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I do not see Paul online. You can always come back.

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He comes in. Third time's a charm. Angel Garcia Julian

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Okay, I believe that Angel is here under the Ridged River Coalition name here. So Angel, I'm going to go ahead and unmute you. You will have permission to unmute yourself, and once you do

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You'll have 2 minutes to speak.

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Right

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Okay, we can hear it.

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Thank you. Oh, perfect. Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name is Angel. I'm here with Ridge to River Coalition. We were here last year to just update you on the public survey that we did for the community members living in West Seattle for the West Amish Greenbelt Community Vision Plan

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I'm here to invite the public to participate and join us at our upcoming open houses to look at the future of the West Tuwamish Greenbelt. We'll have a public open house to explore the options for a vision plan and pilot project. We welcome everyone to come share their opinion and ideas about trail access, safety, stewardship, and cultural connections

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Your input will shape a long range of the vision. I believe you all received our flyer, but we will have an English open house Tuesday, November 10th at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center from 5 to 8 PM, followed by a Spanish one on November 17th at the Duwamish River Community Hub from 6

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From 5 to 8 Pm. And then we'll have a remote workshop for those who would like to attend remotely on Thursday, November 19th from 6 to 8 PM via an online via Zoom. Please register via the QR code in the flyer, and we'll give an overview of the presentation, take individuals through

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the different segments of the green belt, and we invite everyone to share their opinions about what programmatic and construction elements they'd like to see. For more information, please contact me at angel at R2rduwamish.org, or contact info

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are to our dwamish.org. Thank you.

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Okay, thank you. Next up, we have Mary Pete

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Patterson. Great.

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Thank you. Just tell me when to start, or I can just start whenever. Yeah, start, and I'll start. Hello, everybody. I was here a month ago as well, with the Air Show Climate Action Coalition calling for an end to Seattle Parks and Rec contracting with seafare

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For the Blue Angels part of CFAIC, Blue Angels show. There will be several other people testifying. Today we wanted to present some information about local businesses

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I understand that Seattle Parks and Rec considers it an economic driver for the city of Seattle, and we question that. So we went and did some informal surveying of business in Columbia City and North Beacon Hill

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We, oh, on July 15th and 16th, total of only 39. Very informal survey. People are going to be reading some of the responses, but I can give you some numbers. Most of it's qualitative data, but some of the numbers are that out of the 39

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Only one registered a positive economic impact from the Seafair weekend with the military air show

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Two, voice a negative financial impact. Everybody else was neutral or no comment on the financial impact. Really interesting is the impact on customers and workers

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A zero indicated a positive impact on customers and workers. 10 registered a negative impact

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Our customers and workers. So we're wondering what it means for

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of the seafare weekend, Boeing sponsored CFAIR Meeting is considered an economic driver. Maybe it's that Seattle Parks and Rec

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gets payment directly from Seafair. We'd like to know more about that. If so

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In fact, Seattle Parks and Rec is 5 seconds. 10. Okay, thank you. Seattle Parks and Rec is listed as a friend of seafarer on the seafare.org, and we wonder if that means Seattle Parks and Rec is actually giving money to Seafair or receiving money from Seafair

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Anyway, as an intro to our informal survey, I'm also going to leave these with whoever is. Yeah, thank you.

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Thank you so much. Thanks a lot.

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So, it looks like Peter Boyle has joined, so if you're able to unmute yourself. You know, I will give you permission to unmute yourself, and you'll have 2 min

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Whenever you're ready.

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Go ahead and unmute yourself.

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Am I on this time?

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Okay, yes, go ahead.

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Thank you. It took a little while to figure out all the mechanics.

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Seeing a different version of this than last time

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So hello, my name is Peter Breivkel, and I am a resident of Seattle. First of all, I'd like to thank Superintendent Michelle Finnegan for attending our 55th anniversary of the hike in for the Burke Hillman Trail at Matthews Beach on the 12th of September.

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Her presentation on the budget process was appreciated by the estimated 1,000 people who gathered

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To date, 240, actually 250 community members have signed a petition

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and another 100 on a different petition calling on the city to fix outstanding trail maintenance issues. So about 350 people

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signed petitions since that event.

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Second, I acknowledge the quality of the recent work

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That was done at the Brook Trail, but the quantity is not up to the task.

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The current budget, as even stated by Seattle Parks, provides only for one-fifth to one-fourth of a mile repairs each year

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The Burke Gilman that the parks response was eight miles. So that creates a 32 to 40 year gap between pavement repairs

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And it's done in a patchwork way that is both inefficient and ineffective.

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Third, there is an S.Connor, it turned out on the trail that shows an average of over 750 cyclists on a typical weekday

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increasing to 1300 on average weekday

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Weekend day, sorry. And the peak this year is over 2,400 riders on one day. These counters will only count cyclists, they do not have the ability to handle runners or walkers

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Finally, the trail is 50 years old.

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I'm here tonight to make a direct plea to the board to increase the budget for pavement maintenance, even within the current cycle.

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We cannot afford to wait. Furthermore, I urge you to prioritize expand planning for these critical infrastructure repairs as you look ahead to Cycle 3

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10 seconds.

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Investing the maintenance for existing trails ensures they remain safe, accessible, and viable for thousands of Seattle residents relied on every single day. Thank you for your time and dedication to our city parks.

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Thanks, Peter. Thanks, Peter. Next up, Mary Patterson.

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Oh, twice, maybe. It's okay.

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Iris camp

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Okay.

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Iris, you have permission to unmute yourself, may you begin? You'll have two minutes.

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Yeah. Yeah. Can you hear me?

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Yes.

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Great. My name is Iris Antman. I'm part of the air show climate action coalition and

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I wanted to share a few comments, from the pet store businesses on Rainier Avenue, about negative impacts from, the Blue Angels

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The worker said that fewer pets and their owners come to the store, so there's a financial impact there, a negative financial impact. Pet owners say their pets are stressed out

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My cat, who's 20 and has arthritis, crawls with difficulty under the couch each time the jets fly overhead, and then after a while she comes out, and then goes back under again. So many times over the hours that the Blue Angels are flying

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It's, you know, it's very distressing for her and for other animals, who have difficulties like that.

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Some residents who can leave town during those 4 days, but most of us can't, and so the burden, of hearing the noise pollution and the air pollution falls on less resourced and able people

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Traffic is terrible in the area for those 4 days. I almost feel like a prisoner in my neighborhood. I live down in Hillman City

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And not to mention wasting fossil fuels in this time of climate

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change, catastrophe, chaos, and causing air pollution. Truly, the time for the Blue Angels as part of Seafair is over. Thank you very much for listening.

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Thank you. Next up is

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Aiden McCough.

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You will have, there you go, two minutes to speak once you start.

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Right. Can everyone hear me?

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Fantastic. Okay. I'm also part of the Airshow Climate Action Coalition. I'm a resident of West Seattle. And I'm continuing the narrative on thoughts from businesses, particularly cafes and restaurants, as well as salons. So

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There's a couple of businesses where workers couldn't hear each other speak during the period of seafare weekend when the Blue Angels were present. So continuing the call, you know, there's… they're continuously unpopular for those businesses, specifically for workers, and then for owners as well. They often can't come in

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Because they're taking care of family members or or pets during that time. So it it continues to negatively impact their operations. And then one just one other comment that I wanted to offer is that some may wonder

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or we've heard from folks say, oh, it's such a short period of time. What impact does it really have? Well, as Mary and Iris have kind of pointed out, it's not so much about time as it is intensity and the amount of stress that people experience during that period of time

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Year over year. So, we'd like to ask that the Parks and Rec Commissioners identify that who, if anyone on this board can can help us with making progress on this effort to no longer have Blue Angels attend

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At seafare events in the future. So thank you all for listening, and I'll leave it at that.

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Thank you. Thanks, Steph. Aram Balsafi.

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Hey, Aram, when you go ahead and start, you'll have two minutes.

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Hi, can you hear me?

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Yes.

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Hi, thank you for taking our input. I am also with

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With 350 Seattle and the air show climate coalition

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I live in Columbia City, I've lived in Columbia City since 2004. Every

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Seafarer, we escape. Get the hell out of town.

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Mainly because of the Blue Angels, but it's also… I mean, there is pollution, there's inconvenience, that's true, there's parking issues, traffic, but it is the Blue Angels. They are just make life unbearable for us. I come from Iran, I know that there are people

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all over South Seattle who are war refugees

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So this thing is seriously triggering for a lot of people, and I don't know what the point of it is, but I just want to share comments from Empire Espresso, which is down the street near Edmunds and Rainier Ave

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I was in there right before the show started this year, and I asked the workers, oh, so do you get a lot of business from

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from Blue Angels and Seafir, they said, oh, they rolled their eyes, they're like, no, we have to close our… they have a big door out to a patio in the back

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So we have to close that door because of the noise of the airplanes, then the inside becomes unbearably hot, the patio becomes unusable, that heat of summer, and we actually lose a lot of business that weekend because of what we have to do.

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So I know there is this myth that, you know, these shows and these summer activities bring

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money to local businesses

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10 seconds

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Honestly, most of us who spend money in this area, we leave town, we spend our money outside Seattle that weekend. And the people that come into town, I don't know how much money

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So I think it's a net negative economic thing. So I want to encourage you to just get rid of the Blue Angels. Thank you.

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Next up is Michael Pierce. And Michael will be followed by Craig Lewis.

