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EBOP Boardroom: All right, let me call this to order. Thanks everyone for being here. This is the, Thursday, September 10th meeting of the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners.

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EBOP Boardroom: I guess we will start with introductions of, folks at the table here, staff and members, and then we'll move online, and

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EBOP Boardroom: And we'll talk slowly, with the hope that a few more folks will join soon.

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EBOP Boardroom: I am Whitney Nakamura, co-chair. Thank you, I'm John Flynn, I'm the District 3 representative.

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EBOP Boardroom: Michelle Pennegan?

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EBOP Boardroom: On screen here, Ben Burtzos with Seattle Parks and Recreation.

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EBOP Boardroom: Paula Hoff with Seattle Parks and Recreation.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thanks, and then if you can move it to, folks online, learning online?

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Steve Lerer: Steve Lerer at large.

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Elise Chisholm Clare: And Elise Chisholm Clare for District 4.

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Rebecca Rasch: And this is Rebecca Rasch, District 1. Hi.

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EBOP Boardroom: Great, thanks everyone.

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EBOP Boardroom: At this time, I will, move to our land acknowledgement.

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EBOP Boardroom: Seattle Parks and Recreation acknowledges and affirms the Indigenous Coast Salish people

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EBOP Boardroom: As the original caretakers of our waters and landscapes.

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EBOP Boardroom: Who nurtured and shaped today's parkland.

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EBOP Boardroom: We honor their legacy with gratitude and appreciation, and will safeguard their knowledge and stewardship as enduring treasures to promote community welfare.

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EBOP Boardroom: Cultivate.

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EBOP Boardroom: Expressions of nature and Recreation and commit some land acknowledgement for each ensuing generation.

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EBOP Boardroom: We will wait on our consent items and move to the next item on our agenda, which is public comment.

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EBOP Boardroom: If you all can review public comment, and, and also thanks to everyone who has, sent in stuff as well.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thanks.

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EBOP Boardroom: Great, so I am going to call your name, and I have a 2-minute timer on, so I will let you know when you have a few more seconds left.

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EBOP Boardroom: Your time will be up. So, first on our list, and I don't know if everyone's here, but, Mary Patterson?

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EBOP Boardroom: Okay.

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EBOP Boardroom: Okay, how about Rosemary Moore?

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EBOP Boardroom: Rosemary, I see that you are online, so I will give you permission to unmute yourself. You will still need to do that. I can't do that for you. So once you are unmuted, you will have 2 minutes to go ahead and speak. So go ahead.

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Rosemary Moore: Thank you. My name is Rosemary Moore, I live on Mercer Island, and I would like to ask the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department and the City Council to deny Seafair a permit for the Blue Angels going forward.

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Rosemary Moore: The air display glorifies war and the military, which is particularly insensitive, given the real conflicts taking place in the world.

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Rosemary Moore: The Blue Angels air show is bad for our health. The noise and air pollution and the greenhouse gas emissions are considerable.

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Rosemary Moore: The decibels over Mercer Island when the Blue Angels flyover has been measured at around 109 decibels. That is close to the level that causes immediate harm. The four days of air show displays are terrifying for many, including but not limited to our young children, our pets, and many others.

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Rosemary Moore: These include those suffering from PTSD, those who have lived through military conflict and aerial bombardments, those with ADHD, sensory processing disorders, other learning differences, or autism suffer particularly.

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Rosemary Moore: The planes fly low over an urban area. It is only a matter of time before there is a horrific accident.

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Rosemary Moore: The Seattle City Council should not enable this dangerous and unhealthy event, and should not impose it upon the thousands of residents who inhabit our large urban area.

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Rosemary Moore: These air shows, including 2 days of practices, take place over 4 days, sometimes twice a day. It is not feasible for all who want to avoid the Blue Angels to simply leave town.

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Rosemary Moore: Seattle should make a policy.

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EBOP Boardroom: I was married?

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Rosemary Moore: Okay. Yes?

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EBOP Boardroom: Your time is almost up.

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Rosemary Moore: Yeah, totally.

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EBOP Boardroom: I'm gonna shop your sentence, I just wanted to let you know.

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Rosemary Moore: Okay, thank you. Seattle should make a policy decision that it no longer wants to endorse this military event recruitment event going forward, and it's up to Seattle, the Seafair Board, and all of us to reimagine Seafair. Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Scott? Scott mentioned, yep. Yep. Can you stand up, or…

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EBOP Boardroom: Wherever you feel comfortable. Up to you. Yeah,

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EBOP Boardroom: Hi, everyone. My name's Scott Menchwell. I'm a lifelong Washington resident, and 50 years, plus years as a bicyclist. I'm here to talk about the Friends of Green Lake Dirt Jumps and Lower Woodlands Park.

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EBOP Boardroom: and the potential to build a new field for Lincoln schools. Myself and several others formed this group over 14 years ago, and we're one of the longest-standing friendzone groups in Seattle Parks and Rec.

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EBOP Boardroom: These bicycle dirt jumps are in the global woodland in place since the late 80s. Back in the early 90s, myself and some adults started coming up to Greenlight to ride with burners. We put in thousands and thousands of labor buildings bicycle jumps for riders of all ages and skill sets to use, and they're truly an heirloom of Seattle and our culture.

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EBOP Boardroom: Over the years, we've maintained these jumps, built, fixed, maintained, and riders of all ages can come and have fun on these obstacles.

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EBOP Boardroom: High school dirt jumping, known as BMX, meets the activity for many people in need. Young and old, in many cases, these people do not fit into team sports, or have a parental

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EBOP Boardroom: Support to go to team practices or games.

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EBOP Boardroom: In BMX, there are no age boundaries, no limits, and many riders that have started at Greenlight get layered on on to be professionals competed in the Olympics.

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EBOP Boardroom: Now we're finding out that these jumps are now in jeopardy. We ask for some help here.

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EBOP Boardroom: you have a very small slice of property there at Green Lake, as well as to be concerned with is the road that many people use to shoot through Green Lake and go down and recreate at the park.

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EBOP Boardroom: If the soccer field or football field was put in place there, that would impede all the people that like the space of the park, and would like, you know, use it for walking with their children, baby strollers, etc.

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EBOP Boardroom: Last summer, we found out about this, and we rallied together. We had 300 people show up at the jumps to support… to support us. We had over 5,000 signatures on our petition within a quick month. We were in the Seattle Times newspaper.

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EBOP Boardroom: Oops, was that quick? Boy, it was a quick 2 minutes. Sorry. And now we found out that Plan B has now been, been, is now off, is now off the table.

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EBOP Boardroom: We have a Friends Up group asking for some support here to continue to have these bicycle jumps in the Boardroom Park, and we really would appreciate some support. Also, the fact is, when we voted in Plan B,

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EBOP Boardroom: We didn't hear that there was now another change to this plan, and we were never really notified. So I really asked, is there somebody here that we could communicate with to help save these bicycle jobs? Because they do mean a lot for a lot of people in the area, as well as all over the world.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you for your time, and I'm Scott Patrell, and I'd love to talk to you a little bit more about bicycles. Also, another thing to point out, too, and I'll make this really quick, EMX riders, they typically become cyclists for life. They're the ones that were putting a lot of money into emphasis to fight bikes, and training my bicycles.

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EBOP Boardroom: Okay, you can send comments. Yeah, thank you. Iris, you're next. Iris, I see you online. I will give you permission to unmute yourself.

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EBOP Boardroom: And you'll have 2 minutes.

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Iris: Hi there, can you hear me?

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EBOP Boardroom: Yes.

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Iris: Wonderful, thank you. Yeah, my name's Iris Antman, and, I want to echo, the comments that, Rosemary Moore made. I've lived in, Columbia City since 1986 in Hillman City.

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Iris: For the last 2 years, so I have been, subject to, the Blue Angels for all that time.

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Iris: And, you know, 30 years ago, I guess I thought it was exciting, as many people still do, but in light of our climate crisis, and the greenhouse gas emissions that are emitted by these

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Iris: When they're not painted so prettily, bomber jets, emit, and the health implications, the noise pollution and the air pollution.

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Iris: And, of course, the glorification of the military. It is time for Seattle to stop the Blue Angels.

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Iris: you know, you probably… you may know that, you know, inside the gates of Seafair, all of the armed forces have their booths, and they're, actively recruiting young people. They have… they have all the weapons there, and these kids are jumping all over, and hopping all over them, and just thinking that they're fun and games.

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Iris: And we adults know that they are, weapons of killing and mass destruction. So glorifying the military shouldn't be part of the seafare, the wonderful maritime seafare tradition of Seattle.

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Iris: As Rosemary suggested, we can reimagine Seafair without the Blue Angels.

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Iris: And we should do that. And, it's my understanding from some of my colleagues in this campaign that, the Parks and Rec… that you folks have said, well, it's not up to us to say no.

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EBOP Boardroom: 10 seconds.

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Iris: However, we understand that the contract is signed by you. So, you know, we need to get a clear answer who's able to say no to the Blue Angels. Thank you very much.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you. Thank you. Breck?

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EBOP Boardroom: Okay, Breck, I will give you permission to unmute yourself, and you'll have 2 minutes to go ahead and talk.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: Yes, can you hear me now?

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EBOP Boardroom: Yes.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: Thank you. Greetings, Chair and Commissioners. I'm Dr. Breck Lebegg, a retired Air Force flight surgeon, now with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, asking you to end the Blue Angels air show.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: For decades, it closed with a roar as the jets shredded the August sky. For some, it's a thrill. Make a lot of noise and smoke for fun, but for most, it's an assault on their lungs, hearing, and mental health. That's not right.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: The environmental degradation is equal to the annual emission of 120 homes. By hosting this display, Seattle doesn't celebrate aviation, it profits from air pollution that poisons our health.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: The local toxicity is immediate. This year, a medical colleague witnessed the effect.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: His 80-year-old guest, with mild asthma, had the worst attack of her life, right after four angels flew overhead. She was unable to speak for 10 minutes, finally responded to inhaler doses. The timing indicates the jet exhaust caused it.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: And importantly, there's no public health monitor or reporting system for this.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: And, as you've heard, the jet noise over 100 decibels

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: assaults our ears. For more than 15 minutes, it causes permanent hearing damage, and for 20 seconds at 100 decibels, it can cause permanent harm. 120, rather.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: We gave out freer earplugs this year, but why hurt people on purpose?

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: Instead of fighter jets overhead, let's host electric aircraft, boats, drone shares over the lake.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: Restore the maritime tradition, like the tribal canoe journey, to celebrate the Coast Salish culture. We can have family fun without traffic jams and air assaults.

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Breck Lebegue MD MPH: You and the Seafair Board must end this outdated assault on our health. Thanks for the memories, thanks for your service, but goodbye, Blue Angels. Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you. Thank you. Shelly Morrison, we're up next, and after Shelly, it'll be Sally.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you. Thanks.

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EBOP Boardroom: Is it being recorded, or… There's a speaker mic there, but it seems a lot fine, so you should be good. Okay, thanks so much. I'm here to share,

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EBOP Boardroom: my concern about the locked gates installed at Lake Washington Boulevard. And, it was designed to keep cars out of a 1.2 mile stretch

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EBOP Boardroom: During bicycle weekends. It's important to note that there is no SDOT record of any car bike

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EBOP Boardroom: or car-pedestrian accident in this stretch during a bicycle weekend. So, what is the rationale? These gates are, 5 feet high.

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EBOP Boardroom: and 27 feet wide, and they span the entire roadway, and they're at 3 locations, Mount Maker Reach, South Horton, and 43rd. They will keep cars out, but they will also keep participants out.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, here are some basic questions. If cars are the problem, why are the gates located right at the entrance to the parking areas? At two gates, the plan shows all participants funneling through a 5-foot

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EBOP Boardroom: gate or bypass, although our current staggered barriers allow 15 feet and much better visibility and allow two-way traffic. The narrow bypass will mean participants will have to go one at a time.

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EBOP Boardroom: And, parts will need to mitigate more bike-on-bike, bike-on-joggers, and e-scooter collisions.

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EBOP Boardroom: We're curious why there was no SDOT review, and, how there will be a plan to accommodate wheelchairs, baby carriages, joggers with dogs.

