Welcome back to Classic Replay, this time I fancied a bit of Road Rash. I literally grew up on this game for the Sega Mega Drive, that's where my loyalty for the game lies, because it's the one I played the most. But in my later years I'm discovering more and more Amiga games, Amiga games that were ported to the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega Drive games that were ported to the Amiga. I've given it a quick play and although the Sega Mega Drive is the definitive version in regards of speed, graphics and sound, this Amiga effort is no slouch. I mean I'd have been happy with this game on the Amiga, it's not bad. The more time I spend with the Commodore Amiga, I really think people back the wrong horse with the consoles, the Super Nintendo and the Sega Mega Drive and the PC engines and all this sat in the other. The Amiga is an absolute beast. As I've mentioned in previous videos, the Super Hang-On version was absolutely fantastic. I've not played a game really that's even up to scratch with the likes of Lotus Turbo Challenge on the Sega Mega Drive or the Super Nintendo. I mean there's some great games that don't get me wrong, Super Mario Kart is unbelievable. I'm talking serious races, the arcade style races, Outrun that sort of thing. In fact I'm absolutely loving Lotus Turbo Challenge on the Amiga. The second one as well, not so much the third one because it's overly difficult when it didn't need to be. That Lotus Turbo Challenge is plenty brilliant. In fact I'm going to do a video on that game next. So Road Rashies centred around a series of high-octane road races that play out in the state of California where the rider must win to advance to the higher difficulty races and to aid you in getting there you can punch your way through to the front of the grid or use lots of different blunt weaponry to smash people in the face and ultimately win a Mad Max style. I hadn't realised until I started looking through the other versions that it arrived on the Master System as well. The Game Gear, the Game Boy header version, can you believe it? The 3DO, the Sega CD, I didn't even know that and I had a Sega CD. The PlayStation, the Sega Saturn and Microsoft Windows had a version as well. I read somewhere years ago that they even planned a release for the Atari Jaguar but because the console failed the whole deal fell through. The code must still be out there, I imagine people out there have played it. So just looking at the bigger picture for the 16-bit and 8-bit versions computer and video games rated the Sega Megadrive Genesis version 91%. Paul Glancy and Tim Boone of computer and video games described the game as a beat-em-up on motorbikes and super hang-on with fists and clubs thrown in. Amiga format gave 84%. CU Amiga described the game as immensely playable and nicely violent but strangely only gave it 81% which is a bit harsh I think. The other thing to note is that Road Rash was the fourth highest selling Amiga title in the UK in its debut month. Road Rash was also voted number 88 in the top 100 games of all time by Game Informer magazine. Never heard of them. Well, I've massively enjoyed playing this game.  Don't forget to subscribe for more content and until the next video, bye!


Now, as gunshots echo across the windswept snow-covered reaches of the Wild Northwest, Quaker Pop Wheat, and Quaker Pop Rice, the breakfast cereal shot from guns, present the challenge of the Yukon. Its Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the Northwest, blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. On King, one new huskies. Gold, gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches. Back to the days of the Gold Rush, with Quaker Pop Wheat and Quaker Pop Rice bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon. There goes another mighty tree for those rugged lumberjacks to haul down Sergeant Preston's Yukon trail. Just think if you were a lumberjack, what stamina it would take? What good nourishing breakfast you'd eat? Start now to build up your stamina. At breakfast, always eat a heaping bowlful of Quaker Pop Wheat or Quaker Pop Rice with milk or cream and fresh fruit. Like for instance, luscious red ripe strawberries. Remember, wheat or rice shot from guns gives you added food values of restored natural grain amounts of vitamin B1, niacin and iron. And delicious, taste them. You just can't beat Quaker Pop Rice and Quaker Pop Wheat. Sergeant Preston was driving his team along Dominion Creek one morning when he was hailed by a miner who would just emerge from his cabin. Hey, Sergeant! Now, Chad Logan, what are you doing out here? I bought myself a claim a couple of weeks ago. I'm mighty glad you came by this way. Something wrong? I'll tell the world there's something wrong. I got swindled. Swindled? On your claim? That's right, and I'm hoping you can tell me what to do about it. Who sold you the claim? A gent named Jariah Flint. Ever hear of him? He had a five thousand bucks. That's what he did. Didn't you examine the claim before you bought him? Sure, I examined it. But Flint salted it with just enough gold to make me think it was worth the price. I'm afraid the only thing you can do is take the case to court, Chad. Even then, I doubt if you can win a judgment against him. Dirty pork. Jariah Flint thinks he's pretty slick, but I've got a few tricks up my sleeve, too. If I can't have the law on him, I'll figure out some other way to make him cough up. Jariah Flint was a shrewd and grasping businessman. But in spite of his cunning, he had one notorious weakness. Like many another speculator, he was intensely superstitious. And it was well known in Dawson that he never made an important move without first consulting an old fortune teller known as Granny Foss. On the day after Chet's conversation with Sergeant Preston, Jariah Flint was seated in his office talking to his nephew, Joe Bassett.  Yes, indeed. I'll be able to sell those claims for ten times when I paid for them. Say, seeing as how you'll be making such a profit, I wonder if you could advance me a thousand dollars. What? Thousand dollars? That's four months? Sorry. What do you think I am, the Bank of England? You can spare that, my Uncle Jariah. I need the money pretty bad. I suppose you're in debt again to those gamblers down at the gold nugget. Well, as far as I'm concerned, they can whistle for their money. But listen, Uncle Jariah, I... Oh, it's you, Logan.  That's, uh, mighty strong language. Yeah. And it'll get a lot stronger if you don't hand over the five thousand bucks I paid you for that claim. What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about. That claim you sold me was soldered. Can't prove that. I'm warning you, Flint. You'd better give me back my money or you're going to be mighty sorry. Oh, is that a threat? No. Just a word to the wise. Meaning what? Meaning you're going to find this climate mighty unhealthy if I don't get my money back inside of the next 48 hours. Think it over. I'm giving you 48 hours to hand over that money. As Chet Logan walked out the door, Uriah Flint took out a large bandana and mopped his forehead nervously. I don't like the way he was talking. Sounded like he meant business. What do you suppose he's up to? I don't know, but he seemed mighty sure of himself. Maybe I'd better not take any chances. What are you going to do? I'll drop around and see what Granny Foss can read in the cards. Granny Foss was an old crone who had spent the better part of her life moving from one mining camp to another. In her younger days, she'd been famous as a lady gambler. But as age and drink took their toll, she was forced to eke out a squalid existence by caging handouts and telling fortunes. She was seated in her cabin idly shuffling a greasy deck of cards when she heard a knock at the door. Come in. Well, if it isn't my old friend, Uriah Flint. Have a chair. Have a chair. Thank you. I suppose you've got another business deal in the making, and you've come to consult old Granny Foss about the outlook, eh? It's not a business deal this time, at least not exactly. I'm having trouble with the client. Oh, so that's it. Oh, well, I suppose we just lay out the card, and we shall see what we shall see. Oh, here, you cut the deck. All right. Well, let's see what the cards have to say. With the smooth, expert gestures of a professional card shop, Granny Foss began laying out the cards on the table. As she did so, Uriah Flint noticed that her face took on a sudden look of dismay. Don't think I'd better give you a reading today. What's the matter? I don't feel quite in mood. Don't lie to me. You've seen something in the cards. Well, what is it? All right, if you insist. Take a look at the king of diamonds. Yes, yes. That's you. Now take a look at what's just above it. The queen of spades. Yes, the black lady, the angel of death. What? She's hovering right over you, Uriah Flint. Scott, does that mean that I... I'm going to... Maybe, maybe not. The cards look bad, that's all I'll say. Very well. Here's your money. Oh, thank you kindly, Mr. Flint. Good day. Good day to you, sir. Granny Foss was still chuckling to herself several moments later when the door opened and Chet Logan entered the cabin. Did you throw a scare into the old buzzard? Did I throw a scare into him? I spoke him so badly it was shaking like a leaf. Good work, Granny. Here's that 25 bucks, I promise you. Oh, thank you. He comes in again, give him another dose of the same medicine. Sure, Chet. Sure, I will. After Uriah Flint returned to his office, he saw through the window that Chet Logan had taken up a position across the street and was waiting patiently and menacingly. By the following day, the strain had begun to tell on Uriah Flint's nerves. He decided to go to Mounted Police headquarters. Sergeant Preston was seated at his desk with the great dog Yukon King stretched out on the floor beside his chair. Oh, hello, Flint. Sergeant, Sergeant, I demand protection. A man named Chet Logan has threatened my life. Exactly how is he threatened? He says if I don't give him back his money by tomorrow, I'll be... well, might be sorry. Huh, that's rather vague. I tell you, this is dead serious. Logan is keeping watch on me constantly. Trails me around every time I leave the office. He even followed me here to headquarters. In that case, let's go out and talk to him. Where is he? Right. Well, he was here just a minute ago. Maybe so, but he's nowhere in sight now. Meanwhile, Joe Bassett had gone to the gold-knocked cafe. He sat down at the table of a gambler named Ace Gorham. Ace greeted him coldly. Well, Bassett, have you got that thousand bucks you owe me? No. The old tightwad wouldn't give it to me.  Now wait a minute, Ace. I've got a proposition to make you. What kind of a proposition? How would you like to earn five thousand dollars over and above the thousand I already owe you? Earn it how? Uncle Uriah is worth at least a hundred thousand. If anything should happen to him, I'd inherit that money. Keep talking. A couple of weeks ago, he sold a solid claim to a man named Chet Logan. So now Logan's out to get him. He says if my uncle doesn't give him back his money by tomorrow, it'll be just too bad. So? If you were to kill my uncle, I'd be sure to inherit his dough. And the murder would be blamed on Chet Logan. Oh. Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, how about it? I'm offering you five thousand bucks for the job. Sure, Bassett. I'll take that offer. We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. There's nothing like it. Yes, there's nothing like the big moment out at the old ballpark when... Game's all tied up, the fans are going crazy, and here it comes, I think three and two pitch. The better swings, there goes the... 