Good evening and welcome to the April Parks and Community Services Board meeting.

We are at quorum, so this meeting is now called to order.

Is there a motion to approve tonight's agenda?

Thank you.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

Let's vote.

All in favor to approve tonight's agenda, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Okay, the agenda is approved unanimously.

Next up is the approval of minutes from the park board's March 2026 regular meeting.

Sorry.

Is there a motion to approve the March 2026 meeting minutes?

So moved.

Thank you.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

Let's vote.

All in favor to approve the March 2026 meeting minutes.

Um say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, please say no.

The minutes are unanimously approved.

All right.

Next up is oral communications.

The Parks and Community Services Board values community input and looks forward to hearing from you during its meeting.

Please be aware that in compliance with Washington State campaign laws regarding the use of public facilities during an election.

No speaker may support or oppose a ballot measure or support or oppose a candidate for an election, which includes your own campaign.

Any speaker who begins discussing topics of this nature will be asked to stop.

There are rules adopted by the city council limiting the topics about which the public may speak during our meetings.

Under ordinance 6752, the public may only speak during public comment about subject matters that are related to City of Bellevue government and are within the power and duties of the Parks and Community Services Board.

Following the board's bylaws, the total time allowed for oral communication shall not exceed 30 minutes.

Each speaker will be allowed to speak one time for up to three minutes.

We will follow the order in which individuals signed up.

If you do not get a chance to speak this evening, you are always invited to email your comments to us at Parkboard at Bellevue Aw.gov.

Now I'll turn it over to Ryan who will read names from the online and in-person sign-in sheets.

Thank you, Chair.

Uh this evening we will start with our pre-registered speakers.

Uh the first name we have on the list is Anne Clark, who I believe is joining us virtually.

Anne, are you online at this time?

I don't believe she is online quite yet.

Okay, hearing nothing, we'll move to our second pre-registered speaker, Alex Zimmerman.

Very nice.

This is my count to speak to CT Bellow.

150,000 people.

In every meeting.

Is this a problem?

What is we have?

So first I want to explain to you why I don't show my face.

And I spoke from Tacoma to a bit in every at more than 5,000 time.

I speak every week approximately 5-10 times in every council meeting.

And everybody show faces.

Because when you don't show faces, you look like a real Nazi pig.

Is exactly who you are, because it's doing this for one particular reason.

So people cannot understand who's talking.

It's a trick.

Criminal trick.

And I talking about this for many years.

Nothing change.

It's a problem, what does we have?

Second problem, what does we have?

This and I show you before.

Twelve year ago.

I'm sorry.

Twelve year ago, council make a decision so people can speak only for 20 minutes.

In ten people only.

This pure violation of First Amendment amendment.

Free speech.

Situation so stupid, so idiotic, you know what this means.

Because for motivation in doing this, they supposed to be have a reason.

What is reason?

Can be limitation of freedom of speech.

Yeah, understand.

Cut constitution, read First Amendment in freedom of speech, 30 minute.

What is supposed to be?

Shut up.

Stop people for opinion.

It's absolutely absurd by definition.

You know what I mean?

You cannot do this.

And you do this for many years, and you support this because when one from you or two from you, or another people from Bellevue, for example, for 150,000.

Time, Tom.

Come in token, it will be stopped.

No one talking about this.

What does this mean?

This means you under control.

Like Nazi Gestapo, Mafia, you know what is mean.

Control everybody.

Everybody's scared talking about constitutional right.

It's absurd.

You understand?

You have a government who exists for 250 years.

And no one from Bellevue, 150,000.

Come and speak like Aleximerman and Tokyo's first amendment broken.

What does this mean?

This means you all slip.

You're a bit.

Yeah, you slive.

You understand what this means?

I call this about this.

It's very important.

You not change for 12 years.

Viva Trump, Viva New American Revolution.

Stand up slav and happy cow.

We need to stop and doing this.

It's absolutely duotic situation.

Yeah, thank you very much.

This is for you guys.

I very appreciate you.

All right, we'll return to our pre-registered list at this time to see if uh Ann Clark has joined.

Still has not.

So with our remaining time, uh the floor is opened up to anyone else that would like to speak.

We'll start with anyone in the room.

Please raise your hand and come on up.

Not seeing anyone.

And finally, anyone online that wishes to speak, uh, please raise your virtual hand.

We'll give it just a moment.

All right.

Not seeing anyone there.

Um, so we will um well, Ann Clark, we'll see if we can get those comments um in written form, if they are interested in providing none.

But at this time, that closes our speakers for our communication.

So I'll turn it back to you, Chair.

All right, thank you, Ryan.

Um, next up on the agenda um is council communication, but council member Breyer is unable to attend the meeting tonight.

Um, so we'll move on to director's report.

So we'll turn it over to assistant director Cameron Parker for the director's report.

Yeah, thank you.

And good evening.

Uh, a couple of things to share uh tonight.

It is, but I'll speak more distinctly.

Um want to uh share with you all the uh we are planning ahead for our um expected um vacant seat uh coming up here uh in June.

The recruitment uh was posted by the clerk's office uh and closed yesterday.

Um at uh close we had uh 18 applicants, so um that's a very healthy number.

Um so the uh clerk's office now is sort of assembling them all together, and uh we'll share those with um with us and our council liaison, and uh we'll sort of start the process to see who's uh within that pool of 18.

A couple um events coming up.

I think we've mentioned these uh in prior meetings, but uh coming up soon.

Uh Earth Fest at Bellevue Botanical Gardens is a Saturday uh 18th from 11 to 3.

Um lots of programmed activities there at the garden.

And uh then the following Saturday uh is the uh uh always popular sheep sharing event uh Kelsey Creek Farm from 11 to 4 as well as uh a kickoff for uh for spring in Bellevue.

And lastly, I did want to just acknowledge uh this month in April um a few.

We had uh three staff people within Parks and Community Services who um are celebrating milestones.

Um Sharon Franzen, who's a senior administrative assistant, 35 years uh working in parks and community services, um Michelle Campbell, who works in our park scheduling office, and John Soriano, um who uh we had here not too long ago at Robinswood Tennis Center.

They are both uh 30 years in.

So uh three staff members and almost a hundred years worth of service to Bellevue Parks uh combined.

Uh so just wanted to acknowledge um those folks.

And uh with that, I'll pass it back to you.

Thank you, Cameron, and thanks for sharing those milestones.

That's really awesome.

All right.

Uh next up is board communication.

Um is perhaps start at one end of the table and then we could work our way around if that's okay.

We start with Eric.

Uh not too much to pass on.

I was excited to see a couple weeks ago.

We finally got a little bit of snow.

I'm a snowhound.

I love seeing the snow and with that short dispersal, got to see kids playing in the parks and making snowmen.

So that was extremely exciting.

Aside from that, uh, I'm excited to dig deeper into the Bellevue Parks and everything as the good weather comes on.

So that's all I've got to share.

Thank you, Eric.

Yeah, well, likewise, not too much.

Um trips to the downtown park and um a few of the other downtown areas, but um nothing of note to report.

I was at the downtown park earlier today, and I would say that with the impending weather, it was quite sparse.

I've not seen the downtown park quite as empty as it was.

Um as we did get a hail storm an hour or two later, that was probably wise.

Thank you, Paul.

Anyile?

Sorry for being late.

I had a very tight pickleball gate that I thought went to like 11, 11, and so we had a win by two.

So we finished, yeah.

We won't we finish at 55 7.

And then I text both of you, like I'm gonna do a few minutes late.

Because it was just like at Bellevue Picklewall Club, which is really close, but then with all the lights, so sorry.

Um priority straight.

So if I look sweaty, that's why.

Um, so let's see.

Um let's see, uh okay.

So I've been writing um a lot of um trails, bicycle, um like every Saturday trying to get ready for my December kind of bike around a Taiwan.

Um so I I can appreciate how like especially with the trails, like when they're connected, it's just so nice.

You'll be able to write, you know, from you know, one trail to another.

Um and then I noticed like one of the um uh project reports saying that uh cities are working on a trail system report, uh, some strategies around that.

So I would love to know more about that.

And sounds like it's trying to connect a lot of the open spaces within Bellevue.

So I don't know, even this if it's uh realistic, but it will be nice to be able to bike across all the what 16 neighborhoods within Bellevue, like in all connected fashion.

But I would love to know more about the trail system report.

Um and then uh oh, the other day my husband and I went to Robinswood.

Uh we I hadn't been there for a while.

And then um, because I used to go like at least once a week with the kids, you know, different sports, but I hadn't been there for a while.

I noticed like the feel looked really like fresh.

Yeah.

It's all construction.

Yeah, yeah, looks really nice.

And then um, yeah, it was I think the day I went was really nice weather.

So a lot of people were out there.

Um yeah, so that was really nice to see.

And then um, oh, one other thing.

Um, in one of the reports, there is like Capital Project Dashboard.

Um, and I tried to kind of look around it.

And then I was wondering if that is intended for the community to use or just for the city employee.

Like if it's for the community, I would love to have like a session on that, and maybe the board member can give some feedback on, you know, uh how we should be using that and then how to look for information and get information out of that Capital Project uh dashboard.

I think there's kind of some interesting information, but then I had some things I was trying to do.

I wasn't sure if it's like by design it worked that way or um or if there's any opportunity for us to give feedback.

So I think those are the oh, one other thing I wrote.

Umgrat to the city.

I think there was uh uh pedestrian pathway connecting Yukur Way to the South, won some award.

Some what was that about?

Would love to know more about that.