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EBOP Boardroom: Also, the large cement steel bollards are…

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EBOP Boardroom: just 2 to 3 feet from the road edge, which has no curb and no lights at night. We have, 3 seconds. Okay. We asked these questions last week. Thank you, Parks.

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EBOP Boardroom: And SDOT and staffers from Eddie Williams met with us, and, the response was, it's a work in progress, we don't have an operational plan.

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EBOP Boardroom: To which we asked, then why were the gates and stoned?

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EBOP Boardroom: And here is my comments, and here is a photo, explanation of all the safety issues. Thank you so much. Sally, you're up next.

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EBOP Boardroom: Hi, everybody. I'm back. Some of us came, but for the August 13th meeting, we were talking about Mount Hughes Beach, overflow parking lot. We live in the area, I've been in there for 40 years.

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EBOP Boardroom: I worked at NOAA for 38 years now at San Floan. I'm a whale biologist, now retired, but I'm still working on a blue whale keeper. Since we presented our concerns last month, we've learned a lot.

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EBOP Boardroom: So the RVs that are there, they're not part of an encampment, they're dwellings. So our find it, fix it doesn't work because they're not homeless and can't have their dwellings. The other thing we've learned is there had been a shooting on April 27th related to that area. Some young guy came out from the parking lot.

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EBOP Boardroom: went to a car and shot at it. The police came the next day. We have no idea what's going on. There was a…

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EBOP Boardroom: cleanup on August 20th, 21st, and they tagged it for parking, and they cleaned stuff up, it's back to where it was. We are convinced it's a drug dealing operation, we're convinced that there are multiple RVs sometimes, there's multiple

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EBOP Boardroom: Hi, there's a Jaguar in here sometimes, a very modern truck, and we're convinced it's related also to the house across the street.

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EBOP Boardroom: You guys might have seen the September 1st article in the Seattle Times about bounty hunters and an army crashing.

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EBOP Boardroom: and all sorts of coordinates and stuff, we think what's going on at Matthews Beach parking lot is an RV-related drug dealing operation. So in addition to asking you guys to help us with it, and parking enforcement to help us with it.

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EBOP Boardroom: I've actually left messages for narcotics, I think we need to get the police involved.

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EBOP Boardroom: Because the other thing we've learned is that there's an RV down near the Chale Sound Point that's also

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EBOP Boardroom: So it's a complex issue, and, it's time to start tackling it. I was going to print out some stuff on my trigger didn't work, but I emailed it, so maybe… just a one-page write-up and the copy of the Seattle Times article, but it's dire. It is really…

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EBOP Boardroom: It's scary. So, parking enforcement person.

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EBOP Boardroom: is too nervous to go work there anywhere. She will not go into place anywhere. Thank you. She's also going to talk about this. Next up is Sally, and then… Oh, it was Sally. Oh, that was Sally. And Joyce, and you'll be followed by Nanette.

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EBOP Boardroom: Hi, I'm Joyce Modi, and I'm a member of Coexist, advocating equity in the use of Lake Washington Boulevard. Southeast Seattle has hosted some form of bicycle Sundays, and now Bicycle weekends, for 58 years.

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EBOP Boardroom: This year, Lake Washington Boulevard was closed to people in cars every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

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EBOP Boardroom: Why are we being punished? What other neighborhood would tolerate such discriminatory treatment? Why aren't other neighborhoods sponsoring bicycle Sundays or weekends?

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EBOP Boardroom: According to the bike lobby, apparently only fit and healthy people who ride bicycles should be allowed to use the boulevard throughout weekends, never mind if one is disabled, fragile, or old.

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EBOP Boardroom: Lake Washington Boulevard is not just a roadway to get from one neighborhood to another. The powerful bike lobby recommends that people in cars just use local streets and Rainier Avenue South as an alternative to the weekends, on the weekends. What the bike lobby misses

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EBOP Boardroom: is, in this suggestion, is that many people travel along the meandering boulevard for its calming and restorative nature, provided by the views of the water framed by trees.

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EBOP Boardroom: So I'm asking, restore access to Lake Washington Boulevard to people in cars on two weekends a month.

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EBOP Boardroom: And bicycle weekends for the other two weekends. Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you, boys. And that, and then you'll be followed by Carrie.

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EBOP Boardroom: Hello, I'm Nanette Martin, also a long time, lifelong Seattle resident. I've advocated and volunteered

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EBOP Boardroom: and admired Olmstead Parks for years. I remember when our Olmsted Parks and the huge connecting boulevard system was honored and treasured.

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EBOP Boardroom: Seattle hosted the National Olstead Conference in the spring of 2003.

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EBOP Boardroom: It was the keynote event for that year-long celebration of the 100 years of Olmstead Parks.

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EBOP Boardroom: people, came from all over the country to admire our parks.

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EBOP Boardroom: We toured the boulevard system. They were,

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EBOP Boardroom: They were thrilled at Lake Washington Boulevard because of the beautiful vistas, the lake. Mainly the Olmstead Boulevards around the country don't have water. We have water.

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EBOP Boardroom: But not anymore do we admire it. The humps, the bumps, the paint, the signs everywhere, the plastical whippy things that absolutely have destroyed the beautiful boulevard.

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EBOP Boardroom: Not to mention the huge locking gates.

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EBOP Boardroom: I don't know who decided to trash, junkify, deface Lake Washington Boulevard. I'm here to plead that the boulevard be returned to its glorious natural state.

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EBOP Boardroom: with maybe a dose of police enforcement, if needed. Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Carrie, and then you're gonna be followed by Eric.

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EBOP Boardroom: Peterson, there's two Eric's, and then the other Eric, basically afterwards.

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EBOP Boardroom: I only have one graphic photo today. So, Denny Blaine part.

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EBOP Boardroom: July 15th, 2026, King County Superior Judge Samuel Chung.

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EBOP Boardroom: Rules that, based on evidence presented, the court grants plaintiff's request for permanent injunction. The court denies plaintiff's request to close the park and instead orders defendant City to further abate the public nuisance as provided below.

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EBOP Boardroom: From court transcripts, the court finds that the prevalence of nudity and lewd conduct substantially interfered with plaintiffs' ability to use and enjoy their properties.

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EBOP Boardroom: Some of the residents tried to stop loot park goers themselves. Most other park users, however, did not intervene to stop loot behaviors.

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EBOP Boardroom: include sexual behaviors at the park constitute public nuisance. The graphic and disturbing illegal sexual acts in public have affected the entire neighborhood and have prevented plaintiff residents from using the park and have severely impacted

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EBOP Boardroom: plaintiffs' residence from use and enjoyment of their own homes. Despite its own code of conduct prohibiting lewd conduct, Defendant City and the Parks Department largely refrained from curbing these illegal acts and treated the incidents from the park

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EBOP Boardroom: Differently than other locations.

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EBOP Boardroom: I would request that you spend the $400,000 of the community fund.

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EBOP Boardroom: Replacing dead trees and repairing the bulkhead at the park.

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EBOP Boardroom: Public parks are for everyone.

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EBOP Boardroom: This was last night at the park. A couple engaged in oral sex, tied to a buoy, out in the water for everybody to see.

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EBOP Boardroom: The UW rowing crew went by them once, and then went by them again. I called SPD, and SPD never showed.

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EBOP Boardroom: Eric Peterson?

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EBOP Boardroom: Here's somebody else's screen.

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EBOP Boardroom: Hello, Eric Peterson, Matthews Beach community member, here again, as was, last month.

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EBOP Boardroom: Because the crisis at the Matthews Beach overflow lot continues, and our community can no longer accept the crime spaller and lawlessness taking over our public space. What is meant to be a parking area for families to access the cherished neighborhood beach has instead been surrendered to a permanent encampment.

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EBOP Boardroom: Call it what you will. We must take immediate action to clear this lot and restore safety to our community. The reality of Matthews Beach is undeniable. Neighbors and visitors are regularly subjected to the smell of open human waste, piles of hazardous trash and debris.

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EBOP Boardroom: Spilling into the critical Thornton Creek watershed area.

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EBOP Boardroom: This is not just an eyesore, it is a biohazard. More alarming is the direct rise of criminal activity that Sally mentioned connected to this site, from property crime and theft.

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EBOP Boardroom: To open drug use and violent altercations. Beyond the crime and swallower we are facing an even more immediate catastrophe, which I mentioned last month, which is the very real escalating threat of fire.

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EBOP Boardroom: Inside this encampment, unregulated propane tanks and makeshift heating sources sit around by, surrounded by dry brush, garbage, and vehicles.

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EBOP Boardroom: We're basically watching a tinderbox sit right on the edge of our neighborhood at our park. If the fire breaks out, as they frequently do in unmanaged encampments.

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EBOP Boardroom: It won't just destroy the lot, it threatens the nearby homes, our natural spaces, and the lives of everyone in the vicinity, including the residents of the encampments themselves. We, cannot wait for a tragic, preventable blaze to finally force, action.

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EBOP Boardroom: And,

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EBOP Boardroom: I wanted to mention that a place designed for children and families has become an area that residents actively avoid up here for their personal safety. A lot of the residents in Matthews Beach, we just don't walk by there.

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EBOP Boardroom: Allowing this encampment to remain is neither compassionate nor progressive. Five cycles. It is an abandonment of the neighborhood and the individuals living in these outside conditions. We're asking this body to take seriously, enforce laws already in the books, and clear the overflow lot. Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Eric, yes?

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EBOP Boardroom: This is Eric with Friends of Lower Woodland, and the SPS superintendent publicly declared Option A was dead.

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EBOP Boardroom: after the public meeting that the DPRC requested that SPS conduct, Andy Shepard's always to post all the public comment to SPS. That is where we have had all of our meetings without Andy Shepard there.

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EBOP Boardroom: Why did the EPRC put option A inside of scope of theIS, and not Wellingford Plainfield, which is another option that's been studied, and it's just tabled. It wasn't dismissed by the SBA superintendent.

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EBOP Boardroom: Why have a hearing on option B and not have a hearing on option A, when there have been

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EBOP Boardroom: literally thousands of people opposed to Option A at this point, and you have not heard from any of them.

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EBOP Boardroom: Here are some Option A issues. First, the Emergency Disabilities Act requires that the BMX bike jumps be removed if the field is added at that location.

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EBOP Boardroom: Even if the field is narrowed, even if all seating is removed, and even if the Olmsted-designed trees along Green Lake Way are removed.

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EBOP Boardroom: You're gonna have to move bike jumps according to the ADA.

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EBOP Boardroom: Second, the stated estimate for Option A construction is 18 months, not 1 year, and due to seasonal work schedules, that means you're not going to have a field there for 2 years, not 1 year, as has been claimed by Andy Schaffer.

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EBOP Boardroom: Third, maintaining park access from Tangletown is going to require narrow chute paths into the park under option A, and those chute paths require shrinking the field that the mariners built, and that… they paid for that to be built, and there's an RCO that says it can't be shrunk down. So that is contrary to the law, shrinking that field.

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EBOP Boardroom: Fourth, it has been established that no parking can be added for Option A. The parking that is there supports seven existing fields, and it regularly overflows are in use. This is unlike Option B, where there is lots of spare parking available, and people were expressing on the Parks Board concerns about Option B there.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, I could go on about public safety, overcrowding, community opposition, public recreational use issues, but, there's many options within the park that do make sense. You need a meeting with the Parks Department.

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EBOP Boardroom: Our options can be discussed. We have never met with anybody in the Parks Department, and yet the decisions that SPS made, based on meetings with us.

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EBOP Boardroom: are being overridden by the Parks Department. Where is the information coming from? Who can we talk to?

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EBOP Boardroom: Anybody at the Parks Department needs somebody we can talk to. And Andy Shepard isn't it. He hasn't been attending any meetings, he's misinformed.

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EBOP Boardroom: That concludes the public comment first. Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Two of us have went to the wrong location, and Mary taught us, and I totally forgot, so probably on your list.

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EBOP Boardroom: Oh, Mary Patterson. Mary Patterson.

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EBOP Boardroom: Nope.

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EBOP Boardroom: But, I'll be the voice, is that okay?

