Park and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening. It is 6.30, and we'd like to welcome you to the Park and Recreation Commission's meeting for August 17th. This meeting is called to order.

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Thank you, recording. All right, now for the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready? Again. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, All right. Okay, we will now move to public comments. Audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to three minutes. Oh, okay. All right. I thought there was a prompt.

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All right. So we have one caller. Do we have anybody, any speakers in the house?

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Okay. Is it on the phone? And I can't remember what's the, I don't have the instructions. Oh. Caller, can you please press nine, oh, I'm sorry, please press star six when you're ready to speak.

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Hi. Good day. First, this is Ellen Baer on Ridge Road in Riverside, California. And I had put in an e-comment and didn't really realize I couldn't put in more than one. So with regard to the draft parks and recreation... slideshow uh i also i wanted to oppose uh original policy pr 3.1 uh for the revised policy um and uh and then also oppose revised policy pr 4 0.0 um one of them of which didn't left out of seniors And some other information, I sent an email to both Chad and Kevin on this, the only email addresses I had, but it was taking out the verbiage regarding senior citizens in all age groups and also wanting to integrate city parks with the county state where the financial focus should be on the city parks. And one of the other, I believe the e-comment, I need to clarify, clarification on it. I don't know if you're going to read the e-comments separately or not. But I think there was also some sort of mention of using land, selling land and using it indiscriminately. And I didn't understand that for certain types of needs, but it wasn't explained well. And also integrating private industry into purchasing or supporting the city property of city parks, etc. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you. Do we have any other callers?

We're good?

Okay. Okay, thank you. We'll move on to presentations. First up is the July Park and Recreation Month.

Chair and Commissioners, my name is Pamela Galera. Can you hear me okay? Yes. My name is Pamela Galera, and it's my pleasure to serve as your Park Director, and I'm really excited to talk to you today about what Parks and Rec Month is. And so last month in July, we celebrated Parks and Recreation Month and recognized the incredible impact that recreation, arts, transportation, and public spaces have on the quality of life in Riverside. Since the City Council first proclaimed July as Park and Recreation Month in 2018, the Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department has proudly partnered with the National Recreation and Park Association, otherwise known as NRPA, to highlight the essential role that parks and recreation play in building healthy, connected, and resilient communities. This year's national theme was the power of parks and recreation, and it recognizes that parks do far more than provide a place to play. They strengthen neighborhoods, improve physical and mental health, create opportunities for lifelong learning, preserve our natural resources, and foster a strong sense of belonging. And so during the past year, we have continued to demonstrate the power of parks. And so I'd like to just update the commission, especially since there are a few new commissioners, that we have 14 community centers in the city of Riverside, and that includes three senior centers. We have seven pools in nearly 60 parks in the city. We have nearly 200 part-time summer staff, which includes about 80 returning lifeguards. So every summer, kids come back from college and serve as lifeguards. So this year we really worked hard to expand youth sports, adaptive recreation, summer camps, after-school programs, aquatics, and senior services. So we're continuing to invest in nearly 3,000 acres of parkland and trails. Our transportation services keep seniors and individuals with disabilities connected to their community by providing them mobility. And then also our arts and cultural affairs programs have supported over 100 community events and film permits. We're really excited this year about the Festival of Lights, which now falls under our department. We're especially very excited about working with the new owner of the Mission Inn for that program. And so together we're really supporting the quality of life. And so I just want to say that none of these accomplishments would be possible without the continued support of the mayor, the city council, our community partners, our volunteers, our nonprofits, our staff, and of course our commission. So we want to really thank you for all the hard work that you do. And thank you for your continued support. And at this time, we are really pleased to share our 2026 Parks and Recreation Month video celebrating all the ways that we strengthen community. And so can we play the video?

Every day across Riverside, something powerful happens. Neighbors connect. Children discover new passions. Families create memories. Elders stay active and engaged. That's the power of Parks and Recreation. We create spaces where people come together. Our community centers welcomed nearly 1.8 million visits this year. Each visit represents an opportunity to connect, participate, and strengthen our community. Play builds confidence, creativity, leadership, and lifelong skills. More than 47,000 program registrations connected residents to recreation opportunities across the city.

Our pools have served over 30,000 residents, developing life-saving water safety skills.

Community is strengthened when people have opportunities to gather and celebrate. Through the arts and culture and recreation divisions, Riverside creates shared experiences that foster civic pride, cultural appreciation, and a deeper sense of belonging. This year, our park scene planted over 650 plants, including native species, added nearly 80 trees throughout the city, and improved more than 5,000 feet of trail in Sycamore Canyon. Mount Rubidoux welcomed more than 1 million visitors, creating more access to recreation, wellness, and connection to the outdoors. Strong communities ensure everyone has opportunity to participate. More than 3,100 scholarships helped remove barriers to recreation and enrichment programs for local youth and families. Parks and Recreation contribute to the overall well-being of our community. This year, Riverside Connect provided more than 67,000 rides for seniors and adults with disabilities. More than 4,200 food boxes were distributed to residents in need. Through Spark of Love, more than 1,000 children received holiday gifts. And Adopt-A-Family matched a record 51 local families' generous donors. The power of parks and recreation can be seen throughout Riverside in healthier residents, stronger neighborhoods, and public spaces where people have opportunities to connect, grow, and belong. This is the power of parks and recreation.

So we are so proud of the work that we do and it was a lot of work to put that film together but a lot of work behind the scenes. We have a saying that we work so you can play. I would also like to highlight our employee of the year. Each year we select one employee And this year we have selected Victoria Koo Young, who actually is the one that runs the Youth Innovation Center at Arlington Park. And Victoria joined our family in 2021 and quickly became an invaluable member of our team. She played a critical role in launching and operating the Borns Family Youth Innovation Center during COVID pandemic. She opened the center during COVID, which was an astronomical feat. And since then, she has continued to lead the development of innovative STEAM and STEM programming, creating engaging educational opportunities that inspire youth and families throughout Riverside. And so she is really a leader in our family. And unfortunately, she couldn't be here this evening, but I just wanted to highlight her good work. And if you haven't had an opportunity to visit the Bourne Youth Innovation Center, I highly recommend you do. It's located at Arlington Park. Thank you.