Yes, uh, you'll hear more about it shortly.

Okay, all right, okay.

Thank you.

Okay, thanks.

Thanks, Eileen.

Hey everyone.

Sorry.

Um I guess uh a couple of things.

Um I don't know if you guys know, but when you search for Bellevue Parks and Recks on Google, um, it has two sublinks that show up too, and the activity guide is right there directly.

So I don't know if that was planned, but that's pretty awesome.

So from a Google search on the parks, you get right to the activity guide.

So um very convenient.

That's that's the link I go to mostly.

Um I think in terms of some events that weren't called out.

Um Keep Bellevue Beautiful is doing a couple of cleanup events.

Um I believe they had one last weekend, another next weekend, I think the next couple of ones.

Um, so just shouting that out.

I know Earth Day, there's a cleanup again in Wilburton Park.

Um I believe on the 18th at 9 a.m.

So just in case anybody wants to engage and head out there.

Hopefully the weather's good.

I know they were scheduled for spring because it was gonna be good, and everyone can go out um and help.

And then in engaging Bellevue, I know they have an open survey for Bell Red.

Um, at least uh there's an interactive map.

Folks can kind of say, hey, it would be great to have this here.

Um I thought it looked really great, and it was a great way to get input, like with a map itself and for folks to kind of, you know, you can see what other people are po putting in or recommending.

Um so um I think there's last I saw maybe like close to 30 um entries.

And if you guys want to have an opinion, highly recommend you check that out.

So um kind of sad I'm missing the sheep shearing this year.

I've been going for the last couple of years.

My my daughters will go regardless of my absence.

So uh I will report back on how that went uh in the next meeting.

So thank you so much.

Thank you, Elizabeth.

Yeah, thank you.

So um, like many of you, uh I've been hanging out, weather has not been awesome, but we did enjoy the snow.

I wanted to talk today.

Um given some of the recent comments as well as our recent report from the human services folks um on our our uh community services aspect because uh there are a lot of people there.

We're we continue to hear about layoffs, we continue to hear about people in need.

Um as the city warms up, there are more people sleeping outside.

Of course they're looking for places outside that are under trees, under bridges, et cetera.

And that's uh tragic.

Um I did see that the human services fund is open for applications for 2027, 2028.

And my feedback to um just the the parks and community services team in general is I would love to be able to dig into a combination of parks and community services at at our meetings as we talk about things, not just one park, but hear more a little bit about those projects that we're doing that are alleviating these issues because that person who's struggling, who we may think you should not be here right now.

Well, they gotta be somewhere, right?

Ideally not a jail sale, but you know there's a larger system at work and and part of that is under our purview.

So I would just like to be able to talk a little bit more about it.

Not right now, but in the future when it gets on the agenda.

Thanks, Elizabeth.

Um Steve, would you like to do that?

Um, it's it's great to be back after missing two of the board meetings, been traveling um uh a bit for work and then also for family uh reasons.

Uh last month I was in Taiwan.

Um and so visiting some clients and also my my grandma who just turned 102.

So while I was in Taiwan visited um couple of parks in the area, there were very well maintained and um but you know uh I was almost mostly in Taipei.

It's a highly densely populated city.

And I'm in comparison with the with our parks system, um there's a tremendous difference, right?

There's um lots of buildings and then here in here in the city is uh there's water and greenery.

So I was quite um there was a quite quite of a contrast.

Um, but I was just thinking that you know, a lot of the decisions that we're making today, um, it's gonna be impacting how the city will develop and and how the uh park systems will will develop over time.

So um I think that helps me to uh gain some perspective in in um you know comparing other other um park systems.

Well, you know, two or three in in the city of Taipei with what what we were doing here, I think uh it gives me perspective.

Um and another thing that the kind of um uh that I saw when I was visiting the parks was that there were uh the parks were not just geared towards um children because of a lot of our park systems, the equipment, the the gym equipment there um parks equipment is targeting children, but a lot of the the equipment there in in type A were for adults.

So you would see adults, you know, exercising, uh gather together community.

Um so there's a lot of equipment for for older people, you know, like for me.

So and that kind of reminded me um of a meeting that I attended at Pride Bridal Trails, uh one of the association meetings.

Um, one of the the members uh what attendees came up to me and said, hey, you know, we should um also uh consider equipment for adults.

So that's something that I'm I'm sure there's been thought that goes through um what kind of equipment is put into these park systems.

And I'm sure that there are a lot of equipment that's targeting adults, but um I I just thought that you know, while I was visiting Taiwan that um it was pretty um it was pretty neat to see a lot of the adults using the equipment.

So that's what I have for right now.

Thank you.

Thanks, Steve.

Um I'll go next and maybe I'll start off with uh Newport Hills.

That park has some adult equipment.

And uh I was gonna mention I do see people use it a lot and kids trying to imitate adults using the equipment.

So um yeah, I think that yeah, thanks for bringing that up, Steve.

I noticed that too when I was in time Taiwan a year ago.

But yeah, it's great to see uh some parks getting it here and it being used.

Um also other weird thing about Newport, sorry, uh Woodlawn Park has that big off leash dog area.

And I noticed some signs that said that um from the city about uh people having off leash dogs.

And I think some of our neighbors or some neighbors intentionally destroyed some of the signs but left parts.

So just thought I'd share that that I saw some of that.

Um even though there's a big off-leash area, some people are still allowing their dogs off-leash, like within a few feet away, which is very unfortunate.

Um so hopefully that can stop.

Um I went to downtown park too and actually walked uh circle like twice with uh council member Breyer the other day.

So we had a nice little chat just syncing up.

Um she she mentioned like one of her big things in upcoming is the budget.

And so uh our work today will be very appreciated.

Um looking forward to working on uh selecting a new board member.

So yeah, it was a really nice sync up.

And then I wanted to mention I saw in the CIP uh that on May 7th, there's a Bell Red neighborhood park master plan public meeting.

And that'll be the first one at Highlands Community Center at 6 p.m.

And I think it's really good if any board members available to attend that that first one.

That's kind of where a flurry of ideas I think will come from the neighborhood.

So that'll be a good first one to attend.

And then I was gonna mention uh I like uh scrolling through Instagram a lot and saw the parks uh Instagram account highlighted a new playground in the shape of like a pirate ship at Clyde Hill.

I thought that looked really cool.

I haven't had a chance to visit yet.

But uh yeah, it really caught my eye.

So uh definitely keep spreading the world word about cool stuff happening through Instagram.

All right, that concludes uh what I have to say in board communications.

So I guess we'll move on to the next item on our agenda, which is the city budget process and park CIP overview.

And presenting for us today is uh Jenny Zhang, fiscal manager of the parks and community services department and Wyatt Thompson, park planning and development manager for the parks and community services department.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

And I'll give you all a few minutes to set up.

Yeah, as they're getting ready, I can do just a quick um intro here as you'll hear the board as a specific role within our budget process uh to um sort of uh track our CIP budget and provide uh communication to council uh as they consider um uh in the fall, though, the citywide and the in its entirety, the budget in its entirety.

Tonight we're really um just sort of kicking that off and providing all of the information um that will lead into um a future meeting or two when we'll go into more detail about um what the board's feedback will be.

So um we'll just kind of hit uh an understanding of the overall budget process and um also wanted to give you um just a download on kind of the current status of our CIP projects that are in our current budget.

Um, and then uh in future months will be a little bit more uh forward looking in terms of what's sort of what we expect in the next budget.

Um, one thing I can share is that our overall budget message due to um just uh a lot of economic uncertainty um is uh there will not be much of a status quo is our approach uh to this upcoming budget.

So um not really expecting um on the CIP side or on the operating side.

Um lots of new investments or new projects um given that our uh kind of our our 2022 levy projects are kicking off.

You expect um just to see mostly kind of continuation of those projects uh without expectation of uh offering lots of new things this for this two-year cycle.

With that, um turn it over to Jenny and she can get us started.

Chair.

Oh, yeah.

Good evening, Chair Klemmer and Parks and Community Service Board members.

My name is Jenny Zheng.

I'm the fiscal manager of the parks and community service departments.

And thank you for having me here tonight.

Um in line with our commitment to keep you updated on the parks and community service budget development.

I will provide a brief review of the city's 2027 to 2028 budget process, budget timeline, and um CIP budget structure updates, and we'll also discuss the important roles of the parks and community service board during their budget process.

Additionally, White will provide an update on the current status of all the projects in the current parks capital investment programs.

And as you know, the budget authorized the resource allocation and also outlines the policy priorities established by the council.

The city budget office leaded the by-new budget uh development.

The overall city budget process revolved around these six strategic targeted areas, which represent the city council's vision and support alignment with budgeting and organization, organizational work plans.

The current six street uh strategic target areas were updated in March 2024, which emphasize on community safety, equity, environmental stewardship, resiliency, and the importance of partnership in achieving our long-term goals.

Each target areas include several supporting objectives to further guide the implementation.

And the Parks CIP project proposing the current budget to provide a high return on investment by align into mainstream uh strategic target areas, which is the high quality builds and the nature environment and the thriving people and communities.

And this year, budget proposal from each department will be updated and submitted to the budget office by May 1st.

And teams of staff from throughout the organization will evaluate and package those proposals for review by the city's leadership team of each department director.

In the fall of this year, the city manager will summit uh uh proposed the preliminary budget to the city council.

And there will be two public hearing sessions during uh at the city council meeting held in September and October.

And council deliberation will happen in October and to finally the city adopt uh city council adoption of the but balance.

