Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Okay. You can go ahead. Okay. Hello everybody. Good evening. I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. If I could have everybody please rise for the pledge of allegiance. flags over here. Please place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. And then if we could get a roll call as soon as you're ready, please. Okay. Uh, Commissioner Laura is um having difficulty finding the door, so he may be here, but he's not present currently. Uh, Commissioner Flores is absent. Commissioner Almanza, present. Commissioner Negret present. Commissioner Harris is absent. Commissioner Aramenta present. Commissioner Alvarado present.

Commissioner Salass Sele Salass is absent. I apologize. Commissioner Martin present. And Sly and Carter present. Okay. Thank you everybody. All right. So I don't think we have any, but I'm going to go into it. Do we have any public comments tonight? I don't see anybody. No public comments. So, let's go ahead and move over to presentation. If we can start where the consent calendar, where are the do I have a motion to approve the minutes? So, moved. Second.

All right. All in favor of approving the minutes, uh, say I. I. All post say nay. Any abstains? Motion passes. Okay. Moving on. Action items. Two. Election of chair and vice chair. All right. So, if I remember this time, we start off with nominations, right? Yes. Okay. Oh,

so if I could if I could start. I've had a it's been a great run being the chair getting this off it it was it was awesome um get when I first started we didn't have any meetings going on and then seeing some meetings coales and us kind of form and I'm kind of excited to see where we are going in the future I I was honored to be your guy the chair for the for this last year and I'm really looking forward to the next year um in that light I know uh I would like to nominate um Trayvon as chair trouble. Sorry. Um as chair for the uh for our committee or commission.

Do you accept the nomination? Uh I accept. Yeah.

Does anybody second that? Oh yeah, he second. Okay. And you guys need to vote on that. All right. All in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose say nay. Nay. And any abstensions? No. Motion passes for one. Okay. All right. And then the vice chair going to go ahead and anybody else? Anybody can can provide nominations. You nominate yourself. You can nominate others.

Don't we have to have them present? They have to be present to to accept the nomination. I would like to nominate Brenda for vice chair. I've seen her work in the community the last year. She's been involved in a lot of stuff. Um her and went out to the CPRS conference. I really think um she can help our commission a lot in the next year. Second. I don't I don't think I'm She has to Well, she has to accept. Yeah, I don't I don't accept. No. Yeah. Thank you so much though. Yeah. I appreciate it. Yeah. We did not discuss this be beforehand. We're not allowed to. So, yeah.

So, could we nominate Loa for the chair or would that be They're not here to because we could nominate anyone but they have to be here to accept it. Correct. Okay. and Hector is uh trying to find the location. Well, in that case, I will nominate Andrina again. She went to the CPRS meeting and I have seen her a lot in the community as well and I accept. Second. All right. Any other any other nominations for vice chair? Not if they have to be present.

Okay. which is really important and I've the people here have been impressing consistently which I was very admirable and thank I thank you guys for that. So all in favor say I. I oppose. Oh for the record I forgot to get who was a second. I second. Okay. I just want to make sure. Thank you. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose say nay. Nay. Any abstensions? Motion passes 40 to one. And then now we switch right now. We have a wheelchair. No, you will still conduct this meeting. Okay. And it will be official for the next meeting that you will conduct that.

Oh, dang it. I was like, that easily. No, I'm I'm going to still be coming to all the meetings and everything, but I know. But you're still a commissioner. She's like, I'm out. He's like, I'm done. All right. So, let's move on to our next action item. Three, meeting length time frame. Um, so this action item was brought forth by Commissioner Negr. You want to open discussion?

Yeah. Um, I would like to see this meeting with the expansion of one hour. We I I believe this can be done in one hour because if we receive the presentations ahead of time, it would just be more like submitting questions to see if there is the if it's necessary to have staff present. Hey, good to meet you. Good to meet you. We're just on mede. It just started. Okay. Okay. So for the record, Commissioner Lori Laura. Yes, Laura. Laura, okay. Did just join us. Okay.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. Um, so back to the discussion of Yes. So is there was there I didn't hear a motion. Is there something? I have a question. Um, I remember at the last commission meeting we talked about this and it was stated that there was already a time frame um, in the bylaws and everything. Can staff speak to what that time frame is already that's already established.

Meetings. meetings. 10 minutes.

It only says that if you're going to be more than 5 minutes, we push the hot button on your seat. You get a pretty good sound. Yeah, I know that. Do you remember where the city's office said it was? That's the problem a long time. I used to work in department 2013 like all the product. We got a lot of good staff. Yeah, it's good to know. Yeah. Is this a posting?

Got back in right now like recently. No, we started last year the commission and we missed like last meeting but we've been having more consistent. When I started we missed like three meetings like no but now it's getting more which is fantasy. The first couple times I was having trouble finding the location. It is confusing. Can you imagine this information to other

is it the general bylaws are specific for this commission? They're all all the pertaining to specific these are upcoming all advisory commissions. Do you have your book with you? There is one element that's slightly differentiate um based off what type of commission is like copies for each but everything else is extra. Sometimes I like a put on Facebook, Instagram, whatever.

Some um it's a good to the parks department. So just posting and stuff. We don't have the amount of money. Yeah, I think of you around. Can we table it for further discussion? The bylaws are typically specific to each commission with the sake of what your purpose is and so forth, but they have the same guideline. I remember just a long time ago, I don't know what it is recently, it used to set an hour and a half limit. Um, I don't know if that's accurate now. It's a a two-hour limit, right?

It's a two-hour limit. So, you're asking to amend the bylaws for 1 hour meeting. Mhm. Specifically,

sorry. Um, okay. So, with that being said, that there's in the bylaws, it states that there is a limit to these meetings for two hours. Um, is that such a thing though? I didn't see it, but I just was kind of quickly going through it. But could we table it then so we can like further look into this? That'll move it along. Is that your motion? Yeah. I make a motion to table this for the next meeting. Okay, we're going to we're going to we have a move to table. Second. Second move. Um all right. All in favor of tableabling this to the next meeting. I

say I I already Any oppose? Say nay. Any abstensions. All right. Motion passes unanimously.

All right. Thank you everybody. We're gonna move on to the department director report. Miss Benza. All right. Good evening everybody. Um so first up um uh in attendance we have uh Meta Suma and Michael Shakura. They're both managers within the department. Um they're going to go ahead and and give share an update um of the divisions under their purview. So right now uh senior services and athletics is under Mitch. So Mitch, you want to take it over?

Sure thing. Um, I get to start off with the best stuff which is the senior activities. I mean, because that's what we're doing, right? We're going into a grain of the community, are we not? Anyhow, um, you should have a set of flyers there, which isformational, and I encourage you to come to any one of these activities that are there. And I'm just going to highlight the top one, which is Cinco de Mile. We do in senior services that we have two different um, senior centers. one at Fifth Street um the Fifth Street Senior Center and one at Parisel the Paris Hill Senior Center. Um each of them serves a different uh demographic of senior um per se um but we do similar events. We we'll actually do events that are related to the holidays and things like that. So there's 12 to 14 of them a year at each location there. And so I'm just highlighting the next one which is Cinco de Mile coming up right around the corner. Um, and then you'll have in there one on senior movie dates. We get a reduced rate. It's on Tuesdays at a certain time. Um, and you get to see the most current movies that are out there right here at the Regal Theater. Regal Theater is a great asset for Sanernardino. It always has been. Don't forget the Sterling one up up by um on the northeast end there as well. But we we go to downtown one and um

um it it'll be anywhere from five seniors to 30 seniors. It all depends and and then they meet and get they get the reduced um uh fee there and uh have a thing of popcorn and a drink and um they love it because they get to socialize with somebody else. You know, you can turn that on your own screen. Each one of us has what 85 inch screens nowadays or but there's something different for the seniors. They like to get together when they do those kinds of things. Um uh the mom paw brunch is coming up kind of celebrates both Mother's Day and Father's Day, right? You know, right around that that day and so forth. And there you can read those activities or get involved in that kind of stuff. The one I'm really excited about though is we're going to go to the newly renovated California Theater this Saturday. still tickets available to go to that performance. The Prince of Egypt, which of course is the story of Moses and the Exodus and things of that nature. Um, but if you haven't gone, the California Theater is almost 100 years old. Almost. It's two day It's two years short of that is August the 15th or 16th, something like that. Um, it's fascinating. We just went to and Thank you for coming there. What's fantastic is that the world at SER 216 is only one of 12 out there and it's the only one in the world that's operational right now. Um,

