Coming uh to the Parks and Rec Commission meeting.

Um, we're gonna call the meeting to order right now.

So um, I guess the first thing is roll call and develop a quorum.

Chair McDermott.

Here.

Vice Chair Shooty?

Here.

Commissioner Baker Roberts.

Commissioner Faizer.

Commissioner Meyer.

Here.

Commissioner Moan.

Here.

And Commissioner Walt.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

Um to item number three, uh, public comment.

All right.

Anyone from the public willing to speak?

We see you.

Um, we invite you to come forward.

Please write your name on the sheet, and you'll have three minutes.

Thank you very much, Chair Denny French, Carson City, Nevada.

I had a question, and um Scott Um Reese has um let me know that he will be coming up with a uh response.

My request for information for the basics is what has been pursued as far as postings and advisories for public signage at artificial turf locations.

Um I'll be looking forward to that information.

And um I think I think uh Lisa Shuty has seen some of the examples that I put out, but I have some more that I've added on today to what I've handed out.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else will want to use public comment?

All right.

Um, did everybody get a chance to review and have any concerns, comments?

All right.

So that was the only thing I noted.

I just had it that way because it was on the website that way.

I can make the change though.

Perfect.

Awesome.

Do we have a motion to approve the meeting minutes?

I moved.

I just said so moved.

I second with the corrections.

Awesome.

All approved.

So yeah.

So all those in favor.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Moving on to item number five A for discussion only, presentation by Duncan Golf Management.

Um, at Eagle Valley.

And good evening, Scott Wikowski with Duncan Golf Management.

Uh, thanks for having me back again this year.

Um, gonna go through the year in 2025, and um these numbers are gonna blow your mind.

I've got some graphs in here to to show the optics, and it was uh it was an unbelievable year in uh 2025.

So we'll go ahead and just jump in and get started here.

Which one do I hit?

Which one do which one advances it here?

Oh, yeah.

Okay, here we go.

Thank you very much.

Okay, 2025.

A lot of this uh um presentation is gonna talk about the record uh that we broke, and we broke records in just about every category at Eagle Valley this last year.

Pretty special year.

Revenues, course conditions.

Um we did a lot more in the community, and it was not just a a great year for Eagle Valley, it's one of the best Eagle uh years in Eagle Valley's modern history.

Uh easily the last decade.

When Duncan Golf Mansion took over in 2017, the goal was quite simple.

Create a sustainable golf operation slash business while keeping the golf accessible to the Carson City community.

Eight years later, here we are.

Numbers show that goal is not only working but thriving.

Uh here's a few of the categories where we broke records, paid rounds, annual green fee, driving range revenue, total rounds played, 50 Mile Club, which we'll kind of go through some of the benefits we added to the card this last year.

Uh merchandise, gross sales, annual membership sales, and then our gross revenue and food and beverage.

One record that wasn't broken was uh since we've taken over at Eagle Valley, we have not raised the green fee one dollar, and or our membership fees for the community.

We're extremely proud of that.

And uh Tom Duncan, when we started this, was very passionate about making this affordable golf for the Carson City community.

So now one dollar raise in green fee uh andor uh annual membership dues.

So we're very proud of that fact.

Uh let's start with the weather and course conditions.

We had a great year in uh in 2024 in golf course conditions, it was our best year at that point.

We feel like 2025 was a little bit better than 24, and the weather could not have been better for golf in almost the entire year of 2025.

I think we had 70 degrees in July, which was uh kind of different.

Um just beautiful golf weather, and then couldn't not have been any better uh going into late fall, which really kind of triggers our year, the last quarter can either be a real good one or a real doozy, and it was fantastic at Eagle Valley.

So uh we're we're already in this first quarter seeing signs and breaking more records.

It's been an unbelievable march, as you guys all know.

I've got a bit of a suntan, been outside for a little bit.

Uh it's it's been a nice, nice start of the year.

Uh historical paid rounds.

Uh so this is every every paid round that comes in.

Uh quite dramatic from our first year to where we are now.

Uh, and you can kind of see the growth there.

We had a little bit of uh past pond uh pandemic layoff, and then uh it's really re reinsurged and and just a phenomenal year in 25.

Uh annual green fee, kind of the same story.

Each year we've kind of done a little bit better, done a little bit better, done a little better.

But from year one, we've almost doubled our annual uh green fee revenue.

Pretty pretty phenomenal in eight-year period.

And again, that's slowly gone up uh all throughout the years here.

Uh driving range revenue.

We made a uh a pretty good investment a couple years ago uh on some equipment out there, new range balls, a range machine.

We're actually talking about adding another range machine there.

Uh the numbers are phenomenal and almost three times our annual revenue uh in our eighth year from our first year.

Uh historical rounds, really really happy about this one, and this kind of tells the whole story.

Uh having 76,000 folks come through the property uh is definitely gonna lead to all the revenue centers going up.

So pretty phenomenal.

Um, you know, we would be reminisced not to say that the weather has something to do with this.

We're sure we feel like we're running a nice operation, but the weather was so dynamic uh and desirable for golf in all of 2025.

So again, a huge spike in 25 versus 24 and a record year.

50 Mile Club.

We added some things to this.

This has been a long-standing program at Eagle Valley probably for the last 20 years or so.

We took it over.

We've added some things.

We added some Twilight, not only at Eagle Valley, but at Toyabi and Winchester.

And this thing is just really going off.

We uh did about a thousand more in sales in 25.

Uh I was just at the golf course today for our Tuesday meetings, and we're already at uh 1,800 in sales for 2026.

So we're we're projected to probably hit that number at 4,000 this next year.

So slow and steady growth.

Um people in Reno love this car, they drive all the way down here.

We don't sell it anyplace else but in the golf shop at Eagle Valley.

So they have to come down here, experience the Eagle Valley golf courses before they can get their card, and it's it's been a really popular program throughout the community.

Uh merchandise sales, another one uh over tripled our sales uh from the day we got there till now.

Uh I think it's our second or maybe third year downstairs.

It's done phenomenal.

We get a lot of traffic uh from moving the um the golf shop and and uh Jason France and his team have done a great job in there.

Uh membership sales.

I got a typo on this one.

I had some 2002 was not 10, that was uh 110, had a little typo there.

But uh we're doing great again in this category.

We have not raised the fee one dollar since the day we got there.

Our promotion has been uh the same.

We've added some benefits to the membership, but uh the numbers keep growing.

So we're we're already at a pretty good number for 2026.

We anticipate to beat 2025.

Uh but the membership is is healthy and strong at Eagle Valley.

Food and beverage revenue, super excited about this one.

Uh it's probably our slowest grower of the property, but one that has proven over time um to be uh quite substantial.

So extremely happy with the growth in food and beverage.

Um, enough about the records.

Uh, a couple things to talk about that we did in 2025 that will continue in 26.

Frisky Fridays has become kind of a staple uh event at Eagle Valley during the meat of the season.

Uh we have a nine-hole four-person scramble, and it's as much about um being Friday night as it is about golf, to be quite honest with you.

Um, people have quite a good time out there.

We've had put offs inside the clubhouse to on side the putting green, um, and a lot of people look forward to it.

Uh so it's been very successful, something we'll do again this year.

Uh, 4th of July, just did our second one this year.

We're uh I've already met and organized for 2026.