The budget is expedited in late November around the Thanksgiving time.

For this by new budget process, the city stay with the six years CIP spending plan, which will be the 2027 to 2032.

And for the bud for this budget cycle, CIP proposal will be submitted at the program level.

Later, our CIP program manager White will provide you more detail on the CIP programs.

Starting 2025 to 2026, the long range planning reserve is a new budget to hold funds in a special account for their funding for property acquisition.

As Cameron mentioned at the beginning, there is no new CIP funding source expended during the 2027 to 2032.

So okay.

Now we talk about their um parks board's role.

The role of the parks and the community services board in the budget process.

Typically, the board functions as an advisor to council on parks capital needs.

Review the preliminary parks, the CIP strategy, and develop a communication to council to address requested projects.

The board's letter will be provided to the city council as their as they consider city-wide budget decisions this fall.

In your packet, the EU packet there is an example of the board communication to council from the last budget process as a reference.

So next step in the coming park board meeting, we will present more detail on the current CIP projects at future meetings in the summer.

The park board will work with the staff to draft their memo for council and in September transmit parks and community service board call comments to council.

Thank you for the chance to present.

We can pause now and if you have any questions.

For this part of the presentation, uh Paul.

Just um one.

I mean, it was a comment.

It was good to see the reserve fund for long-way uh long-range uh acquisition.

Uh that's much needed.

The uh letter to council timing.

Um typically that would go out in August.

So do we need to adjust um like what when is the best time for that to land in terms of having the right um availability for council?

Um we have the schedule set up for the uh board to have conversations in the June and July meetings.

Um so the letter would should essentially be done at the July meeting.

Uh because they're gonna be in a July meeting, uh neither we nor the council meet in August uh during that recess.

Um we had our planning at July meeting.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Oh, wait a minute.

I I had my month shifted, so there's not the yeah, the the the month off is after the okay is August.

Yeah.

Is uh is July a good time for that to land?

We would um well well, the board will sort of have the letter uh approved by the July meeting, then it's just a matter of inserting it into the budget process um at the time when the council um kind of starts their engagement, which is more in the September time frame.

It is okay.

Okay.

I just don't want planning or transportation to like sneak stuff in before we do.

So we'll make we'll make sure we'll just hand them over simultaneously.

So all right, thank you.

Any other questions?

Um, let's move on then.

Uh we'll shift it over to White Spark.

So thank you.

And yeah.

I'll give you the mic White.

All right, good evening, board members.

Wyatt Thompson uh Parks Planning and Development Manager.

I oversee the uh capital projects division and as well as our uh capital improvement program and portfolio.

And so tonight we'll uh have a lot of information uh to share with you.

I do have a couple of points where it might make sense for me to stop, get a drink, have you all ask any you know brief questions, and then we can also reserve time at the end for more extensive discussion or questions if you have have more uh that you'd like to discuss.

Um so just uh a brief overview here of our of our team that delivers uh projects and uh and plans.

We have within our planning design and project management group.

We have within our planning design and project management group, we have capital projects planning and property management staff, um, all under the direction of assistant director Cameron Parker.

And uh collectively, that team uh provides award-winning projects.

I'm so happy that you asked about the Eastgate pedestrian pathway earlier.

Um, the both that project and the Bellevue Adventure Park were recognized by the Washington Recreation and Parks Association this year for uh a couple of different categories of awards, and we have a staff member that will be going to that conference uh to receive those awards on behalf of the city here in a couple of weeks.

Um we have a capital project dashboard that is included in your monthly report.

This is updated quarterly for parks projects.

It also contains information from transportation and utilities, but you do have the option to filter uh for just parks projects if that's what you're you're interested in.

And then you can drill down into some project details that are provided there.

Um also as a part of your monthly report.

We've been experimenting with uh different ways to format that.

And so I'm very open to your feedback on as to the types of information that we provide you on a monthly basis.

And if if you have input or feedback tonight, uh we can certainly uh try to provide you the information that you're looking for in a format that makes the most sense uh for you each each month.

Um, that is, by the way, a public facing uh dashboard, and so it is available to all of the public.

Um it is intended for uh for the public who's interested in in city projects.

And so if there's if there's feedback on how it works or doesn't work, would be we'd be happy to receive that um tonight or in the future as well.

Um our capital program is funded by a variety of different sources, um including several voter supported levies.

Um you'll notice the 2022 Parks and Open Space Levy has has a special logo and identifier.

Uh, Betsy Anderson in November provided you an update on that levy uh specifically and kind of previewed that.

And so we do have uh projects throughout this presentation that are funded with that levy noted with that graphic, and you will start seeing that on public signage as well as we roll out projects that are supported through that program in the future.

Um, also uh funded projects are funded with real estate taxes as well as specific project leveraging opportunities, grants, partnerships, developer fees, donations that support certain projects on a specific basis.

And so those private dollars are able to extend what our public dollars can do and allow us to do more than we otherwise could.

Our uh programs begin with long-range planning.

And so the city's comprehensive plan provides that policy framework for land use decisions and how the city is intended to grow in the future.

The Bellevue Parks and Open Space Systems Plan then drills down specifically into uh parks and opportunities to expand our park system.

And within that, uh within that systems plan can is contained uh all of our capital improvement projects and uh opportunities for acquisition and development of those parks that come after that.

And so we will be starting an update to that plan uh later this year, um, and you all will be get briefed and updated on that as we move through that process.

So, in terms of the kind of the life of a park, um, you know, it starts in that with that identification of needs and opportunities within that systems plan.

Uh, parkland is acquired, parkland is then master planned.

There's a naming process that you all are involved in as part of that.

Um, then a projects are identified, they move through a design and permitting process, then they go to construction.

That's about a six-year cycle, typically, if everything kind of moved uh sequentially through that process.

And then, of course, as as projects are completed, the public uses them, the infrastructure ages.

It goes through our typical OM and maintenance process.

At some point, it needs renovation and renewal, and it kind of goes circles back to the planning stage, design and construction of improvements in order to maintain that those at that infrastructure and parks over the long term.

Uh Jenny mentioned that we have a new organizational structure for our capital program starting this year.

So we have our parks and community services portfolio of projects.

Each department has uh one or more portfolios, and then within that portfolio, we have four program areas, and you can think of these as just containers uh to categorize similar or like projects together.

of improvements in order to maintain um that those that infrastructure and parks over the long term uh jenny mentioned that we have a new organizational structure for our capital program um starting this year so we have our parks and community services portfolio of projects each department has uh one or more portfolios and then within that portfolio we have four program areas and you can think of these as just containers uh to to categorize similar or like projects together uh our four programs are park development and expansion trails and natural systems waterfront and destination parks and renovation and renewal and within each one of those programs there may be multiple CIP projects and each one of those CIP projects could be a project for a specific improvement at a specific site or it or it could in itself also be a container to include multiple jobs or multiple projects at multiple locations that are all nested under one CIP number and you'll see that as we kind of walk through each of the projects here next is a good place to pause before we get into specific projects are there any questions about that overview.

Anyone have any initial questions oh go ahead Elizabeth so this is probably getting quite a bit into the weeds but I am curious as someone who also has to categorize projects um let's take just so I understand what fits under which of these boxes let's just take a renovation uh or like let's say a regular maintenance at Robinswood Park um but it involves a stream would you have to break apart that that work to put it in two buckets or would it all just go into renovation and renewal we would I think we would try to categorize a project into one category even if it touched kind of even if it included a trail for example it might actually be a new park development with a trail we wouldn't split those apart into two programs it would all be contained under the primary program and then whatever improvements needed to happen there would all be budgeted and live in that one container.

Okay.

Does the structure mainly reflect the way the budget is allocated and how much we have for that or the impact or like how should we think about this in relation to what we're about to look at in terms of the overall plan so I don't think these the programs aren't necessarily driven by budget um they are intended to encompass our both our current suite of projects as well as some future opportunities that we think may be coming in the future as a way to categorize those projects we I do in the next slides we will discuss each one of the programs in a little more detail to kind of provide you a fret like why we establish that as the program element and then which projects fit which of our current projects fit into that program space.

Yep.

Any other questions comments Aileen can I ask a few questions about the dashboard then yes.

So what kind of projects like um would go onto that dashboard like would park maintenance be on it or not?

The dashboards envisioned for capital projects so we do do a lot of maintenance and work that that happens from our operations teams and that that type of work wouldn't show up there.

The limits for the for most projects is a million dollars and up would appear there.

A million dollars and below is typically the cutoff for like a renovation and renewal project.

So only um a million above projects will show up on these dashboards.

Probably yes okay and then like as a is that it is open to I guess anyone and how should we use this it's updated quarterly um like you know like if I come on I just see like list of active projects I like if I scroll through um you know if I click on them and it'll give me little description but what is like the intended use with this I think it's for for you all or any member of the public that is interested in in projects that we are doing or that other departments are doing if you see that you know if if you go to visit Robinswood Park for example and you see that there's construction fence around the the synthetic turf field and you wonder well what is what's happening here.

If you had question, you could contact that individual, uh, what the funding sources are, the budget, um, those type of details.

And then can I like if there's a few that I'm interested in, can I can I make a list of like my interest in a project, and then I just kind of focus on those updates.

Uh I because I was trying to do that.

I don't think there's any way like here, because when I looked at it, it was like overwhelming.

There are so many projects around the city, right?

So I'm like, oh, you know, if I'm interested in this five, can I just say, hey, here's five that I'm interested in.

I somehow I can mark them, and then I somehow can get updates.

So that's a really good suggestion.

