Hey, Emily, you're UN.
Great, thank you. I am a resident of Othello, the proposed Othello offleash site is about 75 feet from my house.
The reasons that I don't think it's a good idea to cite it there are one parking the street is already really under part.
I realize it's near transit, but being near transit and people not using their cars to get to a place are not the same thing unfortunately.
Also noise just because I work from home. I'm worried that the 75 foot away off area is going to be too loud.
And then of course dog poop is kind of already an issue at this park. People just don't pick up after their pets, so I'm worried that would get worse.
My requests are one. I know a lot of work was done to cite this where it is, but I think it could move north.
I didn't see any information about that in the report, but if the offation area just kind of slid north it would be next to.
Commercial areas and I think at church. Instead of people's houses. And then my second thing is I think a temporary pilot would make sense like just build it with kind of temporary.
Fence or something, see how it goes for a while. Maybe it'll be fine, but maybe it won't.
Great. Thank you. Next up, Jacqueline Raspi. Still in this, you raise your hand under John Rossi.
There we go.
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Hello, Hello? Can you hear me? Okay, thanks. My name is, I'm strongly opposed to these Queen Anne.
Proposal. Later on my life. And.
There's absolutely no parking already. It's in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Much quieter than what Queen Anne or Queen Anne one is at and frankly We've got kids, we have a playground up above.
Proposed site for little kids. I can't take my girls over there right now because the dogs have already taken over.
And when I hear this idea that you can't afford maintenance, we've called repeatedly. Cause these people pay no attention to the signs.
And they taste the children. So the cause of the increased maintenance is the fact that Nobody comes out and enforces the laws.
And if you were to make this a dog park If they don't if they don't obey the laws now, I mean already dogs bark at 6 30 in the morning They bark at 8 o'clock at night.
And balls fly from up above down to lower area, kids get chased. And this idea that this has been talked about in our community is not true.
The Planning Community Council. Has not talked to anybody in our neighborhood. And furthermore, The idea that you can stick this in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Surrounded by houses. It to me doesn't make any sense whatsoever and the idea that all of a sudden If you make Queen Anne one, my ideas, I sound like they want to push this from Queen Anne one over to East Queen Anne.
Well, you can put all the signs, there already signs up at Queen M. One, they don't pay any attention to them.
They've taken over how field. If you if you think that all of a sudden those people are just going to drop what they're doing and come over to East Queen Anne. You're nuts.
They don't pay any attention. It's already posted everywhere They take over. We call you repeatedly.
Nobody comes out. So this idea you have some neat organized dog park is a complete fallacy. And we will fight this.
This is in my, my opinion. It's absurd. It's there's no Anyway, so I could go on and on that it's not we can't even take our kids over there now What's it gonna be like when they take over half all that lower part?
Balls go over the fence from up above. Kids come down there, they get chased by dogs.
So I, that's.
Thank you, Joan, you can send in a letter if you would like to share more comments. Thank you for that.
Next step is JC. Sure. Yeah, can you hear me?
Can you hear me okay? Alright, fine. Thank you. Yeah, my name is Jase Fisher.
John is my neighbor. Actually, hi, John. And my wife and I have lived in our house for 47 years and we lived directly across the street from the lower, Queen End.
Play field. Locally we call that little howe park and it's divided into 2 sections as you probably know there's an upper elevated area that contains a waiting pool.
Parks building playground equipment. The lower. S section is a play area, a grassy area.
It has a basketball court. At one corner. Of that lower area. Now I can appreciate the parks and recreations.
Problem to maintain that lower park. And I know it's certainly frustrating and more, I've spoken to the parks.
Service people there on any occasion. And I can offer a couple reasons why that park is difficult to maintain and wide in such poor condition.
The lower part we're referring here. To at this point. One is the sports activity that goes goes on there.
The children wear cleated shoes. And when the the ground is soft, the cleese just tear it all up.
In addition, the dog activity that John referred to is frequent and They're most of the day.
The dogs are running up and down. Of course dogs don't have sheath claws and their feet dig up the turf just as well.
And the third reason would be that that turf never gets a chance to rest. It's always busy, it's always being trod on or pod on.
It never gets a chance. The only chance that that the only time that that
Turfs. Was in good condition was after the Parks Department receded it and then separated it by a fence.