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EBOP Boardroom: I'm Mary Patterson, I work for 350 Seattle Climate Justice Organization. It's a member of the Airshow Climate Action Coalition, and we've been working on ending the, Blue Angels Air Show. It happens at the end of Seafair every summer in Seattle for the last 15 years, probably. Reimagining Seafair, replacing it with,

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EBOP Boardroom: more appropriate,

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EBOP Boardroom: fun and celebrations and ceremonies. We just wanted to make a couple things clear. One is the role of Seattle Parks.

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EBOP Boardroom: At least in 2023, you were a signer of an agreement.

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EBOP Boardroom: Here's a copy of the agreement, with Seafair. It was Eric Carney at the time, and Mr. Williams of sales arts.

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EBOP Boardroom: And we were able to get a copy of that contract. Here's a copy of that, I'll leave.

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EBOP Boardroom: With you. Also, for the last 7 years, we've been circulating a petition, a revenue-driven petition, that now has a total of 1,600 signatures to it, calling for an under the, Blue Angels at Seafair.

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EBOP Boardroom: 4,378 are from the city of Seattle, and, 5,000 of the total are from the state of Washington. That's about,

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EBOP Boardroom: 100 from outside the state of Washington, because those actually was actually happening nationally. So here's a copy of the petition, and then, really, important is a copy of the comments that people made.

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EBOP Boardroom: When they sign the petition. So many comments about the noise, which you've heard about tonight are being,

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EBOP Boardroom: Truly unhealthy, and re-traumatizing for people with various forms of trauma and, the noise and, and, and the trigger to trauma.

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EBOP Boardroom: We hope to come again, just at least one more time in two weeks from now, because there'll be more of us from the coalition, including a bunch of young people, 5 seconds. All right, and we'll save the rest of what we want to present for that. Thanks very much.

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EBOP Boardroom: Oh, thanks. Thank you. All right, thanks everyone. That concludes public comment. I did just want to give a moment for folks online who haven't yet introduced themselves. If you could just briefly introduce yourselves, and then we will return to our content items this evening.

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Kevin Werner: Sure, I can jump in. Hi, everyone. My name's Kevin Werner, I'm an at-large commissioner, I live in Leshai.

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Jane Stonecipher: And hi, I'm Jane Stonecipher, also at large, I live on Capitol Hill.

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Tricia Diamond: Hello, everyone. I am Tricia Diamond. I am a Boards and Commissioner, and I live in Ravenna.

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Daya Zhang: Hi, I'm Daya, I'm with District 2.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thanks, everyone. So our consent items include our July 23rd meeting minutes.

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EBOP Boardroom: our August 13th meeting minutes, and then tonight, the September 10th meeting agenda.

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EBOP Boardroom: Is there a motion to approve that, package of consent items?

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EBOP Boardroom: I will move to approve that. Second.

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EBOP Boardroom: Great, thanks. All those in favor, raise your hand or say aye.

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Elise Chisholm Clare: Aye.

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EBOP Boardroom: Great, thanks. So we will, that is approved, and we'll move to the superintendent for it.

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EBOP Boardroom: First, I'd like to thank everybody for coming to yet a new location. I hope you're enjoying meeting all of our different administrative and public buildings and testing technology with us.

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EBOP Boardroom: Appreciate, showing our learning in public. Ben and Carla for…

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EBOP Boardroom: part of our last two meetings was just the volume of humans, but we are also doing some improvements at the regular park board at the Hunter Dexter building, and

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EBOP Boardroom: whatever things will be done by November, but they will not be done.

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EBOP Boardroom: We will be, assessing what the K Arena event is at the next meeting, and if we want to go somewhere else, or… sorry, I'm sold. And then I'll show you my health.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, so we will… we may have yet another people that are coming back, back maybe in different locations, so bear with us.

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EBOP Boardroom: Not the plan long-term to… That's right. Trouble. Please. Yes, exactly, please. Okay, so I'm gonna do…

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EBOP Boardroom: our feedback loop, and then opportunities to engage. A couple things that I don't have slides for, I just wanted to, let guys know that

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EBOP Boardroom: I think I gave an update at the last meeting about the Senate hiring process, and he said that was…

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EBOP Boardroom: happening in September, it pushed out to October, so, still happening, but it's a little bit longer for time, right? Your stuff would be a little bit longer.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then, as Carrie said, there was some additional,

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EBOP Boardroom: information on some of that came from Superior Court. And we have a blog post out about our actions that included a few meetings coming up, and those are happening next week, so if there's interest for people to participate in that, please.

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EBOP Boardroom: Check our balloon for, in-person meeting, an online meeting, and always the opportunity to provide feedback in writing, too.

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EBOP Boardroom: I had the pleasure of going to the Freeway Park for the anniversary last month,

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EBOP Boardroom: And it was a really great day. The park was amazing. There was, it was, like, a sketch fest as part of it, so there were sketchers in, like, every corner of the park, the conservation corner.

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EBOP Boardroom: who's there supporting the activation, the PCD, our Planning Capital Development, did a lot to take a part.

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EBOP Boardroom: Plumbers… I still have one fountain that's not working, but they filled it with plants, and it looks amazing. And then they have some temporary art there, so if you're still able to go…

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EBOP Boardroom: made a plinth out of a cold, drinking belt. So, that was just a really… it was a really great day. The Freeway Park Association really led the day's activities, and really honored the history of that site, and the,

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EBOP Boardroom: the health room design, and it was a really great day in the park was great, and…

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EBOP Boardroom: It starts to drain a lot.

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EBOP Boardroom: We had our leadership team this week, and I was asking people how people are feeling about, kind of, we're not quite done with heat season, but it's a lot of the, kind of, summer milestones with,

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EBOP Boardroom: with, summer aquatics and day camps and all that is kind of coming to a close, but I just wanted to highlight some of the park activations that we have recently had that MD until

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EBOP Boardroom: dusk a couple of the real fun ones recently. We had Lake Union Park, in August, and then they did a fundraiser out at, which is the top middle picture out at Golden Gardens to try to support additional equipment for that team. There's also movies happening,

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EBOP Boardroom: Valerie Lyons, the best head of Valor Commons, and at MPH Park were all recent events, and then…

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EBOP Boardroom: We do have a few more, but I will share in the Opportunities to Engage section of the last couple of days.

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EBOP Boardroom: now or soon, on Monday, the utilities, upland utilities work associated with this South Fleshye Marina project.

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EBOP Boardroom: Plan to do that a little earlier this summer, and work with the community to push that back,

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EBOP Boardroom: time, but the red areas appear… the part that looks like an outcropping into the water, that one is closed the entire time. We think it'll take about 3 or 4 months to get that,

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EBOP Boardroom: that work done during the construction. Parking amongst themselves will be revised, but the businesses and residential areas will remain open, so please support our business partners down there.

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EBOP Boardroom: We will have a little bit of overnight work, in order to mitigate impact to businesses.

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EBOP Boardroom: And those dates and hours will be on our website. This work is really important for the marina and for this publicly accessible dock. We'll support power, sewer, water for the marina.

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EBOP Boardroom: Provides a brand new public dock with Breakwater and sand utilities for the facility, including a sewage plumb-out facility for boats, and the removal of outdated and primarily harmful creosote duct.

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EBOP Boardroom: as we are doing with a $1.6 million grant from the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office for Winning Facilities Program.

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EBOP Boardroom: So we might need to use a boat ramp in the near term. We would recommend Atlantic City boat ramp down Seward and Park Avenue.

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EBOP Boardroom: have, had some comments that we did a previous meeting, and asked what was happening, and Burt Gilman from a repair perspective, and starting this past Tuesday.

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EBOP Boardroom: And, we are doing some repairs from 65th to 77th on, Hurt Gillman. It's the same to ride the walk trail, it's similar work to what was happening last year in one of the 77.

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EBOP Boardroom: Probably not enough time, because there's only that 12 block area, but hopefully that'll be improved for riders happening there.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then just, a couple updates on project work underway, and I will say, Jessica Murphier, which we'll talk about in a minute. She'll be here next time. We have lots of updates on projects, but, this is just kind of timely stuff, so we…

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EBOP Boardroom: I had to host Councilmember Kettle out at Svenco Park, and there's a few pictures on the left from that project. There is a lot happening out there, and

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EBOP Boardroom: We expect it to be partially reopened by the year end, with a new off-reach area, accessible trails, native planting, log zone, and bioretention.

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EBOP Boardroom: It won't be fully reopened until next summer while we let the turf, the natural turf, I feel, grow in, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: That's exciting, we've been meeting you all for that project.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then, on the right-hand side is a picture of Dr. Blanche Lebezo Park, where we just recently completed a concrete maintenance project, which removed and replaced approximately 1,200 square feet of uneven pavement and broken brick papers.

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EBOP Boardroom: Our next Bridgerton stroll is a very popular one, and this one is happening up at Volunteer Park at the end of September, so mark calendars for that. Actually a daytime.

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EBOP Boardroom: my schedule, activity, and then we have a Dolly Parton event happening on 9 to…

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EBOP Boardroom: Which includes, Disco Romance and the movie, and I tried to be at Denny Barco.

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EBOP Boardroom: That night, but, our team is excited that we're able to add that one to the season in order to honor…

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EBOP Boardroom: Last one, but equally important, which I didn't put on here in the slide, on the 22nd of September is when the Mayor delivers the 2027-2028 year's performance budget to the City Council.

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EBOP Boardroom: We expect to have a department presentation at the City Council somewhere that week or the next, so, we'll get you that information when we have it, and,

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EBOP Boardroom: at the next meeting, we will go over, kind of, the American Club budget and affects, SPR,

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EBOP Boardroom: A place in the pipe for our budget, but, that's also a good day to get feedback.

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EBOP Boardroom: City Council with the Park District Board hats on. And the densest, densest slide tonight is our feedback loop.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you for everyone who helps support, and we have great meeting suggestions for that.

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EBOP Boardroom: We heard both kind of a follow-up to the meeting we held with the co-exist.

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EBOP Boardroom: along Lake Washington Boulevard, and as I sort of say, we recognize that our next step in that process is to work on the operations plan when we committed to engage the communities.

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EBOP Boardroom: That's a little bit more to come on that effort.

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EBOP Boardroom: Similarly, we have, a meeting on-site scheduled with our Matthew Speech neighbors on the 23rd, and we're trying to make sure we have

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EBOP Boardroom: And then… We had some…

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EBOP Boardroom: shortage of staffing in our comms team, so I included some upcoming blog posts, but the first one we actually got out before this meeting, so we do have,

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EBOP Boardroom: me accepting your own's recommendations on next steps for Lincoln High School Field. It does have a named public, project liaison, Daya Graves, who's,

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EBOP Boardroom: And the next steps will be scoping the EIS.

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EBOP Boardroom: In August, school districts celebrated the reopening of Alpi Elementary School, as part of that project, obviously our

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EBOP Boardroom: So, we're working on a blog post to talk about those improvements. We're gonna do… maybe the big… we're gonna do the little…

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EBOP Boardroom: But that's going to outline that, remind people that there was a budget change in 2021 that had that facility now as a child care focused facility, and so people that remember it from, say, 10 years ago, where it was a full-service community center, reminding people what was the current state of that, of that facility, and

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EBOP Boardroom: what we're planning to do, but still try to leverage the joint use agreement to have access to vision and things that that blog post will probably go out next week. It's really just kind of level setting and reminding and letting people know that we're all,

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EBOP Boardroom: continued to… To try to build access within our current resources.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then we'll have, on the 22nd, all the institute.

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EBOP Boardroom: However they do comms, do a comms about the year's proposed budget for their, for their departments, and so we will have that page posted also on that date.

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EBOP Boardroom: Lewis Park, I think we talked about last time, we had closed that park under the emergency rulemaking to allow our staff to get in there and do some more robust,

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EBOP Boardroom: a lot of work. It took about 3 weeks, that we were in there,

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EBOP Boardroom: Working, again, cross-departmentally with SDAT's Unified Care Team.