It'll be our third year, uh, and really just look to continuing that relationship for uh as long as we're at Eagle Valley.

It's been a it's been a nice arrangement.

Uh freaky Friday, this is something we tried last year.

Uh we've we've tried to do some things on Nevada Day, uh, but have never been terribly successful on that Friday.

So we did this uh with the parade being Saturday to not kind of compete.

We had 90% of the participants came out, had costumes on.

Uh, it wasn't extremely well attended with 35 golfers, but we looked to build on this, and this is gonna be our Nevada Day event uh every year.

Uh senior Tuesdays uh really took off last year.

Um, and with almost a thousand more rounds uh on this day.

It's it's a significant discount.

Um it's one of our busiest days of the week and uh has become quite popular with the seniors.

Uh new in 2025.

I'll give TJ credit, TJ Duncan a lot of credit for this program.

This is his brain child.

Uh it's free membership for the junior golfer, 17 and under.

Uh, but it comes with a commitment um from them that they have to at least play nine holes, we've got 10 nine whole rounds of golf throughout the year.

So we not only uh offer it for free, we want them to play golf.

We really want the kids out there.

We've seen it really take off in Reno and fantastic participation down here in Eagle Valley in our first year.

So we we limited it to 100.

We got up to 92 memberships, and then some of those are family members with multiple children, got to 149 kids uh playing some free golf out at Eagle Valley.

Um again, can't say it enough.

That the ground staff did an amazing job out there this year, all already off to a great start.

Uh, the course we heard it all year long was in excellent golf course condition.

Um, our marketing and promotions, we haven't done much different.

Uh, we do have a new social media campaign that I can't really talk much about tonight because we haven't released it yet, but I'm super excited about it.

Uh, you know, what we've done down there with our marketing and promotion, obviously we feel like it's working.

A lot of us is uh is getting involved in the community, and uh so things are going well there, and not much we're gonna change other than our new uh TV and social media campaign.

Um, and then where the rubber meets the road is the financials.

Last year we had a record at 2.5 million.

Um the year prior to us taking over was about 1.1 million, so it's pretty significant growth.

And then this last year we we pressed the three million dollar mark.

Uh we're really proud of that number.

Um, and it's it's been a long road, a lot of hard work in the beginning, but it's really it's really paying off.

Um the golf course in general, more rounds, more community engagement, stronger financial performance.

We love being in Eagle Valley.

Um, it's a joy.

I know it's uh an honor for TJ.

Uh his dad worked there uh uh uh many years ago, and uh we just we love being a part of of Eagle Valley in the Carson City Market.

Um we've increased round paid rounds by more than 70 percent since 2018, nearly doubled our annual green fee revenue, expanded programs for juniors, seniors in the community.

We delivered the best conditions uh in our tenure, and uh certainly uh the few years prior to us.

I can't speak much past the last decade, but best golf course conditions in the last 10 years.

Um and through it all, one thing hasn't changed.

Our commitment to keeping golf affordable and accessible for Carson City community and the future of Eagle Valley is strong.

With that, TJ and I would like to thanks for uh having us tonight.

Thank you, Scott.

Thank you.

Very awesome seeing everything going out over going on over there.

And um I signed my nephew up for the junior golf program, and we got out there a couple times.

Uh he lives up in South Lake, so I gotta drag him out a few more to make that 10.

But but we love the uh the driving range was really helpful and awesome.

Awesome for him.

So good to hear.

Um anybody will start down with you, Barbara.

Diane.

My father quite a bit, so I think you'd be real proud with all the improvements that have been uh great course.

Um thank you.

Thank you for being such a great community partner.

You know, um, at all the different fundraisers throughout Carson City.

Um, there are always donations from Eagle Valley and just the working with uh the kids and working, you know, uh with the Fourth of July, and um just taking such pride in the course and really encouraging folks to get outside and um you know, encouraging our seniors to to keep playing golf and and enjoy it.

So thanks for all the good work.

Very welcome.

I just want to say thank you.

Um yes, it's been a pleasure working with uh both of you and your staff for the Fourth of July.

It's a huge endeavor.

I don't think many realize how big that um event is, you know, when it comes to the fireworks.

There's a lot of planning that needs to go on and a whole lot of um parking and uh par just I mean, there's a lot to it, and um it wouldn't the community needs to realize as well.

You know, I think there were six different permits that went in, and we're all denied until we uh got Eagle Valley.

So the the community I think really needs to recognize that without your partnership, I'm not quite sure there would be a fire work show here in Carson City.

So I am extremely grateful for that, and I am extremely grateful that you guys are so easy to work with.

Um, so I appreciate it and I appreciate it.

Um and then, yes, I mean we've done the golf tournament as well, and I mean you guys have done a phenomenal job out there.

Um it is beautiful, it it really is, and I know the hard work that goes into it.

The other thing I'd like to, I don't know that you you didn't mention this, but um, you know, I think the community needs to be aware as well is how you partner with the different high schools and allow them on the courses as well for their practice, and I think that's important to um to recognize because it's not just Carson, it is also you know, Douglas and Reno and Dayton, and I think you even do Virginia City.

We have quite a few.

Yes, you you do, you do.

So, you know, that's something as well that you guys do partner and help the high schools with that because that's hard to do.

Um, I know they're the ones in Reno are coming here because the a lot of the courses in Reno's won't allow them on, and those kids need places to to practice.

We get quite a few of the Thailand schools that come down as well.

Yeah, because of the the weather as well.

So I think that's great.

And um, you know, maybe mention that sometime in your presentation.

So thank you guys very much.

Yeah, thank you for your uh presentation.

And um, you know, also with what Duncan Golf does in the community too.

Um I know you guys are very active.

I see you participating in other youth sports, little league baseball, other chamber of commerce projects, and and that's that is that is definitely seen in the community, and and um glad to have Duncan golf as a community partner in a lot of different aspects.

So thank you.

Appreciate that.

And I'll just echo my thanks to you.

I'm in such a uh great report, and uh a lot of creativity goes into how you manage the course, and um I'm just so proud to have something like this in Carson City.

Um, and I keep trying to get my dad to move here, so maybe this will be a good incentive.

But um, thank you so much for all of your hard work.

Thank you.

And on a personal note, um, I run the Discall fundraiser for the movers and doers, and every time we ask Duncan Golf for uh donation as a prize, they're crystal's super awesome to work with.

She's great there, very gracious in her giving, and it's one of the biggest fundraisers at our event.

So it's it's really uh inspiring to see all the giving back you guys do.

So I appreciate that.

Welcome.

Jen.

Jennifer Budge, Parks and Recreation Director.

Um, I just wanted to thank Scott and TJ.

They have really turned this place around.

I just want to remind everyone the state of the golf course that it was in when we first brought them in, and it was beyond disrepair.

It was old equipment.

If there was any equipment even available, it was the word.

Yeah, it was it was a lot.

And um, I just appreciate how um how hard they work to turn around the trust of the community and make it someplace that we can be so proud of, and I really appreciate that.

Um, one thing I wanted to update the the two things we heard from the public when they first came over was um the cart pass and the bunkers were their two biggest concerns, and the slit is slowly working on the cart pass.

Obviously, it's really expensive, so we do a little bit at a time.

Um, but they've really been working on updating the bunkers.