I'm not sure if the technology is capable of doing that.

Um, we do have some of our projects on their project web pages do have opportunities to sign up for specific lists to be updated about that project.

Um that wouldn't necessarily the current in its current form, that wouldn't be the project dashboard.

It's more here's everything, and you can filter by department, but you can't necessarily select to get notified when uh when we update a certain project on that list.

So there are three departments parks, transportation.

I mean, there's 20 some at the end, yeah.

Um, like two.

We can certainly ask if there's an opportunity in the future to update the technology to allow people to sign up for notifications.

I don't want to be interested.

And if that if that is a possibility, we'll certainly let you know.

Okay, great.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Um, one quick comment.

I really like the the levy logo on things.

It shows kind of where uh what people voted for and where tax dollars go.

And then uh just to uh you said uh in the next section, you'll talk about each of the four categories and kind of what what they mean.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Okay, yes.

Then I'll save my questions for later.

Uh we'll turn it back to you, Biden.

Great.

So our first uh program area is park development and expansion.

And this this is probably the largest program area.

And so after we get through this suite of projects, I'll pause for a breath again and and then we'll take the next three program areas to call you know together.

Um so the park development and expansion program is in is intended to expand and enhance the park system by building new parks or facilities or by making major enhancements to existing parks that that fundamentally change what that park does.

So it adds a brand new element or it changes an element in an existing park.

And these are typically uh gonna be larger projects um and they're they're gonna be more impactful to to the park or the community of users.

Um and so our it ties back to our parks and open space systems plan that emphasizes acquisition and development of parks to meet that future demand as well as provide for geographic equity by you know locating parks throughout the community.

Uh we've we've got uh six CIP projects that are in some stage of planning design or construction, and there then there are three uh that are in the pending category, meaning that they're not started here in 2026, uh, but they may be there they're planned for um in the next come couple of years to to begin work on those projects.

So the first uh project is the Bell Red Parks and Streams CIP.

Um we have a current project that is kicking off the master plan at this at this site that's on the right um at the West Tributary uh location.

Um project manager Zarian Smith provided an update to the board a couple of months ago on this project, and we are kicking off in May with the May 7th with that community meeting.

Thank you for for br raising that earlier.

Um again, that's May 7th at Highlands Community Center at 6 p.m.

to kick off that master planning process.

Um and then also within within this CIP, we would have um a desire to add new additional parklands in the Bell Red neighborhood.

It's a it's an area slated for redevelopment and a lot a lot of potential population increase, and it's an area where we have very limited parklands other than this one site that we are currently planning.

And so as we you know, we're actively looking for other acquisitions in this neighborhood, and as those acquisitions would be made and can come online, uh they would get that land would get programmed into this CIP uh for future planning efforts.

Uh, but the current the current planning effort is for this this one site on the West Tributary.

And so we anticipate having that master plan throughout 2026 and council adoption in 2027.

And then we would move into construction with construction anticipated in 2030.

The next CIP, PAD 107 is Ashwood Park Development.

So this is a single project CIP, whereas the Bell Red might contain multiple projects over time.

So the Ashwood Park Master Plan was adopted by council last year, and we're currently in the design phase for this park.

It features a large open lawn, playground, off-leash dog area, restrooms, picnic shelters, seating areas, and we expect construction to start late in 2027 and throughout 2028.

Like Bell Red, this is a CIP that could eventually contain multiple uh park locations as those are acquired.

We currently have one site in the Eastgate neighborhood.

We acquired two lots in that neighborhood in 2022 and 2023.

And the council adopted a master plan in November of 2025, which is the image on the right.

It features a large uh open lawn area, play structures, and a picnic shelter and some seating spaces amidst a lot of uh landscaping and and trees that are already existing on that site.

And so we're working through design now, and we anticipate construction in 2027 for this new uh neighborhood park.

The next pro next CIP is the off-leash areas and emerging sports facilities.

This is a levy funded project that encompasses our ability to nimbly react to new needs in our community based on changing demographics or changing trends in sports and activities.

And so this CIP covers projects that might include things, you know, new uh new turf fields for cricket, um new pickleball courts, um, as well as off leash areas for or improvements for dog owners, um, as well as any other new types of sports or activities that may occur uh during the planning period.

And so on the left, we have the Robinswood uh turf field, which was just recently completed and it opens up, it opened up on earlier this month.

Um it it has it has soccer and lacrosse lines that it had previously, and it also added a youth cricket pitch in the center to expand opportunities on that field, and then the off-leash area uh program has been in place for a few years.

We've started that project a number of years ago with pop-ups that were intended as temporary to uh to test out gain community feedback.

The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

Uh, people uh love these sites, they use them extensively, and so we have made uh several of those locations permanent at and are planning additional amenities at those locations at uh Wildwood, Wilburton, Crossroads, Robinswood, and Newport Hills, adding things like amend like other amenities, water benches, shelters, um, just other enhancements to those sites, um, as well as we are also planning new pop-up temporary locations in neighborhoods throughout the city that we plan to release in about a month or so.

We'll have uh community outreach surveys, opportunities for people to provide input on whether uh they feel like those are good locations to keep those off-leash areas for the future.

The next project is uh Factoria Neighborhood Park.

So this is another growing area of the city that lacks uh park space, and so we we are actively seeking land in this part of the city to acquire property, and once that property is acquired, uh this project would activate with master plan for that new site.

And so that it's dependent when this project starts is dependent upon when that property is acquired, but we do we do have it in a holding uh and for for when that opportunity comes.

The next project is the Japanese American Legacy Project.

Um, a couple of years ago, Sound Transit developed a park at the corner of 112th Avenue Southeast and Main Street as part of the light rail extension into downtown.

And then they gave us that parkland.

And so there is an existing park that is currently there.

Subsequently, we began working with a community group to identify a project that would uh describe the history and the contributions of Bellevue's Japanese American families during the first half of the 20th century and their incarceration during World War II.

And so you will be receiving a more detailed briefing on this project as well as a council briefing on this project in the next couple of months.

But we're currently in that early stage, and we'll provide a lot more detail when that uh when that next update happens for you.

Uh the next project is the 2nd Street uh downtown neighborhood park.

This is a small green space at 2nd Street and 110th Avenue Northeast.

Uh, this is an area at southeast the southeast corner of the downtown area that does not have a lot of parkland.

It does have a lot of residential um and residences in this vicinity.

And so this will meet that future need for uh for parklands.

Uh we have this in the to begin a master planning process in the next couple of years, and we that would involve uh community engagement and a planning process engagement with you all on the on the types of features and amenities that might make sense uh to be located in this site.

The next project is the Wilburton Parks and Streams CIP, uh like some of the other ones uh before it.

Uh this one again, uh a highly uh uh very active part of the community in terms of future uh redevelopment and engagement.

Um, this is the the location where the East Rail is coming through north to south.

It is also the landing spot for the Grand Connection.

And so uh we anticipate a lot of of redevelopment in this area.

We don't have a lot of park space at those and within those areas where that transit-oriented development and those transit projects are happening.

And so this uh CIP is intended to acquire new property and then plan that property or plan out those parks as they uh as they are acquired.

And then the last project in this section uh is not really a park project so much as it is a support facility for our parks.

Um our park, our new park operations facility um is a new uh office and operations location for our OM teams in natural resources, resource management, and our structural division.

And so this project supports the design permitting and construction of that new office and uh workspace for them.

It's part of a citywide strategy to improve employee workspaces um and facilities, and it will have their offices as well as shops and equipment and material storage uh for our park operations division.

It's located at the east side of the Bellevue Golf Course, and uh it is currently in design with construction expected to start the middle of next year.

And that is the end of that section.

We could take a quick break for questions, and then there's three more program areas after that.

Anyone have any initial questions?

Excuse me.

Uh, I'm glad to see Factoria on there.

I know it's been in work for a while as a resident back in the 1900s.

Um I will I was going to uh just ask this generalized question because uh the boundary of that area that you had there, and I know we're getting it a little bit off of like the money side of things, but just bear with me for maybe 30 seconds.

Um, a lot of the areas are not are so peripheral as to not be so helpful.

And a lot of the areas where you might say, hey, it'd be great to have a park here in Factoria are industrial or not industrial, commercial property, uh commercial properties.

Um I'm curious, do we have any kind of mechanism every so often?

There's a plan put forward to do something fundamentally different at Factoria Square Mall, for example.

Um, do we have some kind of mechanism available to us to through a combination of developer incentives and sort of city partnerships make the redevelopment of something, should it ever finally take off.

Um kind of a joint public-private partnership that would fulfill the uh the need in that area per our goals.

I think generally, yes, those opportunities exist.

Um I'll take a stab at this, and then Ryan or Cameron can jump in with more detail.

Um, I think our obviously the comprehensive plan lays out kind of big picture vision within that.

Then there's often sub-area plans that define major redevelopment areas and vision that the city and and stakeholders have.

Um those plans often can identify, like the Bell Red sub-area plan identifies major park improvements and trail and greenway improvements as a component of that redevelopment.

Those plans then drive conversations with developers as they come in for applications to rebuild things or build new things, and we have those conversations.

And Ryan is involved in a lot of those um conversations to ensure that where park space is available, uh, where uh public plaza space can be made available.

Um, and so there's a dialogue that that often occurs at that at that planning level.

Um, Ryan or Cameron, do you have additional insight?

No, I think I think you covered it pretty well.

Um you mentioned the sub-area plan aspect of this.

So um there the sub-area up plan update is ongoing currently for Factoria.

So see that question.