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Michael, do you have permission to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes once you get started.

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Okay, great. Can you hear me?

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Yes.

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Hi, I'm Michael Pierce, and I live about two blocks from Seward Park. Seward Park has a closure problem. It's supposed to close at 10:00 PM, but cars can enter the parking lot all night. There's no gate to stop the cars

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Since April, caravans have arrived on Sunday nights, sometimes more than 40 cars, PA-style speakers, sometimes stacked 3 high, are aimed towards our community. The music can continue until 5am Monday

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My wife has taken time off of work because of lost sleep.

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Now, when morning runners and swimmers arrive, they have to tiptoe around hundreds of beer bottles, broken glass, and used toilet paper around the parking lot trees.

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Now, let me just tell you about what happened today, too. At 1:48 a.m. today, gunfire was reported in the parking lot and 911 was called. And this is a park the city is celebrating with another green flag award recognizing safety

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Cleanliness and good management. Frankly, what I've just described falls short of that

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Those standards should matter after 10 PM too. Now, I've contacted Superintendent Michelle Finnegan, Captain Tuttle and Lieutenant Carolo multiple times without replies. I've sent incident numbers and photos.

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Michelle Fanigan, have you received my emails? Now, Deputy

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Superintendent Daisy Katagi was the only one who responded to me and she advised calling 911 for amplified noise problems.

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Leaving this lot open all night means residents keep relying on 911. This is not a long-term solution, and puts the burden on the residents.

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10 seconds

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More than 34 neighbors of Seward Park in Lakewood have come together. And you're hearing several of their comments today. We need parks to keep cars from entering after 10 p.m.

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We want to sleep through the night without having to keep calling 911. Seward Park has a closure problem. Thank you.

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Excellent timing. Sorry. So Craig Lewis is up and then Denise, you're going to be right after him. Craig, you have permission to unmute yourself. You'll have two minutes.

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Thank you. Can you hear me all right?

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Yes.

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Hi, my name is Craig Lewis. I live in South Seattle, and I speak on behalf of Veterans for Peace.

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I served eight years in the US Coast Guard, primarily in search and rescue, port safety and environmental protection. My service was about saving lives. At Seafair this summer in Genesee Park, I stopped to look at a Coast Guard boat

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It wasn't a motor lifeboat like the ones I served on. It had a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on the foredeck

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I fired an identical gun and drills in the Gulf of Alaska. I know exactly what it does to whatever it hits.

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Well, I stood there, a young man, a boy, really, ran up from behind me and said gleefully, oh, cool, a 50 cow

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Then I looked around. The infernal machinery of war was everywhere in eyeshot. Families strolled past it as if it were a car show. Parents lifted their children up onto it and posed them for photographs, smiling. No one seemed troubled

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This is what normalization looks like. Those families aren't to blame, and neither is that boy. They reacted exactly as the displays were designed to make them react. These machines were made to kill people, to destroy, but in our parks, they're presented as entertainment

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Her parks are held in trust for every individual, every family in the city, and protecting them is this commission's responsibility.

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I ask you to adopt a policy that keeps weapons and military hardware out of parks events, stops recruitment aimed at minors, and makes public the record of any recruitment activity on parks property.

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I drew number 8 in the Vietnam draft lottery. I know what it means when a country comes looking for its young people

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10 seconds

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I do not want our parks to be places where we normalize and celebrate the slaughter of human beings. Let them be places where children grow up, not where they're signed up. You are the Department of Parks and Recreation. There is absolutely

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unequivocally nothing recreational about ore. Thank you for the time and opportunity to speak on behalf of peace.

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Thank you. Denise, you're next, followed by Kimberly.

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Underneath Dan, Director of Seattle Nature Alliance

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Two other members here are also in support.

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I am here to ask for your attention to a rapidly escalating problem.

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An unofficial maintenance yard is operating in a space that was never intended for such a use

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The location is exceptionally exceptionally scenic.

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Picture a bright wooden meadow overlooking the Salish Sea, rinked by a majestic redwoods, cedars, and herbs.

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Now picture an industrial site right in the middle of

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This use began over 20 years ago as a small temporary staging area for the park's compost that has ballooned into a high impact industrial site serving parks throughout West Seattle.

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Today, it is loaded with concrete blocks, piles of compost, gravel, dirt, stray tools, trash, and most recently, a collection of old bullet traps, which are possibly contaminated with lead.

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To park visitors, this yard is a hazard and a blight

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Heavy cut trucks come and go daily on unofficial roads, cutting through an environmental-critical area and passing right by the playground, waiting pool, and sports fields.

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Kicking up clouds of dust and causing erosion, mud, and damaging the critical root zones of some of Lincoln Park's largest trees

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This must stop before someone gets hurt for irreversible harm is done to the environment.

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We urge the Parks Department to decommission this site

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20 years of temporary use is long enough

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The handouts, details, and links to photos. If you have any questions or would like a tour of the site, please let us know.

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Thank you.

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The next step is Kimberly Larson, followed by Rachel Lauder. Kimberly, you'll have permission to unmute yourself.

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And you'll have 2 minutes.

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Hi there. Thank you so much. I really appreciate the opportunity to

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testify for you all, and this is, what I'm doing today. My name is Kimberly Larson. I'm a resident of the Central District of Seattle, long-time resident, but I'm here today on behalf of thousands of people who've signed a petition asking you to stop the Blue Angels and the fighter jet air shows over Seattle. It's the largest city in the Northwest, and no other air shows happen over such a large metropolis

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And there's been accidents as far as safety, but there's also real safety standards. If you could see me now, I'd be wearing giant earmuffs because that's what we're supposed to wear under fighter jets. That's OSHA regulation for anyone who works

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on an aircraft carrier. And I want to just read to you some of the neighbor comments, because under the city charter, it's the superintendent's responsibility for the safety, public health, and welfare of the community to look at a permit and review it and deny it then potentially. And that's what we ask you to, as well as the impact to local neighbors

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This is all from the zip codes right around the area. Quote, we've loved the Blue Angels. They've been a part of our summer experience for more than 20 years, but in an age of killer heat waves and choking summer smoke, we would like you to end them. It's awful. This is another person. I live in the flight path. I think people have living in countries under attack. It's so terrifying

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Another quote, it's awful when the Blue Angels are here, they disrespect the people with PTSD and other related health impacts. Another quote, I feel less strongly if it wasn't three hours on a Saturday, but it's four days and we have to deal with this. It's also a huge waste of money

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That came up again and again, a huge waste of money. Quote another person. I hate the noise. Quote another person. The noise is so bad, the pollution is so bad. The celebration of war is bad. Please stop. Quote another person. The Blue Angels are a menace. Quote another person. They

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They're incredibly disruptive and unnecessary. They burn so much fuel for no reason. There are so many neighbors. These are all from really local residents right around there in the zip code, and we sent to you that petition and we can send you just these comments from local residents of all the impacts and they ask you to end it, please

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Okay, thank you.

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Except Rachel and after Rachel will be Kira

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Good evening, Commissioners. My name is Rachel Lauder, and I live right near the entrance of Stewart Park, which is arguably the best park in Seattle. As my neighbor mentioned, multiple nights this summer, groups have partied in Seward Park from around midnight to 5 a.m.

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It's really, really loud amplified music, and a lot of drinking. On other nights, their parking lot has been taken over for hours, car burnouts. And as Michael mentioned just last night, somebody pulled into the parking lot and half a dozen gunshots were fired

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So, we're on edge here. Always complains I've had limited effect. We know Svd is aware of the situation, and we're coming to you because we really need your support. These activities are happening in the parking lot that connects the main entrance roundabout to the studio

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Other areas of the park already have gates that are open and closed during during park hours, but the main entrance is not. And we're asking the parks department to develop a plan to gate the main entrance of the park, so the park can actually close when it's closed

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We want to protect the park and make sure that everyone in the city can enjoy it. These activities happening at the park closes are very levels of dangerous and are very out of control

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We've been in touch with the Councilmember Lin's office and the mayor's office. We're organizing his neighbors, which has been a bright spot of all of this. But actually, as I was driving here, I worked in Council Merlin's office that the parks department currently doesn't have a plan

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to close the main entrance, for a variety of reasons, and so we'd really like to talk about what those reasons are. We really want to change this, we want to make sure that there is a plan to the board for gates to actually close this, and we hope that the board be allies in making it happen

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Thanks for your time and consideration, we really look forward to

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copy and close the park and make sure it's protected and that everyone can join.

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All right.

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Kira, you have permission to unmute yourself. When you get started, you'll have two minutes.

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Thank you. Can everyone hear me?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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I'm here on behalf of the Alki Elementary School community regarding the serious safety problem created by the lack of perimeter fencing around our school play area.

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We've already experienced children leaving the playground and staff having to search for them in the surrounding neighborhood. We've also experienced an attempted luring of 3 students from the playground last week

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And we know that the current physical space leaves hundreds of feet of the perimeter open to the surrounding park and public spaces. It is unfair and dangerous to rely on young children developing impulse control to stay inside an invisible boundary.

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It is equally unfair and dangerous to expect our recess monitors to maintain a secure perimeter, keeping out predators and off-leash dogs while they're also supervising children at play.

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I want to highlight that this is not simply an SPS problem. The play space immediately next to Alki Elementary that our children use for recess is owned by the City of Seattle and operated and managed by Seattle Parks and Rec

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The school uses this city park property under the joint use agreement between Seattle Public Schools and parks.

