Park and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

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It is 06:31. We'd like to welcome you to the Park and Recreation meeting of May 18. This meeting is called to order. Alright. Would commissioner Friedlander please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Hey. You missed last time.

Alright.

Alright. Thank you. Now we can move on to item number one, public comment. Jurisdiction of the commission, you are invited to participate in person or call (951) 826-8688. Press 9 to be placed in the queue to speak. Individuals in the queue to placed Do we have any comments from our audience or on Zoom or on the phone? No callers. Okay. Great. Thank you.

We will now move on to presentations. Think we've got item one is activity guide rebrand and handwriting contest.

Hello. Good evening, commissioners. My name is Veronica. I oversee the marketing for the Parks and Rec department, and I'm excited to share our work with the activity guide rebrand and the handwriting contest. So we started by listening to our community, and through our activity guide surveys and internal staff feedback, we identified reoccurring questions from the community, especially around how to register and navigating programming.

This became a collaborative effort across teams to simplify, clarify, and design with intention. The rebrand directly reflects those insights. Survey data identified the registration process as the primary barrier with sixty six percent of respondents reporting confusion. Staff feedback emphasized the need for clearer instructions and improved navigation. These findings directly informed the redesign.

At the same time, survey data confirms that the activity guide remains highly relevant with forty four percent of residents relying on it and sixty percent preferring a hybrid form of both the print and digital. So here we have the front and the activity guide is the handwriting of the community member and we show a page that also kinda streamline and concise information on how to register. So the Let Your Handwriting Make History was a handwriting contest where we asked the community to submit their handwriting of what they wanted to see with the activity guide. We got a lot of amazing responses, a lot of creativity across all ages with 40 plus submissions. And here are a few of our favorites with Susan Helen Cordero, Berlin George, Susan Parker, Emily Lohman and our winner Val Hong.

So it's awesome for the uniqueness and all the submitters that submitted to the contest. And I also just wanted to share our marketing growth within the marketing of Parks and Rec. Since 2024, we've seen a 69% increase in followers. We were recently published in the California Parks and Rec Magazine for our photography by Nathalie Lara. And we were first place in Member's Choice Parks and Playgrounds and this was delivered to majority of Parks and Rec in California.

And then most recently when we submitted this, we were only finalists for our Skate and Shape survey campaign but we did end up winning Best Organic Collaboration, which is like a national recognition from government social media. So lots happening in our little Parks and Rec team. I did also forget to mention in our activity guide this season. We have our, parks and rec month calendar, which is really fun, and you have the opportunity to rip this out, put it on your refrigerator so you it's a centerfold, and you won't miss any of our fourth of July concerts in the park events. Put on your fridge.

So thank you so much for listening. We'd love to receive any input or areas where

you think we can improve.

Thank you so much. Does anybody have any thoughts? No? Alright. Well, thank you so much for your presentation. I'm glad to see that you guys are continually taking feedback to improve the

product. Alright.

Our next presentation sorry? Oh, yeah. Do we have any copies? Oh, great. That'll be I I must have mine I must have accidentally thrown it wet thrown it out when it came I know. I know. And I usually keep it. Thank you so much. Yeah. Exactly.

And now that I know about that beautiful insert, I need I need my copy. Yeah. Right. Alright. Our next agenda presentation is adopt a park slash volunteer program update.

Okay, well good evening commissioners. Thank you for this great opportunity to present to you our adopt a park volunteer program. I'm Kyle Raphael, park superintendent. My volunteer coordinator was going to be here tonight, but her daughter got in an accident, so she's handling all that. Her daughter's fine, but she's I I told her, no, you don't have to come here.

Anyway, the Adapt and Volunteer Program. Our Adapt a Park program, it covers our parks, and then also it covers areas like Mount Rubidoux, those kind of places that, you know, isn't a normal park. Some people go along Tekaski, and they'll do cleanups in the open and Sycamore Canyon areas. And basically this is our brochure. Why should you adopt a park?

Because you can make a difference. The brochure includes a lot of information regarding what our park program is, how you can participate, and how easy it is to sign up. There are three easy steps for anyone who wants to, groups, individuals to sign up. All they have to do is select a part. They can either select it to do volunteer work or they can select it to adopt a part.

And then they select that park whether with their groups, which we've had church groups, school groups. And they select the type of adoption that they want to do, like part maintenance, beautification, which includes like trash pickup, painting benches, planting trees or plants along the areas there, and then graffiti cleanup. Secondly, they can do a sponsorship or donation, and that's such things as like trash bags, maybe even some equipment. They can buy some swings or something like that. And then even paint, they can buy paint, and then they can buy gloves or even trash pickers.

Major project sponsorships, they can sponsor a bench or a barbecue or trees. A lot of them do trees because they can plan them, then they go out with their volunteer group and they plan them, and then also picnic tables. What they can do then is submit their adopt a park application to the Parks and Recreation and Community Services Department, and the applications are available in the handbook at the community centers or online or some pamphlets. Current adopted parks that we have are Andoka Arlington Heights Sports Park, Bergamont, Bobby Bonds, Fairmont, Highland Hunt, Hunter Hobby, and the group name and the organization is next to it, La Sierra, Lincoln, Martha McLean, Mount Rubidou, Nichols, Orange Terrace, Ryan Bonamenio, Sycamore Highland. Now Shammell was our very first group that we had.

It was just prior to COVID, and they came across and talked to us about wanting to sponsor Shammel, it was Notre Dame High School. And we said great. And so they got out there every week and they were doing pickups and beautification and even painting sometimes. So we now have 17 groups when we started with only one. Our volunteer engagement summary, beginning from July 2025 and this is it says up to present, but we've had a few more events prior to that.

We had 99 events hosted, two thirty four events been hours, fifteen nineteen volunteers, and over 4,476 volunteer hours contributed to our park system. National volunteer service hours as of today are valued at about $155,720.4 resulting in a substantial savings for the Park Department. And I think it breaks down between $34 and $35 an hour per person. Here are some of the adopt a park groups or volunteers. They're painting, they're planting along the what is it, the tennis courts there.

And then you can see them. They're out in the Sycamore Canyon. And we also had them out at Hole Lake. And then they also did an amazing cleanup probably last week over at Fairmont where they did was it Fairmont Lake? And pulled out a lot of stuff. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff they pulled out, but they did a great job. Here are some of the plantings they do. I know up in the left, that's Hunter Hobby. You can see how they're planting along. Even going in along the Sycamore Canyon, they're along the fence line and cleaning up.