and it was just renovated by a company out of Glendora, I think it was something of that nature. And the whole um, we spent $6 something million dollars on renovating the theater. And here's an opportunity for you to go there as part of our intergenerational programming. Bring mom and dad, grandma, bring your children, all that kind of stuff. Bring great grandparents and sign up for the tickets beforehand. you meet at the Fifth Street Senior Center um for a eats and treats kind of activity. It's another intergenerational and you'll be doing a little craft type thing. I'm not going to share with you exactly which one what we're doing this time with grandchildren, children, grandparents, all that stuff. It's fun. And then you'll have a a a simple little lunch type thing. And then from there, we give you the tickets and you walk on over, it's two blocks away, or you drive on over, whichever you wish, to the California Theater and watch the um live performance of Prince of Egypt. Um so, um I'm excited about this. I went and saw the one um uh that they did back when in Frozen um at that theater and it was fantastic. It was great just to be there with my um my daughter and my uh mother-in-law. Um so anyhow uh what else we got? Uh P pastries is another intergenerational um again you're doing a different project um with intergenerational um uh attendees. So of all ages, you know, isn't it great to get the wisdom of your grandma um with her little grandchildren there and all that kind of stuff. Um we we hold that at different sites and centers and so forth. That's what the fly is all about. um so that you can get that information if you want. Just dance is just to show you that's one of the activities that we do um as well twice a month typically. Some holiday months we might only do it once a month, that kind of stuff. Um where

they learn especially the most um the most soughtafter senior age one is still line dancing. So you know especially country line dancing um um but there's sometimes there's aspects of ballroom dance and things of that nature. If you don't know how to do the fox trop or the waltz or whatever it is, come on out and um just learn by doing because this is more participatory type thing. And you'll get anywhere from 40 to 80 of seniors coming out to these dances. Mitch on the on this one you said just once a month. Is that once a month on the just dance? Uhhuh. Usually twice a month. Oh, okay. Is there a need for the DJs during holiday seasons and so

is there a need for DJs or is there a need for DJs? Um it's done by a particular um volunteer or volunteer group in this regard. I haven't had that um request. Um however, I can get you an answer down the road if you if you have DJ. My neighbor has a whole set that's really awesome and I asked him to volunteer for the volunteer too. So we don't spend money on that on that type of which is great you know bring someone in you know

thank you for asking because every now and then because we used to have some DJs at different events and so forth and you know three years later they want to change they they need a little even though anyhow we're always searching for those kinds of things. Okay. So, um lose track of that. Um and then there's another flyer here on the uh the Feeding America group. Um this is one of the food distribution um um type activities we have. We seem to see a lot of um seniors

um but it's not only for seniors. It's for the needing things of that nature. um to where we actually have food giveaways, food commodity programs that not food feeding. We have that as well. We'll talk about the nutrition program at some other meeting um down the road. But right now, we're going to just highlight the um the food commodities programs um that we do have. Um and you can find all this stuff on our website obviously through the city and through the department and things of that nature if you want more specifics because there's too much to talk about. I usually overdo my talking. Um, Vanessa hasn't kicked me just yet. Um, and then I I've highlighted the masquer the This is fantastic. They the seniors actually vote for a king and queen. And so the um our theme is masquerade um this year and it's a senior prom. So June is prom days, you know, prom prom month and all that kind of stuff. Well, actually, no, just prom is usually just prepril. U sorry about that. Um um but this is fantastic because we also do this with the C by the way. Um they have a prom night as well, the center for individual um development. It's a um DVDs and things of that nature, DDS. Um but anyhow, they they crown a king and queen. And no, it's not um husband and wife because you can imagine senior age. We don't have a lot of husband and wife still. The one couple that is will probably get it every year, right? You know, that kind of stuff. I still this there's a lot of single seniors obviously. Um that's that um the an activity that we just went through and there's no flyer on it or anything like that was the um senior volunteer um recognition event and that's m we we wanted to give back and

and say how much we appreciate um all your your help as a senior age uh individual and we have two programs that are federally funded um uh called the senior companion program and that in short is seniors uh 60 years of age or older helping other seniors I'm sorry 50 years of age or older senior is the qualifying age for you to get the nutrition program which I'm not going to talk about this time um but either case and then we have uh senior companion program seniors helping other senior age um individuals as well as the handicap um I'm not supposed to use that word sorry about that Um um de developmentally disabled um is a safe term. Go figure. I'm not whatever. Um and then um um the uh retired and senior volunteer program, RSVP, uh which is basically um senior age volunteers helping the community through a variety of different um programs, activities, events, um uh feeding programs to um um the uh neighborhood watch type that's with with um or helping with a sheriff's department filing type things or whatever it might be, those kinds of things. um helping at a at a uh the community center feeding um stuff to just a variety of ways of helping the community back. Um but I really wanted to run and we had that event with some fun, some game playing, some music, some dance, uh karaoke, all that kind of stuff. Um but um I I really want to share with you the importance of the senior age volunteers. And this is some some great facts from Americanore who's who helps fund those. We also have um our own department's senior age volunteers that help us that

help us out and so forth. Um that event had um over 200 or right around 200 that were um represented for that um for all their efforts this past year and all that kind of stuff um through those three different programs. Um but um I just want to read it real quickly between September 2022 and 2023. This is information that comes from Americanore. It's a it's a federal government that um basically has volunteer programs um including Vista and grandparents um um etc and so forth. Between 2022 and 2023, 54% of Americans, 137.5 million people informally helped friends, neighbors, or community members at least once a month. Additionally, more than 28% of Americans, 75.7 million people, formally volunteered, giving more than 4.99 billion hours of service. That's an e estimated economic value of 167.2 billion. That's what you're talking about. That comes from volunteers. Um, and this wasn't just senior volunteers. This is all volunteers. Um, that's a lot of effort there. And I also want to re uh remind everybody in 2026 uh uh it's a historic milestone. Um it's our 250th anniversary of of the Declaration of Independence, right? Um well, there's going to be a year's celebration. It's called America 250. Um once in a generation event, by the way, um and it says, I wanted to read this. Um, America Gives, which is an America 250 initiative, um, communities nationwide will unite to make 2026 a record setting year for volunteerism. So imagine that a value of 167.2 billion

between 20 2022 and 2023. CO hit us in 2020. Um, so you can imagine because those numbers were way down, right? you know, and so two years after COVID and that's one 167.2 billion. Can you imagine what that is going to be for the 250th? That's a lot of volunteerism. And so I just want to point that out that we're we're happy to have those kinds of programs because they they're a very good benefit to this whole community. Um I want to talk about the grandparents day celebration really quick. That's in September. Um last year's grandparents day celebration was fun. If you weren't there, you missed out. Um had 700 plus in attendance.

Um we didn't end up having the watermelon eating contest, but we ended up giving it out and that was just like a blast and everybody was just kept coming at that kind of stuff. And we had I had watermelon grinds and all that kind of stuff all over the place to pick up later. Um but that's only one of the things from karaoke to dancing to an art type thing that you can do. It was all intergenerational. We had some some kids games and slides and uh things of that nature. Um karaoke is an understatement though. Those were some acts that went in and sung. Yes. Wow. It was amazing.

Now let's spin off of that one because this year it's on September the 13th and talk about the Olly McDonald showcase. Um senior showcase. Uh we do that for every year. It's an honor of a of a community member who was a senior who had some great performing um skill sets way back when and helped the community out in in so many ways here well before my time frame. Um and that individual was Olly McDonald, but it was named after him because we have um um there's anywhere between it all depends uh which years and all that kind of stuff. COVID killed us and we started building back up, but there's about 20 to 40 performers. Um they're all senior age. Uh, a lot of them are song and dance um routines. We've had magicians before. We've had jugglers and that kind of stuff. Um, but most of those talents are singing and there's some awesome stuff. Um, there's even some comic things that uh some years it just they they dress in weird things and say world stuff and sing weird stuff and it's it can be funny. It can be entertaining. They can be it. It's it's you wouldn't believe that what what experience these performers have, you know, in the past talking about vaudeville acts and all that kind of stuff. Um, and we're happy to to grab a lot of seniors from Sanino, but they're also the Inland Empire um that come here and they showcase that kind of stuff before family and friends. Obviously, we would love the community to come out, but who wants to come out to see a bunch of seniors perform and you're missing something because you should. Um, so we see a lot of family and friends uh in the audience. Two or 300 um individuals. We'd love to push that up to five or 600 because this is some pretty good talent. It really is. You You'd be amazed. Um we should move on into sports. Um uh youth and adult sports and outdoor activities. Um uh outdoor facilities,

