Alright, welcome board members and members of the public. Thanks for joining us today. My name is Logan pets, the chair of the board of community services. We have our new vice chair Paul Castillo board members Guido Boca Leone, Omar Lopez Carolina Spence and Carol in attendance today. That's okay. Our meeting hosts today are Julie Guzy, Amy Hennessey and Shelley McClure. The host will coordinate comments from the public and assist during the meeting and take notes for any follow up needs. As a reminder to all present the silence your phones and if you're phoning in to join the meeting and you choose to speak during public comments portion of the agenda for privacy concerns. The host will rename you to caller and only show the last four digits of your number and additionally the city of Santa Rosa is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption will not tolerate hateful speech or actions. Everyone is expected to participate respectfully or if necessary, the meeting will end immediately. We also have board members. Excuse me. Yes, board member Cruz. Thank you for joining us. And Matt, Madam host, we please explain how the public comments will be heard at today's meeting. Thank you chair pits. If you are attending in person there are cards located at the entrance. Please complete the card and place it in the basket. You will be called up by name when your item number has been discussed and open to public comment. You will be asked to approach the podium and state your name for the record after an agenda item has been presented. The chair will ask the board members for their comments or questions and then immediately following the item will be open for public comments. If virtual hands are raised on zoom prior to public comment, the host will lower all hands until the public comment item is open to all. 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This new format is integrated with members of the public via zoom. Members of the public who are using zoom may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and on the agenda. Host may we have a roll call please. Please respond when I call your name. Chair Pitts. Here. Vice chair Castillo. Here. Board member Boca Leone. Here. Board member Cruz. Here. Board member Lopez. Here. Board member Spence. Here. Board member Cuant. Here. Let the record reflect that all board members are present. All right. Good to see a full house. So I'd like to open up the agenda matters. This is the time when any person may address our board on matters not listed on the agenda, but are within the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the board of community services. Do we have any public comments? Yes, sir. Please step forward. Thank you. Is there a microphone I have to use? Microphones are in the room. Right here in the center. Nice. All right. My name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland. And I wanted to thank you for opening the meetings back up and letting public participation occur in person. To me, that's a very important aspect of trying to get the voice of Roseland in the decision making process. You folks probably didn't know it, but on Saturday Earth Day before you were downtown, we had over 20 community members to what we call the Roseland neighborhood. Now the Roseland neighborhood has been there for probably a century, but it's only been about 25 years. We've been trying to save it from development. And basically we were able to get the mayor of Santa Rosa, Natalie Rogers, and our district representative Eddie Alvarez to be there when they said it would just be for a few moments. They liked the area so much they stayed for two hours. They were there walking through, seeing all this nature we've been saving, and then also seeing our community members coming and picking up debris that gets left by some of those folks that move through and aren't as attentive to nature as we are. Now, one of the things that's really important to keep in mind is that neighborhood groups, one called Roseland Action, got started 30 years ago working to save this area. And it's nature along the Roseland Creek Riparian Corridor. It's something that no city staff at the time ever was supportive of, and they were never supportive until 2008, when the economic downturn occurred. And when that happened, one of the speculative land developers who had land on the south side of Roseland Creek was in a bind, and he needed to get some money quick to keep this business afloat. It's called Skellinger Brothers. And so they reached out to a Santa Rosa employee at the time, and they worked up something with what's called the agricultural preservation and open space district. And they got what's called a bailout. They basically were able to sell their property, which was only worth about $450,000 at the time for close to two and a half million dollars for 5.9 acres. Now that land that was first purchased was told to the community that we had to have it. We had only been working on keeping the land to the north of the creek. But we were running to a meeting with city council member Gary Waissaki and the parks director at that time, who left under a cloud afterwards, that you had to have that property to the south along the creek. Because that's where this bike path was going to go. And we've been talking about that since 2004, with a Roseland Creek concept plan that was put together with the community from 2003-2004. The city adopted it. They said, yeah, we got it, $100,000. We've been sitting on it ever since. So I'm bringing this forward to you so that you folks can look into this and see the history of what we were working on out there, because we call it a neighborhood park and a preserve. What happened next was the property owner to the north of what we were trying to save. They got bailed out. They were called cobblestone homes. It's a base district came forward because exchange bank was calling in the note. And so exchange bank worked with them to get a tax deduction, put forward money. Altogether, $4.1 million was put into saving this land there. And a conservation easement was put in place. And basically it was like, hey, this is a preserve to the north. You got to keep it nice. And then to the south, you can talk about some things that are going to go on. Keep it all in mind. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comment. Do we have any other public comments? We have no hands raised at this time. Thank you. The next item is item four, the approval of the minutes. Are there any edits or corrections to the minutes of March 22, 2023? Seeing no hands will accept those submitted. And on to item five, Deputy Director Santos. Hello. Please give your report on upcoming and accomplished events. Thank you, Chair Pitts and board members. We're going to try this model tonight see if it works works well so folks at virtual and here can see and hear everything so the deputy director updates for I wanted to let you all know you saw a new name tonight on the folks helping us behind the scenes Amy Hennessy. So I'm really pleased to let you know we brought her on from the public works team. This is our new admin tech over for Parks and Rec, and she replaced for those of you who knew Lisa Ross and previously she replaced that position so we're super excited we've had her on board for about a month and she's helping out tonight so welcome to Amy. And also on that note, a big thank you to all of our administrative professionals and record parts and throughout the city today today as administrative professionals day. And a big celebration and thank you to our admin team today. And then also wanted to update you we've been talking about the ordinances related to the board of community services want to give you a little update on that we have met with the city attorney's office and the city clerk's office, and we'll be circling with the city office soon but we'll be bringing we plan to bring back the discussion about when this meeting should start at our next board meeting in May so keep that in mind would like to come back and have you think about and discuss what time you'd like to to me and we'll talk about the what other boards are doing what other folks are doing in our community and any constraints and opportunities there with the timing. I also just wanted a little reminder I think I mentioned this last time but I wanted to say that what we're bringing the art and public places committee to have a staff member representing our public places committee. Come and speak with the board in June. So, I know there's some interest in how art goes on in the city and how it becomes to our park so that's a really good opportunity to ask your questions there. And I wanted to thank our park maintenance team for really getting to all the weeds out there in the city I'm sure you've seen them it was a really rainy season so we have tons and tons of weeds. And so we have a really extensive schedule with our very small team we have. We previously used to have a landscape contractor who would do a lot of this and right now. We have an escape contract but we're going forward in the future to ask counsel for that. Those funds to do that so right now we have 20 something folks out there doing all the regular things they need to do plus all the meeting, leading in the roadway to do the things and throughout the park. So many thanks to them. I also want to let you know the city is doing a citywide classification study for all staff throughout the city putting record parks and so it's taking us a bit of time but what that is it's looking at our positions and how they correlate to other similar organizations across the state and other organizations are size. It's a really great opportunity for the city to do this and really look at the core of what we do as it relates to our job descriptions and is the funding there as well. So that's, that's ongoing and I'm not sure about the entire citywide but we are all supposed to have our stuff in on Monday for those staff that are here as a reminder. We will be at council on May 23 for public works proclamation. For our park maintenance staff as a recognition for all the work they do throughout the community now just in record parks and so be honoring some of our staff members with proclamation at May 23. Our regular budget for the entire city is going on May 9 attempt to counsel the parks and recreation budget will be on May 10 the second day. And we will be after fire police and planning and I got development departments and then record parks will go and talk about our budget. And on a happy and sad note, I did want to mention we do have a retirement coming up. Sorry. Our aquatics professional here rec supervisor extraordinaire for aquatics will be retiring this summer we're very sad to see him go but so happy for his retirement to come up this summer. Yay. I wanted to mention that yes. The other thing just a couple more things I wanted to mention that we have employee recognition for employees that over 10 years service, as well as five year service this Thursday. And I wanted to mention that we have our rec supervisor Amy Rockowitz has been with the city for 30 years. Don Hicks 25 years. Mickey Rittwell probably more than that. This is a recognition for a couple years ago. Yeah. Mickey remember Remy our rec coordinator 25 years, Jean Pugh, our rec coordinator 20 years and Preston Schubert our maintenance worker 15 years and our own recreation deputy director. Jeff Tibbets 15 years so I'll mention that we have some other folks that we are five years and under I'll bring those up for our next meeting but just want to let you know some of that recognition going on there and that's the end of my report. Thank you director Santos. Are there any questions from the board. Well congratulations to all those employees on those landmarks and congrats on the retirement. And also, Amy if you're out there somewhere welcome. Good to have you on the team. So, thanks again. Sure. I'd like to make a comment on this. Go ahead. Doing away from Rosalind the director mentioned that there's going to be a discussion about when meeting times would be. I think it's really important that you get some public input about when the public might be able to attend better than these four o'clock meetings. These have been something that in the past, hopefully more citizens would like to come to typically they get off work about 530. I would advocate that you reach out perhaps survey through the community when they might be able to attend the board community services means better and then congratulations to the park staff. The maintenance people do such a good job. It's good they get a proclamation and I'll be clapping for him on the 23rd. I always put in during budget hearings that you folks should get more money for more workers at the bottom level. No offense to top folks but down at the bottom of the ones that cut the grass. Make things nice in our parks. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comment now and in the future. We will move on then to number seven. There are board member reports. And we, I just have a note here that we did get that packet from our planning staff that has the different boards committees and commissions. You can follow up with the staff about that. And then there were some other other information in there on the current parks projects so take a look at that shelly sent that around as a reminder, but we'll go down the line if you have a report. Sure. So I, I stopped by coffee bar since our last meeting. But moving forward, I can't remember the other little park I was at. I don't, I can't remember. I'm sorry, but moving forward on the sixth. I'm organizing a small silent march in regards to missing murdered indigenous women. And that's on my Facebook and I will email it out. Thank you. And you guys are all welcome. Thank you for the report. Member vocally. Do you have a report from this month? Comments on our Southwest community park. It's in my area and the construction of that remote apartment building there on the corner of old stony point and turn. It's going to be completed next month and it's probably going to sound and 54 units. If there's one child to each one of those units that's 154 more kids on bicycles and so on. And again, we need to have a sidewalk down on the north side of Western Avenue to the park. There is no sidewalk on that side. So they're going to be walking in the dirt and mud or whatever. And they'll be trying to cross the street running across and we could end up with problems there. So I really think that needs to be done. And again, haven't had any comment back on the lighting. There's no lights at that park that should be there at least until nine o'clock. I think that's a good point. Because the Hispanic people, they, when they get off work, they're there with their kids that have a dinner and are we killing and the place is Bob every night practically. So I really think we should get some lighting in there to our city bus also goes in and makes a loop around and there's no light where people get off just in case there's other things that shouldn't be going on are going on there. So it's a protection that we should really get them going. Otherwise everything is great. Great. Thank you for your report. What member spots do you have a report. Yes, I went to coffee park also didn't see. But I have in there in a long time. And it looks wonderful. The design of it is such a neighborhood art feel. It really, really felt good. So I encourage you if you've not seen it now, please go. It just looks great. The neighborhood is totally embraced it. And that's all I can say anything about marriage. Okay. You got a few more months to remind. Yeah, I know I'm getting kind of tired. Thank you. I think that's the report. It looks like we all want to copy. I got to spend some time there with some friends. It's like everybody has said it's a really wonderful park. It's been beautifully redone so if you have not been there please go there. Besides that I'm really excited to see this warm weather more time outside. Nice. Thank you. For remember what do you have a report. I do. And please remember, I'm retired. So I have lots of time to do this stuff. I was able to participate in the Franklin Park Park a month cleanup, along with board member Cruz. I forgot about that. I was also fortunate enough to participate in a long planned and often rescheduled tour of the rural cemetery with Mayor Rogers and city manager Smith. Neither one of whom had been there before and both of whom were wonderfully amazed and stunned by this tool in our park system. I'm also currently taking a course in the Finley senior center, and I'd like to report that the air conditioning works all too well. And it is quite the joy to have those classrooms and other resources available for rent to the public. I also have the resources to park and rec for sponsoring this building for community use. I also happen by very well organized and attend bachi ball session at Juilliard Park last Friday night. I had a joy, what a low maintenance community oriented sports activity that we sponsor and that the community helps take care of so that was wonderful. I'd also like to mention that we had 30 class volunteers at our rural cemetery cleanup on the third Saturday, it always blows our mind when this many people show up. The students getting their community hours and the parents that they bring with them and the joy and the wonder that they also bring is quite something. And I also spent a couple hours at an Earth Day booth busy as promised it comes with retirement if you play your cards wrong. Thank you for the report. For member Kristian vice chair. Few items. For most I'd like to apologize staff for last meeting I feel like real them a bit regarding permits for food workers and things of that nature, and speaking with staff afterwards. Parks and Recs I said nothing to do with that. So not an enforcement vehicle. That's great and we shouldn't be. If the county wants to enforce that, you know, that's on that. But as far as us just being a facilitator in a place where people can gather. I'm all for that we stick to that. Parks that I went to excellent to a small park called strawberry park. I've never been there before very nice little park. And other than that, I'd also like to thank the gentleman that spoke Dwayne it's great to have public comment and people in person. So I really appreciate that. Pleasure is my sure. That's that's all I got. Thank you for your report. My report for this month is pretty brief. I'm sorry I missed the park cleanup. I'm sure that was a good one. And that's a well loved park so it probably always needs need some help but glad that folks were out there for that. My only real report from the month is in my quest to visit every park my new park of the month was bicentennial park where I had lunch today and not many folks in the middle of the day but the park was looking pretty good. So good job to the maintenance crews on that. And that's it for me for the month. And chair pits can we back up to item five for accomplishing upcoming events as well. I think we breezed over that a bit so I just want to. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you sort of did that is too different. Yep, I apologize. I'd like to go ahead and Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. I just wanted to give a brief update on upcoming accomplishments. You have your long list which I will not go over a list of amazing things. But I wanted to talk about our other train we talk about Howard Park train all the time but I want to mention the Redwood Empire live steamers at youth park it's a really cute little train. And if you haven't been there that maybe that's your park next month to go check out. They started operating the first weekend of every month through October and a $1 donation is appreciated. And then also I wanted to chime in on board member quants attendance at our Earth Day Festival at courthouse square it was extremely well attended it was very very busy. It was a really hot day, but he's super excited to have the recreation parks team there. And we got a lot I think we had a lot of volunteer folks interested in volunteering and signing up for programs so really great event among many on the list. End of report. Great. Thank you. And we also had a request for a public comment item seven. Thank you sir. It's wonderful to hear. Mr. colony. But the only possible line. Nice we got going sir I'm glad you spoke about her and Avenue. Essentially, for decades we've been asking that the city would put in sidewalks on both sides of her and Avenue, all the way from highway 101 out to Stony Point Road. I served on an electric commission and was a project area committee excuse me for Southwest Center Rosary development in the years 2000 2004. And we had talked about this 30 full years ago, when the Southwest area plan came forward that there would be sidewalks on both sides of her and Avenue. So there would be safety. You pointed out so many more children will be coming in. This is vitally important that I just wanted to mention one other thing Mr. Castillo, you had mentioned strawberry park. Did you know that there's been a report written by a graduate student at the University of California landscape architecture department on creekscaping for kids that was done for Santa Rosa for strawberry park and strawberry school nearby. So you should look into that. Yeah, I think you'd really like it creekscaping for kids. Thank you Mr. Pitz for all you're doing by Centennial parks good place to just hang out. And you only need a half court basketball court they say but you know, if you put in a full size full basketball court get far more kids out there playing. They really like it. Thank you. Thank you. There was one solo basketball player today. A question of clarification. Sure. Could you tell me the sidewalks under discussion would that be part of the purview of this committee. Those are under development review so staff do review those plans. And we have information on that. If you'd like to hear it we can bring up our.  And those developments but we do review those so they don't necessarily come here but it's under staffs purview to review the development plans that come through for any development. We review it for any impacts to parks. We don't necessarily review it for you know sidewalk compliance that's not parks but we have provided information will provide information so it's really clear at the next director update for everybody so everyone can hear it. Scott if you could or if Scott would like to give a little bit of information sorry to put you on the spot but if you would like to provide any little nugget or to also come back next month. That's great. Yeah. I'm here now I can come back again. To your point. Board member book Leone. I believe the the development you're you're talking about. We did see it. We did review it. We did look and inquire in some detail with the planner who was reviewing the project planning and economic development to find out that they are building sidewalk on their frontages. Unfortunately only a small frontage of that project actually does contact her avenue and I'm blanking on the street to the west that it. Old Stone Road and that's the only place where they're where they're committed to put a cycle but not on her. Well there's just like I said just a short I believe there's either an ingress or an egress or both driveway there and there's so there's a tiny bit there but interestingly there is also a easement going through between two homes that front on her there and they're creating a pathway from the project to her and then a crossing and improved crossing there to the other side of her where there is a sidewalk. So that's sort of their strategy from what I could gather in my review of the project. Right. Thank you if you have more information next month that's yeah. Okay. Were there any other questions from the board. Okay. We will move on to 8.1 the aquatics overview. We have a recreation supervisor already mentioned gone hex and help provide an update on the status of the program. So I have a PowerPoint presentation would like to share with you but chair