All right. Thank you so much. Next up, we have the Riverside Lawn Bowling Club.

Hello. Yes, I'd like to introduce Ed and Barbara Petri from Riverside Lawn Bowlers Club.

Yeah, please. Yeah.

Good evening, commissioners, staff, and the public. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to present to you today. I'm not sure how to use the clicker here. Okay. Okay. Again, my name is Ed Petrie, and this is my wife, Barbara Petrie. We are members of the Riverside Lawn Bowling Club. The club was located within Fairmont Park near Market Street. We are one of 26 clubs in Southern California, and we are part of the national organization, Bowls USA. We are open to the public and we offer free lessons. The public is always welcome to join the club or just come out and play with us during club hours for a nominal fee. We are a non-profit organization and the fees that we do collect help pay for equipment and upkeep of the facility. History of the sport. Lawn bowling is one of the oldest sports in the world. There are records that bowling was established in England in the 12th century. One of the oldest clubs is the Southampton Old Bowling Green Club, which was established in 1299. It's the first picture in the slide there. Lawn bowling was introduced to American colonies in the 1600s. There are many streets and cities named after the game. Bowling Green, Kentucky is a perfect example. Another example is the street right in front of the Riverside Lawn Bowling Club, which is named Bowling Green Lane. George Washington's Mount Vernon's home had a Bowling Green at one time. where he enjoyed the game. However, during the Revolution, many American greens were removed because it was considered a British game. It wasn't until the 19th century when lawn bowling was reintroduced by the Canadians to the United States. Lawn bowling began in Riverside in about 1920 at a private club called the Pachapa Bowling Green Association, located on Olivewood Avenue, north of Pachapa Hill. In October of 1926, club bowlers proposed a municipal club. The park board at the time agreed and supported the construction and lighting of a bowling green by the club. The city board provided the present site in Fairmont Park. In 1955, a second green was constructed and the third was constructed in 1967. The city agreed to maintain the greens and are still maintaining them today. The clubhouse on the site was built in 1929. Let's see if I go back here. Showing there in that slide. Today we are fortunate to still have three greens, which allow us to host larger tournaments. The game itself. It is an easy game to understand, but a difficult one to master. The game is generally a team sport with two, three, or four member teams, but can also be played individually. The game is played on natural grass or artificial green, which is a square 120 feet square. A total of eight games can be played on each green. The object of the game is to have your team's bowl closer to the jack, the white bowl there, than your opponent's bowl. Bowls which were originally made, they were made of wood. We got an example of probably a 100-year-old bowl right there. They rolled straight and were not perfect. You get a set of four bowls in a set. So every one in the set should be identical, but back then, you know, they did the best they could. Today's bowls, which have a bias and are made of hard plastic and weigh approximately three pounds, they are cut and shaped so that they roll along a curve depending on how you deliver the bowl. The idea of the bowl with a bias is so that they can roll around other bowls trying to get to the jack, which is the target. The jack is like a billiards ball and plays 60 to 100 feet in front of the players. Each player from both teams take turns delivering their bowls, trying to knock away their opponent's bowls while trying to roll as close as they can to the jack. When all the bowls have been delivered, then the score is determined and noted. This concludes one end of play. Games can be numbered in any number of ends. However, when we clip play, we usually end the game with 12 or 14 ends. Yearly, the Riverside Lawn Bowling Club holds a Southwest Division Murray Allison Men's Tournament, which is shown here. Another tournament that we host is the Pairs Mooma Tournament. The Mooma Tournament was started by a family member, by one of our current members, Joe Mooma. This tournament celebrates its 40th year this year. That's Joe Mooma right there. Both the Murray Allison and the Mooma Tournament are held in the spring. In 2023, we held the Southwest Division Men's Open where we had 100 plus players. These tournaments attract players from other parts of the country, therefore we encourage the players to take advantage of all the great local businesses in the area. Riverside does participate in Citrus League. We play once a week for nine weeks with our four local clubs, Palm Desert, Redlands, Sun City, and Pomona. The club started with 43 members and had 100 members at times. Today we have approximately 30 members. The Riverside Lawn Bowling Club held its 100th anniversary this year in conjunction with the Mooma Tournament. We are open to all companies and organizations for team building or just recreation. We have hosted and or invited UCR students and faculty, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Walmart or CPA, the Boers Company. Every year we invite the City of Riverside Parks Department over for an appreciation luncheon and a team building event. Another organization which regularly joins us is Arc of Riverside. Lawn bowling offers a terrific outing and exercise for people of all ages. Again, you are welcome to come out and have some fun with us. On behalf of all the members of Riverside Loma Bowling Club, we would like to thank the parks director, Ms. Galera, and her entire staff, including Anthony Zamora, Kyle Raphael, Yaron Valencia, and Ryan Gibson for their incredible job that they do in maintaining the greens and the facility. We greatly appreciate everything that Citi provides and does to make our sport more successful. Thank you for having us this evening. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Chair may I may I make a yes, please. I just want to highlight how wonderful this group is And what a pleasure it is to work with them. This is what makes Riverside great if you go out to this to these This facility and I hope you do you will see how beautifully pristine it is and it is because of their hard work And so they are really providing something very special for our community Thank you. So we want to thank you so much

have our 100th anniversary pins for each of you if you'd like one so yes absolutely thank you so much yes please yes okay i do have a a question um with regards to the invitation what are your hours of operation uh right now we are bowling on tuesdays and thursdays at oh i apologize We're bowling on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 o'clock and Saturdays at 8 a.m. We are trying to add some evening hours. You guys were gracious enough to fix all the lights on all three of our greens, and we did try it out. We've got two of them down this year. We also had a women's tournament this year in the evening last month. So we're going to keep building for that. But we would appreciate if you guys want to come out and try it, please do. Please spread the word. Unfortunately, we feel like we are the best-kept secret in Riverside, and we do not want to be a secret. We want everyone to come out and enjoy it. From little children, we have junior-sized bowls for them. We got a grant a few years ago and bought some. So we can have, like, seven, eight-year-olds come And all the way up to we've had our oldest member right now was 94, I believe he is. So we can accommodate just about everyone, and we'd love you guys to come out and use it and use the facility.