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Guess them right away because there are eight different new packages with Sergeant Preston Yukon Trail cut-out models. You get exciting models of Sergeant Preston's dog sled and team of huskies, the White Horse Jail, gold mining camp, Sergeant Preston's cabin. Actually a total of 59 models that are larger, easier to build, amazingly different. So hurry, they're at your grocers now. Yukon Trail packages of the one and only Quaker Puffed Rice and Quaker Puffed Wheat, shot from guns. Now to continue. On the evening after Uriah Flint had returned from his visit to Mounted Police headquarters, Uriah and his nephew were eating supper and living quarters up over the mine broker's office. So Chet Logan vermoosed when you went to Mounted headquarters, huh? That's right, but he won't get away. Preston has sent out a word to the city patrol to be on a lookout for him. Why don't you drop around and see what Granny Foss has to say? Maybe the Angel of Death isn't hovering over you anymore now that Logan's cleared out. I understand a bad idea then. I'll go around and see her right after supper. Maybe I'd better go along with you, uncle. Just in case Logan should turn up and make trouble. Mindy thoughtful of you, Joe. Mindy thoughtful. But don't think you're going to soft-soak me into lending you that thousand dollars, because your little scheme won't work. It was nearly an hour later. The soft-glove and oil lamp lit up the interior of Granny Foss's rickety cabin as the old woman laid out the cards. Uriah Flint leaned forward with tense interest to hear what the future held in store, while Joe Bassett looked on in cynical amusement. What do you see? You're sure you want me to tell you? Of course I'm sure. Why else do you think I came here? Oh, it's bad, Mr. Flint. Very bad. On one side of the king is the seven of spades. Yes, yes. And on the other side is the ace of spades. Well, what does that mean? The seven of spades is a sign of bad luck. Oh? And the ace of spades? Yes, yes. Is for digging your grave. Well, heavens, Uncle Uriah, you're as white as a sheet. I'll be all right. You've given him a terrible shock. I only tell what I see in the car. You'd better come on home right away, Uncle. Yes, you're right. Oh, here. Here's your money. Thank you kindly, Mr. Flint. Here, let me help you until you're all right. Thank you, thank you, Joe. Joe Bassett opened the door for his uncle, shielding himself behind the door as he did so, and leaving Uriah Flint silhouetted in the lighted doorway. At that moment, a shot rang out. He's been shot. Yes, and there goes the murder. I just caught a glimpse of him. Nice. Hunter, I'm going after him. At this moment, Sergeant Preston was seated in his office at Mounted Police Headquarters. When the door opened and Chet Logan came in with his arm firmly gripped by Constable Alex Ross. All right, here you go, Logan. All right, all right. Where'd you find him, Alex? Over at the Maple Leaf Cafe, just finishing supper. What's the idea having me picked up this way, Sergeant? What do you think? I suppose it's because of what Uriah Flint told you. He says you threatened his life. I was just trying to throw a scare into him. I figured if I got him worked up enough, he'd hand over my money. Oh, that's what I thought. Chuck, we just were doing that, are you? Not for long, Chet, but I'll have to hold you until Flint can get over here. After that, we'll see if we can't straighten out this mess. All right, let's go, Logan. Constable Ross put Chet Logan in a cell and then reported back to Sergeant Preston. Did I go get Uriah Flint, Sergeant? Yes, tell him we found Chet Logan. If he wants to prefer charges against him, he'll have to come here to head for it. Come in. Why, it's Joe Bassett. You've got to come right away. What's wrong? My uncle's just been shot. Just a minute, I'll get my Parker. Your uncle dead? Not yet, but he may be soon. How long ago did it happen? About 10 minutes ago, and I know who did it. Oh. Chet Logan. Chet Logan? Hold it, Alex. You sure it was Logan? Positive. I got a glimpse of him running away. In fact, I chased after him. But who didn't catch him? No, no, he got away. So then I went for a doctor and then I came straight here to headquarters. All right, let's go. Alex should better come with me. Right, Sergeant. Come along, King. A short time later, the three men arrived at Granny Foss's cabin. The doctor had just finished attending to Uriah Flint. How is he, doctor? Well, everything considered. He's in pretty fair shape. You mean he was well? Yes, I think so. The wound was serious, but not fatal. However, you'd better not move him for a few days. Not move him? But what about me? I'll get you to a room at the hotel, Granny. Well, I'll be going now. I'll look in again tomorrow morning. Goodbye. Bye, doctor. Goodbye. As the doctor left the cabin, Sergeant Preston turned toward the wounded man on the cot. Do you feel strong enough to talk, Uriah? I guess so. No thanks for that clumsy sore bones. Now tell me, did you get a glimpse of the person who shot you? No, but I know who did it. I've already told you, Sergeant. I caught a glimpse of the man who shot Uncle Uriah. It was Chet Logan. There, you hear that? By thunder, I'll pay a reward of $5,000 to anyone who brings that man the justice. Now let me get this straight. You're offering a $5,000 reward for the capture of the man who shot you. That's right. Very well. One more question. Do you have any other relatives besides Joe? None living, thank heavens. Why? Just curious, that's all. Well, Alex, we'd better get busy. You're thinking we'll be able to pick up a cent? Yes, if Joe will show us where the gunman must standing. Why, for sure. We're standing right over there in that coat of trees. It's awfully dark over there. Are you sure you recognize Logan? Well, yeah. At least I thought I did. Come on, Alex. We'll see if King can get the cent. Right, Sergeant. In the meantime, Uncle Uriah, I'll go back to our place and get some things to make you more cornered. The two Mouties went to the clump of trees which Joe Bassett had pointed out. But King seemed unable to pick up a cent. Meanwhile, Sergeant Preston was watching Joe as he walked away from the cabin. Sergeant, Chet Logan couldn't have shot him. Why don't you tell him that we already have him in custody? Joe Bassett's obviously lying and I want to find out why. Oh. You think he had something to do with the shooting? As Uriah flints only relative, he stands to inherit the old man's money. Well, Alex, Joe Bassett's nearly out of sight. I want you to follow him to find out where he goes and whom he talks to. Report back to headquarters immediately. I have a plan that should prove whether or not Bassett's guilty. Right, Sergeant. Joe Bassett went to the gold nugget cafe where Ace Gorham was waiting for him. Well, how about it? Is your man dead? No, you're only wounded. What? What's more, I think Sergeant Preston's suspicious. That's not so good. We'll have to do their job again and do it right. How? My uncle's still at Granny Fawce's cabin. I want you to come back there with me. But hide somewhere outside while I go in. Go on. I'll tell Granny Fawce I'm going to take her down to the hotel and get her a room.  Granny and I will hear the shot and come running back. It'll look as though Logan came around to finish the job and once again I'll have a perfect alibi. I get you. Joe and Ace didn't know that Constable Ross had seen them through the window of the cafe and that he had rushed back to headquarters to inform Sergeant Preston. When the two men left the cafe a short time later they first went to Uriah Flint's living quarters to get the various items which Joe had promised to bring his uncle. Then they headed toward Granny Fawce's cabin on the outskirts of town. As they approached the cabin through the darkness Joe suddenly laid a hand on his companion's arm. Hey, wait.  Yeah. I can see him by the light coming through the window. Holy smoke. I think it's Chet Logan. Logan. He stayed back here out of sight. Well, I'll go up and talk to him.  We've got God handy. Right. As Joe Bassett approached the cabin he saw that the man really was Chet Logan. Hello there, Bassett. Hi, Thunder Logan. You've got plenty on there. Don't you realize the Mounties are after you for shooting my uncle? Don't make me laugh, Bassett. It was Ace Gorham who shot your uncle and you hired him to do it. What's that? As he spoke, Joe Bassett raised his hand and pushed back the hood of his parking. You heard me, Bassett.  It's gonna cost you plenty to keep me from talking to the police. At that moment the figure of Ace Gorham loomed up through the darkness. Get your hands up, Logan.  What's the deal, Joe? This gentleman knows too much.  Come on, we'll go inside the cabin. All right, get moving, Logan. Well, bye, Thunder. So you captured Logan. Yeah, we captured him all right. I'm afraid he's not gonna wind up behind bars, Uncle Uriah. Why not? Because we're gonna kill him. And you too. What, Chet? You crazy? Far from it. If you did, I'll inherit your money. And Logan will be blamed for the murder. Joe, put down that gun! Sorry, Uncle Uriah. Wait a minute, Joe. How are we gonna work this?  No, no, no. You've got no reason to kill me.  Like I say, we'll kill all three of them. I'll claim Logan did it, and say I caught him red-handed and shot him. Hey, that's a smart idea. I'll finish you off first until you're right. On those guns, Sergeant Preston. I'll fix him. Now, Preston's bullet blasted the gun from Joe's hand, and then the Sergeant turned to cover Ace Gorham, but Ace had grabbed Chet Logan and was using him as a shield. You don't take me, Preston. The Sergeant had dropped to the floor, and the bullet flattened itself in the cabin wall. Before Ace could fire again, King charged forward to attack. The great dog's fangs closed on Ace's gun arm. Ace dropped his gun with a scream of pain and again tried to use Chet as a shield, this time to protect himself from King. At the same time, Joe leaped at Sergeant Preston. I'll get your Preston. Oh, no, you don't. Joe Bassett fought like a cornered rat, but he was no match for Sergeant Preston. In a few moments, the Sergeant's fists had pounded him in the submission. No, no.  Meanwhile, King's savage lunges had forced Ace to let go of Chet Logan. The latter had wrenched himself free and picked up Ace's gun. I reckon you're through too, Gorham. So get your hands up high before I plug you. Sure, sure, I give up. Don't shoot. Just get this dog away from me. Lily King, down, boy. Good work, Chet. As for you two, you're under arrest in the name of the Crown. Sergeant, for the love of heaven, tell me what this is all about. Ace Gorham, there's the man who shot you and your nephew hired him to do it. I thought Chet Logan shot me. That's what Joe Bassett expected us to think. But it so happens Chet Logan couldn't have shot you because he was under arrest at the time it happened. What's that? Yes, Joe. When you met Logan outside the cabin, it was all part of a pre-arranged plan. I figured you'd try to get rid of him and you didn't disappoint me. You're fool, Joe. I should have known better to hook up with you. Incidentally, Flint, you offered a reward of $5,000 for the capture of the man who shot you. Yes, but damn it, I thought... It was Chet Logan who made the capture possible and kept these two from finishing the job they didn't complete. That $5,000 also happens to be the exact amount Chet paid you for that worthless claim. Oh, well, all right, all right. I guess he's got it coming to him.  