They just do a lot. And then we get CCC volunteer help, and they go out and they even kind of direct some of our volunteer groups, which really adds to our program. Adopted park maintenance areas, like Challon, Mount Rubidou, and then some of our open areas like Orange Terrace and some of the other ones. And they even get a sign. We even make sure that they once they're there and they are situated as an adopted the park, we put up a sign with their name on it.

So it shows that yes, this is their park. If they come visit or something, they can say, yeah, that's my park where I adopted and we work at. So the recommendation is that the Park and Recreation Commission receive the presentation and the Adopt A Park volunteer program. Any questions?

Commissioner Puerta.

Thank you for that. Do you guys and maybe I missed it. Do you have a minimum requirement for someone who wants to adopt a park? I know that Keep Riverside Clean Beautiful or something like that.

Yeah. If we get 10 people that wanna adopt it, we'll let them do it. They know that their responsibility will be they have to be there once a month. And we have some groups that have 10 people, and they show up once a month at that park and they do some cleanup. Okay.

So it is like a once a month requirement

to Yes. Clean

All right. Yes, Commissioner Jones. And by the way, thank you. Welcome to your first meeting. Yeah.

How are the projects managed? I mean, as far as the needs of each park is different obviously.

Correct.

So who curates that and prioritizes it? And then who oversees the work of the volunteers? Because some of it's technical, some of it's not. I just was curious how all the parts go together.

That's correct. Again, my volunteer coordinator, Elisa Quintero, is not here, she's the one that recruits the groups or they'll call her and then she tells her the type of beautification we have. She'll she'll go through the list of, you know, sponsorships and all that. But then she'll say if you want to do volunteer cleanups, then what you can do is and that she'll give them a list. We have lists of all our parks and she has like, okay, we need to plant 50 trees in this park.

We need to plant 100 over at Fairmont. And so she has a list of stuff working with our arborist on what those needs are. And then we also know it's like the late cleanup. We always try to find particular groups because we don't just want to send anybody out there. And we explain to them, hey, we've got a little late cleanup where you can go along the edges and clean up.

Some groups will say, nah, but some groups will go, yeah, Okay, we'll do that. And we did have that group come out and they did a great job. But we look at everything that's going on in the parks. And a lot of it for first time groups, it's just trash pickup and raking the bushes, getting leaves out and kind of doing that type of beautification, pulling weeds, things like that. But she's the one that you see and recruit, talk to people, talk to colleges, talk to churches, talk to high schools. And anybody who needs hours or community service hours, she ties them into the park. And then a lot of times, I think that's the way Notre Dame started out. Want to do community service hours for their teens, and then they just kept doing it. So they just said, we're going to adopt it. So yeah.

Just one follow-up to that. When you're looking at the different parks, how do you organize all the work? And then how do you get the marketing out to it? How do you let the community know that there's this need and they can get involved if they want to? Does it just choose the one, your representative? Is that

No, it should be on the website for volunteers.

I mean you mentioned earlier that they can even donate material. Correct. Does someone solicit that or make it known to

Yes, it gets put out there to groups. And when groups call up, especially the larger groups that would say like, hey, we want to do this or that. It's like, Okay, well you can they'll call in and just say, like the churches and some of the other larger groups, and they'll say, hey, we want to volunteer or adopt a park. And then they say, what do you have? And they said, well, do you guys want to sponsor this? We got a big event. And they'll be like, yeah, we'll sponsor the event. Or they'll just say, no, we just wanna work that event. But pretty much she'll contact them, and she has a list, a long list of groups that she contacts.

And those images you showed earlier on the screen, is that the brochure or is that just images of the website?

That's the brochure, that's

So are those then handed out at events and

Yes, correct.

Right, thank you.

Welcome. Yes, Commissioner Dawson.

Thank you for your presentation. So at the city we have audiovisual department that does like, PSA videos. So and we have we put it on our broadcast system. Right? So I I'm not sure. But yeah. Well, something like that. Possibly could, if we wanted to get the word out more, do a short video featuring a couple of the groups and what they're doing and Yeah,

we can do that.

As an outreach. Then we have this handy activity guide that I bet there's a corner of that that a little mention could be put in there. It is in there.

It is It is

in there.

Okay, fantastic. Cool, thank you. Thank you. Anything else? Anyone else?

Okay. I was curious, do you guys have any standout organizations you would like to mention? I mean, sounds like you're pretty happy with Notre Dame.

Yeah. They they're they're basically the one that started it for us. But, yeah, they're they're pretty much yeah. We're really happy with them. We do get sporadic groups. Like, we'll get the colleges. Like, University of Riverside come over and do stuff with us and yeah. So we we do get other agencies like that.

Okay. Yep. Well, if nobody has any other questions, thank you so much for your presentation.

Thank you.

Okay. The next item is the park recreation and community services budget for fiscal year years 2026 to 2027 and 2027 to 2028.

Good evening, commissioners. My name is Myra Ocampo, and I am the department's administrative services manager. And I am happy to be here tonight to present our biannual budget. We are we have been working on this since last fall, and it is we're going through the process of committees and council and working commissions. The budget is a part of the city charter in article eight section eight zero nine b, where the Park and Recreation Commission shall have the power and duty to consider the annual budget for parks, recreation, parkways, street treat purposes during the process of the preparation and make recommendations to the city council and the city manager.

This is a citywide budget process, and we have been following the lead of our finance department with the budget team supporting supporting us and the budget that we have to follow. We did have community budget forums with these flyers that were distributed to all residents entitled Your Money, Your Voice. And we had multiple dates where every department got to be present. Park and Recreation, Library and Museum were all together, and we did present or we were available twice last year on October 16 and November 5. Apart from that, the budget team did introduce the proposed budget to the budget engagement committee, the finance committee, the budget engagement committee ones.

Next up will be tomorrow's city council meeting at 3PM. They will be presenting the proposed budget where any commission's notes will be verbally conveyed to the city council directly from the budget team. Our department is a part of the quality of life for the city. We are a very community oriented department, and our budget is planned, created, and adopted with the focus on creating quality of life. Considering the quality of life, we do adopt a two year budget but prepare a five year plan that allows us to have long term plans to be able to effectively allocate the resources that we are given.

This year, we were given a baseline budget, meaning we were given a CPI of about 2% that was taken off of the 2024 budget. A quick overview of our department. We do have a 130 full time employees and around 400 part time employees throughout the year with six divisions. And the mission is to provide innovative recreation experiences and social enrichment opportunities to people of all ages and culture in a variety of safe and attractive parks, trails, landscapes and facilities. A budget overview.

