get that out to bid fairly quickly. But the uh the Warson Park project, I think, is pretty exciting. We haven't built brand new restrooms in a very long time. So, that and that is going to really improve um our amenities now that we have that beautiful portaotty screen that the park crew built out there. So, I think those are good projects for you to take on. But I, as always, I want to hear from you. Are there other things that you really want to identify and put on your plan moving forward?

What What about um Great Rivers Greenway in terms of interfacing with that? Do we need to do anything? Right now on Bruce's Well, no. Right now they are not doing any public meetings yet because they have the route established on the railroad rightway. They've cleared it. Um, you can actually see it on some of the satellite imagery that the Can you walk it? Yeah. Or illegally. Let me just say it's not fenced. Okay. Have I walked it? No, I have not. You can get to it. Okay. You can get to it. Sue will show you the Let me Let me see. Um, Sue, have you walked?

There's a few. Yeah, they don't confirm. There are no no trespasses. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And there's no Well, they did so they just they just cleared the trainle off of and I think the um there are Did they take all the railroad ties up? I I can't. They had done some I haven't been there lately. So, they may have finished. They've cleared a lot of honeysuckle. It's amazing. It's amazing what they what they have not been down there in 45 years. from the corner of Alice and Price North. Yeah. North on the old railroad rideway that goes behind um Auto Beauty and uh um

So those that don't the big construction Murphy Murphy. So those that don't know, years ago, like 25 years ago, the train tracks ran from Price and Owls on the east side of Price straight to the north and then at the end turned left, made a 90° turn down by Murphy and then ran out towards Steel. So they literally just took the tracks off and cleared all that honey suckle and rubbish and whatever else. Yeah. So it it's literally that old train that hasn't used it on the footage.

Yeah. So yeah. So that part is in is still they still have to finalize some of the engineering in there, but they're moving forward. I do not believe there will be a public meeting on that aspect. There could potentially be a public meeting for that last little bit on Dealman. So well the question is because I asked them when they were here this summer. The question is where will it tie on Deman? Yes. So it's either going to tie at Dealman Industrial and Deal or it's going to tie by the Maryland property on a little bit further north. So I need to show you after the signals, you know, where the signals are. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So it may go a little north. So they said there might be a meeting as to which of those two. So, we will continue to monitor that. If that comes up, you will absolutely be informed and it doesn't need to be on our wall.

It Well, I think it doesn't it doesn't hurt to have it on there because the other thing that's happening right now is you'll see a as when you come into Five Oaks, you'll see a there's been a lot of engineering out there. They are starting to do the engineering for adding the crosswalk out here. It's still probably two years away from construction, but they've sent us the initial um agreement to allow them to start working with the city for the planning of it. It's going to involve moving the telephone pole out there, the power the whole power supply. It's going to require removing our big oak tree out there, but the city horiculturalist has said it's okay because it's a pin oak. um they will replant it and we know from our work with them that they they do what they say they're going to do. They will absolutely give us beautiful plantings in return. It will require moving our sign to a more visible location which I'm also in favor of that because we all know it's it's tucked back a little bit and they will um take care of that with the sightelines because there will be a new signal there which is a great crosswalk. So that will benefit us greatly. So, and they are paying for it 100%. Which is really nice.

So, the other two quick points, we're going to they're doing they're going to have to do the concrete work at Villa Park for that splash pad. Is that part of this or that's not on the work that Oh, the like the Yeah, that we are building a project for that. Okay. So, we're trying to figure that's a separate project. We're trying to figure out what to do with that. And then the replacement of some of the sidewalks that can be built. Well, there's a continuation of the sidewalk in Villa because there's a there's a gap. Yeah. But but there's some very deteriorating there are. But we have to you have to look is is that that's a higher priority than the trail at the the walking path at Stacy.