Well, King, now that that's settled, this case is closed. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Monday's adventure, Sixth Gun Clue. Here's a clue to finding the breakfast dish that everyone in the family enjoys. Just look for the famous picture of the smiling Quaker man on the red and blue package of Quaker puffed wheat and Quaker puffed rice. He's your guarantee of getting the original, crisp, fresh wheat and rice shot from guns.  And no wonder, because the choice premium grains of wheat and rice are actually exploded up to eight times normal size. At breakfast every morning, let the whole family pour out big bowlfuls from the convenient non-tipping package of Quaker puffed rice or Quaker puffed wheat. Let them pour on milk or cream and top with juicy ripe red strawberries or other fruit for a wonderful deluxe treat that's economical. And very nourishing. 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What's behind the mystery of Stan Tyler's disappearance? Has he been murdered or is he still alive? And if so, why has he vanished? There may be desperate men in Nuggetville who know the answer. Men who will stop at nothing to keep Sergeant Preston from uncovering their deadly secret. Be sure to hear this exciting adventure Monday. These radio dramas, a feature of the challenge of the Yukon Incorporated, are created by George W. Trendle, produced by Trendle Campbell Enterprises, directed by Fred Flower Day and supervised by Charles D. Livingston. The part of Sergeant Preston is played by Paul Sutton. They are brought to you every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same time by Quaker Pop Wheat and Quaker Pop Rice. The breakfast cereal shot from guns. For a delicious hot breakfast, eat Quaker Oats. The giant of the cereals is Quaker Oats. Delicious, nutritious, makes you feel ambitious. The giant of the cereals is Quaker Oats. 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help us maintain our parks and just again get the community involved. We will have planted over 500 trees by the end of this year as well. Under community safety and well-being, free and subsidized transportation for seniors, a whole number of free community events, small bites around the world, Juneteenth, Halloween, and many, many more that we've created and serving the community. A lot of major park cleanup efforts this year by the park rangers at Sycamore Grove at Neary, De La Viega, and much more. So a lot of efforts in cleaning up, keeping the parks safe, but providing services to the community as well. Financial sustainability, again, just a couple, kind of a snapshot. We increased our class offerings from 2018 to 2019 by 15% and revenues by 20%. So again, going back to that revenue side, I think we have opportunities to increase revenue and reduce that net impact to the city's general fund into the budget. Again, it's just a lot of discussions, I think, with our parks commission and internally and potentially with the council on to what degree do we do that? Do we ramp things up and charge or so on and so forth. Women's soccer, 30 teams, 250 players, 13,000 in revenue. Junior guards had 950 participants with almost a quarter million dollars in revenue from 2019 as well. Under the engaged and informed community, a couple just highlights here, we improved our web track. This is our registration software. We drastically improved the online experience for residents and just streamlined that to make that much easier. Our put a bow on it campaign.  But that was our holiday gift card campaign, which is the best gift you can buy to buy essentially the gift of recreation. So that was a big success in getting the community connected. We placed an emphasis on neighborhood engagement and adopt a park, as I mentioned. Organizational health, we created a parks and recreation promotions team internally. So I mentioned all these different divisions and especially in recreation, the wharf, events and classes, beaches and sports. So we have a variety of different functions. And so a question that we had functionally was how do we market these? How do we advertise these and do it in a very strategic and streamlined way? So Rachel Kaufman created and team really created the parks and recreation promotions team internally to make sure that we're on the same page. We're coordinated together in terms of what we're promoting best practices. So there's some internal kind of professional development and training that happened with that. But it keeps us very consistent in terms of the message that we're sending out to the community as well. We automated services for reservations and online cancellations. And we hired these folks behind me, Travis and Rachel, Park Superintendent and Recreation Superintendent. Reliable forward-looking infrastructure and facilities, $96,000 state outdoor education grant for the Pogonip nature loop. We completed the Miramar demolition project at the wharf. So that's kind of a big vacant spot at the moment. And we installed ADA access paths in parks and picnic areas, which will continue to be a big focus for us moving into 2020. All right, I'm flying through this. So we'll get to questions here pretty soon. So by the numbers, I just wanted to get into this in a little bit more detail here. So this is the budget and summary that we have submitted to the city manager and to the city council for 2020. So really, I want to use this slide and the next one to just really kind of give graphically a representation of where we spend money but sort of juxtaposing this against the next slide. You can see a lot of our areas of largest expenditure within the Parks and Recreation Department. Golf course, the wharf, some of those, really are the sources of greatest revenue. So on this other slide, you'll see, yeah, the wharf, the golf course. So where we're spending money, we're also bringing in a lot of money in terms of that balance of revenue. The one here in gray is an aggregate of our park maintenance budget between the three zones, East Central and West Zones, that 5.6 million. Unfortunately, on that one, we have very little cost recovery in terms of park maintenance. There's not a whole lot of revenue coming in on the park maintenance side. But really wanted to present these two slides as a really high level just sort of glimpse of what we've submitted for 2020 and how the expenditures really compare with the revenues in a few of these, I'll call them enterprise functions within the department. So continuing with some of the numbers. So in the budget, the City Council will see an unfunded capital improvement, essentially deferred maintenance item of approximately $15 million. And so that's really what we have specifically identified as deferred maintenance, is unfunded capital improvement projects within the department. Beyond that though, and what we really don't have in the budget, but I wanted to be sure to communicate to the City Councils that we have what I'm calling just additional unfunded capital improvement. So this $45 million really represents a variety of things. So this could be upgrades to the Civic Auditor, essentially the Civic Auditoring Master Plan, the Worf Master Plan, the Pogonip Clubhouse. This could also include some of the other maintenance and management plans that I mentioned. So if we were to implement the Jesse Street Marsh Plan, that's really not captured in our unfunded capital improvement budget of $15 million, but really is sort of a greater bucket, if you will, of $45 million or more to really upgrade. A lot of these things that we talk about, we have plans for, but we haven't really identified where that money would come from. So definitely something that we keep on our radar. Going back to this slide at the very beginning, again, just wanted to share a couple examples here toward the end of the presentation, again on a high level in terms of budget. So this is the slide that we looked at. Our overall budget, approximately $17 million proposed for this 2020 budget. Personnel in blue, $10.5 million, and then supplies and services in orange at about $7 million. So I've broken that out. So the orange part from this graph as represented here is the full pie. And so wanted to share this number, because this is an impactful one to us, but it's one that I do think we have some opportunities here to reduce this, but wanted to just share a little bit of context on this specific number. So of our approximately $7 million that we spend on supplies and services, about a quarter of that, one and a half million is for water, sewer, and refuse. So this is from irrigation. This is from the golf course, certainly. And so a lot of strategies on how we can address this, we can water things less. We can brown out sections at the golf course. We can find more sustainable sources of water. Wells, for example, recycled water. We've talked with the water department up at the golf course, but water is a big impact. So I wanted to just sort of give a little bit of that context in terms of when you see this whole pie, almost 10% of our entire budget goes toward water, toward watering our parks, our fields, so on and so forth. So a lot of ways we can reduce that, but wanted to provide a little bit of insight on that particular fact. On homelessness, this one really, I wanted to include the slide in here, and this is a little bit of a nuanced one, because this report came from 2017. So this is a dated report, and this is one that the former Parks and Recreation Director put together as an estimate. And I put this in here really just to say that this is something that we are tracking very closely that really has not been tracked well, I think historically. So how much time are we putting in to clean ups and so forth? What is that staff time? And so we've started to track that just over the past four or five months or so. Also in terms of our expenditure, we came to the City Council a few months ago, with a mid-year budget adjustment, and that was around $85,000 based on the unbudgeted monies that we had spent geared toward clean ups and so forth. And so we have pieces of that, but over a year's time, we've not really tracked these expenditures. But I put this up here to say, this is something that we're working on to better track for the Council so that we can inform, you all inform the City Manager and ultimately inform the community on what this impact is. The other piece of this I think is, excuse me, that's important is that these expenditures, as we discussed in the mid-year budget adjustment, are not budgeted. So what we are spending on camp clean ups, on environmental restoration, so on and so forth, these are not budgeted as of now. And so I think that's just something to discuss kind of moving forward, how we do that. Do we budget for this? Do we come back as a mid-year budget adjustment, or how do we handle this based on the support that we're trying to provide to the community and these impacts? So I recognize too, this is not just Parks and Recreation. This is really many departments within the City, but just from the Parks and Recreation side, I wanted to be sure to mention this in this presentation. Streets and Medians, again, kind of by the numbers here, I wanted to share another sort of challenge for us. So we mentioned back at the beginning, the FTEs are full-time staff. And one of the impacts that we've really had from pre-recession to downsizing our department to our operations now. So