Our department is mainly a general fund department, which is the bigger slice, kind of the whole pie. We are 38,100,000 in our fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven with a very small increase in fiscal year twenty seven-twenty eight of 38.4. And we do have smaller funds, which I will discuss throughout the PowerPoint of entertainment that teach money and measure Z, LMDs and our special transit division. And so apart from our general fund, which is what our department pays all of our personnel and non personnel, and the non personnel, it does cover anything small from office supplies and trainees to the large items like the large contracts for janitorial and maintenance, our contract class instructor payments, vehicles and equipment. So our nonpersonnel does truly take up a lot of the general fund.

Additional funds within our budget, the Measure z is something that we do depend on. Currently, Measure z covers one full time recreation services coordinator, and that is to cover adaptive and therapeutic programming. That was a need that we saw was needed in the city, so we requested it last budget and it got approved. And then we also rely on that to provide our parks division to continue our tree trimming grid schedule and then to allow us to have a deferred maintenance plan. An additional fund is our special district funds, the Riverwalk LMD and the Special Capital Improvement.

So those are funds that help us take care of certain areas like Lovinghomes, Village Of Canyon Crest, and the Riverwalk area for their maintenance needs and any maintenance that may come up throughout the year. Our special transit fund, that is in our department, but it is 100% federally funded with grants for both personnel and non personnel. Oh sorry, not special transit. Sorry, the previous slide. Special capital improvement, that covers the debt that we incurred during the Renaissance period.

So it's there just for us to know, but we don't quite use it yet. And then two new funds that came to our department when we got the Arts and Culture division are entertainment and the Teach Marine Center. And those funds help us cover insurance, maintenance, utilities, and any maintenance that may be necessary at all the facilities like the Fox Theater, the Game Lab, the Fox, the Riverside Municipal Auditorium and the Teach Mining Center. And these pie charts show you how the general fund is dispersed amongst all of the funds. As you can tell, recreation and parks do take up most.

In our parks division is where we have a lot of our full time employees and personnel costs have risen with new union MOUs and insurance costs and liability insurance. And then in the recreation and community services, that's a lot of our part time staff, which we have large pools, but it covers, again, about 400 employees. And then the smaller pies are arts and culture, admin, the golf course, the Youth Innovation Center, which is its own division in the budget, the Janikoski four hour contract and then debt service. And again, in the fiscal year twenty sixtwenty twenty seven in the general fund, we are about 38,100,000 and in the following year, a slight increase to 38.4. In our revenue section, we do have a number that is given to us straight from budget, and they allocate it based on previous trends or any upcoming tax increases or if we're expecting big changes like fees and charges, which is an increase to our services.

And most of our revenues do come from tenants. We did have tenants at the Bobby Bonds Park, but they did either move to the Solander Center or they have a temporary location and they do plan on coming back. We do get revenue from the Glass Ranch who use who use our citrus fields and Toro who use one of our vacant park lands for their equipment. Another source of revenue is our recreation programming, and that includes anything a recreation, facility rentals, aquatics, youth innovation center. And I will say that in that line item, we have recently not met our goal, and that's due to, one, the cost of everything increasing and families having to make choices to register the kids for things that are not as a priority considering the school districts now provide free services.

So we're kind of competing with a free service. And then also, we have been given scholarship funds, which then reduces the amount of revenue we give in. So we're helping out the community, which is where we're focusing on opposed to just meeting the revenue line. And the golf course is also a big stream of revenue for us as they continue to always meet their goals. So this year, apart from our very small CPI increase, we were asked to reduce our complete department budget by 2,700,000.

So this was a task that was given to the department. It was up to us to truly think about the department as a whole, see historically and line items where we could save even a couple of thousand, something as small as employee mileage reimbursement. We're giving back 3,000. But then there's big items like keeping two vacant positions that happen to be vacant right on time, so our park supervisor and a senior park manager will now be vacant for at least one year. In the arts and culture division, another big item are ward events, which is about 325,000 that we won't be using for the council members' ward events.

A huge item is our measure z deferred maintenance. We will be giving back 1.5. So opposed to receiving the full 3.5 that was approved, we will now only get two point o, which, again, that just puts a pause on our department's plans. You know, we were given monies and then we plan forward, but then we have to just work with our means. In our budget, we were also able to ask for any critical needs to ensure that we could continue with services that were either promised or that are necessary or areas where we definitely do not have any wiggle room, and one of the items was an additional 400,000 for the next two years to fulfill an agreement with the Riverside Arts Council as they were given the Festival of Lights.

And looking forward into fiscal year twenty seventwenty eight, there is a small increase, but as all the budget meetings have been stating, where it's being approved considering that there's always midyear budget adjustments, there's always hope for a change in the economy that could help us. So it will be approved as as submitted knowing that we are allowed to submit for any changes. And this concludes my presentation, and I welcome all your input and appreciate the input and make a motion to receive the report for file.

Alright. Thank you. Do any of my fellow commissioners have any questions or comments?

I

guess you're you're up, commissioner Dawson.

Thank you for your presentation. There's a lot

I think it was on him then.

Okay. There we go.

Did Did I hear you right that the process for the budgets is that, yeah, you're going to go and get you know, in one of your slides, there was like, you go here, you go there, you go to boards and commissions, and then you're to go to city council to present. And did I hear you right? You're going from our meeting tonight where you're presenting, we're having this overview discussion, and then tomorrow night you're gonna present to the city council?

Yes. We originally did have a plan to come in the March meeting or April that was canceled, so we did have to push it back to this month. And then the April special meeting was focused on the Cesar Chavez Community Center. This was not the plan, yes, but it did get pushed.

And and Myra, would you confirm that the council is not approving the budget tomorrow?

That's correct.

It is just another presentation on the draft budget.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, it'll go back in June.

That seemed a little tight. Okay, cool. All right. So I'm curious about the Measure Z that Measure Z provided for some deferred maintenance funding. But then later in the presentation you said that in making some cuts, you know, that some of the Major Z funds had to be given up. Can you explain that? What was originally budgeted out on Major Z or included to Parks? And then what do we have to give back and how much do we still have on deferred maintenance? Yes.

Okay, so we get $3,500,000 a fiscal year. We gave back $1,500,000 so we have $2,000,000 to operate with this upcoming fiscal year.