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To date, Parks has not allowed our school to build a fence around the playground.

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I understand it is difficult to come to an agreement about how to enclose and secure the playgrounds.

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But navigating the difficulty of solving our school safety problem has got to be easier than navigating a community disaster if you don't act

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I'm asking Seattle Parks and Rec to work directly with Seattle Public Schools to develop and fund a continuous appropriate fence around the area used by Alki Elementary students during the day.

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These are Seattle's children. This is Seattle's public lands, and this is a problem that Seattle's parks and Seattle public schools needs to solve together.

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10 seconds

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Please protect our kids. Thank you for your time.

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Okay, thank you. Liz, you are up and Carrie Christensen, you will be following this. Stop the timer better. Liz, you'll have two minutes.

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Thank you. Hi, my name is Liz Kim. I'm a parent of a student at Alki Elementary as well, and I'm going to second what Kir has said already. But I'm asking for Seattle Parks and Rec to support adding a fence along the boundary of the Alki playground

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We've already seen at least 3 children in the kindergarten classroom during recess

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elope and run away from the actual play area. One as far as whale tail, and there is a tree line there, so as soon as they're past that point, it only takes 3 minutes to walk, probably 1 minute or less to run to that… that distance

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They're not visible to, you know, the caretakers, so I would really ask

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to consider adding that fencing

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In order to keep our children safe, because I think it keeps the children in, you know, as Keira said, young kids are impulsive. They're still learning their boundaries and if a ball rolls into the street and a child chases that ball or a friend or somebody gets upset

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It only takes seconds for them to disappear, right? Second, it limits who can get in. We've already seen the luring incident occur this year, and a fence perimeter with a controlled gate means adults have to enter through a point where staff can see

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And monitor what's happening. It won't resolve everything. Every risk that's possible, but it makes unauthorized access charter and much more noticeable.

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It.

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I'd really

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And seconds

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I'd really push for this, because honestly, it's very concerning to all parents. We've spoken to many, many parents, that are also concerned about this, and so I'd like to know what the process, what the timeline and the funding options would look like

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Thank you.

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Terry Christensen

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Just a warning, some of this is graphic. Don't want to look, don't look.

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Jenny Blankhart, a topless beach is different from a new beach. How? Exposed genitalia. 917, the asshole picture guy was at the park doing the same thing as last year. Masturbation and taking pictures of his asshole

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What has a thousand followers on their social media page, takes photos and videos of themselves naked at Denny Blaine Park and posts online

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They were back at the park on 923.

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I'm 21 friend of Jenny Blaine board member Michael Forton trespassed on private property for one and a half hours.

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While Simon Thornton filmed from the parking lot, Michael was asked repeatedly to leave. SBD was called and never showed up

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From friends of Jenny Blaine guidelines number 10, be neighborly. Practice courtesy and consideration for those who live near the park. Please respect clothing required area and remember you were in a neighborhood environment.

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928 won a friend of Denny Blaine at the park with a client of his to take pictures. They went to Howell Park, because there were too many people at Denny Lane Park.

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The chronic masturbator continues to violate his written no contact order for getting blamed by a judge he has yet to be arrested for this.

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How are supplemental rules going to be enforced when the current code of conduct and laws aren't enforced? The people breaking the laws don't care about being educated on the law. As long as

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isn't happening in your neighborhood, it's okay.

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Thank you.

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I think there are public comments.

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Thank you for everyone. Just before we move next part, we had 2 other Commissioners join online. Just wanted to give them at the start of public comments to introduce themselves to Philip and John.

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Introduce yourself.

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Hi, everyone. I'm John Flynn. I'm the representative from District 3. Good to see you tonight.

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Here we are

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And hi everybody, Philip Mayne, District 7.

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And we do have a quorum of the board right now. So I would entertain a motion to adopt.

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The consent agenda for tonight

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Is there a second?

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I can second

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All those in favor of adopting the consent agenda for tonight's meeting, please say aye, raise your hand. Aye.

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Any opposed?

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Motion passed. The consent agenda is adopted. Thank you. And then we can formally move to the next item on our agenda. So Michelle.

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I quite want to thank everybody for out tonight and giving public comments

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All right, a couple of the things that were raised is Peter mentioned the Bert Gilman. He had to celebrate the 56

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Anniversary of the hiking that

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Right, City Resource last month, and

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And I also encourage people to participate in the partial planning process probably looking at our assets

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Your maintenance needs are, and anyone in Parks and Rec would say that there isn't select, you know, a gap in funding our our trails citywide in that one. So

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As Commissioners that make those types of investments.

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Well, angels, we talked about it a little bit last

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Time, that is

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a citywide special events, those processes are facilitated by the Office of Economic Development

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Maybe this same folks are engaged with the public involvement

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process that they have, and giving public input, and city council as well.

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To give them broader context of how the citywide events are managed in Seattle. And we talked about not specific to Seafear, but I would like to bring a briefing to you all

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upcoming briefing

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list, not scheduled yet. That is something I want you guys to see.

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Steward Park, we hear you. We have struggled up and down Lake Washington Boulevard. We've shared a couple other parks this summer that we are struggling with

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Amplify music sometimes during park hours. We've had a lot of Sunday evening

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Thank you tonight, things that have moved up and down

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like Washington Boulevard including Seward from our data, a little bit more towards the end of the summer. I appreciate the comments. And I think that is why we keep encouraging people to call 911, because we actually

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I just don't mean to put the bird in anybody else, but that doesn't help us inform

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Time of day it's happening, places it's happening, how can we look at different.

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strategies

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You'll also see us talk about upcoming briefings, I think at the beginning of the year we talked about our summer safety plan with you from May 1st to September 30th

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The team is currently kind of assessing

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In some places, things went well, surprisingly. Some places not so well, and what do we want to learn about that now and into planning for next year?

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Sewer Park is definitely on the list, and I can assure anybody, especially Michael, I do see all your emails, and if you're hearing from a deputy superintendent, we're certainly discussing the issues that you're hearing about, whether that's the meetings

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We are definitely taking that seriously.

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While we don't have a current plan for offenses or apart.

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And Alcais Elementary, that's a little bit of a new one, I think from our perspective, there are places here in the school day, and

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There are other concerns we have from the sub 10

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other,

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lens and some park management. So make that conversation will continue. We're engaged with the school district and

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Actually, that facility's still coming online. Other construction events

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Our fully back operational

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I'm actually going to talk about Jenny Blaine.

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Responses to those comments.

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I'm gonna start with the feedback loop, which I usually don't, but just because there's a couple updates and then opportunities to engage on the

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feedback slides, just wanted to let you guys know about some legislation that's passed since RMS meeting.

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We had a great day at

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Committee with council member Juarez where we

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going to emercy housing, Mercy Housing were there to get some important legislation in order to move forward like City Community Center development project and authorizing

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me or my predecessor to sign a bunch of different documents and deeds and all sorts of things to make that project come to fruition

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It was great to be able to be there for us. That was the last meeting

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So that was a good thing

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I did pass and

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It had a long-term lease at Fort Lawton as a city and the federal government talks about the long term

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Next steps for that property, but we're

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Out there maintaining part of it, housing and us kind of

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I'm just co-leads out there, and that was, renewed

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For some tournament headset

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For a few more years. How about that? And then we the first time we have a new process with Sdhr. If you're going to get a new classification, you actually have to go to city council and

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talk about why you need that new classification and our green sale partnership group is

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was recommending a new classification for our ecologists, and so we went to the city council presented that and that also passed and goes to the whole council later this month.

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for our recent legislations.

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We'll talk about budget later today, and just in case you hadn't seen, there was some executive orders that also came along better directly or adjacently related to Parks and Rec

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Office of Economic Development. They did an interesting report.

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report back on the report talked about, you know, how the affordability issues in Seattle and how it's very different for

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single or double-income families versus people with kids and how that really just creates 4400% of the poverty level, but just having kids in the city really does have an impact on

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On the affordability, and I feel like this department and our mission can really lean in to try to, you know, talk about later say, free Halloween events, and just things like that, and how we can try to support

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Vulnerability and importantly in this city, so that

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Obviously, a lot more OVD lens and others, but that was

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Interesting read if we have time

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Emergency management, that's always a concern for us as we talk in this room a lot about safety in our parks and safety with our employees and our

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digging into that emergency or that executive order that kind of shuts out some

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duties for next year for all departments, and then there's some, effective governments which impacts us all as we do the contracting and permitting and all the things, so

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Just some context in which we're operating. We also had a really great day on September 24th

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Where we brought all of our employees together out at Madison Park to appreciate them

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We were able this year to intentionally have it

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Those of you who spend a lot of time in our community centers know that we do quarterly, closures to allow for in-service training and other types of employee development, and we were able to plan ahead of time to have that event on one of those days, and

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to supervisors doing advances. We actually had over 900 of our staff people

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To be there that day, which was great. But even before I don't think we've ever had that level of participation and that was a great day. And

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In advance of it, I asked our HR team to look at how many hours, how many service hours

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Current employees have provided to the city of Seattle and another department, too.

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All in all, Seattle Parks and Recreation employees to date for September have served this community over 36 million hours

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in their careers.

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Great. President, every year there's a president's meeting with all our advisory councils, and we have that

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That is not the right thing.