Streets and Medians, we maintain in Parks and Recreation. The Medians, the sidewalks in terms of the landscaping, the roundabouts, the plantings and so forth. So we managed 10 miles of Medians and sidewalks, trash weeding planting. We have 128 chokers or traffic calming devices that are landscaped as well. And to cover all of that, we have one urban forester who has a variety of other duties and responsibilities as well. One Parks maintenance worker and essentially two Temps. One Temp works part of the year, the other Temp works the other part of the year. So as you're driving into the community, our gateways, our Medians are right of ways. If they look kind of weedy right now, it'll look kind of overgrown. Partly due to the springtime in all the rain and so forth. But it's partly due to, it's an area where we're just severely understaffed in terms of maintaining those areas, which are really again sort of the gateways into the community. These are the right of ways. These are what our residents are seeing and using, but also visitors to our community. This is their experience coming into the city. That it's just very difficult for us to keep up on. One thing that we have kind of a big discussion with the city council and parks commission is on our integrated pest management program as well. So we're not using glyphosate. We're not using Roundup. And it looks like we will probably not be using that. And so with that, that's a tool that we've used historically to really help kind of tame the jungle on our medians and roadways. We're not doing that now. And so it really comes down to staff. And so there's a public safety element to it of staff kind of hanging off into the road, pulling weeds. But it's a big question right now about fundamentally, how do we keep this city really looking beautiful and welcoming as you come in and these roadways and medians with very, very few staff in a sustainable way. So kind of a big challenge and question that we're grappling with. And again, I use these examples. These are not all encompassing, but I just wanted to pull a few of these out. The type of things that we're thinking about, conversations I think that we need to have with our parks commission, and then conversations ultimately to have with the city council on how we address some of these. So looking forward to Parks and Recreation 2020. So again, using the same categories where I articulated the different successes from 2019, we have the same categories under the goals for 2020. And this is in the budget that you all will see very shortly. It's actually included in your packet today as this sort of a preview of the budget that you'll see the full budget on the 22nd. But wanted to highlight a couple of these quickly. Environmental sustainability and well managed resources. A couple of our key goals here. One is the implementation of the parks master plan. And it can talk a little bit more about that here in just a moment, but establishing an annual work and project plan. So all of those plans that I mentioned, they sort of guide our department. I think one key aspect for us is reconciling all of those goals and objectives and prioritizing those. We have a lot of different directives. How do we prioritize that? But it really starts with the parks and rec master plan. Under organizational health, continue to implement quality assurance standards for reservations and program registration. To enhance efficiency and customer service. Under community safety and well being, continue to enhance safety throughout the city's parks, facilities and open spaces. And increase partnerships with local organizations to maximize service delivery and supplement resources. So that one really lends to the adopt a park programs partnerships that we have with groups like mountain bikers of Santa Cruz with coastal watershed, a variety of partnerships that we can have and help grow to help serve our trails and parks. Reliable and forward looking infrastructure and facilities. We have aggressively seek grants and alternative funding for capital improvement program projects. And I'll talk about this one here a little bit more in just a moment. Under the engaged and informed community, in 2020 we aimed to strengthen our communication and programming and outreach with our underserved populations of our community. That's part of the social equity element that we talked about. Continue to enhance marketing, branding and public relations to further highlight our parks facilities and programs and expand volunteer recruitment and volunteer opportunities. So you guys will see that in the budget here in just about a week, a little under a week. All right, so getting back to this parks and rec city a lot again of what we do this park system that we have is truly, truly world class and one to continue to invest in. And how we do that is a challenge. But I think looking at diversity of revenue streams, looking at engaging our community, our volunteer bases, different nonprofit organizations, how we invest in this, it's sort of an effort sort of for the community, but by the community as well. And I think that's how we see parks and recreation is from a very engaging perspective. But I think it's worth recognizing that we're surf city, but we are arguably parks and rec city as well across the country. I think this is something that we can all be very proud about. And I might even like make t-shirts so you can all wear them around town or something like that. Don has given or council member Myers has given me a thumbs up. Sorry. So a couple of the questions that we again, big picture questions and really wanted to leave with this today on the types of things that we are considering and hope to consider with the city council and with our parks and recreation commission. But how can we best diversify our revenue streams? We realize that we are a big impact on the general fund. We realize also that public works draws off the general fund, the police department, the fire department. And so how can we diversify our revenue streams uniquely as a parks department, parks and rec department to lessen that burden on police and fire to create more opportunities for them. But also resolve some of the issues and challenges that we're facing. So we go into this and I'm giving this presentation today on behalf of parks and recreation, but recognizing that we're part of a broader team. And so the more we can diversify these revenues, I think the better for parks and rec, but the better for the city and the city's general fund as well. What this means, I think, in a glimpse of, I think, where we could go growing our parks foundation, friends of parks and recreation. How can we grow that into something more robust? The Central Park Conservancy in New York City run Central Park. And they have an annual budget of $80 million to run Central Park. So there are their public-private partnerships that we can engage in with the parks foundation, for example, to bring in more dollars to invest in our parks and do some of these things. Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, I think you all know well. In many ways, it really helps run state parks in this area. So are there ways like that? Those are big, giant undertakings, but are there ways that we can explore engaging our foundation, engaging nonprofits to help diversify our revenues, but support what we do in parks and recreation? Another big question, what strategies are viable to improve park safety? And again, this is kind of a loaded question. There are a lot of aspects to this. This is public safety from a police standpoint, vandalism standpoint. But this is also things like our ADA accessibility. A lot of our parks may not be safe because they're not accessible. There's trip hazards. There are areas that we haven't fully been able to keep up with from a maintenance perspective that may create hazards. So like a playground, for example, where, again, deferred maintenance or whatever the situation might be may lend to a situation where a playground or a path may not be safe. So what strategies, again, on the capital side, on the accessibility side, ADA side, but also public safety, vandalism, what can we do in that realm to improve park safety? And this component is really guided by the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, but it's also in the Council's two-year work plan as well in terms of infrastructure and park safety. And this is a big question, especially with our new park superintendent, Travis Beck and I. We've had this question a lot, is how can we improve investment into our natural environment and into our open spaces? So right now we have our open space ranger program, and our rangers are asked to do an awful lot from law enforcement to cleanups to trail maintenance to interpretation, environmental education to some degree. That's an insane workload in terms of responsibilities. And so our question, you know, knowing that we've got this brilliantly conceived green belt around the city, how do we invest more into that? How do we mitigate the impact of invasive species and non-natives? How do we mitigate for risks for fire? And how do we handle just sort of abuse or, you know, different sort of misuse, people cutting down trees or whatever it might be in some of our open spaces? So how can we improve this? Our investment, but it ranges from safety to habitat to the environment. And even within, I think, neighborhood parks to some degree, with the use in our neighborhood parks and the impacts in our neighborhood parks, how do we invest in those environments to make them more drought tolerant? For example, drought tolerant plants reduce that use of water, make them, you know, create more community gardens for community or pollinator gardens for our natural environment. You know, so I think there are a lot of ways in the environment that we talk about the environment, but what are we really doing to invest in it? And especially the open space moving forward. So a lot of big questions that we hope to engage the council and the Parks and Recreation Commission. I've got many more questions, but we'll leave those for another day. So really wanted to say thank you to you all for this opportunity. Would like to open it up to questions to the city council, but want to recognize really quickly the Parks and Recreation team, again Travis and Rachel, our Parks and Recreation Commission members, Chairman Brown, Don, and really the whole commission. This is an unbelievable team. It's an unbelievable team with a can-do spirit. The answer is always yes. We'll figure it out. We'll do it, but I'll be blunt and honest. I think we feel pinched. We feel pinched on how do we keep up because it is a world-class park system. And we want it to be world-class for our kids and grandkids. So where does that investment come from? How do we do that? And how can we work with the council, the commission to get there? Because it's truly, truly remarkable, and that's kudos to the Parks and Rec team that manages this and serves the community. So just wanted to give them a thanks and a shout out. So with that, I'll open it up to any questions that you all have. Thank you, Tony. I appreciate the presentation and to the entire Parks and Rec team and Parks and Rec commissioners that were here today. Thank you for being here and for your work. Similar to the other department, it's always great to celebrate the accomplishments and have a broader understanding of some of the challenges that we have forthcoming as we move forward for the future in terms of our next budget decisions, but also