Could you give us an update on how you're doing with that?

Uh last year weren't able to get much done because we had all the pump station uh capital expenditures, but we I think we have uh 60% of the bunkers done on the west course.

Um the east course is a whole nother can of uh worms, but we're getting there.

We have I think another 20 to 25% of what's left um being happening in June, and then we'll be at hopefully 80% complete um by the end of this year.

Thanks for that.

And I do want to thank you for the junior golf membership that you created.

I mean, to be able to see all those kids.

That's the future of any sport, isn't making sure that we're including youth, and I just I appreciate you guys championing that project.

Absolutely.

Um, as the school board trustee liaison on this commission, is there any way you could share that junior golf information with me, and then I can share it with um the school district.

Absolutely.

Thanks.

Yep.

We do um advertise it in our activity guide, and then our activity guides get out to the schools as well.

So um, we do try to help promote that wherever we can.

Awesome.

Well, thank you so much.

Have a good night.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to item 5B for possible action discussion and possible action regarding the recommendation to the Board of Supervisors to name the route 395 multi-use path parallel to South Carson Street between Stewart Street Roundabout and Old Clear Creek Road to the Glen Lucky Pathway or Lucky Lane.

And with that, Greg.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Uh, for the record, Greg Berger and Trails Coordinator for Carson City.

So, first of all, my apologize, my apologies to Mr.

Lucky, because um I I left I I've spelled his name with only one N as Greg with two G's.

I should um I should be sensitive to that.

So going forward, it's G-L-E-N-N.

Um, but anyway, Glenn is a well-known resident of Carson City, local legend.

Um, anybody who's lived here for very long has has certainly seen him as he rides his uh specially designed adaptive tricycle from his home in Indian Hills uh through South Carson and into downtown Carson.

Um he uh uh was born with uh cerebral palsy and in uh in 1952, and um he was once told that he wouldn't uh live to adulthood, but really through his uh perseverance, he has um for well since the 1980s he's been riding his bike his tricycle through Carson City and in um 1988 he uh he rode his tricycle 3600 miles to the White House.

Um and he has um he's also uh ridden his bicycle uh to carry the Olympic torch in 2002.

Um it's it's quite a story, and uh his uh his efforts um there's been an effort actually to try to name a pathway in his honor.

Um he's he's gonna turn 74 this year, which is quite an accomplishment for for somebody who's gonna overcome the uh debilitating effects that he has from his disease.

So in any case, um we decided that uh probably the best pathway would be the South Carson multi-use pathway because that's where he has spent so many of his years, and is where he's been seen by everybody over the years.

And uh I spoke with Glenn last week, and he much prefers Glen Lucky Pathway over Lucky's Lane, which has been proposed by some in the community.

So anyway, with that, I will uh let uh you have your conversation.

I'll start on this end.

Any um thoughts or preference?

Um I I support this, and um, you know, I would say let the the Glenn Lucky Pathway is a good name.

So and I appreciate you bringing this forward, and I think it's a great way to honor him.

I guess my question would be what what did he have?

Any other reaction?

Is he excited about having the pathway named after him or you know, just curious?

Yeah, that's a great question.

I should have mentioned that.

Yeah, he he definitely is, and um he uh declined coming to the meeting tonight, but he said when this goes to the board that he will definitely be there, and he um was very excited about it.

Yeah, I I think this is uh you know he's such kind of a staple to the community, and I just for years remember seeing the his advertisement trailer coming up and down Carson Streets and um you know you know those local businesses supporting him and um and his efforts.

So um I think I think this is uh a pretty simple simple decision here.

So great, thank you.

Um did I miss is there gonna be signage?

Did you mention that there would be signage?

I I didn't mention that, but yeah, there would be um we haven't developed um signage yet for it, but there would be something to absolutely at least at the two ends to uh all right, yeah.

Um yeah, because I think that would be great, and I think it might even be great to have like I don't know if your public uh reach out, you know, to see how maybe a different design, because I think it's very um the name it I think is great, and I think it brings opportunity to be a little bit creative as well.

So I think that'd be great.

I just think this is phenomenal.

Glenn is such um such a powerhouse, and he just represents joy and strength and commitment and community and um being so positive, and I I am just thrilled, and I I agree the Glen Lucky Pathway.

This is about yeah, just acknowledging his him, and um I am so supportive of this.

Um, as with the rest of the commission we heard from, I'm very supportive of this too.

It'd be a great great addition and a great way to honor Mr.

Lucky.

I think that's a wonderful idea, and um I lost my train of thought, but yeah, the Lucky Pathway, I think.

Even you know, if anybody ever said, Well, who is this guy?

There's you know, multiple people in Carson City have the story of seeing Glenn Lucky.

Yeah, I'd echo everybody up here.

I think it's an awesome way to pay tribute to local legend in his own rights.

My uh in-laws lived in Carson City in the 80s, and when I told my mother-in-law about this, she was, oh, I remember seeing him way back then.

So yeah, it's it's awesome.

I had one question.

Um assuming the board supports us and everything.

Would we have like a uh ribbon cutting ceremony, something like that?

I I see one of the board members shaking her head, so yes, we'll do that.

Perfect.

Well, I guess with that.

Yeah, I'm ready.

All right.

Uh I move to recommend to the Board of Supervisors the name of Route 395 multi-use path paralleling South Carson Street between the Stewart Street Roundabout and the old Clear Creek Road, the Glen Lucky Pathway or Lucky's Lane.

Let's make it Glen Lucky's Lucky Pathway.

Glenn Lucky Pathway.

And then it says or Lucky's Lane.

Oh, we're deciding.

It was so we want it to be.

Sorry.

Yes.

Um, and it's so fun.

I mean, uh well, I'll take this off, but my parents have a place on Lucky Lane.

Um, Glenn Lucky Pathway.

I second two ends.

Awesome.

All in favor.

All in favor?

Aye.

Awesome.

No.

Well, Greg, stay seated because now we get the update for the uh the trails coordinator report.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

And again, uh for the record, Greg Burgerin, Trails Coordinator for Carson City.

Uh, I thought that while I'm here, um, I might as well take some more of your time and um do a recap of uh uh our trails program in 2025.

I get some questions from commissioners on occasion, and so we can um we can uh let everybody know what we've been doing.

So uh we'll start with Prison Hill, which is Carson City's largest open space property.

And uh we completed this year a $2.4 million or a project funded through a Southern Nevada Public Land Lands Management Act uh for 2.4 million dollars.

And uh the components of that included a whole new Coons Lane Trailhead with ADA compliant uh facilities, a um a safer street crossing across Edmonds Drive from at Koons Lane so that um members of the community can better access Prison Hill across the freeway, and then of course a 2.5 mile accessible trail along the west side of prison hill, which has been um a phenomenal trail.

We're seeing um a lot of different users on it.

I love seeing the diversity of use on that trail.

Um we're seeing a lot of strollers and and I'm starting to see more and more adaptive mountain bikes.

So um I think it's getting the use that we intended.

Also on Prison Hill, the uh the Coons parcel rehabilitation, kind of the the entire open space staff has been working on this over a period of years.

This is a hundred and fourteen-acre parcel around the water tank.

Uh it had seven miles of old roads, uh was kind of an abused parcel, and we've been uh doing a lot of rehab of some road to trail conversion.