From the walkway so that no dogs or people could play on it for a while and it grew and looked good, looked very nice.
As soon as they took the fence down. And the children and the dogs came back. That area just turned into a mud hole all over again.
I'm sorry.
This Oh, of your time is up and again if you have more comments you want to share go ahead and send them to us.
And via email or in writing and we will share those with the board members.
Okay, thanks very much.
Thank you. And I noticed it looks like Sharon Lafine joints of Sharon.
I'm going to allow you to have your 2 min and that is our last speaker. So.
You should be unmuted.
Can you hear us, Sharon?
No, to check your microphone settings, see if you've got the.
Okay. Alright. Sharon, what don't you also plan on sending comments and writing and we will share those with the board as well.
Sorry about that.
Just raised her hand. I wonder if she figured it out. Okay.
Okay. Oh, that's right. I have them in the back. Okay, out, you're up.
I don't need that. Good evening, everyone. My name is Ala Kern, how they're the board chair of Sail Cola.
So this is for off mesh areas. So for over 20 years through a memorandum of agreement, we provided stewardship of the existing awleash areas in the city.
And you know, I've also been consulted as far as expansion goes. So while we support the plan being proposed tonight We also feel that it falls short.
You know my concern personally is carrying capacity you know a 16,000 square foot all police area and a you know a heavily populated area.
Where they only continue to build more hires. Also having lobby for the funding that you know led to this proposal 3.5 million dollars.
Seeing that that's may only result in less than one acre of expansion to the off leash system in a system that's currently 30 acres when Seattle Parks.
You know, 6,400 acres of plan. It's just a little bit concerned. I understand the idea.
Of having smaller, more localized offshore areas that people can walk to, but the expansion study, you know, the The here disqualify many of those neighborhood sites that were thought to be viable options.
I think without appropriate sizing of new off-leash areas, the issues of unsanctioned offleash activity will persist.
You know furthermore there's no water access for any of the dogs. King County for example has Mary Park that's you know.
That single part is. You know, larger than all of Seattle's offleash areas combined. So I appreciate your guys time consideration.
I think it's a step in the right direction. Thank you.
Great. I believe that includes all the comments. And, hearing about the office sharing plan. With that, I'm in the super, Absolutely.
I just remember said the public. We go through a report. These items will leak me up later on.
So of course, time too. So, we're thankfully here. I see 2 of my colleagues.
Thank you for joining us and Colin Campbell is online. So we're gonna start off our report today on this beautiful Seattle.
I wasn't say spring day. It's not officially spring. That's a nice day for us to look forward to, what's going on.
Next slide.
So, one of the most emerging signs that tells us that spring is approaching is that when our Japanese carton reopens the beautiful Japanese carton situated in Washington Park, Arboretum as you know, clubs is during the winter for winterization.
But we were really excited that on our second the first viewing became a parent and by all members of the public.
To come see the beautiful Japanese card just by way of history this was the first Japanese garden to open in the United States after World War 2 and was a significant sign of progress and peace and so it's up a lot of jam as many of you know here in the city.
This past February, Mayor, Carol, delivered his state of the city address. He delivered this, he delivers this annually and it was interesting to note that he mentions Seattle Parks and Recreation a few times to acknowledge our work in the community.
Okay, he highlighted the ramping up of our Park Ranger programs. So currently we hired 14 of our 26 to 28 out of 3 allocated positions for Park Rangers. We also, were able to update, and give, on the waterfront part.
I and hopefully will be finished off some of the big accomplishments. And the whole entire park is like a completed in 2025.
So that's really exciting. We also talked about the update of the tree ordinance to protect more trees in the city of Seattle.
So that is going really well. And we're now planning 3 to one trees every time you get 2 down.
Requirements. So 3 trees, B. Made available. We talked about the Fort Lawton developments adjacent to Discovery Park, including the plan to build housing and expand bar plans to the city continues to work with the federal government looking at some of the previous.
Army for land and the potential feasibility of building housing. There and then we gave an update on our he gave an update to the city on our efforts to replace gas powered leaf boilers and to move to a electrification of equipment.
So that's very exciting. We also have some updates to report on the much anticipated labor agreement.
The entire time that I have been here in the city Seattle, the labor unions have been working with the city to enact and ratify various city and contracts coalitions so the mayor was able to announce that we had reached a tentative agreement and labor contracts impacting more than 7,000 city workers.