I can't wait. I live right above Fairmount Park. I've always been walking past the facility. I love it. It's beautiful. I've always wanted to do it, but the hours have not been conducive to working hours. So, yeah, if you start up evenings, I'll be there.

Thank you. We're working on that.

Well, the phone number is on our board out there in front of the Lawn Bowling Green. If anyone wants to just come out and play, bring their family, just give us a call and we can make it work.

okay thank you thank you for your presentation

All right, well, we're going to close.

Just go ahead and open?

Yeah. Oh, there it is. Sorry about that. Okay, here we go. Ready? One, two, three.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for all of your help.

Thank you.

All right, now. Okay. Yep, hide behind your computer screen. All right, that was great. Okay, we'll now move on to the consent calendar. Does anyone wish to pull an item from the consent calendar for discussion? I will take that as a no. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar as is?

Second.

All right. Are we ready to vote?

Go ahead and vote.

Excellent. We have unanimous in favor of accepting the consent calendar.

All right.

Where are we at?

Ah, yes. Now on to the discussion calendar. We'll now open the floor for public comment. Audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to three minutes.

And, Chair, may I introduce the next item?

Oh, yes, please.

Again, Pamela Galera, Director of Community Services, Parks, Community Services, and Recreation. And it's my pleasure to introduce the draft citywide general plan discussion concerning the recreational element policies. And Matthew Taylor is our principal planner. He will introduce the team.

Thank you, Director Galera. Honorable Chair, members of the Commission, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Matthew Taylor. I'm a principal planner with the Community and Economic Development Department. And I, along with my colleague, Fortino Morales here from the Office of Sustainability, are co-project managers for the Riverside 2050 General Plan Update and Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Project. We're here tonight to share with you draft policies for the park and recreation element of the updated 2050 general plan. I'm getting a little bit of feedback. Am I sounding okay? Okay. Thank you. So the general plan is the city's blueprint for how it will grow and develop over decades, over a generation, really. It is a comprehensive plan and policy a document for a number of different areas of city Activities service delivery and more it guides physical development of the city and it also guides city decision-making related to service delivery budgeting capital improvements and more and It is the foundational document that orchestrates the physical growth of a city over a multi-decade period. The city's current general plan was adopted in 2007 and has been amended here and there over the intervening nearly 20 years, but has not been comprehensively overhauled since its original adoption in 2007. And so we have for the past two years been at work at developing an update and we are now at the point where we are ready to share some of the things that we have heard from the public in the extensive amount of public outreach and engagement that we have done over the course of the past two years and to present our initial draft of updated policies that will guide the city's decision making related to parks and recreation for your feedback. and input as we refine these and move this effort forward. We'll also hear from Fortino in just a little bit about the climate action and adaptation plan and how that relates to the efforts that we're working on with the general plan as well. But before we do that, just a couple of things to share with you. I mentioned outreach and how important it is to this process. I do want to share an invitation to all of you and to anyone in the public who's listening to a public workshop that is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, October 14th at the Riverside Municipal Airport Terminal Building. This effort will be focused all on mobility and circulation and the city's transportation network and systems and how we get around our city. And that event is open to everyone and we'll be looking for public input and feedback on what kinds of policies we should put in place to guide the development of our transportation system. I mentioned that the general plan covers a number of different areas. These are called by planners elements. You could think of an element as a chapter of the general plan. The general plan contains over a dozen elements that deal with specific topic areas, arts and culture, historic preservation, air quality, conservation, land use, economic development, housing, circulation, noise, open space, parks and recreation, public facilities and infrastructure, public safety. In addition to that, principles of environmental justice will be woven throughout all of the elements of the general plan, reflecting how environmental justice concerns are multidisciplinary in nature and cut across all of these different areas of city activity and city policy making. um we are here today because the park and recreation element is really truth to say the furthest along of the all of the elements of the general plan and so we are you you are really the first body up to hear about draft policies that we have developed based on the input that we have received and give us feedback on those. So with that, I am gonna hand this over to our consultant team from WSP, which is the consulting firm that we have contracted with to help us develop the 2050 general plan update. Michael Uday and Michael Millett are both participating remotely this evening. So hopefully we don't have any audio visual issues like we did earlier this afternoon, but I'm gonna hand it over to Michael and Michael to present the next few slides as well.