Okay, okay. That makes it clear. Thank you. The deferred maintenance is really important. I remember going to a presentation in the council chambers here a few years after Measure Z was put in place, and there was specifically a discussion about carpet needing to be replaced in community centers that had been funded during Riverside Renaissance, but there was no money set aside for that deferred maintenance.

And so it's something that is important to track that we have the funding that coincides when there's the need to recapitalize those resources. Okay, what is Loving Homes and Village at Canyon Crest?

So that's those are HOAs that the city we maintain we help maintain, anyway, because so they put money into an account. When there's additional work needed for us, the city's support, we go out there and do those those duties, those tasks.

Why do we do this?

It's an agreement the city made with those LMDs at the time, and they're still in place today. Do they have a sunset or do you know? I'm not aware of a sunset. When I look at it, it's ongoing.

Are we gaining on this? Do we make anything out of Or are we breaking even? Do we lose money? Again, why are we So doing for example Riverwalk That was gonna be my sixth question.

Okay, so this fiscal year we're putting in, with their funds, it's money they put in an account we have access to. We're gonna put in new fencing, a new playground. So we enhance that area for them. Does it does it take additional resources? Possibly. But it's it's not funding from the parks budget. It's it's funding that comes out of their their l and ds.

And why are we doing this again? These are privately owned businesses.

I wasn't in this seat when those agreements were executed. We do, however, now we do work with those LMDs to help maintain, with their funds, improvements to those properties.

If I might mention, this is a common practice. The other cities that I worked on also had these practices.

But if we're doing it for these three groups, are we are we open to the idea of providing it for other business homeowners associations in the city? Mean, we in that business?

Council. I cannot say that.

Okay. Yeah. I well, I'm just saying there's a lot of HOAs in the city. I'm sure they'd love to outsource, you know, the work. Okay. Is there a number attached with the special district funds in the Riverwalk?

There is.

I know that one's rounded off, but I could get that for you right now.

Oh, okay.

Do you mean sorry. On page six, you you want another

If you have an approximate number of what the the, I don't know, the budget for Loving Homes and Village and Riverwalk are.

So the expenses are there, but I could get what we get back. Is that kind of what you wanna see?

Maybe there's two two things here. What the overall is and then what we get back.

Okay. I could pull that at the office. It's an easy report.

Okay, great. Thank you. Do

you have any other questions, Commissioner Dawson?

Like I said, there's a lot here if you really think about it and you're looking at this, there's a lot here to take in. This is just kind of like a very light overview. We're in a big department. You've got a lot going on. Absolutely. Okay. I'm interested to hear what other commissioners might have to ask. Thank you.

Commissioner Friedlander? Just a quick one. I think on one of those pie charts, we get about 26 k from the Festival of Lights and income. Is that from the vendors and what's that from?

Correct, yes. Is it? So that'll go away once we'd no longer

The gingerbread house and

all that,

that kind

of Yes, yeah.

Right on, okay, thank you.

Commissioner Puerta.

Yeah. Just curious. I think I saw there reduced, pool maintenance at RCC. Mhmm. I'm just curious. Why are we paying for the pool maintenance at RCC? Or why were we?

We do have a shared use agreement, so we have certain hours that our department can use. So we have

to Got it.

Put a

little bit into the pot,

yeah. You. I remember as a kid participating in a public swim at Any other questions? Yeah, exactly. Getting greyer and greyer every day.

Was it put on our radar about these events where we could have attended to give input in shaping what the city's budget was?

So the budget department did put out on the billboards on the freeway. They put it in the social media. They sent out the little forms on the public utility bills. So they did their their form of.

Did they send our commission something so we could have gone and advocated for our corner of the city?

Mhmm. You didn't hear about any of the events?

You know, I'm a busy guy. I don't I go go up and down the freeway looking at the billboards. Yeah. Mean, if we could put it in, you know, in the in in the upcoming year as a standard practice when these events come up, if we could have the get ourselves noticed when there's an opportunity to advocate on behalf of Parks, I would like that. I need the memory tickler because my memory's not that good.

Thank you. All right, any other, oh yes, please. Commissioner Jones. Myra, can you hear me?

Yes.

Just a few questions. Forgive me, I don't know an LMD is.

Landscape maintenance district. Yeah.

Okay. And those are private entities? I'm with Kevin. That was interesting to me. I didn't know this existed. So I didn't understand the relationship that Measure Z had with LMDs. Did I misinterpret that?

Yes, that is not a Measure Z item.

Okay, so they provide their own funds to the city and then we help them spend it?

Yes, by making improvements to their HOA and maintaining their landscape contracts.

And Pamela thinks this is a common practice? Because I worked in Orange County for thirty years doing homeowner associations and I've never heard of it.

So when I worked in the city of Orange, there was one out on the East End from the Irvine Company where the city would maintain the landscape, and it was paid for by fees through the HOA, and then also in the Platinum Triangle in Anaheim. It's a common practice.

Forgive me. Couldn't these associations just hire private contractors?

So these are large associations that have a lot of parkway mediums, street work, a lot of public parks. As you know, Riverwalk has that very large park along the street that's enjoyed by the public.

Is that property owned by the city, or do we just have easements?

Yeah. It's owned by the city, and it's paid for by the HOA. And I'm also remembering the city of Irvine has this all throughout the city, so it is kind of a practice.

I worked in Irvine, so I

We

can take that later. It comes to the budget and you bring your numbers to commissions like this, or in particular case, parks, what kind of input are you looking for where you can take it back and distill it in such a way that the council has time to even contemplate it? I'm new to the commission. I don't really know how it works yet. If we dig in the budget, I'm good at numbers and we look at it and I know how to run landscape groups.

If we get into that and we give feedback and say what about that, what value is it and how can it be presented in a way to help the council?

I mean, you could attend yourself to the council meetings, but I could

yes. And

I would also present this to our budget team, and it's they present it to the council.

But how do you package it then from this commission if all of us had some sort of input or not? Is that delivered to the council where they can actually it?

Might I jump in to say that this commission is very powerful and very, beloved by the community. The reason we have a deferred maintenance fund now is because the Park Commission four years ago really advocated for that. When I first started at the city five years ago, I was kind of shocked that we really did not have a deferred maintenance fund. And so through the advocacy of the Park Commission, we were given 3,500,000, that we utilized for many, many projects over the last few years. We've had a little bit of a reduction now, before.

So this commission can advocate for our programs, for our parts, for our community. And and and and we thank you very much. I mean, with this our park system is much better because of this park commission.

Thank you. Alright. Any any other questions or comments? That button's a little tricky, isn't it?