Uh we've done vertical mulching and um fencing and signage and boulders and redirecting uh vehicles to the access roads to get to the trailheads, and uh we're keeping the rest of the parcel non-motorized.

And our uh senior national resource specialist, Marina Lovejoy, um, with the help of volunteers has receded a number of acres there.

And uh, and then we produced a sign with a photo of um one of the one of the one of the damaged areas.

Uh so it's a so it's a before photo, and then it allows users to watch the um how the area um progresses and rehabilitates over time.

In the prison hill OHV area, we uh using a grant from the recreational trails program.

We were able to install a vault toilet, signage for the rock crawler routes, and two interpretive panels that have topics um about the the um prison hill national history, and then how about how efforts of various organizations and individuals are helping to care for prison hill.

We produced a new prison hill trail map this year, which is now posted on kiosk signs at the trailheads on Prison Hill and also on our website, and it's available for download from our website.

We're working on an east side trails map, which will have uh will be an updated map of all the uh trails in the prison hill and Carson River area, and then we're also working on updating the West Side Trails map, and those are both will be downloadable um through a Venza to your phone so you can actually navigate in real time.

And then single track projects and prison hill.

Muscle Powered has uh they completed uh a realignment of the upper portion of Dead Truck Canyon, and they have been working for several years on the popular Odyssey Trail.

We're kind of kind of coming down the home stretch on that, and I can't wait to to see that uh come to conclusion because that's going to be a great five-mile loop on Prison Hill.

And I love the photo here at the bottom of this page.

Uh it was submitted by Christy Chamberlain who submitted as part of the 2025 Trails Challenge.

Um I just thought it was uh a great um just a great catch the way she got the uh the mountain bikers coming down the Odyssey Trail.

Okay, moving on to the Carson River.

Um in 2025, we're using uh funding from the recreational trails program.

We completed a rebranding of the um of several, or it's like five segments of trail along the Carson River to create a single Carson River Trail.

And for that, we produced a logo, which you have a sticker with the logo on it on your uh on up by your on your top there.

And um we uh this this is an accessible trail again, so people of all ages and abilities, and so five miles from Morgan Mill to the Mexican Dam.

And one segment of it, the uh Buzsies Ranch segment has been included in Audubon's birdability website, which is uh uh that's a birdability is committed to making birding, uh the birding community and the outdoors accessible, safe, welcoming, inclusive for everybody and everybody.

And um, so yeah, that's a great it's a great place to go birding for everybody.

And uh so the Riverview Trailhead, so that's a three point or 2.3 million dollar snippet grant that um or funding from SNEP rather that um we're using to rehabilitate the Riverview Trailhead, which is um desperately in need of of upgrades.

And we are working on the 90 percent where we're reviewing the 90 percent plans right now.

We hope to have the 100% plans done by June and go out to bid for that in the summer.

So hopefully we'll see um construction begin there at least by early next year.

And then we just recently completed the Mexican Dam Portage.

That's a project that we have worked on with the Carson Water Subconserve Subconservancy District in uh 2020.

We worked with them to create a new bridge over the intake, the the Mexican ditch intake at the dam.

And then just recently we completed a uh non-motorized boat ramp just above the dam.

So it enables users to that are that are floating from like Douglas County to be able to have a safe portage around the dam and uh continue on down on the on our aquatic trail.

Not every community has an aquatic trail.

We're really fortunate to have one and and our aquatic trail the officially starts just below the dam.

And it's so it was a project between Carson City and Lyon County.

It goes to um to uh the uh Santa Maria Ranch in in Lyon County.

Our hope is that eventually we'll be able to uh extend the the uh Carson River Quarter Trail upstream into Douglas County.

So this is a step in that direction.

Okay, moving on to Seahill.

So our Mac Construction adopted the Seahill FEMA Trail that runs for about a half a mile between McKay Drive Trailhead and South Ormsey Boulevard, and last year they did uh they can they did some very much needed repairs to that trail, as you can see in the before and after photos.

And then Muscle Powered has been working on uh some single track trails on Seahills.

So the first part of that is a new connector from the McKay Drive trailhead, kind of around the east and north part of the hill to connect into the Lincoln Bypass Trail.

So you'll be able to ride or hike from McKay Drive all the way to uh the Tahoe Rim Trail.

And then the second part of that will be a new Seahill trail.

So the trail that goes from McKay Drive up to the sea and to the summit, which are probably our worst trail in Carson City, and um that'll be a great one to get uh to do a realignment of.

And one thing I want to um reassure people, we initially when we we did the layoff of that, we realized that it was potentially gonna be a scar visible from throughout the community.

So we we're gonna go back and redo that.

And um it won't be a trail that will be mountain bikeable.

It's going to be, it's still going to be a fairly steep trail, but a much better hiking trail that we have right now.

So that will be to come in the next year.

Ash Canyon, the um an update on the Ash Canyon Trailhead.

So Public Works is the lead on a federal land access program grant that will bring us a new trail, badly needed trailhead in the Ash Canyon area.

And that project is moving along, and we're hoping to put that out for bid for construction in the fall of 27.

And other maintenance maintenance maintenance activities in the Ash Canyon area.

Throughout the year, muscle powered volunteers have provided uh contributed hundreds of hours toward maintenance there.

Last uh May, uh some open space staff joined Muscle Powered for a maintenance day, and it started off as a fairly nice day and quickly turned into a snowstorm.

So we had to abandon our efforts that we couldn't even see the trail we were working on, but the photo right there kind of shows what was what was happening.

And then moving on to Centennial projects.

So the Centennial Regional Trails Project was something that Muscle Powered had uh first proposed back in 2015.

And in 2020, they brought a proposal to the BLM for a 22-mile uh regional trails project or 22 miles of trails throughout uh throughout the um the Virginia range, connecting Centennial Park to Washa Lake State Park, uh McClellan Peak, and other points in Washoe County.

And uh we were able to obtain a recreational trails program grant for a first phase of this project.

We just got um the funding for that, and uh we also got a decision record from the BLM, essentially a go-ahead for the project.

So NEPA and Section 106 are complete, and we'll be putting that out for quotes um very soon.

That will connect the Centennial Park to Goni Road, which will then for the interim enable a user to use the Gonai Road and uh existing trails to connect to Washa Lake State Park.

So uh that's kind of a partnership with uh with the uh state parks.

And then events throughout the year are our kind of our biggest thing was the uh Carson City to Canada quest, which was a lot of fun.

So that was a program developed by uh the Visit Carson City, really a new unique marketing strategy that generated extensive media coverage.

So we we combed through over 300 candidates for for the quest, which was um uh they were they needed to hike from the steps of the Capitol up to the Lincoln Bypass Trail, utilize the new Capital to Tahoe to the Taha Rim Trail, and then on to the PCT all the way to Canada.

And so we selected Julianne Mahoney and Audrey Payne, and they were both phenomenal hikers.

They both completed their trek.

They provided great online content all the way, and really um it brought Carson City a lot of national and international attention for a very, very low cost.

We had uh over 120 news stories, including the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, outside Backpacker.

We had some TV and radio broadcasts, um, several international and travel publications, quite a few podcasts, and really kind of established Carson City as a long trail community.

I mean, you can begin your hike, your adventure of a lifetime in Carson City, and you can you can hike the Tahoe Rim Trail from here, or you can uh catch the Pacific Crest Trail and go all the way to Canada or Mexico.