Good evening. I'm Michael Udy with WSP, part of the consultant team assisting the city with the Riverside 2050 general plan update. Today I'll walk through the draft policies for the open space parks and recreation elements. They were developed through the review of the existing general plan, the parks and recreation master plan, the trails master plan, broader general plan inputs, and coordination with city and park staff. One of the bigger structural changes from the original general plan is the move from the previous three objective structure to instead five guiding principles. Maintaining and strengthening the park and recreation system, safety, equitable access, partnerships and programs, and sustainability and resiliency. You'll see a mix of original, revised, and proposed policies. Some changes are mainly organizational while others update the policy direction or fill gaps identified through the update. Given the number of policies in our limited time, I'll move fairly quickly through the original policies and focus on the revised and proposed policies and the reasons behind those changes. Once the overall presentation is complete, our consultant team and city staff will be available to help answer any questions you may have. So starting off, Guiding principle one focuses on maintaining and strengthening Riverside's overall park and open space and recreation system. The biggest change is PR 1.0. Rather than keeping a fixed parkland ratio on the general plan, the revised policy relies on the Parks and Recreation Master Plan to establish and periodically update those standards. And just to clarify, the relationship between these two documents, the general plan provides the city's long-range policy direction through 2050, while the Parks Master Plan provides the more detailed standards, priorities, and implementation guidance. The two work hand-in-hand together. But the master plan could be updated more frequently as conditions and community needs change. So the master plan can get updated every five to 10 years, while the general plan documents typically update every 25 years or so. So for example, in PR 3.0, which we'll get to, given the example, the general plan may say the city should provide equitable access to parks, while the parks master plan can use current data to identify which neighborhoods are underserved, what service standards apply, and where future improvements should be prioritized. That lets detailed standards evolve with population development patterns and community needs without requiring a general plan amendment each time. 1.1 retains the existing direction to locate parks near compatible uses. 1.2 broadens older design language focused on natural site conditions zero scaping and maintenance. So park design could respond more fully to its surrounding context, community needs and long term quality. Next slide. There are 1.3 and 1.4 strengthen the relationship between the general plan and cities adopted master plans. 1.3 supports continued implementation and updating of those plans, while 1.4 ties trail access points, trailheads, wayfinding, and amenities back to them. The reason is to let the detailed plans carry standards that need to evolve over time, while the general plan provides the long-range policy direction. 1.5 addresses excess underutilized or undeveloped park property. It sets criteria such as community need, access, and long-term maintenance to help determine whether property should be retained, repurposed, or where appropriate, sold. And that's not saying that every single parcel is to be sold or anything. It's more setting up a framework that allows the city to do that if needed. So where legally permissible, proceeds from a sale could be reinvested in higher priority park needs, including acquiring parkland in underserved areas or improving existing parks. Next slide. The last two policies under this principle deal with how the park system grows. PR 1.6 supports acquiring, developing, or designating land for future parks and open space while considering service need, access, environmental conditions, and feasibility. 1.7 adds the operational side. Before adding new parkland or facilities, the city should evaluate the staffing, maintenance, and operational capacity needed to care for them over time. Next slide. Guiding principle two focuses on safety. The first two policies are existing. PR 2.0 supports safer bicycle pedestrian and equestrian trail connections, while 2.1 calls for periodic review of parks, programs, and infrastructure so they continue to safely meet user and neighborhood needs. Next slide. PR 2.2 and 2.3 add more specific implementation directions. 2.2 addresses safety through the physical design of parks and recreation spaces, things like lighting, visibility, wayfinding, and emergency access. 2.3 addresses facility condition through preventive maintenance, inspections, asset management, rehabilitation, and capital investment. Together, the policies address both safe design and how facilities remain safe and functional over time. Next slide. Guiding principle three addresses equitable access. PR 3.0 is an important revision. The previous policy called for facilities to be distributed equally. The update looks more directly at access and community need and ties the evaluation back to the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. It also recognizes that access needs vary across Riverside. Walk-based standards can make sense in urban and higher density areas. while longer travel distances may be more appropriate in rural, hillside or lower density areas. Next slide. The remaining policies look at access from several angles. PR 3.1 retains consideration of public transportation. 3.2 broadens trail connectivity between city, county and state recreation areas. And 3.3 retains consideration of all ages, abilities, disabilities, and user groups in park planning and design. The new 3.4 adds an equity-based investment policy using demographic, access, community needs, and other relevant data to identify underserved areas and prioritize future acquisition, improvements, amenities, programs, and services. Next slide. Planning principle four focuses on partnerships and programs that help grow and maintain the system. PR 4.0 broadens the private development policy to include parks and trails. 4.1 modernizes an older policy that names specific agencies and funding programs. The broader language now allows the city to pursue partnerships and outside funding as opportunities change. 4.2 brings recreation events together with broader community engagement and stewardship. Next slide. The next group expands that partnership approach. PR 4.3 updates neighborhood engagement so it is less dependent on a particular office or a meeting format and focuses instead on regular resident engagement. 4.4 adds coordination with tribal governments and representatives for cultural interpretation, programming signage and related park and open space initiatives 4.5 broadens the funding tools the city can periodically evaluate for park improvements and long-term maintenance and 4.6 supports partnerships and joint use agreements to expand access facilities programming and stewardship without relying on the city to provide every opportunity itself next slide Guiding principle five addresses sustainability and resiliency. This is also an area where the consultant team developed several new policies to translate the broader guiding principle into more specific policy direction. PR 5.0 addresses sustainable, resource efficient park design, including climate appropriate landscaping, water efficiency, durable materials, habitat supported planting, and energy efficiency. 5.1 takes the broader view by incorporating climate resilience and natural resource stewardship into park and open space planning and management. 5.2 focuses on shade and tree canopy to improve comfort, air quality and resilience to extreme heat. And lastly, 5.3 looks at the role park buildings can play during extreme weather and other emergencies, including potential cooling or heating functions, care and shelter and other emergency response needs. That concludes the Parks and Recreation Policy portion. And with that, we'll turn it over to Fortino, who will walk through the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan.

Good evening, Chair and Commissioners. My name is Fortino Morales. I'm the sustainability manager with the Office of Sustainability here and helping leading the climate action adaptation plan portion of this effort that is running concurrent with the general plan effort. So just to kind of share a general timeline here, in 2024, we really worked on data collection and analysis. In 2025, we were continuing that work. And then also just kind of as a side here is that the general plan and the climate action plan are kind of ghost... kind of step by step. And so we're now in the place where we're developing, or sorry, in summer 2026 here, developing the mitigation measures and adaptation measures. And then from here in 2027, we'll start the environmental impact review process through CEQA. But you kind of see the little arrow that says we're here. So what is the Climate Action Adaptation Plan? The first part of that is an inventory of our current greenhouse gas emissions. So this is essentially kind of the city's carbon footprint. And then we've also been working more recently on the projection. So what happens or what is the projected climate change emissions as we move forward? And then from those two sets of data, we start to develop our own targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions with developing a strategic roadmap to be able to hit those goals and those targets. It's important to say here, too, that this is both mitigation and adaptation. So mitigation is reducing the amount of emissions that are coming out of our operations. And then also mitigation. on the adaptation side so understanding that climate change is here with us now even if we stopped all emissions um there would you know the the um co2 that is in the atmosphere now will stay with us for the at least the next century or so and we'll have those impacts um and so preparing and planning for all those uh the changing climate there as well So as part of that, we've done a climate vulnerability assessment. So this is looking at all the residents, services, and infrastructure that might be vulnerable to the coming climate change. And so we've done an assessment on that to look at all those different impacts. And then we're also doing a sustainability framework. And so this kind of sits between the general plan and the climate action adaptation plan and setting broad goals around sustainability and resiliency to kind of connect them both there. And then as mentioned earlier, this is part of the general plan process too, so we're working hand in hand. And of course, for any follow-up and updates, you can visit the website at Riverside 2050. We have a newsletter there and a ton of resources, everything from videos to previous meeting notes to presentations, events that we've been at, and upcoming events like the October 14th event. And with that, I pass it back to Pamela.