that kind of stuff. Those are those are u everything from uh pickle ball courts which are growing in in attendance over at Paris Hill. It goes up and down depends upon if we have a lighting system working right or not. Um but I I want to highlight the team volleyball program um that I think we've had now two seasons of that. Um it's getting more and more um so we found another connection of the community that we needed to serve. um teenage uh girls. Um and it makes a whole lot of sense. Um um especially since the opportunities are basically only there for the girls usually um high school, you know, and so we want to get them geared in that direction. This is what they can do non-school to stay conditioned and all that kind of stuff. Um and we just get some that just love it for recreational value alone. Um and things of that nature. um the youth flag football program for different age groups and so forth. Um it's coming up um again um in May. Um uh it's it's a standard for us. Uh um and you you have a flyer on that. It's not all the programs that we do, but I just want to highlight a few. Um and then let's talk about some of the adults. Um the adult men's basketball league is always popular. Um sometime you get these teams that are just fantastic just kill everybody. So some of the losing teams because when you get to adults it's all competition, right? But we have to not forget that we're examples to our children. If our children, four out of five um ages um seven to 16 I think what the ages were are either overweight or obese. Sports programs are very necessary are very nec necessary activity. Adults, you

need to set the the um standard. Okay? So, get into our programs, make time for it. If a 62 year old like me can make time to go out there and run um three times a week just to stay heart healthy, I think you guys could do it, too. Um get into one of these basketball programs. At least it's not running all the time, but um I hate running, but I do it because I want to. stay hard, healthy, you know, um just play a game of pickle ball. At least you're moving there. If you can't get into tennis because that's a lot more exercise for you, but um pickle ball is great because of the socializing aspect of it. It's for teens love it too, by the way. It's not just something that seniors um they love that aspect. Um so if you have a teenager who didn't like to get into um the traditional team sports or whatever it is, they don't feel like they're good enough. Everybody's good. It's it's ping pong on a tennis court. That's what it is. Um um it's great for the teenage crowd as well. Um we're always looking for officials. They get paid a small amount per game, okay? And they take a lot of abuse and I'm not trying to talk you out of it. We need officials, okay? Um um so if you have even a teenage 16 year old or whatever it might be um we found them to be um um in need as well uh because they're they they love to gather any experience that they can um work experience etc and so forth. So with that, I think I'll pass it on to Mr. um Shakura over here. We'll talk about some of the other activities that we do.

Thank you. I got halfway through reading our use. I'll keep talking if you want

the other half of the meeting and get the other half through hopefully we'll find our uh length of time answer at that point. Uh Michaela, manager for parks and wreck. I oversee as it says uh currently C aquatics and community centers. Um I two things two sets of flyers you were given. Um basically I didn't want to overload you with every single program that every facility in aquatics and C is doing. And C is not in here. We're in the midst of revamping and doing all of our our flyers for the upcoming summer and programming. So, I apologize that you didn't get a set for C, but I can cover that information as well. But the first set you have or one of the sets you have is basically just a kind of synopsis of every community center, the four that we have currently that are open and the Monday through Saturday programming and what's going on at every facility. So you can kind of see there there's everything from opportunities for seniors which they have specific opportunities at the senior centers themselves as well as there's opportunities in conjunction with the senior programming that's done at the community centers as well as well as we have programming everything from preschool all the way up to your teenage uh children programming wise you know 17 years of age. Uh there is adult programming for uh you know fitness, everything from fitness to playing cards and things of that nature. But I let you to read those items. Uh aquatics wise, you know, we're heavily preparing for the upcoming summer, which is expected to be very hot. San Bernardino, it's hot anyways. Um, this just gives you I just wanted to print out stuff for upcoming some of the presummer programming that's upcoming. Everything that's listed here that's presummer wise also rolls into uh

summer-wise and then expands even further into, you know, Monday mornings and evening programming and then we start up in June of seven days a week programming. Uh so that that's in a nutshell what you have and again everything is from preschool level programming all the way to adult level programming senior programming as it relates to swim lessons for six months all the way to there's no age limit for your adult level swimmer. So we get and everybody in between there. So we have it available for everybody. Currently programming is being done at the center for individual development which is our uh dedicated facility for adaptive programming or which houses um our sunshine club, our merixers, uh wiggleworms, those are all adaptive programs. Uh wiggleworms is a newer program that's more for our younger ages, hence the word wiggleworms. Our younger level kids, it's more geared towards them. uh Mary Mixers and Sunshine Club are kind of the the younger middle age and then more of our adult age groups that are available. So again, we hit all the levels there. Uh CB obviously has a pool there. So we do incorporate a lot of our adaptive programs have water activity time as well that's dedicated specifically to um our adaptive uh facilities. And I also want to uh reiterate that with us going into and finishing up our master plan, part of our master plan parks master plan is that uh as a city and in doing this for quite a while in many many different cities. Uh the city here has taken big strides in ensuring that our master plan incorporates and includes

adaptive programming across the board. It's not an approach of yeah, we have programming for people with special needs, but you go over there and you do it over there. It's people with special needs. Adaptive programming is available at every single one of our facilities. So, all of our community centers have the tools that they need are receiving the training, the staff are receiving the training that they need to be able to work with people of special needs instead of, oh, your child has a special need. you should go over there. That's not inclusion, okay? We want to be an inclusive environment in which we welcome everybody in regardless and that's where we're striving for and making really really good strides in doing that. So, the city itself should be very proud of that approach that we're taking. Um, I know we don't want to run long, so I'm more than happy to answer any questions people might have about programming, but that's in a nutshell what we have.

Anybody have any questions? A lot to digest. We have a lot going on in our department. I just have I did have a question about But I think it's 50, right? Um, what age qualifies you for all the senior activities? Is it 50? It all depends. Um, but the rough rule of thumb would be 58 years and older, but it all depends. The the meal program to technically get it for free or to have it to be a contribution kind of a setting um is supposed to be 60 and older. It all depends. And then there's like driving classes you can have and that's for 55 and older. So it depends on the um like the event or the

activity you're not there saying give me your ID you know so if you look retirement age and and above average um that's why with the new within sorry Mitch within the aging services it's not you know seen you know specific senior services now is the baby boomers are retiring but they're not seniors they're active older adults that I mean he he's 62 and he runs you know what 12 miles a week average 15 to 20 see

so um so it's more you know to be able to to the senior centers are more of like active adults that want to continue to engage in um social activities and you know the dances are they're they're moving and grooving and gring's like I can't get that low but I think now they are. So um that's that there's certain parameters around certain program based like Mitch was saying about the the nutrition program um there's also donation base to go that goes to it. So if you're not really quite over 60 um but there's other programs that are kind of more specific but overall it's retirement age and above.

Okay. Thank you. And then I have a question about like are these I mean because I've never been to like a senior event are how like how well are they attended? I'm not asking for like numbers or anything, but just to get an idea. And then I this might go into department marketing but where do you guys market this the things for the seniors because I don't hear about it but I'm also not a senior so I don't know like I'm not part of that scene so I'm not hearing about it or

like and I'm just curious because um I just I I love all these things for them and I think it's really important for their like well-being and like their quality of life. So like I'm just curious like if they're everybody's kind of hearing about it to get the opportunity to go. You you have um if I can simplify it which is not this simple but if I can simplify it. You have an age of retirement

where that individual that just retired and let me give just one fact and I I'll prove this in a minute. For instance, the average age of our senior companion is seniors helping other seniors that they take them grocery shopping and or they shop for them, medical appointments, make sure that's taken care of, all that stuff. So, the senior can live at home independently instead of moving into another place and all that kind of stuff. Um, because families sometimes just can't make it all work themselves.

Um, the average age of that individual is 70. I guess it's 69.8 or something like 70 years of of age. So, you have two sets. You have these recent retired and what do they want to do? Travel across with the RV, go on um trips to Europe and all that kind of stuff. They're not in they their mindset at that point in time is not local. Does that make sense? Yeah. U and so the the seniors that we see at our facilities are definitely the fixed income aspect of things is so paramount um because you you live in a poor community.