It's an important point in time.

Um and there is an open house uh also on May 7th, same day as Bell Red.

However, they uh the neighborhood plan open house is longer.

So if you're really ambitious, you could potentially go to both.

But um keep that in mind, just generally that that plan is ongoing.

Um so what's identified in that could potentially drive policy towards working with landowners, like you mentioned.

And then there are always other tools.

We have staff in the city that are working with um you know, folks out there on different agreements, and we are in contact, and so there are opportunities for um you know things to happen in the future.

Okay.

Um, I bring it up because my high-level concern is that we don't try to check the box by saying we got a park in factoria by putting it near the periphery of that outlined area, as opposed to something that might be cost prohibitive if we were to literally just do what we did in Eastgate, buy a chunk of land, which in this case would be commercial property valued at who knows what, and then try to put a pocket park in the middle of all that.

That that is a you did a great job.

I don't know if you can pull that off in Factoria, is all I'm saying, Cameron.

Um, or whomever the new Cameron is on that.

So that's that's kind of the I want to make sure we have enough flexibility such that that that's an option.

Yeah, anyway, thank you.

Do you have a question?

Oh, yeah.

So, first of all, this looks like such a pretty building.

I have a question about the parking here, because there's so much parking.

And we're always saying, like, oh, we don't have enough space for parking.

How many of um how many spots are expected to be part of our uh a maintenance fleet?

How many cars do we know?

Like I would assume this would include a lot of the maintenance vehicles, right?

Because it's the operations and facilities and all the trucks that go pick up things.

Correct.

I think the I don't have the exact number of parking spaces offhand.

I think it's intended for the number of fleet vehicles that we have that would be stationed out of this facility for the employees that report to this site, as well as an anticipated number of vehicles for the employees arriving to the site in their personal vehicles.

And then and then it's also the number is driven by land use code and other city regulations relative to parking.

Yeah, thank you.

And then can I ask the second question, or did other people have one?

Okay, I wanted to respect Robert's rules of order.

So I think everyone is supposed to get one question.

So I'll wait.

Um along the Factoria site there, giving the considerations of how difficult that it's been expressed, as well as I believe it will be to find a location that would be suitable waiting for it to just come up.

Is this the type of project that the city may consider eminent domain on for trying to push something forward?

Not that I'm advocating for it.

I'm just I'm trying to understand where the city's authority lies if it becomes problematic and we can't push this project forward.

Um, not that I'm ever an advocate for that.

Uh I'm just curious, not that I need an answer to tonight uh off the cuff, but um I'm always concerned about the displacement of uh community as well as our retail centers and people who already have enough trouble with businesses, and I'm not familiar enough with cities past practice on something like that.

Uh because I think it will be problematic to try and find a location that will be suitable there.

It's such a small area we're working with with so many retailers and and so uh just a concern of mine, and I'd be interested in knowing if there's authority that lies there, so that it might be something council might be considering.

So just a thought.

Yeah.

Uh I can give a quick response there.

That has not been the city's practice for acquisition of of parkland um to uh to condemn for that purpose.

Um practically speaking, too, with the um often the county and state and and other grants that we um apply to to help leverage our funding, they they actually don't allow for that type of property acquisition anyway.

So it's uh there um I just aren't many um cases where that would actually help us.

So uh acquiring from welling sellers is always the preferred way to go for for park acquisition.

I appreciate that.

That eases my mind.

So thank you.

Deep.

Um just uh this is more of like educational for me in terms of since now we there's a budget for long-term um planning for acquisitions.

How does the city go about identifying the properties to to acquire?

Um is there like a process that that's in place?

I'm assuming there is a process, and and so maybe you can um uh uh explain the process to me a little bit.

And then the other the other one, same along the same lines as uh for sales of of uh city property.

How are those things factored in or how what are the considerations that go in into for acquisitions and sales?

Yeah, so I'm gonna take a quick stab and then I'm gonna let Cameron answer the rest of your question.

It's a great question.

Um I there within the parks and open space systems plan, we've done walkability analysis, and there's a goal within that plan to have every Bellevue resident within a third of a mile of a park or trail access point.

And so that that map starts to show us areas where there are gaps or deficiencies in our park system where people are further away than that or they can't walk to to one of those uh asset locations.

So that starts to identify the neighborhoods or parts of the community where we would like to have some sort of new park acquisition occur.

And then there is a team that that evaluates and works with real estate um developers to identify specific sites within those locations, and Cameron can talk about some more of the process as to how we arrive at those decisions.

Yeah, uh not too much more to add, but actually, if you could go back to either factory or Eastgate, you can see that map um with uh or the downtown one.

Yeah, that's that's a good one because there's so much white.

Uh so in the northern area where it's uh shaded green, that that is our walkable access um coverage that would be coming from uh a trailhead onto the mountains of Sound Greenway Trail or the I-90 trail that runs along the north end of I-90 there.

So we uh put a point on the map and um the mapping software will sort of walk out a third of a mile and that gets shaded green.

And then we focus our attention on the white areas there that aren't that don't have that walkable access.

Um in residential cases like Eastgate, um, it's often working with the local community group to be kind of eyes on the ground.

That's how we um came across the properties we did end up acquiring there was like a hot tip from a neighbor.

Um in commercial areas, it is more challenging.

Um, but we are also um sort of working just with folks who know the area, including uh commercial real estate uh professionals just to um to try and get um you know uh uh foot in the door somewhere within that area.

So like Paul mentioned, you know, ideally we'd find something like square in the middle that would have a nice big bloom of a third of a mile all the way around.

Um that would that would be the best case scenario.

professionals just to um to try and get um you know uh uh foot in the door somewhere within that area so like Paul mentioned you know ideally we'd find something like square in the middle that would have a nice big bloom of a third of a mile all the way around um uh that would that would be the the best case scenario and then one once those potential properties are acquired um there would typically be a team you know from planning side from the capital project side from the acquisition side from you know city staff um that would go and and walk that site you know sometimes with the property owner or their representative um always with their permission uh but you know we would do some some quick analysis of the of the site just to understand is you know is it is it possible to build a park here we're not doing high we're we're not doing detailed level planning or anything at that stage but it's just you know what are the immediate recognizable opportunities and constraints on that site and sometimes you know they're it's identified through that that that site just for whatever reason isn't feasible to develop or it doesn't offer enough opportunity and so you know we we pass on that opportunity or it has a long list of opportunities um you know minimal list of constraints and that you know that might be a property that we would then pursue uh to acquire from that landowner follow off question sorry so um so then if the city does not extra well if I understand this city does not exercise eminent domain and so then the my my next question is um does it reach out to landowners and say hey this is a great site for us we are interested or is it more the city waits until somebody wants to sell it and it falls into that area and that's when the brokers or whoever it is the city starts to uh negotiate um for these sites yeah um it has typically been more the the latter uh and uh just exercising a lot of patience and in finding welling property sellers um again that it's in the more commercial areas it's just a completely different environment and we have been more proactive um in engaging with commercial real estate professionals who know the area and know you know how to kind of more proactively make those connections and and test the waters uh in some of these areas that are a high priority thank you oh shell sorry just one point on this the Buesta del Sol elementary move to Lake Hill so we might want to update that yes yeah I don't know what it's used for now but oh kind of parking I feel like I've asked about us talking to the school board many times about sharing properties figuring out how to use them I don't I believe that um a lot of the elementary schools that were closed were used to relocate other schools that needed to be renovated themselves.

So then um I believe that happened with Wilburton and also with uh big picture school is going to ace gate so I'm sure this one's already packed up guessing oh thank you um so as you were going through these projects I was trying to look them up on the dashboards um some of them I don't find so if they're in acquisition does that mean they don't make into the dashboards correct okay okay so it's only when you have something acquired and in construction or anything's the earliest phase I don't know design planning.

Yes I think we yeah we would have to you know because there's not a site yet for example in in factoria um there's not a true project in the way that capital projects dashboard would define project and so once we acquired a property and began a master plan and then move through design and into construction that's when uh projects would start to show up there.

And then kind of related to that um I was looking at some of them and they have like the cost estimates right like so Ashwood is uh a cost estimated at 8.5 million East Gay at 3 million Bell Red is at 10 million and then the park operation is about 40 million.

So I was kind of curious about the Bell red because if Ashwood is at Ashwood's only about two acres right at 8.5 is 10 a bit seems like a little bit lower than I would expect because it's a much bigger piece of land and we haven't had that May 7th um the initial feedback gathering.

So is that 10 million cost estimate is that something that we have to work is like the bounds that we have to work with like you know we when we have 10 million and so whatever community feedback have to fit in that 10 mil uh budget because it seems to be a little lower than I would expect given Ash would have been 8.5.

So the budgets that are shown on that dashboard are the approved uh from our from the approved budget uh within the CIP.

So um, and it's so are we at a master plan stage, for example, at Bell Red, the new Bell Red site.

No, we wouldn't necessarily be constrained to that 10 million.

But when we go to construct the first phase of that project, we would be constrained by that budget.

So we could have a master plan that might identify $15 million worth of improvements, but we would only build the first, you know, eight million of that in construction.

And then we would have a phase two that would need to go through the budgeting process to have that additional funding allocated and approved.

And that might happen, that could happen immediately, or that could happen several years down the line in a future budget cycle, uh, just depending on you know, other priorities, the amount of funding available, uh, what the needs are.

Okay.

So like did that's just a first phase.

It potentially potentially potentially.

So frontline the master plan may identify improvements that are 10 million dollars, and we might build be able to build it all.