Thank you so much. What a wonderful presentation. I'd also like to acknowledge Alisa Samala from our team who's been working hand in hand with the team on these. It's quite complicated, this update. I also wanted to bring up an issue that Commissioner Dawson had brought up about some parkland and a question. There is some ball fields that are owned and operated by UCR near the UCR campus and back in time we did program those fields and so Commissioner Dawson had a question about do we need to replace that those fields now. And the truth is we've actually already replaced them. So back in the day, we built the fields at Hunter Hobby Park. And so the user groups that used to use these fields at UCR are now practicing and playing over at Hunter Hobby Park. So that user group has been accommodated. And so now the fields which are owned by UCR are used by that student population. So I hope that that answers your question on that item. And then on that note, we are available for any questions that anybody might have.

All right. Do we have any public comments? Nope. No callers. Okay. Do we have any comments from the commissioners? Yes. Commissioner Thomas.

One question. You mentioned a meeting on October 14th, but I didn't hear you mention the time of the meeting.

6 to 8 p.m.

Thank you.

And I do want to note, as Fortino mentioned, Riverside2050.com. We post every upcoming public engagement event on that website, and there is an email sign-up, so you can get notified directly via email about any upcoming events that we have. In addition to big public workshops that we invite people to join us at, we do also pop up at other community events. We actually work very closely with the Park and Rec Department to identify good candidates for us to reach community members at events that they are already participating in to share information about this project, solicit input where it's appropriate, or invite people to participate further.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner Forbes. Commissioner Dawson?

Good evening. I appreciate your presentation. I have a couple questions. Let's say that would be slide five, maybe, where it's the policy PR 1.5. I would like to ask this in terms of what is Parks Department's current policy for identifying and disposing of property and how might this proposed change impact current policy?

Does that make sense? Commissioner, I think I can answer that question. And this is also the item that we did have the public comment on also. So this is pertaining to proposed policy 1.5. I don't know that we actually have a policy right now concerning the disposition of land. But let me give you the background of this. What we hear from the community over and over in every meeting that we go to is that they want us to maintain the park property that we have. And when we usually go into community meetings with new parks, with new ideas, they go back and say, we want you to be able to maintain what you have. And the fact is we have nearly 3,000 acres of parkland, and we just flat out do not have the budget to maintain that land or develop the land. And so through this policy, we would be able to evaluate opportunities to monetize the land. So, to make it really clear, I'll give an example. The Parks Department owns 55 acres at Hole Lake. This is next to Rutland Park, which is a beautiful, beloved park by the community. But there's 55 acres of undeveloped land. The going rate for development right now is $1 million an acre. I seriously doubt that we are going to have $55 million to develop that parkland. That parkland is immediately adjacent to homes. Through this policy, perhaps we would consider utilizing a portion of that land to make money, complying with all laws, complying with the Surplus Land Act, all regulations, but considering that, either through a long-term lease or through a sale, maybe for housing, maybe for something else. Now, in this particular example that I've given, we meet and exceed the required parkland for that neighborhood. There are other examples of undeveloped parkland around the city that we would absolutely not entertain surplusing because those neighborhoods do not have other parks. So I would say only in locations where we could monetize land in order to reinvest in that neighborhood. Perhaps we would even consider using that money for the adjacent park. Or as the consultant said, perhaps we would consider maybe purchasing additional land in park poor neighborhoods. So I hope that I answered your question.

It did in general. Looking back at our city charter, it says that our commission, one of our tasks, is establishing policies for acquisition and development and improvement of parks and playgrounds. But it doesn't address the question of disposal of property, declaring property for surplus. So if we were to move forward with changing this in the general plan, I think that with the upcoming Charter Review Committee, that that would be a topic for discussion with that committee because I think it should be addressed. Or we as a commission, when we go to revisit our discussion that we need to have on our standing rules and regulations or whatever, we should establish a policy about this question of disposal property. Because wasn't there also a discussion at Fairmont Park that there was people wanting to surplus property out there for development?

Yes, correct. And so there are several opportunities around the city to entertain this type of item. Now, the interesting thing about Fairmont Park is there is a deed restriction on those lands. So that would be another thing that we would need to comply with.

And we would want to make sure that there's rules put in place that the... I don't want to say revenue, but the funds derived from the surplusing of the property go into a restricted account And that there's conditions upon the use of those funds from that account. Because I've lived here in Riverside long enough to see city councils gift property, gift park property to a friendly developer. And I'm not in agreement with that kind of stuff. And I don't want to leave it, I don't want to leave a door open that could be abused by a future council that doesn't have good intent. So that's one area of concern that, you know, I saw when I was reading this.

Commissioner, I think another one of the commissioners.

Well, let me finish my thoughts, too, please. And, Director, our chair runs the meeting. Thank you. In the section 4.0, the question of private development, can somebody expound upon what's being envisioned here? You know, what kind of development are we talking about? Private development, I say. This is not nonprofit. This is for-profit development we're talking about that would start having a place at our parks.

Yes, Commissioner, if I might. For instance, it's not as applicable, but we're opening our armory building now for the Thompson's Brewery. So that's one opportunity where we're bringing in private development. There are many companies that work in golf and entertainment. Perhaps we would bring in one of these private companies to improve portions of our golf course. There are other opportunities for this type of private development in our parkland.

I'm wanting to think this through as we're going along. Because once we start opening that door to privatization, it's hard to claw it back. So it's something that I don't really want to see us rush into. To be quite frank, I had serious concerns about the brewery at the Armory. I think that that was developed and approved before the commission was given a presentation, or it's not like we had oversight of this concept and this idea. It was kind of presented, this is what we're doing. Isn't it great? And that's not what the commission, as the charter states out, that we're here for. The ideas should be coming to the commission first, developed before implementation. And so when I see this, I'm reluctant to support something like this without more detail, because I think that we need to work out what our relationship is in that oversight role before we start expanding private opportunities. Because some of these proposals, it's not like a zero sum thing. If we dispose a property, there's always a cost to disposal, paying for the staff time and the professional real estate time and putting together a deal. The legal costs, there's a cost to disposal. And then there's another cost on acquisition. And it can couple all those costs together, and it's taking a big chunk out of the supposed funds that are derived from the disposal. There's a haircut. And as people are going along, they should be mindful of that. It's not like, oh, boy, we're going to get this big chunk of money. There's a haircut at the front end and on the other end of the deal.