Who designed that switch? Okay. I see in department revenue, there's a citrus fruit stand rental, it brings in 6,000. It's not much, but where is this?

Less Ranch. So we entered into a lease agreement with Less Ranch. Oh. And that's that's the revenue they pay us to be on that property, to maintain that property.

Is it way up Van Buren or the one by the citrus? Yeah. The citrus part?

Mhmm. Yeah.

So Dufferin and Van Buren or Cleveland and

Van I thought that was state

It's across the street.

Oh, the Stan, not the park. The Stan.

Right. Okay. Oh, okay. Check

it out. It's awesome.

Yeah, I will. On the other side town,

no, that's good. Okay, cool. All right. Okay, well thank you so much for your presentation, And our next item is the book of work review.

Alright. With the commission, I'll I'll just sit here. So it's really, my pleasure to present, the book of work, to you this evening. My name is Pamela Galera, and I'm the director of Parks, Recreation, and Community Services. And, Commissioner Jones, this is actually probably a great, meeting for your first meeting because you are gonna get a crash course, in everything in our department real quick.

So the book of work was actually started a couple years ago. This is a document that we can communicate with the public, with the commission, and also with other departments, especially working on interdepartmental, priorities. And so, actually, Myra talked a little bit about our mission statement and a little bit about, our residents and our our staffing. We should be very proud of what we have here in Riverside. As I've said, I've worked for other cities, and I think there is no city around that has what we have.

We have 65 parks, 3,000 acres of parkland, 31 miles of trails. We just I got a presentation on our great Adopt A Park program, which I might say has just been started in the last few years, which has really added a lot of value to our system. Our city has nine community centers, two youth centers, three senior centers, a nature center, and seven pools. There are not very many cities that can brag about this. And of course, all of our programs and events, and we're also very proud of our, senior and disabled transit system.

And so, basically, parks make life better. Our goal is to have clean, safe, and sustainable parts and facilities. We are working very hard on CAPRA accreditation. We're really delving into our, programs to get this important accreditation, and as Myra had said also, we're all about quality of life. That's what we do. Alright, so here's a few things from last year. This is just last year, one year. We completed Tim Strack Park, a wonderful project. We completed the Pickleball Complex at Arlington Park. We completed six playground replacements, and we're working on a couple more.

That actually doesn't even include the rubberized surfacing that we replaced with several parts, I think over a dozen parts. We installed three pool heaters, so now we have five heated pools in our system. We completed the dredging at Fairmont Park and now we have pedal boats out on the lake. And of course, the deferred maintenance. Commissioner Dawson, you had talked about things like carpet, HVAC, resurfacing, lighting upgrades.

These are so important to our system. Of course, the Arts and Culture District was accredited through the, California Cultural District. That was a big deal. And as I said, we've had the pedal boats out on the lake now. And as far as our programming goes, this city has not one fireworks show but two.

That's a lot to brag about. Concerts in the Park, local VIBES events in every single ward. Of course our special transit is, always, working to give free rides and purchasing new buses, etcetera. All right, so now, next year, this year that we're in, these what we hope to get accomplished. We are in construction renovating the community center at Debbie Bonds Park.

We are in construction at Boardwell Park Gym. We are in construction at Patterson Park, complete renovation of the entire park. We are about to award a contract for the Gauge Canal that is fully grant funded. We are going to kick off a master plan at Whole Lake to envision that area. We are going to go into construction soon on Bobby Bomb Skatepark.

We are applying for a lot of grants. The Prop four, was issued by the state of California, the grants are really rolling out, and we are applying for a lot of grants. There's land called Mission Ranch Park in Ward 4 that we are applying for grants. We are applying for grants for Nichols Park. Exciting things happening there.

Hopefully, grants for a new pool at La Sierra Park looking for funding for Reed Park, and a new pool in senior senior award four which may occur on the Mission Ranch land. Okay. So that's just the capital side. On our programming side, we are kicking off the senior strategic plan, already having a lot of meetings on that. I mentioned CAPRA.

On our special transit, we're really looking at zero emissions. That's a big deal, a real sea change for our city, and of course, always free rides. We're working on, the Arts and Culture, Master Plan to how we can really embrace this district where where we are in now, which is the District Of Arts And Culture, and also Arts And Culture is we're contemplating a developer fee for a 1% for arts programs. And we're completing playground renovations. We've got Colette down, and hopefully Nichols Playground will open soon.

And it wouldn't be a meeting if we didn't talk about putting the river back in Riverside. We are really, pleased with the work that's happening there. The council did approve the final River District strategic plan, last council meeting, and we are moving forward with the gateway projects. We did receive a grant, $6,000,000, for Martha McLean Park. This is from the Prop four funding, and we're looking for additional funding to move forward on that.

We are working on the University Wash improvements in Fairmont Park. That is being funded by the flood control district, and so we are so pleased to have them be our partners. And, of course, Fairmont Park master plan is continuing. We're probably going to have some more community meetings once we roll out that draft plan for Fairmont Park. Gosh, okay.

So that's the book of work, and once again this is just a document. It's a very long document. You can look at it from the other departments also if you'd like to see what's happening in the city. I do just want to mention really quickly that this does not include our our core bread and butter work maintenance, mowing the grass, maintaining our facilities. These are our stretch goals, if you would. And I'm available for any questions.

Yes. Commissioner Friedlander. Just quickly, you mentioned Mission Ranch Park. I don't know where that is. Is it behind, like, Mark Twain Elementary way up? Yeah. Yeah. And then there's a Mission Ranch Road up there.

Yeah. And it's an empty lot. It is about eight acres, and we've owned it for quite a while, but we have we don't have funding to improve it. So now we're starting to apply for grants.

So that'd be a new park?

It would be a brand new park. Gotcha. Or community center or senior center or a pool or both. We are, going to be conducting surveys of the community to find out what they would like to see.

Thank you.

Anybody else? Mr. Dawson? Also, by the way, feel free to use your speaker request button. But you guys can raise your hands too, either way.

Okay. Yeah. Okay.

I

that's great to know about this. I'm glad. How often okay, so this is the list that you're working to throughout this year. Is it a one year document?

The document is updated, well it's updated monthly, really, but, it is updated by counsel once a year. However, obviously a lot of these projects are multiple year projects.