Um but you're right, we're very early in that process, and so we don't know yet what the community will ultimately propose and what the design process will ultimately recommend in that plan, and the council will adopt.

Um, but the but that that budget is intended for to cover that whole life of that first initial master plan design fees as well as construction of you know of that initial development of the park site.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Any other questions?

Did you have one more?

I have one more question.

This is oh, almost there.

Uh the about the grand connection.

So this is a suggestionslash question.

Um, I think I heard you say we are looking at potentially acquiring space down there near the Grand Connection.

We the the little red asterisks kind of in the middle, right?

Is the is the meeting point of the East Rail and the Grand Connection.

So we we certainly have an interest in how that comes together.

Okay.

So what we're really interested in then is um just being part of the placemaking, but there's no acquisition discussion like for this area.

I think within, I think there is acquisition interest.

Okay.

Within the, I mean, not just specifically at that point on the map, but within the broader surrounding of that node as well as other areas throughout the transit-oriented developments that are planned.

Okay.

So I just want to make sure I heard correctly because when I when I think about all of the acquisitions or new spaces that we would be making in some of these highly urbanized areas, a little bit less so like than what we look at in a factoria where that it's a different environment, but there's so many people, so many businesses and opportunities and so little land.

Uh and a lot of folks want to move in there.

When I was looking at this map, I was just thinking, are we going to have like a high rise of parks?

And then I thought, well, maybe like that would not be a bad idea.

So some follow-up questions I have also don't need to be answered now, would be things like does a rooftop park count as a park?

Um, are we looking at mixed use buildings that could do things like community services?

I noticed that in the plan it says opportunities for public spaces, not necessarily outdoor spaces.

I mean, yes, we want space again, could be rooftop, could be yard, but what about indoor play places for kids, um, people who are waiting.

So I was wondering if we've thought about some of those more urbanized um park public space opportunities for for acquisitions, especially in the Grand Connection where there will be just so many people and also so many other facilities around for them.

Yeah, that's a that's a great question and thought experiment for sure.

Um, I I see some green lights over there for some ideas developing them all on it, right?

Well, I was I would say on that last point, I I think there's a lot of different park opportunities that are being considered.

Not all of those are necessarily through an acquisition purchase process, potentially in Wilburton, for instance, through the land use code, perhaps there's opportunities for working with developers for smaller scale spaces, but uh the image shown on the screen that is from the sub-area plan update.

I'll say those are more indicative of areas that we would potentially be interested in a neighborhood park style setting, not just a plaza space or something along those lines.

And so that's what's identified there.

And so there it you know, you'll see that through our sub-area planning processes, particularly in these more urban areas.

So there is acquisition interests there.

And we are, you know, as we mentioned earlier, trying to follow up and be pretty intentional about talking to folks in these areas because it's not not easy.

Um, in these are high priced areas with a lot of development happening.

So it's a challenge, but we are trying to be on the forefront of that and acquire some open space through some process.

All right.

I might have one quick question.

Sorry, and then we can move on.

Uh just that when I looked at attachment A under park CIP list park development and expansion.

There was one bullet for King County Parks Levy 2020 to 2025.

What was that about?

Or did I blink on that?

Sorry.

Um Yeah, currently um we do have a uh a CIP project that's kind of a holding account for funds that are passed through the or collected by King Counties by the King County wide parks levy.

Um they have a portion of their levy that's passed through to cities to support city work.

Um so um that's the purpose of that um account in the uh moving forward in our new budget.

Um, we won't have that specific project line anymore.

It'll just be within our kind of revenue stream, and it uh then it will be as with all our other revenue streams applied to projects.

Okay.

Thanks.

All right, maybe why or did you?

All right, let's let Y go run.

Thank you.

Great questions.

Thank you all for that discussion.

Um, our next program area is trails and natural systems.

And our our purpose of this uh program and the projects that are in it are to expand and enhance our trail network, improve access mobility, as well as uh support environmental resilience of some of our sensitive natural systems that are through located throughout the city.

Um, you know, trails are uh one of the most popular things that we provide as a park system.

Um they are consistently uh one of rated as one of the most used um elements of our park system and community surveys, as well as something that residents uh routinely consider as a top priority for us to focus on.

And so setting aside this program area uh felt like a natural outgrowth of some of that community engagement that we have had um over many years and many uh planning processes.

Um of course the the open space plan uh provides that goal uh that we talked about to bring parks or trail access to within a third of a mile of every Bellevue resident, and so this program directly supports uh that initiative.

Um the there was a question at the beginning of the meeting about our trails plan that we are working on.

Um, that's currently an internal document that is going to provide a framework for trails discussion and planning as part of the open space plan.

And so it's it's laying out some of the the initial goals and and strategies that will be developed with through community engagement as a part of that planning process later this year.

So it's something that you will likely see at a future at a future meeting.

Um, and it and it's it's a very important piece of of the this work moving forward.

Uh there is uh currently one CIP project uh that that holds a variety of projects and and job locations uh for trails.

Um this that may expand in the future, uh, but currently uh PAD 112 is our parks and trails uh uh CIP project.

Uh currently we have six um active projects that are in planning design or construction.

Um, and they're they're focused on um promoting connectivity and and adding new miles of trail to our system.

Um of the next projects that you'll be seeing um is the Forest Drive Trailhead in the Coal Creek Natural Area.

It's a new trail access point that's being uh redeveloped.

Um and we're currently in permitting with construction expected to start uh later this year.

Other examples, the Mercer SLU boardwalks, and so you know, trails might mean a lot of different types of surfaces and a lot of you know paved or gravel or boardwalks.

And so, you know, the they could take different forms, but all of those support that goal of connecting parks and spaces to the people who want to use them.

The next major program area is waterfront and destination parks.

And this program will support projects that develop new or improve our existing waterfront parks, as well as enhance the city's signature or destination uh parks.

And these are grouped together because typically parks that are, well, one, because parks that are on the waterfront are a high priority identified in the parks and open space plan in terms of allowing greater access to the lakefront and developing new properties and access for water recreation, as well as the fact that waterfront parks as well as our signature parks often are high, they're both highly visible.

They're both typically more complex in their construction, the type of amenities that are being provided, the uh the type of permitting that is required in order to build a signature park or a new park along the water.

And so this is a place to house some of those more larger complex projects for some of the parks that are really the most uh perhaps beloved parks in our system.

And so we have five of those active uh projects and then two that are pending, awaiting a start in a future budget year that's up that is that will be upcoming in the next few years.

Uh the first of those projects checks both of those boxes.

It's a signature project as well as a waterfront project at Maidenbauer Bay Park.

Uh, we're initiating the phase two of that project to build upon the success of the first phase that happened a few years ago.

And so this project will develop a new gateway plaza at 100th and Maine, and then work a network of pathways down the hill to the waterfront and then make some improvements along that waterfront to connect to uh the whaling building and the existing uh park um uh west of the marina.

Future phases then would work on the actual marina, but that's not not part of this current phase two.

So this is currently in uh I call it, I call it pre-early schematic design, pre-design.

We are uh intending to uh initiate a GCCM process for this.

That's a process where we bring on a general contractor early to work with our designer, um, make sure that everything that we're designing is constructible and it's uh in the most effective and efficient way possible.

And so we're currently working through that approval process to hire that uh contractor to work with our design team and and ultimately and together collaboratively will uh move that uh project through the design phase and into construction.

We anticipate construction occurring here in 2029 and 2030.

Uh the next project is the Lake Sammamish neighborhood park.

So this is new uh park property that we have been acquiring along the west bank of Lake Samamish.

And when once it is completed, um it will provide the endpoint for the city's Lake to Lake Greenway Trail, as well as um nearly 400 feet of new accessible shoreline.

And so we are currently in the process of uh we've acquired a number of these properties.

There's there's a couple that are yet to be acquired that are in process.

Um this summer we intend to begin demolition in preparation for a master planning process uh that will kick off uh once all the properties are acquired.

Uh the next project is the park shoreline restoration CIP.

So this is a a project that will hold a number of lakefront uh projects.

A lot of our uh lakefront uh properties were built quite a few years ago with infrastructure shoreline armoring methods that are no longer recommended.

And so this project uh seeks to renaturalize a lot of those shorelines, install uh new or updated ways to manage that erosion or wave control, as well as uh provide new natural uh buffer as well as uh additional better access to the water in some of these locations.

And so some of these uh examples, uh Chisholm Beach or or Clyde Beach uh parks, you know, wouldn't would fit under this CIP.

I think that that might be the uh pirate ship playground in that photo that you mentioned earlier in the meeting.

Uh the next project is the Bellevue Airfield Park Development.

Um, this is a 27-acre uh park.

The council adopted a master plan for this park back in 2024.

And we are currently working through a process uh called Progressive Design Build.

That is a process where we hire the design team and the builder together as a team, and they work together with us to again design and build the uh project in the most efficient and effective way possible, really to maximize the public benefit of the dollars and get the most out of the project budget that we can.

Um the project has things like uh eight new covered pickleball courts, which we know is of going to be a very popular feature, um, trails, play area, splash pad, as well as a large aquatic center.

Uh the project, as envisioned, that's currently in that uh queue for uh hiring that design team will build out the first phase of the park, as well as do some of the preliminary design for the aquatic center, so that we make sure that those two uses blend well in the park, and then there's a subsequent project to develop that aquatic center.

Uh we are expected to be working, begin working on design this year with construction of the park in starting in 2029.

And the next CIP is related, that is the aquatic facility design CIP.