And um uh yeah, so that was that was great uh great adventure, a lot of fun.

It was fun watching those two on their journey.

And of course, we held the Grand Open Celebration for the um Carson River Trails Phase Three Prison Hill West Project this year, and uh to kind of demonstrate how that is such an accessible trail.

We brought out uh Reno Adaptive, they brought down their adaptive mountain bikes, and we got to try out the uh three-wheeled uh mountain bikes, which was a lot of fun.

And we had our second annual trails challenge last year, and my kudos to uh volunteer coordinator Aaron Larson, who's takes the lead on that challenge, and we have the third challenge uh just began last weekend.

We had 80, I think about 85 people that showed up at Silver Saddle Ranch for the first day of the challenge.

Um if you uh anybody who's interested, just go to Carson City.gov and search for Trail Challenge.

Um Aaron gets some great prizes from uh Patagonia, from Great Basin Brewing, from Duncan Golf, of course, um, and many others.

So all you have to do is hike some of the trails that are on the list.

You can join our ranger programs for some of the hikes, and it generates a lot of a lot of enthusiasm for our trails.

We people submit a lot of great photos.

And we get, I think we're we're looking at like 300 people signed up this year.

So it's um yeah, it's quite popular.

Some other trail events this year.

Um we're seeing more and more events that are discovering in Carson City and our trails.

Um we had, of course, Escape from Prison Hill run last weekend, and that's that's been uh in the work that's been in uh going on for many years, but we've also had some newer events that have only been going on for a couple of years, like the NYCA Nevada North Cycling League Mountain Bike Competition, uh Winter Ascent Series, Taha Rim Trail Endurance Run.

They moved their venue from Spooner down to Carson City at the um at the uh college just a few years ago.

Uh Status Paydered Gravel Race, Sacto Pitts Trials Competition, Bronco Magazine has been doing guided tours at Prison Hill annually, and then lastly, uh presentations.

Lindsay Boyer, the open space manager, and I had the opportunity to deliver presentations about Carson City's open space and trails program at the biannual meeting of the Nevada Advisory Board on Outdoor Recreation this year.

And with that, I will take any questions that uh commissioners may have awesome.

Well, start on this end again.

Thanks, Rick.

Thanks, Rig, for what you do.

Um see you guys out on the trail a couple weekends ago and and all that, and thanks for uh making a reroute on that Carson City, the Sea Hill thing.

That's I think that's really really important that we do that.

Um had a question for you.

Uh do you have any or can you produce um if you like this idea?

Any smaller signs that maybe say uh this area under repair.

I'm I spend a lot of time on the Lincoln Bypass in Longview Canyon, and there's a lot of people that are cutting a lot of corners, and so I'm getting a little extra extra work out by putting rocks through there and so forth.

And I thought that possibly we could just have produce a little sign that was very polite sign, but mean at the same time to uh to maybe get these people from you know stop cutting those corners because there's some pretty good damage up there.

And I just was one I just is envisioning you know, like a 10 by 10 little square that we could as that part gets repaired.

Um I've seen it in other areas, and I thought I'd throw that across your bow, and we can you we can talk about it another time.

But thank you for what we have.

I mean, we are so lucky to have the trails we have here, and for me to get in the truck in the morning with the dog and say, what am I gonna do today?

So I'm really grateful for that.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

And yeah, we do have um some little stickers that we put on carcinites that uh they say like um give plants a chance, rehab area, things like that.

Please stay on trail.

Uh and we have those in quite a few areas, so we can definitely place those on Lincoln Bypass as well.

And then we we usually try to decom those social media.

Explain I'm not clear on how that how you say a sticker on well, it's uh so a carcinite sign.

Um those are those those long um the kind of a brown signs that you pound into the ground.

And then fiberglaze?

Yeah, fiberglass, yeah.

Yeah, so and we we make them kind of short, so they're they're not obnoxious, but um, but we put those in a number of areas, and that can help.

Okay, along with decommissioning some of those other.

Well, I just think I I think that people need to learn that this is damage.

I mean, we come out here and we want to enjoy this open space and all the beauty that it offers, and you know, we got a permit, and we worked hard to build that trail, and it zigs and zags for a reason.

It's uh it's a great flow trail, you know.

And when people are just blowing past those those corners, and just you know, it's just it's kind of heartbreaking.

So I just didn't know if we had to.

Yeah, and I know in that particular area, unfortunately, it's it's not forested, it's not very it was a burn, it's a burn scar, which with the area you're talking about, I think.

Right.

Isn't it old burn scar?

It's not really maybe, maybe a long time ago.

But anyway, I can point the area out to you and and uh you know, we can maybe through Pete or something, you can get those signs to be nine.

We can walk up there and put those in.

Yeah.

No, I think I know the area you're talking about.

Yeah, there's two pretty good spots.

So and it's uh it's right now it's spring, everything's coming back, and it's only gonna take a couple people to start doing that again.

And it it won't be it won't be better until possibly next spring.

So thank you very much.

You know, great great presentation.

Thank you for all the work.

And I just think about um last year and the year before all the listening tours um concerning the updating of the master plan, and I attended probably 20 of them.

And open space and our trails always always came up.

Um hope Sullivan would ask, what is it that you like best or love most about Carson City?

Open space and trails, and um you just celebrated that.

So thank you, and thanks for all you do and the whole uh team.

Phenomenal work.

Thank you.

No, thank you.

And I appreciate your presentation because I think um when you do come, it brings um the relevance and the importance of the trails to the community, and it uh obviously, you know, it gives you the opportunity to share all of the accomplishments that you have made within the last year, and and you you and your um staff and all of Parks and Rec are doing a phenomenal job, you know, especially on Prison Hill, the Carson River, um Seahill.

I like that one, you know, Nash Canyon.

So I think it's great that you come here, you do a thorough presentation and and explain to the public everything you're doing.

I think it's great.

Thank you.

I had a quick question for you since something that actually just came across my computer a few days ago.

Um the Carson Valley Monkey Flower.

Have you been tracking that at all from uh kind of a trails perspective and kind of how that's moving through being listed is potentially um because I've I've just been contacted by a state agency saying that this particular flower lives on the west side, kind of up in the Ash Canyon kind of college property observatory area.

So I was just kind of curious if uh that's something you you have to deal with on the trail side and something that you're monitoring in this this instance.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um we do monitor it, and uh one thing I want to mention is that um because of the open space program, because we have um essentially protected 2500 acres on prison hill, which is monkey flower habitat.

We we uh we're protecting that habitat.

And one thing interesting about the monkey flower that I've noticed um is and is a fact about the monkey flower, it it likes slightly disturbed areas, and so like where we built the um the prison hill trail.

I noticed that um a few weeks ago, monkey flower was blooming in quite a few areas along the edges of that trail uh because it likes that little bit of disturbance, and it's and it bloomed actually really early this year.

Um I think its peak was probably a couple of weeks ago, and it's kind of starting to fade out now a little bit.

But um yeah, I mean we have our our natural resource specialist uh Marina Lovejoy and our whole open space program.

We do monitor um for monkey flower, and um it's on our it's on our radar, it's not listed right now, it could potentially be in the future, but I think that if it is listed that you know, we're way ahead of the game with you know with the protections that we provided it and uh um and the west side as well.