Were represented by 16 unions. Including a significant number of parts of our creation professionals. So to keep points from those labor agreements for strengthening city services.
The proposed four-year agreements cover wages benefits hours and other working conditions for the period from January first to December, 30 first, 2026.
The proposed contracts include a 5%, which will be retroactively applied. Or 2023 once it's ratified by the city council so anything including some 22% wage justments for parking.
It's a really good news for our wonderful employees who work so hard to keep our parts safe and clean.
We have some updates at Cal Anderson going on. We've talked many times here at the commission.
It's been in the news about the efforts to relocate the garden. As you know, we remove the temporary card that was located in Calais Park in late December of 2,023 to begin receding.
And over other concerns of public safety and health. And as an update, I want to report that we started a community engagement process to relocate the garden officially now to Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Park.
In Southeast Seattle. This was a community led. Okay. Desire to situate the park in this, but we're also an update since we last met.
We are also looking to install some kind a memorial with in Cal Anderson Park to acknowledge and recognize the history.
And most recent, has happened in the park. So we are working with now an array of community. Organizers as well as the new councilwoman for the area.
Councilmember Joy Hollinsburg who is the chair of our sister as well. Yes, yesterday we had our city council presentation.
We got the chance to brief our main parks committee at City Council. This is, I believe, the highest turnover of council members that we've had all at once on the CIA, Seattle City Council, and so we have many new members on our parks, public utilities, and technology committee, which oversees the Parks Department.
This was our first meeting with the committee and we provided an introductory overview of the Seattle Parks and Recreation System that included our mission and.
C.S and Recreation System that included our mission and vision, our equity lens, our leadership and, our, our mission and vision, our equity lens, our leadership and organizational structure, the budget and financing forecasts for leadership and organizational structure, the budget and financing forecasts, our community partners, and many descriptors of the programs that are going on our part system and all the council members
were. Really engaged in this process and I think we're gonna have some great partners for the Parks Department.
So we're really looking forward to that. We And then I want to announce that we just received a more from Toro.
Earlier this week, the Ski Parks Alliance and the Torah company named the Rainier Community Center's new urban garden as a recipient of the 2,024 Tor Toro Urban Park Innovation Award.
This award recognized innovation and TARK management practices. $50,000 grant support the project. So our own parasites for the Parks and Environment Division spearheaded this project, which uses an urban farm model to provide space for community members to grow their own food.
The award will be presented as a great engineering conference that will be held in June this year. So really exciting.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, giving a snapshot of some of our different divisions. This is our arts and recreational services branch where we have our parks and environment team.
So as I mentioned earlier, we're now in the second tranche of hiring off our allocated Park Rangers.
And then also happy to report that even though the city remains under a temporary partial higher increase right now, the public rate.
Happened. The the Park Rangers. Oh, like other one, much other public safety.
Employees in the city of Seattle will continue. To be advanced for hiring. So we are currently onboarding 15 new carvengers.
Exciting news for members of public. I believe I mentioned the before is that as part of the labor negotiations we were able to remove the geographical restriction that previously had only allowed our rangers to work in a downtown board with our new agreements will now be able to deploy part Rangers city line to serve our entire park system.
So this is a big, a lift and an excitement. When I first came here, a year and a half ago, we had 2 park rangers and 2 support staff for nearly 500 barks and some 6,400 acres of parkland.
I know it's shocking. So this is really great work and this is also, a, a citizen investment in our metropolitan park district levy cycle 2 because that's where the funding comes We continue to do educations for our environment division and sent 9 employees to the Pacific Northwest Resource Management School in Port Townsend to continue the education for training for more sustainable environmental practices and standards in our parks
and natural areas. It's really important in Seattle with climate change and climate adaptation that we are understanding and knowing that right types of plants and trees and ecosystem that will thrive here that we begin hanging out but we want to make sure it's a scalable for 20 years from now.
So we have to really be mindful. And even look to some of our southern states like Ore and seeing the types of trees that drive there which we seem to be replicating a little bit more back here with global warming.
So, it's part of an ongoing education process to take care of and store our public parkland and we're preparing for spring so our crews are preparing our parks.
Every single day. So sometimes even though in this grade weather, even though a lot of people in Seattle use the parks, whether it's picklewall or sprinter dogs or to get out.