And the the items listed on that slide are from the uh council approved concept um program for that facility.

And so a number of five bodies of water that provide a variety of of water uh activity and opportunity, as well as some dry side spaces to support fitness or therapy or meeting spaces and certainly staff support spaces are needed in that facility as well.

Um we're currently working on developing funding strategies as well as working with our partner splash forward to identify potential private partners that could support this effort with us.

And so we'll we'll begin as part of that airfield project, preliminary design to develop more of the concept and kind of move it to the next stage.

Once we have that, we'll have a better idea of costs as well as uh what exactly would go into the building.

Then we would continue fundraising and as as those dollars and and financial picture becomes more clear, we could then work with that same design build team that's building the park to move straight into design and construction of the aquatic center.

So timing is a little bit further out and dependent on that on that funding picture coming together.

Um, but it would at any rate follow the development of Airfield Park at some point.

Uh the next project is the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.

Um, and so projects that are are seeking to improve uh the gardens nest under this CIP.

Um it's you know one of our top visitor attractions in the city.

Um, it's one of the spaces that my family fell in love with when we came to visit uh Bellevue for the very first time.

We have a very unique uh public and very successful uh public-private partnership with the Botanical Garden Society that helps support a variety of capital projects as well as programs at the at the gardens.

The next major project for the gardens is the wetland Sun Terrace Garden Area, which is identified here in these concept drawings, and we anticipate working with the Botanical Garden Society and the staff there to begin design of this project in 2028.

And the last major uh project in this program is Kelsey Creek Farm major renovation.

And so this is another one of those highly beloved uh facilities that we have the opportunity to manage in parks and community services, um, gives residents and visitors an opportunity to experience that rural uh farming past of our of our history, um, as well as a variety of opportunities for educational programs and different community events, um, like Cameron mentioned earlier.

Uh we have several coming up.

And so this uh project would uh seek to identify and make plans for um really a major renovation of of the facilities here at the farm to address things like accessibility, um fire safety, aging materials, major mechanical upgrades to the buildings, um, as well as stormwater drainage and just other improvements to the to the site as well as the surrounding uh parklands.

So this is on tap for planning to begin in 2028 with construction to follow, you know, once that planning and design process we're done.

Um our last major program area is renovation and renewal.

And the purpose of this program is to improve our existing parks and facilities.

Um these are typically projects that are not they're not routine.

Um so they're not typical day-to-day maintenance type projects.

Um they're they're larger than our maintenance and OM teams can handle on their own, uh, but they're not necessarily changing a program, a site's program or function or purpose.

So they're not introducing new things to the site, they're they're updating the things that are already that are already there or replacing the things that are there as those as that infrastructure uh reaches the end of its useful life.

And so obviously, in order, you know, we have a large aging park system that requires that level of reinvestment in order to meet community needs and expectations for how our parks, both how they look as well as how they feel and how they, you know, we want to make sure that they're safe and accessible for the community to utilize.

And there's uh a lot of projects that happen within this uh program, as you can imagine, uh, to keep up with the number of parks and facilities that we have.

And so there's two major uh project areas in this program.

One is the parks renovation and refurbishment plan.

And so this is a plan that allows us to uh systematically go through all of the park assets and renovate them over a period of time with with the to meet those goals of accessibility and and functionality and beauty for our parks.

Um some of the examples uh that might be identified in in that plan um are the Norwood Village Park on the top, which is identifying playground improvements as well as accessibility improvements for the park, um uh stair construction at Woodridge Park, uh new play equipment at Hidden Valley, and uh renovation at the tennis center for new siding and new roofs.

And so other things, you know, uh replacements for docks, uh playgrounds, other building systems are the types of projects that that fit under this uh capital program.

There's about 60 projects per year that are typically done as a part of this.

Uh some of those are managed by the project by the Capital Projects team, and and some of those are managed by the operations and maintenance team uh with funding through this uh program.

And then the final project here is the ADA accessibility barrier removal initiative for a long time ADA improvements were managed through the renovation program, and they still are to to some extent.

Uh, but a couple of years ago with the last budget cycle, we created this CIP to specifically direct resources towards ADA um improvements, both as a uh goal to meet the the federal requirements as well as our city goals to provide inclusive accessible spaces for community members.

And so this year we've we've performed ADA assessments on several uh park facilities that are listed on the on the slide, and and then uh we'll be working to build projects out of those assessments in the coming years and some examples of those.

Um on the left is the kitchen at the Highlands Community Center, has a number of issues just with the way the space is laid out and the doors are located that don't meet current accessibility requirements.

And so we have a project envisioned to begin later this year to uh address those concerns.

And then the project on the right is at the um crossroads pro shop, and there's some accessibility issues getting in and out of the front door of that building as well as around the building, and so that we have a project planned again later this year to address um those issues and make make that building more accessible uh for the community that needs to use it.

That's the summary of our program areas and active uh capital projects.

So happy to take more questions and more discussion.

Thank you, Jenny and Wyatt.

So any uh final questions for Jenny and White?

Okay, go for it.

Um I noticed when I was looking at this earlier, um the parks trails um CIP um section on on the site has about six million ad allocated for that.

Um interesting thing about parks, uh, like you said, it or trails rather, it's the most requested feature, but it's also um depending on how you classify it, one of the highest ROI things, like doesn't cost quite as much to build a trail as it does to build Maidenbauer, for example.

Right.

Um it's kind of two things I was wondering about.

Um one is as a portion of the total park CIP, should this number be higher?

Um but also um like where are we at in terms of building out the trail network in the city of Bellevue?

Like if we were I don't know, someone dropped a billion dollar grant on us to build trails, like what would we build, right?

Like where is the point where we'd say, okay, we got the trail sorted out.

Um I don't I don't know if I have a good handle on that.

Like, are there is there 20, 30 million dollars worth of trails that we could build if the money was just kind of burning a hole in our pocket, but that's about it?

Or I mean I'm talking about connecting up the existing parks, talking about building out the cross city uh trails like the lake to lake and and things similar things.

Like how are how how do we how do we measure that?

That is a really good question.

And uh no, and it's something that we're that we're actively working on.

It's a component of the trails plan that we're working on now that will feed into the open space plan.

Um I think our our our prior or current open space plan has a has a it it emphasizes the importance of trails.

It doesn't necessarily take the next step of having a all the details of where the trails would go and what those trails should look like to create that full network.

I think the city has relied um on a prior bicycle and pedestrian system study that was uh from a number of years ago that was was not readopted um more recently.

Okay.

And so I think there is a a bit of a gap um in that.

Uh we are actively working with transportation to identify kind of what the next iteration of that plan would look like and incorporate that into a trails plan that it comes as a package with our parks and open space plan.

So I think there's a lot of ideas out there about what the trail system could and should look like and where those corridors should be.

I don't know that they're all collected in one spot.

And our our goal with the with the trails planning work that we're doing now is to actively get them into one document that shows this is the vision for trails for Bellevue and where where we have existing, where we have the gaps, and then what it takes to fill those gaps from a from a dollar's perspective, so that if 20 million or 30 million landed in our laps, we would know here's here's the you know, the list of 10 or 20 projects in their priority order that we would start to go after to that would have the biggest community impact.

Right.

Well, I mean, if if nothing else, it's uh kind of a parallel concept to the whole, you know, we're trying to get walkable parks third mile.

I mean I understand trailheads fit into that, but just this uh this kind of easy to grasp metric of this is what we're going towards.

Um it would be nice to have that um for trails uh for the reasons you mentioned as well.

But also I think there's a little bit of time criticality because as Wilburton TOD and um Bell Red get built out.

I mean, we would hope that there would be a higher vision of interconnectivity between the surrounding areas and these new upcoming areas.

And we wait too long and some stuff might start gelling there.

I mean, it is it's maybe not moving that fast from what we can tell, but it's something we don't want to get behind on.

I think the the sub-area plan for Bell Red, for example, identifies you know, greenway trail type corridors along some of the streamways.

Um I imagine that the the Wilburton sub-area plan that's currently in process will will start to identify some of those connectivities primarily because it's uh because of East Rail and how do we connect more people to that asset as well as the Grand Connection um coming into that area as well, um, which will provide a major pedestrian multimodal node.

So I think those I think we lean in on those types of regional plan or you know, sub-area plans, and then start to identify as we have um master plans coming up for Bell Red or or other active work along East Rail that we're gonna be involved in, hopefully, you know, we start to to push that um, you know, these these projects are needed to connect to these regional um or local park assets.

Okay.

So and all of that would be nested into this trails plan that's part of the open space plan.

Right.

So awesome.

Thanks.

So first of all, great question plus one to everything Paul asked.

I I'm really eagerly awaiting that deep dive so we can see like how we're measuring it.

And um we can see the increase in connectedness that we can get for pedestrians and cyclists and people on trails.

Um my question was around a specific comment about the um we uh uh the adjacent to Weona Lake Samamish edition.

Did I hear you say potentially that would be um part of an extension on the Lake to Lake Trail?

So right now the lake to lake trail ends and we own a park.

Um and then I know God help anybody who tries to get over that road, and then there's private property.

So would we would we be potentially looking at getting to the lake from there on a trail?

That that is the vision, yes.

Yeah, we have we're cord we plan to coordinate with transportation as they have plans to improve the roadway through there.

There's sections of it that have been improved with bike lanes or or side paths.

And so, you know, what does that look like through this area adjacent to our future park site and coordination for a safe crossing from the Wyona side over to what we're calling Lake Samamish properties?

Um, and then uh, you know, how do we get down to the water from that from the roadway down to that point?