and so anyway i'd like to hear what my fellow commissioners have to say uh in regards to the rest of this commission thank you i believe you had something oh it was a referencing policy 1.5 again uh commissioner dawson touched on it a bit i was just curious uh for the disposition of surplus parkland would that would those funds go to the general fund or could they be restricted to the parks and recreation department

We are actually in the process of process now of working with finance to to set that up I mean this this the way this is written. It's more general However, we would welcome your comments on that. I believe that the the other commissioner is recommending a restricted account and and restricted account and certain conditions of the funds and

Mr. Chair, if I may, I did want to just offer for context to emphasize Director Giler's point about specificity or generality. The general plan and the policies in it should be very general and high level. And if there are specific policy considerations about things like what to do with proceeds from Disposition of surplus property by for example or anything else with that level of specificity Maybe maybe better located in a document that is less long-range than the general plan itself and that could be department policy it could be Any number of other location the parks master plan for example? So just wanted to kind of set that context for us to keep in mind as we're talking about general plan policy. Thank you

I just wanted to get clarification on the item of private development. Wouldn't Andolka be an example of that, of a publicly owned park facility that has been developed and operated by a private developer?

Yes, correct. There are many different ways to do that. But on Dulca, we do have a private vendor that operates and maintains the tennis courts, the tennis center. So that is an example of private development. There are some others, the paddle boats at Fairmont Park is a private entity that provides that service.

Okay.

Commissioner, any other questions? Yes, please, Mr. Jones.

There we go.

Thank you. Just had a couple questions or maybe a request for a definition. When Matthew and Fertino were talking, I don't recall who made the comment, but as part of the discussion, you mentioned principles of environmental justice. Explain to me what that means in the context of a general plan for a city and and how it would impact the parks and Recreation Department Because I don't know what that means

Sure. Thank you for asking. And with the chair's permission, I'm happy to respond. Yes, please. And so I will take the first part of that question. And then Michael and Michael, if I can ask if you can perhaps respond to the second part of the question about how environmental justice interacts with the park and rec element and the draft policies there. In general, this is a requirement of state legislation, specifically Senate Bill 1000, which was passed over a decade now at this point, but requires that the general plan address environmental justice by identifying communities throughout the city that have been disproportionately impacted by things like pollution or noise or extreme heat or vulnerability to climate risk or food insecurity, any number of issues that derive from, you know, unjust circumstances and specifically incorporate policy mechanisms to address and try to correct some of those imbalances. And so our approach has been to incorporate policies throughout the general plan that have environmental justice sort of embedded within them. by perhaps crafting policies that prioritize addressing needs in specific, what we call environmental justice communities, specific geographies and populations that have been identified to have suffered from these imbalances historically, and to craft policies that address those in some fashion. I'm going to ask now if Michael and Michael with WSP might be able to speak to briefly how that specifically can relate to the park and rec element.

Would they also comment too on who determines where environmental injustice has occurred and what criteria they use? Is that something done through the general plan?

It is, but it is based on criteria that are established by state agencies that kind of set out, you know, what is the measure of environmental injustice and how do you identify it?

We're just talking about the city of Riverside. So who determines it in this city?

Right, so using guidelines from the California Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies as well that publish guidance on this, we conduct an analysis of demographic data that help us identify where those communities exist. Sure.

Hi, I'm Elisa Sromala, principal park planner for the Parks Department. So one of our more recently adopted tools is the Trust for Public Land. They're a nationwide nonprofit, and they are proponents of public parks getting a park within a 10-minute walk of everybody. So, that is one of the tools we're using. They have an online database called ParkServe, and they are a trusted partner for a lot of agencies and municipalities in determining what equitable distribution of a park would be. So I highly recommend the Trust for Public Land Park Serve page. It's specific for Riverside, and it explains all the criteria that they use to determine where the inequalities lie and where they recommend placement of new parks. So that was the thought behind adding that policy to our general plan.

So that would be something that's published that the public can read?

Yes.

And where is that found?

Trust for Public Land. I don't know their particular website, but if you Google search or Safari search, whichever you use, Trust for Public Land, in particular the ParkServe map.

Okay. And you're? stating that the city of Riverside the folks working on the general plan revision are using some of that criteria and determining where environment environmental injustice exists in the city

Well, as Matthew mentioned earlier, the general plan is meant to be a broader statement, a broader policy. And so our specific work would be described more in our park system master plan that we update more recently, like every 10 years or so. So general plan won't be so specific, but our park system master plan will be specific. Sure. Thank you.

If I may, Fortino reminded me very helpfully, which I forgot to mention. Part of the groundwork for the general plan update that we have prepared is an existing conditions report and analysis that covers a broad range of topics, including environmental justice. There is a report available on the project website, riverside2050.com, under the resources tab. where you can review the criteria and the findings of our environmental justice and sort of analysis of the existing conditions within the city.

Is that something that was subject to public comment?

It's been available publicly and we'll accept comments on it throughout the remainder of this project. It's part of the overall package. We didn't necessarily hold hearings on that piece specifically, but it is available for public review and we'll accept comments on that or any of the other findings of the existing conditions throughout the course of this project.

Just two quick words. Chairman, can I ask you a question? Yes, please. Go ahead. The general plan, forgive me, I'm not a city government expert, but it's a guiding principle. It's something that the city council and the city manager and everybody uses as a guiding principle about the direction the city heads, and there's nothing really binding in it. It's just a roadmap. Would that be an improper way to describe it?

It's a little more than that. I'll let Anthony speak from the city attorney's office, kind of speak about how binding general plan policy actually is.

So the general plan includes elements which are more policy-based, some which are more planning-based, and some which have daily actual applications, like a general plan designation for a certain piece of property is what it is, and you have to comply with it. But the zoning will be more detailed. So a general plan is just the constitution of future development. That's what the state calls it. It's our general plan for development for the future. And you can amend it, and you don't have to be perfectly consistent because there's a lot of aspirational parts in there. But the general plan is where the city puts its hopes and dreams and some regulations. And then the municipal code and more concrete short-term policies where you see tighter, more restrictive policies. Thank you.

Commissioner Dawson? Yes.

On this report on existing conditions, what are the categories in that report? Is there a park section?

There is. There is a section that corresponds to every element of the future general plan, including parks, including open space, including noise, air quality, land use, circulation, all of it.