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That's today. Sorry, same off, I think that was me.

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Last week, I was there, and this is actually ARC's 50th anniversary year, so it was a good year, and I was

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shocked that I was able to say I've been part of this partnership for half of those years. I can't believe I said that I did and it was true. It means I've been part of that partnership

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My first roles

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Don't know if you know this, Christina, but when I first roles in the department was to work with the Japanese Garden Council.

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attached to that are reinforced. So that was a good day, and just so you all know, the,

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Master Services Agreement with ARC is up for renewal

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January of 2028, which is like tomorrow and legislative days. So so we had a meeting today with

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Over the next year as we work on that. I have a couple updates on the next slide. And then just kind of our tracking of events. We're looking at

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updates with you guys, we're definitely bringing the Woodland Park Zoo back next week… next month to talk about the long-range plan, and working with the Parks Foundation and Jessica's team back in December to talk about a donation pilot

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We'll be requesting you guys for this recommendation on. And then not yet scheduled dates, but we're working, as I said, on a special event

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update to you, summer safety briefing, kind of what happened this summer when you're thinking about that coming back. Jessica's going to talk about a little bit today, but also wanted to loop back on the side of Capitol Hill

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Investments that we've done and kind of talk about what we're hoping us would achieve and how we're finding that

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A new idea for those of you who are newer, that was kind of thinking of the South Capitol Hill parks more as

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That one-off, but as a system, and how can they serve and connect community up there through walking trails and different equipment, so we've just… I'm stealing Jessica's letter, but only this once, I think. But we've finally installed some of

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Then, doggie utility equipment and the human exercise equipment to try to get people to go from park to park and navigate those places.

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But other things coming. And then just, I think we

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We're hoping, and I don't know that we've got it all

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Together yet, but to have you guys giving each other a briefing on subcommittee work. So we have had some subcommittee meetings since last time with

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The Policy Committee last met in July, but they're back

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Together, again, October 29th, so that might be one to think about for next month.

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performance oversight team met on September 24th put anybody on the spot tonight and then your work and scheduling Committee

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I actually didn't actually get dates from where we were with the Parks Community Fund, but

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Anyways, we'll keep working then. You guys updates on those.

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So I want to talk a little bit about

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Playing more

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And a nuance related to supplemental use guidelines, so I'm just going to give you a little context and then talk about it, but this is just for you guys to remind the lawsuit related to that park

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And last year

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As part of that, we put forth an abatement plan when we were doing

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A court

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ruled earlier this summer and asked in addition to that, to do the things listed here, one of those was to create a park specific

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plan.

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And kind of the framework that we do that in the next slide is to do what we call supplemental use guidelines.

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We have them not for every part, for sure.

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Maybe, supplemental use guidelines across the system

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And there was a blog post that talked about all the things that we're doing, but in terms of supplemental use guidelines, the more traditional approach, we would usually bring that to the policy subcommittee and then it's more

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and ask for a recommendation because of the kind of parameters that a lot of the supplemental use guides are informed by these abatement plans, not aim to bring that to you all, and I just wanted to be transparent about that with you

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To say that there is actually the public comment for the current version of the supplemental use guidelines closes tomorrow. But we have posted it. We've had two

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We have had two facilitator hosted public meetings, one in September 15th and one

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17th one was a virtual, one was in person, about 70 people participating

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We've taken online written public comment beginning in August

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We've received 94 comments. Our last update.

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We provided a summary of that public comment and an updated draft is released on September 23rd. We initiated a new round of public comments and posted that in Djc, which is

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Our citywide rulemaking authority has

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Newspaper and record. Newspaper and record.

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And we have updates on our engagement website about all of this, but

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Just because of the kind of constrained

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Around it, we didn't think it was

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Right, thank you to come to the board and ask for recommendations.

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I just wanted to let you guys know that the other things that are outlined in this blog

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I haven't seen it, is to launch a design process

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For folks that were involved in the

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Park Community Fund and subcommittee members last couple years, they… you may recall that one of the approved projects was to develop a long-term site plan

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For the park, and that was put on hold during the lawsuit to make sure that we weren't

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going down a path that would be supported by the outcome of that. So that has reinitiated and there's been meetings happening related to that

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And then the third thing we

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are working on, as part of this

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secondary abatement plan is to develop a community lead

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Go next

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Starting next May-ish, next peak season to

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Over the winter, we would work on what the actual program looks like, and then initiate it next year to have

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people that are more connected to the community beyond site, trying to help us implement the supplemental use guidelines consistently.

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And so that body of work is just starting to kick off

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Probably about to kick off. We're looking to initiate the request for proposals for that. So

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And to give you an update on where we are next, we'll be hearing directly

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Next slide.

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A couple other more

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I think the first one's more up in the… out in the world, we can't recognized by McKinstreet and Lumen Field as a zero plus champion of sustainability for our work

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in organizing our community centers, and we got recognized out from the field with the city of Redmond Covington Water District and the city of Brenton

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We also had just some good, internal work at our pools to keep them running efficiently. Rainier Beach pool and any of you go down there, we often have

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inconsistent air quality and temperatures, and so our HVAC

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team of not many people. Very small group, works all together, I think, to, do a comprehensive overhaul of the primary boiler system

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replacing components, restoring to restore the reliability and enhance the energy efficiency for it. The deep cleaned all the ductwork

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Sorry, separately. At Medar Evers

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Or after the PCD project, I'll tell you a little bit more about that and opening it to the

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the community and both of those were intended to restore airflow, ventilation

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For those of you that don't know, we have closed Medgar Evers pool for a planned closure last November, which was not expected to take very long, and in the midst of that, we

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learned that

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Some of the roof beams were failing and so we had to let Jessica

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And so if you have questions on that… but had to change orders and a lot of things to make sure that that was addressed before we could get contractors and staff back in the building to do the rest of the work

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We're very happy to say that that pool is now full of water.

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being used for its intended purpose.

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apartment and Neighborhoods hosted the Show Up Seattle dance service on September 26th, and we were able to be a host of seven sites across the city, led by

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neighbors, our forest stewards, and our staff, and

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Thankfully, a great beautiful day, and great day to be out and about. Appreciate all the volunteers that

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Thank you. Our events, or any events across the city that day.

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Next slide, it's gonna go real quick, because I usually have a couple updates on projects that I'm deferring to our next agenda item.

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Our opportunities to engage

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It's Saturday, a bunch of people in this room will be out at Rainier Beach for the opening of the skate park, so if anyone wants to come down, they'll be free to begin our lessons from Skate Like a Girl. And, we'll have music and giveaways

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And we'll unveil the mural and get people skating up there

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Especially recognize Daniel Jackson Chance, who really was the instigator in a good way in this project.

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We also, those of you that came through at their park district oversight rule rule the get moving program, which is one of our outdoor activation programs that started with the initial park district

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It's actually celebrating its 10th year, and we're having also an event on the 16th

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Celebrate both the

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The folks that have been doing the work and the people that it has served

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And then on

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Halloween itself, I'll be out at the frost, I forgot to add Screen Lake, which will be fun.

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That'll be fun to be out there. I hear that they're encouraging us soon. Terrible idea to me.

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It does not have extra things on when I wrote, but that'll be… that'll be fun. And then

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or same day, we're working on a little

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Not a ribbon cutting event, what are we calling it? You don't have to listen to us yammer on these special meet and greet, have some cider, play in the

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Play in the park, no speakers, no speeches, there's still not a qualified.

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And then the next slide is all Halloween. There's a blog post that went out today for all the upcoming Halloween events as

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It's a teaser. Many, many events, such as the International District Chinatown in Tallooza happening. There's teen only events. If you haven't

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heard the Magnuson Community Center staff and teams put together a hackathon announced that

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happening in the weekend of October 23rd. Not have anything to do with that, but it's in partnership with the Broadway Bright is terrifying. Legitimately scary.

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Camp Long is doing a trailer treats

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Greenlight Pool has a Halloween bounce and swim. There's a costume crawl top gym at Garfield Community Center with just lots and lots of stuff, so check that out. And they're not all on Halloween, so

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Check it out earlier.

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That's fantastic.

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20 minutes behind right now

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Commissioners if someone feels something was really badly tested, you're really follow up, go as a welcome agenda to try and respect the title

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Alright. Thank you, everyone. We really do enjoy this question. But I want to make sure that we have time for our partner spotlight. Christina, thank you.

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We're waiting and look forward to hearing from you about kindergart. You can sit down, you can stand whatever works best for you either way join at the table please that's great yeah I guess I'll just nod

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Maybe I'll try to do this for 15 minutes. That would be lovely. All right, well, thank you very much for the opportunity to come and share with you what we're doing at Seattle Botanic Garden

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I'm Christina Owen, I'm the President and CEO of the Seattle Botanic Gardens, and I'm going to talk about what we are, how we came to be, and what we hope to become.