pets and vice chair Castillo and board members. It's such a pleasure to be here. I've had the pleasure to meet many board members over the years and and share information about some of my passions here with my job. And that's we'll be about including some 10 years. We'd be 28 years with with the city and my main responsibility during those years is has been the aquatic facility. So I'm pretty passionate about aquatics and and water safety. You know I've been trying to find a surgeon that will surgically implanted USB ports so I can sort of download some of that institutional knowledge that's up here. Fortunately, I have a really good staff team. Part of them are here today that I just wanted to introduce to you because even though I'm leaving the aquatics is going to be a very good hands. So I'd like to introduce three other the back. She's our coordinator at Finlay Aquatics Center and that's very appropriate that she's wearing one of our water safety shirts. It says drowning is preventable and on the back it says safety is no accident. And we're passionate about that. And actually the month of May is water safety month. So we're going to be sort of educating more on water safety, which is so important in that community. So thanks for wearing that shirt. And over here is Brandon Hammond is coordinator at the Ridgeway Swim Center. And then we also have Joel Strauss, who's one of our recreation specialists. We've actually got a vacancy at one of our recreation spaces so we're hoping to fill soon. So just want to mention that they are truly aquatic professionals and they make the city look good. They make me look good all the time. They've got quite an array of qualifications and experience. Brandon is at a couple of years in CPRS Management School and he is a CPO, a certified pool operator. And he's a lifeguard and a lifeguard instructor. In fact, all three are lifeguard instructors. So, and actually all three are CPO certified pool operators as well. So they have the industry standards and qualifications to operate our big aquatic centers. So the place is going to be in good hands. So each time I come, we try to give you a little update on aquatics. And I know we have some new board members here since I was here last time.  So expect that. Right after the meeting. But sometimes I've talked about programs and everything we do and how much money we bring in and how many people we serve. Because we have very busy facilities. When I connect with some of my colleagues in the industry, they go, what, how many people do you have come to those facilities? How much money you bring in each year? Because we bring in about just over a million dollars a year in aquatics between the two facilities. So we are busy and some communities in California have pools that are closed seasonally. We have such a demand for aquatics that both of our facilities are open year round without closing. So we are very, very busy. In fact, all of our swim lessons right now are all for pretty much with waiting lists to get in. So we desperately need more pool space. A lot of cities outside have three or four facilities. We only have two and we're in a community where not one high school has a swimming pool, which is very unusual for a community. So we are busy and aquatic. So that just, and there's a whole variety of programs, some of the unique ones. We still have some water polo swim lessons. It's huge. We have lap swim. We have recreation swim, which is our family swim time. We have water fitness classes, et cetera, et cetera. So, but today I wanted to just share with you that our aquatic centers. Do I sort of give you a little nod when I want the next slide? To see next slide. Next slide, please. Our aquatic centers are not your typical backyard pools. And I'd be glad to give any of you a tour of our mechanical room anytime because people are coming to think, oh my gosh. They can't believe the mechanical room that the millions of dollars of equipment and filters and things we have. Next slide, please. And so at Finley, we have a micro turbine generator that said natural gas generator was placed in the mechanical room there. It generates electricity for this park and for this facility. But doesn't it create all the electricity? It was engineered to be the right size to offset tiered billing that we had big tiered billings in our utility bills. And so it brought those expenses down. But it's located in our mechanical room because we capture the waste, which is the heat, and we use that heat to offset our heating bill. And when it was introduced into the building over there, it was estimated it could save us $50,000 to $60,000 a year in energy costs. So that's just one piece of technology we have in there that's hoping with utility costs for our city. Next slide, please. This is an example of one of our old heaters, a Teledyne Lars pool heater, big heater with a copper heat exchanger. It's only about 65% efficient and air quality enforcement says, you know, we've got our plans to get rid of that. Well, we had a bigger one for our main pool and we have recently got rid of that and put in a new heater. So that's what the old heaters used, the 30 year old heater right there is not very efficient and not very good for our air quality. So next slide, please. So we've put in a new lock and bar Aquas commercial pool condensing boiler and it's up to 9798% efficient. It captures all the heat and then our air quality inspectors that come in and go, yes, you know, this is meeting our knock standards, you know, that we have to meet for air quality. So we're excited about that heater. It's more efficient. It doesn't break down as much as the old one. And so that was a good project that came in to help us save energy and offer a quality. Next slide, please. And here's just one example. These are just the sand filters we have just for the training pool. This facility we have a bank of filters for the second pool and also big filters over at the Ridgeway swim center. These are high rates rapid sand filters that filter our water to make them the water crystal clear. These are EPD filters they're manufactured by a company that makes filters for water, you know, for drinking water as well. So they do a really good job at filtering the water and making it crystal clear. The main pool here is 350,000 gallons of water that goes through those filters alone, just at the training pool. So that's just an idea of the size of a filtration system there for just one pool. Next slide, please. This is a BEX system seven commercial pool chemical controller. I call it the brains because it has probes in there that's testing the water continually. It has set points in there and so if the chlorine sanitizing chlorine gets too low, it automatically tells a pump to come on to feed that chlorine up to a certain set point that switches off. It has a probe in there that's testing the pH in there and if the pH is off, it'll send a signal to our CO2 pump to switch on because we manage pH with carbon dioxide. And we also manage the pH with muratic acid. So it monitors constantly and will send signals to switch on or switch off. All these different things, including our heater, it has sensors in there. So I call it the brains that's operating that it can normally operate continually by itself without oversight. But we also have oversight and we have to do a daily log per county health standards. And sometimes that if the probe isn't working or there's an issue with a sensor or chemical injectors, it will send an alarm out. It has the ability to send alarms out remotely through an email and an operator can. We don't have it fully functional right now, but it can send out a message where operators can make adjustments and changes remotely. So that's good to have those specs out of the controls. They make it easier for our maintenance teams. Next slide, please. We have high efficient pumps and motors. I am exploring possibly some variable speed pumps to add to these, but they are high efficient motors, which helps us on our utility expenses. But they don't look very big there. But just that blue one you see there is probably about when we had to change that out with a pump and motor was over 600 pounds. So we had to pull these and chains and everything to lift it out of the pit and get it onto a truck and switch it out. And we had to switch that out. So sizeable pumps and motors there. Next slide, please. So this is our ultra max.  It gets lowered into the pool and it robotically cleans our pool without having to have a maintenance person going through the whole pool. And so it can be set to run in there and it does a really good job of vacuuming vacuuming our pools. So we're lucky to have a robot vacuum cleaner at each facility vacuuming our pools. Next slide, please. This is a chlorine generator. We have the sanitizer we use for both pools as chlorine at Finley we get bulk liquid chlorine delivered because we have the infrastructure in the space to put in a secondary containment that meets all the hazmat standards for containment if there was a catastrophic leak. And so we get liquid chlorine delivered here because we have that ability over Ridgeway Ridgeway the original Ridgeway that's built in 1958. Originally had chlorine gas as a sanitizer great sanitizer very dangerous like mustard gas and so when we did renovations over there our fire department said more chlorine gas is too dangerous and so we didn't have the room in our mechanical room area to put the infrastructure for a secondary containment tank for having liquid chlorine at the concentration we get here so had to come up with a different plan so we put in a chlorine generator. And so that actually we had a actually manufactured chlorine at that pool over there. We have a brine tank that has salt in it, water flows through that into the chlorine generator, the chlorine molecules broken up events of a little hydrogen and produces sodium hypochlorite, which is chlorine, but it produces it at a lower concentration so we do have a storage tank over there that stores that lower concentration of chlorine that's fit quickly into the pool and because it's that lower concentration we don't have to meet all that hazardous materials protocols for full strength chlorine so and we're just in the process of putting in a brand new one over there the old one. We've reached this life expectancy and so we're able to put in a brand new chlorine generator over there that's being installed as we speak so I'm excited about that that'll help with the sanitizer. And it's interesting people will say, do you have a salt pool and I say well, or chlorine whether you get it from the big tanker truck or not is is made from chlorine the chlorine we it's made from salt the chlorine we get here is manufactured at a factory somewhere that has some additives and preservatives in it but you know we're basically manufacturing our own chlorine over Ridgeway I mean you hear some backyard pools that are salt pools and your broadcast salt in your backyard pool well through the filtration system it's still breaking up that salt molecule and creating chlorine even in your backyard pool but it does Ridgeway does have a little bit of difference in taste and texture than this pool over here. I think it might be the added additives and preservatives so so really any pool that has chlorine is technically a salt pool because that's what chlorine is made out of. So anyway, this is a little interesting chemistry there about chlorine. Next slide please. We have pool covers and we have the highest standard in the industry standards of pool covers. And this is part of our energy saving program. I joke with the staff when I come in the mornings especially the winter mornings and I see that steam coming off the pool and I go that's not steam that's a dollar signs, because that's a lot of energy we're losing and so these covers save us thousands and thousands of dollars every year in energy costs by using the you know these are the you can get different grades quality pool covers these are the highest grades you can get and it is a big energy saving for us so