So those are all things that um you know will be explored as in those future planning efforts.

Yeah.

Well, first of all, I really appreciate your presentation.

Why I think you have a very important job and tough job.

I don't know how you keep track of all these projects.

Like, do you review them?

Like do you like every couple of weeks?

Like how internally I wonder you guys manage all these projects, sorry, like risk and issues.

Yeah.

Just curious.

Thank you for that uh comment and question.

Um so internally, um, I mean, there's you know, that we have a group of project managers that are all into the details and of project delivery for these projects.

I meet with them every week and we talk through projects, um, you know, kind of status and uh we do have a we have an internal dashboard that is just for our tracking purposes that kind of shows you know the life cycle of those projects and where they're at.

Um, and then yeah, we we talk all the time, you know.

This is this is this is what we do, and and delivering these type of projects is what what I and our and the team love to do.

And so it's it's hard work, but it's great work, it's fun work.

So um happy to happy to share it with you and um I really appreciate all the questions tonight.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Um I'm sure the city is grateful to have you been here what a year, not quite a few months.

Five five months, five months, five, five months.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Um, my other question is about, you know, I I talked earlier in my sharing about these trails.

Um, I think Paul mentioned.

So I'm just curious, out of the 90 miles, how what's the percentage?

I I mean you may not know like on top of your head, like um how much of that is bikeable and how much today they are connected.

Like the reason I ask is I'm constantly looking for trails to practice because for my for my big biking trip at the uh beginning of December, we need to bike on a on average 50 to 80 miles per day, right?

So last weekend we biked from Mary Moore Park to Carnation, Fall City, Kahani, and then Lake Sammish back.

So total about 51 miles, right?

So I'm constantly looking for, and that was like some of most of them on the roads.

And literally like some places I won't even call them bike link because I'm literally like biking on the roads.

And then I was like, if I fall, do I fall to the zipping cars or do I fall down the hill?

You know, it's like literally that's what I'm like facing.

So I'm constantly looking for a safer trail.

I'm curious, like, are there existing connects?

Is it even a map within Bellevue?

I could bike even like 30, 40 miles connected within the city of Bellevue.

Yeah.

I don't know that I can answer the first question uh yet.

I think as a one component of this trails planning that we're doing now that rolls into this larger plan is to map all the trails.

There, there are resources.

There's a there's a bike map um that's in print form.

It's probably on the website that has the that existing network.

Um I think ultimately a there is a future state that is like the finished, you know, this is the dream vision where there's a full loop and everything's connected to everything.

I think there's likely an interim state where we have you know what we have today and how do we how do we prioritize key connection points to make to make it so you can go from the end of this trail to the beginning of the next trail safely.

And it may not be all on a trail.

It may require a street connection or a side path connection.

Um, but I think as part of the planning effort, you know, we we would like to identify what that temporary route is with the idea that those become permanent improvements over time.

Um one of the one of the things that we did at a city that I was at previously was I think Kirkland is doing a version of this now.

Um, you know, we we had the little apple loop, which was a combination of trails and um sidewalks and local streets that made a loop around the community, and we identified that route with with some small inconspicuous signage to where you would know you're on that route.

And it and that was with the vision of long term, all of that would be converted to you know, either either separated bike lane, protected bike lane, or a multi-use path.

So I think a vision like that for Bellevue is something that we we would share and that we would want to incorporate into that future long range plan and identify, you know, what do we do now in the interim?

And then while we while we work towards that full future protected safe state.

That would be great.

Thank you.

And as part of that, I think we'll look at, you know, what's how many miles of trail surface type, is it bikeable?

Is it more for hikers?

You know, what what what's the what is that split, and then what enhancements do we want to make to that?

Great.

Thank you so much.

But I would I would say generally, you know, our regional trails are our largest bike routes, as well as some of the other greenways on the trails slide, why it had a map of uh greenways and proposed greenway trails.

So not all of those are complete, but those are kind of the main corridors that we would likely envision biking.

A lot of our other trails, you know, make up that 90 miles.

I don't know what the exact percentage would be, but it's it's a large percentage.

Those are inter-park trails.

They're more paths um or or areas that you just wouldn't be biking or that biking isn't really permitted.

So really it's um, you know, a lot of trails that parks doesn't actually manage our are um some of our heavy more heavily biked routes.

And I and I think that that ultimately requires that collaboration with transportation that it that is is currently focused on on street um or side path, you know, within located within right-of-way um bikeable connections.

And so, you know, at some point you're going to leave a park trail and you're going to enter a different type of bike experience that you know is is planned by transportation.

How do you do that safely?

You know, what what is their pro long range priority for those type of connections and how do we utilize those to connect people from park to park or trail to trail um to get back onto a dedicated uh pathway?

Thank you.

Uh any final comment.

Actually, I have one question, which might transition.

Um, I think two years ago when we put the memo together, it was part of an off-site.

And is that kind of how we put um but yeah, I was curious.

Uh this is all amazing information, but how do how shall we go about synthesizing a m a memo?

Is that kind of uh next month's stuff?

Yeah, we do have uh so we have June and July meetings reserved for that.

Um we are working on um uh potentially having one of those be off-site.

Um I don't know that we have details quite nailed down yet, but um but yes, that's that's the the vision.

Oh, okay.

So we'll take what we've learned today and then bring it to the off site where we'll throw all our ideas together as a board to try to build a memo.

Okay.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Sorry, I was just curious about how to do that.

To follow up on that just a little bit, is the memo also going to cover things not talked about today, like non-CIP related operations budgetary issues.

It uh focuses on uh CIP, uh just staying within uh the board's charge in terms of what it what it weighs in on in the budget process, uh, which is focused on CIP.

Um the uh using the two year ago um letters example, it does tend to it has tended to be more thematic.

Um I've actually been keeping some notes here of themes I've heard just from the questions and conversations today.

Uh so that that would be kind of how we would uh approach that again and sort of talk through um kind of the look at the projects that are underway.

Um again, sort of recognizing that the um we won't have an element of adding new necessarily.

It's more about uh living within our means and our current projects and just what um what themes and points of and messages you want to make sure the council gets as they look at the city budget as a whole um when they do come to the time of looking at the the park CIP specifically.

Yeah, I'm not gonna have a chance to weigh in on that, but the the non-CIP related issue I was thinking about was last year you made uh or Michael made a request for additional dedicated King County Animal Control.

I hope you're gonna consider that again.

Yeah.

For the same reasons that I've belabored this body with on numerous occasions.

That was uh I don't believe we captured it in the board's letter, but but yeah, we did uh have support for that on the operating side.

Yes, yes, thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

Uh with that, I guess yes.

Uh thank you, Jenny and Wyatt for your wonderful presentation today.

And then thank you.

All right, and then final agenda item of the evening.

Uh is the 2020 is um the report and communication to council for the first quarter of 2026.

And presenting that will be Ryan Walker, senior.

I'll turn it over to you, Ryan.

Sorry.

Thank you, Chair.

Um so this is the uh regular cadence for memos to council.

It's uh just a report out of what the board has been uh taking part in and and hearing about.

Uh so this is the first quarterly memo of 2026.

A couple of things that are highlighted within it.

Uh one is that the board kicked off their role for a master plan for the uh what Wyatt referred to and in Bell Red at the West Tributary uh park site generally.

Uh so that's that's highlighted.

Um that process will be moving forward and description about that process is included.

And then there are uh description of some other items and tools and plans that the board heard about that will that are really aimed at increasing access uh to parks and to programming within the entire system.

So these included the a summary of the program uh marketing and communications, including an overview of the human services needs updates that occurred, as well as the recently adopted diversity advantage plan uh DAP 2035.

I'm glad to answer any questions about the memo.

I'll turn it back over to you, Chair.

Yeah, oh, fast question.

Um reading through this, it looked like everything under supporting equity and engagement with the community is in chronological order.

Is that right?

It is.

Okay.

And that's the intent of the, I mean, it's I would not ask for a change at this point, but I'm just yeah, I don't know.

We kind of put the tools up first.

It then end up being in a chronological, but really the idea was for the marketing and then to highlight the plans that that follow behind that work so on the programming side and human services side.

Thank you.

Oh, did you want to like re-order and oh okay?

Okay.

Any additional comments, questions.

All right.

Uh with that, is there a motion to transmit the first quarter report and communication to council as presented.

So moved.

Thank you.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

Um, I guess we'll put it to a vote.

Um, shall we move to transmit the four scorer report and communication to council?

Uh oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Uh all in favor all in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

All right.

The the motion has um been voted.

I don't know.

I'm I'm like stumbling on question.

It's how do you say it?

Motion has been unanimously carried.

The motion has been carried unanimously.

Sorry, I really got tongue tied.

Um with that uh new business.

We'll turn it over to Ryan.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Uh and and thanks to you, Chair and Vice Chair uh Valverde for all of your help in in uh getting the memo together.

Um as always.

So um looking ahead to May, we have uh looks like two agenda items on the docket.

One will relate to project you heard about tonight at our park at the corner of 112th and main street.

Um some information and and naming um to uh consider on that process.

Moving forward, and another item will we also talked about a bit tonight is the neighborhood planning um neighborhood sub area plan updates for Eastgate and Factoria.

So we'll have staff from community development here to talk about that process and look at some of the policy um that uh is in draft form.

That's all I have.

Thanks, Ryan.

Any questions for Ryan?

All right.

Uh with that, we've completed all the items on tonight's agenda, and so I call the meeting now adjourned.

Thank you.

Thank you.