I'm always amazed still that even on our very rainy days I can still always spot at least 10 to 12 people running.
In some part of the city sometimes barely put the t-shirt and shards but they do but it gives an opportunity for our, crews to get out and do a lot of our surfacing, our receding, and kind of take care of our field so that at the time the spring and summer comes they're right.
We were really excited to celebrate Lunar Meat New Year at a variety of places. Through the city and if you haven't been down to King Hay Park, in the International China District, we work really hard with some of our city partners to add.
More lighting and festival lighting. That's really beautiful. And as a permanent feature, so we're really excited about that.
We continue to work on our tree, remediation. We plan a lot of trees. In fact, we just reported to the city council that we planted some 9,000 fees last year in partnership with the.
Partnership GSP program. But we also always have trees that sometimes naturally fall and we are responsive to that and to try to make sure that you prevent that when we know about it, of course, but when she's unexpectedly fall, we're there to take care of them.
So this is just an example on, a, a, Next slide. So, recreational programming is now open.
Spring, program registration is underway and the summer will be coming up. So we continue to register our 2,024 programs for classes and activities for you and adults as well as our seniors.
So in Seattle will now continue for the second year. And we are aiming to. I'm served more than 500 individuals with free swimming lessons.
The spring between April and June. That's for moving the barrier that we've talked about so that everybody in Seattle, every child has the ability.
And knows how to swim in this city of water. So we're really excited for that. We are continuing to work on our Seattle Mentors program.
So to give you an update at preparations with a launch of the program, Seattle Parks and Recreation.
Team programs, staff, completed a training at the Lyman's Team Outreach Program.
They will continue to facilitate group mentorship sessions during team programming at community centers throughout the city. In the first month of implementation the team late night staff facilitate group entering sessions.
With youth participants on the topics of confidence at Payne Air Beach Community Center, Carfield Teamly Center, Bitterly Community Center, and Metal Brook Team Life Center.
Another is we hire a youth opportunity fund strategic advisor, Rebecca Millman, who joined our staff.
And it's been extremely beneficial to our team. And we began to outreach meetings to explore external partnerships as well as internal strategic planning.
So we really want to grow this mentorship program even stronger for our youth. That need that just need more and more touches with access and strong mental words, positive outlets, and you know combat some of the Drop us, that'd be awesome seeing particularly in teams.
For about to stay in traditional sports and programming and thanks to to really hard working staff in this program we're able to do that.
We also are, this is our dance team. Picture is our Washington Middle School community learning center program.
They're part of our after school program in partnership with ICANN, which provides the program of the dance instructor to teach students dancing and teaching dance for teens over a period of 12 weeks.
And just another exciting, another recreational moment of what we do. And complement to our sports programs.
So we're finding a capital development branch. We were done. PCD staff, Siphon is a, a great photographer.
And this was just a really great photographer. And this was just a really great community moment.
The PGA was one of our primary sponsors to help raise funds and get this area. It was one of our primary sponsors to help raise funds and get this area.
So a wooded area adjacent to a school but really needed an updated playground and we were able to open that up in South Seattle and it was just fantastic.
We're almost done with the Green Lake small craft center. So that's really, exciting. News. That's coming up.
We're planning the ribbon cutting for that long-awaited renovation. And, Really excited.
And I was put a plug again as no one has been to Mohai recently in Mohai, Museum, which is part of Parkland and help funded by the Parks Department in the city has a great exhibit right now, boys, the boys in the boat.
Movie but also with artifacts and actual votes and things from the Olympics and. The Washington team and all of that.
So it's really exciting. And then projects under construction or really excited to announce that South Park Closet.
It's underway as well as the North Green, Orlando site. Little Saigon is making a lot of progress.
It's gonna have a wonderful art installation by a local artist from Seattle. Better way to play area is finally getting closer.
It's right next to our lot of people. And we have lights there which we installed at a way last year.
So and then the urban triangle play area. And then we've just started construction on the Hiawatha Community Center.
Which was your waiting. That's really good bits on that and then grabbing our garden special. We'll be able to so Thanks.
And under our policy finance branch oversees our concessions and some of our ongoing contracts. We're really excited.
We're featuring in this photo here to local proprietors from Seattle, Tony, Meyer, and Matt Kelly successfully won the big open up the procession.