we're serious about saving energy we can. Next slide please. So at a previous presentation we talked about the new exciting project that's going to go on over here at Finlay that's going to go out to bid soon. We have two others that I'm on the team with and and we're so excited about this. It's going to add a fun new element to the Finlay Aquatic Centre that's different than Ridgeway and so just a little update. It's coming in 2024. It's going out to bid this month. Under construction in September of this year ish and it will be opening in the spring of 2024. Is there anything I missed? Good highlights good. I'm looking at these guys because they're on the production side of it and I was trying to plan by retirement to be around during the construction but. I was around to help with some of the plans and design work but I know it's going to be in good hands when I'm gone through the construction phase and then it's going to be in really good hands to operate by the staff over here so that's exciting and then just flicking through the next few slides. These are just some of the pictures artist renderings of what it might look like. I know I showed these before at a previous meeting but it's going to be fun activities for the kids. Ridgeway we have the slide. You have to be a certain height to go on the slide and so it's for older kids. This is going to be so great for the young families with little kids and toddlers and it's going to really revitalize our birthday party. Pull rental. Bring in some more money over it over the facility next door here so. And then so while we're closed with construction I've been working closely with staff. They see Brandon here over Ridgeway because we're going to try and move as much as we can over to Ridgeway while Finland's closed for construction because it's going to be closed. September October November December January February. Rain rain delays we're not sure you know it's not going to be any rain this year that's right. And so we're trying to move as much as we can over to Ridgeway. We will be adjusting adding some extra times to lap swim. We haven't had lap swim early morning at six in the morning will be over at Ridgeway. We're going to be moving out for swim lessons over there this year. We did move. Masters also masters has moved to the junior college and it's is with the Neptune swim team that also swims at the junior college new pool. And there's still conversation going on with them but I think we're going to be able to accommodate most of our programming over at Ridgeway that's the plan. So we'll have laps when over there might be a little busier will be moving some water fitness classes over there. We're going to be moving swim lessons over there for the fall. We won't be able to accommodate everyone over there but we are going to try and expand some laps when ours as well in the early afternoon and maybe an into the evening as well which are not currently over over at Ridgeway so that is our plan to hopefully come and then we keep the two pools from slightly different temperature. Ridgeway is a more competitive pool and competitive swimmers like to have the water temperature at 79 80 81 and a little kids and the water fitness classes like to have it at 105. No, I'm sorry. They like to have it warmer so we keep this pool you know 83 84. So we're going to try and compromise and have you know 82 ish temperature over at Ridgeway when we move programming over there. So it's a bit of a juggle. I know there'll be people saying they want cooler and someone that want warmer. We will educate to try and make sure everyone is understanding the reason to accommodate everyone's needs so challenges we might be working on in the future. We have a 22 year old water slide that we have fantastic maintenance staff that they are experts in repairing fiberglass gel coat on the slide flumes they're expert at fixing concrete and all sorts of things that with you know with pools and chlorine there's always rust and 22 years is showing some signs on our. Pool stairs and landings and been talking with contractors and manufacturer of the slide to see if we can come up with a solution to repair. And extend the life of our slide over there so that's a challenge we're working on right now. Into next year. Both pools. A need of some plaster repair. And it's pretty expensive to replaster a whole huge pool so we'll be looking at plans to repair patch where we can and then plan for a replaster as needed in the next. Number of years and then concrete deck areas over at Ridgeway. That's showing some signs that at some point we'll have to plan either sections of that deck to be repaired so they have the challenges for aquatics. Over the next four or five years that we're sort of working on right now. Is there anything you wanted to add. The time if there are any questions I'm glad to answer questions. Alright, thanks Don. Just a reminder to the board this is the time for questions and then we're going to go to our public comment and then we can have a discussion after that. So, go ahead. Question, a couple of questions. Number one. I have a brain that operates one pool too. I have a headache one day man gets out of control. And I got to remember, did I put that chlorine in or did I. On the water, what are we calling those states of the kids stand on any water sprays down on the spray ground. Yeah, the play features on the water go on the ground. Okay, so in the past there has been different. There's been a. The water sprays up and then goes to waste in California you're not allowed to have that type of system anymore and there's some places that have had a spray ground where the water is captured in the tanks and then they use that for irrigation.  In fact, by county by state code health code, it has to be operated like a pool. So part of the project is it's going to have a little mechanical room in that mechanical room is going to be filters and it's going to be sanitized twice it's going to have a chlorine and a UV sanitizer for that water. And I'll even have a heater in there, but it and it has an underground 4500 gallon tank underground, which is like a pool. So it really has to be operated filter sanitize quality checked just like a swimming pool. Can I go back into the pool where evaporation occurs in the swimming pool. So it will have an automatic fill line. If there is a back duration and spray out it will automatically fill that 4500 gallon tank just like any of our pools has the same system. So auto fill line that maintains the level in that underground tank. But it has to be operated like a pool and it will be fully inspected by county health. County health has been very much involved in our plans. And my staff are all trained in how to operate that because we we helped open and operate the one downtown here that has the same system. It's it's operated like a pool the one down the Prince Gateway Park spray ground. Welcome. Any other questions? I have a quick question regarding the slide maintenance. You noted that it's aging it's 25 years at this point is there any sort of analysis like at one point repairs are no longer worth it. So replacement is the answer. So we are governed by a state. We are governed by a tramway division of the state and we have a state inspector that comes out every year. They have to do a paperwork audit and inspection audit and operations audit every year. We just had that recently. And on top of that, we've had to have a structural engineer inspect the slide every 10 years. So we've had two of those the last 10 year. The guy goes, my gosh, this is 20 years old. Gosh, you guys are doing such a great job on your maintenance to your maintenance team. So they've been very happy that it looks younger than what it is because we've had such good onsite maintenance all the time. They say that a slide has a life expectancy of 2530 maybe pushing beyond that if you're lucky so so obviously repairing these stairs and landings we hope to get. And so the inspector said, oh, you should easily get another 10 years. As long as we take care of those slide landings, only the stairs and the landing. So yeah, it is, we're governed pretty closely and get to meet high stance, especially this last inspector had. He's a new inspector and I'm going, oh my gosh. So yeah, we can meet all of those though. Any other questions? I go ahead, Carol. Thank you for your years of service. Going back to the slides, the state of the art behind the scenes equipment is that in place at both facilities? That is correct. That is correct. I was remiss in sorry, and I'm taking some photos over it over at Ridgeway. Ridgeway has the same sort of blue filters over there. They have the same back seven chemical control brain. They have the same chlorine type feed system. They have the same CO2.  And so it has the same but basically the same equipment is obviously a different configuration because of space constraints and over Ridgeway. It went through a design where the original Ridgeway was three pools, but it was all treated as one body of water. The code says for everybody of water, you have to have a separate complete system. So when we redesigned that pool, you'll notice if you go to Ridgeway, it's one pool. It has a main lap pool that's connected to the splash pool for the slide is purposely designed that way. So it would be one body of water. So we only had to have one filtration system and one heater and one, you know, because we didn't have the room because the mechanical room is under the bleachers. So so and then so that means at Ridgeway of Finley, we have two pool. We actually have three pools. One's not operational now. The little waiting pool where we're going to put the spray ground, but we currently have two pools. So in the mechanical room, you have two separate systems in the mechanical room because there's two bodies of water. When we get the spray ground, that'll be counted as a third body of water. So we'll have three. That's why there's going to be a little mechanical building. We'll have three operation systems because it'll be counted as three bodies of water. Great. Next question. Is there much crossover of use by visitors or are there family pool users and Ridgeway users and the follow up question to that is, have you already begun the campaign to let the family users know that they're going to need to transfer to Ridgeway for a period of time? Our regulars absolutely know what's happening.  We know exactly when the dates are, but absolutely. There's lots of questions we have, we have information on our website. So there is information that's readily available out there and there's been lots of questions and you've got flyers posted like at the facilities or will. We don't quite have flies and posters yet. We're still waiting on waiting for it to go out to bed and then and then that will determine exactly when that close your date will be, but we will be planning that real soon. Speaking of the bid, Board of Community Services has been hearing about this upgrade for a couple years now. Are we on schedule? We a little behind and is this funded? I can, I can help with that. We, we made the decision last year to go ahead and do it to go ahead and move the project into this year. So it's delayed from when we first talked to you, but this we did plan this so that we could have our slimmers prepared and ready and that we could be in a position going into the fall and reduce our chances of eating into the summer of the next year. So we, so we went ahead and so it's a little bit delayed but it's on schedule the way we have worked it out and planned to go forward and it is completely funded. Excellent. Last question. I wanted to add just onto that. I hate to delay things and I wanted to be around for this, but it got to the point when we were planning it to start earlier was getting like, oh, we're still waiting on the county to get back there in a moment. And it was stunning. Oh my gosh, it's going to really have an effect on the spring and summer programming. Perhaps we should delay it to August so it doesn't affect the summer. And so hopefully that it'll go into construction. It'll be complete and it won't have an effect on any summer or or busy spring time either. So that was the plan to delay it. And I think that's been important. That's been embraced by our customers. Oh, that's great that you did that so it wouldn't affect the big family swim time and swim lesson times. And you know, that's the step. Great and wise move on your parts. I'm thrilled to hear that it's already funded. Last question, probably not yours, but someone already mentioned Prince splash pad. Is it turned on yet? Will it be on this weekend? No, I'll defer to our partner. And it will be mad. Thank you. It's hard to plan those openings when you it's we're the same issue with the pools. It's like, it's going to be 80 degrees this week. Well, I my crystal ball didn't tell me that to be able to plan all my staff and plan this and plan that. So sometimes these these openings, especially if you have unseasonal warm weather that comes early is like, could be disappointing for people. But this time last year was not like that, the weather. So so happy to get my crystal ball to work quite right yet on those things. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks, Carl. Don so will the whole pool complex be closed during the construction. It will. Because part of the part of this a 30 year old facility and part of the concrete deck area is failing and is becoming a bit of a safety issue and needs to be replaced, but also the facility was fully assessed. It was determined that some areas of the pool didn't meet 88 slope standards. And so some of that deck area has to be replaced because of that. So I think 80 to 90% of the deck is going to be replaced so that that adds another, you know, element that's a lot of concrete deck and it's a it's a complicated cantilever deck that laps over the edge of the pool and so the concrete works going to be done first, which is includes around the main lap pool so that maybe when the high school swim season starts in February, if everything goes to plan and once the contractor is selected, we can have a conversation about the scheduling that maybe we can open up the lap pool only to spring programs back while they're still finishing that south side where this project's going to be. So that's my. And you won't be here for it, but much more importantly, are we planning a pool party for when it's open. Absolutely. Okay, good. Absolutely. Good stuff. I have a question. Sir, go ahead.  How are you managing that as a lottery system.  So obviously some programming like lap swim, having two pools, you might end up where they go to rich way and they can have one person a lane or maybe two people a lane. Occasionally, you know, circle swim. So we anticipate that when lap swimmers have to move over, there's going to be a little bit more circle swimming for for most swimmers. They're used to doing that. Hopefully it doesn't get too busy. But then we're looking at expanding beyond our one o'clock time into the early afternoon and add more times to try and spread out those numbers. I think I think I feel confident the lap swimmers are going to be accommodated. They may be just times where I never can get a lane to myself anymore. You know, we have we have the widest lanes in the county. You can compare them to other pools. We've got the widest they can be built. So it's easy for two swimmers and easy to circle swimming out in our lane. So water fitness, we're not going to be able to accommodate every water fitness time, but even talking to mostly the the ladies that are the regulars in that class. The participants are the regulars. They're going, well, I think during that time I'm going to go to the Y or this other pool because I really needed to be 83 or 84 degrees. So we're not going to make everyone happy, but we're going to do as best we can. Obviously, with having this pool closed, we'll have an extra coordinator, an extra specialist that's going to be able to help with customer service and helping to make the patrons happy. So, but I haven't stopped conversation with the JC and their beautiful pool layer and I was even having conversation with wiki up, although we are going, this project is going to be in the winter months. So we're not going to be having the issues with the fair weather swimmers that we usually get in the spring and summer. So there's not this bigger numbers. So hopefully that answers your question. Thank you. It does. Thank you. One more. Yeah, it's, I know during COVID laps, get a swim was being scheduled online or participants still scheduling their time. We're back to first come first serve. Yeah, it's it's completely back to our normal drop in programming where we have our lane lines designated by fast medium slow or walking lane. And so they come out and the lifeguard will help find the right lane for their needs. So it's completely a drop in program. You know, sometimes people come in and go, it's a little busy for me today. I'll come back tomorrow or later. Or, you know, so it's completely a drop in. I suggest that might need review when this pool gets closed. I don't know how effective the scheduling online was. I know that, excuse me, some older people were having challenges booking the lane before they were all booked up. And we had that busy. We had that scheduling primarily that we to start with that we had one person a lane and then we went to two people a lane. As soon as we went back to more than two people a lane, we went back to a drop in system where they can have the lane to themselves or split a lane or circle swim if it's three or more. So, but yeah, we're going to have further conversation and do a lot more, put them a lot more thought into it before we close, close mainly. Thank you.  What is the state agency that inspects the spray ground that you said? So, any, any pools, any commercial pools that includes homeowners associations, hotel pools, anything that's, you know, fitness clubs are subject to the county health standards. And now there is an actual California health standards that governs pool construction pool operation that's that's being implemented by the county. We get inspected several times a year at each facility for the permitting of the pools and also the permitting of our concession stands for food handling. And then we also are subject to the state like I said for the slide amusement ride. Yeah, and then what was the name of that agency tramway amusement ride. Yeah, because it also that's the same agency that respects the train and carousel out of the house park same. Same one same inspector heard of that one. Yeah, so they want to make sure it's very safe participants. Right. We have to go through a very strict, you know, operating procedure for and slide is considered an amusement ride. And we also have to meet standards, sirs through the state fire marshal and our fire department are getting expected for hazmat procedures and hazmat storage of chemicals. And so they do an inspection and certifies to be to be safe for chemical operation and chemical storage. So, unfortunately, we've got some really good stuff that are going to continue that when I'm gone. I think those are all our comments. So thank you. And we'll bring in our public comment now. You have a public comment. Yes, thank you. We're interesting and more of a different presentation. Thank you so much, sir. My name is Dwayne Dewitt and 60 years ago, I took my swim lessons at Ridgeway pool. I love that. Yeah, I'm still doing it bro. And the thing about Ridgeway is, you know, they took out the diving boards, which I loved. That's where Santa Rosa high school students used the pool for their swim teams back in the day. Right. He mentioned the need for more pool space. There's a discussion going on with the city of Santa Rosa to develop in the Bellevue district to the south of hern avenue. A site that they're calling a hern community hub. And since LCL high school was built in 1994. They've talked about many a pool out here. And we tried to get it at Southwest Community Park when we had that project area committee back in the day. And I'm hoping that you folks will point out that we need a really nice pool. Not just small, small one. Here's an example I'd like you to look at perhaps. Helsinki Finland, they hosted the Olympics in the past. They kept the pool afterwards and it's a municipal pool now. It's a beautiful setup. Look into things like that. And let's dream really big for the kids of the future to have the best pools they could have. When I was young, Ridgeway pool was dynamite. Man, this is great. We got all these pools, right? But obviously the city is going to grow to, they want it to grow over a quarter of a million people. So if that's going to happen, we need to have more pools and really nice big ones. And that whole annexation that's going to happen with the urban sprawl out to moreland to go all the way down to Todd and bring that stuff in. All those people are going to need a really nice pool. So I'm here to tell you, start looking for those really big, nice ones with diving boards and all the good stuff, man. So that the kids can really get going on it. And I think we'll have a wonderful time. We'll actually have the all those private group. The nauticals or Neptune Swim Team, the Neptune Swim Team, they had a dive team in the past two. And so then we're trying out for the Olympics, I was told, so we can get back to that and then have our Santa Rosa kids be in that situation. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your comments. All right, do we have any other discussions from the board on that agenda item? Any comments? No, all right, Don, thank you for your service to the city and for your presentation. And we have Jeff approaching. Thank you, Jen for mentioning it earlier. But when Don proposed, hey, what about this isn't your ordinary backyard pool proposal? Hopefully you enjoy it. I was like, yeah, that's interesting.  But also what I was really excited about it for kind of Don's last presentation here is it was really great snapshot. Even for me sitting in the audience of how much knowledge and wisdom and experience that we're losing. But also what I've gotten to see, and I hope everyone takes assurance and is how amazing of a mentor that Don is. And he truly has not even just those who are from aquatics currently, but aquatics, Don, what's your mission? Aquatics is going to take over the world. They've done a really good job in recreation and parks. And so he's got his team here that is his current aquatics team, but the entire recreation team has been positively impacted and mentored through through Don's time with us. And it's a very complicated, there's a lot to it. And Don has done an amazing job managing it for 25 years now, but he's done an even better job of setting us up to succeed after your tire. So thank you again, Jim, for bringing it up, but I wanted to kind of cap off that presentation is Don's last presentation to the board and thank him once again from from all of recreational parks for all the work. Thanks, Don. Thank you again, Don. Maybe we'll see you at the pool party next year. There you go. You did outlast the chlorine generator. I was paying attention. All right, thank you. So now when we go into our next item, 8.2 the measure and parks expenditure plan update. We have our parks planner Scott Wilkinson and our parks maintenance superintendent James Castro will present and update us regarding the measure and plan for capital and maintenance projects. Step on up Scott or James is ever going first. I'm going to go first here. Thank you, chair pits. Vice chair and the rest of the board here at the board of community services. Thank you for having me. I told you to be back last time. Here I am. So it's great to see you all again and great to be here. Yes, I am here with James Castro. Well, first of all, I am Scott Wilkinson, the partner with the city of Santa Rosa. And I'm here with James Castro maintenance supervisor. I'm going to give you a little bit of an overview about the measure and program as a whole. And then cover a little bit of the capital side of the direction