Everything about Sanino is lower

or higher in whatever like poverty is higher whichever one than either the the uh county nation the county state or nation. So you can call yourselves a poor community. So those activities that you would see, you're going to have somebody come to a meal program, but before the meal program, maybe they did the ex the yoga exercise class with a chair and all that kind of stuff. And so um and or afterwards they're participating in the the knitting or uh crocheting class that that class um might have six participants and an exercise class might have 30 debated by what you know and where what what time that that they come and then the second question was promoting it and how you find out about it and all that kind of stuff. Um believe you me seniors communicate on their own. They have this method of doing it. So, you know, and and they're not quite as I'm trying to be simplified, though. They're just not quite as techsavvy as us um as excuse me as the younger crowd. So, it's not necessarily a social media marketing, but there is it's growing. It's changing. Um, but word of mouth seems to be the best because they'll go to to they want that bus pass from the county for instance and then they step into the meal program and maybe do whatever it is. So, you know, they're lined up for that bus pass and you don't have to advertise that. Once you get started in it, you're done. I mean, each month that it happens or twice a month or whichever it happens that way. Um, you've got the immediate. So, so what they look from parks and recreation um it's mind and and body active activities. That's our service delivery. That's what we do. Recreation and leisure to them is important. It extends their life. Um it makes quality of life longer for them. Um and things

of that nature. So that's kind of like the frame of mind. People want and need that when they get of a certain age, right? So you don't have to sell them on. Yeah. And in regards to your question about um participation um averages anywhere from you know 20 30 up to over 200 um it just depends on the activity the volunteer recognition um they had I think what just under 200 just under 200 but for the for the actual recognition itself um I got there after for during the dance portion because it was extended

um and there was still about 125 adults, you know, moving and grooving. Um, so it just depends on the type of activity and whatnot. Um, yes, Mitch is, you know, a lot of it is word of mouth. Uh, flyers do do help. Um, and then to answer a quick question about marketing and then we'll get more into it as we get to the the item. Um, the we now have moved to one account. Um, so as a department, we're one account. So all um divisions within our department are under one. So that is the goal to help extend the olive branch of just specific the seniors because it was like you know seniors passing off to seniors you know the um the uh aged um the complexes where um assisted living you know they would share fires there send information out to there.

That's awesome. I have a quick question. So I would imagine the recreation the recreation centers they have a plethora of information on near the spin thing also too. Do we um have one of those at the senior centers at the downtown the senior living facility like flyers? Do we um

different senior assisted living locations that are not cedar as much as possible? And you wouldn't believe how um some of them are already Fifth Street for instance has four different senior complexes right around. They just walk to it, you know, and so they share that stuff in the break rooms and all that kind of stuff automatically or the person that happens to have the ability to drive

picked up two or three of their other um senior age friends whenever they do something together and all that kind of stuff and they will take it to their own places. I found some stuff at at Goodyear on on baseline that was some senior type activities and programming. So, somebody there probably was a participant or something and just bring some flowers and sticks them on on the lobby thing. You know, I've always said go after laundromats, um people that are waiting for something, automotive places and so forth because they're looking for something to read or to do. They're not jumping on their phone obviously, but um uh stuff like that. Sounds like we're doing good with spreading the word.

Yeah, barber shops and all that kind of stuff. So, it it it there's a variety of things. I didn't want to downplay like social media and all that stuff. I'm just saying and yeah, it never stops and it's always, you know, evolving. Yes. Channel 3. You're going to go and start calling and looking at that stuff because you guys all want to go to Prince of Egypt this Saturday. Tickets. Okay. Get them. Yes, there's still tickets. Michael's looking at the movie theaters. But any other questions on or Michael or Mitch? No. Just want to say thank you.

Definitely appreciate it. I've been to a lot of events over the last year. Always impressed by the work of the staff. Oh, and especially at this last Easter event and stuff. The volunteers that you have got gotten working on the kids and the youth. Amazing. Um they do great. It's a great experience uh for them. So I'm really really impressed with that. So thank you

without the community and the community groups from the neighborhood association to the neighbor themselves to the service groups from rotaries to whatever it is to key club at uh um Sanji High and you know all the other high schools have their own groups and clubs as well to the college type stuff. U Sanino is blessed. We we are able to do a variety of things. Sanino had more facilities per capita than any of the surrounding places. And I worked in in Fontana, too. They were the second best and all that kind of stuff, but Sanino has the highest per capita than any anybody um with park and open space. And to have multiple community centers, a senior center is more geared more activities towards senior age, but that's a community center, too. It doesn't go without that community support. And I'm I am proud to live here and to have that kind of support from people. Um it's just amazing. Um school district, I didn't even mean to leave that out neither, you know, because they have so many different resources and they're they're they're very helpful with everything that we do. We try to partner with everybody, the county, um different providers there as well. Maybe we can get more into the regional parks though because they seem to be standoffish.

I've seen that. All right. Um, next, uh, 2026 events calendar. So, you have the I'm not going to go right here. Events calendar. Oh, the bottom off a little bit. Um, we had to pivot on the Arbor Earth Day. So, now it's next Saturday, the 25th, instead of it was um or anticipated the 11th, but there was supposed to be a lot of rain and then it went elsewhere. So, uh, next month, May, we kick off with our, um, movie, our Starlight Cinema, movies in the park. Um, and then we're working on, you know, all the other great things. But the the full event calendar gives you the breakdown from now until the end of the year. So, there is that. All right. Um, we'll go on to real quick uh, CIP updates. Um, Nicholson is park is 98% done. Uh, punch list um is getting worked out. Um, so we are um looking at um a few tenative dates for ribbon cutting um grand opening to the park. Um we're looking at either the end of May or middle of June. We're trying to figure out um there's several um state key stakeholders that um would be very valuable to participate in the the ribbon cutting. We want to make sure that everyone's schedule schedules align. Um we have a lot going on. Um so once we have a date set, we'll an invitation ready to go. We'll get that out. Um and then uh Second Lake um if you've driven by there, you see a lot more development going up. Playground's complete. Um

the second modular was installed last week. So that has the concession and restrooms. Um the smaller one was installed last month. Was it last month? Like last month smaller modular with uh their prefab restrooms. um next to the uh one of the gazeos by it. A lot of pavement um has been completed. The new basketball courts have been completed. Um a lot of landscaping is being done. The gazebo's pretty much done. They're fine-tuning that. Um and then the extension of the um the land swap. Um it's not really I don't think it's not called land swap anymore this time. Um but we we have received additional five million from Ramos's office and so with that we're looking at the additional um walkable um ADA path of travel. Um we're looking at um the the lake the lake itself is a priority making sure that filtration water you know cleaned um all of that is elements um into that as well as uh pickle ball courts are going to be um getting added to there that location. Um we're looking at parking lot, another restroom on the northern end. Uh the dog park dog park is going to get some um some love as well. Uh so we're trying to really stretch out uh that additional $5 million um because we also have to factor in construction and materials and all that stuff. So um but yeah, it's coming along. uh been out there a couple times to see it, you know, and and just to see the transformation and just stand there and like this is going to be amazing. It's going to be amazing. Uh so yeah, excited for that. Um new Mark uh

um field um lighting that has finally couple little things, minor things that need to be done. Um but overall all the new lights are energized and they've been working. Uh so the little league has definitely been um uh overly maximized. I could say that. Just say excited and excited. Uh but the families, the parents be able to play um and use all three fields during the week at night. It's been great. Um now

now they're going to have a parking problem. Yeah. Now the parking. They've always had a parking problem. So, uh the neighbors are like, "Oh, they got more. They got lights." Okay. So, uh new technology. Um LED lighting. So, um yeah. Uh which goes into Spiker Park. Um still moving along. Um been some grading has been done. Uh fencing has been done. The concession restroom has been getting worked on. Um that project is um is is moving. Um that's kind of the main ones there. Okay. Uh actually La Plaza um we the architect um finishing up some renderings um and there's some elements that have to be looked at from an engineering um safety and safety standpoint. So, all of that is being reviewed um and we will hopefully um have the architectural designs be reviewed by building safety um and permitting so that we can make sure that everything all the elements that are supposed to be in place are in place and um any permitting wise that they have all the um uh logistics and aligned up. Um, the other one that uh that kind of hurts and I'll probably start crying. Uh, Roosevelt Bull.

Um, it is a project. It's still going to be a project. Um, we had a little there was a little mishap over the weekend. Um, yes, I I went Monday morning, myself and the public works director, we walked it, you know, well, he went in. Uh, I just kind of peaked my head in. um it just owes a lot and however um it's okay. We're going to have the a structural engineer come out and do an assessment of the building and seeing if what is able to be used within the framework um before we move what determine what our options are. if we can use the structure um with some additional um foundation and structure work or is it going to pay a complete um tear down? If so, then we got to go back to the architect and now they got to add that scope of element and design into the project because um the designs architectural designs were approved by building and safety and and public works was ready was preparing the documents to go to council for approval so that we can get out to the RFQ for construction. So, we're dialed back a little bit, but um it's not too bad. Um, so we'll go from there.