The answer is no. So well that's a that's an exercise that you're going to have when you do your CIP review. Okay. But that's that's under the budget that's under the capital improvement discussion. Yes. A question on the whole bottom uh work. Yes. That a lot a lot of that depends on what the city council is going to do with the identity because we have that big way. Well, the way finding is a separate project because the wayfinding is down by the gate. What we're talking about is the corner where our sign is. But about four years ago, we talked was this big thing in terms of putting up identity signs on correct

way finding. Yes. And and that whole thing that is not this project. Does the sign does the sign that's going at the old bottom have any relationship to that? Yes. It's the sign that has to be coordinated. Look, it it's the sign that goes there is the one that's identified in that plan because all of our new park signs are in that plan. So, what we'll put there is what's already been adopted in our wayfinding master plan. But is that also is that also going to be a all of that wide? No. Why not? It's not funded.

Well, no. I I understand that. Okay. And my question is is why do we sort of silo this stuff if we're trying to communicate to our to the community? Well, I think that um there is a large um price tag on the way finding for the entire community that the council has to grapple with.

No, I understand. We we can get grant money to do like we're using grant money to do the master planning there of where to put the sign. We've funded the sign in the capital project uh in the parks capital plan. The other wayfinding will come out of the city council capital plan, but they'll they have to do the same thing we do. They have to triage where the needs are and weigh the use of the money. So when they do the wayfinding that is the that's the sign system that is adopted right now but it is not funded. Okay. Yeah. So but the sign that you're talking about putting in relates only to parks. Yes. That's the one. Yes.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Because but it will be a changeable sign. Yes. It's the sign that's it. We have a we have a sign identified in the sign master plan for the city for that corner that is an illuminated sign and that's the one that that's going to go there. Okay. Unless something happens that changes it. But that's our plan right now. Okay. Is to use that exact one. Can we somehow put it in a position so Amaran doesn't wipe that out in that field?

Well, to to do any work in that area, it has to be coordinated between MDOT, Amaran, AT&T, uh, Spire, and Missouri American Water because all those utilities run through there. It's a very complex project, which is why there's no electricity on that corner right now because when that sidewalk work was done several years ago, it severed the electrical line.

Yeah, that's so we will be putting that back. Um, and then the reason we're having landscape architects do this is because they will do the coordination with MDOT. So, it'll we really need a professional design there. We can't just order a sign and put it in because of all the coordination of all that. There is um so if you look at all the traffic that goes on Olive, there is just as much traffic underground because of all the utilities that run underground along the Well, the answer is we can do whatever we want and the utilities come back and move in. Well, that's Well, there's ease that we can do.

Yes, we we absolutely will. But um but by by bringing them to the table, we have a a fighting chance of it not being damaged. But they can Yeah. This is And with any of our with any of our projects, you know, right now, we have a sign identified that's a two-sided LED sign. It's It's pricey. It's beautiful. It's the one that um that we found uh that's from BA uh National Park in Canada. that technology that doesn't look like an illuminated sign, but you can read it. So, it's not glary.

Not glary. It meets IDA. It's beautiful. Now, it's very expensive and it's going to be much more expensive than when we first did the plan. So, it could be that we do the same sign, but it ends up running side, you know, facing the street. So, there's only one side of it. So there we'll see what happens when we get the design and then when we do the bids because as we all know once we put out those bids it could be a lot more than what we anticipated. Yeah. So fingers crossed. The one other open Yes. project if you would is that gate that got destroyed at Dealman. Yes. So what's the status of that and where

that's exciting. So, uh, you know, we approve the You're welcome. the commission approved, uh, a new design. So, we are going out to bid for the split rail fence along Olive and the section of Old War at Stacy Park. When we do that RFP, we're going to do a bid alternate on it for them to do the gates along the waterway with the same sort of look. So, that would try and get it you know, economy of scale. Yes, we're a couple steps away from our topic. We are probably Thank you. Well, was that part of the plan?

This is part of the national plan budget. I thought we were getting instead of the the the gates like they are now. We were getting it. So, the absolutely are, but there's going to be aprons to the side. We'll just have the split rail there with some uh some perennial plantings under there just because people try and drive around it. Yeah. And maybe they don't all need it, but we do know. I mean, the reason the gates are broken is someone drove through them. So, that's not part of this year's the gates from the walking trail. Yeah. Yeah. Drive through them. They took it out. They knocked it out. You only know about I didn't know it exploded. I just didn't know. So totally exploded.