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EBOP Boardroom: The police department was a great support. Our rangers were there every day to deploy a team, and we still have work to do there, but…

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EBOP Boardroom: through the peak season of this year that they were, implementing, so that's coming next, as well as we have some Phase 2 maintenance work happening.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then, just as a tracking item, just wanted to let you know kind of where we're headed for the next few months. We have, as I mentioned, Jessica coming.

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EBOP Boardroom: next month, to do our quarterly update, Relink Evans Poll, you asked specifically for an update on social, deeper dive into that project, as well as we are,

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EBOP Boardroom: gonna start a pilot of bringing back the Bench Donation Program. It's kind of been on that basis for a few years in partnership with the Seattle Park Foundation.

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EBOP Boardroom: Amy Williams, our Deputy Superintendent of Policy and Finance, will probably be updating the budget, or if she can't be there, I will.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then in November, we have the two…

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EBOP Boardroom: As well as some of you…

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EBOP Boardroom: I say newer, like, lightly, because I think it's been, like, a year since we talked about this stuff, Capitol Hill.

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EBOP Boardroom: Project, but I still want to circle back, because I think it's a good example of how we're thinking about our parts a little differently, and there's been some good work up there, so we wanted to give a briefing on that, and then…

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EBOP Boardroom: yet, as we talked about the TC Bike Trail coming back to you all with an update on that, and then, in follow-up to the conversation about Seafair, but not specific to Seafair, we thought we would come and do just a briefing about how special events are happening.

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EBOP Boardroom: is done, and again, with the team being kind of all hands on deck for the summer, I haven't even asked them to start building that yet, so we will, we will be back,

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EBOP Boardroom: At least to get you guys, kind of, what do we think we can slap that in. And then, tonight we have a double duty of a briefing and a partner spotlight with our premier program, but, our next ones will have the Seattle Partner coming.

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EBOP Boardroom: And, October and November.

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EBOP Boardroom: November.

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EBOP Boardroom: What's the head?

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EBOP Boardroom: And I think I told you guys last year, or last time that we got our green flag for the third time in international awards. There is the green flag, so… Super Park.

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EBOP Boardroom: We are a little behind schedule, but did any Commissioners have any questions or comments about any of the presentations?

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EBOP Boardroom: Is that Kevin? Yeah, Kevin, go ahead.

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Kevin Werner: Yeah, thanks, Michelle, for the briefing. As always, I'd love to see the slides after. I think I took pretty good notes, but I'd love to see the slides. I had a couple of questions, and you can defer these. I… one was on the Blue Angels. I've asked this before, and as I saw you on your last slide, we're going to brief us on special permits, but I recall that the…

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Kevin Werner: answer to the question was that the city is permitting that, it's above the Parks Department, so I wanted to confirm that. And then the second one, we've heard a lot of public comment on the Lake Washington Boulevard now. I just wondered if you could address some of the questions about the gates. I'm a frequent user of that park and have

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Kevin Werner: have some opinions that contrast what we've heard in public or comments, so anyway, I'd love to hear an update on that.

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EBOP Boardroom: Yes, I can tell you on Lake Washington Boulevard gates, we're not going to use them until next year.

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EBOP Boardroom: After we work on an operation plan with

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EBOP Boardroom: with SDOT, and so we will be engaging the community, so I don't have a whole lot to share on that, but we can keep this board generally informed as we work through that process.

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EBOP Boardroom: Over the winter. And yes, the large city events are managed

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EBOP Boardroom: Through the Office of Economic Development.

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EBOP Boardroom: We have a role, and if,

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EBOP Boardroom: let's take, the marathon. It's a good example. The marathon is a citywide event.

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EBOP Boardroom: But it goes through many parks.

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EBOP Boardroom: And so we do permit the park.

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EBOP Boardroom: parts of all of that, but the kind of yes-no decision-making of whether or not to allow a citywide permit is managed by OED, and that's kind of what I want to have.

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EBOP Boardroom: walked through with you. As was mentioned tonight, the parks superintendent has historically been the one that physically signed

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EBOP Boardroom: federal entity, IP. So, they are not… they are speaking the truth that that is historically a…

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EBOP Boardroom: A park superintendent signature, but it's within this broader

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EBOP Boardroom: Review of whether or not Seafair is gonna happen, and what happened, and all of that, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: It's a both-and, a yes and.

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Kevin Werner: Thanks, Michelle. Can I ask one quick follow-up?

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Kevin Werner: on issues such as these two, or some of the others that we hear about in public comment in your reports, like, what would be the most useful for you to hear from us in terms of, you know, feedback, opinions, ideas that we as Commissioners or the whole Commission have?

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Kevin Werner: And you can table that if you want to respond, you know, offline or next meeting, but I'm… I have a lot of ideas based on what I hear, and I'm not quite sure what to do with them all, so I'm just curious, like, if you want to sort of direct that energy somewhere.

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EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, I think the two things is, one, we're trying to get your baseline level of information, you know, before

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EBOP Boardroom: opining too much, just so that you understand the process and all that, and then I think we tend to work with the chairs on whether… what we're bringing to the Commission and all of that, so it could maybe be something

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EBOP Boardroom: to chat with Whitney and Ryan about… but always feel free to contact me at any time on any matter, so… I think all of those are good. But what would be officially in front of the board, we tend to work with the chairs on what we're bringing in the board.

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Kevin Werner: Thank you.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you, great questions.

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EBOP Boardroom: Just great to see the three-way park reopening, and I saw a great Seattle Times article. It's one of those parks that I think was, sort of.

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EBOP Boardroom: aloe for a while, it became a trouble spot, and it's nice to see that those things can come back, so I think some of the other challenges we hear about, you know, and actually there was maybe one on there today, too, you know, they do come back, they do get cleaned up, it does take some time and a lot of team effort across teams, so… but it was great to hear about Cruia Park.

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EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, and I will… often, all of that happens in partnership with community and the Freeway Park Association, I just can't… that crew in Resident Conklin, specifically.

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EBOP Boardroom: It's a group instrumental in that event in the whole year of celebrating that.

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EBOP Boardroom: historian legacy.

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EBOP Boardroom: Alright, thank you. We're gonna, I think, start with Mandy, and then,

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EBOP Boardroom: Andy, were you gonna introduce? Oh, sure. I'd just like to speak briefly. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, start with Andy. I'd just like to speak briefly about the success of this part.

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EBOP Boardroom: partnership, which is largely attributed to the partners having their eyes on their mission, and not on self-interest. Sometimes it's difficult for multiple partners to

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EBOP Boardroom: come together and organize and manage an effort, this effort being Seattle's Municipal golf course, the mission being enhancing opportunity and creating opportunity for those that don't have it. I also want to take a brief moment

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EBOP Boardroom: to commend the golf director, Patrick Miriam, on three points. First is forwarding accessibility. Every conversation I have with Patrick.

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EBOP Boardroom: comes up. How are we forwarding accessibility to those members of the population that don't have this opportunity? The second is maintain the courses in a manner that constantly gets

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EBOP Boardroom: Commendation by golf organizations, golfers, users, absolutely critical.

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EBOP Boardroom: and for municipal health courses. And third, which is often overlooked, is enhancing the environmental services that these courses provide for the city. When we talk about tree canopy.

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EBOP Boardroom: Tree canopy. There's tree canopy.

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EBOP Boardroom: Water quality. Great water quality, particularly associated with one long follow creek. I could go on, but Patrick Marion, do you want to take it from there? Sure.

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EBOP Boardroom: I just want to say, Andy shows up at all my meetings. And I'm glad to say I'm worried about golf.

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EBOP Boardroom: I'm shortening.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, I appreciate that,

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EBOP Boardroom: We're here to follow our partner, but I'm gonna give a little brief description of our sites, what we offer, and what we're doing. As we go through the presentation.

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EBOP Boardroom: One of my hopes and goals is that we change the narrative from golf 1985 and who's playing to who's playing in 2026. All we're doing to encourage golf who can't play to get out and play, and we really do some great stuff, and I think you'll see that. We have 4 municipal golf courses.

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EBOP Boardroom: I will start down here, down the street, with Kinner Bay Golf. It has a 9-hole, very busy golf course with a mini golf.

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EBOP Boardroom: 80 Bay Range, food and beverage, lots of events, host camps, daycares.

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Elise Chisholm Clare: I wonder That's a great spot.

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EBOP Boardroom: Can you move?

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EBOP Boardroom: Then we move up north to Jackson Park Golf Course as an 18-haul course, a R3 course.

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EBOP Boardroom: Food and beverage, 50 bay, 50 stalled riding range. We just recently put, frisbee golf on the par 3. They're playing the same time as the golfers.

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EBOP Boardroom: So they… they made a proposal to us, and we're piloting in a project. It's working way better than I thought it, actually.

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EBOP Boardroom: And it's going well.

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EBOP Boardroom: Now, West Seattle is just an 18-hole course that's very heavily played.

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EBOP Boardroom: A lot of community members that live locally take a lot of ownership in that. And,

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EBOP Boardroom: as Andy said,

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EBOP Boardroom: We do our… we operate in our maintenance procedures under the same best practices as your CR parks. We're… if we apply… if we want to put something different as far as chemical, pesticide, fertilizer, we have to apply to do it, have it approved.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, Thornton Creek and Longfellow Creek have tested cleaner on the course than they do in the neighborhood.

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EBOP Boardroom: Turf is a filtration system. It's also a climate… you know.

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EBOP Boardroom: Climate change, it cools things down, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: I'll move to our… we have,

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EBOP Boardroom: Our maintenance teams, we have, 27 employees.

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EBOP Boardroom: 20 of which are full-time.

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EBOP Boardroom: Rest of hemp, part-time. They were, diligently.

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EBOP Boardroom: to, stay on top of things as busy as we are.

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EBOP Boardroom: Unlike the park system, we don't have people we call, we do our irrigation repairs, all of our on-site work is done by the small staff. So, I'm very proud to work with these folks.

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EBOP Boardroom: And, they get a great deal of work done.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, next slide is the revenue.

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EBOP Boardroom: You can see, since 2018, it was basically $11 million, it's grown to 20 million.

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EBOP Boardroom: It's been jumping and increasing every year.

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EBOP Boardroom: I, like, shit, I was hired in 2020. But,

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EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, I think, you know, what I really want to stress is everybody's playing golf. Kids, seniors.

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EBOP Boardroom: Families, it's… A 4-5 hour outing for people, safe, it's a safe environment.

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EBOP Boardroom: We start… we're working to have community center leagues where we're supplying the clubs.

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EBOP Boardroom: Encourse time for free. We're having events where we're doing lessons.

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EBOP Boardroom: Face painting, food, So we're really trying to reach people who think golf is off-limits to them.

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EBOP Boardroom: And, it's not just for everybody. And, we don't turn away anybody.

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EBOP Boardroom: You know, but… I think this just demonstrates, not just in Seattle, but globally, golf is… growing…

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EBOP Boardroom: I think at 2 million people a year, easy, and 40% of the growth in golf in 2026 is, the POC community, our women, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: You're stealing my slides, sorry. But please, going forward, my mirror has changed.

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EBOP Boardroom: We really need to move to where we can get some city support to keep our facilities functioning.

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EBOP Boardroom: no turf replacement on the ramps. We got some big ticket items, and we…

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EBOP Boardroom: You know, we meet revenue, we have a little of capital projects, but we're not costing anything to operate at this point, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: I'll turn it over to Mr. Premier Golf, Mike Prosner. I don't have anything to say, he said it all? Question on the, revenue side. I don't expect you to have, like, statistics, but, like, between that growth coming from increased fees and that growth coming from participants.

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EBOP Boardroom: I mean, I'm sure it's a mix, but what would you say? Is it heavier on, you know, we were way undercharging when we increased fees, or is it just heavier on a lot more people are playing?

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EBOP Boardroom: You know, there's 10 million new golfers in the last 5 years. 10 million a year. Seattle has quite a few new golfers, so a lot of it is just the added rounds of golf that are being played. We try to be the most affordable golf in the Puget Sound area, and I think we are.

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EBOP Boardroom: But by doing that, you know, we also have to make sure that we are providing a good product.