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Well, first, I guess, I would be a terrible CEO. I did not acknowledge the two board members that are here with me today. Thatcher Bailey and Buddy Engel, so thank you for your time and for all your support. Okay, so Seattle was just

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Number four, world-class city in the world. We are in the club with London, New York, and Paris. Of course, a world-class city. This is the 2026 Oxford Economics Global Cities Index, and they're evaluating cities on attracting people from everywhere, investing in culture

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Make urban life cleaner and easier, and staying ahead of change. And so it's a really… it's kind of a cool thing that Seattle has been ranked number 4 here. You can go ahead

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But for me, that begs the question, what makes a world-class botanic garden arboretum for our world-class city? And in the world of horticulture, the Pacific Northwest is very much seen as a mecca. Not only do we have

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inherent natural beauty, but we can grow all kinds of species from all around the world

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And so when we look around the world, we can see different features of really fantastic botanical gardens and arboretta that showcase things like impactful research and conservation in Chicago, the different Park, Naples, Florida. You could look at the incredible accessible education that they provide

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St. Louis, Missouri. Fantastic community cultural programs at their botanical Park

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Los Angeles has an incredible visitor experience. They really cater to the community there, it's wonderful. Phoenix, Arizona, believe it or not, incredible living collections. If you ever go to the desert before 10 out of 10, so great.

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Atlanta, Georgia, incredible, gorgeous, inspiring horticulture.

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just wow. And Brooklyn Botanic Garden is really, I think, a theater and climate readiness. They demonstrate what it looks like to have climate-ready buildings and green buildings. These are all things that we could also do here. You know, Seattle has a great zoo

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A great aquarium. We have incredible park system, incredible civic institutions, and we care. So clearly we care about animals and land and sea, but we also really, really care about plants.

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And it has always been puzzling to me that for a city that deeply is connected and identified through its trees as the Emerald City, we do not have and have not had a truly incredible botanical garden to match. Well, I think we have all the elements of that. We

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I think a community of enthusiastic gardeners. We have incredible growing climate and conditions. We also have world-class plant collections. Our woody plant collections in the Arboretum are top 5 in the country.

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And now, I think we have this opportunity with Seattle Botanic Gardens to bring all of these elements together and really truly provide that world-class botanical garden for our world-class city.

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So where we started was in 20, well, excuse me, when I came to the gardens in 2021, we had three different garden locations that were managed by three different partners in three different ways. There's the Center for Urban Horticulture, which is on the University of Washington campus

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Owned by the university, and it was operated by the University of Washington.

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The Washington Park Arboretum

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That land is owned by the Seattle Parks Department. The plants and trees that grow there are owned by the University of Washington.

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and managed by the University of Washington Botanic Gardens programs with support and advocacy and fundraising from the Arboretum Foundation.

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Then at the south end of the arboretum is the Seattle Japanese Garden. That is owned by the Parks Department. The Horticulture, the plants were supported by the team at the Parks Department. And the programming was done by the Arboretum Foundation, as well as

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So you have these 3 different locations, all these funky arrangements. And I think this slide

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Well, like, we have these three locations, what this truly is is a living network.

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You know, like the top five woody plant questions in the US.

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It was a conservation research, Washington State's only native plant seed bank

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We have very robust youth education program serving over 3,000 kids a year

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Broad public engagement with help with partners. We have the nation's most authentic Japanese stroll garden, literally, three weeks ago, had a Japanese academics from Japan visit our garden to learn

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We have an incredibly robust volunteer community, over 10,000 hours of volunteer time donated to us in the last year

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One of the most extensive horticultural library collections in the Pacific Northwest, over 24,000 pressed plant herbarium specimens that represent specimens from gardens all around our area. So this really is much more than sort of three different garden locations

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It is truly a living network with incredible, robust assets.

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So you can go ahead

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So

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In 2023, we did a community survey, a very robust community survey, which include focus groups, over 5,000 respondents to the survey. And we asked the community, what do we really want from your arbor? And it was very clear. They wanted an improved sense of belonging and inclusion

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At our transportation and more accessible facilities and amenities, including explicitly called out community gathering spaces

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Increased active and social programming, and it was very clear, too, that folks were looking for increased collaboration with and recognition of the Coast Salish peoples.

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So we took a look at this and really, I think it was very clear that to meet that need, we needed to unite ourselves. We needed to get very clear and present ourselves to the community with as one organization with one vision

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that oversaw three locations. And the goal here was to really create an organization that could provide a better experience for our visitors.

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Support more opportunities for learning and engagement, and unlock new level of fundraising opportunities to support all of those things that our communities ask for.

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So you can go click ahead. The other, I think, key piece of the story is that in 2031, the arboretum will expand by an additional 28 acres on the north end of that property. It is currently

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Staging, and I'll talk a little bit more about this later, but it's a profound opportunity, truly, to expand upon this arboretum Department

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So

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Recognizing that these 2 organizations, the Arboretum Foundation and the University of Washington Botanic Gardens have very long history of partnership. I think we saw that these 2 could be much more than the sum of their parts if they came together. And so that's what we started to pursue. The Arboretum Foundation

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It was founded the year after the arboretum was in 1985. It has incredible fundraising and advocacy shops, small staff, 2 million budget

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very large membership, and a huge volunteer program, and they connected these great public programs in the Japanese carbon. The Udo Botanic gardens brought incredible expertise in conservation and education, research, and managing these

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like I said, incredible horticultural collections. And had a large well-trained staff, right? So we have over 50 permanent staff, much larger budget. Lots of great great education programs, the library

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And so really, this is an opportunity to bring together the robust fundraising, advocacy, and volunteering network of the Arboretum Foundation with the robust education, research, and horticultural expertise at the UW Botanic Garden.

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And really align the fundraising priorities with the programmatic need and service of the community

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So, in January of this year, we signed an agreement between the University of Washington and the Arbenham Foundation that saw the programs and staff and all the pieces of the UW Botanic Gardens transition over to the nonprofit

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Arboretum Foundation. And in doing so, transform that nonprofit from a small supporting organization like Parents and Friends Group, to an executing botanical garden nonprofit.

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That agreement has some really important terms. I'm going to run through these quickly, but welcome to answer any questions. So, fundamentally to this group, the roles and responsibilities for the Seattle Parks Department did not change in this transaction. This is a transaction between the UW and the foundation

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What it does is establish a new strong partner for the Parks department.

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This is a 15-year agreement with two five-year options to extend. UW has retained ownership of all of its assets and is effectively outsourcing the management of those assets to the botanical gardens.

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They are providing… the university is providing an annual financial contribution in addition to rent-free occupancy space and some other in-kind contributions. All the earned revenue that

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Previously collected by UWBG, who is now retained by Seattle Botanic Gardens. and all the management responsibility which includes way finding interpretation shifted to Seattle Botanic Gardens.

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Importantly, the UW faculty and students retain full access and continue to maintain offices and research facilities and a classroom at the Center for Urban Horticulture for the UW faculty and students, not much to really change.

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And it did require that the Uda Botanic Gardens then sunset as a unit of University of Washington by the end of this calendar year, and we are very much on track to do that.

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So as of right now, all of them's employees, I've now shipped over to the nonprofit. We are fully operating as Seattle Botanic Gardens. We are well on our way to this transition.

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And I think, you know, our goal in this work to become Seattle Botanic Gardens is really driven by this mission to deepen relationships between plants, people, and place through supporting the understanding and a commitment to shared stewardship

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We are very much a 90-year-old startup

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We have all of the legacy of a 90-year-old organization and we are very new and finding our way with a lot of new systems and all the things that startup has

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But we really have cemented this legacy of partnership between these organizations, and really sort of now are united under this single nonprofit organizations, you know, Botanic Gardens. I'm already seeing… we're already seeing the benefits to that in many ways

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I'll just say, you know, I think Pacific Northwesterners have in common a really deep love of nature and a commitment to care for it.

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And that is what we're trying to do here, is to support and preserve that core value of shared stewardship that defines Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, not just for ourselves, but for the future generations. I mean, it really is trying to

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perpetuated forward that culture of care.

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So yeah, our goal is to respond to those community needs by providing increased accessibility to our spaces and programs and making them feel more welcoming.

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Providing additional amenities for a more welcoming visitor experience that makes our… that hopefully will make our spaces so much more inclusive.

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Greater community connection to the culturally diverse plants and ecosystems from around the world. We have a project going on right now that will establish a China forest and share plants from China

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Deeper relationships and intentional collaboration with the Coast Salish tribal communities. We have established the Native American Advisory Group and are working now with the tribes in a new way. And Warren King George Historian has joined our board

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We have an expanded garden experiences that highlight rare Pacific Northwest ecosystems. We have plans to be thinking about that, and just more robust scientific contributions to help try to inform the stewardship that we will need to preserve our spaces.

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We just completed a climate adaptation plan for the arboretum and are now working on how to operationalize that

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So through all of this work, we really helped to help make Seattle greener, to help connect Seattle and beyond to the living world of plants and help make Seattle a healthier, more resilient

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place. You know, our goal is to make plants relevant to everyday life, to connect science to the public, and while we are doing that, also steward some of Seattle's most important civic assets

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And really, like I said, forward that culture up here.

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So, how do we work together with the Seattle Parks Department? I see this as an opportunity for a strong partnership. Our goal is to be a strong partner to the Seattle Parks and Recreation. We can do that by supporting capital projects

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Maintenance and public safety, and really trying to achieve more inclusive activation and event management. We have a very robust private events team and are working on building out our public event offerings

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Along with advocacy and fundraising, we can be a strong voice for protecting our public green spaces and our plants and trees, including the Parks District funding, too, and being that… helping to be your partner in advocacy.