Yeah. Someone drove in. Someone in a big truck drove in from the other side. Were they drinking or they So they It was two nights be It was the night before two nights before Thanksgiving. So we have Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We We suspect it was Yeah. There was no broken headlights on the ground, so it had to be a really big Yeah. Yeah. And someone did spot that truck. Very fast speed. No, they never saw it. I thought No, I said but someone saw the truck driving. No, no one did. No one did. No, they checked everybody driven by the monkeys and the goat. Yeah.

All right. So, hang on. So, for the work plan, I'm going to add to it that they'll be, you know, really looking at the CIP. Um, we'll be doing all of the standard reports that we added last year. So, you have some reports coming up like next month. You have the youth um, uh, youth sports reports. So, those individual program reports, we agreed to do those a couple years ago when we started removing the fees from the city um, code and putting it into the annual budget. So, you will see that. So that budget process becomes more more important. So I will be adding that in there because now we have a fee schedule get that gets approved every year as part of the budget. So you will have a big report coming about that because we will have recommendations for fees. So this is going to be a pretty busy year

and what I'd like to do is if there's anything else you want to add to that I'll bring it to the next meeting with a list and then you can approve your annual plan. So what is the fiscal year? July 1 to June 30. Yeah. So, that gives us a nice nice uh period now to start chipping away at all of the the budget and the capital items. Maxine, did you want to add anything about the way finding or did I say right? We're good. Ask me about it. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. All right. Item number seven, five oaks on horse for you.

Um, park visits. Do you want to talk about park visits or do you want to do you want me to send out? Okay, perfect. Okay. Okay. Very quickly, we'll go through the monthly update. Um, we have Let me get this out of here and put it where you

Yes. So, you already we already went through the resident breakdown. We won't go through that again, but we have had a huge spike, you can see in our daily use fees, which was really nice. And these, what's interesting about this is we forecast when we first opened that we would see these spikes that happened in the summertime and then at the school breaks. And we did see those in the beginning, but now two years in, we're really seeing a significant increase. we would probably still be seeing it right now except youth basketball has taken a big chunk out of that because of bringing um all the youth uh players in here. It closes the gym down in the evenings when our basketball adult drop in is booming. So, but we have a really nice spike there. So, it's been very nice. Um

and again, that aligns with school breaks. It absolutely does. So, it started ticking up um around Thanksgiving and then it really snowballed during December. There were nights in here when we had, you know, more than 40 people playing basketball. We actually started wondering if we were going to have to put a cap in there. So, very exciting. Yeah. And you're still acquiring ID. Absolutely. 100%. 100% solved your problem. It absolutely. We're not gambling anymore. No more gamblings. It's great. Love it. Signs everywhere. The other thing the other thing we're seeing is we are definitely seeing an increase in daily usage of members because it is the new year. So yeah. So that's and it's cold

and it's cold outside. Yeah. So today around 3:00 I looked down and the every every machine had someone on it. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. So the slide we already looked at. Okay. So quick question. Yes sir. On renewals.

Yes. I came to my attention that annual renewals are not happening automatically that the monthly ones are but the other ones aren't because our neighbors came in for course and they weren't but they said they hadn't been uh notified but I was just curious are we do we have any or they were told at the desk that annual correct have to be done manually They do uh emails go out but sometimes emails get blocked or missed. Um they go out and remind people of that. It's has to do with the way the credit cards are set up.

Okay. So, but individual monthly month to month keeps going keeps going. Yes. Correct.

Does that make sense? It does because we have a high number when we we have a high number of cards that change over the course of a year and so if the card the charging goes through the call has to be made. So there's a lot of calls that have to be made because there we need a new card. So um it actually it makes I wish I wish TJ were here to answer that. She has a much better um understanding of how that process works. But if you think about how many times you change cards and things happen, we get a lot of and then also people forget and they'll get that big charge and then they call us and say, "What's this big charge?" So, um,

I just think in that renewal email, it needs to be made very explicitly. Well, I I got one that was very clear, okay, that said my membership would expire on X date and that I would need to come up and review and it gave me exactly what I had to do. I missed that in our and so I I had to physically either call or come up or give them credit card or challenge. Yes. When they're rotating, they're not always doing. Correct. But you get the email shortly. I think I got it I want to say the month of

Makes sense. Something it was like it was like in the month. Okay. The other thing the other thing that happens too is you know we're going to raise the fees July one. So then an email is going to go out telling everybody when you renew your fees. Yeah. But the good news is if you don't try to go the next time you come in. That's that's that's what happened.