Is there, is there, like, a matrix that's showing, you know, how progress is on each one of these items that progress is out here like 20% or 40% or whatever. Somebody could look at and see that there's tracking to make sure we're Yeah. Accomplishing Basically the

it's in progress, complete, Accomplishing

or stalled. You know? And sometimes projects are stalled. So How are projects added to this list? We put it

it's it's based on the needs of the community. And so we have many surveys to the community and finding out through the council members and through the community of what they'd like to see.

Okay. There's a project in my neck of the woods at Islander Park that, you know, community would like to see done. So community would probably like to know how they can add that to the list and get a grant written to help find the funding.

Is that the grant that Public Works is writing?

Yes.

It might be on their book of work

Okay.

For Public Works.

Oh, look. I I just thought, you know, it's part I was disappointed that it's at an undeveloped city park next to a developed city park adjacent to county park that we'd like to be able to have access to so the members of our community can avail themselves of all the opportunities in that massive, Box Springs Mountain.

Unfortunately, we have quite a few parcels, that are undeveloped Yeah. There's within our system.

Yeah. I I know. But, there's I know that there's a master trail plan that was paid for by a nonprofit environmental group at the urging of the then parks director. And he said he needed that so he could write for grants in order to build the trails and like that.

And we are writing grants for that project.

Okay. Okay. Well, I I look forward to seeing some progress on that one and trying to figure out where it is in the book of works or if it should be also included in the park's book of works since it is on city park.

I'll look at that. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Yes. Commissioner Forbes. Thank you for your presentation. My question is relative to the swimming pools. Seven pools total, Five pools heated currently. Is there a plan to heat the other two?

Not, not at this time. We are evaluating putting another pool out on the West Side at La Sierra Park, and that would be heated if we get funding for that.

So which pools are not heated? Islander and?

Arlington and Islander are not heated.

Okay. Thank you.

Anyone else? Oh, yes. Commissioner Jones.

I'm not that familiar with Capra. I've heard of it. Just a couple of questions.

I have the expert right here in the audience.

Perhaps you could edify us. Why are we pursuing accreditation for CAPRA, and how does it benefit the city, and what does it cost?

Okay. Well, why are we pursuing it? It's to ensure that we are operating at the most elite standard of the National Park Recreation Association. There are only three other cities in California that have that accreditation. Most of that accreditation happens on the East Coast, middle of the country. So we'd like to really explore that option, and and we've learned a lot about, standards of operations.

And I think it's five cities in California.

Oh, is it five now? I think two got just recently got accreditation. San Diego, I think, was one of them. And so we just really wanna pursue that so that we can ensure that we're operating the best that we can, and and that also allows us to have a certain level of branding, exposure to, obviously, quality of life. Our mission there is to ensure that, you know, we give we are giving our residents, the most, you know, the best practices in place for park and rec agencies. And then what was your second question? What was the

And if I might add on to that, accreditation is important to the city of Riverside. I understand that our fire department has just been accredited, and then also our arts and culture district has been accredited. It's a way to look at our operations to make sure that we are performing, correctly and to let our community know that we are working a high level.

We are, I think, a 60 year old department, and so obviously going through that process has allowed us to really explore our policies and procedures, our system of operations, our park systems, all of those things that, you know, have either recently been outdated or that we're just trying to prepare for the next thirty years and for those individuals that will enjoy this park experience for the future.

So yeah. I'm thank you, Pamela. I'm familiar with why the value of accreditation, obviously. But and you mentioned some of the benefits. Is there a cost associated with it?

Yes. Yes. We we do have to pay a registration fee. I think it was roughly about $800. And then there is a I don't know what they're called, but they're they're called a CRT team that audits our standards or practice. It's a very scrutiny type of process that we're all kind of going through right now. And so they will audit us and go through all our standards, ensure that we're meeting those required elements. And so we there is that cost to ensure that they can come visit us, which is roughly about, I think, 3 to $4,000. And then there is a accreditation process that ever happens every I wanna say two years or five years. I can't remember.

I think two five two years. Every two years, and there's a small, fee to do that after that point, to get recertified.

So other than that, it's just the staff time that is required to comply with all the Correct. Standards that must be checked or met.

Correct. And we've been going through this process for about a year now, and we're we'll see if we can we get the credit this year or if we'll continue with ensuring that our practices are moving along.

Alright. Thank you. Commission sorry. Commissioner Friedlander. Just quickly. I know coming from the nonprofit world, certain accreditations help when you're applying for grants.

Mhmm. Absolutely.

Excuse me. So it would be the same thing. If we get accredited, you know, it's extra points on certain grants. Is

that Yes.

Yes. Commissioner Dawson? That's fine. Okay. Alright. If there's no other questions or comments, I think we'll move now on to the consent calendar. Does anybody want to pull any items from the consent calendar for con discussion? No? Alright. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Okay. Motion by commissioner Puerta and seconded by commissioner Forbes. Let us know when we're ready to vote.

Please vote.

Motion passes.

Okay.

Alright. Thank you. We can now move on to the discussion calendar. And I think I'm also again going to hand it off to director Gallera for the revised Park and Recreation Commission standing rules and regulations.

Thank you. Thank you, chair. And I apologize for missing the last, commission meeting. I was at the, Kentucky Derby, and so that kind of was more important than being here. Sorry. Sorry. Love you all, but of course I did. So I apologize for missing that meeting, however I did watch the video. So have some recommendations, and so the staff report has laid out a few recommendations, and if we could go, into that. The first recommendation is going to be under, 1A to actually take out, I would recommend taking out the words parkways and street trees.

So interestingly enough, at one point in time, community services was also, responsible for street trees and parkways and mediums, I believe. Since that time, that effort has gone to public works, so this makes perfect sense for us to take that responsibility off this commission since we, do not have the responsibility. Alright. Yes?

It is on the agenda.

Yeah. Will read it out. And so, currently, the language states act in advisory capacity to the city council in all matters pertaining to recreation, parkways, and street trees. A revision has been proposed to remove street trees. I recommend that we also remove the word parkways so that it will read all matters pertaining to parks and recreation.

Alright. And then yeah. It's on, no. It's on the on the first page. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There there you go. Right there. Or yeah. Maybe yes. There you go. So we I would recommend, if if it would be your pleasure, to take out parkways and street trees.

Are we take are we taking these as individual motions, or are we

Your pleasure.

Okay. Do them all we can do them all.

That's

The next item on the list is the issue of the terms. And so currently, it reads, The term of the office shall be four years. November shall serve more than two consecutive full terms. Service of less than one year of an unexpired term shall not be counted as service of one term. There is an idea, proposal to change that to two years and one day. However, we are having a little bit of a debate, behind the scenes.

