The Bullhead City Parks and Recreation Commission held its regular monthly meeting on January 17, 2024, at 12:30 PM. All commission members were present except Vice Chair Petrillo. The meeting included public comments, a parks update, discussion and approval of the previous meeting minutes, and a recommendation to city council to modify the Rotary Park Master Plan. Topics for the next meeting were also set.
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Parks and Recreation Commission. This is our normal uh regular meeting monthly of our commission. Um January 17th, 2024. Um call to order, roll call. All commission members are present except for Vice Chair Petrillo. Thank you. Like to stand up for Pledge of Allegiance, please. Thank you. Uh we will now have an open call to the public. I hope the call of the public is for citizens wishing to address the commission's on issues within the jurisdiction of the city. Your comments must be limited to three minutes or less. Members are restricted by law to not discuss or take action on matters not already on the agenda. Go ahead, sir. Good evening, and thank you for hearing me. Uh I do represent a couple of groups. One is the uh well, both groups are remote control hobbies of ours. Uh I want to thank the parks department for what they did with the circle dirt track that we had. You saw the outcome of it, a phenomenal race. People came in from all over California, Tucson, Phoenix, Northern Nevada, Utah. They stayed in our hotels while they were here, they ate in our restaurants, good revenue for the city in the general, and a lot of bragging to the parks department for what you guys did. Again, I want to thank you for that. It's come to my attention and a couple other members that the RC airport pad that's built at Rotary Park is not being used as much as it used to be. The local club has moved their site down to Fort Mojave for whatever reason, so they as a group are not using it on a regular basis. There's still people here, there's kids flying drones, families come out and enjoy it when they can. As a drag car runner, when we had our city drag sponsored, again, thank you guys for helping with that. We had a car damage by a pickup that came in, saw what we were doing, saw our marked off area, and drove in anyway. No regard to what we were doing or how we had things set up. We've been avidly looking for some place that we could call home for our drag cars. Two two weekends a month, basically, looking for two Sundays. We would like permission to use the airstrip for our drag cars. Our quarter mile is 132 feet for one-tenth scale cars. That's what we run. That airport is more than long enough with a shutdown area that we need. We would also like to see a dirt oval track put in right in front of or the south side of the dirt track. Uh, we would need a fence around it, same way it is with dirt track. Half the work is already done because you have the driver's tower there. We use one side for the oval track, stand on the other side for the dirt track. It's we've ages from seven years old to eighty-two years old, are running cars. It's a great hobby. It's growing rapidly, especially in our areas. I've been contacted by two groups in Utah who want to come down, do sand drags, which we do out by uh Target. They want to do oval tracking with us. They want to do crawling with us, which we have private property that we're using for that, and they want to do drag racing with us. And in turn, they want us to come up there. This is again revenue for the city. It uh good publication for the city in the parks department, the way you guys are running our parks. You uh just I can't say thank you enough, and proud to say these are the guys that's doing it for us. We would really like the commission to entertain the idea of allowing us to share the airpad and put in that oval track as soon as possible. Now is the time to do it when it's cool, so we can get the guys go on and get them interested.