So I think what happens is I think it ends up on a jump. They probably see it probably to jump and sp something. Anything else on that? No. All right. Item number eight, city council report. Go for last week. We had the probably the mayor. I think from over there I think It was paired with that yellow.

Yeah. Brass tap. Brass tap. Brass tap brass tap. There we go. That's right. Really really won't it'll be in 2026. But they were and they be before the spring before the before summer before

and the way D is um I haven't been down that far. Um the u just a lot of good things are happening. I mean we drive down and the apartment building kind of fall over. um the CBD shop moved and they demolished the building but not only demolished it but got cleaned up the rest so that we don't want to be like an eyesore for like a nuisance during the next month while they were waiting for the proactive and get it done as fast

of what do we do so that large drops can make the right and the left And when people come out of the industrial park, they will use that intersection instead of going down where you now have apartments and then they go down with been a problem for years. So, um it's really been a while. It's basically two more. It's been too long. What's interesting is now that it's down and cleaned up, when you look at it, you wonder how the heck was a It really was non small building. Yeah. Yeah.

And I loved on Facebook. You saw the trucks trying to turn. Oh my god. Some of those trucks. It It was not good. And so now they have a little more. So I'll give a little Facebook anecdote. Someone had posted a sad day and all that and people started reminiscing and all of that. How I mean back into the 60s it was the sermon delic and then it was the this and it was and it was like so funny for me quarter and it was a donut shop for a while I mean all the different things it was it was like a cleaners he came out like I missed that it was pretty funny but one of your I'm sure it was

kind of humorous that people would be nostalgic over this building out probably hadn't been in it in 20 Yeah, especially um you know we are city council is moving forward. We got a lot of things that we're doing but one of the things that we are having a retreat this Sunday at 6 hours we're all like that no city hall never closes. you'll be just fine.

Well, right. No, you know, by 5:30 and 10 and I'm on the record saying that uh but it we our retreats are always comp. So, um, you want to have one more update for anyone that hasn't, Bruce McGra is. They've done the sidewalks from Alice to Hilltop and Hilltop. They're winding sidewalk all the way down to Olive from 3T to 5 foot to a line with its past. So, we'll just be

Thank you. I'll show you your boundary. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, they destroyed two panels. So Bruce, I don't remember. No, they're all remember our previous discussion of the E e vehicles. Yeah. So I don't know if they're going to report it, but it looks on Alice. It looks fantastic. What we doing and some of the other all side moving forward? Yeah, it's And people I mean apartments the pouring but Bruce is doing a great job of keeping them on track.

Yes. To that point they say his mother great a but no he is he does wonderful. No they they are doing a really good job. Um, so are there any other questions? All right. Okay. So, you have Go ahead. Yep. Can I read the item number? You absolutely can. Sorry. Item nine. If anyone's following our direct department monthly report.

Okay. So, it's been a while since you had a monthly report. So, the council got a report on December because they met, but you didn't meet. So, I put December in with January because some exciting things happened and the parks and rec commissioners did a massive job parking park. So, thank you very much. This year's turkey trot was our largest ever, largest number of runners and participants and largest donation. So, we had 275 runners and we were able to give $31,500 to the food panty. That was and it was cold and we still had

some it was bitterly cold. Now one thing that we're doing this year is a customer service surve customer satisfaction survey getting really great comments. We'll be making some changes for next year because we've never done one before. So it's very exciting. So if you got it, please take it. Um or if you just went and didn't run, please send me suggestions because um we we're hearing a lot people are being very candid. So it's really helpful. Um, but definitely people love the event and they love that the food pantry is the beneficiary. Yeah, Bill, big flags. Yeah, big flag. That's my recommendation. Orange flag. Yes, we are going to be doing that for sure. And look at that. You just look awesome, Bill. I would listen to you. Did you bring that flag yourself?