I mean, we have you know, we have uh Carson City has acquired the um Eagle View open space, and we're trying to acquire uh another 90-acre parcel adjacent to that.

So, you know, hopefully we can keep affording those protections.

Thanks so much for your presentation and um the report, and I'm one of those people that uh loves Carson City because of the parks and or at the trails in the open space.

I regularly visit Prison Hill and the Carson River Trails uh uh many times a week.

So I appreciate what you do, and thank you for the report.

Um I do have a question about the 2.5 mile on the west side of prison hill.

Does that start at Koontz and then end at the Fifth Street Trailhead?

It uh begins at the new Koontz uh Lane Trailhead and then it travels two and a half miles south.

It goes to it connects to the Clearview Trailhead and then to Snyder Avenue, and then it it ends or terminates at the entrance to the OHV area at uh down on uh Golden Eagle Lane.

Okay.

A lot of what I do on President Hill is on the north side of Prison Hill, so I was just curious.

But um I I love it.

So yeah, so the the goal is eventually uh to get that trail all the way around the base of prison hill.

Okay, great.

With funding.

Um thanks also for your mention of the aquatic trail.

I also use the aquatic trail.

It's great.

Um I had a uh just another question out of curiosity from the Capitol to Canada group.

Um how long did it take those two hikers to do that route?

So they they um both hiked independently, they didn't leave at the same time, and um it took them about three months approximately each.

I can't remember the exact time, but uh and it was um they I mean they were strong hikers, and uh it um they they both did really well and uh both mentally and physically and um but it's it's it's it's a trek for sure.

And um Audrey actually began in Mexico and uh at the Mexican border, and she then she stopped in Carson City to uh to to begin her Capital Canada hike from the steps of the Capitol.

Oh cool.

All right.

Well, good for them, and great idea to do that too.

Um and I just have to say, is that are you gonna do something like that again?

Is that gonna be like an annual thing?

It sounded like kind of a similar to a publicity event where you got a lot of press around it.

Is it uh an ongoing thing or just a one-time thing?

Well, again, that was uh visit Carson City.

That was their um their promotion, and they uh when we when we completed the Capital Tahoe and told them that it was now um a possibility to hike from Carson City on single track trail all the way to Canada to Mexico, they just thought that was a great idea.

And uh Lydia Beck, well, that was kind of her idea now from from Visit Carson City.

So whether or not they do that in the future, I don't know.

Um it it um they I'm sure that they will come up with other other ways to promote um Carson City that um that may be unique in in their own right, and so I don't know if they'll do this one again or not.

All right.

Well, the last thing I'll say is that I'm really excited about the centennial regional trails project.

So yeah, we are too, yeah.

Thank you.

And um I use the Prison Hill Koontz is right down the street from me, and I love all the improvements.

My dad just moved to Green Bay, came out this winter, and he went out there every single morning, like loved it.

He was sending me pictures of all sorts of wildlife.

It's it's really awesome.

And um Kurt made me think about um like a uh civilian like reporting.

Do we have any way like if I see a trail that's being like run down or needs attention or anything like that?

Is there any way the public can reach out via like an app?

I know the league to save like Tahoe has like um their reporting for like muscles or whatever they have.

But is there anything like that down here or maybe in the works so um you can always email me and um you can also email um if you're in if you're in um if you're familiar with muscle power, I mean they they're they're a link to that, then they actually have an app, their members have an app that they use to report um uh trail damage.

And then Jen, yeah, there's we also have there's uh Carson Connect.

Uh so you can report anything from like a pothole to an illegal dump site to a trail that might need repair.

Um nothing that's an emergency, obviously you would want to call the sheriff's office for anything really emergent to that, but they'll get whatever work order request is to the right department.

It usually goes to Dave Navarro, and he'll make sure it gets to the right person.

But there is Carson Connect, it's an app on your phone.

You can geolocate yourself and you can take a photo of the situation so it can just upload it.

Um, and that way the staff person has um good situational awareness for what the situation is.

Sweet.

Thank you for pointing out um it's for everybody and everybody.

That is so important, and I appreciate you uh highlighting that in the report.

Um our trails are for everybody and everybody, and I think one of the the beautiful outcomes of the prison hill trail, and I know there's mixed feelings sometimes about the wider trails, but I see families side by side.

I see kiddos riding their bikes side by side and talking, teenagers.

I see strollers, I see adaptive bikes.

And everybody's out there enjoying our wonderful area.

Thank you for the report.

Plural.

Thank you.

Moving on to agenda item 6B, the director's report from Jen Budge.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair Jennifer Budge, Parks and Recreation Director.

Lots to report.

Right now we have uh seasonal openings in just about every area, aquatics, sports, um, you know, recreation, you name it, lots of great opportunities, great way to get your kids out there, an excellent first summer job.

Um how I got into this field as a lifeguard.

Um they're all great opportunities, but there's so many for them.

If you go to CarsonCity.gov forward slash jobs, all of our um availabilities are posted on there.

Uh we did um appoint uh Tim Horn, our new sports coordinator for the Mac.

So all of our full-time positions are full right now, which is amazing.

Then it's the 30th anniversary of the Quality Life Initiative.

Greg handed out some stickers.

You'll see in the activity that guide that will be coming out this summer.

There'll be a lot of great opportunities to celebrate the quality quality of life initiative.

Um we'll have some free swim days at the pool and different facilities, um, concerts, sufferset or saddle ranch, and some other ways we can celebrate.

So we invite you to come to all of that, and we'll be giving you more information as those come out.

Um a couple different opportunities.

Uh we could use a couple volunteers from you on.

We just created our sports exclusion policy, and it's um in its final stages, and what we are creating is an appeals committee.

So if someone is excluded from a sport for bad behavior for fighting or um just violating our code of conduct, we're gonna create it an appeals committee so someone can come to us if they don't agree with the ruling, and we'd like it to be very impartial, not the sports directed staff that's working with that day to day.

We'd like to have a parks and recreation commissioner participate on that.

It'd be basically once a year.

I'd come to you for a volunteer to sit on that if you're interested.

I don't anticipate it being too time consuming, you never know, but um it's the first time we've done this, and it's a best management practice, and it's probably the the best way to be fair to all of our participants.

So if anyone is interested in volunteering for that, um come talk to me, that would be wonderful.

We don't need to appoint anyone for that.

Do you have questions on that while we're why we're on that one?

Does that cover like adults and youth sports?

Um, it will be primarily for adults, um, but there may be an off occasion where we have youth, but I can't I don't anticipate that.

Any questions on that one?

Okay.

Um, another volunteer opportunity is Greg's gonna be leading um an e-bike working group.

Um we have statutes and Nevada revised statutes about e-bikes, but there's a lot of um very vague and kind of ambiguous language and situations that we're coming across in our trail system that we really want to make sure that we're addressing to make sure people are safe, um, acting in the best manner, and then if it needs to be included in our codes, our municipal codes, we want to be able to take steps to consider that as well.

So we would love a part uh volunteer participate participant.

I can't talk tonight from the parks and rec commission, and then one from open space for that um working group as well.

So either come talk to me or Greg if you're interested in participating on that, and just one, we don't want to get in a quorum situation, but trying to get as much feedback as we can on that.