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EBOP Boardroom: And a good experience for our golfers, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: Our golf courses are more than just golf courses. They're community centers. They are embedded in the communities that they

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EBOP Boardroom: limit. So, for example, our first slide here, we talk about… Yes. Real quick, before you jump into that, could you just explain what Premier does for us? Oh, sure, yeah, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: I'm Mike Fosnick, Director of Golf with Premier. Premier is owned by Troon. They were purchased… the Premier Division was purchased by Troon in 2019.

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EBOP Boardroom: I have been with Premier since 2012, so I identify as a Premier before I do that. So, I've been working with Patrick, you know, that growth is really attributed to him. He is one of the best golf managers, one of the best people I've ever met, to be honest with you. So, but our role as a vendor is to provide golf services for the CC.

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EBOP Boardroom: And we take that partnership very seriously, because like Patrick was talking about, the access, we are completely aligned in our vision with what Seattle Parks and Recreation Division is. So, we love to talk about what we are doing, and some of the challenges that are coming with the 10 million new golfers.

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EBOP Boardroom: The thing about 10 million new golfers is it's sustainable. So, we have so many more people playing golf than ever before.

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EBOP Boardroom: But, our golf courses are more than just courses. So, here's a good example.

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EBOP Boardroom: Public access. We have 500 hours of community access annually. Some of those are cross-country meets, high school and college. They will take over the golf course and compete.

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EBOP Boardroom: We use geo-catching, if you've ever heard of geocaching. It's basically an activity where they're using the golf course in the evening hours,

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EBOP Boardroom: When it's snowing, we're open for sledding. Our community centers, we have two community rooms, West Seattle and at Bill Wright, that are used quite a bit. Celebrations of life, reunions, you name it. So, they're truly community centers, not just golf courses.

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EBOP Boardroom: The value of services, if you put a dollar amount to that, is about $175,000. You're giving back as public access.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, next slide.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, how do you bring golf to the community? Patrick's mission is bring golf to the people who don't have access to golf. So, we are reaching the community centers, and we are providing free activities for the community to come out and just experience.

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EBOP Boardroom: Face painting, free golf lessons, all sorts of things that are tied to golf. This was a really fun event. These…

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EBOP Boardroom: individuals came from the Bitter Lake Community Center.

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EBOP Boardroom: One of the young gentlemen, I think, here, great little athlete, never touched a golf course before, never touched a golf club, I mean.

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EBOP Boardroom: told Patrick, I didn't know I could come here.

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EBOP Boardroom: And his eyes just lit up.

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EBOP Boardroom: when he realized he can come. So, we are committed to no-cost, low-cost access for our golf courses. So, these particular events are specifically targeted at each of our golf centers to be free.

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EBOP Boardroom: Absolutely true.

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EBOP Boardroom: activities, contests, and they are well attended, and we are excited to bring that message. Golf is for everybody. Golf is recreation.

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EBOP Boardroom: Out of the 10 million people that are playing golf now, it's diverse populations, it's different, genders, it's much more than in 1985, where it's mainly white mans. It is not the case anymore.

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EBOP Boardroom: I invite you to come out to any of our golf courses and experience who is out there recreating.

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EBOP Boardroom: Next slide.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, what we already do on a regular basis, the 8,600 discounted youth rounds annually, those are $5.

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EBOP Boardroom: The most in the state of Washington.

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EBOP Boardroom: Seattle Parks and Rec and Seattle Golf provides that access for kids.

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EBOP Boardroom: $5 in route.

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EBOP Boardroom: The junior golf programs, there's 3,700 junior golf pro… junior golfers that participate in our education programs.

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EBOP Boardroom: Golf is fun, golf is more fun when you play with. We want the kids to have easy access to instruction so that if they have the desire, they can excel.

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EBOP Boardroom: The gentleman that we saw at Jackson Park that day, he's a natural.

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EBOP Boardroom: And he's excited, so those are the kids we're trying to reach, so…

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EBOP Boardroom: The 16 high school programs in the City of Seattle, they would not have a program if it wasn't for our golf club.

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EBOP Boardroom: We charge $8 for those high school programs to play. We have free practice areas for kids and the rest of our golf population. We don't charge any of that.

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EBOP Boardroom: we discount rounds for seniors and super seniors, so golf can be very expensive at some other courses, not necessarily in Seattle. We want to make sure that we are providing discounted rounds. If you look at the

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EBOP Boardroom: Dollar, the annual value of the services is over a million dollars that we give back.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, next slide.

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EBOP Boardroom: Our partner with the First T, Evan Johnson's here, they are doing some great work. It's more than just golf. They are teaching kids life skills.

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EBOP Boardroom: We are proud to partner with them. They house at our Bill Rye Golf Complex, and it's probably one of the biggest First Tee organizations in

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EBOP Boardroom: So I'm gonna introduce Evan Johnson. He's gonna give you a presentation on what they're doing. But, you know, golf is here, and everybody's recreating. We're excited to be a part… a partner with Seattle Golf, Seattle Parks and Rec. Is there any questions for me regarding my presentation?

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EBOP Boardroom: I'm sunshine and roses. It's all good stuff. We're excited. Did we have a big day of play activity at any of the courses? You know?

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EBOP Boardroom: No, but they come out to… Yeah, in fact, the community swing events are kind of our big day of play. You know, they're free, and we reach out to the community, we do it at all the golf courses. We'd like to expand upon that.

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EBOP Boardroom: Our mission and vision that Patrick has tasked us for in the following year is to continue to

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EBOP Boardroom: Engage with the community centers.

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EBOP Boardroom: And bring the kids to us, and let our golf instructors create programs so these kids can not only have free access, but

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EBOP Boardroom: pre-instruction, because they are next… the next generation of golfers. I love that idea of a league, because then it's repeat. You see the same kids over time, you get to know each other, see each other improve, so… versus, like, a great one-day activities are awesome, too. Right. The idea of a league where you're kind of playing it for a while is…

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EBOP Boardroom: Health is hard to learn. I mean, one-day activities were to gather interest and sign people up, and get them assigned to a community center. Quite frankly, we need more internal support from community centers to make that happen.

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EBOP Boardroom: There's other sports and leagues and community centers.

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EBOP Boardroom: We even have the clubs, we have it all. Like, we don't need 50 kids, one kid from one spot to cry.

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EBOP Boardroom: It's just to get people knowing they can find. Yeah, we make good first steps, and we're learning. I think there's 27 community centers, I believe. You know, we want to engage all of them. We are ready. We are gently…

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EBOP Boardroom: introducing ourselves to these community centers, and Patrick's helping us create that relationship with those, so I expect when we come out and talk to you next year, we're going to have a lot more engagement. So…

499
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EBOP Boardroom: So, the first tee, some great stuff. I'm gonna interview Stephan Johnson with the first tee.

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EBOP Boardroom: I love familiar faces in the audience. Thanks for having us. My name's Evan Johnson, I'm the VP of Programs and Development at First T Greater Seattle, and this is my one.

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EBOP Boardroom: Hi guys, I'm Maya. I was a participant in the First Tee for over 10 years. I met a Maryland alum, and I

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EBOP Boardroom: He worked at the first year in Seattle now as the program administration and marketing manager. I mean, like Mike and Patrick said, First T is not only just a place where you can learn golf, but it's also a place where you can learn

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EBOP Boardroom: life skills and carry those life skills throughout all your life, which is what First Tea has done for me, and it's kind of…

504
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EBOP Boardroom: work for them, so, yeah.

505
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EBOP Boardroom: How many in the room play golf at all? Like, once a year?

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EBOP Boardroom: Okay. So, you know, the thing about… I did take less than a long time ago.

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EBOP Boardroom: To Mike's point, it is a little more fun when you play well, but there's a reason that people talk about quitting golf and never actually do it. Golf is an incredible game and sport, and whatever you want to call it. A lot of life skills can be learned through it. When I was 14, I got my first job at a course, I had started to play for a couple years, and

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EBOP Boardroom: I was hooked, and it was a job for me, and I got to meet adults, and work probably earlier than I should have been at age 14, driving vehicles and whatnot.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then it just became a part of my life. And I didn't actually think I was gonna work in golf, but I loved working with kids, I did love to play, and I was introduced to the first team by Heidi Wills, who some of you might know. She was our executive director for quite a long time, and became my mentor for many years. I was very fortunate to work for Heidi.

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EBOP Boardroom: She recruited me to come volunteer in 2009, and I was hooked on the program, and I actually left a,

511
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EBOP Boardroom: I would like to think a very promising career in real estate finance, but I was just so passionate about what we were doing, and I saw so much opportunity.

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EBOP Boardroom: That I started volunteering and coaching, and I went full-time in 2012. And we're both PGA members, now that's…

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EBOP Boardroom: golf professional, not professional golfer, just for the record, right? But I think… I'll tell you an origin story that might be more impactful than my own, and that's Bill Wright.

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EBOP Boardroom: If you know, Jeff… it used to be called Jefferson Park Golf Course, now it's Bill Ragg Golf Compliance at Jefferson Park.

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EBOP Boardroom: You might know this story already, a lot of people are more familiar with it now in the last couple years since it's been renamed, but Bill used to walk, up Beacon Hill. He went to Franklin High School, he'd walk along Beacon Hill.

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EBOP Boardroom: sometimes with golf clubs on his shoulder, and sometimes with his instrument. I think he played the cello, so a large one, from what I remember. And sometimes both. And people would warn him, you know, you might get mugged, something could happen. He was a pretty big guy, so he wasn't too worried about that.

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EBOP Boardroom: But he was doing things a little bit against the grain. He was such a good golfer.

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EBOP Boardroom: that he went on to play at Western, or he got recruited to play at UW, but they wouldn't let him play on the team because he was Black. So he transferred to Western, finished his college career there, and left a lasting legacy at Bill Wright. If it wasn't for the access to a public golf course.

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EBOP Boardroom: he might never have made it in the game. And at the time, Jefferson Park was actually one of the only courses anywhere in the country where he would even have a chance to play. Thanks to the Furr State Golf Club, which still exists, and the Furr State Golf Club.

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EBOP Boardroom: as time goes on, ends up being, you know, some of the groundwork in that, you know, what allowed the First Tea to, flourish. You know, we were founded in 2003, we could go to…

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EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, it's just a little bit about what we do.

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EBOP Boardroom: We can go to the next one. We're gonna skip the video. It's a very good video, but it's, like, three and a half minutes long, and I know, you know, it's getting late. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I heard that.

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EBOP Boardroom: We were founded in 2002, launched in 2003. We're a 501c3, just some quick facts. As Mike mentioned, we are one of 150 First Tapters around the country, serving every major metropolitan area. The First Tee was founded in 1997, with, Tiger Woods hitting the scene.

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EBOP Boardroom: People just realized, like, we need more young people like this guy. So exciting. Now, spotted history since for Tiger, but, he did get a lot of people into the game, and people who look different than what we were used to.

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EBOP Boardroom: No offense, Jack Nicklaus.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, in 2003, First East Creator Seattle was founded.

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EBOP Boardroom: And, you know, at Jefferson Park. That was our first location. Second location, Jackson Park.

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EBOP Boardroom: Fast forward, we have 23 program locations, King, Snohomish, and Skagit County, as first-year Seattle, and we're serving 4,600 kids a year in green grass facilities.

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EBOP Boardroom: Jefferson, Bill Wright, is still our headquarters, and still where we do most of our events. It's where our office is, where Maya and I get to work most of the time.

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EBOP Boardroom: And you can see a large proportion of our kids are still playing at those Seattle courses. Primarily, Bill Wright and Jackson Park, because they have, if you're familiar with the facilities, West Seattle, excellent facility. Interbay, great. Recommend them.

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EBOP Boardroom: But for what we do, they have some additional space. There's a Part 3 course, which is gold when you're teaching kids, because our third location was Crossroads Part 3 in Bellevue.

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EBOP Boardroom: Also, a municipal golf course, also managed by Premier True. The relationship is like this.

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EBOP Boardroom: Other locations, like Linwood Golf Murse, also with Premier and True, right? So that relationship just continues to grow and allows us to serve more kids.

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EBOP Boardroom: I mean, we've had a major impact since 2003.