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And then as we think about the future, and I mentioned this earlier, of an expanded arboretum where this Montlake Peninsula or this 28-acre parcel that is really, it is effectively just crushed gravel with like a border

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Shoreline around it. This is just such an incredible opportunity to expand upon the arboretum and really realize, the botanical Garden and Arboretum that I think Seattle is worthy of. This is

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Such incredible space, particularly in a city that has, you know, land is of value. It's of incredible value. So to have these 20 acres come back to the city as public green spaces. I will just say, you know, the continued support that we do receive from the Parks department really does enable us to unlock private support as your partner of significant magnitude

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And that's how I hope we can continue to work together in the future. We're gonna start the strategic planning work this fall to help chart our path forward as an organization, but also to set us up so that we can approach this addition to the arboretum in a really thoughtful way

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So thank you. Steve, you just want to add your comment. I saw you put in the chat, but I know Christina can't see it.

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Oh, yeah, I was just saying that I wanted to thank you all for all of your work. I spent an hour in the arboretum once a week while my daughter gets tutoring. This week there was a big crowd. We saw a barred owl

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Lots of a big crowd for him taking pictures, so it's a great opportunity to visit and explore

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Yeah, we had a pileated woodpecker out there this week too. So yeah, trying to share that on our social media and other communication avenues and yeah, that's great.

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Hopefully that was fast enough for you. No, no, you're right!

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So thank you. I look forward to hearing about plans for the incredible opportunity to acquire that asset. Yeah, thank you.

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All right, Jessica

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Yes. Planning and capital development. And we have a request from the online folks to speak at least as loudly and clearly as Christina. Evidently Michelle and I were not hitting the mark. Okay, all right. I'm usually pretty good on that. Yeah, I wasn't too worried, but I thought I'd mention yes I'm usually very good, and I was not very

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Delivering on that. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you for having me again. I'm Jessica Murphy. I am the director of planning and development here

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I love plants, my intro joke is that my mom wanted to name me the sample mom, my dad was rational, and that, but we're good. We're good, you don't have… nobody has to learn how to spell that.

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And I'm here tonight to give you some updates about what's going on and planning and development, which is awesome, because you're in the home of Planning and Capital Development here, where about all 80 of us work. We can move to the next slide. It's a brief agenda, I will warn you. I have about 18 slides, and I will finish in my time period is not

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Any impressions? We're gonna go through the blue, green

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Orange, orange on our key performance indicators, kind of highlight a couple of projects, do a little deep dive update in the green light. I think that has been a long, long awaited and asked for, so I'm looking forward to that. And some events that I will

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repeatedly plugged that we saw plugged already, and it'll be great. So, we can go to the next one. Recent completions. It's kind of a shady picture. Just in the lighting on the Rainier Beach skate park that did open and we are celebrating this weekend, so it would be part of seeing

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People out there

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One of our smaller projects, but really important, Mayfair Park retaining wall that was a long structure project that we recently completed, and fund one with a partner spotlight the covered homestead

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multi-sport roller court, we partnered with, Wine Roots Foundation, which is the philanthropic farm and climate pledge

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donated

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All those kind of back things behind the basketball and more goals there

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In that sport court, we finished the play area earlier this year, so just a couple of functions, photos

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More about those I will sprinkle along the way, but those are a few I wanted to highlight

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And we'll move right into the colors. And I will try not to talk about every dog on here to get us through here, but remember the guide, green is good. So there's a lot of good on this slide. The accessibility barriers

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I think that number changed pretty dramatically since maybe I was last here, because Hiawatha and South Park opening covered a lot of barriers and those two projects alone. So that was a huge jump in numbers. I don't know what it said before, but it was a lot. Just a quick reminder, the completion timeframe that we're

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Value cycle

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Through 2028. Okay, great. Yes, so we're like, yes, we're rocking this. Let's see what else are we going to highlight here?

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synthetic turf is also an area we're doing very well at. We played the baseball infield at Garfield, Lower Woodland Baseball Field turf replacement is in progress. Both of those projects were well-timed with their baseball seasons

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And we're already planning, in design for a replacements at Walt Humley and Cal Anderson, and everybody wants to talk about church these days.

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Also, our community centers run a deep dive on Green Lake today.

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But,

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We have many completions this year, and we will highlight later the four we have

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including green light. I talked about all of those since I've been here last

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Infrastructure utility, one of the things that I think you guys heard about recently because of Lake Union Park water main. And it's

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Needed replacement, so that we're in design on that project, and we're actively working on that as fast as we can. We're also concurrently, looking for some leaks in that system that we can touch together

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And hold it together until we get the water main replaced. But there's a lot of really important infrastructure that nobody ever sees, and that's one of them. We've also got

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drainage project out near West Seattle Golf Course, Maker Park was one of those infrastructure projects so that I already highlighted.

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So lots of good things there. And then my last one I was going to highlight is the DCARB

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Projects.

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So we have

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We often talked about

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5 of those in what we call package 1, which is Genesee Fruit Quarters, Vanessa, Carfield, Rainier, Community Center, and Jefferson Community Center. We are working on all of those in design right now

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We were looking at Discovery Park to do decarb there after the flooding that took everything out down there. We have pivoted to a replacement kind solution for Discovery Park is

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much more cost effective, and it will let us do more good work with our dollars on the other sites and our funding go farther for things like which is also

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cooling the Garfield, which is a respite center in the summer period. So

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We felt like that was a worthy goal and added bonus of that decision on discovery is that should bring it back online.

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about second quarter of next year is what we're targeting

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Let's see, I think I'm gonna skip to the next one unless there was any questions, which I can always connect to. Maybe you want to flip back real quick and let anybody ask any questions about those categories that I didn't cover?

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I'm gonna hear none and keep going. Plow away. Okay.

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So here I wanted to highlight our trails because we are in construction on our arboretum waterfront trail, which is a huge chunk of our trail

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fans, and we're working in design on Discovery Park South Beach Trail. It's actually getting close to going to advertisement for construction

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Greg Davis Park Bridge replacement is a smaller section, and we've got a bunch more planning and pools, pools, pools. Michelle had those great pictures of my forever, which

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We completed the structural repair. Turns out it's really good to make sure you cover all the metal in the real corrosive environment of a pool, so it doesn't corrode faster than you expect. So that's, like, my lesson about buildings for everybody today

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And we also have a really important pool maintenance package that has

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Repairs and upgrades to a lot of our pools, including Queen Anne Pool, which everybody wants you're on track. We're on track with our schedule on that one to start

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Late spring. I'm trying to go out to bed like early January 1st or something like that with this package of pools and we've already identified.

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We are going to do the

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You know, the digging in the bottom of the pool and all the barrier removal and some of the upgrades in one room at the same time. So we're going to be extra efficient over that. And that's supposed to start in spring. Any idea? We're estimating at this point at about

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3 or 4 months of construction, so we're targeting reopening by fall, which is the same thing we will do Alaska. The last time and the time before that. I'll make sure I'm getting credit for staying consistent and accurate, at least at the moment

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And then our court major maintenance, we're working on a lot of resurfacing for

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Next year, we've had some interesting things going on in the world that

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Reclassified that type of work from a service to what we call a public work, which changes how we have to contract it and do public bidding. So those

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These are very important rules and regulations that exist for lots of reasons, but it has been a change for us that we're reacting to.

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It's one of the reasons we may have a lot, and we're going to talk a little bit more about reference points later.

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I think that was all I was going to highlight there. Play areas. Everybody loves play areas. Got lots.

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Awesome construction.

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How can I imagine Fairfield, Magnuson Junior League, Kiawatha, Rainier Community Center. We're about to go out to bid or get started with Meridian, Hutchinson, Park, and

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Those are my highlights on that. Have a numerical goal on it

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It had one on Magnuson

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And

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We are we're working very hard on citing a good place for that. And there's a lot of things to balance. So I would say deeper dive on that.

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This is… this is for expansion, done. New park development,

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We continue to make steady progress since I have seen you last AB Ernst is way under construction. Smith Cove is nearing completion. West Seattle Junction, the contract has been awarded. We're going to start construction probably in the next

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month or so, and Terry Pettis is getting ready to go out to bed

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We are in the final stages of design on Wedgwood and Charleston Park, Morgan Street Junction at Lake City Floodline Park are a little later on.

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In the off-leash areas

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category

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South Park and then Georgetown Flames both opened this past spring summer to dog delight

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And we're anticipating opening Smith Cove for the end of the year

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hoping to have a little doggy event about that, and all pathways since actually a little gem of beautifulness, even though the play area, the grass will need to be established for

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Couple of growing cycles, so that won't be open right away for the rest of the park will be.

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Per community fund, I do know… I… I know the subcommittee has met with our team a couple of times, and has

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has endorsed the process moving forward, so we're getting ready for idea collection in 2027. Between your own committee reports to the group and us, we can get

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go a little more detail on that, if that's desired. We also, just on kind of a fun bonus.

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We don't always talk about the sausage making behind the scenes, but our round one project, the Hiroshima basketball cover was quite a bit more expensive than we anticipated, but we did

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ask for a grant increase for that area, and we we received work that we got it. So we've got good funding to

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partner to go with the park management funding under Shiva, which is one of the round one projects that was a lot of broad community support

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And out of the dots

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pausing just quickly to see if there were questions in those.

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All right, just a couple of miscellaneous updates

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Everybody loves our pictures play area design options. That is one from West 9 million play area that had a meeting this summer and has different public meeting as well. We're doing a public engagement in conjunction with the State Park that the neighborhood has

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apartment neighborhoods grant to further some of the design on that. So that's been very popular

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And Hutchinson played community center and playground is you may have heard me mention of just getting ready to

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go out for bid that one of the reasons… one of the things I want to highlight about that project is really touching everything in that park, and that's been designed almost entirely in-house by our own landscape architects

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engineers and kind of a lift, but it's pretty amazing work.