That's a 1930s public works project. Is there security at that park or what? There's security through the the the Redwood. Um, they roam around throughout the whole city. So, there's not someone dedicated standing there. No, there's not. with the location moving forward after this, would they benefit from having one of those portable police lights like the ones that they have the the camera with? Yes, ma'am. Do we know what started the fire? Uh, it's under still under investigation by county. Yeah. But wait, it was arson or arson from what I read, right?

Uh, it's all speculation until the the the inspection reports come back. Yeah, I do have a question. So, when um these uh rangers or when they um go to the parks, do they actually get out of their cars and like look in the vacant buildings just to make sure that they're clear of of people or uh Yeah, they do. Um they get a lot of calls. Um we have 37 37 parks to go through.

It's not just a cruise drive by. They actually it's a case by case, situation by situation. if they see things, you know, there's, you know, municipal codes for park closures. Um, so if they see activity, then that, you know, they'll go, they'll assess it. I get, um, incident reports and, um, daily reports. Yeah, I get daily reports every morning. Um, and then when it's late at night and I get an incident report, I'm like, what's happening? So, um, and that could be even like, uh, we've had vehicles, you know, unfortunately, get abandoned in parking lots, and so, yeah,

we're heading to Ruin Compos day at 2 a.m. for the for the police alarm to meet the police. It never ends. Building Yeah. building alarms going off, false alarms. Yes. Um, question to take it back to La Plaza. I've been getting a lot of calls from the community. um a lot of concern and in the spirit of uh community oversight and accountability. The reason that we're here during the meeting there was sticky notes and there was one of the uh consultants that was taking notes. I'm glad to hear that there's an architectural design up is there how were these uh how was the input from the sticky notes and the other note incorporated and was it put in an Excel sheet? How was it digitized in order for it to be analyzed?

I'm not sure how they put it on their end. Yeah. Is that something that I mean it's our contract. Can we ask that to so we can ensure our community members that their input was um second with that I know I know if we've emailed and stuff we haven't been able to get a confirmation on that park closure. We won't until because as the architect and the design so um right now we're already middle of April. I mean, it may not be till, you know, maybe in a few months,

which which is great, but can we get some confirmation that the park won't be shut down before Route 66, so that way the community can plan around that? Uh I can't give out any information until we get in concrete and we work with but I mean I just just mathematically it doesn't seem like they're per pulling permits and everything wise it doesn't seem like it would be achievable even with the RFQ um going and not even being ready yet. Um, we'll look at the time. I'll work with public works and work look at the timeline and but I can't get out information to the public that isn't concrete, but we can look at the um, yes, we'll look at work with

and maybe Yeah, maybe it's not maybe something we I can follow up with public works or if it's on that end uh, for the timeline. Oh, no. Because it's it's a it's a park project, so it would come through as far as But there still be permitting and stuff through them, right? Yes, they do handle the engineering and permitting part. So they would have they still you know communicate through us as well. Yeah. But the the timeline I guess would be dependent on their engineering and deadlines and whatever when when we have concrete information it'll get shared with the community. Yes.

On the average looking at the where it's at in this cycle from the design and and then uh RFPs to go out for construction and all that kind of stuff plus setting up whoever receives it has to set up a schedule. They have to um uh uh order supplies, do all that kind of stuff. Depending upon what the whole thing is, you're probably talking probably on the average six months out at least. Yeah, probably. Um but even but okay, that's still before November,

right? So, who knows? But again, when we'll work on the communication with the public works and the architect and and when we have um act uh more confirmed information, then we'll be able to share. Awesome. And then the third question on that, there was $1.3 million allocated by uh Baka last May uh to that park. questions. Um the community members that attended the master plan meeting, they want to ensure that that money is being allocated to La Plaza and is not being lumped in for the priorities uh for the other parts of the master plan.

No, the money any money that is grant funded, federal funded, state funded, any funding that's allocated to a project goes to that project. Yeah. And I not sure where that may have been. No, it is that it's re I think they they just want some confirmation reaffirmation that the money that was that was received at the park was going directly same it goes back to the same the money that was designated to south of park and water field and Gutierrez Park. uh were so well I but I understand but with the you know what happens in the city there was money designated for that hotel downtown and it ended up in a CFO

as as adviserss of the commission and sharing that and that information that the project funds go to especially if it's specific CH congressman Negular with Roosevelt Boing as well as Nicholson Park um Ramos office with Sakum um the money go stays within that um that they can always public records request. Yeah. Or or ask the commissioners, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but we got to do one, too. Oh, yeah.

Even the process of public scrutiny along the way. Council will be approving everything which puts it out to the public. You have an opportunity to look at things, talk about things, all that kind of stuff. But yes, the projects are set up with specific designated funds and numbers, and they even have follow-up meetings on the status reports and all that kind of stuff. You can't hide this money. It is right there for that purpose. Usually we don't have enough or we're searching for other sources to complete the projects, throwing them to phase twos and phase threes. So by all means there should be no complaint that says we use the money elsewhere.

Yeah. And everything is uh has to be um tracked, documented as things get audited. Reports have to be submitted um quarterly by annually annually. So and even after the fact uh there's reporting even up to 5 years afteration. I I investigate a lot of of the reports and stuff and it so you know the process. Yeah, I know the I know the I know the process and I know in the back end a lot of it doesn't get done and I mean that's why I have a job.

So that that's why I want to make sure that it's being that our money is being accounted for especially where the lack of lacks oversight that we've had over these last years and that's all the community is asking for and that's what I'm asking for.

Um all right. um department marketing an ask of what you know as far as our typical marketing plan. Um so flyers is a big element. Um we do posters anywhere from um uh tabloid um up to um A-frame size posters which is 24 by 36. Uh we go into banners. Uh these were banners that could be hung inside a building or even outside. We have what our standard um language in within our department is fence line banners. So you'll see them along fences of community centers um and and parks. Um and some uh occasions and funding as well. Well, we we've done yard signs. We put them at different locations at the parks. Um and then of course we have our broch our triannual brochure. Um we have one that's just dedicated just to the summer. And then we have our um so we have it every four months. It's a four four month brochure um that gets printed andor digitalized as well. And that covers all of the um all of the activities and events that we host. Um let's see. Um we've done postcards and mailers. Um and then we have file racks at a lot of locations. We'll take flyers um to the libraries as well. Um the libraries are always uh open to receiving flyers to share with the community as well. Um we do obviously digital marketing. We have our city website. We have our social media, Facebook, Instagram. Um for events um things that we don't do not charge for, we use Eventbrite. Um so we send send

information out through Eventbrite. um for uh um a hunt, our Easter event that we hosted, um we were able with the uh Eventbrite, we were able to kind of break it up by um the age groups of the egg hunts and that actually helped us with being able to track how many children were going to be coming into the egg hunt and what um I think in total we had over um one, two, three, four, well over 500 plus registered through Eventbrite. So, we kind of broke it up by each of the age groups and then of course those that were there uh we had a quadruple that uh I think of the years uh this was our biggest.

Yeah, for sure. Um and just we made some tweaks in logistics which that helps um a lot more shade in the areas. Um we'll make some more tweaks next year pro not sure if we'll be at L Creek but we'll see. Um so yeah so Eventbrite is used um we obvious we out no obviously we outreach with the school district so we'll send them um PDFs of our flyers. They'll distribute um they can kind of uh distribute electronically by regions um and areas within um so like the Diamond Heights area will go you know they'll send anything down within the Diamond Heights to those families which I don't mind. I I love that too. Um but we're all about you know shared sharing and and everybody should be able to be you know welcome everywhere. So even if you live in, you know, all on very eastern side of the city, you should be able to, you know, go to any location, any park, whatnot. So um so we work real closely with the family engagement um the part division of the school district um and then the community outreach. We do a lot of community outreach. We're have a table at the farmers market every week. Yes, we see probably 50 60% of the same regulars, but there's always new faces every week. Um, so that's always great. Um, we get invited to a lot of tableabling at um events. Today we were at uh a Royal Valley High School. They have their college and career fair. Uh, we had staff there. Um, we get invited to a lot of college and career fairs. We get invited to a lot of um just, you know, activities with the schools. um the middle school 318

up in the the Vermont area, they host a uh cultural uh harvest festival and so we get invited uh to participate in activities and you know so uh marketing community outreach is a big element. Um uh we brand things with uh swag um from you know uh I can't even think what we've done little fidget spinners to pens and pencils um tote bags you know we use that as as well um and then um you as and commissioners are also our marketing uh canvasing outlets we partner we connect and share information with other organizations especially those that we partner with. Um it's you know they're the algorithm especially within social media it's always you know constantly going um which go leads me to the algorithm of as of uh March um our department has one department account now um which I feel uh will help really share all the activities because in one household it could be multiple generations under one household we cover multi-generation you know from infants, babies, all the way up until I mean does does Lisha know the oldest age active participant?