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EBOP Boardroom: Daisy could probably attest. I think we might get one thumb up from the back, maybe two. For Isis, okay. One thing, I've been around long enough, I'm known as the unk, I'm now, like, Unk of Unks.

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EBOP Boardroom: Because now we have kids in their early 20s. But being able to see young people like Maya grow up.

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EBOP Boardroom: And be a part of that, and help them develop… not all of them get to work for us, I like to think about the privilege, but making the most of it. But they go on to do amazing things, and we don't teach them everything they know.

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EBOP Boardroom: But helping kids build confidence and giving them access to things and opportunities, because we partner with corporations to be able to, look into internships and learn about career planning and things like that. It's not just golf, right? So we've served 75,000 kids since we were founded, and more than 30,000 of those are in the city of Seattle.

539
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EBOP Boardroom: We're also a paying customer.

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EBOP Boardroom: We are fortunate to have major discounts provided by Premier and Troon and the City of Seattle, so everything we do is discounted, but we do… we are paying customers.

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EBOP Boardroom: It's part of our budget. We are very…

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EBOP Boardroom: Not top-heavy. I guess you could say we're bottom-heavy. Low overhead nonprofit. We have 5 full-time staff.

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EBOP Boardroom: And we don't own any facilities. We don't own anything, and the only lease, real lease we have with payment is at bill of right for our office, and it's nominal. So, our major costs are for facility use.

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EBOP Boardroom: Because we like to support the facilities. That's not one we complain about. We do have to fundraise to cover it, but, and then coach training and wages. So some of our coaches are paid hourly at $21.30, as you probably know. We can go to the next one.

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EBOP Boardroom: And feel free to jump in if you have any questions. I'll try to be brief.

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EBOP Boardroom: So, just a little bit about how we work. We're year-round. In the winter, as you can imagine, we do still have programming, but it's at the covered driving ranges. So again, those facilities that have covered driving ranges, I'll just tell you, Snohomish County does not have many. But…

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EBOP Boardroom: Interbay.

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EBOP Boardroom: Bill Wright, Jackson Park, all covered driving ranges. So we do that in January, February, in the winter months, but the rest of the year, we are out on the grass. And that's spring, summer, fall, it's a six-week session, and then just tons of special events, clinics, and things off the golf course, where we take some of our teenagers to West Monroe, and Microsoft, and AWS.

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EBOP Boardroom: Sometimes to major events, like the Boeing Classic.

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EBOP Boardroom: We have a junior advisory board that compiles all the golf club donations and equipment donations, and they learn inventory and merchandising and sales and all these things, and then actually get to raise some money for the program.

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EBOP Boardroom: I'll get into the school's program in a sec. And then, of course, our partnerships. You know, in the world of golf, First Tea as a brand is pretty recognizable, and we do our best to represent that well. As Mike mentioned, it's not hyperbole. We, of the 150 chapters, by most measures, we're easily in the top 10. I like to think we're number one.

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EBOP Boardroom: But,

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EBOP Boardroom: Next one, our schools and outreach program. Of all the things we do, I thought this one would be appropriate to highlight, here, because Seattle Public Schools and Lori Dunn have been one of our greatest partners since we started. Lori was actually… anybody… does anybody know Lori Dunn? Okay, Seattle Public Schools Head of PE.

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EBOP Boardroom: For all of Seattle Public Schools. She's incredible. She was, selected as the 2017 National First T Schools Award, because of what she's helped us put together. Every single Seattle Public School elementary

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EBOP Boardroom: Has access to equipment.

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EBOP Boardroom: That we've provided. Usually, sometimes we share the costs, but if they have the budget, and their teachers have the training, and we will go and support them so that they can teach a two-week curriculum in their school. We do our best to serve that whole King, Snohomish, and Skagit County area, but Seattle Public Schools is our strongest partnership by far.

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EBOP Boardroom: And so we do field trips for those schools to come over. Some of them are fortunate enough, like Mercer Middle, or Beacon Hill International, they can walk.

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EBOP Boardroom: Other ones, we will find funding and provide buses, and even cover substitute teachers so that teachers can come over. And then thankfully, the golf courses

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EBOP Boardroom: are amenable to us taking up a bunch of space, you know, in the middle of the day. We do our best, but it's usually time well spent.

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EBOP Boardroom: And then outside of even schools, you know, we're working with El Centro de la Raza and Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, and we'll visit their field days, and sometimes we'll bring them to the golf course, that's always great if possible, and then provide the weekly education if we can.

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EBOP Boardroom: It's no questions asked, no barriers. Parents can pay $0 from age 6 to 18.

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EBOP Boardroom: Not a penny, if that's what it takes.

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EBOP Boardroom: Just that, you know, some of this comes nationally. We were one of the contributing chapters to some of these, impact reports, and it's measurable, you know?

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EBOP Boardroom: 82% of kids in First T felt more confident with their social skills, 73% reported higher confidence in academic ability, and that's not because we're teaching them how to do math, although…

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EBOP Boardroom: There's a lot of math that can be learned in learning golf. And hopefully your pencils don't have your bracers. Gotta be honest with your score. Okay. It's more about just things like critical thinking, and being willing to raise your hand in class, and having, you know, a coach, one of our coaches.

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EBOP Boardroom: You know, be empowering. We go through a lot of training. I'm a national trainer for First T. There are 20 of us around the country, and that's what we learn. We learn how to coach young people.

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EBOP Boardroom: Towards more positive outcomes. And it's…

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EBOP Boardroom: Very little of that time is spent with how to hold the club, how to swing it, and how to get lower sparks. But it is amazing how those things sometimes just fall into place.

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EBOP Boardroom: Just a little bit about who we serve. So, to Mike's point.

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EBOP Boardroom: We're hoping to continue that, and we see it, is the diversity of participants in the program. From the time I started, they've been pillars of First T nationally, which is more teenagers, more kids of color, and more girls, those who have traditionally been unrepresented in the game.

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EBOP Boardroom: And why does that matter? Because golf…

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EBOP Boardroom: inherently does not favor any one person. It doesn't favor white males, it was just access, right? The same things can be learned for anyone who gets out there with a club and a little white ball.

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EBOP Boardroom: And so…

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EBOP Boardroom: the only thing preventing them from being able to experience this and learn is just tradition, right? So we're breaking that down. We're at about 40% girls, which is pretty strong as far as youth sports go, and golf specifically.

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EBOP Boardroom: Aspirational goal is to get to 50 someday, and we work really hard for that. We have specific girls' golf events we do at Seattle U, and University of Washington, and girls-only classes.

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EBOP Boardroom: We'll go to the next one.

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EBOP Boardroom: Of course, financial aid and scholarships, again, anybody can play. And we're 63.3% non-Caucasian in the program.

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EBOP Boardroom: And by age, too. If you just had a golf program and you advertised it, most kids who sign up would be 7-9 year old boys.

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EBOP Boardroom: from… One single background, they look like Iowa when I was back.

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EBOP Boardroom: we work on all those things, and especially age, and you can see the bell curve is still, of course, you know, 7 to 12, but I will just say, keeping kids age 12, 13, 14 in sports, in a sport that is

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EBOP Boardroom: We'll just say, we don't promote that much competitiveness, right? We learn how to be competitors, because usually by those ages, it's only the things you are really good at, or you want to chase professionally or for college. So to still be in the game, they're in it for other reasons, which is friendships, and mentorship, and leadership.

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EBOP Boardroom: Almost done here. What families are saying, just, you know, we get great feedback. We can go to the next one. And this, just in case you can't see it, do you plan to participate? This is of all families, hundreds of families who responded to our survey from last year. We see this every year. Do you plan to participate? Again, 96.4% say yes.

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EBOP Boardroom: Would you recommend participation? 98.6. So, we're doing our best, and the families really do appreciate, the…

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EBOP Boardroom: The experience that we… we do our best to pride.

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EBOP Boardroom: This was a duplicate slide, actually.

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EBOP Boardroom: If we have a second, and this plays, this is only about a minute.

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EBOP Boardroom: I don't know if I have the sound sharing right now, so I can… I can either go back and do that, or… Yeah, it's okay. We can skip it. Jalisa, by the way, I'll just tell you her story. We saw her yesterday for the first time since April.

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EBOP Boardroom: She is 13, and she's in our Junior ACE program, which she applied for, requires no cost. We see them twice a week.

589
01:28:00.180 --> 01:28:04.480
EBOP Boardroom: To help develop their… they're a little more interested in developing in golf.

590
01:28:04.580 --> 01:28:11.859
EBOP Boardroom: We started this program, this specific program, just this year, so she had just started one of 12 to get selected for this, and in April, she found out she had a brain tumor.

591
01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:17.720
EBOP Boardroom: And she spent 4 months at Children's Hospital.

592
01:28:18.460 --> 01:28:30.039
EBOP Boardroom: And we saw her yesterday for the first time. I talked to her mom, and she's incredibly positive and encouraging, and you know, some people just make their way through… they didn't know what was gonna happen.

593
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EBOP Boardroom: But it was her experience at school and at First Tee that she was looking forward to getting back to the most. And she's doing great. She's still a little weak, but she's able to play golf, at least in little bits. And on Saturday, we have our Junior Golf-a-thon, where 30 kids are going to be playing as many holes as they can on the R3 course at Bill Rank, and she's going to be playing.

594
01:28:50.240 --> 01:28:56.319
EBOP Boardroom: So, you know, it just goes to show the resilience of kids sometimes. I think that is…

595
01:28:56.450 --> 01:28:57.270
EBOP Boardroom: Crap.

596
01:28:58.950 --> 01:29:01.749
EBOP Boardroom: But, I guess my… in closing.

597
01:29:02.670 --> 01:29:11.800
EBOP Boardroom: Today, I mean, I have a lot of respect for public comment, and having to do that in 2 minutes, by the way. Clearly. But…

598
01:29:11.950 --> 01:29:29.679
EBOP Boardroom: We don't have an agenda today, really, other than just to show appreciation for this opportunity that we have had since 2003, and we continue to have, and fortunately, we have a contract now for the next 15 plus years with Troon and with the city. And just in case you weren't familiar with what's happening at some of these public golf courses.

599
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EBOP Boardroom: We're proud to be a part of that, and have the support of all three of these guys, by the way. And everybody else at the facilities, and Droun, and Premier, and Parks.

600
01:29:39.930 --> 01:29:42.329
EBOP Boardroom: all the golfers, and you, so…

601
01:29:42.540 --> 01:29:48.369
EBOP Boardroom: Thanks for the time, and sorry for going so long.

602
01:29:50.930 --> 01:29:53.270
EBOP Boardroom: So, any questions for any of us?

603
01:29:53.780 --> 01:29:57.879
EBOP Boardroom: Regarding, Seattle golf. It's really fun and exciting stuff.

604
01:29:58.200 --> 01:30:11.329
EBOP Boardroom: I got a question. What's next? I mean, what are your… what's your dream? I mean, is that a next… is that a big goal? Is that a big goal for people with roads or disabilities can play golf?

605
01:30:11.480 --> 01:30:20.959
EBOP Boardroom: in a signed solo card. You need to change the topography of one of the car 3 so you can get into rider terrain or run out of bunkers. We offer zero adaptation.

606
01:30:21.290 --> 01:30:22.559
EBOP Boardroom: some gun offers.

607
01:30:23.120 --> 01:30:24.909
EBOP Boardroom: And we're right next to the VA.

608
01:30:25.150 --> 01:30:31.520
EBOP Boardroom: Both Peter Bay and Bill Wright spec them out. They meet parking, meet the restaurants.

609
01:30:31.730 --> 01:30:37.040
EBOP Boardroom: We offer nothing to that type of culture, you have to go to Lakewood, Washington as well.

610
01:30:38.760 --> 01:30:40.900
EBOP Boardroom: What about you? What's figuring?

611
01:30:42.150 --> 01:30:46.579
EBOP Boardroom: Get you 100,000 kids. No, it's… it's… the thing is, it's… it's…

612
01:30:46.670 --> 01:31:02.339
EBOP Boardroom: it's hard, because it's a relationship thing, and being able to serve each and individual kid is the important thing. Adoptive golf is also on our radar. We had a family ask, our son's in a wheelchair, can he participate in the program? And like I said, we have no barriers.