Yeah, it stays. Stays in my truck. You never know when you need an orange flag. You're right. Need an orange flag. Look at uh look at council member Lewis over here. Uh bundled up. Bundled up. When I first looked at it, I thought he was a police officer because it's very similar to his officers wear. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was bundled up. Bundled up. It was great. It was cool.

Absolutely great. Okay. Lots is happening in the recreation division. We have a lot of programs in there. Maong's taking off. It's amazing. We have a learn to play maong on Monday afternoons. Our cooking classes are really coming along. the the kids cooking how to cook um takeout whatever they they're really loving that basketball we've had a 52% increase in basketball players over last year

so this year we have 868 players so that is a huge for the rec Yeah. So 800, what's the number 800? 868. Just 52% increase. Yeah. Yeah. Basketball had been in decline and now it is really really coming up. Um Keystone Gallery, we had a fantastic show, Susie Farren. It's down. We now have the GRG 25th anniversary. And then we have another opening coming February 6 with Linda Saxs who does um fiber art. So that's exciting. Uh um you've if you brought your lights for recycling, we greatly appreciate it. We have I believe four or five big trash bags in Susie Cole Haven's garage that are going for recycling. We're going to start it earlier next year. We heard from a lot of people that they take their lights out around Thanksgiving time and that's when they're going through them and getting rid of them. So next year we're going to have the barrels out earlier so we'll be able to divert more puzzle paloogiving

for light. No, for Christmas lights, string lights. Yeah, you'll take any of them. Any of doesn't matter what type. Yep. Uh, Weed Warriors has been struggling. The craft fender fair, first time we're doing it, sold out of booths. So, see, it's filling this room. We could have taken more, but because of youth basketball, we don't want to take We can't take over the gym. Um, but that's fantastic. This room or all three? All three. Yeah.

Yeah, all three. Uh, let's see. Oh, and then uh the parks crew is killing it. So, we've had a lot of damage um on the fencing from the storms and they've done all the repairs in house. So, and and as they repair it, they're making it stronger. So, these uh these flat panels here act where's my There we go. These guys um the wind catches them and it kind of undulates. So, as the trees grow up, it'll shield them, but right now it's like a wind tunnel in there. So, as they replace them, they're reinforcing them. So, um that's working really well. We had a car drive through. Uh it was a horrible accident. Someone had a medical emergency. It wasn't

it was totally unrelated to traffic and they drove through the fence. So, they cleaned it up

right over here. Um this is on Olive, just past the substation into Stacy Park. So, we're going to have to take out a tree that got damaged and but this is the area slated. So, you know, on the on one side it's a little beneficial because we're removing that whole chain link fence all the way down to the access road. So, uh we've cleaned it up. Then we have this beautiful new pathway. So, uh you for those who've been on the commission for a while, you remember we did a we talked about desire paths. Desire paths are when park users create their own path in an area where they wish to go.

And sometimes when parks are designed, they don't put all the pathways in because they want to see where are people going to where's that natural tendency going to be. The downside is it can cause a lot of erosion and kill plants. So we had an we discovered when the greenway opened that there was no way for people to easily get from the greenway to the restroom. So, the parks crew put this in and thank you to Jim Pson who donated these flag stones for us. They did a a wonderful job. I can't wait to see that in the spring when the when the grass starts growing in. It's going to be really nice. Yeah.

Yep. They also know they've been in ette for since 1957.

Thank you. Uh so those of you remember we also got a we spent an incredible amount of money getting new soccer goals. A gift from the parks uh foundation. So the parks crew built this storage rack to keep them all aligned in one place so we know where they are. They're not going to get bent or damaged being out in the park. So, I was thrilled with this. This is really going to help us protect our investment. Then they also went over to her side and they cleaned up in here this old never really grow anything. It's on the north side of the building. It never sees sun even in the summertime. So, they cleared all this out again. That's going to look so much better. Then, when you leave tonight, take a look at our new solar lights out here.