Any questions on that?

Because Greg can answer that as well.

I guess we should have used that by house.

Yeah, I find the small side of the presentation on that, and and it was with Martin Mr.

Martinovich and Greg.

And Greg, yeah.

Did that ever go anywhere, or is this the same thing?

Oh when Yeah, it was twenty twenty it was um it was um Lucia Maloney when she was uh right transportation manager had we we did um and it was it was uh kind of an e-bike working group and um there were a few recommendations that were made.

Um mostly uh I I believe the the final recommendation mostly w had to do with um limiting uh the the ability of uh like um lime lime scooters or something to come into Carson City because I so there are some there are some counties where like like even Washa County where they've or we know where they've had um they've been kind of overrun with those lime scooters, but um but anyway uh it's six years later I think it's time to kind of take another look uh and um really get a uh a feel from the community.

We we won't we want to do uh like an online survey and then maybe do um uh site surveys where we have uh you know we can stand at trailheads and and not not not the committee members, but we have we have an intern within our department that could do that and and uh do surveys uh on at the trailheads and also observational surveys.

Um and uh and really look into you know what what is what is the community's opinion and what are their perceptions and misperceptions and what are their opinions and what um you know going forward, what should we what kinds of things should we be looking at to manage that?

And that maybe as Jen mentioned that maybe um ordinances, it could be education, it could be um managing uh behavior, and maybe it's behavior more than it is the device.

Um so we wanna we want to look at all that and and then make some recommendations and uh and conclude this in about six months.

Maybe another like the go slow say hello.

Um revisited uh on with the motorized.

I know I just think of what CWSD uh did in the this is your watershed and all these the different public service announcements and they were interesting and they they point out like oh I hadn't thought of that.

You know, kind of like you talking about cutting the corners, and it's not malice per se when someone's riding their bike, their mountain bike and they're cutting a corner, it's that just not even thinking about the impact and so bringing up and and speaking to the impact and the why behind the request not to do something or encouraging folks to do something else.

Uh so back to my updates.

We are we convened a uh municipal code kind of working group within our staff.

There's four or five of us really analyzing our current code, looking at where we have deficiencies and challenges.

It was last updated in the 80s.

It's very old.

Um a lot of the language is outdated.

Uh so we're working on that right now, and then we'll be inviting um a member too from the park commission and the open space advisory committee to work with us on code updates as well.

We'll probably really be ramping that up starting at our joint meeting in June, and then we'll look at maybe having a different topic or two at each meeting that we have so we could focus on different things that we'd like to have considered, and then that way we have a lot of opportunities for the public to really hear issues and express their opinions as well.

So that will be kind of over the next probably six months to a year that we'll be really working on that.

So if you're interested in working on really exciting code updates, let me know.

Um then some project updates for you all.

Centennial fields, they're under construction, everything's going well.

We did have um a couple delays with weather really due to the heavy rains that we had, it flooded the site.

Um so we had a little bit of delays in some construction, um, a couple change orders, but those should be completed by the end of May.

Uh Centennial Restroom is in the courts are redone, which is wonderful.

The hitting wall is in as well.

We still need to connect utilities and then um pour concrete over that whole courtyard area in between where around the restroom, but it's really coming along great.

It's taking a little longer than we thought, but uh I think it'll have a great end result.

Mills Park, we're gonna have two new restrooms, permanent restrooms, much like the centennial tennis court restrooms.

Those should be in by the end of June, which is wonderful.

So a lot of porti porta potties until then, I apologize, but um temporary and convenience.

It'll be really nice to have those, and they'll be available year-round.

They'll be winterized or or we won't have to winterize and close them every year.

So you'll have better options at those two parks to go to the bathroom.

Um we did receive the biggest news of the day is the notice of award for our Mills Park grant, our 14.9 million dollar grant, which is amazing.

We'll be taking that to the board of supervisors in May.

I'm not sure which meeting yet, but we finally got that notice.

So we're really excited about that, and then we'll make sure we get you updates as that project uh moves forward.

Uh the Pete Livermore Sports Complex ADA project is complete, so that's improved access on the east east side of the fields, and then the at the concession building, they did a really amazing job.

It looks so great, and I think you know, the grandparents and people of all ages and abilities will really be able to access that park a little bit easier.

The pool is under construction again.

Um, we are getting all new large filters or filters for the large pool, which is really needed.

Um, new counters, so when you enter the main counter and then the lifeguard area is all getting all new counters, and we're getting an upgraded camera system as well.

And then the lifeguard staff during the closure has been doing a lot of maintenance projects and taking advantage of that closure.

Um, and then uh some other exciting news.

Our federal lands bill has really made some progress after eight years of effort.

We made it past the Senate committee for energy and natural resources, which is a huge accomplishment.

We still have the house side of things to deal with, but um I'm really proud of how far we've come with that.

If anyone has questions about the lands bill or would like me to sit down and talk to you about that, it is a bit complicated.

I'm happy to do that.

I know it's it can be a little confusing, but we've made a lot of progress on that.

So happy to um report that.

Any questions before I move on to the budget?

I have a question.

Um, with the House bill, has there been a bill introduced for Carson City in the House?

Yes, through Congress and for representative Amaday?

Yes.

Oh, okay.

So um Senator Rosen is our sponsor on the Senate side, and then Congressman Amade um on the house side.

Okay, okay, thank you.

Okay.

So then going to your late material, you guys should all have a two-sided document.

If we could start on the capital improvement project side, um, just to give you a temporary kind of snapshot of where we are in the budget process right now.

Um, we've had you know, park commission recommendations, our open space advisory committee provided recommendations.

We've also had our internal finance committee do reviews, and then our next step will be the tentative budget for consideration at the Board of Supervisors, and that's scheduled for April 17th.

Um, these are the recommended um budget items for their consideration.

These are not approved, so these are just whatever that Thursday is.

Do you have the wrong date?

Is it the 16th?

I apologize.

Whatever that Thursday is.

Um, the board will consider the the entire city's budget, but I just copies and copied and pasted just the park park and recreation portions of the budget for you to look at.

Um, so there's some really great and exciting projects on here, and some that are just really overdue and needed.

There's starting with general fund for facilities recommending approval of the other half of the community center roof.

Um, the other half has been funded previously through general fund, and then another grant, and then um roofing improvements at the pool.

Um, some other general fund requests that are being recommended for approval is um our update to the parks and recreation master plan that was originally approved in 2006, it's very dated.

So we would fund that in two ways: half from the general fund, half from quality of life.

Um landscaping improvements in our right-of-ways, a new flagpole at Vietnam Memorial, and then just some small improvements at our office space at the corporate yard.

Then some vehicle fleet replacements that are just due, various maintenance vehicles and equipment, and then replacing two trailers, and then um below is the list.

You you saw all of these items, these were all items that you recommended for approval.

The only ones that are not recommended for approval, is because they're going to be handled in a different manner.

Um, the tow behind stump grinder, it was suggested that we share with public works.

So we've already talked to them about doing that, they're on board with that, and then the pool camera system we've already taken care of through this year's budget, so we won't have to do it for next year.

Um, and then residential construction tax.

There were two projects we proposed is just replacing some park amenities at Long Ranch Park, and then um designing a new playground for governors field, and then we hope to the following year, as long as there's enough funding due construction for that new playground.