I've I've since it brought up, I actually have been looking for it. I am not able to find it either. I I may have had a stroke. I don't know. But I I think maybe confirm that with Diana before we move forward with that one.

Alright. Well and maybe we should just skip it?

Oh, we could skip it. That's fine. Like I said, if it's if that's the rule, she's going to enforce it either way. So Okay.

Alright. The the next two, perhaps we can take together. Together. There is a proposal to add a pre election during the month of February. I think that, this would be, complicated since, as you know, our regular meeting in February falls on a holiday, and so we usually combine January and February meeting, and sometimes the timing of that is difficult.

And in accordance with that, the next part of this is, to add election of officers shall be conducted by a rank choice voting. I don't recommend we do this. I'm confused. I even asked Google ChatBT what rank choice voting was, and so I would recommend that the Commission consider, leaving this language as it is because it now reads, Election of officers shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Commission. Therefore, if the Commission decides to have a ranked choice voting or have pre election, you you have that within your purview.

I'd like to point out that I sent a nice, concise description of ranked choice and asked that it be included with our agenda. And then I was told that, okay, we're going to talk about the rules, and I could bring it up then, but then nobody included my description. And it's hard to explain it orally whereas if it's in writing and concise, it makes more sense.

Right. And unfortunately, as the commission rolls over and more members come on board, they will not have your letter. This is the words

will But we that can't have a discussion if we don't have the information. I provided information that I wanted to be part of the discussion, and then my the information I provided wasn't included so it could be shared with the rest of the commissioners.

Yeah. I believe that was stated at the last meeting that we would include that in the packet.

Do have any response for that?

Yeah, but I think that there's a few things that we're probably going to want to chew on. And there's not a burning deadline to complete this task. The last time it was updated was, I forget, years ago, long time. So, you know, we can yeah, 2021. Let's continue on, and then it might be that there's going to be quite a few things here we might want to chew on to next month or whatever. Let's see how it works out.

And then the final issue is changing from Robert's Rules of Order to the City Council Rules of Procedure. And Sandra, do you want to give a report on that?

I took that from the commissioners that you wanted to see that, and I sent those to you. And I hope you read them. And I don't know if you wanna change, and that's what you were gonna decide to do. So it's to change from Robert Rules to the city council. We just have to put it in our standing rules if we wanna do that.

Yeah. I spoke with commissioner Dawson earlier, and we both probably under underestimated the amount of time it would take to review those. I didn't realize the full the way it was described to us by the city attorney last month was actually as well, yes, it was simpler, but it was also it wasn't actually defined as the city count. It was the it actually had it was Robert not Roberts. I'm sorry. I can't remember the name of the person, but it was it was established by somebody in California. And and he just he gave a description, and now it it slips my mind. So if we want to continue that, we can.

And commissioner Dawson is correct. There is no timeline on this item.

Please. I

move that we continue this item to next month allow commissioners more time to consider some of the discussion here. And how let's see. That said, how can that two page explanation be circulated in a timely manner to the rest of the Commission between now and then? Can Sandra just send it to him in the next week?

I will send it to you. Oh, excellent.

Very good. Thank you. Okay. I Alright. Again, my motion is that we continue the item next month for further discussion.

Alright. Well, we will continue that. Alright. Next Dope. Second. Oh, I am sorry. I'm just jumping ahead. Alright. Motion?

Oh, I made the motion.

Yeah. Before any second, are we that's for everything you said or just that one for the whole thing? Then I will second

that. Okay. Thank you.

In entirety.

In its entirety. Alright.

You may vote. Okay. Yes.

Printed out the two PDFs.

Can you vote again, please?

Alright. Motion carries. Alrighty. So now we're moving on to the communications section. Updates on conferences, seminars, and regional meetings attended by the commissioner. Yes. Commissioner Dawson.

Yes. The city is undergoing the planning exercise for the new general plan, and there was a meeting or a a public what do you call it? You know, charrette at the Salvation Army center over off of, I don't know, Maine or 1st or where. I went to it, and there was some, there was a lot of people there, and they broke people up into three groups and then had them rotate between three tables, and then they had maps up. And people were given stickers for different categories, and said put a sticker on the map as to where you think some of these things like higher density housing or shopping or whatever.

And I said, hey hey, where are the stickers for parks? And I was looking at my table, and then I finally went over to the head table and I was rummaging through, and one of the contractors, the consultants said, can I help you, what are you looking for? I go, I'm looking for the stickers for the parks. He goes, we're not handing out stickers for parks. Why not?

Well we don't want people putting stickers on for parks, we're not doing that. And I had my commissioner badge on, and was like, Well, being that I'm a parks commissioner, I'm very offended because I think that's pretty important. People think that there's a place where we need a park or those type of activities. So I've been to a couple of the other ones, I hadn't picked up on that, but we ought to engage guess where I'm going is we should, as Commissioners, should try to engage this planning process because this is like once every gazillion years kind of thing and it will be guiding the future development. And if the Director has any pull with the exercise there, why can't we give input on parks or park like activities?

We shouldn't get shortchanged.

Alright. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Yes. Commissioner Forbes. Yes. I had the pleasure of attending the Cinco de Mayo festivities at Viegas Park. It was spectacular. Were there tacos? Of course. Good tacos, might I add. I also attended the mayor's senior forum at University Heights Middle School. And last but certainly not least, I had the, honor of attending the Riverside Community Services Foundation's annual gala.

Excellent. Yes. It was a great gala. Alright. Anybody else? Yes. Commissioner Friedlander.

This isn't really a conference seminar or regional meeting, but I found it interesting. So first weekend of this month, we were in Boston, and we did a 10 mile bike tour of the city. And we got to Boston Common, which is the oldest park in the country, and the guy is talking about, oh, it was in 1634 is when it started, but the modern park was the Olmsted brothers. And, of course, I piped up, hey. We have an Olmsted park in but it was super interesting, and he started naming off parks.

He's like, you know, of course, Central Park. And he said there's a there's a park on the West Coast that they were in, like, yeah. Yeah. Where yeah. So it was really it was super cool to to kinda puff your chest out and talk about Riverside. So

Pretty neat. Anyone else? Alright. Next item is the items for future Park and Recreation Commission consideration as requested by members of the commission. Only items that fall within the powers and duties of the Park and Recreation commission as set forth in the city charter and or the Riverside municipal code will be agendized for future discussion.

Anyone? No. Oh, commissioner Puerto?