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And then my favorite part of the slideshow is the construction photos. AB Ernst on the left, really not that exciting. That site is so steep, it is very challenging. And then on the right, if you don't know, it's like, well, that's like a dumpster. It is like a dumpster, but it is a dumpster of marine debris. So in the vein of the world a little better than the way you found it at Lesh I worked

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Literally cleaning stuff up the bottom of the… as part of our whole project to build the new breakwater outlet dock, and the associated upland utilities, which seems to get all the news. So

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We're trying to brag about the other good things we're doing with that project and that pilot trash is what I'm writing about today.

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A reminder, this will be kind of a repeat as I come back to you in the next… all of the next pages. What's going on with our next community center. So, Michelle mentioned the recent legislation on Lake City

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Exciting. I'll talk about green light in depth. Queen Anne is right on track, and so is Loyal Heights, and they live after Lake City, Loyal Heights of the first one to bring ground

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have all planned to start construction

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Lake City is

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hopefully gonna get started here at the very end of the year. The rest are in

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2027 Green Lake is very end 2027. So we're going to get busy on community centers again, just like we were recently with Iowa.

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And after that, let's talk

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Super about GreenLake.

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Let me practice.

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How am I doing on time? Okay. All right. So Green Lake, I don't know

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along, like any of you have been following the project, but Green Lake has a long history.

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We started, visioning the new Green Lake Community Center

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Right before the world shut down for COVID. And so in the other room, you could see the size, but not in this one.

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So, it is… it's very, very tiny, but we have this grand plan that was nobody could afford right before we got our first public outreach meetings in February of 202

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Then we have COVID

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And then we did some value engineering

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And then the Evans Pool building got landmarked

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And then coming out of COVID, we had a budget funding increases and really

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have hit the speed button, like the… it's like when you're reading your audiobook and you hit like I want to listen to this at 1.5 speed. I feel like that's what we're doing now on GreenLake as we get started, and I want to tell you about some of our progress

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Because what started as, let's rebuild the community center

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Renovate pool and build this big thing has

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Really evolved into

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Really, really great project, but I'm going to tell you in a couple slides. Why don't you go to the next one?

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So at this point in recent history, we now have an $88 million project to count the community center aquatic Center in the Bay Area, which is

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Really big project. And the estimate for the average amount is, like, 400 million. It was, like, $148 million or something like that, and then I think it got beat down to

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something, and those were 20… So, this is… and this is with the 20 million dollars that was added in the budget last just last year. So one of the things the project team said

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The blessing of as we were working on

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60-some million dollar project plan, and 25% increase in money is a little different project, so we're trying to do all these things at the same time.

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And what I'm going to give you today is kind of the latest update. And I already mentioned we're going to get construction at the end of next year.

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So just to reorient you to the existing conditions at GreenLake, we have a connected community center at Evans Pool Building, a play area is to the right, parking is to the left, always full. And that little loop is kind of a drop off, but

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important buyer access

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Go to the next one

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What people don't see when they look at that site plan is really how constrained it is. It feels kind of open, and you can't read any of this at this distance. But the left red is the shoreline zone. So turns out the building were built in the shoreline zone. We don't do that anymore

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But it does impact what we can and can't do

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In that area today. The

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The box with the black letters that you can't read says landmark, Evans Pool, so that box is what has been landmarked. It's not just a pool, building, lobby, and the perimeter of 20 feet out

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So that is the landmark area. It's just the shell.

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It's just a building phase. It's a lot of areas. I think you can kind of visualize that

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And then, between the… all the existing… the allay of trees and some of that Olmstead design, the upper right yellow box is what we deemed our buildable area. So if we were going to build

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Something that was what we were going to build. And I'm going to go to the next one.

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So this is

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What we have what we originally thought in that yellow box in the upper right, we would build a new pool facility. We have

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Pivoted to come up with a new plan that better serves our community.

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Brand new community center and renovate and improve the pool building inside its landmark structure, and

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reorient the play area around those two things. This does a couple of

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really amazing things for us

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One is… gets us a community center that is all on a single level. One of the things we heard in the feedback is, like, upstairs and downstairs, and it's all compartmentalized internship

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100 doors that you have to go through to get anywhere, and the elevator is not reliable. And you can't see around any corners, and you trip over the things that hold the doors open when the doors aren't open. So a single level

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improve sight lines and we can get all of our existing programming in that in that building at a single level in the yellow box as a white box

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And exterior restrooms

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Those cite those appropriately, redo the playground, and kind of create more of a canvas feel around this.

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And now speaking to the pool

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That pool's gonna feel like a brand new pool in there. So, yes, the building will remain. That turns out to be kind of cost-effective, turns out

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But the pool will get brand new deck, gutters, mechanical.

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We'll do the things that don't let it have what happened to Ann happen to this one expand the locker rooms and also in that

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That comes with all the ADA upgrades and improved sight lines as well.

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So this was… this was a little bit of a shift from big building

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With everything to

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New pool, renovated community center to the new community

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Renovated pool, and

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This has been… we rolled this out in July, and it's been very well received

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I have one more, detailed picture.

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So this is a really busy slide. The upper right, kind of where you can view the site again, so in this one, the yellow the site plans in the upper right

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We are looking at a couple of pool options. One that has today and one that has a lab pool with the addition of a warm teaching pool.

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That is like Rainier Beach has like a second pool that does provide the opportunity for some

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expanded concurrent programming that doesn't exist today, in the full disclosure, that's not quite in the budget. We're working on it. But we're looking at both of those options. We have a couple of different options on that

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teaching pool location, in both cases, the locker rooms get updated, and these are just kind of program level. We're not taking these as, like, those are exact lines on a design or anything.

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So just to note, we're looking at a couple options. Landmarks is a pretty key aspect of that, because how we might add to that building is

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Something they care about. We've had some preliminary committee meetings and they seem receptive to if we can put it all in the extension to the South for the warm teaching law

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But I've totally disoriented you from the world is what that means, is if we expand the whole area to the south, it does require relocating the basketball courts

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Which turns out have a

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Location

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Actually, next on that.

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And so the water where the Commissioner was. Yeah, so the field house building, I waited till now to talk about

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It's not landmarks

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Was in the shoreline zone

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And was really hard to make a

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Big enough regulation-sized gym in a building that had walls, like, several feet off port lines. You know, it was just, it's always going to be tight in there. You're never going to be able to achieve that. So one of the benefits of

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Building a new community center, we can get a regularly synergized gym, we have some opportunity of something to do in the space where that building was, and that would be, that's identified in that option.

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Best opportunity.

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Should the basketball court's right around the corner. It also opens up

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a pinch point that is on the link right there, as the trail goes past the field house, and it's very tight.

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So, people are really liking this option as well, and maybe just

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Have you gotten feedback from basketball users if they haven't seen that yet? We have not heard a lot from the basketball users because

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We don't… we're not really sure whether we're gonna displace them or not. I think they're probably waiting. We will do some targeted outreach to them here in the next round. We're planning an additional round of public

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meetings

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Toward the end of the year, we're targeting December. So we'll make sure that we get some targeted outreach. Did the court be the same, or is that opportunity to expand the court program?

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It definitely fits the same, I believe

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But it's something that needs…

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That's the same number yeah let me talk about the pool things for a little bit because one of the one of the constituencies we've heard the most from is the lap swimmers. As a former

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16-year competitive swimmer who learned to swim here, swim in college, and all the things. I get lap swimming, so there's been a couple of there's been some misinformation traveling around the left pool existing lanes at Green Lake are

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See, the width is the same as all of our other pools. So we are looking to put that

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That black pool back in its same geometry, which would be the same 6-lane pool at the same

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Deaf

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With an approved gutter system.

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Contrary to some information, it's not. They are not narrow lanes, and it is not shallower than our other pools. The other thing is we hear that it is shallower and shallower end than our other pools

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I research every one of our pools. The only pool that has a shallow end that's deeper is Rainier Beach. We built a 4-foot shallow end, and the other one

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Is Medgar Evers is the bulkhead, so different locations. So

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That's not the left slummers aren't loving it. It's the opportunity to expand at eight lanes or a more constant depth

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This is not the… this is not the site that that opportunity can be provided. If we can afford that warm teaching pool, we have an opportunity for

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Additional concurrent programming that could potentially result in additional hours for lapsed funds, but that those are all operational costs that are not in this capital budget. I'll always mention that's a that's a different part of the equation, how to run it

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Didn't the last one was on longer lines? They do, they want to fit… I mean, if you're a lap swimmer, your dream is, like, I want 8 lanes, I want 50 meters, so I can bifurcate it out with two bulkheads and make two 25-yard calls with a waterfall model, and then 12 laps in the other. You can do all

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We do long lanes and then sometimes rope that off for our teaching area? So the trade-off of that is you can't keep those at different temperatures. So make sure that

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What we are hearing from our communities and our programming fires at a higher temperature is.

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It has a lot of benefits to our senior population of kids as one who taught swimming lessons to kids with blue lips, like that is real.

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And

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You know, but lap swimmers, there's high demand for that. We love our creating lap swimmers.