in terms of our long term strategies, as you just mentioned. I'm going to deviate a little bit from the process that was originally outlined as the council could, is probably aware, we are one hour over the allotted time for this. And so what we'll go ahead and do is ask if there's any member of the community who would like to address the council on this topic, then we'll return back for questions at that time and we'll have council member questions. I'm going to suggest keeping the council member questions broad up to perhaps five minutes per council member. Given that I think every individual council member could probably sit down with you Tony and go into this in a real detail. And so in the interest of that, we'll go ahead and do that for the broadest kind of concepts and questions at this time and then return if we have additional questions to directly talk to you, either city manager Martine Bernal or you Tony in terms of follow up questions, which I know you're always very accessible for. So at this time we'll go ahead and open it up to see if there's any member of the community who would like to address us on this item. This is a study session item. We will not be taking any action. If you're interested in speaking to us, you're welcome to do so. Sir, you're welcome. You'll have up to two minutes. Good evening. I'm Scott Graham. A number of years ago there was a push to make the golf course organic. And I don't know if that ever happened or not. If we are currently running an organic golf course, but if we're not, it would be a good idea, I think. And not only the golf course, but all the parks. Let's make all the parks organic instead of using chemicals, fertilizers or whatnot. Let's go as organic as possible with all the parks. One of the issues that I wanted to bring up is I live across from Loudon Nelson Park. And the park crew, when they come in and do the cleanup, they clean up the stuff on their side of the street. But people that use the park and use Loudon Nelson Center also leave trash on our side of the street, the house sides of the streets there that surround the center. And it would be really nice if the park's people would clean up the messes that are caused by people using the park. And so that would be cleaning up both sides of the street. And I'm sure that the same thing happens at every other park site around town, that it's not just the side of the street the park's on that gets trash left by park users, but also the other side of the street, because people park on both sides of the street to use the parks. So I think it would be really nice if that could happen that the park's department, I realize they're strapped, but it would be just a little bit extra time to clean up the trash, the litter that's left behind by park users. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who'd like to address the Council? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and return back to Council for questions. We'll go ahead and start to my right this time with Council Member Cron. And if you could keep your questions at the highest level, we'll have about five minutes. We'll rotate through to Council Member Myers and then go back to Council Member Brown and through and I'll reserve my questions till the end. Feel free. For the record, I do not appreciate the Mayor trying to silence Council members and questioning. In the previous presentation, there was a very relevant issue raised by a member of the public about a possible violation on the part of the city concerning prevailing wage and we could have heard from our Public Works Director, but that was shut down. I'm turning to the city attorney. I'm wondering, Tony, is there something in our rules, our decorum rules that we do study sessions differently than we do Council meetings? Is there anything? I mean, as far as I'm concerned, from a legal perspective, a study session is a Council meeting, so there's no difference.  So I would really appreciate if folks can get their questions answered because it's a really important subject we're dealing with here. And I spent a lot of time looking over the budget that was given to us and formulating some questions. And I appreciate, Tony Ellis, you answered, you responded to one of the questions and not really, you know, with 30 more parks workers in 2002 than we have today. I'd be interested in knowing a little bit more about that maybe not now, but also about the percentage of the budget and how that's either increased or not, you know, given that 30 parks workers is probably about 25% of the workforce at that time. And I know the Rangers now have been taken out of Parks and Rec as well. I want to go back to the golf course fee study and talk a little bit about that and how that was done. And I gave you a few of these questions beforehand, but I'm trying to understand to maybe combine a couple of questions how the golf fund went from an enterprise fund into the general fund and what would it take to make it back to an enterprise fund where it would essentially be paying for itself? How would we go about doing that? Yeah, I think that's a good question. That's one that we talked about internally today and just to be very honest, I think being new and with a new recreation superintendent I don't think we've got the history on that. That's one of the questions that through your email I wanted to follow up on in more detail. That question will factor in our operators of the golf course as well. Tim and Jamie lost a lot. So they'll have some input into that as well. I do think it gets to this question though broadly in terms of our different operations. And I kind of referenced the golf course. You could say the wharf, maybe the pool, some different operations that I think a big picture from kind of a policy standpoint, should we have very specific targets in terms of cost recovery on those? So that was a question when I came in and joined the city six months ago or so. And so I think within our operation, the golf course and some of these, we don't currently have cost recovery mandates. Last year, for example, I think our subsidy, if you will, on approximately a $2 million budget to the golf course, it was about a $300,000 subsidy. So it was relatively small. And I do think that we're very optimistic in terms of where we can be in terms of recovering those costs. But I think ultimately what I would like to get to, and again, this is a bit of a departure from your question, is defining within parks and recreation, what is it that we want to subsidize and what is it that we don't want to subsidize? And how do we balance that within the budget? And that gives us very clear targets, I think within any of those aspects to really go after additional funds, revenues, whatever that might be. So kind of a big picture conversation, I think, to have with the commission and council. So no information really about the fee study and what we're recovering now, as opposed to before that happened, because I understood they raised golf fees, but I don't know if they're recovering any additional backfilling like the $300,000. We have information on it. I just don't have it. Our team here does not have it with us tonight. Just to add, but in general, the golf course, as Tony mentioned, as I understand, there's about a $300,000 difference between the revenue that it generates and the costs that are incurred, which has been declining over the years, and there's a path or a plan to eliminate it. And historically, the golf course... I'm sorry, eliminate the deficit? Or eliminate what? The subsidy. Oh, okay. The subsidy. The golf course is not... There's a difference between legally required enterprise funds like the Refis Fund and the Wishwater Fund and the Water Fund, for example. With the golf course, for many years, the city was able to operate it actually at a profit because it generated enough revenues to pay for itself, plus it generated admissions tax on top of that, that actually provided additional general fund revenues. When the recession hit and golf play was impacted, not just here, but throughout the whole country, it became obviously very, very difficult for that to happen. And so it just didn't make sense from an accounting perspective to operate it as an enterprise fund because it just wasn't operating that way, and so it just didn't make sense to do it from a, again, accounting perspective. However, the city has always wanted to the extent that we can not subsidize any programs if we can. And if it's technically possible to do that, whether it's the golf course or whether it's any other program, so long as it's meeting the needs of the community and providing the service, that if it can operate by itself, that would be a great thing to try to accomplish. And with the golf course, it does have that opportunity to do that in the sense that with the plans to increase play and with the plans with the increased use of the lodge or the restaurant, as well as some of the debt service that's going to be finished and completed there, there is an opportunity for that fund to be able to be self-supporting to the extent possible. The other thing that you have to also think about too is that even if you were to eliminate the golf course it doesn't mean that you'll save money because even with the $300,000 deficit, if you eliminated it, you would lose the revenue that comes with it. However, you still have to maintain that property. And so you still would have to incur some costs to maintain it. So it might actually not save any money, it might actually cost money to eliminate the golf course because we would have to invest money and maintain it or doing something else with it. So unless it was sort of revenue producing or something. So it's not that straightforward of a question. Yeah, for the record, I'm not for eliminating the golf course but I do think there are issues that you just raised, Tony. We have to decide what do we want to subsidize and what we don't want to subsidize and all due respect, $300,000. We're talking about people, we have organizations here, Meals on Wheels, Child Care Center, Beach Flats Community Garden. These are all vying for that $300,000 and it would make those programs quite well off if we could shift that general fund money to those programs and not be subsidizing the golf course. Go ahead and interrupt here at this time. Council Member Cromer, we're approaching the additional time that we've allotted. I'll say for the record, the mayor's responsibility is to run the meetings in a way that allows for city business to be conducted. And that's my responsibility as the mayor and has the ability to also make adjustments based on that. We have a lot of city business to do. There is also the potential of filler bustering with one Council Member being able to ask numerous questions for a significant amount of time. So it is my job to ensure that we have an opportunity for all Council Members to have questions asked as well as to run meetings that lead to city business getting completed. This will allow for any follow-up questions at certain times that may be raised. Also allow for Council Members to have any follow-up questions after particularly this study session or in advance of a study session to get their questions asked. At this point, we'll go ahead and move over to Council Member Glover and we'll rotate through. And if there is additional time, we can go ahead and see if there's an interest or motion to have a Council Member have additional time. Council Member Cron. I'm going to make a motion to ask three more questions for additional