I don't know. It's a good question. I'm not sure. Yeah. So, we uh I mean I would say at least How old was a lady though? She was I think 79 80. And then Dolores has the she's what 84 the one one of the volunteers in SCP. Oh yeah. So I would say up for sure 100 years old we there's a 94 year old that we see I know that but I'm not really sure who

so yeah so with the marketing is being able to share and always communication um I'm always you know out networking as well um building partnerships so those are the elements of um and we typically our goal um hold on our goal is to go at least 30 um before I forget you at least min you know our minimum is at least 30 days out of an event so then we can go out and start and pushing it out. Um if we have things sooner um and it's you know 45 days out or 60 days out it's great. Um the more activity the more you know to push on that desperate.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Um would we have like a a booth at the orange show? Is that something you Oh, you stole my thunder though. We need to tell everybody, don't forget the orange show, so it's going to rain sometime, right? Is that something or it's not? It's already started. Uh it's something we can definitely connect with. Um I know we've been invited to some other activities with the Orange Show. Um um or that are hosted. I know um uh our uh with economic development and the red car race the track um

speedway the hot hot pit um or the organization um we've done things over at 66ers and we're actually partnering them with the great race in the end of June. Um so that information will be coming out as well. Um, so yes, we we we're tableabling a lot. Um, getting out.

Here's another example for you. When I leave here, I'm going to go home and beine it to um I'm in the Vertmont area. um um to Blair Park to check on the scoreboard. And I'm going to take these flyers and put it in their snack bar because they've got 50 people on the home site, 50 people on the visitor site, all residents or family members of, you know, grandma lives in Rialto or something like that. Um two games a night, five or six on Saturdays. So you do the math. 100 people there. Twice there's 200 people. If you have three fields, there's 600 people because you also add the kids themselves, 12, 13 of them on one side, 123 other side, the coaches, the board members, all that kind of stuff. So that's undershooting it. You see 600 just at Blair alone. So a couple of these flyers inside the snack bar

a long way. And if we have church, I'll probably bring something to church. Um some of the I've have the flyers RSVP and our SAP at our church groups. There's over 300 churches in San Marino. So they all have their own marketing um methods. That's what you think about. The county is one of the highest employers that we have. So you get into their break rooms, you know, on the on the board there and things and that that's the idea. Yeah. Oh, you know what? Well, I can ask the question. It might be a future agenda, but with um the commissioners being um out, you know, outreaching as well, is there ways we can get a a polo, a t-shirt or like some kind of badge to represent

being a commissioner? Um yeah, you had asked that. I did an email and so honestly I didn't get a chance to ask. uh that hasn't been I know other commissioners don't do that but I think we represent the city differently than they they do check and see what um elements of management at least with like IDs you know if I can't even get an upto-date staff shirt what should I give you I have my old staff shirts I can share it I think they're bad or something even like a trade show bad they're difficult questions how far you go with brand. Um,

it can even have an expiration date like if we're no longer a commissioner like that. Do you promise to break? Yeah, we'd have to look at it because there are some um stipulations. I know there's been some cases in other cities that people use it in official capacities, unofficial capacities, misrepresent, misrepresentation. Yeah. So we'll have to we'll look at the the and ask the legality elements and what is all lotable and not allowable um to at least in terms of like an actual like badge or whatnot. Um and also it could even say volunteer you know

just so the community knows that we're actually representing the city and we're just you know Yeah. It it makes a difference. Yeah. We were just thinking like at events. Yeah. During, you know, during events, wearing something like that at events. Okay. Of course.

Um, and then uh another element I forgot to mention about marketing that what we do is we also um send out um eblast through our registrations um software, our active net. Um uh as people register, we ask for you know emails um so that we can share information through that way as well. And that we can also um itemize it by if they registered for you know swimming, if they registered for one of like youth u with basketball or so we can really you know get into the um framework of it. So yes sir, can I just add one thing not on that but I I had forgotten to mention talking about you all coming and being at events. If you look in the packet, the the swimming packet I gave you, I believe it's the next the last page. Um I talked about it in May, but yes, in that packet next week.

Oh wow. It's water safety day. Um the last one I think is water safety day June 6. I strongly encourage all of you to make appearance. Yes.

Uh it's are going to be our fourth annual one in respect of me being leading the charge of it. the city has done it for many years. Uh last year we had close to 800 people attend uh the event. Uh and I work with many many organizations, many many cities as we meet. Um at this point our program, our one day event is one is the largest event that's in Southern California. Um by far. Wow.

There's thousands of them that are done across Southern California. um average is like maybe 100 people show up. 200

is kind of unheard of. So knowing our numbers and we've been very diligent in the last two years specifically to track from 500 to 800 this last few years. um you know beyond what anybody else is doing and the staff that I have is working really really hard for another great event at Jared Lewis Family Swim Center one uh 1 to 4:00 we've expanded it by an hour it's normally a two-hour event we've expanded it to three hours we actually have this year coming to the event uh Connie Harvey I just found out two days ago Connie Harvey who is the uh head of swimming and recreation for the International Red Cross. Uh very like of the top 10 people in in aquatics in the world. She's one of the top 10 people.

Wow. When you talk about uh So you may not be something that you might know of, but if you talk to people that are in aquatics, they'll be like, "Oh my gosh, she only goes to like big things." So very very excited because the Red Cross actually also came out and uh did a PSA for us here at AMG and they actually had one of their representatives come down and film as part of our PSA programming that we're doing. We're doing 30 30 or excuse me 60 posts in 30 days.

Uh in the month of May, water safety month. So 60 posts and part of it again Red Cross seeing how big our program is and what we're doing uh was willing to say yes we will send our representative and with the Red Cross name logo everything you know international organization that's willing to put their face to our organization and our program. So, it was actually a really, really, really big thing to have happen. And that was just filmed Wednesday of last week. So, it will start going out in the month of May to promote it. But I encourage you to come out. It's very exciting time. Okay. Michael's going to do a cannonball.

No, Michael is not. Last year, he jumped in the water. This year, two years ago, I jumped. No cannonballs, please. Two years ago, I had Don't break your own rules. No. No. So, sorry about that. No, you're good. Failed to mention that in my report. All right.

Um All right. Anything else on the marketing? If not, the last not least, park master plan. Um uh being finalized by all the elements through the consultant. Um it is going to council first uh next meeting um in May May 6. Um it's on um uh the consultant will be conducting the presentations the same presentation that was pretty close to the same presentation that was to for you uh when he came out. Um and this would be going to for council for adoption. And so we're excited for it. Um encourage you come out and support. It's going to be a great element for us as a department and as a city um to have this park master plan um adopted so that we can use it as our framework and and for strategic planning and business planning and hopefully get some additional projects done.

When is that one? What? When is that? Oh, May 6. The Yeah, the it's going to go to be on the It's on the council uh agenda for May 6. Yeah. All right. And just to say I went to that presentation. It was it was really good. I like community got a little lost on the the whole survey math of it, but the the consult I was really impressed with the consultant and his ability to answer the questions and really lead the conversation. He was able to.

So, I'm really looking forward to see how it works with the council. All right. Thank you very much for that uh department director report. Moving on to discussion items. Is there any any discussion? Anything anybody wants to discuss? Um, no. I just want to say uh appreciate staff for the marketing presentation. I think I was the one that um that asked for it to be presented. I think um you know I my job is public relations and and I do a lot of marketing and communication work. Um, and so just a very comprehensive uh approach to marketing um and uh getting all of our events out. So just kudos to you all for uh getting that out and and managing a lot of uh city events for a lot of different age ranges. Um that was going to be my question around um the swim lessons cuz my daughter is going to be six months and we are looking at signing her up for some classes in Fontana. We didn't know I didn't know there were swim classes here. So, we'll probably just bring her here instead of driving all the way to Fontana since we

um we live way closer. So, I just appreciate that. Can I just say something about the swim classes? My son um I took my son to the swim classes here. Um I did the um they used to call it water babies. He learned how to swim when he was a year old and he actually went all through um the swim classes and he did junior lifeguard with the city and he was a lifeguard with the city for over six years before he joined before he joined the Air Force. He's in the Air Force. He's in the Air Force now. That's awesome. But yes, he did start swim lessons with the city when he was a year old. So hire your child in 16. Yes.