And I love their name. They're gonna call it a tight cafe. And they're gonna rank kites, they're gonna call it a tight cafe and they're gonna rank kites for people to fly at beautiful golden gardens and they're gonna rank kites for people to fly at beautiful golden gardens and they're going to rank kites for people to fly at beautiful Golden Gardens and have tight themed concessions and really just activate that
area. As many people to fly at beautiful Golden Gardens and have tight themed concessions and really just activate that area.
As many people notice as a treasure of our city to have golden gardens and we need to have an activated space where you can get enough food and ice cream or coffee and we have online scholarships.
That are now in process and we were transitioning to using mainly an online application process instead of our sort of older printed hard copy.
Applications. The online application went live for the summer, 2,024 and spring, 2,023 season at the end of February.
So the secure online option is available. And several non-Egland languages as well, provides detailed status updates to the customer and access on smartphones or on the web.
City form.com. Go to our main. Seattle parks and migration website and navigate towards there.
But it allows people to apply for scholarships throughout the city and in multi-languages, which is really nice.
In 2,024, we recently posted updated fees and charges for our programs classes for MEDS facilities and more.
Everyone in the community can visit that. parkways.com for more information. But we also continue to offset any of us in places again by our scholarship program.
So we want everyone to participate. But this, these normalized updated fees and charges happen time to time and we have now the lottery system.
And we say lottery system when we say lottery because it's just a testament to how popular our programs are.
It's just a testament to how popular our programs are. But for any parents name, a lottery system for a day camp of our programs are. But for any parents listening, the lottery system for daycamp use of parks is now open.
We you received a total of 18 applications by the closing deadline at the end. January and our staff committed 15 of those requests for a total of 50.
10000 excuse me for a total of 50,000 across 8 parts so the day camps will mostly be using picnic tables and shelters, outdoor areas and other parts of the park for event scheduling and to also ensure that we can still use the part for other.
So more data coming to our Seattle works.
And then some upcoming events. It's already March and preparing for spring 8 months. At variety of community centers throughout the city so always a fun thing for families to do to come find eggs in the park.
I guess it's kind of That's a funny. Yeah, but that's always fun and those will be going on.
Most of them, I believe, on Saturday, March thirtieth. But that's always fun and those will be going on.
Most of them, I believe, on Saturday, March thir April second and sixteenth the bike mobile group will head to city hall park at 450 third avenue to provide free and low prospect maintenance to bicycles.
On the first and third Tuesdays of the month from one to 3 PM. And I'm really excited.
This program because when we opened City Hall Park about a year ago, you know, one of the we knew that one of the successful things was going to be activating the park, which we have done really well with food trucks and concessions.
We're doing movies in the park. We've had some really interesting art installations that have gone on there but One thing that we had talked about was, you know, serving people, being able to have places where they could, you know, get their bike fixed.
If they're Hi, K the city hall or the courthouse or being downtown. If there's a third thing that people love in scandal as much as football and dodge it's their bites.
So we got to serve the community in many ways. Just one way that we're trying to do this at City Hall Park, just one way that we're trying to do this at City Hall Park, which is fantastically renovated.
Much better shape than lastly summer camp registration opens April, the sixteenth. So please mark your founders and that's our superintendent for update for you.
Hey, as well.
It's exciting to see the. Sorry. It's excited to see the activation at Golden Gardens.
Okay.
I'm looking forward to, renting kites and enjoying a cafe.
Nice. All very exciting. I just want to follow up and conversation about the super does report. I understand that you all started thinking about budget quickly and the short calls in 2,526.
I know that the mayor's advice is coming soon. So whenever you know, more share about process, and how we think the next 2 fiscal years.
I appreciate it. Anything else or questions? Just appreciation for so much good work going on. Yeah.
Wonderful. With that, we're gonna go ahead and move back to the off-leash area public hearing.
With you wanted to do that, maybe? Sure, absolutely. So, We have the public hearing and now.
As a reminder, cycle 2 of the Seattle Parks District provides funding for the construction of 2 new dog.
As well as the design of a served optage area which I'll hear about tonight. One of the requirements in the cycle 2 was that one of the 2 funded parts.
In West Seattle. So that was a man for I provision. We can review those recommendations, but I believe.