Okay, I'd like to request, Sandra, can you find that and send it to all the commissioners as a memory tickler that we can review that, because that might be something we'd want to have, we'd like to see, I'd like to see what's in this report on our current conditions, because that might guide how I view. Sure, yeah, absolutely.

Okay, great, fantastic, thank you. It's quite long, just to warn you. I drink a lot of coffee. All right.

Any other comments? I have a question. I think it was PR 3.0 with the acreage.

Yes.

Within three miles. Is there an acreage element to this as well? One of them had an acre, gentlemen. Three acres to every thousand residents or something like that?

Yeah. Director, oh, Elisa, you want to speak to that?

We do have a general plan goal, although this new general plan, as mentioned on one of the other slides, proposed policies is transferring to the park system master plan the actual ratio that we'll be using from here on out. But it is three acres per 1,000 residents is our current target.

And so did I hear you mention that we have 3,000 acres under management currently? So that would be like 10,000 acres, right, ish, or more even?

I don't know that I could do the math on the spot. I'm sorry.

I'm just thinking 1,000. We got 320,000 people.

We're at 2.82.

So, yeah, we need quite a bit.

I'm sorry. I should clarify. It's developed parkland. Oh, it's developed.

It's not even under. Okay, got it. So something like Sycamore Canyon would not count.

It would not count, yeah. So in particular, we are looking for three acres of developed parkland and then five acres total, including open space, natural, undeveloped parks. Wow. Which I think we're meeting because Sycamore Canyon does add a lot of acreage for us. But it's the developed parkland that we're...

So is the 3,000 number developed or total?

Total, total.

And it's just under 3,000. Okay.

Cool. I was just curious. Thank you. Any other questions? All right, thank you so much. We will go ahead and move on to item eight. Determine the absence of Commissioner Puerta from the June 15th, 2026 meeting to be recorded as excused or unexcused. Do we have any comments either from the public or...

I like comment. I remember that meeting fondly. And if we had to suffer, he should have to suffer too. No, no, you should have been here.

It was a lengthy meeting.

And the material was just, you know... enthralling as it always is no offense to our legal staff or you know okay noted uh any other comments all right uh do we have a motion

Is it? Yes. Do we have a motion to excuse or not to excuse?

I move to excuse the absence.

All right. Okay. Commissioner Schaefer seconds. Ready to vote. All right. The vote is unanimous to excuse the absence. Moving on to my absence. Determine the absence of Chair Young from the July 20th, 2026 regular meeting be recorded as excused or unexcused. Commissioner Dawson, would you like to berate me as well?

I wasn't able to attend that meeting due to lack of quorum, so I didn't have to suffer anything other than the frustration that we have a lot of work that we need to do and we're not getting it done. And so when we are not able to have a meeting like that, I think it kind of hurts. I looked at the agenda, and I was disappointed that it wasn't as much of an agenda as I think we should have had. But let's keep with this topic, and I will move that we excuse your absence. How's that? Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

Okay, cool. Thank you. Can we go ahead and vote?

Wait, wait. Give me a second. I'm sorry. That was by Commissioner Portman. Give me a second, yeah.

Okay, go ahead and vote.

And the motion passes unanimously. Well, it looks like Commissioner Jones abstained. Actually, I probably should have stayed. You may have pushed it too early.

Let's reboot. Let's do it real quick.

All right, let's reboot. All right, we have unanimous with one abstention, which is mine. Yeah, until she gives the go-ahead, it doesn't record it. All right. Moving on. Now we'll go on to communications. So now we're on to updates of conferences, seminars, and regional meetings attended by the commissioners. Anybody have anything? Yeah, Commissioner Forbes.

I had the opportunity to attend all of the summer concerts, and I want to give a standing ovation while I'm sitting to the Park and Rec's department for a good time, each time. I also had the opportunity to attend the Dale and Carmen Roberts backpack giveaway, excuse me. I attended two community meetings regarding the consideration of the renaming of Cesar Chavez. I also attended the Bordwell Park Beam Signing Ceremony, which was extraordinary. And if you missed it, you missed it.

It was great.

Yes, it was. It really was.

Was there tacos?

No. There were burritos. That was burritos. I also intend, and I know this may not be appropriate, but I do intend on attending the Dale Roberts Day celebration on August 25th, which will commemorate his 90th birthday. And I encourage my fellow commissioners, if you can make it, to make it.

Absolutely. Where will that be held?

Right here, right?

Right here, okay. One o'clock, okay.

Three o'clock is, that's what the flyer says, three.

Three o'clock?

Yes. Excellent. And Senator, maybe you could send out a tickler for us? Thank you. All right. I also attended the beam raising ceremony. It was really great. And, yeah, I would always, again, I live right above Fairmount Park, so I try to attend as many of the concerts every year. And you guys do an amazing job. It really is impressive. Commissioner Johnson, did I see you were going to speak? Yeah.

I was also at Bordwell Park and had a really good experience there. But I was also at the movies in the park at La Sierra Park. And I was totally amazed at how many people showed up. The park was absolutely flooded with people. I mean, it was more than hundreds. It was probably almost 1,000. It was amazing how many people were there. And everybody had a good time, and everybody was calm and quiet and well-behaved. And I was just delighted we could have something like that in the city. It does show that the Parks and Rec Department is doing a good job. And I was really, like I said, I was pleased. Okay.

Thank you. Yes, Commissioner Dawson.

I, too, attended both meetings. It was like one on a Saturday morning and one, was that Thursday evening? Yeah, Thursday evening at the Bobby Bonds Park discussing the Cesar Chavez naming issue. I went specifically to be a listener, you know. Because this is an issue that is going to come back to our commission. Do we have a timeline on when that might come back to our commission so we have a heads up?

We are still working on another timeline because we're adding additional forums for the community to provide more input. So once we establish those additional dates, we can provide an update.

Okay, great. It is an emotional issue, so be aware. Thank you very much.

Anyone else? Okay, we'll move on to item 11, which is items for future Park and Recreation Commission consideration as requested by members of the commission. Commissioner Dawson?