time. Second. So there's a motion by Council Member Cron, seconded by Council Member Brown for additional three questions in time at this time. Is that the motion you would have your questions at this? And just for the record too, filler bustering does not have to do with asking legitimate questions to a department head. Filler bustering is what happens in the Senate when people get on the Senate floor reading the Bible or reading a novel in order to stop a decision from being made and there is no motion in front of us tonight to be made. So filler bustering would not be happening right now. Okay. There's a motion in a second by Council Member Cron, Council Member Brown, second the motion. Any further discussion? All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. No. So that fails with Council Member Cron, Glover and Brown in support. Council Member Matthews, Vice Mayor Cummings, myself and Council Member Myers voting against. Council Member Glover, you'll have approximately five minutes for your questions. Well, I must say that that is an incredibly disappointing outcome to that vote, especially because I find it strange that we are in a study session where we were hearing two department heads give presentations. One of the department presentations is approximately 110 slides. So the fact that there's only two hours that were allocated to this meeting really makes it confusing for me to be able to understand the logic and timeliness of the structuring of the meeting. That also seems strange to me that we're only allowed to ask broad surface questions instead of asking specifics. I'm especially confused because while we can ask these questions on the record, which is a fantastic opportunity for us all to be here, it also makes it so that we can ask questions that community members that don't have direct access to Director Elliott or to the City Manager's Office may be interested in hearing. So I think that it's important that we allow for us to ask questions. And if there wasn't enough time allocated to the meeting because of the planning process, then we should not be penalized for a lack of planning. With that and my remaining allocated time to ask you questions there, Tony, social equity. I really appreciated that was one of the topics of things that you were focusing on and as a guiding principle. I was wondering your thoughts on the allocation here for the 2020 budget suggestions that had the DeLaviga Golf Course at $2.3 million and the Beach Flats Community Center at $13,000. Do you feel that that is equitable? That's a good question. I mean, I look at it as completely different operations. That's a question to some degree. I'd like to talk to my staff about what is adequate? What are the needs in those operations? I think what we have presented in the budget is the request, a request. To operate those functions. So is that adequate? I don't know. And are those fair comparisons? I think it's hard to compare the two. But I do think if you look at the golf course, for example, are there ways to take this approach of social equity toward the golf course? Are there members of our community, the team center who have never thought about golf as an option? Are there people who could get into the world of golf from an agronomy standpoint and lead that to a path toward college or something like that? So there are opportunities for both education but experience through recreation as well. And that, I think, is the priority of the department to find those social equity opportunities in anything. It could be the golf course. It could be the wharf. It could be anything. But how do we open those doors to more people? Thank you. Do you know about the data or demographic collected around mountain biking in Santa Cruz? Do you know if there's any analysis on demographic backgrounds? That's a good question. I don't know offhand. I suspect that there is through MBOSC. But I don't know any specifics offhand. Maybe you could help me attain that. That would be fantastic. And then do you have any parks usage with regards to data or demographics? If who uses the parks? So we don't. That's a great question. I think that's kind of an industry question of how do you track the number of people in parks? You can do it through surveys, certainly, of the sort of representative. But who's going to our parks? When are they going? What assets are they using? What amenities? So it's sort of an economic piece of that, but also just kind of an attendance piece of that as well. So my knowledge, I've not seen any studies that we've done historically that have studied that. But that is a metric. If we can come up with a way to track who's using our parks and better serve, our public in that way with that information. I think you would solve a problem, a national problem on that front. Let's work on it together. And then what grants are being explored about parks in underserved communities currently at the Parks and Rec Department? Yeah, so the biggest one is Proposition 68 that we're going through. So we are in partnership with the Economic Development Department with our team here to identify underserved areas of our city. What are the needs? What are those assets that we need? And how do we leverage this quarter billion dollar offering from the state to leverage funds to invest in our community, especially to underserved populations? Wonderful. And then do you have any cost projections for the alternatives? It was wonderful to hear that you're not using Roundup anymore and that we'll probably not return to that practice, which we were using in 2017. So have you done any preliminary analysis of alternative weed abatement or management material? Because I noticed, and I know that you said that there was concern about safety in the medians and other kinds of stuff like that, but there are things like Avenger and weeds. Yeah, we handed it over to Travis. Thank you. Hi, Travis, Park Superintendent. Just quickly, I'd say we are in the midst of launching an IPM policy review and we'll be coming to the council an upcoming date with sort of a more developed proposal for how we can better implement that program. And a big piece of the question is what are the alternative approaches that we can use, whether that's chemical, mechanical, et cetera, et cetera. So stay tuned. Love to stay up to date on that process because that's especially interesting. Thank you. Council Member Myers. I just have a couple of comments and maybe just a few leads, but happy to just wrap it up very quickly. With regards to, I'm glad to hear that Prop 68 is a potential that you guys are looking into and just would encourage that Prop 68 provides a lot of funding for open space areas. And you just need to, we need to think about our open spaces as different vehicles. They need to be maintained for fire safety and other things. So kind of looking more broadly might be open up some avenues. On kind of your first question, how do we diversify our revenue streams. The Bay Area Open Space Council is a nine county council well worth the $1,000 membership. They're probably the biggest cutting edge group in California right now on looking at new revenue streams. So I would highly encourage Santa Cruz County as part of the nine counties that can be eligible for membership. So that would be an excellent place. And the Golden Gates Park Conservancy has probably done the most on park diversity of any park conservancy in the nation, including collecting some of the demographics that Council Member Glover was speaking about. So I would encourage, you know, reaching outside to some of our larger urban areas. They're doing a lot of cutting edge work on that. And then finally, in keeping with the mayor's excellent work on the wellness component to how we look at our policies at the city. A lot of great work has been done on the value of parks and open spaces in actual wellness and health. And a lot of the major health care providers, including Kaiser and others, have been investing in parks actually as a prescription for obesity, diabetes, mental health, various things, kids. So there's a lot of opportunity there, a lot of creative thinking, and that might be one of those revenue stream possibilities. And then I'll follow up with you within meeting privately on some other just specifics. Thanks, Tony. Great work. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Myers. Council Member Brown. I have lots of questions. The presentation was great. Thank you for reminding us and, you know, elaborating on some of the wonderful work Parks and Rec does with very little. And I will look forward to following up on some of those thoughts, you know, and other more specific questions another time. Right now I don't have any big picture questions. So I'm happy to cede my time to other Council Members if they have other questions. Council Member Mathews. Brief. Thank you. Wonderful presentation. I particularly enjoyed your putting your own vision on this presentation, framing it in terms of our strategic goals. And there's obviously a fresh new team and a lot of great energy. I have some issues we've talked about that I'd like to pursue further plugs into these, particularly building partnerships and volunteers. But I just want to approach this whole topic. Obviously there's more in the way of needs and possibilities than resources right at the moment. But appreciation to everyone who makes it happen. Thank you. Just going to say that was a great presentation and definitely got me super jazzed about parks in Santa Cruz. And similar to what Council Member Mathews just said, wanted to follow up to discuss with you more about like volunteer opportunities because I think that there are certain areas that depending on what is already available, there might be some ways to get more folks in the community involved because I feel like, you know, a big part of what people care about in this community is protecting the environment and our parks. So I just want to put that out there. And it was a great presentation. I look forward to... I have a bunch of questions, but I think that it would be better that we have them offline. Okay, thank you. Thank you. My question is around technology. Is there any research around how to use technology to really support the work of the Parks and Rec Department in terms of meeting some of the unmet needs with sort of human power? Is there any... Have you thought of that? I just... I mean, it's something to sort of think about, I guess, if not a question. Yeah, I could open that up to Rachel and Travis as well. I mean, I think it really ranges, I think, from kind of a customer service module and reporting. What are people seeing in the parks, kind of that adopt-a-park lens? Different mobile apps and things that we could use in terms of parks, lighting, security, you know, different things like that, a variety of different technologies for park safety and so forth. In terms of maintenance, I mean, I've seen essentially the equivalent of Roomba vacuums for mowers for turf fields, real turf fields. So, I mean, there's a variety of applications, I think, in our fleet as well. Over time, I think there will be more automation, of course. So, I mean, can we program that in? GPS coordinates on fields and so forth to automate equipment. So, I mean, that may be a few years away, but those are a few kind of random things that pop into my mind, certainly. But I think, yeah, communication, I think is a big one against social media and how we interact with people. I think it's interesting, too, with people's phones. And I've always wondered how, when you're