Okay. Okay. Do we have that plan? We presented it.
I apologize now and remember it because I believe it the last meeting I was here. So you heard, okay, we've heard the presentation in the plan.
So yes, I think. There's any further questions or if the board wanted to pass or make a.
Okay. So as you all were here last meeting, I'm going to go with the post plan. We can go with the post plan.
We heard false comments tonight. And just open the floor for discussion. Right. Okay.
I'll just say, you know, appreciated our discussion at the last meeting. Going over the criteria for selecting the recommended sites and then also really appreciated that that look out to the future of kind of what's next.
And what can I see from this first step? Because you the limited resources. So I think that's just, you know.
And onboarding that we hear from the public that there's there's always a need for more.
And keeping in mind how it can be creative, I think we've also talked about partnerships with other landowners as potential.
Opportunities.
What else just to you know, especially for folks who care about this but weren't necessarily here for our conversation last time.
But in general, yes, we're feeling in support of the recommendations that were made. At least I am.
For now. Yes. So. Do you have any other question?
Hearing none, I'm gonna get a thumbs up sideways or now. Take a motion.
Or if we need more time than just. Yes, a little bit like her staff has more expertise than I do.
So, okay. Trust your analysis and gentlemen for sure. Certainly neighbors. That's all locations.
Different from each other. So I'm not quite sure. That I'd say for sure, go and do.
And just a reminder for those who are not here, the 2. Recommended staff sites were the mandatory West.
Yeah, location. So West Seattle Stadium is the proposed area. And then Oslo Park. As a second proposed funded.
And then there are Alrighty. That are in the third category which for potential design. And there was one more that's already in progress, right?
The office areas outside of, you know, before the lunch of this day that we're already right.
We share this with.
Yes, yes, Smith code software.
Just Yes, jargary thumbs up. Can I go from side? I missed the last meeting.
Thank you. I do propose then, since we do have some faults out today. That we move the motion to the next meeting.
Well, I guess it's also time to catch up. I think it's better attend to the next one.
Is that presentation, Okay, that'd be great. Yeah, yeah, I did find it pretty easy.
So just for clarification. Mr. Chair, we will continue that item. We will circulate, but we won't do.
There's not an expectation for us to another presentation. The next meeting, correct? Correct. Okay, share the recording of our media and you can hear our discussion afterwards too, you know, Thank you.
Let's call any questions comments from the outside.
No, I think they've all been addressed. Thank you.
Yeah. Moving on then, next in the agenda is the parks and open space that plan discussion and recommendation.
A. So the board will now discuss and make a recommendation on the department's 2024 parts and open space plan.
As you may recall, part senior player, So the person. Exactly. No, the city's comprehensive plan in the Parks and Open Space Plan informs how SPR prioritizes funding for Park Development.
And asset maintenance. The parks and open space plan serves to document SBR lands facilities for new city depth and graphics, recreation participation, and deeds, and defines a level of service.
Parts and open space plan is also required by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Union at the RCO to maintain the department's eligibility for state grants and well fundraising and part acquisitions.
Great. We're go through the same process here. Do we have any? Questions, comments, the session you'd like to bring are already the Parson Open Space Plan before we take a motion.
I'll just mention I appreciate the presentation. Thank you and feel. Confident in this iteration.
In its specific reason and also the timing for our CO. Seems like.
So. Yeah, just, add another that's kinda complement the comprehensive plan. We all saw that we are expecting necessity in all neighborhoods.
Should that plan be adopted? And I think our newest strategy to measure possibility will really let itself well to addressing where it was.
You should development and really love our focus. With that, I would like to do a motion to recommend.
Okay. Do we hear is there update on public comments expected? Yes. Okay.
So we had, quite a good. A lot of public comments. And so all in all, there were a hundred and almost 115 comments.
And to me. And then of those, more than 90 were about all courses about making sure to preserve golf courses as they are.
A lot of people depend on them for recreation. They lot of them have long history or playing ball, many other courses, yeah, a lot of their concern about related perhaps for purchasing them for housing.
Yeah, I'll say that a few people caught on. And keep things that occurred in the plan.
And I think there's a little. Need a little bit of explanation there. Quick explanation is that comments of key things occurred and including about calling for repurposing a parks that wasn't just didn't come from our outreach in order to get a full read of all kinds of outreach we Oh, PCD, the office playing community development shared their comments from their outreach and we
gleaned those that anything that is there with parks and then we gleaned it again to see what else was in there.