613
01:31:02.420 --> 01:31:12.090
EBOP Boardroom: But you can't be on grass in crutches or a wheelchair, unfortunately, so he would be very limited. So, it's been on our radar to realize that needs to happen, because without it.

614
01:31:12.760 --> 01:31:16.630
EBOP Boardroom: So thinking outside the box, I would say.

615
01:31:16.820 --> 01:31:21.209
EBOP Boardroom: We've been also working on a project. We don't own any space.

616
01:31:21.330 --> 01:31:25.659
EBOP Boardroom: And we are in competition with a growing sport. These are busy golf courses.

617
01:31:25.790 --> 01:31:31.950
EBOP Boardroom: So we've actually been in conversation with, University of Washington and Seattle University for

618
01:31:32.050 --> 01:31:38.620
EBOP Boardroom: I will be honest, I've been talking to them for 7 plus years about, establishing

619
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EBOP Boardroom: practice facilities that would be available for them as Division I college teams.

620
01:31:45.170 --> 01:31:52.929
EBOP Boardroom: But that would also serve public in the first T. And have educational components.

621
01:31:53.490 --> 01:31:58.059
EBOP Boardroom: course maintenance, agronomy, not just go. Yeah, yeah.

622
01:31:58.540 --> 01:32:00.629
EBOP Boardroom: So those are on the radar, at least.

623
01:32:01.230 --> 01:32:07.840
EBOP Boardroom: And I guess for me, I want to make sure that I don't hear from a young man I didn't like.

624
01:32:08.740 --> 01:32:21.849
EBOP Boardroom: I want to eliminate that. I want every kid in the city of Seattle to know he can come to our facilities. They're open, they're accessible, they're affordable. He or she. He or she. He or she.

625
01:32:22.590 --> 01:32:23.480
EBOP Boardroom: Absolutely.

626
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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you so much. Thank you for letting us talk. Thanks, appreciate it.

627
01:32:30.890 --> 01:32:45.160
EBOP Boardroom: Whitney, I'm just gonna jump in real quick. I saw a comment online that there's maybe some visual or accessibility concerns for online participants, and so I will go ahead and make PDF copies of all of these slideshows and send them to all of the board members before the end of…

628
01:32:45.460 --> 01:32:53.490
EBOP Boardroom: I know we're dealing with unusual circumstances, so I can do that before the end of the day.

629
01:32:53.790 --> 01:32:55.880
EBOP Boardroom: Let me get some high school.

630
01:32:58.240 --> 01:33:04.379
EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, I was just gonna say, sorry.

631
01:33:04.380 --> 01:33:26.839
EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, because the camera's right here. Camera's up.

632
01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:32.989
EBOP Boardroom: We're not thinking about this audience, we're thinking about that audience. There's more of us!

633
01:33:32.990 --> 01:33:39.550
EBOP Boardroom: I love this. I'm following. All right.

634
01:33:39.590 --> 01:33:46.900
EBOP Boardroom: Thank you, everyone. Keeping up with the theme, as you're hearing from our sponsors,

635
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EBOP Boardroom: We're going to talk a little bit about scholarships, just in the sense of accessibility and ensuring that

636
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EBOP Boardroom: Anyone who wants to take part of our services.

637
01:33:56.430 --> 01:34:13.249
EBOP Boardroom: has that ability to reach their full potential, and scholarships as a way to remove the barrier. With that being said, I don't want to steal Katie's time. She's currently, in the seat of our interim matrix Partnership Manager, speak a little bit more about

638
01:34:13.250 --> 01:34:27.999
EBOP Boardroom: what that division is, and then… Sure thing. So our Matrix and Partnerships unit is three teams. Currently it's our Lifelong Recreation team, which is Recreation for adults 50+.

639
01:34:28.040 --> 01:34:35.020
EBOP Boardroom: It's our Specialized Programs, or Adaptive Programs team, which is programming for youth and adults with disabilities.

640
01:34:35.150 --> 01:34:41.550
EBOP Boardroom: And our childcare team, so we have both preschool and school age care programs, throughout the city.

641
01:34:42.320 --> 01:34:46.840
EBOP Boardroom: But in my normal job, I own the early learning lead, so…

642
01:34:51.200 --> 01:35:02.539
EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, I'll kick us off. It probably goes without saying, but, financial aid helps make our programs and activities more accessible to our community members. Financial aid…

643
01:35:02.630 --> 01:35:11.429
EBOP Boardroom: is available for a variety of opportunities at South Parks and Rec. It includes recreational classes and activities for youth and adults.

644
01:35:11.770 --> 01:35:21.590
EBOP Boardroom: Summer youth activity camps, swimming for all ages, youth athletics, lifelong Recreation, which I mentioned for adults 50 plus.

645
01:35:21.810 --> 01:35:32.190
EBOP Boardroom: Our specialized programs are youth and adults with disabilities and licensed childcare, both during the summer and the school year, which is for children ages 5 to 12.

646
01:35:32.860 --> 01:35:39.030
EBOP Boardroom: And our scholarships are available for anyone who qualifies based on their income and their family and household status.

647
01:35:41.920 --> 01:35:42.640
EBOP Boardroom: That's fine.

648
01:35:43.850 --> 01:35:51.399
EBOP Boardroom: The scholarships are made possible by funding, I know this text is a little small up there, but, from the Seattle Park District.

649
01:35:51.510 --> 01:35:54.879
EBOP Boardroom: From the Associated Recreation Council, ARC.

650
01:35:55.160 --> 01:36:09.349
EBOP Boardroom: For the 2026, help levy, which is the Families, Education Preschool, and Promise Levy, and the King County, Parks Levy, and then also the general fund.

651
01:36:10.220 --> 01:36:20.409
EBOP Boardroom: And we have two types of scholarships at SPR. We have child care scholarships, where funding is allocated between two terms, so both summer and the school year.

652
01:36:20.690 --> 01:36:31.640
EBOP Boardroom: These funds support licensed school-aged care programs across 12 community center sites and 8 school-based locations, so those are listed on the right side of the slide over here.

653
01:36:32.510 --> 01:36:42.160
EBOP Boardroom: We have two additional childcare sites that we're working to license and bring back online this year, which is very exciting. Well, South Park and Hiawatha Community Centers.

654
01:36:43.280 --> 01:36:47.410
EBOP Boardroom: And then the Seattle Parks District funds our Recreation scholarships.

655
01:36:47.580 --> 01:36:50.160
EBOP Boardroom: Which is allocated into 5 buckets.

656
01:36:50.450 --> 01:36:58.450
EBOP Boardroom: We have youth recreation, adult recreation, aquatics, activity camps, and private music lessons.

657
01:36:58.970 --> 01:37:04.850
EBOP Boardroom: So, these buckets are replenished each quarter, in advance of registration opening.

658
01:37:08.990 --> 01:37:12.170
EBOP Boardroom: Alright, it's scholarship eligibility.

659
01:37:12.670 --> 01:37:16.570
EBOP Boardroom: Our eligibility is based on household income and family size.

660
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EBOP Boardroom: So, scholarships are available to all interested participants. There is no requirement that an individual or a family reside within the City of Seattle, which, differs from a lot of subsidy programs.

661
01:37:29.000 --> 01:37:36.769
EBOP Boardroom: An individual or family is eligible for scholarship if they earn below 250% of the federal poverty level.

662
01:37:37.260 --> 01:37:42.169
EBOP Boardroom: And scholarships are awarded between 50 and 90% of the program cost.

663
01:37:42.540 --> 01:37:48.930
EBOP Boardroom: With 80% of our current scholarship recipients qualifying at a full 90% program cost.

664
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EBOP Boardroom: In my notes, also, here it's very small, but we'll share this out. You get an idea of, what the income threshold is for a single individual of a household of one at 90%. I think it's, like, what, $33,000?

665
01:38:08.360 --> 01:38:27.599
EBOP Boardroom: Or a household of two, which could either be two adults, or one child of one income, or one child and one adult, which I think is… 45-7. And then at the bottom is, an idea of what the incomes look like for a household of four.

666
01:38:28.190 --> 01:38:30.300
EBOP Boardroom: Getting from the different ranges.

667
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EBOP Boardroom: And how to apply. So, there's a, I'll say, new benefits platform that was created for the City of Seattle called CiviForm. Civiform takes your household information, so your family size, your income, etc, and will suggest various benefit programs to you based on your eligibilities.

668
01:38:53.030 --> 01:38:58.929
EBOP Boardroom: Cityforum provides a hub for government assistance programs translated into 7 languages.

669
01:38:59.110 --> 01:39:03.389
EBOP Boardroom: Which is amazing. It removes access barriers for many Seattle families.

670
01:39:03.620 --> 01:39:08.330
EBOP Boardroom: The Civic Forum does not provide is one application for all programs.

671
01:39:08.550 --> 01:39:12.110
EBOP Boardroom: So, it'll take your information, and then it will…

672
01:39:12.550 --> 01:39:22.859
EBOP Boardroom: You can check the little boxes up here of, like, what you might be interested in, and then it takes your household information and will basically give you recommendations for programs to apply for in the city.

673
01:39:23.710 --> 01:39:30.349
EBOP Boardroom: And then those applications will go on to be reviewed by their host department and awarded

674
01:39:31.250 --> 01:39:32.150
EBOP Boardroom: That's so cool.

675
01:39:35.540 --> 01:39:43.200
EBOP Boardroom: Our funding utilization, so our scholarship cycle, it doesn't run, a calendar year, it follows the

676
01:39:43.250 --> 01:40:01.680
EBOP Boardroom: several public schools calendar. So, it runs from summer to spring, aligned with SPS, in order to provide continuity of care for child care families who might otherwise, for instance, lose their eligibility at the end of the calendar year, which would be in the middle of the school year, and have to withdraw from our program.

677
01:40:02.160 --> 01:40:11.409
EBOP Boardroom: So, having it spring to summer, or summer to spring, sorry, also aligns with tax season and allows customers to submit their most recent tax warranty.

678
01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:22.700
EBOP Boardroom: And we recently moved to a two-year scholarship cycle, so families are qualified and then eligible for two years before they have to resubmit the documentation.

679
01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:24.699
EBOP Boardroom: There's a little bit of a burden.

680
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EBOP Boardroom: Our total scholarship fund for the 26-27 cycle is a little over $1.9 million.

681
01:40:32.390 --> 01:40:38.999
EBOP Boardroom: About $470,000 of that comes from the MPD and is utilized for our recreation scholarships.

682
01:40:39.260 --> 01:40:47.350
EBOP Boardroom: The other $1.4 million is from the hep levy, and the King County grant, is allocated for child care scholarships.

683
01:40:47.780 --> 01:40:53.509
EBOP Boardroom: So, the Recreation scholarships, as I mentioned before, are further allocated into the five buckets.

684
01:40:53.640 --> 01:40:58.390
EBOP Boardroom: This kind of improves equity and effectiveness across our community center system.

685
01:40:58.920 --> 01:41:07.049
EBOP Boardroom: And then the graph on this slide just shows a variety of factors that are considered when determining, your child care funds.

686
01:41:07.480 --> 01:41:09.619
EBOP Boardroom: will be made available, so…

687
01:41:09.730 --> 01:41:21.079
EBOP Boardroom: The site's equity zone, they look at historical usage per site, the historical volume of requests, the license capacity of the site, the number of sites, and etc.

688
01:41:21.470 --> 01:41:23.240
EBOP Boardroom: Clare data analysts go into that.

689
01:41:29.040 --> 01:41:32.700
EBOP Boardroom: For registration and wait lists, Recreation scholarship.

690
01:41:36.970 --> 01:41:49.209
EBOP Boardroom: Recreation Scholarship, sorry, my notes are confusing me. Recreation scholarship is triggered at registration, so if there's funds available in the program bucket, then it's going to trigger a customer to be able to use it.

691
01:41:49.360 --> 01:41:56.669
EBOP Boardroom: If there is no funds available, then the full amount will be charged, and the customer can choose to back out of registration or pay in full.