looking on Google to go to a restaurant, how it knows how busy that restaurant is. In my understanding, there's pinging your phone to know how many people are in a restaurant. So, there are analytics that Google has that can kind of tell you when a park is busy. So, right now, for example, at San Lorenzo Park, I think conceptually, phones could be pinged to inform us on is it busy, is it not busy? And what does that mean from, again, everything from a safety standpoint to a maintenance standpoint? So, a lot of different ways that technology is really encroaching into our industry. And I could probably go on and on, but it's all sort of hypothetical. Yeah, just sort of an interesting thought in terms of the time that we're in. Also, in terms of, well, I had the quote, there was a question about the alternative to the pesticides. And then the last question was around, I'm interested in learning more, and I know it's probably going to be forthcoming, but the role that the health and all policies could fit within the work, it seems to me when you were explaining the three pillars of the guiding kind of organizations, the NRA and the CPRS, those also fallen to kind of that same sort of standard around public health and the equity and sustainability. So I'm interested in learning more about that. We can talk more offline as well, or you can kind of fill us in when the time comes. And then at some point, it'd be great to know if there's any gaps in the faux pas scholarships and how we can take that into consideration, especially in terms of the budget, and making sure that students and families who want to access our parks and rec programs are able to access faux pas potentially for support for that work. And then, I guess lastly, I guess would be in terms of just clarity for the budget summary on the homeless expenses, and I'm sorry if I didn't hear it. Was that that was a personnel and other costs? Yes, the majority of that budget again from 2017, and we can go back and recirculate that study among the council. Maro Garcia, the previous director, I think did that study, and it was, I don't think it was a scientific study or in a great deal of depth, but really I think it represented an estimate from the Parks and Recreation Department on what that expenditure was, but I believe that was primarily based on the park ranger budget, which includes, obviously personnel, but a lot of cleanups and things like that. So I think that was the core of it, but I'll send that around just to be sure. And then one final question, in terms of environmental design and public safety, is that something that you were alluding to when you were talking a little bit about that role and partnership? That's exactly right. I mean, I think the idea in any of our parks, and again, it gets to the ADA side of it, to, again, environmental design, I mean, how we lay out parks. San Lorenzo Park is ripe for a redesign. We'll have redesign funds for San Lorenzo very soon. So as we go into that process, I think that some of the things that we'll consider are, again, a variety of things. Seating and public spaces for events, more recreation areas, playgrounds, things like that. How do we balance those? How do we incorporate built structures, like a playground, with natural structures, trees, shrubs, flowers, pollinator gardens, whatever it might be? How do we balance those things for maximum safety, visibility, accessibility, and so forth? So yeah, it's a big part of that process. Well, I think you'll probably be getting a lot of additional follow-up questions from Councilmembers. So thank you again for your presentation. We really appreciate understanding more about what you're all doing in the work that you do and how we can be really informed as we move forward into our budget hearings. Again, Councilmembers will likely be following up with you for their specific follow-up questions in regards to what they'd like to have available for them as they make decisions moving forward. I'll go ahead and say City Manager Martin Bernal and myself, we can extend the invitation to our commissioners to ensure that they're aware that this is happening if they aren't already, but that's something we can definitely check back in on. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, we'll go ahead at this point. That's the end of our city business. We'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting.


When you first launched Godot you're greeted with the project manager It might be empty because you haven't made a project yet or it might have a bunch of projects because You've worked on it already, but if you knew to Godot, there's probably nothing there It can be a bit overwhelming with the project manager and then the actual Godot editor So I thought I'd walk you through that when I first started I Found that there was a whole lot Going on visually, but I only really needed to focus in on a few things So to start off you'll click new project and you'll name your project. Let's just call it. Hello world It's a typical First project name and you can select where you want it to live I put things in a place called workspace and then I put my games in game dev And then I've got this little workbench area that I put in a bunch of random things So you're gonna select where you want it to go and then Since workbench isn't the folder Where the various product files will go. It's the parent folder and click create folder here So that created hello world where all the Godot files will live in then you're Have to choose a renderer and you might be going. Well, what do I even choose can be changed later But they may need to be adjusted what I generally do is Mobile or compatibility it changes Don't all depends on your game, right if you're building a game for desktop only I would use forward plus Mobile is quite nice, and I believe it still renders to the web or compatibility Generally, I would say compatibility is great for 2d games Especially if you're targeting the web. So let's go ahead and use compatibility or mobile What it's changing is the rendering engine, but don't worry about that. I would say go with compatibility If you're gonna use git, that's fine or you can click none. It just creates a couple files To help you work with git and Godot click create and edit now you're greeted with The editor and it starts by showing you the 3d editor Well, just chosen up here You can also click 2d and you see the 2d editor Script is where you're gonna write your code and asset lib is where you can download Things from assets from other developers to help you with your project But let's go back to 3d and I'll walk you through some things some more up here. You have the scene Area, which you're gonna use a lot of you're gonna add nodes to your scenes Import is when you import a file and you want to change the attributes of it being imported. I would say Not gonna worry about that too much yet file system is where your Code your scenes your image files your audio files all live within here And you can go ahead and create new folders to organize things as needed And then over here is the inspector the inspectors huge You're gonna see different properties about what you're working on node will let you Work with some of the callbacks and groups of the selected node Which we don't have one selected and then there's a history Let's go ahead and make a simple hello world So click into 2d and I'm swiping with my trackpad to move around and I can pinch to zoom in or you can Use the plus and minus keys to zoom in and you'll see there's this thin purple line That represents the resolution of the game. So if we click play To start the game. Oh, we don't even have a scene so we can't even do it Well, let's quick look at these things. So we have a play button. I'm on Mac So you can press command B to do it. You can pause the running of your game For debugging you can stop it you can do a remote debug so you can start a web build Let's say and debug it from here You can run the selected scene which is really helpful when you're working on a game with multiple scenes and you don't want to boot up to the Main menu of your game you can select a scene and you can record things in movie maker mode Which is cool, but we're not gonna touch on that today, but we're in 2d We can't run it because we don't have a node. So let's start by making a 2d scene and We'll just rename it to be hello world. You double click it and can rename it and you'll see over here that our Inspector chain because now we have a hello world and we're not gonna change any of these things yet But based upon what type the node is the available options in the inspector will change. So just a heads up there But you now see if we click into node we have a sub tabs signals and groups groups a little advanced for right now don't worry about it signals quite useful, but still Don't worry about those quite yet they'll they'll be useful though and There are events that happen that you can connect a code to run at a certain time So we have our hello world scene I'm gonna save it with command s and I'm gonna name it hello underscore world that TSC n which is the Godot scene extension I Name them all under all lowercase with separated with underscores. That's called snake casing Godot does that by default. So I do that and that's fine with me So I save it and you'll see down here in the file system We've got our hello world. So if you double click it is already open. So that's okay What if we double-click the SVG? Nothing happens. Okay Well, what if we run our game? So hit play It says no main scene has ever been defined select one. So let's select current it makes it so that we run our full game It runs and it's just an empty 2d scene. You'll see the name of it. Hello, we're holding a seed to bug So let's go ahead and close that and then let's run this run current scene That's the same thing so Right now you could just do either but let's go ahead and close it now adding Our image that Godot provides they provide this SVG scalable vector graphic file You can just drop it in there and then you can drag it around to change where it lives So let's go ahead and hit play again And now that's there and you can see it added it as icon because it's named icon and it even capitalized it If we go into the inspector, we'll see more information about that node. You can see the texture that was applied is Our SVG file and you could change it to be a different image or a different type of texture for now. Just leave it as it is Offset don't worry about that. You could add animations if you want it But we're not gonna and we'll see transform here with one change Click to expand it and you'll see that its position has been changed So let's click reset and that puts it back to zero zero And it did it in our running game. That's one of the really cool things about Godot is you can change things And it updates automatically In the game Let's see if I can make this show you so I dragged it over here and it updated it here That's really nice Especially when you're building out interfaces or testing things out quickly You'll see as we change it changes it in the inspector. We can change it ourselves by typing in different values You can even change those with code which we'll do in a second Scale changes how large it is And so the inspector is where you can visually edit things and then eventually we'll connect code to it now if we go and Let's make another scene actually because I think that will illustrate the difference between scenes So click here right click and go to new scene. We'll make it a 2d scene and