And most of the comments that. Had to do people saying they wanted to see golf horses go away golf courses for housing golf courses repurposed for the recreation.
It's really through the land use. And so just give a little perspective on that. And so the golf community saw that comment, letter writing campaigns, which is useful because it identifies it there is at least a lot of interest for that.
Or at least for preserving all courses and then on the 20 other comments some of those were related to.
Like to see more maintenance. And making sure that the quality of use for facilities kept up. A lot.
A few that. They like to see walkability. Measure, but they'd also like to see more work.
And I college for it was more cooperation or coordination with NASA because some people were concerned, okay.
You have a part, how do I get to the park, especially walking? There was one that kind of follows on the OLA plan.
Here is a lot. There were 4 or 5 comments about needing more enforcement. Of making sure dogs are where they need to be, where they're supposed to be.
And the few comments about Calvin or something. And a lot of people kind of having defects will often share you there.
And then there were a couple of groups. One was related to American Reverse Association. Apparently are working with people at Brock's cell bar, a bug, oscillator, and they called for the plan to include rocks of natural area.
Also, garden supporters wanted to refer to the Votagar Mess plan and ensure that parks at some point includes their capital projects in the future.
Plan or looking for financial. So that's too much stuff. So much. Yeah, I have to admit I totally skipped over the golf course stuff because of course we can't get rid of our convert Parker so I just assumed that that was not going to happen.
That was my decision. I'll take it. That was my decision to put it in there was my decision to put it in there because it seemed that I of 15,000 comments, 130 is a lot that seems to be repeating.
And it's called Jackson Park for all. While they're not advocating a set of close Jackson Park, they definitely want to see a new purpose or other recreation.
So there's still kind of this current. It's an interesting point too because different people all across the city will have very different.
Uses for the same part and it's constantly competing and so just be careful introducing a new use or certainly be careful taking landlords because it's just it's really challenging so just want to acknowledge.
And if I may add on, Yeah, couple years ago, definitely pre pandemic. We were trying to, try and take a look at the business model.
Because both was kind of coming not profitable. But I leave that to the turn of the pandemic right now.
And we did hear a lot of public common things about equity. And obviously you know public school children using our law forces too so a lot to dive into with that topic.
There are many, good ways to get outside. Any other questions or comments? So, are you looking for a motion to approve the department's recommendations?
Is that? Yes, we are looking for a recommendation for this board to recommend the our department.
So, and it was processed. I'm sorry, it was presented to us when, just reminded, I don't think, remember, End of January.
Okay. For my own, like what, like what you theoretically would happen in January.
And now it was that we the, playing community development for issue. See the checklist or DNS, the determination of nuts to get since and that had a comment period.
And about a half doesn't have a little more half dozen people broke in to ask questions about the checklist.
And that's about it. And then of course we have the comment period. That ended. I don't know how I did that.
But it ended up May ninth. That was a meeting. I think where Kevin presented in January, there was some mutual enter discussion about.
Mapping. Yeah, yeah. No, that's just what I was. I was, remember, okay, got it. No, thank you.
That was comment. Public comment. Okay, got it. No, thank you.
And just a quick reminder to the all language decisions for us. Go through that process of presentation, public hearing, and that adoption.
So I did hear a motion from Jessica to recommend a, of the plan, about second.
Second. Alright, all in favor?
Hi.
Any opposed? Any. And motion passes. Thanks much much more.
Thank you. The next step will be getting ready to submit to city council or committee and that's Thank you, Kevin.
Yes. The next agenda item will be over a new business. Anyone has anything to bring to it in the quarter.
I just wanna ask, I can. About any treatment for new members? Yes, that's a very good question.
Group of members that were Let's go with the paperwork, but we interviewed quite a few people and we have a majority.
Introducing you all soon. Great news and thanks to everyone for bird people. And it's a lot of work.
Thank you, Paul. That's my gift today. Excellent successor.
Wonderful. Any other? Thanks.
I think we usually mentioned the funds, fund the fund breakfast. It's it's I'll leave it to me.
I believe it'll be Tuesday. Okay. Like that location in the Sheraton this year. Yeah.
Ex everyone.
Thank you.