The Parks, Recreation & Beautification Committee met on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 5:30 PM in the North Annex, 701 N. Main, Clovis, NM. The meeting covered approvals, new business items, and updates from the Parks, Recreation, and Zoo departments. A key theme was ongoing challenges with public restroom availability, lifeguard staffing shortages, and new fee structures for recreational facilities.
Good evening. And welcome to the Parks Recreation and Beautification Committee meeting. Commissioner Paula here. Commissioner Cassows here? Commissioner Porter? Commissioner Jones. Sarah Smith. Phil Frazy? Here. Brian Davis? Here. Todd Kirkendall? Here. Kim Tipton. Here. Thank you, Vicky. So move. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. All right. Anyone opposed? Same signed? We've approved the minutes from the last meeting. We are going to um recognize our visitors here in a minute, but before I do that, we are going to make an adjustment to the agenda. We're going to remove item one from our new business. And so we'll start with item two. But tonight we have a special guest, a fellow commissioner. Would you like to come up to the microphone, Commissioner? Hi Debbie, welcome. So how I address you commissioners and committee members and staff. So we had a get together yesterday at uh Ned How Park, and there was approximately about 65 people within the bathroom, about a hundred yards from the bathroom, people fishing, family, and the bathrooms were locked. She's on medication, she's diabetic, and it was too far to go around to the other side of the bathroom and I never went and checked to see if they were unlocked or or not. But uh I think it's a shame. Um I reached out to Claire and uh Russell was in the text and just was in the text. And my concern, and it made me a little bit upset, is why are there only one set of keys to the bathroom or one person in charge of the keys? That makes no sense to me. You know, if we're it's it we're a big public area, you know, we're open to the city. The park should be open to the public to have bathrooms. So and then um Representative Zamora, you know, my husband called and talked to Claire on Saturday. Hill same with Hillcrest. You know, riding the bikes and taking the kids and the bathrooms are locked. There was a wedding going on. So I just I think we as a city need to do a better job of having the public bathrooms to the public. That's easy accessible, you know, or but they don't have to be locked. And I think the text said you said about eight weeks for the Hillcrest part to be why is that? I mean, how long has it been in disrespects repair and why is it taking so long to get it repaired? I don't know who to address that question to Madam Chairman and Commissioner Zamora. And so we have been working with various contractors since they were vandalized to get quotes on the replacements and to fix them. Uh the original contractors uh said that we were gonna have they were gonna have to have pressure issues, so they're gonna have to replace the other the entire plumbing system within the walls, essentially.