These ones over here are a little bit dim right now. We're we're fine-tuning them, but um they're fantastic. So, by putting these in ourselves, we saved a tremendous amount of money. Also, because they're solar, they don't have to be tied in to to the electrical system, so there was no trenching. Didn't have to bring an electrician. It was fantastic. I wish we had done that with our lights in the parking lot. Oh well, next time. Um, really, live and learn. Exactly. Uh they also um been doing a lot of fence line clearing of honeysuckle right now because it's been so dry and the ground's so hard. They've been able to get the flare m flail mower in. They were I don't know if you've noticed they went into Villa

did the uh north side of Villa. They also came into Warson over here. We had a resident come out and thank them for doing it over here. Um so on the other side of the ball fields up on Warson. Um what else? Uh, sidewalk lighting. What is, pardon me? The ball field. No. No. What is it? The flail mower. Flail mower. It's an attachment to the tractor and the tool cat. It's It's down and it the flail mower. It actually pounds and cuts. Yeah. So, it's like the old flail they would use to um glean uh

Yeah. It's the flail is what they used to use to get the separate the seeds out of the wheat when you you do it on your threshing floor. Yeah. Um Okay. A lot of people use them to cut trails. They'll go through and go and do it again. Um okay. Lots of things happening. Valentine's yoga is coming back. It's very exciting. Last year it sold out. So if you're planning to go, I think puppy yoga might be already sold out. If you haven't had a chance to come to open mic, I highly recommend it. It is, you never know who's going to show up and the talent that comes out of the community. It is really great.

Um, and then future agenda items. So, next month you're going to have the um youth sports staff here to give you their annual update. Then in March, our first ever facility rental survey. Pton's working on that right now. Then we'll be looking at the annual C um annual capital improvement plan and then uh the 506 month status report. We may move that up because we may incorporate that into the fee recommendations we're doing. But that or that may be a separate presentation. So

well it's six months because we do the report in December. So that's why it's the six month mark. We may um I don't have a topic for May. Yeah. Um but it may we may have to do because the budget you want to probably do before May. So I'm not sure when we'll we'll put that in there somewhere. It might be April as well.

Oh have any questions? I forgot to ask. Are there any questions? Sorry. Oh, this this group is in sh from puppy yoga. Uh we haven't done it before, but we did have dogs adopted last weekend. We did uh the police did a special adoption event here with the um with the county and one dog was adopted on site and then two were in process when um they were going to pick them up this week. So, yeah, very exciting. And it was um it was kind of a bad weather day. It's when we had that the surprise snowstorm. So they're going to do it again in the spring. Yeah, it was very successful. Bill, you had a question?

I did. Uh what is besides the obvious the new year our Lunar New Year celebration? Oh, so last year, remember we had the big uh we had the the lion dancers and then the tea ceremony. We did crafts. We had uh one night we had uh an author gave an author talk for his book. um Chinese. Oh, but you are welcome to attend. That is true. Yes, you're absolutely welcome. So, we're doing the same sort of thing this year. Same sort of thing this year. And then Emanuel and Lutheran, the Chinese church school at Emanuel Lutheran is know they're interested in participating. We're having a meeting with them.

Okay. Yeah. Because we really want to we really want it to be a community builder. So, it's uh It was great. It was It was very fun. The performances were amazing from the the ch the

in here. I remember seeing it was what I was asking. Yeah, it's around noon. It's noonish. Um I don't think it's in here. Um I'll email I'll email it out, guys. I'll email Lisa. The food was great. New year celebration. Yeah. All right. I'll email that's a great question. I will email that out to all.

Okay. So, um also just a quick quick PSA. Um, Stephanie asked a question that I thought was really good and I'd like to share with you all what that is. Let me pull up the internet here. There we go. So, if you have not already done this, I highly recommend that you sign up for email notifications. So, when I when I always say, "Hey, here's the link if you didn't get it." If you sign up here, you can receive the the when the agendas are posted on Fridays. If you sign up, you get an automatic email and then you can read the reports over the weekend. Um, the other thing you can sign up for any any commission or city council, you can also sign up for if you want to bid on any of our projects. But the other thing that's that's really important to sign up for is Siren GPS.