Thank you. OK. At the end of our last meeting in June, there were some new projects announced. And I know that's not the discussion part of the meeting. And the more I thought about it since then, I think that we need to have it on an agenda to talk about it because I had some serious concerns. So, and I'm not exactly sure how to frame what it is, but it has to, the topic is about new major capitalized projects like the La Sierra Pool and the Mission Ranch new park. I was shocked that we were being presented with two major projects after where at a previous meeting, the city council had asked us to consider budget cuts to the park's budget. The new Measure Z was soundly defeated by voters. The old Measure Z funds are said to, by the budget engagement commissioners, are said to the next three years of Measure Z monies have already been spent or accounted for. And so there shouldn't be any funding available from that funding source. And I recently took a tour of Islander Park and I see we're not taking care of the facilities that we have as well as we should. So how can we in good conscience be pursuing new major expensive capital projects that will have ongoing operational costs associated with them if we're have these funding challenges in our city. And if, you know, there's something wrong here. And so I'd like it to be agendized and come back to the commission to talk. And again, in the charter, it says the commission is supposed to be establishing policies for acquisition, development, improvement of parks. So new projects should start here. They shouldn't be, we're writing for grants or we're planning and we're already doing this without having discussed it with the commission. And we, another agenda item that we need to have is we have had it on our agenda twice to do the review of the standing rules and regulations and And we have not finished that task. And it's been several months. It's been since April that we last discussed it. And I think that we need to get that back on our plate and complete that task before more stuff. comes in the end shoot and displaces it. And again, this goes back to the last agenda. The only thing on that agenda was honoring our employee. I think that we should be involved in setting our own agenda and staying focused on some of these must-do tasks that are not getting addressed.

Yeah, I agree. I believe we were on the one item we are waiting for some issues to be rectified, I think, with the clerk.

Yes, so we are working on that item. The commission rules, and we are working with that with the clerk. So that will come back to you.

As I recall from the last meeting where we addressed that thing, There were some legal considerations, and our deputy city attorney said he was going to consult with his staff, and that was a holdup, too, or that was something that needed to come back. Okay, third item, having toured Islander Park and seeing deficiencies. I realize that it's not fair for me to be critical about the condition of Islander Park if I don't know what I'm comparing it to. We have seven pools, and I propose organizing a tour of all seven pools so that I'm looking at the condition of all seven of them against each other to see if everything is being equally cared for. I saw the diving board and things like that rusting apart under pool. I saw the paint flaking off the inside of the changing room. The concrete or something is spalling. There's different issues. You know, I think we need to be on top of that and address that. I'd like to know how you track these condition issues and make decisions about allocating resources to address those conditions to keep them up to the standards that our world-class city should expect. One last thing and I'm finished. Do you know if we have, do we keep statistics, like our fire department keeps statistics on drowning deaths or swimming incidents and can that be broken down into by ward or some manner so we can see if we're offering swimming lessons in a way that it's available to the segment of our communities that need those types of resources? Is there a way of defining if we have a problem, and are we best at providing the resources to the problem? And that's all I have on my list right now. Thank you.

All right, thank you, Commissioner Dawson. Anyone else have any? Yeah, Commissioner Forbes.

Over the last few weeks, I've been approached by many neighbors and community members with a couple of concerns. I believe this is the right forum to bring this up, one of which is the walking path at Anduca Park. on the back side it's flooding pretty bad and um it's getting worse and worse and i actually took the time to do some recognizance myself uh to see it and um It's worth mentioning. And the second thing is I spent a lot of time de-escalating, for lack of a better word, some of the concerns that some of the. attendees had going to some of the summer concerts, I think that it might be a good thing to consider how we recognize dignitaries at these events. Because a lot of the question was, hey, aren't you on the commission?

Why aren't they mentioning your name?

And I was like, well, it's not about me. was my response. That wasn't, that didn't go over well with them. So I just think that maybe we could rethink that or put some other things in place where when commissioners or other dignitaries are there, or maybe it's just a blanket recognition as opposed to a singular recognition, because when that happens, things can go astray. that's and i don't know if that's something that we need to put on the agenda but i think it's something that we need to discuss at some point yeah thank you anyone else

I had an item. I've been noticing, and I don't know if this is also a problem at Sycamore or any of our other more natural hiking spots, but at Mount Rubidoux, I'm noticing an increase in the number of speakers. uh, uh, folks going up with Bluetooth speakers, boom boxes, whatnot. It's, it's getting, it's starting to get to be quite a bit. And, um, I mean, it's annoying to those who just want a nice hike, uh, it, but I'm sure the neighbors don't love it either. Um, so it's something I would, I would love to look for whether it's a signage issue or, or something else, it would be nice to address. Okay. If there's no other items, any commissioner or CSAP announcements? Yes, please.

I have quite a few announcements of upcoming events. So as you know, summer was very, very busy. And as you saw in the film, we had quite a huge success. But we are starting to go into fall. And so I have some announcements. We're having the Rec Club, a free ASP for 5 to 12 year olds, hosted at all the community center locations. So that's going to be starting, these are the after school programs, and they include pickup locations at Bordwell, Nichols, OT, Reed, and Vegas, and we're offered for only $30. So programs include outdoor play, crafts, board games, and reading activities. So this is what we're offering to our young people. We are really excited because flag football registration is starting next month. We're also having adult volleyball and basketball registration starting next month. So we had our first ever volleyball coed consortium this summer. It was very successful. We have a lot of senior programs coming up. We're having the Senior Expo at Dale's Community Center this Wednesday from 8 to 10 in the morning. And then also on Thursday, we're having a luau at the Senior Center, and that's going to be at lunchtime from 11 to 1. We're also having the Eldertainment for our seniors, and that's going to be at La Sierra Community Center. And then also, okay, so that's on the 25th. There's a lot going on at La Sierra. And then we're having also a luncheon and a barnyard brunch at La Sierra on the 27th. So I think, you know, every day in the week practically there's things going on. Also wanted to mention that our staff is having our summer barbecue and pickleball tournament on September 1st. So we might need some pickleball instructions. Just saying. Just saying. We might need to learn how to play pickleball. So those are all of our announcements. Keep in mind that fall is very, very busy. So I'm sure at the next commission meeting we'll have even more announcements.

All right. Well, if that's all, our next regular Parks and Recreation Commission meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 21, 2026, at 6.30 p.m. It is 8.02, and this meeting is now adjourned.