we'll say Hello world 2 we'll call it a sequel. I like making the root name uppercase with uh Without the underscores because Godot does that by default too click. Okay Now we have hello world 2 and hello world So we have hello world. I clicked to open that now we have hello world 2. There's nothing there What if we put two icons save it if we click The rerun Okay, it shows our one Godot image But what if we want to just run this scene? Ah Now you can run the scene and see the difference So if you were working on maybe a settings area and you were wanting to rerun it You could just run that scene But then if you want to test your whole game you can press the play icon And there's a way to switch between scenes which we'll get to as part of scripting And we'll add a button to switch to that but Let's go back to just hello world And also real quick aside when you have multiple scenes open You can switch between them in these tabs and you can even create a new scene by pressing the plus button and selecting What you want If we made a 3d scene it would switch to this 3d view mode, but we're not worrying about that yet So over here in hello world Well, let me hit the brakes. So you're adding nodes to your game We'll add a node called Button so when you click the plus button or on a node and you do command a or control a and Do create new mode node it shows this new pop-up Interface where you're going to select the nodes you're going to add There's a whole lot of them And you'll want to read the docs to the documentation to learn more about them for us We're going to do node td node 2d. No, we're not we're going to do button actually. So that's different and that I think is control And then there is a button somewhere. I'll find it. There we go a base button You could also just type button, which is what I often do and it filters them So we'll click create and it adds a new button and you can see it's selected over here But wow it sure is hard to see so click away from it. Oh, there's nothing there Let's click back in our button and in the inspector. We can add our tests our text. So we'll call it switch to Good-o. We'll say hello good-o to scene You don't have to do this if you don't want, you know, I'm just walking you through so you can click and drag it to change how it looks Let's just put it here Doesn't look so great, but that's okay. We'll run our game and you can see our buttons there So you're composing your game of buttons Or you're composing your game with nodes, whether they're images that you might control or maybe they're buttons that you compress There's so many nodes way beyond the scope of this, but for now I'm gonna go ahead and Add our first bit of code and there's more to the ui that I can't just cover in this one shorter video But there are ways to move things rotate them scale them And snapping to pixels there's more there's a lot more advanced things, but For now, I just want to give you a sense of some of the basics So if we go to hello world and you can click this icon here attach a new script We're going to write it in gd script It's going to inherit from node 2d, which it is generally I don't change these things in the path I just leave it as is go ahead and click create now it switches to the script editor You can get back to the 2d editor just buy up here, but switch to script And we'll see our code here is here You might not see these type signatures Because I have a special setting enabled In my editor to do that, but it creates when it's a node 2d a ready and a process function these functions Ready is run once when all the children nodes have been successfully added to the added to the running scene and then Process is called every frame We have something called print Where we can output something to the command line. We'll just do hello world Save that now if we run our game you'll see down here In the debugger it's printing hello world every single frame the game's running That's a lot, you know, that's that's not something you're generally want to do but just wanted to illustrate that so In the script areas where you write gd script gd script is a lot like python and let's go ahead and Do some interesting interesting things here. We'll say You can reference nodes children child nodes by using the dollar sign and you can say icon So now we have access to this icon here And we can change it with our code and let's say rotate And let's rotate it by delta Delta is the amount of time elapsed since the previous frame. So we'll rotate it by delta every frame Every every process call. So now Our icon's rotating.  Okay. Well, let's go ahead and wire that up so Let's go back to 2d. So we can like we'll click on our button We'll go to node and then signals because it's a button. There is Some signals that exist Toggled button up button down will do pressed. So if you click that and click connect or double tap it You can then select where you want When that event when that signal happens pressed what code gets called? Hello world. We already have a script there and It already smartly names it on button pressed. So you just click connect and you'll see that we have Some code already here. So we'll delete our pass up here clean things up. We're not using ready. So I'm going to go ahead and delete that Well, let's do print debug and we'll say button pressed Okay, go ahead and run that Click the button and down here you'll see that Some text was logged because the button was pressed so now we've used a signal and We click here. We compose things From the GUI connect things to the code. Then we go to the script editor and change things. This is the flow, right? This is the general flow of Godot is you're building nodes.  So There's a couple ways to do that um I think what we want to say is get tree And we'll go change scene to file And it automatically Gives us some options here So we'll do Change scene to file and then we'll do our hello world scene Save that go ahead and run this scene Now if we click switch to hello Godot 2 scene It switches to our other scene and we still have our debug code there and that's helpful and Now we're It's running this scene in our game And there's no way to get back. So if you wanted a way to get back and switch between scenes You could add a button to do that yourself and um That's the basic workflow of Godot and the 2d There's more to it, of course. There's ways to edit animations and audio and all of those things, but I just wanted to give you that brief overview of you're moving around in the 2d view You've got your scene your file system. You've got your inspector and your node And you can see the history of all the things we've done. I don't find myself looking at that too much You can also expand this if you want which can be helpful when you're coding um That's the basics of the Godot 2d scene Editor and flow and um, just thought I'd walk you through that Not a ton of shortcuts and hotkeys that I use in 2d mode But then in 3d mode, there is a bit of that. So I'll make a separate video for that. All right. Thanks. Hope that was helpful See you. Bye


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role and from the GRISP I want to express again the director of the GRISP director general of the GRISP very excellent satisfaction and recognized as a part of our and full member of the GRISP initiative and we do now hope that GRISP will be a success story of the international partnership Thank you Mr. Chen Mr. Karmasper is at SESAM Achim Robert colleagues and friends ladies and gentlemen it's been a great pleasure for me to attend this panel discussion on the global rice science partnership it's very impressive and successful 30 international rice congress in Hanoi let me take this opportunity to congratulate you and our host from Vietnam for the organization of excellent congress please allow me to make a few points for the director general Dr. Papa Abdulai Sek who unfortunately would only attend the opening day of his congress and after the rice staff if you may be aware after rice is one of the 15 CDR centers but it's also an association of 24 member states in Africa Mr. Chairman ladies and gentlemen with a launching twist we are turning a set of virtual independent international research organizations working on rice research engine involving hundreds of farms worth 100 million dollars today and hopefully by 2015 140 at least 140 million dollars per year I am convinced that this will allow us to become more effective and efficient and a greater impact challenges are huge but we can achieve results much faster if you know what we are doing where and when and with whom and if you divide tasks among us based on comparative advantage and mutual trust and I think that is a scared twist ladies and gentlemen rice is a global crop feeding more than half of humanity and the availability and affordability of rice is crucial to people across the globe increasingly so in Africa many issues that we need to take and cut across regions are great opportunities to learn from each other and therefore I think rice really deserves this type of partnership Chris is the first consortium research program of the new CDR and with reason we did not wait for a change management process to come up with this idea since December 2006 the three CDR centers involved in rice research for development here we after rice in SIA and actively look for ways to line the rice research programs first focusing on sub-sphere in Africa one key moment was the launching of our joint southern African rice program ISAR during the annual general meeting of the CDR in December 2015 and also ladies and gentlemen was at this time that thinking involved towards development of truly global rice development program partnership will go beyond just a CDR in the partners and include other international research centers involved in our advice the first catch of the global rice science partnership will develop shortly after and of course the process was then greatly accelerated by the CDR change management we therefore have an enormous advantage over the other centers that are currently developing their consortium research programs however being the first also means that the rest of the world and of course the rest of the CDR is watching us I think they have raised a lot of expectations one of our partners and one of our staff and we must and we will deliver on what we set out in the crystal general Africa needs quiz the continent is huge and extremely limited in rice research and extensive investing not allowing our work in Africa is highly confusing to research partners that are still out there isn't it also being enormous waste of resources Africa can clearly use help if this assistance comes in a transparent and truly collaborative manner but good collaborative research in Africa will also have still over to other regions in the world so Africa needs quiz but quiz also needs Africa quiz will not conduct science for the sake of science but science to achieve impact on the ground we have a special theme who said it entitled supporting the growth of the global rice sector that will proactively link our research networks with development partners so that the quiz will make it different and that is what we need to ensure that rice is available and affordable for all so gentlemen it has been a particularly rewarding experience for me as an African rice staff with an IRI and CIRA history to co-develop quiz with our partners and I very much look forward to this implementation they began by saying that quiz is a great start of IRI's next 50 years of existence thank you very much