Oh, yeah. Junior night program too. Just just want to add my daughter also did the Paris too and at C when they had um some over there. Great program. Even my father-in-law ended up learning how to swim there in his old age. Yeah. For seniors which is great. I can't imagine his whole life didn't know how to swim and he was able to go there with his granddaughter learned. So great benefit to the community. Amazing to find out how many people older age do not know how to swim especially in Southern California. And that and that's part of the biggest campaign of the water safety month is uh everyone to be water safe. Uh all ages matter. You never know.

Then I also want to say great Easter event. It was awesome. The the extravaganza and the a hunts. Yes. This year was magnificent. Huge line. I had my my 10-year-old did the her group one. And then I heard the staff saying you don't have to run. There's 7,500 eggs. The kids were there 10 15 minutes later still picking eggs. Wow. Like it was like there was the it was great. Um great great huge. So really really impressed like I said. Wonderful. Thank you. Appreciate that. Um I just wanted to say um for the fsaw um court at Lidle Creek um the goals are installed. Go gold posts are installed. Yeah. So they're there. We're just waiting on the lights. So hopefully those are coming soon.

I do have to um make a comment though on that one. You have to realize that that's a youth sized court. So if you have adults thinking about playing there, it's out of league for them. I mean, you know, that kind of stuff because we've had lots of input that way. It's a youthized court, so keep that in perspective. And it's a recreational court. It's, you know, there's been some adults that have recreationalized it. Yeah. They will, and they can. It's fine. I'm just saying it's designed for youth and a competitive be able to host you know certain compet formal official competition elements of certain age groups because of the size the sizing I think they use it as practice and fun fun pickup games

skill building fun all that kind of stuff andrina um I was just gonna say I learned how to swim at Paris Hill so I took I took classes there um and then the other thing was Um Brendan and I went to the CPRS expo and we met the um the vendor for the playground equipment at Sum and they actually showed us they showed us like what they put in and it's amazing. It's so cute. It's little dinosaur like theme and they have great med they have great media demonstration type stuff. Um,

right. And they can set you different things in motion and do all that kind of stuff. What the heck? My daughter and it was really cool because as we went from vendor to vendor or that thought like, oh, from I thought, you know, there's just so many other counties there, but people saw where we were from and they're like, "Oh, we're currently doing a project for you." So, good job you guys. You know, all of our, you know, we now we know where all of our stuff is coming from. So when they shared it was like, "Oh, how overwhelmed were you?" The expos are they're a lot. Yeah, it was a I'm used to trade shows because of the job where I work, but um Yeah. No, it was fun. It was it was you got you slid down the big slides. Yes.

Yeah. And I was like, "Can we get that?" And they were like, I think they said, "We actually have a big slide." And also I was like, "Oh, I can't wait till the park opens cuz I'm going to be like, "Get the kids. I'm going down the slide. Yeah. And we're going to add a little kiddie pool at the bottom of that, too. You better expect to get wet. Oh, you have the lake 10 ft away. You have 100° summer. Come on. Next time know, let us know when you're going. I was there when I met up with you and said hi. We were there Thursday. I was there all week. Oh, okay. I I live 15 minutes from there. Oh, wow. So,

we had a few staff that were able to go I have a question. Is there a way to get a group communication for events and stuff like like um yeah, let's say we want to participate in events like if I could get communication with you guys cuz you guys seem like you guys are more on creating the activities, right?

Yeah, we we direct and manage the the department to be able to we have supervising coordinators who coordinate and put and plan all the activities and events. um as a new incoming um we do send out um uh event fly you know information out as we get it and so that you can have it digitally to share it. Um if at any point you want to get some hard copies you can just contact us directly and we can have hard copies um ready and u for you to pick up or um to distribute if you want to do some canvasing in around your neighborhoods or the streets.

Yeah. But we um especially it also want to make sure that we try to get communication out to you guys if there happens to be no cororum but there's still events happening there's still things happening to at least get you um as you know this is the one for the whole year but then we make the individual ones. So we want to make sure that you guys have it not just hard copy but digitalized as well. And then through our social media just you know have people scan it, share it, you know you know we want to continue build more followers. Uh, we're growing. We're getting closer to 7500. Um, I'm hoping that before June that we can get to 10,000. So, if you can, you know, share the social media on that, that would be awesome. Vanessa. Yes, sir.

You have a new resource right here. You volunteered. Oh, yeah. You volunteered. Our our P our PR guy. Yeah. Yeah. So, we heard it's tape recording. Yeah. Um but yeah, and if you there's something specific uh you're looking for, but you can go ahead and and um you can reach out to to Lisa and April or myself. Yeah, appreciate it. Okay. Oh. Um regarding the community garden and the wood chips, um you talked about in the past. Yeah.

So, I'm currently in contact with uh uh Councilman Sanchez um to see, you know, if it can be done. Well, wood chips are different based off of not every gardener wants wood chips and wood and they requested it. The community garden, not all there's eight over 80 plots. Oh, got it. Got it. I understand that.

So, uh a few individuals you know request it certain elements certain things are being used for it. Um one thing that we have been able to on an ongoing basis and provide um compost and mulch. Um I know it's not all simple but there's certain elements of within the regulations of the community garden. We have rules of what is allowed and not allowed. So the also the gardeners to be able to provide some of additional materials need for whatever they're grow wanting to plant to grow within their plot area.

Got. So you're saying they should be able to provide for their own garden. They're expected to expected to there's opportunities that come up to where we might be able to share something if there's something that comes up with a partnership with an organization that happens to be able to get some wood chips. it like Dan the there's different variations of styles of wood chips of different trees and it may or may not work um for the type of gardens and the if it's vegetables or fruits and even then you know there's a lot of different um hydro was it hydroponic hydroponic

hydroponic type of elements agricultural type of elements where things can and can't work. So it's up to the gardener, you know, they they rent that space out. So what is in what they garden is what and what they, you know, what elements, what materials they need is should be at their own expense. And I I think the question was is it is it possible to recycle the trees that are being knocked down into wood chips? Um in some cases they are. Um it depends on the what the the nature the nature of why it was cut down. Um huh.

Is it a disease or something? So, is it like a moot point like should I just you know he said he um councilman Sanchez said he was going to go to Bertech to see if it was possible but now what you're saying is it like a we can I'll have a uh connect with our arborist as well and see what but wood chips is separate from elements you know as um a residential area as well it's up to individual how they want to kind of plant and put you know The soil is different, the type of materials, it's all so one as you know, like I said, we have 80 there's 88 80 86 86 plots. Yeah.

So I oversee the community garden. So yeah, he's 86 plots. 86, you know, different garders, 86 different styles of gardening. Yeah. I think it was just kind of a matter potentially gardening. Yes. Yeah. I think it was it just sounded so simple in the beginning and I think Mulch is also an element, but we're if we're able to get things like for the for the Arbor Earth Day, we're able to work we're working with Bertchek and our environmental um division of um within the city to bring out mulch. Mulch is also a wood based elements of things and they get compost. So, a lot of elements are cuz compost isn't cheap either. Um so, we're able to help with offsetting cost of of a gardener.

Yeah. And I think the mulch, they said it was good for um eliminating weeds. That's what it was. They just wanted to lay out the mulch so they wouldn't have to have, you know, the extra work of pulling weeds. And also just to kind of if it was possible to just have like wood chips just in a pile like I think there's like an empty space. That's how that's how the mulch and compost is. It's in a pile and it's up to the gardeners and then whoever wanted it can just can utilize it and those that don't. So I are they more trying to recycle the the chips? They want to recycle the trees that are chopped down to make into

So you guys are looking for a resource to recycle them, right? It would be burk right or not in all not in all cases. Not all cases because the city I know the city I live on Valencia and so we have the huge trees in the city contractors. We have city staff that go out and inspect and cut and contractors that come out too. I think if you like you said check in with the arborist and if you come back with that something that we can relate that you know that's the science the arborist you know we get cut down for disease we can

yeah we have an arborist we have a we have contracted individuals whatever is um um chipped or whatever we have to figure out what that process is it might already be an agreement with the contractor that they utilize it I don't know how far they go with BERT because Bertech has the green waste with all the residents and so forth whether or not they were using some of their resources but we look into that. Okay. Thank you.