692
01:41:57.050 --> 01:42:02.490
EBOP Boardroom: So, the funds are loaded into the five program buckets ahead of each registration date throughout the year.

693
01:42:03.340 --> 01:42:05.500
EBOP Boardroom: I need to run out rather quickly.

694
01:42:06.120 --> 01:42:16.289
EBOP Boardroom: Alternatively, the child care scholarship funds are divided among our child care sites, and customers submit their scholarship requests for a specific site-based program.

695
01:42:16.830 --> 01:42:24.890
EBOP Boardroom: This provides an equitable allocation across sites, and then scholarship waitlists are created for each site after all events.

696
01:42:27.920 --> 01:42:35.530
EBOP Boardroom: And then I have some numbers here with some enrollment numbers here, and waitlist numbers as well. So in 2026,

697
01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:40.830
EBOP Boardroom: Our summer day camp had 68% enrollment. We had

698
01:42:41.210 --> 01:42:49.790
EBOP Boardroom: 4,600 spots filled over the summer, but roughly 460 children attended each week for 10 weeks.

699
01:42:49.930 --> 01:42:59.049
EBOP Boardroom: a waitlist of a little over 100, and we were able to move, I think, about half of them off the waitlist over the course of the summer into our programs.

700
01:42:59.150 --> 01:43:16.319
EBOP Boardroom: In our school year, which has just kicked off, so I put approximate numbers here because it's very early and they are changing real time, but we have… last I checked, it was 942 students enrolled, which is a 91% rate across our site. Pretty incredible.

701
01:43:16.470 --> 01:43:20.769
EBOP Boardroom: And we do have close to 300 students still on our waitlist.

702
01:43:20.930 --> 01:43:26.200
EBOP Boardroom: So, you're actively… our partners at ours are actively hiring, we're actively supporting.

703
01:43:26.490 --> 01:43:29.419
EBOP Boardroom: Doing everything we can to serve families.

704
01:43:33.730 --> 01:43:46.689
EBOP Boardroom: And then here I listed, some additional subsidy programs. So, in addition to our scholarship program, we also accept subsidies from DCYF, which is the state.

705
01:43:46.950 --> 01:43:51.440
EBOP Boardroom: for CCAP, which is for Seattle residents,

706
01:43:51.790 --> 01:43:54.459
EBOP Boardroom: through the Department of Education and Early Learning.

707
01:43:54.750 --> 01:44:02.260
EBOP Boardroom: Child Care Aware of America is for military and DOE families seeking childcare assistance.

708
01:44:02.390 --> 01:44:07.259
EBOP Boardroom: And then BSK must start for kids is… That subsidy proof.

709
01:44:09.850 --> 01:44:15.869
EBOP Boardroom: It's not just our scholarship that families are relying on, but there is a large…

710
01:44:18.300 --> 01:44:21.849
EBOP Boardroom: I think that wraps up my slides, I'm happy to take any questions.

711
01:44:25.460 --> 01:44:32.480
EBOP Boardroom: I'll get started, Elise, do you have one? Just, I noticed the summer rain, like, the fill…

712
01:44:33.000 --> 01:44:42.769
EBOP Boardroom: the usage of 67% of these voter wait lists, is that just because of the timing of… people sign up, and you have to wait and hear if they're gonna take it, and then it's too late to, like, offer it to somebody else, or…

713
01:44:42.770 --> 01:44:55.470
EBOP Boardroom: Why does that happen sometimes? That data is a little bit misleading, too, when trying to condense it into a small slide. Some of our sites were full to capacity with wait lists, other sites had spaces still available, so overall.

714
01:44:55.730 --> 01:45:09.459
EBOP Boardroom: we had space available, we're at 68%, but some sites did have families waiting for that. So those were… they were full regardless. Some of our… some of our bigger hub sites have a very robust program.

715
01:45:11.980 --> 01:45:20.120
EBOP Boardroom: I was surprised to see that the, Seattle residencies are required for any of the scholarships. Are you…

716
01:45:20.520 --> 01:45:28.050
EBOP Boardroom: I'm sure they still collect, like, their address is still collected, accept filling out forms, and I'm just curious, like.

717
01:45:28.870 --> 01:45:36.609
EBOP Boardroom: what is that data showing? Like, are most folks in Seattle, or… or are there interesting trends that you're noticing?

718
01:45:36.840 --> 01:45:40.120
EBOP Boardroom: We've started to have to manage it because,

719
01:45:40.400 --> 01:45:46.680
EBOP Boardroom: Because now that the FEP levy is paying for some of it, and you do have to do the requirement.

720
01:45:47.410 --> 01:45:58.320
EBOP Boardroom: I don't know if we're doing it quarterly or yearly, but we're doing an assessment of, like, city addresses, and it's… it's pretty de minimis, I think. That's really outside the city, but we…

721
01:45:58.570 --> 01:46:00.700
EBOP Boardroom: Like, when we set it up, we felt like…

722
01:46:00.830 --> 01:46:10.430
EBOP Boardroom: you could be… you could work in the city. Yeah, oh yeah. And if you want to have your kid in a program near where you work, or, you know, so… Yeah.

723
01:46:14.210 --> 01:46:15.240
EBOP Boardroom: That's so weird.

724
01:46:15.850 --> 01:46:29.630
EBOP Boardroom: We have, but we are tracking the supply a little bit more than we used to because of that portion. Okay, no, that makes sense. That was my big curiosity, like, oh, they're knowledgeable? I believe that scholarship funding from the faculty is new.

725
01:46:29.630 --> 01:46:39.809
EBOP Boardroom: iteration of the levy. So, I did mention the preschool is on this list, because all of our preschools are Seattle programs, which have long been funded by the FEB levy.

726
01:46:39.860 --> 01:46:50.669
EBOP Boardroom: So we don't have scholarship for those families, but, those have the residency requirements as part of that program, and they register for the deal. But for us, at this time anyway, we're still open.

727
01:46:50.830 --> 01:46:51.940
EBOP Boardroom: Okay, awesome.

728
01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:55.849
EBOP Boardroom: Were there any other questions?

729
01:46:58.670 --> 01:46:59.960
EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, Rebecca?

730
01:47:06.980 --> 01:47:22.039
Rebecca Rasch: Hi, sorry, just, getting off mute there. Yeah, I was just curious about how you manage capacity. Just full disclosure, my kids are on the waitlist for the Lafayette. They were only able to get in for 2 days, so…

731
01:47:22.040 --> 01:47:40.059
Rebecca Rasch: I'm just curious, like, for the sites that you were saying where they're at maximum capacity, are there any opportunities to expand for the sites that are super full? It seemed to me, when I asked the center director, it was a staffing issue as opposed to actual physical space, so I was just…

732
01:47:40.220 --> 01:47:42.640
Rebecca Rasch: Totally.

733
01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:43.110
EBOP Boardroom: Personally.

734
01:47:43.110 --> 01:47:44.640
Rebecca Rasch: question, but…

735
01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:45.420
EBOP Boardroom: I know.

736
01:47:45.420 --> 01:47:45.969
Rebecca Rasch: Yeah, potentially.

737
01:47:45.970 --> 01:47:46.760
EBOP Boardroom: I want that.

738
01:47:46.760 --> 01:47:47.290
Rebecca Rasch: Hello.

739
01:47:47.290 --> 01:47:52.710
EBOP Boardroom: fully online. And Lafayette is wanting to be a lot of families.

740
01:47:52.810 --> 01:48:01.209
EBOP Boardroom: The school-based programs, of course, are hugely beneficial to families or kids are already there, but we haven't, I mean.

741
01:48:01.380 --> 01:48:19.710
EBOP Boardroom: across sites, there are different reasons. We have our license capacity restraints that we have to work within, and that's based on the size of the spaces that we are given to utilize by the school principal and the school itself. And then staffing is another one.

742
01:48:20.270 --> 01:48:29.629
EBOP Boardroom: We're really seeing a nationwide, healthcare staffing crisis. It's been incredibly difficult for providers across the country to hire and maintain

743
01:48:29.820 --> 01:48:34.660
EBOP Boardroom: Child care staff, So I say those two coupled.

744
01:48:35.360 --> 01:48:37.380
EBOP Boardroom: Every site is a bit unique.

745
01:48:38.430 --> 01:48:43.060
EBOP Boardroom: And the size of the space we have, and the amount of staff we have to offer, but…

746
01:48:43.720 --> 01:48:47.920
EBOP Boardroom: My head is… The top of our radar.

747
01:48:49.170 --> 01:48:50.030
Rebecca Rasch: Thank you.

748
01:48:56.190 --> 01:48:59.159
EBOP Boardroom: And now in, like, the golf program.

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EBOP Boardroom: We manage the registration.

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EBOP Boardroom: the licensing, and then the Associated Recreation Council actually staffs the program, develops the curriculum. Licensed child care.

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EBOP Boardroom: It's partnership across all of our lines.

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EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, well, let's create through links, we have that presentation on that one as well, so it's helpful for us to…

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EBOP Boardroom: Able to make this… this connection.

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EBOP Boardroom: We appreciate it. Except for letting me sit behind the door.

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EBOP Boardroom: Alright, so we have a couple minutes for any old and new business.

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EBOP Boardroom: I did… just a note that Ryan had asked if anyone who was on the community wanted to provide any feedback or lessons learned from that.

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EBOP Boardroom: process that couldn't… And form future park naming.

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EBOP Boardroom: Processes, but anything else to do offline?

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EBOP Boardroom: Yeah, if anyone wanted to share…

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EBOP Boardroom: Daya?

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EBOP Boardroom: I'm gonna out my fucking thing. I know, I know, sorry, I didn't… Sure, yeah.

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EBOP Boardroom: Ryan also has thoughts when he gets back.

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EBOP Boardroom: Is he on it?

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EBOP Boardroom: I was just curious from the subcommittee.

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EBOP Boardroom: Tricia? Yeah, Tricia.

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Tricia Diamond: Hi, I just want to say that normally.

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Tricia Diamond: you know, even attending remotely, I felt able to participate, but I don't know what happened with this meeting. It's a completely different experience than the others have been. So, like, when the gentlemen or the people with golf were presenting, I didn't see any slides or anything, and we couldn't even see them speaking.

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Tricia Diamond: I don't…

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Tricia Diamond: No, I felt more ancillary during this one. There weren't as many check-ins to even find out, you know, what we were thinking, so I didn't feel able to contribute, and that was very disappointing.

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Tricia Diamond: So I just had to say it. I'm sorry.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thank you for sharing that. It looked from our side that we were sharing screen, so we will…

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EBOP Boardroom: We will take that into advisement next time and have more people able to So…

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EBOP Boardroom: See what you guys are saying, so…

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Tricia Diamond: I understand that, but I typed even several times. I raised my hand, I typed in, I don't see a video, I don't see anything, and apparently, I mean, we're almost finished, and no one even noticed that, so I wasn't able to see the slides, but okay, I guess others were, but I wasn't able to.

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EBOP Boardroom: Ben is using his laptop, which is usually at him, to be the camera for the room, because we… it doesn't have a full AV setup, so I don't think Ben had access to look at chat and all that. And I didn't even… I do have a computer, but I didn't even think… I'm not logged in, so I think just make… we can make sure that one… somebody in the room has

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EBOP Boardroom: Eyes on the meeting room, for the chat, especially.

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EBOP Boardroom: Because we don't want to broadcast into the room, necessarily, because we don't want everyone… yeah, they're private.

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Tricia Diamond: Okay, fair. Yeah, sorry about that.

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EBOP Boardroom: We have everything set up next month, so we'll… we definitely can learn… I mean, I think learning about positioning of the camera and then having two laptops is great.

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Tricia Diamond: Right. Thanks.

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EBOP Boardroom: Appreciate you sharing real time. Very helpful. We don't… we don't know what you can see. We can see you. So, yeah, thank you. Super helpful.

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EBOP Boardroom: All right, well, thanks, everyone. I will formally adjourn us and just remind us that our next meeting is on October 8th.

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EBOP Boardroom: And yeah, and we'll find out soon what that location is.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thanks, Stephanie.

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EBOP Boardroom: Thanks, everybody.

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EBOP Boardroom: Kevin, I didn't know.