The Parks, Recreation & Beautification Committee met on Monday, July 21, 2025, at 5:30 PM in the North Annex, 701 N. Main, Clovis, NM. The meeting covered one new business item – a recommendation to modify vendor fees for community events – along with departmental updates from Parks, Recreation, and the Zoo, and a report on a Destination Forward grant for the zoo master plan.
Parks Update (Russell Hooper):
Recreation Update (Amy Wyatt):
Zoo Update (Stephanie Chavez):
Good evening. Welcome to the parks and recreation meeting. Miss Burroughs, can I have a roll call? Chairman Paula. Here. Vice Chair Casos. Here. Commissioner Porter. Commissioner Jones. Here. Mr. Frazy. Here. Mr. Davis. Here. Mr. Kirkendal. Here. Ms. Tipton. Mr. Williamson's his regrets. Saber Sprit. Here. Thank you, Ms. Burrow. Before you, we have the minutes from our June twenty third meeting. I'll take a motion for approval. Second. I have a motion, a second. All those in favor of the June twenty third meeting approving those minutes, say aye. Anyone opposed? Same sign. Next on the agenda, we have new business. Just one item tonight, discussion and recommendation regarding vendor fees for the community events. Um it is my understanding that historically we have struggled to receive any food vendors or even businesses that are able to or willing to pay the current vendor fee of a hundred dollars to come out and participate in our event. And I would like to request that this fee be lowered or waived for community events, especially ones like ours where the predominant focus is on community building, and all of the other booths available are free. So I'm hoping that we could potentially come to an agreement of either 25 or 50 dollars so we could hopefully bring in some of those food and business options. Okay, thank you. Yeah. Chief, do you have anything to add? I mean, no, not really. Um as she said, like in the past, we have had issues trying to get vendors and stuff in. The national night out event usually runs for just a few hours from five o'clock and we run until dusk. So it's not a long period of time. And the hundred dollar fee currently for vendors coming in who are you know, we've had vendors in the past just who sell popcorn or snow cones. It's hard for them to make up the money that they spent paying for their fee, you know, to at least even break even. Uh we've even as a department have pulled our money together because we had a vendor come out, I think it was two years ago, and we paid their hundred dollars for them because we had it wasn't the greatest turnout, and they weren't making the money that they needed to at least break even with their hundred dollar vendor fee. So again, just maybe hoping that we could do something.