And then you have to consider all the kind of stuff there. Types of you're talking about whatever is in the garden. It it could be fruits, vegetables, nuts, trees, uh bushes, uh species that keep away pests, um insects pollinating type things. All that kind of stuff has to be considered in a community garden. Um and it's not always the same dirt, if that makes sense. We're just going to call it that in general. And I'd simplify it that way. Right. Okay. Thank you for that information. Knowledgeable. So, okay. Uh,

all right. Any other discussion? So, let's move on to future agenda items. Um, first I just want to start um want to see if we can get possibly a presentation with an application if for a community group or that wants to hold an event in the in the city. What would what fees, what permits, what insurance would be necessary? like what's the process if I'm a community group and I want to host a community get together at uh at one of our parks. Do you want the facility park reservation park facility reservation the process? Yeah. And then if there's any fee waiver mechanisms along the way for nonprofits or events that benefit the city.

It's going to be like a networking event. Or I'm I'm thinking maybe like um they do like a an Easter egg hunt for the community like nonprofits doing it at one of the parks. Okay. Additionally to ours or or even church groups they host it. I know throughout the city but I would like to know what the process is and then if there's any help for events that benefit or align with the park's uh mission. I can tell you what I tell people when they call. You come into the parks department and you fill out the paperwork letting us know the park you're wanting to use, the date you're wanting to use, and the type of activity that you're having, and then we'll present it to the director. Oh, but so is there is there a process? There's no

Yeah, you have to process. There's an application for parking, but depending on the amount, the quantity of individuals, then there's another special event that permit process through the community development department. But we can't start any process without at least that at least the application because we have to we have to have a starting point to what you're doing. Great. So that that'd be great to know. So yeah, starting point and then like where where that leads to depending put that on the future agenda. No problem. Yeah, that Yeah, that that would be great. Um I think we need a vote for that, right? Yeah. Do you want to take them individual? Are you can are you going to first start with the one you deferred till next time? The hour. Oh yeah, that automatically go because we tabled it.

That was already tabled. No, it was already tabled. So, do you have to discuss it as a f the next item? No, we voted on already there on the list. I just want to make sure you don't I was going to ask that too because I know the last meeting we had um a bunch of stuff we wanted on future agenda items. Can we read off that list of things that we still have that commissioners asked to be on there? Actually, unfortunately, I don't have it. Okay. I I apologize. I guess we covered everything. And last I think the last one was marketing plan.

No, last meeting we had like four four additional which is why I asked for them to be in the minutes because I wanted to make sure that we were checking them off. Remember I had that question last month around making sure that they were put in the minutes so we can track them. Well, if you can remember one or two of them add right now. Talk about it right now. I don't remember. No, but I know there was like four because we took a bunch of individual votes and February 19th. Yeah. Do you have the ones we requested? Oh, we added items at the end. Yeah, we had the requested items. I don't think they're in there. And I didn't bring my binder

cuz I wrote them down, but I didn't I don't have them with me today. Yeah, cuz the meeting late time was at that meeting on the February meeting marketing. Yeah. And then the time and then the time frame because I know that that originally she wanted to adjust the time. I don't know what was that right that she wanted to to adjust the time and that started an argument because of the fact that the time was already set and that didn't get there was another one that was um around the video the videoing live streaming of the meetings and then there was another one around there was something around the park master plan

um but the videoing wasn't an actual request it was it was a comment about the videoing It wasn't an actual request to find out anything. We requested to find out if we could do live stream if we can read if we could uh provided information prior to review it like for future meetings which we do get in the in the minimum 72hour that the it's attached. Did we get the the master plan in in advance?

No, but that sparked it. Right. The master plan the master plan sparked it and and that was um that was a that was a question and we had advised you that yes we if we have it available we would provide it but the master plan was not available prior to prior to the meeting. But normally yes, anything that it we would discuss in the meeting would be available in your packet and it would come to you. That's all that's all I on that topic. By the way, was it May the 6th, right? May the 6th is going to council. Yes. Master.

Well, what two weeks later you have your meeting. Do you want to have an agenda item to discuss that or do anything with that one or any outcomes or anything? I don't I'm just that's how you should be thinking. So next March. Well, I think we talked about it, but it wasn't we don't have the running list. So I think that's our that's the dilemma. So now it wouldn't be relevant because it's going to go to council before we have a next meeting. Um, right. But maybe there's that should initiate to you to go to the May 6 council meeting, right? Yes. That's what that's how you find out about it. Yeah. But I think the issue was not us. They had presentation. We had a presentation on it. But we had questions.

It was the fact that they didn't have the information prior to the meeting so that they could prepare it and then ask questions around the presentation. So that they could have the the information ready that they could have the questions ready. That's what I was proposing to help you assist you to put some items on there. Well, you know that that particular item that it's always addressing was going to be on council's May the 6, there's something you want to discuss or do or deal with for it's just an example, another one example what you want how how do you build your next week's agenda, right? Your next month's agenda, right?

Because two weeks after that meeting is going to be your meeting. So, is there anything off that topic that you want to have going on? you'd be talking about or thinking about what's happening in June and July. Is there something that I want to put on the meeting to help me with that? Like summertime activities or summer this or that to whatever to why aren't there um open restrooms in our um parks, whatever, you know, do we have a policy procedure on this or that because we just like you asked about how does a community member me being more highlighted out there u uh get to use the facilities? um you know what's that process? That's a great one to talk about because it gives you the information you have to go back to your own um uh council member with that kind of stuff. Are you doing that? You're appointed by the council member. Do you have regular discussions with your own um city council person and discuss those kinds of things? Those things should be brought back to future meeting type ideas. Not trying to give you homework, but that's what you signed up for. Um, back to future agenda.

Any other future agenda? So, um, again for the for the last meeting. So, we have this recording stuff. We can review that for the next meeting and see what what was at the end. Um, we have that. Um, want to throw on there the I think the last meeting was also recorded. I had a community member that said that it was uploaded to I saw it uploaded to YouTube like a week ago. So we we can see it. So I would uh want to add that on the agenda for us to be able to repeat that for all our meetings. Um uh hosting the video and having it recorded and uploaded so the community can view it for transparency sake. The recording does happen. I I put down here specifically record the videoing.

Yeah. Okay. Because the recording automatically happens. But I know that the question was about the the videoing. Yeah. As long as you realize that most likely the videoing if we do it won't be live or anything like that. It'll just be sort of like the recording. We video and then post later. But we will ask that question. Okay. Okay. That'll be helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else you guys want to add in the meantime? Um no thank you.

Okay. So the two items, make sure I have it correctly before we vote on them, is uh presentation regarding use of park and the procedure for special events and um tech the technology and the ability to video the meeting. Correct. Correct. Correct. Okay. Correct, Vanessa. Okay. All right. So we have we need the first, the second, and the vote. Do I have a first? So move. And a second. Second. Second, Brenda. All right. All in favor say I. I. All. All All oppose say nay. Any abstensions. Motion passes unanimously. Okay.

All right. Moving on to the last item, city staff and commissioner announcements. Um, city staff, any announcements?

Um, the one, um, I've met with, uh, a few commissioners. um uh already um one-on- ones kind of in our group settings. So, if you haven't already scheduled uh a meeting um if you can get scheduled so that we can have um just a you know casual conversation and Brenda they've already um joined in um Moralda as well Nazir as well. So, um I'm not sure. I mean, well, if you can those who haven't already, if you can get scheduled or rescheduled, um so that way we can

I forgot who sent the email, but they said they're going to send another one additional dates available. Okay, I'll I'll um Yeah, it would be helpful if I can get like Maine now because I travel a lot for work and so if I can get it scheduled earlier, it'll be better. Um I'll have a reason out. Yeah, it was beneficial that for those of you who didn't sign up, you'll enjoy it, I think. Yeah. Okay. I'll have April resend it out so we can get um anybody else um scheduled. And I had one more item for while no

county on their website has a budget review. They have a series of budget review meetings going on. So, if you're interested in knowing how the county is going to do their next fiscal year budgeting and help create some of that kind of stuff, it might be important to you. Um, we have a fantastic county. Sanino County is got a lot of award-winning things. They do a great job. They're muddled, but they do a great job. We just My department just applied for 53 nickel awards. We're about to like break some records. Yeah. Count the county. So, sorry, Vanessa. Okay. Uh, that's it for city stuff. Uh, any orange show? National Orange Show.

I think they're well aware of the orange show. They can see everything as you drive by. I like the falcon guy, by the way. If he comes back out, any other any other commissioner announcements? Any announcements? Right. Just want to again end the meeting saying it was an honor to chair this uh commission for the last year. I look forward to all the great work we're going to accomplish in the next year. Um great group of people and again thank my thanks to the staff really knowledgeable. I look forward again for this commission's work. Thank you everybody. Move a second to adjurnn. Second. All right every all in favor of journ say I. Any oppose say nay. Any abstain.

Motion passes at 7:1 p.m. Thank you everybody. You