Any questions on the capital improvement project side?

Okay.

And if you flip it over, is our supplemental requests and supplemental requests are requests or additions to our operating budget.

So they're not capital in nature typically.

One thing we're proposing is a reclassification of our volunteer coordinator to a community outreach coordinator.

She would still be our volunteer coordinator, Erin Larson, but we would add public relations media advertising duties to her job.

And then we would split that position across through all of our funding sources so she can encompass those responsibilities for the entire department.

Anywhere from the cemetery to the golf course to you know parks and recreation programming.

So we're proposing that, and there's no general fund ask with how we're requesting that reclassification.

Park maintenance chemical fertilizer needs was recommended for approval.

Taking that in-house, and then um making field trips mandatory for all participants in our youth summer program, so they could all participate.

This would give us the ability to get another bus, basically, so all the kids can go with us, and we don't have to operate two sites right now.

Only part of the program can go on field trips, and the other kids have to stay on site.

So we're basically operating in two fashions, so we would take everybody with the kids, which is great.

Um operating supplies for the rifle and pistol range, uh equipment, um, repair and maintenance, annual hoop inspections for the MAC.

We used to see this on our capital requests every year, but it's something we just need to do every year, so we're building it into the operating budget, but funded from quality of life, and then um some mosquito control for our open space areas, and then some taser cartridges for our park rangers, and um allocating a portion of our open space manager to Quality Life Capital because she's been managing our Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act grants, and they're not all open space related, like Mills Park, for example, Riverview Park.

There's a few um kind of outliers not in our open space program, but we wanted to be very transparent with how we're spending staff time.

Any questions on the supplemental requests?

I know that's a lot.

Mosquito control is that like a contracted service or is that something you do internal?

It's actually we're trying to create a mosquito program citywide, and this would be our portion that we're proposing to create um funds from.

It would also be from stormwater, wastewater, general fund, and open space, and it would be um a variety of things.

Some of it is education and outreach to the community.

I think our park rangers will probably be taking the lead on that with the health department.

The health department will continue to do trapping, testing, um, anything from the health aspect of the mosquito program.

Um, could be some treatments by hand.

Some of our staff are certified pesticide applicators, so they we might be able to provide some of that service, and then some might be through a third party.

But a lot of the areas now we used to have helicopters come in.

Um, now they're moving to drones because they can get in um have more access to certain areas, and with a lot of the build out, you can't treat from helicopters anymore.

So we're trying to create a new program citywide, but all working together, but open space would pay for anything on open space property.

Any other budget questions?

Okay, that's it.

Thank you, John.

Um to the agenda item 7a.

The update from the Carson City School Board liaison.

Yes.

So I just kind of went through.

Um, so the last time discussed further, let's see, the girls' wrestling has now uh been fully recognized as a sport.

Um sponsored sport of Carson City School District, so that was very exciting.

Um we also um after you know bringing the academic calendar back and forth and got some um great public comments, it was approved at the March 10th meeting, and so there is an early release every Tuesday.

However, it is not like the three hour, it's an hour depending on the school elementary is about an hour and a half.

Um, so then they get out as well.

Um so that came forward, and I can share that if anybody wants that as well.

But we did approve the academic calendar on that.

We also appointed a new school board member at our last meeting, which is um Tina Statuki.

I don't want to ridicule that, but yes.

Um so Mike Walker um resigned because he moved out of the can uh out of Carson City, so we had to appoint somebody to continue his role, and so she will have her first board meeting um on April 14th, will be her first uh school board meeting.

So we're excited to uh have her join our school board, and then um our biggest discussion has been the budget.

So um we are one of the better looking school districts in the state, but it is still very very challenging, and it's gonna continue to be challenging as enrollment continues to decrease, and so we do not foresee in the near future our enrollment ever growing.

So it has been decreasing since I think it was back in 2000.

Goodness, um way like two I think it might have even been 19 um 98.

We have been decreasing in enrollment, and we just don't see that um those who are moving into Carson are moving in with a lot of kids, and so um yeah, so with enrollment continually decline, that will always be a budget concern for the school district, which is unfortunate.

So that's where our topics are going and will continue to go until the beginning of June when we have to submit our budget.

Thank you.

Um agenda item 7B is the update from the foundation.

And there's a uh there's something included in the staff report from them.

Um I would like to encourage all of us to really look into that.

Um there's some updates about key dates coming up, such as this weekend is the uh Dinks and Drinks pickleball tournament at the Mac.

Um has meetings.

We have the Capital City Spring Fling Disc Golf Tournament May 3rd, and uh some work days for the Seahill Flag Restoration.

So I would encourage everybody watching and everybody on the commission to go to their website, uh Carson City Parks.org, um check it out, and uh hopefully we could all become members and support them because they do a whole lot for us behind the scenes.

Um shout out to the foundation.

Um is there any updates from the commissioners about anything going on?

Um our next meeting will be in June.

June 15th, and that's the joint with the open space.

So just a heads up on that.

Um that leads us into item eight for the future agenda.

Anyone have anything they'd like to recommend we add to the agenda for next time?

Uh maybe well, the agenda for next time looks pretty busy, but um at uh at some point, you know, at the last meeting, towards the end of the meeting, we talked a little bit about tree uh care and maintenance for some of the city's urban tree canopy.

Um, and it sounded like that's shared with public works.

Um, and so I would be interested in hearing an update on that.

Awesome, I agree.

Great, thank you.

Anything else?

All right.

Uh that brings us to item number nine, which is uh closing public comment.

Hello, Denny French at Carson City.

Thank you very much for this opportunity.

Brought up some questions for me, however, on the understanding about the monkey flower, and um I'm hoping that that is in the eyeballs of everybody, but we have been told that we really don't want to point out where they are because don't want too many people trampling over them.

But it's good to hear they're thriving and doing well.

I also appreciate the fact that it was uh this urban tree matter.

Um I brought up the fact that we'd lost trees and that I made it clear I wasn't comfortable with starting any new planting until there was an arborist assigned to it.

But I had been told during the project that was just recently done with planting that an arborist from Reno was brought in, and so there was an arborist to talk to uh Darren Schultz about their part because they split the responsibility as my understanding between trees, and I asked that they would be more defined.

Their areas and their responsibilities would be defined.

And um, we're having a lot of trees that are um aging out, but urban building, asphalt, concrete, rocks, very little consideration about actual needs of a tree when it's growing.

Um right up at the trunk, and that doesn't change, even though the canopy size is where you're really going to be looking to where you want to put your water to expand those roots and to make them hardy.

But there's very little land for those trees to grow into that way.

So watering has to be sort of force-fed to their trunk and hope it gets to their further roots, but it doesn't encourage good growth.

So I'd like to see more consideration at the MAC right now.

There are several trees that are staked up.

I feel incorrectly and do need some uh correction unless they've done so in the last few days.

The last time I was there, I was going, oh gosh, I would like to make this correction, but it's not up to me to make any corrections on trees unless it was gonna fall on a child, and then I might step in.

But the deal is so trees, thank you very much for bringing that urban tree matter up.

I appreciate that.

And and it looks like that means that my time's up.

I would like you all to consider the papers that I passed out about the signage.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Denny.

Uh any other public comment.

All right.

Then the last item is for possible adjournment.

All right.

That's it.