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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Chapel Hill Time Council's October 14th work session.

We are pleased to have you join us.

And this evening we have two items on the agenda to discuss the Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan and Council's Procedures Manual, which we're currently updated.

Council members, we have a closed session immediately following, and we'll be recessing into room D.

Before we begin, we want to remind our audience of the format of a work session, which is different than our regular business meetings.

Work sessions are an opportunity for the council to dive more deeply into specific topics.

These meetings are more conversational and less formal, and we don't vote during work sessions and topics may come back for a formal business meeting for a book.

Finally, we value public input, and we would love to hear from you.

There'll be opportunities for the public to speak at upcoming business meetings.

And our next regular meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 21st at 6 p.m.

in town hall.

Another good way to give us your input is by emailing Mayor and Council at Chapel Hill NC.gov.

Before we move into our discussion items tonight, just two quick announcements.

First is a huge congratulations to Hope NC on yesterday's grand opening of four new affordable homes in Weavers Grove.

They held their ribbon cutting yesterday, which was exciting.

And it was a great reminder of the fact the value of vision, persistence, and partnerships, and they've been at it a long time.

So that was wonderful.

Second is uh my weekly reminder that election day is coming up, and early voting starts Thursday, October 15th and runs through October 31st.

Election day is November 3rd.

Um polling sites in our area include the Chapel Hill Public Library, the Senior Center, Chapel of Capross in downtown, and the Drakeford Library Complex in Carlborough for early voting.

Um this year there are several amendments on the ballot that will impact the ability of local government to serve our communities.

So we encourage you to be informed about those.

And finally, remember to bring your ID.

And of course, if you're on campus, you can go to student stores and get a student ID, which will allow you to vote.

Uh,

council members, does anyone else have an announcement to make before we get underway?

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

We should we should congratulate the uh Cal Horton winner of their name is John, but I don't remember the last year.

No,

Karen

Michael from the library team.

Thank you for that.

Yes, sir.

Um, Madam Mayor, members of council just uh wanted to call your attention to uh a couple of emails I sent you today on the uh Elliott Woods Chase Park matter.

Umwarded the mayor's uh letter requesting a meeting and forwarded um a specific uh set of dates uh for those uh parties to get back to us uh and staff standing by.

We've also um communicated with the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, and they've uh had some of their staff get involved.

We've um got our building and development services team looking at um code issues on site, so we we think we're getting attention there and looking forward to uh quick progress on that now, which I just wanted to bring that to your attention.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh Ted, could you or just for a point of clarification regarding uh meeting requests?

Is that uh then to come before council or the staff just for clarification?

Uh council member, that's for uh several different members of their team to come to Chapel Hill and meet with several members of our staff to work through a specific list of corrections that we are proposing.

Thank you.

And I did share that I hope the council will be interested in updates at our next meeting.

Um thank you very much to you and staff for uh moving so quickly on that and for helping us get that email out quickly.

Um okay.

Up next, item number one is our parks and recreation comprehensive master plan update.

Good evening, Mayor Councilman with the TV of Moral and Pleasure to serve the Render of War Recreation here in town Chapel Hill.

And this is a deciding time for us as we're kind of a reference for football.

We're getting closer to the end zone into the rip zone with this process.

But our conference of parts of recovery is a master plan.

It's an exciting time for us, and we often are reminded about that excitement.

You know, for example, a couple weeks ago, we had our soapbox 30 at Homestead Park, community creativity, a lot of fun.

This past weekend at Southern Community Park, we were able to celebrate our special Olympic season with the ice cream social, a reminder of a lot of fun, right?

Also, fall events have kicked off.

So we're a Rage Community Center on Friday night, so a wonderful evening for a community to kick off of all carnival activities as well.

So these are often reminders of how important this work is and why we're super excited about this process.

Tonight will be rooted in key findings.

We're happy to be joined by James Beckle from Barry Dunn, our partner in this process.