we're going in terms of funding some of the capital improvement projects that we have in the department and James is going to talk about the expenditures related to the maintenance programming that we have going in the department. And then we'll have plenty of time for questions and comments at the, at the end of the presentation here so next slide please. As many of you know the measure is is a 10 year measure that started in 2019 and it's going to run through the year of 20 or the spring of 2029. It's structured so that 50% of the money collected through the program is allocated to the Sonoma County regional parks department and 50% of the nine cities incorporated cities in the county. The city of Santa Rosa. The projection is that the city of Santa Rosa will receive approximately 1.9 or just under $2 million per year to allocate to the parks department as a whole, including maintenance capital projects maintenance and recreation program. Yes. So, next slide please. So far, the department is allocated approximately $4 million. That in the first couple of years, first two years that has funded an extensive community public outreach process that's well documented in the parks measure and parks for all public input report which I'm sure many of you have seen if not all the information that was collected there through numerous community meetings is well documented in this report in the attachments therein at the website that is listed at the bottom of this slide that you have in your packet as well. So I encourage you to go there and enjoy all the comments and input that we had collected through that process. The money also funded a in-depth assessment of all of our park facilities. Those of you who have been on the board for more than a year or so are intimately familiar with that and have seen that evolve and come to fruition and has really informed the process that we're getting into now in terms of how we want to make money going forward to improve our facilities throughout the department. It has also funded repair to parts that were damaged in the fire. Parks and both parks and land and roadside landscapes are being improved and repaired through this funding as well as the funding of a maintenance volunteer maintenance supply trailer tools. As well as staffing that's really increased our capacity to help care for a plan for improvements to the parks to better serve the recreational needs of our community. Next slide please. So one of the big takeaways from the initial outreach was really kind of creating a framework for how that money was going to be spent. And that was that a large part of the input led to the idea of really taking care of the parks that we have, really improving investing in some of the deferred maintenance projects, creating new facilities at existing parks to upgrade existing parks in terms of capital improvements. So 50% of the money is being allocated in that direction. Similarly maintenance and is also important and developing the deferred maintenance projects that we've needed to get to is the other 40% and then 10% for the recreation programming to expand recreation programming throughout the city. Not just the products but other areas as well. Beyond that in terms of the capital improvements which I'd like to focus on for a few minutes before I turn it over to James. There are really kind of for priority areas that came out of the work, both the community outreach and the assessment project report. And those were play areas improvements play areas. Sports fields improvements to sports fields, sport courts and finally, safety and accessibility issues in general throughout throughout our facility so. Next slide please play areas just running through a couple of these these different areas. There are a few images of some of the older play areas and play equipment that we're planning to upgrade and use the measure and funds to upgrade in the coming years. Next slide please sports fields, both soccer and baseball and softball fields, they're in need of upgrades both on the sort of capital improvement side and also on the ongoing maintenance side of things as well. This is a field that Jacobs Park on the left, middle shot is of the soccer field at Southwest Community Park and the field at Jennings Park to the far right. Next slide please sport courts mentioned those include basketball courts tennis courts and everyone's favorite pickleball courts which we're hoping to create some of those going forward as well. As it's super popular and growing sport in our community and elsewhere on the left is a basketball court at South Davis neighborhood Park. Powered Park tennis courts that we're going to be renovating and the basketball court rectangle with Park there for example. Next slide please in terms of safety and accessibility. We're going to be looking at improvements to park pathways, paved and unpaved trails, as well as replacing park amenities and furnishings throughout some of these facilities. And that dovetails with some of what James will cover in a minute. We've got in the upper right of new hall trail park that connects Martin Luther King, Jr. Park to Petaluma Hill Boulevard it's about a quarter mile trail there, and then that Vietnam Veterans Memorial trail that's adjacent to spring Lincoln and Adel Park. So, next slide please. So as I spoke about last time when we went over the development impact fee and program and how those funds are allocated to the different areas of the city. It's also helpful to kind of look at the different quadrants of the city in terms of organizing how we're going to invest these measure M funds in our parks throughout the different the four different quadrants. So, in the following slides we're just going to go over some of the priority projects that we've identified in each of these quadrants. Next slide please. And in your attachments, there are a list of these projects that are grouped by project type. But for this presentation, we put them into, like I said, into the organized by the quadrant so quadrant one is the Northwest quadrant. And we're looking at the prior priority projects there in green player and field renovations at Jacobs neighborhood park player in field renovations at live Oak neighborhood park and sports field renovations at Jennings neighborhood park totaling. And these are based on really early estimates, so that we can just kind of begin to organize how much we can do with the projected amount of funds which may change over time slightly but it's a good it's a really good starting place in terms of us thinking through what some of these projects are going to actually cost and how much we think we can accomplish with the available funds in each quadrant of the city. So we'll see the future projects down below are are the sort of the next tier of ranking in terms of projects that we would get to given additional funding that comes available throughout the program, the life of the program. Next slide please. We have identified 3.3 million dollars in funding for this quadrant, and that would be going towards three principal projects. Cook Middle or Cook School Park play area renovation there basketball court replacement and upgrade at South Davis neighborhood park and soccer field renovation project at Southwest Community Park. Next slide please. Quadrant 3. Two projects identified in this quadrant, Reakin Valley Community Park, significant play area renovation there. And a basketball court replacement project at Tanglewood neighborhood park. Together, those are early estimates are for $1.6 million. And you can see future projects projects next level of priority, Doyle Park ball field renovation Franklin Community Park ball field renovation and the possibility of creating a play area at courthouse square as another idea. Next slide please. Quadrant 4 projects we have identified are a play area renovation at Peter Springs neighborhood park, tennis court renovations at Howard Community Park, and tennis court renovations at Gallivan Community Park and you can see posted other future possibilities no shortage of projects available to do, given the inflow of additional funding. So with that, I'd like to kick it over to James to cover maintenance aspects in the next couple of slides. Thanks. Change of slides. Chair Bids, Vice Chair Castillo, board members, my name is James Castro, I'm the superintendent that oversees park maintenance. So we've got a couple of slides here for you on park maintenance and I really want to mention that one of the guiding tools for us was that in maintenance, this was not meant to supplant the services that were supposed to do as an agency. In maintenance that's a little difficult to accomplish because if you can imagine we've been unfunded in a lot of areas for many years. And so we're looking at deferred maintenance situations that we're trying to get ourselves out of. And some of the strategies that we're coming up with, we're looking for guidance from you guys. So this is short term hopefully this is within the next year. But the first thing we have are additional staffing for the months of April through September. That happens in parks during these months, right? Some sun comes out the weeds are all over the city. We have the summer camps, we have our sports fields, and just the amount of people that are in our parks at one time is actually really, really encouraging. So we need some additional help during the summer. So summer camps, sports fields, weed abatement. We put a cost on that to address those things. The benches in courthouse square, we're looking at replacing 30 damaged benches in courthouse square. The original design was kind of poor and the quality of benches that were put in courthouse square actually become somewhat of a safety issue. So we're going to replace them with newer designs that are more durable. And we went working with the downtown folks in the DAO to try to come up with the right design on that. The volleyball courts currently the grit sand that is in the volleyball courses is not to the standard. But this is again one of those issues that we've been unfunded for for years. They are using the courts. There's actually a volleyball team out there right now using them, but we're going to put the right sand in there so that the amenity is more playable. I can't say enough about Park of Month.  