HomeMy WebLinkAbout09.03.15 Park Board MinutesPark & Recreation Advisory Board - Meeting Minutes
Date: 9/3/2015
ATTENDANCE: x Rick Terway Dan Dotta x Brent Kubalek
x Molly Harker x Arthur Job Edmon Daniels
Thomas Davenport Vacant Seat x Saul Martinez
x Roberto Garcia Craig Howell x Jason Ruud
Nolvia Salinas
I. Call to order Time: 5:37 pm
II. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes:
Minutes Approving: August 6, 2015 Motion: Jason Ruud
Second: Molly Hark er Approval Vote: Unanimous
III. Staff Reports
a. Recreation Highlights
• New Program Guide - Explain thought for Next Guide to have Spanish cover
the full back side and to send a Post Card instead of the Guide itself.
• Pool
• Doggie Paddle – up from 21 dogs in 2014 to 26 dogs in 2015
• Open Swim Attendance – up from 20,608 in 2014 to 24,082 in 2015
• Season Passes - 1176 admissions over course of the summer = $4.06 per
admission
• Color Dash - Went Okay - Thank you to board members that volunteered -
141 in attendance - Neon Vibe, Parade, Smoke, and other events proved to be
too much competition on the day of the event to get better numbers.
• Tons of Trucks - With Fiery Farmers Market (8:00am-Noon) on Saturday,
September 12, 2015
• Sweetest Daddy-Daughter Prom - October 10 (Either at Chiawana High or
Senior Center)
• Many Programs Starting up in September including
• Toddler Short Sports
• Adult Flag Football (Has 32 teams with 4 on waitlist) up from 29 teams in
2014 and 25 in 2013
• Adult Recreational & Competitive Volleyball
b. Senior Center Highlights
• Footcare – still going well this year
• Relocation – running into roadblocks with options
c. Park Maintenance Highlights
• Personnel Activity
• Attended Monthly Safety Meetings
• Hired a new Groundsman I
• Park & Facility Projects
• Removed playgrounds at Volunteer and Kurtzman
• Striped fields for soccer, adult flag football and youth football
• Installed a new door at Volunteer Park building
• Painted Head Start Classrooms at MLK
• Sprayed herbicide in most of the parks
• Cemetery
• Funerals = 8 (4 burials and 4 cremains)
• 6 Pre-needs
• Sprayed growth regulator
• Special Events
• Assisted with Food Truck Friday
• Vandalism at Lincoln and Casa del Sol Parks
• Lost 3 trees in wind storm
• 3Rivers park progressing
IV. Other
a. Area Wide Park Board Meeting will take place on the evening of Oct. 1 at the
Senior Center during our normal Park Board meeting time.
b. Update on Park Construction – Road 60/Three Rivers Dr.
• Construction on school is all but finished, progress now being made on
park.
c. Capital Improvement Plan
• Rick listed each of the items (parks, trails, & projects) that are included in
the CIP
d. Informed board that the Head Start Lease of MLK Center has been extended for
another 5 years.
V. Council Member Suggestions & Report
a. Arthur Job asked about the community garden, how things were growing. He
offered to do a soil test.
b. Robert Garcia asked about having a Park Board Meeting at Peanuts Park once the
design had been agreed upon so that they could get a better visual of what is going
to be changing.
• Rick suggested trying to get approval to invite the Park Board to one of
the pre-design meetings with the DPDA and the Consultant, so that they
could ask questions and give input on the design.
c. Robert Garcia asked if there were any plans for a grand opening or ribbon cutting
upon completion of the new playgounds or if any communication was going out
as to when the playgrounds were going to be completed.
• No ribbon cuttings planned, news flashes can be sent to communicate.
VI. Meeting Adjourned Time: 6:27 pm