Oops, there it is. So, this I highly recommend if you have not already signed up for this. So, this is really important. You can have, there's an app on your phone, but you get all the alerts the city sends out. So, if there's uh severe weather, flooding, intersection, blocked, what whatever it is, um to a light post and so I highly recommend that you sign up for that, send you text messages. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's really great. Yeah. So, one more thing I meant to do and I didn't I sent to Maxine. There's a Facebook group for park St. parks. There's a group. Okay.

And they did part two of the top 10 parks they recommend. Villa and Indianapolis. I meant to send it to you. Yeah. It say it's okay. It got 4,000 views and it says real art by explor Facebook.com and it's a it's like a little video of the best part. Oh yeah. Oh, we see that on Instagram. Best playground part two. Um near St. Louis and both make a list. Oh, that's fantastic. Oh yeah, I meant to send it to you. Yeah, we should. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great idea.

Yeah. And then um when that happens on Instagram, they tag us and we repost it. Yeah. And I haven't seen that one show. Yeah, we're more active on Instagram because of our demographics than on Facebook. But we do have a Facebook. So this is on Facebook is where it integrated. It was on one of the Yeah, I think they po they cross post. Yeah, that is great. That's fantastic. Thanks for sharing that. That was exciting. Yeah. Oh, I had a question for Mr. Bring.

I know you are. Thank you. So, on our uh upcoming dates, was there any events that you needed or would request to have commissioners at? Just so we I mean a lot of times in the past we've kind of talked about it in fair who's doing what. We have Yes. Um these are not the big ticket ones. I will check with the staff about Lunar New Year. That is a potential because sometimes with the food service we need a little help. Um I encourage you to come to open mic night because you see a demographic that doesn't come to our other special events. So um

we have talked about that, but that is that could be uh that could be a possibility too. We've talked about that because Yeah. And it's our first time doing it. So I think it's a good idea. Yeah, I' I've mentioned it to the staff. Yes, absolutely. So I will also Yep. I will suggest them to that. Um however, don't forget that our big events are coming. So um as soon as we have the dates well, it'll be in the it'll be in the spring summer activity guide that's in production right now. I will send you those save the dates for Party in the Park. We will need everybody for Party in the Park. Yeah.

Yeah. And then Holy uh is coming up. Holy festival is very very early this year. The weather is going to be that last year. Last year. Yeah. There was that huge storm that came through the night before. There was no power in the park and part of the city had flooded and it was having emergencies. So we we canceled it. I remember something. I remember what I remember like Yeah. It was not good. Yeah. Yeah. They couldn't get the paid. I mean it was Yeah. So it's it's like Lunar New Year. It moves on the calendar. So it's very early. So the weather may be bitterly bad. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

Um and then I have a question for all of you. Do all of you get the notices when we close for weather? So do you when we close the center, do you all know that we're closing the center sometimes? Yeah. It also summon it. Yeah, it'll go out. It was and we put it out through the media. We put it out on the on member here. Yeah. We we email the members. Y So I get that. So you know uh part of our storm prep um is we we're looking at Sunday may be a difficult opening day for us. Yeah.

Um and then um also anytime you guys want to give a you know a high five to the parks crew because they will all be working. Of course they will. and the public works and you know our our crew works with public works so they will probably be coming in very early in the morning Sunday or whatever so we haven't strategized yet we well that'll be coming up soon does do they like figure out the major roads and then like that individual stuff yeah they yeah they have a triage system that they do they have to that's no state Yeah. Yeah.

That's always Oh, then there's always potholes out that they work and our brand new paving. Yeah. So, the parks crew does all the public sidewalks. Now, not all sidewalks are public, but they do the city owned sidewalks and they do um all the uh city parking lots, city hall, Stacy. We have to clear Stacy because the restrooms um and it's also the school uses it. So, we really try and keep that clear. They do here. And then they supplement the public works crews who do the streets. Um, and then our crew is oftentimes out using snowblowers and manually clearing whereas public works is in the big trucks.

Should we have Jim give a a warning to everybody who's manually shoveling snow before they shift? Yeah. Yeah. Snow this weekend. Nope. I have a snowb blower now. Nice. The way to go. Way to go. So, anytime you want to come, I shovel the walks here oftentimes on the weekend. So, I'll be out here this weekend. So, you are welcome to come help me. All right. Yes. Motion motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I opposed. You guys.