Last month, I asked about heated pools, Shammell Park, and senior programming. I just wanted to bring it up again because I know Amy is not here, I'm not blaming anyone, but I just don't want it forgotten if I could get an update on. Now that we we just talked about having more heated pools, someone from the community asked me why we're moving senior programming away from which I understand it it's probably been ongoing for years already, but someone wanted to know why if we have new heated pools, why can't we accommodate that schedule?

We'll have an update during our Thank you. Typical round robin at the end. Any

other comments? Okay. I actually did have one. I I met with Kevin Fitzgerald last month of the SCGA regarding the golf course, And I think he he reached out to you, and he provided me the report. And I know the one item the primary item was that was basically flow from the the well that feeds the golf course. Are can we get any do we know what the issue is with that well? Is it a problem with the well itself, or is it a problem with the pump? Is there do we are there any plans to have upgrades done?

Mm-mm. So yes. Yes to everything.

She's smirking like I told you this

was gonna come up.

No. No. So we are currently working with a consultant right now who's helping us figure out what's the best method going forward to replace the well and the engineering to get the water to the golf course. Okay. So we're in the process. We're hoping to get that back soon so we can move forward with replacing the well so we can have adequate water on the course.

Okay. Yeah. I'd love to hear an update, you know, not not next meeting, but whenever that that information comes available. Alright. If there's no other items, commissioners and city staff announcements.

Alright. Well, my name is Jessica Cho. I'm the recreation superintendent, and thank you all that attended our gala, the Riverside Community Services Foundation gala in partnership with the department last Thursday. It was a very joyous event. It was STEMpunk, and a lot of people did come dressed up. Thank you for doing that. And, hopefully, we did, it sounds like we raised some pretty good money, so that sounds like a awesome thing. Just a little reminder, tomorrow is the live steamers event. It begins at noon at Hunter Hobby, and they're hosting a barbecue, which celebrates their programming elements there at Hunter Hobby. We also have our Arlonsa boxing show this Saturday at Bryant Park.

Looking forward to a very awesome event for our youth in the community. We also have, since you've mentioned the Borchella before, we have our brunch blossom event at La Sierra Senior Center, and that begins at 10AM. I'd welcome all of you to come and kinda look at what we offer our seniors. This is part of our eldotainment series as well. And then we're doing our part time in service trainings at the end of the month for summer camp for aquatics programs, and that's on the May 29 and May 30.

And then moving into June, we obviously will begin our summer camps June 1. They will go through August through the week of August 3, concluding on August 7, and that's those are splash camps. Those are star camps, those are camps at the YOC for teens as well as our unique camps for adaptive kids and adults, as well as the Youth Innovation Center that will be hosting camp for ten weeks. And they all, pretty much vary in age, so that's why you have your NIFTY guide if you wanna take a look at that. And then for our senior programs, we do have senior swim offered at Shammel Pole, and that is our typical 11:50 to 12:50 time along with our aquatics, Aquamotion classes that we offer for adults.

And that's eight to 10. Over majority of our participants are seniors, so I'm sure that's what you're hearing about. We do a little bit of reductions with times only because we offer our, swim lessons at Shammell and throughout the city, obviously. Those begin on June 1 as well. Those are two week session intervals, and so we do have to, increase our per our availability for for sessions because we do have rec swim offered at all our pools, Monday excuse me, Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from about noon to about 01:30 ish.

I guess I should have put my guide for that. I didn't write the time down for that. But we do offer rec swim, and then we offer night swim on Tuesdays and Thursdays from seven to 08:30 at a few of our pools. So we do have our our aquatics programs for for seniors. I'm not sure what exactly for those heated situations are, but all our pools are being used in the summer season.

In addition to that, we have our Moves in the Park that will begin June 5, at Lincoln Park. We have summer food that also begins June 1 at at a variety of our parks. And then, obviously, concerts in the park. We have our first one June 17 at La Sierra with a drone show, so they're bringing the the kickoff of the summer series and our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary as well as our typical concerts in the park at Fairmount Park that will begin the following Wednesday, which I believe is June 24 concluding on July 29. A lot of stuff happening this summer, so we're excited to see you all. Please reach out if you have any questions in specific to event times. Yes, sir.

The event at La Sierra Senior Center, you said it's 10:30? 10AM. A brunch. At what time? I mean, on what day?

On the twenty eighth, May 28.

Thank you.

Anyone else? Alright. Anyone else? Any other items to bring up?

For clarity, do you prefer an Outlook appointment when we are announcing these events or just an email listing everything? We have a lot going on, so I wanna make sure you guys capture everything, do the right triggers.

Yeah. An email event spreadsheet is ideal.

Toss them off?

Yeah. You can go through and go, okay. On this day, got that day.

Okay. Sounds good.

Yeah. I really appreciate that. Yes, please. Yeah.

Yes, sir. With the exception of our volunteer recognition, which I did not mention is on June 17 as well, that'll be part of that La Sierra concert series. It's all inclusive there. So that's on June 17. The volunteer recognition aspect begins at about 05:30. The concert will officially kick off at six, and the drone show will occur at the end of that concert. Obviously, we need it to be dark right around 9PM.

Is it the same like, last year, I think it was at one of the concerts at Fairmount Park?

It is the same. It'll just be the kickoff series will be on June 17 at La Sierra Park. Are you which one are you referencing? It should be on there, but there's some stuff that isn't included, like the volunteer recognition isn't on that list. The live seamers is not because it's not typical of our July's Park and Rec month because it's happening this tomorrow. Mhmm.

Commissioner Puerta?

Yeah. I'm not sure if I heard it or not, but this Saturday is the Orlando Boxing Show Mhmm. May 23. So I'd just like to, invite everyone there even though I have my own event that same day.

So I wanna try to figure

out how to make it. But, yeah, that's it.

Oh, yeah. What what time?

That one starts off, I'm trying to think of the bouts probably around two, 02:00.

Where'd you say it was?

Around one? 01:00. It just depends on how long it takes for the kids to check-in and get all their bouts and weigh ins in. So roughly 01:00, one to one or 02:00.

Alright.

Okay. One more. Sorry. Oh, yes, please. A final reminder, speaking of good food, on Wednesday, we have our employee service awards at Viegas Park. Please join us. We will resend the fire. He resented a few weeks ago.

Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Thank you. Okay.

Good. He

Okay. Well, thank you. The next regular park and recreation commission meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 15 at twenty twenty twenty six at 06:30PM. This meeting is adjourned at I don't even know what time it is. Sev there. I know. I always forget the clocks right there. 07:58. Thank you.