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But this is this is

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This is never going to be a King County and water, right? So I think that's something we have been looking at hard and

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You know, we're trying to balance a lot of needs and a lot of users.

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Is Donna artists

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footprint

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Yeah, retaining the summer, yeah, that was part of the plan. Is is there any

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long-range plan that includes a modern aquatic north end.

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Okay, because

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pregnancy, what our long-range plans are. There's not one in there.

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you know, I mean, I'm just thinking, like, give people a dream, it might be 20 years out, or whatever, but it sounds like you have a proposal. Well, Rainier Beach is the same as the Six Lane 25-year-old pool

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So, so I wanna… I wanna ground us back to Queen Anne

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And med drivers, both went out of service for long periods of time, and we have an aging pool system. We are working feverishly to keep in operation. I think

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That is what we are trying to prioritize, because if people want more pools, they sure don't want to lose pools. So I think that's our… that's what we're investing in now. And I can't predict the future anymore

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I do know

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that

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If that comes up in the parks and open space plan conversations or the next cycle plan, you know, we'll hear what people want to say, but I know City of Bellevue is planning a large pool facility at their airport

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They… that's something they are pursuing. There is the King County Center down a better way. There are a couple larger pools in the north end of Linwood and it's not like there is

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You know the mom. I love it. Can you just give a quick update on that GCCM part?

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Where it fits in your timeline. Yeah, so one of the great things about this project is we decided to do a process that's allowed by state law

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to hire a contractor based on qualifications and price. Usually, we just do low bid. This process, you have to meet certain qualifications, and your project has to be special, and your team has to be special, which we all are. So we're doing it for green light, and

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That's closed during our contract ran currently, so they are actually a part of our team right now, planning and cost estimating and looking at these options in real time, and that's going to provide us with a lot more certainty going into construction on cost and schedule, and

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Phasing, and all the things we're gonna plan over the course of the next year before we put shovels in the ground

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It's right now informing, gosh, is there things we should need to get out and advance designs? We could do advanced permitting and change things, and we have Hoffman construction is our general contractor, and they go over the talk with me, so I'm kind of who I am

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And we're actually doing, we're using that same bring your contractor on early model for Loyal Heights Community Center and

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RD curve.

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So we're looking at it

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No, I was looking at Michelle to see if you don't want me to say anything more about that. I have a couple more slides.

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Libby says, I'm at 4.5 speed. Okay, I have a couple more things. So bracket sports

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You've heard an update from us early in the summer.

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We had 7 public meetings. We're meeting with a focus groups right now. We have more meetings with them. We're anticipating before the end of the year coming back out going back out to the public with an updated draft

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strategy.

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We put the strategy back out for the comment period on that, and then you're bringing us the summary of

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comments in that okay yes

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So that was… just wanted to touch on that since that's a big effort in our team that's going on right now.

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Michelle talked all about Denny Blaine public meetings. That is the upper right photo

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Great visuals. We have a long-range planning effort on getting

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The dog in the lower left is on the agility equipment, dog agility exercise equipment on the Capitol Hill healthy hike. On a leash just the humans not in photo. Yeah, you can see it. We screened it.

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Yeah? I know. Not running great leash your dog in the park.

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And refer to our Instagram post for many more photos of that. I'm not really a pet person. Maybe the only native satellite that's not a pet person.

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And lower rate that we were at the Hinghe and the Chinatown International District Night Market talking about Hinghe exercise equipment, which is super fun. And I think Michelle probably already highlighted this

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Freeway Park 50th anniversary celebration, which is the upper left photo that we had in August. Spectacular event I missed taking my son back to college

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But I have phones, so I put it on here, and then those are the past things, and the last slide is becoming the repeat with the date bolded, Rainier Beach skate park celebration this Saturday. We have our battery street open space site design

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first public meeting in October. Some of you may have heard that called Portal Park. You all know, we have not named that, so we don't call it that. So

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Hattery Street open space design that is like just a reminder that was a council budget item last year for us to study the potential for a future park at that location where we also don't own any

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It's SDOT right-of-way, and then the majority of it is, and then there's two triangle parcels down in town by city light, it's Palmer substation they abandoned long ago, and the other one is

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And let's Magnolia playfield and public area meeting in October Smith Co.

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Lake City Community Center, I think we were trying to do an event at the end of the year for the Lake City groundbreaking looks like we're going to do it in January.

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So, under Photo Labs. And that is… that is my mouthful

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And so there's so many things I did not talk about.

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But please feel free to ask questions about what I did or didn't.

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How does our cool mural at Benefit Park. It was a partnership with the storm

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Thank you. All right. Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it.

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Those do not create public records. Read them out. We're

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What do you need to say about the budget now versus what can you say more on in November?

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We could go directly to the timeline and just tell you where we're at. That would probably help distribution process-wise, right?

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I was trying to scroll, sorry.

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So we did present

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I can tell you when we present it, we presented on September 24th, because Amy and I had to leave the all-staff celebration to the City Council and forget the, the parks proposed budget, so, they've been deliberating on

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CARs and other budgets

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They had their first public hearing earlier this week in the city's budget

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They…

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We go back again with the slice of the pie called the Park District on the 21st

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And they have a public hearing specific to the park district wearing those hats.

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Going back to the council the whole city size of

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After they do all these individual issue meetings, they then have a chairs balancing package that they work on at the beginning of

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November, which has another public hearing

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And then they adopt the same day the city's budget and put their other hats on the park district and adopt the park district, and that would be the Friday before Thanksgiving. So

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There is a presentation already out there in the public realm about the department's budget. We sent out blogs

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On its November and tell you where it

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Yeah.

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And then, one public hearing's already done, and then there's two more, so there's opportunities for

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I would… I would say overall.

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I guess.

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In the early days.

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Maybe 3 SBRs 2027-28.

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So, I'd say, big picture-wise, this department

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Overall, our budget is changing in 3 major ways. One is to address general fund. We are reducing our general fund by about 11 million dollars

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ongoing way,

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Three and a half million of that is mainly through what we're saying, or efficiencies, and that could be from some vacancy savings, rightsizing some of our

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Budgets, as an example, we have consistently underspent

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non-labor and unified care team, so we took that in the

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budget reduction and

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For those types of things make up that 3.5 million, and then we're proposing funding realignments

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For another 7.8

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A small amount of that closer to the point 8 relates to the

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admissions tax

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Continuing to cover some of our arts-related programming, so that's a funding sources managed by the Office of Arts and Culture, in the last two years, they've been funding

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Our teams are musical, our Arts in the Parks program

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Yeah.

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buskers. So that would continue that.

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Approach to those funds, thereby saving general fund

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And then the other 7 million dollars is basically realigning park district money from the capital side to the operating side in order to

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reduce general fund and

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That some of that is a continuation and another 3 million is kind of additional reallocation of capital to operating

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And then on top of that, the department

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Real estate excess tax revenue as a whole is down in the city, and so our next 6 years, so across the 6 years.

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Capital program is reduced by $25 million from that, on top of a one-time reduction for this year of $12 million

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What does that impact for this year?

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It impacts

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It's carried forward, it's mainly going to be in

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Yeah, the main impact is the

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No. But I can get there. I can get there.

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To get to the 12 million, we are reducing carry forward and related to acquisitions.

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But we do have a million dollars coming in every year for that program, so we think that's

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It's a one-time reduction in your accessibility projects

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But that program supported $2 million.

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Oh, we had

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And carrying forward some decrep money for High Point Community Center

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But we don't believe we will get to actually

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Doubles on the ground on that project in the cycle anyway, and so we reallocated that

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The one project I would say that's

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impacted in the out years is the West Magnolia

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turf conversion project that was planned to be funded by Reed. It's our last

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project and the current joint use agreement prioritization for fields

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We've left it in the CIP with it to be determined funding source to show that we're still committed to finding funds

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It's not affecting this biennium anyway, because it was now years, but it's

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Community Army

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If we're going to talk about a budget in November, we could save this for November, but I'd be curious to know if parks

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The contribution from the general fund to parks and the cuts to that are sort of

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proportionate to cut seeing

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Maybe not every other department, but at least across

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Or if they're disproportionate, I'd be traced

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That's a great question, and there's a slide in the study slide I don't have memorized, but it talks about that in every department somewhere between 2 and 8%, and we're in about the middle of that. Okay.

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And it does sustain

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When the park district was set up, it set up what we call the score, and we're above the score.

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And I know the nature of these things, they move all around last minute. So hopefully hear from you in December, hopefully, if they pass on time with what

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Excellent practice, and yeah, he lives in with us for the impact of projects already

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valuable to us to understand what might get done, or what we should be telling

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Community representatives about this is really important to you. This is what you're going to be advocating for. A couple positives

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Just for fun. We are

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With some of the community centers, Lake City not coming online.

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Till the end of the cycle, there's some one-time funding, and we're using some of that to, increase scholarship funding for the next few years. And then we're doing some reallocation of park district initiative related to mentorship

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To be more targeted towards

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teams in Southeast Seattle to… we're piloting a high school community learning center. Right now, we have community learning center covered by the

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Levy that we do middle schools, but we haven't done a high school yet. So we're going to partner with Rayna Beach High School. So that's another place

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It's with existing funding.

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Thank you. Thanks, everyone, for coming. We had a little bit of an overly packed agenda.

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Yeah, I appreciate that.

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All right, thank you, everyone, and we'll see you in November.