We're very, very happy with our turnout and the community involvement. Most of you here have participated in those. So we're really happy with how things are going. And we've put a cost on it and that cost is around the personal protective equipment that we offer to all the volunteers that show up. And, you know, this started post COVID and there was, you know, we're not, we're not taking the gloves back, right? We're giving you the gloves and we don't want to use them. So in our short term plan here, we're looking at about $240,000 of our money that we're going to be spending. So, next slide please. And this is more of our long-term plan and we're still strategizing throughout the right way to do this. But, you know, we heard from the community and we heard, you know, it's not just the community that we're here from. Our staff has a lot of input on the improvements that need to happen around the parks. So irrigation controllers were a big one, right? Because sports fields, we still in Santa Rosa don't have a sports complex. And so we really need to be investing more into our fields that we have. So that comes in the form of irrigation controllers. We don't have remote access right now. We have to manually go out and turn things on and turn things off. It's not to say we have no remote access. We do have some remote access. So we're working with companies to get some bids on what it would be to be able to control all of our irrigation systems across the city remotely. If we get an alarm, some breaks, we'll know immediately and be able to turn it off. Rehabbing our turf, that number there is based on city staff re-tabbing our turf. The conditions of our fields fluctuate from city staff being able to do it versus it needing to be a capital improvement. So as many of you know, parks and rec were separated for a minute and now we're back and so we're able to strategize with capital improvements to come up with the right plan that will accommodate not only park maintenance but our whole rec and park team. And then they'll prove storage containers. This is an idea we're floating around because at most of our sports fields, we have little sheds that have some equipment for the sports, some equipment for park maintenance, but they get broken into constantly. So we will be, again, strategizing with recreation to find where we can put these containers. And there are just many con-ex boxes and they'll be able to lock them up and nobody will be able to get into it. So as far as the irrigation controllers, we're working with our water use efficiency team and we're hoping to put things in line to put things to align with our climate action plan. So more to come on that. And then the restroom remodel. This is a touchy subject. Technically parks doesn't own the restrooms they're owned by our facility maintenance crew. And we are hoping to partner with them to have all of our restrooms in our parks remodeled. I have three daughters. I know what it's like to be in a park. And the bar bathrooms are, they're embarrassing to be honest. So we're hoping to throw some money at that. New paint, new fixtures, new flooring. We'll have to do some ADA upgrades in order to meet code. But that's the goal. So long term, this slide totals to about 1.3 million. And that's all I have for you. I'm going to turn it back over to Scott. Thanks, James. So just wanted to go over some of the next steps before we open it up to y'all to provide any comments that you have comments and questions that you have on anything we've talked about here. But we will then incorporate those comments and that feedback and develop further refine our plan going forward in terms of the capital improvement side and maintenance investments that we'd like to make both in the short term and the long term. City Council will then provide their approval via the budget adoption. And we'll continue to work on project scheduling and developing work plans to accomplish the work at hand. And continue to provide quarterly updates at the citizen oversight committee, the measure and citizen oversight committee. That we do regularly going forward and will continue to do throughout the life of the measure of the 10% of the measure. So with that, that concludes the presentation for this evening and I'd like to hear from you. Thanks, Scott. Thanks, James. We have questions from more members. Go ahead. So you very briefly touched on the tennis courts being repaired at Howard Park. I've had some inquiries from the public on it. So can I ask you a little bit more about the timeline budgeting that kind of stuff on it? Yeah, so we are creating a scope in terms of what it's going to take to replace reports out there that have fallen into disrepair. And we are hopeful that that is a project that we can get underway next next year. So just there's no current time specifically. We don't have a current timeline. Yeah, for that. Anything else somewhere? I think not. Carol, go ahead. So to me $2 million is a lot of money for the city of Santa Rosa. It's not a lot of money and maybe for parks and rec while it's nice money. Could you give some perspective for what the $1 million a year for capital improvements is in the capital improvements budget and the 800,000 for maintenance what percentage of the maintenance put it in real terms. So I can say, oh, this is this much extra. I'm having a hard time visualizing it. I'm having a hard time visualizing what $1 million could afford or. No, what an additional $1 million to the capital improvement budget that the parks department has in a year. One percentage $1 million. Is it a 10% bump? Is it a 5% bump? Oh, the increase. I see. I understand your question. I'm going to ask Jen if you could address this. I'm happy to. So you'll remember that slide where we had the quadrants. And so every year the amount of funds we receive for park development impact fees is based on the residential units that are built in each of those quadrants so it fluctuates greatly from year to year so you never really know. We get as low as 40,000, which is low for capital projects and residential the next year we get 3 million, the same quadrant. So it's really it's really all over the place it's hard to narrow it down. Over the years we kind of generalize and average it to about one and a half to $2 million. So this is a, this is a nice and significant improvement to the capital projects budget and we really hope to you could see that. It's a lot of projects, but it's not nearly the projects that are in our condition assessment. So we're really hoping to extend this measure into the future to really provide that extra needed effort for not only the deferred maintenance. The staff members are mentioning some of the things that aren't funded yet, some of that. And additional capital funds at that part development funds don't really cover a lot of that so.  So it's for each for the city each year. Okay, so yeah, okay, it's a good amount of money. And James chime in. I don't know for park maintenance for sure because park maintenance has never had funding for these kind of deferred maintenance projects ever so it's a 100% increase for park maintenance. And as far as staffing, we have, we have about 25 right now. So 23 so we'll have eight additional or four additional staff that we wouldn't normally have. And we're going to see how it goes. So it's a nice it's a smaller increase on staffing level and a 100% increase on capital. And I just say we're getting four additional part maintenance workers. We temporary broads keepers we are fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Super excited. Any other questions from the board. I unfortunately wasn't quite done. There seemed to be some overlap between part money outlay and capital improvements. I'm a little fuzzy on why bench replacement is part maintenance, but a lay ground replacement is a capital improvement. Can someone clarify that for me. I'll defer that to you. Thanks y'all. I'll do my best. It is a great area. It is a great area, but once your project exceeds a certain amount, we have a certain amount of budget for park maintenance to replace broken things. And when something needs to be completely replaced, so they'll replace pieces of our playground equipment, but not the whole thing. So when the whole thing needs to replace or we need 50 new benches at the same time, we need to replace that bench. So that's more of the more in line with park maintenance. If that helps, if it can be repaired easily within the budget we have for park maintenance, we usually address it right away. It's capital improvement, community engagement that we involve our park planning team. And I have one more question I'm hoping for an illustration. South Davis Park we've been talking about it a good lay amount. You were used used as an example for measure and funding for the basketball court. If there was a grant received for the play structure, is there capital improvement money from the regular if you could use it as an example for these different components working together would help me visualize these different funding sources because as I remember the measure M was supposed to be the enhancement and the I was voting to make my parks better not to maintain them as they were. So I think this would interest the public in knowing this. Yeah, a couple things there I think. So we do have a variety of different funding sources that play oftentimes at one, one part facility. You mentioned South Davis Park. We have a lot going on there. We have recently gone through a whole master planning process there. And we have a phase one of that master plan project underway, the design work underway for it which is a significant replacement and renovation of the play area there on the north end of that of that park. The basketball court in the middle is not part of that project that first phase of work that is being funded through a grant program through the state. The basketball court through the conditions assessment report ranked high in that category of project types of things that we want to replace. It's basically the end of an old road that doesn't go through anymore or was terminated when the highway was built there. And so we're interested in an upgrade there that would would make it easier for the park raise the level of it up so that it's continuous with the grade of the park itself and feels more like a proper basketball court. So what I'm hearing you say is there's the grant money for the play structure. There's the measure and money for the basketball court. Any regular budget money for South Davis Park or it's the measure and and the grant. The two significant. Yeah, we do have matching funds from our park development impact fees when we apply for the grant. So it's half city park development, half the grant and then so that's that project it's on a fast timeline. But like Scott said this basketball court is raised to the to the level of needing replacement so that'll be phase two and that's entirely measure him. What I'm going to say is there is regular budget money going, I didn't know that and that is so good to hear that fills in a missing piece. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Any other questions from work. That's got a quick question on the benches at courthouse square. Are those the metal ones that need replacing. Yes. There's any design for those. The like arm rest you're supposed to have those don't seem very comfortable at all. I don't know. I don't know what the process is for that. Yeah, I'll comment on that. Yeah, that is by design. We don't want them to be comfortable for people to sleep on. The arm rests were put in their intention to differ people from hanging out for too long. And that is at the direction of the downtown association. Okay, that was their goal. Well, fair enough. No napping in courthouse square. Yeah. People like take naps down is a lot of gentlemen down to take a nap. Any other questions? No, that was it. That's a 10% of the benches could be comfortable in the next time. Well, absolutely. And we are looking at, you know, the replacements and the design of the placements. There may be a combination of different styles as well. I had some thinking. I had some questions on the benches to actually, if you're all done. I was wondering too. Are those the picnic benches with the tables or just the seated setting ones just the free standing benches. That's right. Okay. I also support more comfortable benches. So I should be comfortable. All people. Yeah, a couple of questions. That was one. Yeah. I think that's the play area in courthouse square. Where is that going to be? Do you have an idea yet? In concept, it would be potentially on the, in sort of the southeast corner of the, of the plaza. But it's, it's pretty early stages in terms of the, the site design. Would that be next? What would it be next to? The third street side. Third street side. Yeah. And the bank building over there. Where the grove of trees are, but it is still to be determined exactly. You know, the size and how it would fit and what it would look like. So. Okay. Thank you. A few other questions. Yeah. Yeah. These are for James, I think. So you said that the facilities maintenance crews are responsible for the bathrooms. Can you kind of explain how that breaks down James? Happy to. So facility maintenance is in charge of 109 city owned general fund buildings around the city, not including all the water departments. So even the little kiosks or that's what we call them in facilities in courthouse square. So that's what we call it. My understanding is that in order for a park to actually have ownership of the facilities in the park, it was to become a district. And that would create a whole and others funding source around it. So. Facility maintenance has a very short budget that they call their park ancillary budget to take care of the parks. Park maintenance goes and opens them and cleans them. So that's what we call it. Facility maintenance. We call it facility maintenance and they take care of it. Okay. They have a construction crew and you know, we do our best to maintain the buildings, you know, toilet clocks, staff will try, but ultimately that would be facility maintenance responsibility. Okay. That's interesting. Is that so they just have like the right, I guess you said there might be a legal reason, but is it also that they have like the right to hang or equipment or what just. No, this is just the bureaucracy of the city. Okay. Yeah. That's interesting. Okay. Thank you. Cause I do get complaints all the time. So as you said, we all use the parks and, which is why we're trying to come forward and say, Hey, if it has to be parks money. Because these are a major amenity in our park and they. And you, yeah, absolutely. But you did say that your crews can clean them. Just like a normal sort of cleaning. It is ours. Our crews responsibility to clean them. Okay. I do have a quick question. Is that something unique to Santa Rosa? Is that something you see in other jurisdictions? I don't know. I go ahead. Yeah, it's definitely not unique to the city whatsoever. Smaller cities, everything into public works are into certain groups for efficiency standards. And years ago was decided. I think it's just a little bit. But I think it's a little bit different. I think it's a little bit different. But the question came up. Why is facilities not maintaining the buildings within the parks. And so these were added. They have a budget to do that. We don't maintain that budget. We maintain the maintenance of the interior of the day to day cleaning stuff like that. Not unusual, not entirely unusual. So we, we work it out. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for that. What's what department is facilities maintenance under. Public works. Okay. Thank you for that breakdown. So one, and then I think that was, oh, one little question. Cause I was at Bicentennial Park. There was some construction there, but I think Scott said it's not, it's in the future, but it looked like something going on. Are you rebuilding that play structure? Yeah. So where that construction is taking place. There was an old gazebo. There was a two horseshoe pits. There was a lot of barbecues and really aged seating furniture. Okay. So we worked with capital improvements and decided we're going to tear it all out and redesign something. We had a really big homeless population that continues to be an issue there. And they basically had the overhang and a fence around it. So they could really just set up shop and it was, it was completely deteriorated. So we made the call to remove it. Okay. So that's already, what's, what's going to go there? Do you have anything in mind yet? We have a couple of preliminary ideas that dog park has been thrown around the community garden has been thrown around, but we're still again, going through what would the community want there. So nothing has been decided. Okay. Thanks. Um, I think that was a long questions. Any other last questions from the board, Carol? This is more a comment as these improvements happen. I highly encourage signage that say your measure in dollars at work people think of Caltrans and it's like oh something does happen especially the individual neighborhood parks people can feel good about this and I think it's a good reflection on the department to tout the improvements of park users conceded absolutely their dollars at work. There's some required signage so we will absolutely we're looking forward to placing that out there. Thank you. Thank you. All right those are all questions from the board we will go to public comment on this. Thank you sir. I'd like to make a comment. Go ahead Dwayne. Thank you. Dwayne DeWitt from Roseland. Very informative and a good thing to hear today. When Measure M was going forward Brett Wilkinson came out into Roseland and solicited people to be supportive of Measure M to make sure that this wouldn't fail and actually on their materials from the election Roseland is called out there would be funding shared with Roseland. I bring this up because I had never supported the tax increase in my entire life until this one and I said okay we're gonna do this because Roseland stuff's going in it. So the one park in Roseland is South Davis that's being addressed. There are people who live nearby there who would like to see it renamed to George Mabey Park in honor of World War II Pearl Harbor Casualty George Mabey who died on the USS Arizona across the street from where that park is now located. They put those comments in to the master plan update and we are hoping that someone will act upon that. I when I was young was over there a lot because for a while I lived at 215 Teresa Street and I knew this park really well. It is something that is a very helpful thing to have and the comments that were coming up today reminded me of something that's very important that's been overlooked. There was a Santa Rosa Youth Athletic Field Trust set up over 25 years ago to help be funding for place to play here on West Third Street and that structure is probably still in place but the people who were involved they would have gone off to retirement things like that. City Council member and former Mayor Jane Bender was involved people like that. I think there should be a focus from staff here to reach out and make sure that we can get more volunteer activity reactivate the athletic field trust and find ways to get more things at Southwest Community Park which is in the Bellevue District but is used by many people from Roseland. People have set up ad hoc volleyball court there and people are basically running basketball tournaments. It's a really great thing to see. There's a lot of use at Southwest Community Park. We'd like to see two more basketball fields just to the north of the existing fields put in the volleyball courts there and then go for more soccer fields also at Southwest Community Park. Now there's one thing there that people say is a hold back and that's because there was a spot put aside for California Tiger Salamander but I believe they're all dead there. So you should probably check and make sure if there's any living there then you got to worry about it but if they're all dead, take that space and put it to use. Basically, Southwest Community Parks can get a lot of use from all this new building coming in. Thank you kindly for your help. Thank you, Dwayne. With that, we will go to any discussion items on 8.2 and last thoughts from any board members? I'll share a few. I did notice the picture of Peter Springs Park so thank you for that. I've bugged Jen a few times on that one. The play structure I think is older than me so and I appreciated the breakdown, James, of all the numbers for each park. Thanks for that. I like to always love that level of detail and while I have you, I will let you know I brought up the arborist with council member Ryder so we're working on it. Trying to get an arborist. Yeah. Rehiring an arborist. So a new one. And then my last comment and I've said this before so I'll just be brief. Measure M is super important and I just love that 40% of it goes to maintenance. We don't often do that in government. We like building shiny new things and then we often don't maintain them so I'm really glad you're getting those funds. It's super important and it's super important to renewing that sales tax. That's what we want to do when it inspires. So with that, I'll end my comments and I just want to thank you again for your presentation. Thank you to you both. All right, we are moving on now to item nine. That's me up first 9.1 the mayor's lunch for committee board chairs. Unfortunately, we still have not had that much so I cannot provide our report because I haven't done it yet. I'm hoping that we'll start those up again. And item 9.2 board member one, would you please provide us an update for the waterways committee? There was no meeting last month. The next meeting will hopefully have a field trip to Colgan Creek reach future park. Unfortunately, we did not meet forum for tomorrow. So that will be moved to another one. Great. Thanks for continuing to serve on that, Carol. Dwayne, do you have a comment on that one? I was curious. She just said there's no quorum, so there's no walk on Colgan Creek tomorrow. That's correct and that has been posted. Thank you kindly for that. Was that your comment, Dwayne? That's what I wanted to find out. Okay, thank you. I appreciate that, sir. And that is now run to item 10, Deputy Director Santos. Do we have any written or electronic communications? We have not received any written or electronic communications. Okay, great. Item 11, future agenda items. Is there anything specific that any board members would like to see on a future agenda? No, okay. The only I believe you did say in May, we're going to talk about the ordinance update. So that was the only one from me. And with that, we will get to number 12, the adjournment. So the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Community Services will be held on Wednesday. This is not the right day here. Help me out. It's going to be my apologies. May 24. Okay, Wednesday, May 24, still at 4 p.m. in this room. And I hope to see you all then and some more members of the public possibly. So with that, I adjourned this meeting of the Board of Community Services at 505 p.m. Thank you.


This is number point, point number two. As I said, Alexofinia makes it very difficult for a person to notice emotion. I like to do this sort of graphical analogy to try and help you understand. That sounds very patronizing, apologies for that, but here we go anyway. So we have a graph from 0 to 100. Perhaps if we were going to take the example of being angry. Most people, their anger would increase a little bit and they can notice that that anger is there. The threshold for noticing is maybe like 10 or 20 on the scale of 0 to 100. So it's quite easy to notice those background emotions increasing. And also being able to know how you feel gives you an idea of how you're presenting to a person.


Welcome back to the session on LaTeX. In this session, we will learn to include images and resize them. Graphic X package is used for this purpose. The supported formats of images are JPEG, PNG, etcetera. One can resize them, scale, trim, rotate and add borders using LaTeX. These are known as attributes of an image. To include an image, the syntaxes slash include graphics and the file name in curly braces. The argument attributes are optional. Here is an example of including an image. The file name of the image is Falcork wheel dot JPEG and it is taken from Wikipedia for illustration purpose only. Just to mention briefly, Falcork's wheel is a rotating boat lift that connects two canals in Scotland. You may read the article on Wiki if you like. So, what is the problem with this image? Ah, it is too big, is not it? Using the height attribute, one can achieve it. Let us see a demo. I am switching to tech studio. So, let us include the package graphic X. Let us include the image slash include graphics. We remove the arguments as of now and we write the file name Falcork wheel dot JPEG. Please note that the image file is in the same folder as that of this LaTeX file. Let us build and run. As you can see, the image is too large to fit onto this page. Well, let us resize it by writing height is equal to 3 inches. Build and run. Well, now we have an image having height as 3 inches. Sometimes, we are more comfortable in resizing the image using width. So, instead of height, let us write width. Let us build and run and now we have an image with width as 3 inches. Let us go back to the slides. This was the example which we just saw. Please avoid writing both width and height as the proportion of the image will never be maintained. The image will either distort or will look horrible. I am sure that most of you are now quite happy with the session of today as we finally, learned to insert an image using LaTeX. Thank you. Have a nice day.